Chapter 166 A steady stream of jobs

"Look at this little brother," Ding Yuchun pointed at Li Na's child. "His name is Wangwang. Do you think he's well behaved? Grandpa has something to say to his mother. Can you help Grandpa take care of his little brother?"

Ding Yuchun spoke to Yang Hongwen as if he were coaxing a child, which made Li Na even more convinced that there was something wrong with the young man in front of her.

Yang Hongwen nodded obediently.

He walked over, took Wangwang's hand, and wanted to take him away.

Wangwang was unwilling and threw himself into Li Na's arms. No matter how Li Na tried to persuade her, it was useless.

Yang Hongwen was not annoyed. He ran out to get his camera, played the video in it, and sat aside to watch it. Wangwang heard the sound and glanced at it curiously.

Yang Hongwen just kept watching by himself, immersed in his own world. Wangwang wandered around for about ten minutes before cautiously moving over to watch with Yang Hongwen.

Neither of them spoke, but leaned forward to look at the world in the camera.

Then Yang Hongwen took a photo outside. Wangwang saw it. He then went out to take photos of other places, and Wangwang followed him.

The two people didn't communicate much throughout the whole process.

The first patient Ding Yuchun treated after arriving in Yanggou Village was Yang Hongwen. Yang Hongwen had intellectual problems because he missed the best opportunity for treatment when he had a fever as a child.

At present, the medical field of brain in China and abroad can be said to be developmental difficulties, autism, autism, aphasia, and even mental retardation...

There is no good treatment for these diseases, and we can only hope for rehabilitation training.

Long-term rehabilitation training not only requires the child's family to invest money and time, but in fact, these investments may not bring good returns.

Therefore, it is not uncommon for families with problem children to have their spouses divorced after being diagnosed with problems, as happened with Li Na.

Most mothers will not give up their children, just like Li Na.

Seeing her son go out to play with others, Li Na's tears could not stop, falling down, and she couldn't wipe them away. Ding Yuchun gave her a tissue, and Li Na said with tears and laughter: "I am so happy."

Ding Yuchun understood. He asked Li Na, "Don't cry yet. I haven't said I can definitely cure him. I can't promise you anything about that. Did you see the child just now? He's autistic, just like your son. There's a perception in our country that autistic children are idiots and have low intelligence. Actually, this is a misconception. Many autistic children are considered idiots, which is incorrect."

"As long as they receive rehabilitation and training, many autistic children are capable of living independently."

"So I'm telling you, it's not impossible to restore your son to his former smart and clever self, but the possibility is slim. Let me be frank. You're an ordinary person with no money and no time. It's unrealistic for us to restore him to that state."

"But think about it from another perspective. Any parent raising a child is like any animal raising a cub; they hope their child will grow up to be able to survive on their own. It's just that we humans have evolved a step further and hope our children will succeed and bring honor to their parents."

"From today on, don't set your sights too far ahead. Just focus on training him to survive on his own. Do you understand?"

"Treat him as a human being, not as a baby who needs care and can't leave you all the time. Look, can't he live well even without you?"

Ding Yuchun said a lot, and Li Na followed his gaze to look outside. Wangwang took the camera from Yang Hongwen and was fiddling with it like a confused little monkey.

Li Na understood what Ding Yuchun meant. Even if the child could not be cured, he could still live like a normal person.

Ding Yuchun taught Li Na how to give the child rehabilitation training, giving him acupuncture once a week until some of the child's epilepsy symptoms were cured. Then he could practice speaking and developing his living skills like a normal child.

When Li Na took Wangwang away from the Yang family, she was still a little confused. Her eyes were swollen from crying, but she couldn't hide her happiness.

She had already asked and found out that there were houses to rent in the village at a reasonable price. They could rent a single room for only one or two hundred yuan a month.

She originally thought that seeing Ding Yuchun would be very expensive, but after spending so much time, he just prescribed her a medicine. Knowing that she had nowhere to live, he said that she could just bring her child to drink it after it was boiled. The total cost was less than fifty yuan.

