Chapter 315

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Although Li Xiulan felt very disappointed in her heart, she also did not want to make things difficult for her own eldest son, so she said:

"Then forget it, I'll take these things back, and Sixth Brother can just come pick up Yaohua again."

She had already turned compromise and forbearance into a habit engraved in her bones over this lifetime; she was like this even with Wang Zhanggen, let alone with the son she cherished.

Fortunately, although Wang Dashan had inherited some of Wang Zhanggen's temperament, there was an obvious huge difference in how he treated Li Xiulan.

If Wang Zhanggen encountered this kind of situation, he would definitely scold Li Xiulan thoroughly.

Wang Dashan, however, couldn't quite bear to do so; he said:

"Bringing them down and then taking them back, what a hassle. How about I still make a trip back? I'll push aside the work on hand and drive back to the county town in a bit."

This is perhaps the difference between a partner and children.

Li Xiulan did not want Wang Dashan to delay his work because of her trivial matter, so she hurriedly said:

"You don't need to make a special trip back; your work is important. Coming back once today, and then having to come back again tomorrow, what a toss-up that would be!"

Wang Dashan also felt it was indeed quite a toss-up; he thought for a moment, then said:

"Mom, how about this: you take the things you brought to Uncle's house. When I go pick up Cousin tomorrow, I'll bring the things down then. What do you think?"

Li Xiulan also felt this was a good solution; this way Wang Dashan wouldn't have to run back and forth, and the local specialties brought could be delivered to him, so she hurriedly agreed:

"Alright, then later your dad and I will go to your Uncle's house."

Li Xiulan hung up Wang Dashan's phone, told Wang Zhanggen about it: today Wang Dashan wasn't coming back, would only return tomorrow; they could put the things they brought at Wang Zhangtian's house, and when Wang Dashan came back tomorrow he would take them down.

Wang Zhanggen heard this, and although he wore a black face looking unhappy, he cursed Wang Dashan with his mouth:

"What's wrong with coming back one more time? It's not far at all. Truly a good heart treated as a dog's labor. Next time don't give him anything; if he wants it, let him come home and get it himself!"

Although he said this with his mouth, he still took Li Xiulan to his eldest brother's house for a trip.

Before today, Li Xiulan had never been to Wang Zhangtian's house even once.

She knew Wang Zhangtian had bought a house in the county town, but she didn't know the specific location.

She also didn't know what Wang Zhangtian's house was like, whether it was big or not, beautiful or not.

In her imagination, houses in the county town should be very beautiful, and also very big.

But when Wang Zhanggen brought her to Wang Zhangtian's house, she was somewhat dumbfounded.

This was a very old residential complex.

Looking from the outside, the walls were already mottled and aged.

And it was a walk-up building, with no elevator.

Wang Zhangtian's family lived on the sixth floor; from the first floor to the sixth floor, the stairs were dim and lightless, the walls plastered everywhere with psoriasis-like small ads — unclogging toilets, patching walls, impotence cures, lending, even foot massage ads.

Carrying the local specialties, carrying the chicken, they arrived at Wang Zhangtian's home.

Li Xiulan discovered that Wang Zhangtian's apartment was actually pitifully small, only two bedrooms and one living room; visually estimated maybe only seventy or eighty square meters.

"Put the chicken in the toilet, the rest on the balcony."

Wang Zhangtian said to Li Xiulan.

Li Xiulan carried the chicken coop into the toilet, discovering the toilet was very narrow, inside messily placed many toiletries.

At the ventilation window lay thick dust; vaguely one could see outside the chaotic old tangle of various electric wires.

To tell the truth, the moment Li Xiulan entered, she felt very unaccustomed.

This environment was too cramped.

She truly couldn't believe how Wang Zhangtian's family lived here.

"You two sit... Yaohua, your little uncle and little aunt are here, come out and brew tea for them!"

Wang Zhangtian and Zhao Lifen had returned to the county town last night; this morning Zhao Lifen had to go to work, so Zhao Lifen's figure could not be seen now.

