He just stood frozen in the rain, motionless. The eyes, empty and blank, looked at the closed door of her house …
Solitary figure, as if an abandoned child, lonely and heartbreaking …
Zoey only felt pain stirring in her chest, thinking of his physical condition at the moment, she was even more anxious. She rushed to the door and grabbed her father’s hand, praying with red eyes, “Dad, let me out, okay? I promise, I’m just persuading him to go, persuading him to get out of here …”
“Yami , take Zoey up to the shower!” Sam Baker was not at all swayed by his daughter’s prayers.
“Dad!” Zoey was a mess, her soaked clothes and hair plastered to her body, but she couldn’t feel the cold at all. Her whole heart was focused on the man who was still waiting in the rain.
“Don’t say any more! Dad will never be right to promise you to go out again!” Sam Baker refused to hear another word from his daughter, instead he turned back to the butler and instructed him, “Lock the door and don’t let Miss Two out one step!” .
“Dad, his health is not good, it will be life threatening to get so wet …” She heard her voice already choking. It was almost too much to imagine what would happen if his condition flared up again.
“Even if his life is in danger, it’s his karma!” Sam Baker was determined not to let go. But only heard the upstairs room was suddenly opened, KK and Nini’s cries, came from upstairs. KK held binoculars in her hand, and ran down from upstairs while bawling, “Zoey , Uncle collapsed … Uncle fainted… …”
Heart sinking, Zoey faltered and almost collapsed.
Sam Baker froze, and Yami Hu followed suit, subconsciously looking out the window.
By the time he regained his senses, Zoey was already running to the door.
“Let me out! Butler, let go!” Zoey practically screamed, breaking the butler’s grip on her. The excruciating pain that swirled in her chest was so intense that she simply couldn’t stay calm for even a second.
She’s going crazy!
It’s really going crazy!
The butler, with a hard look on his face, looked to Sam Baker. the children, too, tilted their heads and hugged his pants, crying and begging him, “Grandpa, let Zoey go out with us! We’re going to Uncle …”
Sam Baker and Yami Hu are not hard-hearted people, and when they think of the father of their children, their hearts will be softened. Sam Baker looked at Zoey, who still had a stern face, but his words were much softer.
“Open the door and let her go. Housekeeper, prepare her umbrella!” After saying that, she pursed her lips and ordered, “Chen Ma, call the hospital and have it prepared.”
As soon as the door opened, Zoey ran straight into the rain. He just collapsed straight there.
Eyes closed and dying, it took almost all of Zoey’s breath.
“Jerry!” she ran frantically over to him, crying as she crouched down and took him firmly into her arms. “Jerry, wake up … please, wake up …”
Hands, trembling, kept patting his face. He gripped his eyebrows, his whole face was all was all suppressed pain.
“Don’t you scare me … wake up, will you …” Her voice, already hoarse, cradled his face into her arms.
The children also cried and rushed over, calling out ‘Uncle’ with a cry, their childish voices in such a heavy rain, bleak and desperate, making one’s heart ache.
Seems to have heard her and the children’s cries, his eyelashes covered with water droplets, gently flapped. The big palm, with difficulty, slowly raised, wanted to touch her small face that appeared to be illusory, to tell her …
Don’t worry, he’s fine …
He, well, nothing happened …
So don’t cry … don’t be sad …
“Zoey , get out of the way!” Sam Baker led the driver out and pulled Zoey away while instructing the driver, “Sho, carry him to the car. yami , take the kids inside, don’t catch cold!”
“We won t go, we want to stay with Uncle … The two children cried so mournfully. Such an uncle, lifeless, made them feel afraid.
Uncle, will you die?
Will you never wake up again?
“Good boy, you guys go back first. With Zoey accompanying Uncle, Uncle will be fine. When Uncle wakes up, Zoey will come back to pick you up.” Zoey took the time to coax the child. She had to take care of him and was worried that she wouldn’t be able to find the time to take care of the children, so she could only leave the two children at home.
KK and Nini were not ignorant, but when Zoey said that, they didn’t dare to go along to cause trouble, so Yami Hu took the two children back to the house, and Zoey hurriedly followed the driver to the car.
Jerry Xiao was placed in the back seat. His entire body was curled up in agony, shivering, as the cold water traveled over his entire body, every taut muscle frozen black and blue in misery.
Two bags of clothes were thrown in the window, Zoey looked down, it was her own change of clothes, and dad’s clothes. In her heart, a wave of emotion welled up, and she looked out the window with her eyes sideways, “Dad, thanks.”
Sam Baker, still looking poorly, stood in the rain with his umbrella, “You, change out of your dry clothes when you get to the hospital, don’t catch a cold. Asheng, turn up the heat to the highest.”
…
The car, speeding down the road. “Asheng, you faster …,” Zoey choked and urged. Took the dry towel that his father had handed over together and wiped Jerry Xiao’s face continuously for him. Wipe off the water droplets, before trembling hands to untie the jacket and shirt on him.
Button by button, his frozen, bruised body still shivering uncontrollably, Zoey’s emotions nearly broke down.
