dognovel Chapter 121 The child contracted heatstroke, an oversight in the team
Chapter 121 The child contracted heatstroke, an oversight in the team
The villagers' terrified cries reached everyone's ears from afar.
Upon hearing this, Su Yunhai immediately stood up, wanting to see who was speaking.
But it was very dark, and he couldn't see where the person who was speaking was at all.
"Who's speaking? Quickly, get Doctor Zhang to take a look!" Su Yunhai shouted urgently.
The villagers, carrying children, ran over breathlessly and knelt down in front of Su Yunhai with a thud, their faces full of anxious pleading.
"Scholar Su, please save my child! Waaah, I can't wake him up no matter what I do!" The man cried uncontrollably.
Su Yunhai then recognized the man as Liu Baoquan, a father who was not yet thirty years old.
They were a family that had signed a contract of servitude with the Su family.
"Have you seen Dr. Zhang?" Su Yunhai looked at the girl in the man's arms. Her cheeks were flushed, and she clearly had a high fever.
Su Yunhai reached out and touched the girl's forehead; it was indeed burning hot.
"Your child had such a high fever, why did you only tell us now!"
Dr. Zhang has arrived and immediately took the child's pulse and examined him.
Liu Baoquan was still crying as he explained the situation.
"I was on the road all day and didn't pay any attention to my child at home. My wife only told me that my child had just fainted!"
“My wife hasn’t given my daughter much water these past two days. She’s been saving water and food from my daughter to give to my son, which is why my daughter fainted.”
Su Yunhai felt a surge of anger upon hearing this.
Those around him couldn't help but frown in disapproval.
"What? Is it because I didn't give you enough water and food that you're treating your own children so badly?!" Su Yunhai roared at Liu Baoquan without any mercy.
Shen Yuehua was also very angry when she heard this.
The Su family was responsible for providing meals for the villagers who had signed indentures with them.
She made sure everyone had plenty of food and water at every meal, ensuring that no villager would ever have to travel or work on an empty stomach.
She never expected that such a thing could happen in the team; it was her oversight.
"I'll settle the score with you later! Dr. Zhang, how is the child?" Shen Yuehua quickly asked.
Dr. Zhang's expression was grave. "The child is severely malnourished. It looks like he hasn't been eating properly for the past few days. In addition, the temperature has been rising day by day, so the child has suffered from severe heatstroke, and his internal organs are severely damaged. We must bring his body temperature down first."
Su Yunhai and Shen Yuehua, both of whom had traveled from the modern world, immediately understood the seriousness of the girl's condition upon hearing this.
Shen Yuehua immediately gave Su Yunhai a look, signaling him to hurry up and ask his daughter for medicine.
She quickly went to the car to get water.
She touched the water in the bucket and found that it was warm, at least around 35 degrees Celsius.
This temperature is a bit high.
She was a little anxious.
This child's condition is clearly very serious; if the organs are damaged for a long time and are not treated in time, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Liu Baoquan never expected his child's condition to be so serious, and now he is filled with regret.
He slapped his wife hard, knocking her to the ground, blood seeping from her mouth.
"You wretched woman, are you satisfied now! Da Ya is someone you went through so much trouble to give birth to, how could you treat her like this!"
Liu Baoquan's wife never expected things to be so serious.
She treats all the girls in the family the same way, and nothing happens, right?
Who knew that Da Ya would be unable to cope after only two meals of hunger?
"Waaaaah, honey, I was just trying to save some food for your son! What did I do wrong!"
Seeing that she was incorrigible, Liu Baoquan kicked her hard again and cursed, "You love your son so much, why don't you save your own food and water for him! What right do you have to deprive my daughter of her food to feed your son! You shameless woman!"
Liu Baoquan's wife was shocked that her husband would say such a thing, and her eyes were filled with disappointment.
"Liu Baoquan, how could you treat me like this! Isn't this how you treated these girls at home? Why didn't you ever discipline them then? Now you're playing the loving father!"
"Why should I save on food? This son is yours. If you want to save, you can save yourself. I don't care anymore!" Liu Baoquan's wife cried as she got up from the ground and ran away.
Shen Shuli was just about to take some people to the nearby mountains to get some wild game for her family when her father called her back.
I happened to overhear the couple arguing and shifting blame to each other, which left me with mixed feelings.
She prepared an emergency treatment for heatstroke in advance, and secretly, out of sight, replaced the water in the bucket that Shen Yuehua had prepared with stored water from the space warehouse, which had a lower temperature.
Shen Yuehua quickly put the girl into a bucket of water to cool her down and used the spiritual spring water to feed her medicine.
Doctor Zhang's herbs were running low, and he couldn't possibly gather enough for a complete prescription.
The only thing I could do was to prepare a new batch of the medicine I had on hand and decoct it for the child.
After half an hour of effort, the girl's temperature finally came down.
The flush on her face had faded, and she had regained consciousness.
Shen Yuehua's eyes stung as she looked at the girl who was so thin she was just skin and bones.
If we're really talking about it, all the villagers who signed the indenture are now part of the Su family.
These children are naturally her people too.
It was her lack of consideration that led to her child being abused and reduced to this state.
She personally fed Liu Daya medicine and porridge.
Perhaps due to the effectiveness of the medication and the rapid effect of the spiritual spring water, Liu Daya recovered faster than expected.
Shen Yuehua did not allow the child's parents to take him back immediately, but planned to personally take care of him for two days to observe the situation.
Su Yunhai, however, had no intention of letting the couple off the hook.
He watched as his wife, consumed by guilt over the girl's affair, couldn't sleep all night, and felt an urge to kill all those unreasonable people.
"Liu Baoquan, Baoquan's wife, from today onwards, your food rations will be halved. Daya and Erya will be under our care. You don't need to take care of them anymore. You just need to focus on taking care of your two sons," Su Yunhai said coldly.
Liu Baoquan and his wife never expected Su Yunhai to make such a decision.
Upon hearing this, Liu Baoquan's wife immediately objected, shouting, "No way! Daya and Erya are our children! How dare you take my daughters away! I won't agree!"
Liu Baoquan also couldn't accept this result. He looked at Su Yunhai with dissatisfaction and immediately retorted.
"Scholar Su, although we signed a contract of servitude with you, it states that you cannot separate our family. How can you go back on your word!"
Su Yunhai didn't want to get entangled with them any longer, and said firmly, "I'm only giving you two choices: either do what I just said."
"Either you find a way to pay the ransom and leave the group immediately."
Liu Baoquan and his wife were dumbfounded.
I never expected that the usually easy-going Scholar Su would be so heartless.
Where would they get the money to redeem themselves?
If they had that kind of money, why would they sell themselves?