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Chapter 02 Family of Three

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    After graduating from university, 29-year-old Zhang Hua opened his own flower shop, which is just downstairs from the family area of ??the Maternal and Child Health Hospital where they live.  This is the benefit that Xie Yunfang obtained for her daughter by using the relationship of internal employees. The rent is nearly one-third cheaper than that of outsiders.

    Next to the family area is the Maternal and Child Health Hospital. Now it is popular to send flowers to the patients, so the business of the flower shop is booming.  Zhang Hua is not limited to in-store business. She also contacted several nearby hotels through various relationships to arrange flowers for meetings.

    Zhang Hua's father, Zhang Weitao, used to be the captain of the criminal police detachment of the Municipal Public Security Bureau. He was only 57 years old when he retired, and he had not yet reached the legal age of 60.  He himself was unwilling to disarm and return to the field prematurely, but during a police mission, he was cut off by a gangster with a dagger in two ribs.  The aftermath of this injury is that when winter comes, half of his body will be in unbearable pain, which even seriously affects his normal life.

    Every time Xie Yunfang saw such a situation, she would cry bitterly and threaten him not to participate in dangerous missions, otherwise she would get a divorce.

    Due to various helplessness, Zhang Weitao submitted an application for early retirement.  In view of his excellent performance at work and the proof of his injury, his superiors quickly approved his retirement request.

    When he is at home, he often recalls the passionate scenes of fighting wits and courage with gangsters and fighting for life. Whenever he opens the photo album and sees himself in police uniform, helmet, and gun, he sighs.  That is the dream in every man's heart, but unfortunately the injured body caused this dream to end early.  Now he can only rely on fighting in chess to get back that feeling of golden horse iron fighting.

    In the peaceful years, when I suddenly looked back, I inadvertently saw that my wife's hair was gray, her skin had lost its luster, her eyes were dark brown, and her eyes were full of wrinkles.  Only then did Zhang Weitao realize that he had neglected his wife and daughter all these years.  This kind of guilt made him bury his heroic dreams, hide his ambitions, and make up his mind to be a good husband and father in the years to come to make up for the debt he owed to his wife and daughter.

    Zhang Hua's mother, Xie Yunfang, is 56 years old, two years younger than Zhang Weitao. She is a nurse who has just retired from the Maternal and Child Health Hospital. Her retirement age is one year later than Zhang Weitao's.  She doesn't have any big ambitions, she just wants the whole family to be safe and peaceful.

    She is a tough woman who silently raised her children when her husband was busy at work, and supported the family alone when her husband was injured and recuperated.  Even though those days made her physically and mentally exhausted, with strong perseverance, she survived those miserable years.  Now she has no complaints about her life, her husband has retired safely, her daughter is thriving, and the rest of her life can be regarded as her retirement years.

    The only dissatisfaction is that her daughter is getting older, but there is no sign of falling in love.  How can that be, she is still in a hurry to hug her grandson.  As a nurse, she deeply knows that the older a woman is, the harder it is to give birth to a child. She doesn't want her daughter to struggle on the verge of life and death like those pregnant women with dystocia in the hospital.

    This knot was like a snowball rolling in her heart. Xie Yunfang tried every means to persuade her daughter to talk about a partner and get married, and even joined Christianity to pray to the merciful God to let her daughter meet a suitable marriage partner.  But her daughter always ignored her earnest words, which made her feel deeply frustrated and disappointed.  She can't blame the living environment for her daughter to develop an independent and independent character, so she can only vent her grievances on her husband who is now tolerant of everything.

    Of course, she is not completely unreasonable. She will observe her husband's expression while beating, and when her husband shows an impatient attitude, she will immediately stop.  She will also adopt the method of "serving the country with a curve". When the old couple reminisces about the years, she will calmly analyze the dangers of older women with her husband, and use the words "We are both old, don't you want to have a grandson?"  Husband's thoughts.

    Whenever Zhang Weitao heard this, he would be silent, and fell into the contradiction of wanting to respect his daughter's life, but interfering too much, fearing the hardship of childbirth for older women, and longing for a full house of children and grandchildren.

    A family of three lives in the family area of ??the Maternal and Child Health Hospital.  In the initial stage of the unit raising funds to build a house, Xie Yunfang did not hesitate to buy a house with two bedrooms and two halls.  This 80-ping house has been in use for 15 years, and the entire suite is covered with milky yellow marble floors.  In the living room facing the main entrance, there are matching red lacquered wood furniture: a large sofa, two individual armchairs, and a bar-shaped coffee table.  Next to the wall next to the door is a TV cabinet of the same style, with TVs, VCDs, and stereos neatly arranged.  Next to the speaker on the right stands a drinking fountain with a height of one person, and a pot of emerald green monstera is placed next to the speaker on the left.  There are several vivid landscape paintings hanging on the snow-white walls.  The suspended ceiling adopts the design of aluminum gusset plate, which is high on the outside and low on the inside, and the surface is covered with milky white film-coated board.  A lotus leaf-shaped lamp panel with a set of 9 bulbs is embedded in the middle of the ceiling, and the lighting of each bulb can be controlled by different buttons of the light switch on the wall.

      To the right of the living room are two bedrooms.  The layout and size of the bedrooms are consistent.  Xie Yunfang and his wife lived in the room next to the corridor, and Zhang Hua lived in the room in the back.  The furniture arrangement of the two bedrooms is also basically similar. A large brown four-door wardrobe stands against the wall, and a Simmons that is 1.5 meters wide and 2 meters long occupies the center of the entire bedroom.  Two large beds separated by a wall are placed opposite each other, and the head of the bed is next to a coffee-colored dresser.  The mirror of Zhang Hua's dressing table is oval, and there are few kinds of cosmetics on it; the mirror of Xie Yunfang's dressing table is square, and the table is full of various cosmetics and skin care products.

    The partition between the balcony and the bedroom has been removed, which makes the bedroom look much more spacious.  There is a TV set on the balcony of Xie Yunfang and his wife, and they can watch TV while lying in bed.  Zhang Hua installed a computer on the balcony. She is used to sitting alone in front of the computer after dinner to browse important news and choose novels or music she likes. She also occasionally chats with friends and plays some simple computer games.

    The distinction between old and young is stark in this family.  The elderly are immersed in the "TV age", and the TV has become an indispensable part of their lives; the young people have abandoned the TV and entered the "Internet age", and computers and the Internet are crucial to them.

    On the left side of the living room is the dining room. The half-open window sill makes the dining room very bright, and the sunlight shines on the sky-blue refrigerator with ice-like silver light.  The dining table is a red lacquered wood Eight Immortals table of the same series as the living room furniture.  When not eating, the chairs are buckled under the belly of the table, looking from a distance, it looks like a whole.  Xie Yunfang's special pickles and kimchi are placed in the corner of the restaurant, and the bottles and jars extend all the way to the door of the kitchen.

    The kitchen is the most important place for Xie Yunfang. Every time she finishes cooking, she will wipe the kitchen clean. There must be no oil stains on the cooking utensils and range hood. In her words, "It looks clean and eats comfortably." Tight  The bathroom next to the kitchen was also cleaned by her, without any trace of water.

    Not only Xie Yunfang paid special attention to these details, but also asked the whole family to keep the house clean and tidy.  Zhang Hua once protested against this habit, which is close to cleanliness, but Xie Yunfang told her daughter to shut up with only one sentence. She said, "Your father is not in good health, afraid of the cold, and the house is dry, so your father is comfortable."  Some." (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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