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This summer, Lin Meihui almost "grew" in the Zhong family.

When Zhong Shan was hospitalized, she ran to the hospital once a day, and when she saw Zhong Shan burning groggily, Meihui cried into tears. After Zhong Shan was discharged from the hospital, she went to Zhong's house every day, rushing to peel apples, clean the room, and wash clothes for Zhong Shan, making Li Chunhua look like a superfluous person, and her heart was an indescribable sour taste.

That night, Zhong Shulin was reading the newspaper in the room, and his wife pushed the door in with a cup of cold boiled water. She put the water on the writing desk in front of her husband and had no intention of leaving. Zhong Shulin saw that his wife had something to say, so he put down the newspaper in his hand, took off his reading glasses, and looked at his wife's face with his eyes.

Li Chunhua sat on the edge of the bed and muttered, "Xiao Shanzi seems to be with that girl, is it earlier at this age?" ”

Zhong Shulin hesitated for a moment and said, "This kid has grown up, and his heart has grown, so he doesn't necessarily listen to what I say." I inquired on the side, and the girl surnamed Lin is the daughter of Director Lin of our Cultural Bureau, and she is also an adopted child. ”

As soon as her husband's words "hug and raise" came out, Li Chunhua's heart couldn't help but tremble, and she subconsciously looked back at the door. In the past 20 years, she has almost forgotten the fact that her son is adopted, or she doesn't let herself think about it at all, but her husband's sentence "is also adopted" suddenly knocked her back to reality.

She paused for a moment and said, "I know that." I heard that it was an unmarried actress in the Peking Opera Troupe and a married man in the troupe who conceived a child, and it was too late to kill it, so she gave birth. Director Lin's lover was the head nurse in the obstetrics and gynecology department, and the two of them happened to have no children, so they adopted the child. At that time, he also lied to the actress that the child was given to a military couple and went to other places. ”

She heard these things from Director Wu's wife, Nurse Ma. That morning, Nurse Ma and Director Wu came to the ward to see Zhong Shan with two bottles of canned food, and happened to meet Lin Meihui. Meihui generously shouted "Aunt Ma is good". Nurse Ma looked her up and down and said that this girl was getting more and more agile as she grew up. Nurse Ma and Lin Meihui's mother are in the same department, and they are a bag to inquire about it, and they know a lot about her family's affairs. When she went out, Nurse Ma pulled Li Chunhua aside, told her about Meihui's origin, and said that your son wants to deal with this girl, you have to think about it, don't follow her own mother, water-based poplar, you can't raise it in the future.

Li Chunhua expressed her worries, Zhong Shulin said that it was all the business of the previous generation, and the account should not be accounted for on the child, the key is that I don't know how well this child reads, if you can't get into college, can the two of them still get together? Li Chunhua sensitively thought of herself again, she felt that she didn't have much culture, and she was not a couple who were very unsuitable for her husband in this life?

Zhong Shulin saw his wife's thoughts, and hurriedly corrected him: "Of course, if the child is of good quality and is a self-motivated young man, it doesn't matter if he goes to college or not. It's just that Xiaoshanzi is indeed a little too early at this time, a good man should start a business first and then start a family, now the book has not been completed, and the road of life is still very long, at this time, you should not let your children's private feelings stumble your feet, you have to talk to him about this mother. ”

Li Chunhua nodded, and said, "This kid will go so far to college in the future, can he still go back to us?" ”

Zhong Shulin disagreed: "A good man has ambitions in all directions, no matter where he is, as long as he becomes a useful person to society." If I didn't come out to break in, I could only nest in Liushutun, guarding two acres of land and a cow like a big brother. ”

Li Chunhua was stunned for a while, and then withdrew from her husband's room with a heavy heart.