Chapter 116: Single
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu
Zhang Fan had quite an awkward ti in his last several days in the respiratory departnt. There wasn’t much he could say about who was in the right or wrong.
It was now the end of May. Zhang Fan’s younger sister would soon be taking her college entrance examination. Zhang Fan was preparing to take vacation ti to visit ho.
Zhang Fan had been eating dinner at Shao Hua’s ho quite often now. The food was delicious, and the nutrition was balanced! The previously skinny Zhang Fan was gaining more weight now. Although he could also eat his fill at the hospital cafeteria previously, the food wasn’t nearly as delicious. It could only fill his stomach. But at Shao Hua’s ho, he was able to eat dumplings, buns, noodles, rice, and so on. Shao Hua’s family definitely wouldn’t let him eat the sa thing within a week. In addition, Shao Hua and her mother both rembered Zhang Fan’s favorite foods.
After dinner, Zhang Fan and Shao Hua took a walk outside together. “It’s the end of May, and I’m going to visit my hotown soon. Have you considered things?” Zhang Fan asked.
“Oh! I don’t know!” Shao Hua’s face was red as she looked down at her feet. “Do you want to go with you?”
“Of course, I want you to co with so much! I think that my parents would be overjoyed to et you!”
“I think that it’s more you that would be overjoyed!” Shao Hua had actually already discussed this topic with her parents. Although her parents had agreed that she could go, her mother had privately lectured Shao Hua yet again about the importance of not having sex before marriage for the sake of remaining pure!
“Yeah! Of course I’d be overjoyed!” Zhang Fan wanted to embrace Shao Hua out on the street, but she escaped his clutches.
“Walk properly. I still have serious matters to discuss with you,” Shao Hua told him.
“Okay. Say it.”
“Will you always treat this well in the future as well?” Shao Hua asked while directly looking at Zhang Fan.
“Yes, I will.”
“What about when I’m old and no longer so beautiful?”
“I didn’t pursue you because of how beautiful you were or not!” Well, Zhang Fan said the wrong thing here, so Shao Hua started hunting him down.
The two of them ssed around for a bit. Then, Zhang Fan said, “My family’s financial situation isn’t so good, but since I was lucky enough to earn such a nice sum of money, I’m going to discuss things with them after my younger sister finishes taking her college entrance examination. I’m going to invite my parents to co live with in Chasu City since this is an urban area rather than the poor part of town where they live back ho.”
“Yes, you should do that. You need to hurry up and finish renovating your new ho so that your parents can live in a new ho, then,” Shao Hua told him.
“It might be difficult. It’s likely that they won’t want to co here.”
“Then what will you do?” Shao Hua asked worriedly.
“I was thinking that if my parents don’t want to co to Chasu City, then I’ll use the 300,000 yuan that I received to purchase a new ho for them in our hotown. Is that alright with you?” Although Zhang Fan hadn’t gotten married to Shao Hua yet, he felt that such a major decision was sothing he should discuss with her.
“Will that be enough money? I heard that it’s not cheap to purchase a ho in inland China. I’ve saved up approximately 50,000 yuan over the past two years of working. I’ll transfer that money to your account when you go visit your parents.”
“Rich girl!”
“You dare to make fun of !” Shao Hua began to tickle Zhang Fan.
“Thank you for the offer! But, it shouldn’t be that expensive to purchase a ho in my hotown!”
“Didn’t you just say that we shouldn’t separate our finances so clearly, and that money should be shared? Why suddenly act so polite with ?”
“Haha! Then I’ll happily accept your money. Also, I want to drive all the way back to my hotown, what do you think?”
“That’s fine with , but I don’t think I can get as much vacation ti as you. How about this? I’ll co back earlier by plane. But, I’m worried about you driving back by yourself,” Shao Hua said.
“Vacation ti for you isn’t a problem at all. Just go talk to Sister Wang.”
“It isn’t good to trouble others!”
“Relax. It’s just as simple as issuing a command for her.”
Shao Hua returned ho and discussed the matter of visiting Zhang Fan’s parents with her own parents in more detail. Her parents both agreed to let Shao Hua go, and told her to mind her etiquette so that she would give Zhang Fan’s parents a good first impression.
Since it was now decided that she would visit Zhang Fan’s hotown, and that they would travel there by car, Shao Hua began all the preparations for the food and drink on the road trip, where to stop at, and so on. Zhang Fan had no thoughts about any of this whatsoever. He figured that they could just stop wherever they wanted along the way. This was probably a difference between a man’s and woman’s way of thinking.
It would be considered good manners to go visit Wang Qian at her ho to ask her to help out. Before visiting Wang Qian, Zhang Fan first went to the hospital administration departnt to request vacation ti. Zhang Fan was requesting a long vacation of 15 days by using all of his previously unused vacation ti combined, but such long vacation required the personal approval of the superintendent. So, the hospital administration director brought Zhang Fan over to Superintendent Ouyang’s office.
“Oh, you’re planning on going back to visit ho?” Superintendent Ouyang asked.
“Yeah, it’s been two years since I last returned. My younger sister is taking her college entrance examination soon, so I want to visit her.”
“Okay, go ahead. 15 days doesn’t seem like enough. How about I approve you for a full month of vacation instead? Properly spend so ti with your family,” Superintendent Ouyang said quite generously.
