Wang Yue'e rushed into the house and shouted before she even saw anyone: "Is Yueyue having a fever again?"
A farmyard, a small two-story house with a cement floor and lights on in the main room.
When Wang Yue'e heard her daughter-in-law's voice, she felt like she had found her backbone. She rushed out holding the child, anxiously and fearfully saying, "I don't know. He was fine this afternoon. I took his temperature and he didn't have a fever today."
Her husband passed away early, so she lives with her second son, a taxi driver who happens to be working the night shift today. She usually cleans, cooks, and looks after the children at home. She'd be ashamed to live if she lost her child.
"Let me see." Wang Yue'e was also anxious when she saw her little daughter's pale face. She stretched out her arms to take the child from her grandmother's arms. When she touched her daughter's cold body, her heart sank. She quickly said, "No, we have to go to the hospital."
"Big Boss, call your dad and tell him to come back quickly. Mom, go pack your things. The fever-reducing patch the doctor prescribed last time and the thermometer are there. I'll measure Yueyue first. When did she become like this?"
Wang Yue'e ordered her eldest son, who had just entered the first grade of junior high school, to call his father on the landline immediately.
"It happened in the evening. I was cooking and Yueyue was playing outside as usual. After a while, she came to me and said she was cold. I saw it was getting dark, so I put a coat on her. Unexpectedly, the eldest daughter came back and asked why Yueyue was sleeping on the sofa. I saw her and I knew something was wrong." Grandma Wang packed her things in tears.
Wujia Village is located in a remote area, close to the mountains. Of course, it is brighter than Haishan, which is so remote that no one goes there. There are at least scattered villages in the surrounding area, but at night, there is no one on the road and there are few taxis coming. That's why Wang Yue'e said she would call her husband to come back and pick her up.
Twenty minutes later, Wang Yue'e's husband Wu Da came back.
The eldest son stayed at home while the family of three took Wu Yueyue to the nearest hospital.
"Doctor, this is my daughter's case. She had a fever a week ago, but she's recovered in the past few days. I took her temperature on the way here, and she's not feverish." Wang Yue'e's eyes were red with anxiety. With her daughter in her arms, she could feel her child's body getting colder and colder, and then...
She didn't dare think further.
The doctor saw something was wrong. The child's temperature was very low and her breathing was weak. He quickly said, "The little girl is in critical condition. I'm afraid something might happen if we delay any longer. Please go straight to the Municipal Children's Hospital."
Their hospital is at the county level and the pediatric department is not professional. Today's symptoms are too urgent and severe.
As she was speaking, Yueyue's pale little face began to turn blue.
Wang Yue'e cried, "Yueyue, what's wrong with you? Don't scare mom. Look at mom."
"He's fine, really fine. I was just cooking for a while. The child was fine all day. Doctor, I beg you to take another look at him." Granny Wang wiped her tears and couldn't understand why the child suddenly fell ill when he was fine all day.
Wu Yueyue's condition was critical, and the doctor could see it. If he sent her to the city, she might die on the way, so he had to save her first. He expedited the blood test and laboratory tests, but no disease was found.
"...No symptoms? What does that mean? My daughter is not sick, how could she not wake up?" Wang Yue'e cried uncontrollably.
The doctor was helpless. All the indicators in the test results were normal, and even the fever he had had before was within normal standards. So what was wrong with this child?
"Yueyue, the child is doing very well. Second brother, I really have high hopes for the child..." Grandma Wang felt guilty towards her daughter-in-law and son. Seeing that the child was not doing well, she really wanted to hit her head and die.
Wu Yueyue's face turned increasingly pale, and her pulse was almost imperceptible. The doctor tried her best to save her, but Wang Yue'e suddenly rushed over, grabbed the child, and rushed out, shouting like crazy: "Go to Haishan! Brick house, brick house!"
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Shanhai Shelter.
For dinner, I had porridge. I soaked freshly bought white rice for an hour, then simmered it over low heat. I added some vegetables, a cracked egg, and a small amount of fine salt. The white, green, and yellow colors were beautiful. I heated up some steamed buns and didn't cook anything, mainly because I was too busy on the road.
He cleaned up the main house in the afternoon.
The main room had the best lighting and the most complete glass in the entire yard. The bed inside was an 1.8-meter wooden bed. He rolled up the used bedding and threw it away, washed the bed boards and dried them, and then laid out the new bedding he bought in the afternoon after drying it in the sun.
The light bulb in the main room is working fine. I paid the electricity bill and it is now on.
There was a square wooden table, a stainless steel basin filled with hot steamed buns, and a bowl of hot porridge. One, two, three, and four people were sitting obediently on the long wooden benches, each with a greedy look on their face. However, they did not look at the food on the table, but at the main door of the main hall.
There were footsteps at the door, and four pairs of eyes lit up.
Lu Cijiu came in with a small bowl and spoon. Under the yellowed old light bulb, he saw four pairs of bright eyes. They smiled and said, "It's time to eat."
After the porridge and steamed buns were distributed, the children watched Jiujiu with their saliva dripping from their mouths.
Lu Cijiu was stunned for a moment, then remembered that he had eaten first at the restaurant at noon, so he tried to take the first bite. He saw that the little ones who had just been staring at him eagerly were now all concentrating their attention, chewing on steamed buns and drinking porridge, eating with relish.
"Actually, you don't have to wait for me to eat first."
Then he thought of himself. When his grandfather picked him up, every time his grandfather prepared a meal, he would wait for his grandfather to sit down first and pick up his chopsticks before he started eating. Now looking at the four children, Lu Cijiu showed a fatherly smile, "Good boy."
