Gu Ze'an and his wife Qin Ying boarded a train heading south. They were accompanied by two young comrades, guards Zhang Li and Bai Qian, with Bai Qian also serving as a correspondent.
"I haven't taken a train for a long time." Qin Ying looked at the scenery outside the window, feeling the cool breeze blowing outside, dispelling the summer heat.
This kind of weather makes people lose their appetite, and long-distance travel is even more unbearable.
Gu Ze'an was calm and composed with his eyes closed. Upon hearing this, he opened one eye, then closed the other, then opened his eye slightly to glance at his wife Qin Ying.
Bai Qian brought over a few boxed lunches, which were hot and fragrant.
Guard Zhang Li said: "It smells delicious."
"Try it, Chief."
The two young men were already hungry by this time, so Gu Ze'an asked them to eat while the food was hot. He and Qin Ying and his wife had no appetite, but they still ate a few mouthfuls of rice out of habit.
Gu Ze'an said to Qin Ying: "This does look very fragrant."
Qin Ying took two bites but didn't notice anything special. She had been ill a few years ago, and after she recovered, her sense of taste was not very good, so she couldn't taste anything. It was sometimes better and sometimes worse. She went to see a doctor and took medicine for a long time, but there was no effect, so she gave up.
"I'm so old, I can't even taste the flavor anymore."
Eating on a hot day was a torture for her. The food looked good, but it tasted bland in her mouth.
Qin Ying has had some free time these years and she actually likes to cook. However, she just can't taste the flavor. She just adds oil, salt and seasoning randomly and eats it for fun. If she adds more chili peppers, she can still taste some flavor.
After eating the food she cooked, her little daughter wished she could go to the cafeteria every day.
Gu Ze'an's sense of taste is not that good either. He can hardly taste salty food and prefers oily, salty food and fatty meat. But eating like this is a big taboo. He eats those bland soups every day and they are tasteless.
When the couple were young, they were gluttons. They would eat anything when they were extremely hungry. They had tasted all kinds of food. Now that they are old and their tongues are not so good, their conditions have improved and they can eat something good, but they can't taste the flavor anymore.
Gu Ze'an said to Qin Ying: "We are a couple, both of us have big tongues."
Qin Ying shook her head: "Being able to eat is a blessing, as long as you don't starve to death."
They had a poor sense of taste, but they didn't tell their children for fear of worrying them. They had lived a hard life when they were young and had seen life and death, so they felt that this little problem wouldn't affect anything.
It’s good to be alive.
Zhang Li and Bai Qian sat opposite the couple and ate with relish, unable to stop. They thought the food on this train was delicious and much better than what was cooked in the canteen. They heard that the chef used to work in some restaurant or was the heir of some school, but now the food was nationalized and he was cooking on this railway.
—The food on the train is so delicious!
Seeing the two young people eating with relish, Gu Ze'an felt a little uncomfortable. He turned his head to look at Qin Ying, who was eating in a disjointed manner with a poor appetite.
Adhering to the idea of not wasting food, the couple still finished their meal.
Zhang Li finished one portion and went to get another one. Bai Qian did the same. The two strong guys ate very fast and voraciously. They felt a little embarrassed after they finished.
Gu Ze'an smiled and said, "Just like my sons, they can eat."
The two of them smiled innocently.
"Commander, this food is really delicious."
Gu Ze'an waved his hand: "You guys eat, you guys eat, if it's not enough, go eat some more."
After finishing the meal, Gu Ze'an sat there and said to Qin Ying beside him: "As for me, I am old and don't care much about food."
Qin Ying: "...I was a glutton when I was young."
Gu Ze'an smiled and said, "And the six little gluttons you gave birth to have now grown into big gluttons."
"I don't know how Lao Wu and his wife are doing."
"Wait a few more months, Pingping will give birth, and we will have grandchildren."
The couple came over without telling Gu Sheng and his wife the exact time of their arrival. Gu Ze'an said that they should not be given time to prepare and that they should attack by surprise to see what the young couple are like in their daily lives.
