At dinner that day, Pei's parents had already spread the news throughout the village that they would hold a banquet for their third son and daughter-in-law the next day.

The situation is unclear these days, and wedding banquets are rarely grand. If they are too lavish, they will arouse jealousy and cause trouble.

Usually, it is a meal for close people, and there are no more than ten tables of dishes.

In Jiang Xi's situation, there aren't many people from her mother's family, but there are quite a few people from the Pei family, including Pei Hejun's comrades-in-arms, so they can get five tables together, which is quite suitable.

However, the surrounding troops were shocked when they heard the news.

Like Pei Deming and others, her first reaction was to take advantage of the Pei family's money and marry into the family for the money.

But soon, Pei's parents refuted the rumor themselves and took out the document for everyone to see, letting them know that Jiang Xi was not doing it for money, but to repay a favor!

After all, supporting two people in their old age and raising a vegetative state is almost a lifetime expense for a woman. This is unacceptable.

Those who think Jiang Xi is doing it for money have shut up, and the rest are just praising her.

This child is honest.

Although there are always people who mock honest people for being easily cheated, when it comes to getting along with others, everyone still prefers honest people because they make them feel at ease, especially in this special era.

The next day, when Jiang Xi followed Pei's mother and her two younger sisters to the gathering, she met a lot of people who greeted her warmly.

"Going shopping for your wedding?"

"What are you going to buy? Let's see if there is any red cloth. The bride needs to be bright red to look beautiful!"

"Oh, this child is so handsome, Guizhi, your third child is so lucky!"

Jiang Xi also responded with a smile, generously and frankly, and would just smile when someone praised him.

After leaving the village, she looked back.

It's not that I'm still not satisfied with the praise, but that I feel strange.

Normally she would be criticized for marrying in with her second and third sisters as burdens, but this time no one said anything.

Jiang Xi and her two younger sisters skipped away, and asked their doubts in a low voice.

Mother Pei smiled and said, "What's there to say? The second and third sisters are already so old, it's not hard to raise them, isn't it just a matter of having food to eat? What's more, these two girls are diligent. I was stunned when I came home yesterday. The house is really clean. These days I've been busy with farm work and taking care of the third child. I haven't cleaned it for a long time. I'm so sorry for them!"

Jiang Xi also smiled: "That's right. If you can't do big things, you have to do small things."

Mother Pei coughed lightly and changed the subject: "By the way, Xiaoxi, we have a sewing machine at home. Why don't you buy a radio? I brought all the tickets from home, including a lot of industrial tickets."

In fact, other people have complained about Jiang Xi bringing his two younger sisters to live with them.

It's just that the two children are grown up and don't need special care and food. They all thought that they would be able to get two betrothal gifts in a few years. In addition, Jiang Xi would provide for their old age after marriage, so this transaction was planned, so no one mentioned it specifically.

Of course, Pei's mother would not think so, but there was no point in saying more, and she did not want to make her future daughter-in-law unhappy.

Jiang Xi didn't expect her to change the subject on purpose. After thinking about it carefully, he shook his head and said, "No, the radio is useless even if I hold it."

Mother Pei nodded: "Then buy a bicycle!"

This time, they walked for about an hour as usual. Jiang Xi was exhausted again. He sat on the side of the road for a long time before being dragged into the store to buy clothes.

The bride must wear new clothes.

Prices were cheap at that time, and a piece of clothing that cost eight yuan was considered very good. Pei's mother bought her two new sets of clothes, and also bought a top for each of the two little girls, spending nearly fifty yuan.

Jiang Xi wanted to pay, but was refused.

Pei's mother didn't feel any pain at all, and was very happy: "This is what the third son spent money to buy. Your betrothal gift is yours, you can't mess with it!"

Jiang Xi couldn't snatch it from her, so he gave up and followed her to get the things.

The second and third sisters were also very excited to get new clothes. They took the bag from Jiang Xi and said, "Big sister, let me do it!"

"Let me do it, I'm strong!" Jiang Sanmei also followed suit.

Mother Pei smiled and said, "Don't rush now, there will be more later."

Jiang Sanmei immediately let go after hearing this: "Then I'll pick it up later."

Jiang Xi handed the things in her hand to her second sister, feeling relieved, and continued to follow Pei's mother. In addition to clothes, there were also wedding candies, melon seeds, and so on.

It was heavy, so Jiang Xi couldn't be lazy and had to carry it all the way. Fortunately, he later bought buckets, spittoons and other things to carry and reduce the weight.

