Xu Jianguo followed Lu Jian's car back home. At this time, Lin Wan and Wen Sitian were cooking, while the three girls were playing hopscotch in the yard.
When several people saw Xu Jianguo coming back, they happily surrounded him and chattered non-stop around him.
Xu Jianguo touched the heads of the three girls, then took out a few fruit candies from his pocket and gave each of them two jellies before walking into the house.
"Auntie, thank you for your hard work!" Xu Jianguo said to Lin Wan with a smile.
"Hey, why are you being so polite, kid? I'm feeling bored at home. I'm so happy to have this opportunity to be with the children!" Lin Wan said with a smile.
After exchanging a few pleasantries, Lin Wan left on the pretext of going to the bathroom, leaving the kitchen space to the young couple.
"Jianguo, where are you staying tonight?" Wen Sitian asked.
"I'll stay at the commander's place tonight and take care of Mr. Su's health. Take care of yourself and don't worry about me!" Xu Jianguo tidied her hair and said with a smile.
"Well, you should just focus on your own things. You don't have to worry about your family!" Wen Sitian said with a smile.
"Of course, my wife is at home, so I feel completely at ease!" Xu Jianguo said with a smile.
"You're not doing it right!" Wen Sitian rolled her eyes at him.
The couple chatted in private for a while, then Xu Jianguo said hello to Lin Wan and the three maids, left home and walked towards Ma Guoliang's yard.
Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, Xu Jianguo took out from the space the things he had asked Fu Bo to prepare in advance: a box of century-old Moutai, a box of decades-old Xifeng, and six packs of Giant Panda cigarettes.
In order to avoid being seen by others, before leaving the shooting range, he specifically asked the ordnance department for a few army green wooden boxes containing guns and ammunition.
He asked Fu Bo to put straw under the box, then packed the cigarettes and alcohol into the box, and then appeared at Ma Guoliang's door holding the two boxes.
At this time, there were only Su Dingshan and Ma Guoliang in the room, while Tai Wei and the other two were in the guard room in the yard. When they saw Xu Jianguo walking in with the box, they all stood up and stepped forward to help.
After Tai Wei and the other two left, Su Dingshan asked, "Boy, what good stuff have you brought?"
"Hehe, Chief, come over and take a look and you'll know!" Xu Jianguo kept the secret and opened one of the wooden boxes on the table.
Su Dingshan was puzzled and stood up and walked over. When he saw what was in the box, a golden light suddenly shot out from his eyes and he directly grabbed a bottle of Moutai.
Ma Guoliang, who was standing aside, saw this scene and couldn't help but curl his lips. With a hint of bitterness in his tone, he said, "Good boy, didn't you say you had no wine last time?"
Xu Jianguo didn't care at all about his commander's resentful look. He waved his hand and said, "Commander, don't worry about these details! By the way, didn't you say last time that you wanted two more bottles of wine for the old man? Did you give them to him?"
When Ma Guoliang heard what Xu Jianguo said, he immediately wanted to step forward to stop him from talking, but it was too late. When he looked at Su Dingshan's eyes again, he shuddered all over and immediately said with a smile: "Old leader, please listen to my explanation..."
"You're so shameless, didn't you say you had no more wine?" Su Dingshan said.
"I... I thought you had a bad stomach, so I wanted you to drink less?" Ma Guoliang said.
"Oh? What? Have you changed your career to become a fortune teller? If I hadn't come this time, how would you know that I have a bad stomach?" Su Dingshan said unhappily.
"Uh... old leader, I was wrong!" Ma Guoliang glared at Xu Jianguo and said with some guilt.
"Hmph, let me save you some face in front of Jianguo. Where are the two bottles of wine?" Su Dingshan asked.
"Let me drink it!" Ma Guoliang continued.
"You little bastard, you drank such good wine?" Su Dingshan blew his beard and glared.
Xu Jianguo stood aside and watched with his mouth twitching. An old man in his seventies or eighties scolding a "little bastard" in his fifties or sixties was hilarious no matter how you looked at it.
Finally, Xu Jianguo couldn't bear to see Su Dingshan's grief-stricken look any longer, so he stepped forward to mediate and promised to give each of them two bottles of Yanghe Daqu the next day, which put smiles on the two men's faces again.
What he didn't know was that when he turned around and went into the kitchen to make fried peanuts, Ma Guoliang gave Su Dingshan a thumbs up, and Su Dingshan made an expression that said, "Don't you see who I am?"
Dinner was still served in lunch boxes from the cafeteria. This was something that Grandpa Su had specifically instructed, so there was nothing anyone could do. However, it was still okay to fry some peanuts. After all, there had to be some snacks to go with the wine, right?
However, due to Su Dingshan's stomach cancer, Xu Jianguo only allowed him to drink three cups, which made the old man very unhappy. After all, three cups of wine weighing three cents only added up to one or two taels of wine.
No matter what Su Dingshan said, Xu Jianguo just refused to give in. In the end, Xu Jianguo had no choice but to make many unequal promises against his conscience, which made the old man willingly obey the arrangements.
After drinking the first cup of Moutai, Su Dingshan's eyes lit up.
He was seen smacking his lips, constantly savoring the clearness and sweetness of the wine, with an expression of enjoyment on his face. From time to time, he looked at Xu Jianguo beside him with his resentful eyes.
However, Xu Jianguo knew what the old man was thinking. He just focused on eating and pretended not to notice. In his heart, he was complaining: "Tsk, as if everyone has been an old man before? I lived to be 78 years old in my previous life. How can I let you fool me?"
If he knew that the two of them had cheated him out of drinking alcohol, I wonder if he would still be able to sit still.
After dinner, Xu Jianguo used the remaining well water from lunch to make another pot of tea for the two of them, and then left Ma Guoliang's house on the pretext of going home to get something.
In the space medicine garden, Xu Jianguo was collecting herbs. He developed a series of treatment plans based on the old man's physical condition.
Gastric cancer is a chronic disease and can be treated last. The most urgent task is to remove the bullet in the old man's skull.
According to Ma Guoliang's description, Su Dingshan had not been able to have a good night's sleep for decades. Since the bullet was in the left side of his skull, in order not to put pressure on it, the old man could only lie flat or turn to the right.
But this is not the most painful thing. The most painful thing is that sometimes he is sleeping soundly, but suddenly he has a severe pain in his head.
When this pain occurred, he even had thoughts of committing suicide several times.
So what Xu Jianguo has to do today is to remove the bullet embedded in his skull and let this old man, who has not had a good sleep for decades, have a good sleep. This will also be of great help for subsequent treatment.
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