Perfect Feast

Chapter 25 Tricky Sister-in-law

Just as Liu Yang and Tian Manman were approaching the hospital, in Houhu Park of Jinling City, in a small two-story building with red walls and greenery, a chessboard was placed in the lobby downstairs. A young girl, and a Haoshou old man who is about eighty years old.

On the side, there are also a man and a woman watching the battle.

The man was about fifty years old, wearing a dark blue suit, with his hair combed back, revealing the majesty of a superior person. The woman was in her thirties, wearing a dark gray professional dress and short shoulder-length hair. She looked neat and tidy. She stood beside the girl with a dignified and solemn expression.

Anyone who knows Go should know at this time that the two sides of the game have not been playing for a long time, and there is a scene of fierce fighting on the board. One old and one young, a man and a woman, two people who are very different in age and personality, their chess style is unexpectedly fierce.

On the chessboard, between black and white, there are four big dragons showing their teeth and claws, mingling with each other, entangled and fighting with each other.

Now it was the girl's turn to strike, with a sunspot stuck to her hand, she hesitated and did not drop it. After thinking about it for a while, the chess piece dropped by the girl didn't seem to have anything to do with the fierce fighting in the middle abdomen, but she was like a spectator, watching the friendly soldiers fighting on the battlefield from a distance.

"Little girl, this piece of chess is very similar to the game you set up in Huling County. My old man can't see that it has anything to do with the whole game of chess. It's not your level. You won't let me in on purpose. Elderly, right?" Looking at the black piece on the chessboard, the old man had a white piece stuck in his hand, and said this suddenly, seemingly inadvertently.

The young girl smiled and said, "Grandpa Hong, you know, it's not my style to win or not. Besides, I don't dare to do this in front of your old man..."

Listening to her talking, the old man put the chess piece he lifted back into the chess box, looked down at the chessboard, and silently thought about the comparison of the situation on the chessboard.

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Inside the hospital, looking at the small ward with five beds squeezed into such a smelly space, even Liu Yang, who was used to living in poverty since he was a child, couldn't help but frown.

A hut with five hospital beds, a dozen people in it with no room to plug in, the smell of various medicines and urine smell mixed together, this kind of environment, even the conditions of the township hospital in Huling County are not as good as it is, really It's hard to imagine how these people can stay?

Tian Manman's mother was on the third hospital bed inside, only half of her arm was exposed under the quilt, and a hanging needle was tied on the back of her brown hand. On the small stool in front of the hospital bed, sat a middle-aged man in his thirties. He could be recognized at a glance by his appearance. This man might be Tian Manman's eldest brother.

Although the faces of the two brothers and sisters are not the same, there are still many similarities between the eyebrows and eyes. Liu Yang and Tian Manman walked in sideways, and the room suddenly became more crowded.

"Brother...how is our mother?" After walking in, Tian Manman's eyes overflowed with tears as he looked at the old man lying on the hospital bed. He choked up and asked, but couldn't continue.

"Are you here? You can't sit here..." Tian Manman's brother looked at his sister, then at Liu Yang standing behind her, rubbed his hands together embarrassedly, and grinned.

From his complexion, one could see his haggardness and restraint, as well as the exhaustion and lack of spirit caused by staying up late for many days.

"Xiaoman..." On the hospital bed, the old lady who was asleep might have heard her daughter's voice, turned her head, and stretched out her other hand from under the quilt.

"Mom..." Tian Manman walked over and grabbed the old man's hand, crying and asked, "Mom, what do you think?"

"Silly boy, mom is fine, just a little tired..." The old man didn't know whether he didn't know his condition yet, or he was trying to comfort his daughter. His voice was weak but full of lightness.

"Manman... this is..." Don't look at the old lady's dim eyesight, the two of them were talking, but they saw Liu Yang standing behind the daughter in a blink of an eye.

"This is...Mom, this is my friend Liu Yang. Liu Yang..." Tian Manman turned her head and looked at Liu Yang with indescribable panic.

Liu Yang quickly leaned forward and said loudly, "Auntie, my name is Liu Yang, and I came to see you with Manman..."

"Oh... oh, this kid is really tall, Kuizi, hurry up and let Liu Yang sit." The old lady praised Liu Yang and said to her son who was standing aside.

Liu Yangxin said that it's just such a small nest, where should I sit? I'll just stand.

The old lady grabbed Tian Manman's hand and asked in a low voice, as if she was asking what Liu Yang did, etc., but Liu Yang didn't hear clearly. In the end, the old lady said something, and Liu Yang heard it clearly: "Son, I can rest assured, this is much better than that, as long as you have a home, even if you die, I can close my eyes..."

