A leisurely life reborn in the fiery age

Chapter 238 A red five-pointed star
"Dad, Mom, you've worked hard."

After Li Yuan, Qin Daxue, Li Xing and a group of brothers, sisters-in-law and nephews came in, they couldn't stand in the kitchen anymore, and the greedy juniors were naturally coaxed away ruthlessly.

Li Gui was speechless and nodded.

Mother Li was very kind and said, "You brought the meat and noodles, so your father and I will help."

Li Yuan smiled and said: "That's hard work. The weather is hot and the meat can't be kept. You can make more in a while and we can all have a good meal together."

Li Chi said: "You don't have to worry about it. If you're old and have nothing else to do, why should you eat dumplings? Marinate the meat. If Daxue is pregnant, she won't be short of meat."

Li Yuan said helplessly: "It's already spring. If the second brother and the fifth brother go into the mountains with guns, they can always bring back some meat, right? Fresh meat is better than bacon. Besides, I pay the bills every month at the steel rolling mill." There are meat stamps for wages, and the Jiangsu National Congress will send them back after the payment is closed. Daxue will not be deprived of nutrition."

Li Gui suddenly said: "Youngest, you have brought back a lot of things."

Li Yuan smiled and said: "Dad, don't worry, nothing is unclean."

Li Gui nodded when he heard this and became silent again.

He believes in his son.

Mother Li said: "Eat, eat. Eat big. Once you are full, you will not be hungry on the way."

Li Yuan pretended not to see his mother's eyes turn red. He sat at the wooden table and smiled at Li Chi and others: "I won't greet you anymore, and I won't eat even if I ask you."

Li Chi raised his face and said: "Eat yours." After a pause, he added: "Daixue will eat with you."

Qin Daxue smiled and said: "Brother, I'm not in a hurry. I'll make it with my eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law and eat it later. It's delicious when there are more people!"

The eldest sister-in-law laughed and said: "Our little sisters-in-law are the best!"

Sixth Sister-in-law was more upright. She touched Li Xing's head and comforted her, "Your mother is fine too."

Li Xing chuckled and said, "Our mothers are all good mothers!"

"Son, come and eat dumplings. Grandma's dumplings are stuffed with mutton and cabbage. They're delicious!"

Li Yuan greeted happily.

Qin Daxue rolled his eyes, no wonder he liked this son the most.

After Li Xing happily gave way, he sat down next to his father. Li Yuan took the vinegar dish handed to him by his eldest brother, and then took the garlic cloves peeled by his second brother, which made the food even more delicious.

They ate forty or fifty pieces in one go, and Li Xing also ate about twenty. The father and son were very satisfied.

It also made people around me secrete a lot of saliva...

Li Guidu smiled and nodded: "If you can eat well, it's better to be open-minded."

He was very pleased that his children and grandchildren could develop such a character.

After dinner, it was time to say goodbye.

Mother Li hugged Li Xing and was reluctant to let go. She took out money from her pocket and stuffed it into her grandson's pocket. Li Gui said a few words before letting go.

The whole family gave Li Yuan a lot of advice, and some complained that he was being a jerk. It was okay to cause trouble on his own, and it would hurt his son...

Li Yuan accepted them all, and finally told Li Jiang: "Second brother, you go to the commune to take charge of the militia, and listen to Daxue on everything. When it comes to fighting ideas, I am not as good as her. But you must remember one thing, Don't be careless at any time. Keeping her safe is the first priority. She is smart. As long as she is fine, there will basically be no problems in our family. There are so many children in our family working as cadres in the oil and electricity industry, and jealous people are not Do you know how many..."

Li Jiang nodded and said: "Okay, I listen to my siblings. But our family is better, why are they jealous?"

Li Yuandao: "It is the normal state of people to dislike others and hate others. When Li Kun and Li Tang grow up, let alone Hongxing Commune, even in Sijiu City, except for those high-ranking families, there will be few households. Can it be compared with our family? Even if some families in the compound have poor children, they will not be able to compare with our family in the future. Do you think our family is eye-catching or not?]

In addition, the remaining children in the family must be raised until they graduate from junior high school. Don’t study further after they get their diplomas. It’s useless.But after graduation, study cannot be left behind. My senior sister is a college graduate. Like Daxue, she teaches children to study and punishes anyone who doesn't take it seriously.Reading good books will be of great use in the future. "

After the college entrance examination was reinstated, it was the easiest year to get into Tsinghua University and Peking University.

If the old Li family were admitted to such a group of college students...

