Wang Daya didn't expect that Li Cuiying came back so fully prepared this time.
I watched her take out things one by one from her treasure bag: jars of pickles, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.
Jiang Mengxue brought the hot food to the table.
"Brother, Zhenhua, you're welcome. I made a lot before I came back. Come and eat it while it's hot."
Gu Zhenhua originally wanted to send them back and go home, but in the end he was enthusiastically invited to stay and have dinner together.
"Xiaoxue, why did the hospital send you down here? Can you talk to your boss about it? It would be great to be able to work in a hospital."
Gu Zhenxing still couldn't accept the fact that Jiang Mengxue was sent to the countryside.
It would be great if I could use some connections and give some gifts to get back to work in the hospital.
There are many things to do in the countryside, and often I have to go up the mountain to collect herbs myself.
Only a small number of medicines were approved, such as antipyretics, anti-inflammatories, and alcohol gauze.
But now more people in the countryside still drink Chinese medicine.
Jiang Mengxue made this decision after careful consideration, and certainly would not regret it because of a few words.
"Uncle, there's no decent clinic nearby. When people have problems, they either endure it or follow traditional remedies. Only when they can't stand it anymore will they go to the commune clinic.
For those of us who work in the countryside, not to mention colds and flu, we often cut our hands with sickles and dig our feet with hoes. This kind of thing happens quite often.
Although I am not an old doctor with many years of experience, I can handle the situations we often encounter.
I have experience in Traditional Chinese Medicine. We are backed by the mountains, and if I go up there to collect herbs myself, it will save everyone a lot of money, and no one will be afraid to see a doctor when they get sick."
Gu Zhenxing and Gu Zhenhua both agreed with this point.
In the past, any doctors in the countryside who had some experience and could find opportunities had moved to the city.
Later, whenever I encountered something, I relied on the experience of my elders.
Apart from other things, the probability of a baby dying right after birth in the countryside is about 20% to 30%, and the chance of not being able to survive due to various reasons is also very high.
For elderly people who are old, a cold can take their life.
Some broke their arms and legs while climbing the mountain, and without experienced doctors to treat them, they ended up becoming lame.
The child's fever was not reduced in time and he became a fool.
There are too many, but there is nothing we can do.
The medical conditions are here, and everyone is poor.
I don’t even dare to go to the hospital.
A family with better conditions may only have a few dozen dollars in savings, which is not enough for a single visit to the hospital.
Those who live in poor conditions are the poorest households in the village.
This type of family basically has few able-bodied laborers, and the work points they earn each year are not enough to cover their basic food needs.
The team's workload is based on seven parts work per person and three parts labor.
These families could not even earn enough money for the most basic food rations, and they had to owe money to the production team every year.
These people don't even dare to mention they are sick, let alone ask for leave.
What is deducted for taking a day off is not work points, but food.
But if the team has its own clinic, you can go directly there if you have any problems. You don’t have to worry about not having enough money, because it will be deducted from your work points.
"We were called to a meeting at the commune to discuss the construction of a health center in the production team.
The commune will allocate medicine and necessary tools every year, as well as your salary. Our team will give you 20 work points and distribute grain to you at the end of the year.
When members of our team go to see a doctor, you can just record their work points and hand them over to the accountant when the time comes.
If other villages come to see us and give us money, food, and eggs, that’s up to you.”
In this way, Jiang Mengxue has to receive several salaries. Of course, the salary in the commune is not high, at most a few yuan or ten yuan a month.
After dinner, while it was still early, Gu Zhenxing took Jiang Mengxue to the clinic prepared by the brigade.
There are three tiled houses with a large yard.
Then you can spread out the Chinese medicinal herbs in the yard to dry.
You can also grow some things in the yard, some easy-to-grow or hard-to-find Chinese medicinal herbs.
The room is still empty now, and Jiang Mengxue has to find a carpenter to make the furniture herself, otherwise she doesn’t know what style she wants.
Jiang Mengxue was observing everything in the room, including the length, width, and height of the room, where and what kind of table should be placed, and whether two beds should be placed in the inner room for emergencies.
After returning home, Jiang Mengxue began to draw the layout of the clinic, intending to design the entire layout of the house herself.
While everyone was still staying at home during the winter, Jiang Mengxue had already started preparing her work place for the next few years.
First, find a ruler to measure the specific dimensions of the room, and then mark the dimensions of the furniture.
That day, Gu Zhenxing brought Jiang Mengxue to the team to find the most experienced carpenter, who was also from the Gu family. His name was Gu Benchang. He was now in his sixties and had handed over some of the usual carpentry work to his sons.
But now he has reached retirement age, and the brigade has decided to stop him from working in the fields and instead focus on repairing the team's farm tools.
This is much better than letting him stay idle at home. How can he get work points by doing his own work at home?
During the period of making furniture, the team also gave work points according to the difficulty of the furniture samples.
In the past, work in the team was based on time, and full work points were given for a day's work. But later on, some people worked more and some worked less, so they simply calculated it based on efficiency. This was the fairest way, and the more you work, the more you get.
Gu Benchang was very happy that he still had work to do. He could earn work points while everyone else was hibernating. Who wouldn't want that?
Jiang Mengxue took out the drawings she had prepared. The furniture style was simple and easy to make, but it had to be made according to the dimensions, which Jiang Mengxue had measured in advance.
Gu Benchang had never seen these things before in his entire life of making furniture. Usually, he would just tell him the requirements orally and he would just do it according to them. Now, he couldn't even understand this blueprint.
This really put Jiang Mengxue in a difficult position. She considered that the other party might not be able to read, so she marked everything with numbers and did not write a single word. However, she did not expect that even after doing so, the other party still could not understand it.
Gu Benchang was also worried while holding a pile of drawings. What the hell was this? He didn't understand any of them.
After thinking for a long time, he still felt that he could not give up this business. If these furniture could not be made, his work points would be wasted.
"My dear niece, how about this? Leave this drawing with me. Tell me how you want it to be and what size it should be. I can't understand what you write, but I have my own way. Anyway, I can understand what I write. Do you think this will work?"
Gu Benchang really had no choice, even though the words on the drawing were written neatly and beautifully.
Even though he couldn't read, he could tell that the characters were beautiful.
But no matter how beautiful the words are, it is useless if he can recognize them.
Is Jiang Mengxue worried about whether he can understand it?
What she was worried about was whether the other party could make the size she wanted. As long as it could be made, she didn't care how he remembered it. If that didn't work, she would just tell him orally.
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