Chapter 22 Do you think it would be okay if I took care of our grandma?
"It's just a minor operation. It only takes two or three hours. Once you wake up, nothing will happen."
Jiang Xiaoping stood in front of the hospital bed and explained to her mother in an understatement.
"Did she deceive you like this before?"
Grandma turned around and asked Jiang He in a low voice, but she didn't expect Jiang He to form a "united front" with her mother this time. "It's really a small operation. It can be completed in two hours, and you can get out of bed and leave the hospital in a week."
"Can you walk like flying in one month?" Liang Xiujing asked with a smile.
"That won't work, you have to use crutches." Jiang Xiaoping corrected him seriously.
"Yes, your mind is still spinning. I thought you were frightened and fainted!"
Liang Xiujing sat up with difficulty, grabbed Jiang Xiaoping's right hand that wanted to tear out the bald mohair sweater, then took Jiang He's left hand, put it together and patted it hard twice, "It's not about minor surgery, why are you two so nervous? Don't worry. , As for my body, it’s very good and I can bear it, so there’s nothing to be afraid of!”
Liang Xiujing kept her word. The elderly people in the same ward were noisy, crying and shouting because they were afraid of surgery, and some even cursed and hit them. But she acted like a normal person and was eager to go to the operating table tomorrow.
"Grandma, are you really not scared?" Jiang He couldn't help but ask while accompanying Liang Xiujing for a preoperative examination.
"Why aren't you afraid? My bones have been replaced by Tao ones... I heard that from now on I will walk like that robot, making a creaking sound!"
Liang Xiujing was drawing blood from the seventh tube at the time. When she said this, the nurse was amused. She also smiled at Jiang He and gestured for her to go see Jiang Xiaoping, who was on the phone not far away to consult a trauma and joint specialist. .
"Look at your mother like that. If I said she was scared, she would definitely cry... Oops, your mother was so cute that she cried. Just when you were discharged from the hospital, she would hide in the room and cry at all times. Her eyes were as swollen as walnuts. It seems like you won’t admit it even if you ask!”
Jiang He looked at Liang Xiujing in surprise. She was in so much pain at that time that she couldn't find the energy to care about the people around her, so she naturally didn't notice.
Liang Xiujing made a silent gesture to Jiang He mysteriously, "Don't tell your mother, I said it."
Grandma's surgery was successful, but there was a long incision on her thigh, which made Jiang He's neck look much more delicate.
When she came out of the operating room, she was still fully awake from the anesthesia. She looked as if she had drunk too much. She was dazed. Jiang He stood in front of her. She completely turned a blind eye, as if she didn't know him. All she could see was Jiang Xiaoping. , holding her hand tightly and not letting go, and kept saying something vaguely.
Jiang He stood aside a little helplessly, looking at her mother and her grandma stuck together, feeling a little uncomfortable for no reason.
A week later, Liang Xiujing was discharged from the hospital smoothly. As soon as the three of them arrived home, Jiang Xiaoping mysteriously took out two peace charms from her bag.
"This is what I specially asked for. It is a peace charm written by Taoist Priest Lin Yunguan himself. You two should have one each and keep it close to me!"
Jiang He took it curiously. The peace talisman was folded into a triangle, and there were faint traces of dark red cinnabar underneath the yellow paper.
"Don't get it wet or dirty, otherwise it won't work."
Jiang Xiaoping held her waist and sat awkwardly on the sofa. She and Jiang He had just carried Liang Xiujing into the house with a wheelchair, but now her waist seemed to be a little tight, and she began to feel faint pain.
"This is all feudal superstition." Sitting in a wheelchair, Liang Xiujing held high the great banner of Marxist atheism, "I don't want it."
"This kind of thing is 'I would rather believe that it exists than that it doesn't exist', okay? He'er, stuff your grandma under her pillow later."
Jiang Xiaoping drank more than half a cup of water in one breath, looked at the old and young in front of her, and couldn't help but shake her head, "Our family is really full of the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled... but the bathing center has been a little busy recently, and I can't I have to find someone to take care of you two since I am always at home." "I can take care of grandma." Jiang He volunteered.
