Chapter 29: A House Full of Loyalty
Who would have thought that the captain's daughter, after trying so hard to test her, ended up exposing herself!
The more Ye Qing thought about it, the happier he became. He almost laughed out loud in the middle of the night.
Thinking back to when she met Wu Yueying today and the various strange behaviors of this lesbian, Ye Qing finally understood why she felt a sense of disobedience.
It turns out that this Miss Wu has also changed her mind!
No wonder this man wanted to break off the engagement after he fell ill, and even went on a hunger strike for it.
No wonder she was targeted by Miss Wu on her first day in the countryside. She tested her in various ways, both overtly and covertly. She even tried to keep her when she was about to move out, and even asked her to teach her singing regardless of the circumstances.
I wonder if God can sing "Asian Pride"? Ye Qing is speechless when he thinks about it now.
Please, she traveled from the future a hundred years ago. There is no way that old songs from seventy or eighty years ago would appear in her playlist. There would be no way she could sing them!
While moving the boxes, Ye Qing really had no idea what Wu Yueying meant by the question she asked.
She thought that "Asian Pride" was a popular song in the city in the early 1970s. Wu Yueying wanted to learn this song, and knowing that she was from Shanghai, she thought she would definitely be able to sing it, so she wanted to ask her to help teach her.
If Ye Qing had not had a flash of inspiration just before going to bed and vaguely remembered the origin of the song "Asian Pride", she would probably still be kept in the dark and would not realize that there was a mystery behind such a simple question from Wu Yueying.
I just don't know whether this elder sister was reincarnated by herself or was someone else's soul like her.
But no matter which one it is, at least one thing can be confirmed, that is, the future timeline that this elder sister knows is definitely not long, about 20 to 30 years at most.
After all, if he had traveled through time from after the millennium, when Chinese entertainment was rising strongly and there were so many great singers, his playlist would not have remained limited to "Asian Pride".
Ye Qing estimated that before Wu Yueying came back, "Asian Pride" might have just become a household name and everyone was singing it, so she naturally wanted to use this song to test Ye Qing's background.
Jicheng Asian Games, in the early 1990s, Ye Qing's mind was working fast. At that time, the economy was booming due to reform and opening up, the collective economy was transforming into an individual economy, and various companies and private owners were springing up like bamboo shoots after rain.
Having seen so much of the world, it's no wonder that she wants to break off the engagement as soon as she comes back. It seems that Wu Yueying looks down on that poor soldier.
But this is understandable. Knowing in advance how the political situation and policies will develop 20 years from now is equivalent to seizing the opportunity to make a fortune.
Standing at the forefront of the changing times, even a pig can fly, so it is understandable that Wu Yueying did not want another soldier to hold her back.
Married people can still get divorced, not to mention that two people are just engaged. After knowing that this person has changed his mind, Ye Qing can finally understand why Wu Yueying's behavior is so inconsistent and changes so quickly. He also thinks that there is nothing wrong with Wu Yueying's insistence on breaking off the engagement.
Everyone has their own aspirations. If a woman doesn't want to be a military wife, you can't force her. Maybe she came back with the idea of concentrating on her career. If she marries a soldier, she will probably have to follow the army. At that time, she will definitely have to focus on her family and children. How can she have the energy to start a business and make money?
What Ye Qing needs to be wary of is the problem that Wu Yueying is targeting her.
Before she went to the countryside, she thought about being cautious and trying not to make close friends with others so as not to expose her secrets.
But she didn't expect that she couldn't rest easy just by reducing her presence. Since Wu Yueying came back, she must know that in the original story line, there was no female educated youth named Ye Qing among the group of educated youth who came to Kaoshantun to work in the countryside today.
This means that Ye Qing escaped the heart attack on the train and his appearance in Kaoshantun was actually a variable in itself.
No wonder as soon as she appeared in the village, Wu Yueying interrogated her with all kinds of questions, just like checking her household registration.
But on second thought, Ye Qing felt that this matter was actually nothing to be nervous or afraid of.
