half-baked life

Chapter 34: I’m paralyzed, so just lie down at home.

"How will you know if it doesn't work if you don't try?" Jiang Xiaoping's understatement made a huge difference.

Jiang He was startled, and suddenly realized that her mother would not have been moved by what she just said, otherwise she would not have been able to operate the bathroom properly back then, and she would have changed the bathing center at that time. After all, at that time No one thought she could do it.

"Bath center? What a big business that is. It's different from ordinary bathhouses! It's just a woman, and there is no man as the backbone. It's strange that she can do it. 'You can eat as much as you have a big belly', it's just a toss-up... …Haha, let’s see how exciting it will be in the future!”

"Some things become impossible the more you think about them, especially doing business. Besides, we are just going to give Grandma Qin a bath this time, and we will talk about the rest later."

Jiang Xiaoping's few words left Jiang He speechless.

"...Where does this strong smell of smoke come from? Who is smoking on the balcony!"

Liang Xiujing, who was watching TV, smelled it.He asked angrily and loudly.

"My mother!" Jiang He didn't hesitate at all, and started to frame the blame without even stumbling.

When Jiang Xiaoping didn't react, she put the remaining half of her cigarette into her hand, and then rushed to the living room, leaving Jiang Xiaoping alone at the "crime scene".

"It's not me, it's..."

Jiang He didn't give her mother a chance to defend herself, "Mom, if it's not you, then who is it? Everyone gets the stolen goods now. Are you lying to grandma, or are you lying to yourself? How many times have I told you, Smoke less, smoke less, don’t listen, cigarettes are so easy to smoke!”

Jiang He leaned close to Liang Xiujing fawningly, imitating her grandma's usual words of scolding Jiang Xiaoping, and her tone was also vivid.

"Really, at your age, you are not as good as He'er. I think you are getting better and better as you live!" Liang Xiujing pointed at Jiang Xiaoping angrily, "Why are you still holding it? Put it out quickly..."

Before she finished speaking, she suddenly looked at Jiang He in confusion, "Why do you smell so much of cigarette smoke?"

"It's all smoked by my mother... Humph, it smells so bad!" Jiang He said as he raised his hand in disgust and slapped it in front of his nose several times. His artificial look made Jiang Xiaoping laugh.

"Jiang He, you can do it, don't let me catch you...hiss!" Jiang Xiaoping was about to warn her, but Liang Xiujing was too protective and slapped the back of Jiang Xiaoping's hand.

"What are you doing? Scaring He'er? Don't be afraid, He'er, grandma will make the decision for you!"

"Thank you grandma, I know you love me the most!"

Jiang Hexu hugged Liang Xiujing and kissed her on the face, focusing on a "mouth honey belly sword". Jiang Xiaoping touched the back of her hand that was red from being slapped. She was really dumb and couldn't tell how hard it was to eat Coptis chinensis.

"Jiang He and you are here. Liu Yan knows that you are here today and has been waiting since breakfast."

It happened to be a sunny day on New Year's Eve. At 10:30 in the morning, Jiang He and the others appeared in front of Zhang Enmin's house carrying large and small bags of bathing equipment.

Zhang Enmin greeted him with a smile and handed over the shoe covers he had prepared long ago.

Jiang He was the first to put on his shoe covers and enter the house. He found that Grandma Qin and Grandpa Zhang lived in a standard two-bedroom apartment. The living room was not big and had a lot of clutter, but it was kept very clean.She glanced around, originally thinking of finding a spacious place to put an inflatable bathtub, but her attention was mostly attracted by the two glass cabinets opposite the TV wall filled with trophies, medals and photos.

Jiang He was just curious when Zhang Jiefang, who followed her in, had already asked the question.

"Hey, are these all yours?"

"It's not mine, it's all my wife's. When Liu Yan was young, he practiced martial arts and was on our city team. In 68, he even won a silver medal at the Provincial Games!"

Zhang Enmin opened the cabinet with a proud look on his face and took out a palm-sized red velvet box.

The box contained a square medal worn on the chest. On the front of the medal was printed "Pioneering, Unity and Endeavor", and on the back was the words "Second Place in the Eighth Sports Games of Province H". Because it was too old, the medal had There is also some mottled black rust.

"There are still photos!" Zhang Enmin said and sent another seven-inch photo in a silver frame to Jiang He.

The photo was obviously a few years old. It was a color photo unique to the last century. The facial features of Grandma Qin wearing a medal in the photo were blurred. Jiang He could only roughly make out that she was an oval-faced person with braids and a bright red performance suit. The girl stood on the podium.

Jiang He only knew that Grandma Qin was a junior high school physical education teacher, but he did not expect that she had such a glorious past.

Before she graduated from college, she spent her winter and summer vacations with Jiang Xiaoping. At that time, Grandma Qin had just retired for two years and was in very good health. She often went hiking and hiking in the mountains. She also went for winter swimming every year in the coldest months of winter. She couldn't catch a cold for several years. Back.

At that time, my grandma was very envious of Grandma Qin's body. For a while, she vowed to go for winter swimming and exercise. Once, she went with Grandma Qin, but she didn't dare to jump into the ice hole.

Grandma Qin's first stroke was when Jiang He was a senior in college. After her winter swimming, she was walking home as usual when she suddenly vomited and fell to the ground unconscious.

A kind-hearted person passing by took her to the hospital. The diagnosis was acute cerebral hemorrhage, and the amount of bleeding was not small. She was immediately admitted to the ICU. Later, a craniotomy was performed to remove most of the blood clots. Grandma Qin stayed in the hospital for half a year before being discharged. , at that time the right half of the body could no longer move much.

Jiang He still remembered that he had just found a job at that time. When he went to work in the morning, he would often meet Grandpa Zhang and Grandma Qin doing rehabilitation training by the lake near the community. Grandpa Zhang would always hold a light blue cotton handkerchief in his hand. , so as to wipe away the drool that flows down the corner of Grandma Qin's mouth from time to time.

Later, Jiang He became busier and busier, and his house was renovated, so it was rare to come here.

It was during the Chinese New Year the year before last that Jiang He heard her mother chatting with her grandma. Only then did Jiang He know that Grandma Qin had suffered two strokes in less than half a year. She was completely paralyzed in bed. Only her head and left hand could move her body. I was speechless.

During this time, Jiang He accompanied his grandma downstairs for exercise, and he could often see Grandpa Zhang pushing Grandma Qin around the garden of the community.

"This old couple has to come down two or three times a day. They watch people doing Tai Chi in the morning and people dancing in the evening. They are really not tired. They go back and forth."

Zhang Jiefang just expressed her emotion two days ago.

"I'm paralyzed. Just lie down at home. The old man's eyesight is no longer good. He can't see clearly the ditches and bumps on the road. Is there a pothole on the greenway this morning? Look, the wheelchair almost turned over!"

(End of this chapter)