Chapter 455: Queuing at Midnight 1
Feng Qingxue was furious when she saw Xiaoyan.
The girl, who was about seven or eight years old, had sparse, dry yellow hair and an obvious slap mark on her skinny face. The corner of her mouth was also broken and blood was faintly visible, but because she was too thin and had no flesh on her face, the slap mark did not swell up.
The extreme hunger and fright, coupled with the cold snap of late spring, finally made his frail body unable to bear it.
After taking Xiaoyan's temperature, which was 39 degrees, Feng Qingxue first fed her a fever-reducing pill, then took out alcohol from the medicine box to wipe her limbs, palms and soles, armpits, neck and chest.
More than half an hour passed, and the little girl was obviously much more comfortable, with her brows slightly relaxed.
Her body temperature did not drop so quickly. Feng Qingxue took her temperature again and asked Wang Cuilan to make a bowl of HiPP milk powder for her to drink. The little girl drank it in big gulps while seeming to be half awake. After drinking it, she looked at Feng Qingxue's gentle and beautiful face under the light with her half-open eyes. She could not help but smile and muttered, "It tastes so good! I must have seen fairies in the sky. I want to have this dream forever. I hope I won't wake up." She tilted her head, closed her eyes, and fell asleep.
"Hungry, scared, and cold!" Feng Qingxue wrapped the little girl in clothes with a cold face. She didn't want to look at Wang Erniu's hateful face, so she didn't even look at her. "You should be thankful that those slaps didn't break her eardrums and make her deaf! You are also a woman, and you are also a mother, how can you be so cruel?"
It is easy for adults to miss the target when they hit a child in the face in anger.
It has been common since ancient times for adults to hit children in the face and cause them to lose their hearing.
Wang Cuilan was woken up in the middle of the night and saw Xiaoyan's miserable state. She was also very angry, "Wang Erniu! The leaders always say that women hold up half the sky, and the Propaganda Department promotes gender equality every day. You have donkey hair in your ears, can't you hear or understand? If you abuse Xiaoyan again, fine, let Zheng Datou's family go to farm, and you all go back. I won't see anything!"
Zheng Datou is Wang Erniu’s husband. He originally had a rural household registration, but because he was tall and strong and had strength to work, he was selected when the coal mine went to the countryside to recruit workers. From then on, he became a coal miner, receiving a salary and eating commercial grain.
Although Wang Erniu and her sons Dahu and Xiaoyan live in the city with Zheng Datou, they do not have urban household registration.
Without a city household registration, there would be no food supply. If they returned home to farm, the three of them could participate in the year-end grain distribution. If they did not return and did not get work points, the production team would not be stupid.
The family of four, including Zheng Datou's parents in the countryside, all depended on Zheng Datou's salary to live. When Wang Erniu heard that Wang Cuilan wanted to send Zheng Datou back to the countryside, she immediately became anxious, "Director Wang, please don't, please don't send Datou away. If Datou loses this job, how will the three of us live?"
Wang Cuilan shook off the hand that was pulling at her sleeve. "If you don't want Datou to go back home to farm, then okay, you should treat Xiaoyan well from now on and treat the two siblings equally! Otherwise, I will put Zheng Datou on the layoff list. You have lived in the city for a few years. You know that various government agencies, coal mines and factories are discussing laying off some rural workers and letting them return to their hometowns to farm in order to reduce urban pressure and increase rural labor. Those who perform poorly and whose family members cause trouble will appear on this list."
(End of this chapter)