Chapter 030 A Breath of Clear Water
Ye Qing explained helplessly:
"Auntie, I know a little bit about acupuncture. I'll give this sister two injections. She's having a miscarriage. If you don't stabilize her placenta as soon as possible, she won't be able to keep the baby!"
There was also an older woman nearby who was skeptical. She didn't believe that a child like her could know how to protect the fetus, especially when she saw that the silver needle in Ye Qing's hand was so long and she was going to stick it into a person's belly. It was scary enough just to look at it, so they all pulled Ye Qing to stop her from doing it.
Ye Qing was extremely anxious and was considering whether to use some extraordinary measures. Unexpectedly, at this moment, a firm and tough voice suddenly came from outside:
"Let her get it!"
The person who spoke was none other than the Aunt Gu who had given Qin Xingzhi the cold shoulder in the morning.
Ye Qing didn't know the relationship between Aunt Gu and this pregnant woman, and a hint of doubt suddenly flashed across his eyes.
"Comrade Ye, please tie it. This is my daughter. Please!"
Miao Cuilan squeezed into the crowd and looked at the young lady lying under the shade of the tree. Her hands were shaking violently and she raised her head and pleaded again.
Since the mother has agreed, it is not appropriate for others to force or complain.
Ye Qing no longer cared and quickly inserted a few needles. After penetrating the acupuncture points, he began to stimulate the meridians. After just a few minutes, the wife over there shouted:
"Ah, the bleeding has really stopped!"
Yes, not only did the bleeding stop, but Gu Weixi, who had just been pale and clenched in pain, now had his tightly wrinkled brows finally relaxed and looked much more relaxed. It seemed that he was not in serious trouble.
Everyone's eyes were on Ye Qing, as if they were looking at a peep show, filled with surprise and wonder.
It's amazing. In such a dangerous situation, he only needed to inject a few needles and he was fine? Is this Ye Zhiqing really only sixteen years old? Isn't this too amazing?
Ye Qing turned a deaf ear to the gazes and discussions around him and focused on inserting the needle. After about a quarter of an hour, he withdrew the silver needle.
"alright."
Ye Qing felt the pregnant woman's pulse again, and after confirming that the patient's Qi and blood had indeed stabilized, he raised his head and looked at Aunt Gu.
"The child is showing signs of miscarriage, which is no small matter. If you continue to work so hard, you may end up with a miscarriage. You must pay attention to this."
"If possible, it's best to let pregnant women lie in bed to protect the fetus. Ten days to half a month would be better."
"Also, when I get back, I'll write you a prescription for a healthy pregnancy. You can go to the health center in the commune and get the medicine according to the prescription. Then boil it and give it to the pregnant woman. It will be good for the growth and development of the fetus."
Having said that, Ye Qing put the silver needle back into the box and walked out.
Old lady Zou lived a rather hard life. After Ye Qing cleaned the house, he found out all the food in the old lady's house. In total, there were only about ten pounds of corn and sorghum flour and a few pounds of brown rice. The rest were a few sacks of sweet potatoes and potatoes, all of which were newly harvested from the fields in July and August this year.
According to the old lady's own way of life, if the neighbors did not help her, she would just make some rice or flour or mix sweet potatoes and potatoes together and steam them to eat.
But Ye Qing was not willing to eat like this. In the end times with no food and no firewood, he had no choice but to endure the hardship. But now there was no situation where he could not cook, so even if the ingredients were limited, Ye Qing would try to make something new with these limited ingredients.
Just when Ye Qing was thinking about what to eat for lunch, a shout suddenly came from outside the fence:
"Ye Zhiqing, are you home?"
Ye Qing responded quickly.
When I walked out, I saw that it was the lady Gu whom I had just seen in the field. Next to her was a reserved man in his early twenties.
Before Ye Qing could ask, Auntie Gu took the lead in introducing:
"Ye Zhiqing, I'm the auntie who lives next door to you. My name is Miao Cuilan. You can just call me Aunt Cuilan."
"This is my eldest son-in-law, Yang Dazhi."
"Thank you so much for coming today. If you hadn't been here, my daughter's pregnancy would have been in danger."
