Weng Jiefang angrily said, "Fine, since you’ve severed all ties with , get out of our house now."
He turned around with his hands behind his back and went back into his own house, slamming the door shut and bolting it from the inside.
He actually left the mother and child in the courtyard.
Many people sighed quietly, knowing there truly was no way out now.
Bai Ying glanced at the child and quietly asked Bai Xiao, "Doctor, is there really no way to save this child?"
He voiced what everyone was feeling.
Bai Na turned around and hugged the child tightly, pressing her forehead gently against the child’s little face. She could hear the faint breathing of the child and feel the slight twitching in her arms, each twitch stabbing at her heart.
"It’s okay, it’s okay, my child, mom is here with you. If you really leave, at least you won’t have to suffer in this world. When you leave, mom will definitely go with you. I won’t let you walk this path alone, my good child, you must be brave. Mom will never leave you again."
Bai Xiao glanced at Bai Na, moved by this woman’s maternal glow.
She could no longer be a mother, but she could feel the happiness and fulfillnt of motherhood.
She could also feel Bai Na’s sadness and despair.
Doctor Zhang sighed, "It’s not that the child can’t be saved, but the process of saving him is quite complicated. We don’t have the tools here; the child is suffering from hydrocephalus and needs a drainage surgery."
Many newborns have died from complications due to suppurative ningitis in the end.
The items they took with them could not possibly include surgical tools, just so simple ergency treatnt equipnt, including suturing tools and dications.
To save this child, we must return to the hospital in their town for surgery; many children suffer consequences due to delays.
"The child can be saved now, but he needs to be sent to the hospital in town." Bai Xiao imdiately decided, not that she couldn’t save him, just not in the usual way.
Hope imdiately sparked in Bai Na’s eyes. She grasped Bai Xiao’s wrist tightly.
"Doctor, we shall go to the town’s hospital, let’s go now."
To save the child, Bai Na would spare no effort.
Bai Ying glared, incredulous. People in their village, no matter how urgent the ailnt, never go to the hospital, why?
Simply because they’re poor.
Each household’s annual inco hardly reaches fifty yuan, not to ntion the hospital expenses exceeding that amount.
Now, what money would they use to treat the child in a hospital?
They weren’t heartless; everyone in the village was compelled to be hard-hearted by poverty, lacking money leaves no room for conscience.
Life and death are one’s own fate.
"Bai Na, stop being reckless, sending him to the town’s hospital! Where’s the money?"
These words were spoken weakly.
Bai Na’s mother also lowered her head! They were helpless.
Bai Na suddenly realized, yes! Money!
Where would she get the money? She herself had not a penny to her na. She was quite aware of her family’s situation since her father fell severely ill last year, his health drastically declining, leaving the family’s land to her two younger brothers and mother to cultivate.
They relied on herbs gathered from the mountain for sustenance.
The family lived in poverty, where would the money co from for treatnt?
She suddenly knelt down with the child in her arms.
"My child, my poor child, it’s not that mom doesn’t want to save you, it’s that mom can’t save you."
Everyone understood that Bai Na had already made a decision regarding the child’s survival.
Bai Xiao was exasperated.
"If you want to save your child, then co on, hold onto your child and follow . We’re not familiar with the mountain paths, and venturing out at night surely poses many dangers. But as long as we reach the hospital tonight, we can save this child, save this child. I’ll cover the costs for you, did you hear that? If you want to save your child, summon the strength now."
This was all Bai Xiao could do for her; she couldn’t and wouldn’t let a mother extinguish her child’s hope like this.
No one can imagine this helplessness and despair. And now it wasn’t just one life, but two.
If the child really left, Bai Na would likely follow him.
Bai Xiao knew her actions were a temporary fix and not a cure, but at this mont, she couldn’t allow herself to stand by.
Bai Na suddenly comprehended what Bai Xiao said, as Xiaoyu translated it clearly for her.
Bai Na’s two brothers imdiately helped their sister up from the ground, afraid that sitting there would harm her body since she had just given birth.
"We’ll go! We’ll go, I’ll lead the way, I’ll lead the way."
Bai Na scrambled to hold the child, looking at Bai Xiao as her only hope.
This doctor seed like a fairy sent from heaven; not only did she save Bai Na from the brink of death during labor, but now she was willing to pay to save her child.
Bai Xiao glanced at Bai Na’s complexion; this woman had just gone through childbirth and now was to walk the mountain path for three or four hours, which might leave her with ailnts for life, considering her young age of only seventeen, regardless of marriage, the postpartum risk would affect her future greatly.
"Thank you, doctor, thank you, doctor. As long as you save my sister’s child, we’ll repay you by being your servants for life; our Bai Family always keeps their word. You’ll forever be our Bai Family’s benefactor." The two young n knelt straight before Bai Xiao.
Bai Xiao sighed, "Stop dilly-dallying here. If you really want to save your sister’s child, you two should light torches and lead us out of the mountains. Let your sister rest at ho; if she walks such a long mountain path with us today, her health will suffer endlessly."
Bai Na shook her head, "No! Doctor, I can go, it’s okay. Even if it’s three hours, or even three days, I can make it."
Bai Na’s mother pulled her, "Child, you must consider your own body. If you fall sick too and they have to treat you in the hospital, how can these doctors rescue both you and the child?"
Bai Ying promptly instructed the two sons.
"You two hurry and make so torches. Whatever happens, ensure the doctor reaches the hospital safely. Your mother and I will take care of your sister at ho; your sister’s child depends on you now. Protect the doctor and take the Firewood Knife."
The mountain paths were challenging enough, let alone at night, when the wild animals in the forest began their hunt.
It’s possible they might encounter so beasts at this hour.
In the village, no one ventures out of the mountains at night unless absolutely necessary.
Because it was too dangerous.
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