So after my mother hung up the needle in the morning, she would go back to catch up on sleep in the afternoon, and go to the hospital in the evening to accompany my mother through the difficult night.

She and her father change from time to time, and sometimes my aunt will take time off to accompany her mother at night.

When she arrived at the hospital, Aunt Wei had just left her mother's ward, which was a single room, and she didn't know what Aunt Wei said to her mother.

"Mom, why are you so happy today?"

Zhou Lanping lost a lot of weight compared to the previous month, his face was dull, but he always had a smile on his face: "Just now your Aunt Wei came over and said that a young doctor came to the hospital, he is a handsome young man, Qiu'er, Mom just took a look, it's really good, Mom wants you"

Lu Jingqiu suddenly realized what her mother was going to say, and hurriedly interrupted: "Mom, I have good news for you today." ”

"What's the good news?"

"Today, the editor of the children's publishing house came to me to ask for a draft, a thirteen-sheet children's picture book, if I paint to their satisfaction, I can get more than 30 yuan."

"Yo, this is really good news, Qiu'er, since you have a job, go home and paint well, Mom, here is your dad."

"I can paint anywhere, so I can accompany my mother here, and I can also save our family's electricity."

Zhou Lanping smiled: "How much electricity can be saved." ”

Having said that, Zhou Lanping was still very happy, in a good mood, and ate more in the afternoon.

Lu Jingqiu was afraid that she would not digest it, so she accompanied her to the backyard of the hospital for a walk, and met many doctors from the hospital on the way.

In order not to meet acquaintances, Zhou Lanping took his daughter to a gazebo with few people in the backyard.

"Hey, it's not good to be hospitalized, it's better to be at home."

"Mom, you can't hang the bottle at home, the pain will be worse."

"I don't think there's much difference, it's mainly nutrition, as long as you can eat, the nutrition can keep up, the germs will grow slowly, I can't eat, I want nutrition."

"Mom, why don't I make porridge for you, the porridge is easy to digest, put some nutritious things in the porridge, that's fine, I'll go to the market tomorrow to see if there are any shrimp for sale, and fish and meat are fine."

Zhou Lanping shook his head: "I don't like to eat, I just have a few days left, Qiu'er, you just let your mother eat normal meals, we have delicious food, I can't eat it for a few days, I don't want to have regrets." ”

"Mom"

Zhou Lanping said: "I know my body, and Dr. Zhang didn't hide it from me, I know how far my condition has progressed." ”

Thinking of the predictable result, Lu Jingqiu suddenly became sad.

Zhou Lanping silently patted her daughter's back, what she can do now is to enlighten her husband and daughter well, hoping that after she leaves, the two of them will not fall, no matter who is missing, life will always go on.

"Qiu'er."

"Well, Mom, did you hear anything?"

"Screams? What."" It seems to be the meow of a kitten. ”

Mother and daughter heard the faint meow of a kitten in the pavilion.

The two followed the sound to a bush. The meow was also heard clearly, it was very miserable, Lu Jingqiu stepped forward to pick up the grass, only to find that there was a small milk cat inside, and there were three next to it, which had become stiff.

"Mom, it's a little three-flowered cat, so small, look."

Zhou Lanping approached and squatted down, the umbilical cord on a newborn kitten had not dried yet: "This is just born, and it still has a placenta, this should be the first time that a female cat has given a cub, it is estimated that it was born prematurely, and the three little ones next to it are a little bit." ”

"There's no movement anymore." Because there are many ants crawling on those three.

"It's strange and poor, the female cat doesn't know where she went?"

Zhou Lanping hurriedly took out his handkerchief from his pocket and held Xiao Sanhua up.

Lu Jingqiu carefully inspected the three kittens, and after confirming that they were not angry at all, he found a wooden stick to dig a pit next to them and buried them in it.

Zhou Lanping took Lu Jingqiu back to the ward, their family had never raised cats, and it was not clear how to raise kittens.

Zhou Lanping relied on his many years of medical experience, and quickly asked Lu Jingqiu to pour warm water in the basin and give the kitten a bath, also in order to quickly increase the kitten's body temperature.

Wrap it in a towel after washing.

Zhou Lanping went to the nurse in front of him to ask for a hanging water bottle, and when he came back, he filled it with warm water and put it next to the kitten to help it warm up.

"Mom, it doesn't bark after we toss for a long time, it's pretty good."

"Oh, it's so small, how can you raise it."

Lu Jingqiu had a cat in her thirties in her last life, a bantam cat bought from a pet store when she was more than three months old, and she had a little experience.

But at that time, there were finished cat litter cat food, where to get it now.

She only knows that cats drank goat milk powder when they were young, and now it is not easy to get goat milk.

Zhou Lanping said: "It doesn't have to be goat's milk, you can get some malt milk essence for it to drink." ”

Lu Jingqiu hurriedly shook his head: "The sugar content of malt milk essence is too high, and kittens can't eat it." ”

Zhou Lanping said: "What to eat?" ”

Lu Jingqiu looked at the remaining soup in the afternoon: "Let's drink this first, it's just warm, I'll go outside to see if there are any bottles for sale." ”

Zhou Lanping shook his head and gave the kitten in his hand to Lu Jingqiu: "I'll go, the supply and marketing cooperatives may not have them, I am familiar with the people in various departments, I'll ask them." ”

After Zhou Lanping went out, Lu Jingqiu held the kitten in her arms, like coaxing a child, and walked around the house for half an hour before her mother came back.

At this time, there was an extra needle in his hand: "Mom, you found it?" ”

Zhou Lanping smiled on his face and said, "No, I took a syringe from the department, it is so small, I think it should work with this." ”

"Needles will do."

Zhou Lanping looked at the little guy, then sucked the warm soup with a syringe and put it to its mouth, and the kitten unconsciously sucked it after touching something.

Seeing that it could be drunk, the mother and daughter, who had been tossing for a long time, also showed a motherly smile on their faces.

"Mom, this little milk cat is alive, let's keep it."

"Okay."

Lu Xianrun came to the ward after work, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw the mother and daughter looking at something on the hospital bed: "How are you getting better now?" ”

Lu Jingqiu raised her head and beckoned to Lu Xianrun: "Dad, come and see what this is?" ”

Lu Xianrun walked up a few steps before he saw the kitten in his daughter-in-law's arms, frowned, and said, "Where did it come from?" ”

Zhou Lanping said: "The one we rescued in the backyard of the hospital looks like it was just born." ”

I haven't raised animals at home, not even dogs, Lu Xianrun said with some rejection: "What are you raising it for, the animal is very dirty, you are not suitable for touching cats now." As he spoke, he was about to take it away from Zhou Lanping's arms.

Seeing this, the mother and daughter hurriedly hugged each other and protected: "We have bathed it, and it is very clean." ”

Lu Jingqiu also likes kittens, and reluctantly said: "Dad, the kitten is very pitiful, if we don't feed it, it will die." ”

Lu Xianrun looked at the mother and daughter, and said helplessly: "We don't have the energy to raise it now." ”

Zhou Lanping said: "I can, just keep it in the ward, usually feed some rice soup or something, if I can feed it, I will raise it, and if I can't feed it, we don't want it."

You can't come to the army during the day, and Qiu'er can't stay with me all the time, I'm very bored in the ward all day long, and I won't be too lonely with a small thing to accompany me. ”

As soon as Zhou Lanping said this, Lu Xianrun's heart was full of guilt, his wife was sick, and he couldn't take care of him at the bedside for a long time, which was his dereliction of duty as a husband: "Since you want to raise it, you can raise it." ”

(End of chapter)