"You have helped us so much, we have nothing to thank you for. We have raised this old hen at home for two or three years. I will bring it back and stew it for you. You look skinny, so it's just right for you to drink some chicken soup to replenish your nutrition."
After Aunt Gu said this, she pulled her eldest son-in-law a few times, and the naive Yang Dazhi finally reacted and quickly handed over the old hen in his hand.
How could Ye Qing accept this? What happened on the ridge today, she said she saved Gu Weixi, but in fact it was better to say that both of them helped each other. After all, she just needed this incident to make a name for herself in the village.
"Auntie, you are being too polite. I just gave her a few injections. You don't need to spend so much money. Besides, this old hen that I have raised for two or three years is very nutritious. It is best to give it to your daughter during her confinement after giving birth. It would be a waste to give it to me."
Ye Qing smiled, and suddenly remembered what Grandma Zou said last night. Suddenly, an idea came to him.
"Forget about the chicken. How about this? I was temporarily arranged by the captain to live with Grandma Zou last night. But there is no kang bed in the room of Grandma Zou's house. It will be time to heat the kang in a month or so. I heard from Grandma that Uncle Gu can make a kang. Can you please come and make one for me when you are free?"
Aunt Gu nodded immediately and said straightforwardly, "It's easy to do. He's the best at building a kang. I'll ask my old man to get some scrap bricks after work today. He'll work in the evening and he'll be able to fix it for you in an hour."
Aunt Gu agreed to the matter of making the kang very readily, and she was determined not to take the chicken back. She threw the chicken in the yard and left in a hurry with her eldest son-in-law.
Ye Qing had no choice but to accept the chicken first.
Grandma Zou is blind, so she doesn’t raise chickens at home, and so there is no chicken coop or chicken shed in the yard.
Ye Qing originally planned to throw the chicken in the yard to raise it, but she soon discovered that the fence of Grandma Zou's house was quite old and had holes in many places. If the chicken was thrown out, it would probably die.
There was no other way, so Ye Qing had to temporarily use rattan to make a basket to lock the chickens in the woodshed until she finished repairing the fence.
No matter what, Ye Qing's goal was indeed achieved. When she went to work in the afternoon, the news that she used silver needles to preserve Gu Weixi's pregnancy had spread throughout the village.
As soon as she walked out, members, whether they knew her or not, greeted her warmly, asked her about her acupuncture, and asked her if she had studied medicine.
These people's attitudes were so familiar that it seemed as if she was not an educated city youth who had just arrived yesterday, but an old native who had lived in this village for many years.
In addition, Ye Qing also met Li Juan and Wu Yueying on the road.
Li Juan, with the help of the Wu family, quickly became friends with Wu Yueying. The two of them walked out slowly together, and it seemed that they were both in a passive state of slacking off.
When they saw Ye Qing, they were both stunned.
Li Juan's mood now is very complicated.
Originally, because of Ye Hong's disdain and slander towards her younger sister, Li Juan looked down upon Ye Qing, this sickly boy. Even when Ye Lijun said he wanted to teach his daughter a lesson, Li Juan agreed without hesitation.
But later on, Ye Qing's behavior was completely different from the sister described by Ye Hong. In addition, after Ye Qing went to the countryside, Ye Lijun's family went to Xinjiang to help. This made Li Juan feel more and more that something was wrong.
She spent those two days and nights on the train without figuring out what was going on.
It was not until she got off the train and saw Ye Qing being escorted to Kaoshantun by a military vehicle that she suddenly had an idea and began to understand what was going on.
Could it be that this Ye Qing is not Ye Lijun’s biological son?
So Ye Qing has been playing the pig to eat the tiger all these years, pretending to be a sickly person to hide the truth from Ye Lijun's eyes. Now that there is a policy calling for educated youth to go to the countryside, he immediately secretly signed up to go to the countryside to join the team. Is he trying to get away from the control of the Ye family in this way?
After Ye Lijun found that he couldn't control his daughter, he was very angry and came to her for help to teach this disobedient adopted daughter a lesson?
Later, when he found out that Ye Qing was too powerful and he couldn't deal with him at all, Ye Lijun was worried about being retaliated against, so he ran away with his whole family?
