Chapter 2186
A Heartwarming End of the Year
Yan Bugui suffered a minor stroke, making him and Liu Haizhong fellow sufferers.
Actually, the doctor had already warned him about his health during his last hospitalization.
The doctor advised him to pay attention to nutrition and to avoid being cunning.
At first, the hospital doctors thought that Yan Jiecheng and his brother were being unfilial.
But it was only after the incident of flaunting wealth in the hospital ward that the attending physician learned about some of the Yan family's bizarre past.
I also gained some understanding of Yan Bugui's personality.
From a medical perspective, the probability of someone like Yan Bugui suffering a stroke is quite high.
He enjoys drinking cheap alcohol, likes to eat pickled vegetables, is malnourished, and is also calculating...
In other words, this is, after all, the capital of China, and its medical conditions are among the best in the country.
And now everyone is equal, and some service departments do not look at people with prejudice.
Otherwise, whether Yan Bugui would survive this time is another matter entirely.
Although both suffered strokes, Yan Bugui's treatment was far worse than Liu Haizhong's.
What kind of treatment does Liu Haizhong receive now?
The whole family basically revolves around the two people, the elderly and the young.
The younger one is naturally Liu Guangtian's son, and the older one is Liu Haizhong.
Liu Guangtian and his wife had calculated things very clearly: if the old man lived happily for one more day, Liu Haizhong could receive his pension for one more day.
The pension for senior technicians is quite substantial.
It's much higher than Xiao Dang's regular salary.
So, what reason does the Liu family have not to serve Liu Haizhong well?
But the Yan family is different.
Yan Bugui does receive a pension, but his past actions have deeply hurt the eldest son and his wife.
Besides, Yan Jiecheng was also afraid that his father, with his crippled body, would try to play the victim for him again.
So, ever since Yan Jiecheng took Yan Bugui out of the hospital, he has never come back, using the excuse of needing to clean up the shop.
Lan Hua is even less likely to come; she's too busy!
Moreover, as long as Yan Bugui covets her daughter's job, she has more right to hate the old couple than Yan Jiecheng.
His daughter is not everything to Yan Jiecheng; he has brothers, sisters, and parents.
But that is the whole story of the orchid.
Yan Jiedi didn't hold any grudge against the old couple, but she had just given birth and was currently in her postpartum period, so she didn't have time to come and take care of Yan Bugui.
Fortunately, Yan Bugui was thin and not heavy, so Yang Ruihua was able to take care of him on her own.
As for Yan Jiefang, he's been feeling quite frustrated lately.
Yan Bugui was always thinking about how to secure a place for his grandson to survive in Beijing.
Yan Jiefang tacitly allowed Yan Bugui to handle the matter.
Anyway, he won't ask his older brother's family for these things.
His sister-in-law had helped him set up his stall, and he felt ashamed to do so. He was thinking of taking away the things that his older brother and sister-in-law had left for his niece.
Putting himself in Yan Jiecheng's shoes, he wouldn't have agreed to Yan Bugui's arrangement either.
Therefore, Yan Jiefang's attitude was indifferent.
He watched coldly as his own father went through all that trouble, indifferently watching Yan Bugui suffer a stroke; in fact, deep down, he wished Yan Bugui would just die of anger this time…
Although he sometimes felt ashamed when he thought about his inner thoughts.
But that's the reality. If Yan Bugui dies of anger this time, it will be most beneficial to him.
Although Yan Bugui's dizziness and stroke occurred two or three hours after his argument with Yan Jiecheng.
After arguing in the afternoon, Yan Bugui was filled with anger that evening. He drank some alcohol and collapsed to the ground when he got up.
But if Yan Bugui really died, then as long as he let the news slip out even slightly, all the neighbors would surely believe that Yan Jiecheng had angered his own father to death.
Yan Jiecheng naturally had no face to come and claim Yan Bugui's 13,000 yuan in savings.
The third son is in the south, so who else but him can support the family and inherit everything?
But the doctor's superb skills pulled Yan Bugui back from the brink of death.
This put Yan Jiefang in a difficult position. He lived with his parents and couldn't simply ignore the situation.
He even had to imitate how Liu Guangtian treated Liu Haizhong.
But Yan Jiefang himself is also embroiled in numerous lawsuits.
Who has the time to worry about an old man?
Just like when his son cried every day after school let out for winter break, wanting to go back to Jibei, that was enough to annoy Yan Jiefang.
Yan Jiefang would definitely not agree to his son returning to northern Hebei.
He was afraid too!
Adults and children definitely care about different things.
For the child, the northern part of Hebei is his home, while this place is merely a temporary lodging.
Although Beijing was a prosperous city with abundant resources.
But that applies to other people's homes.
In the Yan family, with the elderly couple in charge, they lived a life worse than beggars.
The father and son lived in this cramped space, and their every need for food, drink, and transportation depended on the whims of the elderly couple.
This made the child quite uncomfortable.
Although his family in northern Hebei was poor, he had a happy childhood there, with his friends and loving parents.
Unlike now, Yan Bugui watches over his studies every day.
If his grades were even slightly below par, he would be endlessly scolded by his grandfather.
The children here don't feel the warmth of returning home; instead, they feel more constraint and immense pressure...
So at night, the child cried to Yan Jiefang countless times, saying he wanted to go home and didn't want to stay here anymore.
This is where Yan Jiefang feels most at ease.
He wanted to give his son the best life, but his son didn't appreciate it.
The constant fuss from the elderly and the commotion from the children left him utterly exhausted, both physically and mentally.
A thick white fog blanketed the area; it was nearly ten o'clock in the morning.
Yan Jiefang, panting heavily, pushed the tricycle up the steps.
That concludes today's stall activity.
To be honest, it's not bad for making money.
While he wouldn't be considered extremely wealthy, his income was far greater than what he earned in northern Hebei.
The key point is that his job isn't very complicated.
His kitchen skills weren't as good as his sister-in-law's, so he chose the simplest business.
~Make pancakes!
All you need to do is prepare one batch of batter each day, made from mung bean flour and millet flour.
Use a 7:3 ratio, and you can also add a little wheat flour. Then stir with cold water to make a smooth, flowing batter.
You can get fried dough sticks from other stalls.
We already have the remaining pickled vegetables at home.
Even if your homemade marinated food is a little less perfect, chopping it up and adding it in will make it almost the same.
I tried the sauce at another stall once, and it was pretty much the same as what I'd learned.
They can sell seven or eight yuan worth of goods a day and earn three or four yuan.
As long as the weather is good, he can earn a little over 100 yuan a month, which is much higher than his salary in northern Hebei.
So, he really didn't have the will to go back to northern Hebei for a meager monthly salary of twenty or thirty yuan and have to deal with those relatives again.
"Second brother, come over here and help me turn your dad over."
I took the blanket from under him and washed it.
"Your dad peed again yesterday..." Yang Ruihua saw Yan Jiefang return and, ignoring the fatigue on Yan Jiefang's face, immediately began giving orders. (End of Chapter)