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Speak of the devil and he will appear. Feng Aiyun had just talked about Captain He with Ye Min and others at noon, and just got to work in the afternoon when she met him.
Captain He came to the pharmacy to get medicine.
Last night the doctor prescribed three days of medicine for He Guoqing, but He Daya didn't have any money with her, and the same went for Ding Yang, who was still dreaming when someone knocked on the door and woke her up.
Finally, Ye Min stepped in and asked the pharmacy nurse to get a day's supply of medicine for He Daya. The money was recorded in the account, and they would come back to get the rest after they went home during the day to get the money.
Captain He came to the pharmacy just to pay for the medicine.
Originally he had no plan to come to the hospital. In his opinion, He Guoqing only had a minor cold and it would be fine after going to the hospital and getting rid of the fever. It was not worth taking leave for this matter.
Although he had saved a lot of impression points with his superiors after divorcing Wei Chunhua, his career had not improved much this year. He had not made any mistakes or achieved any merit. He could continue to stay in the army, but he would not be promoted. It would be useless to stay longer, so he planned to apply for demobilization after the year.
Because of this, the few months from now to the time of job transfer are crucial to him, and his performance during this period is related to his job transfer assignment.
When Dante Yang asked someone to tell him that his son was sick, the leaders of the group were all there and approved his leave at that time.
They met again at lunch, and the group leader asked about He Guoqing's situation. When he learned that he had not returned home for work, he scolded him and told him in a firm tone to go to the hospital to see his child in the afternoon.
Captain He had no choice but to go to the hospital.
He Guoqing is very active. He looked listless last night, but today, as soon as his fever subsided, he started jumping around in the ward.
When Captain He arrived, he was playing a shooting game with a child in the ward. The other child was sitting on the hospital bed, and he was hiding under the bed. He stuck his head out, made gestures with his hands, and made "dududu" sounds from his mouth. Every part of his face looked sick from head to toe.
That's not right. His snot is almost running down to his mouth, and his voice is hoarse.
After seeing this, Captain He became even angrier and said with a stern face: "If you are sick, just rest well. Why are you making a mess in the ward?" The more he talked, the more he felt that this leave he had asked for was not worth it.
He Guoqing was spoiled growing up, even when Wei Chunhua went back to her hometown, his sisters at home did not dare to speak loudly to him. But he was always afraid of Battalion Commander He, and when he heard his words, he immediately shrank into a coward, quickly got on the bed and got into the quilt.
Although he felt it was not worth it, since he had already taken the leave, Captain He still cared about his son. He learned from He Daya that he had only received one day's worth of medicine and the money had not yet been paid, so he took the bill to the pharmacy.
Because he was unhappy, he was very tense on the way to the pharmacy. It was not until he saw Feng Aiyun at the medicine window that he smiled: "It's you? You work in the pharmacy?"
"Captain He." Feng Aiyun, who was sitting in the window, called out, and then replied, "I have been working in the pharmacy."
After that, he picked up the list, walked to the medicine cabinet, took out two kinds of medicine, opened the box and took out a plate of each, then cut off two days' supply, took it back to the window, looked at the list and said, "Last night, your eldest daughter came to the pharmacy to pick up a day's supply of medicine. The fee has not been paid. I will give it to you now, right?"
"Yes." Captain He nodded. After handing over the money, he felt something was wrong and asked, "Do you know my daughter?"
Feng Aiyun was stunned, picked up the list and said, "It says He Daya. I heard that you have three daughters. Daya should be the eldest, right?"
Captain He's eyes darkened and he said, "Yes, she is my eldest daughter."
Feng Aiyun put away the money, rewrote a list of medication frequency, and handed it to Captain He along with the change and medication: "Okay."
"Thank you." said Captain He.
"You are welcome."
After Feng Aiyun finished speaking, he saw Battalion Commander He standing still at the window and asked in confusion, "Do you have anything else to say?"
"No," Captain He shook his head, paused, and asked again, "Have you been to the county again later?"
"Hmm?" Feng Aiyun was stunned at first, but then quickly reacted and said, "Not yet, but I have made an agreement with someone that we will go to the county together in the future. Thank you for your help before."
"It's a piece of cake." After saying this, Captain He did not linger at the pharmacy window. He smiled at Feng Aiyun and left.
