Chapter 15: Horror Heard
The sun was setting, the sky was darkening, and the desolate world, buried in great shadows, was like a pool of terrible stagnant water, overflowing through the barren grass and returning to its primitive quiet.
Sun Guodong believed that there was no end to the sky, so he climbed the dam with a hint of fantasy for help, and when he saw that no one passed by in front of the dam and behind the dam, he realized that his move was very stupid. He looked down at the rain-covered world outside the dam and felt frustrated. His obscure eyes without temperature seemed to be more chaotic than the white rain in front of him.
Now it's important to save people, and he can't think about anything. As long as someone could come to save his daughter, he would be willing to kneel for him for three days and three nights. But in the end, no one came. He stood on the dam in frustration, looking at the sky above his head, eager to put on a pair of wings and fly to the hospital with Xiaohong. Helpless, there was no one around, everything was in vain, and now, he could only rely on his own shoulders to carry his daughter to a safe place. The matter has come to this point, and he has let it go, as long as he can save Xiaohong, everything is not important.
Thinking of this, he slowly climbed down the dam, with tears in his eyes, bent down to pick up Sun Xiaohong, who was unconscious on the slope, carried it on his shoulder, and then slid forward step by step with the cold rain. His thin figure, in the color of the setting sun, was stretched out in a tenacious long line, and the farther and farther, the more unclear it became.
Sun Xiaohong lay quietly in the hospital, she had been unconscious. When she was wheeled into the operating room, she was already dying, and there was only one breath left. Fortunately, thanks to the doctor's cleverness and timely rescue, she was able to escape death. When she opened her eyes, it was already noon the next day. She lay quietly on the hospital bed, her head tightly wrapped in thick bandages, revealing only a pair of bloodshot eyes and a red, swollen mouth. She couldn't move now, her body felt like she was tied to the bed, and her whole body suddenly lost her freedom.
It may be that the strength of the anesthetic has not passed, and Sun Xiaohong, who is unconscious, has not really felt the pain all over his body. Her eyes, staring blankly at the snow-white ceiling, like a stiff log, she tilted her ears sideways, listening to the rhythmic ticking sound in the hanging bottle, but her eyes did not blink, very scary.
The sleepy mother was lying on the corner of the bed napping, and the fright and tossing for days had tormented her to the point of collapse, and now she has not eaten a grain of rice in her stomach. At this time, she was sleeping soundly, and she ran several times from upstairs to downstairs, and she was so tired that if no one came to disturb her, she would have been lying there and falling asleep. My daughter didn't wake up, and she couldn't be careless at all.
The door of the ward was hidden, and it was very quiet inside, and there was a girl lying on the opposite bed, who seemed to be about the same age as herself, and I didn't know what disease she had, but I saw that her face was pale, and her eyes were slightly closed, as if she had just fallen asleep.
The autumn wind was cool, swirling, crashing through the half-open window, stirring the smell of the potion into a ball, and quickly passing through the doorway. Sun Xiaohong's lips twitched involuntarily, and she felt very uncomfortable when she was blown by the wind. She opened her mouth, feeling that she was very thirsty, and wanted to open her mouth, but it was as if something was stuck in her throat, and she couldn't make a sound, and she slowly closed her eyes again, and she wanted to gather some strength to make another sound.
Helplessly, the eyelids were too heavy, and after closing them, they didn't open them again. She suddenly felt like she had died once and come back to life.
After a long time, a small footstep stopped at the door of the ward. The mother of the girl in the bed looked into the ward through the mirror and saw that everyone inside was sleeping, so she crept in.
Hearing the sound of someone entering the door, Xiaohong's mother hurriedly opened her eyes. She smiled and nodded at her, turning her face to Xiaohong, who was still unconscious, and felt a pang of melancholy in her heart. She was afraid that she would be sad again and didn't want to tell strangers about Xiaohong, so she turned her back to others with the back of her head, indicating that she was in a bad mood.
"Is this kid your girl? What's wrong with such a thick bandage on her head? The girl's mother looked at Sun Xiaohong on the bed and asked in confusion. Although the voice was very soft, she could hear Xiaohong's mother's heart for a while, and she quickly turned around and responded weakly.
"Oh, it's a long story, the child blames me for this! You must know that the child fell like this, and he couldn't let her go if he said anything! I'm sorry now, but what's the use of regretting, it's not that the child can't wake up and is in a hurry, and I can't help anything! Xiaohong's mother said incoherently, her emotions were a little out of control, her mouth was full of nonsense, needless to say that others listened to it inexplicably, and she didn't even know what she was saying.
"Eldest sister, how can a girl fall like this, you are really scary to speak, how did she fall?" The girl's mother was a little confused, and she kept asking. This woman was not very curious, she just felt that Xiaohong's mother was quite pitiful, and wanted to persuade her not to be so sad and sad, so she said so.
"On the morning of the rainstorm, she and her father went to cut the grass outside the dam, and if I hadn't let her go, it wouldn't have happened. When they were finished cutting the grass and walking back, the carriage overturned from the dam and smashed her alive into the ditch. No, it's been a day and a night since the operation, and she's still waking up! I don't know if this child can be saved? If I knew that I would fall like this, I wouldn't have let her go! Xiaohong's mother looked at Sun Xiaohong, who was full of bandages, her lips squirmed, and she whispered, her eyes full of helpless uneasiness.
