growing up

Chapter 41

The sound of electric communication in the ear is very clear, but it has not been connected for 40 seconds.Ling Chao pressed the speakerphone, and stared at the connected stopwatch without moving his eyes. Along with the sound of rainwater hitting the glass outside the window, the long beep sounded very clearly in the quiet bedroom, but it made people extremely anxious.

Until the mechanical and gentle female voice said "Sorry, the user you dialed is temporarily unanswered, please call again later...", Ling Chao hung up the phone and dialed again.

The phone was not turned off, but why didn't you answer it?Busy?asleep?Mute?or else...

Until the fourth time, the phone was finally connected.

"Hello." Gu Yuan's voice came from the phone's external voice, very soft and hoarse, as if he was exhausted after not sleeping for a few days and smoking a lot of cigarettes.It's completely different from the sleepy one.

Ling Chao's uneasy heart sank to the lowest point, is there really something wrong?

"Gu Yuan, what's wrong with your throat?" Ling Chao asked anxiously.

"It's okay. Why are you calling so late?" Gu Yuan's voice was like a layer of sand, and everything he said was sandy.

"There is a tornado here tonight, and the power at home is cut off. The phone ran out of power and turned off. I just saw you sent me a message." Ling Chao explained: "Do you have anything to do with me?"

"I..." Gu Yuan seemed to be a little hesitant, Ling Chao heard him cough twice as if clearing his throat: "It's nothing. How is your side now?"

Ling Chao could feel that Gu Yuan didn't say anything, but now, he didn't know how to ask clearly.

"It's still windy and rainy outside, but the electricity is coming. There will be tornadoes here from time to time. I'm used to it, and it's fine." Ling Chao said.

The two of them spoke a few more words, and it sounded like a normal conversation, and Gu Yuan took the initiative to ask him if he had gone out to play in the past two days or something.The phone had just been charged for a while, and the battery was still low, so I hung up the phone without talking much.

Ling Chao turned to WeChat and looked at the message from Gu Yuan. Although Gu Yuan tried his best to show a relaxed attitude on the phone just now, Ling Chao felt that something must have happened to him.

But what will happen?The usually calm and calm boy's weak voice at the beginning couldn't be all right.

In the afternoon, Gu Qingqing felt a little uncomfortable after taking a nap. This feeling is too familiar. She has experienced it too many times since she was a child. Her breathing is a bit difficult, and there is obvious discomfort in the position of her heart. Looking at it in the mirror When she went up, the color of her lips was still normal, she found Gu Yuan, and Gu Yuan could tell her current discomfort at a glance.

Gu Yuan accompanied Gu Qingqing to deal with this situation many times. Without saying a word, he simply collected the necessities, took a portable oxygen from Gu Qingqing's room, and said hello to grandma. Uncle Yan sent them to City D.

Along the way, Gu Qingqing knelt and crawled on the back seat, resting her head on Gu Yuan's lap. Gu Yuan always paid attention to Gu Qingqing's face, and protected her back with one hand to prevent her from falling due to the shaking of the car. .

Fortunately, city D is not a tourist city, and there were not many cars on the road during the eleventh period. Uncle Yan has been driving for many years, and the speed of the car has been about to exceed the speed along the way. It took more than half an hour to arrive at the gate of the No. 1 civilian hospital in city D.

Gu Qingqing's lips began to turn purple a little bit, her fingers were also changing color, and her breathing became more urgent. Gu Yuan held the oxygen bottle to breathe for her, and the hand on her back seemed to feel the rapid heartbeat .

After Uncle Yan parked the car, he went down to call the doctor, pushed an emergency trolley, and carried Gu Qingqing up with the doctor who came with him.

It wasn't until the doctor closed the curtain of the emergency room that Gu Yuan was able to say thank you to Uncle Yan.

Uncle Yan is not a relative of his family, but a neighbor in the same village.He used to be Gu Yuan's father's comrade-in-arms when he was young, and he grew up with his father as a partner, so the relationship is naturally very good.After retiring from the army, he returned to the countryside to do farming, while his parents were sent to work in cities far away from home.Fortunately, he has helped me all these years.

"Thank you, take a rest first, I'll pay the fee." Uncle Yan patted Gu Yuan's thin shoulder and said.

"No, I brought the money. You are busy at home, why don't you go back first." Gu Yuan was actually very worried about the health of the old sister. Over the years, she has been in danger again and again, but her condition is really not very good .

"Can you do it alone?" Uncle Yan did have something to do in the afternoon, and a big purchaser was coming to sign a purchase contract for a batch of chickens with him.It was originally scheduled to meet at 02:30, but now it is almost two o'clock.They went out in such a hurry that they were in no hurry to explain to their family. When he called back to tell his wife in the car, Gu Yuan overheard.

"Yes, you can go back." Gu Yuan said.

Uncle Yan looked at the time again, the contract was very important, he had to go back, but he was also worried that Gu Yuan was a half-old child, and seeing Gu Yuan's persistent eyes, he had no choice but to agree: "That's ok, call me if you need anything, You should also call your mother and see if she can take a few days off and come back."

"Okay." Gu Yuan said.

After Uncle Yan left in a hurry, Gu Yuan was the only one outside the emergency room.He felt a little weak in his body, there was an empty chair not two steps away from him, but he couldn't move, he could only slowly let his body slide down against the wall, and finally squatted on the ground.

