Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 784 - 0784: Schadenfreude 3_1

Chapter 784: Chapter 0784: Schadenfreude 3_1

When the complaint letter reached the capital and Ma Lu, Cui Shaoyuan, and others boarded the plane, Feng Qingxue’s hundred-plus day vacation had just ended, and she immediately returned to the military to resume her duties as a medical soldier. However, she had to take Xibao and Fubao with her.

There was no choice, Xibao was not old enough to go to school, and Fubao was only three months old and couldn’t be separated from his mother’s care.

The military had schools, but there were no daycare centers yet, due to the small number of infants and toddlers, and the majority of military families being idle at home.

Of course, even if there were daycare centers, Feng Qingxue wouldn’t trust them. Who could care for her children as meticulously as she could? She hadn’t forgotten the treatment Wang Zhonghua had received.

The best news about returning to work was that the previous trip to the capital had been an official business trip, so round-trip travel expenses could be reimbursed.

Thanks to a reminder from Du Xiaotao, Feng Qingxue happily reimbursed the cost of one flight and one train ticket, equivalent to half a year’s salary!

The military arranged for medical soldiers to check up on, treat and promote sanitation work among the people of Tibet. More than half of the medical soldiers left the military to visit local residents, and didn’t return for as long as ten days or half a month. However, Feng Qingxue was not among them, she had two children to take care of. The military arranged for her and Wang Sanbao to stay behind at the military hospital, to attend the injured soldiers and military dependents.

Little Stone staggered in, Huang Xiuzhi was heard scolding him from afar: "Serves you right! Who told you not to study properly and insist on skipping class with a bunch of kids? You broke your bone so you got what you deserved!"

As the sound of her words fell, Feng Qingxue saw the mother and son come in.

Little Stone was covered in dirt, his sleeves rolled up, his elbow skin broken, and a patch of skin scraped off his forehead, all dripping with blood. Tearswelled in his eyes, and Huang Xiuzhi, fuming with anger, was pulling his ear.

"Auntie Qingxue, please save me, my mom is going to twist my ear off!" Little Stone shouted.

Feng Qingxue moved over and pried Huang Xiuzhi’s hand off, "Sister-in-law, you see that Little Stone is already hurt, why are you pulling his ear?"

"This boy skipped school! I pay him five dollars in school fees a year, only for him to play truant. Not to mention, he sneaked into the horse stable to steal a ride on the cavalry’s horse, and ended up falling off! Even though it’s spring, the ground is still freezing, it skinned him immediately! He brought it on himself, us parents have nobody to blame but him. But he took others along, what if they got slightly injured, how are we to compensate?" Huang Xiuzhi let go of her hand in resentment.

As Huang Xiuzhi ranted on, she got angrier, and reached again to grab Little Stone’s ear. Little Stone quickly hid behind Feng Qingxue.

Seeing Little Stone’s pathetic appearance, Xibao laughed out loud with his little belly protruding, a clear schadenfreude.

"Brother, ear!" meaning you’ve had your ear twisted.

"Xibao, you’re really bad, laughing at me!" Little Stone pulled a face at him, and then cried out in pain under Feng Qingxue’s treatment, "Auntie Qingxue, be gentle, gentle, it hurts like hell!"

Feng Qingxue disinfected him with her prepared iodine solution, "Pain helps you remember, look how angry you’ve made your mother."

Under Huang Xiuzhi’s glare, Little Stone immediately went silent.

After treating the wounds, Feng Qingxue checked his whole body, and said to Huang Xiuzhi, "This kid is tough, he didn’t break any bones. Don’t let his wounds touch water in the next few days. Come to my house in the evening and I’ll apply some medicine, he’ll be healed in no time."

"Thank you, Qingxue, for the trouble." Huang Xiuzhi felt rather embarrassed. She did not ask for another health worker to treat Little Stone because she had the best relationship with Feng Qingxue, who was gentle and careful.

"Sister-in-law, don’t say that. Treating injuries is my job, it’s no trouble at all!"