Chapter 23: Life is Short
When I woke up in the morning, I was woken up by Sissy's singing, Sissi didn't know when she had woken up, she probably cried, her hat had broken free, revealing her little head with sparse hair, and she was babbling and singing in a good way. Listening to Xixi's singing, Xiaoyu didn't know whether to be happy or sad. I recorded a video and sent it to my father, hoping that he would wake up soon, he hadn't seen his granddaughter yet.
Xiaoyu didn't want to leave the warm quilt at all, looked through her mobile phone, watched some meaningless advertisements, and suddenly saw her colleague say: This year, several relatives have left one after another. This year, there is a new life coming. It's been a tough year. It's been a great year.
She herself has been through a lot this year, and several relatives have left her family, which is painful, but it also makes people very strong. Fortunately, the family also ushered in a little life, which was the only happy event in the family this year. According to the words of a colleague's husband, their second child is a construction bank, which is two months younger than Xixi. Yes, the emergence of new life always brings hope.
At this time, Xiaoyu realized the heaviness of the words "life is short", when the children were young, their parents especially hoped that they would grow up quickly and that they could be free. But when the children are older and leave their parents, and the parents are old, they are especially afraid of loneliness and loneliness. When children have children of their own, they find that their parents are not only old, but also sick, and they may leave everyone at any time.
Xiaoyu felt that she was about to be overwhelmed by the pressure, although she didn't have to worry about the house. But I have two children, as well as both parents, I can't slack off or be absent, and I can't rest even if I'm sick. Just like now. At least, his parents are still alive.
Weizi has a cold, and he hasn't gotten well for more than a week, and he's been coughing, and he still has to go to work overtime. Xiaoyu felt that she had a splitting headache and wanted to catch a cold herself. I'm so irritable, in this state, I can't escape if I want to, and I don't dare to die if I want to, I'm really irritable. What is the meaning of life? Does it have to be that all beings are suffering?
When Xiaoyu was about to sleep for a while, the alarm clock had already sounded, and she needed to prepare breakfast for Dongdong. Xixi saw her mother wake up, but she didn't pay attention to herself, stopped singing, and squinted her eyes and cried. After crying for a few seconds, feeling that there was no pair of warm hands to hug her, Xixi quietly opened her right eye, inspected the situation, and saw that her mother was still indifferent, and continued to close her eyes and cry. As the saying goes, seeing old since childhood, Xixi's personality as a chicken thief is simply amazing, although he cries very much, but there is not a single tear. Xiao Yu endured chills and headaches, scooped up Xixi, and lifted her clothes. Xixi, who was in her mouth, stopped crying immediately, after all, for the baby, there is nothing that cannot be solved by a mouthful of milk. If the baby still has troubles, then two mouthfuls of milk.
After appeasing Xixi, Xiaoyu struggled to get up, and when she was boiling eggs, Weizi was already dressed, and said, "Ahem, I have a meeting this morning, you help Dongdong get dressed." ”
Xiaoyu felt that this cold morning was a little like a world away, and nodded and said yes. In fact, Dongdong doesn't know how to dress himself, but he is lazy or squeamish, so he has to let his gentle and careful father help him get dressed. Xiao Yu came to the bedroom with a hanger stick, Dongdong saw that it was his mother, and immediately jumped up and reluctantly dressed, Xiao Yu said with a cold face: "You yourself know my temper, hurry up and get dressed, I'll go fetch water to wash your face, if you are grinding, be careful of my hands." ”
Dongdong, who knows his mother's temper, wears clothes numbly, and when he eats breakfast, Dongdong only eats egg whites, and Xiaoyu eats egg yolks and zongzi. Looking at Dongdong procrastinating, listening to Xixi's crying, Xiao Yu didn't come out angrily and yelled: "You think Lao Tzu has a lot of time, and it should be wasted on you, don't you?" Your sister is crying, don't you hear? Hurry up and give it to Lao Tzu. ”
Dongdong is still slow, Xiaoyu directly hit Dongdong's down jacket, the itching of the boots generally does not hurt at all, but Dongdong is sad and tears, or against his mother's obscenity, he ate the egg white and drank the milk, and followed his grandfather to school in his shoes.
Xiaoyu felt that her head hurt even more, so she directly took a good meal, went back to the room to change Xixi's diapers, and continued to sleep with Xixi in her arms. Maybe it was the effect of the drug, and it was already past eleven o'clock when Xiaoyu woke up again.
When Xiaoyu, who was a little dazed, called, her mother told Xiaoyu the good news: "Your father has been transferred to the general ward, and now he is still observing the electrocardiogram and inserting an oxygen tube, his mind is not clear, his speech is trembling and he can't speak clearly, and he can't walk." ”
Xiaoyu nodded: "Are you still short of money?" I immediately sent the money over. ”
My mother said, "Also, it's not enough to talk about it." ”
"Hmm. What the hell is going on with Dad? ”
Mother: "The doctor said it was alcoholism, it should be that he drank industrial alcohol by mistake." ”
Xiaoyu asked: "How can there be industrial alcohol on the construction site, why is it not properly hidden?" ”
Mother: "The water in the north is easy to freeze in winter, so you will put some industrial alcohol in the water, it is estimated that your father is addicted to alcohol, so he secretly drinks it, he is looking for poison to drink." ”
Xiaoyu still didn't believe that her father would make such a low-level mistake, and she had been on the construction site for almost her whole life, didn't she know the toxicity of industrial alcohol, and the news brought by her mother must be wrong.
