C84 Unsmoothed scar

I walked towards Qiu Tong, and approached him. Even though she had already wiped her cheeks clean, I could still see the tears that had yet to dry on her face, as well as the sadness and melancholy that had yet to be soothed …

I bit my lips tightly as I tried my best to control my emotions. I smiled at Qiu Tong: "autumnum, is the sails competition grounds in the snow beautiful? Is the sea beautiful in the snow? "

Qiu Tong slightly nodded, and softly said: "Beautiful, beautiful!"

Obviously, Qiu Tong's answer was a perfunctory and out of focus.

"autumnum, I was standing here just now, and I seemed to have heard what you shouted. It seems to be a name, called Ke Ke, are you calling someone? " I suddenly said to Qiu Tong.

Qiu Tong's body trembled as her facial expression twitched. She seemed to have realized that she had forgotten my existence and where I was standing just now. Where did I yell? I coughed twice due to the stimulation of the cold wind on my respiratory tract … "Cough, cough …"

"Oh …" "Well, I thought you were calling someone!" "No," I said.

"Who else can I call besides you?" Qiu Tong looked at me desolately, then said, "I want to go back now."

As she spoke, Qiu Tong kept walking back, her footsteps making slight cracking sounds as he stepped on the snow. At the same time, she let out a sigh.

I followed, heading for the hotel.

We took a shortcut back to the hotel and crossed a winding road. None of the roads in the old city area of Qingdao headed towards the east and west, nor was there a straight road either. They were all crooked and many of the intersections were not crossroads, but many of the intersections were three-way, five-way, six-way or even seven-way crossroads. The roads were not wide, many of them one-way.

As Qiu Tong and I walked on the road, we were not in the mood to look at the scenery. Each of us held onto their own thoughts and remained silent.

Suddenly, Qiu Tong stopped and stared straight at the ATM that was passing by a bank on the other side of the road.

I looked towards the direction where Qiu Tong was pointing. I vaguely saw a black mass, as if someone was lying there.

"autumnum, you —" I looked at Qiu Tong and said.

"If you lie outside on such a cold day, you will freeze to death," Qiu Tong said. "Look, there is a person lying on the ground."

"Either a tramp or a drunk." "No," I said.

"The severe winter in the north is fatal for tramps and drunken men. Every year, many people freeze to death in the open air." Qiu Tong sighed, suddenly she frowned, and raised her leg to walk towards the opposite side of the road.

"autumnum, you have to help him —" I followed behind.

"Look, this isn't a drunk man, it's a homeless person. Beside him lies a child!" Qiu Tong explained as she walked.

As we spoke, we crossed the street and walked over to the ATM. Sure enough, it was a homeless man with a wrinkled face and a beard.

In his arms lay a child of about four or five years of age, his hair like a girl's, his face covered with filth, lying in the arms of the old man, covered in a thin, rotten quilt, shivering with cold, coughing from time to time, and beside him was a porcelain bowl of frozen rice and a few pickles.

Near them was the brightly lit, high-class hotel, where there were cheers, songs, dances, wine, and people coming and going, but no one would even look up at the tramp with the little girl, or even stop to give them something to eat.

The smell of wine and meat and the smell of frozen bones along the way, I deeply appreciate this point.

Qiu Tong walked a few steps forward, and then squatted beside the old man and child. She first reached out and touched the child's forehead, and was shocked: "Hot, the child has a high fever!" After Qiu Tong said this, she suddenly unzipped her down jacket, opened up the blanket, and took out the child in tattered clothing. Without caring about the child's dirty clothes, she carried the child into her embrace and tightly wrapped him up.

I lowered my head and looked at the old man. I reached out my hand to lightly push his arm. "Old grandpa, old grandpa, wake up —"

The old man didn't move at all. He seemed to be frozen solid.

"Little friend, is this your grandfather?" Qiu Tong asked the girl while hugging the child for warmth.

The girl coughed nonstop and said in a daze, "My grandfather is sick... My grandpa is going to die... Auntie, please save my grandpa. "

Hearing the child's soft and helpless voice, my eyes immediately became wet, and tears immediately flowed down Qiu Tong's face.

I knelt down and touched the old man's nostrils with my hand. I tested his pulse, and there seemed to be a faint throbbing and breathing.

I said to Qiu Tong, "Her grandfather seems to still be breathing; there's still hope."

"Hurry up and call 120 ah, hurry up and send them to the hospital, the child is also having a high fever!" Qiu Tong hurriedly said, and hugged the child tightly, comforting him, "Be good, good children, uncle and auntie will send you to the hospital right now. Your grandfather won't die, he won't, he won't."

I hastily took out my cell phone and called 120. It was quickly connected.

"Next to the ATM at 42 Zhongshan Road, there is an old man and a child. The old man is dying and the child has a high fever." I said quickly.

"Are you a relative?" a woman's voice from 120 asked.