"We can't let them put on a show in front of us like they're preparing for an inspection."
Qin Ying shook her head: "You are just messing around." Not only are you messing around with your child, you are also messing around with yourself.
Because they did not inform them in advance, when the couple arrived at the camp, Gu Sheng and Zhan Aiping and his wife were not at home. Gu Ze'an and his friends could only look out the door of their son's room.
Qin Ying said: "That's good now, your son and daughter-in-law are not here."
"You can't even conduct surprise inspections."
Gu Ze'an snorted: "You will have to come back sooner or later. Wait for them to come back."
The four people who arrived together waited until the evening, and only Gu Sheng came back first. Zhan Aiping said she would not come back. There was an emergency pregnant woman in the hospital who was carrying twins and had not given birth yet. She would stay in the hospital tonight to observe the situation.
When Gu Sheng saw his parents, he just looked at them in surprise and said calmly, "Dad, Mom, you're here already? You didn't even tell me in advance that your daughter-in-law can't come home tonight because she has an emergency."
"Come in."
Gu Ze'an felt uneasy. He came here mainly to see his daughter-in-law, but now he ended up staring at this little bastard. Pingping was not at home.
Qin Ying looked around their small yard and said, "Your yard is well maintained and the vegetables are well grown."
The small yard was very tidy, with rows of vegetables, fruits and melons standing out like an array of troops, looking very imposing and completely different from the messy homes of other people.
There are cucumbers, eggplants, loofahs, and cherry tomatoes on the shelves. They all look juicy. So do the small peppers, which are attractively rosy in color.
Gu Sheng handed her a basket and said, "Pick whatever you want to eat. I, your son, will cook it for you tonight."
"These fruits and vegetables are usually taken care of by your daughter-in-law. Although she is not here, this can be regarded as a gift from my husband and me."
Gu Ze'an: "You'll cook for us? Let's have the Hongmen Banquet."
Gu Sheng raised his eyebrows and said, "Do you dare to eat it, old comrade?"
Gu Sheng thought that he would show off his cooking skills today and let his parents taste his cooking skills and make them both drop their jaws.
"Why don't you dare to eat it?" Gu Ze'an snatched the basket from his hand and unceremoniously pulled off a large eggplant. He turned around and asked Zhang Li and Bai Qian, "What do you two want to eat?"
Zhang Li and Bai Qian shook their heads.
Neither of them expected that they would be able to enjoy the cooking of the chief’s son tonight.
Gu Ze'an picked some vegetables and ran to Qin Ying and said, "What medicine do you think your son has in his stomach today?"
"What else could it be? I'm just like you, showing off my skills. I guess I can cook a few dishes to open your eyes, an old man."
Thinking of eating the dishes cooked by his own son, Lao Gu felt inexplicably moved. "This kid is really my kid. Old lady, if the dishes he cooks are not tasty, we should praise him."
Qin Ying nodded: "Anyway, we can't taste anything."
"That's right." Gu Ze'an felt relieved, thinking that no matter how bad the food tasted, it was just like that.
Zhang Li and Bai Qian, one stayed by Gu Ze'an's side while the other helped in the kitchen. Gu Sheng didn't ask Bai Qian to help, as he washed and cut the vegetables skillfully by himself.
Gu Ze'an was watching him from the side and noticed that his son was quite good at cooking. Could it be that he had worked in the kitchen before
"What a fancy thing, your cooking is really delicious?"
Gu Sheng was confident: "I guarantee you will be satisfied."
"Your daughter-in-law and your two little grandchildren all love the dishes I cook."
"Really?" Gu Ze'an curled his lips, "I don't believe it."
Qin Ying was not interested in her son's cooking, so she just looked around her youngest son's room. The room was too small, and fortunately there were not many children at home, so it looked empty.
"You have too few things in your house. Everything is arranged so neatly. There is no life in it. It doesn't look like a home."
"Ten Zhang, just like your dormitory."
Gu Ze'an said: "Lao Wu and his wife have both served in the military, so their home is not like this, not messy, I like it."
