Boundless benevolence

Three days later, Denny was buried near his tribe in accordance with local custom.After hearing the news, Li Shixi decided to go to the funeral, and Han Yujun followed suit.

Probably because of that burst of crying, Li Shixi's condition improved a lot, which more or less reassured Han Yujun.

On the way back, Han Yujun was driving, and Li Shixi was sleeping in the car with his eyes closed.

After a while, Han Yujun pushed Li Shixi: "Shixi, wake up."

"Huh? Are you here?" Li Shixi rubbed his eyes.

"Yes." Han Yujun replied.

Li Shixi got out of the car in a daze, but looked up but didn't see the familiar camp.In front of me is a quiet river, several flamingos are parked in the water, combing their feathers freely.

"This is...?" Li Shixi's eyes widened unexpectedly.

"Didn't I promise you that I would take you out for a stroll? There are no particularly good attractions near Pibor, but the scenery near this river is not bad. Today happened to be on the way, so I took you here."

Li Shixi was taken aback for a moment, and then reacted.Han Yujun must have brought himself here because he was worried that he was in a bad mood.

He looked at Han Yujun pretending to be embarrassed: "Doctor Han, we missed work..."

"You don't tell, I don't tell, no one will know." Han Yujun blinked mischievously.

Li Shixi was overjoyed, it was rare for Dr. Han Yujun to act so lively.Of course he understood Han Yujun's intentions in doing this, so he nodded pretending to understand, then stretched out his hands to expand his chest, moved his body vigorously, and then walked forward calmly.

Seeing the arrival of the stranger, the flamingo in the water raised its wings and flew up with a call. Suddenly, several red arcs appeared on the quiet water surface, and there were clear calls, which resounded in the ears.

Li Shixi took a deep breath of air, he remembered a sentence that Ding Zhuoxuan often said——

Full of life and beauty.

The two stayed by the small river for more than an hour before driving back. It was almost dark when they arrived at the camp.

"If this continues, we may not be in time for dinner." Li Shixi looked at his watch worriedly, it's always bad to make everyone worry or wait.

"Don't worry, the chef is here, you won't be hungry." Han Yujun said.

Li Shixi was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that Han Yujun was deliberately misinterpreting his worries, so he couldn't help but pat Han Yujun with a smile.

Jokingly, the car was not far from the camp.But at this moment, Han Yujun suddenly slowed down the car.

"What's wrong?" Li Shixi asked strangely.

"There's something ahead." Han Yujun said while staring ahead.

Li Shixi looked forward following Han Yujun's gaze, and sure enough, he saw two things wriggling on the ground in front of him, one in front and the other behind.Because it was dark and the distance was far away, I couldn't see clearly, but I could only vaguely feel that the one behind looked like a bird.

"What kind of bird is that? What is it doing?"

"I don't know, let's go down and have a look." Han Yujun stopped the car and got out slowly.

Li Shixi followed suit.

The two approached the bird slowly.As the distance got closer, they finally saw clearly that it was a vulture.

The two looked at each other, and they both saw doubts in each other's expressions: vultures only eat dead things, this vulture is not looking for food, so what is it following here?

The two looked forward at the same time, at this moment, Li Shixi saw a scene that he would never forget——

In front is a thin little girl, she is using all four limbs weakly, slowly moving her body bit by bit.And the vulture behind her was already waiting there with gloomy and cold eyes, and when the child finally dies, it can enjoy its delicious meal...

Li Shixi immediately rushed to drive away the vulture, while Han Yujun ran to pick up the little girl.

Seeing the little girl's face, both of them were a little surprised: Isn't this the little girl who was discharged from the hospital not long ago? !

The car drove into the camp area, and as soon as it stopped, Li Shixi rushed out of the car with the child in his arms. He ran in and shouted: "Shawn! Shawn, come out quickly!!"

It was dinner time, and everyone was eating in the living area. When Li Shixi ran to the entrance of the living area with the little girl in his arms, Chu Xiao also ran over from there.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Chu Xiao asked while running, followed by Li Qian and others.

"Look at this child!" Li Shixi handed out the child in his arms.

When Chu Xiao and Li Qian who arrived later saw the little girl's face, they screamed at the same time: "Tia?!"

However, at this time, Tia was no longer healthy when she was discharged from the hospital—no, it should be said that she was even worse than before she was admitted to the hospital: her limbs were drier and thinner, her face was paler and colorless, and most importantly Yes, the little girl's lips are chapped, and her forehead is terribly hot. It looks like she has had a high fever for a long time!

"Tia! Tia, wake up! What happened?" Li Qian couldn't help but went up to shake the child's hand.

"When we saw her just now, she was crawling towards the camp. When we carried her into the car, she started to lose consciousness." Li Shixi explained the situation hastily.

At this time, Ron had already fetched the stethoscope, Chu Xiao took it, and listened to the little girl's lungs, his face immediately became extremely ugly.

"It's pneumonia..."

