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The cat pulled out the needle, and when Liu Xia hugged him, he was less restrained. Xiumei spread out the mat and quilt, and Liu Xia lay on the bed with the cat in his arms. The clothes that can be washed outside are all washed through the water pipe, and the clothes are covered with white alkali marks left after the sweat has dried.

After washing the clothes, Xiumei had almost rested, and she decided to go back to her natal home, which was less than ten miles northeast of Wangning.

Liu Xia probably knew what his sister-in-law was doing at her mother's house. He looked at his elder brother with a troubled and apologetic face, and knew that there was nothing he could do.

Liu Fulai and Xiumei left together, Liu Changqing and the others must be anxious at home if they don't know the situation, Liu Fulai has to report back.

Liu Xia finally dared to sleep, and the cat breathed smoothly in his arms, which made Liu Xia's heart also stabilized.

He didn't know how long he slept, but he heard someone call the cat's name "Liu An" in a daze, and woke up immediately.

"The sixteenth bed, is it called Liu An? Get up and get the medicine."

Liu Kui had already sat up, and he took the prescription from the nurse named Xiaojiao: "What kind of medicine? Mr. Wang said that if my child eats now, he might still vomit, and he also said that the medicine has been added when the water is given. No, don’t let him use the medicine he was given.”

Xiaojiao said, "It's medicine for infusion. Hurry up. I have to prepare the medicine after you get it back. It's troublesome for children to get needles."

Liu Xia was afraid to startle the cat, so he didn't dare to get up, so he lay down and asked, "My child's needle has just been pulled out, and the master said that there is no need to infuse water during the day..."

"Which gentleman told you that you don't need to pour water today? Why didn't I know!" A woman's voice suddenly came to mind at the door, and the voice was full of questioning and deliberate provocation.

Liu Xia was startled when he heard this voice, he patted the cat's back lightly with one hand, and looked at the ugly woman with almost no neck at the door: it was the woman who didn't let him use the water pipe in the morning, but this ugly Now put on a white coat, with a stethoscope on his chest,

Liu Xia felt an ominous feeling in his heart.

Liu Kui had already gotten out of bed and stood up, and said to the ugly woman cautiously: "My child's needle was dialed after nine o'clock, and I lost two big bottles of water. It's not yet twelve o'clock, can you..."

The ugly woman rolled her eyes, but with such a short figure, she looked at the tall and tall Liu Kui with a contemptuous look: "Are you a doctor or am I a doctor? I let you lose now because it is necessary to lose now, what's wrong? On duty, why don't you go and sign for me, if something happens to your child today, I am not responsible for it, if your family members refuse to cooperate or follow the doctor's orders, then you will not lose."

Even if the cat is no longer able to breathe with rolled eyes like last night, even if Wang Junyu said that the cat is no longer dangerous, Liu Kui still can't sign this sign, this woman is right, he is not a doctor, he can't afford it The consequences of a small life's one-ten-thousandth mistake.

Even though he knew that there was something wrong with this woman's attitude, Liu Kui could only obey, and he read the prescription, and the medicine on it was exactly the same as that prescribed by Wang Junyu yesterday, which made him somewhat relieved: "I'll go get the medicine right away."

Liu Xia half-supported his body, staring at the woman at the door without moving his eyes.

The ugly woman snorted, rolled her eyes, turned her head and walked away: She doesn't bother to fight against such an ignorant poor man in the valley!

Xiaojiao pointed to the sleeping cat: "Baby, move your baby to the side of the bed, where there is a bright spot, and you can see it clearly when the needle is inserted."

But even though it had moved to the door, the needle still didn't go in.

Liu Xia hugged the black-purple cat that was already crying hoarsely and its face was swollen, his hands were trembling: half an hour later, the cat's hair was shaved and stripped, three needles were inserted, three bulges on the head There were four bags, one of which was still oozing blood, and Liu Kui had to press it with cotton balls.

Xiao Jiao took another shot of medicine from the bottle, but stopped there, hesitated for a long time, and finally plucked up the courage to say to the ugly woman: "Doctor Sun, if you don't hit this way, why don't I go and call Xiao Min, I'll give you a call." , I really... this child is also young..."

The ugly woman rolled Xiao Jiao's eyes and pushed her aside: "You pump for me, I prick."

Liu Xia gently wiped the sweat on the cat's forehead with his fingers: "Cat, baby, stop crying, baby... let's stop crying, be good..." His heart was trembling, but he didn't dare to treat this ugly woman Even if the voice is a little louder, the cat's life is in the hands of others, and they can't resist being bullied to death.