Gee!
Li Jiang said: "Sure, I understand. Youngest, you can go without worry. My siblings go to and from get off work every day, and at least four militiamen walk together. We don't even say escort, we just go home together. She wants to go to the city, and I will go with you. Fifth brother will pick him up and drop him off together."

The elder sister-in-law followed: "If you get pregnant, we will take care of you, so you don't have to worry."

The second sister-in-law said: "In such a difficult time, you tried your best to ensure that our five sisters-in-law were in confinement. On such a cold day, you went fishing to make fish soup. Without you, I don't know how many members of the family would be missing. Old man Well, don’t worry, Daxue will be taken care of by us and will be safe and sound. When you come back, you will definitely have many fat sons and glutinous rice balls with many younger brothers!"

Li Yuan looked at Qin Daxue and responded warmly: "Okay, I'm relieved."

Qin Daxue "disgusted": "You don't have to worry about it, the whole family is here, who are you looking down on?"

"Hahaha!"

Everyone laughed again, extremely satisfied with this new sister-in-law.

Li Yuan also smiled and said: "That's done, then don't waste time, let's go!"

Even so, he still stepped forward and hugged Qin Daxue forcefully.

Then he stopped staying and strode away with Li Xing, who frequently bowed and waved to the elders.

After watching their father and son walk away, the smile on Qin Daxue's face gradually disappeared, but it soon recovered...

In the journey of life, there will always be differences, and naturally, there will also be a day when we meet again.

So don't be too sad...

……

In the blink of an eye, April is here.

"Son, does it taste good or not?"

Following the Beijing-Guangzhou line all the way south, walking in densely populated areas and taking buses in sparsely populated areas, Li Yuan and his son walked from Sijiu City to Jianghan City, Hubei Province for more than half a month. They spent the morning with the locals, which was considered as doing as the locals do.

Seeing Li Xing eating hot dry noodles with some difficulty, Li Yuan laughed and asked.

Li Xing swallowed, his expression unspeakable.

Li Yuan happily told him about the history of hot-dry noodles: "This kind of noodles is very popular among people in northern Hubei and even southern Henan, but it actually didn't appear for a long time. Just three to forty years ago, someone cooked the noodles for seven years. Medium cooked, drained and added with sesame oil, gradually became the prototype of hot dry noodles. Until the emergence of Cai Mingwei, he integrated and planned the noodle making process, improved it, enriched the taste, and finally formed the hot and dry noodles that are now widely loved. Dry noodles, Cai Linji hot dry noodles.”

After Li Xing swallowed a mouthful, he looked around and said, "Dad, as you go south, it seems that the lives of the people are getting easier?"

Li Yuan nodded and said: "Places with rich water resources will always recover faster from trauma. Do you know anything about Hubei Province?"

Li Xing thought for a while and said: "Dad, I can recite "Yellow Crane Tower". People in the past have taken the Yellow Crane to go there, and the Yellow Crane Tower is empty here. Once the Yellow Crane is gone, it will never return, and the white clouds will remain empty for thousands of years. Dad, the Yellow Crane Tower The building is in Hubei Province, right?"

Li Yuan smiled and said: "It was burned down 100 years ago. In the seventh year of Tongzhi, that is, in 1000, under the auspices of the two governors of Huguang, Guan Wen and Li Hanzhang, and the governor of northern Hubei, Guo Baiyin, more than 48 taels of silver were consumed. It employed more than [-] craftsmen and took ten months to complete. At that time, people called it 'Tongzhi Crane Tower'. According to the inscription: Tongzhi Crane Tower has three floors, with a height of seven feet and two feet, and a copper roof of nine feet, making it ninety-nine. The number of columns. There are [-] columns that are more than seven feet on Saturday. The circumference of the foundation is [-] feet long and [-] feet wide. The eight sides of the building are each [-] feet wide. The statue of Lu Zu is placed above it, which is still the same as before. "

In order to show his holiness in front of his son, he took the history book he got in the lottery last night and memorized it by rote...

Sure enough, the teacher was right, every bit of hard work will be rewarded.

Seeing the admiration in his son's eyes, Li Yuan felt very happy.

"The Yellow Crane Tower will definitely be rebuilt in the future. For thousands of years, the Yellow Crane Tower is not only a building, not only a scenery, it has been deeply rooted in the cultural blood of the local people. Son, do you know how the Yellow Crane Tower is known as Was it burned?"

Li Yuan asked.

Li Xing said: "War?"

