A Rural Life in the 70s

Xiaoqiu said his opinion to Liqun and Dabo Niang, and said: "My master is in the county, I asked him to come over to see my grandmother. Let's fix the prescription... You can rest assured that the grandmother's illness is cured... Maybe, if you take two medications, the grandmother will be able to squat for the New Year."

After saying this, she apologized again: "I knew that my grandmother was sick, and I came back with my third brother..."

Liqun was busy: "There was a cold at first, I didn't expect it to be getting heavier and heavier... Your grandmother wouldn't let it go, afraid that it would delay the work of your third brother..."

"What work is more important than people?" This sentence Xiaoqiu did not say, she understands the mood of the elderly, but because of understanding, I feel embarrassed.

After resigning from Liqun's uncle, Xiaoqiu hurried home, immediately called the Chengling of the capital, let him arrange someone else to be on duty, and immediately bought the ticket back.

Chengling is incomprehensible, but it is still: "Today is twenty-nine, I am afraid that I can’t buy a ticket..."

Xiaoqiu did not tell him the words, he interrupted him: "If you can't buy a ticket, you will drive back.... Yes, Cheng Xiaoli hasn't gone home yet? Bring her back to the New Year... Nothing, It’s time to look back at the big grandmother and the big uncle, and they’re old again... especially the grandmother, old, looking forward to a year, waiting for you to come back for the New Year... um, well, there’s not much stock, arrange it. There will be no problem with the staff on duty... um, well, if you drive back, you can pay attention to safety..."

Reconciled Chengling, Xiaoqiu hung up the phone, and immediately dialed the phone of the Songcheng of the county. As soon as I said the situation, Zheng Qiu had no opinion: "We are ready to have dinner, you will let the car come and pick me up."

Hanging up the phone, Zheng Qiushi gave a fist to Wu Grandpa and Song Shengshu: "There is a sick number. I can't accompany the two tonight. Your brothers are slowly drinking."

After all, it is the Chinese New Year. When Chengling’s grandmother’s illness has not yet reached the point of informing her relatives, Zheng Qiushi did not explain.

This year, many people in the village bought TV sets. Although they are all black and white TV sets, they obviously diverted the crowd watching TV. There are very few people watching TV at Xiaoqiu. Among them, there are also reasons for the New Year - the Chinese New Year is busy preparing for the children, the children have food and play, and no one can watch TV.

When Qin Lan didn't eat, he drove to the county seat. After more than half an hour, he took Zheng Qiushi back.

Wang Limin and Xiao Qiuye accompanied Zheng Qiushi to the grandmother to see the doctor. After that, Xiaoqiu took Fang Zi and Qin Yu to the town hospital for medicine.

At this moment, because of the affluence of the masses and the popularity of bicycles, more and more people will choose to go to the county hospital for treatment. The township-level health centers are becoming increasingly depressed. When Zheng Qiu is actually there, The traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy in the Taiping Town Health Center has been mostly idle, and the only medicines have many old stocks, or insects, or mildew, or odors. Many of them are unpalatable.

Xiaoqiu didn't care. The reason why she came over was to find an excuse to catch some of the more commonly used cheap drugs. The rest, directly supplemented with the ‘collection’ in Daqinghua.

The other is nothing, the ginseng in the big blue flower, Xiaoqiu took out one. At that time, she bought ginseng for more than 20 years. After continuous optimization of Daqinghua, I believe that the potency will increase a lot.

After returning, Liqun asked him how much money Xiaoqiu spent. Xiaoqiu did not quit, and took out the drug bill from the hospital directly, but it was a few dollars.

Liqun uncles even opened the medicine cheaply, but I don't know. The precious medicines of Xiaoqun made Xiaoqiu use private goods to make up. Do not say anything else. In this era, a wild ginseng of more than 20 years will cost tens of thousands of yuan.

Xiaoqiu’s haha ​​fooled the past, and Liqun’s uncle put the prescription into his pocket, and he didn’t have much to say. He was busy studying the decocting with Xiaoqiu.

Xiaoqiu helped to cure the medicine and carefully explained the method of taking it. When he left home, it was near midnight. Chengjiang and Qin Yu waited for her to go home together, and they went back to rest.

Early the next morning, Xiao Qiu accompanied Zheng Qiu Shi to go to the Liqun Dabo home to see the grandmother. Lee, who had eaten two medicines, seemed to have a lot of grayishness on his face, and his pulse was much more stable. This shows that the prescription has worked.

Zheng Qiushi actually took a few more words and asked Qin to send him back to the Song family. After all, Wu Jia Er Lao still stayed at the Song family.

New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve.

The custom in the northern part of S is to drink broth and eat dumplings at night.

There are not many dumplings, but the broth has some small exquisiteness: it is made from the soup of Chinese New Year stew, and the white cabbage tofu ball noodles and other materials are stewed, meaning that 'Bai Cai' 'Fu Fu' is full ''Long time long'...

Near the evening, dumplings out of the pot, soup on the table, will go to the door to set off firecrackers, in addition to the old welcome.

After eating a pair of medicines, the grandmother Li’s spirit was obviously better. The daughter-in-law served on the cotton-padded trousers and relied on the hoe.

Seeing that the sky is getting dark, I can already smell the scent of the broth. Some people in the village have already sounded the firecrackers of the New Year. The anxiety in Li’s eyes is more and more obvious. Finally, I saw my son come over to her. At the dinner table, Li immediately went to the body and helped the little table to ask: "Yesterday, the third child said that the third child is coming back today. You haven't seen it yet? You can ask, but don't... the road is delayed? ”

Halfway through the words, suddenly realized that it was unlucky, and quickly changed his mouth.

Wang Liqun is also thinking about it. At this time, he has to hold up his smile and comfort the old lady first. Let his wife take the children and grandchildren to eat first. He hastily went out to Xiaoqiu’s house.

However, not a few minutes after he left, a car motor sounded at the gate, and Li, who was being fed by his daughter-in-law, suddenly listened to the window and said, "The third child is back!"

Everyone still wonders, there is footsteps at the gate, and then the shouts of Chengling came in: "Grandma, oh, mother, I am coming back..."

The voice shouted, the people in the room heard a real one, adults and children who refused to eat, have put down the tableware, screaming and rushing out, of course, in addition to the old lady and Cheng Lingniang.

In any case, Chengling is not delayed to go home for the New Year.

On the first day, the New Year, the day is still not bright, the villagers went to the elders to celebrate the New Year, the children dressed in new clothes, noisy from the village to the end of the village can run to the end of the pocket full of lucky money and Sugar cubes.

This kind of day is also the fastest news. At noon, the whole village has been spread all over. The third generation of the Liqun secretary has returned to a college daughter-in-law, and it looks like a water spirit!