Chapter 150 Chapter 150
After the child was sent over, the Liu family was afraid that Wang Chunhua would send the child back again. So when the eldest son of the Liu family went back that day, the two daughters-in-law spread the word that Liu Kui's son had nothing to do with them in the future, and that Wang Chunhua could either raise the child herself or abandon him. Anyway, the two sisters-in-law were determined not to raise a son for Wang Chunhua for nothing again.
Liu Yongquan was afraid of Ye Qing's threat and dared not act rashly again. He even strictly forbade Liu Pozi to cause trouble in Kaoshantun again.
So, within a few days, Wang Chunhua went to find Wu Yongbing and the old branch secretary to discuss whether her household registration could be transferred to Kaoshantun.
She is now an apprentice under Ye Qing, and can only live on the allowance from Ye Qing every month and the extra money she and Zheng Xin earn from slaughtering pigs outside.
But if her household registration was transferred to Kaoshantun, she would get twenty days' work points every month. These work points could be used to distribute food or money in Kaoshantun at the end of the year, which would be enough for her and her children to have enough food and drink.
Wu Yongbing and the old branch secretary are not stupid either.
They have all seen how Wang Chunhua has performed during the past six months of studying with Ye Qing. Even if Wang Chunhua cannot learn Ye Qing's skills completely and cannot become a human doctor, it doesn't matter. As long as she can castrate pigs, deliver sows and cows, and understand artificial insemination techniques, she will be a rare talent in the whole area.
Unless Kaoshantun is stupid, it is absolutely impossible for him to reject such a talented person who has come to his doorstep.
Wu Yongbing and the old branch secretary had a long-term vision. They knew that with Ye Qing's ability, Kaoshantun could keep her for a while, but it was impossible to trap this girl here for the rest of her life.
Ye Qing will definitely be promoted in the future, so when Ye Qing leaves, among the apprentices she brought out, the ones most likely to stay in Kaoshantun are Wang Chunhua and Gu Weinan, two native rural girls.
But Gu Weinan is not married yet and has no children, so he is less stable than Wang Chunhua. If Gu Weinan finds a partner from another place and gets married in the future, or finds an opportunity to move to the city, then the Kaoshantun Health Station may have to rely on Wang Chunhua to support it.
Therefore, Wu Yongbing and the old branch secretary were eager for Wang Chunhua to move her household registration to Kaoshantun. After Wang Chunhua submitted her application, the two old men immediately found the brigade cadres to discuss it. Within two days, a notice was posted. Not only did they agree to Wang Chunhua's request, they even made the decision to allocate a small residential land next to the health station to Wang Chunhua so that she could build one or two houses.
Now the villagers of Kaoshantun have Ye Qing as their back to keep them cool. In just a few months, the profits from selling medical appointments are almost equal to what they earn from working hard in the fields for a year. Therefore, everyone respects Ye Qing and her disciples very much, and even hopes that the benefits will not flow away to outsiders. It would be better if both Ye Qing and her disciples could marry into Kaoshantun in the future.
Ye Qing is dating the eldest son of the Gu family, so now there is no one in the village to help her find a partner.
But the female disciples under Ye Qing are all still single.
Gu Weinan's marriage was decided by Gu Zhenxing and his wife, so it was not the turn of outsiders to interfere. However, Meng Jia, Zheng Xin and Wang Chunhua were different. Not only were they in their twenties, they were in the prime of their lives, but they also had no family to help arrange their marriages, so their marriages would definitely attract much attention.
However, Zheng Xin's reputation had been ruined earlier, and her throat was injured by pesticides. She had long given up the option of getting married, and simply used the name of "tomboy" to arm herself. She even announced to the public that she had injured her body when she committed suicide by drinking pesticides and could no longer get pregnant. In this way, a tomboy who always wields knives, works as a castrator every day, and cannot have children is naturally not within the consideration of the matchmaker.
So among the several female disciples, the two with the best popularity in the blind date market are Meng Jia and Wang Chunhua.
There were many who wanted to change their status and marry Meng Jia, the city phoenix, home.
But some people were aware of their own strength and knew that they could not marry Meng Jia, a city girl, so they set their sights on Wang Chunhua. Even though Wang Chunhua had been married and had a child, the Liu family's son was dead, and it would not be criticized for Wang Chunhua, a widow, to remarry. What's more, this girl had a falling out with her natal family, so she would not have to have much to do with her natal family in the future. She also had a job at the Kaoshantun Health Station as a plus, so of course she became the object of many families' competition.
Just at this time, Kaoshantun approved a homestead for Wang Chunhua, so she could officially settle in Kaoshantun. This made Wang Chunhua a real favorite in the eyes of eligible men in several surrounding production brigades.
