Chapter 239 Malaria 4
Natural disasters happen frequently, and it is rare that the weather is suitable recently, so we can grow some food to supplement our family income. The land has just been cultivated, so how could the villagers agree to let the army dig up the land?
The villagers didn't know what the underground city was. They only knew that if they didn't grow food to supplement their family income, they would starve to death before the underground city was built.
The villagers were right to protect their own land, and the army was right to build an underground city to serve as a future shelter for the citizens of the floating city. The mistake was that before the army started construction, the officials did not consult with the villagers in advance, allowing the army's young men to confront the villagers head-on, resulting in the current situation.
Wang Shijin couldn't say that it was improper official handling that caused a large number of people to contract malaria, so he could only blame himself for his bad luck.
Xia Xiaoman asked, "So many of you have malaria. Don't your superiors have some medicine for you?" After all, it is a military hospital. The medicines should be more complete than those in the medical station!
"There are too many sick people and not enough medicine. The medicines that are transferred in are first given to patients with serious symptoms. Those of us who are still conscious can only endure it for now." Wang Shijin squatted on the ground with his arms clasped, his left hand grasping his right arm, and his right hand grasping his left arm, trying his best to control his shaking body.
He thought that he might be crushed to death by a collapse while digging the underground city, that he might be killed while catching criminals, and that he might die accidentally while rescuing people, but he never thought that he might die of illness.
Xia Xiaoman felt mixed emotions. She hesitated whether to give some medicine to Wang Shijin. At this moment, Sun Haiyun came out and pulled Wang Shijin up. "Ah Jin, Aunt Xing is dying. Go in and check on her!"
Xia Xiaoman watched Sun Haiyun and Wang Shijin go in, but did not follow them. After waiting for a while, she turned around and left, observing her surroundings as she walked.
The military hospital has electricity, but perhaps to save power, there are no lights on in the dim corridors and no cameras are installed.
Xia Xiaoman walked into the newly built dry toilet in the hospital, changed his clothes, wrote a note and threw it into the bag full of anti-malarial drugs, then walked out of the toilet and threw the large bag of drugs into the nurses' station while the nurses at the nurses' station were out checking on the patients.
After doing all this, she hurried back to the bathroom, changed back into her original clothes, and walked quickly to the ward where Aunt Xing was staying.
On the way back, she deliberately went to the nurses' station and was slightly relieved when she saw a nurse find the big bag of medicine.
In the nurses' station, the nurse who found the big bag of medicine opened the bag in confusion, "Who put this bag in? The space here is small to begin with..."
Before she finished her words, she slammed the bag shut, looked up and around, and when she saw that no one was looking at her, she opened the bag again.
"Oh my God! So many medicines..." The nurse's hands trembled unconsciously because she was too excited.
Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of a piece of paper in the bag. She picked up the paper and saw what was on it, then she knew what the bag of medicine was about.
Xia Xiaoman was worried that after the batch of medicines was delivered to the military hospital, Wang Shijin and his fellow soldiers would still not be able to get the medicines, so she wrote a note saying that the batch of medicines was donated to the comrades who dug the underground city, and hoped that the medicines could be delivered to the comrades who had malaria.
Xia Xiaoman couldn't guarantee whether the medicine would be delivered to the soldiers suffering from malaria, but she had done her best and could only leave the rest to fate.
When we returned to the ward, Aunt Xing had already closed her eyes. Fu Baiwei, Wang Shijin, and a few other people who were close to Aunt Xing were all sobbing and crying.
Seeing how sad they were, the lady on the bed next to them comforted them, "It's not easy for the old man to live to this day in today's environment. Don't be too sad."
The aunt coughed twice and looked at Aunt Xing with some envy in her eyes. It was such a blessing to have so many people to see you off before you die! How many people die with no one around them but themselves...
Suddenly, the aunt started to cough violently, and soon, she vomited a large mouthful of blood. Seeing that the aunt's family had not come, Xia Xiaoman kindly asked a nurse to come and check on her. But before the nurse came, the aunt died.
In less than half an hour, two people died in the ward, and the other three patients looked pale. One of them was so scared that he couldn't help crying.
The nurse and the doctor came to rescue the patient, but found that the patient had no vital signs, and numbly asked someone to carry the body away. Aunt Xing's body was also to be carried away.
Wang Shijin and his friends wanted to see Aunt Xing off for the last time, so they followed the team carrying the corpse out. When they were almost at the hospital entrance, Wang Shijin suddenly fell backwards.
Sun Haiyun was right next to him. When he saw him faint, he immediately pulled him up and supported him. "Wang Shijin? Ajin?" He called Wang Shijin several times but there was no response. He raised his hand and touched Wang Shijin's head.
"How could it be...why is my forehead so hot?" Sun Haiyun felt a little uncomfortable. Could it be that another person was about to pass away?
Fu Baiwei saw Wang Shijin was unconscious and immediately called a nurse. The nurse arranged Wang Shijin on a bed in the corridor and asked the doctor to examine him.
After the examination, the doctor whispered a few words into the nurse's ear, and the nurse left quickly. A few minutes later, the nurse came back jogging, and before Xia Xiaoman and the others could react, she pried open Wang Shijin's mouth and stuffed a few pills into his mouth in the blink of an eye.
Seeing the nurse wanted to leave after giving him the medicine, Fu Baiwei hurriedly pulled her aside and asked, "Give him the medicine..."
Before he finished the word 'eat', the nurse said loudly: "He's fine, he'll be fine after a good sleep!"
Seeing this, Sun Haiyun realized what was going on. He grabbed Fu Baiwei's wrist and squeezed it hard, signaling her not to speak.
Medicines for treating malaria were in short supply. The corridor was full of people with malaria, and none of them had medicine to take, except Wang Shijin.
If the fact that Wang Shijin took the medicine were to be known, the patients in the corridor would definitely ask the doctors and nurses to prescribe medicine for them, and might even pick the medicine out of Wang Shijin's mouth.
At the critical moment of life and death, who knows whether these people who call each other brothers in their daily lives will do some irrational things in order to save their lives?
After Wang Shijin took the medicine, his breathing gradually stabilized. Xia Xiaoman and the others stayed with him for more than an hour, and when they saw that Wang Shijin's symptoms had improved, they decided to go back.
Sun Haiyun followed Fu Baiwei away, and Xia Xiaoman drove back alone.
When he got home, it was time to fetch water. Xia Xiaoman parked the pickup truck, took the bucket and went out.
The square was empty and there were not so many mosquitoes. Xia Xiaoman stood at the back of the line and looked up at the sun in the sky. The sun should be around 8-9 o'clock now.
According to the current speed of the sun's movement, in half a year or seven or eight months, we will enter eternal night again. I just don't know if the next eternal night will be as cold as the previous one.
Just as she was daydreaming, she heard a noise in front of her. Xia Xiaoman stretched her head out to see what was happening. A masked man pointed at the water that had just been pumped up and said angrily, "Look for yourselves. This water is full of bugs. How do you want us to drink it?!"
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