Chapter Twenty-Eight: An Inescapable Nightmare
The weather is very good, the breeze is not dry, Mo Jiu took the children at home to go on a trip this day, with a paper kite made by himself in his hand, watching the children put paper kites on the green grass, the paper kite is made of a big dragonfly, the wings of the dragonfly are very large and long, and they fly high when the wind blows gently, Ye Ruzhen and Mo Jiu sit on the grass together.
Ye Ruzhen raised her head to look at the high-flying kite and muttered, "If only I could be as free as that kite." ”
In fact, Mo Jiu didn't understand the meaning of Ye Ruzhen's words at that time, he could only smile stupidly.
Touching the hairpin with his hand in his coat pocket, the hairpin was so hot that he didn't dare to take it out, and the two people in his mind were engaged in a fierce ideological struggle.
But he just held his breath and didn't dare to say it, until Zhou Meng and the others came back, and he was still frowning and wondering whether to confess to Ye Ruzhen.
Ye Ruzhen saw that it was almost time to go home, so she stood up and patted the dust on her body, and said to Mo Jiu on the side: "Brother Jiu, let's go home!" It's almost time to prepare dinner. ”
Mo Jiu blushed, his brain suddenly became hot at this moment, and he didn't know where he got the courage, so he stood up, took out a hairpin from his pocket and handed it to Ye Ruzhen, stammering: "Xiaoru, I, I like you." ”
Ye Ruzhen looked at the shiny hairpin, not to mention how much she liked it, but she also knew that she had such an unbearable past, and she was not worthy of Mo Jiu, even if she liked him very much in her heart.
"I'm sorry, Brother Jiu, I don't like you." Ye Ruzhen gritted her teeth and said calmly, she was afraid that she would change her words by accident, so she immediately turned away, and her eyes turned red all of a sudden.
How she wanted to say to Mo Jiu: "Actually, I like you too!" "But I can't.
I'm dirty enough, why do I have to pull a person into the water.
Mo Jiu's heart fell to the ground and shattered, sure enough, she didn't like herself, she had fantasies that she shouldn't have. The two of them didn't speak for a long time after that, and Ye Ruzhen kept avoiding Mo Jiu.
Sometimes life is always a joke, and when you think everything is quiet again, it suddenly throws you into the deep sea and breaks you up.
On this day, Mo Jiu was just about to get up and go out to help the people who had made an appointment to write a notebook, just walked out of the door not far away, and suddenly felt very tight in his chest, he raised his hand and grabbed his chest, his heart seemed to be burned by fire, and suddenly the sky swirled and fainted.
Ye Ruzhen was very anxious, so she went out to find a doctor, the doctor took Mo Jiu's pulse, gasped, and immediately took care of her things in fear, Ye Ruzhen hurriedly grabbed the doctor who was about to run away and asked, "Doctor, why don't you run away without saying a reason after seeing the doctor?" ”
The doctor shook Ye Ruzhen away and said, "He got an epidemic!" If I don't run, do I have to wait to be infected? ”
"Doctor! Is there a cure for the disease? Ye Ruzhen dragged the doctor to prevent him from running.
The doctor couldn't get rid of Ye Ruzhen, looking at her in tattered clothes, thinking that she had no money, so he planned to leave without thinking about it, poor man! There are many people who have no money to treat the disease, and there are many people who die of illness.
"Yes, there is, but the medicinal materials are very expensive!" The doctor yelled.
Ye Ruzhen hurriedly took out the silver from her pocket in exchange for a few pieces of pawn jewelry and stuffed them into the doctor's palm, and then knelt on the cold ground with a "plop", she bowed her head and begged: "Doctor! Please! Save him! As long as I can revive him, no matter how much money it is, I will be willing to give it! ”
The doctor originally thought that the little girl was dressed in tatters and must be a moneyless master, but he didn't expect that the silver ingots stuffed into his palm were very heavy.
In this era, it is so turbulent, and it is not easy to make money, since you have a business, you can't make money in vain.
"Well, okay, so be it! Today, I will prescribe a prescription for you first, give you medicine, and then I will diagnose and treat him according to the situation. The doctor agreed.
Ye Ruzhen happily kowtowed to thank this doctor for saving his life, but where did she think that the person in front of her was a black-hearted bad doctor!
Ye Ruzhen sat in front of the medicine stove, the firewood burned violently, the heat on the medicine jar was steaming fiercely, and the flames reflected Ye Ruzhen's round goose egg face, burning red, but her eyes were out of focus and in a daze.
She felt very scared at this moment, afraid that Mo Jiu would not be able to wake up after falling asleep all at once.
Just like when A-Niang left, she watched it, but she couldn't do anything, and finally watched A-Niang being swept up by a broken grass mat and buried in the cold and dark soil.
She had already lost her dearest person once, and she didn't want to lose a second time.
