After rejecting Zhou Bingyi's invitation to return to Jichun for the New Year, Zhou Bingkun decided to stay in Beijing for the New Year.
This time Zhou Bingkun went to the train station to see off Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong.
I asked Zhou Bingyi to bring some specialties to Li Suhua as New Year's goods.
And it was given in front of Zhou Rong and Feng Huacheng. It was just a slap in the face of two people. After ten years away from home, they didn’t remember to give back some specialties to give back to their parents. There was no conscience.
Zhou Bingkun is not as stingy as Zhou Bingyi towards my mother. He just fooled me with some mushrooms and fungus.
We have prepared a lot of hard goods, including roast duck, so I asked Zhou Bingyi to bring back two of them.
By the way, Zhou Bingyi also sent the same special product back to Aunt Zheng and Guangming.
After sending people away, the Spring Festival was approaching.
This is the first Spring Festival that Zhou Bingkun's family of three has spent alone, so they can't be careless.
The preparations that need to be made are no less than those prepared in Jichun, and purchasing supplies is still the top priority.
It took several days to purchase supplies. Zhou Bingkun also accompanied Zheng Juan and had a good stroll around Beijing.
If Zheng Juan hadn't been physically inconvenienced, this would really be a good time to experience Beijing culture.
The Spring Festival is also the time when traditional culture is at its most important.
This is still the first Spring Festival after the reform and opening up. It is much more lively than before. Various activities have resumed a lot, including various evening parties and traditional Spring Festival temple fairs.
After leaving Jichun, Zhou Bingkun's new year was not boring, but rather lively.
In addition to some students who went home to celebrate the New Year, there are still some students who did not go home due to travel expenses, distance, and various reasons.
Zhou Bingkun invited classmates from his class who had not returned to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year, and spent their 30th anniversary together at home. It was considered the most exciting New Year that Zhou Bingkun had experienced in these years.
Except for the second day of the Lunar New Year, when her daughter returns to her parents' home and Zheng Juan cannot go back, there is no big difference in where Zhou Bingkun's family celebrates the New Year at other times.
There are not too many relatives to move around, just having a party with friends and having fun in the city with the family, there is not much difference.
After the Lantern Festival, Zhou Bingkun came to the train station again, this time to pick him up.
I received a letter from Zhou Bingyi and was notified that Zhou Bingyi would bring back the things that Aunt Zheng brought to Zheng Juan. Zhou Bingkun was also urged to come here by Zheng Juan.
"Bingkun, Zhou Bingkun, when you look outside the train station, do you think you are here to pick me up?"
Zhou Bingkun looked at Zhou Bingyi, Feng Huacheng and Zhou Rong who came out together, and then said: "I'm not here to pick up people, I'm here to pick up things. Isn't this what you informed me?"
"This bag was brought by Aunt Zheng to Zheng Juan. It contains some food prepared by Aunt Zheng for Zheng Juan, as well as clothes and shoes for the child." Zhou Bingyi first took a big bag and said.
Then Zhou Bingyi opened the bag he was carrying in his other hand and took out a small bundle, "This is what our mother brought for you. It is also clothes for the child. It is prepared for the child in Zheng Juan's belly."
Not to mention the quality, the portions of what the two mothers prepared were quite different.
Seeing Zhou Bingkun holding a bag in one hand, the contrast was so obvious that Zhou Bingyi felt a little embarrassed: "Bingkun, we have many children, and all of them have to be busy. Mom doesn't have so much time, so she doesn't give it to you.
Prepare too many things for the children. Don’t think anything of my mother.”
"I don't have an opinion. How could I have an opinion about my mother? I was surprised that my mother would make a set of clothes for my child. This can be regarded as an unexpected surprise. My unborn child was born in Lao Zhou's house.
The treatment you receive is not higher than mine. When did I wear new clothes at our house?"
If you don't have such high expectations, you won't be disappointed. This has exceeded Zhou Bingkun's expectations. Zhou Bingkun did feel some surprises.
"Zhou Bingkun, why do you speak so eccentrically? Do you know that mom rushed for two nights to prepare this suit?" Zhou Rong, who was standing aside, seized the opportunity to confront Zhou Bingkun and said hurriedly.
"I don't have any yin and yang evil spirits. Unlike you Zhou Rong, I don't know how to be grateful to my parents. What I say is true. I am very satisfied that my unborn child has received this treatment from the old Zhou family." Zhou Bingkun
Zhou Rong glanced sideways and said.
Then the more Zhou Bingkun looked at Zhou Rong, the more strange he felt, so he looked at Zhou Bingyi: "Zhou Bingyi, did you bring anything less when you came back from Jichun?"
"There's nothing left to bring. All the things Aunt Zheng and Mom asked me to bring you are here." Zhou Bingyi said confidently.