The more Li Juan thought about it, the more she felt that what she had made up in her head was the truth.
No wonder the Ye family had no feelings for Ye Qing. The whole family teamed up to bully and torture their daughter. Could it be that the adoptive father of the Ye family was fighting with his adopted daughter and even dragged her into the fight to be used as a gun? !
After realizing that she was being used, Li Juan was furious.
She doesn't care what the situation of the Ye family is, but Ye Lijun and Ye Hong can't let her down.
This Ye Qing must have found her biological parents, and her biological parents must be of great background. Not only could they buy a sleeper bed for her, they could even get people from the army to work with, which shows that they have a very powerful background!
With such a relationship, it’s no wonder that Ye Qing has become a different person and doesn’t care about anyone anymore!
But unfortunately, she actually offended such a person. Ye Lijun killed her aunt. Although Li Juan hated him, she didn't hate him to the point of killing him. But now that she realized that she was misled by the father and daughter of the Ye family and missed an opportunity to curry favor with someone, Li Juan really wanted to kill Ye Lijun and Ye Hong.
Now that she has gone to the countryside, she will almost lose contact with her family, and without Li Rulan's support, she will be completely isolated and helpless in the countryside.
She felt despair at the thought of having to cut so many rice ears every day.
If she had not offended Ye Qing on the train, she could now use the fact that she is Ye Qing's fellow countryman and good friend to improve her favorability with the captain, and ask the captain to give her some backdoor treatment or assign her a slightly easier job.
But now, this only way to survive was cut off by herself!
Li Juan almost cried because of her own stupidity.
Wu Yueying's mood was much calmer than yesterday. There was no sharpness or suspicion in her eyes when she looked at Ye Qing. Instead, there was only a sense of superiority.
Because she found that her vigilance and hostility towards Ye Qing yesterday were completely unnecessary.
Although this Ye Qing had never appeared in Kaoshantun in her previous life, she had tested him before, and his reaction did not seem like that of a reborn person.
In addition, this female educated youth tried her best to show herself when she arrived at Kaoshantun. The speed at which she cut rice ears was not like that of a pampered city dweller at all, but rather like that of a native farmer!
Such a person, even if he was reincarnated or traveled through time like her, would definitely be a country bumpkin who had never seen the world and was short-sighted! Unlike her, he knew so many policy changes in the future, had seen so many millionaires rise, and could replicate an entrepreneurial path in a few years and become a wealthy and envious person.
Thinking of this, Wu Yueying's alarm was immediately lifted, and she no longer took Ye Qing, this country bumpkin who posed no threat at all, seriously.
Ye Qing didn't know yet that her hard work in the fields to earn work points today had actually made Wu Yueying no longer suspicious of her and no longer following her.
Seeing Wu Yueying and Li Juan being so affectionate, she was secretly wondering, these two people don't have very high IQs, but they have similar interests. How could they become good friends after just one day?
But thinking about how Li Juan and Yin Shuang were chatting and laughing about being good sisters on the train one moment, but their friendship suddenly fell apart, Ye Qing couldn't help but complain in his heart, thinking that their friendship was just fake and they would turn against each other faster than turning the pages of a book. That would be fun to watch.
Once on the ground, Ye Qing will continue to show off his skills.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, the captain suddenly waved towards her.
Ye Qing was stunned for a moment. After confirming that the captain was calling him, he hurriedly climbed up the ridge of the field and went over.
"Uncle Wu, do you have something to talk to me about?"
Captain Wu took a deep puff of the cigarette in his hand before asking:
"At noon, the daughter of the Gu family almost had a miscarriage in the field. Did you cure her?"
Ye Qing's heart moved, it seemed that his plan to become famous was indeed effective.
She didn't think there was anything to hide about this matter. After all, she had done enough preparation in Shanghai and on the No. 56 train before going to the countryside. Her image as a top student had long been firmly established. Moreover, her strength was there, so she was not afraid of any doubts or tests at all.
"Yes, I treated her. She was physically exhausted and had placenta previa and was showing signs of premature rupture. I gave her a few injections, which temporarily relieved the signs of hematoma. But if she continues to work so hard, she may suffer a miscarriage or even heavy bleeding."
