"A while ago your grandfather went out to sea with Yu Dashan and encountered a storm. Yu Dashan was swept into the sea. In order to save Yu Dashan, your grandfather choked a few sips of water, and when he came back he started to have a fever and cough. It has been on and off for more than half a month, old man. No good!" Yu Hai said with a little worry.
Yu Hang snorted coldly, and said: "Grandpa's illness is not a serious illness at all, it must be that Mrs. Zhang is reluctant to spend money to see a doctor for grandpa, so he just procrastinated. Last time, father should not give her ten taels of silver, but ask The doctor treated grandpa's illness. For the money, there must be no return for meat buns and dogs!"
In the past year, Zhang's stingy style has become even worse. The staple food is coarse-grain cakes without any fine grains, and it is not enough. The vegetables are only vegetables grown in the garden, and I am not willing to put oil. Relying on her son's ability to make money, Mrs. Li quarreled several times to separate the family, but when she heard that she wanted to leave the house, and the current house could not be lived in, she stopped.
However, she, who has a big mouth, did not make up her mother-in-law Zhang in the village, saying that her mother-in-law is partial to the youngest son, and all the money the family earns is used to subsidize the youngest son who is studying in Fucheng. He also said that the mother-in-law treated their family harshly, and that her son was already fifteen years old, and she didn't make a fuss about marrying her. This is to drain the blood of the whole family to make offerings to Yu Bo's bottomless pit!
This time when he came back, Yu Xiaocao took three roast ducks, one more duck would definitely not be enough for the family, and when Uncle San Tang went back later, let him take another one back. The roast duck is five or six taels of silver. If you take it to see grandpa, you will definitely not be able to eat it in the mouths of your family. Maybe it will be exchanged for silver by Mrs. Zhang!
Yu Xiaocao bought a fat hen and fifty eggs from the Zhou family next door. Accompanied by her elder brother Yu Hang, she went to the mansion to see her grandfather.
Pushing open the old wooden door, there was no one in the yard, it was quiet. The uncle is studying in Fucheng, and the aunt and Doudou live in her parents' house in the town. After my sister-in-law got married, only my grandfather, Mrs. Zhang and Yu Dashan's family lived in the whole mansion.
At this time, Yu Dashan should have returned from the sea, squatting at the fish market at the pier to sell fish. Mrs. Li was lazy and afraid of working, so she didn't know where to go and gossip. In order to earn more money for his youngest son to go to school, Mrs. Zhang went to the beach with a shovel to dig sea intestines while the tide was low. There was no other sound in the whole house except for the hungry half-sized pigs in the pen.
Suddenly, in the west room where Yu Hai's family lived, there was a violent coughing sound. The coughing came one after another, as if he was about to cough out his lungs, making people worry about whether he would pass out of breath in the next second.
"Grandpa?" The siblings looked at each other and hurriedly ran towards Westinghouse. Perhaps because the Westinghouse has been unoccupied for a long time, it looks even more dilapidated. The straw on the roof is sparse, and it has not been repaired for some time. If it rains, it must be the heavy rain outside and light rain inside.
Ever since Yu Hai's family moved out, the west room has been left unused as a utility room. Why did grandpa go to live in Westinghouse
Pushing open the crumbling door of the West Room, the darkness inside made it difficult for the siblings to see clearly what was going on inside. After a while, I saw a scrawny figure lying on the familiar broken kang, hunched over and coughing again and again.
"Grandpa!" Yu Xiaocao put down the things she was carrying, rushed into the room, gently supported Old Yu's head to sit up, and patted his back to make him feel better.
The smell in the house was disgusting. The strong stench emanating from the haggard grandfather, coupled with the smell from the nearby pigsty, made people retch.
The cough finally stopped, and the old Yu quickly pushed Yu Xiaocao away, and said with difficulty: "Xiaocao, stay away from grandpa. They all said that grandpa has tuberculosis, which is contagious. You brothers and sisters, get out quickly, don't put The sickness has come to you."
Yu Xiaocao saw that Grandpa's pants and clothes were covered with urine and sweat stains, obviously it hadn't been changed for a long time. Looking at the grandpa who was helplessly lying on the bed, her nose was slightly sore, and she held back her tears and said to Yu Hang: "Brother, go and help grandpa find some clean clothes to change into. I'll boil water and wipe grandpa's body. "
"No need, you guys go back quickly! There is no cure for Grandpa's disease, hurry up, don't contract tuberculosis, there is no cure for this disease!!" Old Yu was so anxious that he tried to sit up, but his skinny arms Without any strength at all, I lay on the bed panting for breath.
Yu Xiaocao felt the pulse for him, it was not tuberculosis at all, but pneumonia caused by high fever. She guessed that Grandpa had a fever after he came back from the sea, but he didn't take it seriously, and it slowly developed into pneumonia. Mrs. Zhang was not willing to invite a doctor, so he just got some herbal medicine for him, that's why his condition was so serious.
"Grandpa, who said you have tuberculosis?" Yu Xiaocao saw that Grandpa's lips were dry and skinned, and the pitcher by the bed was empty. Grandpa had a fever and didn't even drink his saliva. No wonder he developed pneumonia!
Yu Xiaocao boiled a pot of boiling water, scooped out a cup and let it cool down, added a drop of spirit stone liquid, and fed it to grandpa. Old Yu hadn't drank a sip of water for two days, and felt that the boiled water nourished his dry body like sweet rain.
