Chapter 15
On the way to the village doctor's house, Yun Jin's eyes went dark. Aunt Peng's words and her expression at that time kept replaying in her mind, over and over again, as if she was possessed by a demon.
She even didn't understand what Mianmian meant by being beaten and why she hasn't woken up yet?
When she left in the morning, her daughter was curled up in the bed obediently. When she heard her getting up, she was humming softly and calling for her mother in a daze. Why was she beaten so badly that she couldn't wake up after just going out for a while?
How is she now? Why hasn't she woken up yet? Who beat her? An adult or a child? Can the village doctor really cure her? If not, should she be sent to a large hospital in the county immediately?
Too many chaotic thoughts flashed through Yun Jin's mind, and he finally saw the light on in the village doctor's house.
She stopped suddenly and looked at the small room illuminated by dim lights. Her legs and feet suddenly felt as heavy as if they were filled with lead.
But she only paused for a brief moment, then ran forward like crazy, pushing away all the people gathered outside, and forced her way to the door amid their merciful and compassionate looks.
Amidst the voices of comfort from all the others, she swallowed hard as her throat was dry and sore from not drinking water for a day. The pain as if a blade had scraped against her made her take a deep breath, and with trembling hands she slowly pushed open the door in front of her.
The light from inside the door suddenly came out, but Yun Jin didn't feel the glare at all.
The haggard woman just stood blankly at the door, her hand still in the posture of pushing the door, her eyes fixed on the small bed behind the door.
My daughter was lying there quietly, covered with a thin quilt, her hair, which I hadn't had time to braid in the morning, lying messily on the pillow. Everything was just as it was when she left this morning.
"...Sister Yunjin, please come in and close the door. Mianmian is injured now, so don't let the wind in." The village doctor waved at the stunned Yunjin.
Yun Jin closed the door in a trance, walked a few steps towards the crib like a sleepwalker, stared at her daughter's pale face for a long time, and only came back to her senses when the village doctor sighed.
The moment she came back to her senses, the tears she had been holding back all the way burst out. After wiping away the tears, Yun Jin turned around and tightly grasped the village doctor's sleeve, asking him in a hoarse voice: "How is Mianmian? Is she seriously injured? Does it hurt? Why, why hasn't she woken up yet?"
After she said this, she burst into tears. Yun Jin found it hard to accept but had to face this terrible news. She looked at the doctor pleadingly, afraid to see regret and pain on his face, and even more afraid to hear words that were too cruel from his mouth.
The village doctor looked at his sleeve that was being grabbed tightly, and felt sorry for Yunjin. It was not easy for a widow to live with a child, and today she encountered this again...
Thinking of this, he tried to slow down his voice so as not to irritate Yun Jin, and said slowly: "Calm down and listen to me first."
"Calm down, I'm calm. You, you tell me, how is my Mianmian now? When will she wake up?" Yun Jin murmured repeatedly in response, but in her panic everyone could hear her anxiety and incoherent speech.
"Listen to me first." The village doctor raised his voice slightly, awakened Yun Jin's dazed mind, and told her in a deep voice: "The child was brought to me this morning. She had been unconscious for quite a while. I checked her condition. To be honest, it's not good. She was hit on the back of her head, which is the main reason for her coma."
"Also, I asked your sister Lihua to help check the child's body. She was covered in bruises and injuries. I think her bones might have been damaged, but it's a blessing in disguise that they weren't broken. I asked Lihua to gently apply some painkillers to the child's injuries. I also did everything else I should do. Next... it depends on whether Mianmian can wake up tonight."
Yun Jin forced herself to listen to the village doctor's words in a daze. After the other party finished speaking, she took a long time to react before hurriedly asking: "What if, what if he doesn't wake up? What if he doesn't wake up?"
"...Then take the child to a large hospital in the county." The village doctor paused before saying, "But let me be frank. If the child really has a brain injury and can't wake up, then, even if he is sent to a large hospital in the county now, it won't be of much use."
The implication is that if you really can't wake up, don't waste your energy.
But seeing Yun Jin burst into tears unconsciously, he couldn't say those words. He could only shake his head silently, push open the door and go out, leaving the space here to the mother and daughter.
Outside the door, the village doctor was noisily being questioned by others. Inside the door, Yun Jin sat by the bed, carefully holding her daughter's cold little hand with her warm and rough hands.
She managed to curl the corners of her lips, and her smile was particularly ugly, but she still smiled and said to her daughter who had her eyes closed on the hospital bed: "Mianmian, mom is back. Today I went to the county town and saw a little girl wearing a very beautiful dress, like a little flower. At that time, I thought that my daughter Mianmian would look very beautiful in this dress, so mom shamelessly walked over and asked her where she bought it."
"They said she bought it in a county department store. I heard that's a place where only rich people go to spend money. Mom went in to look and searched for a long time before she found the dress, but the seller said she needed cloth coupons and 23 yuan to sell it to her."
