Mom

At the sight of his mother, 24-year-old Zhang Yaming was on the verge of tears.

My mother's hair seemed to have fallen out overnight, and her whole body was thin and bony, with an aged appearance, more than twenty years older than her actual age.

My mother is in the late stage of lung cancer, but she kept it a secret from him until yesterday when the hospital issued a critical condition notice, and then she called him to tell him.

It was said that he was afraid of affecting his son's work and causing him to worry about himself, but all of this made Zhang Yaming deeply self blame. He came from a single parent family, and his father passed away early. It was his mother who raised him through hard work.

Zhang Yaming has been striving for his dreams in the capital all along. Only during the Chinese New Year every year, he flies back like a migratory bird and leaves in a hurry. However, he never expected that his mother was already in the late stage of lung cancer.

Cough cough cough, just come back, Mom's dragging you down

It's just such a short sentence. Zhang Yaming's mother is panting heavily and has a strong phlegm sound. If it weren't for Zhang Yaming, others wouldn't have been able to hear what her mother is saying!

I will take you for treatment tomorrow, and your illness will definitely be cured

Zhang Yaming was in tears. Who said a man would never shed tears lightly? In this world, his mother was his only relative, but now this relative could leave him at any time.

Zhang Yaming was deeply saddened by his mother's illness.

If I had known my mother was so miserable and lonely at home, he shouldn't have stayed in the capital after graduation. If he had taken care of her, my mother's health wouldn't have come this far.

At night, his mother's coughing sound never stopped, and Zhang Yaming didn't fall asleep at all. He got up and went to the yard, without turning on the light, just using the light of his phone to look at his mother's critical diagnosis.

Late stage lung cancer!

Zhang Yaming was heartbroken. He thought that only in Beijing would there be smog and poor air quality, which could easily lead to lung diseases. Unexpectedly, his mother also got lung cancer in her hometown?

He sat on the wooden stool and looked up at the sky, which was so gray that he couldn't see the moon and stars clearly.

In recent years, our hometown town has been attracting investment, with one chemical plant and two cement plants. Since then, it has been difficult to see the starry sky at night.

My mother's illness may be closely related to the deteriorating air quality here.

But where in the world is heaven on earth?

Zhang Yaming felt immense pain in his heart and had nowhere to vent. He couldn't help but clench a fist with his hand and then beat the table hard.

His hand was already bleeding, and Zhang Yaming was completely unaware. Compared to the pain in his heart, a slight injury on his hand was nothing. He really hated his helplessness!

Under the bright moonlight, something emitted a shimmering light, and surprisingly, the necklace in my pocket fell to the ground.

Zhang Yaming has been familiar with the necklace since childhood. It looks like a small bottle, a very delicate sheep fat jade pendant, with "Source of Life" under the jade bottle, and four characters smaller than flies.

This bottle is of very good jade quality. Many times, facing the moonlight, it's like a small bottle filled with rolling water droplets, making people unable to put it down.

When Zhang Yaming was a child, his favorite time was to secretly take out this necklace from his mother's box, and under the moonlight or light, it seemed like there were water droplets in the bottle.

At that time, I was the happiest and purest!

Facing the moonlight, Zhang Yaming once again held the jade bottle and searched for the rolling water droplets inside it.

The blood stains on Zhang Yaming's hands were all on the jade bottle, and he was about to rinse it with water.

But at this moment, Zhang Yaming actually saw three drops of water quietly falling from the jade bottle, which happened to fall into a large flower bed.

In that big flower bed, there were three 4-year-old ginseng plants planted by Zhang Yaming on a certain treasure, bought for 20 yuan each. At that time, a total of five plants were bought for 100 yuan, and the remaining two died.

Are there really water droplets falling from this necklace? It must be because I'm under a lot of pressure and my eyes are blurred

Zhang Yaming couldn't help but curse and then rubbed his slightly painful palm. He still planned to go inside and find a way to treat his mother's illness tomorrow!

After washing his face, Zhang Yaming didn't take a break and started searching for hospitals online to consult his mother about the treatment of advanced lung cancer.