Gu Ze'an put his hands behind his back and looked around carefully. He found that there were indeed few things in the young couple's house. It looked empty and simple, with only a photo of the two of them hanging on the wall.
The photo shows Gu Sheng and Zhan Aiping. Both of them are wearing military uniforms. It is a full-body photo. Both of them are tall. Gu Sheng has his arm around Zhan Aiping's shoulders. The couple is very intimate. Zhan Aiping has braids hanging down on her shoulders. She has beautiful eyebrows and eyes, and a generous temperament. Her smile is more beautiful than the actress in the movie.
Gu Ze'an nodded: "Pingping looks really beautiful with long hair."
Qin Ying agreed: "When he was wearing a military uniform and had short hair, he was a handsome young man. Now that he has long hair, he has become a beautiful woman."
Gu Ze'an sighed at the two of them: "Your youngest son is lucky."
Marry such a beautiful daughter-in-law.
He is so sour.
It was not easy for Gu Ze'an to marry Qin Ying in the first place, but for his youngest son, it was like a pie in the sky. A beautiful wife landed next door to him since she was a child. He watched her grow up and they became childhood sweethearts.
Qin Ying looked at the photos on the wall and couldn't help but feel nostalgic. A figure appeared in her mind and she said with emotion: "She is so beautiful, just like her mother."
Gu Ze'an said: "Fortunately, our youngest son is like his father, handsome, and he managed to trick the beautiful girl back home."
"Good intentions, good methods, really my style."
Although the couple didn't know how Gu Sheng coaxed her back, judging from the current situation, his son had long been eyeing the piece of meat next door.
It's only been a few months and he has already given birth to two babies.
Gu Ze'an thought to himself, this guy is so lucky, so lucky, he is so lucky that people envy him.
His brothers were not as lucky as he was.
"Dad, Mom, get ready and have dinner." Gu Sheng cooked a table full of dishes. He clapped his hands, feeling extremely proud. Even though his wife was not at home, he still wanted to make his parents jaw drop.
Gu Sheng cooked several dishes, including boiled pork slices, braised eggplant, braised ham, and pickled fish... It was a full meal, with ten dishes for five people.
Gu Ze'an took a look and said, "You little bastard, you look okay."
"It's pretty good." Qin Ying nodded. The dishes her son cooked were bright and beautiful, and looked appetizing, but they still tasted bland.
"Try it, try it all, Dad, do you want to drink?"
"No, I'm your dad and I'm keeping healthy."
Gu Sheng: “…”
Gu Ze'an and his wife picked up their chopsticks, and Zhang Li and his partner also picked up their chopsticks and took two bites. Gu Sheng was particularly calm on the side. He stared at Gu Ze'an's movements, and when he saw him pick up a piece of fish and put it into his mouth, he smiled secretly in his heart, waiting for his shocked look.
Unexpectedly, Gu Ze'an slowly finished eating the fish, then tasted two bites of the ham, without any expression.
Gu Sheng was confused.
His mother Qin Ying also showed a similar reaction. Qin Ying was very considerate and took a bite of each dish, praising him: "Son, the dishes you cooked are good."
Gu Ze'an also agreed: "It's okay, it's edible."
Gu Sheng put down his chopsticks. He was not a fool. He knew the couple were just being perfunctory. The compliments were too half-hearted.
—Are these two couples acting
He just didn't believe it. The dishes he cooked couldn't shock these two people? Did they want to eat some delicacies from the mountains and the sea
Then he will go up the mountain to dig some wild mushrooms tomorrow.
Zhang Li and Bai Qian were more respectful: "Chief of Staff Gu's cooking is really delicious."
“We are in for a treat!”
They ate in silence without saying much.
Gu Sheng felt mixed emotions, thinking that this old man was really trying to intimidate him by acting like this.
He took a few bites himself, feeling extremely confident. It was obviously delicious, but Gu Ze'an and Qin Ying's reactions were exactly the same as before at home.
Gu Sheng: "Is there something wrong with your tongue?"
