Chapter 36 The torture of waiting

Meng Jinling pulled the mask off her face, exhaled and said, "The situation has stabilized for the time being. We don't all need to be here at the moment. Just one person will be enough."

Meng Jinling did not say that when she went in to participate in the rescue, Cui Wenquan opened his eyes. The whole process lasted about twenty seconds. Now the data seems to be stable, but no one can guarantee that the eye opening just now was a last breath or the situation is really improving.

Being a doctor is difficult, and being an ICU doctor is even more difficult because you usually have to deal with family members of critically ill patients. Often the patient wakes up in one second and everyone is cheering, and the next second, the patient is dying again.

Everyone had a miserable look on their face and was extremely silent.

"Uncle, you, my mother, and my brother can go to the ward downstairs to rest for a while," Cui Changjia said, "Aze and I will stay here."

Jiang Hongying took a deep breath and said, "Xiuyuan, let's go, let's go down first."

Cui Xiuyuan didn't want to leave, but was persuaded to leave by everyone.

After everyone left, Cui Changjia said to Meng Jinling, "Aunt Meng, thank you for today. You should go back and have a rest."

"Okay, just call me if you have anything."

"Aunt Meng!" Cui Changjia caught up with Meng Jinling who was about to leave and asked, "Aunt Meng, based on your experience, is there any chance that my dad's condition will get better?"

Meng Jinling was silent for a moment, then said, "There is a possibility of a miracle happening."

Cui Wenquan's monitoring data in the past few days has been very bad. All of his organs are failing. From a medical point of view, it is not easy for him to get better.

Cui Changjia was so sad that she could not muster any strength. The factory building had already been rented. On the way to the hospital today, she imagined countless times how happy her father would be if he saw the newly rented factory building.
Meng Jinling left. Cui Changjia sat in his seat, his elbows on his knees, his hands covering his face. Soon his fingers were soaked with tears.

Cui Chengze sat beside her, also without saying a word. His father was in the ICU, and even if he didn't wake up, there was hope.

Suddenly, a sharp alarm sounded in the ICU. Cui Changjia stood up suddenly, and Cui Chengze also stood up with a look of panic and confusion, "Sister, could it be our dad?"

Cui Changjia did not answer. He let his hands hang down at his sides and clenched them tightly.

The two of them just stood at the door, not daring to move.
I don't know how long it took, but suddenly there were panicked footsteps coming from the stairs, followed by bursts of crying, "Mom, how are we going to live if you're gone?"

Cui Changjia and Cui Chengze turned their heads and saw four or five people running towards them panting and carrying large bags. Then a nurse came out of the ICU and told them to go through the back door into the ICU. Cui Changjia and Cui Chengze looked at each other, their eyes showing both relief and bitterness.

That night, Cui Changjia and Cui Chengze stayed outside. Early in the morning, their second uncle Jiang Jianhua came to bring them breakfast. The brother and sister could not eat and only drank some soy milk.

The night of waiting was long and torturous.

They saw the family members of the deceased crying as they left the ICU, and saw a young man covered in blood being pushed into the ICU, with his mother crying heartbreakingly beside him. There were also family members in the ICU who couldn’t sleep in the middle of the night and walked around in circles in the corridor.
After staying up all night, Cui Changjia and her brother both had bloodshot eyes, especially Cui Changjia. She had forced herself to drink two bottles of XO last night. She was already feeling very uncomfortable, and after staying up all night again, her head ached so much that it felt like it was about to split.

"Is the family of Patient No. 11 here?" The voice of a nurse suddenly came from the intercom at the door of the ICU.

No one answered, so the nurse called again, "Family of Patient No. 11? Is the family of Patient Cui Wenquan here?"

Cui Changjia and Cui Chengze finally reacted and rushed over in two steps, rushing to say, "Here, here!"

The nurse said on the intercom, "The patient has woken up. You can send some rice porridge over, but no rice grains. You should prepare it as soon as possible." Cui Changjia and Cui Chengze looked at each other, with great surprise in their eyes.

"My dad is awake?"

"He's awake. The doctor will tell you the follow-up situation after he changes shifts." The nurse said this and turned off the intercom.

"I'm going to buy rice porridge for Dad, you go tell Mom." Cui Changjia said excitedly and ran outside quickly.

Cui Chengze also ran after Cui Changjia. After running a few steps, Cui Chengze remembered the funeral clothes they bought and quickly called Cui Changjia again, "Hey, sister, what should we do with this thing we bought?"

Cui Changjia took out the van's keys and threw them to Cui Chengze, "Put the van in first!"

What the nurse said was right. Just rinse it off and it will be fine.

When the ICU doctor was talking to the patient's family about the patient's condition, Jiang Hongying and Jiang Jianhua both came.

"The patient is very conscious and his data is stable. He needs to be monitored for at least another 24 hours. If there are no problems, you can transfer him to a general ward. But it is obvious that the right side of his body cannot move and his language function is impaired. He may have difficulty taking care of himself in the future. You can contact the rehabilitation center for rehabilitation later."

In other words, Cui Wenquan suffered a stroke on the right side.

But even so, as long as their lives are saved, it is great news for everyone in the Cui family!

Although Cui Changjia and her brother stayed up all night, they did not rest. After leaving the hospital, they each drank a large cup of coffee and went to the factory.

The factory is being renovated, and it won't work if no one is there to watch over it.

A destiny set by others? Ha, this time, Cui Changjia will make sure there is no escape from fate!
When Cui Changjia and her friends arrived, the factory gate had already been opened. The contractor she had entrusted, Brother Jiang, was already working busily with his men. The withered grass outside the factory was almost piling up into a small hill.

Rural people are more down-to-earth. One worker said that there was a cow feeder in their village who wanted the grass and asked Cui Changjia if it was okay. Cui Changjia told them to just come and get it so she didn't have to deal with it.

On the way here, Cui Changjia asked Cui Chengze to buy two packs of good cigarettes and gave one box to each worker. This is how you do things. If you treat others with sincerity, others will always be more attentive.

Cui Changjia stayed in the factory for a while and looked at the wall again with the foreman Jiang Ge.

I have to say that the construction quality of the cotton collection point was very good in the past. The more than two-meter-high walls were not only built thickly, but also had broken glass on the tops of the walls. Even after forty or fifty years, they are still very strong, with only a few rat holes that need to be filled.

In addition, Cui Changjia also asked the foreman to bury water pipes in every corner and connect the water pipe heads.

Cui Changjia was also afraid of the fire. She planned to hire a professional fire-fighting company to implement a complete set of fire-fighting measures once she had enough money.

Cui Changjia asked Cui Chengze to keep an eye on the scene while she went to the building materials market to find a merchant to make a stainless steel shed. But just as she was about to light the fire and leave, she received a strange phone call.

"Hello, Changjia?" The girl's voice on the other side was crisp and clear, and from her tone one could tell that she was a straightforward girl.

"I'm Cui Changjia, who are you?" The girl's voice was unfamiliar, and Cui Changjia really couldn't remember who she was.

(End of this chapter)