Chapter 404: The child was burned and the door was locked
Ye Xiaomei didn't care about the hot pot at all. She quickly threw a basin of pot-washing water in and turned around and ran away.
Wang Lan screamed, "Hey kid, what happened?"
When I rushed to the side room of the living room, the child's crying became more and more heartbreaking, and it sounded like a knife was stirring violently on my heart.
"Mom, where is the key, the key..." Ye Xiaomei was stunned when she saw it. She shook the door vigorously a few times. The three-ring lock didn't look big but was of excellent quality.
Wang Lan was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and she was so anxious that she was spinning in circles:
"I clearly put it in my pocket. Where's the key? Oh my god, baby, what's wrong with it? What if I..."
Ye Xiaomei was stunned for a moment: "What on earth are you thinking? Are you afraid that I will steal your own child?"
Ye Xiaomei yelled, tears almost bursting out, and the child's crying stopped abruptly. It was obvious that he was out of breath and would suffocate to death if he continued like this.
"How should I know this? Oh my God, the key... where did the key go?"
Wang Lan jumped around anxiously, took off her clothes and shook them vigorously, and pricked up her ears eagerly, hoping to hear the sound of the key falling to the ground.
But looking at her anxious look, she couldn't tell east from west, so it was clear that she couldn't find her key.
"Get out of my way." Ye Xiaomei pushed her away, took two steps back, then stood still and jumped up with one foot.
Bang! Snap... The three-ring lock hanging on the door frame by its hinges swayed a few times, and the door collapsed along with half of the door frame.
It’s no big deal when she sees this, Ye Xiaomei’s heart aches.
There was a little creature crawling on the bed and another one lying on the floor.
He did not bother to tell which one was a pair and which one was independent, and he picked up the child on the ground and patted him hard on the back.
The little face, which had opened its mouth but no sound could be heard, had already turned black and purple. Suddenly, it burst into tears, and Ye Xiaomei's anxious heart finally settled down.
Upon closer inspection, it was shocking to see that the little guy had obviously grown up and could crawl. He had knocked over the kettle on the bedside table, and his little hands and half of his arm were swollen and red from being burned.
Such tender skin will naturally get blisters and may even leave burn scars.
Without saying a word, Ye Xiaomei carefully cut open the child's left sleeve, picked up the child and ran into the snow, inserting the child's left arm directly into the snow pile.
Wang Lan was so frightened that she stood there with a pale face, muttering to herself in panic: "I didn't mean it, baby, what happened to my baby..."
Seeing Ye Xiaomei running into the snow again with the child in her arms, she quickly followed her out, not even bothering to put on the cotton shirt she had taken off while looking for her keys:
"What are you doing? Be careful not to freeze the child."
Ye Xiaomei glanced at Wang Lan and said coldly, "What a shame! Can you put boiling water on the bedside table? Don't you know they can crawl?"
Wang Lan's pupils shrank, and then she remembered the whole thing.
Just now she was about to prepare milk powder for the baby, when she suddenly heard Ye Xiaomei coming back. She was afraid that Ye Xiaomei would stick close to the baby and demand milk, so she simply took the initiative to scold her. However, with her masculine personality, she naturally didn't dare to talk back to her, and she was too embarrassed to insist on taking care of the child.
Unexpectedly, I just put the boiling water that I had just poured into the milk jug there.
Seeing the child crying pitifully, Ye Xiaomei unzipped her clothes and stuffed his body into her arms, leaving only one arm exposed and soaking in the snow.
Unexpectedly, the child smiled before the tears in his black jade eyes had dried, but this smile made people even more heartbroken.
Children don’t understand anything and have no idea what the consequences will be. They will forget the pain in an instant as long as they are hugged and coaxed.
"I..." Wang Lan opened her mouth, no longer showing her usual arrogance: "I was careless this time."
Taking care of the child is important, she would rather humble herself and apologize, otherwise her image as a good mother-in-law and grandmother would be ruined if word got out. If Xiaomei insisted on not letting her take care of the child, then she would lose everything:
"In the future, I will be careful. Xiaomei, please forgive me this time. Although he is your child, he is also my grandson. No matter how bad I am, I can't deliberately harm my grandson. I promise that this kind of thing will never happen again in the future."
