Chapter 411
At this time, Su Hui and Jiang Fengyi were sitting in front of the smoking pot and chatting.
Su Miao got out of the car and asked, "Brother Yi, you haven't gone home yet?"
The bright firelight shone on his face, making it look a little red.
Jiang Fengyi replied, "I just helped Ah Hui make rice dumplings. After your brother Yu finished, he ran off to watch TV. I stayed with Ah Hui to watch the fire. The pot is very heavy and she won't be able to move it by herself in a while."
Su Hui pushed the firewood inside and said, "It's troublesome for Brother Yi to pack it himself, so it's better to leave it here. When it's done, you can just take it back."
Su Yuanzheng had already pushed the cart into the yard, then poked his head out and said:
"Oh~ Then I'll trouble Ayi for your help. Oh, I've been sweating today, I have to go take a shower quickly."
"Uncle Yuan, go and rest. I'll be here for you."
Su Miao took out some sweet potatoes from the kitchen and said, "Let's roast some sweet potatoes for dinner! Do you want some?"
Jiang Fengyi took the sweet potato and said, "Sure, it's perfect for a midnight snack."
Su Miao sat on the small stool and wanted to chat with them: "What TV series is Yu Ge watching? Why is he so obsessed with it?"
"It's The Legend of the Condor Heroes. I watched it before but it's not available anymore. Now it's being rerun, and I watch it every night."
"I've read the original novel, and it's true..."
Before Su Miao could finish her words, she heard her father calling her: "Miao Miao! I've boiled some hot water for you. Come and take a shower. You have to go to school tomorrow."
"But I still want to eat roasted sweet potatoes."
"Let Sister Hui and Brother Yi bake it for you, and you can eat it after you take a shower."
"……All right"
Su Miao stood up and obediently went into the yard. Why did she feel like her father had called her in on purpose?
After taking a shower, Su Miao came out with half-dry hair to eat roasted sweet potatoes, and also took a small jar of soft ginger candy from his pocket as a snack.
At half past ten, the rice dumplings were finally ready. Jiang Fengyi helped to clean them up before carrying a few big rice dumplings back home.
"Ahui, are you going back to the workshop? It's so late, I'll give you a ride back."
"Okay, then Miaomiao, quickly close the gate and go back to sleep."
"I know. You guys go ahead. I'll close the door and go back."
Su Miao watched them enter the alley. When she was about to go back, a tricycle stopped at the gate of the next yard.
A young couple who lived in the yard next door got out of the car holding their four-year-old daughter.
The man paid one dollar to the uncle on the tricycle and was waiting for the change when the woman stood by holding her daughter.
The little girl lay listlessly on her mother's shoulder. When she saw the soft ginger candy in Su Miao's hand, her eyes lit up and she couldn't take her eyes off it.
But she was very well-behaved and didn't say anything. She just sucked her index finger and looked at the sugar jar in her hand intently.
Su Miao has lived here for several years and is familiar with all the neighbors. This little girl rarely comes out to play with other children. Although they know each other, they rarely talk.
She looked at the candy jar in her hand, which was still half full, and walked over and said, "Sister, do you want some candy?"
The little daughter said in a soft voice: "Yaya wants to eat candy."
"Auntie Fang, this is ginger candy, can I have some?"
Su Miao turned around and asked Yaya's mother. After all, it is better to ask the parents before giving food to the children.
Aunt Fang, a childcare worker, replied softly, "You can eat some."
Su Miao handed the can to Yaya and said, "Give these candies to you, Yaya. Remember to brush your teeth after eating them."
"Yaya, just one is enough. You can't eat so many."
"It's okay, you can eat it over a few days."
"Thank you so much, Yaya. Go and say thank you to Sister Miaomiao."
Yaya held the candy jar and smiled, showing her white teeth: "Thank you, Sister Miaomiao! I love it!"
At this time, Yaya's father also paid the taxi fare, turned around and said a few more words to Su Miao, and the family of three went home.
Aunt Wu, who lived in the same courtyard with them, looked at their backs, sighed with regret, and said:
"What a lovely child! What a pity that he always has to go to the hospital."
Su Miao squatted beside her curiously and asked, "Aunt, Uncle Lu seemed to be holding a bag of medicine in his hand just now. Is Yaya sick?"
"Yes, she's been sick since she was born. She's had to go to the hospital every now and then. Can't you see she's already four years old and is a head shorter than her peers?"
Su Miao had no idea about the height of the children, but now that she thought about it, there were several children in the alley called Sister Yaya who were taller than her and had much rosier complexions.
"Aunt, is it convenient for me to ask what disease Yaya has?"
"It's not really inconvenient. Many old neighbors already know about it. It's called something like thalassemia!
It's in the blood, and it's very difficult to treat! Others with anemia take medicine and eat some meat, and it gets better slowly, but this won't work. The more you take, the worse it gets!
Ah! It turned out to be thalassemia, which is indeed a rather troublesome disease.
Thalassemia, also known as thalassemia, is a hereditary hemolytic anemia and one of the most common single gene diseases.
This disease is more common in Mediterranean countries, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asian countries, and our southwest region.
The Guangxi region is one of the high-incidence areas of the disease. It is rumored that the thalassemia gene carrier rate has reached 20%, which means that one in every five people in the Guangxi region carries the thalassemia gene.
Carrying the gene does not necessarily mean that you are a patient. Mild thalassemia is generally asymptomatic or causes mild anemia, which basically does not affect your life.
Intermediate thalassemia usually begins to appear around 1 to 3 years old, with symptoms of anemia such as pale complexion and fatigue. Splenomegaly and jaundice may also occur. Intervention treatment is more effective.
Thalassemia major will begin to show obvious symptoms around 3 to 12 months and gradually worsen with age.
Many people do not have obvious symptoms and the disease can only be discovered during examinations. Most people of the older generation do not even know that it exists, which makes the disease difficult to control.
Couples who carry the same type of thalassemia gene have a relatively high probability of giving birth to a baby with severe thalassemia. However, there are very few premarital and prenatal examinations nowadays, and the baby is often diagnosed at the same time when both the couple are examined and the diagnosis is discovered.
At this time, heavy babies will suffer. Treatment is long-term. Those who have the conditions can go to the hospital again and again, but those who don’t have the conditions...
As the district's thalassemia prevention and treatment center, Guilin Medical University has been committed to the prevention and treatment of thalassemia since the 1950s and has carried out large-scale population prevention and treatment.
Su Miao sighed. The prevention and treatment of such genetic diseases is a long and arduous task. In 1997, when she came back, people did have more knowledge about the disease than now, but there were still many babies born with severe cases.
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