Chapter 10 – Rescuing My Brother
It was an unusual night, for Cheerilee dreamed of her brother in her dreams, and saw him curled up in a dimly damp corner, his body shaking, his teeth chattering, and whispering, "I'm so cold, so cold." ”
All Cheerilee could hear her brother repeating, "I'm cold, I'm cold." The sound kept lingering in her ears, and she was suddenly awakened from her dream, and her forehead was covered with cold sweat. Cheerilee wiped a handful of cold sweat from her forehead, and her heart was faintly pinched.
It didn't take long for Cheerilee to wake up, the hazy sky seemed to be covered with a quilt, and the thick cumulus clouds were going to overwhelm people, she suddenly felt very thirsty, so she staggered to pour water and drink one step at a time, but a careless "click" smashed the teacup to the ground, and heard the movement in the inner room, Lan Yi, who had not slept all night, knocked on the door and whispered: "Cheerilee, are you awake?" ”
In fact, Lan Yi had long been uneasy because of guilt, because after all, Che Yuechi was missing now because he and Cheerilee were in order to cover him, and he knew that today, he should have stepped forward to help, instead of following Che Yuechi's words and taking Cheerilee to leave first. Fortunately, the Che family was more tolerant, and no one blamed him.
Through the door, Cheerilee replied, "Is it Lan Yi, is there something wrong?" ”
"I heard movement in the back room, and thought something had happened to you, and wanted to come and see you."
As soon as she thought of Lan Yi's heartfelt words to herself on the mountain, she became ashamed, and her face burned red, like a brilliant sunset after sunset. "It's okay, you can go back first." Cheerilee said, "By the way, you must go to my brother again today." But when she thought about the dream she had just had, Cheerilee still had palpitations.
"Don't worry, no problem. Then I'll go back to the house and sleep first. Lan Yi hesitated for a moment with an uneasy heart, but then turned to leave.
As soon as the morning dawned, Lan Yi decided to go up the mountain alone to find Che Yuechi, and the sky gradually got a lot better. The snow has gradually melted, and it is no longer slippery snow under the soles of my feet, but I have searched for most of the day and have not found any trace of Che Yuechi.
Lan Yi couldn't help but clench his fist again and slammed into a pine tree beside him, feeling annoyed, the pine tree shook, and the pine needles on it were scattered on the ground, which also alarmed the birds that swept past the tree.
And the father and daughter of the car and the father and daughter of the Mo family at the bottom of the mountain also went up the mountain as soon as it was dawn, before going up the mountain, the father saw that there was no Lan Yi, and he knew that this kid had sneaked up the mountain, but it was no different from Lan Yi, and the three of them also searched to no avail.
However, when Lan Yi went down the mountain, he met the father of the car and the father and daughter of the Mo family who were going down the mountain together, Lan Yi asked: "Uncle, have you seen Brother Yuechi?" Unexpectedly, the father of the car said a little angrily at this time: "No." ”
Lan Yi knew that Father Che was angry with him in his heart, but he didn't show it at the moment yesterday, and he didn't find it until now, which revealed the anger he was holding back a little, after all, Che Yuechi disappeared to cover Lan Yi, who was carrying Cheerilee.
Che Yuechi has been missing for a long time, so Uncle Che and his old man don't care about Lan Yi and save Cheerilee. Lan Yi felt quite uneasy in his heart, as turbulent as the surging tide.
After going down the mountain, the people didn't speak anymore all the way like dumb people, all of them were like sunburned grass in the afternoon, hanging their heads, especially Lan Yi's thoughts stirred into a pot of rich soup in his heart.
The day is bright, but their hearts are gray.
The sunlight became more and more dazzling, shining from all directions, like a sharp sword. When the peasant women saw that the sky was clear, they all dragged a wooden basin and a pile of dirty clothes to the river beach to wash their clothes.
Washing and washing, a peasant woman found that something was wrong, how her white shirt had turned pale red, and then looked down at the river, which was glowing red in the sun, and put her fingers wet with the river water on her nose and sniffed, a fishy smell, it was blood, it was the smell of blood. Looking along the slowly flowing blood-stained river, there was a medicine basket not far away.
