Chapter 26 Looking at the reopened small shop...

After being reborn, Chen Pan naturally wants to fulfill many of the wishes that she failed to fulfill in her previous life.

In her previous life, she had never been on a plane, had her hair permed or dyed, traveled, been to a coffee shop, eaten Western food, or attended university.

If she wanted to achieve everything in her life, she had to do it step by step. Right now, Chen Pan's most important task was to continue studying.

"Okay, everyone. We already introduced ourselves yesterday, and we know the names of the new students. Now, everyone open your Chinese textbooks, and let's start with Lesson 1—"

Sitting in the unfamiliar No. 6 Middle School classroom that day, Chen Pan, who appeared calm on the outside, felt uneasy inside for the first time in a long time.

At this moment, looking at the surrounding environment and the middle-aged male teacher in front of him, Chen Pan almost had an urge to cry.

But knowing that now was not the time for her to be carelessly moved or pretentious, Chen Pan pinched her palms and quickly calmed herself down.

"In the stadium, people were staring at the carpeted circular stage in the middle of the venue—"

"Now I understand that this is definitely not a shooting star, but a heart, a heart that is more sincere and pure than that of adults."

The middle-aged male teacher in front of them read their first lesson with great emotion. Chen Pan, who was 29 years old at heart but only 14 on the outside, was like a sapling that had long been deprived of water, eagerly absorbing everything around him.

The head teacher of Class 2 and 3 was reading the text on the podium while subconsciously paying attention to the students below.

Unexpectedly, he saw the new transfer student sitting the straightest with bright eyes. He nodded in satisfaction and then turned around to write seven big words on the blackboard behind him: "This is not a shooting star."

Just as Chen Pan was attending her first class at school with peace of mind, Qin Yang, who had not really left the house for a long time, took his mother off the bus and walked towards Longcheng First Hospital, the largest and best hospital in Longcheng.

"I just have a minor stomach problem. I just need to take care of myself. Do I really need to come to the hospital?"

Watching her son rush straight to the registration desk after arriving at the hospital, Qin Guihua, who was wearing a red coat today, sighed softly for the nth time. Although she said something that sounded like a complaint, her eyes seemed to hold a hint of happiness and satisfaction. Anyway, it seemed that there was a little bit of entanglement and contradiction.

"Your stomach has been upset for a long time. Instead of blindly buying medicine, why don't we see a doctor and get it fixed once and for all?" Qin Yang turned to look at his mother behind him and motioned for her to follow him. He then lowered his head and took out his mother's ID card and a fifty-cent bill from his army green satchel, then quickly lined up at the registration counter in the hospital lobby.

"Son, is fifty cents enough?"

Qin Guihua was illiterate at first. She had never been to school. The few words she knew later were actually taught to her by her husband, who was an educated youth at the time, in order to pursue her.

Although divorced, Qin Guihua still held intellectuals in high regard, and her nervousness remained constant in any respectable place. Following closely behind her son, she surveyed the packed crowd and immediately became concerned about money. While her family had a little money, it wasn't fabulously wealthy. In her mind, hospitals were places where money was always a premium, and she instinctively feared and repelled them.

"It's okay, Mom. The registration fee here is only fifty cents. It's not that expensive to see a doctor. It's just the price of a good restaurant. Don't worry."

Their family's living conditions gradually improved after the village suddenly built a factory and a No. 6 Middle School. Knowing what his mother was worried about, Qin Yang, who had specially worn a gray coat and jeans before going out, immediately turned around and spoke softly to comfort her.

"Well, if it only costs a few dollars, it's not super expensive." Qin Guihua felt a little relieved that her son was willing to go out, and finally stopped thinking about it. No matter what, her son took her out to see a doctor because he was worried about her and cared about her, so even though it looked like he would have to spend a lot of money today, she gritted her teeth and endured it.

Qin Guihua, who felt she had a little bloating or indigestion, ran to the hospital with her son without eating breakfast.

She felt that after she finished the examination and prescribed some expensive stomach or digestive medicine, they would be able to go back soon.

But after the doctor listened to their description, took her pulse, pressed the parts of her body that often hurt, asked a few questions, and finally prescribed a series of tests for her, Qin Guihua felt something was wrong.

"They issued so many checklists and asked us to pay first before we go for the checkups. Aren't we being ripped off?"

Seeing the several lists in her son's hand, Qin Guihua, who is usually carefree, instinctively wanted to back off.

But just as she was about to step back, her son suddenly grabbed her arm and said, "A blood test, a urine test, and a CT scan. These are all normal tests. Mom, what are you afraid of?"

"I—ah—heard that CT scans can cause bone damage."

She didn't know when her son, who was about the same age as her, became so strong. After struggling for a few times, she found that she couldn't get free. In the end, Qin Guihua had no choice but to follow her son to pay the money.

A blood test cost two yuan, a urine test cost two yuan, and a CT scan cost seven yuan. Watching her son take out the bills from his wallet one by one, Qin Guihua regretted coming to the hospital.

The hospital did the tests in the morning and released the results in the afternoon. Because of this, they had another brunch outside, which cost them another $1.50.

After lunch, the mother and son sat on the garden steps outside the hospital and waited for a long time.

Anyway, at 2:30 in the afternoon they finally got the test results.

After seeing her son holding the test results, Qin Guihua began to look at them carefully. At that time, she had a lot of premonitions in her heart.

This bad feeling reached its peak when they saw the doctor in the morning. He looked at the test results in his hand and suddenly asked if there were any other people in their family.

