Chapter 52 (1/2)
52. Payment
”my mother died of dystocia when she gave birth to me. No one will believe it? A famous doctor, his wife died of childbirth in the south! ” Ling Yunfeng sneered.
”On that day, my father was having an operation. The operation lasted eight hours. My mother was at home alone, and suddenly there was a sign of premature birth. Because there was no one around, it took a long time for my mother to be sent to the hospital by the neighbors. Because of dystocia, the time was delayed. When the mother was sent to the hospital, it was almost impossible. The doctor said to protect the adults or the children, mom Insist on protecting me... ”
”So you've been blaming your father ever since you knew that?” Meng Qingqing asked.
Ling Yunfeng shook his head, ”there are many things you don't know. I don't blame him. I blame her for marrying a woman like that. ”
”Is your stepmother bad for you?”
”Have you ever heard of a good stepmother?” Ling Yunfeng asked himself, ”maybe there is, but I haven't met it.”
Meng Qingqing shook his head, ”I don't know. I'm like you. My mother gave birth to me and died soon, but my father never looked for me again. I often think that if my father finds someone else to take care of him, maybe he won't get the disease
”Who knows! I'm afraid it's even worse to find someone who makes a lot of noise all day long. ”
Neither of them spoke for a moment.
”Tell me about you. I remember the first time I saw you in my dad's office. You're dirt.”
Meng Qingqing said with a smile, ”that day! I've just come from my hometown, and it's my first time in this city. Our hometown is very poor and backward, that kind of poverty and backwardness, like you grow up in a big city is unimaginable, that day I really dressed very rustic. My grandmother cut my hair casually
”But I don't think you're very polite. It's not like a country girl who has never seen the world. ”
”Is it?” Meng Qingqing smiles.
”Oh! How are you lagging behind? There's no electricity yet
”It's not so exaggerated, but there is electricity. It's just that natural conditions are not good. People, livestock and crops all depend on the sky to drink water. The traffic is not convenient. It's far from the town. It's hard for you to imagine. When I take you there, you will know that there are still people living in such an environment. At that time, you should be glad that you are actually living a very happy life. ”
”Is it? When I go to see it with you on vacation, it's like experiencing life. ”
”I'll talk about it then! I don't know what happened to my father and grandmother at that time. Anyway, there will be opportunities in the future. ”
”Your father and grandmother will be OK. You have to trust Dr. Ling.”
”Dr. Ling is your father. Why do you always call him that way?”
”Isn't it all the same? It's just a title. What about foreigners by their first name! To call him Dr. Ling can be regarded as complying with his name. ” Ling Yunfeng doesn't think so.
”Foreign countries are foreign countries, and here is China, so you can only follow the Chinese folk customs. I don't know if you are dissatisfied with your father, but I can see that your father loves you and cares about you. There are no parents in the world who do not love their children. If you look at me, you will know that you should cherish the feelings with your father. ”
Ling Yunfeng stares at Meng Qingqing and says, ”such an old-fashioned preaching really doesn't come from a child like you.”
Meng Qingqing was startled, ”are you old? Although I am young, I have experienced many vicissitudes, so I am older than my age! ”
Two people talk, time passes unconsciously.
The door of the operating room opened. The doctor pushed a stretcher out. Meng Qingqing and Ling Yunfeng ran past. It was grandma. She was still in a coma. Her face was pale and frightening.