Chapter 31
Qin Huai paid the money, took the medicine, and when he returned to the observation room, he saw Mu Nan getting up from the bed. The nurse next to him was reaching out to help him get the IV bottle, so he ran over and asked, "What's wrong?"
After a while of infusion, Mu Nan felt much better. He no longer felt dizzy when he moved. When he saw Qin Huai, he smiled at him reassuringly: "Brother, they are short of beds and other people need them more, so we just sit there and get the injection."
Qin Huai turned around and saw that two bottles of water that had not yet been filled had been hung up by the nurse, so he stepped forward and took the bottles from the nurse's hand: "Let me do it."
The nurse was also very busy, and she didn't even have time to tidy up the bed before pushing the bed to the emergency room. Qin Huai helped Mu Nan walk over, but there was no chair over there, but a corner with a quilt. There were many people sitting on the ground getting injections. Now it was good to have a place to give you an injection. Naturally, there was no need to ask for too much.
When they went over, the people next to them had just finished fighting, leaving a larger space, so Qin Huai sat next to Mu Nan and let Mu Nan lean on him to sleep for a while: "Do you want to lie down for a while? Lie down and rest your head on my legs."
Mu Nan shook his head: "It's uncomfortable to lie down like this, lean back, how long will it take to finish these bottles of medicine?"
Qin Huai looked up and said, "At least one and a half to two hours."
Mu Nan sighed: "Suffering."
Qin Huai raised his hand and let him lean on his shoulder, rubbing his hair with one hand: "It's my fault. It's so hot, I should have thought about the food outside. I was negligent."
Mu Nan raised her head slightly and looked at him: "You are not Superman, how can you be so meticulous? You ate it too, are you okay?"
Qin Huai said: "It's okay. Apart from being scared by you and feeling a bit overwhelmed, everything is fine."
Mu Nan remained silent. The gap was so huge. He had to go to the ambulance just after eating two bites, and medical resources were tight as they are now. If he hadn't been really dizzy at the time and his heart was about to jump out of his throat, he would have felt that he was wasting medical resources.
Looking at the crowded hospital, Mu Nan was a little worried: "Brother, there are so many people." I had never seen these things before. All the information was from the Internet and from other people's mouths. Now that I see the situation in the hospital, I feel it more directly.
Qin Huai hummed: "We won't go out after we get back."
Before entering the hospital, they knew that the high temperature was serious and many people would die, but knowing it was not as profound as seeing it with their own eyes. Now almost no one walks outside during the day, but at night a lot of people sit downstairs fanning themselves and chatting. Except for the unusually high temperature during the day, their lives don't seem to have changed much, except that the day and night are reversed.
Seeing the death tug-of-war in the hospital now, I deeply realized at this moment that the world has really changed.
It was almost impossible to stop a car at the hospital entrance. Because there were at least a few spontaneous combustion and explosions of vehicles every day, fewer and fewer people were driving on the road. No matter how much money you make, it is not as important as life. Qin Huai stood by the roadside and waited for a while. Seeing that there were really no cars, he walked up to Mu Nan and squatted down: "Get in."
Seeing that Qin Huai wanted to carry him, Mu Nan was unwilling: "Let's walk forward together. It's only fifteen minutes to walk home from here. It's not far."
Qin Huai would never listen to him. He directly pulled his hands around his neck and made him lie on his back: "Can't you just listen to me?"
Mu Nan said, "It's so hot, and you're still carrying me on your back. What if you get heatstroke? I can walk on my own."
Qin Huai smiled and said, "Brother is in good health. As long as you don't scare me like this a few times, I will live a long life."
Mu Nan lay on his back and smiled: "Then you live 100 years, and I live 98 years."
Although it was very hot, Mu Nan felt safe lying on Qin Huai's back. Perhaps the rhythm of his walking was more hypnotic. When Mu Nan was awakened by the sound of talking, they were already waiting for the elevator downstairs.
The people Qin Huai was talking to were Yu Zibai and Jian Chu, whom he would run into six or seven times out of ten whenever he went upstairs around 12 o'clock. Jian Chu got off work around 11:30 and walked back home at around 12 o'clock. Because he lived in a night-time system, Yu Zibai would go out to buy food at about the same time every day, buying his own dinner and Jian Chu's midnight snack.