It would be fine if only one person was like this, but why are two people like this
Or is it that his parents' taste buds are different from those of ordinary people
"Tell me honestly, aren't the dishes I cook delicious?"
Gu Ze'an clicked his tongue twice: "Young man, don't be so angry. How many days have you only learned to cook? Our Xiaobai can also cook. You can learn more from him and exchange ideas tomorrow."
"Look at your mother. She eats without any appetite. When you are able to make your mother eat with relish, you will be successful."
Gu Sheng's eyes were full of absurdity. "I cooked the food? And you guys are eating it tastelessly? Aren't you too good at acting? The food I cooked is not delicious?"
Zhang Li and Bai Qian said, "Delicious, delicious!"
Gu Ze'an tried to comfort him: "Because you are my son, they both flatter you and dare not tell the truth."
Gu Sheng: "... Old man, I don't believe a word you say."
Gu Ze'an picked up the chopsticks and ate while commenting: "This dish will taste better if you put more salt."
"Among so many dishes, this is the only one that tastes good."
Gu Sheng: "You are lying with your eyes open. You are holding a piece of ham and you say it is not salty enough? Why don't you take the salt shaker and pour it into your mouth?"
"Comrade Lao Gu, do you have a fever? Can't you taste anything?"
Gu Ze'an said seriously: "If I can't taste it, can your mother not taste it? Ask your mother? Look at your mother's performance."
Qin Ying still protected her son. She quickly took two bites of the dish and said, "It's delicious. Who said there was less salt? Try this ham. Can't you tell it's so salty?"
Gu Sheng: “…”
"You two have lost your sense of taste, right?"
Gu Sheng ran to the kitchen and quickly fried two plates of wild vegetables for Gu Ze'an and Qin Ying to eat. "Tell me after you eat them, what do these wild vegetables taste like?"
Gu Ze'an: "Wild vegetables taste like wild vegetables."
Qin Ying said, "That's right. Your father and I used to eat a lot of wild vegetables, so how could we not know?"
Gu Sheng raised his eyebrows: "Then you two eat it, and tell me what it tastes like after you eat it."
Gu Ze'an picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and said, "You little bastard, you are so difficult to deal with. Let me eat it. You put too much salt. It's a bit salty."
Gu Sheng chuckled, "I didn't add any salt, how did you taste the saltiness?"
Gu Ze'an's face froze, but he quickly reacted: "Oh, no wonder I felt it was a bit bitter, it turns out you didn't add salt."
Qin Ying couldn't bear to watch it any longer: "Alright, alright, it's because your dad is old and can't taste salty food anymore. You, stop making random guesses."
Gu Sheng looked at his own mother: "What about you?"
Qin Ying felt guilty: "I'm the same as your father."
"Then try this wild vegetable and tell me whether it is sweet or sour."
"Okay, okay." Qin Ying took a bite and said, "Son, your wild vegetables are really good. They are so sweet."
Gu Sheng looked unhappy: "This is bitter."
"Bitter? Bitter, that's right." Qin Ying smiled: "I, your mother, am just recalling the bitter past and thinking of the sweet past."
“As soon as I tasted this, I felt it was sweet.”
Gu Sheng shook his head: "Don't lie to me, you can't taste anything at all. No wonder my sister said that your cooking is a mess. You can't even taste the flavor. What kind of food can you cook?"
"Have you been to the hospital for a checkup?"
Qin Ying: "I checked it, there's nothing wrong."
"Why don't we find some Chinese medicine doctors to check you out? Wait for my wife to come back and have her check you out."
Gu Sheng said: "She knows Chinese medicine and her medical skills are pretty good. Let her treat you two."
"Let Pingping treat me?" Qin Ying's face froze. She didn't want to get treatment, especially Chinese medicine. Every time she took Chinese medicine, her stomach would feel uncomfortable. "Your mother has consulted several doctors before, but none of them worked. Famous old doctors didn't work, and your wife can't do anything either. Don't put pressure on her."
