Chapter 135 Hurt Again
A mule cart carrying people stopped on the cement ground in front of the hospital with a "da da da" sound. The four big words "Qingshui Hospital" stood on the roof of the two-story brick building.
Qingshui Hospital covers a large area. There is a cement floor of more than 300 square meters in front of the main gate. There are two small wooden houses on the side, and several people are guarding the gate. When someone drives to the hospital, someone comes out of the wooden house and leads the car to the side, opens the double-leaf wooden door, and enters the yard.
The yard was particularly spacious, with cement pillars inside, used to tie ropes for animals. The yard was a special parking area for the hospital. Lin Youcai drove a mule cart, followed by Zhao the Butcher driving an ox cart, and followed the gatekeeper in front into the yard and tied the ropes for the animals to the pillars.
In addition to the main entrance, there are two other doors in the yard. The gatekeeper told them that the middle door leads to the medical building, and the door on the far right leads to the inpatient building.
Everyone said thank you and walked towards the double doors on the far right. One of the double doors was closed and the other was open. There was a sign on the side of the road with arrows and Chinese characters on it, and the Chinese characters were also marked with pinyin.
Lin Youcai led everyone to the inpatient department, which only had two floors. They walked into the lobby on the first floor and turned right. Lin Youcai stopped at the door of wards 2 to 7 and knocked on the door. "Knock, knock, knock," he said softly, "Can I come in?"
The door of the ward opened, and Li Juhua saw everyone's smiling faces: "Why are you here?"
Shen Xianglan: "Let's see, how is Daya?"
Li Juhua: "Come in."
Except for Lin Youcai and Zhao the Butcher, all the other people who came were women. They did not go in, but took a look at the door and then went to wait outside the building.
There were three beds in the ward, and two women were in the other two beds. Everyone walked in quietly, only to see Li Daya lying on the bed with a weak face and pale lips.
Lin Zisu: "Daya, Grandma Li, have you had lunch?"
Li Daya nodded: "I ate it."
Li Juhua: "There is a cafeteria in the hospital. I went to buy some. We just finished eating. Have you eaten yet?"
Lin Zisu: "We'll go eat later. Daya, get well soon, we're moving to a new place."
Wei Qiniang: "I was scared to death. I'm glad you're okay. You have to listen to the doctor, take medicine and eat well, and you'll be fine soon."
Wei Daya: "Sister Daya, can we live together in a small courtyard? Get well soon, and we can go to work together."
Shen Xianglan: "Just rest and recover, we are all here! Don't be afraid!"
Everyone was talking and comforting Li Daya.
Li Daya sniffed and raised her hand to wipe her eyes, but she couldn't finish wiping them.
Shen Xianglan: "Don't cry, Daya, and don't be afraid. Heguo is not like other countries. You have a government to make decisions for you, and we all support you."
Wei Qiniang: "Daya, take good care of yourself. I'll go clean up the yard first. You can come and live here when you're well."
Li Daya sniffed her nose and nodded with red eyes.
Li Juhua: "You sleep a little longer, I'll go see them off."
Li Juhua walked everyone out and went to a pavilion to tell everyone what happened to Li Daya yesterday afternoon.
Yesterday afternoon, Li Daya, Wei Qiniang, Wei Daya, Li Juhua, as well as several aunts and girls went to a bathing center outside the city to work for half a day.
The bathing center is where everyone gets off the boat, has to go to get their hair cut, take a bath, and stay overnight. The work in the bathing center is to clean, scrub the tables, chairs, and benches of the heated kang, and wash the quilt covers and sheets. . .
The half-day job is 20 yuan. The bath center is spacious and has many rooms, so there is a lot of work and a lot of people are hired. With a lot of people hired, the amount of work assigned to each person is not bad. Many women who have just arrived in Qingshui City work as half-day workers because they like to work there. It does not require any skills.
In the past two afternoons, they went there to work half-day, and a lunch was provided when they went there at noon.
At about 16: yesterday afternoon, Li Tiedan came to the bath center to find Li Daya, saying that he had something to ask her for help. Li Daya said that she had some unfinished business and could not leave.
Li Tiedan told her that he had seen her mother and asked her if she wanted to go and meet her. Her mother was about to leave by boat, so did she want to go and meet her?
