"Put the left side lower, okay, okay." Xia Xi was eating potato chips, crossing her legs and instructing Xia Xi to post the word "Fu".

"It's really true that I bought so many New Year pictures with the word "Fu" and didn't do it myself." Xia Xi got off the small stool and complained.

"I have to make New Year's Eve dinner later." Xia Tian raised her neck and poured the remaining potato chips into her mouth. The bag of potato chips was about as big as her head.

Xia Xi finally pasted a few blessing characters on the bedroom glass, then picked up a broom to clean up the tape and shredded paper on the floor, as well as the snack residue at Xia Tian's feet.

"You are so sloppy, will you be able to get married in the future? Put your feet up..."

"If I can't get married, I'll live with you."

"Oh, you want me to raise you in vain for the rest of your life."

"I'm so cute, my second sister-in-law will definitely keep me at home, and I can also help take care of my nephew."

The fingers holding the broom tightened unconsciously, and his eyes were empty, as if what was standing here was just an empty shell.

"If we don't have a transplant, the situation is not very optimistic." The director told him at the time. "Now stop drinking and smoking, and bring your immediate family members over for matching as soon as possible. You are so young, and the possibility of cure is very high."

After leaving the director's office, Xia Xi sat on a cold plastic chair in the lobby on the first floor, looking back and forth at various data that he couldn't understand...

"What are all these things?"

"I will never come to the hospital unless I have to. If I do, I will be sentenced to death."

"Immediate family members? They want me to die immediately."

"More than 500,000..."

Xia Xi threw the medical records aside and hung his head. The cost of treatment was like two mountains and he couldn't raise his head. After a fierce psychological struggle, he made a decision.

How can you sleep without wine?

Besides, all this is retribution. He harmed his own brother, so he should pay for his life.

Just live one day at a time.

Coke spewed out from the mouth of the bottle. Xia Tian held it up and ran towards Xia Xi.

"Brother - hurry up -"

The cold Coke smacked Xia Xi's face, and his body's conditioned reflex made him pick up the broom in his hand and knock off the Coke bottle.

The bottle was spinning on the ground, and the Coke kept pouring out, spraying all over the ground and the corners, like spinning fireworks.

"I'm really impressed with you. You can pack it up yourself. I'll go shopping and come back later." Xia Xi threw the broom away in anger, picked up the down jacket hanging at the entrance and went out.

Xia Tian stuck his head out and asked him: "It's thirty today, are there any stores open?"

The elevator opened with a ding, and Xia Xi walked straight in: "Many stores will be open until the afternoon, so please close the door quickly."

"oh."

Xia Xi took a taxi and went to the Digital Mall in the city center. Although it was New Year's Eve, there were not many pedestrians on the street.

With the money earned in the past few years, except for daily expenses and buying alcohol and cigarettes, the rest has been basically saved. After deducting the jewelry I bought for Xia Tian last time, there is less than 150,000 left.

I originally planned to leave everything behind to San'er when I was about to die, hold a simple funeral, and buy an ordinary cemetery...

If there is any leftover, leave it to San'er as a reward for his hard work. If there is nothing left, he can repay his kindness in the next life.

"If I had known this, I should have drank less. Not only did I spend money, but I also risked my life." Xia Xi sighed and walked into a specialty store.

"We are closing." Xia Xi said when she stepped into the store.

This woman didn't look like a clerk. She was doing calculations at the bar. She raised her eyelids casually and glanced at Xia Xi above the monitor.

"Then I'll just buy something more expensive." Xia Xi said.

She thought he was just here to hang out, but she didn't expect him to pay so happily.

"Do you need anything else?" Her attentive look was completely different from before.

"Leather cases." Xia Xi said, "For girls, pink, blue, purple..."

"I'm sorry." She was afraid that Xia Xi would regret it now and ask for a refund. "The leather case is only black. In addition to these gifts, how about I give you an extra Bluetooth headset? I sell hundreds of them in my store."

Xia Xi frowned, black was too dull.

"Let's do this. I will purchase the goods after the new year. I will order a few more colorful ones. When they arrive, I will call you and give you the cost price."

Seeing her begging look, Xia Xi reluctantly agreed.

There were many restaurants around the mall that were still open. Through the French doors, Xia Xi saw a few people dressed like migrant workers drinking in a barbecue shop. He opened the door and walked in, ordering 20 skewers and 3 taels of white wine.