The ugly woman bent down and rubbed Mao'er's right temple vigorously a few times. The place where her fingers rubbed turned white, and thin veins could be seen.

The cat realized that another pain was coming, and the cry that had been calmed down just now became more intense.

Liu Xia tightly tightened his legs to prevent him from struggling, and Liu Kui fixed the cat's head with a pair of big hands so that it would not twist around.

"Ah——" Mao'er let out a loud cry, but couldn't cry anymore.

Liu Xia's eyes could no longer see clearly, and he opened his eyes wide to keep the tears from streaming down: "Baby, cat...it's almost ready, baby..."

The needle was poked back and forth several times. The cat opened its mouth wide, but there was no sound. He was almost choked up.

Liu Xia's body was shaking all the time, and his heart felt like being cut by a knife.

The ugly woman pulled out the needle all at once, and before Liu Kui and the others could speak, she lashed out fiercely: "You don't even know how to coax him, crying like this, his face is so red, who can see the blood vessels clearly? I'll go back to duty first I'm going to the room, when will you coax your baby well before tying it up!" After speaking, she turned around and left.

Liu Xia put his face on Mao'er's forehead, and patted his back tremblingly: "Hey, I won't prick you anymore, I won't hurt anymore, baby... we, we..." He didn't know what to say , he can't do anything, if that ugly woman wants to continue stabbing the cat, he still has nothing to do.

He looked at his elder brother helplessly: "Brother, let's stop piercing the baby? Look at our baby..."

Liu Kui knelt down, wrapped Liu Xia and Mao'er in his arms, hugged him tightly, but couldn't say a word.

Xiao Jiao stretched out his head to look at the corridor outside, and said softly, a little bit embarrassed: "Comfort the baby first, Doctor Sun should go to the commune compound for dinner in a while, as soon as she leaves, I will call Xiao Min, Xiao Min I have practiced in Yuancheng Medical College for more than two years, and the acupuncture is very good, and I have never had it for the second time."

After Xiaojiao left, the man who had been standing outside their door and peeping said angrily: "You guys are out of luck today. This stinky bitch surnamed Sun is very fond of Sun. She is afraid that your child will be troublesome in carrying water, so she wants to Hurry up and let you finish the game as soon as possible, so that she can sleep well after dark. If you are a commune cadre or a teacher who eats commodity food in the school, she will not dare to bully you like this; she has also bullied me several times, my daughter-in-law She was on duty when I came here. My daughter-in-law smashed her leg and it hurt so badly. She yelled a few times in pain, and she told me to yell on the street if I yelled again, saying that my daughter-in-law is old and delicate, I'm so fucking crazy, and I'll talk about it when my daughter-in-law gets better and I get out of the hospital."

Liu Kui forced a smile, but did not speak.

Twenty minutes later, Xiaomin stuck the needle on the back of the cat's left hand, then flattened the cat's hand with a cardboard box and glued it with adhesive tape so that the needle would not move around.

"I'm not on duty today. If Dr. Sun comes back and asks, you can say that it was Xiaojiao who gave the baby the needle, but remember! Otherwise, it's nothing." Xiao Min helped the cat lie down in Liu Xia's arms , while explaining carefully.Her hair was a bit messy, and she was sleeping in the dormitory on the west side just now, and she had heard the cat crying a long time ago, but she knew that Sun Chunqin was there, so she couldn't come to help.

Liu Kui said gratefully: "Don't worry, we know how to talk."

The ugly woman didn't come again, she was busy coaxing her daughter who was uglier than herself.

Liu Ling and the others ran over after school. Seeing that the cat was still carrying water, they all carefully sat on the opposite bed, gnawing pancakes with plain water in silence.

They felt that the atmosphere in the room was not right. The cat's head looked scary, with several blue bumps, and its hair was in pieces. Although it was asleep and breathing evenly, it seemed that its small face was even bigger than it was in the morning. pale.But Liu Xia didn't seem to see them coming back at all, he was lying on his side all the time, his eyes were fixed on the cat's face, his mouth was tightly closed, he didn't know what he was thinking.

Eldest brother Liu Kui was sitting at Liu Xia's feet, with his hands on the quilt, also expressionless, and when he saw them, he reluctantly raised the corners of his mouth to let them eat something.

