Like you in the sun

Time seemed to slip by quietly between fingers. The school term at A University in China was about to start. After discussing with Chen Yang, Lin Yijun decided to let Lin Fanyin be discharged early.

In the military hospital, when Lu Guanying returned to his office after the operation, he received a notice to prepare for Lin Fanyin's discharge procedures.

Suddenly, I felt like a mixture of different tastes had been overturned in my heart, and I didn't know what to feel.

Sitting on pins and needles at the office desk, he stroked his dark, thick and fluffy short hair from his worried face with his hands. His eyes were full of sorrow, as if he was thinking about something.

He opened the drawer and took out the notebook. He couldn't help but smile as he looked at the portrait of himself that Lin Fanyin had casually drawn on the notebook. He was really confused at the moment, with that kind of uneasy feeling of not knowing what to do.

He knew from the beginning that Lin Fanyin was his patient, and the moments of heart-throbbing during their subsequent interactions left Lu Guanying at a loss.

I couldn't help but ask myself, did I really fall in love with the patient I treated? Was it out of kindness? Or was it because I was moved...

Why was she discharged early? Was she going to Country M with her mother? Or was she going back to Jinghai with her uncle?

The doctor-patient relationship is over! I thought there would always be a day like this, but I didn't expect it to be so soon. I didn't expect to feel so sad when the day really came. After that...

Lu Guanying was alone in the office, thinking.

After being sad for a long time, on the way to Lin Fanyin's ward, I met my colleague Wu Xiaowen in the corridor.

Wu Xiaowen: "Doctor Lu."

Lu Guanying: “Yeah.”

Wu Xiaowen looked at Lu Guanying who was walking away in confusion. Why did the usually optimistic, sunny and cheerful boy who loved to laugh become so gloomy today?

Lu Guanying wandered outside the ward, wanting to say something to Lin Fanyin, but didn't know what to say.

After standing there for a while, he took a deep breath and pushed open the door of Lin Fanyin's ward.

When Lin Fanyin saw Lu Guanying coming in, she smiled and said, "Brother Guanying."

Lu Guanying: "Yeah. Yinyin..."

Lin Fanyin: "Brother Guanying?"

Lu Guanying: "Yinyin, are you going to be discharged from the hospital before you have fully recovered?"

Lin Fanyin: “Yes.”

Lu Guanying checked Lin Fanyin's body and asked, "But considering your current physical recovery, I still don't recommend you to be discharged from the hospital now."

Lin Fanyin: "Brother Guanying, there shouldn't be any problem."

Lu Guanying tried his best to hide his inner disappointment and asked, "Yinyin, are you in such a hurry to be discharged from the hospital because you want to go abroad with your mother?"

Lin Fanyin: “No.”

Lu Guanying: "Is that because you want to go back to Jinghai with your uncle?"

Lin Fanyin: “No.”

Lu Guanying: "Then why do you want to be discharged from the hospital now?"

Lin Fanyin: "Because school is about to start."

Lu Guanying: "Yinyin, where are you going to school?"

Lin Fanyin: "A University."

Lu Guanying suppressed his inner joy and said, "A University in Kyoto?"

Lin Fanyin: "Yes, there is only one A."

Lu Guanying was instantly overjoyed after hearing this, but pretended to be calm on the surface and replied, "Yes! There is only one A."

"Yinyin, there is only one A."

Lin Fanyin: “Yes, that’s right.”

Lu Guanying: "In Kyoto! Kyoto!"

"Yinyin, have a good rest. See you tomorrow."

Lin Fanyin was left alone in the ward, confused and not knowing what to say.

After Lu Guanying walked out of the ward, he jumped up and down in the corridor with excitement, saying, "Yeah! That's great, it's really great!"

When he saw a colleague passing by, he pretended nothing happened, greeted him with a smile, and walked towards the office seriously.

Seeing Lu Guanying smiling so happily that she was about to fly away, Wu Xiaowen muttered to himself in confusion, "She's so capricious, just like menopause."

The next morning, after Chen Yang prepared breakfast for Lin Fanyin, he said, "Yinyin, eat well, okay?"

"Uncle has to go back to the company. He will come back to accompany you in the evening."

"Eat more and be obedient."

Lin Fanyin: "Well, goodbye uncle."

Chen Yang: "Be good~"

Lin Fanyin just took the warm milk, drank half a cup and put it down. Looking at the rich breakfast, she had no appetite at all. She didn't want to eat at all, but she didn't feel hungry either.

At this time, Lu Guanying walked into the ward and saw the untouched breakfast and asked, "Yinyin, you don't want to eat again."

Lin Fanyin: "Brother Guanying, I really can't eat."

Lu Guanying: "No appetite?"

Lin Fanyin: "Well, I don't want to eat it just by looking at it."

Lu Guanying took out a cup and handed it to Lin Fanyin, saying, "Yinyin, try this."

Lin Fanyin: "What is this?"

Lu Guanying took the cup and unscrewed the lid attentively, then handed it to Lin Fanyin again and said, "I made too much sour plum soup yesterday, so I can't finish it."

"Then bring some over today for you to try."

In fact, this cup of sour plum soup was made by Lu Guanying after he noticed that Lin Fanyin had not eaten well in the past few days.

Carefully selected fifteen black plums, twenty hawthorn slices, a dozen rock sugars, ten grams of osmanthus, three roselle flowers, ten grams of tangerine peel, and ten grams of licorice.

Put the osmanthus flowers in a sieve and rinse the roselle, black plum, hawthorn, tangerine peel, osmanthus and licorice with running water, then put them into a bowl. Pour in an appropriate amount of clean water to cover these ingredients and soak them for half an hour.

Then pour the soaked roselle, black plum, hawthorn, tangerine peel, osmanthus and licorice into the pot, add more than two liters of water and boil over high heat. Add osmanthus and rock sugar, cover and simmer over low heat for half an hour.

After cooking, pour the sour plum soup into a cup through a colander. Wait until it cools down to zero temperature before putting it in the refrigerator to prevent it from affecting the taste.

Lin Fanyin drank a few sips of sour plum soup. The taste was sour, sweet, refreshing and smooth. She immediately felt her mouth full of saliva and her stomach felt much more comfortable.

Lu Guanying asked: "How is it? Does it taste okay?"

Lin Fanyin: "Hmm, very delicious."

Lu Guanying: "I don't want to eat because I have been taking medicine and receiving intravenous drips recently, and the drugs have stimulated my gastrointestinal tract, causing a loss of appetite."

"It's normal. Drinking some sour plum soup will help. But it's a little cold so don't drink too much."

Lin Fanyin: “Yeah.”

Lu Guanying: "Eat, even if you don't want to."

"Finish this breakfast, and I'll bring you some sour plum soup tomorrow."

Lin Fanyin: "Okay then."

In Jinghai City, An Xin and Li Xiang drove to a village together on their day off.

After arriving at the destination, the two parked the car at the entrance of the village and got off to investigate in the village.

An Xin saw an elderly man sitting under the eaves basking in the sun, so she walked up to him and asked, "Hello, uncle."

The old man replied: "Hello, hello."

An Xin took out the photo of the person who caused the car accident involving Li Xiang's father and handed it to the old man, saying, "Uncle, I want to ask you about someone. Is this person from your village?"

The old man took the photo and examined it carefully before answering, "Yes, it's from our village. Isn't this a rat?"