Chapter 2421 Reflection
The whole journey from Lexiao's classmate arriving at the fat girl's home to sending the mother to the hospital for stitches and writing the baby's birth card information took less than an hour and forty minutes.
The delivery process took less than half an hour, and the journey to the hospital and the stitches and acupuncture took quite a while.
When she finished her work, it was already after half past twelve.
After filling out the information card and letting the hospital keep it on file, he was done. Le returned to the fat girl's room again and explained the precautions for care.
The two neighbors who helped send the fat girl home went home first. The Yang family had not yet prepared a meal to send to the hospital, so Yang Sanpao was the only one keeping watch.
Yang Sanpao was naturally grateful.
Because of the snow, it was inevitable that some people would get injured. In the past few days, the rural hospital doctor had received injured people who were hospitalized for observation due to falls. The fat girl was not alone in the hospital. There were also people getting injections, so the hospital was not empty.
After giving instructions to his family members, Mr. Le Xiao returned to the village with Handsome Lan without any further delay.
The black dragon is very good. The little sister has to work, so he follows the handsome guy Lan. The little sister is going home, so he runs ahead happily.
After walking out of the hospital, Lan San wanted to open an umbrella to shield the little Lolita from the wind, but she refused. He held the umbrella in one hand and the medicine box in the other, and walked with the little Lolita on the road.
There were marks on the road where cars had run over it, and the sidewalks on both sides were covered with human and cat and dog footprints. Many shops on both sides of the street were closed, but a few were still open.
It was already noon, and the streets were full of delicious food.
On the street where there was not even a cat in sight, the little Lolita and the handsome blue guy looked particularly lonely.
Classmate Le walked on the way home calmly. On another mountain road, Li Xiaoyan was also rushing home.
There is an exam every year shortly after New Year's Day, and she has no plans to go home to celebrate New Year's Day. However, yesterday morning, her neighbor Liu's daughter-in-law called her and said that her mother was bedridden and might not be able to hold on anymore.
After receiving a call from her neighbor, Li Xiaoyan was shocked and scared, and finally decided to go home. The car she took arrived in Fangxian County at midnight yesterday, and she took the morning bus back to her hometown.
Because the roads were slippery in the snow, no tricycle was willing to go to the small village, so she could only walk on her own two legs.
The mountain roads winding through the mountains are all white, with no human footprints, only some bird scratches.
The wind in the mountains in winter was so strong that Li Xiaoyan's face was frozen stiff by the wind. She felt cold and tired, and felt so aggrieved that she wanted to cry.
The road to Granny Li's small village is a bit far from Jiudaoxiang Street. Classmate Le's spiritual consciousness usually only circulates around Jiudao Street. In addition, the smell is far away from Xiangjie or Meicun, so he doesn't know that Li Xiaoyan is returning to his hometown.
When she and Handsome Lan returned to the vicinity of Lejia with the black dragon, they also heard the noise from the Zhou family, but the Lejia was very quiet.
The Le family couple took Le Shan to Zhou's house for dinner. Yi Lao Yan Lao and Li Zhao didn't go. They cooked two dishes and had a meal after twelve o'clock.
When classmate Le and Handsome Lan returned to Le's house, it took more than half an hour for the three of them to finish their meal.
Seeing the little girl, Mr. Yi glared: "Little girl, when you come back at this time, if you say you have eaten, it is obviously too soon. If you say you have not eaten, it seems a bit late. Have you eaten?"
"You always take a look at Heilong's belly, does it look like it has eaten?" Le Yun went straight to the kitchen to see if there was hot water.
"It looks like he hasn't eaten." Mr. Yan looked at the big wolfdog. The big dog's belly was flat. If he ate at the owner's house, the big wolfdog would definitely not come back with an empty stomach.
"Hey, little girl, you helped deliver the baby, but the master didn't leave any food for you. Isn't this stingy?" Mr. Ant shouted in surprise.
"My wife fell into premature labor and suffered fractures. She is still in the hospital at the moment. She has no time to greet the neighbors." Le Yun was already convinced that the old man was old, and the old man was simply bored.
"Oh, that's understandable. By the way, your dad said you must take a shower when you come back. The electric heaters in the bathrooms on the second floor of the south building and the second floor of the north building are all powered on."
"I got it." She originally wanted to see if there was hot water in the kitchen, but when she heard that the electric heater was powered on to boil water, Le Yun took the medicine box from Handsome Lan and went up to the second floor.
Lan Sanyin followed Xiao Loli back to Jiudao alone. He lived not only on the second floor of the north building, but also on the second floor of the south building of the guest building.
Lan San turned around and went to the south building to find clothes and take a shower. He didn't get any blood stains. Because he had been to Yang's house and the hospital, he would be stained with the smell of stars. He couldn't smell it because he was afraid that the little loli would feel uncomfortable after smelling it. Also go take a shower and change clothes.
He is a big man with a shaved head. He takes a shower in five minutes, tidies himself up, throws his clothes in the washing machine, and goes to the kitchen of the north building to make food first.