Seeing Qin Huai carrying Mu Nan back, Jian Chu asked with concern: "What happened?" It was such a hot day, if there was no special situation, no matter how willful she was, she would not let her brother carry her on his back like this. Moreover, there was a piece of adhesive tape on the back of Mu Nan's hand, which was used to cover the injection hole.
Qin Huai said: "I have an upset stomach and feel uncomfortable."
The uncle who was also waiting for the elevator at the side could not help but say, "Well, the temperature has been high recently, and food spoils quickly. There was a fried chicken steak stall at the entrance of our community, and it was smashed today. It was because yesterday, a kid from the building next door bought a fried chicken steak there at night. As a result, he had vomiting and diarrhea in the middle of the night. He was convulsing and rolling his eyes. He hasn't been discharged from the hospital yet. It seems that his illness is quite serious. He is dehydrated and in shock. In this weather, he has dehydrated. Tell me, isn't it scary?"
Jian Chu was surprised and said, "It's so serious. I was wondering why there looked like a pile of food on the ground at the intersection."
The uncle said, "That's not serious. If it wasn't serious, the parents would be so angry that they would smash the stall. Nowadays, whose children are not precious? But then again, the stall owner might feel wronged. The vegetables really went bad too quickly. The dishes I cooked at home for lunch were put in the refrigerator a little later with the air conditioner on, and the taste changed. It's inevitable that people who set up stalls and do catering will make mistakes, so it's better to cook at home and don't buy outside. If you buy meat, it's better to buy frozen meat. Can you believe that fresh meat can go bad just by walking a short distance from the vegetable market? God is simply not letting people live."
Jian Chu couldn't help but look at the food in Yu Zibai's hand. Yu Zibai also looked at him silently. He was a little afraid to eat it after hearing what he said.
Yu Zibai saw that Qin Huai was carrying Mu Nan on his back, so it might be inconvenient for him to open the door. He was about to go over to help, but then he saw Mu Nan getting off Qin Huai's back, so he followed Jian Chu into the door without saying anything. He didn't know if the food really went bad quickly, or if he had a psychological trauma from what the uncle had said just now.
Jian Chu took a bite of the shredded pork and said uncertainly, "Try it. Is it my illusion?"
Yu Zibai also took a bite with chopsticks and tasted it: "It seems a little off." The taste was not very obvious, but it always felt slightly sour.
Looking at the two bowls of shredded pork fried rice, Jian Chu felt a little reluctant: "Do you still want to eat it?" This is fifteen yuan a bowl, and two bowls are thirty yuan.
Yu Zibai said, "Forget it. If something goes wrong with the food, it will hurt your body and cost money. We still have some money for food, but we definitely can't afford to go to the hospital."
Although Jian Chu was reluctant, he knew that he couldn't lose the big picture for the small. He sighed, asked Yu Zibai to pack up the fried rice that had changed its taste, and went to the refrigerator to get a pack of quick-frozen dumplings: "I think we should buy a freezer, a second-hand one, it's not expensive, buy more quick-frozen food to keep at home, the current refrigerator is too small, can't hold much, just like that uncle said, buy frozen meat, fresh meat spoils too easily."
Yu Zibai said, "Okay, I'll take a look at the second-hand freezer." Just as he finished speaking, he received a transfer from Jian Chu, and the amount was quite a bit of ten thousand yuan.
Jian Chu said, "You go ahead and buy it. I don't think I'll have much time at work. After I buy the freezer, I'll buy some more food to stock up. I've only saved this much money, so you'd better shop around and be more thrifty."
Yu Zibai smiled and said, "Does this mean that you are responsible for making money to support the family, and I am responsible for being beautiful?"
Jian Chu rolled his eyes and said, "Put on some women's clothes and pretend to be Ruhua so I can see it first."
Although he was a little tired, Mu Nan still insisted on taking a shower after returning home. Qin Huai quickly boiled a kettle of hot water, and when Mu Nan came out of the shower, he mixed ice water with a cup of warm water, looked at the instructions of the boxes of medicine, took out a few pills and handed them to him: "Take it and sleep for a while. Don't eat anything today. If you are hungry, just bear with it. Eat porridge for the next two days. Avoid eating until your body recovers."
