Chapter 10
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After they went out from ward, Er Xiao Feng was taking out a black plastic bag and said: “I have asked my man to change the money to smaller nominal. All kind of nominal are here. I have separated the money inside the purse partition, moreover I have marked it, one Yuan partition, I put one bead inside, five Yuan partition, I put five beads inside, ten Yuan partition, I put one big bead, twenty Yuan partition, I put two big beads and fifty Yuan I put five big beads. One hundred Yuan, there is no bead inside.”
After Er Xiao Feng took his 1,900 Yuan from his man, he asked them to change it into a smaller nominal change before he gave it to Lin Yi, he has put all well in representative partition.
No need to mention the amount of money he gave to Lin Yi because she cannot see. He could be this detail-oriented to separated the changes and also made marking, easier for Lin Yi to use it. This detail-oriented attitude quite surprised Lin Yi.
“Later I will ask my man to buy small bag for you, kind of bag with many layer and partition inside it. I will help you to put the different money nominal into the partition so that in the future when you want to buy thing, you don’t have to be afraid, cheated by other people, you have more than enough of small nominal to pay, so that you don’t have to afraid people will give you fake money as change or give less change.”
Lin Yi grabbed tight that plastic bag, Er Xiao Feng afraid she would refuse him again, not forget he told her: “I know you don’t want to accept my kindness, but if now you are not accepting my kindness, what to do with you and your little brother? I am not expecting your forgiveness by doing this, if you want keep on hating me, then you can keep on going on, the most important is taking care of your little brother as well treat his sickness.”
“Thank you.”
This time Lin Yi didn’t act alike before, refusing Er Xiao Feng’s help. But with so difficult she said out that words.
Er Xiao Feng looked her with deep sight, “I hope you and your little brother can strong enough to live. About your little brother condition, my brother Hao has checked his medical record, he said if he does the operation, he has 60% chance of success. Today Auntie Xu didn’t come, Brother Hao promised me, he will tell her later, wait until my Auntie Xu checks it too, then they will make medical plan for your little brother. Regarding the expenses, I can help you to pay it first, it is not a compensation money, you can feel assured.”
The thing that she unwilling to accept the most is accepting his compensation money.
Lin Yi moved her mouth, but at the last it was only thank you that let out from her mouth.
Er Xiao Feng thought he would need to spend more time to convince her, but seeing her positive response in which not refusing him, in moment he really didn’t know what to say.
“Mr. Earl.”
Suddenly Lin Yi opened her mouth, hurried Er Xiao Feng answered her: “What do you want to say?”
“Mr. Earl, can you help me to arrange a job?” After all Lin Yi was asking Er Xiao Feng to help her arrange a job for her, with Er Xiao Feng’s help, her little brother sickness can get best treatment, but she doesn’t want to rely on Er Xiao Feng forever, she also doesn’t want to owe Er Xiao Feng. Because if she did it, it feels as if she was exchanging her mother’s life with all benefits Er Xiao Feng gave to her. She thought after she has job, she can save little bit, and then she can pay back to Er Xiao Feng slowly.
The death of her mother, more less she started to believe what Er Xiao Feng said. Since he made promise and even kept the recording of what happened that day and would let her to see it in the future when she able to see, it more than enough to proof mistake wasn’t on his side, adding with the analysis which he did make before, it was so cruel but Lin Yi should admit she indeed doesn’t dare to face the fact perhaps her mother was commit suicide.
Toward Er Xiao Feng, Lin Yi has complicated feeling inside her heart.
She didn’t want to ask help from him, but she needed his help.
“You want to work? Can you… I mean perhaps it is not really convenient for you go to work.” Er Xiao Feng looked at her eyes.
Lin Yi biting her lips, Er Xiao Feng realized she has a habit to bite her lips, “Mr. Earl, I can do it. As long as the work is easy and simple, I can do my best to do it. I am okay even if the pay is low, as long as I can earn a sum of money, it is enough.”
This indeed difficult Er Xiao Feng.
If Lin Yi is normal person, he can randomly arrange job for her, but Lin Yi is blind person, she cannot see, what can she do then?
After waiting for sometime Er Xiao Feng hasn’t answered her, Lin Yi down her head, with apologizing speaking tone, she said: “Mr. Earl, I am sorry, if you can’t, I can go out and try to look by myself. I think there must be job that suitable for me.”