Li Na used to work in Shenzhen. In order to support her family and pay for her son's medical treatment, she had to work three jobs a day. During the day, she left her son at home, tied him with a chain, and played cartoons for him.

Afraid that he would get food stuck in his throat, she didn't dare give him food or drink when she was not at home, just like raising a small animal.

Li Na knew that the child was suffering, but she really had no choice. Fortunately, there were kind neighbors who could help take care of him.

She had saved some money and was thinking of living in Yanggou Village for a while, so she decided to give up the house in Shenzhen and ask her neighbor to send her things over.

The rent there is due in more than a month. If I plead with the landlord, maybe I can get her three to five hundred yuan back.

Li Na quickly found a house in the village. The villagers who knew her situation were very enthusiastic. The house they rented to her was right in the center of the village. It was said that it had just been simply renovated and there was not much formaldehyde. The rent was 150 yuan a month, including water and electricity. There was also a vegetable patch in the backyard, which was at most two or three square meters. The landlord was an elderly woman, and she rented the vegetable patch to her so that she could cook at home.

The price is that Li Na has to help her take care of other vegetable plots. She only needs to water and weed the plants, and no fertilizer is needed.

The vegetable fields in the village are all green and pollution-free, and no pesticides are used. As the number of frogs increases, there are fewer insects.

Li Na felt like she had found a bargain, as there were pots, pans, and utensils here. She had also made an agreement with her neighbor to send her things over. The landlord was also very nice. Even though her early termination would affect the rental of the house, he still refunded Li Na the remaining rent of more than one month.

Having received so much good news in one day, Li Na was in a very good mood and felt that there was hope in life again.

There are quite a lot of parents like Li Na. Xia Wu underestimated people with children. Now is different from the past. There are fewer children and they are much more precious. If a child has a minor illness, they will go to the hospital. If there is a serious illness, it is even more common for them to seek medical treatment everywhere.

Not long after Li Na arrived, she became familiar with the villagers. She let her son out of the house and let him run around the village as long as he didn't touch anything dangerous, looking at the flowers and grass and watching the children play.

At first, Li Na was a little nervous, but gradually she found that the countryside was more suitable for children to play than the city. There was no traffic in the village, and the adults were all familiar faces. Even if it was near the river, there would be adults in the village nearby to pay more attention.

So Li Na felt relieved and began to renovate the small house where she and her son lived, build good relationships with the villagers, and then find a job for herself.

Yang Guoen's barbecue stall business is getting more and more prosperous. He used to open the stall at 4:30 pm every day. Due to strong protests from customers, he had to change the opening time to 3 pm and open until 10 pm. They live in the countryside, and there are not many people who come here to eat barbecue every day.

But during the summer vacation, many people come to the nearby village to rent houses and bring their children. These city people who are accustomed to nightlife are like night owls and do not sleep every night. The electric car dealership in the town simply promotes taxi services, and you can rent a car for seven days for 100 yuan.

So those city people, when they have nothing to do, would ride their electric bikes around and come to Yang Guoen's barbecue stall to eat barbecue. It was common for them to eat until midnight.

Yang Guoen is not against money. His barbecue stall is doing well. The original husband-and-wife team now has three more employees. One of the chefs who helps him grill skewers is his wife's cousin.

There are also two big sisters serving skewers.

Five people were busy running a barbecue stall, but they were still a little overwhelmed. Yang Guoen calculated the money he earned and felt that he could hire one more person.

It just so happened that Li Na shamelessly asked around if anyone needed help. Yang Guoen knew that she was taking her child to see a doctor, so he asked her to stay and work, paying her 3,000 yuan a month.

I have more free time, the workload is not too much, and most importantly, I have more time to spend with my children.

Li Na was very satisfied with this.

Xia Zhi was personally responsible for the construction of the Chinese medicine hall. In fact, he and Ma Fangzhou's studio undertook many construction tasks for houses in the village.

More and more outsiders come here to play, and many local villagers want to renovate their houses, do some small business, and make some money. It is inevitable that they have to renovate their old houses and make them beautiful in order to do business.

