"alright."

Lu Jiuchuan interrupted Luo Qianyu's thoughts:

"Are you sure you can? How about I ask if there's anyone inside to help you in?"

All he felt was worry and self-blame.

How long had the girl been married to him? She was thin, with injuries all over her body, and her feet were covered with blisters and scars.

Even the soles of the shoes were almost worn flat, with a few small holes caused by stones.

He has to endure harassment and ridicule even though he lives in a hospital. The bottom line is that he is incompetent and unable to provide shelter for his family.

"Someone, someone."

Someone in the women's restroom answered the call, and then a nurse in a white coat came out, looked around at them, and said jokingly:

"Oh, it's great to be young. I'm so envious!"

"I'm leaving. There's no one inside now. You guys can go in. Hahaha."

Luo Qianyu recognized the nurse who had just changed her dressing. Her face felt hot and a thin layer of sweat appeared on her.

"Sister Jin Mei, it's you."

She supported Lu Jiuchuan to stand up, trying to keep some distance between them, but Lu Jiuchuan held her firmly.

This made Jin Mei smile even more intimately. She quickened her pace and even winked at her as she passed by them.

"Comrade nurse, could you please help my wife in?" Lu Jiuchuan suddenly asked.

Luo Qianyu originally thought that this injury was nothing, but he made her look like she couldn't take care of herself, so she quickly refused and said:

"No, I can do it myself."

Jin Mei had already put her other arm around him:

"What's the big deal? It's just going to the toilet, how big of a deal? Those who are not here to make excuses should have gone to the toilet."

Luo Qianyu was dragged into the toilet as if she was kidnapped, and stuffed into a half-person-high cubicle. She also reached out to help Luo Qianyu take off his pants.

After being rejected by Luo Qianyu, she turned her back and muttered:

"You young people are the only ones who feel ashamed. As nurses, we have served so many people. Some people refused to go to the toilet even though they could get up, and we had to use a urinal to catch the urine."

"I'm telling you, when a man loves you and pampers you after you get married, you have to let him do what he wants and don't try to be stubborn. Otherwise, it will be too late to regret when he doesn't care about you in the future."

"I've seen so many in the hospital. I've been married for more than ten years before I figured this out. You can be right if you listen to me."

Luo Qianyu heard this and thought it made sense, so he took advantage of her strong desire to share and pulled her back to the ward.

"Sister Jinmei, please sit down and tell me more."

"Lu Jiuchuan, take out all the food and let Sister Jin Mei have an extra meal. And bring some back for the kids at home."

Lu Jiuchuan stuffed her back into the hospital bed like a robot, took out the fruit candies, egg cakes, and cassava cakes that Qiu Zheng had brought, and then sat back on the accompanying bed as an invisible man.

Jin Mei praised him again and again, put a candy in her mouth with a few polite words, and then grabbed a few more and spread them in front of her before putting them in her pocket:

"They are all precious things, you keep them for yourselves, I will just take some to sweeten the children's mouths."

The two of them chatted more and more and became more familiar with each other.

It was not until late at night that Jin Mei left reluctantly. Luo Qianyu asked Lu Jiuchuan to pack some food and forced it on her.

The ward became quiet again. Lu Jiuchuan turned off the light without saying another word.

Luo Qianyu couldn't hold it in any longer.

Although this person was considerate and obedient in his actions, his face never looked good, as if he thought it was stupid for her to have those pink bubbles.

"You've had a sullen face all night. What are you angry about?"

"Do you not like my relationship with Jin Mei, or do you think I am trying to take advantage of your relationship with your comrade and use nepotism or backdoor tactics to gain benefits?"

"Let me ask you, if I go into business with your comrade, would you object?"

She believes that the relationship between husband and wife is, in a sense, also a long-term cooperative relationship, and it is better to say everything clearly than to waste a lot of time on guesswork.

