Beacon 1937

The backyard of the pharmacy is actually very large. In the middle of the yard is a spacious patio. A sycamore tree is planted in the middle. Because it is summer, the leaves of the sycamore tree grow very lush, covering half of the sky, making the whole yard much cooler.The house made of gray bricks has two floors. The bottom facing the store is the back door, the toilet and shower room are on the right, the cooking room is on the left, and the red-painted wooden stairs lead to the second floor. The whole floor is a bedroom.

"This is your bedroom." The room Li Xiangrong left for Aiwen was very clean, without any dust, and it should have been carefully cleaned before he arrived.

There is a wooden desk in the room, facing the window in the corridor, and a large camphor wood wardrobe is placed in front of the desk. There is also a full-length mirror on it. A wooden double bed for two people, with a mat on it, a mat pillow and a thin blanket, a mahogany hanger on the left side of the head of the bed, and another window at the end of the bed, which makes the whole room very bright.

When Aiwen put down his luggage with satisfaction, took off his suit and took off the tie on the collar of his shirt, Li Xiangrong knocked on the door again and came back.He took a basin of water and put it on the washstand at the end of the bed.

"This is the well water from the well in the yard. It's very cool. You can use it to wipe your body." After finishing speaking, before Ai Wen had time to thank him, he ran out again, but quickly brought it back. A bowl of something came in, "This bowl of mung bean and lily soup is also iced with well water. I don't think you have tried it in the United States! This thing is very refreshing. I'm afraid you won't be used to it, so I put some sugar in it .”

"Thank you so much Mr. Li, I don't know what to say, you are so kind." Ivan thanked him sincerely.

"Where, where, look at what you said, the doctor is paid by you, I can't do this too much."

Aiwen did pay for the accommodation, and he paid for a whole month.Even so, Ivan still felt that the middle-aged man was really enthusiastic.

"Then I won't bother you anymore, I'm going to look at the store." With that said, Li Xiangrong closed the door and ran away.

Ai Wen happily took a spoonful of mung bean lily soup and took a sip. The iced, refreshing and slightly sweet taste made him immediately feel comfortable physically and mentally.He didn't expect that what he had chilled with well water would achieve the same effect as the refrigerator he used at home in the United States.

He finished the mung bean and lily soup in two or three bites, then wiped off the sweat on his body with the cool well water, changed into a clean shirt, moved out all the things in the suitcase, and put them away.Finally, I opened the windows and doors of the room, took out the surgical kit and disinfectant, and sat at the desk to carefully disinfect these tools.

At this moment, there was a sudden "bang bang bang" running sound in the corridor.

"Ran'er! Don't run in the corridor! Walk well!" Li Xiangrong roared from outside the window.

"I'm going to see the foreign devils!" A voice that sounded like a boy passed, followed by another burst of "Teng Teng Teng Teng Teng Teng Teng Teng Teng Teng Teng Teng Teng Teng Teng Teng", a thin boy in a black school uniform with a cropped cut appeared at Ai Wen's window , those black radiant eyes met his blue eyes.

"Are you the one from America?" The boy leaned half his body into the window excitedly.

"Yes." On the contrary, Ivan was still very calm, but he thought this child was quite interesting.

"...But you look different from those foreigners outside."

Facing the other party's impolite way of speaking, Ivan didn't care at all: "Why is it different?"

"You're like us... and like them."

The boy's honesty really amused Aiwen. He smiled for a while before saying, "My father is American, and my mother is Chinese. Tell me, where am I from?"

"Ah?" The boy seemed to be stumped, "Which side is it?"

"In terms of nationality, I'm an American." Ivan stopped teasing him.

"Oh...!" The boy nodded in agreement, but quickly shook his head, "No!"

"wrong?"

"Yes, no! Both sides of you!"

Ai Wen was stunned, and couldn't keep up with the young man's thinking for a moment: "Both sides?"

"En! Both sides! You are both American and Chinese!" the young man said firmly.

"..." He is both an American and a Chinese... Ai Wen suddenly felt that the simple understanding of the young man might be the most correct, "Yes, you are right."

Hearing this, the young man beamed with joy, but quickly turned his attention to the scalpel: "These...are these used by surgeons to cut people's stomachs?"

Looking at the other party's bright eyes, Ivan smiled and said, "Are you interested?"

"Have!"

"Okay, I will teach you to recognize them, but you are not allowed to touch them. The scalpel is very sharp, and the skin will not bleed immediately when it is cut."

"Okay... ah! I forgot to introduce myself, or I will get kicked by my dad later. Hello! I am Li Xiangrong's son, my name is Li Ran, and I am a freshman in high school. What about you?" A teenager named Li Ran Suddenly he extended his right hand politely.

"Ivan Abel, surgeon." Ivan smiled and reached out to shake him.

The moment he let go, Li Ran ran to Ai Wen's desk talking to himself: "Then let's start! Ai Wen."

Ai Wen shook his head helplessly when he saw this, but he didn't pay much attention, and then began to teach him to know them... scalpels, surgical scissors, hemostatic forceps, surgical forceps, vascular forceps, etc., and told him the purpose of these tools.

It was almost five o'clock in the evening when the lecture was over.When Ivan put the surgical kit and disinfectant into the medical box, Frank walked in on time.He was dressed very formally...a white high-necked shirt with a black bow tie, a white tuxedo and polished black leather shoes made his body more slender and full of regalia.

"Aiwen, let's go!" His friend said to him in English, and looked at Li Ran who was surprised, but lost interest in him in the next second.

"Can you let me sleep?" Ai Wen didn't understand why his friend was dressed so formally, he just wanted to catch up on sleep.

"Let's go! Come back to sleep at night." However, Frank ignored him at all, pulled his arm and dragged him away.

"Wait! My suit and tie!" Ivan wailed, wearing only a shirt with his sleeves rolled up.

"I have it in my car. Anyway, we are about the same height and shape. You wear mine." Frank stuffed Ivan into the car without hesitation.

Ai Wen, who was pushed into the back seat in this way, waited for the car to start and found that his medicine box was also brought over in the chaos just now, and he didn't know where he would be taken.