Yu Rujia took a bottle and tried it. Although it was a bit big, the bottle opening was tightly sealed, making it difficult for air to circulate.
Yu Rujia: "Captain, this bottle is fine. I'll use it first. The bottles you bought are just in time and will come in handy."
"I was thinking that if the brigade leader couldn't go to buy the bottles, I should ask someone to look after my child and go to town by myself. I didn't expect the brigade leader to deliver the bottles to me."
Captain Huang: "This is a timely help. It's fine as long as you can use it. If it's not enough, I'll go and get some more."
Yu Rujia: "If we have any, we'll bring back another twenty or thirty."
Captain Huang's eyes swept over the densely packed herbs drying in the backyard, and he was quite satisfied with what he saw.
Thinking that Yu, a former educated youth, was truly enlightened, with such skills she could easily find work in the city, yet she insisted on coming to support rural development despite the hardships.
She made great contributions upon arrival, helped alleviate the pressure on the police station, took care of four children, and even found time to collect medicinal herbs.
Captain Huang: "No problem. I'll bring some back next time I go to town. Yu Zhiqing, you have to take care of four children, so there's no need to rush to make medicine. There's plenty of time later, you can take your time."
Yu Rujia: "I was worried that I wouldn't have time to collect herbs after taking care of the children, so I took advantage of the two days that Comrade Rong was there and went up the mountain several times to collect these herbs."
A human trafficker emerged from Dongyuan Commune, abducting more than twenty children. The case was heinous, and the police investigation had yielded no results even after more than half a month.
After Yu Rujia and Xia Jingrong arrived, they found the human traffickers. Duofu and the others were transferred from the human traffickers to Yu Rujia.
There were members of the Xia family in Shangfen Brigade, and their names all had the same character "Jing" in them. In order to prevent people from associating Xia Jingrong with the Xia family in the cowshed, when Xia Jingrong came to Shangfen Brigade, he was called Comrade Rong.
Because he came from the police station, the Shangfen Brigade had a natural affinity for him and did not check his letter of introduction again.
Captain Huang: "What kind of medicine have you prepared?"
Yu Rujia: "They are all commonly used medicines, including medicines for treating heatstroke, external injuries, and colds... but they are not easy to store."
"These bottles are only suitable for storing medicine. They are not very airtight, so the medicine needs to be taken out and processed every now and then, otherwise it will easily spoil."
Captain Huang originally wanted to take some pills back for future use, but after hearing Yu Rujia say that they were difficult to preserve, he gave up the idea. Medicine is different from other medicines; if something goes wrong, not only will the condition become more serious, but it may also be life-threatening.
Yu Rujia specifically pointed out that the medicine was easily spoiled in order to prevent anyone from coming to take it. If everyone wanted to keep some medicine at home, no matter how much medicine she made, it wouldn't be enough for the members of the Shangfen Brigade.
Captain Huang: "You have a good selection of medicines. If anyone in the team gets sick, they can come to you for treatment. By the way, has the police station sent anyone over to tell you that they can't keep you supporting four children forever?"
Yu Rujia: "The children are all well-behaved and sensible, and I would be very willing to raise them, but I'm afraid their families wouldn't agree."
Captain Huang frowned and said, "You're an unmarried young woman raising four children. How are you going to find a partner in the future? Why don't you go to the police station and urge them?"
Yu Rujia said with a serious face: "If the police station has any news, they will definitely come to inform me. Until they come, I will continue to raise the child. My boyfriend's awareness must be on par with mine, otherwise he is not qualified to be my boyfriend."
Captain Huang thought she was too young and didn't understand the seriousness of an unmarried woman with four children. Many people, except for special reasons, are unwilling to marry divorced women, and it is even more difficult for women with children to find good partners.
It's especially difficult for a girl like Yu Rujia, who has four children who are completely unrelated to her, to find a partner. At least in their brigade, no one is willing to marry Yu Rujia.
More importantly, the cost of having four children is not a small amount.
Even though they gave Yu Rujia full work points every day and a monthly salary of five yuan because she was the team doctor, plus the gifts she received from others when she went to see a doctor, it was still difficult to feed a family of five.
Captain Huang: "The cost of four children is not small. Just feeding them is a big problem. Have you thought about this?"
Yu Rujia: "I can earn money myself and have some savings, enough to support them."
Seeing Yu Rujia's confident expression, Captain Huang gave up trying to persuade her and decided to go to the police station to urge them to take the child away so that Yu Rujia could resume her life on her own.
If it were anyone else, Captain Huang would only mention it briefly, and if they didn't listen, he would ignore them.
But Yu Rujia is different; she is a person who truly gets things done, and Captain Huang is unwilling to see her ruin her life for someone she has no connection with.
Captain Huang: "We'll talk about this later. If you're too busy and need help, you can come to me anytime."
Yu Rujia: "Thank you, Captain. I can manage my household affairs and don't need any help for the time being. I just wanted to ask Comrade Huang Dazhuang to help me make a medicine cabinet."
Although Huang Dazhuang said that we could come to him anytime if we needed furniture, the medicine cabinet was for storing medicine and was part of the brigade's medical room, so it couldn't be used to take things out of favors from Rujia.
Captain Huang, being understanding, said, "Okay, tell him what kind he wants, and I'll calculate his work points later."
Yu Rujia: "After the medicine cabinet is set up, do we need to let the team leader take a look first?"
Captain Huang: "It doesn't matter whether you look at it or not. If you think it's okay, then it's okay. I'll calculate the price according to the dimensions. Just tell Dazhuang to come find me after he finishes it."
After seeing off Captain Huang, Zhang Zhaodi from the educated youth compound arrived.
Just from the name, you can tell that the family favors sons over daughters. Zhang's parents had three daughters before finally having a son. They put all their heart into their son, and treated their daughters like dirt.
If it weren't for wanting to leave a good reputation among the neighbors, Zhang Zhaodi and the others would never have been able to go to school.
After witnessing her older sister being sold by her parents to a widower for two hundred yuan, Zhang Zhaodi secretly signed up to go to the countryside to avoid the same thing happening to her.
It is now 1966, and the country is encouraging educated youth to go to the countryside, but it is not yet time to force them to go.
A few days ago, when Yu Rujia went up the mountain, she met Zhang Zhaodi, who was suffering from severe menstrual cramps and was about to faint. She exchanged some brown sugar with Zhang Zhaodi and made her some brown sugar ginger tea.
A few days later, her period ended, and she was back to full energy.
Zhang Zhaodi: "Yu, thank you for your help a few days ago. These vegetables were grown in our educated youth compound. I usually take care of them. You've just arrived, so you probably didn't prepare any of these. Please use them for now."
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