Captain Wu didn't understand a single one of the professional terms that Ye Qing was using.
But he could see that when Ye Qing talked about curing illnesses, her eyes lit up, and the confidence and determination on her face were definitely not fake. This showed that although this girl was young, she was very capable!
Since the educated youth went to the countryside more than ten years ago, there have been at least a hundred city kids who have come to their village. Some of them returned to the city not long after arriving, while others settled down and started a family in the village and never left. But among so many people, Captain Wu had never seen anyone as capable as Ye Qing.
The key is that this girl is not afraid of hard work at all. She is really willing to go to the fields to harvest rice, and she does it as well as the old hands in the village. If someone falls into the water, others are too scared to go into the water in such a dangerous situation, but she will quickly jump into the river to save people. If a woman in the village has a miscarriage, she will rush to save her without saying a word.
Such a child can easily win everyone's love and respect no matter where she is. Even Captain Wu changed his usual impatient attitude towards the educated youth and had to look at this little girl with a completely new perspective.
As the leader of the production team in Kaoshan Village, he has been worried about the medical situation in the village over the years.
But the poor medical resources were not limited to Kaoshantun. Other production brigades suffered from the same problem. Even the health station in Hongqi Commune was just a decoration.
The only doctor there was a person with connections. He could treat minor illnesses, but the medicines he prescribed were just rote. He could not treat any illness that was even slightly troublesome and told the patient to go to the county to make an appointment with some specialist.
Not only that, he also likes to put on airs. He is often late, leaves early, and is absent from work. Whenever a patient comes to see him, he has a sullen face and is extremely impatient with the villagers, as if they owe him millions.
Wu Yongbing had gone to the commune secretary to report the difficulty of villagers in seeing a doctor, but the secretary said that there was nothing they could do about the medical care. The whole county and even the whole country were in the same situation. The medical system lacked resources and people. Their commune was still relatively good. If they continued to complain, and if the related households also quit, then there would be no place for emergency medical treatment.
This did not make Wu Yongbing depressed to death.
He didn't know whether the secretary's words were just a perfunctory answer, but because of this answer, Wu Yongbing realized that in order to improve the situation of the people in the village having difficulty in seeing a doctor, the village could only solve the problem itself.
Wu Yongbing began to have a bold idea in his mind. He wanted to set up a health station in the village. It would be great if the county was willing to allocate funds and medicines. If the county was not willing, he would prepare to do it himself!
But the key to the successful implementation of this bold idea is to have a highly skilled doctor to take charge. Otherwise, no matter how perfect his health station is, it will be useless if there is no one to treat the patients.
Now, looking at the little guy standing in front of him, Wu Yongbing realized that after years of sleepiness, someone finally brought him a pillow! His bold plan could finally be implemented!
"Have you studied medicine? Do you only treat pregnant women, or can you treat other diseases?"
Wu Yongbing asked carefully.
Ye Qing thought about it and made his words a little more conservative, not daring to be too arrogant:
"Well, I can basically treat common diseases. I am good at acupuncture. Routine diseases can basically be treated with acupuncture and medication. But if it is a difficult and complicated disease, I am not sure."
"In addition, I can also do basic surgical suturing, provided that I have basic medical equipment such as scalpels."
Having worked as a general practitioner in the apocalypse for ten years, Ye Qing has treated all kinds of diseases. Even without the help of supernatural powers, the situations she just mentioned can be completely handled with her ten years of rich experience in diagnosis.
Ye Qing's answer was completely beyond Wu Yongbing's expectations.
Wu Yongbing thought that Ye Qing's ability in acupuncture was great, and this alone would be enough for the normal operation of this health station. However, he did not expect that Ye Qing was actually involved in both internal medicine and surgery. This was really a godsend!
Wu Yongbing's eyes lit up when he heard this. At this moment he had only one feeling, that is, he had picked up a treasure!
"Do you want to be a barefoot doctor and treat the villagers in the village?" Wu Yongbing asked.
Ye Qing was secretly delighted, but he pretended to be calm and confused:
"You mean being a barefoot doctor in the village? But isn't there a health station in our village?"
