The woman spoke with a strong foreign accent, but what the child just spoke was Mandarin. Thinking of some possibility, Chen Lishu took a step without leaving a trace and blocked the woman's way: "Sister, I have nothing to do. It's quite difficult for you to take care of the child alone.
Yes, how about I help you take the child to the hospital?"
As Chen Lishu spoke, she reached out to help her hold the child, but the woman dodged her.
"My child is dirty, don't dirty your clothes, girl."
Chen Lishu smiled: "It's okay. I don't worry if the child is so sick. I might as well be a good person and do the best."
Seeing her persistence, the woman's eyes flashed with panic. She had never wanted to take the child to the hospital. It would cost a lot of money to go to the hospital. Besides, how could she ask for money from others after the child was cured?
"We didn't come out on our own. The child's father went to the front to beg for food and came back soon."
As soon as the woman finished speaking, a man walked over not far away. He was also dressed in shabby and dirty clothes. He was so unshaven that his true appearance could not be clearly seen.
The man quickly walked a few steps to the woman's side and asked anxiously: "How is the baby? Do you have any money?"
The woman looked at Chen Lishu and said, "This girl is so kind that she gave us five yuan."
Surprise showed in the man's eyes: "Then what are you waiting for? Let's go see the child quickly."
"Sister, my father is here, no need to trouble you, we will leave first."
Chen Lishu looked at the expressions of the two of them, as if she was really worried about the child, and was a little unsure for a moment. Maybe she heard wrong just now.
"Mom, I want mom."
The child who had been lying quietly in the woman's arms suddenly said something again. This time he enunciated the words very clearly. Chen Lishu heard it very clearly, and her expression suddenly changed.
Seeing the change in her expression, the woman and the man turned around and ran away holding the child. Chen Lishu, with quick eyes and quick hands, grabbed the child in the woman's arms.
The woman struggled to get away, but the man quickly came over to help.
"Xingdong!!" In desperation, Chen Lishu immediately shouted towards Gu Xingdong who was not far away.
Gu Xingdong was paying the strawberry seller when he heard Chen Lishu's voice and turned his head to look. When he saw her tugging at someone, his expression changed.
Seeing the man running over from across the street, the woman and the man became even more panicked. They didn't expect that Chen Lishu had helpers, so they dragged the child and tried desperately to break free.
During the tugging, the child felt pain and cried loudly.
"Come quickly, there are two human traffickers here!" Chen Lishu hugged the child tightly and shouted loudly, ignoring the pain of her arms being pulled by the two people.
Hearing her shouts, passers-by on the road looked sideways. The woman and the man were frightened. Seeing that Gu Xingdong was approaching, the man pulled the woman and said, "Quickly go!"
"But the child..." He was finally abducted, and the couple had already made a lot of money with this child.
"We don't want the child anymore, it's more important to save our lives first." The man said, turning around and pushing Chen Lishu hard, then pulled the woman and ran away.
Chen Lishu was holding the child in her arms, and her body was unstable. She leaned back and fell heavily to the ground. After falling to the ground, she didn't care about the pain. Chen Lishu immediately looked at the child in her arms, and saw that he was fine. She felt a little relieved.
"How are you? Did you fall somewhere?" Gu Xingdong was going to chase someone, but when he saw Chen Lishu falling, he quickly came over to help her.
"I'm fine." Chen Lishu shook her head, pointed at the couple running away in front and said urgently: "Xingdong, hurry up and chase after them, they are human traffickers!"
"Yeah." Gu Xingdong nodded, and just as he was about to chase after him, the child in Chen Lishu's arms suddenly became short of breath, and then began to twitch violently.
Their expressions changed, and they didn't care to chase the person. Gu Xingdong picked up the child.
"Don't worry, I'll take the baby to the hospital first." After saying this to Chen Lishu, Gu Xingdong hugged the baby and ran towards the hospital.
Years of weight-bearing training came in handy at this moment. Gu Xingdong rushed to the hospital in one breath. He finally breathed a sigh of relief after watching the doctor resuscitate and inject fluids into the child.
"How's it going?" When Chen Lishu arrived, Gu Xingdong was standing by the bed watching the child's infusion.
"The doctor said it was pneumonia. The delay was too long. Even if it is cured, the root cause will not be removed in the future."
Chen Lishu felt a little uncomfortable, her eyes fell on the child lying quietly on the bed, his dirty little face sunk into the pillow, looking helpless and pitiful.
Someone who saw the situation reported the case, and soon two police officers came to understand the situation. Chen Lishu stayed to take care of the children, and Gu Xingdong got up and went out to cooperate with the investigation.
"What did you say?"
After a while, Chen Lishu watched him push the door in and asked softly.
"A record has been made. They will arrange for someone to take care of the child later."
Chen Lishu nodded: "You should keep an eye on it first. I'm afraid the child will be hungry when he wakes up later, so I'll buy him some food first."
After leaving the hospital, Chen Lishu went to a nearby restaurant. The child was still sick and probably had no appetite. Chen Lishu bought him a millet porridge and two vegetarian stuffed buns.
When we returned to the ward, the child had finished the intravenous drip. When the nurse came in to remove the needle, the female police officer sent to take care of the child happened to come in as well. When she saw Chen Lishu and Gu Xingdong, she smiled and said thank you.
"It's thanks to you that the children were saved."
"This is what we should do." Chen Lishu said with a smile.
Now that the police have arrived, Chen Lishu and Gu Xingdong said something to her and left.
"Hey, comrades, wait a moment." The female police officer thought of something and stopped her: "Can you leave me your contact address? We can communicate in a timely manner if we have any follow-up questions about this matter."
It must be inconvenient for Gu Xingdong, so Chen Lishu thought for a while and reported the name of her school.
"It turns out he's a college student." The female police officer smiled at Chen Lishu and signaled that the two of them could leave.
Because the child's affairs involved too much energy of the two of them, and it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon when they left the hospital, the two of them had to go to the vegetable market to buy some vegetables to cook at home. When they saw a fish seller, Chen Lishu asked her again
I spent two yuan to buy some small fish to make dried fish for the 'king'.
The next day, because she had an appointment with Wang Aixiang to go to the textile factory to pick up cloth, and Gu Xingdong didn't need to deliver it, Chen Lishu took the car back to the city by herself.
When they arrived at the house, Wang Aixiang was already waiting there. What surprised Chen Lishu was that in just one week, Wang Aixiang sold nearly half of the fabrics.
"I originally met a few friends when I was shopping for old clothes. They knew I had fabric in my hand and they all rushed to buy it." Wang Aixiang saw her eyes falling on the fabric and explained with a smile.
"This is the money I got from selling fabrics these days, a total of 319 yuan and 20 cents." Wang Aixiang said, opening the lapel of her clothes and carefully taking out a dozen dollars, the largest denomination was ten yuan, and the smallest was 10 cents.
It was handed directly into Chen Lishu's hand.
Wang Aixiang has never seen so much money in her life. She has not been able to eat or sleep well these days because of the money, for fear that the money will disappear if something goes wrong.