"Oh, don't get me wrong. Xiu Zhiqing is just a revolutionary comrade I met on the road. We don't have that kind of relationship as you said!" She said shyly.

"Oh - revolutionary comrades!" Li Lili cheered ambiguously.

He Yuzhen's eyes flashed when she heard this. The man seemed to come from a well-off family. Both the clothes he wore and the watch he wore looked better off than Xu Bingshuai.

"I just don't know what kind of relationship we have with each other as revolutionary comrades—" She turned her back and rummaged through the box, joining in the fun, but there was no smile on her face.

But no matter how they teased her, Li Jia refused to admit that she had any relationship with Zheng Zhengyan. She just looked blushing and shy, which made anyone who was not blind see what was going on.

After Niu Feifei returned to the city, the female educated youth reallocated the two rooms. Now Liu Yanqing and Qiu Xiaohuan live in one room, and He Yuzhen and Li Lili live in the other room. Judging from the way they are chatting now, it is natural that Li Jia will live in the same room with them.

Neither He Yuzhen nor Li Lili is a pushover. After all, they have been in Kaoshan Village for more than a year. Of course, they know which position on the kang is the best, so they directly gave the seat by the window to Li Jia.

Li Jia was quite happy to see that her seat was next to the window. In her opinion, this place was bright, clean and ventilated. It was simply the best seat in the entire room.

Li Lili curled the corners of her lips when she saw her happy look. Just don't regret it when winter comes.

There was a tea party in the educated youth dormitory in the evening.

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When Tian Cai came back, he gave the cloth to Huaihua, described Hong Siqing's height and body shape and the general style of the clothes to her, and then went back.

The style she wanted was very ordinary, the kind that men in the village wore for daily work, and it didn't require much technical skill. She had seen Huaihua make it for his father and felt that she could do it too, but she was afraid that the stitches would be too big and the thread would unravel after wearing it twice.

Tian Cai took a shower in the evening and was about to go to bed early when he heard someone knocking on the door.

The person who came was Boss Ding, and his little boy Shitou had a fever.

Tian Cai asked someone to wait in the yard while he went back to the house to pack his medicine box and put on a piece of clothing. Then he followed Boss Ding home. Mimi followed Tian Cai quietly.

She had just washed her hair, so it was still damp. She simply didn't tie it up and let it hang loose. The September night breeze blew on her body, and Tian Cai couldn't help but tighten her clothes.

"Shi Tou caught a cold after the rain a few days ago. I didn't take it seriously, thinking he'd just wait a few days and maybe he'd get better," Boss Ding couldn't help but rub his face, his usually honest face full of regret. "But the child has had a fever since yesterday, and the fever-reducing medicine didn't work. I went to your house during the day and there was no one there, so I took the child to the commune to get a shot. Now the fever is back. I really have no choice but to come to you late at night to see him."

It was almost nine o'clock at this time, and most families in the village had gone to bed. Since the Ding family's old house collapsed, they had separated. The eldest Ding and his wife borrowed money on credit from the team and took the old house next to the educated youth site. After a simple cleanup, the family of four moved in and lived there.

As soon as Tian Cai entered the house, he saw Xiao Shitou lying on the kang covered with a quilt, and Mrs. Ding and her eldest daughter were sitting beside them with sad faces.

Xiao Shitou's face flushed. Tian Cai leaned on the kang with one hand and reached out to take his hand, but as soon as his palm touched the kang, he realized something was wrong.

"Is the kang on fire?"

The reason why Tian Cai asked this is because it is only September now. Although the weather is cold in the morning and evening, some families have started to heat their kangs, but even if they do, the kang surface will not be heated to a slightly hot temperature like in winter.

Mrs. Ding nodded, her brow furrowed. "The child has a fever. I thought I'd make him sweat."

Tian Cai reached under the mattress and felt around, then touched the quilt covering Xiao Shitou. "It's so hot, take the quilt off and change to something thinner!" he said in a slightly serious tone.

"This, this won't work?" Mrs. Ding hesitated. "If he catches a cold and then a chill, how can he sweat without getting hot?"

Tian Cai stood up and looked at her. "Although your son has a fever, he's not afraid of the cold. I see you've dressed him in a lot of clothes, and covered him with a thick quilt and put him on a heated kang. His fever will only get worse!"

Mrs. Ding turned her head away without saying a word, and held her daughter in her arms without moving. It was clearly soft resistance.

"Mei Zi, Doctor Tian said this won't work. You should do as he says and lift the stone blanket!" Boss Ding stepped forward and gently pushed her, feeling extremely anxious.

Mrs. Ding glanced to the other side and still said nothing.

Seeing this, Boss Ding took off his shoes and got on the kang, lifted the quilt off Xiao Shitou, and pushed him slightly further towards the kang.

Now Xiao Shitou's face is red and his mind is a little confused. He doesn't know whether he has fallen asleep or has a high fever.

"What are you doing!" Mrs. Ding stopped pretending to be dead. Seeing her husband lifting the quilt off her son, she immediately became angry and rushed up to fight with him.

Boss Ding was shocked. His wife had been in a bad temper recently, but she had never been like now. She actually came over and fought with him. Boss Ding was frightened for a moment, and his wife got the upper hand, so he covered Xiao Shitou with the quilt again.

If Xiao Shitou wasn't in a bad condition right now, Tian Cai really wanted to smash the medicine box in her face. It's up to you whether you want to treat me or not, I'm not the one who's sick!

She suppressed her temper, ignored the two of them, walked up to Xiao Shitou, lifted his wrist, raised her right hand, and took his pulse.

The noise in the room did not affect her at all. The two adults started arguing with each other, and the eldest daughter of the Ding family watched on the side with a numb expression.

It's impossible not to feel numb. This scene has been happening frequently at home recently. I don't know what's wrong with her mother. Ever since she moved here, her mother has been quarreling with her father from time to time. She always blames her grandparents in her words. Her grandparents have been bad for a long time, and they have passed away. I don't know why they keep bringing up old things.

Just now on the way, Tian Cai had asked about the cause of the child's cold. According to Boss Ding, Xiao Shitou played outside for too long a few days ago and sweated a lot. He didn't take a shower when he came back. Tian Cai already had an idea in his mind.

Tian Cai asked the eldest daughter of the Ding family who was watching the game nearby, "Has Shitou pooped these days?"

Ding Xuehong thought for a moment and said, "No, in the past, I had to fight for the toilet with me, but these past few days, there hasn't been any."

If the sweating has not yet stopped and you suddenly go out in the wind and catch a cold, it will become a febrile disease.

Xiao Shitou's condition was very critical. After some consideration, Tian Cai decided not to use Baihu Decoction for the time being and try acupuncture to reduce the fever. However, Baihu Decoction had to be prepared in case the acupuncture was ineffective.