Chapter 20: Misfortune Doesn't Go Alone (2)
Just a week after Hongchen's left hand was broken, another incident happened that made Hongchen's grief heartache to the extreme.
The sun has not yet risen, and the chimneys of many homes have not yet smoked. Grandpa was helped up from the kang by grandma. "It was fine last night, but now it's hot," Grandma babbled. Then I didn't eat and went to the clinic with my grandfather.
Fortunately, the doctor at the clinic woke up early. When my grandparents went, the clinic had already heated up the earthen heater.
"Doctor, show me what's wrong with my old man, his head is very hot," grandma told the doctor about his grandfather's condition. The doctor brought a thermometer and tested his grandfather's temperature, while asking when he found it. Then he poured a glass of boiling water for his grandfather. After a while, he took out the thermometer, and the doctor was taken aback when he saw it, it was 41 degrees, and it was about to explode. Hurriedly ate a bag of antipyretic medicine first, then prepared some potions, and injected grandpa.
It is also strange to say, the body temperature will come down with antipyretics, as long as the needle is pulled out, it will immediately start to burn, grandpa stayed in the clinic for half a day, and did not get better, the doctor was afraid of the delay in the condition, and persuaded grandpa to go to the big hospital in the city to check it. After all, small clinics don't have much equipment. Look at a headache and brain fever, cold and fever are okay. If the disease is too difficult, it can only be sent to a big hospital. So I went to the first hospital of the medical university in the city with my grandmother overnight. Leave Hongchen at home to watch the house, because it is a basement house, so someone has to take care of it, otherwise the water, something will freeze, some vegetables that are afraid of freezing will also freeze, Hongchen didn't think too much, thinking that it was an acute severe cold or a viral infection or something, so he burned the fire at home, and sent text messages to fairy tales in his spare time, etc.
When I arrived at the hospital, I registered, and the doctor only prescribed some medicine for intravenous injection according to the ordinary fever, and then stayed in the hospital for observation. After 12 o'clock in the morning, my grandfather's condition began to deteriorate! The high fever did not go away, and he began to vomit and have difficulty breathing. The doctor on duty hurried to see it and felt that things were strict. Finally, he was transferred to the CUI intensive care unit, re-tested for blood, and tested for cell culture. The results didn't come out until the morning. Confirmed diagnosis of acute hemorrhagic fever. (Popularize the knowledge: Acute hemorrhagic fever, an acute illness in the Tohoku region, is contagious, and may be transmitted to people by ticks or rats through blood or feces.) The incubation period of this disease is generally about 7-10 days, once the fever symptoms appear, it has reached the middle and late stages, if it is not diagnosed and treated in time, the survival rate is almost zero. But because the best time was missed, it boiled down to the hospital's inaction and disregard for the patient, and a living life disappeared at that moment.
When Grandpa left, it was very painful, not only because of illness, but also because of the backlog of the current situation of life. Grandpa is gone, he went to another world, and he doesn't have to work hard anymore, everything he has done in his life will be remembered by Hongchen, and placed in the depths of his memory, and kept as a photo album of memories in his life, and he will turn it over when he thinks about it.
The next day, it was already dawn. Hongchen is still lying on the kang, because he slept late yesterday, he didn't get up in the morning, until he opened his eyes at more than 10 o'clock, and there was no news of his grandfather. Hongchen has an ominous premonition, last night I dreamed that my grandfather took Hongchen to find Hongchen's father, this dream is very strange, grandpa said that his parents have died a long time ago. So a dark cloud hit. There were snowflakes today. Yesterday was fine!, Hongchen muttered.
He hurried to the hospital, and it was almost noon. When he pushed open the door of the ward, he found that his grandmother, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, kept caressing his grandfather's cheek with her right hand, and he was just lying still as if he were dead. "Milk, is my grandfather's illness getting better?" he said and walked into the bed, looking at his grandfather with his eyes closed, his face was no longer bloody.