Wu Yongbing's expression froze, but he immediately smiled with great confidence:
"As long as you are willing, the health station in the village is not a problem. I will submit an application to the commune, but after the application is submitted, the county may need to assess you first, and only after you pass the assessment will they approve it."
Ye Qing, who had been through many battles, still had solid basic skills. She was not afraid of the test at all and immediately nodded and said:
"That's fine. I'll wait for your news. I'll go whenever you want me to take the test."
Wu Yongbing didn't expect Ye Qing to react like this. Seeing this young educated youth calm and composed, as if he didn't take this matter to heart at all, he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart:
"I'm not kidding you. This is a very serious matter. You have to focus on it. Don't let me submit my application and you fail the assessment. I will lose face in the commune and the county!"
Ye Qing was stunned, and was extremely helpless: "I don't mean to be perfunctory. How can being a doctor be a joke? This profession cannot tolerate fraud. Whether you have the ability or not, whether your medical skills are up to standard, can be seen by a random examination. I can't make rapid progress by cramming during this period of time."
"But don't worry, I will do my best and will never hold you back."
At this point, Ye Qing couldn't help but ask:
"No, uncle, since you want me to be a barefoot doctor, you haven't explained the salary to me clearly yet. I can't treat the villagers for free without any benefit, right?"
Wu Yongbing glanced sideways at Ye Qing: "Then what do you want? Isn't it enough for the village to take care of your food?"
Ye Qing immediately turned around and left: "Forget it, just pretend I didn't say anything. I'm just a junior high school graduate, how can I treat any illness? You should find someone else. I think it's good for me to earn ten work points in the fields every day. Not only will I have food to eat at the end of the year, but I can also get money. This life is pretty comfortable."
Wu Yongbing almost laughed out loud at Ye Qing's shameless behavior:
"Come back! That's all you can do! Do you really think it's so easy to earn ten work points here? I'm willing to give you ten work points today because I saw that your performance today was better than those of the other new educated youths, so I let you off the hook. You still want me to give you full work points every day. What are you dreaming of?"
"But if you continue to treat patients in the village and the members are satisfied, I can give you 20 work points a month. This work point will be enough for you to have food and drink in the village."
"If you think it's too little, you can go to the fields with other members when you have nothing to do. The work points you earn won't conflict with your share as a barefoot doctor. What do you think?"
Upon hearing this, Ye Qing smiled and nodded.
Well, she said that you can't do that. It's not right to let people work for nothing.
Twenty work points a month means an average of six or seven a day. Many educated youth worked hard with the other members during the busy farming season, but they could not earn that much.
What's more, in the Great Northern Wilderness, the land is covered with heavy snow for two or three months a year, so people can only stay in the house to spend the winter and cannot go out to work at all.
In other words, if the health station in Kaoshantun was built, Ye Qing would be able to live a better life than most of the villagers just by relying on his job as a barefoot doctor.
Ye Qing was quite satisfied with Captain Wu's answer and immediately urged:
"Then you should go to the commune and apply as soon as possible. I have no problem with that. You can take the assessment and start work at any time!"
Captain Wu snorted. He didn't know he had to hurry up. He was more anxious than anyone else to get the health station set up.
After all, although this educated youth Ye was assigned to their village, he did not forget that the little girl was escorted here directly by a military vehicle yesterday, and the county's educated youth office had not yet completed the reception procedures.
If other people in the county get to know the ability of this little girl and think of snatching her away, then Kaoshantun may not be able to keep her!
Thinking of this, Captain Wu felt a sense of urgency in his heart, and he could not bear it even in the field. He turned around and ran back home, found Ye Qing's certificate for going to the countryside, and after discussing it with the old branch secretary, he hurriedly rode his 28-inch bicycle to the town.
Seeing how anxious Captain Wu was, several village officials were puzzled. They didn't know what the captain was doing and why he was like a monkey on fire.
Ye Qing was in a very good mood. After all, when she first went to the countryside, she was thinking about taking it slow. Unexpectedly, on her first day, the team leader took the initiative to extend an olive branch to her and invited her to work at the town health station.
At this rate, the health station should be built within three months, and she will be recognized by the county and become a non-staff member of the medical system!
