Chapter 5
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Meanwhile after Er Xiao Feng left…
“Sister, I am hungry.”
Lin Yao with his pitying voice told his sister, he felt hungry.
Early in the morning their mother has brought he and his sister went out, his mother bought a bun, but neither his mother nor his sister ate it, two of them told him, they didn’t feel hungry. Thus he was the one ate the bun, so far since morning until now he only ate that one bun and since then he hasn’t eaten anything. No wonder he felt so hungry now.
“Xiao Yao, what’s time now?”
Lin Yi was asking her little brother, there have happened to many things today, she even forgot to feel hungry now.
Lin Yao was looking at the clock hanging on the wall, he answered: “Sister, it is almost six o’clock.”
Lin Yi surprised, it is almost 6PM o’clock, she hasn’t eaten anything for almost one day.
Also her mother… Her mother is gone with emptied stomach.
She used her hand to touch the notebook and the urn of her mother. For the meanwhile she put the urn under her little brother’s bed, afraid she might accidentally break it. Her mother gone so fast, there was no words left by her, moreover she didn’t left any money for this pair of sister and brother.
Lin Yi felt so sad inside her heart, she recalled the conversation which she had with Er Xiao Feng before. Sometimes stubborn couldn’t be eaten as food. She should find the way how to solve the problem right in front of her now, she needs to think her little brother. Her little brother sickness couldn’t be delayed, but if she wanted to cure her little brother, she needs lot of money. She remembered before the incident happened, it was after her mother went out from the doctor office, she didn’t say anything but took her and her little brother left the hospital immediately. These three people, mother and children kept on walking and walking, yet she didn’t know since when her mother had loosened her hand which holding her.
The moment when her little brother found their mother, her mother has already in blood bath.
“Knock knock.”
It was a knocking sound.
Lin Yi turned her head to the direction of doorway, alarmed she asked: “Who?”
“Sister, it is an unfamiliar auntie.” Quickly Lin Yao told his sister what he saw.
The person is the auntie who working in hospital canteen, She pushing the meal cart to deliver meals to patients and their families who ordered meals. She didn’t know if Lin Yi cannot see, she was bringing two meal boxes, she intended to give it to Lin Yi’s hand, and then she said: “Patient room 601, this is your dinner.”
Quickly Lin Yi stretching out her hand, trying to reach out, the auntie who sending the meal boxes, seeing Lin Yi was using her hand to find the direction, she looked surprised, said: “Young lady, you cannot see?”
Lin Yi has gotten used other people asked her this way, she showed bright smile, ” Auntie, I am indeed a blind person, I might trouble you, please put down the meal boxes on my hand or you can give it to my little brother. Thank you.”
The auntie who sending the meal boxes looking at her with pity expression, she gave one box to Lin Yi and the other box to Lin Yao’s hand.
Such beautiful pair of eyes, after all it cannot see. The auntie was lamenting inside her heart.
The auntie who sending the meal box shook her head, then she returned to in front the door of the ward, she took two bowls of soup, when came back she put it on the table beside the bed. She said to Lin Yi: “There are soups in the hospital canteen, I take two bowls, put it on the table beside the bed, you be careful, don’t turn over it.”
“Thank you auntie.” Lin Yi gratefully thanked the auntie, then she asked: “Auntie, does the meal box in the hospital canteen need to be paid? In the past when my little brother stayed at hospital, there was no one sending dinner to us?”
The auntie who sending the meal box smiled and said: “In this world there is no free meals. Everything needs money, didn’t you make the order before?”
Lin Yi dumbfounded, she didn’t make order from the canteen of hospital, could it be that man ordered it for them?
The auntie who sent the meals seemed to say something, but Lin Yi didn’t pay attention.
She started to hesitate, whether she should accept the kindness of her enemy or not?
He is the person who caused her mother died, he explained to her, it was her mother who rushed and hit herself to his car, her mother has intended to have a suicide. Lin Yi didn’t believe her mother was intending to suicide, her mother did say, even if she needed to sell her blood, sell her kidney, she would cure her and her little brother. She would work hard to give normal life to this pair of sister and brother, then how possible her mother had a thought to suicide?
