Chapter 8: The Legend of the Sanatorium
Early the next morning, Lian Wuyi brought the nutritious soup he made himself to the nursing home to visit his mother and grandfather.
Lian's mother smiled slightly when she saw her daughter, and when Lian Wuyi put down her things, she saw two thermos flasks, and she asked:
"Wuyi, didn't you go to see grandpa first?"
Usually, when Lian Wuyi comes to the nursing home, he will first go to another building dedicated to the elderly to visit Lian's grandfather, and then come here to see Lian's mother.
The building where Lian's mother lives is generally occupied by people who need to take care of their bodies after serious illness, and if they recover well, they can leave and go home, and if they recover well, there are professional doctors and nurses to give the best care, which is much better than at home.
While pouring out a bowl of soup, Lian Wuyi replied to Lian's mother:
"I just met my grandfather in the garden, he is playing chess with other grandfathers, let me come to see you first, and then come back to him later."
"Oh, I see."
"Mom, you drink the soup while it's hot."
Lian Wuyi wanted to feed Lian's mother soup, but Lian's mother waved her hand and said:
"Mom just finished breakfast, and she's still full."
After the operation, Lian's mother temporarily picked up a life, but in fact, her body was already very weak. Although I am now receiving the best care, it is still difficult to fully recover.
"It's just a small bowl, I poured it out, and it won't taste good when it's cold for a while."
Lian Wuyi insisted that Lian's mother drink the soup, she knew that Lian's mother was not full, she actually had no appetite. The doctor told you to try to supplement proper nutrition, otherwise the body will be more likely to continue to weaken.
Therefore, Lian Wuyi had to come to the sanatorium every morning to deliver irons or other lunches, and then go to Meng Zhiyang's residence to clean the house at about the same time.
Lian's mother looked at Lian Wuyi's concern and couldn't bear to refuse, so she opened her mouth and drank the soup that Lian Wuyi fed.
Seeing that Lian Wuyi obediently drank a bowl of soup, she was very happy, and after putting down the empty bowl, she took out another apple and said:
"Mom, I'm going to wash the dishes, and I'll help you wash an apple by the way."
Lian Mu took her hand and said:
"Wuyi, I'll wash it later, my mother has something to ask you."
Lian Wuyi had already gotten up, and when she saw Lian Mu holding her, she sat down again, smiled and said:
"What's wrong, what do you want to ask?"
Mother Lian hesitated for a moment before saying:
"I've lived in a place like this with your grandfather for so long, and the cost is ......."
"Mom, didn't I explain to you that the cost of you and grandpa living here was in exchange for my labor, but I admit that it was my luck that was too good, and Grandpa Meng sympathized with me, so the salary given was very high, not only can I cover the expenses of you and grandpa, but there is still left."
"But, how can there be any job in this world that can get such a high salary, can you tell your mother the truth, are you stupidly sacrificing yourself for me and your grandfather? Mom....... ”
"Oh, my good mother, I think the stupid person is you, what can I sacrifice, if I really want to say sacrifice, I am just sacrificing my own labor. Since it's all about making money, where to go is not to make money, Grandpa Meng offered me a high price to "take care" of his grandson, of course I have to seize the opportunity, otherwise where do I go to find a place with such a high "salary"? ”
Mother Lian saw that her daughter was always relaxed, and what she said didn't look like a lie, but she always felt that there could be no such good thing in the world.
"You can get so much money just by helping to take care of one person, how can you make your mother believe it?"
"Mom, don't underestimate the young master Meng I take care of, it's hard to serve, he has a bad temper, he loves to be picky, and he is cold, he doesn't appreciate it for his goodness, and he thinks you're troublesome...... Wow, in short, I can't talk about his shortcomings for three days and three nights. You don't know that in recent years, he has replaced dozens of servants, not a hundred. ”
"Really, aren't you going to suffer a lot from him?"
"Isn't that it, being scolded by him every day, and he loses his temper when he sees a strand of hair on the ground."
"It's ......."
Lian's mother began to feel distressed and helpless.