Ye Qing could already foresee the leisurely life she would lead after becoming a village doctor. Just thinking about it was so beautiful that she squinted her eyes and felt like bubbles were popping up in everything she looked at.
As for getting a formal job and eating state food, that can be discussed later. As long as she becomes a barefoot doctor, she will always find an opportunity!
In the afternoon, Ye Qing continued to perform steadily and spent her first day in Kaoshantun fulfillingly. She successfully obtained her first full work point.
After dinner in the evening, the Gu family came to Ye Qing's bed. Gu Weidong's father, Gu Zhenxing, brought his eldest son-in-law, Yang Dazhi, with him. The two of them pulled a cart of waste red bricks from somewhere, entered the room and started working.
Ye Qing opened two packs of Hongtashan cigarettes she had brought from Shanghai and handed them over.
She bought these cigarettes with the tickets she got from Chen Youde and a few other old men. A pack cost her 35 cents.
Originally, Ye Qing planned to bring the cigarettes to the production team to bribe the leader, but now Wu Yongbing is very satisfied and appreciative of her, so the cigarettes are not needed for the time being. She simply uses them as wages for sleeping with Uncle Gu and his son-in-law.
The two farmers were surprised as they had never seen such exquisite hard-box-packaged cigarettes before. They immediately blushed and waved their hands to refuse. They dared not accept such an expensive gift at all.
Miao Cuilan, who was a supervisor nearby and offering a hand, saw Ye Qing take out such a good cigarette and hurriedly advised Ye Qing:
"Hey, this cigarette is obviously high-end. Comrade Xiao Ye, please don't waste such a good thing. They usually just roll a cigarette and take a few puffs. You keep this thing for yourself. If you need help with something one day, this cigarette will be perfect to give to them!"
Ye Qing smiled and said, "Let's talk about it when we want to give it to someone. My family is from Shanghai. If I really want to buy this cigarette, I can still think of a way. Auntie, please don't be polite. Let Uncle Gu and Brother Yang try it. They have definitely never smoked this!"
Ye Qing simply opened one of the boxes, took out two cigarettes from it, and passed them to the two of them respectively.
The boxes were already opened, and Miao Cuilan couldn't stand it any longer. She could only turn around and glare at the two grown men in annoyance.
This time, the farmers from the two villages did not refuse the cigarettes handed over by Ye Qing, and they happily took the cigarettes.
Gu Zhenxing even put the cigarette in front of his nose and sniffed it, then chuckled and put the cigarette in his pocket like a treasure. Before hiding it, he carefully glanced at Aunt Gu over there, fearing that his wife would find out and confiscate his cigarette.
Ye Qing smiled, and while Miao Cuilan wasn't paying attention, he secretly stuffed the remaining cigarettes into Gu Zhenxing's arms, and winked at the old man cunningly.
Gu Zhenxing was immediately happy. Hey, this girl, with such a naughty and mischievous spirit, is exactly the same as his son Xiaonan.
Grandma Zou was also there, chatting and having fun with Aunt Gu.
The old lady has been taken care of by the Gu family over the years, and the two families are almost becoming godparents. In addition, because Ye Qing helped Gu Weixi save the fetus today, neither of them treated Ye Qing as an outsider, and they talked about the broken engagement between Gu Weidong and Wu Yueying in front of Ye Qing.
"The political commissar of Weidong's army came yesterday. He originally came to persuade them to reconcile, but seeing that Wu Yueying had made up her mind, he stopped trying to persuade them. He also said that Weidong actually wanted to cancel the engagement. It seemed that this marriage was definitely going to fail."
When talking about this matter, Aunt Gu's face was filled with sorrow. She was so angry that she couldn't eat or sleep.
Grandma Zou didn't think this was a big deal at all:
"Both children want to cancel the engagement, which means they never liked each other. It's no big deal. Maybe the children can find someone better in the army."
"You said that you two went to the Wu family to ask for marriage on his behalf. It's really because the emperor is not anxious, but the prisoner is anxious. The child is in the army and has no such idea at all, but you insisted on interfering. Now, you did a good job but ended up with bad intentions. Not only did you not become in-laws, but you also ruined your relationship with the Wu family. Why did you do that?"
