fish soup
The operation went smoothly and there were no abnormalities during the operation. Now it depends on the postoperative recovery and infection must be avoided.
After the operation, many people came to visit Li Lai. The anesthetic had not worn off yet and she felt dizzy when talking to people. After her friends checked on her and made sure that nothing was wrong, they all left.
As soon as his friend left, Li Li closed his eyes. He didn't know if it was because he was tired or because of the anesthetic, but he fell asleep as soon as he closed his eyes.
The dreams she had during sleep were getting more and more outrageous, and the noisy sounds made her upset. Realizing that the noisy sounds were becoming clearer and clearer, Li Li opened her eyes.
She is awake.
Seeing that the ward was still brightly lit, she didn't know how long she had slept. When she stood up, she touched her leg that had undergone surgery and grimaced in pain.
"Awake, are you feeling unwell?" Jing Shengxi's face popped up. "Your sister went downstairs to buy something. She just left and will be here soon."
"You're here," Li Li pointed to the bedside table. Jing Shengxi didn't know what she meant and didn't move.
"Here are some fruits. Take some and eat them."
"I've eaten." Jing Shengxi sat back on the accompanying chair next to him.
After the two of them chatted politely for a few minutes, Li Li suddenly remembered her sister's words and decided to hurry up and clarify the misunderstanding between them.
It's obviously a very ordinary relationship, but once it involves personal feelings, you have to think carefully before you speak or act.
"Jing Shengxi, I've asked the group leader to transfer the hospital fees back to your bank card."
Jing Shengxi looked up at her in surprise.
Li Li was afraid that the anesthetic effect had not yet worn off and he would say something confusing, so he emphasized seriously: "My foot injury has nothing to do with you, so don't feel guilty. We will still be good friends in the future."
Jing Shengxi's expression changed, and he suddenly laughed inexplicably, "Okay, I'll do as you say."
After receiving Jing Shengxi's answer, Li Li felt relieved. Coincidentally, Li Li also came back. Jing Shengxi greeted Li Li generously before leaving.
After Jing Shengxi left, Li Li asked in a sly tone, "Isn't this the guy who participated in the talent show with you? He's your upstairs neighbor?"
Even though she's not a big star yet, she's already being affected by rumors. She can only answer her sister in an official tone: "These are all fabricated stories. I have nothing to do with the other party."
"He's so polite to your sister. This guy is really responsible. He came to visit you with imported nutritional supplements and imported oral medications that can't be reimbursed by medical insurance."
Li Li raised her eyebrows and said, "Sister, don't you realize that I will have to return the favor in the future?"
"Hey, isn't it that when people interact with each other, you owe me something and I owe you something? Eat a peach, I'll wash a peach for you to eat."
"I want to eat watermelon."
"I'll go buy more. Just eat the peaches."
Forget it, forget it, sister, I can’t beat her.
During the week in the hospital, Li Li was always there with him, and friends would come to visit him. It was only at these times that Li Li would leave to do her own things.
Li Li also had a job, and after hearing the company urging her to go back to work several times, Li Li decided to let her go too. After all, she could barely walk with a cane now.
"There are always inconveniences. I've hired a caregiver for you. Don't worry about the salary. I'll contact the caregiver."
Li Li was busy with work on the computer, opening one document after another and typing away on the keyboard.
"Sister, please return my house first. I haven't been working for the past two or three months, and the rent is too expensive."
Li Li said without even looking up: "Your location is great, isn't it? You even showed it off to me back then. I paid your rent for this year."
Li Li's eyes were sore: "Sister, it's not easy for you to make money, you don't have to do it for me-"
"Li Li!"
This was a rare moment of anger for Li Li these past few days. She closed her computer in anger, glared at Li Li, and said with suppressed anger, "We are sisters. You don't have to calculate the expenses so clearly, although, although..."
He looked at her right foot with a guilty look in his eyes, and choked back his words, saying, "You are my sister. I can take care of you for the rest of my life."
But Li Li felt that he was really a bastard, as a foot injury would implicate so many people.
Still angry, Li Li handed the cut watermelon to Li Lai. Li Lai was leaning on crutches and could only put the center of her body on her left leg. Li Li wiped her hands and stood on her left again so that she could rely on herself.
"My college tuition was paid for by the prize money you won from running competitions. Mom told Dad that she feels the deepest regret for you in her life. Back then, our family was poor, and you suffered so much. Now that our family is stable, you don't have to be so stubborn anymore."
The crispy sweet watermelon couldn't suppress the bitterness rising from the bottom of her heart. Li Li remembered that in the hospital, her mother cried and said, "The family really can't afford the money right now, Li Li, just bear with it."
She had been feeling wronged for several years, to the point that she began to convince herself that it didn't matter if she suffered some grievances.
The nurse we hired was a very strong and talkative woman. Sometimes it was not convenient for Li Lai to get on the bed, but she could just use her hands to carry Li Lai back to the bed. There was no need to worry about a woman alone not being able to take care of her.
The hospital was short of rehabilitation equipment, so the nurse went to get a number at five in the morning and took Li Lai to the rehabilitation department for training at six-thirty.
He returned to the ward at nine o'clock to give an acupuncture injection. After lunch break, he took Li Li to the hospital's back garden to exercise in the afternoon.
An accidental encounter with Jing Shengxi.
Jing Shengxi was like an NPC. No matter which task he touched, he suddenly appeared.
