Chapter 272

Beat the Rabbit

After Wei Jiang and Deng Xi finished eating, Ji Chaoqun put on rubber gloves and boiled water to wash their dishes.

Edward was sitting on the recliner next to her, and Ji Chaoqun had to steam, wash and disinfect his tableware after his meal.

"If I were ten years younger, I would chase you," Edward said.

Ji Chaoqun is the same age as Chen Lina, forty-five, and still maintains a good figure. He wears a pair of silver-rimmed glasses, and looks clean and fresh, with a bit of Joan of Arc, an ascetic stereotype.

This kind of woman becomes more attractive the more you look at her.

Ji Chaoqun smiled and said, "I speak very directly. I cannot accept the style of you Westerners. So, forget it. Even if you were 20 years younger and had more money than you have now, I would not accept your pursuit of me."

Edward has been here for a month, and Ji Chaoqun has been taking care of him almost alone.

"Temperature, let me take a look." Ji Chaoqun said, stretching out his hand.

Edward pulled out the thermometer with his bony hands. "Is it 40 degrees?"

"38.5 degrees. It seems that the antipyretic medicine I gave you yesterday was effective. By the way, are you really not considering staying in the hospital?" Ji Chaoqun asked.

Edward shook his head but said nothing.

Since the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in 1985 and then the major outbreak in the early 1990s, Ji Chaoqun has seen too many people die from AIDS.

In fact, it is not contagious if it is properly taken care of, but the way it kills is really horrific.

"You are so kind to me, thank you. But Doctor Ji, you could have sent me directly to the hospital. Why did you take care of me yourself? You knew it was very dangerous." Edward asked again.

Ji Chaoqun said, "We Chinese people, no matter how much we talk about science and Marxism-Leninism, what we believe in most is ethics and karma. I think I should not discriminate against you and be nice to you. God bless you, my daughter will be six weeks pregnant tomorrow. She is safe as long as she has passed the window period and has not gotten sick."

"Kind Oriental woman, I really should have found an Oriental woman to marry in Shanghai." Edward murmured and closed his eyes.

Ji Chaoqun washed the children's basins and placed them separately in a large stainless steel bucket. He covered it with a lid, on which was written Nie Weijiang's name.

She took off her rubber gloves, washed her hands, and sat on the recliner next to Edward.

Edward opened his eyes again. Ji Chaoqun handed his hand to him and said, "We've been together for a few days. I didn't realize you're quite interesting."

After a pause, she continued, "You must take care of your body and try to live longer. I have already reported to the hospital over there. When I get leave, I will buy a small yard at the base and we can move out. I will take care of you until you die."

Edward didn't know why he always met so many people who were willing to be nice to him for no reason, so he asked, "Why?"

"I made a wish to the Bodhisattva. As long as I serve you until I die, my daughter will not be infected and will be able to safely pass through the window period." Ji Chaoqun said lightly.

Well, Edward would never be able to understand the hearts of these oriental women, and of course, he would never be able to get into their hearts.

In his opinion, they attached too much importance to their children, to the point where they valued their children more than their own lives. This was something he could not understand at all.

Deng Dongya just happened to arrive. He hugged his daughter who had run away from home, and tried to pull his son out of the water with Mailiye. Seeing there was a chair next to Ji Chaoqun, he sat down.

Ji Chaoqun rolled his eyes at him and said nothing.

Deng Dongya didn't know Edward, so he was a little confused to see his wife holding the hand of a skinny old man. Wang Hongbing was there, and he whispered to him, "Our Dandan's godfather, American journalist Edward, has AIDS."

Deng Dongya had heard of Edward, but he couldn't connect him with the man in front of him who looked like a living skeleton.

Well, for the sake of his own conscience and for the sake of the local literature that Ji Chaoqun had placed under his pillow, Deng Dongya endured it.

After sitting for a while, he asked Ji Chaoqun, "What do you want to eat? I'll go grill it for you."