When talking about this, Auntie Gu was also full of resentment:
"We didn't make this decision on our own. It was the woman from the Wu family who asked me for my son Weidong's mailing address in the army, saying that her daughter Yueying wanted to communicate with my son Weidong. Doesn't that mean she has a crush on our son Weidong? That's why we came to propose marriage."
"Otherwise, what kind of people would we be? Just because we saved someone's child, we would thank him for his kindness and ask for a reward? That's not the case!"
"And last year, Wu Yueying was particularly concerned about Wei Dong and even came to me to ask about her joining the army. I thought that since the girl had taken the initiative, we as her parents couldn't just ignore it, right? Otherwise, where would the Wu family's reputation be?"
"Who knew this young girl would change her attitude every day? It's only been a short while and she's already refusing to get married. She's really making fun of us!"
Grandma Zou was dissatisfied with the girl from the Wu family from the beginning:
"Young people nowadays don't get married blindly. They have to date someone first and only get married when they are suitable. Weidong has only been home for a few days since he joined the army. What you are doing is finding a daughter-in-law for yourselves, not for him. If you really want to consider it for him, you should let him find one himself, someone who satisfies him!"
Auntie Gu had learned her lesson this time, and she took Grandma Zou's words to heart:
"Every failure makes you wiser. After this incident, I am really ready to give up and be the boss. I will definitely not give blind advice on Weidong's marriage in the future. Anyway, Political Commissar Hao has said that he will take care of Weidong's marriage in the future, so I just need to wait to be a mother-in-law and a grandmother."
Grandma Zou smiled now:
"That's the way it should be. Look at it more positively. Don't be so hard on yourself all the time. Don't be so cold to the Wu family. There's no need for that."
"Just wait and see. Weidong is capable and hardworking. He will only get better and better in the army in the future. But the daughter of the Wu family has been spoiled by the Wu couple. She is overconfident and unpredictable. Who knows what will happen to her in the future."
"I think you should be thankful that you didn't marry the girl from the Wu family as your daughter-in-law. With your impetuous personality, you might not get along with her. If you really marry her, you two might have a small quarrel every three days or a big quarrel every five days, which would make your life chaotic and uneasy."
As soon as these words came out, all kinds of embarrassing scenes of quarrels and fights between her and Wu Yueying suddenly flashed before Aunt Gu's eyes. At that moment, she felt as if the scene had really happened. Her heart skipped a beat and she almost couldn't breathe.
Grandma Zou has no feelings for Wu Yueying, but she thinks that Ye Qing is a girl that suits her personality. It's a pity that she is still a child. It will take a few more years for her to get married. She is not suitable for Wei Dong in terms of age.
Grandma Zou's mind worked quickly. She immediately asked Ye Qing, who was quietly watching the conversation,
"Ah Qing, how many brothers and sisters do you have? Do you have any older sisters who are still unmarried?"
Ye Qing had never thought that he would be called out for eating a melon. After realizing what the old lady meant, he could not help but laugh and cry:
"Yes, there is one, but except for me, the rest of my family has gone to the northwest to settle and guard the border. The mountains are high and the roads are long. I can't even see Brother Gu. It's not appropriate, right? Please don't make random suggestions. Besides, my eldest sister has a lover, so this red thread can't be tied!"
Grandma Zou suddenly felt disappointed, and the thought that just came to her mind was instantly stopped.
"Yesterday I took the car of Political Commissar Hao to the countryside. He was chatting at Wu's house, and I overheard that Comrade Gu was very popular in the army. There were female comrades in the military hospital and the art troupe who were interested in him. I think you don't have to worry at all. Your son will definitely have no problem finding a partner."
Ye Qing quickly added another sentence.
She had never met Gu Weidong, but this comrade Gu was only 23 years old and was at the rising stage of his career. Why was he in such a hurry? He should do his job well first. After seven or eight years, when his position in the army was stable, it would be completely in time for him to start a family.
But Ye Qing didn't dare to say this. Nowadays, most people, especially men and women in rural areas, get married early. Many of them have a wife, children and a warm bed before they are 20 years old.
