Chapter 188 Illness
Manbao knelt beside Zhou Liulang with his head hung down. Old Zhou was so angry that he paced back and forth in front of the four people. Every member of the Zhou family was watching in the yard.
This was the first time that Manbao was punished by Old Zhou to kneel. In the past, when she made mistakes, it was Qian who punished her and Old Zhou was responsible for pleading for her.
But this time, Old Zhou was so angry that he punished Manbao himself without waiting for Qian to do anything.
Of course, Qian would not plead for them. She moved a chair and sat at the door, looking at the four of them with a sullen face.
The four of them were extremely depressed, but they felt guilty and did not dare to refute, so they had to kneel down and listen to whatever their father said, and take the scolding obediently.
Life is always full of surprises, and Manbao feels that what Keke said makes a lot of sense.
For example, they thought they had escaped danger yesterday, but they didn't expect that the truth would be revealed today.
To be honest, this is all Sixth Brother’s fault.
Zhou Liulang also knew that it was his own problem, so he lowered his head and bent his waist more than the other three.
But Old Zhou obviously didn't think so. He mainly scolded Zhou Silang, "Your brothers and sisters are young, are you still young? They are about to get married, and you actually left your sister in the mountains. Thank God, your sister is fine. If she got lost in the mountains and couldn't find her, or was taken away by a wolf..."
Old Zhou felt a sharp pain in his chest just thinking about it, and he could hardly breathe. He was so angry that he kicked Zhou Silang and kicked him out. He gasped and asked, "How do you want me to see you..."
"Alright," Qian interrupted him, saying sullenly, "Four of you, all get ten beatings with the stick. Fourth brother, you're the oldest. You won't be allowed to eat tonight. Kneel right here!"
Zhou Silang lowered his head and dared not refute.
Manbao was very scared. He didn't expect his parents to be so angry.
Zhou Erlang found a bamboo stick and hit Manbao on the buttocks with a light movement, which only made her feel pain. But when he hit the other three, Zhou Dalang did not hold back and directly left marks.
Obviously, he was angry too.
Manbao was so scared that he started crying and climbed up to beg Old Zhou for mercy, "Dad, I know I was wrong, please don't hit my brothers anymore."
Old Zhou snorted at her and said, "Manbao, you're not young anymore. You'll be seven after the New Year. It's time for you to grow up. There are wolves in this mountain. Can you run around?"
Old Zhou said, "If you were carried away by a wolf, you would never see your parents and brothers again. It would also bite off your hands and feet, and eat them. By then, you would have no hands, no feet, and even no head..."
No matter how terrifying Old Zhou said, Manbao was so frightened that he forgot to plead for mercy to his three brothers.
Old Zhou reached out and pulled her up, saying, "None of the three of them are allowed to eat tonight."
Manbao felt very sad and even his first meal didn't enjoy the meal anymore.
Because it was winter, Old Zhou thought that if they were sick they would have to spend money to buy medicine, so he didn't let them kneel for long. As soon as it got dark, he sent them back to sleep.
The three brothers were hungry, so they could only go to the kitchen to find some water to drink, tighten their belts and go back to their room to sleep.
Manbao was being stared at by Old Zhou the whole time. He wanted to secretly give them two candies but failed. In the end, she fell asleep sobbingly.
She fell asleep, but Old Zhou didn't. He went to look for his three sons with a gloomy face.
Zhou Silang led his two younger brothers to stand in front of the bed and continue to be scolded.
"This is the only bloodline your uncle has," Old Zhou said in a low voice. "Since she was little, how much effort has your family put into keeping her alive? I've told you since you were little to protect her, to keep her away from dangerous places. Yet, you just dumped her in the mountains. You want to kill me and your mother, don't you?"
Zhou Silang wiped his tears, lowered his head and said nothing. Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang did not dare to move either.
When Old Zhou saw this, the anger in his heart finally dissipated a lot.
Thinking about how the fourth child cried when he came back yesterday, he must have been very scared.
Thinking of this, the last bit of anger finally dissipated. He smoked a cigarette, and after a long silence, he said, "Don't do this again in the future. Okay, go to the kitchen and boil some water."
Zhou Silang didn't expect his father to say this at the end, and looked up in surprise.
Old Zhou glared at him and said, "Tomorrow you will go to the grave and pull weeds to apologize."
Zhou Silang lowered his head and responded.
As soon as their father left, the three brothers sneaked into the kitchen to look around. Zhou Liulang found three black steamed buns at the innermost side of the stove and realized that they were left for them by their sister-in-law. The three of them heated them up and then squatted in the kitchen to eat them together.
I thought the matter was over, but in the second half of the night Manbao developed a fever.
Qian was the first to discover it. Because Manbao was crying in her dream, she got up to comfort her. When she touched her, she found that her forehead was burning hot. She was startled and quickly woke Old Zhou up.
Qian touched her forehead and quickly asked Old Zhou to boil some water. She couldn't help but complain, "The child was fine, why did you have to scare her?"
Old Zhou also felt a little regretful. "She has always been brave. How could I have been so frightened when I first heard about it?"
Then he couldn't help but blame Zhou Liulang, "It's all the fault of that bastard Lao Liu. He hid the whole thing, and then revealed it to me."
Zhou Liulang: ...It was wrong to hide it, and now it’s also wrong not to hide it?
The Zhou family has many children, so fever is a common occurrence. They not only use conventional methods to reduce fever, such as drinking more hot water, covering themselves with quilts to sweat, etc., but also have fever-reducing herbs on hand.
After finding that drinking water was useless, Manbao couldn't sweat and his body was still burning hot, Qian asked Xiao Qian to boil the medicine.
As a result, until dawn, Manbao still didn't break a drop of sweat, and the temperature naturally didn't drop.
Qian couldn't help crying. A high fever could be fatal, especially for Manbao, who was over six years old. It was very dangerous.
She said to Zhou Dalang, "Go get a doctor. If the sun doesn't set after it comes out, send him to the county town."
Zhou Dalang responded quickly and ran towards Dali Village.
Manbao has only taken less medicine in the past two years. Before that, she was basically always on medicine. The doctor in Dali Village was very familiar with her. When he saw that Zhou Dalang was so anxious, he didn't mind being woken up before dawn.
I quickly packed my medicine box and followed him.
When he arrived at Zhou's house, he saw that the child's face was red with fever, and Qian was constantly wiping her forehead and palms with a warm towel.
The doctor took one look and asked, "Is it getting hotter?"
Qian nodded, her eyes red as she said, "It wasn't that hot before. I listened to you and kept giving her warm water, but the temperature kept rising. I didn't dare to apply a cold towel, so I just kept wiping her with warm water."
The doctor nodded, checked Manbao's eyes and tongue, and took his pulse. He couldn't help but frown, "This is caused by the evil wind entering the body and being frightened."
(End of this chapter)
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