Chapter 67 Quick Move
What's that noise?
I had just woken up from my sleep when I immediately heard a crackling noise, as if something heavy was being dragged on the ground.
"I'll go take a look." Gao Ming got dressed and got out of bed.
Chen Yun turned over, picked up the alarm clock from the bedside table, and checked the time.
At 6:30 in the morning, the sky was still not fully bright. Through the gap in the curtains, one could still see the dark sky behind the wall.
creak—
"Big brother, why are you here so early?"
“Unlike you, we don’t get paid for our days off. Your older brother and I have to move the whole house today, and we have to go out to work and earn money tomorrow…” It was the sarcastic voice of Qiu Zhifang, the eldest sister-in-law.
Chen Yun rolled her eyes speechlessly, tied her hair up haphazardly, and quickly got out of bed to get dressed.
They didn't finish dividing the house until almost midnight last night, and they can't wait to move in just a few hours later. They must have started packing right away...
Gao Ming sighed.
"Then you guys move to the room next door first, Chen Yun and I need to tidy up."
"Then hurry up."
Chen Yun, who was already dressed, turned around and went to her desk to open a drawer and pack up her valuables.
"Take the child to your parents' room to continue sleeping, and I'll get ready and go wake my parents."
Chen Shu and Xu Cuihua's house is also going to be moved to the last room. I came back too late last night and didn't even have time to tell them about the division of the family property.
"I'll call Li Huguo over to help."
Gao Ming quickly wiped his face, put on his clothes, and hurriedly picked up Gao Nian'an to go find someone to help.
"Sister-in-law, you'd better hurry!"
No sooner had Gao Ming left than Qiu Zhifang began urging him on, her high-pitched voice filled with an undeniable excitement.
This must be the true nature of Sister-in-law Qiu Zhifang. Over the years, she managed to keep even Gao Tiejun and Dong Qiaoying from noticing anything amiss. Her methods are truly remarkable!
Chen Yun didn't reply; instead, his subordinates quickened their packing.
"Xiao Liang, from now on you'll live in this room with your younger brother. You won't have to do your homework in the main room anymore. Aren't you happy?"
"Liangliang's dad, we'll go pick up Xiaoyi after we finish moving."
“Xiao Yi is so young and he’s already working to pay off debts. Besides, we haven’t even seen the money… he’s just doing free labor for others.”
"What are you glaring at me for! What did I say wrong?"
"You're such a coward."
"From now on, the four of us can eat whatever we want. Mom will go buy meat tonight."
Chen Yun quickly packed up the things in the room amidst these sarcastic and sarcastic remarks.
Fortunately, I hadn't been in the North City for long and hadn't bought much stuff to begin with.
The clothes and other items could be taken away along with the wardrobe, but the biggest things to pack up were the toys and books scattered all over the floor by the two children.
Li Huguo and Ruanqiu arrived quickly, and Jiang Heping and his wife, still half asleep, joined in the help when they heard the commotion.
During this time, Qiu Zhifang also sarcastically remarked that Gao Ming was popular, implying that Jiang Heping and Li Huguo were good at flattery.
"It's only been one night, how come your sister-in-law is like a completely different person?"
Ruanqiu and Chen Yun shared the same sentiment, which would shock anyone.
Qiu Zhifang, whose lips fly up and down, constantly spewing out sarcastic remarks, is practically a carbon copy of Aunt Liu.
"It's good that we separated." Chen Yun blinked.
The room was quickly emptied, and when they tried to dismantle the bed and move it away, Qiu Zhifang stopped them.
"Don't move the bed! I haven't taken the bed out of my room. The beds are all about the same size, so it'll save me the trouble of changing them."
Chen Yun thought these words were the same as what he said last night about not being able to move out of the main house.
"We just bought the bed ourselves," Chen Yun replied with a smile, then held out her hand: "If you want it cheaper, I can sell it to you."
“We’re brothers, why are you so petty?” Qiu Zhifang turned his head and angrily threw two chairs next to the bed. “You used to pretend to be generous, but now you don’t.”
Chen Yun felt that... Qiu Zhifang's appearance seemed to have changed as well.
Everything was moved to the front yard, but they couldn't bring it inside immediately.
"This house is so dirty!" Ruanqiu covered her nose and retreated from the house, waving her right hand incessantly. "Was it always this dirty, or did they do it on purpose?"
Most of the people in the courtyard had been woken up and were standing in front of the Gao family's house to watch the commotion.