Liu Hai said to his eldest brother when he was in school: "My fifth brother has to take a car to Rongze tomorrow. The competition in Yuancheng is from 09:30 to 11:30 in the morning. He has to go to Rongze and Gucun to participate in the competition first." Gather up, Hou'er will take a bus from Rongze to Yuancheng early in the morning, and I will have my wheat holiday on Thursday for ten days."

Xiumei came back after three o'clock in the afternoon, and her eldest brother He Jialiang came with her. They brought another mattress, and He Jialiang bought a catty of cake for the cat.

After He Jialiang left, Xiumei took out a bag of money, all of which were [-] cents and [-] cent and [-] cents in change, a total of [-] yuan, which was secretly given to her by her elder brother.

When Zhai Yulan and Xu Xiaohong were attending the funeral, Xiumei went back to her natal home once and got back 15 yuan. Five yuan was given by her parents, and ten yuan was given by her elder brother and second brother. They are also poor, so this is already theirs. The limit is reached.

The cat's medicine was finished at [-] o'clock in the evening. When the needle was pulled out, the cat cried a few more times, but only a few times. Liu Xia rubbed his face against his little nose and mouth, and he stopped crying soon. But his voice was hoarse.

Liu Xia didn't eat anything all day, and didn't drink a sip of water, except that the cat ate one and a half pancakes at noon after the water was delivered. He just hugged the cat for a whole day without saying a word, When the cat wants to pee, he will say a word when he asks his elder brother for help, but at other times he will not speak, and Liu Kui has nothing to do with him.

Xiumei secretly told Liu Ling and the others about the bad woman forcing Mao'er to deliver water in advance, and told them not to ask about the bag on Mao'er's head again, so as to save Yao'er from feeling uncomfortable.

Liu Ling didn't speak, Liu Hai asked which house the flamboyant girl lived in, and Liu Yu gritted her teeth and cursed Sun Chunqin's [-]th generation ancestor.

Let Liu Ling and Liu Hai lie on the bed, and Xiumei washed their outer clothes. Tomorrow Liu Ling will go to the original city, so she can't wear clothes with white alkali face. It's okay if the clothes are old and patched. It would be a joke if it was dirty.

This was Xiumei's idea.

On a good day, it started to rain suddenly in the middle of the night, and the wind was blowing. The wind in this season is turbulent. It rained heavily in the south corridor, and the water hit the door, and the cardboard boards blocking the windows in the north were almost blown. Lose.

Liu Kui went out in the rain and broke a few branches, smoothed off the leaves on them, and fixed the cardboard boards in a mess.

Liu Xia suddenly moved, and slowly lifted the quilt and sat up: "I want to, brother, you sit next to the cat." Among the family members, apart from the cat who is the most clingy to Liu Xia, Sun Chang'e and Liu Xia Sorry, today the cat was frightened and felt next to a familiar person.

When Liu Xia walked to the door, he suddenly took off his jacket and cloth shirt, turned around and threw it on the bedside, and ran out.

Liu Ling also jumped off the bed, and took off her shirt: "I wanted to beg for a long time, I was afraid to go out in the dark, so I happened to be with Yao'er." Xiumei didn't hold her back, and Liu Ling had already run away.

About four or five minutes later, there was a "cracking" sound outside, followed by the crying of a child and the hysterical cry of a woman: "Who? Who? Oh, baby... I scolded the neighbor who smashed the window of my house..."

As soon as Liu Hai and Liu Yu lifted the quilt, Liu Kui waved his hand to stop him: "Sit down honestly, Xiumei, turn off the light, you come over and pat the baby, I'll go out and watch..."

Before Liu Kui finished speaking, there was another sound of glass breaking outside, the child's cries became louder, and the woman's yelling turned into yelling: "Damn, who the hell is this son of a bitch smashing the glass in my house - come and see Look... girl..."

The men next door who planned to wait for their daughter-in-law to leave the hospital to take revenge all ran out, and knocked on Liu Kui's door: "Big brother, it seems that the glass of Lai Sun's house was smashed, hurry up and take a look." !"

As soon as Liu Kui came out, he closed the door. The man next door didn't run to look at it, but stood in the corridor outside the middle duty room rubbing his hands excitedly: "Damn it, but someone fixed this stinky bitch, Brother, tell your family to come and see, just tell him to bully us, this time someone can bully her, it really relieves hatred."

Liu Kui smiled: "My child has suffered today, just fell asleep, and my brothers have to go to school tomorrow, go to bed early, what's the point of such a dirty bitch, it's not dirty enough for us men my son's eyes."

The man smiled: "That's right, look at her rotten pumpkin that pigs won't chew on. If I see too many picky women like this, I'm afraid I won't be hit in the future!"

