C36 (1/2)
Due to him speaking often, Wang Zipeng had been here recently and his tonsils were often inflamed. Even if he did not speak, he would still feel the pain. Furthermore, as a Secretary of the Party Branch, he had to speak every day, receive the upper echelons every day, and receive the villagers who came to do their work every day. All of these things needed to be said. Zi Peng was in so much pain that he had no other choice. Thus, he thought of going to the hospital to have his tonsils removed. He thought: ”It's better to have a long pain than a short one. After everything is over, he has made up his mind.”
On March 21, Zi Peng, accompanied by his eldest daughter, Cheng Hua, came to the Army 206 Hospital to perform the tonsil removal operation. The procedure was completed on the same day and the operation was scheduled for 9 a.m. the next day.
The tonsil operation is very simple, you don't need general anesthesia, just local anesthesia. The doctor injected two anesthetics into the ward and began the operation in 10 minutes. He saw the doctor take a small spoon and put it in, scraping off the tonsils one by one. At that time, he didn't feel too much pain, and only after the anesthetic had worn off did he feel a burning pain in his throat …
On the morning of the second day of surgery, Zi Peng's wife, Ding Xiaofeng, along with his two daughters, Tsinghua and Third daughter, went to the hospital to visit Zi Peng. On the third day, the entire leadership of the Taoyuan Village came to visit Zi Peng at the 206 hospital in two batches: in the morning and the afternoon …
Zipeng did not tell Lixia that he was going to the 206 hospital for a tonsillectomy. The first was that she didn't have enough time. The second was that she didn't want her to know that she was worried. But when he was lying in bed, enduring the pain, how much he wanted to see her! It's only been two days since the operation, and you can't drink water or eat anything. This part of the throat was the true path, the path through which food and drink must pass. Unlike other operations, they ate and drank as usual. The more he thought about it in this situation, the more he thought about the good that Riza had done for him. He thought about the road she had walked with him. As he lay in bed, he thought of something else: in her letter to me, she had mentioned that on March 24th she and I would go to the City to have a good talk, and now it seemed impossible in terms of time. Today is March 24th, the anniversary of the movie she and I went to see at the Tonggang Club last year. Since the letter said so, she would definitely go. If she went there, she would definitely go for nothing. That would be a huge blow to her! She had already been mentally damaged by my move these days, and her spirit was fragile, pessimistic, and disappointed. With the failure of her date today, she would be sad, miserable, and lost; she would cry like a tearful person; she would misunderstand me even more... Sigh! What should he do? At this point, I have no other choice but to explain the situation to her after leaving the hospital. I can only apologize to her after leaving the hospital in order to gain her understanding of me …
As Zi Peng thought this, he couldn't help but shed two streams of tears. Seeing her father's tears, her daughter Yu Hua asked in concern:
”Dad, why are you crying?” Zi Peng covered up and said:
”It hurts so much that I had no choice but to cry.”
On March 25, Lisa heard some news from the Taoyuan Village, saying that Wang Zipeng had been admitted into the 206 hospital for a tonsil removal operation. After she heard the news, she hurried to the hospital. Why did Lisa learn about it so quickly? It turned out that on March 24th, she had arrived at City at 9am. She thought that she would have a good talk with Zi Peng after seeing him today, so she poured out all of her bitterness to him. Who would have thought that two hours later, he would still be nowhere to be seen. And it was raining, it was cold, and the road was muddy. By eleven-thirty, she felt hopeless, and then she felt disheartened, dispirited, and listless as she walked back. When night came, she didn't sleep at all, her mind was filled with scenes of being with Zi Peng. When he woke up in the morning, his tears had soaked through the pillow. She was unwilling. She had to find out why he had missed his appointment. Even if you don't love me, it doesn't matter. As long as you tell me clearly in front of my face, I, Yu Lixia, won't shamelessly follow you. Why are you tormenting me like this? Thus, after she finished her breakfast, she went to Taoyuan Village and asked for Zi Peng's permission to meet up face to face. However, when she arrived at the village, Zi Peng was not there. She asked around and found out that Zi Peng had gone to the 206 hospital on the 21st.
It was only then that Lixia realized that she had made a mistake. She had been wrong about him, she had misunderstood him. Thus, she came to 206 hospital, disregarding everything else.
