Chapter 3: Pea Jelly
When the old man heard this, he quickly invited me in again.
Glancing at the hidden door, he said: "My wife Wenjuan is not in good health, she has uremia in the middle and late stages, dialysis has been more than 90 days, and the social security reimbursement is too low, see if you can ...... it."
As soon as I heard that it was fine, I just needed to provide some medical records from the hospital, and I needed to see the patient number myself.
"I ......"
I nodded yes and said it was a necessary process. Seeing that the old side was embarrassed, I asked him if there was any difficulty, and it was not convenient for me to see.
"Wen Juan's personality is a little weird, I don't want to see people, I'm afraid that she will embarrass you, and you will ...... when the time comes" Lao Fang still hesitated.
I laughed: "It's okay, the elderly have their own tempers, and I'm doing community work, so it's no wonder." ”
The longer I stayed in this room, the more certain I became that something was not quite right in this room.
The old man opened the door again and went in, this time, he muttered something to Wen Juan who was lying on the bed, and suddenly, the other party became emotional:
"That guy isn't a good thing, let him go! Get out! ”
The woman's voice was hysterical, and it didn't sound like a patient with a terminal illness at all.
Lao Fang explained to her for a long time inside, but she still didn't give up: "I don't want money, let him go!" What subsidies are fake, my daughter can treat me, I don't need it! ”
Her attitude was very resolute, and Lao Fang finally stopped insisting.
The woman also lost her voice, and the old man looked at me and sighed after coming out: "I'm sorry, her condition has been a little recurrent in the past two days, so her mood is not very stable, which makes you smile......"
The door wasn't completely closed, and when I glanced into the room, I happened to be looking at the man lying on the bed, and my eyes were looking at each other.
I shuddered!
The face was blue, like a dead man, especially the eyes, the drooping eyelids, which hung down at the corners of the eyes to form an inverted triangle.
"You get me out! You are not welcome in our house! ”
Seeing that I was looking at her, the woman on the bed screamed angrily, and she grabbed the pillow next to her and threw it at me!
I took a step back, knocked down the tall blocks piled up by the lotus son, and when I saw that my hard-won hard work had been destroyed, he burst into tears.
The old man was very distressed, he picked up the child on the ground, and looked at his crazy wife while coaxing.
The woman in the bedroom, her series of movements and words, almost exhausted all her strength, and then she began to cough loudly, her face turned purple, and her body kept trembling, as if she was about to die.
Lao Fang persuaded Wen Juan inside on the side, but this had no effect at all, her emotions were still so excited, and she even began to scold me, and her words became extremely ugly.
In desperation, the old party could only let me leave.
"Xiao Chen, I'm really embarrassed, my wife is in a bad mood because of her body, she wasn't like this before, maybe because there was a guest at home suddenly, she wasn't suitable for ......"
Seeing that this was the case, I could only leave with humor.
Walking downstairs, I looked up at Lotus's house on the sixth floor, the light in the living room was still on, and the room next to it was a little dark, and Li Wenjuan was lying in it.
Downstairs in the residential building, there is a small stall selling cold powder, which I didn't have when I went upstairs before, and it should have just been opened.
A small cart, two folding tables, on which a small couple sat and had already started eating.
The stall was run by an old woman, who looked a little older, her slightly gray hair was permed with wavy curls, and she was wearing a fancy cotton silk dress, and she looked still refreshed.
On the signboard of her small cart, the words "Old Liangfen in the Canteen of the Locomotive Factory" are written.
I stepped forward to see the cart with all kinds of seasonings, and the mother-in-law who sold the jelly was pouring a piece of blue-green jelly on the cutting board and cutting it into evenly sized strips.
After that, the mother-in-law neatly placed them in a disposable lunch box.
A spoonful of soy sauce, a spoonful of vinegar, a night light, the red oil and chili pepper shine with an attractive light, the kohlrabi chopped into dices, and the dark brown sticky sweet noodle sauce, accompanied by onions and garlic, this tastes good.
After handing the jelly to the young man who was waiting, my mother-in-law asked me, "Do you want to eat it?" Five dollars a bowl? ”
I said okay, let's have a bowl.
My mother-in-law made me another bowl in the same way, and while I was waiting, I asked her, "You used to work in the canteen of the Hongqi Locomotive Factory?" ”
"I'm not, my old man is!"
"And you're a family member?"
"Yes!"
I sighed and nodded. My mother-in-law asked me if I wanted chili peppers, I said put more, she smiled and said that my chili peppers are all good things to buy, don't say I can't stand it after eating it.
I said no problem.
Looking up at the sixth floor, the lights were still dim, and I didn't know what the situation of the three grandparents was now.
"Hongqi locomotive factory canteen of the cold powder, you just go out to inquire, the taste is a must, when the factory was not bankrupt, when I arrived at the hotel, there was a long queue at the door, all waiting to buy this cold powder, my old man is the master of the cold powder, I learned this craft from him!"
My mother-in-law said very proudly, but I suddenly looked at her: "Fang Qingsheng, do you know each other?" ”
"Fang Qingsheng?"
When the mother-in-law heard this, she turned her head and glanced downstairs: "You mean the Fang Qingsheng who lives on the sixth floor?" ”
I quickly nodded and said it was him.
My mother-in-law handed me the mixture, and I sat down at a table next to me, and she saw that there were no other guests at this time, so she simply sat down next to me.
"Of course I know him, they are all from the same factory, they have lived for so many years, and everyone is familiar with this back and forth."
Hearing her say this, I knew I was asking the right person:
"Then, Fang Qingsheng's wife Li Wenjuan, are you familiar with each other?"
"Li Wenjuan?" The mother-in-law was stunned for a moment, and then she snorted twice, as if she was very disdainful.
Through her reflection, I realized that there was definitely something wrong with this, so after I stirred the jelly evenly, I asked her about Li Wenjuan's situation.
The mother-in-law sighed: "This old man is actually a poor man, after his wife gave birth to her daughter Lotus, she died not long after. ”
Speaking of this, she paused: "Li Wenjuan was married by him later, and we don't know where he came from." But this woman definitely has a problem with her brain, she is crazy all day long, and she goes to the temple gate to tell fortunes when she has nothing to do, and cheats a lot of money!
However, the factory went bankrupt in those years, and if it weren't for this woman's fortune-telling to supplement the family, their family of three really didn't know how to survive......