Anyway, no matter what Wu Yueying asked, she would just play dumb and refuse to admit it. She had never done anything illegal, so she was not afraid of being investigated. If Wu Yueying wanted to report her as a time traveler, unless she blew herself up first, otherwise, with such absurd remarks, others would just think that the reporter was mentally ill and talking nonsense.
No matter how stupid Wu Yueying is, as long as she is not stupid, she will not reveal the secret of her time travel or rebirth. If she really does that, what awaits her may only be sliced in the laboratory or a long prison sentence.
Thinking of this, the tension in Ye Qing's heart relaxed.
Anyway, if Wu Yueying insisted on making things difficult for her, the worst that could happen was that she would just deal with it as she pleased. But if she was really pissed off, she would just kill the person without anyone knowing. She had killed people in the apocalypse, and she didn't mind having more blood on her hands!
Without any psychological burden, Ye Qing fell asleep quickly. Although it was her first time sleeping on a kang in a completely unfamiliar place, she slept more soundly than ever before and slept until dawn outside.
"Ye Zhiqing, Ye Zhiqing?"
Hearing someone shouting outside, Ye Qing immediately got up from the kang, took out his watch and looked at it. It was only five o'clock in the morning.
Grandma Zou had woken up a long time ago, but she was afraid that if she got up she would wake Ye Qing up, so she just lay on the kang without moving.
Hearing the shouting outside, the old man slowly got up.
Seeing this, Ye Qing quickly helped the old lady off the bed, filled a basin with water for her to wash her face, and washed himself briefly before opening the door and walking out.
Standing outside the door was Captain Wu's eldest daughter-in-law Qin Xingzhi. Seeing Ye Qing finally come out, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief:
"Finally you're up. I'll only call you this time. Starting tomorrow, you'll have to get up on your own. From now on, you'll have to go to work at this time. If you're late, your work points will be deducted."
"Come with me. We need to go to the threshing ground to get the tools first."
Having said that, Qin Xingzhi turned around and was about to walk towards the drying field. Unexpectedly, at this moment, the wooden fence of the next yard was pushed open, and a woman in her forties hurried out from inside.
When she saw Qin Xingzhi, the lady paused and her expression immediately fell.
Qin Xingzhi looked a little embarrassed, but she still greeted him:
"Auntie Gu, you're up early."
The lady acted as if she didn't hear anything. She took a few quick steps and walked past Qin Xingzhi.
Ye Qing understood that this lady should be Gu Weidong's mother. As for why she had such an attitude towards Qin Xingzhi, she could guess what was going on with just a little thought.
Wu Yueying suddenly made a fuss about breaking off the engagement, and everyone in the village knew about it. Given the rural environment, those gossipers must have talked a lot about it, and might have even made up a lot of unpleasant things. With rumors flying everywhere, it would be strange if the Gu family could be happy.
Gu Weidong's mother must have been annoyed with Wu Yueying, and this spread to everyone in the Wu family, and she even didn't want to pay attention to Qin Xingzhi.
Seeing that Qin Xingzhi was not feeling comfortable, Ye Qing smiled and quickly diverted her attention:
"Sister-in-law, can you tell me about going to work? How are work points recorded in our village? How do you calculate if you only work half a day? Who should I contact to ask for leave?"
After a while of chatting, the expression on Qin Xingzhi's face became natural. Not only did she introduce Ye Qing to the relevant matters about going to the fields, but she also talked about some situations nearby.
For example, how far is the village from the town, and what shops are there in the town;
There is also a market held there every month, where people from several surrounding villages are allowed to freely exchange goods.
For example, a few kilometers away from the village, there is a large military farm built by the Construction Corps, covering an area of several hundred square kilometers, and it is still being reclaimed and expanded.
Ye Qing recalled the endless golden rice fields she saw on the way to the village. If she followed the direction Qin Xingzhi pointed out, most of the places she passed by at that time might have belonged to the arable land of this military farm.
