Someone is coming!
Chen Xingling blinked her eyes - she instinctively felt that the bottles of flashy and expensive stuff in her arms should not be seen by others, otherwise no one would believe her even if she could explain it clearly, and no one would believe it.
So he quickly flashed back to the space and hid them all in the shopping basket in the corner.
The door of the ward was pushed open, and Gu Qi walked in with a cold look on his face, holding a net bag in his hand, which contained several steaming aluminum lunch boxes.
He opened the first one and handed it to her.
"This is dry rice. I also bought some braised pork and two dishes, plus two egg dumplings."
Chen Xingling's stomach had long been empty with hunger, and he instinctively swallowed his saliva when he smelled the aroma of the food.
"Are these expensive? Do lunch boxes come with them?"
She was used to eating out of transparent plastic takeout boxes, so she found this hard and dirty aluminum lunch box a little unacceptable.
Gu Qi looked at her suspiciously, but still took the initiative to explain: "This is rented with a deposit, two yuan per piece, and you have to return it to the store after eating. Don't worry, the food and dishes add up to 40 cents, which is not expensive. You need to buy meal tickets for the hospital cafeteria, but unfortunately the ticket seller is not available, so I can only buy them at a small restaurant outside."
Chen Xingling, who had a bottle of nourishing cream costing seventy-nine dollars on his face, said: "..."
In fact, she didn’t think it was “expensive”, quite the opposite - it was extremely cheap!
In this era when an ordinary worker's salary is only forty or fifty yuan, she, a poor bastard with only a few thousand yuan left in her credit card, can definitely be considered a wealthy woman!
Thinking of this, she immediately felt happy!
Gu Qi saw her eyes shining with joy, but he felt secretly sad in his heart.
How long had she not eaten meat? She was so happy that she kept grinning at the braised pork.
"Stop looking and eat quickly." He handed her a pair of wooden chopsticks.
Chen Xingling only drank a bowl of porridge last night. He fainted in the morning and didn't eat anything until dawn. He was already starving.
She ate with big mouthfuls, almost wolfing it down.
The old saying is true: when you are hungry, everything tastes delicious. Although the meat was a little tough and the vegetables were a little old, she was really hungry and ate with gusto.
Gu Qi, who was standing by, saw it all clearly and felt very uncomfortable and mixed emotions.
The old mother was fat and round, his two sisters were plump and slightly fat, and even his son was chubby, but she was the only one who was skinny and shriveled, with a pale and sallow complexion of malnutrition.
She didn't say anything, but he guessed it roughly.
Seeing that he was eating neither too fast nor too slow, and his movements were very graceful, Chen Xingling, in contrast, was eating like a wolf and a tiger, and he smiled with a little embarrassment.
"I eat too fast...Will there not be enough vegetables and meat?"
Gu Qi shook his head and said calmly: "I've had enough, you eat more."
After saying that, he picked up the two slices of braised pork from his lunch box and gave them to her.
Chen Xingling was actually very hungry, so he grumbled his thanks and ate up all the food. In line with the fine aesthetic principle of not wasting anything, he even ate every last grain of rice before he put down his chopsticks with satisfaction.
Gu Qizhen couldn't bear it, but he had always been not good at speaking and didn't know how to express the pain in his heart at all.
He whispered, "Last month the factory finally bought a house. I bought a three-bedroom, two-living-room apartment, which is quite spacious. After a while, I will take you and Little Tiger to Chongqing."
After returning from studying abroad, he wanted to go back to his hometown to pick her up and reunite with the little tiger Yucheng.
Unexpectedly, the old mother said that she was sick and couldn't bear to leave the little tiger alone, and she couldn't be left without someone to take care of it.
At that time, he lived in a small single room in a tube-shaped building. The place was cramped and complicated, and the environment and sanitary conditions were not very good.
My younger brother has gone to work in the countryside, and my two younger sisters are still in school. There is really no one who can take care of my sick mother, so the plan has to be put on hold temporarily.
