Free Days in Siheyuan

Chapter 1239 The culprit
Zhang Yu rushed all the way to take the two children to the hospital.

Before the tractor stopped, the two children's families jumped down impatiently and rushed to the hospital lobby holding their children.

The doctors in the hall were used to all kinds of unexpected situations.

As soon as he saw the condition of the two children, especially the blood on Ermao's body, the doctor on duty stretched out his hand without saying a word and called the family members to come over.

The doctor examined the two children and asked, "What's going on?"

"Two children were playing in the mountains and accidentally fell into a trap. Doctor, please save them!"

The doctor nodded and said soothingly, "Don't get excited, family member. I'll check the child first."

The doctor on duty removed the child's gauze, looked at the leg bone exposed through the skin, and turned around immediately.

While running, he told the nurse: "Tell Dr. Li and the others to go to operating room No. 2."

After saying that, he extended his hand and greeted his family members.

"You guys come with me!"

After running all the way and sending the child into the operating room, Ermao's father's legs went weak and he collapsed to the ground.

Xiaopang's family was not much better off. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law hugged each other and cried bitterly.

Xiaopang's father is not at home, and his grandfather is old, so the village specially sent a young man to help.

When Zhang Yu parked the tractor and rushed over after asking for directions, the two children had already entered the operating room.

"How is the child?"

The families of the two children were all staring at the door of the operating room, as if they would see the children coming out in the next second.

There was no response at all to Zhang Yu's question.

It was the young man who followed who answered Zhang Yu's question.

The young man looked worried and shook his head: "I don't know yet. The doctor just said that the child needs surgery."

Zhang Yu nodded and said only one sentence: "The child will be fine."

Then he stopped talking.

In this situation, no matter how much you say, it will be of no use, so it is better to let the family members stay calm.

After waiting for more than two hours, a nurse came out of the operating room.

Seeing the nurse, the two children's family members rushed over.

"Doctor, how is our child?"

"Doctor, is our child okay?"

Looking at the anxious family members, the nurse nodded: "The operation was successful."

When these words came out, the family members all breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's okay, it's okay!" The chubby grandma covered her chest and muttered softly.

"That child...when will that child come out?" Ermao's father looked at the tightly closed operating door, as if he wanted to see the child through the door.

Erpang's mother also came to her senses at this time and started asking when her child would be able to come out.

The nurse comforted them, "Don't worry, the baby will be out soon. Doctor Li is putting a plaster cast on the baby."

"Wait a little longer, the baby will be out soon."

After saying that, the nurse turned around and went into the operating room.

After learning that the child was fine, Zhang Yu whispered a few words to the young man who came with him and walked out of the hospital.

He planned to go to the supply and marketing cooperative and the state-owned restaurant.

I asked the hospital security guard about the location of the state-owned restaurant.

The guard still remembered Zhang Yu, the young man driving the tractor, and pointed: "Here, go forward about a hundred meters, turn left, and then go straight and you will see the state-owned restaurant."

After that, he kindly reminded him: "Our hospital also has a cafeteria where you can get patient meals. If you think it's expensive, there is a stove in the cafeteria. You can rent a stove, or give the food to the cafeteria chef and ask him to help process it. Just give him some processing fees."

After expressing his gratitude to the security guard, Zhang Yu decided to go to the state-owned hotel first.

As for the hospital cafeteria, we’ll have to wait and see what the two children’s families are going to do?
However, I think they should go back. After all, the situation today is urgent and they didn't bring much when they came here.

As for the money, the team leader was quick to react and paid them the money from the team's account first.

Zhang Yu guessed that they never thought of taking food coupons or anything like that.

The state-owned hotel was indeed very close to the hospital, just as the security guard said.

In just four or five minutes, Zhang Yu arrived at the entrance of the state-owned hotel.

After entering the door, he first glanced at the menu hanging on the wall.

Thinking about the two children who had just undergone surgery, they needed to supplement their nutrition and could not eat greasy food.

Zhang Yu asked, "Excuse me, do you have porridge?"

The waiter shook his head: "No more. If you want porridge, you have to come in the morning."

