Chapter 82
Aunt Wu stared at the wall blankly, then looked around and saw only Ye Fuyue, a familiar person.
"Where am I?" Aunt Wu's brain was still in a state of shutdown.
Ye Fuyue told Aunt Wu how she had fainted at the gate of the compound, how everyone had lifted her onto the bicycle, and how she had taken her to the hospital.
Aunt Wu was very grateful: "Thank you, thank you."
"The doctor said that you have a high fever, almost 40 degrees. You should come to the hospital earlier." Ye Fuyue said.
Aunt Wu sighed, "How could I have known this fever would be so severe? I've had fevers before, and they've passed after a while. I thought this would be the same."
Ye Fuyue talked to Aunt Wu again, and then Uncle Wu and Wu Zhenzhen arrived.
"Mom, what's wrong with you? Dad and I heard that you fainted at the gate of the yard, so we rushed over. Are you okay?" Wu Zhenzhen and Wu Bo's eyes were full of anxiety and worry.
"I'm fine, luckily I have Fu Yue." Aunt Wu told Wu Zhenzhen and Uncle Wu what Ye Fu Yue had just told her.
Wu Zhenzhen and Wu Bo were very grateful and said repeatedly:
"Thanks."
"Thank you, Comrade Ye, you really saved my life. Thank you so much."
Ye Fuyue smiled and waved her hand: "Since you are here, I will leave first."
Wu Bo wanted to see her off, but Ye Fuyue didn't let him and left on her own.
That night.
After dinner, Chen Guifeng started making cotton-padded clothes, chatting with Ye Fuyue while she did it.
"I heard that your Aunt Wu came back this afternoon. Zhenzhen and Uncle Wu came to pick her up together."
The news that Ye Fuyue sent the unconscious Aunt Wu to the hospital that morning had spread throughout the entire compound, and the Shen family naturally knew about it as well.
"That's good, it means Aunt Wu's condition should be stable." Ye Fuyue said.
"Yeah. Her fever was already over 40 degrees, and she didn't go to the hospital. Luckily she met you. If she had collapsed outside in the afternoon, where there weren't many people around, no one would have found her for a long time. Wouldn't she have been freezing for a long time?"
What Chen Guifeng described wasn't impossible. She had just returned at that exact time in the morning. If she had been a little earlier, she wouldn't have run into Aunt Wu, and she would have likely been lying outside for dozens of minutes before being discovered.
Chen Guifeng sighed and continued, "Your Aunt Wu is just too frugal. She spent almost all her money to buy Zhenzhen a job and prevent her from going to the countryside. That's why she bears the pain of being sick and refuses to see a doctor."
"Mom, don't blame Aunt Wu. You are the same. Last time your wrist hurt and I asked you to go to the hospital, but you refused to go. It was Chen Yao who insisted on taking you there." Ye Fuyue said.
Chen Guifeng said angrily, "How can they be the same? I know my wrist hurts from working. I just need to rest more. Going to the hospital for all these tests is so expensive!"
Ye Fuyue stopped talking.
People of Chen Guifeng's age avoid going to the hospital if possible, believing it's too expensive. Minor ailments can be dealt with, but major ones, if they can't, are simply dismissed.
Ye Fuyue glanced at the cotton-padded jacket Chen Guifeng was making and asked, "Mom, who are you making this jacket for?"
The cotton-padded jacket Chen Guifeng made was dark blue. This color could be worn by both men and women, and Ye Fuyue couldn't really tell who Chen Guifeng made it for.
"I made this for Chen Yao's brother. Winter is almost here, and I wonder how his brother is doing in the countryside. Is he cold? I'll make him a cotton-padded jacket and send it to him when the time comes so he won't freeze." Chen Guifeng said as her hands kept moving.
Although Chen Guifeng rarely mentioned her eldest brother Shen, her heart was always on her eldest son's side in the countryside. It was a policy that required one person in the family to go to the countryside, otherwise Chen Guifeng would have loved to have had all three children stay with her.
Every few months, Chen Guifeng would prepare some food and daily necessities as well as some money and ask Chen Yao to go to the post office to send them to his elder brother Shen in the countryside.
Ye Fuyue also knew that Chen Guifeng had been looking for a job and wanted to buy a job for Brother Shen so that he could come back from the countryside.
It's just that there are so few jobs these days, and even if you have money you can't necessarily buy them. If Ye Fuyue wasn't designing furniture for a furniture factory now, she would still be worried about work.
Chen Guifeng didn't want to talk too much about Brother Shen. Every time she mentioned Brother Shen, Chen Guifeng felt that she owed him and felt very uncomfortable.
Chen Guifeng changed the subject and said, "Once this cotton coat is finished, I will make one for you and Chen Yao."
Shen Shun, who was standing by, heard this and said, “Mom, is there no cotton-padded jacket for me this year?”
Chen Guifeng glared at him and said, "I made two for you last year, but there's nothing for you this year."
"But everyone wears new clothes during the Chinese New Year, and I don't have anything new to wear." Shen Shun was unhappy.
"Everyone has new clothes every year, but you just like to compare these. Why don't you compare your grades with others? If you do well in the final exam, I will make you a cotton coat even if I don't sleep." Chen Guifeng said.
Shen Shun: “…”
He just slipped away. When someone mentioned his grades as soon as we had a disagreement, he didn't want to talk anymore.
Ye Fuyue smiled and said to Chen Guifeng, "Make one for yourself too."
She simply didn't know how to make clothes, otherwise, she would definitely have to help Chen Guifeng.
"Where can we get so many cloth coupons and cotton! You just came into the family this year, so of course you have to have new clothes. I didn't make a cotton-padded jacket for Chen Yao last year, so I must make one for him this year," said Chen Guifeng.
In winter, cloth and cotton are in great demand. The cloth she has is from Chen Guifeng, who had stockpiled it long ago. She also stockpiled cotton so long ago that she wasn't sure if she'd have enough.
"I see the supply and marketing cooperative also sells winter clothes, but there are very few styles and the prices are not cheap," said Ye Fuyue.
She would go to the supply and marketing cooperative from time to time to talk to Yu Tong, so she was quite familiar with what new products the cooperative had put on the market.
"I saw it when I was buying vegetables, but it was so expensive. A cotton coat costs nearly ten yuan. If I buy cloth and cotton myself, I can make several coats." Chen Guifeng said.
As the two were talking, someone knocked on the gate.
Shen Yao, who was sorting coal briquettes in the yard, said, “I’ll go and take a look.”
Standing outside the courtyard gate was Wu Zhenzhen, holding a net bag with a few eggs in it.
"Is Ye Fuyue here?" Wu Zhenzhen asked.
Ye Fuyue heard the voice and came out and said, "I'm here."
Wu Zhenzhen smiled when she saw Ye Fuyue. "My mom came back from the hospital this afternoon, and her fever is gone now, all thanks to you. When we went to pay her medical bills, we found out you had already paid for them. I brought the money, and there were some eggs left at home, so I brought them over too. Thank you for taking my mom to the hospital today. You really saved her life."
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