Chapter 122 Chapter 122 Breaking off the relationship
"What did you say? Say it again!" Ning Shaoming's voice instantly rose octaves.
The people in the kitchen were so frightened that they all looked at him.
Ning Shaode's difficult voice came over the phone again: "Mom is in a coma and is being treated in the hospital now. Please come to the First People's Hospital of the city as soon as possible."
Ning Shaoming walked out quickly and asked, "What happened? Explain it to me. Didn't you take Mom to get checked out today? She was fine, just a little confused before. How did she suddenly fall into a coma?"
Ning Shaode hesitated and evaded the question, refusing to explain what was going on. Ning Shaoming therefore suspected that there was something fishy going on.
He couldn't get any information over the phone, so he hung up and ran to the next door to find Zhao Ruyue: "My second brother called and said that my mother is in a coma and needs emergency treatment. I have to go to the city. Can you help me take care of the bakery?"
"Okay, go ahead and remember to bring money with you."
"knew."
Ning Shaoming rushed to the hospital as soon as possible, but when he arrived, he found that his father, his elder sister, and his sister-in-law had arrived faster than him.
In other words, Ning Shaode notified them first and then notified himself. His behavior was obviously unreasonable.
When Ning Shaoming arrived, the ward was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. His mother was lying on the bed and he didn't know what her condition was.
Ning Shaoming asked in a low voice: "What's the situation now?"
Ning Shaode raised his head and looked at him without saying anything.
Ning Shaoming noticed that his clothes and hair were messy, and there were several scratches on his face. Seeing his elder sister glaring at him, he thought that the scratches were caused by his elder sister beating him in anger.
In the end, it was Ning Da who answered Ning Shaoming's question: "The doctor said that your mother might have had some Alzheimer's disease, and she might have had a stroke or cerebral infarction. In short, there were signs. If you had brought her to see a doctor earlier, she wouldn't have become like this.
They also said that she was probably too emotionally unstable before she was sent here, and that blood was rushing to her brain or something.
Anyway, it sounds quite serious. They also said that he was not sent here in time. Although he is out of danger now, he may suffer from hemiplegia and be unable to take care of himself in the future. He has the IQ of a few-year-old child and may not recognize people.
The doctor said a lot, but we were not well educated and couldn't understand or remember everything. We just knew it would be troublesome to take care of the patient and it was hard to say how long we would have to do it, so we had to be mentally prepared. ”
As Ning Da was talking, Ning Meiting couldn't help but wipe away her tears and choked up. She looked at Ning Shaode as if she wanted to tear him apart: "Mom was fine yesterday, but she became like this today. Second brother, tell me the truth, what did you do!"
They are the only ones who would make trouble!
We had clearly agreed that the third child would bring mom for a check-up, but they insisted on changing it. Now, something bad has happened!
According to the original plan of letting the third brother bring it, maybe nothing would go wrong.
"I didn't do anything, I, I just..." He looked up and glanced at Ning Shaoming again.
Ning Shaoming kept staring at him and noticed that there was deep jealousy and unwillingness in his eyes when he looked at him. This look made Ning Shaoming more confused.
"Don't hesitate. If you don't tell me, I'll call the police and let them investigate!" No matter how they investigate, it's obvious that Ning Shaode is involved. "If you are investigated by the police, you'll have to decide how to deal with yourself in the workplace in the future!"
Zhao Ruyue had mentioned this trick to Ning Shaoming before they came. She said it was most useful against people like Ning Shaode who were particularly concerned about their reputation.
Ning Shaoming tried it now and it really worked.
Ning Shaode's clam-like mouth was pried open in an instant, and he spoke fluently: "You are my son, and I am also my biological son. What's the point of calling the police? This is a family matter!"
Ning Shaoming was about to speak, but Ning Da got the upper hand: "It's useless for the third brother to call the police, but it will always work if I call the police!"
As soon as he said that, Ning Shaode's expression became visibly panicked, and there was a hint of fear in his eyes when he looked at Ning Da.
Ning Shaode rushed to Ning Shaoming and pointed at him, "You have a business, money, a house, and a son now. You will get a large amount of demolition compensation soon. Why are you still trying to make things difficult for me? You even want to ruin my job!"
Ning Shaoming slapped away his hand that was pointing at him: "It seems that it is indeed because of you that Mom has become what she is now."