But Wang Chunhua was not moved at all. After being madly indoctrinated by Ye Qing for more than half a year, she had long since awakened from her past ignorant rural woman's consciousness and realized that a woman's life is not just for her husband and children.
In particular, Ye Qing also offered to lend her money so that she could wait until the second half of the year when there was no farming season and find someone to build the house.
With a homestead, a house and a stable source of job, Wang Chunhua felt that she didn't need to bother herself with finding a man to serve her.
She did not want to be trapped in another in-law family where she did not know what was good for her. Instead of focusing her energy on dealing with trivial family disputes, she would rather spend time recharging her knowledge and studying, and work hard to improve her knowledge and professional skills.
Once she succeeds in her studies and has a real means of making a living, she will be invincible for the rest of her life and won't have to rely on anyone else.
So, after getting permission from the production team, Wang Chunhua immediately went to the commune to move her and her son’s household registration out of Chousonggou.
It was obvious at first glance that the name the Liu family gave to her son was a random one. It was called Liu Tieniu, after the children of the eldest and second eldest sons of the Liu family. Several children in the Liu family were named Liu Tiezhu, Liu Tiegen, and Liu Tieshuan, so her son was given a similar name like the children of those two families.
But Wang Chunhua was not satisfied with this name. As she was going to register her child this time, she simply changed the child's name as well.
Ye Qing named the girl with cleft lip Zou Yun. Wang Chunhua was not well educated, so she couldn't come up with a very elegant name, but she knew a lot of characters with the "日" radical. She searched the dictionary for a whole night and finally decided to change her son's name to Wang Xu.
This name was unanimously approved by several girls in the family, and the procedures for settling in Kaoshantun were quickly completed.
Wang Chunhua did not hide anything from Chousonggou. As soon as she changed the child's name and registered him/her, the Liu family knew about it the next day. However, due to Ye Qing's previous threat and Wang Chunhua's attitude, no one from the Liu family dared to stop it. They just let Wang Chunhua slap them in the face without even daring to fart.
However, Wang Chunhua gave the child her own surname, which made it clear that she was going to raise the child. As a result, some families who were originally interested in Wang Chunhua began to be picky again, thinking that if they married Wang Chunhua, they would have to raise a child for free, which made them somewhat unhappy.
So, a matchmaker came to propose marriage and asked Wang Chunhua to send her son away. However, before she had even had time to sit down in the yard, Wang Chunhua rushed her out and stood at the door, scolding her, making the matchmaker feel very embarrassed.
After that, maybe the beaten matchmaker spread bad words about Wang Chunhua everywhere in the circle, or maybe the people around her were frightened by Wang Chunhua's fierceness and realized that even this seemingly quiet young widow under Ye Qing's command was not easy to bully. In short, the group of people who came to propose marriage and almost broke the threshold finally quieted down.
Although there was no matchmaker to cause trouble, old lady Zhang from the neighboring military farm never stopped. Ever since Ye Qing told Zhang Jianguo that his condition could still be treated, the old lady of the Zhang family stopped tormenting her own daughter-in-law and started to torment Ye Qing instead.
The old lady would get up before five every morning, walk to Kaoshantun, and then, without anyone telling her, she would volunteer to clean Ye Qing's yard and the yard of the health station next door, as well as the coyote dens, rabbit dens, and chicken coops in the yard. She would even take the initiative to make breakfast for Ye Qing and the others, wash clothes, and tidy up the house.
Ye Qing tried to stop the old lady from doing it, but the old lady was still unhappy and asked Zhang Jianguo to take her back. The next day, the old lady came again. She had been coming every day for more than a month, rain or shine, and finally Ye Qing was speechless.
She wasn't a feudal landlord, so how could she really let an old lady in her sixties or seventies serve as a maid? Moreover, this old lady was a relative of a martyr, and no matter how much Ye Qing disliked her, she couldn't really treat her like a nanny.
Finally, there was no other way, Ye Qing could only discuss with Zhang Jianguo and his wife and send the old lady to the health station to help dry the herbs.
As expected, the old lady went there happily, and did whatever Ye Qing asked her to do, whether it was cutting, grinding, washing and drying, she was very careful and meticulous, without any complaints, and was even afraid that if she did anything wrong, she would make Ye Qing unhappy.
Ye Qing would not let anyone work for her for free. Since she reached a cooperation agreement with the forest farm, medicinal herbs have been delivered to her one after another.