Aunt Liu muttered to her eldest son, Gao Quan, with a look of schadenfreude on her face.
"I thought the two sons of the Gao family had a very good relationship!"
"In the end, she turned her back on you. Gao Fei's wife is really ruthless! Is she planning to cut off all contact between the two brothers?"
As soon as you enter the room, you can smell a very strong odor of urine.
It was as if the whole room had been soaked in urine; large areas of the wall plaster had peeled off, and the floor was sticky with some unknown substance.
"How long has it been since Gao Fei and his wife cleaned the house?"
Gao Tiejun entered the room and then came back out, his expression no less shocked than the others.
It's not appropriate for parents-in-law to enter their daughter-in-law's room, but judging from how diligent Qiu Zhifang used to be at home, she doesn't seem like the kind of person who's too lazy to even tidy up her room.
"It was the spittoon under the bed that fell over," Gao Ming said with a stern face.
Whether it was intentional or not is another matter, but even the curtains in the room had been taken down, leaving only a broken bed with bricks propping up the legs and a spittoon that hadn't been emptied in who knows how long.
"I'll go call Gao Fei and Qiu Zhifang to come and clean up." Gao Tiejun walked away with a grim expression.
Aunt Luo hadn't even had time to comb her hair when she poked her head into the house, took a sniff, and immediately retreated in disgust.
His disheveled hair looked even more messy as he shook his head.
"I didn't realize that!"
Chen Yun's lips curled up, full of sarcasm: "Don't say your aunt didn't notice, I eat from the same pot with her every day and I didn't notice either."
"Luckily, we only found out after we separated. From now on, we'll each live our own lives and not care what she does!"
"Auntie, what's wrong?" Chen Yun then noticed that Aunt Luo's eye bags were almost hanging down to her cheekbones: "Heping came to return the car keys last night, it was already past 2 a.m., right?"
"Exactly! We didn't get back until midnight."
He casually smoothed his hair with both hands, rubbed his face, and twisted his neck. After doing this, he finally felt a bit more refreshed.
"To be honest, I was just looking for trouble. Why did I have to go and see this joke?"
Even after taking a nap, Aunt Luo still felt tired.
"How is Grandma Jia's daughter-in-law doing?" Chen Yun asked curiously.
"Don't rush to talk about the daughter-in-law." Aunt Luo pursed her lips and pointed her thumb toward Grandma Jia's room: "They originally agreed to get married today, see if there's any movement in their room."
"Not planning on getting married?" Ruanqiu leaned closer and asked curiously.
"What's the point of getting married... Aunt Jia almost fainted from anger yesterday, thankfully the doctor at the hospital pressed her philtrum and she came back to life..."
On the other hand, although Aunt Luo felt tired, she was truly happy.
Last night, everyone rushed Wu Zhaodi to the hospital. After asking about her symptoms, the emergency room doctor ordered several tests.
Grandma Jia was heartbroken when she handed over the money.
When the blood test results came back, it was confirmed that Wu Zhaodi was not pregnant at all. Grandma Jia almost collapsed when she saw the results.
This was just the beginning; after several tests, the doctor told us to be hospitalized immediately.
Just like Chen Yun said, the uterine fibroids were compressing her intestines, and Wu Zhaodi was also diagnosed with moderate anemia. The doctor suspected that there was bleeding in her abdomen and that they needed to find the bleeding point as soon as possible.
More and more people gathered around to listen to what happened next, and Aunt Luo became more and more enthusiastic as she spoke.
Good heavens!
"You didn't hear what the doctor said! It can be cured, but it will cost a lot of money."
"This time, Aunt Jia is going to suffer a huge loss. She'll probably have to spend most of the money that Yan Jun paid for her leg injury."
Grandma Jia was unwilling to spend that money to save Wu Zhaodi. She felt that paying the hospitalization and treatment fees was more than enough. After paying the hospitalization fees, she wanted to pull Yan Jun away from the hospital.
"Wu Zhaodi would never agree to let Yan Jun take the life-saving money; she insisted on an explanation... Guess what happened?"
Then she continued, "Wu Zhaodi said that Yan Jun tricked her into getting a divorce. If Grandma Jia didn't take care of her, she would go to the police station to report Yan Jun for raping women. She also accidentally revealed a big secret!"
It turned out that just a few days after Grandma Jia and her son arrived at their daughter's house, Yan Jun encountered Wu Zhaodi, who was heavily pregnant and washing clothes, by the pond at the village entrance.
Wu Zhaodi's first husband was a gambler who would beat people whenever he was in a bad mood.
