Huo Ran, who had successfully returned to the village, had just stopped his bicycle and was surrounded by a group of children.

"Auntie, what is this?"

"The fourth uncle wants you to see him."

"Yes, yes, the fourth uncle is unhappy"

"Can I touch it? Auntie, this big guy is so cool! ”

The children gossiped and told the elders of the Huo Ran clan to see her.

"Get on your knees." A majestic old man said very forcefully when he saw her.

"Poof" Huo Ran knelt on the ground in response.

The fourth uncle secretly nodded with satisfaction, "Lao Jiu's family, although we are not the Great Qing Kingdom now, what is the Republic of China." But the rules of the clan still have to be followed, and you must ask your elders when you leave home. Why did you leave with the child without saying a word? Do you know how serious this is? ”

Huo Ran heard the fourth uncle's question, his body shrank slightly, and he raised his head with tears on his face: "Fourth uncle, in the middle of the night last year, Xiaoyue suddenly died. I had no choice but to take her to the city. ”

The fourth uncle knew that she only had one daughter, and he valued the child very much, and that daughter had been sick and crooked recently, and many people secretly said that she was dying, but they also believed his reason.

Huo Ran slammed his head on the ground: "Fourth uncle, the doctor said that I have Xiaoyue lung disease." This disease is fatal, the house, my family's ancestral house, I thought about selling it and taking Xiaoyue to the capital. The child had never seen her father, and she was always worried about it. ”

The fourth uncle frowned, took a puff of cigarette, and was uneasy, but thinking of those rumors behind his back, he was afraid of resentment if he didn't let the child see her biological father.

"Alright, so be it." The fourth uncle knocked on the cigarette pouch and agreed.

"Thank you, Fourth Uncle!" Huo Ran was overjoyed, "My house ......"

"It's all a family, and if you hand it over to others, you don't have to worry about it, so let's let your aunt give you Zhang Luo." The fourth uncle calculated, and Cheng Lan's house was worth a few dollars.

Huo Ran was a little embarrassed and said: "The doctor in the city urged me to pay the money, and I really ...... Fourth uncle, see if you can do it as soon as possible, I don't ask for much, as long as I can give cash. ”

"Alas," the fourth uncle sighed: "I understand what you mean." It's all a family, and the child is like this, we can't help but help, so let's give you ten yuan, and I'll look at the house for you first. ”

Huo Ran knew that the price was a little low, but she wanted to end everything here as soon as possible, so she didn't bother anymore.

"Wait!" Huo Ran was just about to agree, when an old voice came, and three figures walked in, and an old couple was supported by a young man.

"Lao Jiu's family, how is the child?" The old lady was the first to speak, and when she saw her kneeling on the ground, she said to the fourth uncle dissatisfiedly: "How can you let the child kneel on the ground?" Hurry up. ”

The fourth uncle smoked his cigarette silently and did not speak.

"Uncle Xie, uncle." Huo Ran got up.

"We all know your difficulties, Lao Jiu left home early, thanks to the years you have treated her wholeheartedly, the big guys have seen it in their eyes and remembered it. Uncle knows a lot of people, and the house will definitely sell you at a good price, and it will not treat you badly. The old lady spoke softly.

Huo Ran glanced at the fourth uncle with some embarrassment: "Uncle, I don't want to wait, I want to leave as soon as possible." ”

The old lady pondered for a moment and said, "Oh, that's right. It's not easy to go out, twenty oceans, my aunt will take care of your house, and I'll pay it back to you when you and your man come back. ”

"Hmph, woman!" The fourth uncle saw that the house in his hand was gone, and he was dissatisfied with the cigarette pouch and knocked on the table.

The eldest uncle glanced at him: "Women's affairs, let them talk about it themselves." ”

In the end, Huo Ran pressed the house to the uncle's family for twenty yuan. As a witness, the fourth uncle completed the handover of the house, and she returned home.

It's winter now, Huo Ran slightly packed up a few old clothes for her and Xiyue, and gave some commonly used guy styles to a few neighbors who came to see the excitement and had a good relationship. Finally, he returned to the Zhao family's Western medicine hall with full luggage.

"Sister-in-law, are you moving?" Nurse Zhao, who was bored playing games with Xiyue, looked at her car full of luggage and asked her a little funny.

"Miss Zhao, I was thinking about staying with you for a few days until Xiaoyue recovered, so I went home and packed up some of my usual uses." Huo Ran explained that because Xiyue needed some days, Huo Ran, who wanted to go out to find a house, was learned by Dr. Zhao, and directly rented a small room in the backyard of the Western Medical Center to her, and made a strong decision to let her guard the house by the way and not have to pay rent.

Huo Ran secretly planned to leave the money when she left, she couldn't be greedy and excessive just because people were kind.