So Ma Fangzhou and Xia Zhi got busy. They converted the old building in Haotang from the last century into a homestay, which is a combination of medieval and antique styles and suitable for all ages. It also has both classical and modern aesthetics. Their aesthetics are indeed decades ahead of the villagers.

All the orders they received were scheduled until next year, yet they still found time to draw the design of the Chinese medicine hall for Xia Wu.

The Chinese medicine hall is located in the public area of ​​the village, covering an area of ​​about two or three acres. It is divided into a front yard and a back yard, and has two floors, an ancient-style building.

Downstairs is the consultation desk, upstairs is where patients rest, boil medicine, and receive rehabilitation treatment. The backyard is the staff lounge and medicine warehouse. The front and back yards are connected by a wooden corridor to prevent inconvenience in passage when it rains.

There is a pavilion in the middle of the patio between the front and back buildings, and medicinal herbs can be dried around it.

All in all, it is very antique, but not too abrupt.

Especially the persimmon tree in front of the pharmacy. The construction team originally wanted to cut it down, but Xia Zhi had people preserve the persimmon tree. Standing on the second floor, it is a landscape.

There is constant construction going on in Donghua Town, with many engineering teams. It was easy to allocate two engineering teams to build the Chinese medicine hall first.

Yanggou Village is becoming more and more lively. For some reason, this originally unknown village is very attractive.

Wang Zhong called his friends and wanted to invite more people to join in the fun.

On the other hand, Ma Xueqing came to Yanggou Village to eat for free last time, and within two days of returning, he wanted to go on strike and quit.

He finally figured it out. His apprentices, most of whom were already in their forties or fifties, still stayed by his side all day long and worked for him. Did they really have no ambition, or was he too strict in his discipline?

We can’t always have him at Ma’s Restaurant. What if he dies?

Ma Xueqing thought about it for a long time. Taking advantage of the fact that he was not busy early in the morning, he called his four apprentices to a meeting. Those who deserved the division would divide the profits. Those who wanted to work on their own could do so, open a branch, or do anything else. Those who did not want to leave could continue to work at the Ma's Restaurant. There were customers here, and as long as they did not mess around, they would definitely not starve to death.

As for Ma Xueqing, he is going to retire and enjoy his old age.

The apprentices first begged him and did not want him to retire, but Ma Xueqing was serious. Then the eldest apprentice and the third apprentice said they wanted to take shares and go out on their own. The second apprentice and the youngest apprentice wanted to continue to run the Ma's Restaurant and were unwilling to leave.

Ma Xueqing hired a lawyer and soon divided the family up.

Lao Ma didn't plan to cook anymore. Before leaving, he personally cooked another meal for his old customers. He called those old gourmets who had been eating his food for ten or twenty years one by one to invite them over.

Everyone was reluctant to see Lao Ma retire.

As the separation is approaching, Lao Ma feels really bad and always feels that he may have made the wrong decision.

Who knew that when Chef Zhang learned that he was retiring and coming to Yanggou Village, he said, "Hey, old man, have you figured it out?"

Ma Xueqing: "What's that? Are you afraid I'll come over and steal your job?"

Chef Zhang argued with him, then got down to business: "Just now, Xiao Wu called me and asked if I had any good chef recommendations. She said that the girl who cooks in the mountains is pregnant. I was just thinking about quitting the cafeteria and working for her, but who knew you would call me."

Ma Xueqing's eyes lit up: "Wang Yuexia is pregnant?"

She is not young anymore!

But it was really like someone brought a pillow to him when he was sleepy. When Ma Xueqing thought about the many delicious foods he could find on Xia Wu Mountain, all his sadness disappeared and he just wanted to buy a ticket and go there quickly.

He had no children in his life, and all he had was an old house, so he just left it to his apprentice to take care of.

So I sent a message to my apprentice, bought the ticket myself and went there.

The news of Wang Yuexia's pregnancy spread quickly in the village. Yang Dalan, who was still a bachelor last year, is going to be a father!