There are nurses coming in and out of the emergency room, and there are no patients here at the moment, they can only be busy with Qingqing.

Gu Yuan held his head and buried his face in his knees, anxious and distressed.

He was born two hours earlier than Gu Qingqing. From the moment he was born, he was much more lively than Gu Qingqing. Grandma said that he opened his eyes in less than half a day at that time, and he was very active, but he didn't cry or make trouble. .Mother's milk is not enough, and he is very good at eating. From the beginning, Qingqing can only be fed breast milk, while he drinks milk.Qingqing, who was lying beside him, did not open her eyes until her mother was discharged from the hospital. Although she was not moving, she kept crying, her voice was not loud, and she cried for a long time.

Later, when she was half a year old, Qingqing experienced discoloration of her lips for the first time, and she couldn't cry anymore, and her little bruised face looked extremely painful.

Parents have special jobs, and my mother left early before taking nearly six months of maternity leave.Grandma took them to the hospital and it was confirmed that they were congenital heart disease, or Tetralogy of Fallot.At that time, my grandma stayed in the hospital alone, and my parents couldn't even get the vacation. It took about a week for my mother to rush back, but she had to leave after staying for three days.

The two of them were brought up by their grandma. It was very difficult for their parents to transfer jobs, and they couldn't go there to live. When they went, their grandma would take care of them. It would be better to stay in the countryside with better air and better environment.It is more conducive to Qingqing's disease.

Now grandma is getting older, and after his father died unexpectedly, it is even more sad for the old man to send a black-haired man to a white-haired man. Fortunately, Gu Yuan has always been in good health, and he has grown up. The matter of taking care of his sister naturally falls to him body.

He hoped that he would grow up faster, finish his studies earlier, work earlier, and earn more money. Even if Gu Qingqing had no chance of being cured, he still hoped that he could contribute to keeping her alive.

Originally, there would be an operation at the end of this month to give Qingqing some more time, but she suddenly fell ill today.

Gu Yuan was not afraid of anything since he was a child, except that he was afraid that one day he would never see Gu Qingqing again.Dad was gone, and he didn't want to lose another loved one.In his heart, grandma and Qingqing surpassed his parents to him, how could he endure the pain of losing his sister.

After more than an hour of rescue, Qingqing's condition finally stabilized.The doctor also came out.

"Are you a family member of the patient?" The doctor looked at Gu Yuan who was squatting at the door and asked, "Is there any parent from your family?"

Gu Yuan raised his head when he heard the voice, stood up when he saw it was a doctor, and said, "I am her elder brother, the parents...the parents are not around now, so I can make the decision for anything."

Only then did the doctor see clearly the young man in front of him. He was tall and thin, but he was still a half-grown child.

"How old are you? If you can contact the parents, please contact them as soon as possible. We need to talk to the parents." The doctor insisted.

In fact, if it was a doctor who had a heart attack, he would know Gu Yuan, but the doctor in the emergency department didn't know him.

"My mother is far away, and I won't be back for a while now. You can ask Director Li, who is out of your mind, he knows about me. I promise, I can take responsibility for my sister." Gu Yuan also knew that at his current age , the doctor is hard to believe him.

"That's it, okay then." The doctor was still a little embarrassed, but Gu Yuan had already said so, and he couldn't do anything about it: "Your sister has stabilized a little now, but her condition is not good, and she may need to have a medical treatment as soon as possible." Surgery. I’ll contact Xinwai first, and arrange it for you as much as possible. But you still need to contact your parents. This is not a trivial matter. You should also know how dangerous your sister’s illness is. Just get in touch."

"Okay, I'll trouble the doctor then." Gu Yuan bowed deeply to him.

The doctor left, and the curtain on Gu Qingqing's side was also opened. Looking through the glass, she was lying on a white hospital bed, wearing a respirator, and a bunch of instrument tubes connected to various parts of her body.He couldn't see Gu Qingqing's face clearly, but she lay there motionless, whether she was unconscious or asleep.

The nurse came over and called him to go through the formalities, Gu Yuan only moved a little, and he walked slowly towards the toll office.He called his mother, but the phone was turned off.In the end, I could only send a message, asking my mother to turn on the phone and contact him.

It was not until ten o'clock in the evening that my mother's phone call came.She was on a mission, and her phone was turned off as usual.As soon as I saw the text message after returning home, I quickly called Gu Yuan.

"Yuanyuan, is there something wrong with Qingqing?" Mom knew that under normal circumstances, her son would send text messages when he couldn't get through to her phone.

"Well, we're in the hospital now. Qingqing fell ill at noon, and Uncle Yan sent us here." After Gu Qingqing was transferred to the general ward in the afternoon, Gu Yuan stayed by her bedside the entire time, without moving a muscle.

"Is it serious?" The mother's voice was particularly anxious. They couldn't stay by their children's side because of work, and they felt very guilty all the time.

"Maybe the operation at the end of the month will be brought forward." Gu Yuan recalled what the doctor said in the afternoon.

"I just came back from a mission, and I have to delay a little bit. I'll go to my superior for a vacation right away." My mother finally emphasized it.

"Well, see if you can ask for leave and come back. The operation is not minor, and the hospital said that parents are needed." Gu Yuan's voice was full of helplessness.

"Okay, let's keep in touch. I'll call your Uncle Chen first and ask him to help you." Mom said.

"Okay." Gu Yuan said.