Chapter 16 Sixteen in-laws come again

In a blink of an eye, it was autumn. On this day, Yaping Lijuan was playing games together at home when she suddenly received a call from her parents in Northeast China.Yaping's parents never take the initiative to call, but Yaping always calls on weekends.When Li Juan heard Yaping calling her mother on the phone, her heart skipped a beat, and her first reaction was: "It's broken, the money is gone!" "No way? Impossible! Don't worry! Isn't it just a shadow? Check carefully, if not, go to my sister's place to check again. Harbin is a big city, and the technology is better than Mudanjiang. Hey! Hey! Keep in touch at any time. Relax first. Heart."

Li Juan asked: "What's the matter, your mother?" "My mother is fine. I was talking about my father. Didn't you say that you had a bad cough? He was coughing up blood, and he kept complaining of heartache. After checking, he found pleural effusion, which is suspected to be lung cancer." "Is it diagnosed?" "No! I want them to go to my sister's place to have a look. The big hospital will investigate more carefully." "Does your dad know?" "Just knowing the hydrothorax, you don't know it might be cancer." "so what to do now?"

"Only God bless." Half a month later, Guanhua called: "Diagnosed. Lung cancer, advanced stage." "Is there any help?" "The doctor here said that surgery is not possible, and the location is too close to the heart. Chemotherapy is the only option." "Don't be busy, don't be busy! Buy two air tickets for your parents. I think it would be better for them to come to Shanghai for a final diagnosis. I can't trust the doctors there, so they gave up without seeing anything. I'm here to contact the hospital. " Putting down the phone, Yaping looked sad.Li Juan touched Yaping's head and said: "There is no way to do it. As people get older, this kind of problem will come sooner or later. Don't be sad, let's see if it can be cured!"

"Do you know which hospital in Shanghai is the best for treating lung cancer?" "I don't know! Everyone in the family is fine, who has nothing to inquire about?" When I opened the web page, I found Shanghai hospitals related to lung cancer, such as Shanghai Tumor Specialized Hospital and Shanghai Chest Hospital. "These seem to be not well-known? I haven't heard of them!" Yaping said incredulously. "Nonsense, no one was born with cancer before, how do you have this information?" "Why do I think that when it comes to hospitals, the brand of Shuijin Hospital is the loudest? Do you know anyone in Shuijin Hospital?"

"do not know." "You grew up in Shanghai, and you work in a newspaper office. You have a lot of connections, so you know a little bit! Don't worry about it just because you are my dad!" "Why do you talk like this? You always suspect and don't trust people. Even if your father is not my own father, he is still a family now. Is it necessary for me to harm him? I really don't know him!" Li Juan thought Quickly searched for hidden information, "But digging through the wall and thinking about it, it seems that there is a classmate's mother who works in the General Affairs Office of Shuijin Hospital. I haven't contacted for a long time. I have to find a phone number."

"Go, I'll leave this to you." Yaping urged. "My parents are coming soon. This time is no different than before. I hope you will behave better and take the initiative to ask your relatives and make my dad happy." "understood." "You have to be sensible and don't make the old man angry." "You really don't speak according to your conscience. When did I become ignorant? Didn't I let them go last time when they came here? Try not to talk or provoke them. What do you want from me?" "You don't talk, just show them a face all day long, the old man is not feeling well! My dad is here to see a doctor, and my mother has to take care of him. Can you go home early and help cook and do something? Son? I’ll come back to help as soon as I’m free. It’s mainly to lighten my mother’s burden.”

"No. I have work to do, and other things must come after work. Otherwise, the job will be lost. What will I eat and drink? Also, I said earlier that I don't reject doing things, but if I do, you have to let them My method, if you don’t want me to do it, they will follow behind and watch like a stalker, preventing me like a foreign babysitter, so everyone will be unhappy.” "Look at you! It's this time, and you still don't know how to restrain yourself! You still have to talk about conditions! My dad doesn't have many days left, so can't you make the old man happy?"

