Chapter 55: Pulse
Originally, we didn't take the children's finding of duds seriously, as we all went through the same thing when we were young.
But now that they have seen the serious consequences with their own eyes, everyone has taken it to heart, even without Chu Hong saying anything.
The aunt next to Chu Hong murmured weakly: "If you knew it earlier, why didn't you remind us earlier?"
Chu Hong wanted to kick her out of the sky in her heart. What she hated most was this kind of hindsight. Before the accident, even if she had reminded them in advance, they would have turned a deaf ear to her words.
She could only look heavy and said, "I've only heard about it from others. I'll go to the town and ask the leaders about it in detail some other day."
"Also report the accident here so that more people will know the dangers and no one will get hurt in the future."
Unfortunately, she knew that this was just her own wishful thinking.
Not to mention that the spread of news now depends on people shouting, even if it is a dozen or even dozens of years later, all kinds of serious consequences can be seen in newspapers, on television, and on mobile phones, and they still cannot be stopped.
Chu Hong then asked Shuanzi's family, "Did anyone of you see Shuanzi before?"
Shuanzi's parents only had him as their only child, but he had many cousins. One child said weakly, "I saw Shuanzi secretly take out several two-shot firecrackers from grandpa's room. I asked him for them, but he was reluctant to give them to me, so he let us watch him play with them."
Today's two-bang firecrackers are larger in size. After being ignited, this type of firecracker will shoot into the air and then explode with a second bang.
Bang.
It is very imposing, but only adults dare to use it.
When the child's mother heard this, she waved her hand and slapped the child's butt hard: "I think you deserve a beating. I told you not to touch it, but you dared to play with it in private."
For the first time, I was grateful for Shuanzi's stinginess, otherwise it might not be Shuanzi who went to the hospital now.
The adults and children nearby also breathed a sigh of relief: "Shuanzi is so brave. I have to use bamboo clips to hold two firecrackers before I dare to light them."
Some people suddenly realized: "I thought that the small firecracker would only cause a blister on my hand, how could it be so serious? It turned out to be two firecrackers."
After hearing what they said, Chu Hong knew that they didn't take the matter seriously, and probably wouldn't stop their children from playing with firecrackers. So she decided to find a time to hold a meeting so that everyone could have a deeper impression.
It was around nine in the morning when Secretary Song sent the man to the hospital, and it was around one in the afternoon when he came back.
Secretary Song didn't wait for the family to ask, and took the initiative to say, "Get me something to eat first."
There was still a lot of rice left over from lunch, so Chu Hong went to light the fire and asked Chu Dan to cook: "Crack an egg and make some vegetable and egg rice."
After saying this, I felt that I had integrated very well and was so thrifty that I didn't even want to crack two eggs.
Wu Xiu poured a cup of tea and gave him four pieces of peanut popcorn candy: "Drink some water first, why haven't you eaten yet?"
Every man would feel sorry for his wife. On the first day of the new year, she asked him to drive people to the town, which is almost 40 miles round trip. Why didn't she even invite him to lunch?
Secretary Song ate some rice candy with hot tea before he had the strength to speak: "Fortunately, the boy was lucky. His eyes were not injured, but his forehead and ears were injured."
"But the wound was quite big. He couldn't even scream when they were cleaning it. His face turned scary pale."
"I still have to be hospitalized now. The doctor said it will be very troublesome if I have a fever."
He couldn't hide his sigh: "Shuanzi's father was so scared that he almost died. How could he remember to eat? I had to buy him a bowl of noodles at noon."
He was helpless again: "Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year, and the hospital cafeteria only has noodles. I went a little late, and there was only one bowl of noodles. If I want to eat, I have to wait for them to knead the noodles. I don't want to wait, so I went home first."
As soon as he rode his bike into the village, someone shouted, "The Party Secretary is back."
He was so scared that he almost fell down.
After that, people from every household came out to ask how Shuanzi was doing.
Anyway, he walked and explained all the way home.
Just as he finished speaking, Shuanzi's grandparents came over.
Earlier, when they heard that Shuanzi's eyes were fine and he was fine, they finally felt relieved.
I just thought of coming here to thank Secretary Song.
Shuanzi's grandfather's nickname is Song Ergou. According to seniority, Secretary Song should call him Third Uncle.
He first stuffed a red envelope into Secretary Song's hand, with a grateful look on his face: "Youliang, today is really thanks to you. I asked you to go to the hospital on New Year's Day, take the red envelope and go to get rid of bad luck."
Grandma Song San brought a basket of eggs and stuffed them into Grandma Song's pocket: "Give us some food to supplement our food supply. Our village is counting on having food."
After politely declining, the Song family accepted the eggs and red envelopes.
Secretary Song also said, "There are bicycles in the warehouse. Uncle San, ask your family to take them there and ask Youfu to teach them. They will learn quickly."
This way he won't have to send anyone off.
In fact, many people in the village borrowed the public bicycles and learned how to ride. If the accident hadn't happened in his uncle's family today, he really wouldn't have known that none of his uncle's three sons had learned how to ride a bicycle.
Uncle Song agreed again and again: "Okay, I'll let them learn later."
He added, "We want to borrow a bullock cart to go to the hospital later. We can see it with our own eyes and feel at ease."
Secretary Song nodded: "Then bring a washbasin, enamel pot, kettle and towel with you when you go, so they don't have to buy extra ones."
"And bring an extra coat for Xiong. It's cold at night so he won't freeze."
Not to mention his cousins, he would give a few reminders even to outsiders.
Before leaving, Grandma Song San looked at Wu Xiu with some embarrassment, and said hesitantly: "Wife Youliang, my third wife fainted after hearing the good news. Would you mind going to take a look at her?"
Because their son's health made it difficult for him to have children, the old couple were more tolerant towards their third daughter-in-law.
Wu Xiu also agreed immediately. Chu Hong was worried and considerately carried the medicine box and said, "Let's go together."
Although he knew that the possibility of encountering medical disputes was small, Wu Xiu still prescribed medicine to people with fever and colds after becoming a barefoot doctor.
I don’t know if people nowadays have better resistance or the medicine is not adulterated, but anyway, I took the medicine twice at most and the disease was cured.
Haven’t encountered any cases of fainting yet?
But there are many possibilities for fainting. Chu Hong thought to herself: high blood pressure is rare among people nowadays, but low blood pressure is common.
Chu Hong felt that although she was only a half-baked doctor, she could see more than her mother, who was also a half-baked barefoot doctor.
Uncle Song San's family did not split up. After his three sons got married, three more rooms were added on both sides of the two houses.
Now that something has happened to the third brother’s family, the festive atmosphere of the New Year at home is gone.
Wu Xiu first felt the pulse of Shuanzi's mother on both hands, and finally said uncertainly, "It seems to be a pregnancy pulse?"
When Wu Xiu was studying medicine with Grandma Jia, Chu Hong would drag Chu Dan to sit in.
She thought it was good to learn a little bit, because who knows when it might be useful.
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