He Guoqing's condition was not serious and he could be discharged from the hospital on the same day his fever subsided, but Captain He made him stay in the hospital for three full days and only took him back when he was completely well.
During the days that He Guoqing was in the hospital, Battalion Commander He did not ignore him. He would take time out of his schedule to visit him in the hospital and have a meal with him every day at noon.
Because of this, many people in the compound, like Ye Min, who thought that Captain He neglected his family too much, began to change their views on him. In fact, among the more than 200 families in the compound, Captain He's actions were not considered incompetent.
There are many men in the compound who would not even help if their loved ones fell over. However, these men all have wives, and the women take care of the household affairs, so they don't have to worry too much.
Captain He was different. He was divorced and had no mistress at home. He was supported by his children. Normally, it was fine, but when something happened, it was a problem. If Captain He continued to be the same as before and didn't care much about these things, it would seem that he had a big problem.
But can he be blamed for the breakdown of the family?
If Wei Chunhua wasn't unreliable, why would Captain He send her back to her hometown? Even if a woman returns to her hometown, she will try her best to behave for the sake of her children and strive for family reunion! But Wei Chunhua couldn't stand the loneliness and had an affair with someone less than a year after she returned.
Captain He had no choice but to divorce his wife, which resulted in the lack of a housewife in the family and the current situation.
So, in the final analysis, these things are still Wei Chunhua's fault.
By the way, the day He Guoqing was discharged from the hospital was Sunday. It was a rare occasion that Captain He did not stay in the barracks as usual, but chose to rest.
After breakfast that day, Battalion Commander He went to the hospital to pick up He Guoqing.
After packing clothes for He Guoqing in the ward, Captain He took the list and left the ward. However, he did not go directly to the cashier window, but took a detour to the pharmacy.
When he arrived at the pharmacy, Feng Aiyun was indeed at work. On Sundays, many people came to see the doctor, and she kept walking back and forth between the medicine cabinet and the window. He stood by and waited for ten minutes before he saw Feng Aiyun had the opportunity to sit down and take a breath. He took the opportunity to step forward, bent over and shouted, "Comrade Feng."
"Captain He?" Feng Aiyun, who had just opened the lid of his water cup and was about to drink water, stopped and asked in surprise, "Why are you here?"
"Guoqing was discharged from the hospital today. I came here to handle the formalities for him. I just went to the doctor's office and came to see him." Captain He said in a gentle voice, "Are you busy today?"
Feng Aiyun said: "It's always like this on Sunday."
Captain He hummed and said, "You seem to be very busy during normal times. I didn't see you in the cafeteria at noon."
"No, I had lunch with my friends at noon." Feng Aiyun said with some confusion, "Did you go to the hospital cafeteria at noon?"
Captain He explained: "Guoqing is in the hospital. I am busy with work and only have time to visit him at noon and in the evening."
When Feng Aiyun heard Ye Min and Qian Xiaoyun talking about the He family before, he also felt that he was not a very competent father. But now that he learned that he came to see the children every noon and evening, his impression of him changed a little.
But she felt that she was not familiar with the man, so she did not say much and smiled, "Well." A patient happened to come to queue up, so she stood up and asked, "Do you have anything else to do? If not, I will continue to work."
"You are busy, you are busy." Captain He said as he stepped aside and watched Qian Xiaoyun turn around to get the medicine before he left.
…
When Qian Xiaoyun was busy, Ye Min was also busy.
She was supposed to rest today, but not long after breakfast, Chai Guihong's third daughter came over and cried and begged her to save her mother.
Ye Min was confused and said, "Tell me slowly, what happened to your mother?"
The little girl in her early teens cried and said, "My mother is about to give birth."
Ye Min's face changed. Chai Guihong got pregnant in early April, so it's been less than nine months now. She asked, "Why are you giving birth suddenly?"
"My mother fell while washing dishes, and then she was about to give birth."
When Ye Min heard that it was a fall, she understood that pregnant women are most afraid of falling. If they are lucky, it may be a premature birth, but if they are unlucky, it may be a difficult birth or even a miscarriage.
Although the situation was critical, Ye Min did not leave immediately. She said, "If the baby is about to be born, ask your father to rush to the hospital. Why are you looking for me?"
The little girl sobbed and said, "My dad, my dad is not at home, my mom asked me to come find you."