Looking at the menu hanging on the wall, Zhang Yu thought for a moment and asked again: "I see there is chicken soup. Can I trouble the chef to help me put some noodles in the chicken soup?"

As soon as these words were spoken, combined with the fact that there was a hospital not far away, the waiter knew that someone in the family must be in the hospital.

She looked up at Zhang Yu and said, "Wait a moment, I'll go ask for you!"

As he said this, he lifted the curtain and walked in.

Zhang Yu could only vaguely hear voices talking inside.

After a moment, the waiter came out with a smile.

"Master Wang agreed."

Zhang Yu smiled and thanked her, then began to order food: "Then please help me order two servings of chicken noodle soup, and then help me get 20 buns."

Zhang Yu guessed that since the child was so badly injured, the family members probably wouldn't have the appetite to eat, so he didn't order any dishes.

"By the way, do you have a lunch box?"

The waiter nodded: "Yes, but you have to pay a deposit."

After paying the deposit, Zhang Yu rushed to the hospital with two boxes of chicken noodle soup and 20 buns.

When he rushed back to the hospital, the two children had already come out of the operating room and were sent to the ward. The two children had also woken up from anesthesia.

When he entered the room, the doctor had already explained the situation to the family and was about to leave.

Zhang Yu pushed the door open and walked in, raised the food in his hand, and asked, "How is the child now? Did the doctor say whether the child can eat now?"

"You can eat, but the diet should be light." The doctor took the initiative to explain before the family members could speak.

Zhang Yu opened a lunch box and pointed at the chicken noodle soup inside: "Can I eat this?"

The doctor took a look at the chicken noodle soup in the lunch box and nodded: "It's edible."

The doctor turned around and left, thinking of the chicken noodle soup in his heart. He couldn't help but mutter in his heart, the state-owned restaurant actually has chicken noodle soup today, let's go to the state-owned restaurant to eat after get off work.

Looking at the meal that Zhang Yu brought back, the families of the two children were grateful for his thoughtfulness.

Rejecting their offer of money, Zhang Yu handed them two lunch boxes and asked them to feed the children first.

Then he explained what he had learned: "There is a cafeteria on this side of the hospital. The bungalows on the left are the hospital cafeteria. Breakfast is usually between 6 and 8 o'clock, and noon is between 11 o'clock and 1 o'clock in the afternoon. The evening usually starts at 5:30 and ends around 7:30. If you want to get food, pay attention to the time and try to go early. If you are late, there will be no good food. There is a stove for rent in the cafeteria, and you can cook by yourself. At the corner of the hospital lobby, there are basins and kettles for rent, but you need to pay a deposit. And..."

Listening to Zhang Yu's instructions, the two children's families kept saying thank you.

Zhang Yu interrupted their thanks and said, "The brigade needs a tractor, and it's getting late. We have to go back quickly. Are you going to stay here to look after the children, or what?"

After several family members discussed it, Ermao's father took the initiative to speak out his thoughts.

"There are still things to do at home, so I plan to let their mother go back first. Little Fatty's grandmother and I will take care of the two children here. It just so happens that they haven't taken the children's things yet, so they can go back and tidy up and prepare some change of clothes for the children, and then come back the day after tomorrow to change with us."

Ermao's mother nodded and agreed with her husband's statement.

It’s not that she doesn’t love her child, nor is it that she doesn’t want to be with her child.

But Ermao is not the only child in their family. No matter how much they love Ermao, the family still needs an adult to take care of him. They can't just abandon the other children at home just for Ermao.

Besides, there are not only children in the family, but also chickens and pigs.

The economic situation had been bad in the past two years, but this year things finally got better. She gritted her teeth and decided to raise a pig.

The food used to feed the pig was all saved by the whole family.

The whole family was counting on selling the pigs during the Chinese New Year to make some money.

The oldest child in the family is only 10 years old, and Ermao's mother is really worried about leaving the pigs and chickens in the family to the children.

Zhang Yu only ate two buns to fill his stomach, and then left the rest to the two family members who were accompanying him in the hospital.

Zhang Yu came here on a tractor and came back on a tractor.

When we returned to the team, it was almost dark.

As soon as I entered the team, I was surrounded.