That's not the case. As early as when Yang Dalan and Wang Yuexia got married, Wang Yuexia's children with her ex-husband were already Yang Dalan's children.

Yang Dalan treats those children very well, just like his own father.

No matter whether the children call him dad or not, his performance is remarkable.

Since marrying Wang Yuexia, he no longer sleeps in. Yang Dala has become very hardworking. He can even sweep the mud floor at the door clean. If his children say they want to eat fried dough sticks, he will ride his bike to the town to buy them at five o'clock in the morning.

He was good to his children, and Wang Yuexia saw it and treated him even better. Although Wang Yuexia was quite old, she was already 35 or 36 years old this year, which was considered an advanced mother, she was willing to give birth to a child for Yang Dalan, fearing that he would not have his own children and would be laughed at by others in the future.

So everyone in the village knew that Wang Yuexia was going to give birth to a child for Yang Dalan. It was a matter of time.

Some people who like to gossip about others teased Wang Yuexia, saying that she was not afraid that Yang Dalan would have her own biological children, so she would be mean to her ex-husband's children?

Wang Yuexia is not afraid at all. She can earn money on her own, so what is there to be afraid of?

Even if Yang Dalan divorces her again, she is confident that she can raise all the children well.

Yang Dalan hated those gossipers who went to other people's doorsteps and said that if they were to do something like that, they were not human beings!

Wang Yuexia didn't realize she was pregnant until she was more than two months pregnant. Early in the morning, when she was preparing breakfast, she said her waist felt a little sore and she had no appetite while eating breakfast. She thought she was sick.

Qi Wei brought Wang Baoyu and Dong Rui to have breakfast. After hearing what she said, Wang Baoyu said that he could give massage and could help Wang Yuexia relieve the pain.

Dong Rui's medical skills are more reliable. He said he could take Wang Yuexia's pulse to see if she had a cold or something.

They both have some skills and are still studying hard. They haven't seen any patients yet, but when they have nothing to do, they take the pulses of the elderly people in the mountains and practice on them.

Wang Yuexia didn't hesitate and sat there letting Dong Rui take her pulse. However, the young man took her pulse for a long time and his brows became more and more furrowed.

He asked Wang Yuexia: "Sister, how old are you?"

"Can't you tell how old I am? I'm almost forty."

Dong Rui scratched his head. He really couldn't tell. Wang Yuexia didn't look old, but her children were older, more than ten years old. Dong Rui knew that.

But how could Wang Yuexia be pregnant?

Dong Rui felt that his skills were not good enough, so he did not dare to make a definitive statement. He could only say, "Why don't you wait for my master to come and let him take a look at it for you."

Wang Baoyu also tried to feel Wang Yuexia's pulse and soon concluded, "Is this a pregnancy pulse?"

Dong Rui frowned: "Yeah, how could it be a happy pulse, it shouldn't be like this?"

"Does the happy pulse mean pregnancy?"

"yes."

"No wonder! I'm pregnant!" Wang Yuexia stood up happily, "I haven't had my period for two months. I thought it was delayed, but I didn't expect I'm pregnant!"

Dong Rui and Wang Baoyu were both stunned. They thought that Wang Yuexia would not want to have children at her age.

The two men had only been there for a short time and didn't know much about the village.

Then I was given some scientific knowledge.

When Yang Dalan found out that his wife was pregnant, he jumped three feet high. He didn't want Wang Yuexia to touch even a root or a leaf of vegetable, and said he wanted to quit his job and go home to take care of her.

Xia Wu was very happy to know that his right-hand woman was pregnant, but he was also a little worried about who to find to replace Wang Yuexia.

There are a lot of women in the village who can cook, but to put it bluntly, they just know how to cook and make the food delicious. There are really not many who have the energy and patience to study recipes and improve themselves like Wang Yuexia.

Otherwise, Xia Wu would not have offered Wang Yuexia such a high salary!

Wang Yuexia is an elderly mother, so she must be careful and attentive. It is unlikely for her to be a chef cooking for more than a hundred people, not to mention that regular employees have maternity leave.