Zhou Meng ran in front of Ye Ruzhen and shouted, "Sister Ye! ”
Ye Ruzhen came back to her senses at this time, she raised her hand to wipe the tears oozing from the corners of her eyes, and hurriedly looked at Zhou Meng with a smile: "Mengmeng, what's wrong with you?" ”
Zhou Meng raised her white and tender little hand and grabbed Ye Ruzhen's hand, she shook it and said, "Sister Ye, I believe that Brother Nine will be fine soon, isn't it!" ”
Ye Ruzhen nodded with a smile, touched Zhou Meng's cute little head and said, "Yes!" Brother Nine is such a good person, he will definitely be good, how could God be willing to let such a good person go? ”
Zhou Mengcan nodded with a smile, hugged Ye Ruzhen and said, "What Sister Ye said is right! Brother Nine is such a good person, how could God be willing to accept him? ”
In fact, Ye Ruzhen knows how serious and terrible the epidemic is, there were so many pus and festering people on the street before, and the death was so miserable, and it is still vivid in my mind.
How easy is it to get really better?
Ye Ruzhen came to Mo Jiu with a bowl of medicine, Mo Jiu's consciousness was already a little sober, but his face was pale, his body was weak, and his forehead was hot like boiling water.
Ye Ruzhen picked up Mo Jiu and picked up the broken porcelain bowl containing medicine, and there were still some missing marks on the mouth of the bowl. Ye Ruzhen took a soup spoon, scooped a spoonful of Chinese medicine, blew it lightly, pursed her lips and smiled and said to Mo Jiu: "Brother Jiu, take some medicine!" ”
Mo Jiu's chest rose and fell, he gasped lightly, and said like a gossamer: "What's wrong with me?" Why did I suddenly get sick? ”
Ye Ruzhen replied with a smile: "Brother Jiu just has ordinary typhoid fever, it's okay, as long as you take medicine well, you will be fine in a few days." ”
Mo Jiu didn't doubt Ye Ruzhen's words for a while, looked at her and nodded: "Then I'll rest assured, I still have a pair of notebooks outside that I haven't finished!" If it drags on for too long, they won't ask me to write, and if they don't have money, they won't be able to eat, and they'll be hungry. ”
Ye Ruzhen lowered her eyelashes, frowned slightly between her eyebrows, and said, "Your illness is not a serious illness, as long as you treat it well, it will be fine." You see that you are so sick, why do you still think about others! You should think about yourself. ”
"Actually, my body is often sick, and I'm used to it, when I was sick in the past, I would go out to sell calligraphy and write family letters, but I was all fine, and I don't know what happened this time, this typhoid fever is so serious, I can't even get up." Mo Jiu smiled dismally after speaking.
Ye Ruzhen comforted: "Illness comes like a mountain, everyone will always be sick one day, but as long as you take medicine well and treat the disease well, then it will definitely be fine." ”
After listening to Ye Ruzhen's words, Mo Jiu smiled and nodded.
Mo Jiu believed Ye Ruzhen's words, Ye Ruzhen slowly fed the medicine into Mo Jiu's mouth, and watched him finish all the medicines, feeling a lot more relieved.
Ye Ruzhen watched Mo Jiu finish drinking the medicine and added: "Brother Jiu, your typhoid fever is contagious, so I have to isolate you first, and you can't come into contact with them, otherwise they will get sick if they are infected by you, I don't think you want them to fall ill!" ”
Mo Jiu felt that what Ye Ruzhen said was very reasonable, nodded and agreed: "Yes, what Xiaoru said is good." ”
After that, Ye Ruzhen took a few broken mats and covered Mo Jiu's bed, and told Zhou Meng and them not to get close to Mo Jiu, and Zhou Meng and they all obediently agreed.
Zhou Meng and the others knew that Mo Jiu needed to spend a lot of money to see a doctor, so they would go to the street to beg during the day, hoping that it would be good to get a few pennies.
Ye Ruzhen took good care of Mo Jiu during the day, fed him good medicine, and would go with Zhou Meng and them, recently she had eaten the two patches of medicine she grabbed for Mo Jiu, and her body was already stretched.
She covered her face with ash because she was afraid that she would be discovered by the people of the Qinglou outside.
The streets were bustling, people came and went, and she knelt on the cold and hard ground, knocking her two knees painfully and blue, but at the end of the day, all she could earn was a few copper plates.
No one sympathized with them, and no one was willing to help them, Ye Ruzhen frowned and looked at the few cold coins in her hand, and couldn't help but worry, those medicinal materials were so expensive, and this money couldn't even buy a little medicine residue.
But Mo Jiu needs to take medicine, and if he doesn't take medicine to cure his illness, he will die! It's exactly the same as when A-Niang died!