"Your father has also had someone look at him. When people get old, that's how it is. People have to accept their age."
Gu Ze'an nodded: "Yes, yes, you have to accept your age."
There were doctors who came to treat Gu Ze'an, but the medicine was too bad. After taking it for many days, his mouth felt numb and nothing tasted good. It would be better not to treat him.
Gu Sheng insisted: "Let my wife take a look at both of you."
Qin Ying refused: "What's so good about it? When you were a child, our family was well off, and your father and I had seen a lot of delicious food and drinks at banquets. We've had enough of them in our lifetime, so it doesn't matter if we can't taste them now."
Gu Ze'an also didn't want to be treated: "That's right, your mother and I are in good health. What's wrong with not being able to taste the food? We don't even want to eat the little dishes you cooked."
Gu Sheng said: "It's still a tough talk."
"Let Pingping examine you tomorrow and give you two injections. She also knows acupuncture."
"Pingping? Pingping has only studied medicine for a few years?" Gu Ze'an said, "It's getting more and more ridiculous. Why are you so superstitious about Pingping? How many injections did Pingping give you? She... She is really not a quack doctor?"
Gu Ze'an found it hard to believe that Zhan Aiping, whom he had watched grow up, actually studied medicine and is now a doctor.
His youngest son Gu Sheng was even more bizarre. He thought his wife, who studied surgery, knew Chinese medicine. So she stopped using a scalpel and started giving injections
"Whether she is a quack or not, you will know after you let her treat her illness."
Gu Sheng was worried about his parents' health, and he was not sure whether Zhan Aiping could cure his parents. He just wanted Zhan Aiping to check his parents' health and find out the specific condition of the couple.
"Your father has plenty of medical staff around him, so there's no need for your wife to come for a checkup. Don't worry, your mother and I came here just to see how you and Pingping are getting along..."
"Old man." Gu Sheng interrupted him, "You are not yet sixty, are you? Your sense of taste has stopped working before you are sixty. Are you angry with me?"
Gu Ze'an snorted coldly: "It's good that you know it, don't make me angry in the future."
Gu Sheng smiled, walked behind Gu Ze'an, rubbed his shoulders, and said, "I'll give you a massage."
Gu Ze'an is not young anymore, but his hair is not yet gray, just a little silver-gray. His hair looks very thick, at least thicker than that of Captain Jiang in the past.
Gu Sheng is the youngest son, and the father and son have a very good relationship. When he went to military school, his old father burst into tears, but he kept saying that he didn't cry.
Now that I think about it, many years have passed.
"Your technique is pretty good." Gu Ze'an praised him. He took advantage of his age and said proudly, "Press this way."
"I learned it from your daughter-in-law."
Gu Ze'an said, "Really? Pingping has this skill, let her give me a massage too."
"What are you pressing?" Qin Ying was sour. She looked at the father and son in front of her, looking at their noses instead of their eyes. She also snorted, "Stop pretending to be a loving father and a filial son in front of me."
Gu Ze'an clicked his tongue: "Your mother is jealous, jealous."
"It turns out that my son still favors his father."
"That's not the case." Gu Sheng said, "I just feel that I should show more filial piety in front of my children in the future. I'm not rehearsing it now."
"You—" Gu Ze'an gasped, thinking that this little bastard was really irritating.
Qin Ying smiled and said, "Yes, Lao Wu's idea is very good."
Gu Ze'an rolled his eyes and said, "Let Pingping give birth to two annoying little brats for you, and you'll be pissed off to death."
Gu Sheng said: "You think I am you? The disciple is better than the master, I am definitely better than you."
"Then we'll see."
At night, Gu Ze'an and his group slept in the guesthouse in the camp. The guesthouse was a three-story building, kept clean and tidy. It was usually used to welcome leaders, accommodate people on business trips, and be used by family members for visits, so it was of very high standards.
Gu Ze'an took a shower in the building, thinking about the small bungalow where his son lived, and said to Qin Ying: "Pingping is really wronged to follow him. She should have stayed well in Shanghai..."
