Chapter 4 (1/2)
”Where's your kidney?” the man's voice echoed in the bathroom.
”Where's my kidney?” Zhao Pengcheng murmured and repeated the question, his mind blank.
”Where's your kidney?”
”I don't know, I don't know...” Zhao Pengcheng doesn't know why he wants to answer. He seems to have no obligation to answer, but he can't refuse.
”Don't worry, think about it slowly. Only when you think about it can you get your kidney back.”
”Yes, I'm not in a hurry. I'll remember.”
Zhao Pengcheng looked very painful. His violently gasping lungs pushed the water in the bathtub out of waves.
”You sold it?”
”Sold by me? It seems... Yes.”
”Who did you sell it to?”
”Who did I sell it to?” Zhao Pengcheng was stunned and looked up at the person who asked him.
The man was standing at the bathroom door, very close to him, but he suddenly couldn't see the man's face clearly, leaving only a hazy outline, like a ghost.
The crow outside the window croaked again.
Zhao Pengcheng trembled: ”I sold it to the kidney collector.”
”Who is the recipient?”
……
Hu Xing opened her mouth in surprise across the glass. She saw Aoki standing there motionless after putting the popsicle, and then chatted with the suspect casually. The guy who had been silent for more than 30 hours and seemed to be asleep actually spoke.
……
”I don't know the person who receives the kidney. He is old enough to lead the line.”
”Who is Lao Yu?”
”Yu Jianguo from the Security Department of our hospital.”
”How many kidneys did you sell?”
”A total of... Seven or eight.”
Sitting behind the interrogation table, Shi Dazhuang bit his teeth and scolded ”shit!”
……
Zhao Pengcheng lay in the bathtub, no longer as nervous as he was at the beginning, and began to tell his story.
Lao Yu is my hometown, from a village. He and my father have a generation. In the past, I called him uncle Yu. After he came to our hospital to work, I called him old.
When we were young, we were poor in the mountains and couldn't afford to go to school. I have a sister who is beautiful and smart. She has good grades in school. Everyone says she is the Golden Phoenix in the mountain.
In order to let my sister go to school, I followed Uncle Yu to work in the city after graduating from junior high school. After playing for a year, my father let me go back, said my sister didn't go to school and let me go to school.
I didn't know until I went back. My sister was ill.
At that time, I didn't know what disease was. The township health center couldn't see it. I didn't have money to go to a big hospital. I kept it at home.
When I was at school, I felt very sad and felt very sorry for my sister.
My sister said to me, ”brother, you can study well, go to college, and be a doctor in the future, you can cure my disease.”
I secretly swear that I must be admitted to medical school and become a doctor.