Wang Yaohua came out from his room, greeted Wang Zhanggen and Li Xiulan, called out "Little Uncle, Little Aunt," went and brewed the tea well, then hid back into his room.

"Big Brother, how much did you spend buying this house?"

Li Xiulan couldn't help but ask Wang Zhangtian this one sentence.

Wang Zhangtian politely laughed and said:

"Not expensive. When we bought it initially it was just over eighty thousand. We bought early; at current prices you couldn't buy it."

Li Xiulan nodded, and said:

"Then you're indeed quite lucky; heard housing prices have risen terribly."

Wang Zhanggen then asked:

"Does this house have a property certificate?"

Wang Zhangtian laughed embarrassedly:

"No, this is a small property rights house; otherwise even back then it would be impossible to buy it so cheap at eighty thousand."

"Oh oh, so it's like that..."

After sitting a while at Wang Zhangtian's house, Wang Zhanggen and Li Xiulan found an excuse saying they had some business to handle, and stood up to leave.

Wang Zhangtian politely urged them to stay a bit, then saw them downstairs.

The two had just come out of this dilapidated complex when Li Xiulan couldn't help but exclaim:

"Used to always envy others buying houses in the city, but now looking at it, if I had to live in your big brother's kind of house in the city, I'd rather stay in the rural area for a lifetime."

Wang Zhanggen echoed:

"Indeed, the area is too small, and it's also very dilapidated, the environment is poor, the lighting is also poor, it's truly better to live comfortably in the rural area."

The couple, who usually disagreed, were surprisingly united on this point.

So this made them even more determined in their idea to build a new house in the rural area; once all the New Rural Construction projects are finished, they will immediately put building a new house on the agenda.

And now, they have to make a trip to the hospital.

The main purpose of coming to the County Town today is to go to the hospital to give Wang Zhanggen a physical check-up.

The two arrived at the County People's Hospital, and not knowing which doctor to see, they asked a nurse how to proceed; the nurse asked them what the situation was.

Li Xiulan said:

"My husband previously had a Cerebral Infarction, now his complexion is very bad, he gets angry easily, often has Dizziness, little girl, you say which doctor is best to see?"

The nurse said:

"Auntie, you take him to register for a Cardio-Cerebrovascular number!"

"Where to register?"

"Right in front, see it? The place with the two big characters 'Registration' pasted above, go queue there." The nurse pointed to the registration area to the front left.

Li Xiulan turned back to look, only to see quite a few people queuing at the registration area.

She hurriedly took Wang Zhanggen to queue, afraid that if they were a bit late the queue would get even longer.

They queued for about Half An Hour before it was finally their turn.

Actually there were only about ten people ahead in the queue, but the registration efficiency here is very low, because they're all middle-aged and elderly people coming to see a doctor, many elderly have poor hearing, staff have to call several times before they understand what to do.

When it was Li Xiulan's turn to register, she also fumbled for Hao Hui Er before managing to register.

At first she even made a mistake, registered it under her own name; the staff asked her for an ID Card, but didn't say whose ID Card to give, so she foolishly handed over her own ID Card, and the slip that came out had her name written as the patient; only then did she realize the mistake, and hurriedly had the staff cancel it and re-register, only then registering Wang Zhanggen.

But this isn't surprising either.

Because some things that seem very simple in the City, on rural middle-aged and elderly people, all appear very difficult.

For Example, going to the Bank to handle a Bank Card, For Example how to use a smartphone.

Going to the hospital to see a doctor is the same.

After Li Xiulan registered Wang Zhanggen, she followed instructions to go to the third floor to queue and wait.

They waited until past Eleven o'clock before it was their turn.

"Please Wang Zhanggen proceed to Consultation Room 8 for diagnosis!"

Hearing the broadcast, Wang Zhanggen, accompanied by Li Xiulan, hurriedly stood up and walked into the consultation room.

He was actually quite apprehensive inside, even a bit afraid.

Just afraid they'd really find some illness.