Paper rose

Chapter 23: A Woman Comes from the North (1)
It was another sunny day, but Bai Yan was in a so-so mood.Today is Monday, and a busy week will begin again. Today happens to be the traditional Dragon Boat Festival of the Chinese nation, and today is the day when my mother-in-law is here.According to the "Labor Law", it is time to rest today, but for nurses, this does not apply. When you are scheduled to work, you have to go to work even on New Year's Eve.

This is the first traditional festival that Bai Yan and Kang Jian celebrated after they got married.When she was in Jiangxin Island, she heard Kang Jian say that her mother-in-law was coming, and she secretly prepared in her heart.Make zongzi by yourself, cook a table of delicious dishes, and open a bottle of wine. It is best to have Kang Yunlin come over, so that the family can have a good reunion.

That time is not this time.

At that time, she still had a slight thought about Leader Kang, but now, this thought has drifted away with the wind.

Owning a complete "home" is a matter of course and commonplace for others, but for her, it always seems to be a luxury that she can't afford even if she spends all her money.

But she will still do what should be done, but her mood is different.

It's like playing "play house" when I was a child, the game is over, there is no father, no mother, no little doll, only she is sitting alone on the threshold, surrounded by silence.

Although very tired, Bai Yan got up at five o'clock in the morning.

The guest room was tidied up last night. Considering the age of the mother-in-law, she put a soft quilt under the mat and a plain blue sheet, which looked very elegant and clean.The pillow is made of cassia seed core, which improves eyesight and refreshes the mind.The quilt on the bed was the same color as the sheets, pajamas were hanging in the closet, linen soft-soled slippers were placed under the bed, and a brand new set of toiletries was placed in the bathroom next door.

Bai Yan checked again, then took a taxi to the vegetable market, and bought soy milk and fried dough sticks for breakfast.

When I got home, I washed the meat and cut it into pieces, put it in a large basin, added green onions, ginger, a little rice wine, and finally poured soy sauce, and put the meat and dried shrimps in it.The ratio of glutinous rice to rice is good, soak in a washbasin, peeled chestnuts are placed in a small basket, and other vegetables are temporarily stuffed into the refrigerator.

When she started to scald the reed leaves with hot water, Kang Jian came down, and the whole room was filled with the fresh fragrance of reed leaves.

"What delicious food?" After Kang Jian developed a high fever, his appetite was much more sensitive than before. After sniffing his nose, his eyes glowed brightly, and he had already forgotten all the depression of last night.

The quality of leadership is inherently high, and the measurement has always been great.

Bai Yan wiped the sweat from his forehead, let out a long breath, and sat at the dining table, "I'm too tired, leader, pour me a glass of water. I'm going to make zongzi at night."

"Zongzi?" Kang Jian frowned, his expression darkened, "Zongzi is rice wrapped in leaves, don't do it, it's too troublesome." He went in and poured a glass of water, brought bowls and chopsticks, poured soybean milk and sandwiched fried sticks.

"Wrap rice in leaves?" Bai Yan gave him a blank look, "You are too old-fashioned, we southerners have a lot of rice dumplings. Today I am going to make meat dumplings and chestnut dumplings, which are very, very delicious."

"Zongzi still has flames?" Kang Jian was surprised.The nanny in the northeastern part of his family didn't pack a few square rice balls and put them on the table, and he was full just by looking at them, so that he didn't have any special concept about the festival of Dragon Boat Festival.

Bai Yan couldn't take it anymore and shook her head, what a second-generation official, even a countryman is inferior.There is less and less common language with this kind of person, time is limited, and there is no time to teach him, "Leader, when is your mother coming today?"

"The plane in the afternoon will arrive in Binjiang almost at night, and I have already found a car to pick her up."

"You're not going?"

"I'm going to have a meeting in the afternoon to discuss the construction of office buildings by several bureaus. I don't know when the meeting will end."

"Then are you coming back for dinner?" The leader wasn't there, and when she and her mother-in-law met for the first time, she felt a little flustered.

Kang Jian glanced at her, swallowed the soy milk in his mouth, "I'll try my best!" Typical official language, it meant no answer.

Bai Yan didn't make a sound, just gnawed on the deep-fried dough sticks.