Le Xiaololi returned to the second floor, took clean clothes, washed her hair and took a shower. She felt brand new. She could no longer smell the smell stuck to her clothes, and she felt refreshed.
She only blew the root area and went downstairs to eat.
I just made dumplings in the morning. Handsome Lan stopped cooking and cut a piece of fresh lean meat to make a pot of meat and vegetable soup and eat dumplings.
The big wolfdog ate rice. He finished a large bowl of rice and a large piece of meat, feeling satisfied.
After eating a bowl of hot dumplings and feeling warm all over, Le Yun sat at the kotatsu table, warming herself by the fire and wiping her hair.
"Little girl, uncle Zhou's daughter-in-law's family came here last year and wanted to have a dinner with you. You went to attend a classmate's wedding, and they have a dinner with you this year. You went to deliver the baby again. You are back now, why don't you come and sit down? ?”
Mr. Yi looked at the little girl who was gently wiping her long hair with a cotton cloth, looked at her and smiled, and said that it seemed that the Zhou family's current wife's mother-in-law and the little girl were not destined to meet each other last year. They came early this year. , made a reservation for dinner, but missed it again.
"If you are a long-term relative, don't rush for a while. It's normal for things like this to happen if there are two, and if there are two, there are three, and there are four. Just get used to it." If you miss it, it means that the fate is not close. When the opportunity comes, we will meet naturally.
Yan Lao Yi Lao was very happy. Hearing this, he was afraid that this would not be the last time, and he might miss the opportunity to meet Zhou's maternal uncle and mother-in-law's family in the future.
Li Zhao and Lan San drank fragrant tea and didn't want to ask why.
Xiao Leshan had dried his hair and was about to go upstairs to work when Leshan slipped back alone.
When Xiao Leshan returned home, she saw her sister rushing towards her and hugging her thigh, turning into a clingy spirit.
Le Yun politely picked up her younger brother and gave it to Mr. Li to take him to the south building for class.
There was a class at two o'clock in the afternoon in winter, and Leshan was almost twenty minutes late when he came back.
Le Shan bitterly shrank his neck, and when he was carried away by his senior brother, he still looked at his sister helplessly, hoping that his sister would be soft-hearted, but unfortunately, his sister was hard-hearted and unmoved.
Yan Laoyan was always afraid of being looked down upon by the little bastard, so he decided not to go to the south building at all, but instead went to the second floor of the north building to join in the fun.
The little Loli spread out the drawings and drew pictures, while the two elders sat at the golden nanmu table, warming themselves by the fire, eating nuts, playing chess, and drinking tea. They were very leisurely.
The handsome guy Lan watches the two elders playing chess or reading a book.
Le Yun: "..."
She was quite envious. I didn't think there was anything wrong before, but now I feel more and more that she was born to work hard, and when she was a nobody, she racked her brains to get rid of the invisible influence and make money to support her family.
Now there is no shortage of money, but we still have to work hard to find a way to present something in an honest and fair manner.
Compared with the leisurely life of the two elders, she is simply an old scalper.
It's a pity that she understands that she can't give up the peach. If she really gives up, the people from Yan's side will definitely take turns to do the ideological work, which will annoy her to death.
Sighing silently, Leyun accepted her fate.
While Le Xiaololi was working on the drawing at home, Li Xiaoyan finally returned to the small village after walking for nearly three hours.
She was tired and hungry, but when she saw the houses in the small village, she felt a burst of strength and energy and walked into the village. When she arrived at her family's mud house, she found the door closed and the house was quiet, so she called "Mom."
But no one answered her.
She called grandma again, but no one answered. Instead, Xiao Liu's mother from the Liu family, a neighbor, heard the sound and came out to look around. When she saw her, she said, "You are back. Your grandma went to Li's house."
Li Xiaoyan was so panicked that her heart almost jumped out of her chest: "My mother, my mother..."
She wanted to say "Is my mother gone?" but she didn't say that.
"Your mother is not well. You should go back and see for yourself." Xiao Liu's mother sighed with a complicated expression, but didn't say anything.
When Li Xiaoyan heard what Xiao Liu's mother said, Mo Ming felt a sense of fear and her steps became unsteady. She walked to the door of the house with one foot high and one foot low, took off the door buckle, and pushed the door open.
She didn't even know how she got into the house. She just mechanically walked to the door of her mother's room, calling "Mom" in a trembling voice.
In a daze, Mrs. Meng seemed to hear her daughter's voice, and she woke up a little. She opened her eyes and looked at the dim room, and all she felt was the cold.
She moved her lips in a self-deprecating way. Xiaoyan was at school, how could she come back? Her mother-in-law would not let Xiaoyan come back.
Just when she was doubting, she heard another cry of "Mom". She was startled and asked with difficulty: "Xiaoyan, are you back?"
Li Xiaoyan thought her mother was gone. She was scared and panicked, and her legs were shaking. When she heard her mother's weak voice, she rushed to the door and opened it: "Mom, Mom-"
As the door opened, the smell of feces, urine and blood rushed over. Li Xiaoyan was almost blinded by the smell. She stood for a few minutes before she bravely entered the house.
