Chapter 36 Eating Her Leftovers

"No other questions?" Chen Yilon looked at Su Mei suspiciously. He thought that with Su Mei's personality, she would definitely seize this opportunity to ask for a big favor.

After all, she is famous.

In the end, she just asked whether there was food?

But eating is indeed a more important issue for Su Mei at the moment. She even explained:

"Leader, I am losing weight and I don't eat much."

Chen Yilong stared at Su Mei blankly for a while, then turned around and asked Huo Jianguo: "You didn't feed your wife?"

Huo Jianguo: “….”

He bought food for half a month, but she finished making it in three days. How could he answer that?

"Meals are provided." Chen Yilong finally said to Su Mei, "You will start work at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. Your salary will be half of Lao Qin's. Lao Qin is a military man, and his salary has been increased according to his military service years.

The cafeteria is next door, turn left. I'll ask the security guard to send you a month's worth of meal tickets. Any other questions?"

"No more." Su Mei shook her head.

She managed to get a job, even though it was a temporary one, but she had a salary and food to eat, so what else could she ask for?

After agreeing to go to work, Chen Yillong wrapped himself in his military coat and left the clinic first.

When Huo Jianguo saw Chen Yilon leave, he also left the clinic, and Su Mei thought he was gone too.

As a result, half an hour later, he returned to the clinic with a bowl of egg fried rice and a bowl of egg drop soup.

"There are only rice and eggs left in the military cafeteria. Everything else is stored in the warehouse. No one opened the door and I can't get it.

I just fried some eggs and rice for you and made some soup for you to eat.”

"You made this?" Su Mei looked at the rice in the bowl in surprise. It was fried golden yellow. She couldn't help but praise, "Your cooking skills are not bad!"

Hearing Su Mei's praise, Huo Jianguo didn't say anything. He just thought about her expression, which was the same as the first time she ate the food he cooked.

In the past, whenever he was resting, she would deliberately not get up to cook. When he was done, she would quickly get up, without combing her hair or washing her face, and go to eat.

It’s not her first time eating it, so I don’t know what she is so surprised about.

Seeing that Huo Jianguo didn't say anything, Su Mei thought he was too lazy to pay attention to her. Her fat stomach was indeed uncomfortable after a busy day, so she ate half of the meal and drank half of the soup.

Then he pushed the bowl to Huo Jianguo: "Thank you, I'm done."

"Why don't you finish eating?" Huo Jianguo looked a little unhappy.

Su Mei was puzzled: "I can't finish it. I've had enough."

As a result, after she finished speaking, she saw Huo Jianguo pour the remaining soup into the bowl and sit down to eat.

Why are you eating other people's leftovers? Su Mei frowned: "Don't you think it's dirty?"

"Hate." Huo Jianguo spat out a word coldly, and then said:

"But I don't want to waste it. Do you know that there are many places and many people who don't even have wild vegetables to eat?

What a shameful waste. ”

After speaking, Huo Jianguo continued to eat.

Su Mei couldn't help but remain silent for a while after hearing what Huo Jianguo said. After she heard what Huo Jianguo said, she realized that this was the 1970s when many people were hungry and cold.

In those days, if a piece of rice fell on the ground, people would pick it up and eat it. It was not like in later generations, when people habitually spread out their meals and waste them, and mountains of food were thrown away as garbage every day.

Because she was used to the fast-food lifestyle of later generations, Su Mei did not think about the preciousness of food in this era. Looking at Huo Jianguo eating her leftovers, she could not help but feel a little sorry:

“Next time, I’ll pay attention.”

Huo Jianguo didn't say anything else. After finishing his meal, he went to the cafeteria to wash the dishes and pots. When he came back, Meimei had recovered enough to get out of bed.

So Huo Jianguo drove the car left by Chen Yilon and took Mei Mei and Su Mei back to the military compound.

When we arrived at the military compound, Auntie Wang had already prepared dinner and was waiting for us. As soon as we got out of the car, Auntie Wang rushed out of the yard:

"Finally you're back. I've been waiting for you. Come into the house and have dinner. I've been keeping the fire going, so the food is still hot."

At Aunt Wang's invitation, several people followed Aunt Wang into the yard. Although Su Mei explained that she had already eaten, she was still dragged in by Aunt Wang to drink some hot soup.

After dinner, Meimei wanted to take her daughter home, but just as she picked up the child, Auntie Wang stopped her:

"Meimei, just stay at my house and don't bother yourself. A miscarriage is like confinement after childbirth. You need to rest well, otherwise you will develop a chronic disease."

