Rebirth of the Millennial: Getting Rich After Parents Get Laid Off

Chapter 54 Burnt Clean

In the middle of the night, Li Xunli was worried about Shen Qingqing. When she got up to check on her, she felt that her hands and feet were hot. She then put her head against hers to measure her forehead temperature before confirming that she really had a fever.

But there are two little ones at home, and it is impossible for two adults to leave two little ones at home alone.

Li Xunli filled a basin with water and wrung out a towel to cool Shen Qingqing down. Then she remembered something: "Yongzhou! Call Dad! Dad has Uncle Binzhu's phone number! Ask him to bring a medical kit and come home to check on Qingqing!"

The village where the Shen family lives is at least an hour and a half away from the city hospital by motorcycle, but Shen Qingqing can't get any fresh air at all now.

Fortunately, there are several private clinics and a health center in the village, not too far from the Shen family.

The doctor at the health station is an old acquaintance of Zhang Mingfang. He is a retired doctor who has served in the military.

Shen Rongzhou quickly called his father-in-law.

Zhang Mingfang received a call from Shen Rongzhou in the middle of the night, and without saying a word, she drove her motorcycle to Chen Binzhu's house to pick him up.

Twenty minutes later, Chen Binzhu and Zhang Mingfang arrived at Shen's house together.

Shen Qingqing had a fever so severe that she was unconscious and started talking nonsense. She was making murmuring sounds but no one could hear what she was saying.

Chen Binzhu gave Li Xunli a mercury thermometer and asked her to hold it under the child's armpit to check the child's temperature. He himself took out a pulse pillow to feel the child's pulse and used a stethoscope to listen to Shen Qingqing's heart and lungs.

After all this trouble, Shen Qingqing's thermometer showed that her fever had reached 39.2 degrees.

Chen Binzhu collected the things and took out a few fever-reducing patches from his medical box and handed them to Li Xunli. He then began to write a prescription and reassured Li Xunli and the others, "It's okay. You just caught a cold. Combined with your weak constitution and accumulated heat, it caused a flare-up."

After writing the prescription, he paused and asked, "Do you want to take Chinese medicine or Western medicine?"

"Take some western medicine to reduce the fever first!" Li Xunli hugged Shen Qingqing and put the fever-reducing patch on her.

Chen Binzhu nodded, "Mingfang, come with me to get the medicine!"

"Okay, let's go!" Zhang Mingfang felt bad looking at Shen Qingqing's sickly appearance. Two years ago, when Li Xunli and Shen Rongzhou had not yet returned home to find work, he was the one who raised Shen Qingqing from a small group, and only returned to the Shen family before she started elementary school.

He was not as patriarchal as Li Yuxing, but he was too honest and Li Yuxing was strong-willed. When they were young, he could only comfort Li Xunli more and there was nothing else he could do.

After the two families had Shen Qingqing's first grandchild, Zhang Mingfang made up for all the things that she could not make up for on Li Xunli on Shen Qingqing and loved her very much.

After Zhang Mingfang went to get the medicine, she simply stayed at the Shen family to take care of Shen Qingqing and did not go back.

After taking the antipyretic, Shen Qingqing's fever finally subsided until around four in the morning. Her pajamas were soaked with sweat.

Li Xunli didn't dare to change her clothes, so she could only wipe away her sweat with a tissue to prevent her from catching a cold again.

After Zhang Mingfang stayed, Shen Rongzhou was sent to bed. He had two more trips to make tomorrow, so he definitely had to sleep.

Li Xunli wiped the sweat off Shen Qingqing's face, then made a cup of warm water and let Shen Qingqing drink it through a straw.

Shen Qingqing's consciousness was hazy, and she would often take a sip or two and then stop moving again.

Li Xunli and Zhang Mingfang took turns holding her and feeding her water, but at around seven o'clock when Shen Rongzhou was about to go to work, she had a high fever again.

Shen Qingqing felt as if she was about to be burned. The big furnace that burned corpses seemed to appear in front of her again. The heat wave hit her face, making her conscious at times and in darkness at times.

The images of her father and mother lying side by side on the bed with purple faces, dying, and now living with them lively and energetically appeared alternately in front of Shen Qingqing.

She could hardly tell which was real. She cried out "Mom and Dad," but she was too weak to shout out. She could only sob and whimper, making some noises.

Shen Rongzhou immediately asked Zhang Zeqin for leave and changed his shift.

Shen Yangyang was carried to the master bedroom to sleep last night, and we didn't dare let her continue sleeping in the same room with Shen Qingqing.

Shen Qingqing seemed to be able to feel someone calling her in her ear and something being put into her mouth, but she didn't know who it was or what it was, and she didn't want to listen or eat.

But she had no strength to stop the sounds from entering her ears, nor could she stop the things from entering her mouth.

"Qingqing, my slave, be good and take the medicine. Be good and take the medicine. You will feel better after taking it..." Li Xunli hugged Shen Qingqing and kept coaxing her and calling her.

Li Xunli asked Shen Rongzhou to grind up the antipyretic tablets and make a potion for Shen Qingqing to drink.

Shen Qingqing was startled by the bitterness that reached the root of her tongue, and her chaotic consciousness became a little clearer.

She heard her mother calling her and coaxing her in her ear.

She is alive.

Her parents are also alive.

Shen Qingqing finally dispelled the nightmare-like images before her eyes, regained consciousness, and no longer resisted drinking water and taking medicine.

She struggled to open her eyes and took a look, and found that it was Li Xunli holding her, then she fell asleep again peacefully.

The antipyretic took effect and the fever subsided. Shen Qingqing also stopped sweating and slept soundly until noon.

After Shen Qingqing's fever completely subsided, Zhang Mingfang was persuaded by Li Xunli and Shen Rongzhou to go back. The old lady was almost sixty years old and she must not be able to bear it after staying up all night.

At noon, Li Xunli cooked a pot of white porridge, added some soy sauce and mixed it, and asked Shen Qingqing to get up, eat something, take some medicine, and then go to sleep.

Shen Qingqing felt as if she had walked a very long way. She was so tired that she had no strength left in her body and was in great pain. She heard Li Xunli calling her, as if she would not stop unless she was called.

So she had to open her eyes, "Mom..."

Li Xunli looked at Shen Qingqing's dry and cracked lips with heartache, "Mom is here, come on, be good, get up and eat the porridge. You can take the medicine only after you are full."

Shen Qingqing is an adult at heart, and has experienced wearing masks for three years. She knows clearly that she cannot lose her temper at this time. Even though her bones hurt, she forced herself to sit up and eat the porridge and medicine.

But she couldn't fall asleep after eating, and she sat listlessly on the bed in a daze.

Suddenly, the nightmare that she had when she had a fever flashed through her mind, and she couldn't help but look outside the door. Her parents were sitting at the dining table eating with Shen Yangyang.

Shen Qingqing grew up in a materialistic scientific worldview, but Chaocheng still retains some ancient folk customs, and she has been influenced by them so much that she can't completely ignore them.

At least this time she was having a fever, she wondered if it meant that all the bad luck in the past had been burned away by the fire, and from now on, the Shen family would be on a smooth road with a bright future!

　I am coming!

　　See you tomorrow night~
　　(PS: It’s not that I don’t want to write more, it’s that I’m still waiting for PK, so I have to control the word count TAT)

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