(13) The Secret of Community Hospitals
Jack stood at the construction site of the community hospital, watching the workers install the last solar panel in place. Three years ago, he used his savings to buy this abandoned warehouse, which is now about to become the first 24-hour free clinic in New York.
Mr. Chen, someone is looking for you, “the project manager handed over a safety helmet,” said it’s your former colleague
Jack turned around and saw Lisa, a former Harvard high achieving student now wearing a wrinkled social worker uniform and holding a crying baby in his arms. I resigned. “She stuffed the baby into Jack’s arms,” I want to do something truly meaningful
(14) A birthday surprise in the emergency room
Sofia found a beautiful gift box in the storage cabinet, and upon opening it, she found a white coat embroidered with the words’ head nurse ‘. The card next to it reads: “To the angel who always saves lives – your patient’s family member Jack Chen
She looked up and saw Jack walking towards the end of the hallway holding Emily, her daughter holding a cake, and candles swaying in the drafts of the emergency room. Happy birthday, Mom! “Emily shouted in a milky voice, and the monitor suddenly sounded a piercing alarm.
Sofia smiled and handed the cake to Jack, then turned around and rushed towards the emergency room. When she reappeared, her eyelashes were still stained with the patient’s blood: ‘Sorry, the homeless person who was rescued just now…’
He reminds you of grandpa, “Jack wiped away the stains for her.” Happy birthday, my moonlight goddess
(15) Moonlight on Wall Street
Jack stood in the trading hall of the stock exchange, watching the jumping numbers on the electronic screen. The vibration of the phone in the suit pocket is a photo sent by Sofia: Emily squatting at the entrance of the community hospital, bandaging the wound of a stray cat.
Mr. Chen, are you really going to inject the charity fund into this community hospital? “The investment bank president frowned,” This does not comply with the principle of maximizing shareholder interests
Jack untied his tie and remembered Sophia’s red umbrella on that rainstorm night. What shareholders want is numbers, and what I want is… “he looked out the window at the Brooklyn Bridge,” to enable every child to draw their own starry sky under the moonlight
(16) Wedding under the Starry Sky
Emily wore Sofia’s old wedding dress and held her wedding on the terrace of the community hospital. The guest list includes the former construction worker Lao Qiao, the head nurse of the emergency room, and the abandoned baby in Lisa’s arms – now a medical student.
Dad, are you nervous? “Emily straightened Jack’s tie, her ring finger wearing a ring modified from Sofia’s nurse badge.
Jack looked at the end of the red carpet, where Sofia was dancing salsa with the guests. Her white dress shone with a pearl luster in the moonlight, just like the way she walked towards him on a rainy night twenty years ago, holding a red umbrella.
I’m so nervous as if it’s the first time I’ve invited your mom for coffee, “he pinched his daughter’s hand,” but this time I know that true happiness isn’t about Wall Street numbers, it’s about
But it’s the moonlight in Brooklyn and the coffee stains in the emergency room, “Emily answered with a smile.
Eternal Starry Sky
Twenty years later, Jack sat on a bench at the community hospital, watching Emily push the stroller towards him. Sofia’s nurse badge flickered on her great granddaughter’s swaddling clothes, like a forever bright star.
Dad, what are you looking at? “Emily followed his gaze and saw that the murals on the hospital walls were already mottled, but the nurses and construction workers still held hands and supported the sunrise.
I’m looking… “Jack closed his eyes, feeling the warmth of his wife and daughter,” I’m looking at the starry sky we’ve painted over thirty years
