The health center is small and has few departments. Besides internal medicine and surgery, there are gynecology, pediatrics, and orthopedics. All nurses rotate through the hospital, changing departments every quarter. Cuihua had just been transferred to orthopedics, but she didn't expect to run into Huang Xin on her first night shift.
She hadn't been out in the village for a long time. She worked long hours every day, and her days off weren't always on weekends. Sometimes, because she was tired, she would sleep for at least half a day on her days off. So she didn't know what was going on in the village, and her sisters wouldn't mention those annoying things to her. As a result, she hadn't heard of Huang Xin for a long time.
After the two had a falling out, he swapped marriages with his comrade's family, and as a result, his younger siblings all found their other halves, which ended up trapping him.
Now that my younger brother and his wife have moved out, he's occupying the old house left by our parents. What's the use of that?
With his disability, he can't do any work and lives entirely on his disability pension.
Some people did find him widowed men with children, but he preferred to be a live-in son-in-law rather than raise someone else's child.
Before being taken to the hospital, he had been lying in the yard for a day. If someone hadn't come looking for him, he probably would have died in the yard and no one would have known.
So when he saw in the hospital that the woman he had once broken off their engagement with had not only become a full-time employee but had also married a woman a hundred times better than him, the regret in his heart was beyond words.
"Cuihua..." He had barely uttered a name when Tang Cuihua politely interrupted him.
"Excuse me, my surname is Tang, and I am married. Please call me Xiao Tang, or Nurse Tang would be more appropriate."
Before the other party could react, they quickly changed the subject.
"Although your leg problem is a chronic one, Dr. Zhao advised that you still need to exercise and massage it more so that the muscles won't atrophy easily."
After explaining everything, he left the ward without giving him any chance to build a relationship.
Huang Xin thought that this would help him maintain a proper sense of boundaries with Tang Cuihua, but unexpectedly, he announced to everyone in the ward and the nurses that he had once been Tang Cuihua's fiancé. He kept his head down and didn't say the reason for their breakup, making it seem like she had abandoned him.
Faced with the subtle, unintentional whispers and cold treatment from her colleagues, Cuihua finally understood the cause and effect of the matter.
She was so angry she laughed. She grabbed the nurse from the ward and rushed to Huang Xin, suppressing her temper and gritting her teeth as she questioned him.
"Why did you announce to everyone that you were my ex-fiancé? You said it, but you didn't dare to say why we broke up. What are you trying to do? Are you jealous of my happiness? Or are you deliberately stirring up this storm so you can laugh at me?"
Huang Xin was surprised when Tang Cuihua suddenly appeared and questioned him, which made him feel embarrassed and awkward.
"No, I just think you're doing really well now, and I regret it, I regret what I did back then."
"What? Back then, your comrade said she wanted to exchange her sister for your sister in a marriage. Her sister was seven or eight years younger than me, younger and prettier, so you were tempted, right? You directly asked someone to break off the engagement with me, and were happily waiting to marry her, right?"
In the end, she married your perfectly healthy younger brother. That's just how cruel it is; she didn't want you.
Your brother disregarded your brotherly bond, married your comrade's sister, and even broke off relations with you, moving out of the old house.
Now that you're all alone, you're jealous of everyone who's doing better than you, and you've even made a scene at my workplace.
Huang Xin, Huang Xin, now I realize that being forced to break off our engagement was such a wise decision. Someone like you deserves to die alone!
After saying that, ignoring Huang Xin's livid face and his attempt to argue, Cuihua turned and left.
The group of colleagues who had spoken ill of her were left behind, looking at each other, and finally asked Huang Xin with cold faces.
"Is what Xiao Tang just said true? You abandoned her first? What did you mean by what you said yesterday? You made us feel indignant on behalf of you, a disabled veteran? And yet you're using us to retaliate against Xiao Tang? How could you be so wicked? You deserve to stay home all day with no one paying attention to you!"
"Exactly! You call yourself a veteran? You're disgracing the profession you were once so proud of!"
"I thought you had it tough, and I was even thinking of introducing you to a suitable partner. Luckily, Xiao Tang exposed you, or I would have become a matchmaker who ruined someone else's life!"
When all the colleagues saw Huang Xin speechless, they knew that what Cuihua said was half true.
They immediately began to criticize him mercilessly.
These days, jobs are considered secure. As long as you don't make any fundamental mistakes, there's no question of whether you're willing to provide service or not.
For example, there are many rude employees in department store shops and bus ticket sellers. What can ordinary people do?
This is the real reason why Tang Cuihua dared to expose Huang Xin so ruthlessly in public.
Faced with everyone's accusations, Huang Xin was utterly speechless, and even his fellow patients came to laugh at him.
He was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot, which scared the others so much that they rushed to find a doctor. In an instant, the entire orthopedic ward was in chaos.
When the news reached Tang Cuihua, she applied immediately.
"I won't go into that ward again until he's discharged. What kind of person is he? With that kind of character, he still wants to find a virgin? Bah, he doesn't deserve it!"
Huang Xin was utterly disgraced and vomited blood incessantly. Even an internist came to see him and advised him to broaden his mind and not be so narrow-minded.
Huang Xin felt ashamed and was discharged from the hospital the next day. Of course, no one came to pick him up, and he could only pay the family members in the ward to send him home.
To act like this is truly unparalleled.
It's unclear whether he was traumatized by this, but less than a month after returning home, Huang Xin married a strong and healthy widow. The widow also brought with her an eight-year-old daughter, who was undoubtedly older than Huang Xin, reportedly by six years.
Although Huang Xin is disabled, he at least has a large, independent house and a monthly subsidy of ten yuan for disabled veterans.
Moreover, he has a disability certificate, so the cost of medical treatment at the hospital is half that of an ordinary person.
In other words, he hasn't adapted to his previous life yet. Otherwise, a competitive person could have used this certificate to get some handicraft work to do at home. If he were also more educated, the commune would have found a way to arrange a job for him.
This is also a basic livelihood guarantee for those of them who have contributed to the country.
Unfortunately, he always gave up on himself, and even harbored resentment because his younger brother and sister-in-law were all married.
It seems the stimulus wasn't strong enough. See? It's turned around now.
His first priority should be survival, not being picky. Only with a strong and healthy wife can the family truly thrive. He can't expect anything on his own.
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