Several hospitals have asked Zhang Yaming to send the diagnosis and some materials over, saying that he needs to study them and will give a response at most tomorrow to confirm whether he can accept this patient.

The sound of chopping vegetables came, which startled Zhang Yaming. His mother's body was already like this, how could she still be busy in the kitchen?

Mom, I'm making breakfast. Let you taste my cooking

Zhang Yaming's heart was full of bitterness, and he suppressed his laughter and took the kitchen knife from his mother's hand. She was actually cutting scallions.

I know your favorite dish is the dumplings I make. I make a lot of them and put them in the fridge. When you want to eat them, you can cook them and add some chopped green onions inside, which are very fragrant

After saying these words, the mother coughed so hard that she couldn't even straighten her waist. Her illness wouldn't last for a few days, and she took advantage of her mobility to make dumplings for her son. I don't know which day she won't be able to endure it anymore!

Let me handle all of this. You'll be fine and everything will be fine. When I get married and have children, you'll have to help me take care of my grandson

Zhang Yaming deliberately joked and made his mother happy, hoping to give her more hope, so that maybe her illness could last longer and he could spend more time with him.

Okay, I'm waiting to take care of your child

My mother smiled, but her eyes and eyebrows were wrinkled. Zhang Yaming didn't notice, and when she turned around, a tear had already fallen.

Reality is always cruel, and the hospitals that Zhang Yaming contacted quickly responded.

Almost all hospitals have told Zhang Yaming that his mother is critically ill, and for the remaining days, they will try to make her feel more relaxed and leave peacefully.

Zhang Yaming is going crazy. He is looking for hospitals everywhere, making phone calls, and asking friends to help him contact experts in this field. He almost feels hopeless!

Is his mother really going to leave him?

Mom, I'll take you to see the sea

Watching his mother's health deteriorate, Zhang Yaming remembered that when he was a child, his mother had been nagging him to go see the sea in his lifetime, but decades had passed and his mother had never been to the seaside.

Since his mother has little time left, Zhang Yaming does not want to leave any regrets for her. He is preparing to tidy up and go see the sea together!

Unfortunately, after they had arranged to go see the sea, their mother passed away that evening. When she left, she was particularly peaceful!

Zhang Yaming felt that half of his sky had fallen, and his only and last relative in this world had left him like this and would never come back.

When taking care of his mother's affairs, Zhang Yaming was always in a state of confusion and unbearable pain, thanks to his several cousins who came forward to help with the aftermath.

After everyone dispersed, Zhang Yaming was the only one left in the room. Opening the fridge, his mother's dumplings were still there, but the person was gone!

Zhang Yaming's nose was sore, and he leaned against the refrigerator, his eyes falling with a splash.

Yaming, my mom asked you to come to my house for dinner

Pushing open the courtyard door was Zhang Yaming's uncle's son, his cousin Zhang Asun, who was one year older than him. After he graduated, his uncle left and went straight to work at the town government.

Over the years, he became the youngest deputy director in the town, considered young and promising in the Zhang family. He was also the oldest and most admired person of the Zhang generation.

Zhang Asun looked at his cousin who had lost a lot of weight and didn't know what it was like. Back then, his cousin was smart in his studies and got into a prestigious university. He didn't know how many parents in this town were talking about other people's children.

But now everyone knows that my cousin has resigned in order to take care of his aunt at home, saying he doesn't want to go to the capital anymore, which is truly lamentable.

Yaming, you should look for a job first. If you want to stay at home, I have a good relationship with the director of the cement factory in town. He still needs an assistant there, but the salary at home is very low, only a little over 3000 yuan in the first few months

Why don't you go to Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou? Those places have higher salaries, which is where people like you should go

Zhang Asung was well intentioned, persuading his cousin on the side. Seeing that Zhang Yaming was gloomy and unwilling to speak, he sighed and sat on a stone stool, scanning his eyes casually a few times.

The plants on the flower bed in the yard caught his attention. They seemed to be ginseng seedlings, but something was off. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Oh my, what did he see?

Yaming, you, Seven Leaves, this is seventh grade ginseng. Where did you come from