This time when he comes back, he will take her and Xiaohuzi south no matter what and will not let her stay here any longer.
Chen Xingling's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he nodded hurriedly: "Hey, hey!"
Gu Qi put away the lunch box, washed it, put on his military coat, and then took out the bag and returned it to the store.
The night was dark, the wind was howling from the north outside the window, and the ward was chilly.
Chen Xingling wrapped herself tightly in the thick quilt. Her stomach was full and her body felt warm. She always had the optimistic spirit of "using the quilt as a cover if the sky falls", and she was about to fall asleep.
After Gu Qi came back, he thought she had fallen into a coma again, and hurriedly asked the doctor on duty to check on her.
The doctor put away the stethoscope and whispered, "It's okay. The inflammation of the lungs has become more serious. She was just too sleepy and fell asleep."
Gu Qi was slightly embarrassed, but nodded politely: "Thank you, doctor."
Then he bent over to adjust the quilt and tuck in the corners.
The doctor advised: "The patient is malnourished and has a poor physical condition. Even if he is in good health, he cannot stand being hungry for a long time. Low blood sugar is more likely to cause dizziness. The root cause is that he still needs to supplement his nutrition and try to eat as much as possible."
Gu Qi listened carefully and nodded.
The doctor turned and left, and the ward became deserted again.
Gu Qi half leaned on the edge of the bed, looking at his wife's sleeping face, his thoughts flying unconsciously.
After not seeing her for more than three days, she became much more cheerful than before.
Thinking of his old mother's vicious attitude towards her, he guessed something.
Her husband was not around, her child was still young, and her in-laws didn't like her. If she hadn't had the mentality of finding joy in misery, she might have run back to her parents' home in Yucheng long ago.
He became cheerful, laughed more, and became more confident, as if he had become a different person.
However, it seems that the current one is cuter.
…
At this time, the ward in the south of the city was quiet and peaceful, while the Gu family in the north of the city was in chaos.
The Gu family used to be a wealthy family. They were the only family with a separate courtyard and a single house on Ping'an Street. There were courtyards in the front and back, a hall in the middle, four rooms on the left and inside, and four elegant small rooms on the second floor.
The black dog in the front yard kept barking, and the little tiger at the kitchen door was chewing on a hard rice cake while sobbing, with tears and snot all over his face.
Li Ying was busy cooking in the kitchen while calling out to her daughter to come and help.
"Ah Xuan! Ah Miao! Where have you been hiding?! What time is it now? Why don't you come to the kitchen to help me! Are you going to have dinner or not?"
Gu Xuan, who was doing homework in the study, hurried downstairs, ran straight to the kitchen, picked up the little tiger on the doorstep and held him up.
Li Ying urged, "Hurry up and light the fire. The steamed buns in the pot are not hot yet."
Gu Xuan was always a quiet person. He squatted down clumsily with little Tiger in his arms, picked up some dry firewood from the corner, and threw it under the stove with clumsy movements.
At this time, a little girl of about fifteen or sixteen ran in. She was clean-looking, with a chubby round face, a cotton jacket and two pigtails, and a small red silk bow tied on her head.
"Mom! The chickens in the backyard are clucking and some of them are even running to the front yard!"
Li Ying was stir-frying the radish, stirring it back and forth with the spatula.
"The chickens have been left unfed all day, how can they not be clucking with hunger? Throw some rotten vegetable leaves for them to chew on, and drive them into the chicken coop to eat. Also, give Heiwang yesterday's stale rice soup."
"I'm not!" Gu Miao pouted and said coquettishly, "The chicken coop stinks, and the rotten rice soup stinks even more! These are all jobs for that country woman, why should I do them? Let her do it when she comes back!"
Li Ying snorted angrily, "She's already awake, but she's still pretending to be sick! There's a lot of chores at home that no one is doing. The pigs, chickens, and dogs haven't been fed, the clothes haven't been washed, and the meals haven't been cooked! She's really good at being lazy!"
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