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Chapter 776: Chapter 766: Go to the Hospital
In the end, it was the military district that dispatched a vehicle, allowing Captain Zhao to accompany his wife and Shen Yunfang to take the child to the hospital for medical treatment.
"Mom, I’m fine, don’t worry," Pangpang held his mother’s hand and rubbed it back and forth. Her hand was ice cold; he knew that she must have been terrified by the accident. 𝘯𝑜𝘷𝘱𝘶𝑏.𝘤𝘰𝑚
"Yes, as long as you’re okay, Mommy isn’t worried." Shen Yunfang looked at her son, so small with a glaring bandage wrapped around his head. At this moment, she regretted not being tougher, thinking that if only she had driven Shen Yingxue out of the courtyard yesterday, all this could have been avoided. How could she have known Shen Yingxue meant harm and still allowed her to hop around everywhere?
She deeply regretted it this moment and reflected profoundly, realizing she had become complacent because she was physically strong and had some life-saving skills, always feeling nothing could hurt her.
But she had forgotten that her child didn’t possess the strength to withstand any danger. It was due to her arrogance that her child nearly suffered harm.
The jeep eventually entered the largest First Hospital of Z City and they sought emergency care. Shen Yunfang took the child to see the doctor again. The conclusion was similar to Doctor He’s: the wound could be stitched up or left as is.
If they chose to stitch it, there would definitely be a scar left behind. If not, there would also be a scar, but as the child grew, such a scar would fade more and more.
As for whether there was any trauma to the brain, after a series of tests, the temporary conclusion was that it was difficult to say. Regarding a concussion, based on the child’s current condition, it seemed there wasn’t one.
The final decision was to take the child home to recuperate.
So, the jeep brought the four of them back to the military district’s compound.
Downstairs, Shen Yunfang expressed her gratitude to Captain Zhao and his wife, "Thank you both so much for your help today. If it were just me, I’d be too busy going up and down the stairs and watching the child."
"It’s nothing, everyone has trouble sometimes. Besides, since Colonel Li isn’t home and you have difficulties, we certainly can’t stand by and do nothing," Gan Xiuying said with a smile.
"Right, sister-in-law, it’s no big deal. You should take the child back and rest," Captain Zhao said, looking like a very kind-hearted person.
"Well, okay, the moment I am able to, I will definitely invite you and your husband over to our house for a visit. But for now, I won’t stand on ceremony," Shen Yunfang politely said a few more words and took the child upstairs.
Once Gan Xiuying saw the mother and child go upstairs, she pulled her own husband towards their apartment, "Ah, Xiaoshen is really wronged. This is just an unwarranted disaster," she said with a sigh.
"Tsk, what’s this ’Xiaoshen, Xiaoshen’? Haven’t I told you? Don’t just call someone by their name because they’re younger than you. In our troops, you have to call the family members of superiors ’sister-in-law,’" Captain Zhao was unhappy with his wife calling her ’Xiaoshen,’ as everyone else called her ’sister-in-law.’ It would look bad if she didn’t do the same.
Gan Xiuying certainly knew the rule too; it’s just that there was a gap in their ages, and it was hard for her to call her ’sister-in-law’ to her face. She didn’t have the thick skin that her husband did, which was also a reason why she had avoided going near Shen Yunfang in the past two years.
"Alright, alright, she’s not in front of us, why make such a fuss?" Gan Xiuying rolled her eyes at her husband, "By the way, how much money did we spend at the hospital today?" She felt a pang in her heart when she thought about the medical expenses.
She wasn’t inflexible, otherwise she wouldn’t have gone to the hospital today. She knew that under someone’s roof, you had to bow your head. Since her husband worked under Colonel Li, she had made efforts to foster good relations with Colonel Li’s family for her husband’s better future (of course, the wife strategy she had given up on; recently, she had been urging her husband to keep up with Colonel Li’s footsteps). This was a good opportunity. Since they went with them, they would undoubtedly have to pay the child’s medical expenses, and even if Colonel Li wanted to reimburse them later, they could not accept it. Wasn’t this an indirect gift? They had given, and how could Colonel Li possibly forget that?
Gan Xiuying understood all these principles, but she still felt heartache over those old medical expenses.
She and Old Zhao each earned just over eighty yuan a month for their salaries, and they still had to send money back to their hometown every month. With several kids at home needing schooling and food, she struggled to save just ten or twenty yuan each month. Suddenly spending one hundred and eighty yuan, even though she knew it was necessary, really hurt.
"Oh dear, look at my mind. When sister-in-law was hospitalized, she stuffed one hundred yuan into my hand, and I kept thinking I should give it back when I return, but I just forgot," said the battalion commander as his wife brought up the money, only then remembering the medical expenses his sister-in-law had given him were still in his pocket.
He fished around in his pocket and pulled out a one-hundred-yuan note.
Gan Xiuying was even more upset, "What’s wrong with you, how can you not handle anything right? It’s an opportunity to make a good impression when you take the regiment commander’s kid to the hospital, how could you accept their money?" Her voice was particularly quiet on that last sentence, and she turned her head to look around, afraid of being overheard.
It was contradictory, just now she was lamenting the wasted medical expenses, but now that she knew the money hadn’t been spent, she was actually irritated.
"Look what you’re saying, it’s not like I did it on purpose," the battalion commander scratched his head, not as cunning as his wife, but he too felt that it wasn’t right to keep the money.
"I knew you just had no clue, otherwise, Regimental Commander Li wouldn’t have left you behind on the mission this time," Gan Xiuying tapped his temple with her index finger, looking every part the picture of frustration.
The battalion commander didn’t respond. Being left behind didn’t sit well with him either.
"All right, it’s too obvious to return the money now, and they can’t accept it anyway. How about this, tomorrow I’ll go buy something for the child and take the opportunity to give the money back then," Gan Xiuying snatched the money from her husband’s hand and stuffed it into her pocket.
The battalion commander hemmed and hawed, "Wife, are you really going to buy a hundred yuan’s worth of things, isn’t that too much?" He came from hard times and felt it was just too wasteful to spend all that money like that.
"You’re right, I’m an idiot, using the money they gave to buy them tonics. I’m planning to buy two pounds of sugar and two cans of food to check on the kid tomorrow. I’ll spend our own money, that hundred yuan will be returned as it is," Gan Xiuying explained irritably.
"Hehe, alright, those things are not too little," the battalion commander laughed foolishly.
"Look at you, silly!" Gan Xiuying pointed at his temple again.
"Oh my, Sister Gan, Battalion Commander Zhao, you’re back, how’s the regiment commander’s eldest son, nothing serious?" A military wife stepped out the door, just in time to see the couple gesticulating as they walked by. She had been an audience member of the morning’s drama, so she couldn’t help but ask, fueled by gossip.
"Hehe, if it isn’t Huifen. The regiment commander’s eldest son isn’t in too bad shape, we went to the hospital, and the doctor said they couldn’t find anything for the moment and told us to go home and take care. If anything worsens, we should go back to the hospital," Gan Xiuying was also being cautious. At this moment, she didn’t say everything was fine because that would mean the woman who caused the injury got off without consequences.
"Really, the boy was covered in blood this morning; it really scared me," the military wife named Huifen still had a scared expression when talking about it.
"Oh, definitely, my heart skipped a beat when I saw it..."