Later, no one knows how the two fell in love, and Yan Jun even secretly gave Wu Zhaodi advice on how to get a smooth divorce.
Before coming to Beicheng, Wu Zhaodi thought she had met a great man who was willing to marry her even when she was pregnant. Before leaving, he took all the money in the house and gave it to Yan Jun as their savings.
As a result, after Grandma Jia returned to Beicheng, she and her son had an argument, and only then did she learn the truth.
Yan Jun not only became lame in the car accident, but also developed the inability to have children; otherwise, the other party would never have paid such a large sum of money in compensation.
Back then, Old Man Yan didn't mention it to save face for his son, and even the neighbors in the courtyard didn't know.
This is why Grandma Jia was willing to turn against Aunt Luo to agree to Yan Jun's marriage to Wu Zhaodi, and even had already come up with an excuse to send her away to have a baby.
Yan Jun hadn't even found a new place to live when Wu Zhaodi's stomach pain caused the whole thing to spill out.
Grandma Jia and Yan Jun had no choice but to accept it, as they not only had to pay for Wu Zhaodi's medical treatment, but also had to take care of her at the hospital.
As for whether Yan Jun would still be willing to marry Wu Zhaodi after he recovered... Aunt Luo thought it was doubtful.
"I have to go to my cousin's house later to tell her about this. My cousin is really lucky not to have married Yan Jun."
"It really is a good thing," Chen Yun thought.
It's one thing if she can't have children, but if it also affects her sex life... it's practically ruining a young woman's future.
"Gao Liang is here!" Aunt Luo said with a smile, pointing down the corridor.
Neither Gao Fei nor Qiu Zhifang came; instead, Gao Fei, carrying a mop and with a flushed face, followed behind Gao Tiejun.
"Second Uncle, Second Aunt, I'm sorry."
With so many eyes watching, Gao Liang managed to squeeze out a few words with great difficulty, and then rushed into the house.
“It seems… it was intentional.” Chen Yun shrugged and turned to Gao Ming, saying, “Don’t rush to move in. How about we get someone to paint the walls and rewire the electrical system?”
Gao Ming looked up and saw that the sky was a clear blue, not like it was going to rain.
"Okay! We can move it in after it's been airing out for half a day."
"I'll go inside to help Xiao Liang, so we can finish quickly and move in as soon as possible."
Dong Qiaoying also went into the house to clean, but her dejected appearance made people feel quite bad.
With her two sons fighting like this, the ones who must be the most heartbroken are her and Gao Tiejun.
Since the walls were to be painted, Gao Ming also found a craftsman to replace the window glass in the house and also chisel out a window for the side room.
While the men busied themselves with housework, Chen Yun and Ruan Qiu went out to buy pots, pans, and utensils.
On this day, Chen Yun and Gao Ming still couldn't move into the new house.
Gao Ming felt that since he was going to redo it, he might as well do a proper renovation, so he hired a contractor to re-lay cement floors in the house.
Chen Yun and her child temporarily moved to Chen Shu and Xu Cuihua's house to sleep.
Gao Ming stayed at her in-laws' house for a few days.
Inside Chen Shu's house.
"Dad, when did you buy this vase?"
I had just finished making the bed when I turned around and was immediately drawn to the porcelain vase with a plum blossom pattern on the desk.
Not only were there vases, but also a sandalwood brush holder, and a screen painted with mountains and rivers placed in the middle of the room, which perfectly separated the two beds.
The room exudes an air of "elegance".
“Your Uncle Sun made this vase himself.” Xu Cuihua took off her reading glasses and gently touched the wildflowers in the vase with a finger. “He also gave your father a set of ancient paintings by Mr. Fan Zeng. Look at him…”
“We also need to think about what gifts to give back to Old Sun,” Chen Shu said.
Xu Cuihua loves traditional Chinese painting, and Chen Shu's skill in mounting ancient paintings is unparalleled. In his early years, when he was still working at the school, he was invited by many museums to restore ancient paintings.
The incomplete ancient painting given to him by Uncle Sun seemed to awaken his memories. Even though he hadn't repaired it for many years, his hands moved with effortless grace.
"If we were still in Taicheng, we could just send over any seal that Old Sun likes," Xu Cuihua said casually.
He then picked up the brush again, gently rolling the tip around on the inkstone, and said in a very soft voice, "I need to find some time to go back."
Chen Shu didn't hear him. He was bent over and focused on brushing paste with a brush, his wrist hovering steadily in the air without the slightest tremor.
