The modern fortune-telling history of a small shopkeeper

Chapter 281, the child is sick

Just when he came back, a child at home fell ill and had a fever. Qiao Minglang asked his fifth uncle to drive the family's tricycle overnight, and took the child to the health center in the town.The doctor on duty at night gave the child an injection and fluid, and they did not take the child home until the next morning.

I don't know what to do if the children in the family are sick when he is not at home, and whether someone will take care of them. Qiao Minglang feels very guilty and guilty about this. Maybe there are many times when the children need him to take care of them. , he was not with the child.

Therefore, he originally planned to return to the city in two days after returning home, but now it seems that he plans to stay at home for two more days.

I called the store, and it was his big brother who answered the phone. He told his big brother what happened at home, and planned to go back in a few days.The lobby on the other end of the phone said it was fine and asked him to stay at home for a few more days before going there.

"Well, I'll stay at home for two days, and I'll go back when Xiaocheng has nothing to do." After saying hello to his big brother, Qiao Minglang decided to stay at home for a few more days, so that if his big brother sees Zhou Xing, By the way, let me tell Zhou Xing so that the man won't worry about him if he doesn't see him back.

"Big brother, auntie is at home, you can say a few words to auntie."

The two brothers talked a few words, Qiao Minglang gave the phone to his aunt, and asked his aunt to talk to his cousin, and he came out of the house.

"Everything is fine at home. Jungle has learned to read poetry in the past few days, and he can recite it well..." Aunt Qiao answered the phone, talked about the family affairs with her eldest son, and asked if the business in the store was good. It's a ha ha ha ha ha.

"Say a few words less, say a few words to me."

"Go away, I haven't finished yet."

Uncle Qiao watched the mother-in-law at home talking on the phone with his son, and wanted to remind the mother-in-law to stop talking nonsense, the phone bill was expensive, and anxiously wanted to grab the phone and say a few words.

The husband and wife were pushing and shoving each other, but Mrs. Qiao finally gave the phone to the man at home, put her ears to listen to the father and son talking, and from time to time grabbed the microphone to say a few words.

Listening to the voice of his parents, the young man on the other end of the phone had a smile on his face.

***

The children in the family were still playing at his aunt's house, and only his sick brother was at home alone. Qiao Minglang was not very relieved.After calling, he said to the children at home, "You guys play here for a while, I'll go home and see Xiaocheng."

"Brother, I'll go back with you." Qiao Sanmei said.

"It's okay for you to play here for a while, brother, go back and have a look." Qiao Minglang waved his hand, telling the children to stay with the aunt to play for a while, and then he went back home.

The children were playing at his aunt's house, and the house was quiet.

Knowing that his younger brother was sleeping in the house, Qiao Minglang opened the door and walked in, only to see the child lying on the bed.Qiao Mingcheng was still lying on the bed and opened his eyes when he heard the door being pushed open. When he saw that it was his eldest brother, he called out "Brother".

Probably because of illness, the child's small face was pale, the skin on his lips was so dry that it peeled off, and his whole face was listless.

"Do you feel any better? Do you feel any discomfort?" Usually, he saw the child jumping around lively, but seeing the child lying sickly on the bed now, Qiao Minglang really felt a little distressed.

He reached out and touched the child's forehead, and then touched his own forehead, "Fortunately, there is no fever."

"Brother, am I too useless." Qiao Mingcheng felt that he was very useless, and he fell ill and caught a cold no matter how well he was.

"How could it be?" Qiao Minglang was a little surprised how the child would think so. Knowing that the child might be depressed because of illness, he comforted him: "Usually when my brother is not at home, it is you who take care of my sister and younger siblings, and help Auntie and uncle are working, how can Xiaocheng be useless?"

"In a few years, when my brother earns more money, I will take you all outside. You should study hard. If your brother is not at home, you will have to take care of your elder sister and younger siblings. You should hurry up and get well." stand up."

"Really? Brother, do you want to take us outside?" Hearing his brother said to take them outside, the child's eyes became more bright.

"Yes, my brother has this plan. But it may take another three to five years, when you all go to junior high school, my brother will take you outside to go to high school, and then go to university after high school."

Seeing that the child's lips were a bit dry, Qiao Minglang got up, went to pour the child a glass of warm water, fed it to the child, and asked, "Are you hungry? Do you want my brother to cook something for you?"

"Not hungry." Qiao Mingcheng felt that he had no appetite and didn't want to eat.

"Then you go to sleep, brother is here to watch you." Qiao Minglang sat on the side of the bed, talking softly to the child, "you should study hard, and in the future, brother will make money for you to go to college. Now you are still young, brother Take care of you, and when you grow up, learn to take care of yourself."

