Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 164 Criticism
Li Yancheng just stood there blankly, staring straight ahead with unfocused eyes. No one knew what he was thinking until a passerby called him, which brought him back to his senses.

"Dacheng... Dacheng..."

"Hmm, ah? Oh, Brother Huaizhong."

"Dacheng, what's wrong with you? Why didn't you respond after I called you for so long? Did you lose your money?"

"No, no, no, I only have a few dimes in my pocket, what can I lose? I just suddenly remembered something and got distracted."

"I'm telling you, don't just stand there in a daze when you're freezing. Go back if you have anything to do. Didn't Aunt Zhang say that there are criminals who want to cause trouble for you? Don't just wander around outside. Wait until your case is solved."

"Brother Huaizhong, you know it too. Okay, I'll go back now."

"Well, go back. The neighbors in our alley are keeping an eye on you."

"Thank you, Brother Huaizhong"

"Why are you being polite? I'm leaving now. You should go back quickly."

"okay"

After waving goodbye to this neighbor, Li Yancheng walked towards the gate of his own yard, muttering to himself as he walked. If you listen carefully, you can hear that he is scolding Jin Zhihai.

But...what was going on with the corners of his mouth that occasionally turned up?

"what……"

Just as he stepped into the yard and took two steps forward, a crisp sound rang out from behind him, and then he felt a soft heavy object jumping on his back, causing him to stagger forward two steps.

If it weren't for the fact that the exercise he had done in the past two months had some effect, he might have fallen flat on his face.

You don't have to guess who jumped on his back. It couldn't be anyone else except the crazy girl that Jin Zhihai mentioned just now.

Li Yancheng stood up helplessly and let the crazy girl get off his back.

"You scared me suddenly and jumped on me. Aren't you afraid that we will fall to the ground together?"

"Hey, don't be afraid. Dacheng won't let me fall."

After jumping off the back, Ningning ran to the front with a chuckle, turned around, and said very confidently.

Looking at the handsome face with a smile like a flower in front of him, Li Yancheng couldn't help but think of what Jin Zhihai had just said. He sighed in his heart, raised his hand and poked Ningning's forehead.

"Let's go back to the backyard."

"Okay." Ningning turned around and was about to run towards the second door, but then she thought of something, half turned around again, looked at Li Yancheng who was already walking over, and asked.

“Brother Dacheng, when my brother first walked in, he said you were going on a blind date tomorrow?”

"Yes, Aunt Zhang from the neighborhood committee will bring people here tomorrow."

Li Yancheng raised his hand and placed it on Ningning's shoulder, and with a little effort, he made her follow him and walk forward.

"Um...Brother Dacheng, who did Aunt Zhang introduce you to?"

"A teacher at Meishan Middle School."

"Mei...my future school teacher?" Ningning's already big eyes widened even wider when she heard that it was her future school teacher.

"Yes, he's a new transfer. I heard he used to teach in Yangchao."

"Ah?" Ningning's pretty face suddenly fell.

"Brother Dacheng, then...then can I not go to your house anymore?"

"What's going on in your head? Why can't you come to my house?"

Li Yancheng was confused. How did the blind date have to do with this?

"But how can I go to your house when you get married?"

"Who told you I was getting married?"

Just as he walked to the door and was about to push it open, Li Yancheng stopped what he was doing when he heard Ningning say that. He turned his head and looked curiously at the little girl following him.

"Didn't you just say that you're going on a blind date tomorrow?"

Ningning's little mouth was already pouting.

"It's true that we're going on a blind date tomorrow, but when did I say we were getting married?"

"But after the blind date, we are going to get married, right?"

"Who told you this? What if she doesn't like me? I can't point a gun at her and say, 'No, you have to marry me, let's get the marriage certificate now, or I'll shoot you.'"

"Pfft...chuck..."