However, Ye Qing didn't think that this military farm had anything to do with her at the moment. She just filtered out the useful information in Qin Xingzhi's words and kept it in mind.
When they arrived at the sun-drying field, many members had already arrived. When they saw Qin Xingzhi leading a skinny female educated youth over, they immediately became extremely disgusted:
"Wu Cong's family, is this the educated youth from the city who came here yesterday? She looks even younger than my third daughter. Is she ten years old? She came to join the team at such a young age?"
Ye Qing: Thank you. Your words are not very harmful but extremely insulting. I feel deeply offended!
The original body did not have adequate nutrition since childhood, so Ye Qing is a little short now, estimated to be less than 1.6 meters tall, but she has already checked, and her epiphyseal line has not yet closed. As long as she takes good care of herself in the next two years, she will be able to catch up!
But Qin Xingzhi, after seeing Ye Qing's skill in chopping wood, she didn't dare to underestimate this little girl at all. Although she was small in stature, she had great energy. She was full of essence. When she went to work, she was looking forward to seeing how surprised these people would be!
Qin Xingzhi was able to wake Ye Qing up smoothly, but she was in a terrible mood when she was assigned to wake up the other educated youth members.
Every one of the newly arrived educated youths are now lying in bed in so much pain that they can't get up because of the suffering they had on the way to the village.
The members who went to call for the workers to come to work shouted again and again outside the door, but they could not get anyone to come out. They were so angry that they almost burst into curses. Finally, they could not wait any longer and returned to the drying field angrily. After receiving the tools, they went to the field cursing. When they saw Captain Wu, they immediately started to complain non-stop:
"These city kids are too unreasonable. They are so lazy and inactive on their first day at work. Are they planning to let us support them for nothing? Captain, if these people have such an attitude when they go to the countryside to work in the production team, then you should send them back. My family can't afford to support such ancestors!"
Other villagers followed suit and expressed their collective dissatisfaction.
In those days, every household did not have enough food to eat, yet they had to set aside extra money to support these educated youth. The villagers were already unhappy, and now they had to get up early and work hard while the educated youth were sleeping soundly at home. Who could be happy?
Captain Wu looked unhappy, and became more determined to quickly build the educated youth center and get these troublesome city kids out.
"Okay, stop talking nonsense. Even if they don't come, don't you still have to work?"
Knowing that these people were feeling unbalanced, Captain Wu urged these members to go to the fields and work quickly, while he went back to the village with a sullen face to discipline these educated youth.
When Yin Shuang's group of educated youth were dragged out one by one and came to the fields to work reluctantly, they saw a group of female villagers in the fields who were extremely excited and vying with Ye Qing to see who could harvest the rice faster.
Ye Qing was like someone who had taken stimulants. He bent over and cut rice in the field like autumn wind sweeping up fallen leaves. The sickle in his hand was flying so fast that one could almost see its afterimage. The newly arrived educated youth were stunned on the spot.
No, where did this conspicuous bag come from? Can't you see that everyone is lying down and messing around? Is it appropriate for you to be so curly? You are trying to attract attention and you are putting everyone in an unfair position!
When they found out yesterday that there was a 16-year-old minor in the team, the educated youth were quite happy. They thought that no matter what they did next, they would have someone to back them up, so they could rest assured.
But now, seeing this yellow-haired girl working so efficiently, the educated youth realized that they seemed to be happy too early!
Ye Qing didn't feel that she needed to empathize with the emotions and situations of these new educated youth. After she followed the other members to the rice fields early in the morning, she felt that she had finally arrived at her home battlefield.
The abundant rice ears were filled with rich spiritual energy. As soon as she arrived at the farmland, the surrounding rice ears were so close to her body that the spiritual energy instantly surrounded her and raised her excitement threshold in an instant.
Because not only can she happily harvest rice ears, she can also secretly eat up all the rice stubble left in the fields and the remaining wood-type supernatural powers in the rice stalks after threshing when no one is paying attention!