"..."
Grandpa's focus seemed to influence the two curious children.
The two of them were leaning over the desk, but after Chen Yun reminded them, they moved back to the opposite side of the desk and stared at their grandfather as he scribbled something they couldn't understand.
After watching for a while, Gao Nian'an lost interest and tiptoed quietly out of the room from behind the table.
The younger Gao Nianping, however, watched intently, his eyes fixed on the water scoop, as if even his breathing had become synchronized with his grandfather's.
"Mom, look at Nianping!" Chen Yun couldn't help but soften her breathing as well.
“Let them do the work.” Xu Cuihua pointed to the chair next to her: “Sit down, Mom has something to tell you.”
"You and Dad want to go back?"
"We are going back," Xu Cuihua sighed. "But we're just going back to deal with our old house and our belongings."
Chen Yun felt somewhat relieved.
Neighbors who kick you when you're down are not worth keeping, and Chen Yun certainly didn't want her parents to go back to Taicheng.
"Gao Ming asked his old comrade-in-arms to look after our house. Uncle Luo is also here. We can deal with it slowly later."
“I’m worried.” Xu Cuihua lowered her voice: “There are still a lot of valuable things buried in the house. Your father and I plan to dig them up and sell them all to make money.”
Chen Yun: "..."
“That year, your father’s student got wind of the news in advance and secretly came to our house to warn us. That night, we hid all our valuables in the dry well in the backyard… and later buried them under the woodshed.”
In the original owner's memories, the antiques that were burned were not actually valuable; the truly valuable ones had already been hidden away.
My parents really kept it a secret; they didn't even find out about the original owner of this body for over a decade.
"Exchange money?" Chen Yun noticed this word in addition to the fact that there was a treasure at home, and she was even more puzzled: "If you need money, just tell me and I will get you some money in a while."
“We’re not short of money.” Xu Cuihua smiled, her gaze falling on Chen Yun’s face. “It’s not good for your father and me to be idle every day, so we’ve both found ourselves something to do…”
Initially, they were invited by old friends to return to teaching at the university, but they refused. Chen Shu and Xu Cuihua were too deeply hurt by the students they had reported, and neither of them wanted to teach anymore.
Later, an old friend introduced Chen Shu to the curator of the Beicheng Museum. The curator greatly admired Chen Shu's skills in restoring ancient paintings, so he invited him to work at the museum to restore ancient paintings.
Chen Shu was very interested; the ancient painting his old friend had given him was for practice.
“I plan to open a traditional Chinese painting training class with your Uncle Sun, to teach people how to paint traditional Chinese paintings,” Xu Cuihua said.
"That won't cost much!"
"Your father and I are planning to buy two houses in Beicheng." Xu Cuihua gently tucked a stray hair behind Chen Yun's ear and said in a gentle voice, "We didn't prepare any dowry for your wedding, so we have to leave you something."
It felt as if a bucket of hot water had been poured over her head, scalding Chen Yun and making her heart churn and her eyes involuntarily sting.
“I know Gao Ming can make money. The house is for you alone. It will be your fallback plan in the future… Of course, I hope that day never comes.”
"Mom." Chen Yun opened her mouth, her eyes immediately reddening.
"Silly girl." Xu Cuihua was also a little sad, and tears welled up in her eyes first: "Your father always blames himself for ruining you. Now that you are living a good life, we can finally rest easy."
She was pampered and spoiled as a child, but later her hands were covered in manure. She followed the couple every day, pushing the manure cart, without complaint.
The daughter who always had a sad face is now a mother of two and has a husband she can rely on, which finally brings some comfort to Chen Shu and Xu Cuihua.
Now that their daughter's life is on track, the elderly couple can finally relax and do what they love.
“I’ll take Nianping to the training class when you go to work, and then I’ll trouble your parents-in-law to take care of her when she starts kindergarten next year.”
Xu Cuihua and Chen Shu had already arranged a time to buy a small house and move out once they received the money, while they would choose their daughter's dowry later.
By then, Gao Tiejun will be nearing retirement, and the responsibility of picking up and dropping off the children can be handed over to him.
"You and Dad are busy with your own things. Nianping will be temporarily taken care of by Ruanqiu for a few months."
“It’s not good to keep bothering others…” Xu Cuihua suddenly looked up at the window and was instantly startled by the face pressed against the window: “Why aren’t you saying anything while you’re standing there!”
Qiu Zhifang pouted, put her hands in her pockets, and turned to leave.