Upon hearing this, Ye Min didn't know whether she should be touched that Chai Guihong trusted her so much, or feel helpless that she chose to go far away at such a critical moment and asked the child to come to her instead of asking neighbors for help.
This choice had already wasted time, so Ye Min didn't dare to delay any longer. She said something to Meng Cheng and hurried out.
Meng Cheng also followed him out and turned directly into the yard of the Feng family next door and asked if Liang Juan was there.
Liang Juan was taking down the bedding in the room. The sun was shining brightly today, so she planned to tidy up the room. When she heard the noise, she came out and asked, "What's going on?"
"Chai Guihong has been mobilized. Captain Wang is not at home. She asked her daughter to look for Minmin, and Minmin has already gone," Meng Cheng explained the purpose of his visit as briefly as possible. "But I think it would be difficult for her, a female comrade, to move a pregnant woman, so I came to tell you to see if you can arrange someone to help as soon as possible."
There were so many people living in the compound, and Liang Juan worked in the Women's Federation, so she knew who was pregnant and who was about to give birth. She quickly figured out that the time was wrong, and asked, "Isn't Chai Guihong's time yet? How come she gave birth now?"
"He said he fell down at home."
Liang Juan's face suddenly became serious. She put down the bed sheet in her hand and said, "Okay, I'll go find someone now." As she spoke, she walked out of the room, turned on the faucet at the sink, rinsed her hands twice and asked, "By the way, what's the situation with Captain Wang? Is he visiting someone else, or is he on duty today?"
"He probably didn't visit anyone else's house."
Meng Cheng felt that if Chai Guihong's husband Wang Jie went to visit someone else's home, Chai Guihong's first reaction would not be to look for Ye Min, but would ask the children to call him back.
As for whether to be on duty, Meng Cheng was a little hesitant.
Although he and Wang Jie were from the same regiment, one was in the second battalion and the other in the third battalion, so they did have some overlap in their work and often met each other. But they were not from the same battalion after all, so Meng Cheng could not know all of Wang Jie's movements.
He only vaguely remembered that Wang Jie was not on duty this Sunday, but these soldiers came from all over the world and had no relatives in the local area. Moreover, Chai Guihong was about to give birth. If it was not related to work, it was indeed difficult to explain why Wang Jie was not at home.
Meng Cheng paused and said, "I'm not sure whether he is on duty today."
Liang Juan just asked that question, not expecting Meng Cheng to give a positive answer. After thinking for a while, she asked, "Are you free now? Can you help go to the military camp to ask? He is a husband, and he has to be there when Chai Guihong gives birth!"
Meng Cheng said without hesitation, "I'll send Meng Zheng and his sister to Ding Yang's house and then I'll go there."
After the two men agreed, they split into two groups and started to move.
Liang Juan went directly to Chai Guihong's house. As soon as she entered the alley, she saw Ye Min and Chai Guihong's two daughters helping a pregnant woman to move out with difficulty. She quickly quickened her pace and ran over to ask, "Can you walk?"
Chai Guihong's lips were dark in color, but now they looked pale due to the pain. Large beads of sweat dripped down from her forehead, and she had to take a deep breath with every step she took.
"That won't work. We can't walk that far," Liang Juan looked up at the residents on both sides who had come out after hearing the noise and said, "You two, go to the supply and marketing cooperative or the vegetable market and ask if you can borrow a tricycle."
The two people named by Liang Juan hurried out and ran quickly towards the vegetable market.
Liang Juan retracted her gaze and said to Ye Min, "Don't go any further. Do you have a recliner at home? Bring one out for your mother to lie down for a while." The second half of the sentence was directed at Chai Guihong's children.
The three children shook their heads. Her second daughter asked, "Can you please bring a stool over?"
"There's no room to sit on the stool!" Liang Juan frowned and asked others loudly.
After a while, someone shouted, "I have a recliner at home, but..." He glanced at Chai Guihong and muttered, "She's not bleeding, is she?" meaning that he was afraid that she would dirty the recliner.
Liang Juan was furious when she heard this: "What time has it come? You are worrying about a matter that concerns human life! Hurry up and move the recliner out. If it gets dirty, I will wash it for you!"
The military wife felt a little guilty after being criticized, and someone next to her persuaded her that they were all neighbors, so she asked someone to go into the house and move the recliner.
Liang Juan and Ye Min helped Chai Guihong lie on the recliner and said to her comfortingly, "Don't be nervous. The tricycle will be here soon. We will take you to the hospital right away."
