Chapter 24: Being scolded as a thief!
Meimei didn't know what others thought, she only knew that she saw with her own eyes that Su Mei pulled Li Yuan back from the brink of death.
This means that Su Mei must be skilled in medicine, and her skills are quite good.
Meimei has been troubled by gynecological problems for a long time. Because there was only one male doctor in the army clinic, Meimei had never been able to go see a doctor.
She had originally planned to wait for her husband to rest and look after the children while she went to the county hospital. However, she did not expect that the mountain was blocked by heavy snow, and she could not go out even when her husband was resting.
Although the problem was not life-threatening, it made Meimei miserable every day.
Meimei actually wanted to ask Su Mei to take a look yesterday, but there were too many people there, and it was already very late when Su Mei finished the operation on Li Yuan, so she didn't bother to ask.
Today, Mei Mei saw Su Mei again in the vegetable garden. Thinking about how she felt uncomfortable and restless every day, she hesitated for a moment, but still called out to Su Mei.
Su Mei was very surprised. She didn't expect that someone would take the initiative to seek medical treatment from her.
Seeing Meimei's expectant look, Su Mei guessed that Meimei must be feeling very uncomfortable, otherwise she wouldn't have come to her for treatment.
But Su Mei was helpless. After all, a village woman cannot cook without rice. After listening to Mei Mei's question, Su Mei replied:
"I think I can treat gynecological problems, but I don't have any medicine. Li Yuan's medicine was taken by Huo Jianguo after he broke into the clinic. I can't treat you without any medicine."
"Yeah, I forgot about that." Meimei lowered her head in disappointment.
Seeing Meimei's disappointment, Sumei could only look at her with sympathy. Seeing that Meimei had nothing else to say, Sumei continued to walk back:
"Then, Sister Mei, I'll go back!"
"Wait!" Mei Mei suddenly called out to Su Mei:
"Su Mei, go to my vegetable garden and pick some vegetables. I see you've been wandering around for a long time but still have nothing in your hands. Have you decided what to eat?"
"Well, I've already eaten in the morning. I don't feel like eating anything right now, so I just came out for a walk." Su Mei said, touching her face awkwardly. She couldn't even say that she didn't have land and had never thought of stealing other people's vegetables.
After all, everyone in the compound knew that the original owner had always treated other people's vegetable gardens as his own.
Meimei didn't believe that Su Mei was just taking a walk. Who would go to the vegetable garden in the snow for no reason?
When she came, she saw someone at the other end of the vegetable garden. She guessed that Su Mei must have seen someone, so she walked around and didn't pick any vegetables in the end.
Although it was natural for Su Mei to pick other people's vegetables, she also knew not to pick them in front of others. She always picked them secretly when there was no one around.
It was so cold, and they wanted to go out early in the morning to find some vegetables to eat. They walked out of breath, but in the end they didn't pick any vegetables. Mei Mei suddenly felt that Su Mei was quite pitiful. She thought that since there were a lot of vegetables in the vegetable garden, it wouldn't hurt to ask Su Mei to pick a few.
"Su Mei, I have leeks, Chinese cabbage and lotus in my field. If you see anything you want to eat, just go over and pick some. It's not easy to come out in this cold weather."
"No need. I really didn't come out to pick vegetables. I just ate too much this morning and my stomach feels uncomfortable so I want to take a walk to digest the food." After Su Mei finished speaking, she turned around and was about to leave.
As soon as she turned around, Meimei grabbed her big fat hand:
"Don't be polite. Just pick the fruits if I tell you to. My sister-in-law wants to date Li Yuan. If you save Li Yuan, it's like saving my brother-in-law. It's nothing for me to treat you to a few dishes."
As she spoke, Meimei pulled Sumei toward the vegetable garden.
Seeing how enthusiastic Meimei was, Su Mei felt embarrassed to refuse anymore. She followed Meimei along the edge of someone else's vegetable field to her own field.
After seeing the vegetables grown by Mei Mei, Su Mei couldn't help but be dumbfounded.
Because the vegetables grown by Meimei were obviously not as good as those grown in the fields of other people around her. Even the most common cabbage was smaller than those grown by others.
"I'm not very good at growing vegetables." Mei Mei noticed Su Mei's eyes and smiled shyly.
She was a girl from Shanghai who had been sent to the countryside as an educated youth for three years. She nearly starved to death in the mountains because she couldn't lift anything with her hands or shoulders.
But she was ambitious and did not want to be like other educated youth who just found a rough rural man to live with just to have a full meal.
After spending several years in the countryside, Meimei became so thin that she looked unrecognizable. She survived on the little help each of her parents sent her.
But Meimei's family is just an ordinary working-class family. She has two younger sisters and a younger brother, and the financial support her parents give her is very limited.
Meimei was often hungry, and her blood sugar level was lower than normal. Finally, she fainted on the way to get the relief money given by her parents.
Mei Mei almost thought she was going to die on the road, but unexpectedly, when she was lying on the ground unable to get up, she ran into Chen Jiang, a cadre from the Corps who was on patrol.
Chen Jiang carried Meimei all the way to the hospital. Somehow, they fell in love with each other. Not long after, Meimei married Chen Jiang and moved out of the mountains to live in the military quarters with Chen Jiang.
After marrying Chen Jiang, Mei Mei was finally able to eat her fill and sleep warmly. In the past, she would rather be hungry than do farm work in the countryside.
After arriving at the Military Family Home, where she no longer had to worry about food and drink, Meimei took the initiative to learn how to grow vegetables from the military wives.
It doesn't take much effort to grow this small vegetable garden.
It’s just that Meimei has no experience, and the vegetables she grows are inferior to those of other military wives. The original owner used to steal vegetables from everywhere, but she never stole Meimei’s vegetables because she looked down on them because they were too bad.
But Meimei was quite satisfied with the vegetables, after all, this was her first time growing vegetables.
With Meimei's help, Su Mei picked a handful of pea tips and two cabbages from her field, then tied them up with palm leaves and carried them home.
When they arrived at the military compound, Mei Mei and Su Mei separated. Mei Mei's home was closer to the vegetable field. She lived in the southernmost row of houses, while Huo Jianguo's yard was in the north.
Carrying the vegetables, Su Mei went straight home. Her stomach was empty and she felt nauseous from hunger. Since she couldn't gain weight by eating vegetables anyway, she decided to go back and cook a few more vegetable leaves to fill her stomach.
In the cold wind, Su Mei's fat face was blown red. She was so tired that her heart was pounding. Seeing that she was not far from the yard, she tried to increase her pace.
Just when Su Mei was about a hundred meters away from home, a thin and rigid figure walked out of the yard that Su Mei was about to pass.
The person was wearing a women's Zhongshan suit, had short hair cut to the ears, and wore a pair of black-framed glasses. From a distance, he had the dignified feeling of a teacher.
Without looking closely, Su Mei knew that the person in front of her was Zhao Ying.
Zhao Ying got up early in the morning to stretch her muscles. She didn't see Su Mei at first, until she heard footsteps behind her, she turned around.
After turning around and seeing Su Mei, Zhao Ying looked her up and down with disdain. Finally, he stared at the dish in Su Mei's hand and said two words lightly:
"Thief!"