After we finished buying everything, we had to push the newly bought bike, which was loaded with stuff. We walked for a while and stopped for a while, and it took us two hours to get home hungry.

When Pei's father saw them coming back, he immediately took the things and hurried them to eat: "I said I'll go, why are you so tired?"

Mother Pei wiped the sweat off her face and said weakly, "You go? Do you know how to buy them? Do you know what kind of clothes Xiaoxi and the two girls wear?"

Father Pei said nothing angrily and made a bowl of brown sugar water for each of them.

Jiang Xi drank it all in one gulp and then ate his meal slowly.

The food was cold, but it's summer time so that's not a big deal.

The taste is still very good.

But while eating, Father Pei said cautiously: "Girl, this morning, your mother and your uncle came and said they wanted to take you back. I said you went to the town, and then they left."

Jiang Ermei and Jiang Sanmei immediately stopped eating and looked at their parents nervously.

I only stayed at Pei's house for two days, but the food I ate was much better than at Jiang's house. All the meat in the house had to be saved for my uncle and his family to come over. Before, when Pei's mother made soup and sent a bowl of soup, Jiang's mother would always send it to her younger brother.

The three daughters drank at most one sip of the soup.

Now they both really don't want to go back.

Jiang Xi frowned and asked, "Are they here to ask for a gift?"

Father Pei's face flashed with embarrassment, and he said vaguely: "Yes, I said that, but I said I gave you the betrothal gift, and they said they would come again tomorrow."

He is kind, but not stupid.

The son gave all the pension to Jiang Xi, and her husband also said that the betrothal gift to Jiang Xi was to be used to support her younger sister, and it could not be given to the Jiang family anymore.

Jiang Xi breathed a sigh of relief and said seriously, "Don't worry about them. My mother is confused and always protects my uncle. Even if I give her the money, she can't keep it. She can work on her own and doesn't need me for the time being. When she can't work anymore, I will bring her food. I won't give her a penny of money."

Pei's parents and the second and third sisters all breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

Father Pei was even more relieved: "Just let you decide."

Jiang Xi smiled and took note of this matter.

We're holding a banquet tomorrow, and I'm afraid there will be a war.

After dinner, it was exactly two o'clock in the afternoon.

The brigade's loudspeaker urged everyone to go to work.

These few days were not the busy farming season, and the work points were not high, so everyone was a little lazy. The brigade's loudspeaker sounded for a long time, and Pei's parents also went there. With Jiang Xi at home, they were relieved.

Jiang Xi went to wash the dishes and asked her two sisters to dig earthworms to feed the chickens.

Afterwards, she took a new notebook and went to Pei Hejun's room. She bought the new notebook and didn't need a ticket. She withdrew 100 yuan from the post office and bought a pen. The ticket for the pen was given by Pei's mother.

The three sisters all have notebooks, and Jiang Xi is here to take notes.

Jiang Xi studied traditional Chinese medicine, and a lot of this industry relies on inheritance.

At the age of ten, she became a disciple of an old Chinese medicine doctor, and later went to a Chinese medicine university. After completing her training, she stayed in a Chinese medicine hospital to become a doctor, but being a doctor is a profession that requires learning until old age.

She came here unexpectedly. There was no professional hospital for her to demonstrate her skills, nor any teachers to teach her. She could only write down the knowledge in her mind and review it regularly to ensure that her medical skills would not deteriorate.

After entering the room, Jiang Xi first massaged Pei Hejun and turned him over, and also helped to do tests to see his specific condition, such as where in the body he still had consciousness and whether he had any response to language. Then he found that he actually still had a knee jerk reflex, and his eyeballs could move slightly when talking to him.

Pei Hejun was well taken care of by Pei's parents. He was clean and in good condition. Perhaps that was why he had the possibility of getting better, but in the plot he was betrayed by his brother.

Jiang Xi realized this and felt much better.

After completing a series of steps, she wrote down what happened on the table nearby, and then used a new page to write some relevant knowledge and care for vegetative patients.

Jiang Xi likes to treat patients and is very obsessed with medicine. He forgets the time when taking notes and writes a whole page without realizing it. The notes are densely packed, but they are also summarized in paragraphs and are very neat.

She put down her pen with satisfaction, stretched her waist, massaged her shoulders and neck with her backhand, went to the main room to check the time, turned Pei Hejun over and massaged him again.

After repeating this twice, it was almost time to get off work.

Jiang Xi left Pei Hejun's room and went into the rooms of his two sisters: "Come out and burn some for me..."