"How is it possible that I didn't take him with me? Where is Feng Yue, a daughter as old as Zhou Rong?"
Zhou Bingkun looked at Zhou Bingyi like a fool, but he had already made a judgment in his heart that the child must not have been lost.
"Huacheng is busy with work, and Zhou Rong is busy with studies. Both of them are busy and have no time to take care of Yueyue, so Yueyue will stay at home and let her mother take care of her. This is also good for her, because she has someone to look after her at home.
With company, mom won’t be too lonely.”
Zhou Bingyi said with a bright smile, he probably felt that his operation was very good.
It solved the conflict between Zhou Rong's family and gave Li Suhua company to avoid loneliness.
"Zhou Bingyi, you are really a smart person."
After patting Zhou Bingyi on the head, Zhou Bingkun took two bags, big and small, and strode out of the station.
"Bingkun, don't leave so fast. I still want to tell you about our family during the Chinese New Year."
Arriving at the parking lot of the train station, Zhou Bingyi chased Zhou Bingkun.
Zhou Bingkun hung his bag on the bicycle faucet, unlocked it, and rode. Then he glanced at Zhou Bingyi: "Is there anything else you want to talk about? Haven't you finished talking about the most important things?"
"I have a lot to talk about. For example, what are you going to do about your relationship with our dad? It's been like this forever. Neither father and son communicate with each other."
Zhou Bingyi said as he trotted along behind the bicycle.
Zhou Bingkun did not deliberately avoid contact with Zhou Zhigang, but after they broke up in 1976, the correspondence between Zhou Bingkun and Zhou Zhigang was completely written by Li Suhua.
After Zhou Bingkun came to Beijing to attend university, he no longer had to write letters for Li Suhua, so the father and son naturally lost contact.
"If you want to say this, you'd better not say it."
Zhou Bingkun didn't take this matter seriously. He just said a few words to Zhou Zhigang, but Zhou Zhigang never wrote to him for so many years.
When Zhou Rongdu abandoned his father and mother and eloped, Zhou Zhigang could still go all the way to Guizhou to bow his head.
Zhou Bingkun doesn't have such high demands. He can't wait to see when Zhou Zhigang writes to him and when he will reply.
"Slow down and let me get in the car."
"With all the things you have to do, you still have the nerve to take the bus? You should take the bus back to school by yourself."
Looking back at Zhou Bingyi, Zhou Bingkun sped off and rode away.
Needless to say, when you really pedal the 28 big bars, the speed is still very fast. It is much faster than the shared bicycles in the future.
After arriving home, Zheng Juan was naturally very happy when she received the clothes prepared for the child by her child's grandmother and grandmother.
Zheng Juan also didn't pay attention to the obvious difference in the portions of the food sent by the two mothers.
Zhou Bingkun and his wife are not of the same level in their devotion to their mothers.
Aunt Zheng is not a person who likes waste. This time she prepared a small bedding, two sets of single clothes, two sets of cotton-padded jackets, and two pairs of shoes for the child.
It is more likely that because Zhou Bingkun rented a house, he felt that he had taken advantage of it, so he compensated Zhou Bingkun's family a little with his children.
The etiquette is light but the affection is heavy. The two mothers have this heart and are thinking about their children. Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan are very contented.
In addition, when Zheng Juan was free, she also made some clothes, bedding, and diapers for the child. Now, the preparations for the birth of the child were enough.
In the next time, Zheng Juan was ready to give birth with peace of mind. She didn't have to wait too long, and it was at the end of the second lunar month.
Zheng Juan gave birth to a boy in Xiehe, named Zhou Zhou.
An elder sister was hired to serve Zheng Juan during confinement. Zhou Bingkun also went home when there was no class. Although there was no mother to take care of her, Zheng Juan's conditions for confinement were not bad.
Zheng Juan's confinement period had not yet been completed. On a normal weekend, when Zhou Bingkun was taking Miao Miao to play at home, Zhou Bingyi came to Zhou Bingkun's yard sweating profusely and said, "Bingkun, Bingkun."
"Zhou Bingyi, please keep your voice down. You will scare my son and make him cry. Are you responsible?"
Zhou Bingyi ran to Zhou Bingkun, took a few deep breaths, and then shouted: "Something happened!"
"What's going on? You're so anxious. You've also been a leader for quite some time. Don't be anxious when things happen. You won't change your face even if the mountain collapses. Don't you know?"
After finishing speaking, Zhou Bingkun kindly poured Zhou Bingyi a cup of tea.
"Mom was sent to the hospital!"
"Why?" Zhou Bingkun couldn't calm down anymore. Li Suhua's body was really not a joke to go to the hospital.
"I don't know. Someone else notified Dongmei, and Dongmei called me to inform me, so I came to find you."
"Which hospital he was sent to? Call and ask."
