Chapter 40: Fear After a High Fever

That night, the curtain gradually closed, the sky darkened, Hao Jiali's body surface was as hot as a fire, but her body was afraid of cold as if she had fallen into an ice cave.

Hao Jiali couldn't bear the torture and crawled along the ground by the window, all the way to the place where the straw was placed in the auditorium, where there was a charcoal brazier made for her during the day, Hao Jiali climbed to the charcoal brazier, and almost put her body on the charcoal brazier to roast.

The smoke from the charcoal made Hao Jiali's tears flow uncontrollably.

Hao Jiali had no choice but to close her eyes or hide her head in the direction of the smoke.

Slowly, the heat of the fire added the temperature on Hao Jiali's body, and Hao Jiali felt better, but she was still shivering with cold.

Hao Jiali had to sit down on the straw bed next to the charcoal fire, the high fever and cold had made Hao Jiali weak and lightheaded, Hao Jiali had to lean her whole body weakly against the wall next to the straw bed, and after leaning steadily, Hao Jiali looked out of the window of the auditorium with a dull gaze.

Hao Jiali saw that the sky outside the window was dark and oppressive.

Hao Jiali doesn't know what time it is.

Hao Jiali only saw outside the window, and in the distant villages, every household had lit kerosene lamps like fireflies.

Hao Jiali estimated that it should be time for dinner, that is, around seven o'clock in the evening.

At this point in time, the southern Hunan region has just entered early winter, and the sky will be as dark as Hao Jiali saw at seven o'clock in the evening.

And Hao Jiali also guessed right, in such a dark sky, if the lights of the village are lit sporadically, then it is undoubtedly at 90 o'clock in the evening that some villagers turn off the lights and go to bed to rest, and some are still busy to be such lights.

In Hao Jiali's hometown, the villagers are accustomed to breakfast at nine to ten o'clock, and Chinese food at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, so dinner is more than seven o'clock.

At this time, Hao Jiali was still enduring a high fever and waiting for her younger brother Hao Jiaming to send privet water.

When Hao Jiaming left, it was more than five o'clock in the afternoon, at that time, the production team had just finished delivering dinner to Hao Jiali, Hao Jiali came soon after eating, and now Hao Jiali didn't know if his brother had eaten with his mother, and whether his brother had gone to his uncle and grandmother's house to borrow some rice to cook it temporarily.

Also, the privet tree in the village grows in the stone crack of a stone wall, the stone wall is not steep, but there is no grass, how can my younger brother Hao Jiaming climb it.

In the past, the family got this disease, and the two sisters and brothers carried the ladder from the grandmother's house to the stone wall Hao Jiali climbed up, today it is so dark, Hao Jiaming is to find his partner to carry the ladder on the stone wall, even if the younger brother dares to climb the stone wall, after the stone wall, the younger brother dares to climb the privet tree in the dark, Hao Jiali has no number in his heart, if the younger brother does not dare to climb the tree, Hao Jiali will really bear the torment and torture of the disease tonight as the masses of the production team said.

Hao Jiali couldn't stand this kind of torture.

His nephritis has not yet been completely cured.

When the doctor was discharged from the hospital, he explained that Hao Jiali could not eat sugar, and at the same time, Hao Jiali should pay attention not to let her body catch a cold and fever, in case her kidney function is impaired and her whole body is edema, and she cannot urinate.

Hao Jiali listened to the doctor's words and did it without salt, but the cold and fever are now in her body, and Hao Jiali can only admit that her illness is going to recur.

Hao Jiali only hopes that her younger brother Hao Jiaming will not forget these things he told him, and hopes that his brother will soon send her the water that ligustrum and ginger boil together, so that after Hao Jiali drinks it, the cold of the body will be cleared by the cold of ginger and privet seeds, and then the glutinous rice wine will run to accelerate the circulation of blood, and soon Hao Jiali will sweat, and the whole person will have a fever and then relax, and then Hao Jiali's kidneys will not be affected too much, and the virus and bacteria in the body will be eroded for too long. Otherwise, Hao Jiali's nephritis disease recurred, which is equivalent to the last hospitalization in vain, and the money spent in vain.

But the more anxious Hao Jiali was, the more she couldn't wait for her younger brother Hao Jiaming.

Seeing that the kerosene lamps in the distant village outside the window were extinguished one after another, and the village fell into silence, except for a few dog barks for no reason to break the silence, Hao Jiali didn't feel the slightest bit of life on the ground, everything seemed so lifeless, Hao Jiali couldn't wait for her brother, Hao Jiali was tortured by illness and didn't have a trace of sleepiness, and before she knew it, Hao Jiali remembered that the adults had said that there was a grave behind the auditorium.

Although Hao Jiali has never seen a dead person, and she doesn't believe in any ghosts or anything like that, she is really scary to be alone here.

Also, Hao Jiali has never left her mother and younger brother since she was a child, especially when she sleeps at night.