At this point, Yun Jin raised her hand to wipe away her tears, and choked with laughter, "Mom took out all the money she had and counted it over and over again, but no matter how hard she counted, it was not enough for twenty-three yuan..."
"Mom is useless. Winter is coming soon and New Year will be here soon. But mom can't even buy you a new piece of clothing." Yun Jin closed her eyes and tried to hold back her tears. She held her daughter's hand and gently rested her forehead against it. All the sobs were stifled in her throat and swallowed hard.
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Yun Mian fell into a coma due to the pain. She didn’t know how long it had been, but she vaguely felt as if she had had a very long dream.
That was when she was still sick and had not yet died. Her mother was sitting beside her bed with a thick, large fairy tale picture book on her knees. She was smiling and slowly telling her the story of Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf in a gentle, sweet voice.
"...Little Red Riding Hood saw many beautiful flowers on the road, and she wanted to pick some to give to her sick grandmother. She picked one flower after another, and unknowingly walked into the depths of the forest..."
Yunmian, who was lying on the hospital bed, couldn't help but exclaimed in envy when she heard this. When her mother looked over, she said with sparkling eyes, "Mianmian also wants to pick many, many more beautiful flowers than the stars and give them all to mom!"
Her mother was amused by her and raised her hand to gently touch her thin and pale cheek.
Mianmian looked at her mother's slightly red eyes in confusion, not understanding why she suddenly burst into tears while smiling.
She couldn't help but look carefully at her mother's clean dark brown eyes after they were washed by tears. After seeing her own reflection in them, she was stunned.
How did Mianmian in mom’s eyes turn into a little monk without any hair?
"Mianmian..." Her mother suddenly called her. Yunmian came back to her senses from her daze, and the next second she heard her mother asking her if she wanted to continue listening to the story.
"Is it the story of Little Red Riding Hood picking flowers to give to her grandmother?" Yun Mian asked curiously.
The mother gently shook her head. The hand holding her cheek was warm and a little trembling. "It's a story about how our little baby Mianmian picked lots of flowers for her after she recovered from her illness."
After you recover from the illness?
But the doctor just told mom yesterday that Mianmian might not have much time left?
Yunmian looked at the tears in her mother's eyes stupidly. She seemed to hear vaguely her low and hoarse crying, which made her feel so heartbroken.
"Mom..." She stretched out her hands a little helplessly, wanting to act coquettishly and ask her mother to hug her like she used to.
But her mother closed the storybook, looked at her gently with tearful eyes, and her voice suddenly became so far away.
"Mianmian, at the end of the story, Little Red Riding Hood takes Xiaohua to visit her grandmother. Grandma recovers from her illness and drives away the evil big bad wolf. She gives Little Red Riding Hood lots of delicious food to eat."
"Mianmian baby, don't keep mommy waiting too long..."
Mom disappeared.
Yun Mian looked at the empty ward blankly, stretched out her hand and waved, and everything in front of her seemed to shatter gently like bubbles.
The crying sound that I had vaguely heard before became clearer and sounded right beside me. It was my mother crying, crying so sadly.
Yunmian felt distressed and anxious. She took a lot of effort to open her eyes. Then she turned her head towards the crying sound and saw her mother sobbing beside the pillow.
Yunmian moved her fingers and found that her hand was held in her mother's palm.
"Mom~"
Mianmian's voice was as small as a mosquito, but Yunjin still caught it at the first time. She looked over panickedly, and when she saw her daughter open her eyes, she seemed to be injected with new life. She stood up from the bed in an instant and ran out in a panic to find the village doctor.
Yunmian: “…”
Why did mom run away?
She blinked in confusion, and before she could react, the figure of Uncle System appeared in her sight.
"Mianmian, you're finally awake." The system also breathed a sigh of relief, flew over and gently touched the little girl's cold forehead: "You've been sleeping for eighteen hours."
If it doesn't wake up, it will have to doubt whether the little luck shared by the protagonist is good luck or bad luck.
Before Yunmian had time to talk to the system uncle, her mother, who had just run away, came back again, bringing with her the village doctor uncle who was particularly scary in Yunmian's memory and liked to give injections to children.
After the initial examination, the village doctor's tense expression relaxed a lot. He turned to Yun Jin, who had been guarding her for most of the night, and said, "As long as the child can wake up, there won't be a big problem. However, she is covered in wounds, and a child this young can't tell the difference between flesh pain and bone pain. Don't move her yet. I'll examine Mian Mian carefully in the morning."
Yun Jin nodded gratefully. After seeing the village doctor off, she came to her senses and wanted to hug her daughter who had just woken up. But then she thought of all the injuries on her body, and she felt both pain and hatred in her heart.
It was not until now, when she saw Yun Mian waking up and in good spirits, that she began to think about how her daughter had suffered these injuries after she left.
Yun Jin raised her hand to help her daughter straighten her messy hair. Her gentle voice was filled with anger that could not be hidden: "Mian Mian, tell your mother, who beat you like this?"
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