Before breaking my fingers day by day, I finally waited for the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger. At the entrance of the children's respiratory ward of Guiyang Children's Hospital, a big red lantern hangs on the top, and two little tigers send blessings are pasted on the glass door, and you can feel the strong smell of the New Year from the corridor.
"Nurse, my doll's skin trial is done."
"4 beds, take a look."
Pushing the treatment cart, nurse Xu Shaolu responded, "Here! Turned his head and walked toward the ward again. Although it was the first day of the new year, her routine was not much different from the past.
After a while, Xu Shaolu remembered that she had not yet called home. The activity room was empty, and Xu Shaolu closed the door and dialed her mother's phone.
"Mom, what are you doing?"
Xu Shaolu is reviewing patient information
"Come back from grocery shopping and get ready to cook." Speaking a kind Sichuan dialect, Xu Shao's smile at the corner of his mouth never let go. In his yard, dad was busy cleaning up fresh fish, cousins and sisters-in-law were busy choosing dishes, and when they heard the phone, the big mother, sister, and little niece who hadn't seen her for two years all gathered around.
Xu Shaolu greeted her family and told the elders to pay more attention to their bodies. The mother on the other end of the phone was always reluctant to hang up the phone, and took it around to the kitchen to show Xu Shaolu today's dinner. A pot of pork ribs is so full that it seems to smell the scent across the screen.
"Mom, I have a few more dishes today, and the dumplings you wrapped, don't worry." I'm going to get busy, and I'll tell you about it in the evening. ”
Five minutes later, putting down the phone, Xu Shaolu plunged into work again.
Xu Shaolu was checking the child's condition
This is the third year she has not been able to return home, and her hometown on the phone has changed slightly. In 2018, after graduation, Xu Shaolu resolutely decided to set off from Sichuan to Guizhou in order to "escape" her parents' nagging. The free life of a person lasted for a year, and she was a little overwhelmed. Busy with work, busy with cooking, busy cleaning... Mom and dad who can't let go of their daughter came to Guiyang from Yibin to do business in 2019 to facilitate the care of their daughter's life.
Xu Shaolu at work
"At that time, I felt relieved and was very happy to live with my parents. There are hot dishes and hot soups when you come home from work, and your mother can help clean up when the family is messed up. Xu Shaolu said that even if she went back to the New Year this time, her mother prepared dumplings in the frozen refrigerator, and repeatedly told Chinese New Year's Eve cook them themselves at night.
Children's ward corridors
Due to the needs of the post, Xu Shaolu wanted to prepare a Chinese New Year's Eve meal alone, and she was very calm, "It's okay, I can also be happy for the New Year, just a few more dishes." ”
Until the five-minute phone call with her mother made her a little defensive.
The words of concern of relatives, the taste of missing in the kitchen, and the familiar Sichuan dialect, Xu Shaolu blinked her eyes and withdrew her tears, "I am really homesick, watching the family get together is very envious." But I can go home and have time to go back again, and the children here can't go home for the New Year, so it's good that I live with them, and my parents understand. ”
Column Editor-in-Chief: Gu Wanquan Zhang Wu Text Editor: Song Yanlin
Source: Author: Guizhou Daily