IPT 21.2

Shen Qianqian let go and continued to make faces at Wang Zhusheng, pretending to have leg pain and limping away, until Wang Zhusheng was so angry that he howled and then left satisfied.

 

When Shen Qianqian returned to the garbage dump, it was already dark. As usual, he first checked whether the door was tightly closed, and then went around the corner of the wall to see the cement bricks blocking by the hole. It wasn’t until he confirmed that Chu Ya hadn’t left that he pushed the door open.

 

Chu Ya was still lying flat on the cart, his face was pale, but his breathing was much more stable. Shen Qianqian moved beside him and sat down. He touched his forehead and felt as if his hands were not hot, so he went to look at his legs again.

 

“Are your legs becoming a little thinner?” The lights in the garbage dump were not yet on, and the light in the house was not very good. So Shen Qianqian moved up very closeand gestured Chu Ya’s legs with his hands.

 

Chu Ya’s legs did not continue to swell, but the skin color was still very abnormal looking. Shen Qianqian gently touched the plaster that was about to be attached to his leg, and after observing it for a while, he took out the yam from his satchel.

 

“What a fragrant sweet potato.” Shen Qianqian moved up and sniffed deeply. He closed his eyes, intoxicated: “It’s so fragrant, I can eat a lot of this delicious sweet potato.”

 

He handed the yam to Chu Ya’s nose: “Smell it, you smell it too.” Then he swallowed his saliva and said, “There is a sweet potato. I will take a bite, and you will take a bite.”

 

Shen Qianqian peeled the skin of the yam, chewing each piece of skin carefully, not letting go of the sweet potato meat stuck to it. After peeling it, he put it on the lid of the kettle, and took the spoon to skillfully pry open Chu Ya’s teeth.

 

“I took the first bite, and the first bite was the mouth of the yam, which was a little hard here.” Shen Qianqian bit the head of the yak in his mouth, chewed until the horn sounded, and put it in front of Chu Ya’s face and said: “I didn’t eat the delicious part. I’ll leave the best for you to eat, is it okay with you?”

 

Chu Ya has his eyes closed and didn’t react. Shen Qianqian smacked his mouth loudly: “You will also have me in the future, help me beat Wang Zhusheng and his brother.”

 

He finally swallowed the yam in his mouth, took another bite and spit it out his palm: “Come, this is soft. It should be fed to you.”

 

Shen Qianqian feeds a small piece of yam to Chu Ya, but before he handed it out, he found that Chu Ya’s face twitched. The handle of the spoon was also tilted to the side and it was about to fall out of his mouth.

 

He hurriedly stretched out his hand to hold it, and felt the spoon being pushed out by Chu Ya’s tongue.

 

“Ah, the spoon is going to drop, don’t tap it, no, I can’t feed you.”

 

Shen Qianqian holds the spoon to prevent it from falling out, and pressed the handle of the spoon again, trying to pry his teeth open. After pressing twice without, he found that Chu Ya bit the spoon very tightly.

 

“Don’t use it like this. If I can’t open your mouth properly, I can’t feed you.” Shen Qianqian said.

 

Chu Ya still gritted his teeth, and the masseter muscles on both sides of his cheeks were bulging. Shen Qianqian looked at him like this, tilted his head and thought for a while, remembering that he was like this when he didn’t want to eat bean cakes before. His heart suddenly felt a sigh.

 

“This is delicious. This is better than bean cake. You can taste it.” Shen Qianqian patiently coaxed: “This is also very soft, you don’t need to bite it, it’s softer than pills. If you don’t want to bite at all, I’ll help you chew it and feed it to you.”

 

……

Chu Ya’s face was distorted, and his teeth grinded into the sound of the metal spoon.

 

Shen Qianqian stared at him blankly for a while and asked, “Don’t you want to eat?”

 

Sweat was already oozing from Chu Ya’s forehead, and his pale face was flushed with a faint flush. Although he still had his eyes closed, he nodded almost invisibly after Shen Qianqian ask this sentence.

 

This was the first time he had given a conscious response, and Shen Qianqian and kept asking if checking again and again. But Chu Ya didn’t open his eyes or nod his head, as if he was falling asleep again.

 

Shen Qianqian said helplessly: “But if you don’t eat, you’ll be hungry.  I’ll eat half of it, leave half for you, and I’ll feed it to you when you want to.”

 

Shen Qianqian took the spoon from Chu Ya’s mouth, ate half of the yam himself, and put the remaining half in the lid of the kettle. He said with some sadness: “You don’t know how delicious a hot sweet potato is. If it’s cold, it’s not delicious anymore.”

 

It was already dark and the lights in the garbage dump were finally lit, which also revealed light to the tin house. Shen Qianqian remembered that Chu Ya’s medicine had to be taken twice a day, and he only took it once today, so he fed him the medicine again.

 

This time it was not too difficult to feed him the medicine. Shen Qianqian remembering that the pills would stick to his tongue, so he threw the pills deep in Chu Ya’s throat. Then he poured the last bit of water out of the kettle and pushed his head up.

 

“Ahhh…… You’re so heavy. ”

 

Shen Qianqian half-squatted on the ground, gently bumped with his back against Chu Ya’s head, and after a while, put the person down and opened his mouth to look.

