Chapter 63 How can it burn faster than firewood?
"What are you doing? How is Xiaoling?"
When Zhou Jie came back from work, she saw Bai Wei sitting listlessly at the entrance of the educated youth center. They had also heard the news from the fields that the young girl and the old lady of the Ye family had been taken to the county.
"Xiao Jie, please help me, please help me save Xiao Ling, she's in trouble!"
Bai Wei has no relatives here, only friends at the educated youth site who keep her warm.
"Tell me slowly, what happened to your daughter?" Another educated youth also put down his textbook, came over and sat down and asked with concern.
Bai Wei folded her arms and said in a panic, "Xiaoling has had a massive brain hemorrhage and hasn't woken up yet. The doctor said the follow-up treatment will cost a lot of money. What should I do? I shouldn't have trusted the Ye family. I shouldn't have left the child with the Ye family. I was wrong, I was wrong!"
Zhou Jie looked at Bai Wei with heartache. She vaguely felt that Bai Wei would regret leaving Ye Ling here sooner or later, but she didn't expect this would be the result.
He found a clean cloth, wrung out some water, and wiped her face with warm water, saying, "Okay, it's already happened. You have to be strong and hold on. The Ye family is unreliable, and the child is still waiting for your care. You know I'm not well off, but I have saved twenty yuan. Wait for me to get it for you."
Zhou Jie got up and went back to the house to find money. The other educated youth at the educated youth site also sympathized with Bai Wei's situation. They contributed two yuan or five yuan to give her money, and with Zhou Jie's twenty yuan, they raised a total of forty-two yuan.
Bai Wei held the money in her hand and for the first time felt how heavy money was. She remembered that when she was a child, her uncle took her abroad to buy clothes, and a few pieces of clothing would cost thousands of yuan.
She doesn't want clothes now, she just wants money to save her daughter's life.
Ye Sanxing hurried to his sister Ye Sihua's house.
He usually doesn't come to see my sister. My sister's mother-in-law thinks that the Ye family is poor and they are just here to extort money. Every time someone from the Ye family comes, they give Ye Sihua a cold look. After a few times, the Ye family doesn't want to cause trouble for Ye Sihua, so they stop coming to see Ye Sihua.
However, Ye Sihua's mother-in-law did not wrongly accuse her. Ye Sihua liked to transport things to her parents' home, from a few dollars to a few grains of rice. She would transport them whenever she had time. Her mother-in-law was so angry that she cursed Ye Sihua on the street all day long, saying that she was the reincarnation of a rat spirit. But Ye Sihua still did her own thing. You curse me, and I transport my things.
Ye Sihua was in the kitchen taking the soybeans distributed by her husband Yang Guang from the factory.
While pouring the food into the small cloth bag she made, she kept her eyes on the kitchen door, on guard against her mother-in-law.
His hands kept moving, and the small cloth bag seemed to have eyes as it caught the soybeans that poured out of the sack, without dropping a single grain. It was obvious that he was an old hand, and in a few seconds the small cloth bag was full.
Ye Sihua tied the sack again, and the angle and length of the knot were the same as before.
There is no way. The devil is one foot high and the road is ten feet high. Her mother-in-law's cunning eyes have been trained by Ye Sihua over the years and can see anything wrong. She has to be extra careful.
Putting the small cloth bag in her arms, she tiptoed back into the house and closed the door. Ye Sihua took the small cloth bag out of her arms with satisfaction and weighed it with her hand.
"That's right, it's enough for Mom and Dad to have two meals. I'll send it back to Mom and Dad tomorrow."
Ye Sihua hummed a little tune and hid the things in Yang Guang's pipe. Just as she hid it, she heard someone banging on the door.
"Fourth sister! Are you home? I'm the third one!"
Hearing her third brother coming, Ye Sihua hurried to open the door, wondering if something had happened at home. Her family usually didn't have visitors.
"Third brother, why are you here? What happened to my parents?" Ye Sihua hurriedly asked his parents at home.
Ye Sanxing gestured for her to lower her voice. "Don't shout yet. Is your mother-in-law home?"
Ye Sanxing took a look inside. If his fourth sister's mother-in-law knew about this, he probably wouldn't be able to borrow the money.
"Why do you care about her? Tell me what happened to our parents!" When Ye Sihua saw her brother like this, she knew that something big must have happened.
