"Zhang Jiao, is Zhang Jiao here?" Someone called out from the gate of courtyard number 18.
Zhang Jiao was making breakfast in the kitchen when she heard someone calling her, so she came out of the kitchen.
Who shouted "놖"?
The young man standing at the door said, "Your whole family was admitted to the hospital last night and they're still being treated. You should take some money and go to the hospital right away."
Zhang Jiao was stunned. "Why...why are they in the hospital getting emergency treatment?"
The young man said, "How would I know? Comrade from the telephone station sent me to relay the message."
"You'd better hurry, they say the situation is quite urgent." With that, the young man turned and left.
Zhang Jiao went into the kitchen, turned off the gas stove, and took off her apron before entering the bedroom.
As Lin Guodong was getting dressed after getting out of bed, he saw her come in and asked, "Who called you from outside?"
Zhang Jiao said, "Someone came and told me that my whole family was in the hospital and they were being treated. They told me to take money to the hospital immediately."
As she spoke, she opened the wardrobe and began searching for the cash hidden inside.
Lin Guodong saw her take out a wad of money from the wardrobe, frowned, and snatched it from her.
Zhang Jiao was taken aback and looked at Lin Guodong, saying, "What are you doing? Dad, Mom, and Brother are all in the hospital right now, they need money for treatment and to save their lives!"
Lin Guodong said, "Your parents and brother aren't short of money, why are they using our family's money to treat her illness and save her life?"
Zhang Jiao frowned as she looked at Lin Guodong. Her family was in such a dangerous situation, yet he was still thinking about money.
“They’re all in the hospital getting emergency treatment right now, how are we going to get the money? We’ll pay for it first, and they can pay us back once they’re better.”
Lin Guodong: "The last time your mother fell and was taken to the hospital, the hospital called your factory and asked you to pay the medical bills. You said you would help pay for them first. Did they give you the money they paid?"
Zhang Jiao: "놖..."
Her mother indeed didn't give her the money, and never mentioned it again afterward.
She didn't dare to ask for it, afraid that if she did, people would say she was heartless, that she had to ask her own mother to pay back the money for her medical expenses.
“You can go to the hospital yourself. We have money, you can’t touch it,” Lin Guodong said firmly.
He would never be the scapegoat again. His mother-in-law took so much money from them, yet treated Junjun so badly. She even ran away secretly after knowing Junjun was missing. He wouldn't care about such a person.
“Lin Guodong, those are my parents and brothers, and also Junjun’s maternal grandparents!” Zhang Jiao said in a low voice.
Lin Guodong: "Jun Jun is also your mother's own grandson, but how does she treat Jun Jun?"
"I'll say it again, you need to go to the hospital, but you can't use the money from home."
Zhang Jiao was furious. "The family's money isn't just yours; half of it is, and your salary is in it too. Why can't you take it?"
"Fine," Lin Guodong said with a sneer. "If that's how you put it, then let's separate the money and not put it together. You can do whatever you want with your salary, but don't ask me for a single penny after you're done."
“My salary is 38, yours is 18. I can save 10 more than you every month. We will split the money at home and in the savings account 40/60, with me getting 60% and you getting 40%. From now on, we will each manage our own money.”
Zhang Jiao: "..."
If husband and wife make such clear distinctions, what kind of couple are they?
"Lin Guodong, do you really have to settle things so clearly with me at this time?"
Lin Guodong said, "I should have settled this clearly with you long ago."
Zhang Jiao nodded disappointedly and said, "Okay, then let's split it!"
Seeing this, Lin Guodong nodded in disappointment and said, "Okay, now let's make it clear."
There was two yuan in the savings account. He and Zhang Jiao split it 40/60, with him getting one yuan and Zhang Jiao getting eight hundred.
Zhang Jiao had 500 yuan in cash, and she said that more than 300 yuan of it was her betrothal gift, which belonged to her.
There is 180 yuan left in cash, divided into four and six parts. Lin Guodong has 108 yuan, and Zhang Jiao has 70 yuan.
Lin Guodong also gave Zhang Jiao his 108 yuan, saying that he would take the passbook to withdraw the money and then give her the remaining 690 yuan.
Zhang Jiao took the money and rushed to the hospital.
All eight members of the Zhang family are in very bad condition and are still in the emergency room.
It was a neighbor who lived in the same courtyard and was staying at the hospital. When the neighbor saw Zhang Jiao arrive, he asked her for fifty yuan to cover her medical expenses and then went straight home.
The doctor also issued a new payment slip, urging Zhang Jiao to pay the fee as soon as possible.
Zhang Jiao hurriedly took the payment slip to the payment window to pay the fee.
"How much do you want?" Zhang Jiao asked, looking at the toll collector at the window.
The cashier said, "It's three hundred and ten yuan. Doctors are now prescribing life-saving imported drugs, so the cost will be a bit higher."
Zhang Jiao counted with trembling hands, took out her wallet from her bag, and counted out three hundred and ten yuan.
This isn't just a little high; it's way too high.
After paying the fee, Zhang Jiao returned to the entrance of the emergency room. The doctor looked at the payment slip and immediately gave her the medicine.
Zhang Jiao sat at the door of the emergency room, unable to understand why all her family members had ended up in the hospital.
The doctor came out after a while.
Zhang Jiao quickly stood up and asked, "Doctor, how are Mom and Dad, and my brother and sister-in-law?"
The doctor frowned and said, "His vital signs are stable now, but his liver and kidneys have suffered severe damage, and this damage is irreversible. He may develop liver and kidney failure in the future and will no longer be able to do heavy work."
"However, the two children's condition is slightly milder because they ate something, and with proper treatment they should be able to recover."
Zhang Jiao was completely confused. "What exactly did your family eat?"
They ate like this, and it knocked out the whole family.
If the liver and kidneys are damaged, the person won't be able to do heavy work anymore. Won't that make them useless?
The doctor said, "They said that the food poisoning was caused by eating unsold moldy noodles and spoiled meat sauce from the store."
"Many elderly people are quite frugal and think that moldy and spoiled food is still food and that there won't be any problems eating it. In fact, the toxins in these moldy and spoiled foods are very strong. Our hospital once admitted a patient who died from food poisoning."
Zhang Jiao was unaware that her parents had opened a shop. She thought they had been poisoned by food at someone else's shop and was even planning to seek compensation from the shop owner.
The Zhang family members were wheeled out of the emergency room and transferred to a ward, where all eight of them lay neatly together.
Zhang Jiao stood in the ward, looking at the room full of patients, feeling a mix of emotions.
The two children, because of their sensitive taste buds, found the noodles unpalatable and only ate a few bites before stopping. Therefore, their poisoning was the mildest, and they were the first to regain consciousness.
After they woke up, Zhang Jiao learned from them that the noodle shop was their family's own business, and the noodles and meat sauce they ate were leftovers from their family's noodle shop that had gone moldy and spoiled!
When Zhang's wife and Zhang's wife woke up, they scolded their mother-in-law, calling her a jinx. They said that their whole family was poisoned because she couldn't bear to part with the moldy and spoiled noodles and meat sauce and insisted on taking them home to cook for her family, which led to the poisoning of the whole family.
After Zhang Qiqiang and Zhang Qiqiang woke up, they also complained about Zhang's mother.
Because of her age and the fact that she ate the most, Zhang's mother was the most severely poisoned and extremely weak. She silently shed tears while enduring the pain in her body.
When Zhang Jiao learned the reason, she didn't know how to talk to her mother. Looking at the family members who needed to take care of her in the ward, she felt a headache coming on.
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