Chapter 47: Overthinking
Dabao's mouth bit too hard, Erniang didn't wait to come back to her senses, she screamed "whoosh", shook off Dabao hard, and fell to the ground. After all, Erniang's weight of dozens of catties, how can she afford to be crushed by Dabao's body of two hundred catties, I saw her hands on the ground, her body was crooked, and the center of gravity of the whole person was planted on the wrist of her right hand. She fell to the ground with her teeth bared, not daring to move. When the second uncle heard the sound, he ran into the house, helped Erniang to the kang and looked at her wrist, her wrist was swollen as thick as the mouth of a small bowl. At this moment, he almost broke one of her arms. The second uncle rummaged through the cabinets and searched for a long time, but did not find a single pill, so he went to the kitchen to get a bottle of liquor, he unscrewed the cap, poured it on a hot towel, and gently rubbed it on his arm.
But the more you rub the more it hurts, the more you rub it the more swollen it becomes, the second uncle sees the second mother grinning, the pain is sweating, a glimpse of the big treasure in the corner, immediately angry to hit up, he picked up the duster from the kang head, pulled the big treasure back, raised his hand, just about to hit him, the big treasure crawled to the edge of the kang with a roll, and saw that it was about to fall to the ground, and the second uncle was distressed again. In the face of such a child, how could he bear to beat him.
"Be careful, don't fall on the ground and break it, see if you bite grandma, you're hurt, if you bite again, send you back, see who wants you!" The second uncle said "hi", picked up Dabao vigorously, and put it back in the kang. This kid is too heavy, so the second uncle can hold him. After the second uncle put him away, he sighed and went to rub Erniang's arm.
"I--no--back--home!" As soon as he heard that he was going home, Dabao opened his big mouth and cried, his pitiful appearance of a handful of snot and tears made people feel pity, the second uncle shook his head, wiped his chin with a small handkerchief under his neck and said: "Don't cry anymore, if you bite grandma again in the future, I will send you back and let your parents beat you hard, see if anyone dares to care about you!" Probably he knew he was in trouble, and as soon as he heard that he was going to send him back, he covered his ears and curled up in the corner, trembling with fear.
This kid has grown so big that he never bites, and what evil is it today? When the second uncle saw his pitiful appearance, his heart softened again. The old and the small in the room did not speak.
Xiaohong's mother came back from the field, she took off her coat covered with vegetable leaves and was about to wash her face, when she suddenly heard Dabao's cry from the yard of Erniang's house, and she wondered very much: The older this child is, the worse it looks, and it's not fun in the daytime, why are you crying?
"What the hell is this family doing, the child is crying like this, why is no one taking care of it!" Xiaohong's mother couldn't listen to it anymore, she hurriedly put down the clothes in her hand, looked at the west courtyard for a long time, and heard the crying getting louder and louder, so she rushed over and went into the house to take a look, she was also dumbfounded.
She saw that Erniang's arm was swollen and couldn't look like this, so she stared at her eyes and said, "Second sister-in-law's arm is swollen like this, why is it still standing?" Hurry up to the hospital and have a look, if you go late, you will be in big trouble! Second brother, go to Guodong quickly, ask him to put on the car immediately, and hurry to the orthopedic hospital. ”
"Look at what your grandma has become, see who will still feel sorry for you in the future, you stay at home today, don't cause trouble, we will go to the city to show your grandma's arm! Listen to your wife at home, and don't crawl around! After the second uncle finished speaking, he turned around and went to find Guodong to set the car, Xiaohong's mother took out a clean coat for Erniang from the box and put it on, and brought Xiaohong's grandmother to help take care of Dabao, Sun Guodong put the carriage on the horse, and rushed to the door of the second uncle's house, and everyone carried Erniang to the car and went to the city.
Erniang's wrist fell very hard, at the beginning, she didn't go to the hospital for treatment, and the second uncle knew that she was not at ease to leave Dabao at home. After Xiaohong's mother's repeated persuasion, she agreed, and before going out, she watched the child shed a few sad tears.
Doctors at the orthopedic hospital took a film of her arm and did some treatment, and they waited there for more than two hours before the film was washed out.
Erbo took the film to the doctor, and the doctor took the film and looked at it again and again, and told Erniang that her wrist had been broken into a comminuted fracture, and after the plaster cast, the muscles and bones were injured for a hundred days. The doctor also suggested that Erniang be hospitalized for observation for a few days, and Erniang was worried about Dabao, so after prescribing some tablets for bruises, she came back with her wrist after the plaster cast.
After Erniang came back, Dabao saw Erniang fall like this, and sat honestly in the corner, like a wounded bird, his eyes were full of fear, and he stared at Erniang motionlessly. Seeing that Erniang kept looking at him, he silently crawled over, carefully touched Erniang's arm, pursed his mouth, and blew on it again and again.
"Or, send Dabao back, he's so old, he can take care of him too!" The second uncle sat silently next to Erniang, he lowered his voice very low, and said helplessly.