Xia Wu thought about it and decided to hire another cook to take over Wang Yuexia's job, allowing her to temporarily step back.

Wang Yuexia was very worried about this, fearing that her status would be lost and her salary would be reduced after giving birth to a child.

In order to reassure her, Xia Wu gave her 5,000 yuan as childbirth fund, and also promised that when she wanted to officially start her career after giving birth, he would give her full authority to work such as making buns, snacks and jams. It was also good to lead a group of women to work hard on their careers.

Only then did Wang Yuexia feel relieved and focused on taking care of her health.

Yang Hongen examined her and said that she was in good physical condition and just needed to go to the town hospital on time to create a file and have a check-up.

Xia Wu called Chef Zhang and asked him to help find a chef, but he never expected that he would invite Ma Xueqing, a real god.

When Xia Wu heard that Ma Xueqing wanted to be the chef for the big pot meals on the mountain, her mouth was watering and she agreed immediately.

Ma Xueqing's cooking skills are not exaggerated. They are the result of real practice. He can even cook a small vegetable to perfection, not to mention the chickens, ducks and geese from the mountains falling into his hands. It really wasn't in vain.

Ma Xueqing doesn't do anything else except cooking. When he has nothing to do, he goes to the mountains to wander around, look at chickens, ducks, geese, cows and sheep, and makes whatever he wants to eat under the guise of cooking.

He asked Xia Wu, since you already raise chickens, ducks and geese, why don’t you raise some pigs?

"Look at your mountain, it's perfect for raising pigs. You can build a biogas tank, provide electricity and gas, and kill the pigs for food. There's absolutely no problem raising some wild boars."

The rotten vegetable leaves and泔水 produced on the mountain every day are enough to feed many pigs.

Xia Wu listened to the advice and said he would raise whatever he wanted, for no other reason than that it tasted good!

By enclosing an area on the mountain near water, the pigs can dig the mountain into mud nests by themselves. They eat and live on the mountain, and drink river water mixed with spiritual spring water.

Xia Wu could already imagine how sweet and delicious these pigs would be by the Chinese New Year.

Ma Xueqing promised her that he would roast a whole sheep for her during the Chinese New Year, and he could also make roast suckling pig and roast pork chops...

Xia Wu's mouth was watering just thinking about it.

Anna's family stayed in Yanggou Village for about ten days. The friend who showed them the farm had to leave for something, so they had to return home early. Before leaving, they pulled Xia Wu aside and talked to her, strongly inviting her to visit a farm abroad, and they would give her the same warm hospitality then.

These foreigners bought a lot of local specialties from Yanggou Village, including the village's woven products, and paid a lot for the international shipping costs.

A week after they left, Anna found Xia Wu and asked her helplessly if she could make more mats and hand-woven fabrics. The specialties her parents brought back were so popular that not only their family and friends, but even their friends' friends wanted them.

Air conditioners abroad are not cheap, and the cost of installing them is even higher, not to mention the electricity bill, which is another painful expense.

In addition, the temperature in their area is not hot for too long throughout the year, so there seems to be no need to install air conditioners, so many families are reluctant to install them.

The cool mats produced in Xiawu Village are the perfect solution. Afraid of the heat? No money for air conditioning? Then sleep on a cool mat!

These mats made of natural bamboo feel like lying in well water, cool and refreshing in the hot summer.

Xia Wu seemed to have discovered another way to make money.

She promised Anna that she would look for ways to export the products recently, and maybe export more bamboo mats abroad.

Foreigners are not fools. They have also bought many mats, but those mats cannot be compared with the mats produced in Xiawu Village. After sleeping on them for a long time, they become hot and sticky and have no effect on cooling down.

The work in the village is almost saturated, vegetable packaging, farming, steamed buns...

But there are more and more people in the village who need jobs, so Xia Wu must create more jobs.

In her opinion, the summer mats in Koukou Village are a very good business.

But before that, she needs to find someone who understands foreign trade.