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Today is the 2882nd day of intensive reading to accompany you throughout your life
Foreword: There is only one disease in the world, and that is the disease of poverty. The only thing that can cure this disease is money, only love and kindness.
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The story of selling counterfeit drugs
Today, let's tell a story, a story of selling counterfeit drugs.
The reason for the story is very simple, the genuine anti-cancer drug Glenin is very expensive, forty thousand bottles, most people can not afford, they can only find another way, buy relatively low prices of Indian generic drugs.
Although the effect is the same, it is a counterfeit drug that is banned from sale in China.
Therefore, the protagonist Cheng Yong initially refused the request of the leukemia patient Lao Lu to take medicine from India.
However, his shop had been losing money for a long time, and his father was suddenly seriously ill, and he desperately needed money, a large amount of money.
After the combination of many factors, he decided to go to India and found that Indian generic drugs are indeed a huge business opportunity.
So he was moved, and he acted.
The medicine that was only purchased was only five hundred, and when it reached his hand, it was sold tenfold.
This profit is high enough; this risk is worth taking.
We are all ordinary people who are born ordinary, no one is a saint, and of course we must run for profit in doing things.
Just like Cheng Yong said, he didn't want to be a savior, he just wanted to make money.
And life is money.
If a chronic leukemia patient wants to survive, he must constantly buy Glenin, who can cure the disease, and naturally his financial resources will continue to flow.
Driven by such interests, even if you know that you are breaking the law, you must do the business of selling counterfeit drugs to the end.
Because a serious illness is a fortune.
02
It's terrible to be sick
How terrible is it to have a serious illness?
I think people with chronic myelogenous leukemia have the most say.
The illness of one person and the downfall of the whole family are not accidental events, but a true portrayal of the vast majority of families.
In order to see a doctor, you can only keep spending money; after spending all your savings, you can only borrow money everywhere; if you can't borrow, you can only sell blood and sell houses.
In any case, even if the family is ruined, they must not watch their relatives die in front of their eyes.
The patients' desire to survive is naturally more intense, such as Lao Lu, when eating, desperately stuffs it into his mouth, eating more than a normal person.
Why? Because I don't want to die. You can only give yourself a little psychological comfort in this way and let yourself persevere.
Fortunately, he found a chance to live, and followed Cheng Yong to sell counterfeit drugs, not only with medicine to eat, but also to make money.
He saw hope, and so did his wife, his children, and his entire family.
Therefore, when Mrs. Lu gave Cheng Yong a toast, she would have a heartfelt and sincere thank you.
Because he saved not only Lao Lu's life, but also the entire family behind Lao Lu.
How nice it would be if the story ended here!
Unfortunately, the ending was a tragedy.
The medicine was broken, and Lao Lu could only rely on dialysis to maintain his life, but he did not want to drag his wife and children anymore, nor did he want to endure the torture of illness day after day.
So he committed suicide.
The first time, without success, the wrist was cut and saved.
The second time, while his wife and children were asleep, he leaned over, and finally looked back at his wife and children and hanged himself.
If you are not forced into a desperate situation, desperate to the extreme, who will take the dead end of suicide?
03
Kindness gives birth to warriors
I don't know if I was touched by Lao Lu's death, but I saw that Cheng Yong's eyes were full of guilt and self-blame.
Until then, I had always felt that Cheng Yong was a shrewd businessman who was only interested in profit.
He can take risks to sell counterfeit drugs for the sake of profit, and he will also quit because of the risk of selling counterfeit drugs.
Such a person, even if he sells counterfeit drugs again, cannot do it with the purpose of curing the disease and saving people.
After all, the halfway monks can be said to be very few.
But it surprised me that he actually did it.
Not only zero-profit sales, but also after the stock is out, they even use their own money to subsidize patients to buy drugs.
Is this person who would rather lose money himself and continue the life of the patient as much as possible, is it really cheng Yong, the shrewd businessman who is mercenary at the beginning? Isn't it really a living bodhisattva descending from heaven, a medicine god?
I thought, yes, this is Cheng Yong.
The merchant is him, the living bodhisattva is him, and the medicine god is also him.
Everyone has good and bad, has a shrewd plan for themselves, and naturally has the choice of kindness and dedication to others.
Even Zhang Changlin, a swindler who used flour balls to fill up to deceive patients, chose to fight for righteousness after being caught, and did not confess to Cheng Yong.
I think that the brilliance of human nature is nothing more than this, and the greatness of small people is nothing more than this.
04
wish
Cheng Yong, who can give many patients with his own strength and many families to continuously supply medicine, is the medicine god in the eyes of patients and the hope in the eyes of patients.
Because if there is medicine, there is hope of survival, and living is the wish of many patients.
In the whole movie, what touched me the most was the reply of many patients when Cheng Yong finally posted the information on the drug in the online QQ group.
Word by word, bit by bit, is soaked with their desire for life, their attachment to life.
Therefore, there will be a touching scene of Cheng Yong taking off his mask en masse after being sentenced and sending them off the long street.
They sent not only Cheng Yong, but also the hope that they have always accompanied them.
I think this is probably the best ending in the movie.
Cheng Yong brought them hope, and they returned the hope to Cheng Yong.
At the end of the film, the case attracted great attention from the state, and Cheng Yong was able to reduce his sentence and get out of prison early, thinking that he could not do without the joint efforts of patients and family members.
What is even more gratifying is that the state finally included Glenin in medical insurance. The survival rate of chronic myelogenous leukemia also increased from 30% in 2002 to 85% in 2018.
Everything is like Cheng Yong finally said: it will always be better and better in the future.