Ye Qing felt like a hardworking little bee that encountered a sea of flowers. Everywhere he looked, he saw pollen, which he could never finish eating!
When she first got down to the ground, perhaps because she was not very experienced in using the sickle, her speed was a little slow.
But slowly, as she mastered the technique of using the sickle, her speed quickly caught up, and became faster and faster, leaving the group of women in the village far behind.
By replenishing her energy in time, Ye Qing could always drink mana to recover her health when her physical strength was almost exhausted. This meant that she was invincible in the task of harvesting rice ears and had no rivals in the whole village. She was not afraid even if so many people came to fight her in a wheel battle.
Thus, while other newly arrived educated youth were still enduring the contempt and harsh words from the villagers, Ye Qing had already become famous in one battle and won the love of most of the women in the village with his strength.
In this era, the universal value of the public is that labor is the most glorious and diligence is a virtue, especially in rural areas, those who endure hardships and are hardworking and willing to work are definitely the best and most likable, while those who are sneaky, lazy and unwilling to work will be collectively hated by everyone.
Ye Qing is so capable, of course he can quickly integrate into this new group and easily get along with the villagers.
Even Captain Wu was very surprised. Yesterday he thought that Ye, the educated youth who had been given special treatment as soon as he arrived and was escorted by a military vehicle, would be the most difficult to deal with among this year's batch of educated youth going to the countryside. But who knew that he was wrong? Such a tiny guy turned out to be so good at farm work. This really made Captain Wu look at him with new eyes.
Originally, Captain Wu had some concerns about Ye Qing moving to live with Grandma Zou, but after seeing the abilities displayed by Ye Qing, he felt relieved.
This child is strong, capable, generous and understanding. Even though she is a little young, it would be appropriate to arrange her to take care of Grandma Zou. After observing her for two months, if she can take good care of the people, it is not impossible to let her live in Grandma Zou's house for a long time.
Ye Qing didn't know that because of the limelight she had shown today, she had avoided the fate of having to squeeze into a shop with the educated youth.
Before breakfast at eight o'clock, everyone was required to work for three hours. As these newly arrived educated city youth had never worked in the fields, the team leader did not dare to assign them too heavy a task and just asked them to divide one plot of land each.
But Ye Qing managed to harvest half an acre of rice by himself early in the morning and finished the work half an hour earlier.
If it was any other member who asked to go back early, the team leader and the scorekeeper would have scolded him.
But looking at the neatly tied bundles of rice ears in the rice fields that Ye Qing had harvested, the captain couldn't find any reason to find fault even if he wanted to.
Taking another look at the educated youth on the other side who were incompetent at anything, the captain felt it was an eyesore.
The contrast was so obvious that Captain Wu pursed his lips and didn't know what to say. He took a deep breath, waved his hand at Ye Qing with some tiredness, and asked her to go back first.
After getting the approval, Ye Qing shouted happily, jumped onto the ridge of the field with muddy feet and ran away.
She had secretly picked up a lot of rice grains that had fallen from the fields this morning in her trouser pockets, probably a handful. She wanted to go back and collect all the grains now that everyone was working outside and there was no one in the village.
She had noticed it yesterday when she went to Grandma Zou's house. There was a small fenced courtyard in front of the old lady's house. There was about one-third of private land in the yard, which was used to grow vegetables. But probably because the old lady was blind, the vegetables in the field were sparse and no one took care of them. It was just right for Ye Qing to leave the land empty to "grow food".
With so many seeds, it is estimated that one crop will yield several dozen kilograms of rice. She and Grandma Zou don't eat much staple food, so several dozen kilograms will be enough for them to eat for half a month!
Ye Qing was very excited and had even planned to use this private plot of land every night for long-term preparation. She planned to store all the winter vegetables and food for her and the old lady before winter came.
After returning home, Grandma Zou was trying to cook in the kitchen. Perhaps because she knew that there were educated youth in the family, the old lady wanted to entertain the little guest well, so she found out the sausages that she had hidden for who knows how long, and was trembling with fear as she tried to slice the sausages with a kitchen knife. Ye Qing was so scared seeing this.
