LRAB Chapter 243: Aunt 2 is admitted to the hospital
Chapter 243: Aunt 2 is admitted to the hospital
The Liu Guangtian brothers knelt in front of the bed, desperately shaking Second Aunt's body. The moonlight shone through the window onto Second Aunt's pale face, and the dark red bloodstain at the corner of her mouth was particularly glaring.
"Mom! Mom, wake up!" Liu Guangfu cried out in a sobbing voice, and with trembling fingers he tried to check the second aunt's breath.
Liu Guangtian jumped off the kang and ran out without even bothering to put on his shoes. He rushed into the middle courtyard barefoot and pounded on the door of the uncle's house with his fists: "Uncle! Open the door! My mother is dying!"
The lights in the house soon came on. An old man in a cotton-padded jacket opened the door and asked sleepily, "What's going on?"
"My mother vomited blood and fainted! Please help!" Liu Guangtian's voice changed.
The old man went back to the house and got the flashlight without saying a word: "Let's go!" He thought for a moment, then turned around and knocked on Sha Zhu's door.
Sha Zhu was sleeping soundly when he was awakened by a knock on the door. He muttered impatiently, "Who is it? In the middle of the night..."
"Zhu Zi, open the door quickly!" The old man's voice was filled with anxiety.
Yu Li woke up first and nudged Sha Zhu: "It looks like an old man. Let's go check it out."
Sha Zhu rubbed his eyes and opened the door. When he heard that Second Auntie was going to be sent to the hospital, his face immediately darkened: "Isn't Second Uncle capable? Let him..."
"Zhu Zi!" Yu Li had already put on her clothes and got out of bed. "Now is not the time to be angry. Second Auntie has never made things difficult for us. Besides, you are a cadre now, so you should be careful about the impact."
Before Sha Zhu could say anything else, Yu Li had already stuffed the coat into his hands: "Go quickly and come back quickly, don't delay."
When Sha Zhu and the old man rushed to the backyard, Liu Guangfu was holding the second aunt and crying out of breath. The old man felt her pulse and said, "She's still breathing! Come on, Zhu, carry her, I'll go borrow a cart!"
Sha Zhu squatted down, and the Liu Guangtian brothers supported the second aunt on the left and right. The old lady's body was limp, like a bag of cotton that had fallen apart, and no matter how hard they tried to support her, she couldn't straighten it. Her head drooped weakly, and her gray hair hung down in disarray, covering half of her pale face.
"Gently...gently..." Sha Zhu felt the skinny body of Second Auntie pressed against his back, almost weightless. He straightened up carefully, fearing that he would accidentally drop the old woman. Second Auntie's arms hung softly in front of his chest, and her wrists were so thin that purple veins could be seen.
Liu Guangtian held his mother's waist from behind, his voice trembling: "Brother Zhuzi, my mother...her body is very cold..."
Sha Zhu didn't say anything, he just felt the person on his back getting heavier and heavier. Second Aunt's breathing was as weak as a thread that could break at any time, spraying on the back of his neck, with a smell of blood. He couldn't help but speed up his pace, but he heard Liu Guangfu crying behind him: "Slow down! My mother can't stand the shaking!"
The night wind was biting, and Sha Zhu ran to the entrance of the alley with one foot deep and one foot shallow. The second aunt's breath sprayed on the back of his neck, as weak as a dying cat. Brother Liu Guangtian followed behind, calling "Mom" repeatedly.
"Zhuzi, this way!" An old man came running from the entrance of the alley, pushing a cart. The quilt that Yu Li had just brought was spread on the cart, still steaming. Shazhu carefully put the second aunt on it, and the old man helped to cover her with the quilt: "I'll go pull the cart, Guangtian, Guangfu, Zhuzi, you guys hold on from the back."
The cart squeaked as it rolled over the bluestone road. In the moonlight, Sha Zhu saw Second Auntie's gray hair scattered on her forehead, and a trace of blood seeping from the corner of her mouth. He suddenly remembered how his mother looked before she died, and his heart ached.
"Hurry up! Hurry up!" Liu Guangtian urged in a crying voice.
The lights in the hospital's emergency room were blindingly bright. The doctor on duty shook his head after examining the patient: "Gastric bleeding, blood transfusion is needed immediately. Go and pay a 20-yuan deposit first."
Liu Guangtian and his brother looked at each other in bewilderment - they were in a hurry to leave, and they had no experience, so they didn't even have two dollars in their pockets. Sha Zhu cursed inwardly and took out the money that Yu Li had just stuffed into his pocket... "Save people first!"
After the second aunt was pushed into the treatment room, Sha Zhu patted the dust off his body and said to the first uncle: "Uncle, I'm going home first. There are two children at home. I'm worried that Yu Li can't take care of them."
The uncle nodded and said, "Okay, you go back first, I'll wait with Guangtian and the others."
Liu Guangtian suddenly knelt down: "Brother Zhuzi...thank you..."
"Get up!" Sha Zhu grabbed him and said, "If you want to thank someone, thank your mother for not following your father in doing evil." After saying that, he turned around and left.
Walking out of the hospital gate, the sky was already turning pale. Sha Zhu rubbed his frozen hands and suddenly saw Xu Damao sneaking around the corner with something in his arms.
"What bad things has this grandson done again..." Sha Zhu muttered, quickening his pace to go home. He had to go back and catch up on some sleep, as he still had to cook for his boss today. Although his boss had stepped aside, he had been cooking this Sunday meal for three years without fail.
October 1966, 10, Sunday. At 16: in the morning, the sky was gray, and Sha Zhu rode his bicycle out to cook for the senior leader. Beijing was already chilly in late autumn, and Sha Zhu pedaled hard, holding the handlebars with one hand and wrapping himself tightly with his thin cotton coat with the other.
There were two guards standing at the gate of the family compound of the big leaders. When they saw Sha Zhu, they nodded and let him in. In the past few years, Chef He, who came to cook every Sunday without fail, had become a familiar face.
"Director He is here." Zhang Wenliang, the secretary of the big boss, had just come down from upstairs. When he saw Sha Zhu coming into the room, he came up to greet him. "It's cold today, and the boss said he wanted to eat something hot."
Sha Zhu rubbed his red hands, followed Secretary Zhang into the kitchen, looked at the ingredients on the table, and said, "Okay, I'll stew a mutton pot for you and steam a fish. It's guaranteed to be hot."
He put on his apron with familiarity, grabbed the ingredients and started working. The knife on the chopping board rose and fell, the sound of cutting meat was fast and even. The flames in the stove jumped up, reflecting a thin layer of sweat on his forehead.
While he was busy, he suddenly heard a commotion outside. Sha Zhu looked out and saw several people in Zhongshan suits hurriedly entering the main room. Secretary Zhang also came in and out, but his face turned very unhappy.
About half an hour later, the boss's wife walked into the kitchen with red eyes: "Xiao He... I'm afraid today's meal... "
Sha Zhu kept shoveling: "Madam, the mutton will be ready soon, and the fish will be ready in five more minutes."
The boss’ wife was stunned: “You…you don’t know? Someone just came from the organization, and the leader was…was transferred from his post…”
The spatula paused in the pot, and then continued to stir-fry. Sha Zhui didn't even raise his head: "It's just a transfer. The big boss is still the big boss, and he has to eat."
The boss’s wife opened her mouth, but in the end said nothing, sighed, and went out.