half-baked life

Chapter 21...Do you want one?
"I'm really sorry. Our Pingshui Hot Spring is really unable to accommodate elderly people over 75 years old and unable to take care of themselves. The main reason is that the conditions are not good..."

"Hey, isn't that right? The old lady can wash it, why can't my mother? Please explain it clearly to me. If you can't explain it clearly, this matter is not over today!"

As soon as the middle-aged woman saw Liang Xiujing, she immediately became more energetic. She turned to yell at Liang Xiujing at the store manager's cell phone, and her yelling became even louder.

"Everyone is here to see. Pingshui Hot Spring not only discriminates against the elderly, but also treats them differently... This old lady just came out of the bath! I just want to ask, why can she take a bath? My mother You can’t take a dip, it’s not like we won’t pay!”

Liang Xiujing had never seen this scene before, and she was planning to explain it to the woman. Jiang He hurriedly protected her behind him, and the security guard finally reacted and quickly sent Jiang He and his wife out the back door.

"Mom, do you want to call the police?" Jiang He asked nervously as he had no experience in dealing with such people.

"Is this just a matter? It can be easily solved, so we won't bother the policeman anymore."

Jiang Xiaoping put the car key into Jiang He's hand calmly, "You go back with grandma first... Oh, it's okay. Mom has been working for so many years. What kind of monsters have you not seen before? This is nothing. , you’ll have it in a moment.”

She said this in front of Jiang He, but in fact it was not that simple to deal with. After all, those who can cause trouble are not unreasonable.

Jiang Xiaoping coaxed and threatened her, and gave her several free coupons. The woman reluctantly deleted the video. By the time Jiang Xiaoping finished cooking and returned home, it was almost two o'clock in the morning.

She was worried about waking up her mother and Jiang He, so she tiptoed when opening the door, even carrying her high heels in her hand.

As soon as she entered the door, Jiang Xiaoping found that the light on the balcony was on. Jiang He, who was supposed to be sleeping, was leaning on the half-sealed balcony railing. He was holding a glass ashtray that he had dug out from an unknown corner in his left hand, and was inserting it into the balcony with his right hand. He skillfully flicked the cigarette ashes into it!

Jiang Xiaoping took off her high heels and fell to the ground. In the quiet night, the noise was frightening.

Jiang He suddenly raised his head and saw that it was Jiang Xiaoping. He immediately choked and coughed several times. She looked down at her hands and rolled her eyes twice. She found that there was no way to quibble, so she simply broke the jar.

"...Would you like one?" She picked up the cigarette case on the window sill and motioned to her mother.

Jiang Xiaoping picked up her high heels and stuffed them randomly under the shoe cabinet, then pulled her slippers and slowly walked to Jiang He. When she saw that the cigarette was 555 (Hong Kong), her expression became even more surprised, but Jiang He calmly put it away With the cigarette in his mouth, he took a red disposable lighter from his pajamas pocket and started lighting it.

Jiang Xiaoping was worried that she would burn Jiang He, so she quickly looked away, lit the cigarette with the help of a fire, then took a strong puff, and it took a long time to slowly spit out the smoke.

"No wonder your grandma has been saying in the past two days that the balcony smells like cigarette smoke. She interrogated me for a long time yesterday. It's really... Dou E is really not wronged by me!" Jiang Xiaoping said angrily.

Jiang He was holding a cigarette in his mouth, only thinking about having fun and not talking.

The mother and daughter just stood side by side on the balcony, slowly finishing their cigarettes.

Jiang He was originally worried that Jiang Xiaoping would comfort her and enlighten her, but she wasn't sure she had enough patience to deal with this now.

No matter how indifferent she acts, uprooting her eight-year relationship will still leave a hideous and terrifying hole in her heart. Coupled with unclear self-doubt and denial, no comfort or enlightenment can be filled in at this moment. It had any real effect except to remind her how deep that hole was and how painful it was. "I'm sleepy, let's go to bed first."

Jiang Xiaoping yawned for a long time and put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray. She wanted to take the ashtray away, but after thinking about it, she decided not to do so. She just said, "Smoke less, it won't hurt the wound." good."

"Got it, Mom."

Jiang He relaxed and leaned on the balcony railing. The wind started blowing outside, and the wind ruffled her hair wantonly. Jiang He felt inexplicably relaxed and casually hummed a tune. Jiang Xiaoping, who was about to go to the bathroom to take a shower, listened. I could tell it was her favorite song when she was young, "What a Beautiful Jasmine Flower".

When Jiang He was in her first year of high school, she got a second-hand karaoke machine at home and sang two songs every now and then to enjoy herself. This was the song she sang the most.

"The singing was out of tune." Jiang Xiaoping still remembered that once she finished singing a song, Jiang He, who was passing by with an ice cream in his mouth, commented in a nonchalant manner.

"Then come!" Jiang Xiaoping immediately handed her the microphone, but Jiang He, like a proud little rooster, refused to answer the phone at all, "I won't sing such an old-fashioned song!"

"...Aren't you too tacky now?" Jiang Xiaoping put the towel on her shoulders and asked with a smile.

"It's rude, but it's good to be grounded once in a while." Jiang He said harshly.

From that night on, Jiang Xiaoping found that Jiang He seemed to have figured it out. His mental state was obviously much better, and his body was recovering faster. However, his voice was still a little hoarse, and her tension reducer and The scar patches were used very perfunctorily, and the incision edge was obviously enlarged.

But all in all, everything is going in a good direction.

Jiang Xiaoping happily planned a family trip for the Spring Festival, thinking of going to Sanya to have fun. However, her mother, Liang Xiujing, "washed" herself into the hospital in just the time it took to take a shower.

Just after New Year's Day, it became clear that she couldn't stay any longer and shouted to go home, saying she was worried that her neighbors couldn't take good care of the flowers and plants at home. "I have been raising this pot of Clivia for more than 30 years, and I don't even know it even after the Spring Festival." It can bloom, but look at it, the buds haven’t even bloomed yet!”

Jiang He and Jiang Xiaoping couldn't resist her, so they had to send the person back. They agreed to stay for two or three days and then go back. As a result, Liang Xiujing slipped and fell to the ground while taking a shower that night.

She forced herself to get up, thinking it was nothing serious, so she went to bed. However, she was so painful that she couldn't fall asleep all night. She couldn't stand it until dawn, so she called Jiang Xiaoping. It was like this. And let her hide it from Jiang He!
"You two are really good at it. You hide it from her and she hides it from you. Can we use our brains a little to see if we can hide this kind of thing?"

Jiang Xiaoping stood in front of the hospital bed with her arms akimbo and scolded her loudly. Liang Xiujing was speechless and Jiang He was speechless. They were scolded, one old and one young, with their heads down, not daring to say a word.

Jiang He knew that her mother was too worried. Her grandma had a hip fracture, and the doctor recommended surgery for hip replacement.

"Conservative treatment is to use bone traction to stabilize the fracture end, which requires two to three months of bed rest. This process is quite painful for the elderly, and long-term bed rest will also cause some complications. In addition, your family members will take care of you. It is also relatively troublesome to get up, so as long as the physical condition permits, we still recommend surgical treatment, which will allow for faster recovery and ensure the elderly’s quality of life in the future. However, the operation requires general anesthesia and there are certain risks. Please consider it as a family member, okay? "

(End of this chapter)