"Not just me, but you too! Why did you secretly buy a house in the county town without telling anyone?" Ning Shaode couldn't control his emotions when he thought of the house that was being demolished:
"I just asked mom if she gave you money privately, but who knew she was so fragile? After asking a few questions, she said she felt dizzy and then she really fainted.
I have contacted the hospital as soon as possible to send her here. Even your second sister-in-law had a miscarriage and was treated in this hospital, but I didn't accompany her. I have been here with mom. What else do you want! Do you want my family to be destroyed and I to die? ”
"Because of this, your mother was harmed like this?" Ning Da had never been violent to a child in his life, but he and Huang Xiuhua had been husband and wife for decades after all, and now she had been harmed like this.
Ning Da couldn't help it, and rushed over to slap Ning Shaode: "How could your mother and I give birth to a thing like you! Do you have pig brains stuck in your ears? Don't you know how expensive the houses in the county are?
Your mother and I are two farmers. How can we get so much money to give to Shaoming? When the family was divided, having such a yard and so much money given to you was already pretty good in this town! You are such an ungrateful person and you are still not satisfied! ”
Ning Shaode ignored the pain on his face and continued to ask, "Then how did he get the money to buy it?"
Ning Shaoming sneered: "Don't I know how to make money? I started a business with someone once, but why can't I do it a second time? I'm not like you. Mom used to favor you the most and gave you a lot of money in private, right?
Otherwise, why are you so sure that Mom still has money after the division? ”
"I……"
"Don't say that you secretly confiscated the money mom gave you. In the past, we just turned a blind eye to it because we were brothers. Do you really think you are the only smart person in the world and everyone else is stupid?"
At this time, Ning Meiting also spoke up: "Mom told me that she came to the city with you to see a doctor today, and she also brought a thousand yuan with her. You have a fixed salary, it's hard to support the family, and you have to save money to buy a house in the county. She tried her best not to let you spend money. I just checked everything, and I didn't find the thousand yuan."
Ning Shaode asked in a bluffing manner: "You don't think I took it, do you? I wouldn't be so bad as to..."
Ning Meiting didn't want to see him pretending, so she interrupted his excuse directly: "Among the money, there are a few whole bills that my mother and I exchanged, and there are handprints of me and your brother-in-law on them. Our hands are greasy from cutting pork for others, and sometimes there is pig blood on our hands.
When you collect or check money, the oil or blood on your hands will be very obvious, and it will smell like pig. You can tell if it was you by searching. Third brother, hold him down! ”
Ning Shaoming immediately became his sister's thug. Without saying a word, he pinned Ning Shaode down in a few moves. By the time Ning Shaode reacted, he was completely unable to move.
Ning Meiting was his biological sister, and she didn't care about gender differences. She searched his room from top to bottom, inside and out, even the bag he was carrying.
As expected, I found her mother's cloth bag containing money, and I was so angry that I laughed.
This Ning Shaode was so arrogant that he didn't even try to hide it and took the cloth bag as well.
He didn't even bother to open the cloth bag and take out the money, so he mixed it with his own money to make it look nice.
"Didn't you say you didn't take it? Tell me, what is this? Don't say your mother gave it to you. Look at this thread. It's obvious that the person who took the cloth bag didn't know how to remove it from his clothes and just used brute force to tear it apart.
People who know the technique can just pick and pull the thread to completely remove the cloth bag, and will never tear the bag like this! ”
The culprit was caught red-handed, and Ning Shaode had no time to argue.
Ning Shaoming saw through his second brother: "No wonder my second sister-in-law came to my house again that night and told my wife that I didn't need to bring mom to the hospital for a checkup, and you should bring her instead.
It turns out that you two were planning to get something for nothing. You wanted Mom to pay for her own medical treatment, and then bring the receipts back and ask me to reimburse you for sharing the expenses. You don't have to spend a penny on your own, but you can happily get half of the money from me. What a good plan! ”
In fact, Ning Shaoming only guessed half right. According to Ning Shaode and Ye Jing's plan, they could not only get out half of the money, but also multiply it several times!
But plans cannot keep up with changes. The situation was urgent at the time, and both his mother and wife were in trouble. He was panicked, and it was a kind passerby who helped him call 120.
In order to rescue people as quickly as possible, 120 would of course dispatch the ambulance from the hospital closest to them, instead of going to the one Ning Shaode and Ye Jing wanted to go to.