“Don’t, you don’t go out by yourself, the situation you have right now, it only takes few minutes to be sold by people.” Especially she can be said as beautiful girl, if she is sold to place like a night club, if that happened, no one could help her no matter how she cried out.
“Lin Yi, you give me time to think about it. I will help you to look for a job. Currently you don’t have to hurry looking for job, wait until your little brother done the operation, get out from hospital, then you can slowly look for job.”
Lin Yi knew herself has been so impatient, she nodded her head: “Okay. Thank you, Mr. Earl.”
Er Xiao Feng looked at her, he seemed wanted to say something, but he didn’t know what to say. The last, he let Lin Yi to go back to ward, accompanying her little brother, then he went out to buy a set of wooden stacking block for Lin Yao.
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Lin Yao sat cross-legged on the bed and played with his wooden stacking blocks. This is given by Brother Earl to him.
Lin Yi sat sided, stared-blankly. Today Er Xiao Feng didn’t come, didn’t know whether he would help her or not.
“Sister, when will mother come to see me? I want to tell mother, Brother Earl gave me this wooden stacking blocks.” Lin Yao stacking the blocks while at the same time asking his sister, everyday he would ask her few times, when would his mother come to see him.
Lin Yi gained herself back, answered him: “Xiao Yao, sister did tell you, mother is very busy, since her boss has paid her in advance for half month salary, so that she should work very hard, thus you don’t have to ask about mother daily. When she has time, she would come here.”
It’s not Lin Yao didn’t understand, he said: “Sister, no matter how busy mother is, doesn’t she have time to get off from work, does she? When she gets off from her work, she can come to see me. In the past whenever she got off from work she would still come to see me. Sister, I am missed mother so much.”
She also missed her.
In Lin Yi’s heart, she is crying. Their mother has left this world, but she didn’t dare to let her little brother to know it, she afraid it would trigger him.
Er Xiao Feng told her, he would help her to schedule her little brother operation.
In her little brother’s heart, Er Xiao Feng is someone handsome as well very kind big brother. If her little brother founded Er Xiao Feng was the person who caused their mother died, how disappointed her little brother would be then? He must be so sad, mustn’t he?
“Xiao Yao, be good. Be obedient, mother is so busy right now. Mother must be very busy with her work. We are so poor. If mother is not working, she wouldn’t have money to pay for your hospital bill. You will be getting your operation in few days, mother is working because she needs to earn money for your operation expenses too.”
Lin Yi really endured her pain, she tried to coax her little brother, asking him not to ask their mother everyday.
Every times her little brother asked her why their mother not coming to see him, she really wanted to cry. But she couldn’t cry in front of her little brother.
“Oh, I am not asking anymore. Sister, should I really need to have the operation? Will mother able to earn enough for my operation expenses? If I am doing the operation, can I live until I old?” Lin Yao is only seven years old little boy, yet he knew very well about his condition, he knew if he doesn’t get medical treatment, perhaps he wouldn’t live until he reached an adulthood.
He doesn’t want to die.
He wanted to grow up and become an adult, he wanted to live healthy and long. He wanted to have healthy heart alike normal people, he wanted to be able to go to school, can jump high.
Growing up, he could help her mother to earn money and lessen the burden of their family. Then he also can help his sister to get corneal transplantation. So that his sister might be able to see.
“Xiao Yao.” Lin Yi held her little brother’s hand, she pulled it, then with faint smile she comforted her little brother: “As long as you do the operation, then you can grow up healthy alike any normal people. The operation fee is earned by mother’s current job and also some is borrowed. Sister also borrowed the money from Mr. Earl too. After you do the operation and can go out from the hospital, sister would be able to go out to work too, the money that I earn would be paid to Mr. Earl.”
“Sister, can you go out to work?” Lin Yao didn’t intentionally wanted to knock down his sister confident, but the condition of his sister is so special, she is a blind person. Can she get a job?
Lin Yi smiled: “As long as sister goes out to find a job, I believe, I might able to get one. Xiao Yao, you don’t have to worry about me, don’t ask too much. You play this wooden stacking block, sister needs to go out for a while.”
Lin Yao nodding his head, with care he helped his sister by taking the white cane and then gave it to her. He also went down from his bed and sent his sister until in front of the ward, because Lin Yi urged him to go back, then he obediently returned to his bed.
The moment when she ensure her little brother has returned back to his bed, Lin Yi made a turn to the elevator direction, right the moment she turned, tears falling down from her eyes.
