Chapter 1032: Can’t Even Afford to Die
At the same time, Na Wei was making a phone call in a nearby coffee shop. The main reason he didn't go home was that he didn't want his mother to see him being humble and begging for help.
"Hello, Mr. Wu, it's my old Na... Oh, okay, you go ahead and have dinner together another day."
"Mr. Li, why can't you even recognize my voice? Old Na, yes, yes, yes, I'm in a meeting, okay, let's talk later."
Na Wei sat in a chair a little dejectedly and made more than a dozen calls. The bosses who used to be polite to him now changed their faces one by one.
At this time, Na Wei deeply realized what his younger brother Na Jun once said: Is your success brought by your own ability or brought to you by the platform?
Core competitiveness, he is already this age, what core competitiveness does he have?
Loyalty? Facts have proved that this thing is worthless.
Just when Na Wei was confused, his mobile phone suddenly rang. He saw that the caller ID was Shen Lin calling.
"Hey, OK, I'm next to your company, I'll pick you up right away."
When Na Wei and Shen Lin rushed to the hospital, Shen Lei was leaning against the bed with a sad face.
The bed was covered with a white sheet, and Mother Xie had passed away.
"Where's Xie Meilan? Why are you alone?"
Shen Lei covered his face and said painfully: "She just went to the company and is rushing over now."
"Her mother is like this, why does she still go to work? Didn't she always say that she is very filial?" Shen Lin was speechless for a while.
While talking, Xie Meilan ran in, lifted the white sheet covering, and cried bitterly while hugging the cold body.
"Wife, don't be too sad, the doctor said that if it continues like this, our mother will only suffer more..."
Before she finished speaking, she was pushed away by Xie Meilan roughly.
Xie Meilan stared at Shen Lei with red eyes: "My mother is dead, no more money, you are happy now."
Shen Lei looked at Xie Meilan in disbelief, but Shen Lin couldn't bear to see her brother being bullied like this, so she said to Xie Meilan.
"Your mother just died, and it's understandable that you are sad, but you can't blame Shen Lei for everything, right? Didn't Shen Lei spend money to treat your mother? He borrowed 200,000 from us alone."
Na Wei secretly pulled Shen Lin's sleeve, trying to smooth things over, after all, quarreling in the hospital is not a good look.
Shen Lin couldn't stand it any longer, so she shook off Na Wei's hand and pointed at Shen Lei: "As far as I know, Shen Lei has been taking good care of your mother during the months she was hospitalized. He didn't even go home during the Chinese New Year and stayed by the bed. What about you? How many days have you taken care of your mother wholeheartedly?"
"Look at Shen Lei's haggard and unkempt face, and then look at you, who is bright and radiant. I'm wondering, is it your mother or his mother lying on the bed?"
Xie Meilan was so upset that she was about to rush towards Shen Lin, but Na Wei and Shen Lei quickly separated the two.
Fortunately, the nurse came with the doctor at this time.
"Stop arguing, this is a hospital. If you make trouble again, we will call the police."
Xie Meilan glared at Shen Lin fiercely, then turned around and threw herself on the bed and cried bitterly.
Seeing this, Shen Lin called her brother Shen Lei out of the ward.
"You can handle the next thing yourself. If you have any questions, go to your brother-in-law. I'm going back to work first."
Shen Lei also knew that his sister and Xie Meilan had a falling out, and he didn't want to get involved any more.
"It's okay, sister, you and brother-in-law can go and do your own things. I was actually a little panicked just now, and you didn't have to run a trip."
Na Wei said: "I'll stay. Anyway, I have nothing to do now, your sister can go back."
After Shen Lin left, Shen Lei asked in confusion: "Brother-in-law, you just said you had nothing to do..."
"I left Everyday and resigned." Na Wei squeezed out a smile that was uglier than crying.
Shen Lei didn't know how to comfort Na Wei for a moment, but Na Wei patted his shoulder and said, "Okay, your brother-in-law has seen all kinds of storms over the years. If you lose your job, just find another one. Besides, I got options before I left, so it's no problem to maintain my life for the time being."
"That's good, that's good."
The whole day after that, Na Wei was busy with Shen Lei to take care of Xie Meilan's mother's funeral. Shen Lei's personality was not good at communicating with others. In addition, in recent months, he had to work and take care of his mother-in-law at the same time. He was seriously sleep deprived and his head was numb.