The peasant woman whispered to several other peasant women, and tiptoed close to the medicine basket, and when she picked up the medicine basket and did not know why, she looked back and saw that her throat was ringing in fright, and it turned out that in the pile of grass at her feet, there was a person lying upright, I don't know whether it was dead or alive.
More and more peasant women came forward, and some of them exclaimed, "Isn't this Che Yuechi, the township doctor who saves people and doesn't need money?" ”
"Ah, it's him, this is a great good man." Some peasant women sighed.
"How did this happen?" The peasant women whispered to each other in private, and there was a lot of discussion.
"It's important to save people, let's go and inform the old man Che." There was still a more sober and rational peasant woman in the crowd who said something at the right time.
"Yes, yes, let's go." As she spoke, a few peasant women threw down their clothes and ran in the direction of Che's house.
On the way to Che's house, these peasant women just caught up with the old man Che and other people who were about to go home, and when they saw that it was the Che family, they stopped and said breathlessly: "Che, old man Che, your son has been found, found!" ”
As soon as he heard that his son had a whereabout, Old Man Che's eyes lit up. "Where is Yue'er, where is he?" Old man Che couldn't wait to ask.
"It's right there, right on the beach where we wash our clothes, in a bush." A peasant woman panted and took over the conversation.
"Let's get there." Lan Yi turned his head and twisted to the father of the car and the Mo father and daughter.
When the three of them rushed to the river beach non-stop, they found that it was already crowded with a bunch of people, pointing at Che Yuechi, what "How difficult it is for good people." "Life should not be extinguished. "A great good man." "There have been good Samaritans who have moved Che Yuechi to the shore.
Perhaps touched by this scene, Lan Yi's first "buzzing" sounded, "Why, it's so well written." A gentle and touching face came to mind, accompanied by her melodious voice.
Who is she, why does she praise me for how well I write, what do I write? Lan Yi held his head in both hands, and kept seeing some fragmented pictures, but he just couldn't connect them, and his head was dizzy for a while.
Lan Yi's vision blurred, he felt that he couldn't stand it anymore, and said in his mouth: "No, I don't want to remember, no." Old Man Che and Mo's father and daughter hurriedly stepped forward to inspect Che Yuechi's injuries, and saw Lan Yi holding his head stupidly, his body swaying, Old Man Che couldn't help but scolded in a low voice: "Foolish, why are you still stunned, why don't you come to help." ”
Hearing this reproach, Lan Yi pulled himself out of the bitter sea of searching for memories. I rubbed my head with my right hand, and shook my mind for a while before I came to my senses, blinking my eyes, and my consciousness was much clearer. He hurriedly stepped forward to help Che Yuechi.
Lifting Che Yuechi from the ground, his head drooped to the side, his gray cotton coat soaked in blood, and the coagulated blood scab attracted several large, gray-green flies to hover around him.
"Yue'er, my son." After driving away the green-headed flies, the old man Che hugged Che Yuechi and cried, Master Mo hadn't seen him cry so sadly for so many years, "Old Che, you let me give me a pulse." Saying that, Master Mo stepped forward and picked up Che Yuechi's left sleeve and took the pulse, "There is still breath, but the breath is weak, and it is more serious than Lan Yi's injury that day." Then Master Mo inspected Che Yuechi's left hand again, and the flesh and blood of the left hand torn by the gray wolf were blurred, which made people unbearable to look at.
Master Mo sighed, Mo Dai touched a big bag on the back of Che Yuechi's head, it was estimated that he was injured by falling from the mountain after fighting with the gray wolf, rubbing this bulge, Mo Dai's tears flowed out along the eye sockets, her eyelashes fluttered and trembled, like a wounded bird, she choked and couldn't speak. Just stroked Che Yuechi's cheek vigorously. Master Mo also knows the thoughts of his daughter's family.
"Let's carry Yuechi home, he's seriously injured now." When Master Mo said this, he raised his cuffs and secretly wiped a tear from the corner of his eye.
After Lan Yi heard Master Mo's instructions, he immediately carefully carried Che Yuechi behind him, remembering that this was the benefactor who saved him and carried him back to the Che family that day, his steps were more decisive, he thought to himself that what was good or bad about Che Yuechi, how could he explain to the Che family, especially Cheerilee.
