Chapter I Doctors

"Many times, people become more and more realistic because of the cruelty of life, and life becomes more and more cruel because of the reality of people!"

-Ordinary Life

Li Wenming finally finished reading this book recommended by his friend. When he closed the book, he gave a wry smile and thought to himself, Yes, the ideal is full and the reality is very skinny. This is the ordinary life of us ordinary people.

Li Wenming, 35, was born in an ordinary rural family in Liaoning province. He was particularly clever since he was a child, and finally lived up to his parents' expectations and was successfully admitted to the Medical College of Hanbei University in Hanbei City, Huzhong Province. After he was admitted to the university, he suddenly became a celebrity in ten miles and eight townships.

Li Wenming remembers that his letter of admission to Hanbei University was personally delivered to his home by the village chief. At that time, the express delivery was not as developed as it is now. Everything mailed in the village was concentrated in the village Committee. The people in the village Committee would collect everyone's things and send them to the post office in the town for mailing. The village head would broadcast a notice to pick them up through the loudspeaker every three times. As a result, when I was a child, Li Wenming's memory often heard, "Zhao Laosi, ah ~, Zhao Laosi, there is a package you sent from Henan. Please have time to register and collect it at Uncle Zhao, the village Committee's reception office." Later, it was simplified to:

"Liu Laogen, ah ~, Liu Laogen, there is a box you sent from Guangdong, Tie Guai Li, ah ~, Tie Guai Li, and there is a registered letter from your Southwest Military Region ... Please ask the comrades who heard the name above to pick it up at the old place of the village Committee."

Li Wenming still remembers that since the year when he finished the college entrance examination, his father, uncle, mother and sister all began to pay special attention to the loudspeaker broadcasting in this village.

In Li Wenming's father's time, because his family was extremely poor and lacked food and clothing, the Li family took out many years' savings, plus the subsidy given by his uncle who was wounded and discharged from the Vietnam self-defense counterattack, before collecting three bride price gifts and marrying his father Li Yuanchao. And his uncle, Li Yuanchao's younger brother Li Kangyue, became one of the few old bachelors in the village. Because he was shot in the leg and limped, many old acquaintances in the village jokingly called him "Tie Guai Li", and he also promised with a smile, which would not be regarded as an insult.

At that time, the family planning policy in Li Yuanchao was very strict, because the first-born baby girl was born as a farmer, so the policy allowed another baby, but I didn't expect the second baby to be a baby girl. At that time, family planning was strictly checked and punished, and it was possible that you might lose everything, and only having boys was considered as a patriarchal and deep-rooted idea for the family. "Not having a boy is unfilial, and parents can't be closed when they die." Some old people in the village even talk about it. Under all kinds of pressure, Li Yuanchao had to reluctantly and secretly miscarry the second-born girl inferred by the village doctor's doctor's pulse, so his mother cried for several months. Up to now, no one dared to have a second sister in Li Wenming in advance in front of her. Later, it was not until Li Yuanchao was in his thirties that Li Wenming came into being. Li Wenming is the only child of the Li family.

So Li Wenming was loved by his grandparents, father, mother, uncle and sister since he was a child, which is really a collection of "but his favours to three thousand were concentered in one body".

"It's almost the end of August. Why haven't you heard Mingming's letter?"

"That's right. I heard that the admission notices of Changguijiawa College in the neighboring village have all come down."

Just as Li Wenming's family was worried, the village chief came with a group of people beating gongs and drums. It turns out that the village chief thinks that there hasn't been a famous college student in the village for more than ten years, and Li Wenming is giving the whole village a long face. However, knowing that Li Yuanchao's family was poor, the village chief decided to call party member in the village to have a meeting first. Everyone scraped together more than 12,86 yuan, and the Zhao family band invited by the village for weddings, funerals and weddings also came to join us for free. According to their words, "I also want to be happy with civilization. I hope my baby can be admitted to a good university like civilization in the future." This may also be the simplest wish of all parents in the village at that time.

"village head, we can't take this money! They are all in the same village, and no one is better off than anyone else, you ~! " Li Yuanchao said.

"That's right, village chief. We appreciate your kindness. We have already hit the wall." Tie Guai Li was one of the few people in the village who knew a few words except the village chief because he had been in the army, but he only knew a few, so he often didn't even know the wrong idiom himself.

At that time, Li Wenming also felt particularly proud, as if all of a sudden, his whole body was emitting an invisible light, which even enveloped his whole family.

