The next day, after breakfast.
Song Fuyu first carried the wheelchair downstairs, asked a hospital staff member to help watch it for her, and then ran upstairs to carry Chen Guoxing down.
"Let's go to the post office first. I'll call your parents-in-law and your grandparents."
"Just call grandpa and grandma. They probably can't answer calls from Beijing. They're already at work at this time."
When they arrived at the post office, Song Fuyu helped make the first call, and then waited patiently for his grandparents to come over and answer the phone.
"You wait here for the call. I'll go over to the side and mail a letter."
In addition to sending letters, I also bought some stamps and stored them.
Now, there are at least hundreds of sets of whole sheets of stamps piled up in the boxes in her space specially used for stamps. She has only one wish for these stamps, which is that she hopes they will appreciate in value in the future.
She will keep one set of each for herself as a collection and sell the rest when the time comes.
About fifteen minutes later, the call was called again, and grandpa's voice soon came from the other end.
"Hello, is this Xiao Yu?"
"Uncle Yan, it's me, Guoxing."
"It's Guoxing. How are you? Are you okay?"
"Uncle Yan, don't worry. I'm fine. I just need to rest."
"Are you home or where are you now? Where did you call from?"
"Xiao Yu rented a wheelchair for me and pushed me to the post office to make the call. I can't go home yet and have to stay in the hospital for about seven or eight days."
"Oh, you still have to stay here for so long! You must be careful to protect the broken bones and don't bump into them accidentally."
"Okay, I will. I'll pay attention."
"If you want to eat something, just ask Xiaoyu to cook it. Don't be polite. She can cook a lot of things and they are delicious. It's a rare trip back home, so just order from her."
"Haha, okay."
"I am now in charge of my three meals a day. I asked her to go to the cafeteria and buy ready-made food, but she refused and insisted on making it herself."
"Nothing you buy outside is as good as what you make at home. Homemade is not only more affordable, but also tastes better."
"That's what she said, I'm just worried that she'll get tired."
"This girl is very energetic. Apart from her love of sleeping in, she can't stop for most of the day. She won't feel comfortable unless she has something to do."
In the past, Grandpa Yan and Grandma Yan were afraid that Xiaoyu would be too tired to cook for them every day. Later, they found that if she didn't do it, she could pull them to do other things by herself and couldn't stop at all.
If he stopped, he would definitely go to bed or the sofa to sleep.
The two of them were chatting animatedly on the phone, with Grandpa Yan talking most of the time and Chen Guoxing responding.
"Old man, are you done? Let me say a few words!"
"Not yet, wait a minute."
"I've been waiting for more than ten minutes!"
"I'll talk for another five minutes! I haven't talked to Xiaoyu yet."
I don’t know if it was five minutes or not, but Grandma Yan snatched the phone from his hand and started talking herself.
"Xiao Yu, don't rush back. The most important thing now is to take good care of your father, okay?"
"I know, grandma. I will wait until dad has the plaster removed before returning to Lu City."
"Your grandfather and I are going back to Beijing this Friday. Your parents have called us for two consecutive days to urge us to go back."
"If you guys are still willing to come to Lu City before the New Year, I will pick you up in Jing City when I return from here."
"Forget about it before the New Year. Your parents probably don't want us to go around everywhere. They're afraid we'll get cold. After the New Year, Lixia will be almost due to give birth. Then we can go together."
After talking to grandma for a few minutes, she asked grandma to transfer the call to Uncle Wu.
"Uncle Wu, there is another matter that needs your attention."
"Hey, we're family, just say it directly."
"I will transfer 500 yuan to you later. Please contact the master after you go back and install heating for our two houses in Beijing. If there is less money, please tell me. If there is more, please keep it for the electricity bill."
The house in the Beijing family compound is more than 20 years old and has never been equipped with heating.
Young people are fine, they can survive every winter with their integrity. Grandparents are old, no matter how many clothes they wear or how thick the quilts they cover themselves with at night, they are not as hardy as young people.
"Do you want to discuss this with the chief first? I think all the children should share the cost of buying things for the elders at home. If you pay all the money directly, they will be unhappy when they know it."
"With so many people, by the time everyone has come to discuss it, winter will be over."
"Our brothers and sisters here can agree, but my aunt will definitely find all kinds of ways to refuse. Rather than making things unpleasant, I'll just pay a little bit and save myself the trouble. Anyway, they don't have a room at home."
It wouldn't be a big problem for Ziyuan's brothers and sisters to pay a little money, but it's not certain for my uncle's family.
As for her and Ziyuan, her grandparents reserved their own room for them, but no other brothers or sisters had this treatment.
If anyone wants to stay, they can sleep on a bed if there are few people, but will have to sleep on the floor if there are too many people.
They don't even have their own room, so it's unlikely that they will pay for it.
"If grandpa is not happy, you can say that I don't want to be cold during the New Year, and my room must be installed. If he doesn't need it, just bypass his room."
"Haha, okay, I'll take care of it when I get back."
After hanging up the phone, Wu Xingmin told Grandpa and Grandma Yan about Song Fuyu's decision.
The two elders once again lamented that with so many children in the family, over so many years, there was not a single caring girl like the one who had only been married for a year.
Others knew that the old couple were older and more afraid of cold than young people, so they would ask them to wear more clothes and occasionally buy them a piece of clothing, but no one suggested installing a heater for them... Oh...
"If Xiaoyu wants to install it, we'll listen to her and let her show her filial piety. As for Changsheng, you can notify the other children and ask them if they want to install it. If they agree, they can share the cost. If they don't agree, let Changsheng pay for it himself and return the rest of the money to Xiaoyu."
Grandpa Yan knew that Xiao Yu definitely didn't want to break up with the old family, but he also couldn't bear to see the two elders suffer from the cold in the winter, so he offered to pay for it all himself.
He thought about it and decided not to let Xiaoyu's kindness lead to any unpleasantness because of money. He would subsidize her from other sources in the future.
"Okay, I'll do as you say."