Looking at Li Yancheng who was deliberately speaking in a shrill voice and gesticulating with his hands in front of her, Ningning, who was originally pouting and feeling a little depressed, immediately burst out laughing.

"Ah...hahahaha...hateful...how can you...how can you be like this?"

Listening to his sister's clear laughter in the yard, Jin Zhihai, who had just wrapped his son in a small mattress and was about to take him out in the main house, rolled his eyes and turned to talk to his wife.

"Rika, tell me, who else but Dacheng can make this girl laugh like this?"

Xing Lihua pursed her lips and smiled. She turned around, lifted the curtain and looked outside. She saw her sister-in-law laughing so hard that she was staggering. If Li Yancheng hadn't reached out to hold her arm, she would probably have fallen asleep on the floor.

Perhaps she heard Ningning's laughter in the yard, Xing Lihua's mother also came out from the east room.

"Zhi Hai, don't blame me for being nosy. Ning Ning is not... "

The old lady didn't finish her words, but her meaning was clear.

Hearing his mother-in-law ask this, Jin Zhihai turned his head and looked at his wife.

Seeing her husband looking at her, Xing Lihua understood and walked over to hold her mother's arm.

"Mom, your guess should be correct. Zhihai and I think so too. Ningning, that silly girl, is in love for the first time, and she herself may not even realize it.

She was raised by Zhihai and Dacheng since she was a child. Logically speaking, she should be closer to Zhihai, her biological brother.

But you have been here for half a year, and you should be able to see that she only has the kind of brother-father feeling towards Zhihai, but it is obviously different when it comes to Dacheng. She likes to act coquettishly with him, likes to play with him, and likes to stay by his side. No matter what happens, she will talk to him.

Zhihai just made it clear to Dacheng."

Make it clear?

The old lady was startled when she heard this. She looked at her son-in-law who was standing at the door and had not yet left in surprise, then turned to look at her daughter beside her.

"Are you two mentally healthy?"

"What's wrong, Mom?"

Neither Jin Zhihai nor Xing Lihua expected the old lady's reaction to be so strong.

"What's wrong? Don't you see how old Dacheng is? How old is Ningning?"

"Oh, mom, he's only thirteen years old. Isn't my second grandfather twenty years older than my second grandmother? In another four years, Dacheng will only be thirty-one years old."

"Stupid girl!" The old lady slapped her daughter's hand with some dissatisfaction.

"I mentioned age not because I despise Dacheng because of his age, but because you want to make him wait for four years.

What are you thinking? Why do you make Dacheng wait for four years?
And you, Zhihai, mom knows that you trust your childhood friend and think that your sister will not suffer any loss if she follows him in the future.

But you only think about your sister, why don't you think about your good brother? He is already 27 years old this year, how do you know that he doesn't want to have a wife and children in a hurry?

You are married and now have a son, so why do you think that you, my brother, are not in a hurry to get married?

You, you are almost thirty years old. Tell me what you think about every day?
You even made it clear to him. What should Dacheng do now that you made it clear? Hmm? Tell me. "

A difference of more than ten years? This is really nothing to the old lady.

She is ten years younger than her old man, Xing Lihua's father, so thirteen years is nothing.

The old lady came from the old society and had seen all kinds of things.

When she was young, she knew several concubines of other people's families. The age difference between them was really big. Ten or twenty years was nothing. The age difference was thirty or forty years.

As for Ningning, she is still young and it might be a bit early to say this now. The older people don’t care at all.

When they were young, many of them got married at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and some were even raised at home since childhood, so they didn't take this seriously at all.

What made the old lady angry was that her daughter and son-in-law only considered their own sister and didn't consider others at all. They even said that they were good brothers. How could you betray your good brothers like this?

These words made Jin Zhihai and Xing Lihua suddenly realize and feel ashamed at the same time. They didn't even think about that.

Jin Zhihai was able to say those words just now because he and his wife had actually discussed it before. He had been unable to find a suitable opportunity to speak up, and just then they happened to be talking about the blind date tomorrow. He was worried that it would be too late if he didn't say it, so he just blurted it out.

