Chapter 4: Prepare for the future
"Why are you here?" Yu Cai's mother looked at her daughter holding the child in front of her with disgust on her face.
"Mom, I'm here to beg you to help me." Yu Cai didn't have the heart to pay attention to her mother's indifferent tone as always, now for her, the most important thing was Fang Mumu, she took out a free hand and grabbed her mother, "Mom, now only you can help me..."
When Yu Cai's mother heard the word 'help', she sneered and interrupted Yu Cai's words, "Help you? Do you want me to help you? You want to spill the water from your daughter who married out in vain, besides, you have such a powerful husband, do you still need me to help you? The impatience on Yu Cai's mother's face was even worse.
Yu Cai shook her head frantically, she looked at her mother's hands on the two doors, as if she saw the demonic hand that wanted to destroy her world.
Yu Cai knelt in front of the door, Fang Mumu in his arms felt Yu Cai's sadness, and cried with Yu Cai, "Mom, please!" Save my child! You must know how to cure the same rash as your brother! You know for sure! β
Yu Cai's mother's eyes were full of shock, she pushed Yu Cai away from the door, quickly closed the door, and shouted at the gate, "I also beg you to do well, your father and I are half-legged people, don't come to harm us again!" β
Yu Cai was pushed backwards by her mother, but her hands hugged Fang Mumu tightly.
The earth behind them is a world of stones, they are sharper than needles, and large pieces are pierced into the flesh of Yu Cai, but they are merciful and unwilling to pierce the skin.
However, as long as Yu Cai thought of the red rash on Fang Mumu's body, she was not qualified to hurt, she got up and knocked on the wooden door, "Mom, I beg you, for the sake of you giving birth to me, please save my child!" β
Yu Cai's mother, who didn't want to stay at the door for half a minute, stopped when she heard Yu Cai's words, perhaps, for her, the thing she regretted the most was to give birth to Yu Cai, but she didn't think that Yu Cai would beg her for this reason.
Yu Cai's mother rushed to the door, jumped at the closed door and shouted, "You still have the face to say!" If it weren't for you, would my two sons have been gone for no reason? It's all your retribution! β
Yu Cai sat down on the ground, "Retribution? She began to laugh as if she was crazy, she was not white, could the evil of the world be more black and white? Even if it's her retribution, it's good to come to her, why come to a baby who has never seen the world.
Yu Cai's father came back from outside, looking at Yu Cai in front of the door, he naturally didn't want to deal with it too much in his heart, but for the sake of face, he still spoke, "What kind of person is lost at the door, what kind of eyes are there!" β
Yu Cai looked back at his father, if his mother still had something to ask for, then his father didn't. If even her mother treats her so indifferently, then her father is even more indifferent than that.
Yu Cai didn't say a word, stood up with Fang Mumu in his arms, didn't look at his father again, and left this place that could have given her hope without looking back.
In addition to constantly using water to wash the red rash on Fang Mumu's body, Yu Cai had no other way. Her biological parents were like enemies who would not help her, and her husband had long hated the death of her child, and she was ready to lose in despair. If she had to say something about her current behavior, it would be that she didn't want to die yet.
The knock on the door on the second day woke up not only Yu Cai, but also Fang Jian.
Fang Jian looked at his father-in-law outside the door and didn't know what to say, just looked at it in embarrassment. Hearing a voice behind him, he turned his head to look at Yu Cai who came out of the side room, "Your dad is here." After that, he went back to the house without saying a word.
Yu Cai looked at his father at the door with some surprise, "Dad, ...... you are?"
At this time, a very young and elderly man came out from behind Yu Cai's father, he looked at Yu Cai with a pair of dirty eyes, and his eyes were sloppy, "Take me to your child." β
Yu Cai didn't react at once, she didn't know what her father was doing with this person.
"He's a doctor."
Yu Cai suddenly realized, and hurriedly invited the doctor in, she walked in front, looking back behind her from time to time, one was to confirm that the doctor was following, and the other was to see her father's movements, and her father was also following the doctor.
Yu Cai didn't feel grateful in her heart, it was fake, in such despair, even a look of encouragement was enough to make a person stand up again, let alone her father's help like this. But Yu Cai would not be naΓ―ve to think that her father loved herself and Fang Mumu, she knew that her father must be for the so-called face.
Fang Jian listened to the sounds in the courtyard and walked into the side room, so he cautiously walked to the door of the side room, put his ear up against the door, and listened to the movement in the house.
"How many days has the kid had this rash?" The doctor looked at the red rash on Fang Mumu's body and asked Yu Cai.
"It's the third day today."
"It could be smallpox." The doctor frowned and shook his head.
"Can it be cured?" Yu Cai's eyes were full of anticipation.
"It depends." The doctor said slowly, word by word.
Yu Cai knelt down without thinking about it, "Doctor, no matter what the situation, please be sure to save my daughter." Like a homeless beggar, she begged for a little spiritual alms from the person in front of her.
"Hurry up! What does it look like now! Yu Cai's father, who was originally standing on the side, said sharply at the right time.
Yu Cai sat down on the ground, not daring to say anything more.