Ye Xiaomei ignored her, picked him up and went back to the room, quickly and carefully wrapped him in a blanket. Only then did she realize that the two people above her head were undoubtedly a couple in her arms, standing on the bed and chewing on her hand:
"You take care of Zili while I take Chengshuang to the hospital."
Wang Lan chased after him for a few steps: "I'll go too, Xiaomei, wait for me."
But there was a child in the house. Wang Lan quickly put on her clothes, ran back to the room to tidy up Zili's clothes, got him a shawl and wrapped him up. When she ran outside, Ye Xiaomei had disappeared.
A tractor came out of Village Chief Liang's house. No matter how far Wang Lan chased it, her voice of calling was already buried by the sound.
——Auntie, why are you in such a hurry?
——Yeah, why did you bring the child out in such a cold weather? And what is your wife doing in such a hurry?
Wang Lan's face suddenly darkened. She pulled the corners of her mouth, not knowing where to start. Her voice was as small as a mosquito:
"Oh, Xiaomei went to...go to the hospital. The baby is a little weak."
Wang Lan, who usually spoke loudly, suddenly spoke like this, and no one could hear her clearly.
Wang Lan walked home worriedly, tears falling silently. What should she do? What if Xiao Mei went around saying that it was her fault that the child was burned? What if she complained to Qijun...
Alas... Wang Lan let out a long sigh, her face full of worry.
Ye Xiaomei sat in the tractor, and the little thing in the blanket in her arms kept trying to stretch out its hands. Ye Xiaomei was afraid of rubbing the burned part of his arm, so she could only scold him helplessly:
"They say that children who are married are naughty. When you learn to walk, won't you go crazy? If you act like this again next time, I'll tie your hands and feet."
As he spoke, a sour taste of heartache rushed into his nose.
With the sound of bang bang bang, Liang Hui raised his voice and asked, "Sister-in-law, will Junge come back this year?"
"She said she would come back, but there's no news yet. Why didn't Huihui come back this year?" Ye Xiaomei teased the baby and chatted with Liang Hui about family matters.
"She's dating someone and she said she's going to spend the New Year with a gay man."
When Ye Xiaomei heard this, she thought it was a good thing. Liang Huihui grew up with her, but she was three or four years older than her, so she was also at the age to get married.
Arriving at the county hospital, Ye Xiaomei quickly went to see Director Li.
When she opened it again, she found that Cheng Shuang's left arm was covered with several large blisters. The back of his hand was more serious and had already peeled off. Ye Xiaomei felt very distressed when she saw it.
But she had really tried her best. If she hadn't cooled down in time, her arm would probably be covered with blisters.
Even after applying the burn ointment, the wound cannot be bandaged. This means that the wound cannot be out of sight. "Fortunately, it is only a surface burn and no deep tissue damage. Now it is winter, and a lot of boiling water is used. The child who was sent to the hospital the day before yesterday fell directly into the boiling water. Alas... he almost died."
Ye Xiaomei's heart skipped a beat: "Director Li, please prescribe me some more burn medicine. I will change it more frequently every day and it will heal faster."
"Okay, your child's boil isn't serious. Children's metabolism is very fast, so he should be fine in two or three days."
Director Li was writing prescriptions while chatting:
"Yesterday, you sent a poisoned person to Hongmei Village. This is the first time in my life that I have seen such a strong toad poison."
Ye Xiaomei held the young man's hand and let Director Li apply medicine. She asked in surprise, "Didn't they say he was dead?"
Director Li shook his head, "He is dying, but he is still breathing. He is just talking nonsense, saying that the White Snake can cure him. However, his family has not come, so no one is taking care of him. He can't eat, so we can only give him some glucose and wait for the police station to find his family. But recently, the incident in your Hongmei Village has been spread like a mystery. What happened?"
After packing up his things, Director Li smiled and said, "I also heard that you took away a snake as thick as a water tank. It's really a pity that we went through the era of destroying the four olds, otherwise these people would have been paraded through the streets."
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