"I'm fine, Aunt Wang, thank you for helping me take care of Er Xihuan. You must be tired taking care of Li Yuan, so I won't disturb you so late at night." Mei Mei was embarrassed to disturb Aunt Wang and still insisted on leaving.

But Auntie Wang was also an honest person. She snatched the child from Mei Mei's arms and said to Huo Jianguo and Su Mei:

"Meimei will sleep here with me tonight. You don't have to wait to send her back. You should go back and rest early too."

"Sister Mei, you can stay at Aunt Wang's place for one more night. The surgery must have been very painful for you. Aunt Wang can help you look after the child at night." Su Mei also helped Aunt Wang to persuade Mei Mei.

Seeing that Auntie Wang and Su Mei were trying to persuade her, Mei Mei finally agreed to stay: "Auntie Wang, I'm really sorry to bother you!"

"No trouble." Aunt Wang shook her head: "That day, my Li Yuan had an accident, and you also threw the child to her father. You came here to help for half a day."

Meimei didn't say anything else. She left her children behind to come out to help that day because her husband wanted to do that again and she refused. The couple had a quarrel and she ran away from home.

She happened to see Li Yuan in trouble, so she rushed in to help. Only Meimei herself knew all this, and she would definitely not say it out loud.

After settling Meimei down, Su Mei and Huo Jianguo left Aunt Wang's house.

When he returned to his own yard, Huo Jianguo remembered that his room was occupied by Li Yuan, so he had nowhere to go.

After thinking for a while, Huo Jianguo turned around and returned to the car, thinking of spending the night there.

Su Mei ignored him. She went into the yard and went to the kitchen to light the fire and heat a large pot of water.

No matter how cold the weather was, as long as she had performed surgery on someone, she would always give the patient a bath before going to bed when she got home.

After putting the water in place and lighting the fire, Su Mei went next door to change the medicine on Li Yuan's thigh.

After changing the medicine, Su Mei said to Jiang Wei:

"Jiang Wei, come here and help me take off his pants."

"Why are you taking off your pants?" Li Yuan was shocked and instinctively covered his crotch.

He felt very embarrassed whenever he saw Su Mei, because there was a tube inserted into his lower brother. Thinking that the tube was inserted by Su Mei, Li Yuan wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into every time he saw Su Mei.

When Li Yuan heard that Su Mei was going to take off his pants, he was shocked.

As a result, whatever Li Yuan feared came true. Su Mei said to him:

"We have to remove the catheter from your body. It's been two days since the operation. I have to go out tomorrow and won't have time. We'll remove it now."

"Can I pull it off by myself?" Li Yuan swallowed his saliva. He didn't want to take off his pants in front of Su Mei.

Su Mei nodded: "Okay, if you are not afraid of pain, urethral damage, and future urine leakage, you can do it yourself."

"Then you should come!" Li Yuan's face suddenly turned red.

He agreed quickly, but when Jiang Wei went to help him take off his pants, he grabbed his pants tightly again and refused to let go.

Su Mei was a little helpless. Medicine had been very advanced in later generations, and everyone knew that doctors were equal in gender. She had never encountered such a situation before, so she could only urge:

"Hurry up, I'm busy. It's just a catheter. Doctors don't distinguish between genders. In my eyes, there's no difference between you and a corpse. I don't mind, so why should you mind?"

"No, sister-in-law, how about this? You go find Brother Jianguo, tell him the operating procedures, and let him do it. I'm nervous." Li Yuan thought of a new idea.

Seeing that Li Yuan was acting awkward, Su Mei was exhausted after a day of work and had lost her patience:

"Okay, I'll go find him."

She couldn't help but think that it would be awkward for her to pull out, but wouldn't it be awkward for two grown men to face each other like fencing?

I really don't understand.

After going out, Su Mei knocked on Huo Jianguo's car window. The man rolled down the window and sneezed before he could say anything:

“H-h ...

"What's up?"

"H-choo! H-choo!" He had only said two words when he sneezed twice more.

Su Mei: “….”

The temperature was more than ten degrees below zero, and this guy was sleeping in the car. Was he planning to freeze himself to death in the car so that she wouldn't be able to get him at all?

She briefly explained to Huo Jianguo the steps for removing the catheter, and then said to him:

"You go and pull it out for him. I feel embarrassed to do it myself."