Chapter 64 No, I just want to make money for now...
Chen Pan's condition was not serious. After they were given two bottles of saline solution at the small hospital in the town, the doctor let them leave.
After returning, Qin Yang hurried to do his own thing as it was still early. As for Chen Pan, he lay down in his little room and fell asleep quickly.
"Oh, I was wondering why I couldn't see you guys when I came back! Luckily the neighbor told me, otherwise I would have been worried to death."
"The doctor said the child had a minor congenital deficiency and asked if we'd often let her skip meals. I thought about it carefully and realized it was probably because we'd often given her dry rations when she was herding cattle, and she'd brought them but hadn't eaten them on time. There were already some underlying issues, and combined with her congenital deficiency, she'd been extremely busy lately and pulled an all-nighter last night, this is what happened."
"Oh, how could this happen? If I had known she would stay up late last night, I should have gone out to persuade her. But who could have thought——"
"I never expected that today, Yangyang next door and the doctor at the hospital both told me not to overwork my child and to make sure she eats well and sleeps well. I felt incredibly anxious, as if I had abused her."
"They don't mean that, don't think too much about it!"
"Why don't you ask me to think about it? It's a good thing this didn't happen in the village. If it did, your brothers, sisters-in-law, nephews, and nieces would definitely think I was abusing the child. They would definitely say behind her back that I adopted Panpan just to work and take care of her in my old age, and that I was torturing her, causing her to faint from exhaustion and malnutrition at such a young age."
"Keep your voice down—"
When Chen Pan was half asleep, he heard his grandparents outside arguing about his own affairs.
She didn't know why she was so tired. Listening to the quarrel on the other side of the wall, Chen Pan wanted to try to persuade them.
But at this moment, she was just like the few times she had experienced sleep paralysis in her previous life.
It means that you can clearly perceive everything outside, and your brain and body can also remember it.
But it was as if someone was pulling at her from the bed, making it impossible for her to wake up even if she wanted to. Soon her consciousness and senses seemed to fade, and she could no longer hear the sounds outside.
Chen Pan slept for a very long time. When she was woken up by the noise outside again, she saw that it was getting dark around her. She estimated that it was probably around six or seven o'clock.
"Grandpa, isn't Panpan awake yet?"
"Not yet. Her grandma made ramen. Let's wait for her for another ten minutes. If she doesn't wake up by 6:40, we'll go call her."
"Yes, she should. If she continues to sleep, she won't be able to sleep at night. Oh, Grandpa Chen, I bought this for you when I went out to buy braised meat. It's not much, so you can cut it up and have it as a snack."
"How can this be so embarrassing? We have meat tonight. You can take this back."
"It's okay, this is just a small piece I bought. My family eats your pancakes every now and then, and you've never charged us any money, so just consider this a courtesy!"
"That's fine too. Thank you very much!"
"Why thank me? It's my duty. Grandpa, you go ahead and do your work. I'm going home."
"Okay, go back and have dinner. I have something else I'd like you to advise me on tonight. I'll come back and bother you then."
"Okay, see you later!"
Outside, Qin Yang's conversation with his grandfather quickly ended. From the kitchen across the street, the clanging of knives slicing food could be heard, followed by the sizzling of hot dishes being simmered in oil. Smelling the rich aroma of stir-fried pork with chili peppers, Chen Pan didn't dare delay any longer and quickly got up.
After sleeping for four or five hours, Chen Pan no longer felt any obvious discomfort when he woke up this time.
"Grandma, what are you doing? It smells so good!"
After putting on his shoes and opening the door, Chen Pan went straight to the kitchen.
"I made ramen. The side dishes include stir-fried pork with chili peppers, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and a salad of cucumbers and kohlrabi. We'll give you a good rest tonight so you don't faint again."
Turning around and taking a good look at her granddaughter, she saw that her face was no longer pale and sallow, and Xu Chunhua's worries suddenly disappeared. However, she still had a little bit of emotion in her mouth.
"I fainted because I've been too busy making money recently and I stayed up too late last night. It has nothing to do with my family's food. We have always eaten so well, and I have been replenishing my energy. Why would I need more?"
Knowing that her grandparents had just quarreled, Chen Pan, who was now lying on the kitchen door frame, behaved exceptionally well. Seeing her like this, Xu Chunhua, who was inexplicably angry, decided not to dwell on it any further.
"The food at our house has always been just enough to fill our stomachs, not as good as you say. We used to think that occasionally adding some pork to our dishes and having roast chicken or roast duck would be enough, but now we think the nutrition is too limited. We will have to eat eggs and pork regularly in the future. We will also have to buy fish and beef that we only buy once during the Chinese New Year. I don't believe that if I bought all the chicken, duck and fish for the Chinese New Year, you would still be so thin."
