The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 223 Kindness and True Love

As the saying goes, when Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrived, Yanhua called as soon as the two put down their glasses of wine, knowing that they were secretly cooking hot pot, and rushed over immediately.When I arrived, I regretted it, and felt that I had disturbed the two of them a little.

Of course, this is just a joke.

After the wedding, Yanhua wanted to talk to Lao Tan about going to the hospital for an examination, but she couldn't find it.When I was about to make a call, two friends came, and after a delay, I found time to call Lao Tan.

"You're still drinking, Zhang Li and you too, knowing that he's going to the hospital tomorrow." Yanhua complained.

"Ha ha."

Zhang Li smiled and poured Yanhua a glass.

"I was just going to tell you." Lao Tan said his plan, and he added exaggeration when he said it, and he persuaded Yanhua smoothly, and finally said: "I'm fine, so I don't need to go to the hospital. I'm going back to Yiyang now. Study, learn from others, if it is possible to cancel the lottery, our family will also reform after returning, this will not only save personnel costs, but also implement the four-day rest.”

"Find someone to accompany you, or else I won't worry." Yanhua said and glanced at Zhang Li.

"No, I can do it myself." Old Tan said.

"I'll accompany you." Zhang Li said.

"Let Zhang Li go with you, and I can take care of you," Yanhua said.

Lao Tan glanced at Zhang Li and then at Yanhua, and understood what it meant.This is not to say that he feels that Yanhua is creating opportunities for him and Zhang Li, but that he feels genuine concern from Yanhua and is afraid that something will happen to him.

After thinking about it for a while, he said, "Alright."

When Zhou Xiaomei returned to Hohhot, she immediately got into shape and devoted herself to work.

Saiwai Restaurant has started renovations. This is Aqiao's fourth directly-operated store in Hohhot and the last one to be renovated this year. It is ready to open before the end of the year.

Zhang Yu was in charge of the construction site. Zhou Xiaomei was about to leave after discussing some details with him, when the phone rang and Xiaojun called.

She picked up the phone right away.

"Aunt Xiaomei, grandma is sick and can't get up, so she still doesn't go to the hospital." The child cried.

Zhou Xiaomei was startled, and immediately asked, "Where are you now?"

"At home -- woo woo --" the child cried, and Xiaoying's voice calling for grandma was faintly heard on the phone.

"Wait at home, Auntie will be here soon."

Zhou Xiaomei hung up the phone, said hello to Zhang Yu, and drove straight to Xiaojun's house in the car.

Unfortunately, we learned that Xiaojun's grandma has been transferred from emphysema to pulmonary heart disease because she is an old patient and has not been treated in time, and it is very serious. In addition, the elderly is old and her health is not good. .

Zhou Xiaomei looked at the old man on the bed, and at the two children around the bed, with tears in her eyes.

"Aunt Xiaomei, when will grandma get better?" Xiaoying asked, the child's anxiety and worry were on her innocent face, and the tears in her eyes made people feel distressed.

"Grandma is fine, just use the bottle for a few days and she will be fine." Xiaomei lied and comforted the child.

Our little army didn't cry, but looked at grandma calmly.But he was a child after all, although he was calm, he couldn't hide the anxiety and panic in his heart, and he was even a little scared - he was afraid that grandma would never wake up again if she fell asleep, which is what adults often say "dead".

At his age, he still doesn't understand exactly the meaning of death. He just knows that once grandma dies, she will be buried in the soil called a grave, and she will never be seen again.

He was afraid, but he didn't show it. He clenched his fists nervously, calling out to grandma not to die, and to live as before. When he got home from school, he could call grandma kindly, and then saw grandma walking out of the house Come out, take his schoolbag, look at him lovingly, and then say: "My grandson is out of school——"

He eagerly hoped that his father would come back from Jining soon.

At this time, he misses his father, and he can't handle everything in front of him. Although Aunt Xiaomei is here, he still hopes that his father will come back soon, and he will appear in the ward immediately, so he will not be afraid.

The child turned his eyes away from the grandma who closed his eyes tightly, moved to his sister, and held his sister's little hand in his palm.

The younger sister raised her face, tears streaming down her face.

She felt that her brother, who was a head taller than her, was the biggest support, so she pressed her small body against her brother's body with all her strength, and tightly clenched his hand with her small hands——
And the old man on the hospital bed may really have fallen asleep, sleeping peacefully, his wrinkled face stretched out, kind, serene, and satisfied——
At this time, Zhou Xiaomei witnessed and experienced the misery and misfortune in the world, and felt sad.She pitied the old man lying on the bed, and felt sorry for the two sensible children.

