Chapter 94 Asking for Help
Time flies by like a white horse passing by, and it seems like half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.
Suning has had a very fulfilling life in the past twenty days. During the day, he goes to work in the factory or goes to the nearby county to complete purchasing tasks. At night, he returns home and immerses himself in learning carving.
After using up all the materials left by my mother, I moved a lot of them out of the mahogany box in the cave.
Until now, there is no pressure to get started except for simple flowers and plants. Although the more complicated zodiac animals are not so lifelike, they can still look pretty decent, so there is no embarrassment like the first red peanut.
Zhang Ze and Mao Qianjin have already completed their employment procedures respectively. With Zhang Ze accompanying them to and from get off work every day, there is no need to worry about their safety.
With the help of Tan Dafeng, Mao Qianjin was able to gain a foothold in the First Team of Hongqi Commune.
Mao Qianjin had nothing to worry about as his mother lived with the Zhang family. Not only did she have someone to help her, but she also had someone to chat with and work with.
As for He Yue, who showed up last time and hasn't appeared since, no one knows what big move he is planning.
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Sitting in the yard watching the rain that had been falling for a week or so, Suning collected his scattered thoughts.
She looked down at the jade pendants that were individually packed in small boxes. These were the Mid-Autumn Festival gifts she prepared for her closest friends.
After so many days of experiments and studies or by chance, I finally figured out the functions of the various colors of jade at the bottom of the spring.
Blue jade can remove scars, purple jade represents good luck, and black jade represents exorcising evil and avoiding disaster to ensure safety.
Green is for beauty and skin care, yellow is for tranquility and soothing the mind, red represents peach blossoms and as for the last cyan jadeite, the most unexpected thing is... it brings fertility.
Fortunately, after leaving the nourishment of the spring water, some of the special functions of the jade have become "disposable". Unless they are put back into the spring water for soaking, they will become ordinary jadeite that is more beautiful after use.
For example, black jade can avoid disaster only three times, purple jade's luck is only seventy-two hours, and green jade can indeed die once, after which it either breaks into pieces or turns into ordinary jade.
Therefore, according to the different functions of jade, she would select the ones that can be given as gifts and carve them according to each person's needs.
Grandpa Fu, Yingying and her brother, as well as Brother Zhang and Brother Mao are naturally all black jades that can avoid disasters and ensure safety.
Aunt Hehua always regretted that she only gave birth to Yingying and Tingzi, but her health deteriorated, so she gave the couple a pair of mandarin duck jade pendants carved from the same green jade.
This time the grapefruit red jadeite is a real bunch of grapes bracelet.
Fu Jiaming and Yan Bei both have topaz pendants that can calm the mind, but one is carved into a Clivia and the other is a Guanyin bamboo.
As for the Luo family, the Yan family, the Qin family, the Qu family, the Zhang family in Shanghai, and the relatives of Brother Zhang and Brother Mao who lived in the compound, she only prepared other holiday gifts and had no plans to give out jade.
“Woof woof woof~”
Hmm? Someone's coming?
I had just packed up a few small boxes that were to be sent to Fu's family in Beijing and put them into the space when I heard Xiaoyuanquan's calling from behind the door.
After putting all the remaining items that could be delivered in person into a canvas bag, Suning quickly stood up, grabbed the umbrella under the eaves and trotted over.
Sure enough, the sound of knocking on the door was completely covered up by the heavy rain. If it weren’t for Xiaoyuan calling out loudly, it would have been hard to hear it clearly.
After praising the little guy, he opened the closed door with one hand holding an umbrella.
Outside the door, there was only a torn feed bag above his head to block the wind. The young man, drenched by the heavy rain, stood there shivering uncontrollably.
Gu Zi, with an anxious look on his face, saw the door finally open and the figure in his memory. His eyes turned red in an instant and he fell heavily to his knees in the rain with a thud.
"Sister Ning, please, please save Little Pumpkin, save my sister... please..."
"Guzi, what are you doing? Get up! What happened to Little Pumpkin?"
He pulled the man up, and in just that brief moment of contact, Su Ning understood why this somewhat stubborn boy was like this.
Thinking of the innocent and lovely little pumpkin that night, who lay silently in the future picture she glimpsed and never opened his eyes, she felt a dull pain in her heart.
"My sister is sick, very seriously, I...I can't do anything, Sister Ning..."
