Zhan Aiping and her husband brought their children to Shanghai by train. After taking the train twice in a row, the two children had lost interest in staying on the train. They were listless and were held in their parents' arms to look at the scenery outside the window.
They did not have much luggage this time, and they had asked their parents-in-law to send the unnecessary luggage back to Yunnan Province using another transport vehicle. Otherwise, the couple, along with their child, would not have been able to carry the mountain of luggage.
Especially the toys for the two kids. Their grandparents bought them toys and clothes, and several uncles also bought some. There was no room for them.
Little Tangyuan only went out holding a giant panda doll, while Guobaorou took his little car. He already had more than two cars, but eight or nine, enough to line up in the underground garage.
Zhan Aiping said to Gu Sheng with regret: "Why do they only make cars when they make toys? It would be better if they built gas stations and oil depots."
Gu Sheng: “…?”
Zhan Aiping: "Look, our little Guo Bao Rou can play with the car for so long. If we build a gas station for him, he can fill up the car by himself for an entire afternoon."
Gu Sheng couldn't help laughing: "You wrote suggestions to the toy factory?"
It's OK if he plays with cars, but his wife even thought of the gas station, so she really deserves to be a doctor? She pays attention to supplies and is a smart logistics team.
Zhan Aiping: “…”
"Don't look at me like that. If I really write a suggestion, I will write it right after I go back. We have so many cars for sweet and sour pork. If we don't come to a gas station, we will be sorry for the car given by his grandparents, uncles and aunts..."
In this age when people can't even afford cars, their little boy already owns ten small cars. When he grows up and plays with his friends, who wouldn't envy him
Zhan Aiping rubbed his cheek and was about to write a suggestion to the toy factory.
Zhan Aiping nudged Gu Sheng with her elbow and said, "Comrade Gu, please draw a model."
Gu Sheng: “???”
"What are you going to do?"
Zhan Aiping confirmed: "Draw a gas station. When I write my proposal to the toy factory, I will also send the model design drawings over."
Gu Sheng: “…”
His wife occasionally comes up with some strange ideas.
"Let's talk about it when we get back."
Zhan Aiping nodded.
The train stopped in Shanghai. Two people took the children in a stroller. It was cold outside, but there was no snow. Even in the gloomy weather, the two children could walk very well. The two little ducks walked with unsteady steps beside their parents.
Zhan Aiping held their little hands and put on hats and gloves for both children, "Walk slowly, don't fall."
"Mother… "
After leaving the train station, the couple took the bus with their children. The bus traveled along the way, with different scenery along the way. When passing by a row of beautiful small Western-style buildings, the two children leaned on the windows to look.
The streets of Shanghai are very wide, with many pedestrians coming and going, and many cars passing through. Guo Bao Rou looked at the cars and his eyes lit up, "Cars..."
Unlike small model cars, these cars are very large and have people inside.
"Yes, a car." Zhan Aiping wiped the corner of his mouth and said, "Make more money in the future to buy a car for mom."
"Car, car!"
The two children were dazzled by the scenery along the road. They hadn't been here for two years, and there were many new things here. When passing by a familiar place, Gu Sheng asked her, "Do you regret it?"
Zhan Aiping was speechless and choked: "Don't come here."
"It's been two years and you're still saying this kind of nonsense."
Gu Sheng smiled and said, "I just want you to know that there is no point in regretting. Even though I am not a mother of three children, I am still a mother of two."
Zhan Aiping said: "Let's go to my godparents' house first, and then we have to go to school to meet Ye Fangjing and the others."
Gu Sheng asked, "Why don't you go to the toy factory again?"
Zhan Aiping: "I will write a letter to make suggestions!" Instead of going to the toy factory to cause trouble.
What's more, a gas station model cannot be drawn in a day or two.
Gu Sheng was surprised: "Are you serious?"
"Seriously."
*
Professor Sun and Qi Shuwan knew before the Chinese New Year that Zhan Aiping would bring the children over, so they celebrated this year in great joy. In the past, there were only the couple at home, and even at the end of the year, they had no mood to celebrate. They spent the New Year holiday in a lonely manner and didn't interact with people much.
Now that was great, her goddaughter was coming with her two little grandchildren. Qi Shuwan cleaned the house inside and out, and went to the department store to buy a lot of New Year's goods, including children's clothes, toys, and candies and biscuits. She bought whatever she thought was suitable.