"Master, master," Hongchen was already full of tears, shaking his grandfather who was lying quietly on the bed with his hands. No matter how Hongchen screams, he can't wake up grandpa. Grandma just cried on the sidelines, and they got along with each other for decades. Accustomed to grandpa by his side, grandpa's sudden death is really like the sky falling, but looking at Hongchen, grandma must be strong, if grandma also falls, what should Hongchen do!
After a long time, my grandmother still notified the funeral parlor to come over, after all, people can't be resurrected after death, and they have to be buried in the ground, and they don't want to disturb the people in the same village, so they just called some relatives and neighbors who came and went closer, and chose a good location as a cemetery in a tree field outside the village, and even the monument was not erected, so it was hastily buried.
Grandpa's life was plain and glorious. When he was young, he participated in the Liberation War, because he was wounded, he went home to farm, his grandfather was a diligent man, and he was good at studying, and he learned a craft from an old carpenter, and married his grandmother by virtue of this craft. also relied on this craft to pull Hongchen into an adult. All the way to college. Grandpa is usually very thrifty, and he is reluctant to spend a penny more, although the living conditions are better now, and the state gives subsidies to veterans of the Anti-Japanese War, but grandpa is still wearing the old clothes, some of which have been patched and stacked, and the color is mostly the old color of blue, white and yellow.
There are many people in the village who have received help from their grandfathers, and sometimes they go to make furniture for other people, and if they see that the family conditions are not good, they will charge less money, or help others make zuò for free. So grandpa's reputation in the township is very good. Grandpa would basically send some money or goods to charity every month. Do your part to help those most in need.
Grandpa didn't leave a word when he left, the only thing left was grandpa's spirit. No matter how big things happen, no matter how big the difficulties are, just a faint smile. In his eyes, all the problems are trivial things that are not worth mentioning. Hongchen watched his grandfather's body being put into the coffin, thinking that he would never see his grandfather's face again, couldn't hear his grandfather's voice, couldn't feel his grandfather's chest, was so sad that he couldn't help crying.
For so many years, I have taken my grandfather as an example. is to imitate grandpa in the world. I recall my grandfather's respectful teaching to me over the years, amusing myself when I am sad, and taking care of myself when I am hurt. He cared for him with half his life, protected him with broad arms, and surrounded him with an open mind. Suddenly Grandpa was gone, how could he withstand this blow.
I thought that I had quarreled with my grandfather many times because of a trivial matter, which made my grandfather angry. Many times he ignored his grandfather's dissuasion to do bad and wrong things that he shouldn't have done. I really want to smack myself a few times. I remembered that I had a high fever when I was a child, and my grandfather sent him to the clinic in the heavy rain, and he was soaked, but he was not drenched in the rain. Thinking that he was naughty and broke off other people's green corn and threw it all over the ground, people came to the door, and grandpa apologized for losing money and something, although he was hated by his grandfather, but now he feels kind when he thinks about it. I only think about grandpa's good!
Now Grandpa can no longer protect him, can no longer show him the way. From then on, the yin and yang barrier can never be seen, and it may only be seen in dreams.
After dealing with grandpa's funeral, the grandmother who returned home looked very tired, and after so many years, now only grandma herself is left, I don't know how sad grandma is. At this time, Hongchen's injury has not healed, so he can only rely on his grandmother, and the burden on his grandmother is heavier, and from now on he will have to support the family alone, and Hongchen will have to go to school in a few days. Although I don't have to worry about money, I don't know how many ditches and bumps are waiting for my grandmother in the future.
Time passes in pain and pain, and sometimes, grandma's sighs can often be heard at night, and Hongchen can only pretend to sleep, or what else, after all, people are no longer there. Life is like this, born without knowing it, bringing joy to people, and dying without knowing it, leaving only sorrow.
Hongchen also often asks himself why he lives and what is the meaning of living.
This winter vacation really made him sad and desperate. The long winter vacation is spent in such a mood.
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