Li Daya didn't want to talk to Li Tiedan at first, but after hearing what he said, she hesitated and ran back to ask for leave from the manager, and then told Li Juhua that her father came to see her for something and she was going out for a while. Before Li Juhua could say anything, Li Daya ran out.
Li Juhua thought about the three shameless Li family members who would at most secretly ask Daya for food or something. With so many people in the group, the three Li family members would not dare to do anything as long as they wanted to stay in the team. She was busy working and didn't think too much.
Li Daya followed Li Tiedan to the dock, and sure enough, there was a two-story wooden boat parked on the river. There were not only official ships at the dock, but also all kinds of ships, most of which were merchant ships coming to do business with the country.
Li Tiedan walked in front, took Li Daya on board, and then led her to a room, telling her to sit there and wait while he went to call someone.
Li Daya was anxious to see her mother, whom she had not seen since she could remember, and waited in the house for a cup of tea. After waiting for a long time, no one came, so she felt something was wrong and wanted to go out to see. Unexpectedly, the door was locked from the outside, and no one answered when she knocked on the door, until she felt the boat moving.
Li Daya's face turned pale and she realized that her biological father had sold her.
The boat was rowing towards the center of the river. Li Daya became impatient. The door could not be opened and footsteps were heard outside. She tried to open the window, but fortunately it was locked from the inside. When she opened the window, there was the river below.
Li Daya leaned out and looked towards the shore. The boat was not far from the shore. The door of the boathouse was opened and a middle-aged man walked in. Seeing Li Daya half leaning out, he took a few steps forward and tried to pull her back.
When Li Daya saw someone coming to catch her, she closed her eyes, clenched her teeth, loosened her hands, pinched her nose, and jumped outside.
She fell into the river with a bang, and the biting cold swept over her. Her cotton coat absorbed water and became particularly heavy. Li Daya couldn't swim, so she floundered in the water for a few times, and a wave hit her, and she sank.
The middle-aged man on the boat ordered the servant to lower the small boat to rescue the people.
Before she passed out, Li Daya was still thinking about her new cotton-padded clothes and trousers. This was the first time she had worn new clothes and trousers. Although the bills had not been paid yet and she didn't have much money, she had a job now, went to school every day, and earned money. It wouldn't take long for her to pay it back.
It was the first time she had new clothes and pants, and she bought them with her own money. Unfortunately, she only wore them for a few days.
Life was clearly about to get better, but why... She was unwilling to give up...
The navy patrolling on the river saw a little girl standing on the boat window, and soon she fell into the river.
The speedboat rushed over, but the person had already sunk. A sailor on the speedboat tied a rope around his waist and jumped into the river. A few minutes later, he pulled Li Daya out, and the people on the speedboat pulled her up. The sailor quickly used the first aid he had learned in the military academy to rescue Li Daya.
The patrol ship came over, intercepted the big wooden boat, and ordered it to return to Qingshui Wharf. The boat owner looked at the cannon on the patrol ship flying the Japanese flag, swallowed his saliva, and gritted his teeth and ordered the boat to return to Qingshui Wharf.
When the navy saw Li Daya spit out water and was breathing again, they quickly drove a speedboat to the dock. The soldiers on duty at the dock quickly drove a mule cart to take Li Daya to Qingshui Hospital for treatment.
Li Daya woke up not long after being in the hospital. The nurse changed her wet clothes and she accepted the police's questioning in her patient clothes. She told the police everything she knew.
The police asked her if she had any other relatives or acquaintances.
She told Li Juhua about it, and the police brought people to the temporary residence to arrest people, and told Li Juhua to bring clothes for Li Daya to wear.
After listening to what Li Juhua said, everyone cursed Li Tiedan, saying that he was not a human being, not a real father, but worse than an animal.
Li Juhua: "Daya was such a miserable child. Fortunately, God saved her. She had a high fever last night. I was scared to death. Both the male and female doctors were there at night."
Shen Xianglan: "No wonder she looks so weak and pale. You've worked so hard, Aunt Li."
Li Juhua: "Let's not talk about that. Everyone has difficulties, and we'll help if we can. Besides, I didn't do anything."
(My dears, I can only upload pictures because I write on a computer. Tablets and mobile phones cannot upload pictures, so there are few pictures now. I will add pictures later when I have time. The word "water army" in the text is not a typo, it means water army, not navy.)