Chapter 96 Borrowing Money
That evening, An Hao, An Shuchao, and Bai Xue stayed in the town.
The next day, the village chief didn’t come over, but the Party Secretary brought two people with him, carrying a small amount of money pooled together by the village cadres, along with a letter of introduction. They accompanied An Shuchao to the city hospital.
The city doctors checked him out and found that his bones were broken, and surgery was necessary.
An Hao asked Bai Xue to pay the little money they had for the surgery upfront. The Party Secretary handed the hospital the letter of introduction from the brigade, requesting that they perform An Shuchao’s surgery first.
The hospital, seeing the letter and noting the described financial difficulties of An Hao’s family, agreed to perform the surgery first and asked that the follow-up fees be paid off in a short time.
After discussing the surgical plan, the hospital prepared to go ahead with the surgery.
An Hao watched An Shuchao enter the operating room, thanked the Party Secretary for his thoughtful and thorough arrangements, and then hurriedly went back to the village to borrow money.
As soon as she walked in the door without even taking a sip of water, she called Bai Yanjiao and An Ping: "Dad needs surgery and we don’t have enough money. The two of you go out and borrow money with me. Write down whose house we borrow from and how much we borrow for each person. When we have money, we will pay them back."