Chapter 108
Huang Guihua woke up in a daze the next day, and she remained in a dazed state for the next few days.
It was not until the eighth day that Huang Guihua regained consciousness.
But half of the person's body was paralyzed.
Huang Guihua's mouth was crooked and her eyes were slanted, with a string of saliva flowing from the corner of her mouth.
She mumbled for a long time before Ge Yaqin leaned over to her ear and understood what she meant.
"I need some water."
Ge Yaqin quickly poured her a glass of boiled water.
Ge Changyuan stood next to his colleague, frowning.
Huang Guihua's attending physician said, "Family member, please come out for a moment."
Several people followed the doctor out of the ward.
"The patient's condition is basically confirmed. Let's not talk about the large blood vessels in the brain for now, but this is basically the condition from now on. Half of the body is unconscious, the mouth is crooked and the eyes are slanted. It is definitely inconvenient for him to move, and he will need special care in the future."
Ge Changyuan asked anxiously: "Then there is no possibility of recovery?"
"Basically not. If it's mild, it can be relieved through some exercise, but her current symptoms are difficult to improve."
The attending doctor left, and Ge Yaqin couldn't help shedding two tears.
"What will we do in the future?"
Who should she rely on? Her father?
Ge Qiang has always been the one being served, so asking him to serve Huang Guihua was unthinkable.
Ge Changyuan sighed. He had watched how his father had lived all these years. He had everything he wanted. Not to mention serving others, he wouldn't even do some housework if asked to do it.
"What can we do? We, as children, should shoulder more of the responsibility."
Even though she is an old lady lying in bed, we can't really just ignore her.
Ge Changyuan wanted to talk to Jian Feng about what to do. It was impossible to let Huang Guihua live at home because Ge Qiang didn't know how to take care of people. If the old lady was really left there, she would probably be tortured by Ge Qiang in the end.
The best solution is to have several sons.
Jian Feng stood up and said, "I have some things to do in the store, so I'll go back first."
Ge Changyuan was just about to ask him why he was leaving when he suddenly shuddered.
As early as the year when Jian Feng was driven back to the cotton spinning factory by Huang Guihua, the words had already been spoken.
"I am Huang Guihua. I am a member of the Ge family in life and a ghost of the Ge family in death. Since your last name is not Ge, I will not need you to take care of me in my old age. This house is for you. If you are interested, you can come and see me often. If you are not interested, we can just pretend that we don't know each other. I can't help you with anything. If you can make it, it's your ability. If you can't, don't blame me. Who told you to have the last name Jian?"
At that time, Huang Guihua not only said these words, but also went to several leaders of the cotton textile factory and wrote notes.
Ge Changyuan: "...Okay, then you go back first."
What else is there to say?
Huang Guihua said it herself, there is no need for an eldest son to take care of her in her old age.
Now he turns around and contradicts himself by dragging Jian Feng into this. That's really embarrassing.
Jian Feng left, leaving Ge Changyuan and Ge Changjun to discuss how the old lady would take turns.
Ge Yaqin was also stunned for a moment. She was still young at that time and had no memory of what Huang Guihua had said, so she asked Ge Changyuan why he didn't ask his elder brother to stay.
After Ge Changyuan told the story of that year, Ge Yaqin didn't know what to say.
Ge Changjun was even more annoyed: "So my mother is narrow-minded. Why did she say those things? Now it's all right. We two are the ones serving her... How can we serve her? I have a lot of things to do in my company."
He would rather pay Jian Feng to serve him than let Huang Guihua live in his house.
I don’t know how my wife will argue with him.
Ge Changyuan: "You are the only one who is busy, I am not busy, right?"
They all have jobs. Actually, the most suitable people are Jian Feng and his wife.
An idea suddenly occurred to Ge Yaqin, and she spoke tentatively.
"How about... talk to my sister-in-law and ask her to close the store. We are all busy, so we would rather give her some money. I'd be fine if we give her 600 or 800 a month. It's definitely better to have a daughter-in-law than to hire a caregiver. It sounds good when others say it, right?"
Ge Changyuan also had an idea and suddenly felt that this was a good idea.
"Who's going to tell it?"
Both brothers looked at Ge Yaqin, and Ge Yaqin had no choice but to accept it.
"I'll go."
So that afternoon, Ge Yaqin found some time and went to Wang Mengmei's shop.
Because it was afternoon and there were no customers in the store, Wang Mengmei was chopping dumpling fillings on the second floor.
Recently, she taught Ni Hao how to carve radish flowers. The radish flowers that Ni Hao carved poorly were chopped up and used to make dumplings. The weather was cold, so dumplings sold especially well.
Wang Mengmei made radish meat stuffing, corn meat stuffing, lotus meat stuffing...
Many people who enter the store will first ask for "a bowl of dumplings!"
Ge Yaqin went upstairs. Wang Mengmei was very happy. She put down the kitchen knife and made a pot of tea for her.
"You're finally here. I told your brother to come to the restaurant to eat when you have nothing to do. We have everything you want to eat. But your brother said you're busy..."
Ge Yaqin smiled embarrassedly. It turned out that this was what Jian Feng said to Wang Mengmei.
"Sister-in-law, I came here today to ask you something."
Ge Yaqin didn't hesitate at all and asked directly.
In her opinion, Wang Mengmei has to pay rent for the store and do the work herself, and she doesn't know how much she earns from the hard-earned money of a few hundred yuan a month. How can that be compared to the money she makes from taking care of Huang Guihua?
Ge Changjun told her privately that he would rather give Wang Mengmei one thousand yuan a month.