Li Yuan smiled and said: "The last time it was destroyed was the war between the Qing army and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. That time 100 years ago, it was because there was a shop at the foot of the hillside. The man accidentally knocked over the oil lamp. The wind was strong that night, and the fire started quickly. It spread to the top of the mountain and burned down the Yellow Crane Tower."

Li Xing said: "What a pity!"

Li Yuan chuckled and said: "You can keep this in mind and see what lessons you can learn. Son, no one makes mistakes. If you can learn lessons and sum up experience after making mistakes, this is called growth. But , there is a price for making mistakes, and in many cases, the price will be very heavy. Therefore, smart people will learn and grow from other people's mistakes and costs. Don't talk about it, just eat and leave."

Li Xing nodded thoughtfully and took note, then closed his eyes and finished the hot dry noodles in the bowl in one breath...

……

A week later, in a rural area in Hubei Province, both father and son looked unhappy.

Schistosomiasis.

Decades later, it is estimated that many people will have never heard of this kind of thing in their lives, but now, it is estimated that few Chinese people do not know the harm of this parasite.The old man wrote a song "Sending the God of Plague" ten years ago to celebrate the victory in the prevention and control of schistosomiasis in a county in western Jiangxi.

But in fact, this disease has not been eliminated even after 60 years.

The hosts of schistosomiasis are widely found in oncomelania snails. This snail can be found everywhere in the Jiangnan water country, so it is difficult to prevent it.

Green waters and green mountains are in vain, Hua Tuo is helpless, what an insect!Thousands of villages are left with dead people, and thousands of households are deserted and ghosts are singing.

Thousands of villages, tens of thousands of households...

Fortunately, this disease is acute. Li Yuan described it in "The Barefoot Doctor's Handbook". It can be treated with a combination of Chinese and Western medicine, and it is possible to recover.

But chronic...the eggs enter the body along with the sewage, and quietly parasitize in the liver. Even decades later, it is difficult to cure, and cirrhosis and ascites will gradually appear.

Just like what the father and son have seen these days, there are many patients with big bellies.

"Dad, with your medical skills, there's nothing you can do?"

Seeing a girl of the same age as him standing there weakly with a sallow face, a big belly, and dull eyes, Li Xing felt really sad and looked at Li Yuan and asked.

Li Yuan shook his head and said: "Son, doctors are humans, not gods. There are too many diseases in the world that doctors can't do anything about. Sometimes manpower is exhausted... In the future, when I go to strange places, I can't eat raw food or raw water. Drink, it's best not to get into the water. No matter when, even if you are good at boxing and kicking, don't think too highly of yourself. Let's go."

"Dad, where are we going next?"

"Southern Hunan."

"Dad, Prince Teng's Pavilion is at..."

"Ganxi."

"Dad, I want to see Tengwang Pavilion."

"destroyed……"

"Then can we go and see the ruins? I want to see the sunset and the solitary swans flying together, and the autumn water is the same color as the sky. The fishing boats are singing late, and the wild geese are frightened by the cold. What kind of beauty is it?"

"……it is good."

……

half a month later.

As May approaches, the highest temperature in Pingchang, western Jiangxi, has reached [-] degrees.

Waiting to see the old site of Tengwang Pavilion...

It doesn’t count as the old site. After all, it was renovated in the Xuantong year, but it was just too perfunctory. It would be better not to renovate it.

Fortunately, in 20, Liang Sicheng and his disciple Mo Zongjiang drew eight "Sketches of the Plan to Rebuild Tengwang Pavilion" based on the old Song Dynasty paintings in the "Tian Lai Pavilion". In another [-] years, it will be rebuilt.

However, after Li Xing looked at the sunset scenery from above, he was already very satisfied.

Although I couldn't see the sunset and the solitary swans flying together, I could see the spring water and the sky.

After that, he continued to make medical visits with his father. In the process of treating people on the mountains and rivers, he continued to learn the basic knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine.

For Li Xing, this is a baptism.

This is an experience that most children in Hong Kong cannot have.

Visible progress!
This is also Li Yuan’s purpose...

In the blink of an eye, it is late May. The father and son have been staying in western Ganxi for more than half a month. They are preparing to return to Pingchang and take the train directly to Guangdong. There are still many big things to do there...

The night before leaving, an uninvited guest came to the home of the fellow villager who was staying overnight.

"Xiao Li, Xiao Li..."

Li Yuangang had just finished checking Li Xing's homework and explained two more prescriptions to him. When the father and son were preparing to go to bed, they heard a knock on the door from the fellow villager.