If she didn’t accept Er Xiao Feng kindness, she and her little brother don’t have any cent with them, not to mention the money to cure her little brother, even to have a meal, it has already a huge trouble for them. If she is healthy normal person, she still can go to find a job and raise her little brother by herself, but she is a blind person, where should she go to find job, then who would employ her?
Lin Yi hates herself so much because she cannot see.
“Sister, there are many dishes. There are meat, meat.” Lin Yao because his short term amnesia, he has already forgotten if his mother has passed away this morning, until now he still thought that his mother has gone out for working, because she is so busy with her works thus she didn’t have time to take care of him, she also couldn’t bring him food, so that she made order to the hospital canteen.
Lin Yao looked so impatient to open the meal box which sent by the canteen auntie, moreover after he looked the dishes in the meal box. He really likes to eat meat, therefore this little boy looked so excited and happy, gulping his saliva, directly he started to eat.
Lin Yi couldn’t see the expression on how her little brother when eating. But listened to how his little brother made a noise, she could make a guess her little brother must be eaten in hurried. Quickly she reminded her little brother: “Xiao Yao, you should eat slower. Don’t get choked.”
“En, Sister, you also eat. Mother really good, she has helped us to order the food, these dishes are more delicious than mother cooking.” Lin Yao was eating while at the same time he also urged his sister to eat.
Lin Yi smiled faintly, “Okay. Sister is going to eat. You should eat slower. If you are not enough, I can share half of mine for you.”
“Thank you sister. I am enough.” Lin Yao really felt so hungry, but at the same time he is also a mature little boy. He wouldn’t take half of his sister part.
The excitement that showed by her little brother, it made Lin Yi tried to suppress her emotions, the sadness, pain, hate and detest. she chooses to head down when eating her meal.
At this time in the Ming Liu Yuan Er Xiao Feng is listening to Ling Po report via mobile phone. Ling Po has been asking to stay in the hospital by Er Xiao Feng to take care Lin Yi and Lin Yao as well to find out information about these pair of sister and brother. Thus he was reporting to Er Xiao Feng everything that he got and heard in the hospital.
“The Lin’s sister and brother are the regular patient in this hospital. Young Master you have asked the doctor who responsible for Lin Yao’s sickness, as you knew, he has severe sickness. If he doesn’t get immediate treatment, perhaps when next time he fainted he wouldn’t be able to wake up again. At the same time, the doctors and nurses in the hospital did say Lin family is very poor. Their mother was working as part-timer, she didn’t earn much. Every times Lin Yao hospitalized, they would have spent so much money, many times they owed the bill to the point hospital side has given up to urge them to pay for the medical bill. Fortunately, all the doctors are kind people, every times Lin Yao stayed at the hospital, even if they haven’t paid the previous medical bill, they would still work hard to treat him, saving his life.”
Er Xiao Feng frowned, asked: “Where is their father?”
Ling Po answered: “As said, when Lin Yao was one year old, their father have gone out to work in other city. He left for six years without any news, also he never sent money to them. He never come back to see them since he left. Current suspection, due to the life pressure, he left them.”
Immediately there was an anger gleam in Er Xiao Feng’s pair of eyes.
If Father Lin really left his family because he couldn’t stand of the life pressure, then father Lin indeed not a man. As husband, as father, when his wife and children needed him the most, he left them because he couldn’t stand the poverty.
An initially toward Mother Lin who killed herself by hitting herself to his car, it has already angered Er Xiao Feng since it wasn’t a mistake done by him, it was Mother Lin who intentionally did it, also he should be hated by Lin Yi. Then after he heard everything regarding about Lin’s family, the anger he has before, it slowly subsided.
Perhaps it is because the life pressure which made Mother Lin gave up her life in order to exchange an opportunity for her children to keep on living.
If her daughter is not blind, her son is not sick, then her husband didn’t leave them, perhaps they still could stay and face everything together although life is harsh and hard. But, her daughter is blind, her son is sick. There are lot of money needed to spend once there is someone falling sick in the family. Then how could Mother Lin support and brace?
