In the afternoon, Hua Nianping went to Xishan Botanical Garden alone.
He walked back and forth in the orchid greenhouse for several hours. Spring orchids, black orchids, and flower buds have been unearthed for more than two months, and they will be ready to bloom around the Spring Festival.
His orchid complex began in his sophomore year of college.
Once at the grade New Year's Day party, his classmate Lin Sirer sang a melodious and beautiful song "Orchid Grass", and he was mesmerized.
Later, I learned that the lyrics of "Orchid Grass" are from the famous work of Mr. Hu Shi, the former president of Peking University. Since his elegance and political ambitions were comparable to Mr. Hu Shi's, he has had a unique love for orchids and often comes to Xishan Botanical Garden to appreciate the beauty of orchids. However,
Later, due to emotional damage, my obsession with orchids plummeted, and I didn’t want to think about it again for many years.
After marrying Wu Ningfang, Hua Nianping tried to rekindle his interest in orchids. Although he no longer went to Xishan to enjoy orchids for some reason, he still tried to raise a few pots of orchids at home, but none of them "bloomed so fragrantly."
". Either the leaves or the roots were rotten. In addition, Wu Ningfang always said that she was allergic to flowers and plants, so he had no choice but to slowly let go of his love for orchids.
For Hua Nianping, it has been more than ten years since he came to the Xishan Botanical Garden to view orchids and lingered over them like he did today.
When I returned home from Xishan, it was already past six o'clock in the evening.
Wu Ningfang hasn't come back yet.
In the past two years, Wu Ningfang and several friends have jointly set up an art training school. Due to the lack of cultural and professional knowledge, she is responsible for the physical training of students who come to the capital to apply for dance majors. Hua Nianping is very worried that she will mislead the students.
Fortunately, Wu Ningfang’s school has no entrance threshold. As long as you pay the tuition, you can enter the class. No matter your age, fat or thin, you will be paid. Many of the basic bodybuilding training courses she teaches have turned into weight loss classes and fitness classes.
Hua Nianping thought it would be beneficial to the health of the whole people, so she left it alone.
He originally thought he would make a call to Wu Ningfang's mobile phone, telling her that he was leaving on Thursday morning and asking her to get home early.
But thinking about the past few days after returning to the capital, Wu Ningfang did not seem particularly happy. Instead, she felt a little strange to him. She put the phone down without dialing the phone. She planned to wait for her to get home. The two sat down and talked in detail.
, this might make it easier to communicate.
In the first year of going to the frontier, Hua Nianping initially insisted on returning to Beijing to reunite with his wife every two months. Later, because the journey was too far and the burden of work, he returned to Beijing once every six months; in the second year, he always returned to Beijing.
They all stayed at the border until the two-year work period was completely completed, and then they returned to the capital as scheduled a week ago.
Wu Ningfang is much younger than Hua Nianping, and they still have no children.
When she first got married, Wu Ningfang was sent by Hua Nianping to study in the dance academy Chengjing Junior College. During those years, she was unable to have children.
When she graduated, it happened that Hua Nianping was transferred from the School of Economics at Peking University to the current company headquarters. Because it was the first time that she had moved to a new unit, everything was starting to start, and the work pressure was very high. In addition, Wu Ningfang had just got a job, so the two
People plan not to have children for the time being.
A few years ago, Wu Ningfang had a sudden whim and wanted to give birth to a child right away. However, Hua Nianping was sent to the border area again. The couple spent less time together and more separation, making it difficult for them to do so.
In the past year or two, Wu Ningfang seems to have been busy making money and has never mentioned having children.
Today, Wu Ningfang did not enter the house until late at night. Her face was flushed and her eyes were hazy, as if she had drunk a lot of wine. Before she entered the house, Hua Nianping heard the sound of a car downstairs, and it was estimated that his wife was driven back again.
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On the day he came back a week ago, Hua Nianping's flight arrived in Beijing at ten o'clock in the evening. When he called the door at home, he found that his wife was not at home.
He didn't have the keys, so he waited downstairs. Later, he saw a white car taking his wife back. The driver was a tall and thin man in his forties. Wu Ningfang generously introduced him as Luo Wentao, the principal of their art school.
, the major shareholder in the school.
Wu Ningfang changed her slippers and saw Hua Nianping still waiting for her in the living room. She drunkenly blamed him for not having to wait and sleeping first because she herself was already sleepy. While she was talking, she had taken off her coat and put on her sleeping clothes.
Skirt and go to bed.
Hua Nianping sat on the edge of the bed and pushed her, indicating that he had something to talk about.
Wu Ningfang was already very sleepy, and she almost had to hold on to listen to Hua Nianping finish talking about going to Kanhuai to go public.
In the end, she seemed expressionless and half-smiling, and replied to Hua Nianping: "It's a matter decided by the higher ups. I can't control it. You can go as you think. Do whatever you want!"
After saying that, he fell asleep.
Wu Ningfang's indifference has remained like this for the past few days since Hua Nianping returned to the capital.
Hua Nianping looked at his sleeping wife, thinking that she had been living alone in the capital for the past two years, and that he would leave again the day after tomorrow. He couldn't tell whether he should feel guilty or relieved.
The next day, Wu Ningfang did not say hello to Hua Nianping. She left early in the morning as usual and continued to have lunch at the training school at noon.
Hua Nianping couldn't sleep all night and just waited for dawn.
He was thinking about Lin Sir'er's question to him yesterday about "how are you doing?" and was considering whether to meet Lin Sir'er again at noon today before leaving the capital, and he didn't know how to tell her about his life these years.
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Hua Nianping's hometown is in northwest Anhui. His father is a minor official in the county, and his mother is an ordinary township cadre. When he was just one year old, a bad luck befell him.
In the summer before the new era of reform and opening up, his father went to the Northeast to "study Daqing" and his mother went to Shanxi to "study Dazhai", leaving him at his grandmother's house in the countryside.
One night, while my grandma was feeding Hua Nianping, she felt that the child's face was red and his whole body was as hot as a carrot just out of the steamer. She hurriedly sent her to a clinic in the town. After seeing the child, the doctor gave him a few antipyretics and said,
I'm suffering from a cold.
After taking the medicine, the child still had a high fever all night, but the careless grandma was no longer worried, thinking that since the doctor said he had a cold, there shouldn't be anything serious wrong with him.
The next day, grandma picked up Hua Nianping from the bed, but saw that the child's left calf was as soft as a noodle and could not stand up. She immediately panicked and rushed to the county hospital.
The doctor said that Hua Nianping had bone marrow inflammation.
Although the frightened grandma didn't understand what "osteomyelitis" was, the doctor's tone told her that Hua Nianping seemed to be suffering from a disease that would be incurable for the rest of his life.
In the late 1970s, although the vaccination against osteomyelitis among school-age children basically achieved 100% coverage, the sequelae of polio were not completely eradicated. The young Hua Nianping was one of the unfortunate ones.
one of those.
A few days later, my mother came back from "Learning from Dazhai" and learned from the doctor that her son had been diagnosed with what is commonly known as the sequelae of poliomyelitis and that it was no longer treatable. She immediately burst into tears for Hua Nianping's future fate.
From then on, Hua Nianping only relied on his right leg to walk, and his left leg became disabled.
When my father returned from "Learning from Daqing", he saw that his originally handsome, cute, lively and healthy son now walked with a limp, and sometimes suddenly fell to the ground. His knees were stained with blood all day long, and he often cried secretly.