Chapter 743 - 743 Amputation
743 Amputation
“Xiao Wei must be trying to make up for something. At that time, Zhang Miao was seriously injured but Zhang Wei could not help at all. After all, Miao Miao is a girl. Now that you’re sick, he wants to do his best to take care of you and show his filial piety. Besides, I’m here to help him,” Qiao Mei said with a smile.
After helping Qiao Qiang to wipe down his body, the two of them quickly went to bed. The entire village was silent that day.
It was not easy for Qiao Zhuang and the rest to reach the big hospital in the provincial city. This hospital in the provincial city was indeed different from the one in the county city. It looked grander and was more than twice the size of the county city hospital!
Qiao Gui stood at the door and muttered to himself, “This is my first time in the provincial city. This place is really grand. It looks like it’s going to be expensive. Do we have that much money?”
Wang Qin quickly covered Qiao Gui’s mouth and pulled him to the side. “Don’t mention money. Your father will definitely eye all our money! Didn’t you go into the mountains with your eldest brother today? Did you see who harmed him?”
Qiao Gui did not go to the mountain with Qiao Fu at all. He had indeed accompanied Qiao Fu out of the house today, but after they went into the mountain, they split up. Qiao Gui was timid and scared, so he secretly went home using another route. He did not set out to harm Qiao Mei at all and did not even go up the mountain.
“I went home! I think my eldest brother is too extreme. We can’t really cause Qiao Mei to have a miscarriage. There are two lives living inside Qiao Mei. Who knows, Qiao Mei might just die together with them. When the police come to investigate the case, my eldest brother and I will have to go to jail! I’m not clever, but I’m not stupid!” Qiao Gui whispered.
Wang Qin had wanted to say that Qiao Gui was a coward, but she looked at him differently now. What Qiao Gui said made sense. She also hated Qiao Mei, and she would dare to feed Qiao Mei some croton that would cause diarrhea, but she also did not have the guts to do anything that could cause Qiao Mei to die.
“Let’s pretend that you don’t know anything about this. You didn’t do anything. Don’t even say that you didn’t go, understand?” Wang Qin whispered into Qiao Gui’s ear.
Qiao Gui nodded. He understood the stakes and would not take the blame for his eldest brother for no reason.
Less than five minutes after entering the operating theater, the doctor came out and asked, “Who’s Qiao Fu’s family member?”
Qiao Zhuang quickly walked forward and held the doctor’s hand as he said, “Me! I’m his father! How’s my son?”
“You have to make a quick decision now. The patient can’t keep his legs. To save his life, we have to amputate them. We have no other choice,” the doctor said regretfully.
It was not as if the doctor was not skillful. Even if an immortal came, Qiao Fu would still be unable to keep his legs.
“How can this be! Doctor, you have to save my son’s legs! He can’t be disabled! Please save him!” Qiao Zhuang cried.
“We’ve tried our best. I’ll give you five minutes to consider. This is the best option,” the doctor said.
“Alright! Amputate them…” After saying this, Qiao Zhuang collapsed to the ground as if all his strength had been sucked out of him.
“Alright, go and make payment.” The doctor then returned to the operating theater.
None of Qiao Zhuang’s surrounding sons and daughters-in-law went forward to help him up. When they heard about making payment, everyone’s expressions changed. Not long ago, their families had just contributed the money for the fourth son’s marriage. Now, they had to fork out the money to treat the eldest son’s illness.
This surgery would cost at least a few hundred dollars. The subsequent treatments would also cost money.
Qiao Zhuang had no intention to pay for this. He turned to look at Zhao Liang. It was now the autumn harvest season and the money to buy seeds for next year should have already been transferred to the village. This money was an accumulation of contributions from everyone in order to buy seeds for next year. Any excess was set aside so that the villagers could borrow money from the village during emergencies.
“Xiao Liang, look at my Qiao Fu. Can you give us some money from the village fund for emergencies? We really don’t have any money left,” Qiao Zhuang stood up from the ground and said shamelessly.
Zhao Liang did not want to lend them the money at all. After they borrowed the money, they would never return it. When the time came, he would have to make up for it. Qiao Zhuang and the rest had already done this once a few years ago.
“This is the village’s money and I can’t lend it to you. Why don’t you send a few people home to raise the money. I can send them all back in a horse carriage,” Zhao Liang said with a smile.