Chapter 319: Snobbery and Selflessness (34)

PS: Extra chapter for the master of Meng and his dream

Bai Jianping went home.

He hadn't been home for a few days, had no change of clothes, and smelled bad. Malanhua finally couldn't stand it.

More importantly, grandma's condition had stabilized, and no one was needed to stay until the middle of the night.

Besides, it was actually not very useful for him to stay here. As a man, it was inconvenient to take care of grandma.

Grandma had a fractured sternum and couldn't take a bath by herself. She needed someone to help wipe her body.

She couldn't go to the toilet either, so she needed someone to help her.

This was really inconvenient. In addition to her, there were two other patients in the ward, all of whom were men.

Grandma was such a decent person, but now she had to face such embarrassment.

The only slight consolation was that there was a curtain between the beds.

In the dead of night, she often suffered from insomnia.

The old man didn't sleep well to begin with, and now she was full of thoughts, and couldn't fall asleep even more. Her mind was like a stove, with flames burning, burning her chest.

Zhang Tan and Malanhua asked the hospital if they could change wards. They didn’t want a single room, but a room with fewer people or only female patients.

But now the hospital is short of beds and overcrowded. To change wards, they need to wait until there is a vacancy and they meet the requirements before they can be notified to change.

In the same ward, an old man was lying on the middle bed. He was very old and drowsy. He also fell and stayed in bed for more than half a year. Now he has reached the end of his life.

Malanhua has been in the ward for so many days, and she has only seen him awake once.

This time he was awake, it was at night, and he was actually chatting with his grandmother.

At ten o'clock that night, Malanhua went back to rest. The next morning, she came to the ward and brought breakfast to her grandmother, but unexpectedly found that the middle bed was empty and the old man who was originally lying there was gone.

"He died last night." Grandma said.

Malanhua suddenly felt a strong current passing through her body, which made her hair stand on end.

She clearly saw the other person chatting with her grandmother last night.

Grandma said that it was a last gasp.

The person died at midnight. His children were all around him, seeing him off for the last time. He passed away peacefully.

That night, the nurses took him away and cleaned up the bed, as if he had never appeared.

In the morning, another patient in the ward, the middle-aged man with a broken head by the window, was discharged from the hospital impatiently.

He still needs to be hospitalized for observation, and his concussion has not healed.

But the other party didn't want to stay longer. Although he didn't say it, everyone knew that he didn't want to live in this ward, and he always felt scared.

His son took him away. Before leaving, his son suddenly said to Zhang Tan: "I know you, but it seems that you don't know me."

Zhang Tan: "?"

"That day we came out of Wutong Town to the county town and stopped your car on the road. You and your girlfriend ignored us."

After saying that, he left without looking back.

Zhang Tan remembered this person at this time. No wonder Su Lan said that he felt that the person in front of him looked familiar. It turned out to be those two! He didn't recognize them for so many days in the ward!

Malanhua wanted to change the ward for grandma, but there was no better one. Secondly, isn’t it better now? Before, she had to stay alone, but now she has a single room.

As for the death, grandma didn’t care.

As she said that, grandma’s face suddenly turned red. She endured it for a long time, and finally told Malanhua that she wanted to go to the toilet and had to trouble Malanhua.

A few days later, Su Lan passed away.

The pressure from the company was too great, and the senior management was already angry and embarrassed. If she didn’t go back, she really couldn’t explain it.

Grandma and Malanhua thanked her again and again, and appointed Xiaobai to send her off.

The idiot sat in Zhang Tan’s car and became a big light bulb, which made Boss Zhang have no chance to talk to Miss Su Su all the way.

He drove Su Lan all the way to Chengdu, sent her to the airport, and left after she boarded the plane.

On the way back, Xiaobai enviously said to Zhang Tan that his fat girlfriend was so well behaved, and she would take a bath with her fat girlfriend next time.

This idiot was reluctant to take a bath at first, but after taking a bath once, she found it quite fun. The water in the bath is always hot, not cold, which allows her to play in the water in winter without getting her butt bruised.

After all, Su Lan is not Malanhua. She is kind, gentle, and virtuous... (10,000 words omitted here)

After Su Lan left, Zhang Tan's life became much more monotonous, but there were more things to do at work, and finally someone found out that he had run away and was no longer in Pujiang.

On the crew side, the coordinator called and asked when Xiaobai would come back, and her role could not be delayed any longer.

Zhang Tan told him that Xiaobai could not come back in a short time, and the other party immediately suggested replacing Xiaobai, and it was still time to invite other young actors.

Of course, Zhang Tan refused without hesitation, "The remuneration has been paid, unless you pay for it."

The coordinator stopped talking immediately, but this guy did not give up, but ran to talk to director Liu Jinlu.

In addition, the company repeatedly asked him about his schedule, because the company's annual commendation meeting was about to be held, and he, as a popular award winner, could not be absent.