Nowadays, judging whether a child is well-raised is based on their clothes and shoes, but also on their hair, face, and figure. A child wearing dirty clothes, ill-fitting clothes, pants of the wrong length, and shoes with holes in them clearly shows a family with little means or care. And a child with thin, yellow hair, a skinny body like a bean sprout, and no flesh on their face or hands, no matter how well they dress, clearly suffers from chronic malnutrition.
Grandma Chen was putting food into the plate. While doing so, she turned around and looked at Chen Pan who was standing by the door.
Seeing that Panpan had beautiful hair but a thin figure and not much flesh on her cheeks, she definitely didn't have the chubby round face that everyone liked. Grandma Chen immediately decided to make sure her granddaughter became plump in the next few months before the Chinese New Year.
Seeing the other person looking at the piglet with strange eyes, Chen Pan suddenly had a bad premonition.
"Come Panpan, grandpa will check on your condition."
While Chen Pan was talking to Grandma Chen, Grandpa Chen, who had been selling pancakes outside, finally finished his business and quickly walked over.
"Grandpa, I'm fine—"
Knowing that he had made them worry, Chen Pan walked over with an apologetic look on his face.
Then, just as Chen Pan was circling in front of his grandfather and promising him that he would never stay up late again, Qin Yang and his mother had already started eating in the Qin family's small shop next door.
While the two were eating, they first talked about Chen Pan's sudden fainting today.
Afterwards, Mother Qin's attention returned to what her son had done today.
"We've already asked the real estate agent to talk to those three families today, and we'll probably need to go over and talk to them again tomorrow. A deal this big can't be finalized all at once."
After picking up a piece of fat and lean meat and giving it to his mother, Qin Yang began to tell his mother about the specific attitudes of the three families there after he went there today.
Looking at her son, who had grown so tall this year and looked like an 18- or 19-year-old in jeans and a jacket, Qin Guihua, who had been watching the store all day, felt a mixture of joy and emotion. "I never thought my son would be able to open an advertising printing company with someone else. Son, work hard. When you achieve something in the future, I can find you a good partner."
"Mom, are you kidding me?"
Qin Yang had been talking about how he, his good friend Jiang Wenwu, and Tang Jun, the printing shop owner he had just met in April, were going to start a company and buy land together. But when his mother interrupted him, he immediately felt embarrassed and vaguely uncomfortable.
"Mom, I'm not kidding. If you don't want to study, you should get married soon. Once you're married, you'll have someone to take care of you, and you can focus on your career. That way, Mom won't have to worry about anything, and I'll be at ease too."
Qin Guilan wasn't saying this casually, regardless of whether her son was sixteen or eighteen. If he wasn't going to school for the time being, he should really hurry up and find a wife. And if she could really secure his lifelong happiness, she wouldn't have to worry about a relapse later.
"What's the point of being at ease? I have no plans to get married for now, so don't worry about me, Mom." Qin Yang instinctively disliked such topics, but was afraid that his words would irritate his mother. So he could only subconsciously control his temper and communicate with his mother in a relatively gentle tone.
"What do you mean you have no plans to get married for the time being? In our neighborhood, if you don't go to school, people get engaged at sixteen or seventeen, and get married at eighteen or nineteen. Yangyang, tell me the truth. Do you have a date outside? Or is there a girl you like? If you really have someone you like, tell me, and I'll ask someone to find you a matchmaker."
Qin Guihua, whose doctor had told her son he wouldn't live more than five years even with surgery, now truly hoped her son would get married soon. She'd originally been asking casually about this matter, but at that moment, her voice suddenly rose, and her expression became more serious and solemn than ever before.
"No, I just want to make money for now. I'll wait a few years for the rest." His family's current situation didn't make it appropriate to involve an innocent girl. If he married now, he'd be deliberately looking for someone to shoulder all his responsibilities. If he were to find a wife, he wanted someone to share a good life and enjoy happiness with him, not someone who would have to share his mother's illness and the family's mounting debts.
Qin Yang didn't say the rest of the words.
Looking at his somewhat excited mother, Qin Yang could only smile and repeat his thoughts again.
"you--"
“Bang!!”
Seeing her son's stubborn attitude, Qin Guihua became really anxious.
But a sudden knock on the door interrupted their conversation. Seeing that the visitors were Chen Aiguo, who was carrying a bag of fruit, and Chen Pan, who was said to have fainted in the school playground today, Qin's mother could no longer care about her son and could only greet them into the small room.
So Qin's mother's plan to find a partner for Qin Yang was inadvertently interrupted by Chen Pan and her grandfather.
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