"You? Just pull it off. You are just fine, so you can't be tired. Besides, you don't know much about body care and rehabilitation exercises, so you still need to find someone more professional."
Jiang Xiaoping had a good plan, but she didn't expect that it would be so difficult to find a reliable nanny.
"Zhao Ying, I remember that your family hired a nanny for your grandfather some time ago? How about it?" She asked the accountant of the Huaihai Road store to find out more about the situation, but as soon as the other party opened the chat box, he couldn't close it. , the bitter water poured out.
"Oh, Sister Jiang, please don't mention it. I get angry when I talk about hiring a nanny. During the job trial, I didn't know how good I was. I was professional, hard-working, and spoke very little. I was still thinking at the time. , I'm so lucky, the first one is so suitable. But as soon as the contract was signed, I immediately returned to my original shape, and I became a "lazy and greedy" person. She didn't come to be a nanny, but basically came to be an uncle. That talkative person Oh...Oh, she wants to use a loudspeaker to announce the things about our family so that the whole community knows about it."
The more Zhao Ying talked, the angrier she became. She subconsciously slapped the receipt at hand, "Do you know what's the most outrageous thing? She actually abused my grandfather and tore his ears off! She was really mad at me. I wanted to call the police. , my dad still stopped me, saying that it’s not easy for anyone, I really don’t know what this old man is thinking!”
Jiang Xiaoping was stunned when she heard this, and Zhao Ying sighed angrily, "You don't know that good nannies, like good men, are not in the market at all now. In fact, it's my relatives who use them, and my dad is looking for me now." My cousin from far away is taking care of my grandpa, and the old man is obviously much better... If you have to look outside, then your home must be equipped with surveillance cameras, preferably more, otherwise you don’t know what they can do!"
Relatives?
The problem is that Jiang Xiaoping has lost contact with her so-called relatives a long time ago, and she doesn't know whether they are alive or dead.
Although Zhao Ying's words were bluffing, the nanny still had to keep looking.
Jiang Xiaoping thought that if she spent more money, she could always find something good, but she found that it was not that simple.
She carefully selected two of the high-end nanny candidates sent by the housekeeping company. In her opinion, the resumes of those two were too beautiful to find any faults. When she showed it to Jiang He, she immediately discovered the problem. , A person who has not been employed for a long time often changes jobs, and a person whose training time is too short is suspected of being unprofessional.
Jiang Xiaoping suddenly felt as big as one head and two heads. She leaned on the boss's chair in frustration and accidentally stretched her waist. The pain made her grin.
The night before yesterday, she helped her mother get up to go to the toilet, and accidentally twisted her waist. She tried acupuncture and roasting lamps, but it didn't feel better at all.
"Sister Jiang, are you busy now?" There was a knock on the office door suddenly, and it was Zhang Jiefang.
"What's wrong? Are you in trouble?"
"It's nothing." As soon as Zhang Jiefang entered the office, she closed the door that had been ajar. "I heard from the finance department that you want to find a nanny for He'er's grandma, right?"
"Yeah, I haven't found the right one yet. I'm really worried... Jiefang, do you have any acquaintances over there who can recommend me? If so, that would be a great help to me."
"Haha, what's that? Take a look at this first." Zhang Jiefang handed Jiang Xiaoping a palm-sized blue leather certificate.
""Pension Medical Care Certificate"?" Jiang Xiaoping opened it hesitantly and found that the three characters "Zhang Jiefang" were written clearly in the name column, and there was a one-inch color photo of her next to it.
"When did you get such a certificate? It was issued by our city's Human Resources and Social Security Bureau!" Jiang Xiaoping looked at Zhang Jiefang in surprise and joy, "Jiefang, you really hide it!"
"Actually, I don't understand either. It was...my son asked me to take the exam, and I never took it seriously after passing the exam."
Zhang Jiefang rubbed her hands awkwardly, "I just want to ask, do you think it would be okay if I went to take care of our grandma?"
(End of this chapter)