 

“The pill is gone, you’ve swallowed it.” Shen Qianqian panted tiredly, but he was very happy: “When I was still in the children’s area on the floor, there was a baby who didn’t drink medicine, and the class student held him and shook him, so he was forced to drank it.” 

 

After Shen Qianqian fed Chu Ya medicine, he then prepared to sleep. When it is time for the children in the welfare home to go to bed, the management will remind them to go to the toilet once and squeeze out a little even if they don’t want to pee.

 

Shen Qianqian slipped out of the tin house, ran to the metal block in the corner to pee, and then ran back as fast as he could. He took off his cotton clothes and pants, lay down comfortably beside Chu Ya, pulled the quilt and covered the two of them. He said happily: “There is no water here, I can’t wash my face. If the management asks me, I’ll say I didn’t mean it, I don’t have water, haha.”

 

Shen Qianqian suddenly thought of something and suddenly lifted the quilt and sat up.

 

“You haven’t pee yet! Can you get up to do that and go back to sleep?” He asked Chu Ya.

 

Chu Ya lay calmly, his chest slowly rose and fell, and Shen Qianqian gently pushed his arm: “I can feed you and help you take medicine, but there is no way I can help you pee. You have to sprinkle this yourself.  Don’t think that if the management is not here, you won’t pee. Squeeze even just a little.

 

Shen Qianqian stared at Chu Ya for a while, feeling that it was indeed too difficult for him to get up and pee, and there was no management here, so the requirements might not be strict.

 

“Okay, let’s pretend you’ve already sprinkled it. Go to bed.” He laid down and frightened Chu Ya again: “You have to sleep quickly, okay? Else, management is coming.”

 

Shen Qianqian was silent for a few seconds and suddenly sighed: “If you want to pee, just sprinkle it on the side ground, don’t pour it on me…… Oops, you’re wearing underwear, it’ll block it.”

 

He sat up again, took off Chu Ya’s underwear little by little, and let out a long breath: “Okay, it’s okay now…… You’re going to pee on the ground…… Forget it, you can pee as you like. If you wet the quilt, I’ll cover it and it will dry.

 

Shen Qianqian finally closed his eyes and began to sleep, also sleeping in this office, but at this time the mood was not the same as when he fell asleep last night.

 

Last night he was alone and when he heard the lightning and thunder and the rain knocking on the tin house, he was so frightened that he wanted to cry. But now lying next to Chu Ya, although Chu Ya can’t wake up from a deep sleep, he finally felt that this house is too safe, so safe that he regrets a little that he can’t meet the weather last night again.

 

Shen Qianqian couldn’t sleep for a long time, so he turned over to look at Chu Ya.

The light illuminated Chu Ya’s side face, and Shen Qianqian placed his fingers down his forehead slowly, sliding over his raised eyebrow arch, slightly sunken eye sockets, and his straight nose bridge……

 

“The scarf you gave me is wet. But I’m sure I’ll be able to dry it tomorrow, so I’ll wrap it around you. The black things you gave me were delicious. If you wake up in the middle of the night, will you run away? You don’t want to run away alone just like my kitten and puppy, and run away quietly…… I’m going to be sad if that happens……”

 

He muttered softly, pressed his face to Chu Ya’s arm and finally fell asleep.

 

Shen Qianqian dreamt that he had a hot stove with an empty kettle burning on it. The lid of the kettle kept fluttering, shouting, “…… Water, water.”

He wanted to put the stove down, but he couldn’t let go of his arms. The kettle kept screaming to refill it, saying that it was going to explode.

He looked everywhere but couldn’t find water, and when he saw the kettle start to smoke, he opened his eyes in horror.

 

Shen Qianqian sat up quickly, threw away the things he was holding in his arms, and shouted for Lin Duozhi and Tang Yuanyuan. But he soon found himself in the junkyard office, and the stove he threw away was actually Chu Ya’s arm.

 

“Water, water……” Chu Ya made a faint voice beside him.

 

Shen Qianqian turned his head to look through the light projected by the garbage dump. He saw Chu Ya  turning his head in pain. His face was red, his hair was soaked with sweat as if it was raining, and his lips was cracked dry.

 

“Water ……”

 

Shen Qianqian immediately got up, went to take the small kettle he had placed on the sofa, and found that there was not a drop of water left in it.

 

“There’s no water.” He shook the kettle with Chu Ya, as if he was afraid that he would not believe it, and showed it to him.

 

“Water, water.” Chu Ya with his eyes close, still asking for water in a hoarse voice. Shen Qianqian crawled beside him to explain: “When I went to get dinner, I met Wang Zhusheng and his brother chasing me, so I wasn’t able to fetch water.”

 

He stretched out his hand and touched Chu Ya’s forehead. He couldn’t help but startle at how hot he was: “You have a fever again.”

 

Chu Ya frowned, let out a painful moan, and intermittently chanted for water. Shen Qianqian looked outside, hurriedly put on his pants and cotton clothes, and comforted Chu Ya.: “Don’t worry, I’ll go find water for you. I’ll find it for you right away.”