"Doctor, my mother and I were killed in a car accident many years ago. I'm divorced from my husband, and now I'm the head of my household. Whatever happens, just tell me. I can handle it!"

A moment ago, Qin Guihua still looked like the delicate woman who relied on her son for everything. But when she realized something was really wrong, her expression quickly became calm and reliable.

“Is that so—”

The middle-aged doctor who treated her took the film and examination report in his hand and looked at them again.

"Doctor, I'm already eighteen years old. Don't worry, just tell us the truth!"

Although he was extremely worried, Qin Yang quickly calmed down after seeing the attitudes of his mother and the doctor opposite him.

"I suspect your mother may have stomach cancer, but I'm not sure yet. You need another gastroscopy. Let me schedule a gastroscopy for you. Come in tomorrow morning at 8:30 on an empty stomach like today. Once the gastroscopy results are in, I'll give you a definitive answer."

The doctor wanted to be more cautious, so he immediately raised his hand and slowly started typing on the keyboard in front of him.

The other party types very slowly, and his keyboard movements are awkward and heavy.

At this moment, the 36-year-old Qin Guihua and the 16-year-old Qin Yang were staring at each other closely. Their faces, which looked very similar and could be described as absolutely beautiful, were almost full of worry and fear.

"Doctor, is it cancer?"

These days, only when someone has cancer will the doctors and nurses change their attitude. For other minor ailments, the doctors and nurses will just explain the situation and then quickly send the patient away.

Anyway, looking at the middle-aged doctor with few hairs on his head, poking at the computer tremblingly, Qin Guihua in the red coat asked again.

"It doesn't necessarily mean it's cancer. Even if it is, your condition isn't too serious. You haven't reached the point of vomiting blood or feeling completely exhausted. Even if you unfortunately do have cancer, it will only be in the early stages. Our country's cure rate for this is already very high. Don't scare yourself before the results are completely confirmed. Who knows? ...

The middle-aged doctor seemed to be very uninterested and unskilled in using the desktop computer in front of him, but he clearly had his own way of comforting patients.

Afterwards, he picked up Qin's mother's CT report again and said that the situation might not be very serious.

It was because of the other party's words that Qin Guihua and Qin Yang's expressions looked a little better when they left Longcheng Hospital.

They took the same bus when they came and they took the same bus when they went back.

But when she came in the morning, Qin Guihua and her son had the feeling that they had grown up and knew how to care for her. She also had a feeling that if she and her son went there today, they might be cheated by the doctors and would be giving the hospital money in vain.

Because of this, she played a few jokes on her increasingly silent son and teased him on purpose.

But this time when we went back, no matter how many pedestrians there were on their bus, or how happily the old men and women on the bus were talking.

All the sounds seemed to have disappeared from their world.

One of them tightly grasped the strap of the bag in his hand, and the other subconsciously grasped the hospital examination bag, and both were unusually silent.

Their family's Happiness Grocery Store was opened when Qin Yang's grandfather was still alive.

After the two elderly people passed away unexpectedly, the shop naturally passed to Qin Guihua. Even on the day of Qin Guihua's divorce last year, the shop was only closed for two hours and opened immediately after Qin Guihua returned.

From then on, their shop never closed.

Even when Qin Guihua desperately wanted to go out, she would ask her son to help watch the shop. Of course, more often than not, it was her son, Qin Yang, who would see his mother's desire to go out and play. He would take the initiative and ask to watch the shop himself, leaving his mother free to go out to watch social performances or simply go for a stroll.

But today, even though they came back very early, before 3:30, they didn't open the door again.

Qin Guihua usually likes to clean and cook. Whenever she has time, she takes a broom and a rag and cleans the house inside and out. If she makes something delicious, she will generously ask her son to serve some to their good tenants.

But today, she was in no mood at all.

"Son, please don't bother me. I seem to be a little carsick today. I'm going to go upstairs and take a nap. I'll get up and make dinner for you when I wake up."

After returning home and hurriedly saying something to Qin Yang, Qin Guihua then went up the stairs outside and slowly went to her room upstairs.

Although many rooms upstairs and downstairs of the Qin family were rented out, the room they lived in before had actually never been rented out.

Anyway, after we got home, Qin Guihua went upstairs very quickly.

"Okay, Mom, go to sleep. I won't disturb you."

After watching his mother go upstairs, Qin Yang then entered the inner room next to the convenience store on the first floor.

After entering the place, Qin Yang did not cry, nor did he think too much.

Looking up at the mirror, he saw his long, messy hair. He almost immediately found a pair of scissors and a clipper, and immediately turned on the stove to boil water.

The crackling sound kept ringing in the small house which was only 20 square meters in area.

Then the sound of sweeping the floor was heard from inside, and then the sound of washing faces and hair was turned into the sound of washing hair.

After these sounds gradually subsided, the sounds of washing and cutting vegetables came from the small room, and then the unique collision sounds of pots and pans came from inside.

Soon after, the air seemed to be filled with the smell of millet porridge and sweet potatoes, as well as the obvious aroma of stir-fried cabbage.

This was very normal in the entire Qin family compound. Everyone passing by was puzzled as to why the Qin family store suddenly closed today. Nothing else caused anyone the slightest surprise.

Just an hour later, after finally getting enough sleep, Qin Guihua finally staggered downstairs. She looked at the reopened shop door, at the millet porridge and stir-fried cabbage heating on the stove in the small room. Then she looked at her beloved son, fresh-haired and handsome as ever, looking as clean and handsome as ever. Qin Guihua's nose felt sore, and she almost pissed herself off again, just like before.