"She's going to be promoted soon. She's made it through hard times. Don't worry, Lao Wu knows what's going on. He loves Pingping."
Gu Ze'an lay on the bed, getting angrier and angrier as he thought about it: "I still feel that my daughter has been wronged." Qin Ying: "... Which daughter are you?"
"My Ping Ping."
Qin Ying was helpless: "Isn't it good that your 'son-in-law' served you well today? He even cooked for you and massaged your back. He treated you like a biological son."
"But he is my biological son." Thinking of this, Gu Ze'an became even more indignant: "I, as his biological father, have never been treated like this."
"You are a man who is a father-in-law one moment and a father-in-law the next. Just deal with it yourself."
*
The next day, Gu Ze'an and his wife were anxious and did not wait for Zhan Aiping to come back. Instead, they took the camp's car and went to Yanxin Health Center to visit Zhan Aiping. Their son had to work, so the couple acted on their own.
When they arrived at Yanxin Health Center, Gu Ze'an frowned as he looked at the dilapidated little hospital in front of him. His "father-in-law's heart" almost broke out again.
“This hospital is a bit small.”
It's not just small, it's actually shabby and small.
Qin Ying said, "Look over there, are they building a building? It will be completed soon."
Gu Ze'an said, "Let's go to the family quarters where the medical staff live and ask Pingping's colleagues to see how she is doing."
"OK."
They walked along the side and came to the family quarters of the hospital, where they saw a young man cooking soup at the door early in the morning. The soup smelled quite delicious.
The person who is cooking the wild mushroom soup is Zhao Jing. He didn't have a shift today and went up the mountain early in the morning. Now is the peak season for eating wild mushrooms. He usually doesn't want to get up at eight or nine o'clock, but if he wants to go up the mountain to pick wild mushrooms, he can get up at four or five o'clock. After picking a large basket of fresh mushrooms, he comes back and quickly cooks a pot of fragrant mushroom soup to reward himself.
Zhao Jing likes to eat mixed mushroom soup. The more diverse the types of mushrooms, the more delicious the soup is.
It also attracted people.
Zhao Jing looked up and saw an elderly man and woman, followed by two young men. As soon as Zhao Jing saw the leading man's temperament, he felt that this man was at least a small leader, no, maybe even a big leader.
He wondered in his heart, could it be the leaders of the county health bureau who came to inspect the countryside? Or maybe even a bigger one? The city health bureau? The provincial health bureau
This is possible. After all, Zhan Aiping from the hospital was reported in the provincial newspaper and became famous. It is understandable that leaders from the Municipal Health Bureau came to conduct unannounced visits and inquire about the matter.
Zhao Jing swallowed, thinking of himself as a gastroenterologist. It didn't seem good to be caught by his boss cooking mushroom soup in the hospital early in the morning.
But... with crisis comes opportunity, maybe he can meet a noble person and be transferred.
So Zhao Jing took the initiative to invite: "Leader, come and try this mushroom soup."
Gu Ze'an, who was inexplicably called a leader, blinked his eyes, and walked over with his wife Qin Ying, his hands behind his back. He sniffed it and said, "It smells pretty good."
Qin Ying also said: "It smells pretty good."
Zhao Jing directly scooped a bowl for him: "Come and have a bowl."
Gu Ze'an was holding the bowl of mushroom soup, thinking that this man was too enthusiastic. Zhang Li behind him advised him: "Leader, there are many wild mushrooms here, most of which are poisonous. It's better not to eat them carelessly."
Zhao Jing said: "Don't worry, I'll drink it first and show you. I'm an expert in eating and identifying mushrooms."
Gu Ze'an was curious: "Are you serious? Have you ever been poisoned by eating mushrooms?"
"Uh..." Zhao Jing hesitated whether he should tell the truth.
Gu Ze'an: "Looking at you like this, you must have been poisoned several times."
Zhao Jing drank mushroom soup out of depression.
Gu Ze'an asked him, "How is your hospital?"
