If there is an afterlife (novella) Zhang Baotong

Wan Daxian came out to open the door with his clothes on, and when he saw Li Xiuying holding the child and coming to him to see a doctor, he touched the child's forehead with his hand, listened to the child's breathing, and said to Li Xiuying, "Your child is afraid that he has acute pneumonia, don't delay time with me, send it to the county hospital quickly." With that, he pushed Li Xiuying out of the door.

Li Xiuying went out and came to the side of the road in the village, and the person immediately felt a dizziness, his eyes turned black, and he almost fell to the ground. She hurriedly sat down on the stone roller of wheat rolling on the side of the road, sobered herself up, and rested for a while. After a while, she became less dizzy, but she was thinking about how she could take her child to the county hospital in the middle of the night, and the county hospital was more than forty miles away. When she took the child to the county hospital, she was afraid that the sky was about to dawn, and the child did not know what the disease would become. Moreover, the child had acute pneumonia. She remembers how many years ago a child in the village contracted pneumonia and died before he could be transferred from the township health center to the county hospital.

She was so anxious that she began to cry, but it was useless to cry in a hurry, she had to find a way. Suddenly, she remembered Cui Zhicai, who was doing business in the county seat. So, he came to the door of Cui Zhicai's house with the child in his arms and patted the door vigorously. When Cui Zhicai opened the door while getting dressed, she knelt in front of the family with the child in her arms and said, "Please." Cui Zhicai hurriedly helped Li Xiuying up and asked, "Auntie, what's wrong?" she wanted to say, but she couldn't say it clearly, so she pointed to the child and cried "wow".

Cui Zhicai saw that the child was in a coma, touched the child's forehead with his hand, and said, "The child has a fever, which is very serious." Get in the car. With that, he walked to the middle of the yard, opened the door of the minivan, and let Li Xiuying carry the child into the car. waited for Li Xiuying to get into the car with the child in her arms. Cui Zhicai has already opened the gate of the courtyard.

The car drove rapidly along the county highway towards the county seat in the dark. In less than an hour, I arrived at the county hospital. Choi Ji-jae took Lee so-young into the emergency room. The doctor on duty immediately put Li Xiaole on a hospital bed, began to conduct an examination, and asked Li Xiuying to pay the bill. Li Xiuying came here for the first time, and she didn't know where to pay, so Cui Zhicai took her to the payment window. The person inside said to her, "Pay two hundred yuan first." So she took out two hundred dollars from her pocket and gave them to them.

When they returned to the emergency room, the doctor had already finished examining the child and was giving Li Xiaole a hanging bottle. Cui Zhicai saw that everything here had settled down, so he went back to sleep in the car. Li Xiuying sat on the edge of the bed and watched the child play the hanging bottle. At this time, she saw the doctor who was examining the child walking by, and asked the doctor, "Doctor, is the child suffering from pneumonia?" The doctor said, "It's not pneumonia, it's just a high fever, but the body temperature is very high, and if it is not treated in time, it can easily turn into pneumonia." When she heard this, she breathed a long sigh of relief, for she had heard that pneumonia was cured, and that it would leave a root cause.

Li Xiuying watched the child playing the hanging bottle, but the hanging bottle was beating very slowly, drop by drop. Although Li Xiuying has put her heart at ease, she is also very sleepy, yawning constantly, and her eyes are so sleepy that she can't open them. There was a moment when she literally fell asleep on the edge of the bed. When she woke up, she scolded herself fiercely. She knew that once she fell asleep and the potion in the hanging bottle ran out, it would cause serious harm to the child. She couldn't tell what the harm was, but she knew that this kind of mistake must not occur. In order not to make herself sleepy, she got up from her stool and kept moving around in the middle of the room. It wasn't until she was too tired to walk that she sat down on the stool again.

After half a bottle of liquid, the child's face is much better, his little face is flushed, and he has spirits. When the bottle was finished, the child woke up and said, "Mom, I'm hungry." "However, in the middle of the night, the third watch is in the hospital, where can she go to buy food for the child?

There was no way, she asked a middle-aged man next to her who was accompanying the old man to play hanging bottles to help take care of the child, and hurriedly ran to the street to buy food for the child. However, it was already dawn, and the whole street was not even visible, and all the shops were closed. She had no choice but to go back to the emergency room. She saw a packet of chicken cakes on the small cabinet of the old man's bed, so she cheekily said to the middle-aged man sitting next to the bed, "This big brother, can you buy me two pieces of your cake, the child hasn't eaten for a day." "If it weren't for the sake of the child, she would starve to death and wouldn't open this mouth to others.

The middle-aged man immediately took out a napkin, wrapped four or five pieces of cake and sent it over, saying, "Look at whether these are enough, not enough for here." Li Xiuying took the cake and asked, "How much?" The middle-aged man said, "What kind of money do you want for the child to eat?" So Li Xiuying repeatedly expressed her gratitude to others.

Lee so-young gave the cake to the child. When did the child eat the cake? I took a bite myself, so I took it and asked my mother to take a bite too. Li Xiuying was really a little hungry, but she was embarrassed to eat this cake because it was given to her? She said to the child, "This is given to you by your uncle, and my mother is not hungry." However, the child insisted on shoving the cake into her mouth. When the middle-aged man next to him saw this scene, he said, "If the child asks you to eat, you can eat it." You're a sensible kid. As he spoke, he took the bag of cakes and put them on the small cabinet next to Li Xiuying. However, Li Xiuying immediately sent the cake back to others. When the child saw that his mother would not eat it, he ate all four cakes and said, "Mom, I want to drink water." Li Xiuying poured water for the child to drink. However, the boiling water was too hot, and she was afraid that the child would not be able to wait, so she took two common cups and poured the boiling water back and forth, and after pouring the boiling water for a while, the water was not so hot, so she helped the child to sit up and held the cup in front of the child for him to drink.

By the time the two bottles were finished, it was already dawn. Cui Zhicai sent the mother and son home in a car. When she got out of the car, Li Xiuying had to give Cui Zhicai 50 yuan as a reward, but Cui Zhicai insisted on not wanting to, which made her feel very unhappy. So, she thought that one day she would go to the market and buy some fruit and snacks to send to make up for it.

Li Xiuying returned home with her child, and the sun had risen in mid-sky. It's a good day for farming. Li Xiuying has always thought that the wheat in her field has not been harvested, and she must rush to take it back home, otherwise, if the weather changes, it will cause certain losses to the harvest. She put the child on the bed, picked up a leftover cold steamed bun, and while eating, she picked up the sickle and went to the ground.

However, before he went out, he saw that the sky was spinning outside the door, and as soon as it was dark in front of him, he fell to the ground with a thud. For a long time she didn't feel it, as if she was asleep. After some time, she heard someone crying next to her. She opened her eyes hard and saw the child lying in front of her, crying and calling "Mommy". Then she got up from the ground, patted the dust off her body, and without eating, she went into the house and went to bed. She knew she was sick, and she was very sick. Therefore, she can no longer force herself to work in the fields, and once her condition worsens, she will have to go to the hospital. But she didn't want to go to the hospital the last time, which would not only cost her a lot of money, but also delay her for a few days, especially in the busy season, whether it was in the field or at home. She just wanted to lie down in bed and have a good rest, just like a puppy and a kitten who were sick and wanted to find a place to lie quietly for a while. She lay down for a long time, until it was dark and the child cried out, "Mommy, I'm hungry." She woke up, felt better, got out of bed, and began to cook for the child and herself.