Chapter 192 Refusing Medical Treatment
Xu Hexiao and Lin Qi looked in the direction Cao Zheng was rushing towards. A woman with a shaved head was lying in the corner of the wall. There was a hole on her forehead and blood was oozing out.
Cao Zheng hurriedly pulled a piece of cloth off his body and used it to wrap the woman's wound. "Her wound is too serious. I want to take her to the hospital."
Cao Zheng picked up the person and ran towards the nearest pharmacy.
"Shall we go and take a look?" Xu Hexiao asked Lin Qi for her opinion.
Lin Qi nodded, "Take her broom and dustpan."
Cao Zheng carried the woman to the nearest Chinese medicine clinic and shouted as soon as he entered, "Doctor, doctor, my friend's head was smashed by a rock. Please come and help me."
An old doctor in white coats and a young nurse came over. As soon as they saw that the woman was missing half of her hair, they knew her identity.
"She is one of the five black categories. We can't treat her." The nurse said coldly.
"When did saving the dying and the wounded have to consider the other person's identity? Where is your sacred mission? Where is your selfless spirit? Are you going to watch her die?" Cao Zheng questioned the doctor and nurse with red eyes.
The nurse's face turned extremely ugly. "If we treat her, those red armbands will say that we are in cahoots with bad elements, and then we will be in trouble. Look how difficult her situation is, do you have the heart to drag us into it?"
Cao Zheng gritted his teeth, bent his knees, and knelt down in front of the doctor and nurse, "Please save her!"
"We can't save her. We have elderly parents and young children. If we save her, what will happen to our family?" the nurse shouted, pointing to the door, "Take her out, go!"
Cao Zheng looked at the doctor who refused to look him in the eye, then looked at the nurse who had a determined look on her face. His heart grew colder and colder. He picked up the woman and walked out of the pharmacy step by step.
Outside the pharmacy, Lin Qi and Xu Hexiao, who had watched the entire process, felt their hearts sink.
The situation in the capital is indeed much more serious than that in Yao County.
"Go call Brother Cao, I'm going to buy some medicine." Lin Qi said.
"Okay." Xu Hexiao said, striding towards the distraught Brother Cao.
"Brother Cao, wait a moment." Xu Hexiao said.
Brother Cao paused and gave a bitter smile, "He Xiao, I need to take her home to treat her wound. We'll make an appointment next time."
"Do you have any medicine at home?" Xu Hexiao asked.
Brother Cao shook his head. "She used to have them, but she got hurt too many times in the past few years and she has used them up."
"Then you wait a moment, Qiqi went to buy medicine and will be here soon." Xu Hexiao said.
Brother Cao's eyes lit up and he cried with joy, "Thank you, thank you, thank you so much."
When Lin Qi came over with medicine and gauze, she saw Cao Zheng's face was covered with tears and snot.
Cao Zheng put the woman in the corner, wiped the tears and snot from his face, and said embarrassedly, "I'm sorry to have made a fool of myself in front of my sister-in-law."
"Brother Cao is a kind-hearted man. I am just moved and respectful when I see you. How could I laugh at you? Here are the medicine and gauze. Brother Cao, please apply the medicine to this sister." Lin Qi handed over the medicine.
Cao Zheng took it and said "thank you" again.
The woman's wound was shocking, and the blood had stained the cloth red. Cao Zheng felt very distressed and carefully applied medicine to the woman. He was relieved when he saw that the woman's wound had stopped bleeding.
He carefully wrapped a layer of gauze around the woman's head, and then picked her up. "I'm going to take her home. I'll visit He Xiao and my brother and sister-in-law tomorrow."
"No rush, Brother Cao, come back when you're free. We don't need lime so urgently." Xu Hexiao said.
Cao Zheng nodded, "Okay. We'll go first. See you later."
"Goodbye." Xu Hexiao said.
The two men watched Cao Zheng leave with complicated expressions.
"Fortunately, we were in Yao County, in Anliang Brigade." If they were in a big city like this, with people everywhere, he and Qiqi would probably be in a very difficult situation.
Lin Qi held Xu Hexiao's hand and said, "It's all over."
Xu Hexiao thought that Cao Zheng would come to his house after a few days. After all, his girlfriend was seriously injured at that time. Why did he come here if he was not by her bedside taking care of her?
Before Cao Zheng opened his mouth, his face turned red as a monkey's butt.
Xu Hexiao raised his eyebrows. What happened?
"Brother He Xiao, Han Shuang was injured and is now bedridden. I have to help her sweep the streets these two days and can't do odd jobs. I have no income and my family has no rice to cook. Can I borrow some from you?" After saying this, Cao Zheng wished he could find a sewer to crawl into.
He hasn't paid back the money someone spent on medicine, and now he comes to borrow money again. We are not related at all and have only known each other for one day, so how can he be so shameless?
"Sure." Xu Hexiao agreed straightforwardly, "Are you in a hurry? If not, come in and sit down for a while?"
"I won't go in today. I have to go sweep the streets." If he doesn't go, those people will go find Han Shuang and drag her off the bed -
"Then you wait here for a while, I'll be back soon." Seeing the anxiety on Cao Zheng's brow, Xu Hexiao couldn't help but quicken his pace.
Cao Zheng stood in front of the gate and looked inside, only to see a wall of vines. Because of the onset of winter, the vines were now yellow, but even though the leaves turned yellow, they were firmly attached to the vines and did not fall off even when the cold wind blew.
You can't see what's inside from the door, but Cao Zheng can still infer from the gate and the wall that the house should be quite large.
There are only a few houses in Fuxing Lane, and there is no small one among them.
Cao Zheng looked down at his cracked shoes and smiled bitterly. He didn't know whether He Xiao and his sister-in-law regretted making friends with him.
Xu Hexiao came back soon with some money and an aluminum lunch box.
He first put the money and ticket in Cao Zheng's hand, and then handed him the lunch box. "I just made these egg pancakes this morning. They're still hot. Eat them on the way."
Cao Zheng's nose felt sore and he smiled, "Did He Xiao hear my stomach rumbling just now?"
Xu Hexiao also laughed, "I heard it."
Cao Zheng helplessly spread his hands, "My life is so difficult, will He Xiao still be my friend?"
"Yes. I make friends with Brother Cao because of you, Brother Cao, not because of your family or your financial conditions." Xu Hexiao said with a sincere tone.
Cao Zheng's nose felt even more sour. For many years, his relatives had distanced themselves from them, but now a man whom he had just met for the second time was willing to lend him money, give him food, and even said that he was willing to make friends with him.
He hadn't felt such kindness in a long time.
"Okay." Cao Zheng said carefully, "I will definitely not let He Xiao regret making friends with me."
Xu Hexiao curled his lips, "Okay."
"I'll come again in two days." Cao Zheng turned and left.
"Wait a minute." Xu Hexiao stopped him and took a broom and dustpan from behind the door. "You forgot this yesterday."
Cao Zheng heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the broom and dustpan. "Fortunately they were not lost, otherwise Han Shuang would be scolded again. He Xiao, thank you so much."
Cao Zheng took a broom and a dustpan and went to where Han Shuang lived first.
It was a small room of four square meters, which could hardly accommodate anything except a bed.
"Hurry up, I brought back breakfast, it's still hot." He put the lunch box in his clothes and ran back, and the lunch box was still warm.
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