"Our hospital? It's okay." When Zhao Jing heard him asking about the hospital, he thought he must be here to conduct an investigation. He was shocked and said, "But I want to be transferred."
"You want to be transferred? You are a doctor in the hospital? Why do you want to be transferred?"
Zhao Jing sighed, his eyes filled with sorrow: "This place is far from home. If I am transferred to the next town, I can go home closer, so that my old mother won't worry. My mother is old and misses her son. If I were there, I could take care of her every day."
"You are a filial son." Gu Ze'an patted his shoulder and said, "Unlike my son. I gave birth to five sons, and they all went to different places. It was all in vain!"
“I’m so pissed off!”
Zhao Jing: “?”
Zhao Jing sighed and continued, "I hope the organization will have pity on my filial piety and allow me to be transferred to the next town hospital to be a doctor..."
Gu Ze'an encouraged him: "The organization will definitely see your filial piety."
"Uncle Gu—Dad, Mom? Why are you here?"
Zhan Aiping came out of the pharmacy and was about to go back to the family room to get something to take home. The woman had given birth yesterday, so she was now relaxed. She was on leave today and wanted to return to the camp early.
Who would have thought that she would see Gu Ze'an and his wife, her father-in-law and mother-in-law halfway through.
"Pingping!" Gu Ze'an and Qin Ying called her in unison. The couple were very excited to see her.
"Doctor Zhao, these are my parents-in-law. They are here to visit me." Zhan Aiping pointed to the side and said, "Next to Doctor Zhao is my room. Mom and Dad, come in and sit for a while. I'll pour you a cup of tea."
"Oh Pingping, my dear Pingping, your belly is already so big, be careful, don't be too busy."
The group entered Zhan Aiping's room, leaving Dr. Zhao, who was cooking mushroom soup outside, standing there in a daze.
Doctor Zhao: “…”
Father-in-law and mother-in-law
Then didn't he just act in vain
*
"Pingping, you are so beautiful now. Our old fifth son has made you suffer."
Sitting in the room, Zhan Aiping poured them tea, sat down herself, and several people talked to the parents.
Having seen Zhan Aiping's photo before, Gu Ze'an and his wife were delighted to meet her in person. Zhan Aiping was wearing a light blue dress, and her belly was noticeably bulging. Her face was rosy, her eyes were full of water, and she looked full of energy, making her unforgettable at first sight.
Qin Ying had been worried that she would suffer, but seeing her like this, she felt relieved.
"Dad, Mom, you came yesterday? Did Gu Sheng come home yesterday? If he did, did he cook for you? He did... Is his cooking delicious?"
Gu Ze'an said: "It's okay, I didn't notice anything."
"He is now a very good cook. My two children and I love the dishes he cooks."
Qin Ying said, "Go back tonight and ask him to continue cooking for you."
"They say that to capture a man's heart, you have to capture his stomach first. I think it's our Lao Wu who has captured your stomach now."
As they were chatting, Doctor Zhao brought in a few bowls of mushroom soup. He had to save face after such a big blunder, so he cooked a big pot of soup and invited everyone to have a few bowls.
"Come and have a taste of my hot soup."
Zhan Aiping took a look and said: "Why don't you try it, Mom and Dad, just one or two bites, it tastes delicious."
Zhang Li drank a bowl and found that it tasted really good. He couldn't help but eat a big bowl.
This mushroom soup is so delicious!
"Isn't it? It tastes good, right? Don't be afraid, I'm a gastroenterologist, I'm not afraid even if you're poisoned."
Bai Qian almost choked on the soup: "Can it be poisonous?"
Zhao Jing: "It's just an analogy."
Gu Ze'an and his wife also tasted the soup. After they finished drinking it, Qin Ying couldn't help but ask Gu Ze'an: "How does it taste?"
Gu Ze'an: "It's OK. It will taste better if you add more salt."
Zhao Jing was puzzled: "Add salt?"