It rained heavily for so many days in a row, and the house they lived in was leaking everywhere. There was no clean place to sleep.
He was always worried that his younger brothers and sisters would catch a cold in the rain and get sick again. Even though he secretly borrowed some things from other families to cover themselves, the youngest Little Pumpkin still fell ill.
At first, he just felt dizzy and weak, but later he had a high fever and even had shivering.
"Where is Little Pumpkin now? Has he been taken to the hospital?"
Wiping his face, not sure if it was tears or rain, Yu Gu nodded and quickly replied, "I asked Donggua and Hulu to look after her in the hospital..."
But they were penniless and could not afford medical treatment. Without a certificate of acceptance from the team and a town residence permit, they could not even get the doctor's kind suggestion to pay for the treatment.
With nowhere else to go, he recalled what Suning had said that morning and could only pin his faint hope on this person whom he had only met once.
"Guzi, wait for me!"
Without saying anything more, Suning quickly turned back to the yard, picked up the canvas bag, took out the spare bills from the iron box in the space bedroom and stuffed them into the bag.
Then he pushed his bicycle out of the yard, comforted Little Circle and told it to stay at home to look after the house, locked the door, took the grain, and rushed to the hospital in the heavy rain.
When the two arrived at the hospital, Winter Melon Hulu was hugging Little Pumpkin tightly, crying sadly.
Not caring about her wet clothes, she bent down and rubbed her hands vigorously twice before picking up the little girl who was in a coma and trembling from time to time.
"Doctor, doctor! Help!"
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Not long after taking the antipyretic injection, Little Pumpkin's fever finally subsided, but because it was delayed too long, he developed pneumonia and needed to be hospitalized for several days with intravenous drips and medication.
After paying the fee, Su Ning let out a long sigh of relief and glanced at the man beside him who was clenching his fists and was obviously distracted, "Guzi?"
"Ah, Sister Ning..."
"I paid some in advance. Take the bill."
As he spoke, he took out another ten yuan and a few food coupons from his bag, "Take these too. Pumpkin has such a serious illness, so he needs to eat nutritious food to take good care of himself. You three brothers should also take this opportunity to replenish your body."
"Sister Ning... I will return it to you... I will try my best..."
Raising his hand and gently patting the boy's thin shoulder, Su Ning smiled cleanly and warmly, "I believe you, now take good care of your younger brother and sister-in-law and take care of yourself."
The calmness and strength he had pretended to have all along collapsed in an instant after she said this.
For the sake of his younger brothers and sisters, he had to force himself to grow up quickly. He was confused, afraid, and overwhelmed by the burden of life and felt like he could not survive.
But, what can we do?
Without parents who treated him as their own child, he was left with only the identity of a brother.
Gu Zi, who was crying so hard that she was out of breath, let herself go and vent her emotions for the first time since her parents left one after another.
Suning knew that he didn't need any words of comfort at this time, so just accompanying him silently was enough.
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After crying enough and regaining his senses, Yu Gu couldn't help covering his face when he thought of the scene of himself with tears and snot just now.
He sniffed hard. Fortunately, his dark skin made it impossible to see the red blush on his face due to embarrassment.
After this hearty release, my body and mind finally relaxed.
Yu Gu, who had regained his composure, bowed to her solemnly, "Thank you, Sister Ning."
"As long as you don't kneel to me again, I'll accept your gratitude."
“Hehe~”
Scratching his head embarrassedly, Yu Gu silently took note of it in his heart.
"By the way, Guzi, how old are you this year?"
"Fifteen. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, it will be sixteen."
Fifteen or sixteen was not too old, but not too young either. Su Ning nodded and continued to ask, "Have you ever been to school?"
"Yes, I went to the first grade."
Yu's parents are both educated people, so they naturally attach more importance to the education of their first child.
When he was a child, Yu Gu lived up to his parents' expectations. He was smart and studious. Not only did he start school earlier than his peers, he also skipped a grade and successfully enrolled in their best middle school.
If it weren't for the accident of my parents, or the evil relatives in my family...
"Guzi, I have a job quota in hand. Since you are still a junior high school student, there will be no problem."
As long as he has a job acceptance unit, Yu Gu can go to the street office to get a certificate, and with the certificate he can register himself and his younger siblings.
This is what he has always wanted to do, but he just can't do it!
(End of this chapter)
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