Furthermore, the annual "National Drama Festival" of Pujiang TV Station is about to be held. As a local production studio, it must participate. Last year, "Women at 30", "Little Drama Bones", and even "Unlucky Bear" were able to win one or two awards.

Wang Zhen, the director of the children's channel of Pujiang TV Station, called to ask if he could participate.

There are also things waiting for him to decide in the comic studio.

A lot of things are waiting for him to deal with.

After considering it, Zhang Tan also decided to leave.

It was meaningless for him to stay in Sichuan. It was not his turn to take care of grandma, and it was not convenient. The old lady's condition would not be cured in a short time, and she needed long-term bed rest.

The question now was, when would Xiaobai leave? Could she leave? Would she leave again?

There was also Malanhua and Bai Jianping.

These problems not only troubled Zhang Tan, but also Malanhua and the others.

One morning, Bai Chunhua, a little friend, told him with a sad face that she could not go back with him, and she had to stay to take care of grandma, because grandma only had her.

As she spoke, she was about to cry.

She used to cry and shout, and ran to Xiaohongma Academy late at night, just because she didn't want to leave, but now, she took the initiative to ask to stay, because compared with grandma, Xiaohongma Academy was secondary.

Zhang Tan felt a huge disappointment in his heart, but also felt warm. He didn't like Xiaobai's decision, but he understood and respected her decision, and even, putting aside his personal position, he applauded Xiaobai's decision.

Alas, this idiot~~ Zhang Tan thought. Since he met her, he felt like a dad. He was worried and scared unconsciously, and her figure became more and more in his mind.

He didn't think about Su Lan like this.

Zhang Tan told her to protect herself in the future, not to fight with others, and to keep in touch...

Xiaobai hugged his thigh and cried, and Malanhua came to find him.

"Idiot, you have to go with Boss Zhang." Malanhua said firmly.

Her idea was that Xiaobai would follow Zhang Tan back to Pujiang, Bai Jianping would also go, and she would stay.

She had not discussed this idea with Bai Jianping or her son and daughter-in-law.

In the evening, she and Bai Jianping went home and discussed this on the way, but Bai Jianping disagreed.

Malanhua said helplessly: "Then what do you say? If you have a better way, say it."

Bai Jianping opened his mouth to say something, but found that he couldn't think of anything better.

"Or we don't go to Pujiang, stay here."

His concept is that the family should go together or stay together.

But this idea was despised by Malanhua.

"Silly! This is the stupidest thing!!"

"Why are you scolding me for living here?"

Malanhua said that anyone could stay, except Xiaobai.

Xiaobai must go with Boss Zhang.

People from small places like them rarely have the opportunity to truly jump out of the circle and cross the class in their lifetime. Now Xiaobai has this possibility. She is receiving education in Pujiang, filming in the crew, and with the support of Boss Zhang, she will have a bright future if she continues on this path.

So no matter what, she must drive Xiaobai to Pujiang and cannot let her stay in Wutong Town.

Bai Jianping finds it difficult to accept such a view and thinks that Lao Ma is too snobbish.

Malanhua angrily gave an example. The doctor who came to visit grandma when she was just hospitalized was the top scorer in the college entrance examination in the county. This is great, but he can only develop in the county hospital.

"What's wrong with him? Isn't he very good? What's your heart? Why do you look down on others!!" Bai Jianping said angrily.

He is an honest man, not a bad person in his life, but he doesn't have much ability. By today's life standards, he is definitely not a successful person, but a typical useless good man.

Malanhua is more thoughtful than him, and her mind is more active. After years of wandering outside, she has seen some of the world and has become more aware of the regional differences. This gap is not a gap in intelligence, but in environment, circumstances, and knowledge... They have struggled all their lives and worked diligently, but that's just like the example of the doctor she cited.

Unless he has extraordinary wisdom, but among the multitude of people, we are all ordinary people.

Seeing that Bai Jianping still didn't understand, Malanhua blurted out: "Think about your little sister. She was so good and well-behaved, but what happened to her in the end? Old Bai, we are strange cats at the bottom of the well. If we don't jump out, we will never know how big the world outside is. Give Xiaobai a chance. Now she has a chance to jump out. Let's push her. If we are a little tougher on her now, she will be better in the future and she will understand us." (Strange cat = frog)

Bai Jianping clenched his fists, his eyes red and ferocious, staring at Malanhua, panting like thunder, like an angry old ox.

Malanhua looked at him fearlessly.

She had a clear conscience, and she was naturally fearless because she was selfless.

She was doing it for Xiaobai, so what if she was a little snobbish? Their experiences, Xiaobai's mother's experiences, these bloody pasts were not enough to make them realize the rules of this world.

She said firmly, word by word: "Let Xiaobai go, I stay."