“Thank you, Superintendent.” Zhang Fan was really delighted by the outco.
Actually, Superintendent Ouyang was so generous with giving him vacation ti not only because of Zhang Fan’s recent accomplishnt with the ergency military patient surgery, but also because she had coincidentally run into Li Xiao at the Chasu City Communist Party Committee governnt building yesterday. Li Xiao had even especially inquired how Zhang Fan was doing. This was why Superintendent Ouyang had given him so much vacation ti.
After Shao Hua got off from work, Zhang Fan and Shao Hua prepared to go visit Wang Qian’s ho together. They passed by a supermarket, where Shao Hua purchased so fruits. Zhang Fan told her not to buy anything else, because he felt that Wang Qian wouldn’t lack for anything, so fresh fruits would make the best gifts.
Wang Qian typically left her work post in the bank quite early. She had already finished making several dishes at her ho as Zhang Fan had called her in the morning to let her know that they were coming over. “It’s fine to just visit. There was no need to bring any gifts! Just take these fruits back with you as they’ll go bad if left here at my place. There’s only and my husband, and he’s hardly ho. It will take three days to eat a single apple,” Wang Qian half complained as she invited Shao Hua and Zhang Fan inside.
“Sister Wang, what delicious food have you made today? Braised fish? I can sll it right from the doorway!” Zhang Fan glanced in the direction of the kitchen.
“Oh! You have such a great nose! Yesterday, soone gave so Russian coldwater fish, so I braised it. Have a taste in a bit! Please have a seat first. Let go check on the fish.”
Shao Hua followed Wang Qian into the kitchen to help out. Zhang Fan didn’t join them, and instead poured so tea for himself. Ever since Zhang Fan had t Wang Qian’s husband over New Year’s, Zhang Fan stopped coming here so often. Wang Qian also knew the reason why. There was no need for explanation. That was just how people were. It would take a while for Wang Qian’s husband, Old Jiang, to accept Zhang Fan. Forcing him wouldn’t be good, so things would have to be taken slowly.
Wang Qian was quite happy as she ate and chatted together with the young couple. Normally, she actually skipped dinner.
Zhang Fan had zero alcohol tolerance, so he didn’t drink. Wang Qian and Shao Hua had so red wine for themselves.
“Sister Wang, the hospital specially gave an entire month of vacation ti so that I can visit ho. I’m planning on taking Shao Hua to visit my hotown together with , but I’ll have to trouble you to help her get as much vacation ti from the bank. Otherwise, Shao Hua won’t be able to request so many vacation days.”
“You’re preparing to go together?” Wang Qian chuckled.
“Yeah!” Shao Hua was so embarrassed that she lowered her face completely to her bowl as she ate!
“Okay, I’ll go talk to her boss about it tomorrow. How many months of vacation does she need?”
“Just one month!” Zhang Fan was quite stunned. Could it be that Wang Qian was easily capable of giving Shao Hua even several months of vacation?
“Alright. Wait before you leave, I have so gifts for you.”
After dinner, Wang Qian handed Zhang Fan two large bags filled with presents from her. “This isn’t much, it’s just so smokes and wine. Say hello to your parents from .”
When Zhang Fan returned to his apartnt and checked the gifts, wow! They were all top-class smokes and wine. Since Zhang Fan’s father didn’t drink alcohol, Zhang Fan only took two bottles of wine and half the smokes, and prepared to give the rest to Shao Hua’s father.
“These are gifts for your parents. This isn’t proper,” Shao Hua hurriedly tried to refuse.
“There’s nothing improper at all. They were given to , so I can decide what to do with them. Hurry and take this bag of smokes, I can’t carry any more.” Zhang Fan forced Shao Hua to take her portion of the smokes and wine before leaving. Since he was leaving the border province soon for an entire month, he would need to greet and inform many people about this, which was why he couldn’t waste any ti.
He needed to tell Li Xiao, Kang Hua, Chen Qifa, Director Gao Shijun, Li Hui, Li Liang, and Wang Yanan. He also needed to personally visit Li Xiao and Gao Shijun as just calling and informing them over the phone would be considered impolite since he was closer to them.
Li Xiao also gave Zhang Fan so presents of deer antlers and caterpillar fungi when she learned that he was returning to his hotown. Her back pain was now completely cured. When she went for a checkup, she was inford that her slipped spine disc had already returned to its proper location, which truly made her overjoyed.
Gao Shijun didn’t say too much. He just told Zhang Fan to be careful while driving.
Zhang Fan simply exchanged greetings and temporary goodbyes with Chen Qifa and Kang Hua over the phone.
When Li Hui learned that Zhang Fan was driving his girlfriend to visit his hotown together, Li Hui felt so much pain due to jealousy!
This was because back when Li Hui and Zhang Fan had arrived in the border province together, Li Hui had a girlfriend, and Zhang Fan had been single! But two years later, Zhang Fan was taking a girlfriend ho with him, yet Li Hui was now single! Although Li Hui had tried to find a new girlfriend ever since his breakup, either he felt that the girl wasn’t good enough for him, or the girl would feel that he wasn’t good enough for her!
Li Hui was so lonely now!
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