Xie Meilan looked like she was lost and couldn't handle the matter at all. Na Wei had no choice but to run around and spent more than 20,000 yuan to send Xie's mother's body to the funeral home.
It was dark when he finished the work. When Na Wei returned home, Shen Lin had already gone home from get off work.
"How is it? Is my brother okay?" Shen Lin asked with concern.
Na Wei took off his coat, sat at the dining table, and sighed: "What can happen to him, but it's hard to say about Xie Meilan."
"Humph, what can happen to her? I think she is in good condition." Shen Lin said unhappily.
Na Wei took a few bites of food and waved the chopsticks in his hand: "That's not what I'm talking about. What I mean is that she has a lot of complaints about your brother. If it is not resolved, the problem will be big."
Shen Lin was unhappy when she heard it: "She still has complaints? It is said that there is no filial son in front of a long-term sick bed. My brother takes care of his mother while working, and the chicken soup never stops. After doing this, what else does she want? She is so filial, why don't you see her staying up late every day to take care of her mother?"
Na Wei swallowed the food and analyzed: "You think so, but Xie Meilan doesn't think so."
"She will only think that your brother is useless and can't make money, which is why her mother can't afford targeted drugs and finally dies in pain."
Shen Lin said angrily: "My brother has tried his best. All his savings over the years have been wiped out. We even loaned him more than 200,000 yuan. Besides, no medicine is useful for late-stage lung cancer. The longer it is delayed, the more likely it will be." The more her mother suffers.”
"The problem now is that Xie Meilan is not as rational as you. She may have accumulated a lot of dissatisfaction with your brother, but it just exploded through her mother's incident."
Hearing what Na Wei said, Shen Lin was a little confused: "If you want to say that, it seems to be true. Ever since we bought this apartment, Xie Meilan's attitude has been very cold every time she comes. I thought that was her personality. Now It seems that he is jealous of us and dislikes my brother for not having enough money to buy a house? "
Na Wei nodded and analyzed: "Honey, think about it, where does Xie Meilan work in a financial institution? Although her monthly salary is only 20,000, who do she come into contact with? She talks and laughs with those rich people every day, As time goes by, you will inevitably feel that you are in the same class as those rich people. When you go home and see your brother, although he is a stable civil servant, he can't even raise the down payment for a house. What will she think? "
Shen Lin's face was full of melancholy: "I remember when Xie Meilan first got together with my brother, she was a very cheerful and optimistic person. She rented a house with my brother and got married for so many years without any complaints. I thought she was pretty good and always advised my brother to She was better, how could she become like this? "
"There are three things that men should not marry: nurses, teachers, and financial women. The environment is what changes people the most."
Hearing what Na Wei said, Shen Lin couldn't help but become nervous.
"According to this, Xie Meilan wants to divorce my brother?"
"Most likely yes, and with Xie Meilan's character, it is very likely that she will blame all the fault on your brother. You also know your brother's character, it is easy to get into trouble..."
The more Shen Lin listened, the more frightened she became: "Husband, why don't you stop looking for a job? Watch out for Shen Lei for me these days. Don't let anything happen to him, or my parents..."
"Don't worry, wife, I will keep an eye on Shen Lei. Don't be too anxious. After all, this is just our guess. Maybe the situation is not as bad as we thought?" Na Wei comforted.
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However, the situation was actually worse than Na Wei thought. After Xie Meilan and Shen Lei returned home, Xie Meilan lay down on the bed holding her mother's portrait without saying a word, as if she had lost her soul.
Shen Lei asked for help, but there was no response. In addition, Xie's mother's illness had been recurring these days, which had tortured him so much that he fell asleep without even washing.
Xie Meilan felt more and more dissatisfied as she listened to Shen Lei's slight snoring.
It was daylight in a blink of an eye, and Shen Lei was pushed awake by Xie Meilan.
As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Xie Meilan holding the portrait and quickly got up.
Xie Meilan just walked out without saying a word, and Shen Lei followed her without even bothering to wash up and put on his glasses.
All the way to the funeral parlor, since Xie’s mother lost her husband early and had no relatives at home, there was no need to hold a memorial service and just cremate the body.
After the cremation, the staff of the funeral home began to sell urns of various price ranges, ranging from 500 to 5,000.