Professor Sun and his wife are old now, and they have basically no money to spend. The money they have is just there to keep it, so they might as well spend it happily.
"What's going on with Mr. Sun next door?" Professor Sun's next door family lives with He Sheng's family. Unlike Professor Sun's family, He Sheng and his wife have a son and a daughter, and their children have started their own families. Every Chinese New Year, they would bring their children back to celebrate the New Year.
Despite this, He Sheng was not satisfied. He was disappointed with his two children, felt that his daughter had not married well, and was disgusted with his son's poor career, repeated mistakes, and inability to adapt.
His children were not filial, and the family could only barely get together for meals.
Even though his son and daughter are both unsuccessful, He Sheng still has some psychological comfort every year. His psychological comfort is the Sun family next door. The Sun couple are treated well, have a lot of money, and have a high status, but it is useless. They have no children, and their home is deserted all year round.
At most two students came, but they were kicked out by Lao Sun.
"I don't know." He Sheng's wife Liu Fangshi also felt very strange. "I saw Qi Shuwan bought a lot of things recently. Are they preparing for the New Year?"
"I also heard that you bought a lot of children's toys."
He Sheng whispered: "If his child hadn't left, he would have had a grandson by now."
Master Liu Fang said, "Don't say that. It's really shabby."
"Old Sun has been so happy lately that I suspect they may have seen a ghost or run into something unclean."
Master Liu Fang looked unhappy: "Don't talk nonsense about these things, you can't say them..."
What unclean things
Although many people secretly burn paper during the Qingming Festival and the Zhongyuan Festival, these things cannot be discussed openly.
Even though it has been severely banned, there are still many people who believe in it.
Many doctors, especially surgeons, are privately a bit superstitious about metaphysics and believe in fate, because they see many deaths and lives in the hospital, and many of the things they encounter cannot be explained clearly. Some can be explained as miracles, while others are a person's "fate."
"The two of them became like this, were they possessed by evil spirits?" He Shengjia noticed the movement in the neighboring house and suspected that Professor Sun and his wife were doing some evil magic.
He Sheng knocked on the door of the house next door and persuaded, "Old Sun, why don't you and your wife come to our house for the New Year's Eve dinner?"
Professor Sun didn't even blink, he felt that He Sheng had bad intentions. It was New Year's Day, the time for families to reunite, why would he go to someone else's house to watch them reunite
I guess I will talk about my grandchildren in front of him and make him feel uncomfortable. This is not the first time.
"My husband and I will celebrate the New Year by ourselves."
He Sheng smiled and said, "You two are here to have some fun at my house."
Professor Sun said, "I'm still lively even if I don't come to your house, so why should I go to your house to watch the fun?"
Now he has a daughter, as well as a grandson and a granddaughter.
He Sheng said with a smile: "How can your house be lively? There are students coming to see you? Didn't Zhan Aiping leave a long time ago..."
When He Sheng mentioned Zhan Aiping, he was poking at Professor Sun's lungs. He had often praised his student in front of him before, but now... everything has fallen apart.
Professor Sun was not affected by his words at all. He was a tight-lipped person and had not yet made the news known to the world.
He just wants to be happy by himself and is too lazy to let others know.
"My husband and I are happy with our own things, so don't interfere." Qi Shuwan is now thinking all day about how to entertain her two grandchildren. She is very motivated and has decorated their new rooms and put toys in place.
He Sheng: "You-you are really stubborn."
He Sheng was proud in his heart. He had a son and a daughter, so he would never end up alone like the couple next door.
"I will bring my grandson to your house to celebrate the New Year."
Professor Sun knew that he just wanted to show off his grandson, so he didn't say anything.
*
Zhan Aiping stood at the bottom of the building with Gu Sheng and the child. She felt a little nervous because she hadn't seen her teacher and his wife for many years. She was like a homesick person and didn't dare to step inside.
"Mom?" Sweet and sour pork looked up at his mother curiously.
Zhan Aiping swallowed and said, "Mom will take you to meet your grandparents."
"Grandpa and grandma?"
Zhan Aiping brought her family upstairs and stood at the familiar door. She raised her hand but did not dare to knock on the door. She was very timid. Gu Sheng did not urge her, but just waited quietly.
The two little guys stood beside their mother's legs, one leaning on one leg. They were dressed so round that they looked like two little penguins with big bellies.
Zhan Aiping finally plucked up the courage to knock on the door, but before she could knock on the door, the door next door opened. Zhan Aiping glanced to the side in confusion.
