Bi Qiao’an lay motionless in the icy snow, watching helplessly as the falling flakes slowly buried her. As her consciousness faded, her mind drifted back to the three arduous years she had spent ...
Chapter 421 Pharmacist
Shen Yanming really wanted to refuse, but this reason really made it impossible for him to refuse.
He took the bag, opened it and saw that there were quite a lot of fresh lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes and eggplants.
After thanking him with a smile, Shen Yanming invited Li Gangtie to sit down and made him a cup of tea.
In return, we use tea produced in this space.
Li Gangtie was immediately attracted by the fragrance and asked what kind of tea it was.
Shen Yanming could only shake his head and said it was wild tea from the mountains. He didn't know what kind it was, but he just thought it tasted good, so he bought it from others.
Li Gangtie felt it was a pity, as he was a tea lover. But now, not only was there no good tea on the market, even ordinary tea had become rare.
Yes, the situation is changing, and tea farmers have to think about filling their stomachs. Who has the mood to take care of these "high-brow teas"?
If you have that much time, you might as well reclaim a few acres of wasteland, plant some rice and corn, and fill your stomach.
There is no way. When it comes to survival, no matter how elegant something is, it cannot compare to the "vulgarity".
Shen Yanming couldn't help laughing as he watched Li Gangtie holding the teapot as if it were a treasure. He said, "Okay, there's still a lot of tea at home. I'll bring you some when I go back."
Li Gangtie was excited when he heard this and asked hurriedly, "Are you serious?"
Shen Yanming nodded, "Of course, just think of it as, I'm exchanging tea leaves for these vegetables."
But Li Gangtie shook his head and refused: "No, no, no, this is for you. I know that the vegetable seedlings at home have died during the month you two have been in Su City. Just think of it as a small gift from Big Brother. There is no need to exchange it for good things."
"Why not? Vegetables can fill your stomach, but tea leaves can only make water taste better." Shen Yanming smiled, "To me, a bag of tea leaves is not as important as a bag of vegetables, so don't be polite to me."
Seeing Shen Yanming say this, Li Gangtie stopped refusing and turned to business.
"Have you ever thought about how to arrange your future work?" Li Gangtie said seriously.
Shen Yanming did not answer, but asked: "Can you tell me what the guard team thinks?"
"The leaders of the escort team have heard about your situation. They are scratching their heads and can't find a suitable position for you two."
After Li Gangtie finished speaking, he felt something was wrong and explained, "It's not that you two didn't perform well, on the contrary, you two were unanimously recognized.
But the reality is that Joan is pregnant and will give birth soon. After giving birth, she will enter the breastfeeding period, and after the breastfeeding period, she will have to take care of two little babies.
There's no way. You don't have any elderly people at home. Even if you hire someone, the child needs someone around.
In this way, many tasks in the Guard will not be suitable for her to do, or in other words, at least one of you will have to make a sacrifice."
"Besides, the Guard is different from your original unit. It won't allow anyone to eat for free.
If we knew that Qiao An was pregnant, she would most likely fail the assessment. Since she passed, we won’t reject her, but we need to consider her position more carefully.”
Shen Yanming nodded to show his understanding. He asked, "If, I mean if, Qiao An doesn't work within two years, will she still be employed?"
Li Gangtie shook his head. "Although your actual situation requires this, this place is different from the outside world after all. There are many rules and regulations that must be followed. If she directly takes a two-year leave, I can't say whether she will still have a place here when she can go back to work."
"In that case, what kind of work does the guard team have that doesn't require sitting on duty?"
Li Gangtie scratched his bald head and said, "I am also worried about this. There are very few jobs with a relatively large degree of freedom in the escort team, and most of them are in the labor team.
For things like tending the fields, Joan's physical condition doesn't allow it, so you can take it over after get off work, and no one will gossip.
However, these jobs are not as respectable as the ones you had before, and they require a lot of effort."
Shen Yanming frowned, thought for a moment and said: “Captain Li, I believe you have investigated our experiences before we came to the Guard Team, and you should know that my ancestors once passed down medical books.
I was thinking whether I could set up a pharmacist position in the escort team and let Qiao An take the position. Although she couldn't treat patients, she could still independently prepare medicine powders and pills with specified effects.
Even though the medical treatment of the escort team is mainly based on Western medicine, no one can predict what will happen in the next minute. In addition, there are obviously fewer mosquitoes this year, and mosquito repellent spices are not as scarce as last year. It is also a waste if many medicinal materials in the Chinese medicine field are not used.
My husband and I can allocate a certain amount of antipyretic medicine, hemostatic powder, frostbite cream, etc. every month, which can be regarded as a material reserve for the escort team."
After hearing this, Li Gangtie was even more excited than when he received the tea leaves. He stood up and asked, "Are you serious? Can you two really make pills?"
"Of course. We both basically have mastered the recipes handed down from our ancestors, but we have signed an agreement with the alliance, so it is not convenient to pass it on to outsiders." Shen Yanming said affirmatively.
"Okay, okay, okay!" Li Gangtie said "Okay" three times and paced back and forth excitedly. "I didn't expect you two to be so capable. Don't worry, I will report to the leader right away. I believe the escort team will give you a positive answer."
Then he whispered, "You two don't know that medical resources are in short supply in this earthquake. Even cities like Haishi, which were not hit hard, were constrained and could hardly save the victims.
To put it bluntly, it is because many pharmaceutical factories were buried by the earthquake, and reconstruction is a long process. If Chinese medicine pills can help during this period, I believe the situation will be much better. "
"Is there no Chinese medicine practitioner in the escort team?" Shen Yanming asked in surprise.
"Yes, but they have to feel the pulse before prescribing medicine, which is very slow, and there is no ancestral prescription, so the medicine they prescribe takes a long time to take effect."
Shen Yanming praised: "That's because they are skilled and can adjust the prescription at any time according to the condition of the patient."
Then he reminded: "When you report Qiao An's situation, you must emphasize to the leader that my husband and I don't know how to treat illnesses. It's just that thanks to our ancestors' blessings, we learned how to make medicine pills by chance.
Moreover, we both know only a few techniques, and we cannot mass produce them. These shortcomings need to be considered by the other party.”
"Okay, I understand."
Li Gangtie was about to leave when Bi Qiaoan stopped him.
She had just been listening to the two quietly and didn't want to interrupt, but she was afraid that Captain Li might misunderstand something, so she explained: "The pharmaceutical work can be done by me alone, and my husband can obey the arrangements of the guard team and work normally."