Chapter 7: I want you to treat me as your everything from now on
Lu Hongjun was the only one in Liang Cui's ward. Lu Nanfeng had gone back to inform his family. When he saw Lu Beiye coming in with a bottle of warm wine, he quickly stood up and pulled a stool for her.
Wen Jiu said softly, "Thank you, Dad."
After she finished speaking, she sat down and turned to look at Liang Cui lying on the hospital bed.
"Mom, how do you feel?"
Liang Cui was still very weak, but she was visibly happy to see the warm wine. "Mom is fine. I'm sorry that you came to see me right after waking up. Are you feeling better? Anemia means you have to eat more. I feel bad for you when I see you're so thin."
"Aye, what are you still doing here? Go buy food for your wife! Why are you still so stupid? I don't know how my smart, beautiful and sensible daughter-in-law could fall for you."
As she spoke, she glared at Lu Beiye, as if she was Wen Jiu's biological mother and Lu Beiye was the filthy scoundrel who had abducted her daughter.
Wen Jiu suppressed his laughter and said, "Mom, I don't want to eat. Don't blame Aye. I just woke up and didn't have much appetite. He is so good."
"What a fart!"
Liang Cui rolled her eyes. "Isn't it that I don't know what kind of person I gave birth to? His personality is as dull as a gourd with a sawed mouth. Only his face is still good-looking."
Where can I still see it?
It's so handsome and terrible!
Before Wen Jiu could respond, Lu Beiye pulled him up.
"Mom, you two just woke up. It's not too late to talk tomorrow. You take a rest first. I'll take her back to the ward and come back to see you."
Liang Cui looked at Wenjiu's pale face, and even though she still had a lot to say to her, she couldn't say no.
Lu Beiye brought the warm wine back to the ward, helped her lie down on the bed, looked at her and asked: "What do you want to eat? I'll go buy it."
Wen Jiu replied: "Canned sugar water. Remember to buy one for our mother. If she is sick, she needs canned sugar water to get better quickly."
When her grandfather was still alive, every time she was sick, he would buy her canned food with sugar water, saying that all her illnesses would be cured after eating it.
Lu Beiye nodded, "Okay."
He said this and went out.
The streets in the 1980s were very narrow, with bumpy concrete surfaces. There were shops doing all kinds of business on both sides of the street, and even though it was already afternoon, it was still very busy.
Canned sugar water can be seen everywhere nowadays, but in that era it was considered a luxury item. It was very prestigious to carry it around when visiting neighbors and friends, and it could only be purchased at supply and marketing cooperatives.
Lu Beiye asked for directions several times before he found the location of the supply and marketing cooperative.
The supply and marketing cooperative is quite large and has a wide variety of goods. There are rows of shelves at the entrance, and Lu Beiye is walking among them with his long legs.
The salesperson was dozing off, but when he saw Lu Beiye, he suddenly stopped being sleepy. He ran up to him and asked sweetly, "Comrade, what are you looking for?"
"Let me help you find it!"
Lu Beiye saw the salesperson's eyes and knew what she was thinking. He said directly: "My wife wants to eat canned sugar water."
He is married.
You must have the awareness of being a married man.
No matter whether he got married willingly or not, or whether he will get divorced in the future, he already has a wife now, and what needs to be said must be made clear.
The salesperson's heart was broken. She pointed to the shelf in the corner and said sadly: "No, there are all kinds of flavors. You can choose."
Such a handsome man!
He actually has a wife, she cried to death!
It turns out that all the good men belong to other people!
Two cans of canned sugar water cost eight yuan, which could cover an average family's expenses for half a year, but Lu Beiye paid without even blinking.
Lu Beiye returned to the hospital, and Wen Jiu's eyes lit up when he saw the can in his hand.
"Give it to me quickly, give it to me, I want to eat it."
She reached out to take the can anxiously, but what Lu Beiye handed her was a lunch box filled with red date porridge.
"I want to eat canned food!" Wenjiu pouted.
Lu Beiye frowned, "Let's eat first."
Although Wen Jiu was reluctant, he said nothing when he saw Lu Beiye's frowning expression and started to eat the red date porridge obediently.
But the red date porridge was not that delicious. After taking two sips of the warm wine, she no longer felt like eating it. She thought of the canned food again and prepared to send Lu Beiye away first.
She blinked her eyes and said, "Lu Beiye, can you take the canned food to our mother?"
Seeing her drinking lukewarm wine but not tasting the food, and secretly glancing at the canned food, Lu Beiye knew what she was trying to do.
"My mother is sleeping."
"Oh..." His wish to warm the wine was shattered. His expression while drinking the porridge was as if he was eating poison, which made Lu Beiye secretly laugh.
When she had almost finished the warm wine, he turned around, opened the can and handed it to her.
"Here, eat it!"
"Wow--"
"Lu Beiye, you are so kind!" Wenjiu took the can excitedly, picked up the bottle and gulped down two mouthfuls of sugar water. In an instant he felt like he was alive again, his eyes narrowed into crescents with joy.
Seeing him warming the wine, Lu Beiye couldn't help but raise his lips. After realizing what was going on, he quickly suppressed his anger and asked, "Why did you suddenly come to my house?"
When he returned home that day, he didn't see Wenjiu and thought she had gone back to the compound, so he didn't pay much attention to it. He didn't expect that she actually came to his house.
He paused while warming the wine and eating the canned food, and then he gritted his teeth and used the same trick he used to deal with Father Lu and the others. "When you left that day, I was sleeping at home. I dreamed that our mother had an acute illness, and Qingqing met those hooligans in the village who had been in prison on the way back from her uncle's house. It was so real."
"The more I think about it, the more anxious I feel. I want to tell you but you're not at home, so I want to come over to take a look. If everything is alright, that's great. If there is something wrong, I can help them and that will be my atonement."
"Did you see Qingqing when you got home?"
"Is she okay?"
Lu Beiye replied: "Nothing happened. I saw she was doing fine when I got home."
Even though his eyes were swollen from crying, no one in his family had mentioned it to him, so he should be fine. Even though he thought the talk of warming the wine was ridiculous, the facts were right in front of him, and he had no choice but to believe it.
"Did you have any trouble on the way?"
His father told him that they met Wenjiu at the roadside, but according to the time Wenjiu left, she should have arrived earlier.
Wen Jiu replied: "No, I just got lost and went around in circles a few times."
Her voice was very calm, and she didn't even give any specific description, but it sounded deafening to Lu Beiye's ears. He could imagine how difficult it was to get through the wine warming process.
"Wenjiu, thank you for this time. Without you, my mother and my sister..." He couldn't continue, and changed the subject: "You can propose any conditions to me, and I will do it within my ability."
Although he hated what Wen Jiu did, she saved his mother and sister this time, and he should repay her for this favor.
Wen Jiu paused after hearing this, put the can on the bedside table, stood up, touched Lu Beiye's face and asked: "What if I want you to kiss me, respect me, love me, and treat me as your everything from now on?"
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