He Sheng was shocked when he ran into a family of four as soon as he went out.
Are they here to visit the Sun family? I have never seen this young couple before. They even brought their two children with them. Could they be Professor Sun’s students? Or did they knock on the wrong door
"Teacher He." Zhan Aiping called out, she recognized the identity of the person in front of her.
He Sheng was stunned for a moment: "... Who are you?"
Zhan Aiping said directly: "I am Zhan Aiping."
He Sheng's eyes almost popped out of his head, "Are you Zhan Aiping?"
He stared at Zhan Aiping in disbelief, trying to recall her past appearance in his mind. The capable and dashing female student she used to be, now she has long hair and her skin has become whiter...
It’s quite beautiful.
Zhan Aiping said: "I am Zhan Aiping, this is my husband Gu Sheng, and we have two children. Be good, call me Grandpa He-"
The two repeaters were about to go online. They had been trained to have conditioned reflexes. Whenever they met a stranger, their parents would definitely ask them to call the person, and they would just have to repeat a few words.
Before the grandpa in the sweet and sour pork and the small glutinous rice balls could say anything, He Sheng stopped them: "No, no, no, don't yell at me. Calling me grandpa is a little too old. Just call me uncle."
In fact, seniority doesn’t matter. He Sheng is indeed a grandfather. But when people directly ask their children to call him grandpa, He Sheng always feels a little uncomfortable. He feels that he is still very young and his hair is not even white. It’s just that he and his children got married young... Isn’t it a little too old to call him grandpa
It’s better to call him uncle, it sounds nice and he is happy to be on the same level as his students.
Whenever he was with young students, he was influenced by their youth and felt that he was still young and energetic.
Zhan Aiping: "Okay, I was wrong, dear, call me Uncle He."
"Uncle He." The two little guys shouted one after another.
He Sheng responded happily, "These two little guys are good looking."
His eyes fell on Gu Sheng, and he thought that this man was also tall and handsome. It was no wonder that the child's father and mother looked like this, so they both had outstanding looks.
"Are you here to see Teacher Sun?" He Sheng guessed what he might have guessed. "Let me tell you, your teacher's family has been very strange recently—"
Before Zhan Aiping could say anything, the door of Professor Sun's house opened. Professor Sun said unhappily, "Your family is weird."
"You just asked the child to call you uncle, so you should call me uncle."
He Sheng: “?”
"It's because of the generation gap."
Teacher Sun said angrily: "You also know the generation difference? You are so shameless. My daughter brought her grandson and granddaughter to visit, but you stopped them outside—"
After that, he looked at Zhan Aiping again: "Why don't you just knock on the door? Where is the agility you had when you were studying?"
Zhan Aiping smiled awkwardly and called to the two children, "Be good, kids, call grandpa."
The two little penguins listened to their mother obediently. They looked up at Professor Sun and called out in a baby voice, "Grandpa."
When Professor Sun heard these two childish voices, his heart melted, "Quick, come inside, it's cold outside."
Professor Sun glanced at the two babies and then at Gu Sheng. The smile on his face froze, but in the end he said nothing and invited the whole family in.
He Sheng was confused: "This... What's going on? Old Sun, how did you become a grandfather?"
Professor Sun said, "I recognize my daughter and son-in-law, as well as my grandson and granddaughter. Take a look at my two little grandchildren. They look pretty good, don't they?"
"So cute, just like the dolls in New Year pictures."
Gu Sheng and Zhan Aiping entered the house, and the two children were carried to the sofa obediently. They were very obedient and sat side by side. Qi Shuwan gave them a lot of candies, and the two little guys said thank you very politely.
Sweet and sour pork received a few more special toy cars. Zhan Aiping thought that the family needed more than just a gas station, but also an open-air parking lot.
Qi Shuwan said, "You must have had a hard time carrying the children along the way. Godmother will cook for you tonight."
"Pingping, don't take to heart what your godfather says later. You know he is a very annoying person. Just ignore what he says."
Professor Sun was uncomfortable: "You, this is the first time for him to come here, what are you talking about?"
Qi Shuwan smiled. The more she looked at the young man Gu Sheng, the more she liked him. She felt that she, as a goddaughter, had good taste.
This pair of children are also well-born!
Zhan Aiping said: "Godfather, you can't be too strict with me!"
Professor Sun blew his beard and glared: "You come to my house and tell me this?"
