On the day of the Little New Year, the snow was getting heavier and heavier. After Lu Shiyi cleared the road, it was soon covered with snow.
Lu Shiyi shook off the snow on his body at the door, changed into the slippers made by Su Jin after entering, walked to her door and knocked.
"Xiao Jin, it's snowing so heavily outside. Don't go out to cook. I'll heat up yesterday's food." Just now, while doing morning exercises, Lu Shiyi saw several wives from the village fall down on the road.
He didn't want Su Jin to fall on the ice. They were carrying basins of clothes, probably going to the unfrozen lake to wash clothes. After they fell, they took a while to recover before getting up and continuing on their way.
"Ayi, you're back?" Su Jin was getting ready when she heard Lu Shiyi's voice. She quickly looked at the watch next to her and found that she had gotten up a quarter of an hour earlier than usual.
"The road conditions outside were bad today, so I came back early. I saw a few aunts fall and took a long time to get up." Lu Shiyi looked at the road outside covered with snow again and was glad that he came early.
Su Jin opened the bedroom door and saw that Lu Shiyi's shaved head was slightly wet, but his body was steaming.
"I warmed myself up in front of the stove. I was worried that you would feel cold if I got close to you." Lu Shiyi pinched her cheek and said, "Breakfast is on the table. After breakfast, let's see what vegetables to plant."
Lu Shiyi roughly calculated the time and found that the vegetables in the warm house could be eaten until the seventh day of the New Year. If he planted some more now, he would be able to continue the supply.
While the two were eating breakfast and chatting, there was a knock on the door.
Lu Shiyi put down the pickled vegetables in his hand, stood up to open the gate, and saw Lu Shiyuan coming over with snow hanging on his body.
"Uncle, come in quickly," Lu Shiyi immediately stood aside and let Lu Shiyuan go in to warm up. "Uncle, have you had breakfast?"
Lu Shiyuan and Lu Shiyi walked in one after the other. Lu Shiyuan saw them eating breakfast and sitting on a bench near the stove to warm themselves by the fire.
"Shi Yi, is the county hospital still open?" Lu Shiyuan received a message from Lin Teng saying that Yu Hong had a high fever yesterday and it hasn't subsided yet. "The educated youth asked me to send Yu Hong to the county hospital."
"The oxcart can't get through, and neither can the bicycle. You ask the educated youth to take people across." Lu Shiyi didn't want to get involved. Several female educated youth had been causing trouble for him.
Yu Hong was trying her best to get close to him. Ever since he started dating Su Jin, he paid more attention to his relationships with female comrades.
"Okay, I'll come and ask if the hospital in the county town is still open?" Lu Shiyuan had never been to the hospital in the county town. The barefoot doctor in the village stopped seeing patients after Laba Festival.
"It's open year-round. Just go to the emergency room." Lu Shiyi told Lu Shiyuan, "Uncle, let the educated youth handle this matter themselves. You can just give them a letter of introduction."
Lu Shiyuan got a definite answer and braved the snow to return to the brigade headquarters and gave several letters of introduction to several educated youth.
"Captain, it's not easy to go into the city now. Can we use the bicycles from the brigade?" Lin Teng made a special request for several people. Yu Hong had been wrapped into a ball, with her cheeks flushed red.
Lin Teng was married, so when the female educated youth left the courtyard, other male educated youth at the educated youth center had to take their place.
"These two letters of introduction are for you. If you haven't left the county town by 8 o'clock tonight, stay at a guesthouse for the night. Don't travel at night." Lu Shiyuan glanced at the falling snowflakes. "If it snows too heavily, we'll be hurried back."
The male educated youth took the letter of introduction and, together with the two female educated youth, sent Yu Hong to the hospital in the county town.
As evening approached, the male educated youth hurried back to the village on his bicycle and knocked on Lu Shiyuan's door hurriedly.
Su Jin heard a knock on the door next door, so she put on her military coat and went out to the kitchen to find Lu Shiyi.
"Captain, Yu the educated youth has liver disease, and the high fever is caused by inflammation." After hearing the doctor's words, the male educated youth hurried back to tell the captain.
They often ate together at the educated youth center, so they might have been infected.
After hearing this, Su Jin tightened his grip on the door frame.
"Ayi!" Su Jin hurriedly lifted the cotton curtain on the kitchen door. "I'm going to eat separately from you from now on."
Lu Shiyi was kneading the dough, and Su Jin was waiting for the dough to rise before starting to steam the New Year buns. He looked at her with a confused look on his face.
"Yu Hong has liver disease. I ate at the educated youth restaurant. I wonder if she's infected." Su Jin frowned and said, "I wonder if there's any medication to block it now."
"There's no need to eat separately. We've been eating together for a few days. If it were contagious, we would have had symptoms long ago." Lu Shiyi had heard in the imperial capital that liver disease could be treated with blocking drugs, which were used in the military and among senior engineers.
Su Jin spread her hands and said, "When I was at home, my father and mother said something at the dinner table, and I remembered it. Who would have thought that I would encounter it myself?"
"During our previous training, we specifically trained ourselves to identify physical conditions. We're definitely fine." Lu Shiyi patted her forehead and said, "But don't eat with the educated youths recently. Wait until after the New Year, when they've all gone to the county hospital for a checkup."
"Let's go get checked too." Su Jin said worriedly, "If it doesn't snow tomorrow, let's go get checked right away. This disease really needs early detection and treatment."
Lu Shiyi couldn't argue with Su Jin, so he nodded and listened to her arrangements: "It's a good opportunity to go to the market. From the 24th to the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, all the food at the market can be bought with money."
In order to have a good New Year for their families, many villagers who live in poverty took out their food rations to exchange for New Year's goods.
"Is there such a good thing? Buy some more pig offal. You have almost eaten all the braised food I made." Su Jin made braised pig offal on the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month. Except for the bowl sent to Lu Shiyi's house, the rest was eaten by Lu Shiyi.
Lu Shiyi smiled embarrassedly. He thought it was delicious and went well with rice.
"Give me some more, I'll clean the offal, and you just need to make the braised food." Under Su Jin's command, Lu Shiyi became a skilled worker in cleaning pig offal.
"Okay, if you clean it, I will make New Year's goods, and you can send some to the village chief's house later." Su Jin wanted to improve Lu Shiyi's impression in front of the village chief. Lu Shiyi was deserted during the New Year in the past few years. It was probably because he took the things issued by the military region and sent them to the village chief's house.
Lu Shiyi looked at her with a smile in his eyes. He always had a sharp tongue but a soft heart. She would satisfy any request he made.
Lin Teng walked out of the village chief's house and turned to look at Lu Shiyi's yard. For a moment, he didn't know whether he should go and inform Su Jin.
Su Jin rarely went to the Youth League Home, unlike the other educated youth who lived there. As the village chief had just said, when the news that Yu Hong had liver disease spread, the villagers had a worse impression of the educated youth, and even avoided them everywhere.
Su Jin had just started dating Lu Shiyi. If he knew about this, he would probably break up with Su Jin.
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