Ning Da rubbed his forehead tiredly. He really didn't know how the second brother became like this. And the eldest brother...
He used to think that all his children were good: one was a farmer who inherited most of the family's land, one ran his own business, one had a stable job, and his daughter also married well.
Among his peers in the town, there were not many children more successful than his family, and he used to be very proud of it.
But now the eldest and second child make him deeply doubt that there is a big problem in the education of his and Huang Xiuhua's children.
But it's too late to realize it when the child is this old.
Moreover, the third child and the daughter are different from the eldest and second child. They are both doing well now and living a stable life.
Ning Da could only comfort himself that there are many different kinds of people.
He sighed and said to Ning Shaoming, "Third brother, use this money to pay your mother's medical expenses. If it's not enough, I still have some."
Ning Da was careful when he came and did not bring his own coffin book, only Huang Xiuhua's.
After all, Huang Xiuhua is in this condition now, and no one knows how much the medical treatment and medicine will cost in the future. His share will also be a guarantee for himself and Huang Xiuhua, so that they don't have to ask the child for money all the time.
Huang Xiuhua's share should be enough to pay for medical expenses.
Ning Shaoming refused to take the money. "No, Dad, we agreed when we separated our family that if you and Mom got sick, the three of us would share the expenses equally. Now we can't not follow what was written in the separation agreement. If we don't follow the agreement from the beginning, what's the use of the agreement in the future?"
Ninda: “What do you mean?”
"My eldest brother is not here, and my eldest sister-in-law has no money. This time, my second brother and I will pay for it. When Mom is discharged from the hospital, I will ask my eldest sister-in-law to help take care of her. It will be considered that my eldest brother's family paid for it. We will discuss how to arrange care in the future and how much nursing fees to pay after we return."
Ning Da thought about it and felt that what the third brother said made sense. Besides, since the eldest and second brothers were no longer reliable, he could only rely on the third brother for his retirement, so he might as well just listen to the third brother.
Ning Shaode was worried about his money and still wanted to make trouble.
Ning Da pushed him down directly: "If you dare not share the medical expenses, I will let you and your elder brother go to jail together! You did something wrong, and you think you can avoid responsibility, right?
Based on what you have done, you should pay for all the medical expenses!
It’s because the third brother still remembers that you two are brothers that he lets you go and shares the responsibility with you. What else can you not be satisfied with? ”
When Ning Shaoming heard the latter sentence, he turned his back and curled his lips. Who would want to be a brother with such a person in the future!
Ning Shaode didn't dare to say anything for a moment.
Under Ning Da's strong pressure, he paid half of the medical expenses and felt heartbroken.
He then had to pay his wife's medical bills, and his wife didn't give him a good look.
When Ning Shaode went to see Ye Jing, Ning Shaoming asked his sister: "Did you scratch those scratches on the second brother's face?"
Ning Shaoming felt that his sister did a good job of scratching Ning Laoer's face. For someone like him who cares so much about face, this really hit his sore spot.
Ning Meiting shook her head and said, "It wasn't me. It should have been the second son's wife who caught him. When I arrived, the second son's wife looked at him like an enemy. I suspect there was something behind his wife's miscarriage. It was probably the second son's fault."
Originally, Ye Jing was in the hospital, and as relatives, they should have gone to visit her, but now no one mentioned visiting her, as if they didn't exist.
In the evening, Zhao Ruyue hired Zheng Xiu's car to come to the city and brought her two children to visit their grandmother. Wang Haiyan and Ning Shichun also came.
Ning Shaoming glanced at the time and was about to stand up to go out to buy food when he received a call from Zhao Ruyue: "You haven't had dinner yet? I'll bring you dinner, so you don't have to buy it outside."
Ning Shaoming sat back down and told her which hospital, building, floor and ward he was in.
Zhao Ruyue asked again: "When mom's condition gets better, will you stay there to take care of her, or someone else?"
"We haven't discussed this yet, but I definitely won't be able to go back until my mother wakes up." Fortunately, the apprentices we hired before can already make most of the bread and cakes in the store.
It doesn't mean that we have to close the store and suspend business as soon as he is not around.
"Then I'll bring you some changes of clothes. Do you want to bring your elder sister and dad's clothes as well?"
Ning Shaoming turned to ask Ning Da and Ning Meiting.
Both of them said no, Ningda was embarrassed to ask his daughter-in-law to pack his underwear.