The doctor's face was a little embarrassed, "Now I can only say that it may be smallpox, or it may be something else, I will prescribe you a few pairs of Chinese medicine, and you can boil it for the child to drink first." In addition, this house is not ventilated, you have to take the child out to blow the wind often, and the hygiene of this house also needs to be paid attention to. β
Yu Cai looked at the doctor overjoyed, "Okay, good!" β
The doctor was about to leave, Yu Cai's father also followed behind the doctor, Yu Cai quickly stood up from the ground, got up to see the two away, but Yu Cai's father turned to her and said, "You are optimistic about your daughter, don't worry about other things." After speaking, Yu Cai's father disappeared at the door with the doctor.
Yu Cai looked at the door in a daze, her tears blurred her vision, and there was a trace of turmoil in her heart: perhaps, this is the father's way of caring for his children as a man in charge. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but wonder if Fang Jian would also have such emotions buried in her heart.
Before Yu Cai's thoughts could spread their wings in his mind, he was stifled by Fang Jian, who appeared at the door of the side room.
I saw Fang Jian's fierce face on his face, "I knew that your money-losing ancestor must be making some kind of trouble these days, but I didn't expect to get smallpox!" It's really bad luck! Throw her away to me before it's too late! After that, Fang Jian still wanted to rush up and do it himself, but when he thought that it was smallpox that he had lost money and got it, he still didn't want to do it.
Fang Jian looked at the place where he was standing, and instantly felt that the goosebumps on his body were coming layer after layer, he quickly left the side room in disgust, and after leaving the side room, he fetched several buckets of water, regardless of the cold of the well water, and poured it directly on himself, as if he just stood at the door of the house for a short time, he would be infected.
Yu Cai chuckled, she laughed at Fang Jian's unreasonableness, and she laughed at Fang Jian's timidity.
The Chinese medicine and incense were sent by Yu Cai's father in the evening, he just handed over the things to Yu Cai, and without leaving a word of advice, he turned around and left, and Yu Cai said thank you to his back.
The smell of traditional Chinese medicine is very channeling, almost the entire courtyard is its world, Fang Jian came out and made a fire several times, but in the end he could only helplessly slam the door of the main house, after all, he also wanted to live.
Yu Cai tasted the medicine in the bowl, the numbness on her tongue was bitter, she frowned, thinking about how she would feed it later.
In the side room is the smell of incense and Chinese medicine, which is not good or bad. Fang Mumu didn't cry, she opened her small eyes like black beans, looked at the smoky air, babbling and humming words that Yu Cai didn't understand.
Yu Cai picked up Fang Mumu, scooped a spoonful of Chinese medicine with a spoon, blew it several times, felt the temperature with her mouth, and after the temperature cooled down, she handed the spoon to Fang Mumu's mouth, Fang Mumu smashed his mouth and drank it all, laughing while drinking, making Yu Cai mistakenly think that the medicine in this bowl should not be the bowl he just tasted.
Yu Cai stretched out her tongue and tasted the second spoonful of Chinese medicine, the bitter taste that had lasted for a long time was still spreading in her mouth, and her face was wrinkled together because of the bitterness.
Yu Cai handed the spoon to Fang Mumu's mouth again, and Fang Mumu still drank it with a smile like the first spoonful.
Yu Cai didn't know why, and the tears in his eyes fell down.
Fang Mumu, who had just finished drinking the medicine, fell asleep deeply, Yu Cai put the bowl aside, untied Fang Mumu's clothes, and looked at the red rash on Fang Mumu's body, she originally hoped that the red rash would disappear immediately, but the large red rash still appeared dazzlingly on Fang Mumu's body.
Yu Cai wrapped Fang Mumu's clothes and went to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, she told herself that no matter how long it takes, as long as it can be good, she is willing to wait.
Yu Cai's daily affairs almost have a new repetition, bathing for Fang Mumu, feeding mixed soup, feeding medicine, incense, feeding soup, feeding medicine, incense, and sleeping.
After six days like this, Yu Cai's father took the doctor to see Fang Mumu again.
Yu Cai found that the doctor and father were wearing masks this time, and she welcomed the doctor and father into the side room.
The doctor first checked the red rash on Mu Mu's body below, "The red rash still hasn't gone away." β
Yu Cai stood aside, rubbing his hands, and nervously responded to the doctor, "I'll just say, I do what the doctor says every day." β
The doctor touched Fang Mumu's small forehead, "It seems to be more burning than the last time I came." β
Yu Cai hurriedly explained, "I just bathed her. β
The doctor stood up and shook his head, "It has nothing to do with taking a bath, you better prepare for the future." β
Yu Cai felt that the five thunders were thundering, and she couldn't listen to anything, so she let her father pat her on the shoulder comfortingly, and let the doctor leave and say any comforting words, she didn't react at all.
Yu Cai felt someone pull her out of the side room, and Yu Cai heard Fang Jian's roar, and he said that he was going to throw Fang Mumu out.
Yu Cai felt that the main house that she hadn't entered for more than two months was very unfamiliar, she was scared, panicked, and finally fled in Fang Mumu's crying, she believed that her daughter would be fine!