43. Helpless in illness
When she woke up, she was lying on an emergency bed with a needle stuck in the back of her hand, and the liquid was dripping into her body.
Zhang Nanyan was stunned for a moment, her head hurt, and she couldn't remember what happened.
She looked at the infusion stand above her head in a daze, and it took her a long time to remember that she had been beaten by her uncle who hired her as a nurse. Then, she remembered the scene of the old man's death, and her heart was scared and sad.
At this time, a nurse came to check on the infusion, saw that she was awake, and said to her, "You are awake." You have a fever, thirty-nine degrees four, how do you not know the treatment if the fever is so serious? ”
The nurse looked at the infusion bottle, and there was still a small half left: "After the infusion of this bottle, you can go." However, if you have such a severe fever, it is best to come to the doctor tomorrow. ”
Zhang Nanyan only responded.
The nurse checked the situation and was about to leave.
Zhang Nanyan was bold and asked, "Excuse me, why am I here?" And also...... How do I pay for the medicine? ”
"A lady has already paid for you." The nurse recalled, "I heard that you were beaten by the patient's family, and a lady in a wheelchair was kind enough to ask someone to send you to the emergency room and paid for the medicine. ”
Zhang Nanyan carefully recalled the moment when she fell unconscious, she fell at the door of the physiotherapy room, and her blurred vision seemed to see a proud and cold woman looking at her.
Zhang Nanyan found that she was covered with a shawl. The shawl is a light gray color with a fine layer of short linter on the surface, which is soft and comfortable against the skin.
After the infusion, Zhang Nanyan got up from the hospital bed. Her legs were so weak that she barely got up.
The nurse took her temperature, three to three degrees Celsius.
"It's still a fever, you can stay in the hospital tonight for observation."
Zhang Nanyan shook her head: "No." ”
"What if you go back at night and have a bad fever?"
Zhang Nanyan lowered her head timidly, but insisted on being discharged.
"You little girl, why are you so stubborn."
The emergency department was busy, and other patients came to talk about it. The nurse didn't bother to persuade Zhang Nanyan again, and after explaining that she must come to the doctor the next day, she went to take care of other patients.
Zhang Nanyan stood up, held the head of the bed with her hand, waited for the vertigo in her head to pass, and then walked out of the hospital.
Outside, it was already dark. She looked at her watch, it was almost ten o'clock, and she could still catch the last bus.
Zhang Nanyan stepped up, but she was weak, and she was out of breath after a few steps.
"No, you have to hurry, you can't catch the bus!" Zhang Nanyan gritted her teeth and insisted on walking towards the bus stop.
When there were still five or six meters away from the bus stop, I saw a No. 313 bus driving out from under the stop sign.
She couldn't shout, she could only chase two steps, but she really didn't have the strength in her body, how could she catch up with the bus that was already moving.
Zhang Nanyan held her knees with both hands, gasping for breath, and her grievances rose to her heart.
"Didi ......" came with two horns.
She looked up and saw that the bus had not stopped far away.
She hurriedly picked up her strength and chased after her.
When she got on the bus, the door closed and the bus staggered out.
Zhang Nanyan was in a hurry to find change, and there was a mess in her satchel, the more anxious she was, the more she couldn't find it, and she was so anxious that she was about to cry.
"Don't worry, look for it slowly." The driver's uncle said heartily: "This is the last train for us, I saw that you little girl was in a hurry to catch up, thinking that there were not many passengers waiting for you, so that you would not be delayed going home." Little girl's house, try not to run outside alone at night. ”
Zhang Nanyan finally touched a dollar coin, she put the money into the coin box, and thanked the driver's uncle: "Thank you." ”
"It's okay, go find a seat and sit down."
Zhang Nanyan walked to the back row along the swaying carriage and sat down. She breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the people in the carriage.
The driver's uncle was about to get off work, humming a little song while driving.
In the first row sat a young man in professional attire, who dozed off with his head hanging tiredly.
In the back row of the young man sits a family of three, the woman holds the child, and the man holds a large bag. The wife leaned on her husband's toiling shoulder with a tired face, but the child in the mother's arms waved her little hands and smiled sweetly.
On the other side of the aisle, in the seats near the door, sat a couple, presumably college students, young boys and girls whispering head-to-head.
……
There will be neon lights flashing outside the car window, and then there will be a period of darkness, and there will be all kinds of human beings in the bus.
Zhang Nanyan's head hurt and she felt chills all over.
She had always held the shawl left by her kind aunt in her hand, reluctant to stuff it into her small satchel, and now she held it to her chest, and the soft velvet of the shawl pressed against her arms, neck and cheeks to help protect her from the cold.
She couldn't believe what she had been through in a day today. She witnessed death, being slapped, fainting with a high fever like a nightmare, how could she not be afraid and aggrieved. Now, her stomach twitched and hurt, and at noon she only cared about taking care of the old lady, and the steamed buns she bought never had time to eat, and they were still on the bedside table.
Zhang Nanyan thought, those two steamed buns were probably thrown away, what a pity.
Thinking about it, my stomach was even hungrier, and I gurgled and gurgled. She was even more aggrieved in her heart, she just wanted to go back to school as soon as possible, she must see Brother Lin as soon as possible, she wanted to tell him everything that happened today, and tell him about her grievances.
She never told Lin Dong about finding a job, she was used to solving all the problems by herself, and if she couldn't solve it, she would carry it. She was afraid that her arrival would add a burden to Brother Lin, and she wanted to support herself so that she could have a little courage to stand by Brother Lin's side.
Now, holding back her tears, she doesn't want to carry it herself. She wanted to hear Brother Lin's comfort, and wanted to hide in his arms and cry.
The bus stop finally arrived at the Shiyuan Station, and Zhang Nanyan rushed to the men's dormitory building as soon as she got off the bus.
When she got downstairs, she took out her phone card and called Lin Dong's dormitory.
A long string of numbers was entered, and a mechanical female voice came from the phone: "Sorry, you entered the wrong card number, please re-enter ......"
Zhang Nanyan shook her head, closed her eyes hard, opened them again, and stared at the number on the back of the phone card with wide eyes, but her vision was blurred for a while, and she finally lost the correct card number. Dialing the number, there was a beeping wiring sound in the earpiece.
"Hey, who's coming!"
"Is Brother Lin here?"
"Sister Xiaoyan? Didn't Lin Dong go on a date with you? ”
"No, I have something to do today, I'm not at school." Zhang Nanyan said anxiously: "Did he go to find me?" ”
A yawn came from the phone: "He answered the phone and left, I sounded like I was asking him to meet, not you called him?" ”
"No, no...... When will he ......" Zhang Nanyan still wanted to ask, the balance of the phone card was used up, and the phone was cold.
Zhang Nanyan put down the phone and ran to the girls' dormitory building.
She ran downstairs, there were couples under the shade of the trees and everywhere in the garden, so she looked for them one by one, and looked around but didn't see Lin Dong's figure.
Zhang Nanyan rushed up to the dormitory building, wanting to ask Bai Jing and Jin Mian if Lin Dong had come to her. However, when she ran up to the fourth floor in one go, she saw that the iron lock on the dormitory door was still locked.
Did they never come back?
Or are they out again?
Or, is it that Bai Jing and Jin Mian are disgusted with her living in the dormitory, and are embarrassed to say it to her face, so they let her move out on their own in this way?
The last bit of strength on Zhang Nanyan's body was taken away, and her eyes turned black for a while, and she slipped softly.