After hearing this, Ge Yaqin felt that the chances of reaching an agreement were even greater.
One thousand yuan a month is more than her two months salary.
She thought so, so her words unconsciously revealed a sense of superiority as if she was letting Wang Mengmei take advantage of her.
After hearing this, Wang Mengmei's face fell.
Ge Yaqin didn't care about her expression and continued to talk nonstop.
"It's a simple matter. My mother is only half paralyzed. In fact, if she is well taken care of, the doctor said she can still walk a few steps with the help of crutches. She doesn't eat much, and there is nothing else to do on weekdays. All I have to do is prepare three meals a day, push her out for a walk, and help her with rehabilitation exercises..."
Ge Yaqin confidently gave her the bottom price that Ge Changjun had given her: "Of course I won't let you work in vain, sister-in-law. I'll give you one thousand yuan a month!"
She thought she was being rude, but to Wang Mengmei it sounded like a blatant insult.
Wang Mengmei suppressed her anger and said, "Forget it. I am doing well running this small shop."
Ge Yaqin grabbed her hand anxiously and said, "Sister-in-law, are you really not going to think about it again? It's only one thousand yuan a month. You can't find such a high salary even if you go out to find a job."
"You have to run your store yourself, hire people, and pay rent. How can the rent be cheap in this place? You only make so little in a month. Why make it so hard on yourself?"
"Besides, my mother was mean to my brother before, but she is paralyzed now and all that is in the past."
If the previous words that looked down on her made Wang Mengmei angry, it was Ge Yaqin's words "it's in the past" that really ignited Wang Mengmei's anger.
Wang Mengmei was so angry that she pulled out her membership booklet from the counter and threw it in front of Ge Yaqin.
"A few hundred dollars a month? Are you crazy? I'm not doing a business worth thousands of dollars, but I'm going to serve your own mother? You said it so nicely, why don't you take care of yourself? Forget it, you are the boss and you say it! I'll tolerate you for a while, and you still say it!"
"Ge Yaqin, listen to me. This store is mine! I'm so sorry that your hopes were dashed. Your brother and I bought this store ourselves! It's our own business!"
It had been a long time since Wang Mengmei had scolded anyone so freely. This time, she was really irritated by Ge Yaqin's "naivety", so she lashed out.
Ge Yaqin covered her face and hurried away.
Wang Mengmei was so angry that she sat on the chair and gasped.
Why didn’t she realize before that Ge Yaqin’s “innocence” was so annoying!
Jian Feng was also very angry when he came back. Seeing him so angry, Wang Mengmei was afraid that something bad would happen to him.
"I scolded her, don't take it personally. From now on, we will just pretend that she is no longer a relative."
She doesn't think of herself when good things happen to her, and only comes to her when she needs help.
To put it nicely, she is ignorant, but to put it bluntly, Ge Yaqin is not stupid and knows that you have to pick the softest persimmon.
Jian Feng's eyes were filled with darkness. Even his little sister looked down on him. It was obvious that the "deep brother-sister love" he had always thought of was a joke.
"I will make sure you and your daughter live a good life."
He never wants to live a life where people look down on him like this again!
Wang Mengmei scolded: "Now is not called a good life?"
Jian Feng: “No.”
He wants to stand out and make those who look down on him open their eyes and take a good look!
…
Ge Yaqin was so embarrassed that she almost didn't want to go to school anymore. Whenever she saw Jian Li, she would remember how she had overestimated her own abilities by going to Wang Mengmei and asking her to give up a business worth thousands of dollars a month to earn a thousand yuan...
When Ge Yaqin thinks about it now, she wants to slap herself twice.
Why is she so talkative!
Before she could finish regretting, Jian Feng lost his temper.
Jian Feng found several leaders of the cotton textile factory, and invited the old leader with gray beard to the bedside of Huang Guihua. Jian Feng took out the note and the receipts for the money Huang Guihua had taken from him.
Yes, Huang Guihua even wrote him a receipt in order to cheat him out of his money.
Jian Feng read it word by word, and the old leader asked Ge Changyuan and Ge Changjun one by one.
"Your mother wrote these to your brother. Do you two know about this?"
"Your mother is paralyzed now. Do you still want your brother to take care of her?"
"Your sister came over and said she wanted your brother and sister-in-law to take care of your mother. Who of you wanted this?"
"You don't want to take care of her anymore, right?"
…
One question after another made Ge Changyuan's forehead almost explode with veins.
He answered through his teeth: "That's not what I meant. I just wanted to ask my eldest brother. My mother is definitely our responsibility."
The old leader smiled and said, "That's great. Your mother has done so much for you, you must take good care of her. Your brother has taken care of you when you were little, and he also gave money to your mother. This is almost enough for her, don't you think?"
Ge Changyuan looked grim. Jian Feng had done this. A large group of nurses and doctors had gathered outside the ward. Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, he couldn't say a word.
"yes."
Jian Feng looked at Huang Guihua lying on the bed. Ge Changyuan and Ge Changjun did not avoid her when discussing anything.
She had obviously also heard the words about how to take care of her.
Just not in the way she had expected.
She thought that she had given birth to three children for the Ge family, and that for the sake of her children's future, she had squeezed out the first son and then her own son. She thought that she would be able to live a happy and smooth life in her later years.
Unfortunately, she could neither live nor die. She watched helplessly as her two sons shirked responsibility and tried their best to get her to Jian Feng.
When Jian Feng read the note, his eyes were on her.
Huang Guihua closed her eyes and tears flowed down her cheeks.
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