Muted

Chapter 10

An operating table was placed in the middle of the dimly lit room. I was lying on it, and two people wearing masks cut my belly with a knife in their hands. The feeling was clear: the cold texture of the scalpel against the skin, and the dull pain when the skin was cut open. My head started to sweat, because of the pain, body trembled violently, but the two people didn't pay attention to me, they just focused on the movements in their hands, and there was no emotion in their cold eyes. Finally one of them reached out and took a bright red kidney from my stomach.

...

I sat up sharply, panting heavily.

It turned out to be a dream.

I reached out my hand and realized that there was sweat on my forehead. I tried to calm my breath and kept comforting myself 'just dreaming'.

There was no sound in the ward. I turned my head and saw my mother fell asleep with her eyes closed. Gently got up and walked to the window, it was late at night, and there was no starlight in the dark sky. The pictures in the dream kept flashing in my mind, I closed my eyes and tried to suppress the fear in my heart.

It turns out I'm just a coward.

Li Yan came early the next morning. When I went to work in the supermarket these days Li Xaun was also helping to take care of my mother. I've already thought about it, and after talking about selling the kidney, I will quit my job in the supermarket. To be honest, I'm not too clear about how much damage It will cost if I lose a kidney, but I won't be able to come and do that kind of physical work in the supermarket after the operation.

After thanking Li Xaun, I hurried to the supermarket. After a few stops on the bus, I found that left my mobile phone in the ward. Worried that if something happened, Li Yan could not find me, I hurried out of the bus and ran to the hospital. When I arrived at the hospital, I just opened the ward door and found that Li Xaun was holding my mobile phone in his hand and the expression on the face was uneasy.

"Li, what's wrong?" I hurriedly looked at my mother. She was still asleep and there were no doctors around. It didn't look like something had happened.

"Xiao Mu, what's going on?" Li Xaun hesitated to hand me the phone, and the expression on his face was very worried.

I took the phone, but when I looked at it, I was stunned. It had a text message just received.

[Please send the medical examination report to this email xuyi.com before tomorrow. If there is no problem, we will arrange the surgery next week.]

"Your phone just rang. Li Yan doesn't understand this, and she was worried that someone might find something for you. She picked it up and wanted to connect, and pressed it a few times, and this came out." Li Yan said without looking me.

"It's okay, maybe it's wrong, I don't even know the number." I said putting the cell phone in my pocket, pretending to be easy.

Li Xuan frowned for a moment, blocking in front of me, "Xiao Mu, although Li Yan is a country woman with no culture, but don't make Li Yan a fool."

"Don't think about it, Li Xaun. I really don't know this person. I will be late for work, I'm leaving now." Then I panicked and rushed out of the ward.

Li Xaun held me, and his voice grew louder. "Why did you have an examination report? and for what surgery, Xiao Mu, what are you hiding from us!"

I desperately tried to cover up and even wanted to take out Li Xaun hand and run away. I pulled at him so hard but he didn't budge. Seeing that other people in the ward began to pay attention to this side, I couldn't help but took Li Xaun to the side and told him about the kidney sales.