Chapter 87
Xu Zhao didn't even glance at the female nurse. He looked straight at Jiang Suihan and wanted to get out of bed anxiously: "What's wrong with you? You brought Chenchen with you. Did you have everything on the way?"
He couldn't imagine how a young woman like her, with a six-month-old baby, could have taken a train for a day and a night to get here.
The female nurse hurried forward to support Xu Zhao, but he ruthlessly avoided her. The female nurse bit her lower lip, looked at him disappointedly, and then turned her gaze to Jiang Suihan who was standing at the door.
"Lie down and don't move." Jiang Huihan said immediately, carrying her luggage and walking in. "The army sent a soldier to take me here. Nothing happened on the way. I think you are the one in trouble now."
Xu Zhao touched his nose guiltily and consciously skipped the topic: "You must be exhausted, sit down quickly."
He looked at the nurse and said, "Comrade, my family member is here. Can you please get me a glass of water?"
The female nurse's face turned pale and then blue, blue and then pale. She had a cousin who was also in the army. She knew that soldiers in the army generally got married late. At that time, Xu Zhao was seriously injured and sent to the hospital. She was the nurse responsible for taking care of him. When she saw him for the first time, she felt her heart was moved. She threw away her girlish reserve and showed her affection in front of him in various ways. However, he rejected her on the grounds that he was married and had children.
She thought this was just an excuse. As long as she was nice to him and took good care of him, he would definitely notice her good qualities and agree to be with her.
However, she didn't expect that what Xu Zhao said was true and he didn't lie to her. The feeling of being caught red-handed by the original wife was so embarrassing that she wanted to dig a hole in the ground and crawl into it.
The nurse took the enamel mug and ran out. After a while, she returned with the enamel mug filled with hot water and said stiffly, "It's done. I'm leaving now."
Jiang Huihan untied the straps, put Chenchen down, and glanced at Xu Zhao calmly: "Not bad, Deputy Captain Xu, your charm is still as strong as before, and your luck with women is as strong as ever."
When she was in high school and college, many boys wanted to pursue her, but she was young at the time and didn't want to get married so early, so she rejected them all.
This made her wonder if she had picked the peach blossoms too hard back then. After coming to Li Province, there were no other peach blossoms except Xu Zhao. But Xu Zhao, this guy, had one peach blossom after another, which was annoying.
Xu Zhao was not stupid, so he quickly explained, "It's just a female nurse in the hospital. I don't know her. How did you know I was injured?"
Jiang Suihan twisted her neck and drank half a glass of water before she was in the mood to answer his question: "Wang Dahe told me that the train ticket and Comrade Shao who sent me here were arranged by the political commissar. You still have the nerve to ask if you plan to wait until your injury heals before going home? We agreed not to hide anything from me, and you ignored my words, right?"
Xu Zhao shook his head, slowly moved his hand over to hold her hand, and blinked: "How dare I? I'm injured. I just had surgery not long ago. I didn't have time to write to you. Don't be angry. Are you hungry? Have some porridge?"
What a joke this guy is. He’s so old, but he’s still trying to imitate Chenchen to act cute.
The weather was hot and the train smelled bad, so Jiang Suihan didn't eat much and Chenchen drank less milk as a result.
"I'm not hungry yet. I'll go out and buy some food later. You can have the porridge first."
Xu Zhao raised his bandaged right hand and told her with his eyes that it was impossible to drink porridge with one hand.
Seeing that he was seriously injured, with his hands and feet wrapped in gauze, and scars on his face, his complexion was pale, and his lips were bloodless, Jiang Huihan no longer had the heart to quarrel with him. She picked up the bowl of porridge, scooped a spoonful of porridge and handed it to his mouth.
One of them was feeding the child porridge seriously while the other was concentrating on drinking the porridge. For a while, the ward was very quiet.
Suddenly, Chenchen woke up with a cry.
Jiang Suihan quickly picked up Chenchen and coaxed him. She touched his diaper and found it was wet. She changed it into a clean diaper and put Chenchen on Xu Zhao's bed. "Take good care of Chenchen. I'll go make some milk powder for him."
