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Chapter 409: Chapter 402: Bitten
Children really don’t understand anything, they have no idea how dangerous this is. The child reaches out to catch the big snake but just as his little hand comes down, the snake suddenly jumps up and bites his little arm.
The other children are all scared to tears. Chengcheng, looking at his little arm, doesn’t even have time to cry before he falls to the ground.
Zhang Xiangcao has been looking outside for a long time, where has little Chengcheng gone? It’s mealtime and this little rascal has become more and more mischievous lately. He’s growing more cunning and has started to like running outside. Just a moment of inattention and the child disappears. When his older brother comes back, he must strictly discipline this little rascal. He’s been spoiled rotten by the whole family and is no longer the obedient child he was when he was younger.
“Mom, where is Chengcheng?” Sisi, who’s now in high school, put her school bag down, ready to go play with her chubby little brother.
“He’s out playing,” Zhang Xiangcao felt utterly helpless dealing with Chengcheng. He used to be such a docile little bun, but now, the flick of a second and he’s turned into a wild child.
“I’ll go find him,” Sisi casually washed her face with cold water and went to look for her brother.
However, she searched around and couldn’t find Chengcheng.
“Sister Sisi…” At that moment, a little girl in the village saw Sisi and hurriedly ran over. She pointed in a direction ahead, “Sister Sisi, Chengcheng got bitten by a bug.”
Upon hearing this, Sisi’s heart skipped a beat and she started running forward. Soon, she saw Chengcheng lying on the ground from the distance. His tiny body looked so pitiful covered in dust, neglected by everyone around.
She immediately ran over and picked Chengcheng up, but was scared out of her wits upon seeing his little face turn pale. His eyes were tightly shut and his chubby little arm was swollen.
She quickly carried her brother and ran towards home.
At the same time, Tang Yuxin, who was holding a scalpel and doing her coursework, unconsciously trembled. The scalpel blade slit her finger and in an instant, she felt a burst of pain.
“What’s wrong?” Shi Yuan hurried over.
“Nothing, I accidentally cut my finger,” Tang Yuxin licked her finger, tasting the burning pain and the metallic taste of blood in her mouth.
She put down the scalpel, went to the cabinet, and put a Band-Aid on her wound. Just then, she heard her phone ringing.
At this time, not many people in the school had mobile phones. The ringtone was from the phone that Gu Ning had given her.
She took the phone out of her bag. Seeing it was a call from home, she answered, “Hello…”
Soon after, her face changed and she quickly grabbed her bag and sprinted out. She was so fast that Shi Yuan didn’t even have time to call her.
Carrying her bag, she had already rushed out of the school gate and hailed a taxi to take her to the train station. Upon arriving at the station, she realized that it would take two days and two nights by train, and she didn’t have that much time. So she got the taxi to take her to the airport instead. There were no direct flights to Qing’an, but she could ask the taxi to drive her home once she arrived somewhere else. It would be more expensive, but time was of the essence.
She took out her phone again and spoke into it, “Dad, go to my room. In the second drawer of the cabinet on the right, open it.”
Tang Zhinian’s eyes were bloodshot. Though it had only been a day, he seemed to have grown much older, with more than half of his hair turning white.
His once fine lines deepened, and he seemed to have lost much weight.
Following Tang Yuxin’s instructions, he opened the drawer and indeed found a red box and a green box.
“Take out the green box,” Tang Yuxin continued, “inside it is a small glass bottle with several pills. Feed Chengcheng one every two hours, no matter what, feed it to him. I’ll be home within a day.”
“Okay,” Tang Zhinian’s voice was hoarse, as if he had a mouthful of sand, and he soon lost his voice completely.
He carried the bottle and drove to the hospital. Chengcheng was still in a coma at the hospital. The once chubby child was now like a dried sponge, draining all his vitality and quickly wilting. His tiny body was covered in various tubes, his little face was still pale, his small mouth was also pale, and his cute appearance was gone. He could no longer hug his dad’s leg and call him “dad”, no longer call his mom, and no longer cry pitifully that without his sister, he would be bullied.
Tang Zhinian wiped his face and held the glass bottle tightly in his hand. Chengcheng had been bitten by a poisonous snake, and the poison was extremely troublesome. Even though all of Chengcheng’s blood had been replaced and he had undergone dialysis, he was still in danger and remained unconscious. The doctor said his breathing was very weak and could stop at any time. There were several times when he nearly didn’t make it through the emergency rescue.
He was an older parent and this child was his lifeline, the lifeline of the Tang family. Such a well-behaved, obedient, and sensible child, how could such a thing happen?
It was all his fault; he was a failure of a father.
It was him who was always busy working and never took proper care of his child. If only he had paid more attention to him, he wouldn’t have had an accident. They had always thought the boy was well-behaved and quiet. But in truth, he was just a child who loved to play, smile, be spoiled, get into trouble. And no matter what, a child will inevitably cause worry.
Ren Li was holding her son’s chubby hand, her eyes swollen from crying. She didn’t know what to do, her Chengcheng, her little Chengcheng, her little baby, her life.
Tang Zhinian walked over, his hand trembling as he put it on Ren Li’s shoulder, and took out a glass bottle from his pocket. In the bottle were pills the size of soybeans.
“Yuxin said to feed Chengcheng one of these pills every two hours. She will be home within a day.”
Ren Li immediately went to fetch water, but because she had been sitting for too long, her legs were numb. She almost fell to the ground. If it weren’t for Tang Zhinian reaching out to support her, she would have fallen.
She staggered and managed to fetch a glass of water.