Chapter 191 - Were all different! (1/2)

Shao Hua's father no longer tried to bully Zhang Fan in Chinese chess. There was no need for such a thing. Zhang Fan was always exhausted when coming here after work. Zhang Fan also had more and more authority in the family now. Although he usually remained quiet, he was really reliable with his words as well as deeds. He wasn't reckless like how young people usually tended to be.

After Zhang Fan washed his hands and face, Shao Hua applied some skin lotion on him. Usually, Zhang Fan didn't like to do such things, as he couldn't be bothered, but now that he had a girlfriend, his quality of life had elevated greatly. He was no longer single!

Before going back to the living room, Zhang Fan took this chance to secretly kiss Shao Hua on the mouth. He had been so busy for the past while, and hadn't been able to accompany Shao Hua out for quite a long while already. Zhang Fan felt rather bad about this. Shao Hua never asked anything of him. She was already acting like his wife. Every single piece of clothing that Zhang Fan owned was something that Shao Hua had purchased for him. Shao Hua would also do things such as change the blankets to thick blankets in winter and light blankets in summer. Zhang Fan didn't have to worry about a thing. He had never even considered switching blankets according to the weather before.

”Annoying! Be careful that my dad will see you! Annoying! You made my hair messy again.” Shao Hua lightly pushed away Zhang Fan. She also wished that he could accompany her more, but this was the nature of his work. What else could be done? What she could do was not put any burden on Zhang Fan, so that he didn't need to concentrate on smaller matters. She was worried that if he had to concentrate too much on other things, he might make a mistake while treating a patient, which would be bad!

”Zhang Fan, are you hungry? If you're not hungry yet, have some watermelon first!” Shao Hua's father was quite proud. Although the farm secretary had given the watermelon for Zhang Fan's sake, it had been in the name of coming to visit him!

”Yes, Zhang Fan, have some watermelon first. Let me make one more vegetable dish.” Shao Hua's mother also came out of the kitchen.

”Okay. Ma'am, no need to busy yourself. Let's all eat some watermelon together. You can make the vegetable dish later!” Originally, Zhang Fan was going to the kitchen to get a knife to cut the watermelon, but Shao Hua's mother did so first. ”Hurry and rest up on the sofa. I heard from Mr. Zhao in our apartment that you often need to stand for several hours in a row while performing surgery. That's truly such hard work. It's even longer than any standing punishment for children! Even a teacher will only punish a student for one class period!” Shao Hua's mother chatted on for a while before turning back to go into the kitchen when she saw that her husband seemed to want to say something.

”My mother really loves to hear gossip about the hospital now. Before, all she knew was that there was internal medicine and surgery, but now she even knows when there are surgeries scheduled at the hospitals!” Shao Hua commented while chuckling.

”She's concerned about me!”

”She's just trying to show off!” Shao Hua's father complained in a small voice while looking in the kitchen's direction.

”What is this? It's so large, and you put it on the sofa.” Shao Hua asked Zhang Fan about the case on the sofa.

”Oh, this is medical equipment that a merchant loaned to me. There's also a small additional gift.” Zhang Fan handed the small gift box to Shao Hua. He then carefully opened up the medical equipment case.

Shao Hua's father also looked over because he was curious. When Zhang Fan opened up the case, he found that the case had been designed quite scientifically in a staircase style. Even though the case didn't seem large, it really could contain many things after being opened up.

”No wonder it was so heavy,” Zhang Fan muttered to himself.

On the uppermost layer was a stethoscope which was completely black. Although it appeared ordinary, Zhang Fan felt that it had to be expensive when he held onto it. It really felt too good. It was likely made out of some high-quality material. Behind the stethoscope, on the uppermost layer, were some small and common items of medical equipment, such as a stopwatch, ruler, and so on.

The second layer was more special. There were all sorts of surgical knives and forceps large and small. They were all low-gloss. Zhang Fan picked some up and felt their weight. The weight was extremely appropriate for him. There were even protective goggles included.

On the third layer, meanwhile, there was an electrotome.