"Grandma Zou, why did you come to the kitchen by yourself?"
Ye Qing rushed forward and snatched the knife from the old man, then helped the old lady to sit aside.
"Why are you back?" The old lady was surprised. "It's not time to get off work yet."
Ye Qing smiled and said, "Because I'm capable, I've completed all the tasks assigned by the captain in excess! Grandma Zou, I'll live in your house from now on, so don't worry about these things, just let me do them. You can't see, and you're touching things everywhere, so be careful not to fall and not be able to get up."
An old man of this age has brittle bones, and a fall could result in a comminuted fracture. If it causes other complications, I'm afraid he might even lose his life.
Seeing that Ye Qing said this very naturally and took over the breakfast task and started working without any effort, chopping wood and making a fire, she did everything very efficiently. She didn't hear the girl complain at all. Old Lady Zou knew that the girl was not forcing herself, so she listened to her advice and didn't insist on doing it herself, nor did she stand by and give orders. She just went back to her room obediently with her crutches.
After Ye Qing prepared the meal and brought it into the house, the old man came over happily and started eating.
Originally, she thought that as long as the food was cooked, she would not refuse it even if the taste was not so good. However, as soon as the food entered her mouth, the old lady was extremely surprised.
"Your cooking skills are really good, but the taste seems to be a little different from that in Shanghai."
The old lady gave Ye Qingshu a thumbs up while eating.
Last night, Ye Qing felt that the old lady's tone and expression were not right when she mentioned Shencheng, but she was meeting the old lady for the first time and it was not easy for her to ask in detail.
Now that the old lady had brought up the topic, her curiosity was aroused again, and she couldn't help but ask a few more questions.
"You also know what the food in Shencheng tastes like. Have you ever been to Shencheng?"
Old Lady Zou smiled and nodded, saying, "Not only have I been to Shanghai, I even lived there for several years."
This really surprised Ye Qing. She had never thought that she would meet a fellow villager in this remote mountain village in the Great Northern Wilderness.
"Really? When did it happen? Why didn't you stay in Shencheng? Why did you come to this remote place in the Great Northern Wilderness?"
It’s not that Ye Qing looks down on the Great Northern Wilderness. For her, a wood-type mutant, the Changbai Mountains with abundant spiritual energy are definitely her true home.
But for ordinary people, Shanghai is a big city, and its living conditions are definitely incomparable to those in the Great Northern Wilderness.
Moreover, the fact that the old lady was able to live in Shanghai for several years shows that this must have happened a long time ago. If you stayed in Shanghai to settle down at that time, you would be classified as a city dweller, have food and oil capital to eat state-provided food, and enjoy free medical care, which is definitely better than living in this poor mountain valley.
So Ye Qing couldn't understand why the old man would not stay in the big city but come to Kaoshantun?
Old Mrs. Zou smiled, turned around, and fumbled in a wooden box on her kang for a long time. She took out a cloth package from it, opened the package, and took out several medals and some papers inside.
With wrinkled hands, he placed the things on the table and showed them to Ye Qing:
"Forty years ago, my husband worked in a cotton spinning factory in Shanghai, and I lived in Shanghai with him."
"Then the war broke out and Shanghai fell. My husband and two children all went to join the war."
"I hid outside with a group of female workers for many years. When I returned to Shanghai after the war, I found out that my husband and children were gone."
"Later I returned to the Northeast. Shanghai is indeed very beautiful. Every spring the streets are full of sycamore flowers. But my husband and children were no longer there, so I didn't like it."
Ye Qing's eyes instantly turned red.
It turned out that the pieces of paper and medals that the old lady took out were death certificates with red seals and martyr medals issued by the state after the end of the Anti-Japanese War.
She didn't expect that this ordinary old lady with little presence in the village actually had a family full of loyal heroes, and her husband and children all died on the battlefield.