"Well, brother. When we grow up, we will earn a lot of money and return it to my brother."

"Hehe, that's good, brother, I'll wait for you to earn a lot of money and come back."

Qiao Mingcheng grabbed his brother's hand and stared at his brother.It wasn't until the eyelids couldn't hold it anymore that I closed my eyes, and fell asleep with my head tilted after a while.

Seeing the child's frown in sleep, Qiao Minglang couldn't help laughing.

Why is this child frowning while falling asleep?Like a little old man, he reached out to smooth the wrinkles between the child's brows.

Hearing the sound from outside and knowing that the other children in the family had come back, he carefully pulled out his hand, walked out gently, and closed the door.

"Shh, don't make too much noise, Mingcheng has fallen asleep, so please speak softly."

"Hush, don't talk."

The two twins quickly covered their mouths, their eyes widened.

In fact, if you look carefully, you will find that the eyes of the two children do not look alike, one looks like the mother's eyes, and the other looks like the father's eyes.However, because the contours of the facial features are too similar, the two twins feel very similar.

It is said that the child's body recovers quickly. The child who was sick in bed the day before yesterday woke up hungry the next morning and asked for something to eat.

The child, who had been hungry for two days, now had an appetite and ate two large bowls of noodles in one go. After going out for two laps and coming back, it seemed that nothing had happened.

However, Qiao Minglang was still not at ease. The next morning, he took someone to the health center in the town to see the doctor again, prescribed some medicine and came back, telling the child to take the medicine on time, "After taking these medicines, Your illness will be cured."

"Well, I'll take my medicine well." Qiao Mingcheng looked at these bags of things, thinking that there were bitter pills inside, his face was wrinkled into a little bun.

Seeing the child's appearance, Qiao Minglang knew that he didn't like to take these medicines.But he knew that the child would take medicine if he promised, and he would do it.

***

After coming back for a few days, he didn't have time to visit his grandpa, so Qiao Minglang rode his bicycle to his grandpa's place by himself while there was still some time in the day.

Zhang Mingde was picked up by his elder son to live in the city for half a month after the next year, and when his health recovered, he packed his bags and ran back.During this period of time, there was nothing wrong with his body, he ate deliciously, and felt that he slept...not very well.

However, older people feel less, and he feels that this is not a big problem for him.

Seeing his grandson come to see him, the old man had a rare smile on his face, asked his grandson to sit inside, and poured him a cup of tea.

"Grandpa, I'll just come by myself." Qiao Minglang took the kettle, first poured a glass of water for grandpa, and then poured a glass of water for himself, concerned about his grandpa's health.

"Grandpa's health is pretty good, there's nothing wrong with it." Zhang Mingde sat down on a chair, his son and daughters-in-law were outside, and he was usually the old man at home.

He has lived here for decades, and has also been a teacher and principal of the village primary school. Not to mention that all the people in this village are students he has taught, but half of them are students he taught.Students usually come to visit him, and the neighbors take good care of him. From time to time, someone comes to help him chop firewood and carry water. There is always firewood and water in the water tank at home.

If he hadn't been so angry with his younger son, he wouldn't have been so sick that his grandson had sent him to the hospital.

"When did you come back?" Zhang Mingde didn't see his grandson back for a while, and Zhang Mingde found that his grandson seemed to have grown a little taller.

"It's been two days since I've been back, and I've always said that I came to see you, grandpa. I was so pestered by the little ones at home that I didn't even go out. I only found time to come over to you, grandpa, until today." Qiao Minglang didn't say anything about his younger brother's illness. , so as not to worry the elderly.

"Oh, I went to see those little ones a few days ago." Zhang Mingde thought about the group of grandchildren in his heart, and would visit them every now and then.

Seeing that the eldest grandson came here by himself, the old man asked, "Why didn't you bring your younger siblings along?"

"Third sister and Xiaocheng went to town with uncle and the others, but the two twins are still at home, so I didn't bring them here." Qiao Minglang took a sip of water and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand.

The weather was hot, and he was sweating all over by riding his bicycle.

"Oh, this is true. The two little guys are a little noisy. Come on, take this towel and wipe off the sweat on your body. It's clean. I just washed it yesterday." Seeing his grandson raised his hand to wipe his sweat, Zhang Mingde handed over a clean towel The old towels passed to the grandson.

"Thank you, Grandpa." Qiao Minglang didn't mind, and took it to wipe the sweat from his forehead and neck.

"They're all on vacation now?" Zhang Mingde knew that the school was on vacation at this time, and his grandchildren didn't have to go to school, so he presumably followed his family to the town to help sell things.

Qiao Minglang replied, "Yes, yes."