“Young Master, every times Lin Yao hospitalized in the hospital, Mother Lin would secretly sell her blood and because she has countless times selling her blood, later on people who working in the legal blood bank not daring to take her blood anymore, therefore she went to illegal blood bank, the result…” Ling Po paused a while, there was a pitying gleam in his eyes.
Er Xiao Feng raised his eyes, impatiently he asked: “What is the result?”
“Mother Lin seemed to get contagious by AIDS before she suicide.”
Er Xiao Feng stood up, he hissed: “AIDS?”
That disease is a kind of incurable disease.
Suddenly he recalled Lin Yi did touch Mother Lin’s body, he nervously asked Ling Po: “Did Lin’s sister and brother get contagious?”
Ling Po shook his head, he answered him with certainty: “Lin’s sister and brother not infected, Young Master, there are three ways get infected by AIDS, the cause that made Mother Lin got infected AIDS when she sold her blood to the illegal blood bank, perhaps it was because she used the same needle with the AIDS patient.”
Er Xiao Feng slowly sitting down, he talked to himself: “No wonder she was choosing to end her life by hit herself to car. By doing this, the car owner still needed to pay amount of compensation money to her daughter and son. Especially both of her daughter and son are sick. Regarding to humanity, impossible for the car owner not to pay the compensation, this could be said that she used her life to give a path for her daughter and son to live. The problem is why she rushed to my car then… Because of her, that girl has thought me as person who killed her mother, thought me as enemy.”
Although Er Xiao Feng is the Young Master of Earl family, as since he was young to now, he never done any bad thing before but suddenly he was hated by other and even labeled as killer, naturally he felt uncomfortable in his heart.
Ling Po carefully said: “You just unlucky Young Master.”
Er Xiao Feng angered at him, immediately Ling Po shut his mouth.
“How can in this modern life, people still living such miserable.” Er Xiao Feng recalled Lin Yi pair of beautiful eyes which looked fuzzy, then he also recalled her thin and bony body, he sighed. If not because he was the one that unlucky person, he wouldn’t believe there still people living in such miserable.
Perhaps he just living too lucky.
Also people surrounded him are those living in privilege.
Lin Yi is same age with him, he is born with gold spoon, living alike a little king, but Lin Yi is living in the other way, she is coming from the bottom layer, not only that, she even a blind person. When he thought about Lin’s family, one thing that came out in Er Xiao Feng mind is ‘while the house is already leaking, it keeps raining the whole night’ means when person encounters bad luck, more bad luck will follow.
“Young Master, that girl name is Lin Yi. This year she is 18 years old. Young Master, you are only older half month than her. When she was ten years old, she felt ill and her sickness made her lost her sight. Doctor said that as long as she does the Corneal transplantation, she could gain back her sight. Don’t know whether because no donated corneal or no money that make her not doing the Corneal transplantation until now, she has been blind for eight years already.”
Er Xiao Feng has deep thought: “Tomorrow I will go to find Brother Mu Hao, I will ask his help to do complete check up for both of them.”
“Young Master, do you think to take full responsible for both of them? Regarding about that matter, it is because Young Master you were unlucky. If Young Master you are willing to pay a sum of money as compensation, this has already good. You don’t have to take full responsible for two of them.” Ling Po was trying to persuade Er Xiao Feng for not getting involved with Lin’s family matter.
Er Xiao Feng looked so unhappy with Ling Po, “Since when you have right to ask me what should I do and what shouldn’t do by me?”
“I am not dare.”
Er Xiao Feng instructed him: “Now, you are going back to the ward, guard there. One is blind person, the other is patient moreover they are young and still small. Really worrisome. Also, you bring some money to Lin Yi, she is stubborn person, but at the same time she knows how to adapt to the circumstances. If she really wants her little brother to stay alive, she would accept my compensation.”
“Yes.”
Ling Po was little bit curious after all his Young Master has such heroes heart.
But really sister and brother of Lin’s family really so pitiful.
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