After Qiao An'an went upstairs, she didn't come down.
The people downstairs, unaware of what was happening upstairs, all came up.
Chi Xiaoyu touched Ya Ya's head and quickly took a thermometer from the first-aid kit and put it under Ya Ya's armpit.
Gu Bei went downstairs and fetched some cool well water. He then used the water to wet a towel and placed it on Ya Ya's forehead to cool her down.
Five minutes later, Chi Xiaoyu took out the thermometer and glanced at it. Her face immediately became tense: "40 degrees Celsius, that's too high. It would be troublesome if she got cramps. She has to take medicine to bring down the fever."
Ya Ya rarely got sick before, so we only kept some cough medicine and cold medicine at home.
The fever reducers and anti-inflammatory drugs at home were brought by Chi Xiaoyu when she came, but Chi Xiaoyu is a 15-year-old girl, and her father prepared adult medications for her. Chi Xiaoyu opened the fever reducers and anti-inflammatory drugs.
The window of the second bedroom was completely boarded up, so Chi Xiaoyu could only carefully read the instruction manual by the light of a flashlight she found in the wooden house.
Qiao An'an waved her hand at Chi Xiaoyu: "Don't look, Ya Ya can't eat it."
"How can we not cool down when the temperature is this high?"
Grandpa Gu brought up the bucket of ginseng and wolfberry wine from downstairs. "Use this to wipe Yaya's body. The wine dissipates heat very quickly, faster than a wet towel."
There is some scientific basis to the claim that alcohol can lower body temperature.
After diluting the ginseng and wolfberry wine in water, Qiao An'an used a towel to wipe Ya Ya's face, hands, and armpits.
It seemed like the temperature dropped a bit after I wiped it.
Chi Xiaoyu took Ya Ya's temperature again; it was 39 degrees Celsius.
Seeing that the temperature had dropped, Qiao An'an felt a little more at ease. She knew that everyone was tired and hungry at this time, so she invited everyone to go downstairs to eat first, while she watched over Ya Ya from upstairs.
The two little ones didn't want to go down.
Grandpa Gu Bei called everyone downstairs for dinner: "Even if you stay here around Ya Ya, it might not cool down."
Gu Bei went downstairs and didn't eat first. Instead, he served Qiao An'an a bowl of Northeastern corn porridge and two leek dumplings. He also thoughtfully added a small amount of pickled vegetables on top of the porridge.
Qiao An'an could tell that Gu Bei was filled with guilt and had already assumed that Ya Ya's fever was his fault.
Not wanting Gu Bei to feel guilty, Qiao An'an took the food Gu Bei brought over and waved to him, saying, "Go down and eat, or the food will get cold."
Gu Bei twisted his fingers, paused for two seconds, then turned to leave. After taking a couple of steps, he stopped again, turned back, and asked Qiao An'an anxiously, "Aunt An'an, will Ya Ya be alright?"
Qiao An'an smiled at Gu Bei: "Ya Ya is fine, go eat."
Hearing Qiao An'an say that, Gu Bei finally felt relieved and turned to go downstairs to eat.
Grandpa Gu Bei's chive boxes smell delicious.
But Ya Ya had a fever, and Qiao An'an had no appetite at all. She gently patted Ya Ya: "Ya Ya, do you want to eat something?"
Ya Ya shook her dazed little head, indicating that she didn't want to eat.
Chi Xiaoyu came up after finishing her meal. Chi Xiaoyu had been sick before, and every time she was sick and in terrible pain and wanted to seek comfort from her mother, her mother would push her aside forcefully and then curse her to die, saying that if it weren't for giving birth to such a worthless girl, she wouldn't have gotten a divorce.
At that time, she always thought that her parents divorced because of her.
She thought it was all her fault.
She hated herself for being a girl and why she couldn't be a boy. She studied hard in school, piano, and archery only because she thought that every time she received an award, her mother would proudly take her to show her father. Her father always neglected his stupid son born to his mother because of her excellence.
It was only in that instant that she could feel her mother's love.
She thought that was motherly love.
Until one day she accidentally clicked into Qiao An'an's live stream. Qiao An'an was also divorced and raising a child, but she didn't dislike Ya Ya being a girl at all.
Chi Xiaoyu silently sat down next to Qiao An'an and said to her, "How can you take care of Ya Ya if you don't eat?"
Seeing this, Qiao An'an reluctantly drank the porridge.
Now that the weather is cold, the chive boxes won't spoil even if left for a day or two. She called to Gu Bei, who had just finished eating and was coming upstairs, "Help Auntie put the chive boxes in the cupboard so we can eat them later."
Gu Bei took the chive dumplings and the bowl of porridge that Qiao An'an had finished eating, and went downstairs.
Qiao An'an then placed her hand on Ya Ya's forehead again.
This was the 999th time she had checked Ya Ya's temperature. After she finished, she said to Chi Xiaoyu, "Why do I feel that Ya Ya's forehead temperature is higher again?"
Chi Xiaoyu quickly took out a thermometer to test Ya Ya's temperature.
41 degrees.
When Qiao An'an saw the temperature on the thermometer, she was horrified. She wanted to continue using the wine to cool Ya Ya down, but Grandpa Gu Bei stopped her, saying, "Children's skin is delicate. This wine can't be used repeatedly. Ya Ya can't handle it."
The only way to cool it down is with water.
However, even after Qiao An'an wiped Ya Ya with water several times, her temperature did not drop; in fact, it seemed to be rising.
It's already 41 degrees Celsius; any more and the person will die.
Desperate to find a cure, Qiao An'an decided to try giving Ya Ya adult fever reducers.
Grandpa Gu Bei stopped her again: "Ya Ya is only three years old. She can't take adult medicine. You'll kill her if you do this!"
Mothers would rather be sick themselves than have their children sick.
Qiao An'an said aggrievedly, "But Ya Ya will die if she keeps burning up like this."
Grandpa Gu Bei pondered for a moment and said, "I remember when Chen Zhou threw all sorts of seeds into our little yard, he also threw in a walkie-talkie. Why don't we use the walkie-talkie to ask them if they have any fever reducers?"
Qiao An'an originally had no objection to Chen Zhou.
However, Shen Zhou took in her ex-husband's family.
From that moment on, Qiao An'an decided to never have anything to do with Shen Zhou's people again.
But now that her daughter's life was at stake, she couldn't care less about anything else. She took out the walkie-talkie from the drawer, turned it on, and said, "Hello, hello, is anyone there? This is Qiao An'an from the courtyard across the street. Please answer if you receive this..."
At this moment, Chen Zhou is patrolling on the rooftop.
A voice suddenly came from the walkie-talkie, startling him. Who would use a walkie-talkie to talk to him? But when he heard it was someone from the opposite courtyard, his tense nerves immediately relaxed: "This is Chen Zhou from the opposite community. I received your message. May I ask what you need?"
They were separated by a road.
Through these past few months of getting to know each other, Qiao An'an had come to realize that Shen Zhou was a kind and helpful person. When she heard that the person who replied to her message was Shen Zhou, Qiao An'an didn't keep her in suspense any longer and said directly, "My daughter has a fever. I wanted to ask if you have any fever reducers. If you do, could you give us some? I can exchange some of my supplies for them."
Shen Zhou quickly replied: "When we saw that Wu Huifang's child was less than a year old, we took a lot of children's medicine from the warehouse supermarket. I can give it to you directly without you having to exchange it for supplies, but the problem is how do we get the medicine to you?"
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