Chapter 118 Another year...
Looking at the two people enjoying themselves, Chen Yin didn't know what to say. She shook her head and walked towards the elevator.
The two of them had turned over all the tangerines before daybreak, leaving Wu Dongmei, who wanted to help, in a state of confusion.
She deeply understood their desire to make money, otherwise they would think that even resting was a waste of time.
For the next half month, Wu Wenbo and Wu Yushu carefully handled the green tangerines they had obtained. As they watched the tangerines change color and shrink day by day, the smiles on their faces grew deeper day by day.
Finally, after finishing a day of seeing patients, Chen Yin appeared in the drying area on the sixth floor.
She casually picked up a piece of Citrus aurantium from the ground and felt the dryness of the herb. When she thought it was dry enough, she nodded to the two of them.
"Brother Wenbo, Brother Yushu, that's enough. You two should touch it carefully too. It's best to remember this feeling in your heart."
"What! It's okay?"
Even though Wu Wenbo didn't know how many times he had touched the herbs on the ground, he couldn't help but get excited when he heard Chen Yin's words. He couldn't wait to pick up a piece and press it tightly with two fingers, for fear that he had remembered it wrong.
Even the usually calm Wu Yushu breathed heavier, pinched a piece of the Citrus aurantium in each hand, and tried hard to remember what it looked like at that moment.
Looking at the two of them, Chen Yin couldn't help but admonish:
"The reason Citrus aurantium is shelled is because its medicinal part is primarily the outer shell. Now, after cutting these herbs in half, you still need to remove the inner pulp and cut them into slices about two fingers long. The preparation method for Citrus aurantium is similar, but it mainly uses the naturally fallen fruit, removes the seeds and cuts them into slices. If the fruit is too small, you can just leave it uncut."
Hearing this, Wu Wenbo and Wu Yushu nodded heavily and memorized all the content.
At night, everyone worked together to cut all the dried Citrus aurantium into slices overnight.
It was just around the corner, and after paying a certain amount of money to her two cousins, Chen Yin packed the Citrus aurantium and other cured meats together and gave them to relatives and friends as New Year gifts.
Wu Dongmei followed and helped, and when she saw the address to Yangcheng, she nodded in agreement.
"Your Aunt Chunli and the others live in a high-rise building, so it's definitely not convenient for them to make preserved meats. Send some more. And Xiao Wen, if he hadn't been in a hurry to leave, he might have already tasted my skills in making local sausages."
As she spoke, she packed her things, and when she saw a package that was about to be sent to the capital, she took a closer look in confusion.
"Yinyin, why are you planning to send it to Beijing?"
A doubtful voice arose, and the next second a hint of joy could not be suppressed in his tone, "Could it be that you met someone from your father's group in Jing City?"
"Of course not!"
Chen Yin replied without thinking, and Wu Dongmei's rapidly beating heart was instantly poured with a bucket of cold water.
"Mom, if we had met in Beijing, I would have told you when I came back. Besides, I'm a native of Dongyu, so even if I met him in Beijing, I don't think he would recognize me."
"You're right," Wu Dongmei's tone was filled with disappointment. She had never met her husband's family members and always felt an indescribable feeling.
Chen Yin looked at her mother's unhappy expression and wanted to tell her the truth, but she knew she couldn't, at least not now.
Now is not the time to tell the truth. Telling it will only make one more person worry about it.
The New Year gift she specially sent to Beijing was intended for Grandpa Li who helped her to find out the news, hoping to get the news from him as soon as possible.
At that time, she would definitely take her mother to Beijing and bring back the things that belonged to her father.
After getting the answer, Wu Dongmei did not ask any further questions. She helped to pack the package and took it to the post office to send it out later.
After sending out the New Year gifts, it is almost time for the Chinese New Year.
Except for patients with special needs, everyone else in the clinic started their journey home.
Chen Yin arranges shifts based on distance. She stays until the second day of the Lunar New Year and then returns to Qingshan Village to celebrate the New Year. Other staff can go home for the New Year unless it is necessary. Those on duty will be paid overtime according to regulations.
So on New Year's Eve, the only people left in the entire clinic were Wu Dongmei and her son Chen Yin, as well as two families who had come from afar to see a doctor.
Wu Dongmei thought about the patients who came from far away to see a doctor, so she stayed in the clinic even during the Chinese New Year. She warmly invited both families to prepare meals together to celebrate the New Year.
The patients and their families did not expect that there would be such a humane clinic. They were so moved that they burst into tears. They specially made several special dishes from their hometown to make a fresh New Year's Eve dinner.
The three families enjoyed the meal very much, and even the patient felt much better.
Time passed quickly. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Chen Yin and her mother set out for her grandmother's house. Liu Xianhua was temporarily in charge of the clinic.
Chen Yin and her mother returned to the village with specially prepared gifts. Walking on the familiar road, their steps subconsciously became faster and faster.
Before noon, the two men had already arrived near the village entrance.
Chen Yin saw from afar that there seemed to be a group of people busy at the entrance of the village. It looked very lively, but considering the time of day, it was a bit confusing.
"Mom, look, aren't there a lot of people at the entrance of the village?"
Upon hearing this, Wu Dongmei leaned forward, stretched her neck to observe, and actually saw quite a few familiar figures.
"It seems like there are really a lot of people working. It seems your uncle and Wenbo are here too."
"Shouldn't we be accompanying my aunt back to her parents' home on the second day of the Lunar New Year? Why are you gathering at the village entrance?"
With the same question in mind, the mother and daughter quickened their pace and approached the crowd.
After a while, not only did the two of them see the villagers, but the other party also saw them.
Only then did Chen Yin see clearly what everyone was doing.
The uncles and aunts in the village all had tools in their hands. Some held sickles and cleared the weeds growing on both sides of the road; some held hoes and dug down the soil near the side of the mountain; some held crowbars and pried the stones that the hoes could not handle and rolled them down the cliff.
The leader was the village party secretary, who was urgently directing everyone's actions. The lively scene was astonishing.
When Wu Qiufeng saw his younger sister and niece, he immediately stopped what he was doing and said cheerfully:
"Little sister, Yinyin, are you back? Mom and Dad are waiting in the house, you should go quickly."
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