When Su Jin opened her eyes, she found herself in the black land of Northeast China. Her parents had sacrificed their lives for their work, leaving her an orphan from the city.
To escape the ...
As the sun rose higher, Su Jin took a week off and would return to school next week to make up for her lessons. She planned to accompany Lu Shiyi during these days.
"Ayi, let's eat first." When Su Jin came back, he was the only one left in the ward.
Lu Shiyi smiled happily: "My wife finally trusts me. You were worried before."
Su Jin set up the foldable bed table beside the bed and took out the food in the two lunch boxes.
"You have the chicken noodle soup, I'll have the soup dumplings and porridge." Su Jin smiled and said, "There are four light side dishes. I also brought a bowl of chicken noodle soup for the political commissar."
"The political commissar is next to me. After we finish our meal, I will accompany you there." After Lu Shiyi took the hemostatic medicine given by Su Jin, his injury healed surprisingly quickly.
"Wife, except for the hemostatic powder, the rest of the medicine you gave me cannot be used by outsiders." Lu Shiyi leaned close to Su Jin's ear and reminded her, "My injuries are almost healed. Even the younger team members can't recover as well as I do."
Su Jin hummed, "I was worried about you going on a mission, so I prepared these for you."
After the two had breakfast, Lu Shiyi changed into the casual clothes that Su Jin brought, packed his things and prepared to be discharged from the hospital.
Lu Shiyi held the lunch bag in his right hand and took Su Jin to see Lin Zitao. Yunfeng's cooking skills were not good, so Su Jin also brought Lin Zitao's hospital meals.
"Old Lu, are you getting ready to be discharged?" Lin Zitao asked in surprise, looking at Lu Shiyi's clothes. "I'll be discharged and go home too, so my sister-in-law won't have to run back and forth."
Lu Shiyi put the food on the kang table, and Su Jin sat on a chair against the wall. After the two of them chatted, they went to handle the discharge procedures.
"Your situation is different from mine. Wait until the dean lets you go back." Lu Shiyi told him about the nurse and asked Lin Zitao to be hospitalized as a precaution. "Don't let anyone take advantage of you."
"No, I have to be discharged!" Lin Zitao's leg was injured. The nurse rushed over and he couldn't dodge. "Zhou Dong, go get the dean to come over and pack up."
Lin Zitao needed to be discharged from the hospital in a wheelchair. Lu Shiyi had a penetrating wound on his left arm and was unable to push the wheelchair. Su Jin was pregnant, so Zhou Dong had to take care of it.
"Old Lin, is it okay for you to go home?" Lu Shiyi was worried that Lin Zitao's right leg would not recover well.
"The dean plans to ask doctors from the capital to guide the follow-up rehabilitation. If the rehabilitation is done properly, he should be able to recover to his previous condition." Lin Zitao certainly didn't want to leave here. He obeyed the treatment without Yun Feng's repeated reminders.
The dean waited for Zhou Dong in the office, and he came over resignedly.
"Dean, the Lu family and I live next door to each other, and my wife doesn't know how to cook medicinal food, so my sister-in-law helps me make it." Lin Zitao was afraid that the dean would not approve, so he made a lot of preparations.
"I'll write you a discharge notice. You two are leaders, so you should be able to come in on time every day to get your medication, right?" The director had already guessed that Lin Zitao would be discharged as well. "Also, Political Commissar Lin's right leg needs rehabilitation. While he's doing that, I'll write a list of foods Mrs. Lu shouldn't eat."
"Thank you for your help, Dean!" Su Jin accepted it with pleasure.
Yesterday, Lu Shiyi specially asked Su Jin to bring some prepared snacks and prepared to go see the team members.
Seeing that the team members had recovered well, he gave each of them two pieces of snacks and told them that these were specially made by Su Jin.
"Don't let my sister-in-law down. I'm thinking of you all returning to the team together." After looking at them one by one, Lu Shiyi stood in the corridor and did not continue to look at the team members in the last four wards.
"The other four are going to be retired due to injuries this year. Even if they're crammed into the police station, they probably won't stay long." Lu Shiyi looked out the window and whispered, "They're only in their twenties, barely 30. What are they going to do in the next few decades?"
Su Jin was a listener. Lu Shiyi cared about these team members and thought about their future.
At this moment, Su Jin understood why some companies specifically recruited disabled veterans, as the leaders of those companies were once soldiers.
"Ayi, everything will be fine in the future. As long as they can support their family, their lives will get better and better." Su Jin whispered to comfort Lu Shiyi.
He wiped his face with his right hand and smiled: "My wife is right, the future will get better and better."
After calming down a little, Lu Shiyi led Su Jin to the last four wards. Su Jin then learned that the four people had undergone amputations and the armed forces were preparing to install prosthetic limbs for them and then transfer them to work in logistics.
The four team members were upset, but when they learned that they were in the logistics department of the armed forces and would not leave the team, they regained their smiles on their faces.
Su Jin sighed. If the four people had used medicine before the amputation, their limbs might have been saved. Now, there was nothing she could do.
"All four of them are married and originally applied to accompany the troops this year. The political commissar wanted their families to come and accompany the troops first, and then transfer to logistics."
Su Jin carried the lunch bag, and Lu Shiyi went home together with his marching bag in his right hand. As they walked along the tree-lined road, Lu Shiyi looked towards the training ground.
"Ayi, the dean and the doctor have told you that you cannot train for at least one month." Su Jin looked at Lu Shiyi and said.
Lu Shiyi nodded obediently and asked about the recent situation of Su Jin's school. The day after he came back, Wu Jun told him about the situation in the county. The military's junior high schools and primary schools were not affected by the overall environment, but they were also having some difficulties.
Su Jin likes to teach, and her face is full of smiles when she talks about the students she teaches.
"Wife, if the situation is not good, can you just quit your job?" Lu Shiyi heard some family members say that she was a spoiled child, and that she had the best things to use and eat. If they both did not have salaries, someone would definitely complain.
"Okay." Su Jin agreed. "The children are all protecting me. They are all very good."
The two returned home, and Lu Shiyi sat on a stool in the kitchen to wash vegetables and prepare lunch for the two families.
After the family members learned that Lu Shiyi and Lin Zitao were discharged from the hospital, they went to the hospital to see the team members with food, but were dissuaded by the hospital director from staying in the hospital.
In fact, the family members are happy that the team members are hospitalized for treatment, and they even prepare an extra hospital meal at home. When the team members are hospitalized, the hospital provides three meals a day, which saves a lot of food for the family.
Su Jin delivered meals to Lu Shiyi every day, and some family members complained that she didn't know how to live.
"Sister-in-law, I've asked for a month's leave for both of us." Yunfeng came back from school, pushing a wheelchair and leading Lin Zitao to the Lu family. "Some students who are assigned to the school with red armbands will not be attending classes."
Everyone kept their distance from the team members with red armbands, not wanting to get too close and be noticed. Many children in the staff quarters stayed at home and discussed with the principal and teachers about going there for the exam.
"Thank you, sister-in-law!" Su Jin listened to Yun Feng's words and sent Lu Shiyi out. "If the situation is not good, sister-in-law will not go to work?"