He stopped talking midway.

She noticed that something was wrong with her two sisters. Although they still looked the same, their bodies looked like they had rolled on the grass, and their hair looked dry and messy as if it had been pulled hard.

Maybe they had tried their best to tidy it up, but Jiang Xi still saw it, especially the red marks on their cheeks from being pinched.

Jiang Xi frowned: "Did you have a fight with someone?"

Jiang Ermei's face turned pale. She felt extremely guilty. She lowered her head, fiddling with the corner of her clothes with her hands and trembling.

Jiang Sanmei pouted and burst into tears: "Wuwuwu, elder sister, we didn't mean it. They were bullying us. They didn't let us dig earthworms. They said I was a burden and came here to beg for food. They wanted to chase us away. I was so angry that I beat him...wuwuwu..."

Jiang Xi frowned. No wonder there was no movement at all in the afternoon. The child must have done something bad. She thought for a moment and asked, "Did we win or lose?"

"We won, we won..." Jiang Sanmei stopped crying and answered with sobs, looking at her with tears in her big eyes. She was extremely scared, yet a little confused.

Why did my sister ask whether I won or lost?

Jiang Xi raised his chin and said, "Okay, since we won, it's okay. Someone light a fire for me. I'm going to cook."

It was common for rural children to fight. After the original owner's father passed away, she was bullied and had fights. Her two younger sisters often fought with others. Every time, Jiang's mother would apologize in a flattering manner and then beat the children again when she got home. Jiang's second sister had gradually become as timid as the original owner, but Jiang's third sister was better.

So when facing this matter, Jiang Xi didn't want to interfere too much, lest he become a coward.

Seeing that she didn't take it seriously, the two children were immediately very relieved, as if they had survived a disaster.

Jiang Ermei stepped forward quickly: "I'll do it, I'll do it."

Jiang Xi took her out, still thinking about what to cook. Before they reached the kitchen, they heard a child crying outside, coming from far away and soon appearing in the Pei family's yard.

A woman with a gloomy face was carrying a crying boy. She was breathless for a moment when she saw Jiang Xi, but she looked down at her son and shouted out of heartache: "Little wife of the Pei family, it's a good thing you are here. Look, your burden has broken my dog's arm, and now it's swollen! Pay the money quickly, I want to take him to the town to see a doctor before it gets dark!"

Jiang Ermei, who had just felt relieved, was so scared that she quickly hid behind Jiang Xi and dared not say a word.

Jiang Sanmei heard the noise and ran out, crying and anxiously saying, "Sister, it's not us, it's him who wanted to hit us and ended up falling!"

Jiang Xi took a look and saw that the woman was going to yell again, so he pulled his third sister forward and pointed at the pinch marks on her face and her tangled hair. His voice was loud and clear: "Why do you have to pay? Then you have to pay my sister money too! Look at this face, a little girl, if she gets a scar on her face, it will be a lifelong problem! Who is the one who suffers the loss?"

The woman paused, a little hesitant.

Jiang Xi struck while the iron was hot: "Besides, it was your child who asked for a beating first. My child is just defending himself. If he can't beat me, he'll complain. Then he'll pay. Okay, let's both go to the hospital. I have two children, let's see who spends more money!"

The woman felt guilty, but once she lowered her head, she regained her courage and pointed at her son's right hand: "The situation is definitely different! Goudan's bone is broken, and it takes a hundred days to heal a broken bone. Your child's condition is not that serious!"

Goudan nodded, tears and snot flowing, looking dirty and pitiful, sobbing: "It hurts so much!!!"

Jiang Xi stepped forward to take a look and said casually, "We don't know if it's a fracture yet!"

She took a look at the child. The elbow was obviously kyphotic and the antecubital pit was full. It had been there for a long time, so there was some bruising. These were clear signs of a dislocation.

The woman didn't take it seriously, thinking she wanted to check it out, and said unwillingly: "Why not? It's so swollen, it hurts when I touch it, this is bone——"

As she was speaking, her son suddenly screamed, "Ah!"

The woman was so frightened that she pushed Jiang Xi and yelled, "Be careful! Can you afford to pay for what you have done to my son?!"

Jiang Xi stepped back and said with a smile: "Goudan, take a look, does your hand still hurt?"

The woman laughed angrily: "You think you are an old Chinese medicine doctor and you can just move it? This is a broken bone!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Goudan moved his arms, blinked twice in surprise with tears in his eyes, and said in a hoarse voice: "Mom, it really doesn't hurt anymore!"

Woman: “???”