Chapter 30 Hospital
According to Gu Ci's real thoughts, he was unwilling to bring back any food, let alone any dried vegetables, for them.
But he knew that his biological father and stepmother both wanted to save face, so he had to appear filial so that he could continue to ask for money and tickets in the future.
Just think of it as giving your biological mother's jewelry ornaments as a 'present' to your stepmother as compensation?
"Then when are you leaving?" Gu Ci asked again with concern: "The chicken and duck eggs here are cheaper than those in Shencheng. Do you want to take some back?"
Shanghai is naturally prosperous. As long as you have money and tickets, you can live a carefree life.
However, he also knew that Zhang Jianming's father was just an ordinary doctor, his mother was a nurse, and he had three younger brothers and sisters. It was said that they had to support both sets of parents, so their life was not easy.
Zhang Jianming immediately leaned close to him and whispered, "I'm going to buy some chicken and duck eggs and boil them to take back. If you have a connection and can buy some food, buy some for me."
He used to be reluctant to spend money recklessly, but now that he was about to go home, he thought of the last time his younger brother in junior high school wrote to him and said that his family had sent him some biscuits, but he stole one and got beaten.
Also, I always wake up hungry at night and can only drink water to fill my stomach.
That's why he planned to buy thirty or fifty chicken and duck eggs, cook them and take them home.
Not only can he eat it by just boiling water in a teacup on the road, but when the weather gets cold again, how many days can he eat it?
Knowing that Gu Ci was familiar with the black market, he added, "If you have any brown sugar or white sugar, bring me some too."
As the Chinese New Year approaches, these popular goods that can be carried to visit relatives are particularly difficult to buy.
Anyway, the last time he and a few educated youth who were preparing to go back to the town, they didn't buy any, but instead ran into Hong Xiuzhao who was doing private transactions in Zhui Pu.
The close-range violent output also frightened them all.
I don’t plan to go to town again in the short term.
He simply took out a handful of money from his trouser pocket, counted out ten dollars and handed it to him: "I can't leave until I have twenty-five dollars. As long as it's delicious, you can buy it for me."
Gu Ci took the money and put it in his pocket: "Okay, it's late tonight, I have to go to town tomorrow."
Then he asked him, "Do we still go to work now?"
Zhang Jianming shook his head at first: "It's time to harvest the radishes in the field, but the villagers are rushing to do it, so it's not our turn yet."
"But you came back at a good time. They are going to dig a reservoir between Lingzhong Village and Lingxia Village. They started construction yesterday. They said they would arrange for people from the two villages to work first. We can also go to work tomorrow."
"Anyway, we have nothing to do. Xiaohua and I are all planning to go. If you want to go, go sign up with Secretary Su. You can go later."
Gu Ci thought about it and agreed: "Okay."
Since you are going to the countryside, and everyone else is going, it will have a bad influence if you don't go to work.
Besides, I can take this opportunity to see my grandpa and the others more and talk to Chu Hong.
Gu Ci first packed two large packages.
In one package was a gray quilt cover and a light blue striped quilt lining, which should weigh about six or seven kilograms.
He shook the quilt and smelled it, and found out that the quilt cover and lining were new, but the cotton inside was old.
There was also a half-worn, half-new green long cotton coat, which was very thick.
What’s even funnier is that in another package, there were more than ten coats, woolen trousers, all of which were old and small. They were probably clothes that the stepmother’s sons and daughters couldn’t wear, and they were also sent to her.
Now he was sure that his stepmother was deliberately trying to make him angry.
But he liked it very much, so he washed it and gave it to Chu Yan and Chu Chu to wear.
There are also several bunches of purple, light pink, beige and light yellow wool.
The problem is, he hasn’t unlocked the skill of knitting?
What's more, these colors of wool are not suitable for him to wear. They are definitely used to make up the numbers, or to deliberately disgust himself.
But it doesn’t matter. I can give the light pink and beige yarn to Chu Hong, and the purple yarn to grandma.
There is also a piece of light gray and black thick woolen cloth.
The cloth was really thick, but he didn't know how to make clothes.
Even if he had the clothes made for him, the color would make him look five years older.
Inside the cloth, there was a bag of biscuits tied with a bag, but there were only a few intact pieces, most of them were broken.
It is impossible that all of these were caused by violence during transportation of postal parcels. In all likelihood, someone broke them on purpose.
There are two more envelopes.
An envelope contains a letter.
It was Gu Haihua’s handwriting: Gu Ci, it’s hard to find a job nowadays. I’ll keep an eye out. You just stay in the countryside for now.
You have to be frugal with money and not be as extravagant as before.
I've also asked around, and the place where you went to work is relatively wealthy. As long as you work hard, the work points you earn should be enough to feed yourself.
Your brothers and sisters are still young, and you will need a lot of money when you start a family and a career. I will send you 50 yuan and some national bills for you to use first.
The round-trip fare is too expensive. You have only been in the countryside for a few months, so you don’t need to come home this year.
We have discussed it and decided that I will send you 20 yuan every month.
If you have a partner or are married, then it’s thirty yuan per month.
You have to know that ordinary temporary workers in the city make less than 30 yuan a month...
Gu Ci would definitely not be happy after reading the letter.
Although he also knew that they would not welcome him home.
But the meaning of the letter, which encouraged me to find a partner in the countryside, was simply to prevent me from going back in the future.
After he put the letter away, he took out all the tickets in the other envelope and sorted them out. Together, there were ten kilograms of grain tickets, two bars of soap tickets, one kilogram of meat tickets, three kilograms of snack tickets, five feet of cloth tickets, and one kilogram of sugar tickets.
He also discovered that these tickets were about to expire.
I guess my stepmother found it specially for me.
But it doesn’t matter, I can use them all tomorrow.
And at this moment, in Shencheng, thousands of miles away.
Liu Jialing, who worked in the hospital, saw her own mother coming and asked with concern: "Mom, why are you here? Are you feeling unwell?"
Aunt Liu pouted and said dissatisfiedly: "I'm in good health, please don't curse me."
Then he whispered, "Get me a few more boxes of liver-protecting medicine so I can ask your brother to deliver them to their director."
Liu Jialing quickly responded: "Okay, I got it, you must not spread it out, otherwise I will be fired."
She is a gynecologist in the hospital, but her husband Gu Haihua is the director of internal medicine and can get some scarce medicines.
However, there were two desks in her office, and the doctor opposite happened to be out making rounds. Otherwise, if she heard something, she would be in trouble.
You know, even in hospitals now, many experienced and qualified doctors have been sent to farms.
Aunt Liu simply went over and closed the door, then pointed to the basket she had brought: "There are biscuits and peach cakes in it. I, your brother, brought them specially for you."
"You have to keep that medicine in mind."
"Also, if they want to come for a follow-up visit, you can help them out then."
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