Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen

Fujii walked into the kitchen and showed Mom the thermometer. "Burn out." Mrs. Fujii picked it up and took a look.Forty degrees Celsius.Ah Shu felt his head getting heavier and heavier, and fell to the ground. "Grandpa! Grandpa! Something happened to Ashu. Call 119, hurry up!" Mom shouted, holding a thick coat to cover the tree.Grandpa made an emergency call, but it took an hour for the caller to arrive. "Why?" he called into the phone, nodded along, and put the phone down.Pulling back the curtains confirmed his fears.There was a snowstorm outside and the roads were all closed.The situation is very helpless.

Grandpa announced: "I want to carry A Shu to the hospital." "It can't be! We're waiting for the ambulance. It will come!" "We can't wait before it's too late." Mom is very angry. "Do you remember how my husband died? He had pneumonia, it was winter, and you carried him to the hospital. It was too late, you took 45 minutes last time. We have to wait for the ambulance." "It took me only 30 minutes." Grandpa insisted. "In fact, it only took 28 minutes to reach the entrance. I will do it again tonight." While Grandpa carried the tree, Ma blocked the door. "Look, Shu is your daughter, it's up to you tonight. What do you choose?"

She knew that nothing could stop him, so she decided to let grandpa go. The wind and snow were getting bigger and bigger. Grandpa carried the tree on his back and walked through the thick snow.He was seventy-five years old, but still in good health.Halfway through, he fell and fell face-on in the snow. "You're going to take a break," Mom said. "No! Let's move on!" It took them forty minutes to get to the hospital, where it was obvious that Grandpa needed treatment.The doctor gave him some oxygen.A Shu is temporarily out of danger.