After dinner, the four little tails followed Lu Cijiu wherever he went.
"I fell down in a moment."
There was no light in the yard, the kitchen light bulb was broken, and there were no candles. Lu Cijiu was afraid that the children would fall. Who knew that Xiaoyi said, "I can see the road, jiujiu, I will take good care of my brothers and sisters."
"I'm not afraid of the dark either." the waiter said loudly.
"Yes, Xiao Er is the least afraid. He used to catch insects for us to eat when it was pitch dark."
Lu Cijiu could sense the desire to survive in Xiao Yi's words. He looked at Xiao Er again. The boy puffed out his chest and looked at him, as if he was expecting praise but was embarrassed.
“You guys were awesome before.”
The waiter didn’t care that Lu Cijiu praised everyone, because he praised him too anyway!
When Lu Cijiu was washing dishes in the dark, he found that the children were not afraid of the dark. They even knew to help pass towels when he was boiling water for washing.
The bedding, fresh from the sun, was fluffy and soft, smelling of sunshine. The light bulb in the bedroom was broken, letting in moonlight. The children crawled into bed. Xiao Er leaned against Lu Cijiu's arm, his face stern, and said coldly, "This is a bad guy's bed."
"We'll change it when we have money." Lu Cijiu rubbed the waiter's head, kissed the domineering son's face one by one, and said, "It's time to go to bed."
The silvery moonlight shone in from the window, and the children fell asleep quickly.
The waiter slept on the edge of the bed, next to the old man. After a while, he whispered, "Jiujiu, I don't need to change beds. Can you stay here forever?"
"Of course." Lu Cijiu assured.
Although they weren't in the mountains, they lived like they were. They ate early and went to bed early, and Lu Cijiu was half asleep when he suddenly woke up and vaguely heard someone shouting, "Blue brick house, blue brick house."
Hoarsely.
Lu Cijiu thought of the face of the ticket seller on the bus during the day, and immediately woke up. He put on his clothes and got out of bed. As soon as he got up, Xiao Si woke up.
"It's okay, I'll be back soon. Be good and go back to sleep." Lu Cijiu whispered to Xiao Si.
He turned on the light in the main room and ran straight out the door.
At the crossroads, Wang Yue'e was holding her daughter, mad as a madwoman, her voice hoarse: "... Blue brick house, blue brick house, save my daughter, save my daughter..."
"Yue'e, there is no one here." Grandma Wang cried uncontrollably. There was not a single village in this desolate mountain area. Her daughter-in-law rushed out of the hospital holding the baby and insisted on coming here as if she was possessed. What blue brick house was she looking for? There was no such house here.
Wu Da usually loves his youngest daughter the most. Now that his wife is delaying treatment and has consulted a fortune teller from a blue brick house, his veins popped out and he said, "Wang Yue'e! Let's take Yueyue to the hospital. She can still be saved. What happened to you?" He said that he wanted to snatch the child away.
In the dim moonlight, Wu Da stopped moving as soon as he touched his daughter's feet.
Cold and hard, just like a dead person.
How could Wang Yue'e, who held her daughter the entire way here, not know this? In fact, she had already been thinking about it on the way here—she couldn't accept it. When she left home this morning, her daughter was fine, her fever had subsided, and she even wanted to eat egg cake. How could she be gone now?
Wang Yue'e was unwilling to cry herself to death.
Her daughter just turned three and said she was going to kindergarten. She hadn’t even eaten egg cake yet. Why did God take her daughter’s life? If you want to take something, take mine!!!
"God, if my daughter can be saved and brought back to life, I will give you everything. If you want to take something, take my life."
The family of three held their child and cried heartbrokenly, while Grandma Wang knelt down and kowtowed, not knowing where to face.
In the silver moonlight, a pitch-black shadow could be seen.
"Big sister?" Lu Cijiu saw that it was indeed the ticket seller.
The three of them were stunned in despair. Where did this person come from? Wang Yue'e was the first to recognize that this was the young man from the daytime. Like crazy, she rushed over with the child in her arms, crying, "I kneel down in front of you, young man, please save my daughter."
Lu Cijiu took a look in the moonlight and made a quick decision. He bit his middle finger and a drop of blood landed on the center of Wu Yueyue's brow. He said, "Hold the child and follow."
Wang Yue'e followed without saying a word, holding the child. Wu Da was originally on guard, but he quickly stood guard by her side. He didn't know if it was a psychological effect, but he really felt that his daughter Ziqing's face seemed to be better.
It's not a psychological effect.
The lights in the main room were on, and Wu Yueyue's purple face turned pale, and her skin became slightly warmer. Although it was still icy cold, at least it was no longer hard.
Wu Da and his mother wanted to kneel down before Lu Cijiu, but Lu Cijiu said, "This place is very poor. Put the child on the table. I don't have any extra beds. Now, one of you should go out and find incense, candles, yellow paper, and red thread. You are too late. If you want your daughter to live, you must race against time."
"I don't know where to find these at night. I didn't bring anything else, otherwise I wouldn't need them. I'll try my best to delay, you guys hurry up."
Granny Wang cried out, and said anxiously, "I know where to find it. Old Man Wu in our village died, and his family is holding a funeral. They just happen to have these. Come back quickly, second son."
When Lu Cijiu heard this, he glanced at Wu Yueyue on the table. This child's misfortune might have been due to the influence of Old Man Wu's funeral, otherwise she wouldn't have lost her soul. Now that he could borrow Old Man Wu's things, it could be considered as a cause and effect.
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