
Hoarfrost
by Cao Duoyong
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The fourth brother is dead. Died of throat cancer. In October last year, my fourth brother first developed swollen lymph nodes under his right ear, and his speech was unclear. It took him two months to go to the hospital, and he was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer, which had spread at an advanced stage. Cancer cells spread along the lymph to the internal organs. The fourth brother lived in Coal City, and the medical conditions were naturally not as good as those in the provincial capital, so the eldest sister took her son and drove to the provincial capital hospital to bring the fourth brother and his simple daily necessities in a cart. The hospital is not far from my current home. As soon as I settled in here, my wife and I decided to go to the hospital to see him. When something happened, my wife was in a panic and lacked her own opinion. She kept wiping away her tears and said, "This is what we can do." The wife's words have two meanings. Firstly, if you get this bad disease and drag it to this point, you are destined to have bad luck and not live long. Secondly, the fourth brother has been single for so many years. Who will take care of him when he is sick and hospitalized? The fourth brother had a wife in the past, but his wife divorced him; the fourth brother had a daughter in the past, but the daughter no longer had contact with him.
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