Chapter 31
Su Chunjun had never been so embarrassed.
Even when his own father married a step-wife who was younger than him, and he had to kowtow to his mother at the wedding, he had never been so embarrassed.
His heart was pounding, his hands and feet were at a loss, and he was sweating all over.
After he took off his coat, he couldn’t sit down and kept looking at the door of Yang Yuyan’s room, his neck lengthening.
Mrs. Zhang knocked twice, but inside she said, “Something’s wrong.”
“What can be wrong? It’s almost dinner time!” Zhang Ma chattered, and went to put the congee back on the stove to heat it up.
Zhu Yanshu understood her daughter’s feelings of avoiding shame, and said with a smile, “Then I don’t care about her. Let’s eat first, and Zhang Ma will save the rice for her.”
Zhang Ma set the table, Zhu Yanshu pushed Su Chunjun, who had been doing neck exercises, into the dining room: “Teacher Su sit down, Teacher Su eat quickly, Teacher Su, do you have a New Year’s holiday?”
Su Chunjun sat in the dining room, head long time to keep seventy degrees of bias, heard Zhu Yanshu asked and quickly answered: “Yes, three days off!”
Zhu Yanshu smiled and asked, “Oh, does Mr. Su need to go home?”
Su Chunjun, who is only half as smart as he usually is, reflexively remembered the configuration of his family, including his father, his second aunt and grandmother, his young stepmother who has only been in the family for two years, and his seven great aunts and eight great aunts, as well as a group of cousins and cousins who are not very close to each other. ……
Su Chunjun: “Not back, only Qingming need to go back to sweep the tomb. My mom is no longer around.”
Without him saying it again, Zhang Ma and Zhu Yanshu have already made up a big scene and have tsked and sighed.
Zhu Yan Shu sighed: “Alas, this child of yours usually does not speak, let auntie hear the heart sour!”
Zhang Ma then said, “Then where are you going to eat New Year’s Eve dinner? If you don’t mind, come here, Zhang Ma to do a lot of dishes on New Year’s Eve, Mrs. and Miss can’t finish every time! It’s a waste!”
Su Chunjun was about to agree, but hesitantly looked towards Yang Yuyan’s closed room.
Zhu Yanshu smiled and said, “Don’t worry about Yang Yanyan, this child comes and goes very quickly, I don’t believe you can come back tonight and see her again, she will be fine.”
Su Chunjun still nodded absentmindedly without answering, continuing to look seventy degrees to the right.
For the first time, Zhang Ma passed the bowl to him and didn’t see him eat, but continued to stare.
The cooking mom felt insulted and complained: “What’s wrong with this! He doesn’t eat at the table, he just stares!”
A teacher Su, a Yang Yucan, both seemed to be less interested in the breakfast in front of them.
Only then did Su Chunjun react and eat with his bowl, and in the past, he would also boast about how good the food was to please Zhang Ma, the person in charge of the kitchen, but today, he just grubbed the rice into his mouth, his eyes and mind still tied to the closed door.
This breakfast was eaten incomparably fast, incomparably quiet. In the past, Zhang Ma finished eating, this side of the Mrs. and Miss are still on the table dawdling, today is this side of the dining room one by one finished, Zhang Ma there is still half a bowl of congee it.
Su Chunjun stood up first and said, “Thanks for the breakfast. Also thank you for the coat, I’m in a hurry to go to work, so I’ll leave first.” He glanced over to Yang Yuyan’s room again, his heart apprehensive all a bit sad, for some reason, as if he wanted to play a piece of Beethoven’s Third Symphony for himself.
He had never wanted to really make things right with Yang Yuyan, he just still wanted to dream for a while longer and walk with her for a while longer.
But he forgot, what if Yang Yuyan doesn’t want him?
What if she rejected him after realizing his feelings? Then what reason would he have to continue to be with her?
Wouldn’t it be better to just let it go? Let it all end here, he and she ended up in the teacher-student relationship, so that after many years, when they meet again, both of them are still open.
Because he had no future with her.
But even if there is no future, there are many factors in this, but the only reason is not his heart for Yang Yuyan.
If everything is as good as in the book, then he is bound to go after her!
But the world is difficult, he is not without the determination of the thorns and thistles, but do not want to drag Yang Yuyan together to flow this river of suffering.
If he is already on the bank would dare to let go, but he is now in the center of the river, the sea of misery in all directions, can not see the shore.
Yang Yuyan is standing on the bank, she has her own beautiful future. He reached out to drag her is tantamount to harming her.
Su Chunjun’s expression was dark, carrying a paper bag and leaving.
Zhang Ma received all the dishes in the kitchen, and saw that Yang Yucan’s breakfast was not finished, she now does not eat bread and coffee, and joined Yang Yuyan in drinking congee and eating buns. Now the buns were untouched and the congee was still half a bowl left.
Zhang Ma carried the bowl: ”You don’t have anyone to help you eat your leftovers! These can only be thrown away, what a pity! How many people out there don’t have enough to eat!”
Yang Yu Cicada felt like she was hit by a whip and busily said, “Why throw it away?”
Zhang Ma wondered, “You eat at school at noon, are these leftovers for you to save for the evening? It’s not like you don’t eat at night!”
Yang Yucchan looked at the leftovers and gritted her teeth, “I’ll eat it! Don’t dump it, Mrs. Zhang, I’ll eat it tonight!”
Mrs. Zhang was not happy, “Everyone eats the new food at night, and you eat the leftovers alone? How can you be happy with that?”
Yang Yucchan: “I’m happy!”
Zhang Ma was not happy: “Fine, I’ll put it away for you! It’s just another bowl for nothing!”
