Liu Yu's mother shouted, "That much?!"
Liu Yu's father nodded and said, "Yes."
Liu Yu's mother said, "Then… what do we do?"
Liu Yu's father no longer said a word. He just smoked…
That night, Liu Yu did not see his brother again. Liu Yu's father told him that his brother was taken away by a distant relative to a distant city and that he would never return.
However, Liu Yu knew that his brother had died. They had no money to treat his illness. His brother lied next door as his parents watched him take his last breath!
They did not know that Liu Yu was squatting in the yard and below the windowsill, listening to his parents' heart-wrenching cries…
From that day onwards, he swore to himself that he would not be a scientist when he grew up. He was going to be a doctor! He wanted to be a doctor that treated the ill and poor. He refused to allow more brothers to die like this!