Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

Li Jianguo carried Ergou out of the diagnosis room, and the three of them sat in the corridor to discuss.

"How about I hire a nurse to deliver three meals a day to Ergou?" Li Jianguo thought for a moment, "You can spare a room in your house. I can lend it to him."

Zhang Xiuhua thought it was feasible, so she looked at Ergou, "What do you think?!"

Ergou knew they didn't abandon him, so he was willing to cooperate. "But I don't have that much money."

He only saved two hundred yuan with Zhang Xiuhua. This amount was probably only enough for the car fare and the plaster cast. It was probably not enough to hire a nurse, rent a house, and cook for him.

Zhang Xiuhua waved her hands, "It's okay! When your leg is healed, you can pay me back when you make money. You heard it too, your leg is just fractured, it can still be cured. Take more nourishment and the wound will heal automatically. You lacked too much nutrition before."

This child is so skinny that you can prick your hands on his bones.

Ergou's eyes were red, "Thank you Aunt Zhang, Uncle Li!"

Zhang Xiuhua sighed and touched his head.

The problem was solved, and Li Jianguo breathed a sigh of relief. "First, put on a cast and stay in the hospital for a day. Don't move around after the plaster is put on! Once I have settled the house issue, I will find someone to borrow a cart to pull him back to the yard."

"Row!"

Plastering doesn't cost a lot of money. At least it's much cheaper than hiring a specialist and taking X-rays.

After completing the hospitalization procedures, the doctor will arrange for someone to come and put on a plaster cast for him.

The doctor was also very quick and everything was done in less than half an hour.

Zhang Xiuhua stayed in the hospital to take care of Ergou, while Li Jianguo returned to the courtyard alone.

Zhang Xiuhua told Ergou, "You live in the house I bought. When you go back, don't tell the villagers that I bought a house."

Ergou nodded in agreement, but at the same time he was a little confused, "Isn't buying a house a good thing? Why can't we tell them?"

Zhang Xiuhua sighed, "Ergou, you are also a smart child. I will tell you a truth, you must remember it."

Ergou looked at her with sparkling eyes, more seriously than in class.

"No one in this world wants you to live better than him. Everyone is afraid that you are poor and need their help. But they are also afraid that you are rich because they will be jealous!" Zhang Xiuhua laughed, "I just want to be like everyone else. I don't want to be too rich to avoid attracting attention."

Ergou was just 18 years old, and no one had ever told him this truth. He was stunned. He chewed it over twice, but still felt that this sentence was too pessimistic. He looked up and asked, "Are my parents the same?"

"Parents are just a status. It doesn't mean that they have fatherly and motherly love once they become parents." Zhang Xiuhua used herself as an example. "I also have a stepmother who only cares about her own children. My father ignored me and my brother to please her. When I got married, he didn't give me anything. In name, we are father and daughter, but in fact, we don't have much affection! Later, my brother died. He tried to please me for a simple purpose: he wanted me to take care of him in his old age. I married and moved to Northeast China, and I never called him once. Because I don't need his hypocritical love. I'm no longer at the age where I can ask for his fatherly love."

As she spoke, Ergou was already crying loudly, sobbing and saying, "My dad doesn't love me either! He obviously has money, and I gave him money. When I was beaten, I guarded the money tightly, and later I gave it to him. But he refused to treat my leg."

Zhang Xiuhua sighed and said nothing. She couldn't possibly alienate the relationship between them, right? !

"If you feel that you don't have a good father, then you will become a good father in the future. Everyone has two families in this world. One is the family with your parents, and the other is to find a wife, have a child, and then form a new family. Since this family does not have the family affection you want, then form one yourself."

Many years later, Ergou still remembered the expression on Aunt Zhang's face when she said this, and he really took it to heart.

Of course, this was the first time he heard it, and his mind was thinking about it.

At lunch time, Li Jianguo came over with food.

They didn't have lunch boxes, so he just bought some steamed buns and drank water from a military canteen.

Ergou was at the age of growing up. He ate five meat buns, Zhang Xiuhua ate two, and Li Jianguo ate four. He always had a big appetite.

The other people in the ward looked at them eating so much, their mouths wide open in surprise, their expressions as if they had done something unimaginable.

Zhang Xiuhua looked over and the family turned around immediately.

Li Jianguo finished his meal and told Zhang Xiuhua that the matter had been settled.

"I signed a contract with the previous tenant. I can receive 120 yuan in rent every month. There is one room vacant. I'll take you to see it."

Zhang Xiuhua nodded and asked Ergou if he wanted to go to the toilet.

Ergou blushed and nodded.

Li Jianguo brought him a chamber pot, Zhang Xiuhua drew the curtain, and then she went outside.

After cleaning up, Li Jianguo took Zhang Xiuhua to the courtyard.

"The caregiver you find has to be a man so that it will be more convenient to take care of the child." Zhang Xiuhua reminded him.

Li Jianguo smiled and said, "I found a family and they will take care of me for two months. I will waive their rent for two months."

"That's a good idea!" Zhang Xiuhua praised first, but she was still worried about the character of these strangers. "When you are out driving, if you have enough time, you can stop by to take a look. Otherwise, they will bully Ergou because he is young and weak."

Li Jianguo nodded in agreement.

When they arrived at the courtyard, the housewife whom they had just met yesterday saw them coming and greeted them with a smile.

That attitude was very different from yesterday. I guess he was scared by the police.

The other tenants were also very friendly and all greeted me politely.

Zhang Xiuhua also saw the vacated room, which was the middle room in the second entrance. A teacher used to live here. His house was demolished, so he was forced to move here. I heard that the higher authorities have returned the house to their family. With the salary he earned over the years, he moved back and planned to build another house.

Zhang Xiuhua also met the family that Li Jianguo mentioned.

More than a dozen people were squeezed into two rooms. I heard that they had to sleep on the floor at night. Only three people had jobs, and their three children were still in school. The others were unemployed and could only make money by pasting paper boxes.

Zhang Xiuhua originally wanted them to nourish Ergou, but she was worried that they would stew the egg for their family, so she forced them to have one egg for each of their three meals a day, so that they wouldn't have to eat it themselves.

"If his legs get better and his face becomes rosier than before, I will give you a reward later." Zhang Xiuhua hung them with a big carrot to prevent them from being careless.

"Can the food be reimbursed?"

"Okay! I'll charge him one dollar a day. You must let him have some meat. He should eat an egg for every meal. Rice is the main staple food. I'll send the rice over later."

Hearing that she would send rice and give him one yuan a day for food, he was overjoyed and promised to take good care of him.