Chapter 3 Caesarean section, no money to pay for hospitalization
"Comrade! Let go first. This is a hospital. What does it look like?" After all, Xiao Zhao is young and energetic, but the little girl is not happy:
"Your lover's situation is urgent. If you delay it any longer, if something unexpected happens, you won't have time to regret it!"
After saying that, Nurse Zhao handed him the payment slip, rolled her eyes, and ran out again.
Si Chen looked at the handwritten payment slip in his hand, and there was a sudden roar in his head!
Pay the fee——
He has money? He has a wife!
This family was so impoverished by him that they didn't even have a decent bite to eat, so they had to hang a pot on the roof.
At this moment, Si Chen's legs seemed to be filled with lead and he could not move an inch.
But when he heard Yan Lixia's heartbreaking cries in the prenatal examination room, he didn't hesitate for a second and rushed to the lobby.
"Comrade, pay the fee!" Si Chen took out all the coins he had and handed them to the toll collector.
The other party took the hospitalization sheet and looked at it, then glanced at his handful of wet coins, and his face suddenly became extremely embarrassed:
"Comrade, here, it says one thousand yuan to be paid in advance for hospital fees and caesarean section surgery fees, not three yuan and five yuan."
"Yeah, I know." Si Chen held out his hand stubbornly.
Earlier, I ran to the hospital with Yan Lixia in my arms, using all my strength.
Especially a pair of arms, to this day, they still have muscle soreness and are shaking non-stop.
"Comrade, please accept the money first, and I will find a way for the rest." When these words came out, Si Chen himself felt pale.
The toll collector was helpless, but also felt sorry for him. He awkwardly took a handful of wet tickets and began to count them, mumbling:
"Comrade, don't blame me for talking too much. Your wife is pregnant with triplets and the situation is urgent."
"How about you go to a relative or friend's house in the city and borrow it."
"People are alive. No matter how big the problem is, there is always a way to solve it, right?"
"Money can always be earned. If you borrow it from relatives, you can pay it back slowly. You must keep your lover and children, right?"
Si Chen's mind was buzzing.
His mother died in childbirth while giving birth to him.
He was brought up by his grandmother.
When he was seven years old, his father remarried and gave birth to a daughter.
However, his relationship with his father has never been good.
Until the unexpected death of his father, the relationship between them could not ease.
The stepmother and her sister are still burdened with a debt of 3,000 yuan.
It is absolutely impossible to borrow money from them.
My grandfather has passed away, and my sixty-year-old grandmother has been living with her daughters these years.
Si Chen has seven aunts, and his father ranks third in the family.
Rural people in that era always wanted to raise children to provide for their old age and worked hard to have children. As a result, the next five children born were all girls.
When Si Chen was a child, his aunts took care of him a lot.
It is said that I was raised by my grandma, but in fact, my aunts are the main source of income.
But over the years, Si Chen has never been grateful to his aunts. Instead, he took their care and care as a matter of course.
Even behind his grandmother's back, he would confidently ask his aunts for money.
As time went by, he broke the hearts of his aunts, and no one rushed to take care of him.
Especially after he got married, a series of his actions completely chilled the hearts of his aunts.
Now, in the eyes of his aunts, he is an unfilial son, a scumbag, and has no credibility at all. How can he borrow money?
In desperation, Si Chen gritted his teeth and took off the gold ring on his finger, the mechanical watch on his wrist, and the gold chain on his neck.
And, after searching all the pockets, he took out the key to a 28-bar bicycle.
The gold ring and gold chain were dowry items from Si Chen's mother and were originally given to Si Chen's father.
Si Chen committed a crime and took away all his mother's belongings.
The watch and bicycle were bought by his father when he got married.
After all, Si Chen was his only son. Deep down in his heart, Si Chen still had the idea of raising a son to provide for him until he died.
In this era, there are three popular items for weddings: bicycles, sewing machines, and watches.
A jingle from that era expressed it this way:
[Wear a watch when riding a foreign car, but you will lose when you don’t have a watch.]
Si Chen handed these valuable items into the window.
The toll collector was startled, took two steps back in fear, and waved his hands repeatedly:
"Comrade, we are a hospital and we don't accept these things!"
"I know, I just want to show you that I can pay the fees." Si Chen could only place his hope on simple and kind people:
"Please go through the hospitalization procedures for my wife first. After all, saving people is important, right?"
"As soon as it gets light, I'll go collect the money and promise not to default on a penny. Do you think it's possible?"
When the words came to his mouth, he hesitated and didn't say the whole thing.
In this day and age, you must not tell anyone that you are going to an underground pawn shop to pawn these things, otherwise, you will be sent to jail.
He had no choice but to pawn them temporarily in order to meet his urgent need. After a while, he would make money and find a way to redeem them.
"This..." The toll collector looked embarrassed and rubbed his clothes with both hands, not knowing what to do:
"Comrade, I also understand that your situation is special, but, look, I am just a window toll collector, I can't be your boss."
"Then who can do it? Do you have a leader on duty at night? I will go find him. I will even go and beg him!" Si Chen was willing to risk everything as long as he could save his wife and children.
Behind him, nurse Xiao Zhao's voice suddenly came:
"Yes, that's what Dr. Wang said. He could only hear the heartbeats of the two children, but the mother's lover said they were triplets..."
Si Chen suddenly turned around and saw three people coming in from outside the hall door. The one holding an umbrella was nurse Xiao Zhao, and the other two were wearing raincoats——
Second aunt? Second uncle?
Si Chen's pupils suddenly shrank, and he suddenly reacted in a flash of lightning!
In my memory, at this stage, my second uncle seemed to have just been promoted to the director of the county hospital, and my second aunt seemed to be the chief physician of a certain department.
Now after a comparison, he realized that his second aunt was actually the director of the obstetrics and gynecology department!
Something unexpected happened tonight. He had just been reborn and was focused on saving his wife and children.
Critical situations followed each other one after another, leaving him no room to think.
Now that he saw his second aunt and his wife, Si Chen finally remembered.
"Second aunt! Uncle!" Si Chen strode forward to greet him.
Si Xianglan and her husband Qi Renshu had just taken off their raincoats, shook them out, and were hanging them on a shelf nearby.
Hearing this sound, the two of them turned around in unison.
But he saw Si Chen, who was like a drowned rat with scarlet eyes, trotting towards him.
The couple were both stunned!
Si Xianglan is the director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and is recognized throughout the hospital as having superb medical skills. The circumstances of tonight's surgery are really special, so she must be asked to do it herself.
After Qi Renshu heard about the situation, he was really worried. In line with his responsible attitude for the safety of people's lives, he followed him in the rain all night.
This couple has been a lifelong doctor with a kind heart and a warm heart.
Even if you don't like what Si Chen, a second-rate man, has done, you won't want to add insult to injury to him when he is in a desperate situation.
Si Xianglan was her aunt after all, so she subconsciously felt sorry for Si Chen and expressed concern:
Chapter completed!