For example, Gu Weidong is 23 years old and still unmarried, which is considered an older young man in the village. If he were not serving in the army, his relatives would probably be so anxious that they would come to his house every day to urge him to get married.
Ye Qing simply couldn't understand it. Although she had had several romances in her previous life, they all ended in failure. Later, in the end of the world, there were too many people around her who approached her with ulterior motives, so she had no intention of getting married.
Although the times she lives in are different, she is still pessimistic about marriage. If possible, she thinks it would be nice to be alone. As long as she can get a formal job in the national medical system, she can live a comfortable life with a stable job and not have to rely on anyone.
After talking about the eldest son's broken engagement, Aunt Gu started talking about the other three children.
First, he started nagging Gu Weinan and Gu Weibei, saying that they didn't know whether they had enough food coupons even though they were in high school in the county.
She was also worried about the baby in Gu Weixi's belly, because she had been married for three years and there was still no movement in her belly. Many people in the village gossiped about her and made fun of her, saying that she was a hen that didn't lay eggs. Now that she was finally pregnant, if she couldn't keep the baby, the villagers would say even more unpleasant things.
Yang Dazhi heard everything Auntie Gu said and couldn't help but interrupt:
"Why bother with them? They are all rude. They can't even take care of their own affairs, but they are still worrying about other people's stomachs. I don't even care whether I have a son or not, but they are worried about me first."
Aunt Gu didn't agree with what Yang Dazhi said, and she kept on nagging about what Yang Dazhi's mother had said before her death, and how she couldn't let his mother sleep uneasy down there.
It was then that Ye Qing found out that Yang Dazhi was not a local. He and his mother had accidentally come to the village while fleeing famine from Yucheng during the Cultural Revolution. Then Yang Dazhi's mother died of illness, and Yang Dazhi was taken in by the Gu family, who had been taking him in for nearly ten years.
Three years ago, Yang Dazhi and Gu Weixi were secretly dating and were caught by Aunt Gu. Fearing that the two young people might cause a murder, Aunt Gu Zhenxing and his wife decided to get the two married.
Although it was a marriage of marriage for their daughter, the newlywed couple did not move at all. They still lived and ate at her parents' home, and even the work points in the team were not calculated separately. It was no different from having a live-in son-in-law.
Yang Dazhi didn't think there was anything wrong with this. He was taken in by the Gu family when he was in the most difficult time. Over the years, he got along with Gu Zhenxing and his wife like their own son. He also made up his mind to support his father-in-law and mother-in-law in their old age.
The eldest son is in the army and can basically not be relied on. The younger son and daughter are in school in the county and are not at home most of the time. Gu Zhenxing and his wife can only be happy that their daughter and son-in-law are willing to stay with them.
But there are many people in the village who are not used to the Gu family's way of getting along, especially Yang Dazhi. People in the village say that he is a freeloader and the gossip they make is extremely unpleasant.
Gu Weixi and his wife didn't care about the gossips of the villagers, but Gu Zhenxing and his wife did mind it very much. So Miao Cuilan was eagerly looking forward to her daughter being able to sit still and have a safe pregnancy. No matter whether it was a boy or a girl, as long as she could be born safely, at least she could give a loud slap to those people who gossiped about her being infertile.
Ye Qing was listening quietly beside them, and the more she listened, the more she liked the Gu family.
These days, rural areas don't attach much importance to education. It's good enough to send children to primary school to cure illiteracy. In a village, there are not many people who graduate from junior high school, let alone sending children to high school in the county.
From this point alone, we can see that the Gu family is not the kind of people who are short-sighted and only care about immediate interests.
Not to mention, this family can let their daughter and son-in-law live in the house after marrying off their daughter. Many parents in later generations who have received modern education may not be so open-minded.
Moreover, the old man of the Gu family lost his life trying to save a child who fell into the water, and the Gu couple took in refugees who fled from famine, and were willing to take care of a blind old lady who was almost unable to take care of herself.
As the saying goes, a single glimpse reveals the whole picture. Taking all these factors into consideration, Ye Qing felt that the Gu family had a clean family tradition and simple family relationships. In this era of large rural families with many children, they were definitely a breath of fresh air.
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