I became beautiful by eating melons

Ye Rou left the dining room, thinking about finding the two children first.

The sound of a flute rang out melodiously. Ye Rou turned and followed the sound of the flute through the corridor and into the east courtyard of the second courtyard.

Wang Guoping, Zheng Zhiyuan, Zhou Yuqing and the newly arrived Liu Yutang live in the east courtyard.

Before Ye Rou even got close to the yard, she heard the sounds. The exclamations of the two children, the stifled howls of Little Gray, the croaking of frogs accompanied by the flute, and the arguments of Grandpa and Grandpa Wang while playing chess, gave Ye Rou a feeling of both liveliness and silence.

The courtyard is a thoroughly Chinese architectural style. The brick walls, paving bricks and gravel are off-white and dark gray, echoing the roof tiles.

Ye Rou walked through the small round door. There was a pond in the east courtyard near the corridor wall. It was specially built in an irregular shape. The water here and the pond in the inner courtyard garden circulated with each other to form a flowing water. A grid was built at the water inlet to prevent fish from swimming away.

There are round tables and rattan chairs next to the pond. The wintersweet tree is rugged, but the flowers are particularly beautiful. The winter jasmine climbs up the wall and blooms brilliantly. The magnolia tree planted under the window blooms pink flowers. The colors in this courtyard are brilliant but not complicated, and they complement the green plants beside the pond. The whole courtyard looks like a living ink painting.

Shitou and Hanhan each held a small net in their hands and were excitedly preparing to catch frogs in the yard.

Xiao Huihui squatted beside the round table. Wang Guoping rubbed the wolf's head while playing chess with Zheng Zhiyuan, and fed the apples and strawberries on the table to Xiao Huihui who had his mouth wide open.

Zheng Zhiyuan showed disgust when he saw Wang Guoping playing chess with his hands stained with strawberry juice.

Fortunately, it wasn't his chessboard and chess pieces that were used.

Liu Yutang was sitting at the round table, reading a medical book.

Zhou Yuqing was lying on a rattan chair under the eaves, playing the flute.

As soon as Ye Rou entered the door, Xiao Huihui was the first to smell the scent.

It rushed towards the door with a roar, and Ye Rou quickly used some strength to hold it down.

Xiao Huihui is still in the growth stage, but now his size is as big as a Samoyed. Not to mention that people in the yard feed him every day. This majestic wolf has grown sideways, eating until he is round and pounces on people, heavier than a weight.

"Xiao Rou is here." Zheng Zhiyuan smiled when he saw Ye Rou.

When the two children saw Ye Rou, one called her "Sister Xiangxiang" and the other called her "Sister Piaoliang", and they rushed towards Ye Rou from the left and right.

"Sister, hold me!"

"I want my sister to hold me!"

Of the two children, Shitou was timid and spoke in a low voice because he was abused by Wang Qiaohe.

Hanhan is often teased by other kids on the farm. Coupled with the scar on his forehead and the anxiety over his parents' death, he is extremely sensitive and feels more insecure than other children.

They both have quiet personalities and surprisingly can get along well with each other.

Ye Rou's thighs were hugged by two children at the same time. Fortunately, she was strong enough to hold two children at the same time.

She bent down and picked up the two children, one on the left and one on the right.

The sunset glows all over the sky, and the red clouds stretch for thousands of miles.

Ye Rou's hair was dyed red, making her look particularly beautiful. She held two children in her arms and asked with a smile, "What are you doing?"

Shitou held up the net in his hand and whispered, "Sister, we are catching frogs."

"Yeah, Grandpa Zhou said the frogs in the yard are really cute and we want to see them." Hanhan hugged his beautiful sister's neck and answered loudly.

He likes his sister's house so much. No one here would say he is a child without parents, and he has new friends Shitou and Xiaohuihui to play with him. He wants to live in his sister's house forever.

Seeing Ye Rou being entangled by the two children, the four old men smiled and shook their heads.

"Sister, let's catch frogs together!" The two children invited Ye Rou.

When Ye Rou heard the word "frog", she immediately knew where the frog came from. It must be the frog that Xiao Huihui brought into the house and placed next to her when she was a little girl.

She shuddered and said politely, "Sister is thirsty and wants to eat some fruit. You guys go catch some frogs."

Ye Rou bent down and put down the two children.

Hanhan and Shitou were determined to catch some frogs to show their sister, so they picked up the small net, looked at each other, and started catching frogs all over the yard again.

Ye Rou sat down next to the round table. She didn't understand Go, so she grabbed a red strawberry and put it in her mouth.

Zheng Zhiyuan was playing chess when he asked Ye Rou, "How was your work today?"

When Wang Guoping and Liu Yutang heard this question, they looked at Ye Rou at the same time with concern in their eyes.

Ye Rou thought for a moment and gave an answer: "Not bad."

"You girl." Wang Guoping is an economics professor who likes accurate numbers the most. He is not used to hearing vague quantifiers such as "okay", "a little", "some". "Good is good, bad is bad, how can there be "okay"?"

Ye Rou ate the cut apple, blinked, and said in more detail: "Grandma Ying is the dean. With her protection, no one dares to bully me blatantly. The female nurses in the hospital took good care of me and were very enthusiastic to me on the first day."

Zheng Zhiyuan keenly grasped the key words and asked, "No one dares to bully you blatantly. The female nurses are taking care of you. Are the male homosexuals in your hospital bad?"

"Grandpa, you are awesome." Ye Rou looked at Grandpa in admiration, "The hospital has four pests, which refers to the four male doctors in the hospital."

"Cockroaches, rats, mosquitoes, flies." Liu Yutang curled his lips and said, "I can tell they don't look like good things."

Ye Rou thought of the fly and immediately said, "Master, there is a man named Liu Yang in the hospital who works in the TCM department. I heard from Grandma Ying that his father's name is Liu Jintang."

"Liu Jintang?" Liu Yutang immediately sat up straight, his face becoming serious. "Is he also in your hospital?"

Ye Rou shook her head and said, "But I heard that Liu Jintang goes to the hospital to see patients one day a week."

Liu Yutang sneered, "When he was learning from Master, he was impetuous, thinking all day long about stealing Master's medical books and herbs to sell. He didn't learn any Chinese medicine knowledge at all, and he was trembling when he saw a patient. He needed me and my senior brother to help him. Now he has traveled abroad and has become bolder when he returned to China. He even dared to go to the military hospital to deceive people."

Zheng Zhiyuan knocked the chess piece on the table and said unhappily, "The feud between you and your senior brother won't involve Xiaorou, right?"

Liu Yutang sighed, "Xiao Rou, I didn't tell you that your master committed suicide."

His gaze fell on the black and white chessboard with a melancholy look, and his thoughts seemed to have gone back to the war-torn years.

"Back then, I was sixteen years old, and now forty years have passed...

The master took the three brothers to open a traditional Chinese medicine shop in Jinling called Huichuntang.

His master was particularly famous in Jinling for his superb medical skills.

In 1939, a soldier from Country R asked Master to treat a senior officer from Country R. Master sternly refused, saying that if he was forced to see a doctor, he would cut off his right hand and would rather become a disabled person than save others.

The R country soldiers were forced to retreat by the master's determination and never came again.

On the third day after the incident, Liu Jintang brought a mute to see a doctor.