Chapter 308 - Ill pay for all your meals (2/2)

“What about tomorrow? Are you going to have to work overtime tomorrow?”

“There’s nothing for the department tomorrow apart from the daily morning patient checkup. However, a special patient is going to arrive for me at my hand and foot surgery hospital,” Zhang Fan explained to Shao Hua.

“What patient? What’s special about them?” Shao Hua inquired for the sake of inquiring. She was slightly disappointed that Zhang Fan wouldn’t be able to accompany her for the whole weekend, but she didn’t allow herself to display it, because she didn’t want him to feel guilty. He was quite tired already, so she didn’t want to pressure him any further. To her, love was about mutual understanding. Only one person giving while the other person only asked for things would cause the relationship to fall apart sooner or later.

“Apparently, the patient is a foreign basketball player.”

“Really? Little Rock, you’re amazing! Your name is even known in other countries!” Shao Hua said as she caressed his ear. Normally, Shao Hua often grabbed Zhang Fan’s ears whenever they were flirtatiously playing around with each other. Even though Zhang Fan’s ears weren’t very large, they were slightly stiff. As Shao Hua said, a man who had stiff ears wouldn’t be obedient towards his wife, so Shao Hua would often squeeze Zhang Fan’s ears, wanting to make his stiff ears slightly softer.

“Haha, that’s not it at all. Wang Yongyong introduced this patient to me. Apparently, it’s a foreigner who came to China in order to make money playing in the Chinese Basketball Association,” Zhang Fan explained.

“Oh, that’s still really amazing. Little Rock, you need to be obedient and listen to me in the future.” Shao Hua didn’t care that much about the professional details of Zhang Fan’s work. She would always get bored after hearing about such things. She would then play with Zhang Fan’s ears as if she was toying with a puppy. She would even use the same tone that she would with a puppy.

“Haha!” Zhang Fan laughed foolishly as he ate more meat! His and Shao Hua’s feelings for each other was just like a warm soup. Things weren’t passionate between them, but there was a warmth to things.

That afternoon, Zhang Fan and Shao Hua went furniture shopping since he finally had some free time. As the standard of living improved, people’s belongings would improve as well. Back when China’s government first opened up the borders again in 1978, the slightly richer families would start purchasing all sorts of European style furniture. Such furniture would seem really outdated by today’s standards, but no ordinary family would have been able to afford such furniture back then.

Zhang Fan’s standard of living had improved significantly together with his finances. However, he still hadn’t gained much of a so-called aura of being rich. His requirements for furniture weren’t high at all. He only cared that the furniture had as few chemicals as possible. Some furniture stores would make claims about high-tech synthetic materials, nanomaterials, and so on, which Zhang Fan didn’t understand at all. However, he did know that such Chinese materials contained a great deal of industrial glue which would emit gasses for even up to 10 years, not just one year. As a reminder, the first group of people to start getting leukemia on a large scale were people who worked all the time with such industrial glues. Any Chinese person who was getting married or had a small family would do best to renovate as simply as possible. Paint might smell bad, but glue would be fatal!

“Little Rock, I like that one!” Shao Hua whispered into Zhang Fan’s ear. He took a look, and immediately replied, “No. All that plywood is glued together. It’s shoddy quality.”

Shao Hua’s strength was that she would never pretend to understand what she didn’t. She also never argued back. “Oh, okay!”

Finally, they finished picking out their furniture. All of their furniture was completely wooden. It was just regular pine wood produced locally rather than some local wood. The price wasn’t expensive, and it would be much healthier than other Chinese-produced furniture. However, the color was rather heavy. It was deep red! Shao Hua pouted slightly. “Why is your taste so similar to my father’s? With such a set of furniture in our home, those visiting for the first time will think that our home is a temple!”

“Haha, it’s fine. There’s plenty of good lighting in our future home. Besides, this is healthy! It will be good for the baby once we have it!” Zhang Fan was willing to compromise on matters apart from his family’s health. Since he understood such things, he would definitely pay attention.

Shao Hua embarrassedly pushed Zhang Fan slightly when she heard this. The furniture store’s salesmen were chuckling as they watched this!