Lin Shuyue looked for a while. Du Xueli had already left the house. Lou Fengqin and her aunt were busy hanging up the clothes they brought. Lin Shuxing turned on the TV and clicked on the local opera channel. Immediately, the sound of humming and singing filled the whole room.
Lin Shuxing walked back to the room, and Bai Wenhua and Uncle Lou went downstairs to pay.
Lin Shuyue sat on the bed and chatted with her grandmother Lou. Her aunt fetched some water and cleaned the room inside and out.
She was like this when she was in the hospital. She always felt that others didn't clean well enough and she had to do it herself.
There were two knocks on the door. Lin Shuyue walked over to open it. Du Xueli, who had returned, was standing outside. She was holding a tray in her hand. Inside the tray was a transparent square bowl. Purple sweet potato balls lay quietly in the milky white coconut milk. The rich aroma of coconut milk filled the air.
"This is the purple sweet potato coconut milk the kitchen made this morning. I'll bring it over for everyone to try."
Lin Shuyue moved aside to make way: "Thank you, please come in."
Du Xueli entered the room, and Lou Fengqin and Aunt Lou came out and thanked Du Xueli one after another. Du Xueli said to Lin Shuyue and the others with a friendly smile on her face.
"At our sanatorium, every customer gets three meals a day. The afternoon snack is basically just something like sugary drinks. Our doctors have already studied Aunt Lou's case and are sure she can have sugary drinks, but you're old, so you need to limit your intake. This bowl is yours."
Du Xueli took out the first bowl of purple sweet potato coconut milk from the tray and gave it to Grandma Lou with a smile.
Grandma Lou was so well taken care of that she couldn't hide the smile on her face: "Thank you so much."
Du Xueli smiled and said you're welcome, then took out a small notebook and pen. "Auntie, since this is your first time here, we need to do a quick reviews with you. Do you have any dietary restrictions? Do you usually eat onions, ginger, and garlic?"
"No, no, people of our generation aren't picky eaters." Grandma Lou waved her hand. "I just don't like sweet potatoes. I ate them for half my life when I was young, and I'm really tired of them. Every time I eat them, I get nausea and heartburn."
After Grandma Lou finished speaking, she added, "But if it were made into a candy, I would eat it. It's sweet and delicious."
As Grandma Lou spoke, she smacked her lips. "What a child, what a child!" Grandma Lou's behavior has become more and more like a child in recent years. Her words made everyone laugh.
Lin Shuyue had looked at the menu downstairs when she came up just now. Now, looking at the food Du Xueli brought and the detailed records, she asked curiously, "Sister Du, you have a great environment here, good food and good accommodation, so why are the prices so low?"
Honestly, even though it was only 2005, it was really hard to live in such a good nursing home for just over a thousand a month. The environment was so good that many people would come even for two or three thousand a month.
Du Xueli's smile remained unchanged. "It's like this. Our hot spring resort just opened this year, and this is a promotion for opening. Come back in two months, and the price won't be this high."
Aunt Lou chimed in, "Your cousin's classmate works here, and he introduced us here. He also said this is a discount, and it won't be the same price after a while."
Du Xueli smiled and nodded, then said goodbye to Lin Shuyue and the others and walked out. Before she reached the door, a voice came from the intercom on her collar, and she left while talking.
Lou Fengqin said, "The scenery here is beautiful, and the facilities are good, but it's too remote. If they don't lower the price, I guess no one will come."
"I guess it won't be like this in two years." Lin Shuxing understood more and more that after being tired outside for a long time, he wanted to go to a place like this surrounded by mountains and rivers to play.
Hang Jiabai called, and Lin Shuyue left her family and lay on the balcony, looking at the bright roses while talking to Hang Jiabai on the phone.
As the January deadline drew closer, Hang Jiabai became busier and busier. During this period, the time he spent texting and calling Lin Shuyue was squeezed out when he went to the toilet and before going to bed.
Therefore, both of them cherish the time they can spend on the phone.
"It snowed heavily in the capital today. When I woke up this morning, there was a thick layer of snow on the ground. It's already ankle-deep. This morning, we have a half-day holiday."
As Hang Jiabai spoke with a slightly cold voice, patches of snow scenes emerged in Lin Shuyue's mind. That was the scenery she saw when she was on the dam.
"It must be beautiful." Snow was too tempting for a southerner: "Ah Bai, take some pictures for me."
"Okay." Hang Jiabai agreed immediately and the two began chatting.
At the end of the conversation, Hang Jiabai said, "I called my mother this morning, and she said that all the poachers have been sentenced, every one of them, to death."
Lin Shuyue was surprised: "So fast?"
Hang Jiabai hummed. "The cases they committed, including the evidence, are all on the table at the Mulan County Public Security Bureau. We just couldn't catch them before. Now that they've been caught, they're sentencing them swiftly to set an example and deter other poachers."
"Besides her, Cao Manjin's mother, whose name was Li something, was also sentenced to death. Cao Manjin's husband, Wei Guoyong, was sentenced to five years. My mother said that Cao Manjin has already filed for divorce."
"Due to the actions of Wei Guoyong's family, the court allowed their divorce. Cao Manjin is living with Erya on the forest farm."
"My eldest brother has been transferred to the headquarters." Hang Jiabai told Lin Shuyue all the news he heard from Yin Xin.
Lin Shuyue listened and felt that it was something that had happened not long ago, but it seemed like it had happened a long time ago.
Lin Shuyue was a little dazed. She asked, "Can I send out the video and report I have?"
"That's OK." Hang Jiabai said.
The two chatted for a while, and when the phone ended, Hang Jiabai said, "The research on the sprayer has yielded some results."
