On the evening of the 22nd, Xiao Kaiquan asked a neighbor to go home and check if his mother and daughter were safe. The neighbors said that the TV and lights in the house were on, and there was also the sound of a child singing from inside. Seeing that his daughter still had faint signs of life, Xiao Kaiquan immediately called the police and contacted the hospital. After learning that the county hospital was unable to provide treatment, Xiao immediately took his daughter to Changsha. At 3 o'clock in the morning on the 28th, Mengru was admitted to Xiangya Second Hospital.
Xiao Kaiquan sat on the bed and silently shed tears. "I came out to work for money, partly to support my parents, and partly to raise my children. But now it has come to this." Opening the video on his phone, his mother and daughter smiled brightly, and Xiao Kaiquan took a deep breath and said, "For the sake of my mother, I will spend everything to save my daughter."
Xiao Kaiquan said he would never forget that scene: "My mother's face was blue, one leg was bent, and the other was curled up. Her face was turned to one side, and the whole room smelled of decay. Maggots had already crawled from my mother's body into my daughter's clothes. My daughter's feet were pale white from being soaked in cold water."
Xiao Kaiquan's heart became slightly more at ease. However, from the 23rd to the 27th, all the calls Xiao made to his mother went unanswered. On the evening of the 27th, at around 8 PM, Xiao rented a taxi and rushed back to his hometown with Zhou Lu.
Dr. Wang Cheng from the pediatric department of Xiangya Second Hospital introduced that when Mengru was admitted, she was severely dehydrated, with full-body skin infections, broken skin on both lower limbs, foot swelling, and severe septicemia. If she had been brought in any later, there would have been no hope.
Standing at the door, seeing the bright lights inside the house, Xiao Kaiquan let out a long sigh. After knocking for a long time with no response, Xiao took out the key and opened the door, only to be met with a strong stench. Quickly walking into the house, there was no one in the kitchen or bedroom. When he entered the bathroom, he found his mother lying on the ground, a large pool of blood beneath her already coagulated. Bringing his hand close to her nostrils, there was no breath. Mengru, only 1 year and 9 months old, lay under her grandmother's right armpit, unresponsive.
At 9 PM on September 20th, his mother called Xiao Kaiquan, telling him about attending her uncle's birthday banquet on the 19th and about her cousin's 3-year-old child drowning to death, asking Xiao to call and console his cousin.
On September 21st, after consoling his cousin, Xiao Kaiquan called his mother back, but the call went unanswered.
On September 29th, the child was transferred to the intensive care unit. Dr. Wang said that Mengru's severe infection might lead to multiple organ failure, and she is still in critical condition.
At the age of 44, Wang Lichun from Yongfeng Town, Shuangfeng County, Loudi City, became a grandmother. Her son Xiao Kaiquan, because she had no medical history, confidently left his young daughter in her care in their hometown while he worked in Changsha with his wife, father, and younger brother. On September 27th, after 7 days without any contact with his mother, Xiao Kaiquan became increasingly anxious and rented a car overnight to rush back to his hometown. This time, his mother would never open the door for him again, and his 1 year and 9 month old daughter also contracted suspected sepsis, putting her life in grave danger.
His mother fell in the bathroom.