The room was dimly lit, so I turned on the light, and then I saw clearly that the broken basket in front of the bed contained many blood-stained tissues and some paper with yellow stains.
Those papers are the source of the smell.
Li Xiaoyan felt nauseous and saw movement on the bed. She ran two or three steps and came close to the bed. She saw her mother. She was not covered with the blue flower quilt before, but an old gray quilt.
Her mother's face was so thin that there was no trace of flesh, it was dark, with prominent cheekbones on both sides, her mouth was so dry that only a layer of skin remained, and her eyes were cloudy.
Li Xiaoyan burst into tears when she saw her mother's appearance.
Seeing her daughter, Mrs. Meng was like a dead tree that had been watered by rain again. She suddenly became energetic and sat up: "Xiaoyan, you just came back. Didn't you eat? You go and make something to eat. Mom, too." Hungry.”
"Mom." Li Xiaoyan burst into tears.
"Xiaoyan, Mom, I haven't eaten for several days and I feel so hungry."
"Okay, Mom, I'm going to make some food." Seeing that her mother didn't look like she was about to die, Li Xiaoyan didn't panic anymore, wiped her face, and hurried to the kitchen.
She ran to the main room, took off the bag she had been carrying and put it in the main room. She took off her scarf and then went to the kitchen to look for something to eat.
Grandma cooked rice for noon and ate half of it, and there was still another half, but it was not enough for two people.
Li Xiaoyan came out looking for noodles, found eggs, cooked the egg noodles, and served them to her mother. She was really relieved when she saw that her mother had finished the bowl of noodles.
After eating a bowl of noodles, Mrs. Meng gained strength. She got up by herself, went to the kitchen to warm herself by the fire, and said she wanted to take a bath.
Li Xiaoyan ate noodles and helped her mother boil water. When the water boiled, she helped her mother carry the bucket to the room. When she saw the dirty paper ball, she endured the nausea and carried away the broken basket.
She poured the paper ball into the wilted paper in the latrine and walked out of the latrine. She couldn't help but retched and almost vomited out the noodles she had eaten not long ago.
After finishing retching, Li Xiaoyan went back to the kitchen and rinsed her mouth with warm water before she felt better.
Mrs. Meng took a bath, changed out of the clothes she had not washed for nearly a month, put on clean clothes, then went back to the kitchen and asked her daughter to boil water to wash her hair.
Granny Li went to the Li family in the same village to ask for advice on what to do if Mrs. Meng died. Although the Li family members were not close to Granny Li's branch, they could not stand the snobbery of Granny Li, who was a duplicitous person. , because Mrs. Meng had never done anything to regret them, and now that Mrs. Meng was dying, they did not ignore Granny Li or deliberately embarrass her.
The people of the Li family wanted to call Li Xiaoyan back if Mrs. Meng really died. Even if Mrs. Meng died, even if there was no banquet and only a few people could be found to carry it out, Li Xiaoyan would have to kowtow in person to hire the mourners. , Li Xiaoyan did not kowtow, not to mention the villagers, even those people with the surname Li who had not been out of the ninth server would not go to help with the funeral.
Granny Li was afraid of delaying her granddaughter's studies and was unwilling to ask her to come back. Because there was no possibility of the Li family being accommodating, she said that if Li Xiaoyan did not kowtow, they would not help with the affairs, so she had no choice but to agree.
Even if she agreed, she didn't call her granddaughter immediately and decided to wait. It wouldn't be too late to call until she was sure that Mrs. Meng was not OK.
She hoped that Mrs. Meng could delay Xiaoyan's exam. She was thinking about whether she should go back to take care of her and find a way to wait for Xiaoyan to take a vacation before she died.
Granny Li, who had some evil thoughts, came back from the house of a member of the Li family. When she arrived at the door, she found the door open and noises coming from the kitchen. She thought a chicken or dog had entered the house, so she hurriedly ran into the kitchen.
I hurriedly opened the kitchen door, and suddenly I saw Mrs. Meng, who had been lying in bed lifeless for the past two days and could hardly even speak, sitting by the fire pit, her whole body was clean, her Granddaughter Li Xiaoyan is helping her mother blow dry her hair.
Seeing Mrs. Meng who seemed to be in good spirits, Granny Li felt as if she had seen a ghost. She was so frightened that her heart almost rushed out of her chest, and her voice trembled: "Xiaoyan?"
"Grandma, you're back." Li Xiaoyan looked over when she heard the door, saw her grandma, and shouted happily.
Sister-in-law Meng also called "Mom" lightly.
After confirming that her granddaughter was back, Granny Li was anxious and guilty. She stepped unsteadily across the threshold and asked in a low voice: "Xiaomeng, you look much better than yesterday. Do you still feel pain?"
"Yeah." Mrs. Meng just said yes, and then told her daughter that she felt cold.
Li Xiaoyan hurriedly used a hair dryer to help her mother blow out the water-stained areas.
Granny Li went to sit by the fire pit and looked at Aunt Meng for a while, her scalp numbing for a while. If...if what the old man said was true, Aunt Meng should be back to her former glory now!
(End of chapter)