Chai Guihong couldn't help shivering in pain, but still managed to squeeze out a thank you from between her teeth.
"Neighbors, why are you saying these things?"
The tricycle arrived quickly, and after it parked, Ye Min and Liang Juan helped the man onto the tricycle. Liang Juan then found a tall and strong military officer to help, and they rode the tricycle to take the man to the hospital.
Ye Min is a doctor and is very familiar with the hospital. When she arrived, she asked someone to park the car outside the obstetrics and gynecology department and rushed in to find someone. Han Xiumei was at work today. After learning about the situation, she quickly arranged for the nurse to push the bed out to pick up the patient and quickly send the patient to the delivery room.
Seeing Chai Guihong being pushed into the delivery room, Ye Min and Liang Juan both breathed a sigh of relief.
…
When Ye Min and others sent Chai Guihong to the hospital, Meng Cheng also rode Ding Yang's bicycle to the headquarters of the Third Battalion where Wang Jie was.
But he failed to find Wang Jie. His memory was correct. Wang Jie was indeed resting today and had not appeared in the camp in the morning.
Although he didn't find the person, Meng Cheng still went to the hospital after leaving the barracks. He had to tell Liang Juan about it and let her decide whether to continue looking for the person or not.
After parking the car at the hospital, Meng Cheng went straight to the obstetrics and gynecology department. After entering, he first looked for the nurses' station. After asking, he learned that the pregnant woman who had just been sent in had already been sent to the delivery room, so he followed the direction indicated by the nurses.
When he arrived at the door of the delivery room, Meng Cheng saw Ye Min was still there and stepped forward to call out.
Ye Min came over in surprise: "Eh? Why are you here?" She looked behind him and asked, "Where are Zhengzheng and An'an?"
Meng Cheng replied, "Sister Liang asked me to go to the army to find Wang Jie, so I sent them to Ding Yang's house."
This reminded Liang Juan, and she nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, didn't you send someone over? Where is Captain Wang?"
"He is resting today and did not go to the barracks."
"Not in the barracks? Then where did he go?" Liang Juan frowned and turned to ask the three siblings sitting side by side, "Where did your father go?"
The three kids looked at each other and shook their heads in confusion: "I don't know."
"How could you not know? Did he go out or visit someone else's house? Don't you know?"
Chai Guihong's second daughter said, "Dad didn't tell us these things."
Liang Juan held her forehead and asked helplessly, "Then you all know when he left, right?"
"I didn't see my father when I woke up in the morning." Chai Guihong's second daughter continued to shake her head.
"I know!" said Chai Guihong's youngest son. "Dad got up this morning and went out. He said he would bring us some delicious food when he comes back."
Liang Juan understood: "Yes! He must have gone out."
If Wang Jie went out to visit people, we would definitely be able to find him by asking every household, but the area he went out to was wide, he might have gone to the county or the city, and when he would come back depended entirely on luck.
Liang Juan walked to the door of the delivery room and listened to the noise inside through the crack of the door. When she turned back, she couldn't help but complain, "Captain Wang is really something. My wife is pregnant and could go into labor at any time. How could he not know such an important thing? He could have gone out earlier or later, but at this time! He really knows how to cause trouble for others!"
"Okay, since Captain Wang is out, he must have something to do, and he will definitely be back today." Ye Min patted Liang Juan on the shoulder, raised his chin slightly towards the children, and said in a low voice, "The children are watching."
Looking at the children in the direction Ye Min pointed, Liang Juan sighed, "Okay!"
After returning to the benches on both sides of the aisle and sitting down, Liang Juan said, "You two should go back first. I'll stay here."
"Can you do it alone?" Ye Min asked.
"It's okay," Liang Juan waved her hand, thought for a moment and said, "On your way back, please help me go to Director Li's house and tell her about this. She will probably come over after she knows about it."
"OK."
Liang Juan is an official from the Women's Federation, and it is her job to be here to watch over the matter. However, Chai Guihong's birth had nothing to do with Ye Min and his wife, so Ye Min did not take the blame on herself. She just nodded and left.
Walking outside the hospital, Ye Min saw Meng Cheng riding a bicycle. She smiled and asked, "Did you bring Ding Yang's bike?"
"Ride faster." Meng Cheng pushed the bicycle out, sat on it, turned to look at Ye Min, and motioned for her to get on.
