Chen Wei and his wife walked slowly home, washed up and went to bed.
They received unfortunate news the next day. Chen Liang's daughter Chen Jing vomited after drinking breast milk. She vomited all over her body and also had diarrhea. She almost lost her life.
After all, she was his first daughter, so Chen Liang still valued her very much. He took her to the hospital for a check-up and found out that the child was lactose intolerant.
Simply put, no dairy products.
Chen Liang's wife Qiao Xin had no milk in the past two days and had been feeding the baby with rice soup, so there was no problem.
Mother Chen saw this and was worried. It was not a good thing for her granddaughter to drink rice soup all the time, so she stewed nourishing soup for her daughter-in-law for two consecutive days. She let Chen Jing drink it as soon as her milk came yesterday.
As a result, he almost sent his granddaughter away.
At this time, no matter how reluctant Chen Wei was to give up his son's diapers, he had to donate them. Chen Jing was vomiting and having diarrhea, and the number of diapers prepared for a normal child was not enough.
Fortunately, the doctor was very skilled and cured the patient.
Chen Jing was observed in the hospital for a few days before being discharged, and it cost her dozens of dollars.
Diagnosis and treatment in the infant and toddler department is the most difficult. When patients are in pain, they can only cry loudly. Doctors are unable to communicate and have to ask family members about the situation. It is difficult to determine what the disease is.
There are rarely needles suitable for babies' blood vessels for intravenous drips. Even if there are, they are usually inserted into the blood vessels on the head or feet.
This looks terrible. The child is still struggling and it is difficult to keep him on IV drip.
So children can only take medicine, and the dosage is difficult to control. There are very few pharmaceutical companies that dare to do this, and the medicines that can cure infant and child diseases are ridiculously expensive.
When giving the money, Aunt Chen gave it reluctantly while muttering about the profiteer. She took the medicine and walked away quickly, fearing that if she was a second late she would be charged more.
As a result, Chen Jing developed jaundice just two days after returning home.
When the child woke up, the adults found that his face and body were yellow, like ginger juice, so yellow that it was obvious at a glance that he was abnormal.
This little girl, who had suffered so much, didn't gain much weight after she was born, and she looked even thinner after going to the hospital.
Under the sun, Qiao Xin covered Chen Jing's eyes with a cloth, and when there was no cool breeze, she stripped her daughter naked and exposed her to the sun.
This is a traditional remedy for treating jaundice. Just expose the newborn to the sun.
Of course, Chen Jing still had to wear shorts and a diaper. No matter how young a girl was, she couldn't be allowed to grow up with her bottom naked.
Qiao Xin had just given birth ten days ago and had not yet recovered from the confinement period. She looked at her daughter with a pale face, not knowing what she was thinking.
After more than ten minutes, Chen Jing's back became hot from the sun and she groaned twice out of discomfort. Qiao Xin woke up from her dream and turned her over when she heard the sound.
The mother-in-law spent dozens of dollars on medical expenses for the last lactose intolerance and ordered that Chen Jing not go to the hospital to treat jaundice.
If it can be cured with folk remedies, why go to the hospital and waste money?
They also said that Chen Jing was spoiled, and her cousin Chen Zhong had been able to eat and drink since he was born. He was very strong from childhood to adulthood, and he almost never got sick and never spent any money from the family.
Qiao Xin felt very uncomfortable after hearing this.
Did she want her daughter to be sick? She wished her daughter could just eat, drink, and sleep, and grow up without any worries.
But there was no way, Chen Jing was still sick. The jaundice had not yet fully healed, and now she had thrush.
When Chen Jing's mother fed her rice soup, she found that a white film-like substance similar to curd appeared on the inside of Chen Jing's lips and upper palate.
She kept crying and couldn't eat at all.
This child has suffered many disasters since birth. Even though Chen's mother believes in science, she still went to the temple to pray and asked for a talisman for her family.
Who would have thought that she was tired from taking care of Chen Jing at night, and she was out of energy when going down the mountain. She didn't step firmly on the steps, stepped on empty air, and fell down from halfway up the mountain.
When I told my family the news, they were a little bit in disbelief.
As the eldest daughter-in-law, Xiang Meimei had to go through the heaviest mourning period for her mother-in-law's death. Even though she was eight months pregnant, she had to wear coarse linen and cry until her eyes were red as she came home to report the death.
Zhang Jidi put down his bowl and chopsticks, his eyes wide open: "Ermei, can you say that again? Who passed away?"
She actually heard clearly who her daughter was talking about, but she just couldn't believe that the in-laws she had met and greeted yesterday had passed away.
Xiang Meimei cried bitterly: "My mother-in-law went to the temple to pray for a talisman, but when she was going down the mountain, she lost her footing and passed away."
When someone familiar dies, people will have a very absurd feeling, as if they are in a dream.
The person is still alive in your mind, as if you can still say hello when you open your eyes tomorrow, but others say that this person has passed away and you will never see him again.
Come to think of it, Mother Chen is not a very good person, but she is also not a bad person either. She treats her daughter-in-law Xiang Meimei quite well.
Besides, Chen Ma is only two years older than Zhang Jidi.
Life is unpredictable. Zhang Jidi let out a breath of relief and said with regret, "He was such a good man, how could he be so young... Ermei, please accept my condolences. Mother will make a wreath."
Follow the red flag in tacit understanding.
He wanted to use bamboo strips and bamboo poles to make the base of the wreath, and Zhang Jidi was responsible for the paper flowers on it.
Xiang Meimei's belly was too big to kneel down to announce the death, so she told her family while standing at the door. After notifying her parents' home, she had to go back to her husband's home to observe the seventh day of mourning.
She was covered in coarse white linen cloth, and anyone with a discerning eye could tell that the family was in deep mourning, so they all avoided her.
The rule in the county town is that the dead are the most important. Not to mention that Xiang Meimei is still a month away from giving birth, even if she is due tomorrow, she will still go to keep vigil for her mother-in-law today.
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