Zi Peng was lying on the sickbed. He was overjoyed to see that Lixia had come. His pained expression from before was replaced with a gratified smile. He sat up in bed and made her sit down. If it weren't for his daughter, he would have held her hand and hugged her. Thus, he restrained his impulse. Then he asked:
”Lisa, how did you know I was hospitalized here?” Lixia covered up her panic and said,
”I went to the village this morning to do something. I heard that you were hospitalized here, so I rushed here.” At this moment, Zi Peng's mood was very excited as he said:
”Lixia, thank you for coming to see me. Thank you.” Lisa looked at him with her big, soulful, watery eyes and said,
”second brother, what are you thanking me for?! Isn't it normal for me to come and see you? In terms of age, you are my second brother; in terms of distance, you are my closest neighbor; in terms of character, you are my most respected person. ”Since I know, why haven't I come to see you?”
Just then, his daughter Yu Hua picked up an orange and handed it to Lixia and said:
”Auntie, let's eat an orange. My dad was pretty happy to see you, but he never smiled when you came to the hospital. But ever since you came, my dad has been smiling.”
”Thank you, Yu Hua!” Lisa said as she took the orange.
At noon, Zi Peng brought Lixia to the hospital's cafeteria for lunch. Right now, Zi Peng could only drink water and not eat. So he sat across from her and watched her eat.
After finishing lunch, Zi Peng sent Lixia out of the hospital. He held her hand and said,
”I am sorry little sister, but on March 24th, I made you wait for an entire morning. I was going to explain this to you after I got out of the hospital, and apologize for it. Since you've come today, I hope that you can forgive me when I tell you about it. ” Lisa looked at him with her beautiful bright eyes and said,
”second brother, I was very angry at the time, but after I knew you were hospitalized, I started to feel like I was wrong about you. In this period of time, second brother needs to be at ease in recuperating. We can talk after you leave the hospital. second brother, go back first. ”
After Lixia finished speaking and got on the bus, Zi Peng waved to her and waited for the big guest to leave before returning to the ward.
On the seventh day after Zipeng's tonsil was extracted, he could finally eat congee, ice cream, and so on. He had finally survived this painful period. He stayed in the hospital for 15 days, healed all wounds, and returned home on April 3.
When Zi Peng returned home, he went to work the next day in the village. The village cadres were very happy to see Zi Peng at work. Chun Ming warmly held Zi Peng's hand and asked,
”When did the Secretary Wang return?”
”I was just discharged yesterday. I think since I'm better, I should come to work. The first reason is to see you all. During this period of time, I've been missing you all. The second reason is to fight alongside everyone. ”Well, how can I sit at home and watch it when it's time for the Ching Ming Festival and when it's a critical fire break?”
Zi Peng's words made everyone burst out in laughter.
It was the Fourth of April, the day that no one was allowed to burn paper. The village had posted a sign and sign ten days earlier: ”Tombs are prohibited during the Qing Ming Festival.” However, on this day, there was someone who didn't listen to evil. At nine o'clock in the morning, a fire broke out in the northern grasslands of Taoyuan's team as they were burned by a grave. Fierce fire, thick smoke, fire by wind, wind to help fire. Not long later, they had burned nearly a hundred acres of grass …
At this point, the number of people coming to save the fire increased, no less than a thousand. They have Tonggang's, power plant's, Taoyuan Village's cadres, villagers, district, Rural Government's leaders. There was a long line of people fighting the fire. They used branches, brooms, shovels, and other tools to fight the fire.
Now, the source of the fire was just about to burn its way to the top of the mountain. If they passed the mountain top, they would endanger Taoyuan Village's thousand curtain ginseng, and at that time, their losses would be huge.
As the number of firefighters increased, they put their lives at stake and continued to fight tenaciously in the sea of fire. Finally, the fire was extinguished 20 meters away from the top of the hill, saving Taoyuan Village's Thousand Curtain Ginseng.
A rare fire was put out, burning more than 600 mu of land, and people were exhausted. Look again at the firemen: everyone's face looks as if it's made up, green and black; some pants are burned, some shoes are burned, some hair is burnt, some hands are burned.
As Wang Zipeng moved his home to Peach Blossom Team Four, his connection with Yu Lixia was also cut off. At this moment, Zi Peng's mind was filled with thoughts of Lixia, and he was in a depressed and absent-minded state of mind. So on April 11, he made a special trip to see her.