Chapter 1368 I would have made the same choice back then
When Li Xiangnan rushed to the ward, hearty laughter was coming from the room. When he stepped in, the solemn expressions of Pang's father and mother that he had imagined did not appear.
But it was another scene that shocked him.
On the floor of the ward, there were two large snakeskin bags, bulging and filled with heavy things.
A middle-aged man who looks 60% like Pang Weinong, with dark skin but a pair of eyes like Pang Weinong's, frighteningly bright, is taking something out from inside.
He was wearing a navy blue Zhongshan suit, the collar of which was worn white, with half of his faded shirt faintly visible at the cuffs. He was wearing cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles, the uppers of which were stained with dust.
This is obviously Pang Weinong's father, a typical Han Chinese who is used to living in the northern Xinjiang. Although his clothes have dust from the northern Xinjiang on them, they are generally clean and simple, with the unique style of the northern Xinjiang.
The middle-aged stranger woman at the side caught Li Xiangnan's attention. She was wearing a dark brown double-breasted long skirt and a coarse cloth headscarf tied into a simple knot. The hem of her skirt reached the ground. The old silver bracelet on her wrist touched the aluminum lunch box, making a clear sound. She was holding the lunch box and breaking the naan into pieces and soaking them in an enamel jar.
"Ili wine, Mohuer grapes, Kalabula apples, Zhaosu potatoes, Nalati black bee honey, Zhaosu garlic, bacon and horse intestines, Gongliu walnuts, Huocheng tree-dried apricots and Huocheng cherry plums... I brought a lot of local specialties, Wei Nong, do you think it's enough?"
There was no dissatisfaction or worry in Mr. Pang's tone, only blessings and relief from a father.
Pang Weinong was standing beside the bed, wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes with his sleeve. Hearing this, he nodded repeatedly and kept saying, "Enough, enough."
Father Ding stood by the window with red eyes, while Mother Ding accompanied Mother Pang in taking care of Ding Xiang carefully.
The harmony of this family completely exceeded Li Xiangnan's expectations and made him completely relieved.
He originally thought that Pang Weinong's father and mother must be struggling when they learned that Pang Weinong was going to marry Ding Xiang.
He even suspected that the reason Wei Nong used for his parents' consent when persuading Ding's father a few days ago was a lie he told under pressure.
Now it seems that Wei Nong did not lie, and the Pang family really recognized this daughter-in-law, even though she was dying.
"Brother Nan!"
Seeing Li Xiangnan standing at the door, Pang Weinong quickly called out and became excited, "This is my dad, my Apa!"
"Hello, uncle and aunt!" Li Xiangnan walked in.
Father Pang hurried over and shook hands with him using the etiquette of the Central Plains. "I've heard Wei Nong talk about you many times. Thank you for taking care of him when he was in the queue!"
"Uncle, you are too kind! I didn't do anything extra!" Li Xiangnan smiled and held his hand tightly, "Welcome to Yanjing, uncle!"
"Weinong and Dingxiang's affairs are also thanks to you!" After saying this, Father Pang let go of his hand, grabbed his shoulder bag from the side, and stuffed it into Li Xiangnan's arms, "This is what I brought specially for you, a specialty of Northern Xinjiang..."
"Uncle, I can't do that! It's too expensive and so far away..." Li Xiangnan subconsciously refused.
"Compared with the friendship you showed us in helping Wei Nong, it's nothing! Just accept it!" Father Pang's dark face was full of gratitude.
Li Xiangnan couldn't refuse and felt the thing in his arms getting heavier and heavier.
"Then I would like to thank you very much, uncle!"
After saying this, he knew that both parents still had some things to discuss, so he took the initiative to say goodbye and returned to the office with his things.
Seeing that he came in with gifts, Lin Chuqiao and Zhang Jingyang guessed that they were sent by Pang's father. Looking at the bulging appearance of the gifts, they knew that there were quite a lot of things.
Li Xiangnan put the things on the table. Curiosity made him slightly open a corner of the bag, and he unexpectedly found a letter inside, addressed to Li Xiangnan himself.
He opened the letter in confusion and unexpectedly found a piece of letter paper and ten crumpled big unity notes inside.
"Thank you for taking care of Wei Nong. This is Miss Ding's medical expenses. We don't know what to buy with the extra money. After we leave, we'd like to trouble you to take care of Xiao Pang. He has a soft temper and will inevitably be bullied when he leaves his hometown. Please. You must accept this money, please!"
Li Xiangnan closed his eyes and sat in the chair, looking at the crooked words. Between the lines, he could feel the heavy love of Father Pang for his son.
Noticing that his expression was not right, Lin Chuqiao stood up and asked, "What's wrong? Xiangnan."
Reaching out his hand and holding up Father Pang's letter, he sighed slightly and said, "Take a look!"
Lin Chuqiao came over in confusion, took the letter and looked at it, then suddenly fell silent. When Zhang Jingyang came over and also read the letter, she said, "Weinong has a pair of considerate parents. Dingxiang is blessed!"
Yes!
Blessed are the lilacs!
However, it would be great if this blessing was even deeper!
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In the afternoon, Wang Defa went to the Yanjing Military Region. After returning, he brought the household registration staff from the street office to help Pang Weinong and Ding Xiang register their marriage on the spot.
Towards evening, Li Xiangnan was smoking in front of the window when he saw Pang's father carrying a bucket of water to a hillside beside the embankment outside the hospital wall. He went downstairs to take a look.
"Weinong said that Miss Ding's ward happens to overlook this hillside, so I thought of coming over to water the flowers so that they can bloom more beautifully!"
"Uncle Pang, you are so thoughtful!" Li Xiangnan sat down on the grass next to him.
After watering the plants, Father Pang sat down beside him with a bucket of water to wipe his sweat and asked, "I heard from Wei Nong that the wedding will be in ten days, March 13th?"
Li Xiangnan handed him a cigarette, lowered his head and said, "Uncle Pang, I was going to tell you about this tonight... I'm afraid the wedding will have to be moved up. Three days later, it happens to be Grain Rain! The day when Wei Nong first met Ding Xiang many years ago."
Father Pang's whole body trembled, and the cigarette he had just lit suddenly trembled.
He turned his head to look at the young man next to him, and suddenly his pupils trembled as if he understood something.
"Okay... I'll listen to you!"
Li Xiangnan took several puffs of his cigarette before he dared to turn his head to look at the dark-skinned man. He opened his mouth but didn't know how to start.
"Xiao Li, are you going to ask me if I regret it?" Father Pang exhaled a puff of smoke as if he knew everything.
"Well!" Li Xiangnan asked, "Uncle Pang, do you regret agreeing to this?"
Father Pang smiled.
"There are many things in this world that happen for no reason! Wei Nong is so brave to express his love, he is very much like me back then!"
"If I were 20 years younger and faced the same situation as Wei Nong, I'm afraid my choice... would be the same as my son's!"
"So, as a father, I support him and try my best to make sure he doesn't have any worries!"
"Three days later," Father Pang patted his butt and stood up, grinning, "Then I wish my son and daughter-in-law a happy wedding!"
After saying that, he picked up the bucket and strode away.
Looking at his back, Li Xiangnan slowly stood up and expressed his most sincere respect to this great father.