The captain asked first: "How is the child?"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that the child was fine.

"As long as it's okay, it'll be okay!"

Because I had to go to the hospital during the day, I missed watering the fields, so I had to make up for it at night.

Zhang Yu drove directly to the nearest well. As soon as the car stopped, several tractor drivers couldn't wait to get to work.

Under Zhang Yu's guidance, they reinstalled the water pump on the front of the tractor, connected the pipes, and restarted the tractor.

Seeing the water gushing out through the pipe with their own eyes, the villagers couldn't help but cheer even though they had seen it many times in the past two days.

Looking at the water flowing through the pipes into the fields and moistening the dry land, the team leader smiled with satisfaction.

He patted Zhang Yu on the shoulder and said, "Xiao Yu, you've been through a lot today. Go back and have a rest."

Zhang Yu did not refuse too much: "Okay, then Captain, I will go back first. If you have any questions, you can come to me again."

"Okay, okay! Go back and have a rest."

On Zhang Yu's way back, people greeted him along the way.

And just after he left, the villagers stared at the water with envy on their faces.

"Xie Hongguang, that old guy, will have a good life in the future."

"Who says it's not true? You know how much virtue Xie Hongguang accumulated in his previous life, and all his descendants are promising. Not to mention his grandson who is a college student, just his grandchildren are also promising."

When talking about Xie Hongguang's grandchildren, everyone became even more envious.

"How did you teach this kid? He can become a cadre in the commune without any help from his family."

"Oh! This is fate. I have spent so much time and effort on those little brats at home. I sold everything I had to send them to school, but now I have achieved nothing and can only work in the fields."

As soon as these words came out, the people around him couldn't help but glare at him.

"You are so guilty of saying that. If your own children are not good, then you must throw away the ones in my family!"

"Just be content, Lao Wu. Your children are already pretty good. Not only are they all hardworking, they are also filial. Now they have been chosen to be tractor drivers. Good days are ahead of them."

The old man who was called Lao Wu couldn't help laughing.

"Don't say that. They can only do hard work."

"That's not enough. As long as you work hard, your life will get better and better."

As everyone was talking about children, they couldn't help but talk about the injured Xiaopang and Ermao.

"I don't know how the two kids are doing now. Ermao's leg was injured so badly that the bones were exposed. Will there be any sequelae in the future?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the originally cheerful atmosphere suddenly froze.

The captain, who had come over at some point, also sighed.

"They said they had surgery to put the bone back in place, but I don't know if it can recover."

Everyone was startled by the captain who appeared out of nowhere.

"When did you come here?"

The frightened man couldn't help but complain: "I'm not young anymore, but I can't stand you scaring me like this."

Captain: "I have been here the whole time. Don't you see who I am blaming?"

Seeing the captain, someone asked with concern: "Captain, do you know when the two children can be discharged from the hospital?"

The captain shook his head: "I don't know. It depends on the specific situation of the two children. However, the two children are still young and their bones grow fast. They probably won't be able to stay for long."

Everyone nodded: "I hope the two children are okay."

Speaking of this, some people think of those traps.

"Who do you think did this?"

"Who knows? What a cursed creature! He is not afraid of retribution for doing this."

When talking about the people who dug the trap, everyone became furious.

"Who do you think it could be?" Lao Wu asked in a low voice.

Everyone pondered for a long time but still couldn't guess who would do this.

"I can't think of it, but it shouldn't be from our team." The old branch secretary who had been silent suddenly spoke.

Everyone looked at him: "Old Party Secretary, how did you know?"

The old secretary tapped his pipe and explained, "There aren't many outsiders in our village. Apart from our own family, the remaining families have been here for a long time. Everyone knows the village rules and the consequences of breaking them. They won't take the risk for a little food. And those traps can't be dug out in a day or two. I went to see them, and they were all dug out recently. But except for a few old friends in our village, everyone else has to work every day, and it can be seen in the work points book.

I just checked the village work points book. Recently, no one in the village, let alone the strong laborers, even the women, have asked for leave.

Don't mention the digging after work, don't mention how dangerous the West Mountain is, just the distance from the village to the middle of the mountain, how long does it take to go back and forth?"