Cissy was already awake, making a fuss, and her calves were kicking. Very dissatisfied that I am still sleeping in bed now, after all, I have slept all night and most of the day. Xiaoyu got up to dress Xixi, wash her face and wash her buttocks, and thought helplessly, you are a milk baby, is there a difference between getting up and sleeping? After packing up Xixi, Xiaoyu took Xixi out and let her mother-in-law take care of it temporarily.
Xiao Yu looked at herself in the mirror at this time, only to realize that she had forgotten to clean up in the past few days, and looked at her greasy hair, Xiao Yu realized that it was time to wash her hair and take a shower. In the past two days, Xiaoyu has felt that she has been in a fog, as if she is isolated from the world, and sometimes when her in-laws are saying something, Xiaoyu who is in a trance does not hear clearly at all. At noon, when her father-in-law was drinking, Xiaoyu watched her father-in-law drinking liquor, and wanted to say but gave up, Weizi saw that Xiaoyu wanted to speak and stopped, and he couldn't help Xiaoyu and his father-in-law at present, so he had to wait patiently for news.
In the afternoon, his younger brother Xiaolei sent a WeChat message, saying: Dad spoke slowly, and said very clearly, he didn't drink industrial alcohol secretly at all, just drank a small cup of Erguotou. At the same time, Xiao Lei also posted a photo, which is a photo of the room on the construction site where his father lives temporarily, with a bowl of uneaten noodles, a bottle of liquor, and an empty wine glass. The photo matches my father's words, what the hell is going on? Would Dad be so sick?
Xiaoyu asked her younger brother: I checked your city, and the city where my father works is by train, why do you have to drive thousands of miles there, besides, the north is now cold, icy and snowy, and the road is slippery, and it is very dangerous to drive.
Xiao Lei replied: At that time, the doctor had already said that my father was in critical condition, and I don't know if he can be rescued? If Dad can't wake up, can I take the train back to him? Even if others give tens of thousands of dollars, are they willing?
Xiaoyu only understood the good intentions of her younger brother Xiaolei at this time, and only then did she realize that her younger brother was much more mature than herself, thinking that her parents would rather be fined and pay a fine for a year's harvest. It's wise to think about it now, at least there is a son who is willing to stay up all night and go all the way to pick up his father, who is a daughter, and can't do anything except give money and worry, Xiaoyu blames herself. It seems that the preference for sons over women in rural areas sometimes has a certain reason.
Xiaoyu thought for a while and said: Maybe it's because my father is old, he's too tired from work, and he has a bad diet, cigarettes and alcohol hurt his body, and he has become sick from hard work.
Xiao Lei nodded: It should be like this.
In the evening, Xiaoyu called and asked, "Dad, are you going to eat now?" ”
Mother: "I ate some millet porridge and was still resting on the hospital bed." ”
Weizi on the side asked: "Didn't Dad's co-worker say that before Dad fainted, he said that he had a cold and asked for leave?" ”
Mom: "Well, that's the case. ”
Weizi said: "Did Dad take cold medicine and cephalosporin?" ”
Mom asked, "What do you mean?" ”
Weizi: "I had a cold and ate cephalosporin, and I drank alcohol the night before, so it was poison when I got together, and my father should have fainted like this." ”
When my mother heard this, she said, "Probably, but your father said that he pulled threads from water mixed with industrial alcohol every day and forgot to wash his hands." I guess there's a reason for that. ”
Weizi nodded: "Industrial alcohol volatilizes, Dad should inhale it into his nose." Besides, my father has high blood pressure, plus drinking, and various reasons are piled up to make such a dangerous situation occur, what does the doctor say now? ”
"The doctor also needs infusions, and inflammation."
"Hmm."
Xiaoyu: "Dad, you must quit smoking and drinking in the future, and don't go out again, I'm not worried when I'm out alone." ”
Mom: "Yes, I know. ”
Because Xiao Lei took leave from work and wanted to go back to work, his father planned to be discharged from the hospital early, and the medical insurance card was not activated when he was discharged, so he asked Xiaoyu to go to the Medical Insurance Bureau to ask, Xiaoyu went to ask, and only then did he know that even if he was not reimbursed when he was discharged, he could go back to his hometown for reimbursement. Dad communicated with the boss on the construction site, and the boss was more reasonable, and directly paid his father in advance, and Xiao Lei took his parents home.
may be homesick, my parents did not go to Xiaolei's city, but chose to go back to their hometown to continue treatment, and they didn't want to trouble Xiaoyu, so they insisted on treatment in their hometown. At dinner, my mother-in-law asked, "How about we steam the fish tomorrow?" ”
Xiao Yu was a little absent-minded, suddenly raised her head, and asked, "What, what did you say?" ”
Mother-in-law: "How about we steam the sea fish tomorrow?" ”
Xiaoyu: "Whatever. ”
Mother-in-law: "Xiaoyu, what's wrong with you lately?" ”
The careful mother-in-law finally found out that something was wrong with Xiaoyu, and Xiaoyu said calmly: "My dad had a serious illness, unconscious, and was admitted to the intensive care unit for more than two days. ”