The wrinkled old lady in front of me was gently recounting the tragic past few decades, while trying hard to open her blue eyes and groping for the already mottled black and white family portrait in front of her, as if she really wanted to see the faces on it clearly.
But after groping for a while, she realized it was all in vain. She withdrew her hand in disappointment and let out a long sigh.
It was this sigh that almost made Ye Qing shed tears.
Ye Qing grabbed the old man's hand:
"Do you really not like it anymore? Don't you want to go back and see the city that your husband and children saved with their lives, and see what it has become now? And there is the Martyrs' Garden, where the heroic spirits of your husband and your children may be buried. Don't you want to go back and take a look?"
Grandma Zou was stunned for a moment, then she burst into laughter, with a deep and inextricable sadness on her face:
"Has Shanghai built a martyrs' park? That's great. Unfortunately, I'm old and can't see anymore. Even if they are there, I can't go back. I will stay in the village and wait for them to die. If they are still waiting for me, they will definitely come to the village to pick me up."
Ye Qing heard that the old lady didn't want to, but because of her physical condition, she could no longer have more extravagant hopes. He felt sad:
"If I say I can heal your eyes and restore your sight, would you believe me?"
This question really confused Grandma Zou.
She thought Ye Qing was just talking nonsense, so she smiled and comforted Ye Qing:
"Silly child, don't think too much. My eyesight cannot be cured, but the villagers are very kind and caring to me. I have lived a peaceful and smooth life in the second half of my life. I have no regrets. If I am destined to be with my husband and children in my next life, maybe I can meet them again."
Ye Qing didn't say anything else, but stood up and took out the set of silver needles that the old comrade on the train had given her from her bag.
"Don't move!"
Ye Qing walked up to Grandma Zou, whispered some advice to her, and then took advantage of the old lady's unpreparedness to insert a needle into her Jingming acupoint.
The slight stinging sensation startled the old lady, and she subconsciously tried to dodge.
Ye Qing quickly reached out his other hand to hold the old lady's head:
"Don't be afraid. I'm going to give you acupuncture. I've studied Chinese medicine and know some acupuncture techniques. I'll give it a try. Try to relax and feel if there's anything different around your eyes. Do you feel anything?"
The old lady was very surprised, but immediately sat down on the stool obediently and did not move. After a while, she responded:
"It feels a little sore and a little numb..."
Ye Qing slowly twisted the flying needle for a few minutes, then quickly pulled the needle out and gave the old lady a positive answer:
"Your disease is called glaucoma and cataracts. I just tried it, and you can feel it after the injection, which means there is still hope for treatment. It's just that the treatment may take a little longer, maybe eight or ten months, I'm not sure."
The old lady who had a nonchalant look on her face and said she had no regrets in her life, suddenly rushed over and grabbed Ye Qing's arm, asking anxiously and in disbelief:
"Really? My eyes can be cured?"
Ye Qing smiled and said, "It is definitely impossible to restore your vision to 100%, but I can still make your eyes sensitive to light and restore your vision to half of that of a normal person."
Ye Qing's answer was rather conservative, but for a man in his seventies, it was already the best answer.
The old lady couldn't help but burst into laughter. As she laughed, tears rolled down her cheeks and fell on the back of Ye Qing's hand. The scalding temperature was like magma burning Ye Qing's heart.
Ye Qing was just about to say a few words to comfort the old lady, but unexpectedly the old lady stood up again.
This time she was even more exaggerated than the last time she went to the kang to look for the box. She just squatted down, felt around under the kang, pried open one of the bricks, took out an iron box from the kang hole, and then handed the box to Ye Qing.
"Every month, I receive relief funds from the government for the five guarantees and subsidies for martyrs' families. I have no worries about food, clothing, and daily expenses. These are the savings I secretly saved when I was young. If you can cure my old lady's eyes, I will give them to you as medical expenses."
Ye Qing was not willing to accept it and refused it immediately.