Ye Sanxing didn't bother to exchange pleasantries and went straight to the point, "Hey, Xiaoling, I don't know who hit her head and she's bleeding a lot. She's been rescued and is still unconscious in the ICU. Our mother fainted when she saw her. After the rescue, the doctor said it wasn't a big deal, but the medical bills alone are 120 yuan. I'm asking you to borrow some money. Do you have any spare money?"
Ye Sanxing briefly told his sister about the situation.
"What! Xiaoling's head was split open, and our mother was rescued! My mother!" Ye Sihua couldn't help but raise her voice, and as expected, she brought out her mother-in-law.
"Oh, who am I thinking? Isn't this the Ye family in the rat nest?"
When Old Lady Yang saw her third brother-in-law coming, she thought that something bad must be happening. It was a pity that her son worked so hard to earn some money, but it was all taken away by Ye Sihua to subsidize her family. What a spendthrift woman!
"Third brother, wait for me. I'll go back to the house to get my things and then we'll leave."
Ye Sihua didn't care whether her mother-in-law was angry or not. Her mind was now filled with the thought that her mother was in critical condition in the emergency room. No wonder her right eyelid kept twitching today. Something really happened!
Ye Sihua went into the house and rummaged around for the private money she had hidden. She counted it and found a total of eighteen yuan. After thinking for a while, she went to the drawer of her son's room and took out two yuan. She tied it with a cloth rope, put it in her inner pocket, and went out to look for her third brother.
When Old Lady Yang saw her like this, she knew that she was going to give money to her parents' family again. She just heard Old Third Ye say that both the old and the young were relying on the hospital for their expenses. How could their Yang family have so much money to give to the Ye family!
Old Lady Yang blocked the door tightly with a rolling pin.
"Ye Sihua! If you dare to use the Yang family's money to treat the Ye family's illness today, I will let Yang Guang divorce you!"
My mother is lying in a coma in the hospital. Ye Sihua was so anxious that she was furious. This old woman dared to block her way. Even if the king of heaven came, he couldn't stop her today!
Lift your arms, get away from the rolling pin, and slide out the door like a fish
"Divorce if you want! Divorce tomorrow. We've already had two divorces in the Ye family, so one more isn't enough! It's perfect for a fun time. Get out of the way. A good dog doesn't get in the way!"
Watching Ye Sihua walking away with Ye Sanxing at the speed of wind, Old Lady Yang covered her chest and felt that she also needed emergency treatment.
"What a sin! Ye Sihua is really not afraid of divorce. Why did I marry this woman to my son?"
Who in this area is as powerful as the Ye family? People from the Ye family are getting divorced in droves, one after another, and they have lost all their dignity. Why did she marry her son to a girl from a poor family?
When Ye Sihua and Ye Sanxing rushed to the hospital, almost all the Ye family members were there and were counting money together.
"Eighteen, thirteen, forty-two, eight, thirty-seven..."
Ye Xiuhong and Ye Yang put the scattered money on a chair, and they squatted on the ground to count it. The whole family gathered around, looking forward to watching Ye Xiuhong count the money.
Ye Sihua quickly joined in, "Here, there are still twenty."
He took out the change wrapped in a cloth string from his inner garment and put it into the pile of colorful change.
After Ye Xiuhong ordered, she handed it to Ye Yang to order again.
Ye Yang met everyone's expectant gazes and said, "The total is one hundred and sixty-eight. After paying the emergency fee, there will be forty-eight left."
The rescue fee was finally raised, but when everyone thought about Ye Ling's subsequent treatment costs, their mood still did not improve.
The Ye family’s assets are all here, and they have borrowed all they can from relatives and neighbors.
Ye Dajun, Ye Yang, and Ye Xiushan all overdrew two months' salary.
Jin Fenglian looked at the pile of dimes on the chair and said worriedly, "What should I do? The money in the hospital is not really money. It burns faster than the firewood in the stove."
Old Man Ye smoked his pipe, frowning as he stared at the door of the ICU. "Let's go back and borrow some more money. We'll also pack up the food at home and see how much we can sell it for on the black market."
He had just asked the doctor. If Ye Ling's condition did not improve, the cost of staying in the intensive care unit would be around eight yuan per day, and forty-eight yuan would only last for six days at most.
Bai Wei was already crying. Could her daughter wake up within six days?
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