: A Skinny Skinny Woman
It was the first time I heard it. I don't know why, but my eyes were filled with tears and my mood was extremely sour.
I resisted the urge to walk into the ward. Andrew, who was standing in front of me, suddenly stopped me and said hesitantly, "Prepare yourself."
I looked at him, more impetuously, and stepped forward to look into the ward.
With just a glance, my tears began to flow.
Aside from a toilet, there was only a bed and a table in the entire ward.
Perhaps it was because I was on the top floor, but the whole room was exceptionally cold. I could feel the chill on my face even though I was wearing my jacket.
On the bed sat a woman in a hospital gown of indecipherable color, the buttons of which were unbuttoned.
She wore nothing underneath, revealing two nearly flat breasts.
There was no flesh on her body. Her skin was pale and wrinkled against her bones, and the lines of her chest and ribs were visible.
It seemed that because of the cold, her skin was a little purple.
On her face, she was even skinnier, but her pair of large eyes could still tell that she used to be a beauty.
The woman's hair was long, at least as tall as she was, scattered all over the bed.
Although the entire room was extremely dirty, the sheets were very white in comparison.
On it were two dolls.
The two dolls were wearing beautiful dresses. Even after such a long time, it could be seen that they were probably high-class dolls.
The woman patted the dolls in turn with her bony hand and whispered, "Shh, don't wake them up."
My heart ached.
This was my mother. I had imagined meeting her countless times, but I had never thought that it would be like this.
My tears were falling. I couldn't help it, so I took off my clothes and walked over to put them on Lani Mou.
However, just as I took two steps forward, before I reached her side, Lani Mou suddenly pushed me away. "Don't come near me, what are you doing?!"
She hugged the two dolls on the bed.
Then she began to coax them, "Baby, don't cry, baby, don't cry, mom is here, mom is here, don't worry, mom will protect you, mom won't let anyone else steal you away."
Andrew stepped forward to support me.
The nurse said from behind, "Do you want to die? Psychopaths always look normal at one moment and suddenly become sick the next. You never know when they get sick."
I turned my head and saw a metal bowl on the table. Inside was a dry, cracked steamed bun and a small amount of boiled cabbage.
I couldn't help pointing to the other one. "Is that all she eats?"
The nurse looked at me. "Yeah, our fees are cheap. It's already good enough to manage three meals a day." She seemed to be afraid that I would complain, so she continued, "The people who were sent in knew what our treatment was and what our conditions were, but they still decided to send it in. It's just that they don't plan on taking this person in."
Hearing this, I felt a chill in my heart.
I raised my head to look at Andrew. "Let's take mom to another place, okay?"
"Alright, I'll contact them right away." Andrew nodded.
When the nurse heard that we were going to transfer, she said, "I'll say it first. She can transfer to the hospital, but she can only refund a small portion of the money. Furthermore, she can't refund the money today. The accountant doesn't work."
Lani Mou seemed to have understood our words. She held the child in her arms and immediately became alert. "Where are you taking me?"
"We…"
"I'm telling you, I won't leave with you. Don't think about separating me from my child!"
Lani Mou warned.
Listening to her, my mood became even worse.
I stood where I was and said to her, "No, we, we will move you and your kids to a better place, they..." I hesitated, then said, "When they grow up, they need to go to school soon. It's not good for them here, they need to go to a better place, where there are teachers to teach them. It's good for them all."
Lani Mou's eyes were clear and bright when she heard that. She looked at me as if she understood what I meant and said, "Really? Will the teachers really teach them anything? "
"Right, that teacher is great. He has a lot of experience. Any child that follows him will be able to learn a lot and become smarter." I tried to persuade her.
Lani Mou nodded furiously. "Alright, alright, that's great." She looked at the two dolls in her arms and said, "Qi, Maan, did you hear that? You two can start learning soon."
"Yes, yes." I replied, tears streaming down my face.
Andrew patted my shoulder, "Let's go and complete the transfer procedures."
"Alright." I nodded and said to Lani Mou, "Wait a moment, we'll help you with the transfer procedures and then we'll be right back, okay?"
"Okay, okay." Lani Mou nodded.
I held up the clothes in my hands and said, "Why don't you wear this first? It's cold here and you can wear it. As long as your temperature is high, the temperature of the child will also be high."
Lani Mou looked at the clothes in my hand and hesitated for a moment before shaking her head. She grinned and said, "No need. They said they are not cold, and I am not cold either."
"Let's go and complete the transfer procedures." Andrew patted my shoulder.
I turned around, an unspeakable bitterness in my heart.
Think of the picture Lance Harris gave me.
The woman in the painting was smiling sweetly and looking forward to it. Such a beauty, yet she was being tortured like this.
My heart was bitter.
The nurse closes the door and I ask her in dissatisfaction, "Is it always this cold in your hospital? Didn't this patient freeze to death in the winter? "
The nurse looked at me, "No, it's just that the pipeline has aged this year. It's fine as long as it's only one to four storeys, but it's not that hot on the fifth floor. Especially since Lani's room is the innermost one, and she's the coldest there. "
"Then why didn't you fix the pipe?!"
"I've applied for maintenance. I've applied for it quite a few times." The nurse said disapprovingly, "But we're too far away, plus the Dean isn't interested, what can we do? Most of our patients are dead, and there's no one to collect them. Who cares if they're dead or alive. "
Listening to the nurse, my heart was bleeding.
If I don't find out, my mother might end up with no one to collect her body.
"Shi Family people are truly heartless." I couldn't help but say.
After the nurse heard what I said, she sneered. "You don't think that Lani's family paid for all these years?"
"It can't be?" I was surprised.
"Of course not." While playing with the key in her hand, the nurse said, "The Shi Family paid a year's worth of money and then said that after a year, we can do whatever we want with her. It was only after a boss came to the hospital and paid 2 million yuan that she could live."