Zhan Aiping said: "It's New Year's Day, let's not talk about study."
Qi Shuwan said: "That's right, it's New Year's Day, take good care of the children, these two little guys are so well behaved."
"Grandma." The sweet and sour pork called out.
Gu Sheng said: "They can recite poems and sing."
Qi Shuwan immediately perked up, "Why don't you go cook, old man? I'll play with the kids for a while."
Professor Sun refused: "You're going to eat back what you just said? Didn't you want your daughter and son-in-law to taste your cooking skills?"
Qi Shuwan was cooking and Gu Sheng went to the kitchen to help. Professor Sun was watching outside and found an apron for Gu Sheng. The more he looked at it, the more happy he felt.
—It feels great to have this kind of “son-in-law” come to work at home.
Zhan Aiping boasted: "Godfather, you see I have good taste, Gu Sheng cooks delicious food."
"Really? Then let him cook tomorrow and let your godmother have a rest."
Zhan Aiping: “…”
Professor Sun raised his eyebrows: "Why, you don't agree?"
Zhan Aiping boasted: "I'm afraid you'll eat too much of the food cooked by your son-in-law and won't want him to leave."
Professor Sun snorted.
Zhan Aiping briefly told Professor Sun about what had happened over the years. Professor Sun sat on the sofa, holding a grandson in his left hand and a granddaughter in his right hand, hugging them both and not wanting to let go.
Professor Sun said, "You asked me not to be too strict with you. That's fine. Just give birth to two more children so that I can have children and grandchildren around me."
Zhan Aiping: "... Two are enough."
The two babies in her family have not yet been revealed by the blind box. Although they look well-behaved now, they are not yet four or five years old. I wonder if they will become crazy in the future.
Qi Shuwan's dishes were ready, and Zhan Aiping went to help get the chopsticks and serve the dishes. Professor Sun continued to hug his two grandchildren on the sofa. He found that his two little grandchildren were really smart and obedient.
He played hide-and-seek with them.
As soon as Qi Shuwan came out, she saw Professor Sun popping his head out from behind the sofa, playing hide-and-seek with the two children in a baby voice. She immediately felt a heart attack.
"Go, go, I'll play with the kids."
"Come on, ignore your grandpa, grandma is here to play with you."
The couple had a quarrel outside, and Gu Sheng and Zhan Aiping put the bowls, chopsticks and dishes on the table, and everyone sat at the round table to eat. At that time, the older generation liked to eat at a round table during the New Year instead of a square table, because the round table was lively and seemed to represent a happy reunion during the New Year.
After dinner, Zhan Aiping showed Professor Sun what she had written in the past two years, including the science story, surgical techniques, and some special cases and medications.
Professor Sun: "You are studying Chinese medicine."
Professor Sun actually knows a little bit about it. Now that Chinese and Western medicine are being combined, they will work together to diagnose and treat patients. He thinks Zhan Aiping's medication and prescriptions are pretty good.
"You have learned a little bit."
Professor Sun was looking at the surgical techniques and Zhan Aiping's medical records. He was making corrections with a red pen. Even at night, he wore reading glasses and was still busy reading. Qi Shuwan felt tired just watching him.
She took out the sample book of "Science Stories" and started flipping through it casually.
It would have been fine if she hadn't turned the page, but once she did, she got so addicted that Qi Shuwan read the book at the bedside and laughed out loud from time to time.
Qi Shuwan laughed so hard that tears were about to come out.
Professor Sun adjusted his glasses and said disdainfully: "What are you laughing at? You are laughing so hard just reading a book."
Qi Shuwan couldn't help laughing again.
Professor Sun: “…”
His curiosity was aroused, "What on earth did your goddaughter write that made you laugh like this?"
Qi Shuwan smiled and wiped her tears: "My daughter has good writing skills, haha - very talented."
“Very talented.”
"She shouldn't have studied medicine in the first place! It would have been much better for her to work in the Propaganda Department and write articles."
"You're talking nonsense." Professor Sun took the book from her hand. He was very curious and wanted to know the contents immediately. Professor Sun sat under the desk lamp and read two articles in a row and couldn't help laughing.
Professor Sun laughed and said with disdain: "What is this about? It's so weird."
Professor Sun snorted, "Not doing serious work."
Professor Sun watched for most of the night and was unable to get up the next day. When he got up, it was already noon. Gu Sheng was playing with the two children, while Zhan Aiping and Qi Shuwan were shelling beans and chatting.
