Chapter 253 Have you had enough of the trouble?
Zhou Yong knew that time was a bit tight, but there was nothing he could do because the people sent by the higher-ups to garrison there would arrive in Huaixi Village the day after tomorrow.
Zhang Guifang learned the whole story and nodded gently: "Then I will get up early tomorrow and go to the commune to buy vegetables..."
Zhou Yong thought for a while and said, "Mom, we don't need to go to the commune. I ordered a pig and we will have a pig-killing meal tomorrow..."
Zhang Guifang laughed when she heard this, as it saved her the trouble of eating the pig-killing meal.
After dinner, the four children went back to their room to do their homework. Li Jingan watched TV in the east room alone. Zhou Yong and Li Baotian left home.
The father-in-law and the son-in-law were responsible for notifying everyone to come to their house for dinner tomorrow, while the other was responsible for finding someone to slaughter the pig.
The next day, Zhou Yong took the money and went to the farm with Li Hongjun, Li Hongliang and Sun Qing. The pig was weighed and found to be overweight, so he paid the money and they pulled the pig back home in a horse-drawn carriage.
When Li Jingan heard the pig squealing, the kid ran out of the house with his little head bare.
"Gang Pao, hurry up and get inside, be careful not to catch a cold."
Li Baotian, who was not far away, shouted.
Li Jing'an stared at the squealing big spotted pig in the carriage, completely ignoring his grandfather's words. Liu Juan, who came to help with cooking, came out and carried him into the house.
"You are really fast, I just turned around and you ran out of the house."
Li Jingan struggled in Liu Juan's arms. Zhang Guifang was cutting vegetables: "Xiao Juan, put him on the ground!"
Liu Juan put Li Jing'an down with a smile, and Zhang Guifang spoke again: "Don't go out, or I'll beat you."
Li Jing'an pouted his lips, looking unhappy and saying nothing.
Li Caiyun wiped her hands and said, "Be good, Gangpao. Mommy will give you an apple to eat."
Li Jingan was so happy when he heard it, and he calmed down after eating the apple.
The five women chatted and laughed as they prepared the meal. It took just over an hour before the chopped pork was brought into the house.
The women were busy in the house while the men were finishing up the slaughtering of the pig.
The stuffed blood sausage was put aside for later use, and the pig offal was cleaned out one by one.
At half past eleven, the Li family started eating, with two tables for adults and two tables for children.
There was laughter everywhere inside and outside the house, and everyone had a smile on their face.
They ate half a pig in one meal, and then the meal ended, and the Li family became quiet.
Zhou Yong drank a lot of alcohol at noon and was sleeping in the west room at the moment. Li Baotian went to the brigade.
Zhang Guifang pounded her waist and got on the kang in the east room. Li Caiyun wiped her hands and asked, "Mom, does your waist hurt?"
"Maybe I've been standing for too long and my waist is sore..."
"Mom, I'll take you to the hospital for a check-up tomorrow."
Zhang Guifang sat on the kang while Li Jingan played nearby: "Mom just has a sore waist. There's no need to go to the hospital for a checkup."
Li Caiyun said, "Mom, don't take your body lightly."
Zhang Guifang held her waist with one hand: "Mom knows how my body is, so don't worry about it."
Li Caiyun supported Li Jingan who had thrown himself into her arms, turned around, took off her shoes and got on the kang.
The mother and daughter chatted for a while, and Zhang Guifang lay down and straightened her back.
"Mom needs some sleep."
Li Caiyun nodded, and Li Jingan also felt a little sleepy.
She coaxed her son to sleep, went to the kitchen to put things away, and after finishing the kitchen chores, Li Caiyun washed a few more clothes.
Zhou Yong slept until 2:30 and then got up, washed his face, put on his hat and left home.
Li Caiyun tidied up the west room and the living room, and then she went to the east room.
"Mom, wake up. If you sleep any longer you won't be able to sleep at night."
Zhang Guifang opened her eyes dazedly and asked, "What time is it?"
Li Caiyun smiled and said, "It's three o'clock."