Even distant relatives who have never met each other several times are sometimes flattered: "Ouch ~, you Li family have a big shot, so you were a scholar before!"

Some people disagree: "Scholar? Civilization is admitted to a first-class university. It can't be said that it is the best, and it is also a good person. "

“...”

? In short, there is light on the faces of all relatives and friends.

Li Wenming came home one summer vacation from college, and his sister Li Wenjuan told him about it. Instead of correcting what they said, he just smiled and went on reading. However, he felt a little more pressure in his heart.

In fact, Hanbei University is one of the top universities in China, and some majors are not even worse than Tsinghua Peking University, including medical related majors. Of course, it is extremely difficult to get into Hanbei University in all provinces, and the admission rate is extremely low. It is no exaggeration to describe it as one out of hundreds of thousands.

But he naturally knows what it means, bearing the great hopes of the Li family and the villagers. If you don't mix up in the future, how can you have the face to return to your hometown? Will you also implicate your parents and relatives and be gossiped by others?

As time goes by, the whole family and even the whole village are looking forward to Li Wenming's graduation and returning home one day. Earlier, some people in the village hoped that if Li Wenming could become a big official in the future, it would be good to build a road for the village. Later, this statement was never mentioned again. Unlike other majors, Li Wenming majored in medicine. Medicine, a matter of life and death, is a very serious major, which can be said to be the most rigorous one among many majors. Therefore, generally speaking, the medical major is different from other undergraduate majors, and it takes longer to graduate smoothly, while the clinical medicine major of Li Wenming University is a seven-year program, which is three years longer than the general undergraduate major. Seven years! Some people have graduated with a master's degree. He just graduated from undergraduate course, so he can only go to a hospital as an intern first.

As a post-8s Li Wenming, Li Wenming, an intern with a meager salary, and Li Wenming, who barely lives without a house or a car in Hanbei, sometimes feel helpless and suffer from insomnia at night.

Since he graduated from college, he even dared not go home any more. In addition to going back for a few days during the Spring Festival, at other times, he refused to go back to the small village where the whole family and village were proud of him.

He was also afraid that primary school students from a village would come to him, especially if they offered to spend the night. In that case, he had to pay for them to arrange a room in a nearby hotel, and he never dared to let them see the small partition in a dilapidated old apartment that he was renting now. Yes, a small partition, a small partition in the living room. When renting, the intermediary said it was a fine decoration, which is true, but it seems that it should be a fine decoration of the last century, and the floors have been broken and deformed. If it encounters the rainy season in summer, it will smell moldy from time to time. When you turn on the light in the kitchen, you can always see the scene of "Xiaoqiang" running away. Fortunately, you eat the canteen of the hospital and won't cook here like other residents. Li Wenming lived in such a small partition when he just graduated. Because the hospital dormitory was full, he didn't apply for it. The new dormitory hasn't been built yet, and there will be a subsidy for living outside the hospital, so Li Wenming chose here.

? He kept a small part of the money he saved and sent all the rest home. Because my father's asthma is getting worse and worse, the medicine can't be broken. He studied medicine in that year in order to treat patients like his father in the future. At first, he didn't have such a great ideal of saving the world. He only knew that it would cost a lot of money to see a doctor. If he could see a doctor, he could at least help his relatives. This is the result that he spent a day or two thinking about it when he filled in his volunteers after studying hard at a cold window for 12 years. He wanted to be a doctor, so he chose the major of clinical medicine.

? Now, many years later, when he learned that many alumni who chose popular majors such as computer and finance, some started businesses and became big bosses, and some became Internet company executives with hundreds of thousands of annual salaries, he once regretted it. Because he found that making money was the last word. With money, he can treat his father, he can afford a house, he can give his loved ones better living conditions and repay their kindness. Now, although I have studied medicine for many years, I have left my hometown and can't be with my parents often, let alone treat his old people.

Yes, the tide of reform and opening up has been rolling in. Many changes have taken place in the countryside in recent years, and the small village he is familiar with has become more and more strange to him.

Many parents began to let them go out to work after graduating from junior high school. Many people went to learn auto repair and haircut and started a small business in the town. Some even traveled thousands of miles south to Guangzhou, Fujian, to collect waste products, do small business and enter the factory ...

Of course, most of their days are still tight. But the first batch of people who went out to work really made some money. Liu Laogen's family, the first in their village to build a small building, was built by the whole family after collecting waste in Fujian for more than ten years to earn money. Pockmarked Li's family in the west of the village was also the first in the village to buy a car. Li Wenming, the son of Pockmarked Li, knew him. He was a frequent visitor in the last ten grades in the class, and he liked to be naughty the most. Before he finished junior high school, his father took him to Guangzhou.