"Lychees, I really want to eat sweet lychees." said Ji Chaoqun.

Deng Dongya ran to the place where Chen Lina kept the vegetables and looked around but couldn't find it. He called Wang Hongbing, explained for a while, borrowed Wang Hongbing's car, drove to the mining area, and went to buy lychees for Ji Chaoqun.

This is his good point. Ever since they remarried, no matter what Ji Chaoqun said he wanted to eat or use, no matter how unreasonable the request was, he would find a way to get it done.

After the remarriage, Ji Chaoqun never compromised and even became more tough.

Deng Dongya, on the other hand, compromised utterly.

Deng Chun climbed out of the water dripping wet, took off his clothes and hung them out to dry, wearing only his trousers, and stood on the shore and began to curse Nie Weijiang.

"I'm just pursuing your sister. I'm pursuing her, so what? You have no right to control me. Nie Weijiang, Nie Weixing will have to find a partner sooner or later. I don't believe you can control her forever."

Nie Weijiang stood by the reservoir with his hands in his pockets, not saying a word.

Deng Chun then said, "Auntie Chen, you know what? Do you think your Nie Weijiang is a good boy? No, he is a bad boy outside. Weixing met a girl at school, and they only dated twice. Then they met outside the school for the third time. They went to an ice cream shop to eat ice cream. He booked the shop and asked the staff to kick them out."

Chen Lina became curious when she heard this, because Wei Xing was also studying at a university in Shanghai, and this sounded like something Nie Weijiang would do.

"And there's Leng Feng, do you know him, Auntie? He was a soldier in the military district. He wrote many letters to Wei Xing. Nie Weijiang bribed the gatekeeper and got the letters, and then he burned them all." Deng Chun added.

Chen Lina suddenly realized something. "No wonder Leng Qi called me and said that Wei Xing had changed recently and he didn't even reply to my letters. So it was Nie Weijiang who did this?"

Nie Weijiang still stood by the dam without saying a word.

Who knows what he was talking about with Deng Xi, anyway, Deng Xi was laughing the whole time.

Deng Chun became more and more angry as he looked at her. Why did you snatch my sister away? No one can touch your sister.

"It's more than that. Take the girl mentioned earlier, for example. She dated Wei Xing a few times, but no matter which store they went to, it would close immediately. So, Wei Xing thought that the girl was malicious and broke up with her." Deng Chun said again.

In fact, they were the ones working together to play a serious trick on the little satellite.

However, Deng Chun now wants to put all the blame on Nie Weijiang.

"Then, another boy who studied sports came after Wei Xing. The boy's family was well-off. As a result, Nie Weijiang secretly checked and found out that the boy's second uncle was schizophrenic. He also thought that if Wei Xing married the boy, the boy might also become schizophrenic. So, he took me to talk to the boy," Deng Chun added.

"Didn't the satellite know? Didn't he beat you two up?" Chen Lina asked.

In fact, the one who beat the boy the most fiercely at that time was Deng Chun, but now, he has to put all the blame on Nie Weijiang. "The boy disagreed at first and wanted to tell Weixing about it. Your Weijiang brought 30 bodyguards with him, who did nothing but follow the boy wherever he left the school gate."

Three days later, the guy took the initiative to kick Nie Weixing out.

Alas, I cried sadly on the day Nie Weixing was kicked out.

Chen Lina stared at Nie Weijiang fiercely and said to Deng Chun, "What else did he do? Go on."

Deng Chun was talking excitedly, grilling lamb skewers in his hands, and was about to continue talking when suddenly Deng Xi screamed, and Chen Lina also screamed.

Because Nie Weijiang suddenly ran over, grabbed Deng Chun, pushed and shoved him, and threw him into the reservoir again.

"Nie Weijiang, you're going too far. What if he gets drowned?" Ji Chaoqun jumped up and shouted.

Wang Hongbing also said, "Defending the frontier, quarrels are quarrels, but how can you just push people into the water without thinking?"

