Mu Ting: "Then let Dean Su reserve this company for you."
"I was just saying that."
Song Lan shook her head, indicating that she didn't need it.
...
Back in her dorm, Song Lan packed her luggage. As she walked downstairs, she saw a jeep driving up.
A moment later, the jeep slowly came to a stop two or three meters away from her.
The driver's side door opened, and out stepped none other than Mr. Chen's personal driver.
"Brother Wang, did Grandpa send you here?"
Song Lan used a declarative tone directly.
"Um."
Wang Haifeng was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, tall, with a square face and a very strong build. He nodded slightly and then said, "When the old leader received your call and learned that you would be leaving the hospital this afternoon, he instructed me to drive over and pick you up."
"I don't have much luggage."
Despite saying this, Wang Haifeng took the luggage from Song Lan. He put the luggage in the car, and seeing Song Lan sitting in the passenger seat, he asked, "Are we going back to the compound or..."
The car started, Wang Haifeng gripped the steering wheel and turned the car around, just as Song Lan said, "Back to the compound."
She went to the compound to pick up her parents and two sons, and at the same time said goodbye to Grandpa Chen and his wife.
After all, we have to head to the train station after breakfast tomorrow.
The Chen family.
"When the weather gets a little better, your mother and I will go to the village again."
Knowing that she would be leaving Beijing early tomorrow morning, Li Jumei invited the elderly couple, Mrs. Chen and her husband, to stay in Shisong Village for a while. After hearing what she said, before Mrs. Chen could speak, Mr. Chen immediately replied.
The weather is still cold, and Mr. Chen is worried that Mrs. Chen's health cannot withstand it, so he can only temporarily refuse Li Jumei's offer.
"Then let's wait until early April for you and Mom to come to the village. The weather will be warm then, and you and Mom can stay in the countryside to recuperate."
Song Sanhe said with a smile.
Grandpa Chen smiled broadly and replied, "Okay."
Grandma Chen was happily playing with her second child, whom she was holding in her arms. Then, she looked at Grandpa Chen with disdain and said, "If you're afraid of the cold, just say you're afraid of the cold. Don't use the excuse that my body can't handle it."
Upon hearing this, Old Master Chen burst out laughing: "You guessed it!"
Grandma Chen rolled her eyes: "Don't I know you well enough?"
Unsurprisingly, Old Master Chen's laughter, which had just stopped, rang out again.
Song Sanhe and Li Jumei couldn't help but laugh out loud.
As for the first and third wives, needless to say, the first wife, Chen Changzheng, and his wife set off for the city where they work on the first day of the Lunar New Year after New Year's Eve.
The third couple, Chen Changqing and his wife, went out together with Chen Changzheng and his wife on the afternoon of the first day of the Lunar New Year. He was going back to his military unit so that he could leave early on the second day of the Lunar New Year to go to the grassroots level.
Zhang Hua went back to her parents' home to visit relatives on the second day of the Lunar New Year, and has not yet returned to the Chen family.
Therefore, at this moment, only Grandpa Chen and his wife, Song Sanhe and his wife, and their two babies, Da Bao and Er Bao, were in the living room.
Qinglan entered the living room, greeted Grandpa Chen and the others one by one, and then said to Grandpa Chen and his wife:
"Grandpa and Grandma, I came here partly to say goodbye and partly to pick up my parents and take them back to my hometown."
"No rush, it's not too late to go back to your place after dinner. Come and sit down."
Grandma Chen invited Song Lan to sit down next to her.
"You're always so restless. You just finished work here and you're already rushing back. Did your boss call to urge you to come back?"
Old Master Chen's tone was full of heartache. Upon hearing this, Song Lan shook her head: "Dean Yu did not call me. However, I learned from Dean Su that our Dean Yu has been urging him to let me go back."
With a smile playing on her lips, Song Lan paused for a moment before continuing, "My return tomorrow is not because I'm in a hurry to get back to work. There are a few patients who need follow-up appointments before the New Year, and quite some time has already passed since then. I must go back as soon as possible to check on their current condition."
"It's good to be responsible, but remember not to overwork yourself."
Grandpa Chen said earnestly, "Health is the foundation of everything. If your health collapses, everything you do will be in vain."
"You're right, I'll keep that in mind."
Song Lan smiled and nodded, indicating that she had taken Old Master Chen's words to heart.
Just then, Old Mrs. Chen suddenly started complaining about Zhang Hua: "Third son's wife is getting more and more outrageous. She went back to her parents' home on the second day of the Lunar New Year and hasn't come back since!"
"Why do we need her back?"
Grandpa Chen comforted her, saying, "You get angry as soon as you see her. If she wants to stay at her parents' house, let her. It's not like we can't eat at home."
"I'm just so angry."
Old Mrs. Chen said irritably, "What is the third son good for? He can't even control his own wife. I feel disgusted just thinking about his wife."
Song Sanhe and Li Jumei remained silent.
Song Lan was no exception.
"Meizi, don't misunderstand. It's not that Mom wants to say anything bad about your third sister-in-law, it's just that her behavior was disrespectful from the very beginning when she entered our family."
Later, perhaps because she felt she had become a daughter-in-law in this family, she no longer had any inhibitions and all her flaws were revealed.
Grandma Chen harbored deep resentment towards Zhang Hua. She said, "Xiao Xu's mother is gentle and naive, yet she's become friends with the third son's current wife."
As a result, for some unknown reason, she left Beijing with her third brother's current wife while heavily pregnant, without even saying goodbye to me and your father.
The third brother was with the army on a foreign mission at the time. When your father and I heard the news about Xiaoxu's mother again, it was the third brother's current wife who brought her back.
She was holding a jar of ashes and a baby in swaddling clothes. She said the woman had died in childbirth, leaving behind only a baby girl.
It was also said that Xiao Su was worried about her two children and left a will asking her to marry the third son and help take care of his two children.
By the way, Xiao Su is Xiao Xu's mother's name. Her surname is Zhao, and her full name is Zhao Su.
I didn't believe in any last words at the time, but the third brother's current wife is stubbornly staying at our house, insisting on taking care of Xiaoxu and his siblings, and Dongsheng..."
The old lady of the Chen family recounted in great detail how Zhang Hua entered the family. At the end, she said, "She is good to Xiao Xu and his sister, but the problem is that she is too good to them. I can't help but suspect that she is spoiling the two children to death."
Otherwise, why would she be so strict with her own children, while letting Xiao Xu and his siblings do as they pleased?
Fortunately, Xiao Xu learned his lesson from the broken leg incident and is now starting to work harder.
But Xiao Shu is simply outrageous. She doesn't admit her mistakes, nor does she show any remorse. She's been completely spoiled by the third son's family!
What can Li Jumei say?
She was also a daughter-in-law, and when her mother-in-law complained about her third daughter-in-law, it was inappropriate for her, as a sister-in-law, to say anything.
With this in mind, Li Jumei smiled and said, "My third sister-in-law just spoils her child too much, just like me. I've doted on my adopted daughter since she was little, and I want to give her everything good."
Unexpectedly, the child didn't remember it well in the end... Ultimately, perhaps it was because we adults didn't grasp the right balance, and that's why..."
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