"I'd rather follow grandma than your worrying mother." Zhao Xingmei squatted down and looked at her granddaughter who had lost twice as much weight in just one month. She felt so distressed. "Look, it's only been a few days and the little flesh I just raised for you is gone again."
As she spoke, she raised her hand and touched the child's face. It was not a big deal, but it gave her a fright.
"Oh, Miaomiao, you have a fever! Why are you so hot?"
Jiang Miao leaned his head on Zhao Xingmei's shoulder and said, "Grandma, I feel uncomfortable and can't open my eyes."
"It would be strange if you weren't feeling uncomfortable with such a high fever. My Miaomiao, your damn parents, how did they raise a child like that?" Zhao Xingmei cursed while picking up Jiang Miao and putting her in the bed.
She took off the child's shoes and socks and covered him with a blanket: "Lie down for a while. Grandma will get you some antipyretic medicine. You will feel much better after taking it."
"Grandma, don't go. I won't let you go." Jiang Miao grabbed her wrist with his hot little hands and looked at her with tears in his eyes.
Zhao Xingmei was so distressed that she almost cried: "Grandma won't leave. She has medicine at home. I'll go get it for you. We'll feel better after taking it."
Jiang Miao then obediently let go of Zhao Xingmei's hand and slowly closed his eyes.
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Soon, Zhao Xingmei came back, picked up Jiang Miao, fed her an antipyretic and a cold medicine, and then kept feeding Jiang Miao water.
Soon, Jiang Miao began to sweat and her spirit gradually returned. She buried her head in Zhao Xingmei's arms without saying a word.
"Miao Miao, tell grandma, are you feeling better?"
Jiang Miao nodded.
"As long as you feel comfortable. Then let me ask you again, are you happy these days with your parents at your grandma's house?"
It would have been better if Zhao Xingmei hadn't asked this question. As soon as she asked, Jiang Miao burst into tears.
No matter how Zhao Xingmei tried to comfort her, she couldn't stop crying.
It’s obvious that the child has suffered a great injustice, otherwise, why would he cry like this?
Zhao Xingmei couldn't help shedding tears. She wiped her own tears while wiping Jiang Miao's tears: "Miao Miao, don't cry, don't cry! If you don't want to talk, grandma won't ask. We won't ask."
After both of them stopped crying, Jiang Miao said, "My mother always asks me if she can give me a brother this time!"
"And how did you answer that?"
"I just shook my head." Jiang Miao sobbed, "I don't know if she can give birth to a brother. But she always asks me, and when I say I don't know, she gets angry at me! She also asks me if she can give birth to a brother!"
Zhao Xingmei was furious as she listened: Who on earth is this Wang Sha? Is her heart made of stone?
She doesn’t even know whether she can give birth to a boy, so why force a child to answer this question!
"Then just tell her that you can have a baby. Then she won't ask you about it, right?"
"I didn't say that." Jiang Miao bit her lip and said aggrievedly, "I told her that she couldn't give birth to a brother! Then, my mother got angry and punished me by not allowing me to eat! Then, she ignored me..."
After saying this, Jiang Miao burst into tears again, almost fainting from crying: "Grandma, I heard my grandma tell mom, she said that after my mom gave birth to my brother, she asked mom to bring me up with her. I don't want to follow grandma, I don't want to follow my uncle! I don't want mom to give birth to a brother!"
"What a sin! What a sin!"
Is this Wang Sha still a human being?
Are you still qualified to be a parent?
Zhao Xingmei felt as if her heart had been stabbed twice. She pounded her chest in pain and said, "My poor Miaomiao... Your mother is such a worthless person!"
Miaomiao cried, and Zhao Xingmei cried too. The old and the young cried for a long time before they stopped.
evening.
When Ye Li came back from get off work, she passed by the yard and saw Aunt Liang washing vegetables in the yard. She gave Aunt Liang a bag of wedding candy that she had brought with her.
"Auntie Liang is giving you a bag of wedding candy. Someone in our unit is getting married and they gave out two bags of wedding candy. I'm leaving one bag for you and I'm taking one bag for myself."
Aunt Liang was so happy to see Ye Li giving her something again that she stood up quickly, wiped her hands full of water on her body and took the bag of candy: "Thank you, Xiao Ye! You always remember me for all the good things I have done. I really don't know how to thank you."
"Why are you being so polite? We are all from the same courtyard, shouldn't we take care of each other? Just like last time, when I asked you to borrow my bicycle in the middle of the night, you lent it to us without saying a word."
"That's right. You treat me well, so how can I not treat you well? Put yourself in my shoes!"
"You're right. Aunt Liang, you're busy. I'm going back now."
"Wait a minute." Aunt Liang hurriedly grabbed Ye Li, "Let me tell you something first. Wang Sha came today, and she left Miaomiao to your mother. As a result, I heard your mother and Miaomiao crying in the room for a while this morning, crying and crying..."
"What's going on?" Ye Li asked hurriedly.
"I don't know. I don't dare to ask. I see your mother looks unhappy and doesn't speak to anyone. I wonder if something is wrong. You said we are old neighbors, so you are worried about her. There are some things she may not tell us, but she will definitely tell you as her daughter-in-law."
"Then I'll go take a look."
"Yes, go and have a look, please make sure nothing happens."
Ye Li didn't even bother to go back to his own room, and went straight to his mother-in-law's room. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Jiang Miao lying on the head of the bed and vomiting non-stop.
Zhao Xingmei caught it in a basin and her face turned pale with fright.
"Mom!" Ye Li saw that something was wrong and quickly threw her bag aside. "Miao Miao, what happened? Why is she vomiting so violently? Look, this vomiting is not normal, this is jet-like vomiting."
Zhao Xingmei had been feeling anxious the whole day, but when she saw Ye Li coming back, she finally felt relieved: "Wang Sha left Miaomiao to me and she left. Miaomiao kept complaining that she was not feeling well. She had no energy at all, had a high fever, couldn't eat, and kept vomiting. She also complained about a headache... I gave her cold and fever-reducing medicine, and she would talk to me when she felt better. When she felt worse, she would just sleep without opening her eyes..."
Ye Li's heart skipped a beat, and a bad premonition came to his mind: "How many days has this been going on?"
“I don’t know.”
"Mom, I think Miaomiao has encephalitis! If it is encephalitis, this situation is very dangerous. We have to take her to the hospital immediately."
When Zhao Xingmei heard that it was encephalitis, she suddenly panicked.
A few years ago, I heard that there was a case where encephalitis was treated as a cold, which delayed the child's treatment and led to the child's death at a young age.
She was also worried about Jiang Miao's situation: "Li Li, let's go to the hospital, let's go to the hospital... I... I'll go get the money and find... find a car... Yes, find a car. It's too late to get on the bus after get off work now, so it's faster to ride a bike..."
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