Now that the old lady said this, the couple realized that they were indeed too selfish.

"This...Mom, then...then what should I do now?"

Jin Zhihai was a little anxious. He could not take back what he had said, so he had to think of a way to remedy the situation.

"What can I do? What else can I do? You've said it all, how can I know what to do? Why didn't you ask me before?"

The old lady was a little angry, she shook off her daughter's hand, walked over and sat on the chair next to the eight-immortal table in the living room. "Zhi Hai, I think you are usually quite smart, why did you do such a stupid thing, and you, Lihua, Zhi Hai said that, it must be you who instigated it."

Xing Lihua stood there with his head lowered, not daring to say a word.

"Ah..." The old lady sighed again: "Zhi Hai, what about the four years you just mentioned? Is that really four years? They said that classes will resume in the fall of this year. Even if they really resume at that time, Ningning will only be in the first grade of junior high school. If she goes to high school in the future, count on your fingers, is that four years?"

I wipe! ! !

Yes, at least six years.

How old is Dacheng this year?

Oh yeah, twenty-seven, six years later...

If he wasn't holding his son, Jin Zhihai would have wanted to raise his hand to slap himself.

"I'll go find Dacheng now."

Without saying anything else, he stuffed his son into his wife's arms and prepared to leave.

"return"

The old lady hurriedly called him.

"Mom...I have to go and admit my mistake to Dacheng and tell him not to take what I just said to heart."

"It's late, sit down first." The old lady waved her hand, motioning her daughter and son-in-law to sit down and spoke.

"Don't be crazy and say whatever you want. You keep saying Ningning is a crazy girl. Don't you look at yourself?"

After scolding her son-in-law again, the old lady stopped talking and turned to business.

"It's too late to say anything now. Can you take back the water you spilled? What are you thinking? Since you've already said it, just make it what it is. But don't bring up this topic again unless Dacheng takes the initiative to talk to you.

If he doesn't talk to you about this topic in the future, then see what he does.

Zhihai, didn’t you say that Dacheng will go on a blind date tomorrow? Maybe it will be successful, then everyone will be happy. If it doesn’t work out and he doesn’t look for someone in the future…

Zhihai, Lihua, you should pay more attention to Ningning in the future. Although she seems very close to Dacheng now, she is still a child after all, and she may not even know what is going on.

As you grow up, you might fall in love with other boys at school or outside.

By then... Alas... You'll have to wait and see. As an old woman, I don't know what to do.

You young people, you don't consider the consequences of your words and actions at all."

The old lady is at a loss as to what to do with this matter. She can't get engaged now.

After she finished speaking, she stood up with the help of the table, turned around and walked towards the room where she lived, leaving Jin Zhihai and Xing Lihua sitting there staring at each other.

Until the little fellow seemed dissatisfied with just sitting there, and started shouting and gesticulating a few times, which woke the two of them up.

The couple looked at each other with frustration.

Jin Zhihai gritted his teeth and stood up, then took his slightly impatient son from his wife's arms.

"I'll go over there. What our mother said just now is correct, but I still need to make it clear to Dacheng. I caused this trouble myself, so I have to deal with it myself."

The couple, including the old lady who had left earlier, did not notice that Ningning had been standing at the door without them noticing.

Ningning didn't come early. She had already entered the house with Li Yancheng, but was driven out again and asked to come and take the child over.

She had just reached the door and hadn't spoken yet when she heard the old lady's last words.

This girl looked crazy, but she had a clear mind and was very smart. She knew what was going on after a moment's thought and her pretty face immediately turned red with embarrassment.

When she heard her brother was about to come out, she tiptoed quietly away from the door.

"Brother Dacheng, my brother will be here soon. I'm going back to my room to sleep first."

???

Li Yancheng in the room was a little confused.