Chen Feng used four long benches and some long wooden planks to set up two beds at home, the mattress was woven from the straw distributed by the production team when Chen Feng was able to work, Hao Jiali saw her mother saw a fir tree saw two stumps as high as a person's waist, and then fixed two stumps on both ends of the plank with a wooden plank, and then nailed a row of nails on the plank, and then tied a hemp rope on each nail, and finally divided the straw into a small pinch of cross stuck in the gap between these nails and nails, each pinch of the card was tied with hemp rope once, and the card was tied to the end. A mattress made of straw was braided.

Don't look at the straw is cheap, but it is warm and soft to sleep on, and it is moisture-proof and anti-corrosion, and there is no back pain or anything when you sleep, Hao Jiali and her mother and brother squeezed this straw mat together for a winter the year before last, and they didn't even feel cold on a snowy day.

But since Chen Feng's leg got this pain last year, Hao Jiali and her younger brother always went to sleep at night and fell asleep and kicked Chen Feng's leg, and then the three of them slept in separate beds, Hao Jiali and her younger brother Hao Jiaming slept in the same bed, and the beds of the two people were side by side at the end of Chen Feng's bed, it can be said that Hao Jiali never left her mother and younger brother's side.

This time, the production team locked Hao Jiali in the auditorium, in this place where everyone in the production team was afraid of taboos, and Hao Jiali was no exception, cranky and scared.

Hao Jiali didn't even dare to look out of the window of the auditorium because of this fear, and Hao Jiali felt as if there was really a ghost outside the window that the adults said was standing or walking back and forth.

In addition, Hao Jiali's high fever and body are very different from normal times, which makes Hao Jiali feel that something is wrong everywhere around her, Hao Jiali suddenly became afraid, and then began to close her eyes and dare not look out the window, and she didn't think about when her younger brother Hao Jiaming would come.

But Hao Jiali was not sleepy at all, she didn't fall asleep, she had to close her eyes like this, Hao Jiali's eyelids were closed for a long time, tired and sour.

There was no way, Hao Jiali had to open her eyes again.

But as soon as she opened her eyes, Hao Jiali saw the black rumbling sky outside the window again, and heard the broken white paper of the window being blown by the cold wind, like the sound of people talking, Hao Jiali was so frightened that she hurriedly sat with her back to the window and facing the wall.

This posture made Hao Jiali's fear a little, but this posture made Hao Jiali unable to rely on the wall to support her weak body, so Hao Jiali had to put her forehead against the cold brick wall to support her body.

After holding on for a while, this method still didn't work, Hao Jiali felt that she was very tired and tired, and her forehead had been on the hard bricks for a long time, her skin was numb and aching, and the back of her neck was also sore.

Hao Jiali didn't know how to calm the fear in her heart, her tired body tossed left or right on the straw bed for a long time, and Hao Jiali felt that her body and spirit were really tense and unbearable, so she went to the straw bed with a soft body, and then didn't look at the wall, just looked at the red brick wall of the auditorium until she fell asleep.

Hao Jiali fell asleep and was immediately not afraid.

Next, Hao Jiali tried her best to resist the torture of the high fever on her body.

Because of the high fever, Hao Jiali also felt that the wound on the back of her hand was swollen like tofu, French fries, dough, and rice cakes fried in the oil pan made by her mother at the end of each year before her mother's leg was broken.

Also, the back of Hao Jiali's hand where the skin was worn off by the peasant woman was also exposed with bright red flesh, and the skin near the wound where the skin was not worn off was swollen high.

According to Hao Jiali's memory of the inflammation of the wound of chopping pigweed in the past, the wound was swollen and then deteriorated and festered.

Hao Jiali doesn't know how long she will stay here, if she is locked up by these people for a long time, and she has no money to give to Uncle Gui, and Uncle Gui doesn't give trauma medicine, Hao Jiali is worried that her hands will deteriorate and fester, and then either they will become worse and worse, and finally these hands will be wasted, or there is no medicine to rot so much that they don't want to rot anymore, and they will leave a healed scar that will leave a lifelong imprint from now on.

Hao Jiali would rather have her own hands rot than leave that eye-catching scar, which will make Hao Jiali unable to forget this history for the rest of her life, and this scar will become a pain in Hao Jiali's heart for the rest of her life.

Therefore, Hao Jiali desperately hoped that her younger brother could get medicine on credit from Uncle Gui and strive to apply the wound on the back of her hand quickly, by the way, Hao Jiali also thought that the vice captain of the production team would let her out one day, Hao Jiali also thought that after she went out, these hands would be used to catch loaches in the paddy fields this winter and next spring, and to pick snails in the fish pond next summer.

Hao Jiali longed for her hands to be healed quickly, and she was also eagerly looking forward to her younger brother Hao Jiaming appearing outside the window of the auditorium as soon as possible, Hao Jiali couldn't wait.