Do You Have Four Pieces of Change (Short Story)

Do You Have Four Pieces of Change (Short Story)

Our high school classmates came to the tea garden for the 40th anniversary party.

After dinner, the temperature suddenly changed, causing me to have a skin disease again, and I was itchy all over my body, and I didn't sleep quietly all night. The arms, thighs, chest, and back were scratched with blood, like a colored atlas, with mountains, hills, and plains.

When the sky was bright, Hong Shixun drove me to Tongzi Yanglei Town in a private car and found Xiuying Clinic, with only one female doctor. I pulled up my sleeves and the hem of my pants and told her to take some medicine for skin diseases.

The female doctor was eating breakfast, quickly put down the bowl, put on the white coat, carefully examined it, and said: "Brother, a shot, better fast." Prescribe the medicine for two more days. She was about forty years old, and objectively speaking, her voice was magnetic.

I glanced at her expressionlessly, and just as I was about to say no, she stood up, went into the pharmacy, and got busy with her movements. Looking at her enthusiasm and earnestness, I couldn't help but laugh darkly: "Ghosts all know that they obviously want to collect more money, but they have to pretend to be so sacred." "I am reminded of a saying of the ancients: Pigs and sheep break into the butcher's house, and they only have the life of being slaughtered.

After the injection and the prescription, I reached for a hundred-dollar bill and handed it to her. She stared at me, hesitated for two seconds, turned and pulled open the cash box and rummaged through it, saying, "Brother, do you have four pieces of change?" "The sound is crunchy.

I was happy and thought, you have a time to ask me! "Nothing." I replied bluntly. Hong Shixun wanted to touch the purse, and I grabbed his hand: "Wait for me in the car, be careful of the glass being smashed." "Involuntarily, I pushed him out of the clinic.

"Brother, sit down." The female doctor walked out of the clinic.

I sat down on the couch happily, scratched Jiro's leg, and leisurely hummed "Sister, you boldly go forward." Hmm, you're going to knock me a stick, I'm going to sour you.

I remember the last time, I saw stomach pain in a private hospital in Wansheng, and I was also a female doctor of about forty years old, and the charm still existed. With a smile on her face and a soft voice, she briefly inquired about her condition and then opened a list asking me to look in the gastroscope first. I knew my own illness, and I refused; she asked me to infuse for three days, and I didn't; she said to prescribe three days of injections, I still don't, just prescribe some medicine. She was not happy and prescribed five medicines, for a total of fifty-five yuan. The pharmacy told me that there were two medicines that I needed to buy at the pharmacy myself.

I guess what the reason is.

If Hong Shixun hadn't forcibly pulled me into the car, I wouldn't have come, and after three or five days of itching, I would have been fine. I couldn't help but frown, how did the revered angel in white become like this?

After about half an hour, the female doctor returned to the clinic: "Brother, long wait." Residents here are used to getting up late, and she runs back and forth in the street a few times before she scatters the hundred-dollar bill at a lamb and rice noodle shop.

The female doctor counted the money in front of me, one fifty bills, four ten dollar bills, ten one dollar bills. She pulled out four one-dollar bills and handed the rest to me: "Brother, click." "The sound is very crisp. I thought to myself, and without much hesitation, I slipped into my pocket and walked out of the clinic in a few big steps.

Hong Shixun was smoking a cigarette next to the car and suggested: "The lamb rice noodles here taste good and cheap, so let's go after breakfast." I slipped into the co-pilot: "I'm going to throw up when I smell shame." Come on! I stared in the mirror, restless, afraid she would catch up.

"How much was knocked out?" Hong Shixun asked very casually, and I said I didn't know. He was surprised: "How could you not know?" After I told the situation, Hong Shixun stared at me mysteriously: "Maybe I forgot to take the fifty yuan bill." ”

I think so too.

The fields outside the window moved vaguely toward the back, and I became more and more uneasy. That clear look, angelic smile, always dangling in front of my eyes, lingering, and Hong Shixun's mysterious glance and reminder, like two sharp arrows, stabbed my heart faintly. I was sitting on a needle felt, sweating unconsciously on my forehead.

"Or do you want to eat a bowl of lamb rice noodles?" I wiped my forehead and felt much better. Hong Shixun smiled and nodded.

"Two brothers, is there anything else?" We walked into the clinic and the female doctor was prescribing medicine to a big lady.

I handed her the money and said, "You're looking for more money from me." She took the money and counted it: "No." Charge you four dollars, refund you ninety-six. She smiled brightly, "It's that you think too much." ”

Imagine how surprised Hong Shixun and I were.

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On May 13, 2016, our first class of the 115th Middle and High School of Chongqing Municipality, grade 76, went to the 40th anniversary of the 13th Village in Pig Xing Village, Shilin Town. At lunch the next day, a classmate from Qijiang District said that he went to a clinic in Tongzi Yanglei in the morning for an injection and prescribed medicine for two days. Tell us to guess how much he spent. Some say 80, some say 70, and I guess it's 50. He said it was 4 yuan, and the audience was surprised. He also added that he thought the doctor had made a mistake and got the reply that there was no mistake and only 4 yuan was charged. The audience was speechless.

This incident haunted me repeatedly, and combined with the situation I had encountered in the hospital before, I conceived this little novel. I know very well that there will be many readers who think that the writing is too exaggerated, and it will offend some people, and in good conscience, I just want to tell these two real things. Believe it or not!