Chapter 10 Father and Son
The rain that started yesterday morning didn't stop until the next morning. The people delivering things to Zhou Mingshi encountered a landslide on the way and were stuck on the road.
After Lin Yi'an got up, she knocked on Zhou Mingshi's door.
Zhou Mingshi had just opened his eyes when he heard a knock on the door. He got up, got out of bed, and put on his shoes.
As I walked to the door and was about to open it, I noticed my disheveled pajamas and stopped. I straightened my pajamas before opening the door.
Lin Yi'an glanced at him and asked, "Are you feeling better?"
Zhou Mingshi: "I didn't have a fever at night, and my head didn't hurt anymore."
Lin Yi'an nodded and said, "Mom and Dad have made breakfast. Go wash up, change your clothes, and come downstairs to eat breakfast."
After she finished speaking, she went downstairs.
Assistant Chen came in and handed him the clothes he was going to wear today, saying, "I think you are quite suitable for taking Chinese medicine. Grandma Lin's medical skills are also very good. You used to get better from colds much more easily."
Zhou Mingshi took the clothes from his hand: "If you really have nothing to do, go downstairs and find something to do."
Assistant Chen: "Just after seven o'clock, a patient came in. I heard that she came from another town dozens of miles away. After receiving treatment at Grandma Lin's place for several months, she used to be bedridden, but now she can get out of bed and walk. After I got up, I went downstairs to help Grandma Lin..."
Zhou Mingshi: "Don't make things worse."
Assistant Chen: "I can't do much else, but I can serve tea and water, hand things to Grandma Lin, and do other small things within my ability."
After changing his clothes, Zhou Mingshi said, "Let's go downstairs."
Breakfast consisted of multigrain porridge, soy milk, boiled eggs, steamed corn, steamed dumplings, a plate of cherry tomatoes, and a plate of kimchi.
Lin Yi'an looked at Zhou Mingshi and said, "I forgot to ask you, what do you usually eat for breakfast?"
Zhou Mingshi looked at the dining table: "These are very good."
Lin Yi-an said, "The ingredients are mostly grown by ourselves, and the eggs are laid by our own chickens. My parents were worried that you wouldn't be used to the food, so they asked me to ask you if there's anything you'd like to eat."
Zhou Mingshi: "I can get used to the food. This is not just a polite remark. I have always preferred light food, and the dishes cooked by my uncle and aunt suit my taste very well."
Lin Yi'an nodded.
It was raining yesterday, but today the sun is shining brightly. After breakfast, Lin Shuhe was going to buy groceries, and Zhou Mingshi asked his assistant, Chen, to go with him.
After one patient left, two more arrived. The morning was quite busy, and Lin Yi'an also went into the treatment room to help, so she naturally couldn't take care of Zhou Mingshi.
Zhou Mingshi wasn't idle either; he still had some work to do, so he went upstairs to work.
After Lin Yi'an finished acupuncture on the patient and didn't see him, she asked Ye Lingzhi, "Where's Zhou Mingshi?"
Ye Lingzhi: "Upstairs, Mr. Zhou's medicine is ready."
Lin Yi'an: "I'll take it up to him."
Ye Lingzhi said, "Last night when President Zhou was taking his medicine, I saw Assistant Chen give him some candy."
Lin Yi'an: "Then give him a piece of candy."
After saying that, he casually took a piece of candy from the fruit plate, carried the medicine upstairs, and knocked on his door a few times.
"Come in!"
Hearing the sound, Lin Yi'an pushed open the door and saw him sitting in front of the computer. She walked over and put the medicine bowl on the table: "The medicine is warmed up."
Zhou Mingshi looked at the medicine in front of him and asked, "I don't have a fever or a headache, do I still need to take the medicine?"
Lin Yi'an said, "Grandma prescribed two doses of medicine for you, you need to take it for two days."
Zhou Mingshi: "...Okay."
