Chapter 1649: Chapter 963: Finale (Part 2)

The younger doctors, some were reading, others were playing cards to pass the time.

Zhou Zhongqing went to sit at a fellow villager’s house, basking in the sun and chatting with them.

"...Look, this is my grandson." Zhou Zhongqing had many photos of Jiang Xiaowai on his phone and took them out to show off.

The villagers all nodded approvingly.

"You’re not going back for Mid-Autumn Festival, don’t you miss your daughter and grandson?" They didn’t know that Tang Wan was just like an adopted daughter to him. "Coming here, you’ve really had a hard time."

"They all understand." Zhou Zhongqing said this, but his heart was not at ease.

Used to being alone, he almost always spent the holidays at the hospital, and he didn’t feel bad about it. But ever since Jiang Xiaowai was born, he could feel a change within himself, becoming seemingly more sentimental.

...

At that moment, Jiang Xiaowai was sitting on Jiang Jinsang’s lap, leaning against the bus window looking outside.

The bus entered the mountains, the road dug into the mountain was winding and rugged, flanked by towering cliffs, surrounded by mountain ranges, and apart from the bus entering the mountain, almost no other vehicles were to be seen.

"How were these roads built?" Jiang Xiaowai asked curiously.

"These were all planned out by engineers after surveys, based on the terrain, and then carved out by workers."

If you haven’t visited great rivers or perilous passes, it’s hard to imagine how difficult it is to carve out a road in such places.

"This road was newly built two years ago; it used to be really hard to get out of the mountains." The driver smiled, with less than a third of the seats on the bus occupied, and their seats were just behind the driver’s, so he talked with them for a bit, "Where are you guys coming from? You’re not from around here? What brings you here?"

This place is not a tourist destination; ordinarily, no one comes here.

"To see Grandpa!" Jiang Xiaowai exclaimed excitedly.

"The old man is from the mountains?"

"My grandpa is a doctor!"

"The doctor who came into the mountains last month? They also rode on my bus."

"My grandpa is particularly amazing, there’s no patient he can’t treat..."

Jiang Jinsang just smiled as he listened, turning his head to look at the person beside him; Tang Wan felt a bit unwell right after getting on the bus and had just woken up from a nap.

"Do you need any motion sickness medicine?" The mountain road was bumpy, so it was understandable to feel a bit uncomfortable.

"No need." Tang Wan drank a little water.

"Mommy, are you feeling unwell?" Jiang Xiaowai tilted his head to look at her.

"I’m fine."

The bus soon reached its destination, and knowing they were there to find the doctors who volunteered in the mountains, the driver parked the bus, and then drove his own car to take the three of them a bit further.

"You shouldn’t have troubled yourself so much." Tang Wan said after getting off the bus and resting a bit, feeling much better now.

"No trouble at all, it’s those doctors who are truly making an effort, willingly coming to a place like ours."

...

They arrived at their destination between two and three in the afternoon, and the village was very quiet. The place where Zhou Zhongqing and the others were staying was an old schoolhouse provided by the village.

Next to it was an empty classroom with a hospital consultation sign hanging, and a few kids were playing on the abandoned playground.

"A new school was built a few years ago, and the old schoolhouse was left empty." The driver explained, "But it seems like no one’s here at the moment, they might be resting."

"We’re already very grateful for you bringing us here."

"The bus to the city from here is also driven by me, once a day, I’ll give you a phone number, and if you need to leave, give me a call; I’ll come to pick you up, save you the hassle of going to the station, it’s not convenient."

Jiang Jinsang took the number, and Jiang Xiaowai eagerly ran into the schoolhouse.

"Not today..." The on-duty doctor inside, seeing someone come in, was about to inform them that there was no consultation today, when he was startled by a familiar small figure, "Isn’t this little Mutang?"

"Hello Uncle Liu, where is my grandpa!"

"Dr. Zhou went to visit someone, I’ll take you to find him."

Zhou Zhongqing was still chatting with the villagers at that time, noticing that most young men had left the village and didn’t come back for Mid-Autumn, the older men sighed, making him sigh along with them.

Suddenly, he heard a familiar voice.

"Grandpa——"

For a moment, Zhou Zhongqing thought he missed Jiang Xiaowai so much that he was hallucinating.

But a little fellow appeared in front of him with a little yellow hat and wearing a duckbill backpack, and he didn’t react immediately.

Jiang Xiaowai also called out to the villager beside him as grandpa before throwing himself into his arms.

"You, how did you get here?"

"Mom and Dad brought me." Jiang Xiaowai pointed behind him.

"Why did you run so fast!" Accompanied by a familiar voice, Jiang Jinsang and Tang Wan appeared.

Having seen much life and death, Zhou Zhongqing thought himself to be impervious to emotion, not easily touched, yet upon seeing them...

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