Seeing that Ye Qing was adamant about not accepting it, Grandma Zou was afraid that Ye Qing would reject it, so she quickly opened the lid of the box:
"There are several Yuan Datou coins, some gold jewelry and a jade bracelet in it. Although these things cannot be taken out now, they are all valuable. Keep them carefully, girl. They will definitely not be shabby if you use them as dowry in the future!"
Facing this old lady who was so completely open with her, Ye Qing really wanted to cry.
Since she traveled to this parallel time and space, it was as if she had changed her fate. From Song Chunhua to Chen Youde to this Grandma Zou, all the people she met were simple and pure good people. Ye Qing had seen a lot of intrigues and deceptions in the end times, and she had no resistance to these simple-minded people.
She knew that if she refused the old lady again, she would be upset, so she pretended to accept the things. However, these things were the old lady's life savings, so why would Ye Qing really want them? She planned to go back and wait for the old lady not to notice, and then secretly put the iron box back into the kang hole.
At this moment she put the things away. The old lady was indeed very happy, smiling from ear to ear. She first asked Ye Qing about the situation of the Martyrs' Garden in Shencheng, and then kept asking her when she could start her eye treatment.
"You can start in the evening. I will give you acupuncture once every night from now on. If possible, you also need to take Chinese herbal medicine internally and do external fumigation. But I don't have any herbs on hand now. Is there a health station or something like that in our village?" Ye Qing asked curiously.
The old lady shook her head and said, "No, the farthest we can find is in the commune. There is none in our vicinity."
"What if someone in the village gets sick?" Ye Qing was very curious.
"When I'm sick, I usually use folk remedies. If that doesn't work, I go to the commune health station to get medicine."
The old lady said it as if it was a matter of course, and she obviously didn't think there was anything unreasonable about it.
“It’s certainly not comparable to your city of Shanghai, but this is the condition in the village, and every family has survived this way.
Ye Qing had made plans for her future career before coming to the countryside. She was not averse to doing farm work, but she definitely preferred to be a doctor. After hearing what the old lady said, she felt that the career of a barefoot doctor in the countryside was still very promising.
Obviously, farmers in the Kaoshantun area have a huge market demand for doctors, but because there is still a blank slate of practitioners, everyone is used to it.
But if a barefoot doctor suddenly appeared in the village, Ye Qing estimated that the threshold of this doctor's house would be trampled down by the surrounding production brigades.
Thinking of this, Ye Qing felt a little excited.
She felt that if she handled it properly, with her ability, it wouldn't be long before the villagers in the village would be crying and begging her to be their barefoot doctor!
It seems that she needs to find an opportunity to show off her flying needle skills in front of the villagers.
What Ye Qing didn't expect was that this opportunity would come so quickly!
After breakfast, seeing that there was still some time, Ye Qing did not let the old lady do anything else.
She sorted out the clutter in the closet herself, put the usable items into the cellar, and threw the unusable items directly into the kitchen, and then burned them in the stove when she came back to cook.
When the time was almost up, she went to the field again.
In the morning, Ye Qing's performance was so outstanding that she could be said to have become famous in one battle, so when she went to the fields again, the captain no longer confused her with other educated youths. Not only did she assign a heavier task to her, he also promised that if she could If she completes the work on time and on time, she will be credited with full work points.
Ye Qing had asked Qin Xingzhi about the matter of recording work points before. He knew that all communes now used the work point system, and the work points for a day's work ranged from two points to ten points.
Two centimeters is easier to earn. Generally, during this harvest season, old people and children can earn two work points by picking rice ears in the fields for a day.
But it is not easy to earn full work points. Usually only the most capable young male laborers in each family, who work from morning till night, can get ten full work points. For female comrades, they are usually recorded as eight work points, unless they can carry heavy loads and be used like animals like men.
So now that the team leader said that she could be given full work points, Ye Qing would definitely not raise any objection.
Although one or two work points meant nothing to her, if she could earn enough work points, she would become completely famous in the village, which would help her to gain popularity among the people in the village and would be of great benefit to her future work as a barefoot doctor.