Fortunately, the operating room was not too busy today, so Bai Yan had time to go to the obstetrics and gynecology department to comfort Liu Jing, who was mentally injured. On the stairs, he happened to meet Leng Feng.

She got off, he got on, and their eyes met.

"Morning!" Seeing Leng Feng, Bai Yan felt a little uncomfortable.Before going to bed last night, she secretly took out the envelope and counted it, and the number inside was beyond her imagination.She was so frightened that she stuffed the envelope back into her bag, wondering if Ma Jia had given the wrong envelope, perhaps this one belonged to Leng Feng.

Leng Feng nodded his head, looked at her calmly, "didn't sleep well last night?" His face was sallow, and there were faint shadows under his eyes, he didn't come back too late yesterday!

Bai Yan touched his face and smiled, "I slept pretty well, but a little bit."

Leng Feng suddenly stretched out his hand, and pinned the strands of hair that had escaped from the nurse's cap behind her head. His cold fingertips touched her ears, and she was as stiff as a stone, and her breathing stopped.

"No one can please everyone, you are too harsh on yourself." He withdrew his hand and walked past her.

Bai Yan was stunned for a long time, then tremblingly raised his hand to touch his ears.Did the Siberian cold snap really do such a provocative move just now?

My mind went numb all of a sudden.

Came to the obstetrics and gynecology department in a trance, Liu Jing was helping a pregnant woman listen to the fetal heartbeat in the physical examination room. The fetal heartbeat sounded from the instrument was surprisingly loud and powerful.Bai Yan stared at the pregnant woman's ball-like belly, unable to believe it.

"Well, everything is very good, let's come at this time next week!" Liu Jing pulled down the loose dress for the pregnant woman, and helped her out of the maternity examination room.

The pregnant woman thanked her, and her husband who was waiting outside came in, and the two left happily.

"Are you feeling better?" Bai Yan asked.

Liu Jing shrugged, "There is no overnight feud between the couple. My teacher Li can't do anything about it. Those shameless officials are the ones who are hateful. Oh, not including your Jiakang leader. He is very approachable and friendly. He returned it to you the day before yesterday. My husband and I took fruit, poured tea, and even sent it to the stairs when we left."

Liu Jing suddenly lowered the volume mysteriously, "Yan, the leader of your family kept asking me in a roundabout way that day, what kind of friends did you have in the past, were there any special ones, who did you usually hang out with, who were young and talented in the hospital?" He is also an outstanding male doctor. I listened to him, why did I feel that he smelled something unusual, as if you had some adultery outside! If he hadn’t asked so politely and reservedly, I would have told him clearly, mo Talking about adultery, even love, only talked about it once, and it’s a disadvantage when you think about it. Seriously, I don’t believe that your leader was a blank sheet of paper before.”

Bai Yan grinned, "A blank sheet of paper cannot be an official."

"Then he confessed to you?"

"If you were me, would you like to listen to his explanation?"

Liu Jing thought for a while, then shook her head, "Let's forget it! If you know too much, you will have more associations and guesses. If you suddenly remember that he was like other women before, I will... I can't bear it. In love, a little kind concealment is fine."

"So you are very lucky. The first man you fell in love with was also your last man." Bai Yan's eyes were clouded with a sense of remoteness.

Liu Jing laughed happily, "Yeah, I'm the happiest woman in the world, envy me!"

Bai Yan kicked her and laughed too.

After returning home from get off work, Bai Yan was busy immediately, with dried bamboo shoots and pork ribs, crucian carp tofu soup, drunk shrimp, fried fish fillets with celery, and cold jellyfish heads. It's tempting to look at.The zongzi were also wrapped, and they were cooked one by one in a large pot.

Everything was ready, Bai Yan took another battle shower, and just after he got out, the doorbell rang.

Opening the door, there was a strong middle-aged woman standing outside the door, holding two suitcases in her hands, her eyes were shooting at her like two knives.

"Who are you looking for?" Bai Yan asked.

"Get out of the way, don't get in the way." The middle-aged woman spoke with a little roll of her tongue, she was very strong, with a suitcase in each hand, she could push the white geese away with her shoulders, and rushed straight in.
"What are you going to do?" Bai Yan became angry, and grabbed a vase on the porch as a weapon.

The middle-aged woman turned her head, "You are blind, why can't you see what I am doing? Where is our room?"