Ning Meiting was also worried that the three men in her family didn't know what to pack, and she couldn't ask her sister-in-law to tell them to get underwear for her.
Ning Meiting took the phone and said to Zhao Ruyue, "Can you take the child home tonight?"
Zhao Ruyue said: "Yes."
Ning Meiting: "Then I'll go back with the car. I'll pack my dad's and my things and come back tomorrow."
"Okay, I'll pack up Shaoming's things first."
When Zhao Ruyue and his group arrived at the hospital, they were holding a lot of things in their hands.
I brought two double-layer stainless steel thermos buckets and one single-layer stainless steel thermos bucket for soup, which contained pork ribs and lotus root soup.
The bottom layer of the double-layer stainless steel thermos bucket contains rice, the top layer contains vegetables, and the other layer contains braised chicken nuggets.
Once the lid of the thermos is unscrewed, it can be used as a bowl. The chopsticks are disposable chopsticks you get from a restaurant.
There is also a thermos for hot water.
In addition to dinner, I also brought some fruits and bread in case I got hungry.
Zhao Ruyue carried a bag on her back, which contained Ning Shaoming's spare clothes and two towels, one for wiping her mother-in-law when she was hospitalized, and the other for Ning Shaoming.
Even Ning Shiqiu and Ning Shixia were holding a washbasin in their hands.
Zhao Ruyue put down her things, poured a bowl of soup and handed it to Ning Da: "Dad, let's eat first."
Ning Da nodded and took a sip. This was the first sip of water he had drunk since arriving at the hospital.
Zhao Ruyue turned around and asked Ning Meiting to eat as well.
Ning Shaoming didn't need to be asked, he took a lid and put the rice in it and started eating.
After eating, Ning Shaoming and Zhao Ruyue went to wash the thermos together.
Ning Meiting thought that Ning Shaoming wanted to tell his wife what happened today, so she didn't rush to take a shower. She stayed in the ward with Ning Da and talked to Wang Haiyan and Ning Shichun.
While the two of them were holding the thermos, Ning Shaoming told Zhao Ruyue everything that had happened that day.
Zhao Ruyue didn't know what to say after hearing this. She really couldn't have imagined that the news of her family buying a house in the county town would be leaked like this.
After a long silence, he could only say: "Let's stay away from the second brother's family from now on, and don't visit them during the New Year or other holidays. Unless the old man passes away in the future, we will just pretend that we are not relatives."
"I think so too. Let's just pretend that I don't have this second brother." Ning Shaoming didn't want his father to be sad about this, so he didn't say it explicitly, but in his heart, his family had already severed ties with Ning Shaode.
Isn’t Ning Shaode jealous of the house his family bought in the county town?
When his mother is discharged from the hospital, he will buy two better houses in the county town to poke Ning Shaode in the heart and make him continue to be jealous!
Ning Shaoming felt that the thing his family needed to communicate with Ning Shaode and handle together in the future was the funeral of the old man.
But in fact, even if he is the only one in charge of this funeral, he can handle it well.
After all, holding a funeral in my hometown is different from that in the city. I have to find people to play music and hold a banquet. Whether it is a banquet in the village or various ceremonies, I need the help of neighbors and childhood friends in the town. Everyone helps each other.
Ning Shaode had very few friends in the town, and he probably couldn't even get enough people to carry his coffin.
He doesn't often interact with the neighbors in the town. Whenever there are funerals, weddings, or full-month banquets at other people's homes, he won't come back to help even if he's free. In the future, if someone relies on him for the funeral of an elderly person, not everyone in the town may be willing to come.
But things had already happened, so they didn't dwell on the past anymore. After discussing how to treat Ning Shaode and his wife in the future, they started to discuss what to do next.
Zhao Ruyue said, "Someone needs to stay with you at night. I see there is no place to sleep in the ward. How about I go buy a folding bed and put it in the ward?"
Ning Shaoming said: "Before my mother is discharged from the hospital, someone will have to stay here to watch her during the day. We have to go back and discuss with my father, my eldest sister, and my eldest sister-in-law how to arrange it."
Ning Shaode can no longer be relied upon, and someone also needs to take care of his wife.
After returning to the ward, Ning Shaoming discussed with others about taking turns to care for the patient during the day and at night.