The girl's mother finally understood, and it turned out that this was what was going on. She couldn't help but glance at Xiaohong and shivered.
"Eldest sister, don't worry, I don't think there should be anything wrong with this child. If she hadn't saved her, the hospital would have taken you away. I see that you have been spending the night all day, and you have not been less open, you see that you are also a very good person, don't worry at all, your girl will wake up sooner or later!" The girl's mother kept comforting Xiaohong's mother, and turned around and sat on the edge of the girl's bed. She is really good at talking, and after listening to her, Xiaohong's mother is not as excited as she was just now.
The girl's mother saw that Xiaohong's mother's mood had stabilized, she glanced at her sleeping daughter, who was sleeping soundly, so she tucked the corners of the quilt for her, turned around and said: "On the day of the rain, there were two mothers in our village who also had an accident, at that time, they went to the field to pull weeds, and when it rained, they all ran to hide under the roots of the tree to avoid the rain. What a pity they died! The woman lowered her head in grief, her eyes filled with endless disappointment. Her words are right and wrong, and it doesn't make much sense.
As they spoke, the door to the ward opened, and a young nurse walked in. Xiaohong's mother saw someone coming in, so she hurriedly stood up and greeted her with a smile. After the nurse changed the hanging bottle, she took off the slip hanging at the end of the bed, and asked Xiaohong's mother to sign it in turn, and then put it back in the original place, at this time, she suddenly saw Xiaohong's eyes moving, so she said to Xiaohong's mother with a little excitement: "Auntie, look, she is awake!" You look at her first, and I'll call a doctor right away. With that, the nurse turned and walked out quickly.
Xiaohong's mother hurriedly came over, her eyes were full of tears, and she clenched Xiaohong's right hand. The doctor pushed the door in, he rolled Sun Xiaohong's eyes with his hand, gave her some rough examinations, and turned back to Xiaohong's mother and said, "This child is out of danger now, she only suffered some skin trauma, except for a slight concussion, there is no major problem!" After going home and recuperating for a few days, her body will soon recover. The doctor's words directly gave Xiaohong's mother a reassuring pill. She couldn't stop nodding her head, and said to the doctor with a thousand thanks: "Thank you, thank you for saving our little red's life!" ”
Sun Xiaohong was observed in the hospital for two more days, and was discharged from the hospital after feeling that she had recovered well.
It may be that she was too frightened and could not let her be stimulated in any way for the time being. On the morning of her discharge, the doctor specially told her to go home to recuperate for a period of time, and her body would gradually get better.
After Sun Xiaohong returned home, she lay in her hut every day and talked less. The neighbors came to the house to comfort her, and the second mother in the west courtyard was not in good health, she never went out of the hospital, and she also came to the house to persuade her with crutches.
After she entered the house, she put her crutches in the corner of the wall, sat on the edge of the kang, and said slowly: "Xiaohong, you can be regarded as discharged from the hospital, don't you know, on the day of your accident, you almost didn't scare your mother to death, in order to give you Zhang Luoqian for surgery, she asked everyone in the alley, you have to take care of your injuries, and when your illness is cured, you have to listen to your mother, don't let her always get angry with you." You see that you have such a mother, it is a blessing that can only be cultivated in several lifetimes! ”
"Erniang, I know!" Sun Xiaohong choked and nodded, her eyes filled with tears again.
"You don't know, on the day of the rainstorm, there were thunderbolts and lightning, and there were several major events in Xinantun next to our village, we didn't see it, and our hands and feet were cold!" Erniang said, looked at the sky outside, and let out a long sigh. Sun Xiaohong sighed in her heart, she suddenly felt that the big things that Erniang said must not be a good thing.
"When it rained heavily that day, your second uncle was also watered, and he happened to go to see the ground, and before he could get to the ground, it began to rain heavily. Luckily, the field was next to the forest farm, and if he hadn't taken refuge in the house there to avoid the rain, he would have caught a cold. He heard from the people in the forest farm that when the thunder struck, there was a professional cattle farmer in the camp, and all the forty or fifty cattle raised in his family were killed by the thunder, and he also heard that the man of that family was still lying in the hospital and had not been discharged! You can recuperate at home, your grandparents are so old, they can't afford to toss it anymore! Xiaohong listened silently, with a pain in her body, and she frowned tightly. She really didn't expect a pouring rain to bring so much harm to people.
Erniang talked to her grandmother in the house for a while, and then walked out of the yard slowly on crutches.
"Second aunt, hurry up and open the door for me?" The next morning, just after dawn, Xiaohong heard someone shaking the gate outside the courtyard. Sun Guodong heard the shout, took the key to open the door, and walked towards the gate of the courtyard, only to see Wu Yanli, who sold tofu in the backyard, holding her baby son and calling at the door. Sun Guodong hurriedly opened the door and let her in.
"Second aunt, I have an urgent matter today, you help me watch the child for a day first, and I will come back to pick him up in the evening. You don't know, something big is wrong with our family! Wu Yanli saw that the door of the courtyard had been opened, and walked in without saying a word. She spoke very quickly, she said as she walked, and when she pushed the child into Xiaohong's mother's arms, Xiaohong's mother didn't understand what was going on, and she had already walked out of the courtyard in a hurry.