When Zhan Aiping saw the looks of Gu Ze'an and his wife, she immediately felt something was not right. The mushroom soup cooked by Zhao Jing was extremely delicious. People who liked it loved it to death, but if they didn't like it, they wouldn't be as calm as Gu Ze'an and his wife.
"Mom, let me see your tongue, is your taste a little—"
"There's nothing to see." Qin Ying refused to cooperate. Zhan Aiping grabbed her arm and asked her to open her mouth. Zhan Aiping looked at her eyes and then at her tongue, and she already understood.
"Mom, sit down and I'll take a good look at you."
Qin Ying was totally uncooperative: "What are you looking at? I don't want to listen. You must be saying that there is something wrong with my spleen, stomach, or qi. I don't have any problem at all."
"Mom, you can't hide your illness and avoid seeing a doctor. This isn't a serious problem. I'll give you a few doses of medicine and give you two injections. Then you'll be able to regain your sense of taste. Take good care of yourself and eat less fatty and greasy meat."
Although Qin Ying couldn't taste the food, she still had the desire from her youth. She loved eating meat and other fishy things. Comrade Lao Gu in her family was the same.
"Pingping, don't treat me, go treat Lao Gu. He's the same. He also has a bad sense of taste. No matter what he eats, he doesn't think it's salty."
Zhan Aiping insisted: "Then you two can treat the disease together, and Dad can also recover."
"Don't make me take bitter medicine. It makes my stomach uncomfortable."
"Your previous prescription was too cold and you used the wrong medicine." Some of these Chinese medicinal materials are very effective in treating diseases, but some of them can actually damage the spleen and stomach. Qin Ying had taken Chinese medicine for two years to treat her illness, and she was afraid of it.
Later, the disease was cured, but she was left with an impaired sense of taste, and she didn't want to continue the treatment.
She didn't want to suffer the pain of taking medicine anymore.
"Mom, don't worry, I promise to cure you."
Qin Ying shook her head: "No, no, no, Pingping, I'm worried. Do you really know medical skills? Do you also know Chinese medicine?"
"I have seen many old Chinese medicine doctors before, and they all said that people like you who guarantee that they can cure a disease are all fake quacks!"
Zhan Aiping: “…”
"Mom, how about I give you two injections first? After the two injections, you will definitely feel it on your tongue..."
Qin Ying was so scared of her: "You still want to prick my tongue with a needle? You can't do that, you can't do that... Pingping, you—"
"Mom, don't worry. I'll just give you two injections to try. I'm sure you'll feel it on your tongue."
Qin Ying didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "If you prick me, I will definitely feel it. Doesn't my tongue hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt." Zhan Aiping comforted her: "I'll give you two injections first, and then give dad two injections. You two will line up to get treated."
Zhan Aiping thought that if you are sick, you have to treat it. How boring would life be without a sense of taste? Everything you eat tastes like chewing wax.
"Dad, Mom, wait a minute. The hospital has everything. You two can come and get the medicine. Some of the medicine is prepared by me personally. Don't worry, the efficacy is guaranteed..."
Zhan Aiping was originally rushing back, but now it was just the right time, as the hospital's acupuncture room was ready and there was plenty of Chinese medicine in the pharmacy. She grabbed the medicine on the spot, wrote a prescription, and personally decocted the medicine for Gu Ze'an and his wife.
The hospital has everything.
Gu Ze'an and his wife sat on a bench in the hospital, feeling anxious. Gu Ze'an had a headache: "I shouldn't have gone to the hospital. I have a bad relationship with hospitals in my life."
Qin Ying also said, "That's good now. Yesterday I ate the food cooked by my son, and today I eat the medicine boiled by my daughter-in-law. We take turns one after another."
Gu Ze'an: "These two kids are making me uncomfortable. Pingping is a good girl, why would she want to study medicine? I hate people who study medicine the most. They make me feel scared."
Qin Ying: "We are here to visit relatives, why do we have to take medicine?"
Gu Ze'an: "Why is Pingping so confident? Didn't she send Laowu to the hospital when she was a child?"
Qin Ying: "... Why don't we just go back and not visit relatives."
(End of this chapter)