Zhan Aiping likes talking to her godmother Qi Shuwan very much. Her godmother Qi Shuwan is just like her name, a very gentle person. She treats younger generations with kindness and love, and is very motherly.
Her godmother was the kind of mother figure she wanted most when she was a child.
Qi Shuwan was very considerate and cared about her.
At noon, Gu Sheng cooked. He is now very skilled at it. After Professor Sun had his meal, he played two games of chess with his "son-in-law". Then, looking for time, he took his son-in-law and two grandchildren out for a walk to show off.
Zhan Aiping stayed at home with Qi Shuwan.
Professor Sun asked Qi Shuwan to go with him, but Qi Shuwan waved her hand and said, "I won't go with you."
It's embarrassing.
Professor Sun went to show off at He Sheng's house next door, "Old He, come and meet my son-in-law. He's handsome, isn't he? My daughter has good taste. Look at these two kids. They're quite smart, and they have the cleverness of their parents..."
Gu Sheng, standing behind Professor Sun, stood upright and was in a good mood. Only at this time could he hear a few words of praise from Professor Sun.
"You, you are really--" He Sheng was helpless. Old Sun found a daughter and a good son-in-law for him, and he felt inexplicably uncomfortable.
Because his son-in-law is really not as good as other people's sons-in-law.
"My grandson is so smart, just like me when I was a child..."
Zhan Aiping, who stayed at home, talked to Qi Shuwan for a while. Qi Shuwan went out for something. Not long after, there was a knock on the door. Zhan Aiping went to open the door and found that it was Xue Ningjia standing outside.
When Xue Ningjia, who was standing outside the door with bags of things, saw Zhan Aiping, she was also stunned, and the two of them stared at each other.
Zhan Aiping heard that Xue Ningjia went to the Northwest and was probably not married yet. She also recently returned to Shanghai to visit relatives. It was such a coincidence that they ran into each other.
Xue Ningjia recognized Zhan Aiping, and the smile on her face hesitated for a moment: "It's you!"
When she saw Zhan Aiping, Xue Ningjia's heart felt like it was pricked by a needle, stinging and painful. The past two years in the Northwest had been too hard. She looked seven or eight years older and was no longer as glamorous and vigorous as before. But Zhan Aiping in front of her had become beautiful and charming, and the mild climate kept her as fresh as a flower.
If Xue Ningjia wasn't extremely familiar with Zhan Aiping, she wouldn't have recognized her.
She heard the news from an old classmate that Zhan Aiping and Teacher Sun had reconciled. She also heard that Qi Shuwan had sent a skirt to Zhan Aiping. This was like a thin silver needle piercing her heart from time to time.
Xue Ningjia wanted to go back to Shanghai so much that she didn't want to stay in the Northwest.
Zhan Aiping's relationship with Teacher Sun has been repaired. Is she going to use this relationship to return to Shanghai? He Mingzhang's family has already been like that, and they have received the retribution they deserve, and she, Xue Ningjia, should not be blamed for what happened in the past.
"Zhan Aiping, is Teacher Sun at home? I'm here to visit the teacher and his wife."
Zhan Aiping opened the door and let her in, "Come in."
Xue Ningjia hesitated for a moment, "Are you alone here?"
Professor Sun and Qi Shuwan were not at home, Zhan Aiping went to pour her a cup of tea, and Xue Ningjia found that there were many more warm "toys" in the house? There were rag dolls that children loved to play with, tin kangaroo toys and tin cars, and rattles, and the air was filled with a faint milky fragrance.
Zhan Aiping responded calmly: "Yeah."
She poured tea and sat there very leisurely. Seeing Zhan Aiping's indifferent look, Xue Ningjia felt secretly resentful. She guessed that it was the incident two years ago when Zhan Aiping made a scene that affected Professor Sun's opinion of her.
Now, neither of them could stay in Shanghai. One was in the Northwest, and the other went to Yunnan Province. Both of them were exiled to the frontier.
Xue Ningjia guessed that Zhan Aiping must have been unable to stay there anymore, so she came to Teacher Sun to seek help from him.
They both had the same goal, but they let this Zhan guy get ahead.
Xue Ningjia grabbed a giant panda doll, and Zhan Aiping said, "That's my daughter's."
Xue Ningjia was stunned. "Is that so?"
"I have a pair of children, and Professor Sun took them out."