Ning Da thought that his children all had businesses to run, so he had to take the lead in taking care of her: "When the old woman wakes up and the doctor says her condition is stable, you can go and do what you need to do. I will take care of her during the day, and someone can take over at night.
My wife and I farm some land, as well as the chickens, ducks and cows at home. For the time being, my eldest son's wife will temporarily help us take care of them. We'll see what happens in the future after my wife is discharged from the hospital. ”
"Okay, it's not difficult to manage those things." Wang Haiyan wanted to talk about the nursing fees.
If other people pay the caregiver fees, she can take care of the baby here alone.
But in the current situation, it is obviously not appropriate to say that. I guess we have to wait until my mother-in-law is discharged from the hospital before we can discuss it.
Wang Haiyan had no choice but to hold back and not say this: "Then the eldest sister, the third sister, and the third sister's wife and I will take turns coming tonight?"
Ning Shichun wanted to say that he could also take turns with them so that everyone could have an easier time.
But he didn't get the words out of his mouth because Wang Haiyan pulled him back and glared at him, making him swallow his words back.
Wang Haiyan really regretted letting this stupid son come. If their ancestors get sick, it is their generation as parents who will be responsible.
Other people’s kids don’t have to do this, so if her kids do it, won’t they be at a disadvantage?
Several adults agreed that once Huang Xiuhua's condition stabilized, Ning Da would take care of her during the day, and Ning Shaoming and the other three would take turns to come here for one day at night.
Ning Da decides his own meals: "I am not used to eating outside food, but it is not practical to have someone deliver every meal. I just eat breakfast and lunch in the hospital cafeteria. For dinner, whoever is the caregiver that night can bring me some food."
The care was settled.
The doctor said that if nothing unexpected happened, based on past experience, Huang Xiuhua would be discharged from the hospital in about half a month, which means that each of them would have to serve at most four nights. Compared with other patients' families in the same ward, they had it relatively easy.
Huang Xiuhua woke up at noon the next day. After waking up, just as the doctor said, she looked at them with strange eyes, as if she really didn't recognize them.
She was lying on the hospital bed, half of her body was paralyzed, and she spoke in slurred voices.
As he spoke, he couldn't help drooling from the corners of his mouth.
Her hands and feet were out of control, and she couldn't control her urination and defecation.
The doctor said that if I recover well, I might be able to stand up and walk slowly on my own.
If she doesn't recover well, she may have to stay in bed all the time. They need to pay attention to her and turn her over and massage her more often, otherwise her muscles will atrophy and she will develop bedsores.
Fortunately, Huang Xiuhua is not aggressive. Unlike other patients, she is stupid and cannot recognize her own family members and can run around everywhere.
When Zhao Ruyue was accompanying her child, she saw a patient in the next ward who defecated a large pile of shit on the bed. He then grabbed his own shit and wiped it all over the ward, and even used it to hit other people.
She was very thankful that the other patients in the same ward as her mother-in-law were not that crazy.
The families of other patients in that ward suffered a lot. The hospital wards were so crowded that they couldn't change wards even if they wanted to. In the end, the family of that patient could only tie him to the bed to prevent him from doing anything wrong.
Huang Xiuhua had been ill for a while and had lost a lot of weight. It was not too difficult to move her.
Among the caregivers, Ning Da and Ning Shaoming are men. Although Ning Da is old, he can still lift a thin woman, but he has to be careful not to sprain his waist.
Ning Shaoming is the strongest among them, so moving people is easier for him.
Zhao Ruyue learned repairmanship, and it was common for her to do some lifting and moving in her daily life. She had trained her hands to have considerable strength, not to mention Wang Haiyan who was good at farm work and Ning Meiting who had been slaughtering pigs and carrying pork all year round.
Seeing how easy it seemed for this family to take care of the patients, everyone in the same ward was envious.
They took good care of her and Huang Xiuhua recovered well.
In the first few days after being discharged from the hospital, although she still couldn't recognize who was who, spoke unclearly, drooled, and couldn't control one of her hands, she was able to stand up and walk a few steps.
But she had to hold on to a wall when walking, or have someone to support her. She could only take a few slow steps, walking with one foot, and each step made half a circle, so she couldn't walk very far.
During the hospitalization, Ning Shaode and Ye Jing came several times, but no one paid any attention to them.
Ning Da only informed them and asked them to come over to discuss how to take care of Huang Xiuhua in the future before she was discharged from the hospital, and then he left them alone.
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