Several people had already come out from other rooms, all of them were from the hospital. Some were studying the broken glass with their feet, and some went in to comfort Sun Chunqin.

Sun Chunqin was still crying and cursing in the room, and the child's crying didn't stop.

Liu Kui patted the man on the shoulder: "Brother, go back, people don't need our country scum, if that bitch sees us watching the fun here, maybe she dares to blackmail us, I'll explain it to you." The hand went back."

The man shrugged his shoulders: "Yes, he will bully us honest people. Hey, no one saw it, and it happened to be raining. Go over there and take a little pee outside." He said, turned and walked back.

Liu Kui walked west: "Let's go to the toilet, it's not good to pee in front of the door where I live."

When Liu Kui returned to the room, Liu Xia was already hugging the cat under the covers, and Liu Ling was lying on the innermost part of the east bed, as if she had fallen asleep.

Liu Kui wiped the head of Liu Xia first with his coat, then pushed away Liu Yu and Liu Hai who were pretending to be in front of him casually, and groped to wipe Liu Ling who was pretending to be asleep: "Get up, go to that bed Sleeping with Yao'er, you have to go to the competition tomorrow, it's too dark to sleep well today."

Liu Ling couldn't pretend anymore, and sat up obediently: "Brother..."

Liu Kui simply stretched out his hand to pick him up, and put him on the west bed: "Take off your clothes, Yaoer, take off your clothes too, you and your fifth elder brother can squeeze together to sleep, take the two of you Lay the clothes on that bed, Xiao Yu, come here, your arm was injured years ago, you dare not catch cold, you come and sleep on their feet, I will sleep on that bed with your sister-in-law and Xiao Hai."

There are only two quilts and one quilt, so the cat can sleep comfortably. The west bed is covered with a whole set of quilts, and the east bed has no quilts, so a summer mat is spread.

Liu Yu didn't move: "My arm is a fart injury, big brother, you should stay there, if something happens to the cat at night, if I'm dead asleep, you have to say hello!"

Xiumei stood up and took the undershirt that Liu Ling and Liu Xia had just taken off. Liu Yu and Liu Hai both stood by the bed and asked her to make the bed. Although you are worried, he is still a child after all, he has not slept for a long time since it was dark yesterday, if he sleeps to death, you have to watch the cat."

Liu Kui thought about it, yes, the cat is the most important thing.

Just like that, Liu Xia curled up a little bit with Mao'er and Liu Ling in his arms, and Liu Kui was sitting at their feet against the wall.

Xiumei, Liu Yu, and Liu Hai were on another bed, Liu Hai was lying down, Xiumei was sitting against the wall with her arms around Liu Yu, Liu Hai's legs were on theirs.

The sound of raindrops hitting the leaves outside the window did not stop all night, and the people in the house accompanied the sound of wind and rain until dawn intermittently.

The first thing Liu Xia did when he opened his eyes was to rub his face against the cat's forehead, it was fine, and he didn't have a fever; he kissed the small forehead, the cat moved, and opened its eyes: "Ah——"

Liu Xia kissed the little cheek again, and quickly sat up to urinate on him. The cat yawned and urinated a lot, and Liu Xia hugged him again, and he lay on Liu Xia's neck and did not move. , Liu Xia lay down with his arms around him, and continued to get under the covers, he felt that the cat was still lacking energy.

The others woke up a long time ago. They get up at four o'clock all the year round, and it has become a habit to wake up at that o'clock. But they saw that Liu Xia and Mao'er were sleeping soundly, and they didn't want to disturb them, so they didn't move. After waking up, Liu Kui got out of bed first: "It's still early, let's go to sleep again, I'll go out to see the road, it's still raining outside, Xiao Yu and Xiao Hai don't have to go to school today, I see where to go, I can see you when I come back Xiao Ling is going to take a ride."

The health center is quite remote. There are about [-] meters from here to Wangning Street. The roads are all dirt roads. When it rains, it turns into mud. Liu Ling is going to Rongze this afternoon. There are no extra clothes and shoes. dirty.

Liu Kui went out for almost an hour before returning, followed by a person whom Liu Xia knew: Director Guo of the police station.

Sun Chunqin's front and rear windows were smashed, and the leaders of the hospital were not there, so she ran to her uncle in the commune compound with her baby in her arms and cried. His uncle went to Director Guo, but it rained heavily last night It is also impossible for director Guo to come to investigate the case in the middle of the night because of the two pieces of broken glass. Sun Chunqin went to find him at dawn today. Met Liu Kui.