“Jerry, hang in there … We’ll be at the hospital soon …” Zoey mumbled to him, suppressing her emotions. Taking off his top soaked shirt and tossing it carelessly to the side, he rummaged through his dad’s shirt and pulled it over him.
This seemed to make him feel better, and his surprisingly cold fingers moved, and Zoey could not help but reach over and take hold of his, tears streaming down her face, “Jerry, don’t fall down! Don’t pass out, do you hear me? Asheng, please hurry up a little more!”
She urged anxiously, already completely unconcerned about the mess she was in at the moment.
Hospital, dimly lit.
“Quick! Prepare the emergency room!” The doctor pushed his patient along at a brisk pace. The rollers pressed across the gallery with a clanging sound that was especially alarming to hear.
“Doctor, the patient is running a high fever!” The nurse screamed.
“It’s bad! Things aren’t looking too good.”
Zoey felt a sharp pain in her chest, as if she had been hit by a ten-million-ton hammer, which split her liver and gallbladder. Her legs were a little weak, almost unable to hold on. However, he stubbornly held on to the wall to prevent himself from falling down.
“Doctor …,” her voice was soft, Jude was trembling. Like it took all her strength, she took several deep breaths before finally uttering the simple words, “Save him … please … let him live… …”
She was so shaky and pale that the doctor couldn’t look at her without being moved, but didn’t dare to give her more reassurance, “We’ll do our best, so please stand outside and wait for the family.”
He was pushed in.
The curtain pulls down, blocking Zoey’s view.
She refused to take a single step, and just pressed herself against the wall, wooden and empty, and stood there. Her clothes, soaked to the bone, clung to her body, and her entire face was frozen pale, yet she didn’t feel cold at all. It was as if her entire body had gone numb, and she couldn’t hear anything. In her ears, there was only that ECG’s ‘beep-beep-beep’ sound, constantly ringing and ringing …
“Miss, you look very pale, do you want to get a doctor to take a look?” A nurse passed by her and asked with concern as she realized that her face didn’t look right.
“No … I’m fine …” She shook her head woodenly.
“Oh my God! You have a high fever!” The nurse probed her forehead and was shocked to find that it was hot as fire. Running around in such wet clothes on such a cold day, it would be strange if she didn’t have a fever!
“I can hold up …” The words only fell, as if the body was refuting her words of bravado, the next second, the whole person steeply planted down. That nurse was shocked, exclaimed, and hurriedly held the dazed and confused her. While calling for a doctor, she prepared the emergency room.
…
Zoey’s felt heartache more times than she knows what to do with. A thousand arrows through the heart is just like that. But this time …
It still hurts to wake up from a dream.
“Jerry!” she actually had the same nightmare as last time. He was lying on the hospital bed, and she was looking at him from afar, but she couldn’t even touch him …
Do not dare to go back to think about that scene, only hit a jolt of cold sweat deep in his body to. Only then did he realize that he was actually lying on the bed, with his wet clothes replaced by his own clean change of clothes.
“You awake?” The nurse at the bedside, was tilting her head to help her change another bottle of IV. “Lie down, don’t move, or you’ll get dizzy later. I’ve never seen you like this, running around in wet clothes in such a cold day, it’s strange if you don’t freeze.”
“Nurse, how is he doing? The guy I went into the hospital with, how is he doing?” She asked anxiously after the nurse as she dragged her hand.
“I’m not sure about that, it’s not my responsibility. You’ll have to ask at the information desk to find out what’s going on.” The nurse explains, “Well, just lie down, the fever will go down in a little while with these shots.”
How could she lie down? How could she care about herself? Right now, she just wanted to know, was he okay? Is he awake? If he wakes up, he will definitely look for himself in a hurry. …
When I thought of this, I tore off the tape on my hand and pulled out the needle. Too much force, and the technique was not right, the needle hole immediately became bruised. The nurse was startled by her behavior and stopped her, “What are you doing?”
“I’m sorry, Miss Nurse. I must go and see him now.” She hurriedly climbed out of bed, haphazardly dressed in hospital-prepared slippers, and rushed out the door without a care in the world.
Looking at the anxious back, the nurse shook her head straight and sighed helplessly, pulling the needle up and hitching it to the medicine bottle. Having stayed in the hospital for a long time, this kind of image had already been seen as strange.
…
Zoey asked the information desk before she finally found his room.
The doctor happened to be coming out of his hospital room, and Zoey went up to him, asking anxiously.
“We can’t do anything about those old diseases of his in our hospital, and I think you know this very well. So, we can only ensure that his life is not in danger at this moment. But right now, he’s still weak and has a high fever, so he must be kept quiet, so let him rest more.”
“Thank you doctor.” Zoey very feeble, very feeble thank you, sight through that glass window look at the man inside obsessively, but softly asked the doctor, “Doctor, can I ask you, his old disease situation … in the end how is it?”
The doctor shook his head regretfully, “I think … with his current physical condition, he may not last six months. I hope you are psychologically prepared.”
Her eyes reddened instantly, and there were tears welling up in her eyes.
Six months … surprisingly less than six months …