Chapter 243: Heart disease is difficult to cure
When it was time to go to bed at night, Dandan started to make a fuss. It was time for him to feed, but there was no milk, so Wen Wan didn't dare let him touch her. He had already grown teeth, and if he couldn't suck out the milk, he would bite her. Wen Wan felt her scalp tingling when she thought of the pain she felt during the day.
I'm not hungry. I just had a meal and ate quite a lot. Just as Lu Dongping said, I'm addicted.
As soon as Wen Wan hugged him, he snuggled into her arms, scratching at Qiu Yi with his two little paws for food.
Lu Dongping rolled over from Wen Wan and scooped the kid into his arms with a big hand. It was too dark to see, so he reached out and slapped him on the butt: "Go to sleep quickly. If you cry again, I'll take care of you."
Dandan didn't understand, but he knew he couldn't get any more milk, and now his mother was gone. He was whimpering at first, but now he was completely relieved and burst into tears.
Lu Dongping was so annoyed by him that he wanted to pick him up and throw him away.
When he had cried enough and was ready to sleep, he peed and farted again. Wen Wan thought he had eaten too much at night and was afraid he would poop in the middle of the night, so she got up to clean up for him. Lu Dongping didn't let her, but got up and carried him to the basin to pee. Dandan, who had just peed, was very resistant to this position, but his arms were no match for his thighs, and his face turned red. Instead of pooping, he pooped.
Lu Dongping took care of him and tucked him into bed, but he was completely frozen.
Wen Wan was extremely sleepy and felt completely dazed. As soon as he came up, the coldness from his body woke her up completely.
Lu Dongping pulled her into his arms and kissed her on the forehead: "Go to sleep, if you don't have milk, then you don't have milk, don't think too much."
"Mom doesn't seem very happy."
Feeling a little warmer, Lu Dongping sighed deeply, "Don't worry about her whether she's happy or not. The child is yours, who wouldn't want to feed him? It's not intentional. Now that he's weaned, you can leave him at home if you're worried. After all, there's not much to do in winter except clearing wasteland. People usually go to the fields after breakfast. Isn't that how my uncle's family raises their children on New Year's Day? If you're worried, then take care of him. If I don't have any missions over there and don't need to go out to the team, I can help watch over him."
Wen Wan nestled in his arms and muttered, "Will you be angry if I say I'm worried?"
Lu Dongping's body was no longer so cold, so he reached out and patted her on the butt: "When have I ever been angry with you? I just feel sorry for you and think you're working too hard. Look at this, it's so thin that I dare not use force, for fear that it will be broken if I use force." As he said, his rough big hand actually reached in and grasped her waist, and he was able to really hold it because of her thin waist.
This handshake is out of control.
In the middle of the night, Dandan woke up again. Wen Wan got up to help him pee, and Lu Dongping got up to mix some malted milk for him. This used to be Wen Wan's daily ration, but she didn't drink it much after having the child, so she saved it and gave it to him. It wasn't that she couldn't afford it, but it was because milk powder and malted milk were so difficult to get, and they weren't always available even with money.
As a result, I took two sips and fell asleep again.
So, this is a habit, if he eats a full meal before going to bed, he won’t be hungry at night.
The next morning, as usual, the couple got up, washed, and then wrapped the balls and tied them on their backs with a strap.
School started early, with morning exercises at 6:40. The deeper the winter, the later the dawns, leaving them tumbling into the dark every morning. Lu Dongping suffered the most. The armed forces didn't require such early arrivals. Before Wen Wan went to the commune, he'd arrive early every morning, sometimes even having breakfast at home. Later, that became impossible, especially in winter. He simply couldn't bear the thought of Wen Wan walking to the commune alone in the dark, and now with a child, it was even more difficult.
Not long after going down the slope, he saw a figure swaying. Lu Dongping shone his flashlight and saw the face clearly. It was Xu Qingming.
"Seventh Brother, you're here so early?"
Xu Qingming hummed: "I can't sleep, get up and run."
Wen Wan sighed: "Even if you are blessed, you wouldn't even think about it. Why would you get up in the middle of the night to run? What's wrong with that?" Then she waved at him: "I won't talk to you anymore. We're leaving first."
Xu Qingming exchanged glances with Lu Dongping across the twilight of the early morning before speaking: "Go!"
After saying that, he slowly walked towards the educated youth point.
As they walked, Lu Dongping asked Wen Wan, "I heard you say before that your seventh brother was in the army?"
Wen Wan nodded: "My grandfather is a soldier, so is my uncle, and my cousins have been trained since they were young, and so was Xu Qi."
Having been in the army, no wonder he has such a strong ability to adapt. He doesn't sleep in the morning and gets up to run. He has done this before, both by himself and with Lu Dongcheng. But now, he has become decadent after getting married.
If he can't sleep, he can do something more meaningful than jogging.
Xu Qingming returned to the educated youth site. The people in the room were still asleep, snoring one after another.
He closed the door gently and went to the kitchen to light a fire.
The fire in the fire pit lit up, and the warmth instantly rose up, dispelling the coldness around.
But his heart was still cold.
