Chapter 214 Who is he kneeling to all the time?
Zhizhi waved to him, "You're busy, you don't need to come over. Zhou Lin is with me!"
Political Commissar Yao has left.
Zhizhi popped a grape into her mouth and asked Zhou Lin, "When do you think they'll come back?"
Zhou Lin thought, "They should arrive this afternoon, or maybe later."
Zhizhi nodded. "I guessed so too."
I don't dare wait until tomorrow, because Zhizhi said that if I stay one more day, it means I'll be discharged tomorrow, and it wouldn't be good if I came back empty-handed.
After Political Commissar Yao returned, he had someone summon He Zhen and said, "Have you lost your mind?"
What are you thinking about all day long?
"Such a big thing happened, and you're acting like nothing happened?"
He Zhen still looked completely innocent, "Liu Tian, she..."
He thought Liu Tian had caused trouble again.
Liu Tian did indeed cause trouble, but...
"I'm talking about you now!"
"What did Commander Xiao tell you yesterday?"
"Personally apologize, personally apologize..." Political Commissar Yao clapped his hands, repeating the phrase over and over, then asked, "What? Doesn't 'personally' include you?"
"Can't you use your brain for once?"
"I..." He Zhen was speechless for a moment.
"Also, let's talk about your mother-in-law. Don't always resort to that shameless act. Do you think others are easy targets?"
"This is a new society now, who are you trying to impress by kneeling down all the time?"
"I actually slapped you in the face, but you didn't seem happy at all."
He Zhen stammered, his face flushed, "She..."
Commissar Yao bluntly stated, "Your mother-in-law and your wife rushed into the ward early this morning, kneeling and kowtowing..." Commissar Yao then spread his hands and clapped them, "What are they trying to do? What are they trying to do?"
“I…I don’t know,” was all He Zhen could say.
“Of course you don’t know, you don’t get involved at all,” Political Commissar Yao said, hitting the nail on the head.
He Zhen fell silent.
“Go back to your wife and mother-in-law, pack your things and go to the hospital together, you're like a block of wood,” Political Commissar Yao scolded angrily.
He Zhen nodded and went back.
But no one was home. Liu Tian had gone to work, and Zhang Chun had gone back to his own home.
He Zhen had no choice but to go out and look for someone. He first went to the factory where Liu Tian worked to find her.
Liu Tian didn't seem too happy when she was called out.
He Zhen asked her, "Why are you here at work?"
Liu Tian retorted irritably, "You'll pay me if I don't work?"
He Zhen glared at her too, "Come back with me!"
"What are you doing?" Liu Tian glared at him back.
"Go back to the hospital!"
"I'm not going!" Liu Tian replied decisively.
"You're not going? You and your mother caused this mess, and you're not going?" He Zhen's face turned red and black with anger.
Liu Tian was speechless, her face flushing red. "It's not like we didn't go. She ignored us when we went. What could we do?"
"My mom has already knelt down, what more do you want?"
Liu Tian said this directly, and He Zhen was completely shocked: "Who told you to kneel down?"
Liu Tian kept asking, "What else do you want? What else do you want?"
Are you suggesting we be executed?
"Then execute her! Am I afraid of her?"
“If you’re so capable, then shoot me,” she shouted from the factory gate, attracting stares from passersby, before turning her face away.
He Zhen's chest heaved with anger, but he quickly calmed down. "Whatever. Anyway, it was your mother who got him into the hospital. Do whatever you want!"
After saying that, he turned and left.
Liu Tian stood there stomping her feet in anger, wiped away her tears, and went back to the factory, where she asked for the afternoon off.
After leaving the factory, Liu Tian went back to her parents' home with a tense face to find her mother. "He Zhen went to the factory to look for me!"
Zhang Chun had a falling out with his daughter that morning, and he wasn't friendly when she came to his door, but after hearing this, he still asked, "What do you want?"
"Take him to the hospital," Liu Tian said, her voice rising unconsciously.
“Then let’s go,” Zhang Chun readily agreed.
Then the mother and daughter went back to their apartment building together.
He Zhen stayed home after returning from Liu Tian's factory in the family dormitory building; he didn't go to the military base.
He knew he wouldn't get things done and would only get scolded if he went home, so he simply stayed home.
So Liu Tian and Zhang Chun saw him as soon as they entered the door.
Zhang Chun, unaware that the young couple had quarreled again, assumed that his son-in-law was waiting for him on purpose, so he asked with a smile, "Shall we go after we've eaten, or should we go now?"
"Why don't we go after we've eaten? When I went there this morning, she was eating. She was upset because of this, and even kneeling down didn't work. She's such a difficult person."
He Zhen frowned deeply upon hearing this. "Who told you to kneel?"
"Is that an apology, or what are you trying to do?"
Zhang Chun was initially grateful to He Zhen for speaking up for her yesterday and was quite nice to him, but when He Zhen became rude to her, her smile faltered. "What else can I do but apologize?"
"At my age, do you think I'm some kind of cheapskate?"
These words were unpleasant to hear, and He Zhen, unable to respond, plopped down in anger.
Zhang Chun continued irritably, "I'm so old, and I've been running around for your sakes. I even knelt down and begged people, and it's become my fault."
He Zhen hadn't wanted to say anything more, but he couldn't hold back any longer and yelled, "Whose business are you running around for?"
"Whose business are you running around for anyway?"
Why don't you say it's because I've been running around for your sake?
"You could have stayed put and seen who would catch me or someone else in the end. I'm the one who got dragged into this mess and now I'm the one running around for my sake."
Zhang Chun was stunned by the shouting.
Liu Tian pounced on He Zhen and started tearing at him, yelling, "Who are you talking to with such foul language?"
He Zhen cursed out of the blue, and felt a little guilty afterward, but when Liu Tian tore at him and questioned him, his temper flared up again. He pushed her away and said, "Just tell me if you're going or not. If you're not going today, don't expect me to run with you."
"And another thing, divorce!" He Zhen glared at her, his eyes red.
Liu Tian staggered to her feet, but upon hearing the word "divorce," she froze on the spot.
At this point, Zhang Chun played the good guy again, saying, "Alright, alright, it was just a bit of a misunderstanding, what's going on?"
"You two aren't young anymore, and your child is already so big. Why are you learning those improper things?"
"Divorce is something no respectable family would do."
"Then the child won't be able to hold his head up in public."
He Zhen plopped back down on the sofa, turning away from the mother and daughter, sulking to himself.
Zhang Chun walked over to Liu Tian, tugged at her arm, gave her a wink, and then, with a forced smile, asked He Zhen, "When are we going to the hospital?"
"Is it alright to go now?"
"It's almost time to eat..." Zhang Chun muttered to himself.
He seemed to be rambling on, but his eyes were actually fixed on He Zhen!
He Zhen still spoke awkwardly, "It's past lunchtime, I still need to call Political Commissar Yao."
"Is the political commissar going too?" Zhang Chun asked.
“It’s always good to have someone there, otherwise it seems informal,” He Zhen said.
Zhang Chun and Liu Tian exchanged a glance, both looking disgusted, but ultimately said nothing more.
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