Liu Kui and Director Guo are not familiar with each other, but they have impressions of each other. Director Guo said: "Sun Chunqin said that either you or Qiao Dawang smashed her glass and asked me to investigate and collect evidence. Then who, Liu Xia, was a black grandson yesterday. Where were you when the glass in Chunqin's house was smashed?"

Liu Xia sat under the quilt with the cat in his arms, and said indifferently: "In the quilt, my baby just drank water, and it didn't work out. I had to hold him to sleep before he fell asleep. I have been sleeping with my cat in my arms." !"

Director Guo laughed twice, looked around at the other people, focusing on Liu Yu, Liu Ling, and Liu Hai: "Where are you?"

Liu Ling said: "I'm all asleep, the cat is sick, my elder brother won't let me disturb the baby with my nonsense, I have to go to Rongze competition today, my elder brother told us to sleep early. "

"Huh? Why are you going to the competition?" Director Guo's attention shifted.

Liu Kui said: "He won the first prize in our Rongze middle school composition competition, and tomorrow will represent Rongze to Yuancheng to compete."

Director Guo said excitedly: "Oh, your children are competing with each other. I will return to Rongze at noon today. I will take Secretary Wang's car and he will go to Rongze for a meeting. I will go back and talk to him later. You can also take advantage of it." Let's go with his car!"

Liu Ling said, "And my Chinese teacher!"

"Come on and sit down," Director Guo said in a big way and stood up: "My boy is competing tomorrow, let him read a book, I'll ask Qiao Dawang and I'll go back. It's raining all over the place. The back of this ward is full of leaves, and there is a footprint or something called rain, and I am not a fairy, so I have to solve the case for her, right? Liu Xia?"

Liu Xia didn't know why Director Guo suddenly turned his back on the carbine, all his thoughts were on the cat who pinched his mouth with his little finger: "Ah? What?"

Director Guo walked to the bed and poked the cat's face with his finger: "This is Liu An, right? What a tidy child, hehe, I went back and told my wife what you named your nephew, and she said I want to change my son's name!"

Liu Kui followed Director Guo to the next ward, and came back a few minutes later. Director Guo asked Liu Ling to wait for him at the police station at eleven o'clock, and they took Wang Changmin's car to Rongze together.

Qiao Dawang not only swears that he did not smash Sun Chunqin's glass, but also conclusively proves that all the Liu family brothers were in the house when the glass was smashed, and he saw it with his own eyes.

After eight o'clock, Wang Junyu, Xiao Min, and Xiao Jiao came together. Wang Junyu looked at the bruises on the cat's head and sighed, and checked the cat. There was no problem. The cat was still listless and lack of energy. Kui went to the kitchen of the health center and bought three bowls of millet porridge and a portion of pickles for ten cents.

Wang Junyu said: "As long as you don't vomit, it's fine. You don't need to drink water. Let Xiao Min make some sugar and salt water for you in a while. You can feed him a drink. He should be able to eat something at noon."

After ten o'clock, Liu Kui went to the commune compound to confirm that he could indeed take advantage of Wang Changmin's car in the afternoon, and then went to Wangning Junior High School to tell Liu Ling's Chinese teacher about taking advantage of the car, and he came back around the same time Yes, he brought Liu Ling a meat bun for him to eat, and then asked Liu Ling to wear the raincoat he borrowed from Wang Junyu, and carry Liu Ling to the commune compound—from the health center to the commune compound , His shoes turned into lumps of rhubarb mud, and half of his trouser legs were covered in mud; seeing Liu Ling get in the car, he went to buy a bag of milk powder and returned to the hospital.

The cat didn’t need water, and Liu Xia felt a big stone in his heart. He fed the cat some sugar and salt water every half an hour. When he was eating noodles at noon, the cat was smacking its small mouth in a hurry. Liu Xia was happy It's broken, according to what Wang Junyu said, he poured half a bottle of milk powder for the cat, and the cat drank it all in one gulp without vomiting.

Liu Xia's world temporarily returned to bright sunshine, so when the rain stopped in the middle of the afternoon, he took the cat to admire Sun Chunqin's house with the door wide open, and watched Sun Chunqin put a clean and white man inside. He was in a better mood, so he instructed Xiao Jiao’s son who was doing his homework in the corridor after school. As a result, the two words he wrote to correct the little boy’s typo were praised by Xiao Jiao as “better than The writing on the copybook is still beautiful."