"I'm just passing by. They're homeless." Before I could finish my sentence, the other party said, "Then please hit the civil affairs department. We are a hospital, homeless people can't afford the medical expenses. You should go to the civil affairs department for help."

I was immediately angered and shouted, "You're f * cking not going to save me. If you don't dare to send an ambulance, I'll go to the news department tomorrow and expose you. If you don't believe me, you can try it — hurry up and send an ambulance. Your father will pay —"

I don't know if it was due to someone paying or if they were scared by my threats, but the other side immediately replied, "Okay, let's go to the ambulance."

After hanging up, I sat on the ground and picked up the old man. I took off my cotton clothes and draped them over his body. Then I let him lean against my chest and called out to him, "Old grandpa, wake up — — wake up — —"

After shouting for a while, the old man's body suddenly moved, and then his lips began to move.

I hastily put my ear close to his mouth, Qiu Tong also hugged the child and squatted down, getting close to him.

"Good people... Good people... I beg you to save this child. " The old man spoke in a weak voice, his eyes slightly opened as he looked at Qiu Tong and me.

"Old Grandpa, don't worry, we will save you and the child now. The ambulance will be here soon —" Qiu Tong said as she held the old man's left hand.

The old man's hand was very cold, as if the blood was no longer flowing, as if the breath of life was growing further and further away from him.

"Good people... Thank you... I... I can't take it anymore... I can't get through this winter. " The old man's voice became weaker and weaker, "This child... when I was scavenging in Haizhou five years ago... I picked it up in the dustbin... I took this kid on a beggar's living and wandered around... This winter, the Haizhou was too cold. They couldn't endure it any longer, so they brought their children to beg and beg all the way south, hoping to find a warm place to spend the winter … I never thought that I would encounter a blizzard right when I arrived here. "

Hearing this, my heart felt as though it had been cut by a knife. This child actually had such a similar fate to Qiu Tong;

He looked at Qiu Tong, his body trembling uncontrollably as tears welled up like a spring.

"Good people... Please pity me old man, please accept this child, save this child... The child's name is Ya Ya. " The old man's voice became softer and softer. Suddenly, there was no sound. Then, his head tilted to the side, his eyes closed, and he stopped breathing.

This was the only family and source of warmth she had in her five years of life. It was the only support she had in her young heart, and now that her only family had left her, how sad she must be in her child's heart.

"Gramps — Gramps —" I shook the old man's body, but there was no response.

The old man's body finally became ice-cold. After experiencing the hardships of the human world, he finally let go of this heartless, snowy night.

Qiu Tong hugged the child tightly with one hand and held the old man's cold and stiff hands with the other.

Soon, the ambulance arrived and a few white coats came down.

Qiu Tong carried her and hurriedly got on the car. I called for a few white gowned men to help the old man onto a stretcher, a doctor like person extended his hand to touch the old man's nose, then checked his pulse and said: "No need to carry, he's already dead. Throw him here wait for the civil affairs department to deal with it!"

With that, the doctor stood up and was about to leave.

"No, he's not dead. There's still hope for him, please carry him up here -" Qiu Tong shouted from the carriage, "Doctor, I beg you, this old man was just talking."

"You clearly died, yet you still say that you can speak and dragged us over to our place. Do you want to raise the death rate of our hospital?" The doctor looked at Qiu Tong in displeasure and spoke coldly.

I stood up and grabbed the doctor's arm from behind me. The doctor jumped and looked at me.

"Carry the old man to the carriage!" I glared at the doctor. "If you dare say no again, I'll cripple you immediately!"

With that, I pushed back with my hand and the doctor cried out in pain, not daring to say anything more. He hastily ordered the men to carry the old man onto the stretcher, get on the stretcher, and head for the hospital.

After arriving at the hospital, Qiu Tong carried the child and headed straight for the emergency room. A few nurses and I carried the old man into the emergency room for help.

The old man was dead. He had died a long time ago. The doctor quickly came to this conclusion.

The old man's body was taken to the mortuary. I accompanied it myself.

Then, I found Qiu Tong. She had been diagnosed with acute pneumonia due to fever, her fever had reached 41 degrees. Her heart had already started to fail, and she was in a coma.

The hospital quickly started to salvage the situation. Very quickly, I hung up the hanging bottle and gave out the fever needle. Then, I went to handle the inpatient procedures and paid the deposit.

After hearing what I had to say about the old man's situation, Qiu Tong remained silent and let out a deep sigh.

Then, Qiu Tong looked at Yayi, who was in the midst of transfusion in her sickbed. After looking for a long time, she suddenly leaned over and pressed her face close to hers, not moving at all.

Looking at Qiu Tong's actions, my heart trembled and was moved.

That night, Qiu Tong and I didn't return to the hotel. We stayed together in the ward with Yayi, who was resting against the headboard of the bed.

After a night of emergency treatment, Yayi finally woke up and escaped from danger.