Shen Lei originally preferred an urn worth one thousand yuan, but Xie Meilan directly picked up the most expensive one.
After selecting the urn, the funeral home staff asked again.
"Are you planning to return to your hometown for burial or stay in the capital?"
Xie Meilan didn't even think about it and said decisively: "Of course I will stay in the capital."
"Yes, stay in the capital. We are all in the capital. It will be convenient for us to come and worship in the future." Shen Lei quickly agreed.
As a result, the staff of the funeral home gave a "kind" reminder: "Since both your cremation and the urn were handled at our funeral home, we have a special service. If you don't plan to buy a cemetery, you can store the urn at With us, the fee for one year’s storage is only 50 yuan.”
Shen Lei was a little moved, but before he could hesitate, Xie Meilan refused directly: "No, we buy a cemetery."
"I can't let my mother die without a place to bury her."
The corners of Shen Lei's mouth moved, but he finally swallowed the words that came to his lips.
Just when the two were about to go see the cemetery, Na Wei rushed over.
"Brother-in-law, why are you here?"
"Hey, I resigned anyway, so I came over to see if I can help."
Shen Lei wanted to say something, but Xie Meilan had already walked out holding the portrait.
Not long after, Na Wei drove the two of them to the cemetery. When asked about the price, Shen Lei was dumbfounded.
"There are two types of cemeteries here, one is hillside burial, the prices are 16.88w, 26.88w, 36.88w respectively..."
Na Wei was shocked when he heard this. He had never known the price of a cemetery before. He didn't expect it to be so expensive. It was almost as expensive as a house in a small county town.
Shen Lei also quickly asked: "What about another kind?"
"The other is ecological burial, which is a 3.8w flower bed burial with ashes retained and a 1.68w tree burial without ashes."
Shen Lei looked at Xie Meilan and whispered: "Honey, why don't we buy this flower bed for burial? What do you think?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xie Meilan turned around and walked out. Shen Lei was a little confused, but Na Wei reminded him to catch up quickly.
"Honey, if you feel bad, we can buy something more expensive. Don't leave in such a hurry."
Xie Meilan said in a sarcastic tone: "You even have to worry about my mother's cemetery and weigh the pros and cons. You really know how to live a good life."
"Honey, I just think it's more important when our mother is alive..."
Before Shen Lei could finish his words, Xie Meilan interrupted rudely: "Did my mother have a good day when she was here? I want to take her to live in the capital. Do we have a place for her to live? If we had it earlier, My mother took it over so that her minor illness would not turn into a terminal illness."
Shen Lei felt as if his breath was blocked in his chest, and he couldn't let it out quickly.
"Is that why I don't let our mother come to the capital? I have already said that we can rent a larger house if our mother comes here. But you said that our mother is used to her hometown and doesn't want to come here..."
Xie Meilan sneered: "Renting a house, is that a home? Shen Lei, have you ever thought about why we have been living in the capital for so many years? Why do we have to rent a house while others live in big houses, and worry about it all day long? The landlord kicked us out."
Facing Xie Meilan's questioning, Shen Lei felt guilty: "Honey, I know I have wronged you by letting you rent a house with me all these years. I will listen to you, whether it's 268,000 or 368,000."
Xie Meilan said sarcastically: "If you had come up with this money earlier, my mother would have used that targeted drug long ago."
"Shen Lei, even if I'm with you, I can't live well and I can't die happily."
Shen Lei froze on the spot, waiting for Xie Meilan to take several steps before he came back to his senses and explained.
"You know how much money our family has. We have spent it all and we have no money. We still owe my sister two hundred thousand."
Xie Meilan left the cemetery without looking back.
Na Wei patted Shen Lei on the shoulder from behind, and Shen Lei asked at a loss: "Brother-in-law, did I really do something wrong?"
"Shen Lei, we are all mortals, who can avoid making mistakes, but in this matter, I think the fundamental question is not whether you made a mistake, but whether your wife wants to blame all the mistakes on you. "
Shen Lei didn't understand for a moment: "Brother-in-law, I..."
"Haven't you noticed that your wife has changed?"
Pictures of life appeared in Shen Lei's mind. When he and Xie Meilan just got together, they were riding bicycles. Xie Meilan was sitting in the back seat with a happy smile on her face. I don't know when it started. There were no more smiling faces in the back seat of the eDonkey.