He had just returned from the bullpen.
Zhang Yongmin is dying.
The Zhang family of four came from the provincial capital. They had no contact with him originally. But the year before, several children in the team threw stones at the child of the Zhang family, and the child was bleeding. Perhaps because the adults had warned him again and again, the child curled up on the edge of the embankment and dared not cry loudly. He couldn't bear it anymore, so he made an exception and sent the child back to the cowshed. After that, they became familiar with each other and roughly knew what was going on.
The whole family are high-level intellectuals. They were reported and dismissed for inappropriate speech, and then sent here for re-education.
Zhang Yongmin has been teaching and educating people for decades, and he has many students all over the world. However, he has come to this point, and he can't bear it, not only in life but also mentally.
I fell ill shortly after arriving here and have never recovered.
No one on the team dared to get too close to them. Zhang Huaiqing once went to Lu Dongping and asked him to help bring back some medicine. Lu Dongping would not refuse such a thing and bought the medicine, but Zhang Yongmin's illness was not just physical, but the most serious one was mental.
In addition, the environment in the cowshed was extremely harsh, and it was quite difficult for him to survive for such a long time while being sick.
Zhang Huaiqing quietly told him that he was already thinking of a way, and that there was hope for him to go back before and after the New Year, but it seemed that Zhang Yongmin could not wait any longer.
Xu Qingming was only familiar with the family, not a close friend. Seeing them reminded him of his own home, which was so far away that no one knew what was happening there. His greatest wish wasn't to return to the city, but to be together as a family, no matter where they were, a complete family. But that wish seemed impossible.
Zhang Yongmin died in the twelfth lunar month, the day before the final exams of elementary school.
The people in the bullpen were special, with bad backgrounds. Even though they had been on the team for quite some time, no one dared to approach them, as if they were germs, afraid of getting infected. So no one knew Zhang Yongmin was seriously ill, and no one knew he had died. After all, he had looked sick since he arrived.
Zhang Huaiqing found Lu Mingqing.
He didn't dare to trouble the people in the team easily, but his father had passed away and he had to bury him in peace.
There was no need to be too particular. Lu Mingqing, Lu Dongping and a few others went to find a place on the hill not far from the cowshed. They didn't think about the coffin or anything like that. Zhang Huaiqing found a washed-out Zhongshan suit for Zhang Yongmin to wear. It was his best suit, which he had worn when he was teaching at school and had worn for many years.
Zhang Yongmin's wife Liu Huiying passed away at the same time as Zhang Yongmin. She had just been buried and hanged herself that night.
Wen Wan knew that Zhang Yongmin was dead, but she didn't know that Liu Huiying had also followed him so resolutely, dying in the same resolute way as Wang Pan'er.
She didn't bring Dandan to the final exam. As the twelfth lunar month arrived, everyone at home was free, so she left the child at home.
This was the first time she had been separated from Dandan since he was born. Although she felt a lot more relieved, she felt empty inside the whole day. When she was standing in the classroom supervising the exam, she could always faintly hear the child crying.
Although there were only two subjects, Chinese and arithmetic, the workload was not small, because the test questions had to be copied on the blackboard one by one and then the students had to copy them into their own notebooks before they could start working on the questions. So the two subjects were tested all day long, morning and evening. However, there was a math test in the afternoon, so the workload of writing on the blackboard was not that heavy, so it ended at 3:30.
Wen Wan sorted out the collected notebooks, and while the students were cleaning, she also had to clean up the office.
This semester is over. In a week, notices will be sent out, homework will be assigned, and there will be a summary of grades. Everything that needs to be taken back from the office must be taken back, such as the bedding on the bed. The quilt cover and sheets should be washed when the weather is good, and it would be even better if they are starched.
After packing up, she took a look and found that she couldn't carry it, so she locked the door and went to the Armed Forces Department.
Lu Dongping got off work early, and she was worried about Dandan at home, so she planned to leave first. She gave the key to Lu Dongping and told him what to bring back.
The weather was a bit chilly, and Wen Wan wrapped herself tightly in a scarf, feeling a bit stuffy when she walked. At a fork in the road, she ran into Zhou Dongmei from Zhou Minghong's family.
Seeing her, Zhou Dongmei waved from afar: "Teacher Wen!"
Wen Wan responded and waited for her there.
Wen Wan had originally taught Zhou Dongmei. Perhaps because the adults in her family were literate, this girl had a good foundation and was very smart, but she was a little impetuous. Her grades were good but not very stable, going up and down. Whenever she did well in an exam, she would inevitably do poorly the next time.
"Why are you alone? Where are the others?"
Zhou Dongmei said, "Zhou Jianmin doesn't want to go to school this year. Liu Daan and the others probably haven't finished their exams yet and haven't left school yet."
It's like this here. People are very indulgent about whether their children go to school or not. Most of them just want them to learn a few words, do math, recognize money and tickets, and write their own names. That's already good enough.
Zhou Jianmin was a mischievous person and didn't focus on his studies. When he got naughty, he was as naughty as Lu Donglin. It was only a matter of time before he stopped going to school. Wen Wan was not surprised.
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