This is a woodshed.

Li Yuan patted his son who was sitting up in shock and told him not to panic. Then he stood up and opened the door and asked, "Uncle Cheng, are you okay?"

Looking outside, I saw that in addition to my fellow villager Cheng, his daughter Cheng Hongxing was also there. Cheng Hongxing worked as an electrician at a tractor factory in the county, and there was a strange aunt beside her.

Old man Cheng smiled and said: "Xiao Li, I'm looking for you to see a doctor. I heard that you are a doctor from the capital and your medical skills are good."

Li Yuan smiled helplessly: "The outside world doesn't know that I am a doctor from the capital. They know that I am a street doctor."

Cheng Hongxing said happily: "It's okay if I know! Xiao Li, this is Sister Qi, coming to see you for help."

Li Yuan and his son lived in someone else's house, so they naturally had to help with this task.

Uncle Cheng lit the lantern, Cheng Hongxing brought a small stool, and then helped Sister Qi to sit down. Both father and daughter looked respectful and polite, which made Li Yuan have some suspicions.

However, this was a little-known small county, so he didn’t pay much attention to it...

After asking where he felt uncomfortable and checking his pulse, Li Yuan said strangely: "Sister Qi, there is nothing wrong with your body. You are a little bit weak, but I can see that you are broad-minded and optimistic. Although you are anxious, there is nothing serious. .”

Sister Qi smiled when she heard this and said: "Sure enough, you are really good at it. You can even tell a person's personality when seeing a doctor. Little comrade, you are amazing! It's not me who is sick, it's my eldest son who is sick. He accidentally fell down from upstairs. , I broke my waist. Could you please go over and have a look?"

Taking a closer look at Sister Qi's face, Li Yuan felt a thunder in his mind. He finally understood why he looked so kind to Sister Qi.

It's a mess...

Although I don’t know why, the time doesn’t seem to match up, but they just happened to happen.

However, although there was thunder in his heart, it did not show on his face. Li Yuan smiled bitterly and said: "Sister Qi, you really... think too highly of me. Some minor medical problems, I just don't care about my ability. Such serious problems Surgical injuries can only be treated with surgery, otherwise even if Hua Tuo is reincarnated, it will be impossible to recover."

Cheng Hongxing said curiously: "Doctor Li, didn't you show the patient who broke his leg the day before yesterday? I heard it all. After you took it, you said that you should pay attention to bed rest and cultivate yourself. The problem is not big and he can recover."

Li Yuan said sternly: "If Sister Qi's child only has a leg injury, then I can promise to do my best to treat it. But the waist... the lumbar spine has the richest nerve plexus in the body, and people who can feel pain even if it is pressed cannot bear it, and even more Don’t tell me that you fell down from upstairs and got seriously injured.”

Cheng Hongxing said: "Then why don't you go and have a look? What if it works?"

Sister Qi also smiled warmly and said: "That's right, just go and have a look. Whether it is cured or not, your hard work will not be in vain."

Li Yuanxian's face turned red and said: "Sister Qi, I... really don't mean this."

Cheng Hongxing spoke for him again: "Sister Qi, Xiao Li has been seeing doctors here for several days, all for free. When he eats at our house, he insists on giving money and food stamps to my father. He says he is a doctor. "

Sister Qi liked it even more and said, "Okay, this is better."

Li Yuan had no choice but to take Li Xing with him and walk for half an hour to the farmyard of the agricultural machinery factory.

Without saying a word or asking too many questions, after following Sister Qi home, I really saw the ancient...

In fact, in this era, not many people really know the ancients, and Li Yuan's level is obviously not among those who have seen the ancients.

He simply pretended not to know him. Gu Gu was also a taciturn character, so he didn't ask any questions.

After seeing the injuries of Gu and Sister Qi's eldest son, Li Yuan really had no choice, but he still prescribed a maintenance prescription and taught a set of health-care massage techniques, and then hurriedly said goodbye and left.

"Son, what are you holding in your hand?"

On the way back, Li Yuan saw Li Xing holding a small gadget in his hand and asked.

Li Xing held it up and said, "Dad, it's a red five-pointed star. Grandpa Gu gave it to me when you gave that uncle a massage. Dad, shouldn't I accept it?"

"..."

After a moment of silence, he said: "Take it and keep it well."

After saying that, he took the children back to Uncle Cheng's house to rest.

Early the next morning, I said goodbye to Mr. Cheng, took Li Xing back to Pingchang, and took the train all the way south to Guangdong...

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(End of this chapter)