After taking Lin Shuyue's spray, the Mulan County police tested it once and then sent it to a research institute located deep in the mountains of Rehe City.
The principle of that thing is very simple. The good and evil discrimination system has already made a perfect outlet for Lin Shuyue's spray, and no one can detect anything wrong.
This is also the reason why Lin Shuyue is not afraid that the spray in her hand will be taken away by the police.
"I hope it can be put into mass production as soon as possible." Lin Shuyue hopes that every girl and child can have a bottle of such a spray in their hands, at least it is a means of self-protection.
"Yes."
The two fell silent after they finished talking, but they listened to each other's breathing quietly. They didn't want to hang up the phone, so Lin Shuyue continued to look at the scenery.
It was not until someone called Hang Jiabai's name that the two of them hung up reluctantly.
Uncle Lou and his friends also planned to go out for dinner. They booked a restaurant at a farmhouse outside the mountain gate.
The group headed downstairs again. On the first floor, Du Xueli knew they were leaving and hurried over to see them off. She personally supported Grandma Lou.
Passing by the artificial lake, Lin Shuyue turned her head to take a look. The caregiver she saw upstairs was pushing an old woman towards them. The old woman might have drooled, so she took out a handkerchief and gently wiped it off for her.
This action made Lou Fengqin and others' favorability towards the hot spring resort increase rapidly.
Du Xueli naturally saw it too, and the smile on her face became even more intense: "That's the top-notch caregiver our villa hired from somewhere else."
"These caregivers have been working in the industry for at least ten years, and their praise rate exceeds 80% during their career." Du Xueli's face was full of pride when she said this.
Aunt Lou looked at the meticulous nurse and said, "This professionalism is quite different. When we were in the hospital before, most of the nurses were just so-so towards their employers, just doing an okay job."
"It's because I've seen so many irresponsible caregivers that I insist on taking care of my mother myself." Aunt Lou's words were half true and half false.
Even though these caregivers are so good, Aunt Lou is still worried about leaving Grandma Lou with them.
At her age, the elders are all old. How many more years can they spend together? Aunt Lou has already seen off her own parents and her father-in-law. If Grandma Lou passes away, she will no longer have such close elders.
Grandma Lou had been with Aunt Lou for many years and knew what Aunt Lou was thinking. She often told Lin Shuyue and the others that having Aunt Lou as her daughter-in-law was a blessing from her past life.
As for Second Aunt Lou, Grandma Lou didn't like to mention her.
Lin Shuyue and her group drove away from the gate of the villa. From a distance, they could still see Du Xueli standing at the gate. Du Xueli walked back only after she could no longer see them.
This service adds a lot of points to the villa.
The farmhouse at the mountain gate is very close to the villa. Its main dish is seafood. When you park your car and walk in, the first thing you see is the various seafood raised in the pond in the yard.
Uncle Lou treated the guests to a lavish meal, with lobster, abalone and crabs.
After dinner, everyone returned to the villa. This time, Grandma Lou and Aunt Lou stayed there.
Uncle Lou and Lou Fengqin were particularly worried and kept giving instructions to Grandma Lou and the others.
If the money had not been paid, and if his second uncle Lou and his family had not come to the house every now and then to make noise, which would not be conducive to Grandma Lou's recovery, he really wanted to ask them to go home.
Du Xueli just watched with a smile on her face, no matter what Lou Fengqin said to Uncle Lou, she just watched with a smile on her face.
Half an hour later, the group walked back, looking back every few steps.
In the pavilion above the water lily pond, a group of elderly people in their fifties and sixties sat together talking, and two people were playing chess.
Two or three caregivers were taking care of them, and both sides were very curious about each other.
Lin Shuyue saw the old woman who had just drooled. Du Xueli was chatting with them. Lin Shuyue and others stood there and waited for her.
Du Xueli specifically asked the old woman's caregiver: "Where is Ah Mei?"
"Old Xing said she wanted some water, so she went to get some. She'll be back soon."
"Aunt Xing, how are you feeling today?"
"Okay, okay." Aunt Xing replied with great effort, her words a little unclear.
Du Xueli did the same thing, asked other elderly people, and then walked outside.
Just as a group of people walked out of the lotus pond, a woman in her forties walked over from a distance, holding a thermos cup in her hand.
She was getting closer and closer, and the good and evil system sounded the alarm in time.
[ Ding ~~~ A criminal with a sin value of 60% is detected nearby. Please pay attention. ]
[ Ding ~~~ A criminal with a sin value of 60% is detected nearby. Please pay attention. ]
[ Ding ~~~ A criminal with a sin value of 60% is detected nearby. Please pay attention. ]
Lin Shuyue frowned, turned on the good and evil identification system, and confirmed that the one with a sin value of 60% was the caregiver who walked towards the old woman in the pavilion.
But besides her, there was another person whose sin value was 30%. Lin Shuyue clicked on it and found that person's name was Xing Yueya.
"Auntie Xing, the water is here." Amei, whose sin value was 60%, spoke gently. She opened the thermos in her hand and placed it in front of Xing Yueya. She also added a straw.
Du Xueli saw Lin Shuyue looking at them and said with a smile, "Ah Mei was recruited from Yunzhou Sanatorium by us. She was particularly reluctant to leave her current employer, and her current employer also couldn't do without her, so she followed us here."
"Aunt Xing suffered from hemiplegia two years ago. If it weren't for Ah Mei, she would have died long ago."
Du Xueli was very emotional.
Lin Shuyue, however, matched Ah Mei with the caregiver Wu Dongyan had mentioned the day before, based on the Yunzhou Sanatorium, Ah Mei, and her appearance. This Ah Mei didn't look much like the person in the photo Wu Dongyan had shown her.