"So, Mom, do you think it's so easy for me to get this high salary? If you feel sorry for me, you can get better quickly, and when you can get out of here, we will have one less burden, and when the time comes, I will be unhappy, no matter how much it is, I will not do it. ”
"Then, that mom can go home now, I ...... it."
"No, if you go home now, you will definitely not get the best care, no matter how careful I am, I can't be more professional than the doctors and nurses here, if you delay the best recovery time, it will be more serious when the time comes, what do you let me do? Won't I have a harder time then? ”
“……。”
Lian's mother has nothing to say, she knows how much her daughter has suffered for her illness, and if her health is worse because she stubbornly wants to leave the nursing home, her daughter will definitely work harder at that time.
"Wuyi, you really don't deserve to suffer like this, if you ......."
Lian's mother felt very guilty, if Lian Wuyi didn't come to their house, even if she went to anyone's house, it would probably be better than coming to their Lian family.
"Mom, you're here again, who made you my mother, you have something, of course I have to do my best to take care of you, I'm born to you, I don't take care of you, who do I take care of?"
Lian Wuyi hugged Lian's mother, who was about to cry, comforted her, and when Lian's mother couldn't see the expression on her face, all of Lian Wuyi's smiles disappeared.
In order to convince Lian's mother that she was really just exchanging labor for high pay, she deceived Lian's mother half-truthfully.
She didn't want Lian's mother to know that she was going to marry Meng Zhiyang for three years, so she could only "blacken" Meng Zhiyang by the way.
Although she was very guilty of letting Meng Zhiyang carry the black cauldron, as long as Meng Zhiyang didn't know, she didn't really intend to blacken him, Meng Zhiyang shouldn't have any trouble.
Hey, I don't know if God will forgive her for such an immoral arrangement!
However, she didn't seem to be wrong, he was already picky, cold, and temperamental...... His temper is not bad, at least he is not really fierce to her except for the things that are scary.
Well, that's half the truth, half the ...... Let's choreograph! I hope he never knows that she smeared him behind his back, or else...... The consequences are hard to imagine!
Lian's mother also hugged Lian Wuyi with her backhand, and still cried silently, if Lian Wuyi was born to her, she would not be so guilty. But the daughter who gave so much to her was not her own, and Lian Wuyi was just a child picked up by their Lian family.
Because Lian's father was infertile, they never had children. Lian Wuyi was picked up by Lian's father on a stormy night fifteen years ago.
When Lian Wuyi was taken home, he was unconscious, his body was dirty, and there were abrasions, because the wind and rain were too strong at that time, the Lian family could not send Lian Wuyi to the hospital as soon as possible.
As a result, Lian Wuyi woke up the next day, but Lian's family found that Lian Wuyi couldn't remember anything, but was so scared that he cried so hard that he couldn't answer anything.
The Lian family thought about calling the police at first, but Grandpa Lian proposed to simply adopt Lian Wuyi in the Lian family and treat him as a child of the Lian family.
Lian's father and mother originally wanted to have a child, but they saw that Lian Wuyi was only four or five years old, and he didn't remember anything. So, as soon as the Lian family was heartbroken, they raised Lian Wuli in the Lian family.
The Lian family originally lived in an ordinary township, and at that time, Lian's father was very motivated and made some money by his own efforts, so the family originally planned to move to City A with Lian's father to settle down. Just moved away from their hometown, no one knew that their family had one more incorruptible person. When they arrived in City A, no one knew their family, and everyone thought they were just a family of three and an old man.
Until now, Lian Wuyi still can't remember the accident when she was a child, she thought she was the child of the Lian family from beginning to end, so she took on all the difficulties of the Lian family without complaint.
After the mother and daughter hugged for a while, Lian Wuyi let go of Lian's mother, and she regained a relaxed and happy smile and said:
"Mom, I'll help you wash the fruit first, and then I'm going to send another hot to Grandpa, otherwise it's too late to go to Grandpa Meng's grandson's house, and then he will definitely have a black face on me again."
Lian Wuyi had no choice but to smear Meng Zhiyang once!
Lian's mother wiped her tears and said:
"The fruit doesn't need to be washed, anyway, Mom can't eat it now, you better hurry up and see Grandpa, don't waste time."
