under the foggy mountain

Chapter 4

The next day, Tang Qinglian got up before dawn.She wrote a leave note, and when she came to the main room, Tang Debiao got up too, sitting on the bamboo bed in a daze.

Tang Qinglian walked gently to her father and said, "Master, I took Mommy to see a doctor yesterday."

Tang Debiao responded, "Yes." Tao Lanying often fell ill, either by herself or by Qinglian, Tang Debiao was used to it.

Tang Qinglian said: "The doctor said that Mama's illness should go to the People's Hospital for treatment."

Tang Debiao was startled when he heard this, and turned his head and asked eagerly: "Ah, your mother's illness is going to the People's Hospital! Doctor Ximan said?"

Tang Qinglian said: "Doctor Ximan said, and the doctor of Huangqiao Central Hospital also said that the disease that my mother has is uremia, and she will go to the People's Hospital for treatment."

Tang Debiao asked: "Your mother's disease is uremia? What kind of disease is uremia?"

"The doctor said that the result of the development of Mom's disease is uremia..." Tang Qinglian felt that she couldn't understand, and said impatiently: "Oh, this disease can't be explained in a few sentences. Anyway, Mom's disease is going to the county. Hospitalized."

Tang Debiao glanced at Tang Qinglian worriedly, opened his mouth twice, wanted to say something, but finally didn't say it.

Tang Qinglian handed him the leave slip in her hand and said, "I will go to the County People's Hospital today and ask the doctor how to treat this disease. You will go to Sun's Paper to ask for a day off for me. Also, don't go out today , take care of Mama."

"Well, I got it." Tang Debiao took the leave note and was about to put it down, when he suddenly raised his head, looked at Tang Qinglian and said, "Ah! I almost don't remember! Today is my master's birthday, and I'm going to his house to help." Tang Debiao He is a well-known winemaker who brews good wine. His master is Zhou Yunyi, the former branch secretary of Wushan Village.

Tang Qinglian showed a troubled look on her face, and said, "Today is Secretary Zhou's birthday! So what should we do?"

After a while, Tang Debiao said: "Well, you should go to the county seat. I will come to your first aunt's house later and ask her to take care of your mother in the morning. I will come back to take care of your mother after lunch."

Tang Qinglian listened, thought for a while, and said: "I can only trouble the first aunt. Lord, I'm leaving." Turning around and leaving the main room.

Tang Qinglian put her backpack on her back and opened the door of the stove. She heard the loud sound of the Xiangshui River rushing into the Xiangshui Pond, and a cool and slightly chilly mountain breeze came towards her.She pulled the clothes on her body, walked out, turned around and closed the door, and walked down the steps to the road by the lake.

This is a small village called Jiangwan at the northern foot of Wushan Mountain, where more than a dozen families live.The Wushan Mountain is towering into the clouds, with ravines and ravines, and there are many streams. Xiangshui River is a small river formed by gathering many small streams in the Wushan Mountain. Flowing out from the back of the small hill, because of a little drop, the Xiangshui pool was formed after washing day after day.Xiangshuitan is wide and deep. Walking a hundred steps to the north, there is a huge rock on the edge of the pool—the locals call it Jiangshi. Most of it is submerged in the water. The top of the stone is relatively flat. personal.The Xiangshuitan becomes shallower here, and the underwater riverbed can be seen.Xiangshui Creek continued to flow northward for more than half a mile, and then merged into Qingjiang River.

Tang Qinglian came to Jiangshi as usual.She has a habit of standing or sitting on the river stone for a while whenever she goes out.Today she only stood on the river rock, then got off the rock and hurried on the road.

Tang Qinglian wanted to arrive at the No. 05 Middle School before eight o'clock. Xuxia definitely didn't have class before eight o'clock. She hoped to learn about Su Tie's situation from Xuxia, and also hoped to find a familiar doctor in the People's Hospital through Xuxia, so that she could put Ask about my mother's illness.She looked at her watch, it was 30:06, and she had to get to Huangzhen Bridge to catch the bus before 30:10 in order to arrive at No. [-] Middle School of the County before [-]:[-].She calculated the time. It would take about an hour and a half from Jiangwan to Huangqiao Town by road, and it would take [-] minutes to arrive by motorbike. However, she was too embarrassed to call people in Wanli early in the morning. motorcycle.

Tang Qinglian wanted to cross the river from Zhangshuwan.

