Chapter 484: Standing Up, a Living Medical Miracle
Chu Yaoyao and Li A'mei were cooking in the kitchen. While Chu Yue was busy expressing her loyalty to Lu Zhanlin, she pushed Lu Zhanlin into the room.
The room was also a mess, with traces of the mother and daughter everywhere. After Lu Yuanbao came in, he noticed that Chu Yue was in a bad mood, so he immediately helped to clean up.
"Yuanbao, leave it there and don't move—"
Chu Yue was about to warn when her wrist was grabbed by a warm force.
Immediately afterwards, Lu Zhanlin, who had previously been "weakly" sitting in a wheelchair and had been declared disabled, actually stood up from the wheelchair.
Lu Yuanbao watched from the side, his eyes wide in disbelief. Is this a living medical miracle?
With Lu Yuanbao's intelligence, he actually never believed that Lu Zhanlin would really become disabled. Besides, there was Chu Yue's magical medical skills. Even if he was disabled, he could be saved. Just like Ye Zhaodi's younger brother Ye Xiaoman, and Lu Yuanbao and Tan Rourou, they all recovered after recuperation for a period of time.
But Chu Yue hasn’t started treating him yet, and Lu Zhanlin hasn’t started recuperating, so how come he’s... healed?
Could it be... fake? !
Lu Yuanbao blinked quickly. Lu Zhanlin raised his hand and touched Lu Yuanbao's head, turning his head in another direction and letting him continue to organize the things in the room.
Lu Zhanlin turned his gaze to Chu Yue and saw the slight redness at the corners of her eyes. He also noticed that she had clenched her palms at some point.
He gently wrapped Chu Yue's fist and asked in a low voice, "Ayue, when you were at home before, did they treat you like this?"
Sweeping the floor, washing clothes, cooking...all the work was pushed onto a skinny underage child.
In the original owner's memory, the most profound and unforgettable tragic thing happened in the winter seven years ago.
The winter was cold, damp, and it snowed. As the Chinese New Year was approaching, every household wanted to buy some pork so that they could have a bite of meat on New Year's Eve. However, the supply and marketing cooperative only had a small amount of pork every day. Even though the limit was that each person could only buy two kilograms, many people still couldn't buy it.
In order to buy pork early, many people lined up in front of the butcher shop of the supply and marketing cooperative early in the morning.
It was three o'clock in the morning, on the coldest day with gusty winds. Li A'mei woke the original owner up and drove her out.
"Lazy girl, why are you sleeping? Do you still want to eat meat? Hurry up and line up at the supply and marketing cooperative. Your father and your brother are both clamoring to eat meat during the New Year. Why don't you grow up and think about them? How tired is your father at work every day? He often has to work night shifts. And your brother hasn't eaten a bite of meat for three months. His health has deteriorated. As an older sister, you don't know how to take care of your brother. Hurry up and line up. If you go too late, our family will not be able to eat meat this year!"
Under Li A'mei's coercion and earnest teachings, the original owner went out in the cold winter with a heavy heart. The cold wind blowing on his body was as painful as a knife.
In the early morning, there were indeed people queuing in front of the butcher shop of the supply and marketing cooperative, but they were all men wrapped in thick military coats. The only difference was that the original owner was a girl who was as small as could be.
The original owner had very little flesh on his body, and his cotton coat was thin and torn. It was stuffed not with cotton, but with some rags from old clothes, which had no effect in keeping out the cold.
The original owner was standing at the end of the line, the cold wind kept blowing into her body, making her limbs stiff and she could hardly feel the temperature.
That night, the original owner almost froze to death.
There was a kind-hearted man who couldn't bear to watch it any longer. Seeing the original owner's pale face and pitiful appearance of being about to faint but refusing to leave, he finally softened his heart and grabbed the original owner and wrapped her in his military coat.
"Hey, little girl, are there no adults at home? How can they let a little girl like you queue up in the middle of the night?"
"Dad is on night shift...my younger brother is small...we need to nourish them and feed them meat..." The original owner spoke with trembling lips and shaking voice.
"You are quite sensible, little girl, but you can't risk your life for a piece of meat."
The kind-hearted man was muttering, and someone who knew the situation reminded him, "I know this is the girl from the Chu family. Her father has married another wife, and she's his stepmother."
After hearing this, everyone else understood why a little girl was so miserable. It was not easy for a child to make a living under the watchful eye of a stepmother.
The original owner managed to buy pork the next morning despite his limbs being numb and cold.
With pork, their family can have a good New Year and have a delicious meal together!
After the original owner got the pork, he stomped his feet to let the blood flow to his stiff soles. He ignored the pain in his legs and quickly took the pork home.
"Dad, Mom, I'm back, I bought pork!"
The original owner shouted excitedly, because he had accomplished something great, just to get a word of praise from his parents.
But what was waiting for her was...
"I bought it. It's just a piece of pork. Why are you yelling? Do you want me, your father, to sleep?" Chu Nanshan, the father, roared angrily after returning from the night shift.
"Mom... I still need to sleep... Let's have pork belly tonight..." Chu Yaoyao, her stepsister who was two months older than her, turned over in the warm bed and continued to sleep.
Chu Jianjun was sleeping soundly and was not woken up at all. He lay in the quilt with a flushed face, completely unaware of what had happened at home.
Li A'mei walked out of Chu Yaoyao's room and snatched the pork from the original owner's hand. "Tsk tsk, why is it the hind leg? Didn't I tell you to pick the pork belly? You little girl is so useless. I gave you two pounds of meat tickets and bought the worst spot. What a waste. ...What are you looking at? Go do the laundry."
The original owner didn't receive a single word of praise, nor did he even get a bit of care and warmth from his family.
The little girl, who had been freezing all night, had to squat beside the basin, soak her red, swollen and numb hands in the cold water, and start washing clothes.
As for this year’s New Year’s Eve dinner.
"Son, eat more and gain some weight!" Chu Nanshan put the largest piece of pork in Chu Jianjun's bowl.
"Yaoyao, eat meat, eat quickly, look, there are fish here." Li A'mei kept picking up dishes for Chu Yaoyao, urging her to eat more, and secretly glanced at the original owner out of the corner of her eye. When the original owner dared to pick up the meat to eat, she immediately snatched it away.
In fact, the original owner had already developed a high fever because he stayed up late and stood in line in the cold to buy pork.
Her head felt dizzy and she couldn't eat anything. She had to leave the table and lie down in bed, enduring the discomfort all over her body.
She didn't even get to eat a single bite of the pork she had bought after queuing up so hard.
In a daze, Li A-mei's sharp and harsh voice never stopped.
"The little girl is very stubborn. Yesterday, I made her queue up to buy pork for over an hour, and she was mad at me. Don't bother with her. You can't spoil a little girl. Let her be alone for a while, and she'll understand. When she gets married, she'll have a lot more hardships to endure..."
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