Chen Chunhua only calmed down a little after she got on the boat with her daughter in her arms.
In my previous life, I thought it was just a common fever and cold, so I stayed at home for two more nights, covering my body with sweat and wiping my body.
After discovering that Lin Shuying's high fever hadn't subsided at all, they rushed to the county hospital. However, going to the hospital was useless. The disease was diagnosed, but the county hospital had no medicine for it.
The person went to the hospital with a fever and returned home with a fever, and another day passed like this.
Then Lin Guoqing found a way to have someone row the patient to the provincial hospital, and another two days passed.
Five days later, when they arrived at the provincial capital, Lin Shuying was already breathing heavily.
The doctor said it was too late and it would have been better if we had come two days earlier.
Her eldest daughter, the baby she gave birth to after ten months of pregnancy when she was 19 years old, was raised with great difficulty until she was 8 years old during those years when there was little to eat and drink.
Because the adults were delayed, she left like this.
At that time, Chen Chunhua didn't even have time to be sad, because Lin Shugan also fell ill soon after.
The same high fever wouldn't go away, and I was almost dying.
Fortunately, he received medical treatment in time and survived, which was better than his sister.
Whenever she thinks of that memory, Chen Chunhua feels like her heart is broken and she can't breathe.
Even when she was old and had many children and grandchildren, she still couldn't get over this hurdle.
When she opened her eyes that day and saw the number 1977 on the calendar, she thought her life was over and she was looking at a revolving lantern.
As a result, when her little daughter threw herself into her arms and used her hand to grind her teeth, the pain reminded her that it was real.
She was reborn, back to the age of twenty-seven, back to the time when her eldest daughter was still alive.
Logically speaking, after living a lifetime, she should have let go of the joys and sorrows of life.
Unexpectedly, when faced with the life and death of her child, she was still able to unleash the potential she had when she was arguing with the village shrew in her previous life.
Anyway, you have already lived a lifetime, and every day of this life is earned.
As long as Shuying can survive, I will even sacrifice my own lifespan to replenish her!
Lin Guoqing touched his eldest daughter's forehead. The hot question made his brows furrow into the shape of a "川" character.
He turned around to look at his second son who was sitting obediently next to him, and reached out to stroke his hair.
"Are you hungry?" Lin Guoqing asked.
Lin Shu nodded, then shook his head.
I'm hungry, but I can bear it.
Right now, his parents are in a hurry to take his eldest sister to the doctor. He can't just make a fuss about asking for food and drink at this time.
The second child has always been the most sensible. Lin Guoqing's eyes were full of heartache, and he couldn't help complaining to Chen Chunhua.
"You too, why do you have to bring the second child? It would be better to have him stay at the eldest sister's house. At least he can eat on time and keep an eye on the two little ones."
If they were not here, the third brother alone could tear the roof off his eldest sister's house.
Chen Chunhua also felt sorry for her son. The bamboo boat awning could not keep out the cold wind of early spring, and she had left in such a hurry that she had not even remembered to give him an extra set of clothes.
But there was no other way, Lin Shu had to go.
"He and Xiaoying are always together, let him get checked out too."
Chen Chunhua had never been to school and could not read a single word. After forty or fifty years, she could hardly remember the name of the disease the doctor had mentioned.
It seemed to be some kind of pneumonia? She couldn't say for sure what kind of pneumonia it was, but the two children had similar symptoms, and she believed that early treatment would help them recover and avoid further suffering.
Lin Guoqing nodded, agreeing with this statement. He even felt that he should have brought the remaining two along to check together...
Forget it, forget it. As long as we take those two monkeys with us, there’s no way to treat Dana’s illness.
Then, he thought of another thing and asked curiously,
"You just said the county hospital has no medicine? How did you know?"
Chen Chunhua lowered her eyes, tucked the corner of the quilt for her daughter in her arms again, and spoke in a flat tone.
"Didn't the puppy's mother just come back from the county? She said the disease was diagnosed, but there's no medicine.
The doctors at the county hospital told them to try their luck in the provincial capital, or else they would just go home and wait to die.
"His mother's illness...is difficult to cure even in the capital. It's different from our daughter's."
Lin Guoqing was too shy to reveal the name of the other person's illness. He muttered to himself that his daughter just had a fever and his wife was so anxious that she compared everything with others.
Chen Chunhua rolled her eyes at him and said unhappily.
"Even if it's difficult to treat, we still have to have the most basic medicine, right? Knowing that the county hospital is constantly out of medicine, why would we waste our time?
If only a few days... "
Chen Chunhua didn't dare to continue, her tone was already filled with tears.
"No, our eldest daughter is so strong, she will be fine!"
Lin Guoqing quickly tried to make amends for himself, and Lin Shugan also came to his mother and sister, holding the eldest sister's hot hand and comforting her in a condescending manner.
"Mom, don't be afraid, my elder sister will be fine." After thinking for a while, she added,
"I will be fine, my brothers and sisters will be fine, and our whole family will be fine."
Chen Chunhua had been holding on. From the moment she touched Shuying's hot forehead until now, tears had been welling up in her eyes for almost a day. Finally, she shed tears at the sound of Lao Er's childish yet forcedly mature words.
"Yeah! It's going to be okay, we're all going to be fine!"
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In an era of inconvenient transportation, it is inconvenient to go anywhere.
The provincial capital is actually not very far from their home. If they drive a car, it will probably take an hour and a half, or at most two hours to get there.
Unfortunately, it is now 1977, and Lin Guoqing and Shen Chunhua take turns holding their daughter and holding their son's hand.
We took a boat, a bus, and a tricycle, and by the time we arrived at the Provincial People's Hospital, it was almost dark.
"Doctor! Doctor!" The couple ran into the hospital lobby hurriedly with their child in their arms, and when they saw someone in a white coat, they grabbed the person and shouted.
"Doctor! Please save my daughter! Please save my daughter!"
Chen Chunhua found that her calmness on the road was only temporary, and her heart began to lift again after seeing the doctor.
After all, the doctor is the one who can decide whether her daughter lives or dies.
A middle-aged man in a white coat was just stopped by Chen Chunhua. Perhaps because Chen Chunhua's voice sounded too anxious, he really stood there.
He looked at little Shuying nestled in Lin Guoqing's arms, touched her forehead, and then hurriedly took out his stethoscope.
"It's so hot, how long has it been burning?"
"I woke up with a slight cough this morning and couldn't eat breakfast, so I didn't go to school.
I started to feel a little hot in the morning, and by noon my whole body was burning hot.
Chen Chunhua quickly recounted Lin Shuying's symptoms like pouring beans. The words flowed so smoothly as if she had said them countless times or rehearsed them countless times.
"There are some rales in the lungs. Let's draw some blood first, and then take a chest X-ray."
He quickly walked to the nurse's station and said a few words to her. A nurse came out and took four people to the blood drawing room, and directed Lin Guoqing to go to the cashier window to pay.
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