Although he is a patient, Che Yuechi has a strong physique and is not lightweight, Lan Yi was trembling all the way, and his cheeks were sweating, Mo Dai saw that Lan Yi was sweaty, so he took out a handkerchief and wiped his sweat for him, but he didn't expect the old man Che to see it and say: "Prospective daughter-in-law, there is a difference between men and women." He coughed and looked away.
As soon as I stepped into the house, I heard Cheerilee shouting happily, "Is my brother back?" Unexpectedly, what was waiting for was Lan Yi's unconscious Che Yuechi. Cheerilee immediately rushed to the atrium with a rush of blood, and the mother fainted all at once.
"Mother, mother." Cheerilee yelled at the mother who fell to the ground.
Mo Dai hurriedly stepped forward to help the mother who was lying on the ground, took out a small bottle tied around her waist and sniffed it for the mother, and the mother gradually recovered from the syncope.
Lan Yi carefully placed Che Yuechi on the bed, "Take off his clothes, and I'll check the wound." Master Mo asked Lan Yi to take off the cotton clothes on Che Yuechi's body, revealing a strong and sturdy chest, but the chest was blue and purple, and there were bruises all over it, especially the left arm had been torn, which was shocking, and Che Yuezi was so frightened that he couldn't help covering his mouth.
"The blood from the wound has coagulated, but it can be infected, so you have to scrape off the blister-white rotten flesh of one to two millimeters of his wound, and after stitches, apply herbs." Master Mo said to everyone.
At this time, Mo Dai touched Che Yuechi's head and found that it was hot, "Daddy, look, my brother's head is so hot." Master Mo hurriedly touched it, it was very hot. So I decided to do the surgery as soon as possible.
After three hours of healing, the rotten flesh was scraped off, the stitches were finished, and the herbs were applied, but the fever did not go away.
Cheerilee remembered that Lan Yi also had a high fever that day, and she remembered her dowry jade pendant again, limped up from the bed, and leaned against the wall to find the brocade box in the cabinet.
"Good girl, what are you doing?" The old man asked Cheerilee puzzled, "Your foot injury is not healed, don't run around." ”
"I'm going to take the jade pendant that my mother left for me and put it in my brother's mouth, so that his fever will subside." As she spoke, Cheerilee took out the jade pendant from the brocade box, which was tightly wrapped in a brocade papa. handed over the jade pendant to Master Mo.
"Is there such a spiritual jade in the world? Can I cool down and reduce fever? Master Mo half-convinced opened Che Yuechi's mouth and placed the jade pendant under his tongue.
I don't know what happened to me, after half an hour of jade, Che Yuechi still didn't show signs of fever, "If it goes on like this, my brain will burn out." "Master Mo is a little helpless.
"But Lan Yi had a fever that day, and he relied on it to reduce his fever, and there would be nothing wrong with it." Cheerilee furrowed her brow, almost breaking down.
"What, Yue'er's brain will burn out, you mean." Old Man Che didn't dare to say any more, and Master Mo was silent and didn't answer.
"I'll open a few more herbs and let Lan Yi feed him." As he spoke, Master Mo wrote a few prescriptions with a stroke of his pen.
"I'm feeding Brother Yuechi? But it's okay that he's awake, how can he feed him if he's unconscious at the moment? Lan Yi scratched her head.
"Stupid, you can feed you how Yuechi fed you back then."
"Master Mo, I still don't understand."
"Stupid, that's it, just pour it into him mouth-to-mouth. It's stupid. Master Mo said as he pursed his lips and made a kissing gesture to show Lan Yi.
"Could it be that Brother Yuechi fed me medicine like this in the first place? No wonder Cheerilee didn't tell me, and always joked about it. Lan Yi thought of this, his eyes turned black, and he was about to faint, thinking of the two big men exchanging saliva mouth-to-mouth, his stomach turned upside down.
Speaking of this, everyone turned their heads and looked at Lan Yi, seeing Lan Yi's hair.
"My son sacrificed so much to save you, do you feed it or not?" The father was a little impatient.
"I'll feed, I'll feed." Although Lan Yi has hair on his body, but the person lying on the bed at the moment is his savior after all, no matter how much he resists, he has to do it, thinking about it like this, Lan Yi glanced back at the unconscious Che Yuechi, and his eyes revealed firmness.