"Why do you talk like this, you are now breaking into a private house, which is a crime, get out quickly." Bai Yan did not show any weakness.

"Break into a private house?" The middle-aged woman raised her thick black eyebrows sarcastically, and dropped two suitcases, "Aren't you the woman from Kang Jian? Really..." She swallowed the following words Go down, but Bai Yan still heard the disdain and condescension in her tone, and was startled.

"Who the hell are you?" It couldn't be Li Xinxia, ​​she didn't have the same age, temperament, nor did she speak in a rude tone.

The middle-aged woman gave her a sideways look, "I still have to go down to get something." With that expression, it seemed that Bai Yan didn't know who she was, and it was a big sin.

The sound of footsteps resounded in the stairwell.

Standing in the living room, Bai Yan felt as if an inexplicable stone was blocked in his heart.

After a while, a middle-aged woman came up with two pots of orchids, followed by a laptop computer, a small puppy house like a cartoon house, and a snow-white dog with long hair and a pink neck. A puppy in a silk scarf, a wheelchair for the disabled, and finally...

Bai Yan held his breath, watching the middle-aged woman panting, carefully laying the luxurious and well-maintained elegant woman in her arms flat on the sofa.

The main character finally appeared.

Kang Jian's eyebrows vaguely resembled an elegant woman, she must be her mother-in-law Li Xinxia.

Now Bai Yan finally understands why Leader Kang saved his mother first when she and his mother fell into the water.Although she doesn't know how to swim, she can still do a few splashes in the water, but Li Xinxia will fall straight down.

Seeing that Li Xinxia was sitting, she seemed to be unable to exert any strength below the waist. She should be a high paraplegia.Bai Yan concealed the astonishment in his heart, smiled sweetly, stepped over the boxes and cages in the hall, and shouted: "Mom, you are here!"

Li Xinxia frowned her beautiful eyebrows, looked around indifferently, and then landed on Bai Yan, "Why don't I remember having a daughter like you?"

Bai Yan froze, her face turned red, "Mom, you really know how to joke, I am Bai Yan."

"I never joke. Your yelling made my heart shudder. I can't bear it. I will remember it in the future. Kang Jian hasn't come back yet?"

"He should be back soon. Then what do you like me to call you?" Strangely, the stone that Bai Yan was blocking fell to the ground, very solid and calm.

"It's Ms. Li." The middle-aged woman interjected.

"Oh, Ms. Li, I'll take you to your room." Bai Yan kept smiling.

"No need, I'll wait for my son to come back." Li Xinxia turned her face away and said to the middle-aged woman, "Sister-in-law Wu, bring Lili here."

"Okay!" Aunt Wu glanced at Bai Yan coldly, picked up the puppy, and handed it to Li Xinxia, ​​"Lili, take a look, this is our new home!"

Bai Yan stared at the snow-white puppy intently, his eyes blurred, his thoughts drifted away, and his mind went blank.

Lili's elder brother, Leader Kang, finally returned home before dinner.

"Jianjian! Come here and sit beside Mom!" Li Xinxia opened her arms and looked at Kang Jian with a proud look. When Kang Jian sat down, her face suddenly sank, "Why is your face so bad?"

Kang Jian was taken aback, touched his chin, "Is there any? Are you okay!" He slept more than usual in the past two days, so he should look fine.

"How can it be okay? Go to the mirror and see that you are pale and thin, with a pointed chin." Li Xinxia turned her face and said seriously, "You are young now, and your body can handle it, but you can't squander it recklessly. You have to be restrained in what you do, and you will do great things in the future."

"Mom!" Kang Jian glanced at Bai Yan who was putting the dishes on the table, she smiled half-smile, the corners of her mouth curled up playfully.

"What's the matter, mom can't talk about you? Mom is doing it for your own good, don't imitate your father..." Li Xinxia suddenly shut up, "Let's go into the room and talk!"

Kang Jian pursed his lips, carried her back to the wheelchair, and pushed her into the guest room.

Aunt Wu, who was packing the luggage in the guest room, closed the door of the guest room with a snap.

Bai Yan listened to the sound of closing the door, smiled, picked up the cooked rice dumplings one by one with chopsticks, and put them on a plate to cool.