"Alright, you go and put your things down first!" Nurse Zhao told her.

Huo Ran put his luggage in his cabin, rushed back to the ward and started cleaning again.

Nurse Zhao said, "Sister-in-law, you don't have to be busy, I look very clean." ”

"Anyway, I'm idle, Dr. Zhao is kind enough to take me in, I can't just rest and do nothing." Huo Ran said in his mouth, and his hands kept moving.

Nurse Zhao was willing to help, but Huo Ran refused.

"Miss, you should be regarded as a maid hired by the family, and don't see me outside, so that I feel even more indebted to you, but I am uncomfortable."

"Sister-in-law, you don't have to call me any young lady, now everyone is equal in the Republic of China, my name is Zhao Mansheng, and my brother Zhao Shiwei." Zhao Mansheng asked her: "Sister-in-law, what do you call it?" ”

Huo Ran pinched the scattered hair behind his ears: "Xie Mei, the plum blossom fragrance comes from the bitter cold; My daughter's name is Cheng Xiyue, the sunset moon is the sunset, you can just call her Xiaoyue. ”

"Mother said, I am the moon, and when my father misses me, he will look up at the moon in the sky." Xiao Yue said crisply.

"Who took your name?" Zhao Shiwei asked curiously, ordinary village women rarely said the origin of their names, and they were a little elegant.

"My mother took it!" Xiyue said proudly, "My mother knows a lot of words and teaches me every day!" I don't have to go to school, my mother teaches more than the gentleman in the school! Those who speak are not guilty, and those who hear are full of precepts, this is what I learned a few days ago! ”

Huo Ran looked at Xiyue with rare interest and did not interrupt her, recalling the warm picture of mother and daughter in Xie Mei's memory. The Cheng family is poor, and there is no way to send Xiyue to the school, this child made trouble once or twice when he was very young, and then he never mentioned it again when he became sensible. On the contrary, Xie Mei felt sorry for her daughter, so she secretly bought a few books and began to teach her daughter to read.

Xie Mei was a very intelligent woman, and she could still remember what her father taught her when she was a few years old.

It's time to adjust Xiyue's course, Huo Ran thought in his heart. Traditional Chinese characters are used less and less, and war is ...... This is an inescapable conundrum that is imminent at hand.

Zhao Shiwei's medical skills are actually very exquisite, and he basically recovered in ten days. The onlookers who watched Xiyue being carried into the Western Medical Center found that she was neither eaten nor cooked, and quietly asked Huo Ran, and they no longer regarded the Western Medical Center as a flood beast, and the business of the Western Medical Center gradually improved.

"Mother, when are we leaving?" After half a year of recuperation, Xiyue's little face is much more pink.

Huo Ran wiped the sweat from her forehead, Xiyue ran over to help her beat her back very intimately, and she continued to wash her clothes: "Another month!" My mother will save some more money, and she will definitely have to talk to Dr. Zhao in advance. ”

"Uncle Zhao is a good person." Yuzuki nodded in agreement.

"You're leaving?" Zhao Shiwei put down the pen and turned his head to look at her, he knew that their mother and daughter had been working hard to make money for half a year.

Huo Ran touched Xiyue's hair, and said softly: "This child has never seen her father since she was born, and now the world is unstable, I want their father and daughter to at least meet once." ”

Zhao Shiwei pondered for a moment: "But will your mother and daughter be unsafe?" ”

Huo Ran smiled: "Don't worry, I've inquired, there is a railway station in the neighboring county, and you can go directly to the capital." ”

"Looks like you've figured it all out." Zhao Shiwei said.

"Yes, I'm definitely going to take the kids." Huo Ran was very determined.

"Alright then, when are you leaving?"

"My mother said in a month." Satsuki said.

"Okay, I see." Zhao Shiwei looked at the backs of the two of them leaving, a little melancholy.

Yuki was his first patient in the city, and Xie Mei shattered his impression of the villagers' ignorance. After half a year of getting along, he found that he was high in his heart, and even vaguely looked down on the backwardness of the Chinese people, he always thought that the advanced Western studies he had learned were scientific and civilized, and his hometown was indeed ignorant and ignorant.

Xie Mei is also slightly proficient in Chinese studies, and even the arithmetic of Western learning is also thorough, and he found that he is not much smarter than others, but he is from a good background than others, and his family is rich.

After returning from abroad, his frivolous heart gradually sank, and his father praised him for his methodical behavior, and he realized that the villagers' rejection of Western medicine was not only because of the unknown, but also because of the contempt and disdain in his eyes.

Huo Ran didn't know that Zhao Shiwei had such a high opinion of her, and he couldn't tell him that she had a perfect score in mathematics when she was a science student in the college entrance examination, and his arithmetic was pediatric.