When Zhang Guifang heard this, she said to herself, "It's already this late."
Li Caiyun took over the conversation. Zhang Guifang was about to sit up, but she groaned, perhaps because she got up too quickly or sprained her waist.
"Mom, what's wrong with you?"
Zhang Guifang held her waist with one hand and pressed the other hand on the kang.
"My back hurts."
Li Caiyun became nervous and hurried to her mother's side.
Li Jing'an was awakened by Zhang Guifang's cry. He sat up and looked at them in a daze.
"Mom, try to move."
Zhang Guifang tried it and cried out in pain again.
Li Caiyun hurriedly got down from the ground: "Mom, don't move, I'm going to find Doctor Shen."
Zhang Guifang said, "Don't go find Doctor Shen. Mom probably sprained her waist."
Li Caiyun did not listen to her mother. She put on her shoes and told Li Jingan to be obedient at home, and she hurried to the health room.
Doctor Shen came to the Li family and examined Zhang Guifang.
"Doctor Shen, what's my mother's condition?"
Doctor Shen frowned slightly and looked at Zhang Guifang who couldn't lie down. "I can't check anything without the instrument. Why don't we send your mother to the hospital..."
Li Caiyun nodded, but Zhang Guifang said, "No need to go to the hospital. Doctor Shen, please prescribe some plaster for me."
Doctor Shen said, "I don't even know the cause of your illness, how can I prescribe a plaster for you?"
Zhang Guifang opened her mouth, and Li Caiyun's words came before her mother.
"Doctor Shen, please help me take care of my mother. I'm going to the brigade to find Zhou Yong..."
Doctor Shen agreed, and Li Caiyun went to the brigade.
After a while, Li Baotian and Li Caiyun came back first, and after a while, Zhou Yong drove the carriage back home.
"You guys are such a jerk. I said I was fine, why did you have to send me to the hospital?"
Zhang Guifang was reluctant to go, but Zhou Yong carried her into the carriage despite his mother-in-law's objection.
"Dad, please stay home. Niuniu and the other two will be out of school soon..."
Li Baotian wanted to go and take a look, but after listening to Li Caiyun's arrangement, he nodded and said, "You guys go!"
Zhou Yong looked at his father-in-law with a worried look in his eyes: "Dad, you should go too. I will send the cannon to Ma Sanjia..."
As for the four children who go to school, I can only trouble Liu Juan to take care of them for one night.
Li Caiyun hesitated to speak, and Li Baotian responded readily.
Zhou Yong and Li Caiyun went back to the house, one dressed the child and the other took the money.
"Xiao Yun, Mom is sick, and the person who is most worried about her is Dad."
He just said this and Li Caiyun was stunned for a few seconds.
Li Caiyun came back to her senses and said with a hint of self-blame: "I didn't think so much at the time. I thought we all went to the hospital and there was no one to take care of the five children..."
Zhou Yong smiled and said, "Don't blame yourself. I just want to tell you that you ignored Dad's feelings..."
Li Caiyun bit her lip, Li Jingan dressed warmly, and Zhou Yong went out holding his son.
Amid Zhang Guifang's repeated obstruction, Li Jing'an was sent to Masanjia, and the four of them went to the county hospital.
After arriving at the hospital, Zhang Guifang underwent a check-up. The results came out at around six in the evening, showing that she was suffering from lumbar and shoulder protrusion and lumbar muscle strain.
There are no good treatment options for these two diseases even now, and the only thing to do is to rest.
Zhang Guifang cried and felt like she had become a useless person. Li Baotian comforted her.
"Didn't the doctor say that you have a chance of recovering from this disease? You just can't do physical work..."
Zhang Guifang felt that she was no different from a disabled person because she couldn't work, and she kept making a fuss about wanting to go home.
In her current condition, she needs physical therapy for a few days, otherwise she will have to sit all the time.
"Have you had enough of the fuss? How come you can't understand anything when you're over sixty?"
Zhang Guifang looked at the furious Li Baotian with tears in her eyes: "I'm in this state, and you're yelling at me?"
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