Ye Min sat sideways in the back seat, grabbed the seat with both hands and said, "I'm fine."
Meng Cheng turned his head and looked at Ye Min's hand: "Can you catch it?"
Ye Min looked around and saw that there were many people coming to the hospital for treatment on Sundays. There were people coming and going all the time, so he said, "We can catch him."
Meng Cheng chuckled lightly but said nothing more. He turned the tap towards the exit.
Just after leaving the hospital, there was a bumpy road. Meng Cheng wanted to ride the bike more steadily, but he couldn't do anything because the road was uneven. The bike went up and down, and Ye Min, who was sitting in the back, also swayed from side to side.
There was really no other way, so Ye Min reached out and hugged Meng Cheng's waist.
Feeling his waist being hugged, Meng Cheng turned his head slightly and asked, "Didn't you say you could hold on to it?"
"Can't hug me?" Ye Min asked and then let go of her hand and grabbed the seat instead.
Meng Cheng said quickly: "I just said it casually, you..."
He originally wanted to say "Why are you angry?", but when the words were on the tip of his tongue, he remembered that if he really said that, Ye Min might jump out of the car, so he changed the topic and said, "We are husband and wife, you can hug me however you want, and no one will look at us twice." Then he took Ye Min's hand and placed it across his waist.
Ye Min didn't fight with him. She stretched out her other hand along the steps, hugged him from behind, and pressed her cheek against his back.
After Meng Cheng felt it, he bent down slightly to make her feel more comfortable, and asked, "Were you scared at that time?"
"When?"
"Give birth to An'an," Meng Cheng added, remembering that he was not by her side when she gave birth to Meng Zheng, "It was the same when Zheng Zheng gave birth. Were you afraid when I was not by your side?"
"I was scared when Zhengzheng was born, but it was okay when An'an was born."
She was only 21 years old when she gave birth to Meng Zheng. Although she said she had worked for a few years, she had never left the factory and had never experienced anything. So she still had illusions about her father at that time, until she found out that he was not trustworthy at all.
Meng Cheng was someone she wanted to rely on but couldn't. He was thousands of miles away from her. Even if he had extraordinary abilities, he couldn't come back in time for her to give birth, not to mention that she was just an ordinary person.
She was so scared at the time that she kept crying on the way to the hospital. She wiped her tears several times but they didn't stop.
Before going to the delivery bed, she even thought of her will.
But she was lucky. The doctors and nurses she met were very nice. Seeing that she was young and had no family members to accompany her, they said a lot of words to comfort her. The delivery process was also relatively smooth, without any difficulties, and it was over in half a day.
After she regained consciousness and fed the baby, Ye Min couldn't bear to look at herself thinking about how she cried before the birth and how she had written a will.
So stupid.
She had already had this experience once when she gave birth to An An, so she was very calm throughout the whole process. Although she was a little disappointed when she was pushed out of the delivery room because Meng Cheng was not there, she was generally calm.
Her mood turned dark after she saw those comments. She didn't know what she had done wrong to have encountered such a thing, and she was even more afraid that she could not protect her daughter.
Ye Min leaned against Meng Cheng's back and whispered, "I'm scared, but all that is in the past."
Ye Min is a person who seldom looks back, and she always thinks that the past is nothing good.
She lost her mother when she was a child, and lost the opportunity to pursue her dreams when she was a teenager because of her father's arbitrary decision. So when she thinks back to her youth, the sky she sees is always gray.
Therefore, for Ye Min, rather than reminiscing about the past, she feels that the future is more exciting.
Although after seeing the bullet screen, the originally bright future seemed to be shrouded in a shadow, the more this happened, the more Ye Min wanted to cherish every day in the future and not spend time reminiscing about the past.
Realizing what Ye Min meant, Meng Cheng did not continue speaking. He held the handlebar of the bicycle with one hand and used his free left hand to place her hands, which were crossed around his waist.
Ye Min quickly loosened her hands after noticing it, and held his waist with her right hand to keep her balance. She tried to pull her left hand back, but he just held it. Seeing that the family compound was approaching, Ye Min, who was struggling, had to warn him: "There's someone."
Meng Cheng thought that with such a big event as Chai Guihong giving birth, no one would care whether they held hands or not, so he ignored Ye Min's words, rode his bike, and rushed into the family yard holding her hand.
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