Lijuan glared at Yaping.Some words were swallowed back.She was afraid that if she opened her mouth, she would enter into a quarrel.The old man and the old lady just heard that they were coming, and they had already started to make waves at home. After a while, Li Juan turned her head and said softly to Yaping: "Yaping, I feel very sorry that your father is sick. I will try my best to make him happy. But you can't send me to hell just to make your father feel better." .Your father’s illness was not caused by me. Look at his cigarettes. He smoked the newly renovated walls of my house yellow in the past two months. Think about it for yourself, how black his lungs have become after decades? Because it's your dad, I never said it. If it was my own dad, I would have lost my temper. It doesn't mean that I love him. It's too late to say this now. You said you would pick him up, but I didn't say anything. This time It’s a special situation, but I also hope that the two of us can agree on three chapters: I do things to the best of my ability, and I hope they don’t keep picking on me. He’s getting older, he’s more open-minded, and he’s better for his illness. What do you think?”

"Lijuan, you are my wife, I can only ask you, I can't ask my father, we two will live together for the rest of our lives, and the old man will always leave us first. The child wants to support but the relative is not here, this kind of pain is so painful You get it when you're old. I hope you get it." Lijuan stopped talking. Li Juan and Yaping went to the train station to pick up their parents.Yaping's parents thought it was expensive to fly, and wanted to save money to see a doctor, so they endured a few days and nights of travel fatigue. After only a few months of not seeing each other, Yaping's father suddenly became haggard.His skin is sallow, gray in the bleakness, and he looks unhealthy at first glance, probably because of the pain in his chest. He is even more stooped, and his eyes are sunken.

Yaping's mother sat in the taxi, nodded and bowed to Lijuan and said, look, this is causing you trouble again. Before Lijuan could answer, Yaping interjected, "Mom! What are you talking about! My own parents! It's not all right." "No, I meant to trouble Lijuan." Yaping's mother hurriedly waved her hands, watching Lijuan's expression from the corner of her eyes. Li Juan smiled, and was about to answer, Yaping rushed to say: "Li Juan is your wife, a family, how do you say such kind words?" Yaping's mother didn't answer, but still looked at Li Juan, There is some hope in the eyes.Lijuan smiled again, but still did not speak.Yaping kicked Lijuan with his feet.Li Juan opened her mouth and said, "Hey!"

