Chapter 104: Full Moon Banquet Turns into Funeral Banquet
"Family members, hurry up and pay the 1,000 yuan fee. The child's esophagus is severely burned and he needs a debridement surgery now!"
The nurse pushed open the door of the emergency room and shouted anxiously.
Meng Shuyue was already weak all over at this time. She forced herself to get up from the ground by holding on to the wall, and with trembling legs, she mustered up the energy to pay the money.
Taking out her empty pockets as she was in a hurry to go out, she called Mr. and Mrs. Meng with trembling hands.
On the other end of the phone, Meng's father and mother worriedly told her again and again not to be afraid, and they would be there soon.
While waiting for her parents to come to the hospital, she saw Aunt Liu rushing to the hospital holding Xiaotou and Naitang.
"Aunt Liu, don't worry, just take the children back..."
Before Meng Shuyue could finish, Aunt Liu stuffed the two children in her arms into Meng Shuyue's hands with a stern face, and grumbled dissatisfiedly: "The young lady asked me to go back to take care of the master's funeral. I don't have time to help you take care of these bastards..."
"You...what are you talking about?"
"They are not bastards!"
Meng Shuyue's hands holding the child were so stiff that they seemed to have lost consciousness. She couldn't believe that the Aunt Liu in front of her was the person who cared for her and the child like a mother.
She begged Aunt Liu in an almost pleading voice, "Aunt, Datou is still in the hospital, can you help take care of him for a while..."
"The old man is dead, and it's the young lady who pays me. I don't have time to chat with you."
Aunt Liu waved her hand with a gloomy look on her face, then called to the driver behind her and threw two bags of clothes in front of Meng Shuyue.
The children's clothes in the bag fell to the ground from the open bag, and the rattle used to coax the children also fell to the ground with a "bang", like a dull sound hitting Meng Shuyue's heart.
Looking at the backs of the people leaving and the things scattered on the ground, Meng Shuyue felt as if the two children in her arms were weighing a thousand pounds, making it hard for her to breathe.
The anxious voice of the nurse at the door of the emergency room behind her echoed in her ears like a death warrant, "Family, have you paid the money? If you have, come and sign the critical illness notice. The child is almost unable to breathe and needs a tracheotomy..."
Meng Shuyue looked at the paper and pen handed to her, and her hands holding the pen as she held the child were shaking constantly.
Everything in front of her eyes went dark and everything lost its color.
She gasped for breath, but still couldn't stop the tears from dripping down.
Don't cry! Hold on!
Meng Shuyue gritted her teeth and signed her name on the notice with difficulty. Each stroke was crooked, just like her body that was about to collapse.
“Yueyue…”
When Meng's father and mother arrived, they saw their daughter standing alone and helpless at the door of the emergency room, holding a child in one hand.
"What on earth happened? You were fine just now, how come the child became like this in just one night?"
Meng's father and mother were extremely anxious. They each took a child and coaxed the two children in their arms who were also crying, and they cried with heartache.
As soon as he saw his parents, Meng Shuyue seemed to have found his backbone. He could no longer hold back and told his family everything that had just happened.
Brother Meng Gang leaned over to pick up the child's clothes on the ground and said angrily: "This family is too much. I think my brother-in-law's sister knew that the child was not her son's, so she deliberately asked the nanny to burn Datou. Otherwise, who would feed the child hot milk!"
These words awakened Meng Shuyue.
But Meng Shuyue didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly took out the 500 yuan that his parents had collected when they came to pay the fee.
The woman at the payment counter looked embarrassed. She counted a few reunion photos and explained, "Comrade, we can only help you delay until tomorrow night. If you can't collect the money, we will stop taking the medicine and kick you out tomorrow..."
Meng Shuyue waved her hands hastily outside the window, "I will pay the full fee tomorrow, please don't kick the child out of the hospital."
The cashier handed the receipt to Meng Shuyue, glanced at Meng's father and mother who were holding their other two children not far away, and kindly advised, "Comrade, I see that you are still young, so I'm going to give you a few words of advice. It's better not to treat this child."
"There was a one or two-year-old boy who was abused by his stepmother. His esophagus was severely burned. We spent three or four thousand dollars, but not only did he not get saved, his father also went into debt. And your child is only one month old. It's hard to say whether he can be saved..."
Although every word the kind-looking middle-aged toll collector said was for her own good, it was like a knife stabbing into Meng Shuyue's heart.
Meng Shuyue wiped the tears from her face and said with a firm look in her eyes, "As long as there is a glimmer of hope, I will not give up!"
Because her brother was getting married, she used the money she earned from her clinic to pay back the money her parents borrowed last time, and added a portion to help her parents raise money for her brother to buy an apartment in the tube-shaped building.
The five hundred dollars just now is probably the savings my parents have saved for their retirement.
They really can't come up with any extra money.
Meng Shuyue comforted her mother and eldest brother to take the two children home first. Her father was waiting for news at the door of the emergency room. She planned to go to Shen's house to find Shen Jinxiao to get money for Datou's treatment.
By the time she hurriedly arrived at the Shen family's courtyard, it was already daybreak.
The gate and yard that were originally hung with red silk and pasted with big red wedding characters have now been replaced by a scene full of white funerals.
The original full moon banquet turned into a funeral banquet.
There was crying in the main room.
Meng Shuyue just went to a funeral clothing store and bought a set of mourning clothes that a daughter-in-law should wear in accordance with local customs.
From a distance, he saw Shen Jinxiao, who was wearing mourning clothes and standing beside the coffin. With a numb expression, he and Shen Ting led the mourners to see their father for the last time in front of the coffin.
The usually dignified Shen Ting held onto the coffin and cried long and sadly, and all the relatives and friends present were moved to tears.
Only Shen Jinxiao's face was like a calm and peaceful pond, and his thoughts could not be seen clearly.
The moment Meng Shuyue stepped into the main hall, Shen Jinxiao turned around as if he had sensed something, looking past relatives and friends one after another and meeting her gaze calmly.
The moment Meng Shuyue saw him, her eyes turned red.
People around were crying and expressing their grief for the dead.
Song Shijing and Song Shiyu, who were also in the mourning hall, were squeezed in the crowd and kept winking at her who suddenly appeared.
But she acted as if she didn't see anything, and walked towards Shen Jinxiao step by step through the crowd.
"Jin Xiao..."
The moment she called out his name, tears welled up in her eyes.
"Our child needs surgery, please give me 500 yuan..."
Meng Shuyue had just approached Shen Jinxiao, and before she could finish her words, a slap landed on her face again, shattering her unfinished words.
Chen Ting collapsed, shaking her numb hands, pointing at Meng Shuyue and saying, "How dare you come here, you bitch? You killed your father-in-law, and you didn't even kowtow to him. As soon as you came in, you asked for money to treat your bastard. Do you have any shame?"
"No, they are not bastards," Meng Shuyue ignored the pain on her face and reached out to pull Shen Jinxiao's sleeve, her voice full of grievance and sorrow, "They are all your children. Datou is really in danger. The doctor said that if we don't have money, we have to kick him out. Please give me money first..."
I don’t know which words angered the relatives and friends present, but the Shen family members around them seemed to be ignited and started pushing Meng Shuyue.
"You've killed people, and you're still asking for money."
"Call the police and ask them to arrest her..."
Meng Shuyue was standing unsteadily and was pushed to the ground by someone. His forehead hit the sharp corner of the chair where the coffin was placed, and a cut appeared on his head, with blood gushing out.
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