After a detailed diagnosis, everyone found that Tia's pneumonia situation is very serious.The little girl has been ill for several days, but has not received proper medical treatment. The prolonged high fever has caused severe dehydration in her body. In addition, her body is thin and thin, and now complications have appeared in many organs.Chu Xiao tried many methods, but the little girl's body functions were not functioning smoothly, and the medicine injected could not be absorbed, and the situation was very critical.

"Damn it! What did her parents eat?! How did they make Tia look like this?!" After another diagnosis and treatment failed, Chu Xiao slammed his fist hard on the wall.

At this time, there was a commotion at the gate of the camp, and after a while, Massa ran in: "Tia's parents have arrived."

As soon as Chu Xiao heard these words, he stared and rushed out.Seeing that Chu Xiao's posture was wrong, everyone immediately followed him out.

Sure enough, after Chu Xiao rushed to Tia's parents, without saying a word, he directly punched Tia's father hard in the face!

The strength of this punch was extraordinary, and the man was unprepared, so he was directly knocked to the ground.Chu Xiao wanted to call again, but was quickly pulled away by the staff who rushed over from behind.

Chu Xiao couldn't break free from the tension of the crowd, so he yelled at the man: "How on earth did you raise your child?! Tia was fine when she was discharged from the hospital. It's only been half a month, why did you make it like this? Are you still human?!"

The man over there also seemed to be full of anger. He stood up and wanted to shake his fist, but was stopped by Sam and Ron. After listening to Ron's translation of Chu Xiao's words, the man answered a few words loudly in dissatisfaction.

"He said you told him that Tia's disease might infect her younger brother, that's why they kicked Tia out." Ron translated.

Chu Xiao was stunned on the spot.

The men over there were still chattering about how Tia started to cough a few days after she went back. They were afraid that Tia might really have an infectious disease, so they didn't let the little girl eat with them or sleep with her younger brother. A little worse, they feel bad and throw the little girl out of the house...

Chu Xiao listened blankly, and he finally understood that the reason why Tia's parents treated Tia's illness like an enemy, and even ignored it, was all because of the lie he told before...

It was me who caused Tia to become what she is now...

Thinking of this, Chu Xiao suddenly broke free from everyone's shackles and ran out.Everyone didn't know what happened, only Li Qian, who knew the inside story, let out a long and sad sigh...

For the next two days, Chu Xiao tried his best to save Tia, but Tia's illness was terminal and he was powerless.

The next evening, Tia finally stopped breathing.

Chu Xiao stopped the cardiopulmonary resuscitation, slowly took off the mask, and walked out of the emergency room slowly.

When Li Qian saw something bad, she quickly followed her out.

Li Qian found Chu Xiao on a dirt slope behind the camp.She walked over and sat beside Chu Xiao.

The two sat in silence like this, from the setting sun to the twilight.

After a long time, Chu Xiao slowly opened his mouth: "Tell me, did I do something wrong?..."

Li Qian sighed, not knowing how to answer.

Chu Xiao was still talking to himself: "If I hadn't lied to her parents, they wouldn't be so afraid of Tia's illness; if they weren't so afraid and took good care of Tia, Tia's condition wouldn't have deteriorated so much , she will not die. Before she died, she wanted to crawl to our camp because she thought we could save her, but she didn't know that it was my words that made her like this..."

Chu Xiao said, tears streaming down his eyes.

Li Qian looked at Chu Xiao's tears of self-blame, and said slowly: "Just like what you said to me at the beginning, if you didn't lie to her parents, then they would not agree to keep Tia to stay for treatment. Sick and dead... The dead are gone, and it doesn't make sense for us to think about whether what we did is right or wrong. Do you remember what I told you at the beginning? The situation in Africa is very special, and their ideas are very different from ours. Sometimes, if we don’t pay attention, we will do bad things with good intentions. So we must be careful and use the right method to help them.”

Chu Xiao listened to Li Qian's words with tears in his eyes, and said sincerely: "I'm sorry," he put his arms around Li Qian, repeating over and over again in a choked voice on her shoulder: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

The author has something to say: The plot of the vulture following the little girl in this chapter is based on a real photo. You can search it online. The name of the photo is "The Starving Sudan" (The Starving Sudan), also known as the bullying Sudan. It is the work of photographer Kevin Carter, published in the "New York Times", and won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in [-] with the author of this work.

It is said that when Kevin Carter spotted a vulture waiting behind the little girl, he waited there for 20 minutes, hoping the eagle would spread its wings.After the photo was taken, Carter drove away the eagle.Watching the little girl continue to toddle.Then he sat under the tree, lit a cigarette, chanted the name of God and wept loudly. This photo of "Hungry Sudan" aroused strong reactions after it was published in the New York Times. On the one hand, it aroused the attention of international public opinion on Sudan's famine and civil strife in Sudan. On the other hand, many people condemned Carter for being cruel and not putting down his camera to rescue little girl.Shortly after the photo won the Pulitzer Prize, Kevin Carter committed suicide.