Chapter 109 Snowy Night Emergency
Tomorrow is the Little New Year. This year has passed by so quickly.
Tonight, Liu Bin, deputy chief of the security section of the steel rolling mill, Hu Xiaopeng, chief of the logistics section of the public security bureau, and Zhang Dongliang, a few brothers got together.
Zhang Dongliang deliberately brought Liu Guangtian along this time to let him go out and see the world, and by the way, he informed him about asking Yan Bugui to introduce him to a date.
Hu Xiaopeng also came with Wu Tao. In this way, Zhang Dongliang would no longer be the youngest person at the table, and he would not have to be busy serving tea and water. The two younger brothers would just do the work.
The Public Security Bureau and the Security Department are both powerful departments. At such a critical moment at the end of the year, Liu Bin and Hu Xiaopeng did not dare to drink too much, so today everyone just drank a little bit and then left.
The place where they drank was not far from Fuxiang Hutong, so Zhang Dongliang walked home. As soon as it got dark today, sporadic snowflakes began to fall from the sky. Zhang Dongliang raised his hand to check his watch. It was only 8:30 in the evening, and the snow was already quite heavy.
Walking on the road humming a little tune, the sound of snow crunching under my feet is quite poetic. Because of the snow, the usually dark night seems brighter than usual.
When he was almost at the courtyard of Fuxiang Hutong, Zhang Dongliang suddenly stopped, narrowed his eyes, and looked towards the north end of the alley.
Zhang Dongliang's eyesight and sensitivity to abnormal situations have long surpassed ordinary people.
This is my own home, an independent courtyard house, unlike the courtyard house at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang, which has neighbors as a protective layer.
Only a few of his women lived here, and although they were secretly protected by the staff of the New Era Office, he did not want to take it lightly.
Under the dim street lights, I saw a woman holding a child staggering towards me in the wind and snow.
The more Zhang Dongliang looked at the figure, the more familiar it looked. Hey, isn't this Li Hongxia? She must be in such a hurry on such a snowy night. Zhang Dongliang quickly went to meet her.
"Hello, is this Li Hongxia?"
Li Hongxia was walking hurriedly with her child in her arms. Suddenly she heard someone calling her and stopped immediately.
On a night like this, a woman carrying a child on the road alone was already terrified. In her panic, Li Hongxia heard the voice she had been thinking about day and night: "Is this an illusion?"
Li Hongxia stopped and saw the person standing in front of her through the wind and snow. He was really the person she had been thinking about day and night.
"Dongliang, why are you here?" Li Hongxia's voice actually sounded a little tearful.
Yes, on this snowy night, when she was most helpless, she suddenly met the person she had been thinking about day and night, standing in front of her. The feeling of having a backbone in her heart made Li Hongxia lose all her energy and spirit at once, and she felt her body go limp and she could not stand.
"What's going on? Li Hongxia?"
Li Hongxia's voice was filled with anxiety: "The child has had a fever tonight, keeps coughing, and can't breathe. I suspect she has acute pneumonia. She can't hold on any longer, so I want to take her to the hospital as soon as possible."
Zhang Dongliang heard the urgency of the situation and said, "Give me the child and I'll hold him. You follow behind, it's faster this way."
It was impossible to ride a bicycle in such a snowy day, so they could only walk with the child in their arms. Zhang Dongliang ran in front with the child in his arms, and Li Hongxia followed closely behind.
When they arrived at the hospital, Zhang Dongliang was sweating profusely. Li Hongxia's hair was also wet with sweat, and strands of it stuck to her forehead.
"Doctor, doctor." Zhang Dongliang rushed into the emergency room holding the child.
"Let me see the child." The doctor on duty took the child from Zhang Dongliang.
The child's face turned red because of fever, cough and chest tightness. The doctor picked up the stethoscope and listened: "The chest rales are very heavy, it may be acute pneumonia, hurry up and take an X-ray."
The nurse took the child to the infusion room and gave him an IV to relieve his critical symptoms. Two hours later, the film came out and confirmed that he had acute pneumonia.
After going through this whole diagnosis and treatment process, Zhang Dongliang ran to the hospital cashier to pay the fee. Only then did the doctor have time to scold Zhang Dongliang and Li Hongxia.
"What's wrong with you? You only thought of sending the child to the hospital when he was so seriously ill? If he hadn't been sent to the hospital in time tonight, the child would have died.
You are such an incompetent parent."
"I'm not~~" Zhang Dongliang opened his mouth, forget it, there's no point in explaining this to the doctor.
Li Hongxia was terrified and kept thanking the doctor: "Thank you, doctor. Thank you, doctor."
Li Hongxia's child is receiving an IV in the emergency room. After another half an hour of observation, if his vital signs are stable, he can be transferred to the ward.
Zhang Dongliang helped Li Hongxia sit on a bench outside the emergency room, and he sat down next to her.
"Are you hungry? Do you need me to go out and get you something to eat?" Zhang Dongliang asked.
Li Hongxia and Zhang Dongliang sat very close to each other, and she gently leaned her head on Zhang Dongliang's shoulder. "I'm not hungry, so there's no need to make dinner. Can I lean on you for a while? Even 5 minutes is fine."
Zhang Dongliang didn't say anything, but gently patted Li Hongxia's shoulder.
Just when Zhang Dongliang thought Li Hongxia had fallen asleep, Li Hongxia gently said to Zhang Dongliang: "Dongliang, do you know how desperate I am tonight? If I hadn't met you, I really don't know what to do."
"Everything will be fine." Zhang Dongliang didn't know how to comfort Li Hongxia.
"Dongliang, do you know? In the past few years, every time I was in desperate situation, you always reached out to help me. I don't know what my fate would be like if I hadn't met you."
Li Hongxia leaned on Zhang Dongliang's shoulder and whispered to herself. Zhang Dongliang smiled bitterly and did not respond.
After a while, Li Hongxia cheered up a little. "Dongliang, why are you in Fuxiang Hutong tonight?"
"Can I tell you that my family lives there?"
"What? That's where you live? Don't you live in the courtyard at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang?"
“This is a courtyard house I bought myself.”
Anyway, this matter cannot be kept secret for long, people will know it soon. Zhang Dongliang did not shy away from telling Li Hongxia about his purchase of the courtyard house.
"Then we are neighbors." Li Hongxia suddenly became happy.
"Do you also live in Fuxiang Hutong?"
"Yes, my family lives in a large compound at the north end of Fuxiang Hutong."
It turned out that Li Hongxia got divorced after her father went to study because of his right-wing issues. After the divorce, Li Hongxia, her mother and her daughter, who was less than one year old, moved to this compound and rented a room.
In the past two years, due to the housing shortage, Li Hongxia has been unable to get a house in the steel mill. After finally being promoted to deputy section chief, there was a vacant house in the courtyard where Zhang Dongliang worked, but she still couldn't get a house.
Zhang Dongliang smiled bitterly. That was because all the vacant houses in the courtyard were occupied by the New Era Office, and Li Hongxia came at a very bad time.