"This kid has been with us for more than 20 years, and he will be sent back coldly, can he get used to it? Such a child is not easy to serve, and besides, his mother has not served for a day since he was a child, and two and a half days have passed, can she take care of him? Erniang said reluctantly.
"You think too much about this, she's a, and the child doesn't look good, she has to take good care of it. When the children return to their homes, they slowly get used to it, and no matter how good the conditions in the countryside are, they are not as good as the conditions in the city. You just don't fall, the child belongs to someone else, and sooner or later he has to go back, we are so old that we can't hold our legs anymore, so let his parents take him back! When we go back, our children will be able to enjoy themselves and save ourselves from suffering from our crimes. The second uncle lowered his head and sighed again and again. He also knows that the child can't be kept, and he can send it back when he can, it's all his own children, and there's nothing to say.
Erniang lowered her head and was silent for a long time, she looked like this, and she couldn't take care of the child in the future, so she also nodded in agreement. She is old, her legs and feet are not flexible, and her wrist is broken like this, she can't hold this child, in case there is another headache and brain fever, she can't take care of it, and it's a good thing to let his parents pick him up, she just can't get over this hurdle in her heart.
When Dabao heard that his grandfather was going to send him back to the city, he cried at that time. He crawled to Erniang's side with a handful of snot and tears, hugged her neck, and was another translation, and no one understood what he wanted to express. When Erniang saw him like this, tears flowed down at that time.
Two days later, Dabao's father drove to the second uncle's house to pick up Dabao home. Before leaving, Dabao held the edge of the kang with both hands, and did not leave. He looked at Erniang with his mouth wide open, wiping his face with his hands while crying, making a fuss as miserable as a flower-faced tiger.
Dabao was still forcibly taken away by his father, and his crying sound disappeared in the alley immediately with a smoke behind the car. Erniang stood at the gate of the courtyard, holding the bolt in her hand, looking at the direction they were going, and stood for an afternoon before returning to the house.
Erniang's arm fell like this, she couldn't even take care of herself, she really couldn't keep this child anymore. After Dabao was picked up, the house was empty, as if there were many people missing, and it suddenly became cold and deserted, and Erniang cried for several days before she came to her senses. When the second uncle saw her so sad, he persuaded her: "The city is not too far, and the transportation is so convenient, if you want to treasure Dabao, we can go into the city to see him at any time." You've been worrying like this all day long, and you can't hold back your problems? Erniang didn't speak, just whimpered, and her physique was getting worse and worse.
Three months passed quietly, and Erniang's wrist gradually improved. She followed her second uncle to the hospital to remove the plaster, although this hand healed very well, but the housework was not as good as before.
There was a lack of big treasure at home, and Erniang suddenly had nothing to do, so she was idle. Life is irregular, Erniang has no smile on her face, she rarely goes outside, and even when the second uncle is not at home, she even eats cold and hot to deal with, recently, her old stomach disease has been committed again, and it is getting worse day by day.
When Erniang is fine, she also likes to wander outside the hospital, and when she sees people in the alley, she says: "It's old, it's useless." If this hand can still work, I still want to bring Dabao back! "After a long time, the people in the alley just laughed and never made any answers.
One night in early winter, Erniang sat on the kang around a quilt, she looked at the frost flowers on the glass window for a long time, and said to the second uncle faintly: "Dabao hasn't written for a while, and I don't know what he is like now?" After the Spring Festival, I want to go to her house to see, but I don't know if he misses me? Erniang said faintly, whether Dabao is doing well or not is a piece of her heart, if there is no news of Dabao for a few days, she may not even eat meat. The last thing she can let go of in her heart in her life is this child.
"Then can you not think about it, this child has grown up by his side since he was a child, if it weren't for your poor health, I wouldn't agree to let her mother take him back. How nice it would have been if this child hadn't had this disease! ”
"But no, if this child is not sick, he can marry a daughter-in-law now, look at other people's children, and then look at this child in his own family, I don't know the sin made in the previous life! Just let him look like this, who sees who is worried, when will he be a head! In the dark, Erniang let out a long sigh again.
"The child is fine, and his mother takes good care of it, so don't worry about it anymore! I don't sleep well in the middle of the night, isn't this self-torture? If you think so much more, I think you're going to be mentally ill! The second uncle lay on the kang and said with his eyes closed.
"If her mother really takes good care of her, I will be relieved! I'm afraid that his parents will dislike him and treat him well! ”
"You're redundant, sleep well, what's wrong, people's conditions are so good, they take care of it better than you! You are so sad every day, you can't think about anything, don't toss yourself out of trouble and worry your children, even if you help them. If you have a good one, the children still have to take care of you, isn't this causing chaos for the children? Erniang didn't speak, she coughed lightly twice, and suddenly covered her chest, "Oops, oops" and screamed a few times in a row. The second uncle hurriedly got up, and saw that Erniang's face was pale, she curled up, and it took a long time to catch her breath.
Erbo turned on the electric light, saw Erniang's face was purple, and said in his heart that it was not good, she must have had a sudden illness, so she hurriedly went out to find a doctor.