Mu Nan took the medicine and lay down. Looking at Qin Huai who was still packing the medicine box, Mu Nan sat up again and took out a bowl of pork chop noodles from the space: "Brother."
Qin Huai turned around and looked at him helplessly: "Don't worry about me. I can make something to eat when I'm hungry."
Mu Nan said: "No way, when I fall asleep, you will definitely sleep with me so as not to wake me up, and you won't make food for yourself. Eat quickly, I'll watch you eat."
Qin Huai couldn't persuade him. The food had been taken out, so he had to eat it. However, he hadn't even finished a bowl of noodles yet, and the person who said he wanted to watch him eat had already fallen asleep. Qin Huai went forward and pulled the blanket over him, squatted beside the bed and watched him for a long time, making sure that he was sleeping soundly and not feeling uncomfortable, then he got up carefully.
The nurse had said before that he might have abdominal pain and diarrhea after returning home, but perhaps because he only took two bites of the bowl of beef brisket and vomited it out not long after eating it, the situation the nurse said did not occur. This made Qin Huai feel relieved, but he still made Mu Nan eat white porridge for two days in a row to clear his stomach.
The day after they came back from the hospital, the beef brisket hotpot restaurant they ate that night was reported in the local news. An old man ate a bowl of beef brisket hotpot at his house and vomited and had diarrhea that night, and died of acute illness. In addition to the old man, almost all the customers who ate at his house in those two days were hospitalized for serious illness, and those with mild illness were probably in good health and had diarrhea twice at home and were fine. However, because there were many people who were injured at the same time, they were reported and the sick family members came to ask for an explanation, which made a big fuss and made it to the news.
The comments under this news are also quite extreme.
[I finally survived the epidemic, but died because of my mouth. I give up. 】
[At your age, it's so hot, but you're running around instead of staying at home. Isn't that just causing trouble? ]
【Victim blaming? Toxic.】
[This restaurant is near my home. I used to eat there often when I was in school. But something like this happened. ]
[It was so hot that I couldn't eat anything, but they still went to eat beef brisket. I can only say that these people deserved it. ]
[Is the weather hot and you're irritable? The comments section is so irritable. 】
[My mother steamed two buns for me yesterday morning. They were steamed at around 8 o'clock. I got up at around 9 o'clock. Before 10 o'clock, the meat in the buns had turned sour. I want to ask you if this speed of spoilage is exaggerated?]
[I opened a bottle of drink and didn't finish it at once. When I drank it again, it was sour. I want to ask, where did the preservatives in my drink go? ]
[I feel like the next wave will be a food crisis, so everyone should stock up on more food. ]
[Forget about food, stock up on instant noodles. My rice has already been infested with worms. It has only been opened for a few days, and the speed at which it has infested with worms is too fast. ]
The boss of the beef brisket pot was indeed wronged. Their beef brisket was all fresh and large, and they had been cooperating with a beef shop in the market, and they did not buy frozen minced meat. Their family was also a decades-old shop, and their reputation was built on the freshness of the ingredients. Now that the shop has reopened after the epidemic, it is impossible for them to fool customers with the ingredients, and they even showed the receipts for buying fresh beef every day in front of reporters.
But no matter how he proves it, if something happens when people eat in his restaurant, he has to be responsible for it.
When Mu Nan saw the news, Qin Huai was hanging clothes to dry. He quickly called Qin Huai to come over and see: "Look, it's not that I'm in poor health, it's that there's really something wrong with his family. Many people have had problems after eating it. Wow, luckily I didn't eat much because I didn't taste it. I saw an expert in the news saying that today's temperature is a hotbed for the rapid reproduction of various microorganisms and bacteria. It seems that everything in the refrigerator needs to be put into the space. It will go bad quickly if left outside."
It seemed that at this time in his previous life, he had just been discharged from the hospital due to heatstroke. He failed to find Qin Huai and faced such terrible high temperatures, so he had been focusing on stockpiling food. How could he have the mood to eat out? Although he later read a lot of news about food rotting quickly due to high temperatures, the focus was on food preservation and food shortage. He did not expect that he would not be able to escape the fate of being hospitalized in this life.
Qin Huai glanced at him and said, "You feel quite proud that you can be discharged smoothly after just two injections, right?"
Mu Nan pouted and turned his back to Qin Huai: "Why are you called Qin Huai? You should be called Qin Duidui, you are so good at talking nonsense."