The father and son hadn't seen each other for two months. They had similar facial features and stared at each other. Xu Zhao looked down at Chenchen and felt that time had passed very quickly. In just two months, the child had grown a lot. He suddenly realized that he had missed a lot of his child's growth in these two months.
Chenchen was tired of staring, so he tilted his head and stopped looking at the man in front of him who seemed somewhat familiar yet somewhat strange.
Xu Zhao stretched out a finger and gently poked Chenchen's fair and tender little face. It felt so good that he couldn't help but poked it again, and again.
The result is predictable. Chenchen is not a little kid without temper. He also has his dignity. He immediately started crying loudly. His crying could be heard in the corridor of this floor of the hospital.
Damn it, I made my son cry.
Xu Zhao hurriedly began to coax his son: "Be good, don't cry, Daddy won't tease you, don't cry, okay?"
The more he coaxed Chenchen, the harder he cried. It was a vicious cycle.
Xu Zhao gritted his teeth and tried to reason with Chenchen: "Xu Chen, don't cry! A real man should shed blood but not tears. You are the hope of our Xu family's future, so you should be strong. How can you cry?"
Chenchen was unmoved. He was just a six-month-old baby. How could he understand the family's hopes? You talk yours and I cry mine.
Xu Zhao was so confused that he tried to be soft-hearted: "Son, please stop crying, okay? If your mother knew that I made you cry, she would be angry with me and ignore me, right?"
Jiang Suihan pushed the door open in a hurry and saw Xu Zhao sweating profusely as he was trying to coax the crying Chenchen. She quickly picked up the child and stuffed the pacifier into Chenchen's mouth. Perhaps because he was very hungry, Chenchen sobbed twice, then held the bottle and began to drink happily.
"Why is Chenchen crying?"
Faced with his wife's questioning, Xu Zhao was too embarrassed to admit that it was his fault: "Maybe she was hungry, so she suddenly started crying, and she wouldn't listen to me no matter how I tried to comfort her."
Jiang Huihan glanced at him suspiciously and felt that he spoke a little faster than usual.
Xu Zhao remained calm and composed, not showing any sign of guilt.
Chenchen drank the bottle of milk cleanly. He was in good spirits and excited.
The father and son had eaten their fill, but she hadn't eaten yet. Jiang Suihan looked at Chenchen worriedly, "Can you really do it alone?"
Xu Zhao said in silence: "No problem, don't worry, I helped take care of the children when I was at home before, you can go out for dinner, I can take care of Chenchen."
Jiang Suihan looked back every few steps. She was not reassured by Xu Zhao's words. He had been away from home for two months. Chenchen and his father had become more estranged. It would take time for them to get familiar with each other.
As expected, Xu Zhao was slapped in the face.
Chenchen was lying on the bed playing with his little feet and having a lot of fun. When he turned around, his mother was gone and there was a man he was not very familiar with next to him. The unfamiliar environment made him very uneasy and his disturbing crying started again.
Xu Zhao was worried about being complained by the hospital and patients, so he started to coax his baby again. The child was only half a year old and could not understand what adults said, so it was impossible to reason with Chenchen.
I opened the luggage that Jiang Suihan brought. Fortunately, she had the foresight to bring some of Chenchen’s favorite toys. After coaxing Chenchen with the toys for a long time, the little guy finally gave me some face and stopped crying. However, he still sobbed from time to time while playing with the toys.
Later on, toys were no longer useful. Chenchen kept crying for his mother and gave Xu Zhao a headache. A nurse came over and told him to coax the child and not let him cry, which would disturb other patients' rest.
Xu Zhao thought of many ways and finally coaxed Chenchen with his own talents.
It’s not easy.
The older the child gets, the more naughty he becomes. He is so naughty at only six months old. When he grows up a little bit and can run, jump and talk, I don’t know how naughty he will be.
Xu Zhao suddenly felt the sorrow that only an old father would have.
Thinking about things, he stopped whistling unconsciously. Chenchen didn't hear the whistle and became unhappy. His little face drooped and his mouth pouted.
