"You guessed it right, that is, from that point on, the relationship between Qiushi and his father, which was just a little unfamiliar at first, began to gradually break up." She nodded and continued:
Knowing that this incompetent father could not be counted on, Qiushi could only wait for the ambulance to arrive. However, because the illness lasted too long, his mother had to stay in the hospital for nearly a week before she could barely get out of bed and go home.
The situation was critical at that time, so excessive amounts of hormones and antibiotics were used during the treatment, which caused many side effects on his mother's body from then on.
But Professor Yuan did not return home until the end of the month. Although he seemed a little guilty, he also praised Qiushi for growing up and being able to protect his family. However, Qiushi did not feel the excitement and joy he usually gets when he is praised, but said nothing.
He was so angry that he locked himself in the room, and since then he has hardly spoken to his father.
In the following years, Professor Yuan's work was still as busy as in the past, and it even became busier due to the intensification of cultural relic smuggling in these years. Qiushi spent his middle and high school years in the absence of his father, so that his classmates
Everyone thought he was from a single-parent family. Although they knew they had no ill intentions, Qiushi still seemed to be stimulated and her character became taciturn.
However, fate has always cast its shadow in more than one place. Over the years, in addition to the sequelae of drug overdose, coupled with the hard work day after day, Qiushi's mother's physical condition has become worse and worse. She went to the hospital.
The frequency is becoming more and more frequent.
Therefore, at that time, Qiushi had already made up his mind to become an excellent doctor in the future. He did not need to save many patients, as long as he could always take care of and cure his mother, he would be satisfied.
In addition, the income of outstanding doctors is relatively stable and excellent, which is more than enough to support two people, because Qiushi has long since stopped counting on his father's salary to supplement the family expenses - after all, Professor Yuan has subsidized all kinds of income over the years.
Applications are always insufficient for the maintenance of cultural heritage.
Even if the professor's salary is not low, he can't afford such out-of-pocket expenses. The Qiushi family actually relies on their mother's salary for daily expenses. Therefore, the family's financial situation seems to be good, but when it comes to money, they are stretched.
"Actually, in a sense, this Professor Yuan is quite admirable." Zhang Ke said with some emotion, "I am willing to give up the warmth of my family and my personal interests, and devote myself to a career that has no returns.
It’s hard to find people like this in modern society.”
"Indeed, from this aspect alone, I also admire the professor very much, but...we who look up from a distance can never experience firsthand what it feels like to truly become his family. After all, no one wants to be the one who is
Abandoned little family." Ye Suling said with a sigh, "As a husband and father, he indeed owes his family a lot."
By the time Qiushi was in her senior year of high school, Professor Yuan had already known his destiny and finally had no energy to travel around the country. He stayed at the university peacefully, doing indoor research such as unearthed documents and cultural relic inspections.
He couldn't help but apply for a business trip to the newly developed important relics.
Although he now spends more time with his family, for Qiushi, during the more than ten years of growing up from a boy to a young man, his father was almost a stranger to him, and the relationship and communication between the two were very alienated.
In addition, seeing his mother's hard work of maintaining the family alone all year round, he always had a bad attitude towards his father, and could even be said to be indifferent.
Of course Professor Yuan would not be unaware of it. He tried to find an opportunity to talk to his son, and wanted to tell Qiushi the stories and rumors about those cultural relics, because he remembered that his son liked to listen to this the most when he was a child——But he was wrong, Qiushi
He has long lost any interest in these things, but is still somewhat subjectively bored, so whenever his father starts this topic, he will find an opportunity to slip away.
However, the conflict between the two broke out in the year of the college entrance examination - when filling in the major, Qiushi visually judged that based on her usually excellent grades, she was a sure shot at entering a medical university in the city. However, Professor Yuan then
But he disagreed and insisted that his son should inherit the mantle and apply for the history major at the university where he worked.
The reason given by Professor Yuan made Qiushi find it even more unreasonable: because he did not make much money and did not gain much power by studying history and archeology, fewer and fewer people applied for the examination in recent years. And as a
The pillar of the industry must lead by example, and his or her descendants must continue his career and prevent research in this area from gradually disappearing and leaving no successors.
"This..." Zhang Ke was a little stunned when he heard this, "It's great, but this idea is too feudal, isn't it? This is modern society, and it's not like the feudal dynasty with strict family status and constant ethics. How can there be a son?
We must inherit the principles of Lao Tzu’s career.”
"Some of Professor Yuan's ideas are indeed quite old and feudal. He probably spent too much time with cultural relics." Ye Suling laughed at herself, "Later, when he objected to my relationship with Qiushi, he still used baby kisses.
What’s the reason?”
"Okay, now I kind of understand why Yuan Qiushi broke up with his father. If it were me, I probably wouldn't be able to bear it." Zhang Ke asked, "Qiushi should have given in in the end, right? After all, you met for the first time when you were majoring in history.
"
"That's true, but things are very twists and turns——"
Of course, Yuan Qiushi was extremely reluctant at that time. A fierce quarrel broke out between him and his father for the first time. His mother, who was trying to stop the fight, burst into tears and begged the professor not to interfere in his son's choice - but as you said before, Yuan Qiushi
The professor can be called a stubborn old feudal in this regard. He feels from the bottom of his heart that his son should listen to my arrangements.
So he directly tore up the application form that Qiushi had originally filled out, and then went directly to the school to ask the class teacher for a new one, and filled in the history majors of several universities with his own hands, and the first one was naturally his appointment.
The place.
During this process, Qiushi resisted many times, but in the end he was no match for his father's stubbornness and the volunteer form was handed in. Another reason was that Qiushi saw his mother fall ill again because of the dispute between father and son.
Unfortunately, we had to make concessions.
Qiushi's grades were very good, and Professor Yuan also applied for a professional recommendation quota for him, so he successfully entered the school. However, he himself was like a soulless walking zombie, and he was not interested in the new university life at all.
I can't get enough of it, and I have to be forced to learn things that I'm not interested in at all - or even hate from the bottom of my heart.
However, Qiushi was no longer as impulsive as before. He endured his dissatisfaction and spared a lot of extracurricular time to attend medical classes. Although he knew that it was extremely difficult to switch from a liberal arts major to a medical major, there was someone who could
The hopes and goals of hard work have become bearable even in these days when life is worse than death.
"But..." Zhang Ke seemed to have guessed the ending, "You only met me after you became a doctoral student, which means..."