But what can she do?

From a moral point of view, she can pay the old man's medical bills and treat her illnesses, and she can also give money to the two children so that they can go to school and kindergarten.Although these are what the grandparents and grandchildren need, but helping one hunger will not help a hundred people. The immediate difficulties are over, what about the future?
Even if a miracle happens and the old man recovers from his illness, the old man will eventually grow old.

To be honest, there is nothing I can do for the grandparents and grandchildren except sympathy.

It's not heartlessness, it's reality.

Kind people always hope that they have unlimited ability to help those who can help.But when I find myself powerless, I feel guilty and feel a pale sense of powerlessness.

As the red-capped businessman Hu Xueyan said, don’t be a villain in life, don’t be greedy in an official, do more good things for others, and get rich first.

Yes, how realistic, when I have no ability, I can only give sympathy with a kind heart.

Actually, that's enough.

On the same day, Xiaojun's father, Cao Jiadong, returned to Hohhot and took over Zhou Xiaomei's care of the elderly.

We have explained earlier that this is a loyal and honest man of 40 years old. Perhaps because of his honesty and honesty, his wife will leave with others, leaving a family of four, old and young, struggling to survive.

What can we say in the face of these?Moral condemnation?Or an angry curse from the heart?

These can be there, but don't solve the actual problem.

No matter how difficult the days are, the old ones may be buried in the loess, but the young lives need to grow up, they are innocent, they should accept the warmth of family affection and the comfort of parents when they come to this beautiful world, be happy life.

Yes, life.

Life is beautiful, and everyone who loves life knows that although it is full of suffering and hardships, as long as you live, you have to live well, because it is not easy to walk in this world, and you need to cherish it.

It is really not easy for Cao Jiadong to maintain this family.

When his daughter-in-law left, Xiaoying was waiting for her baby for four months. While earning money to support the family, he also had to be a mother to take care of the children. It was really difficult.Fortunately, the old mother can still move, which helped a lot.

It is difficult for him to find another woman in this situation.Two children, and an old lady, the heavy burden is there, who wants it?Knowing his own situation, he stopped thinking about finding a woman. He just worked hard to raise his two children and take care of the old man until his death. That's enough.

The common people's ideas are really based on the actual situation.

He has always wanted to save more money to take care of his mother's illness, but the money he earns is always very little in addition to the family, so he can only delay and delay his wish to see the doctor for his mother. He feels guilty, uncomfortable, but powerless. .

In fact, in our real life, there are many men in the situation like Cao Jiadong. There are seniors and juniors, and they earn money to support the whole family by themselves. They have no special ability and can only maintain the family.

In their eyes, a difficult life and heavy labor are normal, and they are also the capital to survive and support their families.So I worked hard in my labor, never complained, and I could endure all kinds of hardships in order to earn more money, just to buy a schoolbag, a new dress, some meat for my child, cook a good meal, and watch my child eat deliciously. I am also happy.

In addition, being able to pay the next quarter's rent on time, buy medicine for the mother, buy coal for the household, and pay the electricity and water bills——
But when I think of myself, I am really tired. I go to a small restaurant to buy the cheapest food, drink a pot of inferior shochu, and then go to sleep feeling dizzy and thinking about nothing——
As for women, it's not that they don't want to, but that they don't dare and have no time to think about it.

The women I fell in love with and married all gave birth to children, and still left desperately. To be honest, for a loyal and honest man, half his life has already been lost. Do you dare to think about it?

Destiny is realistic and cruel, and it always moves forward according to its own laws. No matter what is happening in the world is a scene of comedy or tragedy, it always has a serious face and moves forward indomitably.

Those who are brave and love life forge ahead, and those who are timid and lose faith go with the flow.

The strong in life are not all those who are going to success. Ordinary people who are not willing to sink and fight bravely against bad luck are still respectable.

On the seventh day after the old man was admitted to the hospital, at noon, in our long drama of ordinary people's life, the old man left with reluctance and regret.

Although the encounter with Xiaojun's family was accidental, the fate of this family has been linked with Lao Tan and Zhou Xiaomei. This may be a fate in the universe, which allows us to see the simple kindness and love in the world. Precious true love.

(End of this chapter)