As soon as you walk in, the food is already set on the table.Li Juan thought of the last time her mother-in-law went to look for utensils to cook as soon as she came in. This time, she specially ordered three dishes and one soup at the restaurant downstairs before picking up someone. She just waited for her to turn around in the microwave after she got home. The family sits at the table.The mother-in-law took a look at the food and said, "Your dad doesn't have a good appetite now, and he can't eat such hard rice. I'd better give him some thin noodles! You eat first, and I'll have it in a while." The old lady began to eat in the kitchen again. Rifle things out. "Where's the noodles I put here last time?" "It's finished, and I haven't had time to buy it. Do you have instant noodles?" Li Juan quickly stood up and asked. "Instant noodles are not good. There are chemical substances in them, which are not good for your health. You should eat less. I will roll them myself! You eat, don't wait for us." As soon as the words were finished, Yaping's father started coughing loudly at the table, and he coughed so loudly that Yaping was busy beating his father's chest. In front of him, he was so frightened that he hurriedly put the food aside, and said, "Mom, we'll wait for you, let's eat together!" "Old man! Cover your mouth when you cough, so as not to be disgusting." Yaping's mother complained. "Mom! You said that! You don't hate it. Dad is sick, so there's no time! Isn't it, Li Juan?" "Ah? Ah!" In the evening, Yaping's father sat in the living room and watched TV, while Yaping's mother washed his face and feet. Yaping's father started coughing again, this time it was so distressing that he couldn't lift his breath, he could only hear the snoring and bubbling in the trachea, his face was bloody purple from holding back, he opened his mouth vigorously, but no air came in, Yaping's mother Busy rubbing his chest and slapping his back, Yaping was in a hurry to take toilet paper to wipe his phlegm, Lijuan stood beside him at a loss, especially the old man staring and suffocating, like a fish washed to the shore by the tide, making him stand Li Juan on the side felt suffocated, Li Juan felt uncomfortable as if someone strangled her throat and pinched her nose. "Lijuan! The whole family is so busy, can't you help pour out the footwashing water? Everyone is stepping over this basin, and one stumbled and kicked it over. You have a wooden floor!" Yaping's mother said softly, dissatisfied with Lijuan's lack of wink in her tone. "Oh." Li Juan walked over and took the basin away. "Wipe the foot towel." Yaping's mother threw the foot cloth over, intending to put it on Li Juan's arm, but Li Juan stepped back in fright and fell to the floor.Li Juan squatted on the ground, lifted a corner of the foot cloth with the tip of her thumb and index finger, and walked away with the foot basin. bedroom. "Lijuan! It's not me talking about you. You see, my mother and you are careful to accompany you, lest you will be upset. Why didn't you react at all when she said that in the car? How uncomfortable the old man is!" "Which sentence? Just the phrase 'bringing you trouble', isn't that nonsense, you need to be so hypocritical with your own children? I'm really afraid of trouble! Since I don't object, I'm naturally prepared. I I didn’t tell you anymore, and you still blame me. I didn’t like what your mother said, and felt that she was provocative when she came. And you, your mother’s words were obviously meant for me. Why are you answering so quickly? ? For fear of falling to the ground. No matter how fast you answer, what she wants to hear is me saying, 'No trouble! No trouble at all! I've been looking forward to your coming!'" Li Juan used an exaggerated expression to interpret Aya The enthusiasm that Ping Ma wants to see. "Then why don't you say it?" "Not as fast as you. You snatched such a good opportunity to show merit." "Aren't I afraid that if you don't answer the silence? How uncomfortable the old man will be! The old man is afraid of causing trouble to the child. It is right to pay for the child. It is uncomfortable to ask the child to return. You have to understand this feeling." Lijuan turned her eyes to look at Yaping, but said nothing. "Also, don't show your dislike of my dad on your face. He has cancer, not an infectious disease. When he coughs, you are so scared that you hide the vegetables everywhere. How does the old man feel?" "Yaping, you call it unreasonable. Even if he is not sick, he can't cough at vegetables! What's more, there are cancer cells in the phlegm! You can eat, but I can't. If I am unreasonable , let him go out and cough, and I moved the vegetables by myself, and you are angry. And your mother, just now your father’s foot cloth was about to be thrown in my face! Yaping, I’m serious, next time your father will Cough, I’m going to get the toilet paper, and you’re going to pour the footwashing water, I’m not ready. Your father has beriberi, and I’m really afraid of infecting it to me. I don’t dislike your father. He has long feet, and I want to get infected. If I get it, I'll have my hands. If I had my hands, you'd probably get it too." Li Juan pointed to Yaping's lower body. "You! Alas! A daughter-in-law is really different from a daughter! I originally hoped that you could share weal and woe with me during my father's illness, but it seems impossible. You really hurt my heart." "Yaping, don't say that. At the beginning, I didn't get used to it psychologically. I grew up and never washed my father's feet. The role change is not so fast. Your father is the first person I know. I have never served anyone with such a serious illness. I can learn, but take my time. Don't expect me to do it right away. Moreover, you can't ask me to treat your dad like your sister treats your dad. Think about it from another position, if my dad was sick, would you bring footwashing water? Anyway, if my dad is really sick, ah bah bah! I will try my best to start from your point of view and try not to bother you or make you feel embarrassed .” "Lijuan, I understand the meaning of your words. You hope that I won't trouble you. Sigh!" "Why are you like this? I'm talking about myself, not about you. You are still so narrow-minded when talking between husband and wife. Doesn't this prevent me from talking in the future? Don't bring office politics home, okay? I said When I was me, I didn't talk about you." Li Juan turned Yaping's head and said: "Well, Yaping, we have to divide the labor and cooperate to maximize our advantages. What I can do is engage in diplomacy, find someone, ask the doctor, Toto It's related or something, I'll take care of this part and don't let you worry about it, okay?" Yaping nodded silently.