Jiang Xia reached out and stroked Lu Yuanting's frown, knowing that it was because she fainted in Lu Yuanting's arms that day, which left a shadow on Lu Yuanting and scared him.

Lu Yuanting fixed his eyes on Jiang Xia and said nothing.

"It's okay, it's okay, don't worry about it in a few days. I was just too anxious." Wang Qilan shook her head with an apologetic look on her face. She really shouldn't have been so anxious just now. The girl was still sick. She had waited for so many years. There was no need to rush for a few days.

After Jiang Xia woke up, the doctor at the county hospital gave him a rough check-up and found that there was basically no problem with him. He just had to take good care of himself and not catch a cold or get hungry. He also had to apply medicine to the wounds on his hands and feet every day.

In the evening, the husband of the woman in the red cotton-padded jacket from the clinic came to the hospital to see her, carrying a lunch box with four thin pieces of bacon in it. The aroma of bacon was soaked in the rice, and there were also some pickles and mushrooms picked from the mountains. As soon as the lid was opened, the aroma of bacon overflowed.

"A man who loves you can't just talk about it, you have to do it. My man is caring. Seeing that I was in the hospital, he specially steamed bacon for me. To recover, you have to eat some meat and oily food. Boiled water and apples are useless." She spoke, as if she was still concerned about what happened just now, and said it specifically for Jiang Xia to hear.

What do you mean by loving and caring for people? It's just staying by the bed and talking. It was almost time for dinner, and he only ate two apples, which were given to him by someone.

It was just after she finished speaking.

Zhao Yuan came to the hospital with an aluminum lunch box and a thermos bucket in his hands. To keep it warm, the aluminum lunch box was wrapped with cotton wool. Inside was stewed chicken soup. This was a call from Lu Yuanting from the hospital to Yatou Village.

Lu Yuanting used a meat coupon, a grain coupon and six dollars to exchange for a chicken raised by a villager.

Six yuan! The monthly salary of city workers is only 20 or 30 yuan at most. Six yuan is equivalent to spending one-fourth of a factory worker's salary. Not many people are willing to spend that.

In the past, everything in this village was collectively owned by the brigade. But now the policy has changed, and many people grow vegetables and raise animals at home, and they sell them just by turning a blind eye, pretending not to know.

This chicken was stewed by Liang Qing, an educated youth from the village. I borrowed an aluminum lunch box and a thermos bucket from someone and kept them covered. Now I asked him to bring it over.

"Comrade Jiang, are you feeling better? Captain Lu specially stewed this chicken for you. It's still hot." Zhao Yuan came to the ward, put the lunch box down, opened the lid, and the aroma of chicken soup overflowed. The chicken soup was oily, and the bones and meat were stewed until they were soft and rotten. It was so delicious that people were drooling.

Meat, eggs and milk were still rare in those days. People could only enjoy them luxuriously during festivals. Families with better conditions might only eat them once a month or once a week.

The woman who had been mumbling just now stopped talking. She glanced at the four thin slices of bacon in her lunch box, and then at the chicken stewed by Jiang Xia. Even from such a distance, she could see the golden oil on it.

She didn't even get this kind of treatment when she gave birth to her baby. She was just given brown sugar water to drink and three pieces of greasy braised pork to eat. Others thought she was lucky. But Jiang Xia just had a slight cold and a fever, but they stewed a whole chicken for her. She was so spoiled.

She suddenly felt that the bacon in her mouth had lost its taste.

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Because of the Chinese New Year, I don't have much time to write, so I can only try to maintain one chapter a day. I will update more in February! I wish you all a happy new year! !