At the beginning, Mrs. Zhang would bring him food and water. Later, seeing that he was coughing badly and coughing up blood two days ago, she became a little scared. There was a family in her ex-husband's village, and the man had tuberculosis, which infected the whole family, and no one died.
Fearing that old Yu's illness would come to her, Mrs. Zhang asked her elder son to carry him to the Westinghouse. Those who usually deliver food and water cover their mouths and noses with towels. In the past two days, I saw that Lao Yu was too sick to get up, and I thought it was only two days, so I didn't even give me food and water. Only old Yutou was left lying helplessly in the west room waiting to die.
Yu Xiaocao dipped a towel in cool water from the well and wiped his grandfather's forehead, neck and underarms to help him cool down physically. Old Yu is in a hurry! As soon as he is old, he will die when he dies. The little granddaughter is young and capable, so she can't be implicated by a dying person like him! But no matter what he said, Yu Xiaocao was unmoved.
Old Yu's claim that he didn't dare to move was a lie. A friend in adversity sees the truth, these days Zhang's indifference and Yu Dashan's ruthlessness, he sees it in his eyes and hurts in his heart.
Yu Dashan was only two years older than Yu Hai, and he was only seven or eight years old when he came here. He never regarded Yu Dashan as an outsider, as long as there were Dahai and Caifeng, there was Yu Dashan, and he never took sides. But after all, it wasn't his own. He got the disease because of saving Yu Dashan. But when he was seriously ill, he didn't even show his face. For so many years, he raised a white-eyed wolf!
And that Mrs. Zhang, who have been husband and wife for decades, has lost all affection since he fell ill. He still ignored him in the Westinghouse, hoping that he would die soon so as to save one person's ration. As the saying goes: One day, one day, one hundred days of kindness, Zhang's practice is no different from murdering her own husband, it's really chilling! If he was lucky enough to survive this time, he would not be able to get along with the cold-hearted and vicious Mrs. Zhang. In case one day in his sleep, he is killed by that poisonous woman!
In the past few days, old Yu always dreamed about his original husband and wife. Nemesis! He knew that his ex-wife was murdered by Mrs. Zhang, but he turned a blind eye for his children's reputation. Now it's his turn. That's right, if he can find his ex-wife when he arrives in the underworld, he will definitely confess to her and make amends. He deserves to die for not taking good care of his two children!
"Brother, why is it so long?" Yu Hang came in with a familiar dress, and Yu Xiaocao asked in surprise.
Yu Hang glanced at his grandfather, sighed, and said, "Grandpa's clothes are all piled up in the corner of the yard. No one helped wash them. There was no clean clothes in the box. I ran home and took Dad's clothes." clothes here."
Old Yu sighed deeply, wishing that he would die sooner, why wash the clothes of the dead
When Yu Hang was bathing old Yu, Yu Xiaocao killed the hen, made soup, and prepared to use the chicken soup to make porridge for grandpa. Mrs. Zhang is really ruthless. When his man is sick, he won't see a doctor, and he won't even give him food or saliva!
When Mrs. Zhang came back, she saw cooking smoke rising from her kitchen from a distance. Thinking that Mrs. Li's slut was secretly cooking and eating, she ran home quickly with her little feet. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Yu Xiaocao brought a bowl of shredded chicken porridge, gave her an indifferent look, and entered the Westinghouse.
Smelling the smell of chicken soup wafting in the air, Mrs. Zhang patted her thigh: "My chicken!!" He hurried to the chicken coop, counted the number of chickens twice, and found that there was no shortage of chickens, so he let go Take a breath.
Then, as if thinking of something, he ran to the kitchen and found that the basket in which he hid the white rice had been touched. He took it down and saw that there was a little less rice, and was about to slap his legs and scold. It suddenly occurred to her that Yu Xiaocao was not used to her, and she still had something in his hands!
Mrs. Zhang put the basket heavily on the stove, and seeing that there was more than half a chicken in the pot, she took a clay pot and filled it with the chicken and chicken soup. When I am going to visit my grandson in town tomorrow, I will bring the chicken soup for Doudou to drink.
After hiding the chicken soup, Mrs. Zhang came to the door of the West House. Old Yu changed into clean clothes, and the kang was also tidied up. Yu Xiaocao was holding a bowl, feeding her grandfather.
She covered her mouth and nose with her hands, and said in a strange voice: "Don't blame me for not reminding you. Your grandfather suffered from tuberculosis, and it was contagious without treatment. Go back quickly, and don't forget to take a bath and use moxa , scald the clothes several times with boiling water..."
Yu Xiaocao handed the porridge bowl to Yu Hang, stood up, walked in front of Mrs. Zhang, looked at her coldly and said, "How do you know that my grandpa has tuberculosis? Did you call a doctor for him? Did you If you're not a doctor, why draw conclusions?"
Intimidated by her momentum, Mrs. Zhang took two steps back, her lips trembled a few times, and then she stammered, "My neighbors in the old village all died of tuberculosis. The symptoms are the same as your grandfather's. Cough first, then hemoptysis, so sick that I couldn’t get out of bed! It’s not that I don’t want to give up the money and refuse to see a doctor for your grandpa. Tuberculosis is an incurable disease, and no matter how much money you spend, it’s useless. Why don’t you save it and pay for your son’s education! "