Not long after Lu Changzheng woke up, the effect of the anesthetic had not yet worn off and he fell asleep again.
Liu Meiyu took care of him in the hospital for half the night, wiping his body and cleaning him up until the late night when she lay down beside the bed and took a nap.
"mother"
Liu Meiyu heard her son's cry while she was half asleep. She opened her eyes and saw the originally deserted ward. Dabao and a few others were led by Lu Wanjun and were surrounding the bed.
"Dad, you won't die, right?" Lu Xiaobao stood in front of the bed with a listless expression. He looked at his father lying in bed, who looked a little strange since he hadn't seen him for a month, with a frown on his face and a look of concern.
The eldest and second child also rushed to ask.
Erbao: "Dad, is your leg broken?"
Dabao: "Dad, did you also fight with someone?"
Three big guys were chattering around him. Before Lu Changzheng could say anything, Liu Meiyun was annoyed by their noise, so she pulled the three brothers to her side and answered for Lu Changzheng: "Dad is not going to die, he just hurt his leg and needs to rest for a while. Dad got hurt at work, he is a hero, not fighting. Be good, let dad rest well, don't bother him, wait until he recovers, then I will play with you again."
"Yes, Mom, we are good." Dabao nodded his head first and answered for his younger brothers.
"Did they fight?"
Liu Meiyu wanted Lu Changzheng to rest in peace, but Lu Changzheng was a restless person. He understood from the three brothers' words that they must have been making a fuss again during the time when he was away from home.
"Fighting is very normal." Lu Wanjun handed the couple the breakfast she had just bought from the state-owned hotel and explained what had happened in a few words.
At the end, he didn't even bother to mock her: "You had a lot of fights when you were a kid."
"Aunt, I never bullied the weak when I was a child." Lu Changzheng defended himself.
After the defense, he was about to teach the three kids a lesson with a serious face, but Liu Meiyu glared at him, blew a spoonful of porridge to block his mouth, and said, "Okay, you just came back, don't teach the children, so that the children won't say you are their stepfather. Besides, they used the advantage of being more numerous to bully the lesser to beat Erbao before, but they were not as strong as Xiaobao. I have paid for the medical expenses and apologized. You should get well soon before you teach them a lesson."
Xiao Bao had just eaten with his aunt at a state-owned restaurant, but while his mother was feeding his father, she eagerly came over, licked her tongue and asked, "Dad, when will you get better?"
"It will be soon." Lu Changzheng touched Xiaobao's head, thinking that Xiaobao had grown up and felt sorry for him.
Then Xiaobao said, "Dad, please get well soon. Mom said she can only stew the goose after you come home."
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The corners of Lu Changzheng's mouth twitched. He felt that not only the wound hurt, but also his chest hurt.
"You three stay here for a while. After you see Dad, go home with me. Mom will stay in the hospital to take care of Dad. You just listen to me."
It would be bad if Lu Changzheng was left alone to take care of him. Liu Meiyun would not feel at ease even if there was a nurse, so she definitely could not take care of the three children at home.
"Yes, Mom, Xiaobao will definitely be good."
"Erbao is also very good!"
The second and the youngest babies expressed their opinions immediately, but the eldest baby whined and snuggled in his mother's arms, looking a little reluctant.
But no matter how reluctant you are, you still have to follow your aunt home when the time comes.
The three brothers still had to go to kindergarten, and if they were all crowded in the ward, Lu Changzheng’s injuries might not recover for two or three months.
Because it was a single ward, Liu Meiyu lived in the ward and took care of the man almost 24 hours a day.
They feed the babies when they are hungry, pour water for them when they are thirsty, read newspapers to them when they are bored, and supervise them to take medicines on time for three meals a day, which saves the hospital nurses a lot of worry.
Battalion Commander Lu, who enjoyed his wife's meticulous care every day, felt a little dizzy and didn't want his legs to heal so quickly.
The concern in my daughter-in-law's eyes these days is unprecedented.
Lu Changzheng felt an unprecedented level of satisfaction.
But at noon that day, when Lu Changzheng woke up from a nap and did not see his wife in the ward, he felt uncomfortable all over.
He asked all the doctors and nurses who came in and out of the ward to check on him and change his dressings, but no one knew where Liu Meiyun had gone.
Lu Changzheng couldn't move his legs, so he could only lie in bed and worry.
Liu Meiyu, who did not take her brief absence seriously, was now wandering around the black market in Huludao City.
Ever since the doctor said that Lu Changzheng could eat some nourishing food normally, Liu Meiyun thought about making big bone soup for him to improve his diet.
The hospital cafeteria only serves a few dishes every day, and very few of them are oily. Liu Meiyu has gotten tired of eating them these past two days, let alone eating more. The supply and marketing cooperative doesn't even wait for her every day. Not to mention pork bones, even pig offal are quickly sold out without a ticket, and queuing up takes too much time.
The Huludao black market was located in a sparsely populated alley on the outskirts of the city. Liu Meiyu pretended to be a little bit stupid and walked in to take a look. There were quite a few people inside, and there were people watching at both ends of the alley. It seemed that they had a strong sense of risk prevention.
There were quite a few people selling things inside, all wrapped up tightly, squatting at the foot of the wall. Liu Meiyun turned around and saw a man in shabby clothes with a broken porcelain bowl in front of him. There were a few pig hairs in the bowl. She immediately understood what was going on and walked up to him and asked, "Brother, how are you selling this?"
