11. Sickness
When he woke up the next day, Qi Yu still hadn't returned.
I don't know if I got a cold last night, April felt a little dizzy, and there was a slight pain from the stitched wound. When I lifted my clothes, I saw that the local scab had been rubbed off, and the deepest incision was a little inflamed.
She secretly blamed herself for being careless, carefully wiped the wound with a towel soaked in water, and was ruthless, and directly squeezed out the pus with her hands, and waited until the dark red blood was squeezed out, and she withdrew her hand.
She took a breath, simply disinfected the wound with alcohol, and took out the cold medicine anti-inflammatory medicine from the drawer, and swallowed it in one gulp. After finishing this qiē, she collapsed on the bed weakly, her head was groggy, and the world was spinning, and she didn't know when she fell asleep again.
In the haze, she heard a sound of squirming footsteps, the woman reluctantly opened her eyes to look at the source of the sound, and when she saw the comer, she smiled weakly, "Ah Yu, you're back." ”
As soon as she spoke, she found that her voice was hoarse.
Qi Yu took the time to look at her, and hummed in a low voice, as if he didn't notice her abnormality, and after finding a change of clothes, he said nonsense: "I'll go take a bath." With that, he slipped into the bathroom, ping-pong something.
Seeing that he was back, April was at ease, but he was tired all over, which seemed to be a precursor to illness.
Must not get sick. She said to herself silently in her heart. Stretched out his hand and tucked the quilt, covering himself tightly, trying to use the soil method to prevent himself from sweating. She didn't sleep well, her whole body was hot, her brain was burning, and she was talking nonsense. Listen carefully, it seems to be calling Mom.
Sleeping until midnight, her stomach churned so hard that she couldn't hold back it, and vomited out with a wow. She was very uncomfortable, her face was hot and red, and the smell of vomiting was really not good. Calling Ah Yu's name weakly, and there was no response after a few calls, April could only forcibly lift the quilt, staggered to find a mop, and cleaned it roughly.
After several days of overcast skies, it finally began to rain on this night. The sound of rain continued to pound on the windows, making a gurgling sound.
It's so late and it's raining, where will Ah Yu go? This question flashed through his mind, and April frowned with a headache and walked back top-heavy. Xu was dazzled, she didn't see the road under her feet, and tripped over a chair with a thud.
This fell extremely hard, and there was a sharp pain in her ankle, and dense cold sweat slipped down her cheeks, like a tear. She moved her ankles in a little panic, supported the ground with both hands, and tried for a long time but did not get up. After a while, his right ankle was swollen as big as a steamed bun, and it was black.
At that moment, April felt a strong sense of despair and powerlessness in his heart.
For a moment, she almost wanted to give up on herself, and there was a voice in her heart, so be it, don't care about anything, so be it. She lay on her stomach, her ghost-white face numb and hollow. Her body was cold and hot, and the sharp pain in her ankle overshadowed her one after another, and she looked indifferent, if it weren't for the cold sweat on her forehead, she couldn't tell that she was enduring the pain.
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Qi Yu came back once halfway, and when he saw that April was still asleep, he didn't bother her. He is an idle person, he has nothing to do anyway, so he simply packed up his tools and went out of the stall. He went early, didn't have many customers, and bragged with the vendors on the side. Later, when there were a little more people, it rained again, and before seven o'clock in the evening, he hastily closed the stall.
Because they had a good conversation with the familiar vendors, they made an appointment to drink. He was in a depressed mood at that moment, and after a few glasses of wine, he poured bitter water on people.
However, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and later it becomes two sad people who comfort each other. You say a word to me, you have a cup and I have a cup, time passes quickly, and if it wasn't for someone's wife to find it, it is estimated that they can talk all night. Qi Yu had a good amount of alcohol, although he was dizzy, but his brain was still quite clear, thanks to the fact that there were no vehicles on the road in the middle of the night, he rode back on a tricycle slowly.
When he came home and saw April sitting on the ground unconscious, his brain exploded with a bang. Picking up April in a panic, touching her forehead was hot, and sweeping her swollen and deformed ankles, he went crazy, and ran in the middle of the night with a person in his arms. The kind taxi driver stopped the car and asked him if he wanted to take a taxi, and he recovered a little bit and got into the car with April in his arms.
Hanging up in the emergency room at the nearest hospital, watching April being pushed in by the nurse, he slapped himself twice in hatred, regretting why he didn't find out that April was sick earlier. The thought of himself drinking and eating meat outside, and April lying on the cold ground and suffering from his illness, wished that he was the one who was sick. He waited anxiously, and kept begging the Bodhisattvas from all walks of life to bless April with peace and security.
Two hours later, April was pushed out of the operating room, Qi Yu stepped forward to inquire about the condition, and the doctor said succinctly: "The fever has reached 40 degrees, and if it is a little later, it will turn into pneumonia." The muscles in her right ankle were strained, but fortunately it didn't hurt the bone, so you should remember to dress her on time. Also, the wound on the right side of her body is a little inflamed, you should pay more attention to it and pay attention to cleaning to prevent infection. Now that her condition is stable, you go through the hospitalization procedures, for the sake of insurance, it is best to stay in the hospital for observation for three days. ”
When he heard the doctor say that April had a wound on his body, he frowned a little suspiciously, didn't ask more, and obediently went to the outpatient window to go through the formalities before returning to the ward to guard April. After such a heart-wrenching toss, April seemed to be thinner, and her cheeks were deeply sunken. Only then did he realize that he hadn't seen his April properly since he went home yesterday.
