Chapter 141 Good news...or bad news? I didn't stay unconscious for too long. I woke up in the rest pavilion in the just felt like I was falling, falling... falling non-stop, and then I kicked my legs and woke up. My wife was still by my side, and she couldn't stop crying. There were a few people nearby, including the mine foreman and some fellow miners. It seemed that they carried me here to rest. When they saw me wake up, they all asked me about my situation and gave their opinions. I am the pillar of this family. I cannot fall down. I forced myself to stand up and calmed myself down. "Okay, the most important thing right now is to go to the city hospital and check the test results. Money... We'll talk about money later." My wife nodded with tears in her eyes. I turned to the foreman and asked, "Can you give me a few months' salary advance? I will have to pay for the hospital medical expenses, as well as the cost of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. I... I..." The foreman looked very embarrassed. He said, "I can't decide on this matter. I have to ask the boss first." I wanted to insist: "I was the first one to go to the mine. Can you please tell the boss about it?" The foreman agreed, but his expression clearly showed that he didn't take it seriously and was rather perfunctory.
I knelt down before him. "Please, I have been working very hard, and I will definitely work harder in the future. Just give me an advance of 5000 yuan, and please help me talk to the big boss, okay?" The foreman came to help me up immediately: "What are you doing? I'm just helping you. There's no need to do this, no need to do this..." "Thank you... Thank you..." Apart from kowtow, I had no other way to express my gratitude. "However, whether or not I can get such an advance depends on the boss's opinion. I can't make the decision." …… I asked my wife in detail about how she lost the money. She said that she had kept the money close to her body that day, but as soon as she left the village, two strangers came towards her. Not only did they snatch her package, they also searched her body and finally took out the money she had kept close to her body. After finding the money, they ran away. How could my wife catch up with her sick child? In the end, she could only watch them go away. After hearing this, I had no choice but to take my wife to report to the police. However, where could two strangers go to find any trace of them? So in the end, I just got the result that the case had been filed and I went back to wait for news. "I" didn't think much about it. My daughter's illness completely occupied my mind and I had no energy to think about other things. However, I, who was in empathy, found something wrong in this description. Most people who rob people would only steal their packages. How could they think of looking through someone's underwear? They rummaged through her clothes and didn't do anything else except taking her money, which showed that they had no bad intentions towards this woman. It was as if they knew there must be money hidden inside the clothes. It was as if their original purpose was the hidden money. However, there has never been a robbery here before. If it was a random crime by coincidence, how could a woman with a thin child, who doesn't look rich, become the target of robbery? If all this were a coincidence, it would be too much of a coincidence. I am more inclined to believe that someone knew that the woman had taken the money to the town for medical treatment and deliberately waited for her there.
It’s just that I’m in empathy, and this body is out of my control, so I have no way of finding out the truth. …… The foreman later only gave me an advance of 2000 yuan. "I tried my best to persuade the big boss, but in the end, he was only willing to give you an advance of 2000 yuan. I have tried my best." Every bit counts, and I'm already grateful for the advance. After getting the money, I took two days off. This time, I personally took the money and went to the hospital with my daughter to get the results. Fortunately, this time there is good news. The doctor said that my youngest son's bone marrow can always be given to my daughter, and perhaps her leukemia can be completely cured, instead of relying on expensive drugs and regular radiotherapy and chemotherapy like now. The doctor's face showed both happiness and worry. "However, bone marrow transplantation is currently only feasible in theory. There are too few successful cases to be of much reference. There have only been a few successful cases abroad. If you are willing to cooperate, our hospital will contact experts in leukemia clinical treatment experiments across the country to perform this operation..." "It's like your daughter is participating in their experiment, but you have to be prepared for the possibility of failure... Can you accept that?" "Yes, I can accept that." It may not be cured by treatment, but it will definitely not be cured if it is not treated. The doctor continued, "Although the laboratory can provide a lot of funds for the research and development of new drugs, you still need to pay for most of your daily treatment yourself. The 4 I mentioned before is actually a bit conservative..." I already understood what the doctor meant. Last time, he saw my difficulties and in order to prevent me from losing hope, he only mentioned 40,000 yuan. In fact, he wanted more than that. …… On the way back, my daughter asked me again and again: "Dad, is there a cure for my disease?" I answered her over and over again, not feeling the slightest bit bored: "Yes, my brother's bone marrow can save our daughter." A long-lost smile finally appeared on my daughter's thin little face. I also forced a smile, trying not to let her see the despair on my face. I couldn't borrow money, so there was nothing I could do except work harder. Work at the mine has returned to its previous state. Everyone goes to work as before. While complaining about the hard work, they happily talk about what happened at home and what lunch their wives prepared for them. It was as if the previous accident had never happened and no one had ever been killed by falling rocks in the mine. I took the initiative to request to be transferred to a more dangerous front line, not for any reason, just because the salary was a little higher. But that meager salary is just a drop in the bucket for my daughter's treatment. I had to pay for expensive new drugs and chemotherapy before I could find a lab to cover the cost of my daughter's treatment. Money, money, money… This word almost drives me crazy. I released all my stress by mining and chiseling stones.
A pickaxe, a pickaxe, and another pickaxe... Until I used my pickaxe to chisel through the stone wall. A piece of rubble connected to it fell down with a bang, raising a lot of dust, and I realized that this place was actually - There is a sinkhole! For some unknown reason, a cavity formed in the rocks here, right next to the mine we were digging. Because the previous mining area was not that large, nothing happened until the blasting reached the edge of the sinkhole. The stone wall became thinner due to mining and lost its support. Due to vibrations, the stones connected to the thinner stone wall began to crack, loosen, and then... fall. So the death of the miner before was not an accident, nor was it because he was unlucky, but because there was a sinkhole! And I... am the first person here to discover this. I don't know why, but I thought of the 50,000 yuan. I didn't know what happened, my body started to lose control of my brain, and I actually started to cover up the big hole I had dug. I moved a large rock to block the big hole I dug, and put some broken stones in a convenient place, trying to make it as inconspicuous as possible. After I finished all this, I realized what I was doing. I was actually...trying to hide the existence of this tiankeng!