She simply asked all the questions at once, and after she finished speaking, she felt that her tone was a bit heavy, so she added a few more sentences:

"Effective communication can solve most problems in interpersonal relationships. If you have any ideas, you can tell me directly. I will respect your opinions."

But the ward was dead silent. She counted her own breaths for a long time, but did not get any response from Lu Jiuchuan.

Is this a refusal to communicate?

She huffed and twisted her body into a comfortable position, closing her eyes.

"I am not angry, and I will learn to communicate effectively."

Lu Jiuchuan's voice suddenly broke the silence again:

"I am against being taken advantage of, but not against cooperation. I will find a way to repay the favors I owe you."

"I used to intentionally distance myself from them, or avoid them, because I couldn't get over that hurdle and had nothing to do with them. My behavior was ridiculous."

"Some things will remain in your heart no matter how hard you try to hide them, and some people will never disappear. I am not as good as Niannian in this regard. Today he taught me a lesson."

"It's just that Niannian's biological father died. I want to wait until he grows up and tell him in person. Do you think it's okay?"

He spoke slowly, with pauses in between.

Luo Qianyu listened patiently and understood how difficult it was for Lu Jiuchuan to overcome. She had no personal experience, so she had no right to talk about empathy.

She didn't know how to comfort people, so she continued with Lu Jiuchuan's words:

"Okay. Nian Nian may not understand it now, let's wait until he grows up."

"As for your comrades, I originally just thought that they were good connections and their character should be trustworthy. If there is a chance for cooperation, it would be a good thing to achieve a win-win situation for both parties."

"Human relations are even less of a big deal. They are just exchanges. Socializing is inevitable in life."

"Anyway, I'll listen to you and tell you how you want to get along. You don't have to force yourself. I believe that with my abilities, I will never lack connections or partners in the near future."

Although her words may sound like bragging, they are absolutely true.

Now that we have just transitioned from a collective economy to a market economy, almost all industries and sectors are blank. There are opportunities and gold everywhere.

Lu Jiuchuan was silent for a moment and answered her:

“I listen to you about everything at home, including business.

In the future, I will let things take their own course when interacting with them. It should have nothing to do with business.”

Can a person be divided? How can it be unrelated?

After listening to this, Luo Qianyu was so speechless that he lost interest in continuing the conversation, so he just let things take their course.

"Okay, let's go to bed."

She slept as she said and had a dreamless night.

When she woke up, Lu Jiuchuan, who was supposed to be accompanying her, was nowhere to be seen.

Zhang Guifen arrived with greetings.

"Qian Yu, I'll help you get up and wash up. Then drink the chicken soup and eat the chicken breast before going to sleep."

"Mom, are you serious? Drinking chicken soup and eating chicken breast so early in the morning?"

Before Luo Qianyu could finish her question, Zhang Guifen had already pulled her up from the bed and leaned her against it, with a look of disgust on her face.

"What's wrong? You are the one who will benefit from what you eat. Do you really want to be Yanba's bean sprouts? I'll go get you some water to wash up."

After saying that, he hurriedly picked up the washbasin and enamel pot and went out.

Luo Qianyu wanted to say that her injury was under her ribs, but when she thought of the small bun under her vest, it would not be impossible to eat whatever was needed to replenish the area.

She waved to the New Year greetings beside her:

"Nianlai, have you had breakfast? Come and have some with me later?"

He Nian walked obediently to the chair beside the bed and sat down, pointing at her wound:

"Are you...in pain?"

Suddenly, seven or eight militiamen broke into the ward.

"Are you Luo Qianyu?"

"Yes." Luo Qianyu turned over and got out of bed, pulling Henian behind him, with a sharp look in his eyes, "What do you want?"

The leading militiaman looked her over from head to toe:

"Someone reported you as a migrant worker and your identity card was forged. This is a big deal."

Zhang Guifen, who had brought back the water, smashed the wash basin to the ground with a bang:

"Who made the false report? Was it Chen Aixiang? The ID was issued by the Public Security Bureau Chief himself, how could it be fake?"