Ever since he was detained by the loan sharks, he had been thinking about April, and finally the other party released him back, and before he had spent enough time with April, he ran away from home in anger. He stubbornly and self-assured that April doesn't care about him and doesn't care about him, which is not fair to April at all.
In fact, to put it simply, it was because April did not respond to his marriage proposal that he took advantage of the topic to play, and he did not return all night at every turn. Such a wayward move was so impulsive, and he secretly reminded himself not to do it again in the future.
Speaking of which, he and April have been together for two years, and he knows best what kind of person she is. I still remember when his parents brought her back three years ago, he looked down on her. His parents were kind-hearted and took in the homeless girl and arranged a receptionist job for her at the restaurant they run. She is taciturn and lukewarm to anyone, only smiling when facing his parents.
Because she lived in his house, he couldn't look up and see her, and after a long time, he always saw her cold face, and he inevitably felt unhappy in his heart. secretly lobbied her parents to kick her out, but they didn't agree, and praised April for his diligence and steadfastness, and in turn persuaded him to learn from others.
This made him angry, and he thought that his parents felt that he was inferior to her, so he looked at her everywhere unpleasantly, and made soft nails for her openly and secretly, trying to make her retreat. I didn't think about it, whether this girl was blind or pretending to be stupid, she just dealt with the past one by one.
After stumbling like this, half a year later, his parents had a car accident and had an accident, and the person was gone. The family members of passers-by who were implicated by his parents and died came to the door to ask for compensation, the seven aunts and eight aunts also wanted a piece of the pie, and even the money lending company whose parents didn't know when the loan came over. For a while, all kinds of arguments and noises were in front of his house, so it was not lively.
At that time, he had a sudden change, his parents had left him, he was sad beyond words, and his girlfriend also broke up with him. Suffering one blow after another, his whole person collapsed, and he had no hope for the future at all. If April hadn't pulled him at a critical time, he might not have survived.
What happened later was very simple, he saw the true colors of those relatives clearly, and happily cut off relations with them, as for the property issues behind him, he didn't want a penny, and let them divide it.
If time comes all over again, he may fight for it, and he has been well protected by his parents until then, and has no concept of money at all, just wanting to leave this sad place. It wasn't until he followed April to her city and stepped into society in the true sense that he realized that it was not easy to make money.
Life must have been difficult at first, they lived in the basement, eating tasteless white steamed buns, shivering from the cold in the winter, and having frostbite on their hands and feet, and he felt that he was not as good as a dog. It's always April, April that is as weak and tough as Pucao, she never shouts bitterness or tiredness, she has to do odd jobs everywhere with her teeth, and she holds up a piece of the sky for him with her thin shoulders.
For the first two months, he couldn't find a job, and it was April that supported him with a pitiful salary. Later, he saw someone setting up a stall in the small night market in the east, and seeing that the business was doing well, he couldn't help but be moved, and told April his idea, but April didn't say anything, turned around and handed him a few thin bills he had earned.
He will never forget the gaze that April looked at him, clean, pure, like a squatting ice sculpture of the moon, unpretentious. It was at that moment that he suddenly had the idea of being with April for a long time.
I bought the barbecue tools and went to the thrift market to find a few plastic tables and chairs. When I came back, I went to the vegetable market and bought some enoki mushrooms, leeks, and meat products such as chicken thighs and ham sausages. Because it was just the beginning, they didn't dare to buy more, for fear that the business would not be good and lose money.
Because their family is a catering, although he has never operated it himself, he still has theoretical knowledge. After mixing several spices and letting April taste them one by one, and after selecting a few of them, they began their first stall career.
Perhaps it was because of the delicious condiments he had and the fact that there were several different types of condiments, and on the first day, their business was surprisingly hot and sold out quickly. At the beginning, they had a good start, and they had confidence, and then directly wholesaled large bags of meat skewers for barbecue. Only the vegetables they buy at the market, then wash them and put them on a plate with disposable wooden sticks.
After the business was good and they made some money, they rented a small apartment, and went to the second-hand market to find a refrigerator and an electric tricycle, after all, second-hand is better than renting all the time. Half a year later, he confessed to April.
He still remembered how nervous he was, with a big red face, and he couldn't say anything, and the silly girl in April thought he was sick. Later, I finally mustered up the courage to say it, and April didn't blush a little, but just let out a monotonous oh.
He thought to himself at that time, this girl is so cool, he confessed to her without giving him any hint, so that he could only speculate on whether she rejected him because she thought she was three years younger than her. Seeing that she reacted coldly, he didn't hold out any hope, and symbolically asked her if she was willing, but he was ready to pack up his baggage and leave.
But this girl is really cool to the end, and she replied succinctly and clearly, so that he couldn't believe his ears, and after confirming it several times, she nodded her head, and he had a sense of realism.
Two years have passed, and the way she gets along with him is no different from the past, he is still on the floor, he can't see that he can't eat, and he is like a monk with a pure heart and few desires.