After only one face-to-face meeting, she realized that Li Xinxia didn't like her.This kind of dislike is not dislike due to differences in status, but the contempt that permeates from the bottom of your bones, the resentment that has accumulated over the years, like enmity for generations, and you can't even bear to look at you more.

In Li Xinxia's eyes, she is not even as good as that dog named Lili.

So Li Xinxia refused to attend Kang Jian's wedding with her on the grounds of illness.

Here comes a problem, Li Xinxia loves Leader Kang very much, and Leader Kang respects Li Xinxia very much, if Li Xinxia prevents Leader Kang from marrying her, Leader Kang will definitely not disobey Li Xinxia.

But they are married.

Apparently their marriage got Li Xinxia's acquiesce.

So why does Li Xinxia, ​​who loves Leader Kang, use this attitude towards herself?Doesn't the idiom contain the word "Love House and Wu"?Isn't there a saying in the common saying, "Don't look at the monk's face to see the Buddha's face"?She and Leader Kang are now a family!

The more analysis the more interesting.

Leader Kang has beauty Yi in his heart, but he insists on marrying her as his wife. Li Xinxia regards her as a thorn in his side, but acquiesces to her as his wife.

How should she evaluate this family, should she praise their broad minds, or sympathize with their unspeakable helplessness behind their backs?

However, in Bai Yan's eyes, Li Xinxia's attitude was just a drizzle.

When you deal with people who are superior, you simply become a grain of sand or a blade of grass.A grain of sand, a blade of grass, there is nothing to be afraid of.Wild fire, in spring.On the other hand, people who stand tall are extremely cold!

The door of the guest room opened, and three people came out talking and laughing, and walked into the dining room like VIPs, the maid Bai Yan had already set the table and chopsticks.

"What is this?" Li Xinxia held a square-shaped rice dumpling on the plate and shook it. The rope was oily and a little slippery. This one didn't seem to be tied tightly. The rice dumpling leaf suddenly loosened and the rice dumpling fell off with a snap to the floor.

Bai Yan stepped forward and explained, "When you picked it up, it was called Zongzi. Now, when it falls to the ground, it becomes Ciba."

"This is also called Zongzi? Feed the little bird!" Auntie Wu's eyes widened, and she almost choked on herself. She turned back and went into the kitchen, and took out an oil paper bag, which she had just put in. "This is called Zongzi!"

She took out six huge rice dumplings that were very similar to her shape from the oil paper bag and put them on the table.

Bai Yan nodded, she finally saw what Leader Kang said about the so-called rice wrapped in leaves.

"Kang Jian, sit down quickly. I made it specially for you this morning. You used to like it the most." Sister-in-law Wu smiled and hurried into the kitchen again, bringing out a plate of mashed garlic. The plate of zongzi made by Bai Yan was pushed far away.

"Hmm..." The very spineless Princess Lili jumped off Li Xinxia's lap and rushed to the meat dumpling on the ground.

"Lili, Lili!" Li Xinxia flushed with anger.

Bai Yan really couldn't help laughing to the point of internal pain, she sat down as if nothing had happened, she was in a state of her own, moved the plate of rice dumplings she made, leisurely made a cup of tea, and took small bites.

Kang Jian looked at her, and under Mrs. Wu's expectant gaze, he picked up a rice dumpling, untied it, dipped it in garlic paste, took a bite of the rice dumpling, and glanced at Bai Yan.

"What kind of ribs are these, why are they so sweet?" Li Xinxia frowned and stared at the braised pork ribs.

Aunt Wu is a die-hard fan of hers, so she immediately removed the braised pork ribs, "Let's eat some drunken shrimp!"

"I'm allergic to shrimp, don't you remember?" Li Xinxia said irritably.

The drunken shrimp was also removed, the tofu and crucian carp soup was too bland, and the jellyfish head was barely edible, "There is too much vinegar." Li Xinxia only picked up a few chopsticks.

Mrs. Wu was smarter, found a bottle of chili sauce, put it on a plate, mixed with jellyfish heads, and finally got Li Xinxia to eat a bowl of rice.

But Auntie Wu resolutely refused to touch the dishes that Li Xinxia didn't like, and pushed them directly in front of Bai Yan. Kang Jian picked up a few chopsticks, but Li Xinxia kept pulling him to discuss matters.

(End of this chapter)