"He is a good swimmer, and the water is not deep there," Nie Weijiang said calmly.

Chen Lina squeezed a large glass of orange juice with gauze, preparing to give some vitamin C to the little ancestor of Nie Weimin's family. Holding the orange juice, she was about to go to the wetland park next door to find Nie Hang and his grandfather, and said, "Nie Weijiang, you come too, I have something to tell you."

Nie Weijiang didn't know that Miss Chen was going to clean himself up. He pinched Deng Xi's cheek and said, "Wait, I'll tell you our childhood stories when we come back." Then he hummed a song, excitedly followed his mother, waved to Deng Xi, and left.

After walking a long way into the wetland park, Chen Lina turned around and said, "I don't agree with your marriage to Deng Xi."

Nie Weijiang was stunned for a moment. "Ah, Mom, how could you do this? I told you that there is a high probability that she is not infected."

"Anyway, I just don't agree, so just break up with that girl." Chen Lina said again.

Nie Weijiang's eyes were red. "Mom."

"Then, if you want to marry her, that's fine, but I want to sever our mother-son relationship. If you have her, then I'm gone; if you have me, then she's gone. You make your choice," said Chen Lina.

Nie Weijiang bit his lip and looked down at his mother, but said nothing.

"Can we break up?" Chen Lina asked again.

Nie Weijiang bit his lip, nodded, and said viciously, "You can stop me from marrying her, but I will never marry anyone else in my life."

"Well, you hate me in your heart, right? But on second thought, I raised you with great difficulty, and if you don't listen to me, you will feel that you have no conscience, right?" Chen Lina asked again.

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"You have been raising Nie Weixing since she was in confinement. You have always been following her when she walked. But she is your sister. It is her business if she wants to fall in love or who she talks to. I have never intervened in your brothers' affairs. Why are you so arrogant to intervene in your sister's affairs?"

"She is still young." The selfish Nie Weijiang said a wise word.

"Deng Xi is only one year older than Wei Xing, and you are planning to marry her. In your eyes, Wei Xing is a child, but Deng Xi is not?" Chen Lina continued.

Wei Jiang really bowed his head this time, "Mom, I was wrong."

"Do you still dare to take care of your sister?"

Wei Jiang shook his head and said, "I don't dare."

Chen Lina poked his head and was about to say something when she suddenly heard a scream not far away: "Ah, Rabbit."

The child's cry was recognizable as Nie Hang's. It was heart-wrenching, deafening, and each cry was louder than the last.

"Xiao Hang, Xiao Hang, what's wrong, Xiao Hang?" Chen Lina and Wei Jiang chased after him.

"Bunny, ah, bunny." When the child was found, he was being held by his grandfather, crying so hard.

Wiping away tears, Nie Hang called out "Bunny" again.

The laborer was holding a rabbit covered in sand bullets. "Why are children these days so weak? Listen to this child crying. Weijiang, hold him and catch him a live one."

Well, everyone was very excited and followed grandpa to catch rabbits. But in the end, grandpa shot the rabbit to death and gave Nie Hang a dead rabbit.

Seeing Wei Jiang carrying Nie Hang away, Chen Lina said, "You're done. From now on, Xiao Hang doesn't love you anymore."

The worker was holding a rabbit and was not worried about this. "No, I'll take him fishing later and catch some big bluefish. See if he likes me."

For a laborer who is good at all things, taking care of a grandson is no small task.

In fact, Edward's health has been pretty good recently. However, when his children were fighting and Deng Chun and Nie Weijiang were exposing each other's secrets, Edward smiled and then closed his eyes.

Then a fly landed on his nose for a long time without flapping its wings.

It took Ji Chaoqun a long time to notice it. He quickly took out his cell phone and called the hospital.

Well, Nie Weijiang’s godfather, amidst the beautiful scenery of lakes and mountains and the sounds of children playing, flew away to the west.