Xue Ningjia was surprised. She thought Zhan Aiping was too shameful for even bringing the child here.
"Were you staying at Teacher Sun's house yesterday? You were alone with two children?" Xue Ningjia cursed Zhan Aiping inwardly, thinking that she was really capable now, actually bringing her two children here to pretend to be pitiful.
Xue Ningjia thought of herself. She rubbed her fingers. Her fingers had become rough in the past two years. She didn’t want to stay in the Northwest any longer. She wanted to go back.
Zhan Aiping said: "And my husband."
Xue Ningjia blurted out: "You have a family to support!"
Zhan Aiping smiled faintly and said, "It's the New Year, it should be lively."
Xue Ningjia: “…”
Zhan Aiping also became a flatterer.
Xue Ningjia said: "Zhan Aiping, the teacher is very disappointed in you. He will never forget what you did. He said this himself."
"I was wrong about what happened back then. He Mingzhang—"
Zhan Aiping laughed: "How dare you mention him in front of me."
Xue Ningjia said: "That's all your own fault. It has nothing to do with us. You can't blame me. It's not me who took the initiative to bring He Mingzhang to you."
Zhan Aiping: "He Mingzhang has already confessed to me."
Xue Ningjia's face turned pale, she was flustered, and turned to say: "You, Zhan Aiping, I have had a hard time in the northwest. I have lived a hard life for the past two years, and I am also atoning for you."
Zhan Aiping said: "Xue Ningjia, your house is not clean either."
"You took the initiative to go to the Northwest."
Xue Ningjia: “…” Because something happened to He Mingzhang’s family, the Xue family was also implicated. When Xue Ningjia saw the situation at that time, he panicked and hid in the northwest.
Can she be blamed for what happened back then? If she hadn't asked He Mingzhang to provoke Zhan Aiping, He Mingzhang wouldn't have gotten into trouble, and if the He family hadn't gotten into trouble, their family wouldn't have been implicated.
She went to ask Teacher Sun for help, but Teacher Sun remained indifferent and did not protect her.
Xue Ningjia bit her lip. She was determined to get Teacher Sun's help this time.
"Zhan Aiping, how long have you been here? Why didn't the teacher kick you out?" Professor Sun did not receive any students during the New Year holidays, so no one took the initiative to visit him. Xue Ningjia still chose the right time. This day was neither too early nor too late, just the right time to visit.
If he had visited on the first or second day of the Lunar New Year, he would probably have been looked down upon. Xue Ningjia thought he had chosen a good day, but he never expected that Zhan Aiping would also be here.
Xue Ningjia was so angry that her teeth were itching.
Zhan Aiping said: "I said I would come before the New Year. Xue Ningjia, please be polite. I think you will be kicked out."
Xue Ningjia had already torn her face with Zhan Aiping a long time ago. Even though she knew that she couldn't have a falling out with Zhan Aiping, she couldn't let go of the resentment in her heart. Why did she have to suffer in the Northwest while Zhan Aiping was living a smooth life
Xue Ningjia said: "Professor Sun used to like me very much. He despised you and praised me for everything in private."
Zhan Aiping: "What a coincidence, Professor Sun liked me more before. He also disliked you and praised me as better than you in everything privately."
Xue Ningjia looked unhappy.
They sat for a while, and soon, Professor Sun and Gu Sheng came back with the two kids. The kids wanted to drink milk powder, so Professor Sun said he would come back to make milk for them.
"Is there anyone coming to the house?"
"Xue Ningjia?"
"Sun, Professor Sun..."
Professor Sun's room was not small, but now that two adults and two children came in, it became quite crowded. Qi Shuwan also came in with some food, "Old Zhou's sister-in-law is here and brought a lot of things. Son-in-law, I'll trouble you to cook today..."
Qi Shuwan is no longer polite to Gu Sheng.
Gu Sheng smiled and said, "Mother-in-law, I'll help you get it."
“It’s quite heavy.”
Sweet and sour pork and small dumplings were lying on Professor Sun's legs: "Grandpa, I want some milk..."
They spent the New Year together and were very precise in their efforts to fleece the sheep, first looking for the sheep that were good to them.
As for finding my parents, we’ll talk about it later. My parents can’t run away anyway.
"Okay, grandpa will make you some milk powder."
Xue Ningjia watched Professor Sun prepare milk powder for the two children. In her impression, Professor Sun, who was serious and extremely strict, actually acted like a kind and good grandfather.