Qin Huai finished hanging the clothes and when he passed by the bed, he picked up the blanket that Mu Nan had kicked to the end of the bed and said, "Cover your belly."
Mu Nan quickly pulled the blanket over herself: "Okay, Aunt Qin."
Qin Huai glanced at him and said, "You are so disrespectful."
When there was a knock on the door, Mu Nan thought it was the water delivery man. He had been planning to buy water yesterday, but ended up going to the hospital halfway. But he saw that the store was offering group purchases in the community, and would deliver more than two boxes to people's homes. Although the price of the water had increased a lot, it was much easier to have it delivered to people's homes. So this morning, Mu Nan, who was forced to lie in bed and unable to get out, bought several boxes at once, including various mineral waters and beverages.
Just as Mu Nan was about to get up from the bed and open the door, Qin Huai pushed her back again: "Lie down, don't move."
Mu Nan sighed. If someone didn’t know, they would think he was paralyzed from the waist down. Qin Huai was almost feeding him food.
Qin Huai also thought it was the water delivery man, but when he opened the door, it turned out to be Jiang Xuan, whom he had missed in City B before.
Jiang Xuan is a handsome man, wearing a pair of rimless glasses. When he smiles at people, he has a handsome and gentle temperament. Because this person is considerate and meticulous, and exudes a sense of tolerance, he thinks that Jiang Xuan can help him take care of Mu Nan, but at least if Mu Nan needs help, Jiang Xuan will definitely help. This face is too deceptive, especially every time he mentions Mu Nan, he looks so self-conscious and has no guilt, which really shows his acting skills to the extreme.
Qin Huai thought that Jiang Xuan would never come to see him again after the last phone call, but he didn't expect that he would actually come directly to his house.
As soon as he saw him, Jiang Xuan even revealed a somewhat aggrieved and forbearing expression: "The last time I came to see you, no one was home. After I returned to the company, Lu Sen said that you left, and I also resigned. The handover procedures were delayed for several days, so I came back now."
Qin Huai looked at him expressionlessly: "Does it have anything to do with me?"
Jiang Xuan frowned and looked at him: "Is Mu Nan at home? There are some things that I think we can only talk about when the three of us are together."
Qin Huai said: "Let me ask you, Nan Nan came to you, why did you say you couldn't contact me."
Jiang Xuan brought out the words he had prepared long ago: "You believed him when he said he contacted me? Yes, I haven't had any contact with him in these years. When you left, he refused everything related to you. I went to find him and told him to come to me if he needed any help in the future. He was very angry and told me to get out. Children of that age are already in a rebellious period. If I approached him deliberately, he would only be more disgusted. But I asked his classmates to help me take care of him. I left them my number so that they could contact me directly if they had any problems. Although I have never appeared in front of him, I have been paying attention to his life. Are those photos I gave you all fake? If you don't believe it, contact Mu Nan's junior high and high school classmates now and ask!"
Qin Huai didn't expect this man to be able to argue: "Who do you think I would trust, you or Nan Nan?"
Jiang Xuan showed a touch of hurt and self-mockery of not being trusted, but looked at him firmly: "Qin Huai, we have been friends for so many years. Now that I am here and everyone is here, let's talk about it together."
Qin Huai didn't want to waste time with him: "Jiang Xuan, don't treat me like a fool, get out."
Qin Huai turned around and prepared to go in, but Jiang Xuan grabbed him and said, "Qin Huai!"
Qin Huai threw his hand back and pushed him out the door without any courtesy: "Do you think I am a good-tempered person?"
Jiang Xuan looked at Qin Huai unwillingly: "You didn't listen to my explanation, and you didn't look at the evidence I gave. Qin Huai, haven't I done enough for you over the years? Do you have a heart?"
To Jiang Xuan's great surprise, Qin Huai walked up to him in two or three steps and punched him hard in the face: "Put away your hypocritical face."
As he said this, he grabbed Jiang Xuan, who was knocked to the ground, by the collar and punched him again, and no one knew where his glasses flew away.
Jiang Xuan didn't expect Qin Huai to take action, and was even stunned for a moment.