After saying that, he picked up the bowl, and as soon as he finished the medicine, he offered a piece of candy with a peeled candy wrapper to his lips.
Zhou Mingshi looked up at her, and Lin Yi'an smiled: "I'm used to coaxing children, I didn't notice for a moment."
The children in the village didn't want to take Chinese medicine, and their parents had no choice. So, someone came up with the idea of bringing their children over and having them help feed the medicine, rewarding them with a piece of candy after they finished.
Zhou Mingshi smiled, looked at the candy half-wrapped in the candy wrapper in her hand, and reached out to pinch it: "Yi'an, do you think I'm a child?"
Lin Yi'an took the empty medicine bowl from his hand and said, "Everyone in front of me is a patient, there is no distinction between children and adults, so you have to be rewarded with candy after drinking the medicine."
Zhou Mingshi smiled and nodded: "Okay."
Looking at the smile on his face, Lin Yi'an said, "You're busy, I'm going downstairs."
I watched her leave, saw the door close, put the candy in my mouth, and threw the candy wrapper into the trash can.
He had just finished eating the candy when his phone rang on the table. He picked it up, glanced at it, and answered, "What is it?"
Zhou Kanghui's voice came through the phone: "When are you coming back?"
Zhou Mingshi leaned back in his chair: "I only arrived here the night before last, what's the rush?"
Zhou Kanghui: "It's not that we're in a rush, but your aunt's 46th birthday is in a few days. Shouldn't you and the Lin family's daughter come back together?"
Zhou Mingshi asked calmly, "Is that necessary?"
Zhou Kanghui: "After you get married, we'll all be one family, living together and seeing each other all the time. I think it's necessary to help Miss Lin integrate into the Zhou family life quickly. What do you think?"
Zhou Mingshi: "You've reminded me."
Zhou Kanghui: "Your aunt and I have been married for so many years..."
Zhou Mingshi interrupted him: "Even if you've been married for a hundred years, I wasn't born from her womb. I'm not so stupid as to not know who my mother is. If she wants to act like a mother-in-law, she should go find her own daughter-in-law."
Zhou Kanghui said unhappily, "Your personality is just like your mother's, stubborn..."
Zhou Mingshi: "You should burn incense and pray to Buddha. My personality is the same as my mother's. If I were like you, the Zhou family would go bankrupt sooner or later."
Zhou Kanghui felt a surge of anger, thinking he shouldn't have made that phone call to his unfilial son: "Just keep trying to anger me, you'll drive me crazy sooner or later."
Zhou Mingshi: "Such a strong voice, but it seems you're not quite there yet. Don't worry, you're far from dead."
Zhou Kanghui was speechless, and secretly thought to himself, "He's my own son, my own son. I used to make my parents angry like this too. What father isn't angry with his own child?" Thinking this, he felt a little better.
He softened his tone and said, "Mingshi, we're family. Why do we have to be so formal? Your Aunt Sun has had a tough time all these years. Your grandparents don't approve of her. Just give her some face for my sake..."
Zhou Mingshi sneered: "Give her face?"
"Bringing Yi'an along to support Sun Yurong? And then slapping my own mother in the face?"
"Zhou Kanghui, are you crazy, or am I crazy?"
Zhou Kanghui immediately felt a little guilty. The moment Mingshi called him by his full name, he knew he had offended him again, and he began to stammer, "Uh... I, I didn't think that much..."
Zhou Mingshi: "What can you think of? Will you ever figure this out in your life?"
Zhou Kanghui said awkwardly, "I just feel sorry for your aunt who has been with me for so many years, it must have been tough for her."
Zhou Mingshi: "You're telling me that it's difficult for someone who only has to worry about what to eat, what clothes to wear, and what jewelry to wear every day, and doesn't have to do anything else?"
"It seems you're living too well. Come to Yi'an's hometown and see how those people are harvesting crops in the pouring rain, and you won't think it's so hard for her anymore."
After saying all that, I didn't want to talk to him anymore, so I hung up the phone.
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