"Then you can ask the nurse to help you when you want to eat later."
Lian Wuyi looked at the time, it was indeed time to leave, so he didn't insist on washing any fruit, and the care service here was very reassuring. These little things of life, the sanatorium does a particularly good job.
"I know, Mom will do it herself, you can go."
Seeing that Lian Wuyi's mother no longer seemed to bother her about how to make money, her heart was a little lighter. After explaining that Lian's mother had a good rest, Lian Wuyi picked up another thermos pot and walked out of Lian's mother's ward.
But when she passed by Ward 8, she saw Nurse Li and Nurse Liu standing at the door. Nurse Liu is the nurse in charge of Lian's mother's ward, so Lian Wuyi is more familiar, and only listens to Nurse Liu:
"Hasn't the dean instructed him on how to arrange the patients in room eight?"
"No, the dean said that the general hospital has not issued an order yet, and for the time being, I still want to continue to take care of the patients in room 8 according to the original specifications."
Nurse Li, who was in charge of Ward 8, shook her head and replied to Nurse Liu.
"But no one has paid her fees for half a year, and no one cares about it, when will our nursing home pay in advance?"
"So what to do, I haven't seen anyone come to see her for so many years, she must have been abandoned by her family, I heard the dean mean as if he proposed to let the government agency take it away, after all, our nursing home is a profit model, and it is impossible to take care of her to the end." Nurse Li said matter-of-factly.
Lian Wuyi approached them curiously, and glanced inside the ward, she knew that Room 8 was a vegetative person, as if she had been in this nursing home for many years, and she didn't know when she was admitted to it?
"Sister nurse, are the patients in room eight going to be sent away?"
The two nurses smiled when they saw that it was Lian Wuyi, who came every day and was very familiar with the doctors and nurses here. In addition, Lian Wuyi is beautiful and beautiful, always smiling and welcoming people, and very filial, many staff in the nursing home like Lian Wuyi.
"Wuyi, have you finished reading your mother?"
Nurse Liu greeted Lian Wuyi warmly.
"Well, I'm about to leave now to bring him soup from Grandpa."
"Of all the patients and elderly people living in the nursing home, I'm afraid that you are the only one who comes to report every day, and you may have been sent by an angel to be your mother's daughter."
Nurse Liu can't help but want to praise the filial piety of Lian Wuyi every time, after many family members arrange the patients and the elderly here, they basically come diligently for ten days and half a month, and those who are not diligent come once a year and a half, only Lian Wuyi has never been absent for a day. Such a beautiful and filial girl, it is difficult not to be remembered.
Lian Wuyi heard more of their praise, and she didn't care anymore, she was still more concerned about the situation of the patients in room eight, so she asked again:
"Sister nurse, I just heard you say that no one has come to see her for many years in Room 8, doesn't she have any family?"
"Alas, the patients in room 8 have not been visited for many years, and I heard that no one has taken care of them since they were brought in." Nurse Li said sympathetically.
"But no, I've been working here for more than ten years, and I've never seen anyone come to see her, she is like being abandoned, lying silently for more than 20 years, and it has become a legend of the sanatorium." Nurse Liu also interjected.
"More than twenty years?"
Lian Wuyi exclaimed in surprise, and felt sympathy for no reason. No one came to see me, and I was lying alone for more than 20 years, how pitiful it was.
"However, since no one cares, who has paid for her expenses for so many years?"
What makes Lian Wuyi even more curious is that if someone helps to pay the fee, doesn't it mean that someone is still in charge?
"I heard the old-timers in the hospital say that when the patient's fee was first sent in, someone helped pay the fee on time every year for the first five years, and then I don't know if it was troublesome or for other reasons, the person who paid the fee paid for fifteen years at one time, but no one came to renew the fee now."
Nurse Liu explained more clearly, but she didn't continue to say, but looked at the time and said:
"Okay, I won't tell you, we still have to work, we'll talk next time."
Lian Wuyi smiled and didn't say anything, and the two nurses also went to other wards separately to make rounds.