Chapter 84 - 83: The Couple Sat Eight Zhang Apart
Chapter 83 A Couple Sitting Miles Apart
Ever since that day, Jiang An had been staying at her grandmother’s house. Gao Chuan, busy with his work at the hospital, hadn’t come over again, and the two hadn’t seen each other for nearly a week, not even a single WeChat message exchanged between them.
Jiang An didn’t think of looking for Dr. Gao either; she was even content with their current state of affairs. After all, the initial reason for their marriage was to prevent any regrets for the elderly, and now, staying behind to look after her grandmother felt like she was fulfilling her duty.
Life at her grandmother’s place was quite comfortable. During the day, she spent time listening to operas and chatting with the elderly lady, enjoying the exceptionally good air by the mountains and waters. When she wasn’t busy, she researched and brewed some Chinese herbal medicine to invigorate the spleen and enrich the blood, living a fulfilling life.
She thought she would spend this half-month leisurely, but a week later, to Jiang An’s surprise, several of the younger members of the Gao Family paid a sudden visit. Four or five people, mostly Gao Chuan’s cousins, some of whom she vaguely remembered from the times they played mahjong together at the Gao Family’s house.
These cousins differed from Gao Chuan and Gao Yu; they were about the same age as Jiang An and had topics in common to discuss, especially the daughter from Aunt Gao Chuan’s family who kept calling her "sister-in-law," which made Jiang An’s heart itch. After a group of young people arrived, the villa suddenly became much more lively. The grandmother was currently in need of peaceful recuperation, so after the meal, the boisterous kids automatically moved to the garden outside to avoid disturbing the elder’s rest.
Jiang An prepared some drinks and fruits for them and brought them over. She was then wrapped up in conversation with them, sitting down to chat. The afternoon sun was brilliantly enchanting, with the neighbor’s tabby cat lying lazily in the corner, basking in the sun, and the flowers in the garden almost withered, their yellowing leaves gradually burying into the soil.
The group sat in the garden pavilion, with Jiang An silently listening to their conversations, gradually getting to know each of them—students still in school or having just graduated and started working—almost like herself. Perhaps because they were used to calling her sister-in-law due to her marriage to Gao Chuan, Jiang An had almost forgotten that she was only twenty-three years old this year.
"Little sister-in-law, I heard you’re going to have an internship at my cousin’s hospital. Did my cousin arrange that for you?" One of the cousins asked curiously.