Zhangshuwan is not far from Jiangwan, just walk eastward along the Qingjiang Embankment Road for more than two miles.There is a big sweet-scented osmanthus tree by the river in front of Zhangshuwan, from there to the river, there are two rows of big stones in the river, when the water is shallow, you can step on the stones to cross the river. We'll be there in less than 10 minutes.But she was a little worried, the river was flooded, whether Zhangshuwan could cross the river.

At this time, the sky was already dawning, and the surroundings gradually became clear. The Zhangshu Bay in the distance was hidden in a large area of ​​camphor trees, and the tall and lush camphor trees extended to the foot of the Wushan Mountain.The towering foggy mountains stretch for more than ten kilometers from west to east, and the black cave seems to be crushing.The foot of the Wushan Mountain is full of paddy fields, and on the vigorously growing green seedlings, there is a mist like light smoke.

As Tang Qinglian walked, she observed the water level in the river. Coming out of the river bay, the water in the river kept rushing.She knew that with this amount of water, it would be impossible to cross the river from Zhangshuwan today. If she really wanted to go along the road, she would definitely not be able to reach Huangqiao Station before 06:30. Tang Qinglian was a little anxious.

About half a mile away from Zhangshu Bay, Tang Qinglian saw a car coming out of the bay quickly with its bright lights on, and it was in front of her in an instant. ’ and rushed past her.Tang Qinglian cursed in a low voice, and was about to return to the middle of the road and continue on her way. At this moment, when the car braked suddenly, there was a huge "crack...crack" sound from the tires and the gravel road. She was startled, and subconsciously Turning around quickly, I saw the door of that car opened quickly, and a person jumped out of the car, and shouted to himself: "Qingqing! Qingqing!".

Tang Qinglian took a closer look, and it turned out to be Yuan Wuhua.Yuan Wuhua, like He Xuxia, was also a classmate from elementary school to high school and lived in Zhangshuwan.Tang Qinglian didn't want to talk to him, so she turned around and left.

Yuan Wuhua ran over, came to Tang Qinglian, and asked with a smile: "Qingqing, where are you going so early?" Yuan Wuhua was very strong and looked shorter than Tang Qinglian.

Tang Qinglian had no choice but to stop and said, "I'm going to town."

Yuan Wuhua smiled and said, "I'll take you there."

Tang Qinglian looked away and said, "No need."

Yuan Wuhua smiled and said, "I'll take you there for a few minutes."

Tang Qinglian walked away without saying a word.

Seeing this, Yuan Wuhua raised his voice and said, "The river is full of water, so we can't cross the river from the bay."

Tang Qinglian listened, stopped for a while, and left.Yuan Wuhua yelled from behind: "Qingqing, wait a minute, I'll drive over."

Tang Qinglian hadn't gone far, and Yuan Wuhua chased after her by car.Tang Qinglian moved to the side of the road and continued walking.Seeing that Tang Qinglian didn't intend to stop, Yuan Wuhua drove slowly, rolled down the window, and said, "Qingqing, the river has swelled these days, and the water is quite heavy, so we can't cross the river. Come on, I'll see you off." You go to town."

Tang Qinglian ignored him and just walked forward.Yuan Wuhua refueled, drove the car under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree and waited.Tang Qinglian arrived in a while, and looked into the river, only to see that the water in the river was turbulent, and the two rows of stones had long disappeared. She knew that it was impossible to cross the river from here today.

Yuan Wuhua said: "Qingqing, if you want to hurry, let me see you off. If you are not in a hurry, you can walk slowly."

Tang Qinglian felt that this was the only way to keep up with time, so she turned her head and said to Yuan Wuhua, "Wuhua, I'm going to drive a car, so I'll trouble you."

After hearing this, Yuan Wuhua said happily, "Okay! Come on, get in the car!" He ran to the right side of the car, opened the right front door, and was about to let Tang Qinglian sit in.

Tang Qinglian opened the back door of the car, sat on it and said, "Let me sit here!"

Yuan Wuhua had no choice but to close the front door, then ran to the driver's seat, came in and started the car. He drove the car very fast and arrived at Huangqiao Town in a while. The station was heading towards the county seat, and he said, "Let's chase that bus." As he spoke, he stepped on the accelerator and caught up with the bus.Yuan Wuhua stretched out his hand from the car window to signal the shuttle to stop, then drove the car to the front of the shuttle and stopped, jumped down and opened the door to let Tang Qinglian get off.Tang Qinglian said "thank you" after getting off the bus, and quickly got on the bus without looking back.The shuttle bus closed the door with a "squeak", carefully bypassed Yuan Wuhua's car, and drove away, leaving a smell of gasoline in the air.

(End of this chapter)