At the beginning, what Guan Changzheng collected were some stockpiles from various households in the forest farm. But slowly, with the thawing of spring, the vegetation in the forest began to sprout and grow leaves, and all kinds of medicinal herbs emerged from the soil like spring bamboo shoots. The frequency of Guan Changzheng's delivery of medicinal herbs was shortened from half a month at the beginning to once a week, and recently he can deliver a batch every three to five days.
Ye Qing brings a few apprentices in and out every day, going to the farm, the pig farm in the village, and the health station. Sometimes he even has to go to the county to perform surgery on Liu Yuanpeng. In short, there are too many things to take care of, and his daily schedule is packed. He is so busy that he doesn't have time to dry medicinal materials.
So Ye Qing discussed with Wu Yongbing to see if the old ladies in the village who usually liked to bask in the sun and chat under the old trees at the entrance of the village would be willing to come to the health station to help out, such as drying medicinal herbs. If they were willing, the health station could give them a subsidy for a month, or directly reward them with a few medical appointments.
Nowadays, the consultation numbers at the Kaoshantun Health Station are still quite valuable when sold outside, but because the same number of consultation numbers are issued every day, families are almost squeezed to the limit in order to line up for the number plates, and there have even been fights and conflicts. Therefore, the cadres in the village have discussed and worked out a policy. The quotas issued by the health station every month are divided into two parts. One part is for the patients outside to line up and receive them themselves, and the other part is distributed equally among the more than 300 households in Kaoshantun. After being allocated a consultation number, if you want to use it, you need to go to the health station one day in advance to make an appointment. In this way, the problem of conflicts caused by uneven distribution of interests in the village is avoided.
Therefore, Ye Qing is willing to give out a few extra consultation numbers as rewards, which is actually a disguised way of subsidizing the old ladies to make some extra money. With this source of income, these old ladies will have something to rely on at home and no longer have to look at the mood of their daughter-in-law. Their retirement days will be much more comfortable in the future.
Wu Yongbing immediately understood Ye Qing's intention, so the next day he gathered five or six old ladies in the village who were quick and willing to follow instructions and not meddlesome, and asked them to go to the health station to help wash and dry the medicinal materials.
When Old Lady Zhang came, Ye Qing asked her to join the elderly team that was drying herbs. She was treated the same as other old ladies, and was given some subsidies and rewards after working for a month. Perhaps because of Fang Xiaotao's poisoning incident, this old lady didn't dare to hold her son back anymore. Now that she had a proper job to do at the health station, she immediately became obedient. Not to mention, among these old ladies, she was the most efficient and meticulous in her work.
However, it was no use for her to be honest, because not long after, the punishment for Zhang Jianguo came down.
The military farm is not a place for joking after all. Mrs. Zhang’s previous behavior has already touched the bottom line of the military regulations, so Zhang Jianguo was asked by his superiors to retire and return to his hometown to engage in labor production, or wait for work arrangement notification from his superiors.
Given the Zhang family's situation, if they were really sent back to their hometown, the family would lose their source of income, and life in the countryside would definitely be difficult. So, considering that the Zhang family was full of loyal and brave people and had sacrificed two sons, Zhao Yuliang finally softened his heart and went to the county to find He Lianshan for help. He transferred Zhang Jianguo's file to the county police station and let this guy work as a patrol officer in a street police station in Jiaotan County.
After learning about her son's final destination, Mrs. Zhang's mood was like a roller coaster ride, but she finally came to her senses and realized that her son was able to become a police officer in Jiaotan County because of the leadership's help in using connections. So she no longer had any complaints about the army's decision to persuade her son to retire. Instead, she was filled with gratitude to Zhao Yuliang and the farm leaders.
Not only that, the old lady's mentality towards retirement has also undergone a huge change. After realizing how much impact her previous actions had on her son, she was no longer willing to live with her son and daughter-in-law when Zhang Jianguo took office at the county police station. Instead, she insisted on contributing her remaining energy to the Kaoshantun Health Station.
Because of her outstanding performance at the health station, the old lady has now found a sense of existence among the group of old ladies in charge of drying medicinal materials. Since she has some experience and insights in drying medicinal materials, the other old ladies will follow her and ask her for advice if they don't understand something. Old Mrs. Zhang has experienced the joy of being the backbone, and naturally she works more and more enthusiastically.
So the old lady didn't want to go to the county at all. She pestered her son to find a house to stay in a member's home in the village. During the day, she went to the health station to dry the medicinal herbs, and slept in the member's home at night. The health station provided three meals a day, so the old lady had no worries about food and drink. She was busy with the medicinal herbs all day long. In the past, she would hang around Zhang Jianguo and Fang Xiaotao on the farm every day, but now she would hardly think of her son and daughter-in-law for ten days or half a month.
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