When she arrived in front of the elevator, Lin Yi wiped her tears, she tried to look the elevator button with her hand, pressed it to down floor, she waited patiently for the elevator door to open.
Not long after that, Lin Yi could hear there were footsteps, it was coming from her right side. The footsteps seemed heavy and strong. Quickly, that person took his position and soon he has already been standing beside her, the person seemed to head down floor too. Lin Yi could sense the other party seemed to look at her.
Subconsciously Lin Yi held her white cane tightened.
“Father, this big sister is holding a stick, what it is for?”
As heard, it was a clear toddler voice.
That man who keep on staring at Lin Yi before, he is carrying a little boy who seemed at three or four years old, Little boy has similar looked with Lin Yao, but he looked more handsome than Lin Yao because Lin Yao is sick and also he has severe malnutrition, so that he looked thin and weak.
While the little boy who carried by the man looked so healthy and white. The clothes that he wore also made from good fabric material, he looked bit chubby which made him looked cuter too.
“That is white cane used by blind person. Sister’s eyes cannot see.” The man explained with low voice.
The moment when Lin Yi heard that man spoke, she felt so familiar with his voice. It’s sounded alike her father voice which engraved deep in her memory.
“Father, sister has eyes, but why she cannot see?”
Little boy didn’t understand, he just curious, this sister, she has pair of eyes, but why she cannot see even if she has eyes?
“Xiao Bao don’t ask too much. Sister is already so sad because cannot see, if you keep on asking these much, sister will be come sadder.” The man was still speaking with low voice, he tried to control his speaking volume.
Lin Yi thought this man speaking voice is really very similar with her father, when her father left her, she has already 12 years old. She knew how her father’s voice sound alike. How could this man who has been staring at her for all this time, his speaking voice is so similar with her father? Could this man her father? Could he be?
“Father, didn’t you are the one who said to me, I should ask more for something that I don’t know. Do you forget, don’t you?” The little boy was speaking so clearly at the same time he looked so unhappy because his father words. He pouted his little mouth, showing his unhappy expression.
Lin Yi felt so restless and kept on thinking…
Whether this man is her father or not, if this man really is her father, then how can her father has another son? Isn’t father only having she and Xiao Yao as his children?
“Sir, I feel so familiarized with your voice, did we ever meet before? May I know who are you?”
Lin Yi was trying to test him by asking him.
The other party was smiling and with little bit sorry said: “Little girl, perhaps you are misheard. We never met before. Just now, I am really sorry. My son is still very young, he doesn’t understand, if his words did hurt you, I hope you can forgive him.”
Called her little girl?
Not a father!
If the person is really her father, impossible he didn’t show any reaction once he saw her. Perhaps he just have similar speaking voice with her father.
“Little girl, the elevator door is opened, do you want to go out or not?”
“Yes. Thank you.” The other party has denied that he never seen her before. But Lin Yi didn’t have any evidence to prove the man whose speaking voice sounded alike her father whether he is her father or not. She followed him, but she intentionally walked in different way, she wanted to give a try whether the man would pull her or not, never thought the other party did help to remind her if she was walking in wrong direction, but didn’t pull her.
Perhaps the man who was inside the elevator might not her father. But Lin Yi really felt so familiar with this voice, she couldn’t calm herself and sense her surrounding. She only knew that she followed that pair of father and son.
“Little girl, you cannot see. Why are you alone, where is your family? How can they allow you to walk by yourself?”
Lin Yi directly answered him: “My mother has already died, my little brother is sick. While my father has lost.”
That man has kept quiet for one minute, then he apologized to Lin Yi: “Little girl, I am sorry. I didn’t know. You should be careful.”
Lin Yi didn’t speak.
From his speaking tone, Lin Yi couldn’t hear any changing in his voice, if he really her father, impossible he didn’t feel anything, could it be she has been thinking too much?
The elevator has arrived in first floor, the man reminded Lin Yi: “Little girl, we are arrived in first floor, the elevator door is also opened. I help you to press the button, you go out first.”
Lin Yi gained back herself, calmly she thanked him: “Sir, thank you. I am not going out. May I trouble you to help me pressing 6th floor.”
“Okay.”
That man was helping Lin Yi to press button 6, and then he carried the little boy and went out from the elevator. That little boy kept on turning his head to see Lin Yi, then he said: “Sister, good bye.”
Elevator door closed.
While Lin Yi looked as if she didn’t see them and couldn’t hear their voice.
If she could see, she might be able to see how tight that man’s pair of hand carried that little boy.
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