"Chicken blood? What does that mean?" An Hua was confused.

"You don't even know what chicken blood injection is?" Zhou Meihua enthusiastically explained to An Hua, "It's to draw blood from a young rooster and inject it into your body with a syringe. I heard it's good for your body. Your face will be rosy after the injection."

An Hua was stunned and asked as if to confirm, "Injecting rooster blood into a human body? Is it a real rooster? The kind that crows?"

Zhou Meihua laughed loudly, "You are a scholar, but a rooster is a rooster. How can it be a fake rooster? The newspapers all said that a young rooster about a year old is the most suitable. I have made an appointment with Xiao Li's wife and the others, and I will go to the infirmary to get the shot soon."

"Was it our army's medical clinic that gave him the shot?"

"What else? I don't dare to stick a needle in myself."

"Can this chicken blood...cure diseases?"

"Yes! It can cure all kinds of diseases!" Zhou Meihua began to list what she had heard, "Stroke, hemorrhoids, women's diseases, psoriasis, athlete's foot, it can all be cured!"

An Hua: “…”

Zhou Meihua asked An Hua again: "Are you going?"

An Hua was still shocked by the "chicken blood" and just shook her head.

Zhou Meihua advised her: "Didn't you say you had a migraine a while ago? Go get one and try, maybe it will work."

This thing doesn't sound reliable, and An Hua doesn't dare to joke about her own body.

She said to Zhou Meihua, "Sister-in-law, blood can't be randomly transfused. Even if it's human blood, transfusion of different blood types may cause hemolytic reactions or other dangers. What's more, it's animal blood. If the blood types don't match, there's no telling how many bacteria there are in the blood."

Zhou Meihua didn't understand what blood type or reaction meant, she only knew that An Hua was always reliable, knowledgeable and cultured, so what she said must make sense.

"Oh, so you mean we can't fight?" Zhou Meihua began to hesitate, "But it's all written in the newspapers, many people fight..."

An Hua said, "You have to think about it this way. Even if this chicken blood injection is good for your body, your physical fitness is already top-notch. How much more can it do? It won't be of much use, but what if it's harmful? Wouldn't it ruin your body?"

That's true!

Zhou Meihua gave up the idea and said, "You're right, there's no need for me to fight. I'll let my old Shi fight!"

An Hua: “…”

Fortunately, Shi Weiguang was unwilling to go. It was not because he thought that taking chicken blood was harmful, but because he refused to admit that his body was not healthy.

"I'm in good health, not much worse than a 20-year-old boy!"

"I'm the toughest talker in my whole body..." Zhou Meihua muttered.

Shi Weiguang jumped up and down, "What are you talking about, woman! I...I..."

Zhou Meihua rolled her eyes. "Alright, alright, I'm telling the truth. What can you say to me? If you don't want to fight, forget it. Anyway, I'll be able to hold my grandchildren in a few years. I don't care about that anymore!"

Shi Weiguang pulled the corner of his mouth awkwardly.

Shi Xiaojun, who was eavesdropping outside, pushed open the door and walked in, asking, "Mom, can taking chicken blood help me grow taller?"

Zhou Meihua was startled and cursed, "Fuck you, you scared my heart so much that it stopped!"

Shi Xiaojun: "...I know, Mom, you are using exaggerated rhetoric to scare me."

Zhou Meihua raised her hand to hit Shi Xiaojun on the back of the head, but Shi Xiaojun dodged and said, "Don't hit my head all the time, or you'll make me stupid."

Zhou Meihua: "You think you are smart!"

Shi Xiaojun ignored his mother and turned to ask Shi Weiguang, "Dad, can I become an adult all of a sudden after taking the chicken blood shot?"

Shi Weiguang: "What do you want to do as an adult? It's so hard to be a child."

Shi Xiaojun shook his head. "When you are a kid, you can't do anything. You have to be supervised by adults in everything."

Shi Weiguang was too lazy to chat with his son, so he went into another room to listen to the radio.

Zhou Meihua warned Shi Xiaojun, "You are not allowed to go and get chicken blood."

An Hua has already said that taking chicken blood may have harmful effects, so it doesn't matter if Shi Weiguang is allowed to try it. He has thick skin and flesh anyway, so even if it does cause harm, it won't do him much harm. After all, my son is still young. How can I use him to conduct experiments?

Zhou Meihua repeatedly told Shi Xiaojun not to go, and finally she was worried and threatened him, "You will stink if you take chicken blood, and Qingyin hates smelly things the most. If you become smelly, she will hate you the most. You should think about it yourself."

Shi Xiaojun was indeed frightened and did not fight in private.

Zhou Meihua's family had given up the idea of ​​getting chicken blood, but there were quite a few people in the family compound who went there for the shot, and there was a long queue at the infirmary.

An Hua flipped through the newspaper and looked for news that could inspire excitement, and she found quite a few.

It turns out that getting chicken blood is a popular behavior in the whole society. No matter it is the top leaders or the common people at the bottom, they all believe that getting chicken blood is good for the body.

Seeing that she was so interested in getting chicken blood, Xiao Zheng thought she was going to get it too, so he said, "Wife, don't get that thing."

"Why?" An Hua was surprised. She didn't expect Xiao Zheng's views to be different from the mainstream.

"Rooster blood is used to ward off evil spirits and is an extremely yang thing, while women are yin, and yin and yang conflict with each other," Xiao Zheng said seriously, "Men can fight, but women are not suitable."

An Hua: "...Aren't you a party member? How dare you say such feudal and superstitious words?"

Xiao Zheng choked and argued, "It can't be considered feudal superstition. Yin and Yang are... philosophy. Yes, philosophy!"

An Hua smiled and nodded, "Not bad, you also understand philosophy."

Xiao Zheng smiled evilly and picked up An Hua. "I understand yin and yang better. I am yang and you are yin. Yin and yang must be balanced to be good for the body! Come on, wife, let's balance them..."

After two hours of negotiation, An Hua brought the topic back to the topic of getting excited.

He told Xiao Zheng, "You are not allowed to fight. Do you hear me?"

Xiao Zheng said lazily: "I'm in poor health, so I don't need it."

An Hua asked him to promise.

Xiao Zheng kissed her hard, "You're still full of energy? Then continue to reconcile."

......

In the end, An Hua persuaded everyone around her to stop and no one was eager to get excited.

She also met people who had received chicken blood injections, and they indeed had rosy complexions and were in high spirits.

Later generations like to use the phrase “chicken blood” to describe a person who is very excited. Perhaps this is where it came from.