“You…”
Li Li looked it up and down several times and asked, "Is it a tattoo sticker?"
Jing Shengxi held it up deliberately: "The makeup artist put it on me this morning, and it's waterproof."
In order to match the plot, Jing Shengxi has tattoos from his neck to his arms, his hair is shaved into a crew cut, and he has eyebrow studs at the ends of his eyebrows. He might be checked for his ID card by the police at any time when he walks on the street.
Jing Shengxi returns to Dafeng Entertainment Company in the evening to compose music and study, and spends the rest of his time going to the crew to earn money. He is now a busy man.
Even so, he still came to the hospital every day, accompanied Li Lai to exercise in the treatment area, and brought her some snacks with zero natural additives.
Compared to the somewhat awkward meeting a few days ago, the relationship between the two is now really like that of good friends.
Sometimes when Jing Shengxi didn't come during the day, the people in the same ward would ask Li Lai, "Is your gangster friend okay?"
"Nothing happened, he just had a unique hobby."
"This hobby is terrible. It will be difficult to find a job in the future," the aunt in the same ward said to everyone after seeing Jing Shengxi, who was covered with tattoos, that he was a gangster and not to be messed with.
This made Li Li want to explain something for Jing Shengxi, and she didn't know where to start to prove his innocence.
The nurse didn't want Li Lai to explain, saying it was a good thing that there was such a misunderstanding: "He was worried that if you didn't have family around, some of the nurses, doctors, or nurses would bully you. What they're most afraid of is that you're a little girl with an injured leg. You never know what might happen to you while you're hospitalized in the ward. It's always good to have a friend who's involved in the underworld come visit you often."
As the days go by, Li Li can now walk slowly. The doctor checked again and said that Li Li is recovering very well. If he wants to be discharged from the hospital as soon as possible, he still needs to supplement more calcium.
Maybe Li Li wanted to make special instructions, so the nurse made pig's trotter soup or cow's trotter soup for Li Li every day, to nourish the body without adding salt, saying that eating too much salt is bad for the kidneys. Besides, the acupuncture was done every day with salt water, so the body was not lacking salt at all.
What he said made so much sense that Li Li couldn't find any way to defend himself.
After eating it for several days in a row, Li Li got a sore throat, his teeth ached, he had mouth ulcers, and his throat was inflamed. He dared not eat anything and could only drink water.
The nurse looked at him with pity and said that Li Lai had been controlling his diet and not eating, and now he was getting irritated and couldn't eat. How could his body bear it?
Li Lai was happy. She had been drinking high-oil and high-fat soups these days, and her weight had obviously increased. Although she was sick, she still had to work after she recovered, and she couldn't continue to gain weight.
Using the excuse of having a sore throat, Li Lai decided to just eat plain porridge from now on.
The nurse thought about it and brought some rice porridge made with pig's trotter soup from home in the evening.
The thick layer of oil paired with the snow-white rice left Li Lai speechless. She recited "Song of Pity the Peasants" over and over in her mind, telling herself that the nurse was kind-hearted and had endured three or four hours of hard work in the afternoon, so she must not let her down.
Facing the nurse's hopeful gaze, Li Lai drank a bowl of "porridge" in one breath, and the nurse served her another bowl.
"This is porridge, it has no calories."
Putting aside the calories, don’t you think this is greasy?
If you continue to drink pig's trotter rice porridge, you will get fat. If you stop drinking it, you will starve to death. Now there is only one person who can save you.
I sent a message to Jing Shengxi on my phone: "When you come, bring me two bags of pickled mustard greens."
"Zhacai? Okay, is there anything else you want to eat?"
Li Lai thought for a moment and said, "Could you bring me some porridge? Just plain white porridge will do."
"Porridge? Why?"
Why? Why else? It’s because of the coating on my tongue from talking about food, and my ever-increasing waistline.
She told Jing Shengxi with tears in her eyes that she had been drinking pig's trotter soup for a week straight, and if she continued to drink it, her hands and feet would soon turn into city pig's trotters.
"That's perfect. Chop off the hands and feet and make soup for yourself. It's definitely homegrown."
“…”
Waiting for noon the next day, Li Li felt nauseous at the thought of eating the greasy pig's trotter porridge soon. She found several excuses not to eat it. But then she thought, this was the nurse who had taken great pains to make the porridge, and if she didn't eat it, it would be a waste of her efforts.
The phone rang. It was Jing Shengxi who sent a message: "Come back for dinner. Auntie said she doesn't want porridge today."
"You came with pickled mustard greens."
"Well, come back for dinner."
It doesn’t matter what you eat, the most important thing is to eat pickled mustard greens.
When I returned to the ward, I saw the nurse holding a white porcelain bowl in her hand, drinking something in small sips.
Li Li leaned over to take a look. In the thermos bucket brought by Jing Shengxi was a milky white fish soup. It did not smell fishy, but rather a mellow aroma. After taking a sip, the fresh and fragrant taste made people feel extremely satisfied.
The nurse praised the fish soup made by Jing Shengxi highly. She didn't expect that a man could make such delicious fish soup.
"The most nourishing thing over there is not making fish soup, but making fish maw. Wait, I'll ask my mother to send some of the fish maw we have at home."
"Isinglass is a very good tonic. In your coastal area, it can sell for tens of thousands of dollars."
Jing Shengxi smiled but didn't say anything, but whispered that the Lili fish soup was not tasty enough, and that she would make it for her every day if it tasted better.
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