"Mom, what are you talking about?" Tian Manman angrily stopped the old lady from continuing, and turned to ask his brother: "Brother, why did you let us be hospitalized here? I don't think the conditions here are very good. Let's go to the Provincial Hospital for an examination, and the treatment there is better..."

Tian Manman's brother blushed and lowered his head and said nothing, but a voice outside the door said, "Sister, it's not like you don't know the situation of our family. The house I live in now is given to me by my mother's family." Yes. Adults eat what children chew. What do you and your brother do with this little salary? If you have this kind of filial piety, you’d better take our mother back. Aren’t you working as a cadre in your small county? You may be hospitalized It's all free, right? How do you know our suffering?"

In fact, from the moment he came in, Liu Yang had the idea of ​​transferring the old man to another hospital. But he couldn't open his mouth. Now that Tian Manman said this, it happened to be in his heart, but he didn't expect that at this moment, Tian Manman's sister-in-law stepped in with a food box.

This woman is in her thirties, she looks small and exquisite, she looks fair and clean, and she has a typical Jiangnan charm at first glance, but her words are more aggressive than that of northerners.

"Sister-in-law, that's not what I mean. I just feel that the conditions here are not good, and I think..." Before Tian Manman finished explaining, the woman snorted and said, "You can't talk to me about that, old man You, your brother, your sister, and the elderly can't just rely on one. Before you were not in front of us, we took care of us as much as we wanted, and we didn't make the elderly feel wronged. Now that you are not satisfied, we will not care about it from today on. Now, you can do whatever you like, if you want to go to the provincial hospital, you can go to the provincial hospital, if you want to take your hometown, we don’t force you to stay..."

Hearing his wife's words, Tian Manman's elder brother showed blue veins on his face, panted violently, blushed and said in a low voice: "Xiaoyue, what are you talking about? How can you talk like that to you?"

That woman may have always been strong in front of men, but after hearing Tian Manman's brother's words, her face became even more gloomy, and that fair little face suddenly seemed to be covered with a layer of frost, and turned towards Tian Man Man Tage shouted: "Tian Kui, what am I talking about? What I said is not the truth? The old man has lived and ate at our house these past few years, what did she care about? Now she came here to pretend to be filial? She is rich, she is a cadre, and she is your mother's filial daughter, who cares about her? Am I talking too much?"

This woman's mouth is like a knife, and every burr is a long string, which makes people's ears overwhelmed.

"Sister-in-law, you..." At this time, Tian Manman naturally couldn't quarrel with her sister-in-law, but she also got angry when she was told by this woman.

"Tu Xiaoyue, what are you talking about? Don't you even look to see where this is?" Tian Kui also felt very embarrassed when his wife said that about his sister in front of Liu Yang. But he had no choice but to be eaten to death by his wife at home. Even if he was angry, he didn't dare to attack this woman. He just wanted to hold his wife down and tell her not to say anything.

"Tian Kui, what are you talking about? I'm telling the truth. Sister, if you don't believe me, ask our mother how I have treated her these past few years..." Tu Xiaoyue couldn't say anything good. This kind of thing happens to almost every family. Everyone has their own difficulties in life, and there is no right or wrong.

Liu Yang smiled and said, "This is my sister-in-law, right? Don't be angry with my sister-in-law, Manman doesn't mean what you think. Like you, she also cares about the health of the elderly. Let's keep this side for now." Manman and I will take the old man to the Provincial Hospital for a checkup, and if there is nothing serious, we will come back and receive treatment here with peace of mind, and if necessary, let’s talk about the hospitalization over there, okay?"

Tu Xiaoyue seemed to have discovered Liu Yang only at this time, turned her head and glanced at him and asked, "What are you doing? When is it your turn to talk about our family's affairs? It's not impossible to go over there to have a look. You will pay for the money." ?”

Liu Yang still smiled and said: "Okay, since you said it, sister-in-law, I will pay the money." In his heart, Liu Yang defined this woman: Although this woman looks small and exquisite on the outside, she is actually very careful and scheming inside. Belong to the short and lean type of people.

Judging from the expression on her face when she spoke just now, she clearly knows who she is. She was running on purpose, asking herself to pay for the old man's medical treatment.

Anyway, if I took the initiative to say that I would spend money to see a doctor for the elderly, I would seem to look down on Tian Kui. Since this woman said so, I just used her topic to express what I wanted to say.

In any case, this woman is Tian Manman's sister-in-law. Regardless of whether Tian Manman's mother is here to babysit him, after all, Tian Manman usually never inquires about the old man. At this time, I can only pay more money to show my filial piety. What is there to argue about?

"Did you say that?" Tu Xiaoyue and Liu Yang spoke half a sentence, but turned to Tian Manman and asked, "Sister, did you hear what he said just now? Did he mean what he said in your house?"

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