After several days of rehabilitation, Cheng's father was able to control the prosthetic limb very well.
Director Xue smiled and announced the good news: "You can be discharged from the hospital tomorrow. According to the situation, if there is nothing wrong, there is no need to come for a review. Rongcheng is quite far from here. If there is anything uncomfortable, Ling
Ling can just call me and ask me."
Everyone was very happy and kept thanking him.
Director Xue also prescribed some medicine, saying that it should be taken after three meals and should be taken for a month.
Then, he also wrote two medicinal diet lists and gave them to Cheng Tianyuan.
"This is arranged according to your father's specific physical condition. He often cooks it for the elderly, which is good for his health."
Cheng Tianyuan quickly thanked him.
Xue Ling ran out and bought a lot of gifts for Director Xue, and also gave him the key to the dormitory.
Early the next morning, they were discharged from the hospital and returned to the small hotel.
Cheng Tianyuan took advantage of the fine weather and ran to the station to buy a ticket. The ticket was for seven o'clock tomorrow morning and would go directly to the bus station in Rongcheng.
Father Cheng saw the sunshine outside and went for a walk with Liu Ying.
In the past, his arm had shrunk to a very small size and his clothes were always empty. After the prosthesis was installed and he wore gloves, it was not obvious that it was a prosthetic leg.
He was in a good mood and said that it was a rare trip to the provincial capital and he had to take his old wife out for a walk.
Xue Ling was worried and wanted to follow.
Father Cheng was unwilling, saying that you should stay and rest, and we would just walk nearby and not go far.
Xue Ling had no choice but to stay.
When Cheng Tianyuan came back from buying tickets, he saw someone selling glutinous rice cakes, so he bought some for Xue Ling to eat.
Xue Ling felt happy after eating and was not sleepy anymore, so she simply took out her English book and translated.
Cheng Tianyuan asked while packing his luggage: "It seems there isn't much left."
Xue Ling explained with a smile: "I thought I would be very busy in the past half month, but I didn't expect that the operation went so smoothly. With the help of my parents and Uncle Lan, I didn't have to do anything at all. I had time to translate during the day, and also at night.
I guess we have completed at least more than 50,000 words in the past half month."
"Hmm." Cheng Tianyuan thought for a moment and said, "Probably around 60,000."
Xue Ling was so happy that she shouted excitedly: "With the previous 30,000, we will soon have 100,000 words! Wow! We are going to be rich again!"
Cheng Tianyuan smiled and said: "My father-in-law paid for the hospital. This time, apart from the round-trip ticket and hotel stay, it's only about five hundred yuan. We have more savings."
Xue Ling squeezed the English book in his hand and said: "There are only about twenty pages left. I will finish the translation quickly and send them to Jiaxue together. I will get more than two thousand yuan at a time!"
Cheng Tianyuan was afraid that she would be tired, so he whispered: "Didn't I just say that it would be completed before the year? Don't work too hard, there are still two months before the New Year."
"After we finish this, there will be others!" Xue Ling explained: "Jiaxue said that these English small books will be translated into English-Chinese translations, which are very popular, especially among college students and literature lovers. She told me
He said, there is still a lot that needs to be translated, and as long as I persist in doing it, I won’t have to worry about not having a translation book.”
Cheng Tianyuan packed his luggage and quickly sat down to help copy the final draft.
"Take it easy, take your time."
Xue Ling took what he had copied over and looked at it, while saying: "It was bumpy at first, but now that I have been doing it for a long time, I am familiar with it. Now that you help me copy the final draft, I feel much more relaxed!"
At noon that day, Father Cheng and Liu Ying came back.
"We're full!"
Cheng Tianyuan was very surprised and asked: "Where did you go to eat?"
Cheng's father explained with a smile: "We walked and looked at the scenery. There was a small shop selling rice dumplings and sesame paste. Your mother smelled the sesame smell and told me that she hadn't eaten sesame paste in many years. I said,
So what are you waiting for, hurry in and eat! We ate a few rice dumplings and each of us had two bowls of sesame paste."
Liu Ying smiled like a brilliant chrysanthemum and said: "It's so delicious!"
Father Cheng added: "As expected of a provincial capital, it's a big place and there are many people! I even saw several cars!"
Cheng Tianyuan and Xue Ling looked at each other and saw that the two old men were in a good mood, and their hearts were full of joy.
"It's okay in the afternoon anyway. The weather is quite nice. You can go out for a walk again!"
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Early the next morning, they took a tricycle to the station.
The bus is larger than the bus in Rongcheng, and the seats are wider, making it much more comfortable.
The bus departed on time and did not rest until noon.
The weather has been sunny these days, there is no snow on the road, the car drives fast and steadily, with almost no stops, and we arrive in Rongcheng at around four o'clock in the afternoon.
Father Cheng praised: "It's so fast! Faster than a bird!"
Liu Ying laughed and said: "Where! Planes are faster than birds! Phew - they go very far!"
"You know this too?"
"I saw it in the hospital! The plane was very big. It flew across the sky and flew very far away in no time!"
"Yo! You've even seen airplanes. You've seen more than me!"
Cheng Tianyuan and Xue Ling couldn't help but smile when they saw the two old men so excited.
The bus is coming soon!
Because it was Friday and it was not time to get off work yet, there was no one on the bus.
It was only five o'clock when we arrived at the rental house.
Cheng Tianyuan cleaned up the kitchen, boiled water on three stoves, and then went out to buy groceries on his bicycle.
Xue Ling and the others went upstairs to clean the room and pack their luggage.
That night, the whole family happily gathered around to eat hot pot.
Father Cheng could already hold bowls and chopsticks, and happily boasted: "I will definitely be able to go to the fields in the spring next year! When we return to the village in two days, we have to buy some delicious candies and souvenirs to take back, so that the villagers can eat something sweet together, and talk to the villagers.
They said the good news."
When Xue Ling heard this, he put down the bowl.
"Dad, Mom, don't be in a hurry to go back. It's too cold in the winter, and there's no farm work to do at home anyway. It's just the two of you. You'd better stay here and go back after the Chinese New Year."
Father Cheng smiled and shook his head, saying: "No, you have your own little life, it's not appropriate for us to stay."
Liu Ying also said: "We are used to living in the countryside, so it would be better to go back."
Xue Ling quickly shook his head and explained: "Dad's body is still relatively weak, and his stomach problem is not cured yet, so he needs to take medicine. In addition, the medicinal diet must be cooked every day, and these ingredients are difficult to buy in the countryside. Uncle Zhilan said, take it
In one month, the effect will be very good."
Cheng Tianyuan nodded in agreement and said: "Since we have nothing to do when we go back, why not stay and help us look after the house and clean the house? We can rest assured when we go out to work."
"It's just such a small place, it's not difficult to clean." Liu Ying said.
Cheng Tianyuan said: "I will be very busy next. Lingling is also busy commuting to and from get off work, and she has a part-time job in the evening. Just think of it as staying and helping us! It's warmer here than in the countryside. It's not too late to go back after winter."
The son and daughter-in-law were so insistent that the two old men finally agreed.
After eating, Liu Ying helped wash the dishes and Cheng's father helped clean up.
Xue Ling stepped forward and said, "Dad, let's do it."
Father Cheng smiled and explained: "Director Xue asked me to use my hands more, so I can adapt faster."
With two old men helping with housework, Cheng Tianyuan felt a lot more relaxed.
That night, he went out on a bicycle and didn't come back until after nine o'clock.