From the moment I met Qin Huai, he was someone who could attract everyone's attention wherever he went. Among a group of immature teenagers, Qin Huai was mature and steady, responsible and capable. When others panicked over a small mistake and felt that the sky was falling, Qin Huai had already calmly started to find ways to make up for it. When others were still worrying about the results of an exam, Qin Huai had already planned his future. Qin Huai's living environment and life experience destined him to not be as carefree as others. It was also because of his life experience that made him a particularly different person in his student days.
Everything about Qin Huai attracted him, and Jiang Xuan felt that as long as Qin Huai was there, nothing could stump him. At first, when he was young and naive, he was attracted to Qin Huai like chasing the light, and instinctively wanted to be someone like Qin Huai. Slowly, he began to understand his heart, and what he wanted more was to have someone like Qin Huai.
He even envied Mu Nan, who was included in Qin Huai's protection circle because of their neighbor relationship. A person who had nothing to do with him, but could call him brother as a matter of course, accept Qin Huai's protection and care as a matter of course, and even be able to throw tantrums willfully and wantonly, without worrying about pushing Qin Huai away. He was jealous, madly jealous, and when Qin Huai left, he even thought viciously that time would surely wear away everything. He fulfilled Mu Nan's willfulness. He also wanted to see how much Mu Nan would regret it when one day he found out that his Qin Huai no longer belonged to him.
But he never thought that the perfect Qin Huai in his mind would raise his fist ferociously.
After punching Jiang Xuan twice, Qin Huai lifted him up from the ground and pressed him against the wall by the neck. From the bulging veins on the back of his hand, it can be seen that he really put in a lot of effort: "If you don't come to find me, I will pretend that I have never met you. Now that you are here, it is a good opportunity to settle accounts with you. Jiang Xuan, you should be glad that Nan Nan is fine and waited for me to come back safely at home. Otherwise, I will make you pay for your stupidity and hypocrisy with your life!"
After Qin Huai finished speaking, he pinched his neck and threw him to the ground. The anger that had accumulated in his heart for these days was finally vented. When he thought about if he didn't come back and let Mu Nan face all this alone, he hated him so much that he wanted to kill someone. He has never been a good person. He only cares about that one person. If something happens to that person, what does the law and morality matter?
The noise in the corridor was too loud. Although Jiang Xuan was the one who was beaten, the noise was not small, so the neighbors across the street came out to check on the situation. Doctor Xu took a look at the two of them and went back to the house when he saw that no one was going to die. Yu Zibai asked, "Do you need help?"
Qin Huai exhaled, touched his hand which was red from beating someone and said, "No, it's a small matter."
Yu Zibai nodded, turned around and went back into the house, showing no intention of coming out to mediate.
Looking at Jiang Xuan, whose face was bruised and bloody, Qin Huai said coldly, "Get lost."
After saying that, he turned around and saw Mu Nan standing at the door. Qin Huai frowned slightly: "Didn't I tell you to stay in bed and not get down?"
Mu Nan turned his head to look at the embarrassed man on the ground, and gave Qin Huai a thumbs up with a smile: "My brother is awesome!"
Qin Huai patted him on the head lightly, not caring about the people who were still being beaten and unable to get up in the corridor. He directly closed the iron door and pushed Mu Nan into the house: "How long have you been watching the excitement?"
Mu Nan said, "I saw you grab his neck and throw him out. I thought you were carrying water at the door, and wondered why you didn't come in for so long. I didn't buy much. As soon as I went out, I saw you beating someone up. I've never seen you fight before, so your Sanda training was not in vain. My brother is so handsome!"
Qin Huai reached out and touched his body, which was still cold. He must have just been out for a while, so he pushed him to the bed: "Are you hungry? You only had a bowl of porridge in the afternoon. Do you want to have some noodles?"
Mu Nan: "No, I don't have an appetite for bland food. Why did Jiang Xuan come to see you? You have matured a lot, but you don't look like a kid anymore. If I passed by you on the street, I would definitely not recognize you."
Qin Huai: "Come to me to explain, and make up some excuses that sound fake to you."
Mu Nan was a little curious: "So why did he lie to me?"
Qin Huai glanced at him and smiled: "Everyone says he is sick. Sick people's brain circuits are naturally different from those of ordinary people."
Mu Nan sighed softly: "Will he come to bother you again in the future?"
Qin Huai: "Don't worry about him. I will beat him every time he pesters me until he dares not to come."
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