After she finished speaking, she left with light steps, almost jumping up in front of Duan Huaichuan.
Watching Li Qingqing's departing figure, Duan Huaichuan was filled with questions.
She hasn't come for two days already. Seeing how badly he's injured, isn't she going to stay with him?
Jiang Fu couldn't hold back any longer and laughed so hard the whole bed shook.
Duan Huaichuan glanced at him: "You don't even have a wife, what's so funny?"
Jiang Fu sat up straight: "No, it's probably because I'm a very single person. I can't stand having two women revolving around me."
Duan Huaichuan was like a pufferfish, so angry that he bristled with quills, but in the end he could only vent his anger on his own.
He can't afford to get so angry that he explodes.
Back home, Shu Ying was already preparing with the children to celebrate Xie Zhiyan's discharge from the hospital.
Yueyue and Yangyang even changed into new clothes, and Song Zhaodi busied herself preparing the meal.
"Mom, Dad hasn't seen the room we decorated yet. What color does he like? Let's go buy new sheets."
Yueyue got a new hairstyle today. Shuying tied her hair into a neat little ponytail, and her full back of the head made her look like a grown-up girl.
Shu Ying patted the spot next to her, and the two little ones ran over in unison: "We've bought everything we need. Have you two prepared any gifts for Daddy? Everyone will love a surprise."
Yueyue eagerly raised her hand: "I prepared flowers for Dad. Aunt Song took me to pick them. I wrapped them in yellow paper. They're very pretty. Dad will definitely like them."
Shu Ying tapped her small nose with one hand: "So good."
Yangyang tugged at Shuying's arm, showing off his gift like a precious treasure.
"Mom, I made a greeting card for Dad. It's a picture of our family. This is Dad, the middle ones are me and my sister, and the one on the far left is Mom."
The child's drawing is wonderful, and the colors are rich, but the lines are not very smooth. Yet Shuying can't get enough of it.
"It's like a family photo. How is Yangyang so smart?"
Song Zhaodi looked at the family with a smile, but unconsciously she also felt a little nervous.
She wondered if Xie Zhiyan could adapt to her temporarily living in his home as an outsider, and she was always bothered by the fact that she was disturbing Xie Zhiyan and Shu Ying.
After all, the couple hadn't seen each other for several years, and it was no different from when they were newlyweds.
As the family was making preparations with great fanfare, Li Dongfang, who happened to be passing by, came in.
"Sister-in-law, the commander just said that a relative of his is coming. Should we bring them over?"
Shu Ying was stunned. She went to the hospital every day, and Xie Zhiyan hadn't mentioned any relatives coming to visit recently.
"Is it that distant relative you mentioned before?"
Song Zhaodi wiped the water off her hands with her apron and looked at Shu Ying.
This did serve as a reminder to her.
Shu Ying slapped her head and followed him out the door: "Look at my memory, I forgot about this. They've already arrived so quickly? Let's meet them first. They're already here, it wouldn't be right to refuse them."
With Shu Ying's confirmation, Li Dongfang quickly had Ding Rumei brought over.
She was wearing a floral dress with patches on the cuffs, and her face was rosy. She looked a bit older than Song Zhaodi.
Shu Ying remembered that Huang Meiling had said this was her cousin's daughter, and she didn't want to be impolite, so she quickly went forward to greet her.
"You must be my cousin Ding? Mom already told me before you came, but she's been so busy lately that she didn't have time to pick you up from the station. Please don't mind, cousin. It's hot outside, come on in."
Although they are distant cousins, they still visit each other often and are still family. Xie Zhiyan is still in the hospital, and she has to hold on.
Ding Rumei spoke with a distinct rural accent: "I really didn't want to come to your place, but we're all relatives, and I heard my brother is in the hospital? I felt bad if I didn't come."
As she was speaking, she saw Song Zhaodi, who had come out to help. She was dressed in coarse cloth, but she didn't look like a country person. However, compared to Shu Ying, she didn't look like a city person either. After thinking about it for a while, she realized that the other party was probably also a hired nanny, and she immediately felt a sense of crisis.
Ding Rumei frowned. When she first came to the city, she boasted to the gossipy villagers that she was about to become a city dweller and was no longer an old maid who couldn't get married.
In the countryside, people her age are usually mothers of two, but she has never married, and many people gossip about her behind her back.
Having finally gotten a chance to leave that village, she straightened her back completely.
She went around telling everyone, "Although we're cousins, and the relationship is a bit distant, we're quite close. We always visit each other during holidays. My family is busy right now, so I have to go help out. I can also get a Beijing residency permit, and then I'll be a Beijing resident."
She spoke vividly, and several old women in the village laughed at her.
"I bet they want you to work as a nanny. How come I didn't know you had such a powerful relative? Don't fall for their tricks and end up losing all your money."
Ding Rumei's eyes were practically glued to the sky: "Of course you don't know our family members. My uncle and aunt are researchers. They're busy with their work and can't help their daughter-in-law take care of the children. My brother is a military officer. He's incredibly powerful in his unit, leading a lot of soldiers. I'm going there this time to serve the officer's wife."
Holding a fan in her hand, she seemed eager to make a scene, almost climbing up the big tree at the village entrance, her chest puffed out like a crowing rooster.
“My uncle and aunt have always been good to me since I was a child. Although I am not their biological daughter, they always think about me and send me a lot of money every month, afraid that I will suffer any grievances in the village. When I was in school, they said they would take me to Beijing, but I didn’t want to look at those literary things.”
She had been called an old maid by the village for so many years, but she finally got to hold her head high and was full of energy.
“My aunt has always wanted to introduce me to a job. Now that my brother is sick, she immediately asked me to come to their house. I'll just help out for a couple of days, and then I'll stay there once I find a suitable job. My brother also said he wants to introduce me to a military officer. We'll be seeing each other less and less in the future.”
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