Zhan Aiping stood up and walked over, looking down on the two little piglets, "You two are still eating. You've all gotten fat after the New Year."
"Mother… "
Xue Ningjia swallowed her saliva. She couldn't help but ask, "Is this your child?"
“These are my son and my daughter.”
"Then, then why do they call Professor Sun grandpa?"
Qi Shuwan smiled and said, "Pingping is now my and Lao Sun's goddaughter."
Xue Ningjia: “!!!!” How could it be
Xue Ningjia thought that Zhan Aiping was really good at this.
"Master's wife, one daughter is too few for you. You might as well adopt me as your goddaughter."
Professor Sun came out of the room and heard what Xue Ningjia said. He said directly: "I don't need so many daughters."
Qi Shuwan said, "We only have Pingping as our child. Come to grandma, my two little darlings."
“Grandma…” The two little guys are especially clingy when they need someone to cling to them.
Xue Ningjia said: "Good things come in pairs, teacher. I know you are still angry with me. Pingping and I happened to be twins. It would be great if we could be your daughters now."
Professor Sun said calmly, "Don't give me that."
Qi Shuwan said: "How can we accept every one that comes?"
"Pingping has been discharged from the army for a long time... She was our favorite student. We had always thought that it would be great if she could be our daughter..."
Xue Ningjia's face didn't look good.
She left without even eating.
*
After Zhan Aiping arrived in Shanghai, she asked someone about the research on Snake Clear. She learned that the research in Guangcheng had achieved some results, with good efficacy and few adverse reactions, and that it was now being prepared for promotion. She went to ask for the contact information of the people involved in the Snake Clear research in Guangcheng.
Zhan Aiping also asked Gu Sheng to draw a gas station. She even seriously wanted to write a proposal to a toy factory in Shanghai, hoping to build a small gas station.
Gu Sheng drew more than a dozen, and Zhan Aiping finally selected a few good-looking ones. She wrote a letter and asked someone to send it over.
Gu Sheng said with a smile: "If I really take your advice, will you ask someone to buy a gas station for my son?"
Zhan Aiping waved her hand, thinking that the children's house playing was enough.
After staying in Shanghai for a few days, Zhan Aiping took Gu Sheng back to school to meet several teachers familiar to Ye Fangjing. It turned out that Ye Fangjing was already married.
Ye Fangjing said: "Although I haven't found a childhood sweetheart, my partner is pretty good."
Zhan Aiping said: "Congratulations."
Ye Fangjing said: "I envy you. You are a mother now, and you have twins. You have both sons and daughters at once."
Zhan Aiping and her family stayed for three or four days and were ready to go back. Qi Shuwan packed a lot of things for them, "Pingping, you like to drink tea, right? I'll give you some tea. Take these back and drink them."
Zhan Aiping didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Godmother, I just brought Pu'er tea."
"Old tea tastes better, but your godfather doesn't like to drink tea, so he keeps all the tea at home. He drinks tea like a cow chewing a peony. Here, take these tea cakes with you."
Zhan Aiping took a look at the tea cake that her godmother gave her and was immediately shocked. This was old Tongxing tea, and it was quite old, three or four years old. She turned it over and saw one from 21 years old.
"Godmother, please keep these teas well." Just like jade, they can appreciate in value and can be sold for hundreds of thousands or millions in the future.
"It wouldn't be a waste for me to stay at home."
Zhan Aiping thought that it would be a waste if she kept it. Should she wait for decades before selling it? It seemed meaningless. She could just keep it as a collection. If her children were to become so poor that they had no pants to wear, she could pawn the things at home.
Professor Sun's family has a lot of good things. Ai Ping doesn't want the tea at the exhibition, so Qi Shuwan stuffs a few cakes into her mouth and says, "Why can't you let your dad drink good tea? Your dad drinks the same tea no matter what kind of tea he drinks. He can't tell the difference between black tea and green tea. It's just tea, it's refreshing. It's a waste to give him good tea."
"He likes to drink the cheapest kind, with some sugar in it."
At that time, many people had teapots and thermos at home, the kind made of green or red iron. Almost every household had one. They didn't contain hot water, but mostly tea. If there were two, one would be used for tea and the other for boiling water.
Because the quality of drinking water at that time was not high, the water that some people drank had a smell when it was boiled. After adding tea leaves, it became tea. The strange smell was naturally masked. Therefore, many poor people always had tea at home. Of course, it would not be some expensive and good tea.