However, he lives in Li Wenming. Because his father is ill, the whole family will live there. Before farming, you still need to pay various taxes and fees. The village calls this "retention". Sometimes, after a hard year, all expenses such as "retention" and the cost of buying seed pesticides are deducted, and when it comes to disaster years, it will lose money. Even if the years are too good, agricultural products will lose money if they collapse in price.

In this way, a university in Li Wenming saved money for seven years in Li Wenming. Although he got good grades and even walked to graduate school, he gave up. He needed to work early. When he sent his first month's salary home, he thought to himself that he could no longer take money from home.

At present, only his family in the village still lives in a broken tile house that leaks rain. And the old people in the village will no longer force their children to enter any university. I was sent to learn duet and take an art school a little early. I heard that it is faster to get money if you are famous for art! Most of the nine-year compulsory education has not finished yet, so they let their children and themselves go out to work. Many of them are not forced by their parents, but their children are tired of learning. Often the class teacher calls their parents who are thousands of miles away and says, < P >? "Your son has been fighting with someone again, so you'd better come back."

"Your son fell in love at a young age, and the other parents want to talk to you."

"Li Fang? I don't remember. Is it my student? Oh! Come to think of it, is he your son? I haven't been to class for three months since I was punished for fighting with someone last time! "

So, no one in the whole village is working so hard to get into college. Li Wenming, who was once the only famous university student in the village, unconsciously became the most important founder of this trend.

What makes Li Wenming feel even worse is the parents' urging of marriage.

Because of the serious imbalance between men and women caused by family planning, some smart people in the village discovered it early. There are very few girls in ten miles and eight townships, and it is really a family with hundreds of women. Therefore, many people arranged marriages for their sons early, and some of them were considered as adults at the age of 17 and married at the age of 18. Li Wenming remembers coming home during the Spring Festival one year, and his sister Li Wen donated him to show his niece people. As the old saying goes, there are three things that are unfilial. Li Yuanchao looked at all the families in the village and arranged lifelong events for their children. There are many little dolls that can be called Grandpa, and his heart is naturally very anxious. Li Wenming has been heartbroken and has never been in love since she broke up with her boyfriend for five years after graduation. After graduation, in the face of the cruel pressure of life, he has no time to think about being immersed in love. He just wants to earn more money to see his father. It would be better if he could buy a house for his parents in Hanbei City in the future, so that he can cure his father's illness, at the very least, he won't let his illness get worse.

Li Wenming remembers an online joke that his roommate Anan once showed him, telling that it was not easy for their generation after the 198s, especially after the 198s:

"When we were in primary school, we didn't need money to go to college;

When we were in college, primary school was free.

When we can't work, the work is assigned.

When we can work, we barely find a hungry job after hitting our heads.

when we can't make money, the house is allocated.

when we can earn money, we find that we can't afford to buy a house.

When we are not old enough to get married, we can get married by bike.

When we get married, we can't get married without a house and a car. "

Li Wenming is undoubtedly lucky, because he met an ordinary woman who didn't dislike his background and was also a nurse in his same hospital. Later, they had children, and the hospital provided them with a small apartment of more than 6 square meters in the newly-built staff dormitory. Li Wenming, as a parent, feels that it is not easy to be a parent, so he feels more guilty about his parents in the countryside.

? In Li Yuanchao's mind, no matter what others say, his son never failed to live up to his hopes, and later Li Wenming became a family and he became a grandfather. When he heard Sun Tzu's voice calling out the word "grandpa" in a vague way, he was already "white as snow and his face was as deep as black soil and ravines" and smiled happily. This is also one of the few smiles that Li Wenming remembers from his father. Not only Li Yuanchao, but also Li Wenming's mother, sister and uncle, Li Wenming has always been a person worthy of the Li family's pride.

"My son is a doctor! "

" My nephew is a doctor. Dr. Sun Yat-sen and Mr. Lu Xun were both doctors. "

"Your uncle is a doctor, the kind who helps the world. You should study hard in the future, just like your uncle, you know?"

Later, because his wife had to take care of the children, she had to resign from the hospital and work as a housewife for several years. Then the children went to kindergarten and found another job in an eye hospital. In this way, the ordinary Li Wenming family of three lived an ordinary life in Hanbei City.

Li Wenming has been lying down for a long time and failed to sleep. Take it back.