see you in spring

Chapter 19 Everyone suffers
At night, after his wife and daughter went to bed, Dongqing lay in his small room and picked up his mobile phone to read the latest reports on the new virus. The more he read, the heavier his heart became.

In front of his daughter and wife, he is a father and a husband. Even if he is worried, he cannot reveal any emotion, because he is their last support. If even he panics, then the whole family will be left with nothing but despair. .

The news reports were becoming more and more serious. Dongqing knew that reading them would only increase his anxiety, but he couldn't help but read them.I don't know whether it was because he was too angry or for some other reason, but he felt his stomach was slightly bloated, accompanied by bursts of abdominal pain.

After enduring it for a while, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he got up and went to the toilet.

Jia Lie was not sleeping soundly. When she heard the sound of Holly running to the toilet outside, she got up and came out. She looked at her husband with a worried look on her face: "What's going on?"

Dongqing, who had pooped several times, looked a little weak and waved her hand: "It's okay. I may have eaten a little too much at night and can't digest it."

Dongqing would eat the food that Jia Lie and his daughter couldn't finish all the time so as not to waste it, so his belly has grown bigger and bigger over the years.

Tonight's four dishes and one soup were indeed too much for their family of three, and the remaining holly was all eaten away.So when he said he couldn't digest, Jia Lie didn't care. He took out a few Jianweixiaoshi tablets and handed them to him. He told him to drink some water and eat some Xiaoshi tablets, then turned around and went back to his room.

Dongqing slept until midnight. He felt his mouth was dry, his breathing was heavy, and his eyelids were heavy and painful. He stretched out his hand with difficulty and tried his forehead, and felt a thump in his heart: he had a fever.

The first symptom of this virus was fever. This sudden fever made even Dongqing calm and panicked.

Worried about infecting his wife and daughter, he pushed himself up and found the thermometer while feeling dizzy. When he measured it, it was 37.8°C.

He had read the reports and knew that the symptoms of this new type of pneumonia in some people were diarrhea and fever. He had diarrhea first, and then had a fever... He lowered his eyes weakly.

Dongqing hesitated for a few seconds, then sent a WeChat message to Jia Lie, telling her about her situation, asking her and the child to wear masks and gloves when they came out of the room tomorrow, not to open his door, and asking her to take care of the child by herself. .

He knew that his wife must be anxious after seeing the information, but at this time, he couldn't care so much. The sooner he let them know, the easier it would be for them to prevent themselves from being isolated.

Jia Lie, who had been thinking wildly, was just about to fall asleep when she suddenly heard her cell phone ringing. She picked it up reflexively and glanced at it, then instantly sat up from the bed.

Dongqing actually had a fever at this juncture, and Jia Lie's heart rose to his throat.

Because her movement to get up was too big, she disturbed the sleeping little winter melon. Little winter melon turned over and muttered vaguely: "Mom...Dad."

The confused Jia Lie subconsciously reached out and patted her back gently. After his daughter fell asleep, Jia Lie quickly got out of bed. He didn't even bother to put on his shoes. He ran to Dongqing's door barefoot and knocked on the door. , asked anxiously: "Holly, how are you now? Do you have a severe fever, or should I send you to the hospital now?"

Dongqing knew that she couldn't hold her breath, and said in a hoarse voice: "Don't open the door and come in, take care of the child and yourself. I just checked with my mobile phone, and patients with fever do not necessarily have to go to the hospital immediately. If it is caused by other reasons, it does not necessarily mean that you are infected with the new coronavirus. If it is caused by influenza, it will heal on its own in about a week."

Jia Lie was anxious: "But what if... what if the treatment is delayed at home?"

"The incubation period of new coronavirus infection is generally 3-7 days, and the longest is no more than 14 days. The main symptoms are fever, fatigue, dry cough, and a few patients are accompanied by symptoms such as nasal congestion, runny nose, and diarrhea. Severe patients usually develop respiratory symptoms after a week. Difficult, severe cases rapidly progress to acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock, metabolic acidosis that is difficult to correct, and bleeding and coagulation dysfunction. I just have a fever now and no other symptoms. It is most likely that it was when I went out two days ago. I don’t wear enough. It’s caused by the flu. The current situation is unknown. I don’t think we should go out blindly. After all, we have been in contact with Liu Quantao before. We will observe it at home for a few days. If it is caused by the flu, it will heal on its own in four to five days. ."

Jia Lie was standing across the door and didn't know the exact situation of Dongqing. He could only stamp his feet anxiously outside the door: "Does that mean I can't go in to take care of you, and you can't come out either?"

Dongqing knew her impatience and comforted her: "Don't be too anxious. I don't have dry cough or difficulty breathing. It should be fine. Wait for three to five days and see if the situation is serious before going to the hospital. In the meantime, you and me All children must wear masks and stay away from my room. The masks are placed in the cabinet on the far right of the wall cabinet in the utility room."

"What is your temperature now? Did you read it wrong before? You can measure it again." Jia Lie still doesn't believe that Dongqing really has a fever. She now hopes that he read the temperature wrongly.

Dongqing took out the thermometer and measured it again. Looking at the scale on the thermometer, she said weakly, "38.3 degrees. Get me some water and put it at the door. I'll open the door and get it myself when you go back to your room."

"It's already over 38 degrees?!" Jia Lie was so anxious that he pulled a small coffee table and placed it outside the door. On it was a kettle and a cup filled with cold boiled water: "Don't worry, Dongqing. I'll call and ask if my friend has any." People know doctors.”

Dongqing rubbed her swollen temples: "It's already past eleven o'clock now. Don't ask. Even asking at this point won't solve the problem. Let's check the situation tomorrow. Are you only wearing pajamas? Don't wander around outside. Come on, go back to your room quickly and don’t infect your child again if you catch a cold.”

Dongqing knew Jia Lie's temperament and knew without looking that she would run out without her clothes on.Worried that she might catch a cold and infect the child, he raised his voice and drove her back to the room.

As soon as Jia Lie returned to his room, tears fell instantly. The fear and grievances he had finally suppressed before suddenly surged into his heart with a hundredfold pressure.

Knowing this, she couldn't fall asleep at all.She checked various symptoms of new pneumonia on the Internet, and when she saw that a small number of patients had diarrhea symptoms, her panic reached the extreme.Liu Quantao was diagnosed, and Dongqing had diarrhea and fever, she sniffed, not daring to think about it.

After walking back and forth in the room three times, she remembered her daughter. She quickly ran to the bed and touched her daughter's forehead. Her temperature was normal, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

I thought that with today's advanced technology, people could go to heaven. Do we still need to be afraid of such a small virus?

But when things really happened to her, she truly felt how insignificant and powerless human beings were in the face of nature.From the moment she heard the news, she lost control of her emotions, to the anger that her family might be infected for no apparent reason, and finally to the depression and even despair now.

This incident made Jia Lie realize more and more that the school district housing, position, and salary that he had tried so hard to pursue before were nothing in the face of health and safety.

As long as her family can survive this disaster safely and healthily, she is willing to give up everything she has worked hard for and take her family back to her hometown to live a pastoral life.

Now, all she wants is for her family to be safe and orderly.

(End of this chapter)