Hearing Liu Meiyu's voice, the man was stunned, and raised the brim of his hat back, with a look of surprise: "Girl?"
Liu Meiyu was also surprised for a moment when she saw that somewhat familiar face.
"Brother Yao?" She greeted in a low voice and glanced at the man.
He was not as fierce as the time they met in the state-owned hotel a few years ago. Moreover, after working as an educated youth in the countryside for a few years, he did not get much tanned by the wind and sun. His eyes were still bright and he had the unyielding spirit that Liu Meiyu was familiar with.
"Are you here to buy meat?" Yao Shunliu pulled the man to a corner.
"Yeah," Liu Meiyu nodded.
"How much do you want?" Yao Shunliu thought Liu Meiyu was talking about pork again. He was about to say that he had connections, but Liu Meiyu waved her hands and said, "I'm buying it for myself. I can't get in line at the supply and marketing cooperative."
Yao Shunliu nodded, not showing any disappointment, and continued to ask: "Where do you want the meat? The supply and marketing cooperative charges 76 cents a pound and requires a ticket, but here it's 90 cents and doesn't require a ticket. I'll give it to you at the supply and marketing cooperative's price, and you don't need a meat ticket."
Knowing that Liu Meiyu was not short of money, Yao Shunliu did not say that he did not want money.
The money Liu Meiyun gave him in the state-owned hotel a few years ago was life-saving money, and that kindness could not be repaid with a few pounds of pork.
Moreover, in their line of work, Yao Shunliu always felt that only by not mixing personal relationships into business can friendships last long.
Even if he offered Liu Meiyu a discount, she might not accept it.
Yao Shunliu knew all about business, so Liu Meiyu naturally understood it better than him.
"Brother Yao, let's go by the market price. Can you help me get some shanks, the kind with bone marrow, and some pork belly as well?"
"Okay," Yao Shunliu nodded readily, put his hands in his sleeve pockets, and asked again: "Should I get it for you, or do you want to come with me? It's not far, just in the next alley, my wife is there too."
Liu Meiyun hesitated for a few seconds and said, "I'll go with you."
Yao Shunliu picked up the bowls on the ground and put them in his arms, and put the pig hair into his pocket. He nodded and led the way. Liu Meiyu followed him at a certain distance, and walked into an alley not far away after twists and turns. She saw the remote gatehouse at the end of the alley, which was shabby and old.
Liu Meiyun was waiting at the door.
Not long after Yao Shunliu entered the house, a woman came out. She should be older than Yao Shunliu, dressed simply, with gentle eyes and eyebrows, and holding a baby in her arms.
After a while, Yao Shunliu took out the things Liu Meiyu wanted using old newspapers and found a basket to put them in.
"Brother Yao, have you been there all this time?"
"Yes, I'll be here while the pigs are out of the pen." Yao Shunliu nodded. "If you want to eat by yourself, you can come here to find me directly. If I'm not here, my wife will pack it for you in advance."
"Is this your house?" Liu Meiyu took the pork and did not leave. She stood at the door and looked into the yard.
Although the outer wall of the yard looks shabby, the inside is quite clean.
"No, my wife's cousin's mother-in-law has moved to the countryside and asked us to help look for a house. I don't want to live in the city, but I want to earn some money for the baby's milk powder."
Liu Meiyu nodded, without asking any more questions, and went to the alley next to the hospital carrying the pork ribs and pork.
There was a family in the alley that she found when she went out in the morning. They were willing to lend her their stove and furnace room, but they only charged her some coal briquettes and firewood.
The family was very happy, and Liu Meiyu didn't want to bother Lu Wanjun's old comrade from the last birth, so she just gave them money and borrowed the coal stove to make bone soup for Lu Changzheng and stir-fry some pork belly. When she finished and took the hot soup to the hospital, Liu Meiyu saw the young nurses and even the doctor staring at her with strange eyes.
A young nurse had just come out of Lu Changzheng's ward after changing the medicine. She saw Liu Meiyun's eyes flashing with surprise, and then smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, you are finally back. Your wife has asked all the doctors and nurses in our hospital and is anxiously looking for you."
"Really?" Liu Meiyu smiled awkwardly, pushed the door open, and saw Lu Changzheng restlessly stretching his arms to reach for his crutch, with the infusion bottle on the shelf moving around. She hurried over and helped him get back to bed.
"What are you doing? Didn't the doctor say you can't move your legs for the time being?"
"Meiyun! Where did you go without even telling me?" Lu Changzheng grabbed his wife's arm. The expression on his face was exactly the same as the way Dabao usually stuck to her.
"I went out to make you lunch, I forgot to tell you." Liu Meiyun took out the lunch box and frowned, "Captain Lu, you are already an adult, why are you acting like your eldest son? It's broad daylight and I've only been gone for a short time, but you ask me one by one. Don't you think it's a joke?"
"What are you kidding?" Lu Changzheng said seriously, "You disappeared without saying anything, so of course I was worried. Can you tell me where you are going in the future?"
"Okay, okay, okay." Liu Meiyun saw that he was a patient and didn't bother with him. "Hurry up and eat. I have been waiting for more than an hour."
"Where did you get it?" Lu Changzheng held the bowl, took a sip, and fed it to his wife's mouth.
"It's at my friend's house, hurry up and eat it while it's hot. I've already eaten it, so don't waste time. I'll wash the dishes after you finish eating."
As for which friend it was, Lu Changzheng wanted to dig deeper, but his wife glared at him fiercely and he immediately became obedient.
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