Shao Hua's father glanced over the medical equipment, and said, ”This case is really high-tech. It didn't look large, but it actually contained so many things.” He wanted to go and touch the electrotome, but then he thought of something as he instead touched his own neck!

”Sir, feel free to pick it up. This isn't light at all.” Zhang Fan noticed this, but pretended not to see. He didn't know what medical equipment Shao Hua's father wanted to see, so he gave the entire case over to him.

Shao Hua's mother also came over and saw all the complex medical equipment, so she commented, ”A surgery requires so many different things? No wonder there's stories of how careless doctors sometimes forget their medical equipment in a patient's stomach. Isn't this way too much?”

”Haha, it's alright.” Zhang Fan chuckled without explaining anything. Shao Hua's mother didn't require an explanation, as she was simply making a comment.

Although Shao Hua's father took the case of medical equipment, he decided against touching anything inside. ”It is quite heavy indeed.” He then lightly placed the case on the table, and even especially on the center of the table. He definitely wouldn't be so careful with it all if it wasn't medical equipment! In a way, this was an ordinary person's respect for the doctor profession!

”You should hurry and put this stuff away! It looks scary!” Shao Hua said as she saw only scissors and knives.

”Look at what you're saying. It's all lifesaving medical equipment. According to the ancient customs, this entire case is something you could burn incense to!” Shao Hua's father was dissatisfied with his daughter's tone.

”Hurry and come eat some watermelon! It really looks nice. The inside is quite red. I wonder if it's sweet or not!”

Even if winter watermelons could be really sweet, one wouldn't be able to enjoy them as much as in summer, since watermelons were much more suitable for eating in that hottest season. ”Sigh! We don't have enough people in our family. We can't even finish a single watermelon!” Shao Hua's father sighed. Few of his former coworkers still played Chinese chess. Instead, they were all busy accompanying grandchildren! Shao Hua's father also wanted a grandchild, but he was too embarrassed to say that out loud.

”You have so many problems.” Shao Hua's mother rolled her eyes at him before saying, ”What's this little box? Don't get any watermelon juice on it.”

”Oh, this is an additional little gift. Open it up and see what's inside.” Zhang Fan didn't really care about this, because the box was so light.

”Lipstick!” Shao Hua opened up the box to discover two tubes of lipstick inside!

”Oh! That's perfect, you can use it!” Zhang Fan now had zero interest in this!

”This lipstick doesn't seem to be cheap!” Shao Hua said as she checked the lipstick.

”How expensive could it even be?” Zhang Fan understood nothing about lipstick, hence his question.

”This is Dior lipstick. One lipstick probably costs several hundred yuan! Let me go check the price on the internet. If it's more than 100 yuan, let's give it back to them. There's no need to accept something so expensive.”

”Okay!” Zhang Fan agreed.

Shao Hua ran back to her room and searched for the lipstick on the internet for quite a while. ”This particular type doesn't exist!” Shao Hua said as she turned the lipstick around and around after checking on the internet.

”Could it be fake?” Zhang Fan mentioned the first thing on his mind.

”Let me go ask Jia Suyue. She'll definitely know!”

”Oh! Okay!”

Shao Hua and Jia Suyue were best friends. However, their different family and financial circumstances caused the two of them to have different outlooks on spending money. Shao Hua was more similar to Zhang Fan. Both of them believed in spending money practically. Meanwhile, as Jia Suyue had grown up in a rich family, she wanted only the best, no matter if it was in life or in romance.

Recently, she finally got a boyfriend. Apparently, he was the son of a small mine's owner. He had just returned from studying abroad. Jia Suyue had invited Shao Hua many times to meet her boyfriend, but Shao Hua had been busy studying accounting recently and hadn't had the time. Thus, Shao Hua and Jia Suyue hadn't seen each other for a long time already. Since Zhang Fan wasn't busy today, Shao Hua wanted to go see her best friend Jia Suyue. She and Jia Suyue had grown up together as childhood friends, after all.

”Yueyue, are you busy today? How about Zhang Fan and I treat you and your prince to a meal?”

”Sure! Sure! I was going to get angry at you! It's been so long since I last saw you!”

”I've been busy studying, as you know. I'll treat you to a really good meal today!”

”Western food?”