"How could there be no sound at all!" Xu Cuihua patted her chest, which was pounding wildly with fear. "From now on, let's all speak more quietly."
Fortunately, the windows in the room had been replaced, so Qiu Zhifang could hardly hear what the two were saying.
She pressed herself against the window... Was she trying to read their lips as they spoke?
The mere thought sent chills down Chen Yun's spine.
brush--
Xu Cuihua stood up and forcefully pulled the curtains shut.
***
Neonatal Department, Workers' Hospital.
The newly added metal sign at the entrance of the department reflected a cold light. Although it was only a little past seven in the morning, family members were already waiting at the entrance of the delivery room.
Chen Yun walked past the anxious family members and pushed open the door to the nursery, where even the sound of her footsteps was exceptionally clear.
He entered the changing room to change into a brand-new dark blue short-sleeved work uniform, and then put on the white coat that had been passed down to Chen Yun for who knows how many years.
Once she put on her mask, the only way to identify her was by the gold nameplate on her chest that read "Head of Neonatal Department".
"Director Chen, you've arrived."
The nurse on duty had dark circles under her eyes. Zhang Xue, who had just been transferred from the cardiology department, nodded listlessly and greeted them.
"The premature baby in incubator number one has stable vital signs. The little one's milk intake has increased from 12 ml to 35 ml. Yesterday, the baby drank a total of... but the baby is crying a lot."
The two nurses and Chen Yun were currently focused on the baby in incubator number one... Zhang Xue wasn't busy, but rather bored and tired.
"You can go home after you finish your shift," Chen Yun said.
After disinfecting his hands, he walked to the incubator, skillfully opened the side window, then pulled it back in, rubbed his hands together several times, and then put them inside again.
The warm air from the incubator was overwhelming, and a hand gently covered the baby's chest, which rose and fell rhythmically.
These tiny lives, so fragile they dared not exert any force, are growing so tenaciously.
The child is a little girl, and the parents are so worried about her that they haven't had time to name her yet.
Chen Yun suddenly frowned: "Did you check the child's breathing yesterday?"
“It seems…” Zhang Xue hurriedly flipped through yesterday’s examination records, and after scanning them quickly, her expression suddenly changed: “I forgot… I forgot to have the examination.”
“There are no moist rales in the lungs.” Chen Yun released her hand, her voice carrying an undeniable penetrating force: “The baby was admitted to the nursery because of amniotic fluid contamination, and you even forgot the most important checkup?”
The baby was born weighing only 3.2 pounds, which is not only too light, but also caused amniotic fluid contamination.
Chen Yun's biggest concern was neonatal pneumonia, so she focused on monitoring the baby's breathing after the baby was placed in the incubator.
As it turned out, her judgment was indeed correct. The child developed a low-grade fever on the day of the transfer, which is why Xue Ruzhi agreed to sign the transfer papers.
Fortunately, the treatment was timely, and the fever subsided that day, with no lung infection developing.
"It was my oversight," Zhang Xue quickly apologized.
Although she kept a close eye on the child, she became lax because she was so bored that she had no room for explanation.
"Let's hand over the shift first." Chen Yun was still gently patting the baby in the incubator with one hand. The baby had just opened its eyes and moved its lips a few times before quickly falling asleep again. "I will write a detailed work process and provide unified training later."
"yes."
Ren Qin, being an obstetrics and gynecology nurse, had some understanding of infant care procedures. Zhang Xuexin, on the other hand, dealt most with elderly patients in internal medicine and was more skilled at measuring blood pressure and blood sugar.
Chen Yun only wanted her to realize the serious problems that negligence could cause, but did not propose any punishment.
"Xiao Zhang is off work!"
Ren Qin, who was on the early shift, waved with a smile to Zhang Xue, who had a long face; the two women's expressions were completely opposite.
"Good morning, Director Chen."
"morning."
Compared to the inexperienced Zhang Xue, Ren Qin was much more adept at her new job.
Adding to her joy was the good news she heard from a friend she met at the hospital entrance that morning.
"Are we getting a new doctor for our department?" Chen Yun asked.
"That's not all." Ren Qin changed into her work clothes, disinfected her hands, and then lifted the small blanket covering the incubator before raising an eyebrow and saying mysteriously, "You'll find out what the good news is in a little while."
"You're acting all mysterious now," Chen Yun said, shaking his head with a smile.
Next, we will conduct various follow-up examinations, feeding, and diaper changes for baby number one.
I had just finished my work when the office landline rang...
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