"Provincial People's Hospital."
"Have you notified Zhou Rong?"
"You go and notify Zhou Rong. I'll check the phone number and find a place where I can make long-distance calls." Zhou Bingkun said.
Zhou Bingkun sent Miaomiao back to the house and left her with Zheng Juan, took Jichun's phone book and went out to find the phone.
After the call was made, I made some inquiries and found out more about Li Suhua's situation.
He ran too fast and fell, causing a fractured bone. There was no danger to his life, which gave Zhou Bingkun some peace of mind.
Then he came to Zhou Rong's Tongzi Building and informed Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong of the news.
"Mom, in this situation, we can't live without someone by our side. I'm going to buy tickets. Let's go back today." At this time, Zhou Bingyi became more decisive.
"I'll tell you when I go home and I'll go back to school to ask for leave." Now that this is the case, Zhou Bingkun always has to go back to Jichun to take a look.
"I also want to go to school to ask for leave."
Even Zhou Rong, the most selfish person, didn't say much.
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I received the news in the afternoon, and by eight o'clock in the evening, the three people had already boarded the train bound for Jichun.
Li Suhua's detailed situation is unknown, and the three siblings naturally don't have much desire to communicate.
Zhou Bingyi would occasionally whisper to Zhou Rong. Zhou Bingkun spent most of the day mainly looking at the scenery along the way and closing his eyes to rest.
I can't sleep well on a hard-seat train ticket. When I fall asleep, I'm half asleep and half awake.
As the number of unemployed people in the city increases, public security becomes worse and worse.
There were more and more pickpockets on the train. Even if Zhou Bingkun didn't have any money on him, he didn't want his fine clothes to be torn in his pockets, so he was always vigilant.
After more than a day, we arrived in Jichun at around four o'clock in the morning.
Even in the northeast, it's still dark after four o'clock.
Naturally, there was no tram, so the three of them started walking to the hospital.
From dark to dawn, around five o'clock, the sun came out, and the three of them just walked to the hospital.
Zhou Bingkun exercises every day. Walking such a long distance is equivalent to a morning exercise.
After walking for more than an hour, Zhou Bingyi was very tired, but he could still persevere.
To some extent, they are also people who have been trained by the Corps. Although they are civilians, they can also participate in some labor and have a certain foundation.
Zhou Rong was completely out of control, saying that she had gone to the countryside to exercise for so many years.
But Zhou Rong didn't really do much physical labor.
There is no work at home, and she lives in a small mountain village, isolated from the world. Zhou Rong has no need to go out.
Compared with most ordinary people in this era who can walk dozens of kilometers, Zhou Rong's physical strength is like rubbish, and she is already out of breath after walking such a short distance.
I asked the nurse on duty and found out Li Suhua's ward, and the three of them came over.
"Ouch, ouch..."
When Zhou Bingkun walked to the door of the ward, he heard Li Suhua's howl of pain.
"Mom (Mom)" Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong called mom and entered the ward.
Zhou Bingkun walked at the end, and he calculated with his fingers that it had been almost two days since Li Suhua's fracture, and he was in the most painful stage.
"Bingyi, Zhou Rong, are you back?" The first person to speak was Hao Dongmei, who had two big dark circles under her eyes.
One glance showed that he had been through a lot of hard work these past two days. As one of the best second-generation people in Jiangliao Province, Zhou Bingkun could not be picky anymore for Li Suhua to endure such a hard time.
"Bingkun, you are back too." Hao Dongmei also saw Zhou Bingkun who came in late.
"Bingyi, Zhou Rong, you are back. Mom thought she would never see you again." Li Suhua opened her eyes and said with a choked voice.
"Mom, it's okay, aren't we all back?" After comforting Li Suhua, Zhou Bingyi looked at Hao Dongmei again: "Dongmei, what's wrong with mom?"
"Mom fell down and suffered a fractured bone. She may have been frightened when she entered the operating room. The real situation was not as serious as she thought. The operation was successful. What she needs now is rest. If she recovers well, she can be the same as before."
"The old lady is in such pain. We can't wait any longer. It's better to call the doctor and give her an injection of pain relief." Seeing Li Suhua in such pain, Zhou Bingkun said.
"I originally wanted to wait until a specialist came to work, then call the specialist to come and see Mom. Since Mom can't bear it now, I'd better call the doctor on duty to come over now."
After Hao Dongmei went to the doctor to prescribe an analgesic injection, Zhou Bingkun found Li Suhua's film and looked at it.
A very typical fracture of the femoral neck. Li Suhua is in her fifties, so this cannot be considered a minor problem.
PS: That’s it for this month’s updates. I’ll update more next month, and I’ll start adding updates when the holidays are over. I wish all book friends a happy holiday in advance, and have fun whether you’re going home or going out!