This scene couldn't be more familiar. Xu Zhao immediately whistled. When the whistle sounded, Chenchen opened his little mouth and laughed very happily, kicking his hands and feet to express his inner joy at the moment.
Jiang Suihan walked to the first floor and, by chance, ran into the female nurse with freckles on her face. She walked over and asked her how to get to the nearest state-owned restaurant.
The nurse said indifferently, "Turn right after leaving the hospital, walk straight for about 300 meters, turn right again, walk about 100 meters, and you will see the state-owned hotel."
Jiang Suihan smiled and said, "Thank you."
The female nurse curled her lips: "You're welcome."
Jiang Suihan followed the direction indicated by the female nurse and actually found a state-owned restaurant.
It is now past three in the afternoon, long past lunch time. I asked the waiter at the state-owned restaurant what else was left to eat: "Only steamed buns and vegetarian noodles are left."
Jiang Suihan ordered a bowl of vegetarian noodles. Although there was no meat and only two pieces of green vegetable leaves, it tasted unexpectedly delicious. The noodle soup did not seem to be boiled in pure boiled water, but had a light taste of chicken soup.
The waiter sat at the opposite table boredly and asked curiously, "Comrade, you are not from our Yun City, right?"
Jiang Huihan nodded: "My family is from Guangdong Province. The vegetarian noodles in your store taste really good. This is the first time I have eaten such delicious vegetarian noodles."
The waiter raised his chin and said proudly, "Of course. The master of our chef used to work in the imperial kitchen in the palace. How could he not be impressive? I haven't been to Guang Province yet. How is your place compared to our Yun City?"
She was also bored and rarely found someone to chat with.
Jiang Huihan swallowed the noodles in her mouth, thought for a moment and said, "My family is from Mingjiang City in Guang Province, close to the sea, with lots of seafood. People there are used to eating seafood for every meal. Yun City is an inland city, and the customs and eating habits are quite different from ours. For example, noodles. Our staple food has been rice for generations, but in Yun City, noodles are mostly eaten."
The waiter's eyes sparkled with curiosity, and he enviously said, "Seafood! You are so lucky to be able to eat so much seafood and see the sea. I have never eaten seafood since I was a child. At most, I have eaten fish and shrimp from the river."
Jiang Suihan smiled and said, "Every place has its own characteristics. Eating too much seafood is not good. Besides, the air near the sea is humid, which makes it easy to get rheumatism. There are also many typhoons."
The waiter looked to be about the same age as Jiang Huihan, and the two of them were chatting happily. The girl was innocent and told him her name and where she lived.
While chatting, Jiang Suihan finished the big bowl of noodles unknowingly. Looking at the empty bowl in front of her, she couldn't believe that this was what she ate, and couldn't help but burp.
Zhong Jing volunteered: "Do you need more noodles? There's some in the kitchen. I'll get you some more."
Jiang Suihan immediately felt the enthusiasm of her new friend and shook her head: "No, I'm full."
Zhong Jing told Jiang Suihan that the state-owned restaurant had delicious food in the evening and asked her to come early. If she came late, it was okay because she could save some food for her.
Jiang Suihan thanked Zhong Jing with a smile. She didn't expect to meet new friends in Yun City. It was quite novel.
When Xu Zhao saw Jiang Huihan finally came back, he let out a long breath and rubbed his sore cheeks.
He whistled for half an hour, and Chenchen started crying as soon as he stopped. He suspected that Chenchen was deliberately torturing him like this to avenge him for poking his little face before. If Chenchen was not his biological son, he really wanted to let the little guy cry his heart out.
When Chenchen saw his mother coming back, he stared at his short legs happily and stretched out his little hands to ask his mother to hold him.
Jiang Suihan hugged Chenchen and made him laugh, and asked, "Did Chenchen cry?"
Xu Zhao looked at the little guy expressionlessly and accused him, "He cried at first, but then he stopped crying. Do you know what he did to me?"
Jiang Suihan: “What?”
Xu Zhao snorted, "I whistled for him for half an hour, and my cheeks were almost numb. He came here to collect his debt, right, little debt collector?"
Jiang Huihan couldn't help laughing: "Whistle!?"
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