After all, to these villagers, a bookish doctor who is lazy and knows nothing about farming is certainly not as intimidating as a doctor who can earn enough work points. Ye is still young, and if she doesn't have a powerful reputation to intimidate them, no villagers will believe her even if she becomes a barefoot doctor.
Therefore, this busy farming season is the best opportunity for Ye Qing to establish herself in the village. She must let everyone in the production team know that a female educated youth who does not want to earn full work points is not a good doctor. She is the best and most versatile female doctor in the entire Jiaotan County Educated Youth Office!
So, throughout the morning, Ye Qing performed steadily, and her super fighting ability once again proved that she was a natural farmer and was stronger than many local natives.
The villagers racked their brains to come up with a lot of good things to praise him, but the educated youth, who were completely crushed in strength, were full of resentment at first, but later became completely numb and no longer felt the slightest shame or hatred towards Ye Qing.
People are like this. If everyone is equally matched and there is a competitive relationship, they will unconsciously develop jealousy and even want to set a trap for the other party and pull the other party down.
However, if the other party's strength is completely on a different level from yours, is beyond your ability and you can't catch up with him even if you flatter him, then the jealousy and resentment will naturally disappear, leaving only admiration and submission.
A real "tomboy" like Ye Qing, who is strong and stubborn, has been consciously removed from the educated youth circle by both the old and new educated youth. No one thinks that such a freak is of the same species as them.
Ye Qing didn't care about being expelled or not. Anyway, she had no plan to have too much contact with the other educated youth. After all, she had read too many novels and knew very well that the educated youth group was a real circle of right and wrong, with all kinds of troubles popping up one after another. If she didn't want to get into trouble, she should stay away from those city people with eight hundred schemes!
At noon, Ye Qing finished her work half an hour ahead of schedule again. She climbed up the ridge and was about to go home to cook when she suddenly heard a commotion in the field and a woman screaming:
"Oh my, there's blood. This is terrible. Xiaoxi is almost five months pregnant. Is there anything wrong?"
"He's too tired. He probably got a heat stroke from the heat out there. Hurry, get him back to shore first!"
Then Ye Qing saw several members of the cooperative busy carrying a woman to the ridge of the field.
Her eyes fell on the woman. She saw that she was in her early twenties with a slightly bulging belly, which meant she must be pregnant.
But at this moment, cold sweat was pouring out of the pregnant woman's forehead, her face turned pale from biting her lips in pain, and blood was dripping down her calves from her pants.
Ye Qing's heart sank involuntarily, and her originally happy mood of getting off work disappeared in an instant. She immediately took out the box of silver needles from her bag and quickly ran after him.
A group of women over there hurriedly carried the person to the shade of a tree. Seeing that the blood was still gushing out, they were all panicked and at a loss.
Someone who was quick-witted and relatively calm immediately said:
"We can't just sit there and wait. We have to ask Auntie Gu to come over and take a look. If that doesn't work, we'll just send her directly to the commune!"
"Her family has been unlucky recently. The eldest daughter just had her engagement broken off by the Wu family, and the second daughter finally got pregnant, but something like this happened. If the child had been miscarried, I wonder how mad Aunt Gu would be!"
"That's right. These problems keep happening one after another. Did Wong Tai Sin get offended?"
"My dear, don't say that. Now everyone is clamoring to get rid of feudal superstition. Be careful or you'll be arrested by the Revolutionary Committee!"
While they were discussing, Ye Qing had already squeezed into the crowd, squatted down and reached out to feel the pulse of the pregnant woman. After confirming the problem, she lifted up the pregnant woman's clothes without saying a word, revealing her belly that was arched into a small hill.
Then she pulled out a few silver needles from the box and prepared to insert them into the pregnant woman's waist and abdomen.
Seeing Ye Qing's action, the aunties and uncles who were watching finally reacted. Their faces changed immediately and they rushed over to stop him anxiously:
"Hey, hey, hey, Ye Zhiqing, what are you doing? You can't do this rashly!"
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