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Since summer came, Xia Xi has never touched alcohol again and quit smoking. What she once thought was difficult turns out to be easy to do.

I am just afraid that after Xia Tian leaves, I will pick up tobacco and alcohol again.

In less than half a month, Xia Xi will go back to school in the summer, and Xia Xi is now feeling sad about parting.

He took a sip of the wine, which made him cry.

The boss saw him rubbing the bridge of his nose and "crying", so he sat across from him.

"What's wrong? Young man."

Xia Xi raised his head, pretended to be fine and said, "The wine is too bitter."

The boss knew in his heart that it was not the wine that was bitter, but his heart.

"I'll change your beer, wife, and bring you some food and drinks."

The landlady opened two bottles of beer for them, and brought peanuts and some mixed vegetables.

The boss poured wine for Xia Xi himself.

"There are no obstacles in this world that I can't overcome. For example, I..." He drank a gulp of the wine in his glass. "The doctor said that I had late-stage intestinal cancer and there was no hope, but I didn't dare to die. I am older and younger.

What will they do if I die?”

Xia Xi saw that although he was bald, he was fat and had a rosy complexion. He did not look like a cancer patient.

"I can only bite the bullet and work to death. I will do whatever it takes to make money. When I leave, I can at least leave some more money for them. I didn't expect that after I stopped thinking about everything, I really didn't feel so uncomfortable anymore. I had chemotherapy.

Several times, the effect is pretty good." He glanced at his wife and children watching TV next to him, "Now that I live one more day, my wife will have a husband, and my son will have a father."

"You're lucky. Not every cancer patient can recover so well." Xia Xi took a sip of beer and immediately put down the glass, "It's still bitter."

"You can't count it as luck. Your mentality determines everything. The power of belief is very powerful." He took Xia Xi's wine glass and said, "If it's bitter, don't drink it. Can I cook you some dumplings?"

Xia Xi declined, packed up the strings, paid the bill, and left.

The boss personally walked him to the door and said that if he got bored in the future, he could come and sit in the store while he drank and chatted with him.

"What a kind person." When Xia Xi arrived at the door of his house, he held the wooden stick in his hand and knocked on the door with the back of his hand. The sticks were completely cold, but he could still smell the fragrance.

"You're here, brother?"

"Um."

Xia Tian was wearing an apron and kept sniffing Xia Xi who had just entered the door. Then she raised her face and pouted and asked him dissatisfiedly: "You actually went to eat barbecue secretly?"

Xia Xi brought the skewers to her and said, "Buy them back and eat them with you."

Xia Tian smelled the plastic bag on the skewers and said, "It's quite fragrant, so you just bought a few skewers? Are these the leftovers you ate?"

If he is alive, Xia Tian will have a brother. This can be regarded as a kind of belief!

But if we want to survive, how can we only rely on invisible and intangible beliefs?

A suitable liver and surgical fees are factors that cannot be ignored.

He has disappeared for more than 5 years. To Xia Tian, ​​it is no different from death. Without surgery, he will not have many days left. Should she feel the pain of losing her brother again?

Being able to reunite with my sister this time is already a gift from God. After sending her to the train, let's leave again.

Xia Xi tilted his head and looked at Xia Tian, ​​his sad eyes almost pulling Xia Tian into his miserable inner world.

What kind of mentality has he had in living alone in recent years? As a younger sister, how could he not know?

Xia Tian asked him distressedly: "Is it early for dinner?"

Xia Xi gave her the handbag and said, "Open the gift first."

"Wow -" Xia Tian put the skewers on the ground, wiped his hands on his apron, took it and said, "It looks like - a tablet!"

Xia Xi smiled and said: "You can't watch the Spring Festival Gala with your mobile phone at night, it's too young."

Xia Tian entered the bedroom, sat on the floor and carefully opened the box. After Xia Xi washed her hands, she found 7 plates of dishes on the coffee table, mostly fried goods and cooked food.

"Is this the New Year's Eve dinner you made? Chicken tenders, chicken steaks, squid rings..."

"Yes, it was fried twice. By the way, there are pork knuckles in the pot. I braised that one myself." Xia Tian plugged in the tablet and turned it on.

Xia Xi took out the pork trotters and made enough for 8 dishes.

"Did you buy braised pork buns?"

"Well, just throw it into the pot, watch the fire, and don't dry the pot."

"Where are the dumplings? Are they quick-frozen?"
To be continued...