The provincial capital's steel rolling mill.
Fitter Chen Yinghao was working when his foreman came over and patted him on the shoulder.
"Old Chen, your husband Lao Liu is calling you. Go answer the phone," the squad leader said.
Chen Yinghao was taken aback, then hurriedly put down his work and strode to the class monitor's office.
He had a bad feeling.
There's no phone at home, so his wife won't call him unless it's something important.
"Don't rush, Lao Chen," the squad leader said, pulling him back. "Your body can't be rushed."
"Oh," Chen Yinghao said, "Something must have happened at home, and I'm worried about it."
“It shouldn’t be anything urgent.” The squad leader shook his head. “Old Liu sounded very calm on the phone, not like he had anything urgent to do.”
The two talked as they walked into the office.
The class monitor had to leave first.
Chen Yinghao picked up the phone. "Hello, is this Yili?"
"Old Chen, it's me. Xiao Qing's mother just came over. She said Xiao Qing is still angry and asked Qing Shu to go to her house to coax her."
"And then?" Chen Qingshu frowned. "Did you fail to appease her?"
"Yes, Xiao Qing is relentless, insisting that Qing Shu has a woman outside and that she wants to break off the engagement with our family."
Upon hearing this, Chen Yinghao was filled with anger.
"Zhang Xiaoqing is being unreasonable and the Zhang family is making trouble for no reason. Don't we know what kind of person Qing Shu is?"
“He would never have affairs outside of marriage,” Chen Yinghao insisted.
Liu Yili sighed on the phone, "I assured Xiaoqing's parents time and again that Qingshu wasn't that kind of person, but they wouldn't listen."
Chen Yinghao took a deep breath and said, "You, just tell me what the Zhang family's demands are."
"They demanded that our family buy another car, insisting that we not take a Santana, but a Xiali costing fifty or sixty thousand yuan would be fine."
Liu Yili's voice grew softer and softer.
Pain flashed in Chen Yinghao's eyes, as if his energy had been drained away.
"Tell the Zhang family that I can't afford a car. If we can get married, great; if not, then forget it."
After saying his last sentence, he hung up the phone, his cheeks puffed out in anger.
He understood what the Zhang family meant; Zhang Xiaoqing wanted to force him to sell his house and buy a car.
"Old Chen, are you alright?" the squad leader asked with concern. "What happened?"
"It's nothing, Qingshu and Xiaoqing are just having a fight." Chen Yinghao forced a smile.
"Hey, it's just a couple arguing, nothing serious."
The squad leader patted him on the shoulder and said, "Ignore them, let them argue to their hearts' content, haha."
Chen Yinghao nodded, "Old Sun, Qing Shu's mother is having a mental breakdown, and I want to go back and talk to her."
"Okay, go ahead." The class monitor immediately approved his leave request.
Chen Yinghao returned to the break room, changed his clothes, and rode his bicycle away from the factory.
The more I thought about it, the angrier and more upset I became.
Arriving at the mutton soup restaurant near the family compound, I felt dizzy.
He hurriedly got out of the car and reached into his pocket for nitroglycerin pills, as he suffers from coronary heart disease.
Suddenly, my heart ached as if it were being stabbed with a knife.
Bang!
He fell off his bicycle, and the medicine bottle in his hand fell to the ground.
"Medicine, medicine..."
He was convulsing, staring intently at the medicine bottle on the ground, trying to reach for the medicine, but his body was not under his control.
"Medicine, give me the medicine, medicine..."
Passersby stopped to watch.
No one knew what was going on, and no one dared to step forward to help.
Chen Yinghao stared wide-eyed, his hands and feet twitching even more violently.
At this moment, Li Fang came out of the mutton soup restaurant carrying a lunchbox.
Seeing a large crowd gathered there, she came over to join in the fun and saw Chen Yinghao lying on the bicycle, convulsing.
"Qingshu?" Li Fang blurted out.
Chen Yinghao and his son Chen Qingshu share about 80% similar facial features.
"Medicine, medicine!" Chen Yinghao heard the girl call his son's name and spoke with all his might.
Li Fang immediately picked up the medicine bottle from the ground, saw the words "Quick-acting Heart-saving Pills," and instantly understood.
She opened the medicine bottle, poured out six pills into her palm, and lifted Chen Yinghao up to feed him the medicine.
There is a patient with coronary heart disease in Licun who is usually fine, but when he has an attack, it will cause a myocardial infarction.
If you don't take nitroglycerin pills in time, your life will be in danger.
Although Chen Yinghao was convulsing, he remained conscious and forcefully swallowed the pill.
Li Fang had seen how patients in the village succumbed to their illnesses, and she quickly rubbed Chen Yinghao's back with her hands.
"Don't be afraid, uncle. You'll feel better after taking the medicine," she comforted him softly.
As more and more people gathered to watch, discussions began to simmer.
"Hey, isn't this Old Chen from the steel rolling mill?"
"Old Chen, wait here, I'm going to your house to deliver the message."
A family member of a steel rolling mill worker recognized Chen Yinghao and immediately went to Chen's house to inform him.
...
Chen Qingshu's home.
When Wang Peng woke up, he looked at his digital watch and saw that it was already 12:30 pm, but his cousin was nowhere to be seen in the house.
"Sister Fang, Sister Fang?"
There was no response from the restroom, so Wang Peng became anxious and hurried downstairs to look for them.
As soon as I got downstairs, I saw Liu Yili and a middle-aged man walking hurriedly.
"Aunt Chen, what's wrong?" Wang Peng asked.
Liu Yili also recognized Wang Peng and said as she walked, "Your uncle is sick, come and help him quickly."
“Okay!” Wang Peng immediately followed them.
My cousin is an adult; she probably went out to buy food and shouldn't get lost.
"Sister Liu, it's just ahead on the road, we're almost there," the middle-aged woman said, pointing north.
"I'll go check it out first." Wang Peng immediately took off running.
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