Chapter 23: Seeing a Doctor
Nowadays people like fatty meat. It tastes fat and melts in the mouth.
More importantly, it can also produce lard.
Nowadays, when cooking, people just use chopsticks to poke the lard can to cook a pot of food.
For most families, two or three kilograms of lard can last for a year or so.
Oil residue is also a good thing. It can be used for cooking and making dumplings and buns.
Only a few families would buy the expensive rapeseed oil which requires oil coupons, and the even more expensive sesame oil which does not require coupons.
Therefore, Gu Ci could only buy some palm-sized lean meat.
"It's good enough to have some meat." Chu Hong hung the basket on the hook hanging from the beam and asked him, "How much?"
When Gu Ci heard her words, he knew that she wanted to give him money, and immediately said, "Forget about the money. It's the money you gave me that I spent, and you guys have to serve some meat to my grandpa and the others when you eat."
Then he said sincerely, "I treat you as one of my own family members, so please don't be so distant with me."
It is said that a strong woman is afraid of a clingy man, so he wants her to get used to him.
In this way, the Song family will be able to see my sincerity and will not exclude me because of my identity.
Chu Hong thought so too. If she didn't accept these, he would feel awkward.
She asked again: "It's almost the New Year, are you planning to go back?"
Compared with those educated youth who went to the north or to the border, Gu Ci was lucky. It only took him three days to return to Shencheng.
As soon as he finished speaking, he thought of his family background.
She had heard about him from Gu Ci and Grandma Chu before.
I know that it was because his stepmother treated him badly that he was taken in and raised by his own family.
I just blurt it out because I forgot it for a moment.
It’s also because several educated youth came to ask yesterday if they could get letters of introduction so that they could go back and stay for a few days.
Gu Ci said calmly: "I'm not going back."
According to his original personality, he would never tell outsiders about his family affairs.
But facing Chu Hong, he still lowered his eyes, lonely and desolate: "That place is no longer my home."
Chu Hong felt depressed for him: "If there is a stepmother, there must be a stepfather."
Then he advised him: "It's better if you don't go back. It's so tiring to ride in a car in such a cold weather."
Another bad idea: "You can't escape retirement in the future, so don't be too stupid now, you still have to take what belongs to you."
Otherwise, you will suffer for your loss.
It’s better to order something affordable.
Gu Ci liked her persuading him, and felt that she treated him as her own, so he did not hesitate to ask: "Then tell me, how can I ask for something?"
When he went to the countryside, the money he brought with him almost emptied his father's money.
He didn't expect to get money from his stepmother, and he hadn't even planned to ask for anything.
But when I think about it, after I went to the countryside, my family has never sent me any letters, let alone packages.
He had forgotten about it by now, and he had never written a letter home. Without the address, his father couldn't send it even if he wanted to.
Chu Hong studied psychology after all, so she had some knowledge of human nature. She rolled her eyes and came up with an idea: "Just say that life in the countryside is hard, you don't have enough to eat or wear warm clothes, and the money you brought is not enough to spend. You just bought a bicycle and biscuits and malted milk, and went to the state-owned restaurant a few times, and the money is almost gone."
"Tell them you want to go home and ask them to find you an electrician, a fitter or an apprentice."
"Your stepmother definitely doesn't want to see you go back, so she won't let your father find a connection for you."
"They are also worried that you might go back, so they should be willing to send you some money, tickets, or food to keep you stable first."
With a hint of joking, he said, "Next year or the year after, if you say you want to get married here, your stepmother will definitely be willing to give you a high betrothal gift."
It was Gu Ci's existence that made her dislike him. She wished he would stay in the countryside and never go back.
Now that I'm not married, I can still find a way to return to the city.
But if you get married, the rules do not allow you to return to the city.
Who would have thought that the college entrance examination would be resumed in a few years.
Mr. Chu and the others said that he had excellent grades, and even if he couldn't get into the best school in the future, he would be able to get into a slightly worse university.
I heard from Chuchu that he is very good at English. He would never dare to reveal it now, but in a few years, he will be a sought-after talent, right?
As long as he is admitted to university, his household registration can follow him and can be registered at his workplace in the future.
After hearing this, Gu Ci's heart was pounding, and he even suspected that she was hinting that he should go to her house to propose marriage.
Unfortunately, seeing that her face wasn't blushing and she wasn't angry, I knew she wasn't shy at all.
Well, I was just overthinking it.
But she did remind herself: "That's right, as long as I feel that the food here is not good and the clothes are not warm enough, and I want to go back to celebrate the New Year, that woman will definitely be willing to send me some money and tickets, so that I won't be a nuisance when I go back."
When Chu Hong was willing to marry him, he wrote a letter back to announce his intention to get married, and he estimated that his stepmother would agree with it and be generous for once.
He also didn't think he was calculating the Gu family's money.
When my mother got married, not only was the dowry generous, but she also had everything including a gramophone and vinyl records.
I have also seen my stepmother's gold, silver, jade, watches and other things that belonged to my biological mother.
My grandmother's family was not short of money at the time, and he didn't care about material things.
Now that he has to support a family, he understands that money is also very important.
In particular, he also remembered to visit his uncle and aunt on the farm and prepare some food, drinks and clothes to send over.
This requires even less money and tickets.
Back then, he had his own room at his grandmother's house, and several expensive watches, imported sneakers and clothes, but now they are all gone.
The watch I am wearing now is a Plum blossom watch that I bought to avoid being conspicuous so that I can wear it to school. It cost only 185 yuan, the cheapest watch I have ever owned.
He whispered again: "I'm going out tomorrow. Can you give me a letter of introduction?"
"I didn't want the people in Lingshang Village to know that I was going to the farm. The letter of introduction was for me to go to the provincial capital for medical treatment."
At this time, family composition is very important.
Even though he grew up in his grandparents' home, his household registration remained unchanged, so he was not directly implicated in the incident at his aunt's house.
Now he is unwilling to let outsiders know his background, otherwise it will be disadvantageous to him.
That's why I thought of asking Secretary Song for a letter of introduction to the farm.
Fortunately, the two villages are very close to each other, so we can get away with it.
Chu Hong was a little puzzled: "Why did you find an excuse to see a doctor?"
Gu Ci glanced at her with his eyes raised, and touched his tall nose shyly: "There are enthusiastic aunties in the village who want to be my matchmaker. I told them that I am in poor health, have a heart disease, and need to take medicine all the time, so fewer people offered to be my matchmaker."
Since he was good-looking and didn't look like he was short of money, he bought food with his own money when his work points were not enough.
Not only did the girls in the village fancy him, even several female educated youth were interested in him.
If he refuses too much, he will be hated, so he can only say that he is in poor health and needs to take medicine regularly.
Chu Hong was horrified when she heard this: "You are still a child? How could they do this?"
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