This girl was just asking him to sing for her. She hasn’t forgotten what happened last night, so why is she saying she wants to go back to bed now?
It's not even eight o'clock yet, and you told me you wanted to go to bed. Are you kidding?

Li Yancheng was stunned for a moment, then he opened the curtain and walked out of the room. But while he was stunned, the girl had already run back to her room and closed the door.

On the other side, Jin Zhihai just walked out of the main house holding the child.

Just at this moment, Bai Jie, who lived in the north room of the east wing opposite, also opened the door and walked out of the room.

"Doctor Li"

"Hello"

"Doctor Li, Xiao Min sent me a letter a few days ago. She has gone back to the countryside now."

Bai Jie seemed to be about to go out. After saying hello to Li Yancheng, she took two steps towards the second door and then stopped, turned around and said.

"She went to the countryside to work as a sent-down youth?"

This news really surprised Li Yancheng.

"She said there was no other way. They could only offer one more job. As you know, her sister and brother-in-law had also gone there, so one of them had to have a job."

Bai Jie's face was full of bitterness. After she finished speaking, she turned and walked towards the second door.

Li Yancheng shook his head, took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit one for himself.

If Luo Min wants to come out after she leaves, she either has to wait for her father to return, or wait until the college entrance examination is resumed in 1977. It depends on whether she can pass it. Otherwise, she will have to wait until 1979 or 1980 to return to the city.

Rural area...

I don’t know whether the girl can endure such hardship.

By the way, I’ll go ask Bai Jie for her address and see if I can mail some food coupons to Luo Min. Alas, I promised her brother to help take care of her.

Over there, Jin Zhihai was already walking over with his son in his arms.

"Where's Ning Ning?"

"She went back to her own room."

"Hey, that's new. Why is she still staying in the house so obediently today?"

Hearing his sister return to the room, Jin Zhihai glanced at his sister's room with surprise, and found that all the lights in the room were off.

"Are you sure she's back? Why are all the lights off?"

"I just asked her to come over and pick up the baby to play. After she went to your place, she came over not long after and didn't even enter my house. She told me at the door that she was going back to her room to sleep."

Hearing Li Yancheng say that his sister had just passed away, combined with the current strange phenomenon, Jin Zhihai was shocked. Oh no, this girl might have heard something just now.

Thinking of this, he picked up the child and walked towards his sister's house, stood at the window and called out.

"Ning Ning... Ning Ning..."

"What's the matter, brother? I'm going to sleep."

"Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"

"No, I'm just sleepy."

"If you feel uncomfortable, tell your brother Dacheng immediately and let him take a look."

"I'm not feeling unwell, I'm just sleepy."

In the room, Ningning didn't even take off her clothes. She just lay on the bed in the dark, with her hands under her chin, and her legs kicking up and down non-stop.

In the darkness, her pretty face was still red, and she kept muttering something. Her little mouth was pouting for a while, and then she giggled foolishly.

I don't know what the heck is going on here by himself.

Jin Zhihai outside already understood that the girl must have heard what they said in the house just now, otherwise she would not have reacted like this.

But his sister's reaction made him feel confused and a little uneasy.

After all, whether Ningning really likes Li Yancheng is just their own judgment.

What if this girl really just treats me as a brother?
Jin Zhihai now realized how reckless he had been, but it was too late to undo what had been done.

He stood outside the window and hesitated for a moment, but decided to talk to his good brother again.

"Dacheng, it was my fault just now. I said the wrong thing. I apologize to you. I am really sorry."

"Wait a moment." Li Yancheng said he was a little confused.

"I'm wondering what's wrong with you today. You just said something to me for no apparent reason, and now you're apologizing to me for no reason? Are you stupid because of working overtime?"

"Hey, Dacheng, I believe you can understand what I just said to you."

"Well, I can understand, but I just wonder if you are crazy. Are you worried that Ningning won't be able to get married in the future?"

(End of this chapter)