When guests come, some white sugar or brown sugar will be poured into the tea, and it will be considered hot tea to entertain the guests.
Zhan Aiping said: "Then I will do the same as my father, I will add buffalo milk to the tea."
Qi Shuwan: "A cow chewing a peony, a cow chewing a peony, it's a waste to give it to you."
Zhan Aiping said: "Then don't give it to me."
"Give it to you. I won't be bothered if I don't see it. Otherwise, your dad will open it and soak it in water. It's better to give it to you."
"He thinks this kind of tea tastes bad."
Zhan Aiping wondered, "This tea shouldn't be bitter anymore, it should be sweet."
Qi Shuwan smiled and said, “Your dad thinks the color is too strong and too ugly, and it tastes like Chinese medicine.”
"He doesn't like to drink these things, you can take it away, he likes his little sweet tea."
"If you want to drink it, try adding milk to it and see whether the tea flavor is stronger or the milk flavor is stronger."
Zhan Aiping thought to herself, I dare not try it, after all, it is an aged tea, and she doesn’t want to drink it either.
Her godmother was going to give it to her, so she had no choice but to accept it.
"Please come back more often in the future and call every month. I want to hear the voices of my grandson and granddaughter."
Professor Sun said disdainfully: "My son-in-law is so useless. When will we be able to install a telephone at home?"
Zhan Aiping smiled and said, "I have a phone in my office. When I have free time, I will take my children to make a phone call."
"It's never too much to give more."
Professor Sun showed Zhan Aiping the books and other materials she brought, and even "corrected" them for her. "You should go back and revise them carefully."
Zhan Aiping said, "Okay, the medical school in our county has asked me to help write a textbook. When I finish writing it, I will send it to you and let you take a look at it."
After Zhan Aiping returned from her visit and study at Chuncheng Medical College, she communicated with Dr. Qin again. The principal of the medical school contacted her and asked her to work with other teachers to write a comprehensive training textbook.
Zhan Aiping is not opposed to compiling teaching materials. She actually likes compiling books very much.
Professor Sun asked: "When will your science story be published in Xinhua Bookstore?"
Zhan Aiping: “… ?”
"Haven't you and godmother read it? Do you want to buy a few more copies?"
Professor Sun said as a matter of course: "My goddaughter wrote this, so of course I have to support her."
Zhan Aiping smiled and said, "Then I don't know when the Xinhua Bookstore will be open, but it should be soon."
"Then I'll talk to the people at the bookstore."
"No, no, no, don't be impatient."
Zhan Aiping was quite embarrassed. She had walked all the way from the Zhan family to the Gu family and then to Professor Sun and Ye Fangjing, as if she was promoting her "masterpiece" all the way.
Along the way, almost everyone knows the familiar people.
Will she be contacted by the Writers Association in the future
Zhan Aiping thought that works like hers would not be appreciated by orthodox literary writers. However, after the 1980s, a large number of outstanding writers continued to emerge.
"I'd better concentrate on writing textbooks!" Zhan Aiping thought to herself, I just like writing textbooks and forcing others to read her books and take her classes.
Professor Sun said, "If I had known that you liked teaching and writing books so much, I should have kept you as a teacher."
Zhan Aiping smiled and said, "Then I am the daughter who follows in my father's footsteps, right?"
The two of them looked at each other and smiled.
The journey took nearly half a month, and we stopped at several places. Not only the children, but even the adults found it a little too much to bear. Celebrating the New Year was really a hard physical job. After saying goodbye to Professor Sun and his wife, Zhan Aiping and Gu Sheng took the children and their bags and got on the train to go home. This time they were really going back.
After seeing off Zhan Aiping and her husband, Professor Sun called Dean Xu and explained in detail how outstanding his daughter was and how well-behaved, clever and cute his two grandchildren were...
"Anyway, thank you for giving me such a good daughter."
Dean Xu sneered in his heart, thinking that he didn't want to hear such words that were called thanks but were actually for showing off.
"She is still young, she should exercise more..."
"My daughter can also write books. If you see them in Xinhua Bookstore, remember to buy a few copies..." When talking about his goddaughter, Professor Sun had a lot to say.
After hanging up the phone, Dean Xu was looking through some materials. Recently, the military hospital and local hospitals have started to cooperate in training doctors... They can find a way to get Zhan Aiping to the military hospital for further studies.
(End of this chapter)