She ran to the doctor alone and begged the doctor: "Doctor, can you please give me the medicine first, and let me save people first!" Otherwise, he would have died! ”
The doctor rolled his eyes, snorted angrily, and said, "If you don't have money, you still want to be treated? Dream! ”
"Doctor!! Ye Ruzhen grabbed the corner of the doctor's sleeve and cried, crying and kowtowing and begging: "Doctor! I beg you! I beg you! Help me save people! ”
The doctor snorted coldly, glanced at Ye Ruzhen impatiently and said, "How much money do you have?" I'll think about it first. ”
Ye Ruzhen thought there was hope, and hurriedly took out the copper plates from her pocket, knelt and held them in front of the doctor with both hands, but the doctor was even more angry when he saw the copper plates, and the flesh on his slightly obese face kept trembling.
He grabbed Ye Ruzhen's slender arm and dragged it to the door of the medical hall, and threw Ye Ruzhen out, Ye Ruzhen rolled down the rough and uneven stone steps, and her whole body hurt. The copper plates rolled to the ground.
The doctor shook his head and scolded bitterly: "What kind of place are you and I here?!" If you don't have money, you still want to be cured? Pack up and roll with your copper plates! ”
Then the doctor: "Bang! With a slam shut, Ye Ruzhen stood up from the stone steps, she slowly walked to the copper plates, she slowly bent down and picked up the copper plates little by little.
These copper plates were begged by Zhou Meng and them who knelt with her for a day, the ground on the side of the street was so cold and so hard, the children had not eaten for a day, only asked for a few copper plates, and suddenly a cold wind blew, and her eyes were blown wet and red.
She picked up the copper plate, she didn't want to cry, but somehow, those tears fell on the copper plate one by two, and her heart kept sour and bitter.
She picked up the last copper plate on the stone steps and was about to get up and leave, walking forward, who knew that a tall figure stood in front of her, she went to the left, the figure went to the left, she went to the right, the figure went to the right, just to block her way.
"Yo! Where are you going? The flirtatious, shrill voice rang out.
The voice she was familiar with couldn't be more familiar, it haunted her like a nightmare, and she just wanted to run away at the moment!
Just as she was about to run, the man grabbed her arm, and the force seemed to break her arm alive!
One person grabbed Ye Ruzhen's chin with the other hand, and the face that made her tremble with fear appeared in front of her, it was a demon! That's the abyss! That's hell!
Ye Ruzhen was upset, and she couldn't break free, and her eyes became wet and red again.
Looking at Ye Ruzhen's pitiful appearance in front of him, Zhou Yaozong's heart was even more like being scratched by a kitten, he swallowed his saliva, pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled: "Yo! Xiaoru girl, this is trying to escape? ”
Ye Ruzhen slapped away the hand that lifted her chin and denied it loudly: "You recognized the wrong person!" ”
"I didn't expect Miss Xiaoru to go out of the building, I didn't learn other skills, but I learned to deceive people! It's a pity, it's a pity, your deceptive skills are not very good! It's not as good as the tricks you have in the building! Zhou Yaozong sneered contemptuously.
Zhou Yaozong's hand holding her arm was full of strength, and she couldn't break free no matter how she broke free: "Let go!" If you don't let me go, I'm going to call someone! ”
Zhou Yaozong laughed twice, looked at Ye Ruzhen and said, "Little as a girl!" Don't think I don't know how you got out! Last time I went to Mingyan Tower, I asked Wang's mother about you, and she told me that you had the epidemic and died! Fortunately, I'm smart and witty, but I didn't tell Mother Wang that you are still alive! Otherwise! You've been caught by her a long time ago! What do you think? Do you want to thank me? If you want to shout here, you can do it too! Aren't you afraid to call the people in the building again? ”
Ye Ruzhen's face turned pale in an instant, her hands and feet were cold, her voice trembled and cried, "You let me go!" I'm going back! ”
Zhou Yaozong felt that he was already in the upper hand, and he was very proud, and looked at Ye Ruzhen with his spare eyes and said, "Little as a girl!" I know where you're going! Who called you the one I missed? The last time I met you, I thought about it day and night, so I sent someone to investigate you. Since you like to stay in that kind of slum, I don't care about you! But what a distress it was for me to see you begging on the side of the road with those little beggars! ”
"What are you going to do?! I'm not from the building now, and I have nothing to do with you! Why can't you be ignorant! Ye Ruzhen's voice was almost pleading, and her voice trembled.
"It's okay if you don't know." After speaking, Zhou Yaozong suddenly spread Ye Ruzhen's arm, smiled meaningfully, leaned close to Ye Ruzhen's ear and whispered: "If you are very short of money, you can come to me, I promise to give you enough money." ”
Ye Ruzhen hurriedly bounced away and roared angrily: "I don't need it!" "After saying that, he will run away.
Zhou Yaozong looked at the gray back in the distance, showed his white teeth and smiled.