tkworld Chapter 163 The Silent Little Girl
Chapter 163 The Silent Little Girl
"Are you Li Jiajia?" Chen Dong smiled softly, trying to infect the little girl in front of him with his smile.
In the end, Li Jiajia didn't react at all. Only when she saw the village chief, her calm eyes turned slightly: "Grandpa the village chief."
The old village chief patted Li Jiajia's head: "Is your mother in the house?"
"Ah."
The old village chief sighed: "You haven't eaten yet, have you?"
Li Jiajia shook her head, she was really a taciturn little girl.
After the village head asked the two staff members to put down their things, they went to the kitchen to prepare lunch.
Even if Li Jiajia's mother and daughter don't eat, they can't neglect Xu Zhixia.
"This is Mr. Xu, and this is Dr. Chen. They are all here to visit you."
"Boss Xu bought these things. With these rice and oil, you and your mother can eat for a while."
Hearing this, Xu Zhixia took out the red envelope that she had prepared a long time ago. The red envelope was five centimeters thick: "Jiajia, everyone loves you when they know about your situation. This is what everyone prepared for you."
Hearing this, Li Jiajia didn't immediately go to pick up the red envelope, but instead caught the village chief's eye.
The village head nodded: "Accept it, this is the wish of Mr. Xu and everyone."
"Dr. Chen heard about your mother's condition, so he came here specially to see what kind of disease your mother is suffering from. With Dr. Chen here, maybe your mother's condition can improve by a point or two."
Chen Dong could clearly see that Li Jiajia's eyes lit up when the village chief finished speaking.
It seems that only her mother, Zhang Guixiang, can make this girl's mood fluctuate a little.
Chen Dong didn't know what happened to Li Jiajia, who was only ten years old, to become so taciturn.
"Can Jiajia take me to see your mother?"
Li Jiajia nodded: "Come with me."
Chen Dong followed Li Jiajia to the house. The mother and daughter's room was obviously very simple, except for the bed and the cabinet, there was only a table with a broken leg, which Li Jiajia took several bricks to padded.
And Li Jiajia's mother, Zhang Guixiang, was lying on the bed at the moment, staring blankly at the top without any focus.
"Mom, this is Dr. Chen." Li Jiajia said softly, for fear of disturbing her mother.
However, when the woman on the bed heard these words, she was not moved in the slightest.
Li Jiajia moved her lips and said helplessly, "Uncle Chen, don't mind, my mother has always looked like this."
The arms outside the quilt were as skinny as a stick, it would not be an exaggeration to say that they were skinny, but Zhang Guixiang's face was sallow, and her lips were even less bloody.
If she doesn't pay close attention to the treatment, no matter what the disease is, she will not be saved.
Because Zhang Guixiang's spirit is slowly disappearing.
Looking at Zhang Guixiang's appearance, it was obviously impossible to ask something out of his mouth.
Chen Dong had no choice but to ask the ten-year-old Li Jiajia beside him.
"How long has your mother been in this situation?"
Regarding the matter of Zhang Guixiang, Li Jiajia thought about it carefully before telling Chen Dong: "It's been nine months now."
Nine months is not long, but it is not short either.
"Is it bedridden all of a sudden?"
He needs to understand the basic situation to make a judgment.
Li Jiajia shook her head: "At first, my mother could still do farm work, but occasionally she felt dizzy, vomiting and diarrhea."
"But this is a very normal phenomenon here."
If he hadn't come to this village, Chen Dong might not have understood what Li Jiajia said was normal.
But after staying here for two days, Chen Dong suddenly discovered that because of the lack of supplies here, many villagers would go to the mountains to pick wild vegetables to eat, which caused them to often vomit and diarrhea.
Because they themselves are not sure whether the wild vegetables they pick can be eaten?
After a long time, they get used to it, and they can't kill people anyway.
It is estimated that Zhang Guixiang didn't pay much attention to this matter at the time.
"and then?"
Chen Dong motioned to Li Jiajia and continued, he wanted to know how Zhang Guixiang became the dull look he is now.
Now Zhang Guixiang looks a bit like a mentally handicapped person.
"Later, my mother's symptoms became more and more serious. She often had diarrhea, and sometimes she fell directly to the ground in severe cases."
Pull the symptoms of collapse.
"I went to Grandpa Niu's place to change some herbal medicine to stop my mother's diarrhea, but it didn't work."
Chen Dong had also heard a little about the Grandpa Niu that Li Jiajia was talking about.
According to the village head, Grandpa Niu is an old Chinese doctor in the village.
To put it bluntly, the old Chinese doctor is actually a barefoot doctor. Grandpa Niu married into this village when he was young. His father-in-law knew a little bit of medical skills, so he learned a little bit along with him.
He is not very proficient, so he can only collect herbs and exchange some food with the villagers, and he is quite old now.
Even the village head had to call him brother.
"It got worse and worse and I couldn't even get out of bed, but at least I knew how to eat."
"I don't know why it became like this later..."
Even Li Jiajia couldn't explain why her mother turned into the mentally deficient appearance she is today.
"Where's your dad?"
Chen Dong changed the subject, he could see that Zhang Guixiang had lost the consciousness of self-help.
What caused a woman to voluntarily give up her sense of survival?
Speaking of this, Chen Dong carefully observed that Li Jiajia's immature fingers were clenched together, and his expression became angry: "Dead!"
Obviously the little girl didn't want to bring up the subject.
"Jiajia, do you want your mother to get better as soon as possible?"
Li Jiajia nodded vigorously: "I think, Uncle Chen, as long as you can save my mother, you can ask me to do anything."
Only at this time will Li Jiajia's face show the panic and fear that should be at this age.
Obviously she is very afraid of losing her mother, maybe this is also related to the fact that she and her mother depend on each other for life.
"Then you can cooperate with Uncle Chen's questions, okay? Perhaps these questions can find the reason why your mother became like this."
Li Jiajia bit her lower lip, but still nodded.
"Then tell Uncle Chen, where is your father?"
"He went out to work and hasn't come back for seven years."
The news was exactly the same as what the village head said. It seemed that Li Jiajia's father had never returned.
According to the village chief, because this village is too poor, and these people have been trapped here all their lives.
In order to improve the quality of life of future generations, starting ten years ago, the village will collect some money every year to let young and promising young people go out to work.
But not all young people have such opportunities. After all, everyone has limited money on hand, so there are only five such places every year.
The village head will take the lead to select these five young people who go out to work. These five young people must be young and strong, and they must not be older than 30 years old. They need flexible brains and quick hands and feet.
Only in this way can we survive in the outside society.
All young people who go out to work must come back once a year, even if they cannot come back due to work reasons, they must write and send them back.
Li Jiajia's father happened to be among them.
But Li Jiajia's father has been away for seven years. Li Jiajia hasn't seen his father for seven years. It is normal for father and daughter to have no affection.
Chen Dong has already understood the general situation, but Zhang Guixiang's symptoms are really troublesome. He doesn't have any equipment at hand now, so he can only make basic judgments with his own medical skills.