After Zhang Ma took everything away, Zhu Yanshu asked Yang Yucan, “What’s wrong with you? Are you not feeling well? Or are you in a bad mood?” She thought for a second, “Or …… are you worried about Ma Tianbao? I haven’t contacted Mrs. Jin these days either, so let’s do this, I’ll hang up a phone and go to the Golden Mansion today and ask Mrs. Jin to see if I can let you meet Ma.”
Yang Yu Cicada hurriedly said, “No need! Mom, Tianbao …… his family is not in the Golden Mansion right now.”
Zhu Yan Shu: “Then where?”
Yang Yucan: “They are in the hospital. I went to the Golden Mansion, the uncle who guarded the door told me.”
Zhu Yanshu stroked her shoulder and softly asked, “Did you go and see them? How was the situation?”
Yang Yucan nodded, tears welled up, she hurriedly wiped them away, “I have been there, their family …… is quite bad.”
Yang Yucan could not find anyone to help in the school, and under the anxiety, she even had the courage to run to the Golden Mansion by herself.
But she couldn’t get in the door, so she pleaded with the gatekeeper in front of the main door of the Golden Mansion. The gatekeeper could not let her in, but told her that Ma Tianbao and his parents were no longer in the Golden Mansion, but in the hospital.
It was the Jin family’s cousin, Wang Wanchuan, who sent them there.
Yang Yuchan couldn’t find out which hospital it was, so she had to search from house to house and finally found Ma’s family at the Church Hospital.
Ma Tianbao’s father was broken waist, Ma Tianbao was broken a leg, Ma Tianbao’s mother was not beaten, but by such a big shock, but also some of the soul. The father and son were hospitalized in the Western Hospital, and the mother drank medicine in the Chinese medical clinic.
The medical bills were all paid by Wang Wanchuan.
Ma Tianbao’s father may be so paralyzed in the future, it is impossible to stand up again, can control urination and defecation even if he recovered well.
This is the doctor’s own words.
Ma Tianbao is a little better than his father, he is young, the leg is also connected, as long as the recovery is good, should not be crippled.
But now the problem was also troublesome.
Wang Wanchuan gave Ma Tianbao three hundred dollars when he sent the man to the hospital, and the Ma family was evicted, with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
Ma Tianbao then used this money to treat his father and mother and himself, and the three of them also had to eat. Now the money is almost spent and the three are still not cured, at least Ma Tianbao’s father is still far from being discharged from the hospital.
Ma Tianbao’s father now has to use foreign medicines every day, injections and infusions, and the money is spent like running water. Ma Tianbao has saved himself the cost of a bed and sleeps on the hospital floor every day.
But this can not save a few money, see once there is no more money, will be cut off, Ma Tianbao’s father is now a day can not get away from the painkillers.
Ma Tianbao plans to leave the hospital to work for money.
But then, his leg won’t heal at all. And with his crippled leg, he won’t be able to get any decent jobs in the future, but will have to do manual labor. He can’t even be a driver like his father. No boss would hire a cripple as a driver. What a shame.
Then his college education would have been in vain.
Yang Yuchan has been trying to help Ma Tianbao since she found him in the hospital. She started a fundraising campaign in the school, but the money collected was only a hundred dollars, which was only enough to keep Ma and his son in the hospital for another month at most.
She had already taken out all the money she had saved, but she usually spent quite a bit of money on book clubs, so there wasn’t much at all.
Ma Tianbao also knew that there was nothing more that could be done, so he told her that he would be looking for a job soon, and that he would not be going to school anymore, so she should not come back.
A pair of young lovers hugged and cried in the corner of the hospital, and after they finished crying, the outside world should go on as it should, the world does not stop turning because of their suffering.
Yang Yu Cicada did not know what else she could do, her power alone was too small.
Zhu Yanshu hugged Yang Yucan who was crying bitterly, not knowing what to say.
She and Zhang Ma were worried that Yang Yucan would receive both the Ma family and son into the Zhu family, but Yang Yucan obviously didn’t think so. From what she had just told her, it was clear that she hadn’t even entertained the thought!
She looked to the school, her classmates, and her teachers, but never thought to beg her family.
This child has really learned to be stupid at school! She wants to be independent and makes things difficult for herself.
Isn’t home the one who can help you?
Zhu Yanshu almost opened her mouth to tell Yang Yucan not to worry, she is there for the Ma family, there are people at home.
Fortunately, Zhang Ma has been eavesdropping, saw her face is not right, rushed out, in Yang Yucan behind the chicken wiping the neck to give her a look, which makes her to the edge of the mouth words are swallowed back.
She hugged Yang Yucchan and coaxed her for a while, then Zhang Ma snatched up the hand towel and embraced Yang Yucchan and said heartily, “My Miss, your heart is too good!”
Yang Yucicang stopped crying when she saw Zhang Ma and was a bit embarrassed.
Zhu Yanshu asked: “What are you going to do now?”
Yang Yucchan: “I want to go to the school and think of another way to do another fundraiser.”
Zhu Yanshu held back so hard that she didn’t dare to speak, but only dared to nod her head, “Good boy.”
Zhang Ma hurriedly helped Yang Yucan to the bathroom to wash her face.
After rearranging herself, Yang Yucan went to school.
Just after she left, Zhu Yanshu couldn’t help but say, “Why is this child so stupid! Why doesn’t she know to beg me! I have money! I also have a house! Why does she still recognize me? I’m her own mother! She’d rather go out and donate money and beg others than me!”
Zhang Ma rolled her eyes, “Ma’am!”
Zhu Yanshu waved her hand forcefully, “Ah ah, I know, I’m just saying, I’m not really giving money to the Ma family, I’m just saying!” After saying that, she still said unwillingly, “This child is too stupid! I’m her real mom!”