Chapter 16 Chapter 16 (Minor Repair) Chen Ying is in...
Chen Ying parted ways with Wang Jiangang and others at the foot of the mountain. She huddled on the faded bench in the clinic waiting for the doctor to treat her wound.
The barefoot doctor washed her wound with soapy water for fifteen minutes, and she gasped in pain when the iodine was poured on it.
The doctor used tweezers to hold a cotton ball and pressed it against the wound: "Why are you doing this at such a young age? You dare to mess with a piglet! When pigs are so hungry, they will even eat people!"
Iodine mixed with blood flowed into the enamel tray. She raised her eyes and glanced at Chen Ying, "You need to go to the county to get a tetanus shot. Don't take it lightly just because you are young!"
"How would I know that a pig would bite when it's really hungry?" Chen Ying's eyes were red, and her fingertips were trembling as she tugged at the corner of her clothes. "Doctor, how much will this cost?" She glanced at the dusty medicine cabinet in the corner, thinking about lying and running away if the fee was too expensive.
The doctor sighed and waved her hand. She was just helping with disinfection: "I won't charge you, but you have to go to the county for the injection." She dipped the cotton swab in iodine and suddenly increased the force. Chen Ying clenched her back teeth in pain. This old woman must have done it on purpose.
Chen Ying agreed on the surface, but she didn't take it seriously. She had only heard that people need to get rabies vaccines if they are bitten by dogs, but she had never heard that people can die from being bitten by pigs.
She hid her backpack in the firewood room of the old bachelor's house. While the men were still bragging in the brigade, Chen Ying sneaked into the firewood room of the old bachelor's house and poured the mushrooms in the backpack on the ground to pick out the mushrooms.
Behind the musty haystack, the backpack was tilted and the mushrooms were piled up. She squatted down to pick them, and the rotten fungus liquid seeped into the cracks between her fingernails.
When the wild boar appeared, she shoveled all the unpicked mushrooms into the backpack. The already fragile mushrooms were crushed in large pieces, so she had to pick out the intact ones.
The grunting of the piglets next door made her temples throb, and Chen Ying became angry just by listening to them.
She kicked open the creaking wooden door, walked over, grabbed the piglet that had bitten her and twisted its ears hard. The piglet's shrill screams mixed with the echo in the woodshed, causing dust to fall from the beams.
"If you keep howling, I'll bleed you now!" She kicked the other piglet over, and only felt relieved when she saw it hit the stone trough. If it weren't for the extra two dollars she could get from selling live pigs, she should have killed these animals on the mountain long ago.
Chen Ying put the selected mushrooms into the backpack, and she actually picked up half of the basket. The price of mushrooms she overheard was churning in her mind. This basket of mushrooms could earn her at least eight yuan, enough to support her until the system was restored.
Since the system cannot absorb Cheng Xin's luck for the time being, she will try another way to get close to Geng Yunye in this life. In the previous life, Geng Yunye and Cheng Xin were separated, and he worked alone in an economically open city, while Cheng Xin went to college in the capital. The couple were separated by thousands of miles, and neither side gave in. If she became someone who had common topics with him, Geng Yunye would understand who was more suitable for him.
The electronic sound of the system sleeping buzzed in her head. She sneered. So what if she couldn't absorb the luck? Even if she lived again, she couldn't defeat a nouveau riche who came from a peasant family?
"I knew it ten years earlier than Geng Yunye." The 1992 stock subscription certificates, the 1994 housing reform policy... these gold mines were enough to drain Geng Yunye's sanity.
She just didn't believe that with the knowledge in her mind, since pigs could ride the wind into the sky, how could she not make a name for herself in this golden age with her knowledge that was ten years ahead of her?
Chen Ying stood in the shadow of the threshold, and laughter came from the main room.
Cheng Lei was picking up the pickled vegetable stems in the bowl, and when he looked up he saw her gloomy face. His expression froze slightly. He had not yet forgiven Chen Ying for her elbow.
"Girl Ying, are you back?" Xu Fengxia greeted her, holding up a patched jacket. "The kitchen is heating up some steamed buns with vegetables for you."
Geng Yunye got his clothes dirty while working in the fields, so Fengxia asked him to put on her husband's clean vest and helped him wash the clothes.
Chen Ying only greeted Xu Fengxia and Cheng Cunzhi, then she carried the basket on her back, lowered her head and walked quickly through the main hall into her own room.
Cheng Lei pouted in dissatisfaction, chewing the pickled radish with a crunching sound: "You are guarding against us like thieves. You don't even know whose house this is. You are sleeping in my room and you are so rude!"
Xu Fengxia tapped the back of his hand with her chopsticks: "You can't even stop eating!"
Geng Yunye stood up and said goodbye: "Uncle and aunt, I have something to do in the next few days and will not come here. I will come to help after the grain is harvested."
Xu Fengxia chuckled, "You should focus on your work. Her uncle's family will help with the harvest, so the rice won't be in short supply in the next two days."
Geng Yunye knew that the Cheng brothers had a good relationship, but they would harvest their own grain first before helping others. He clearly remembered that it was hailstorm the day after harvesting the grain, and the families who had not finished harvesting had to rush to harvest in the hailstorm. That year, almost the entire county had a reduced yield.
Geng Yunye assured again: "I will come after I finish my work. We can't delay harvesting the grain."
Xu Fengxia weighed the hot steamed sweet potato in her hand, then stuffed it into his pocket, wrinkles forming at the corners of her eyes. "Young man, you'll get hungry quickly. Let's have an extra meal tonight."
Cheng Cunzhi squatted on the threshold and waited for Geng Yunye to walk out of the courtyard before saying, "He is an honest man."
Chen Ying changed into a waist-length floral shirt and came out. Her pigtails were tied with a red hairband that she took from Cheng Xin's sewing basket. Geng Yunye was no longer in the yard.
She looked around and asked, "Where's Brother Geng?"
Cheng Lei sucked on the eel bone and laughed: "Don't stretch your neck, everyone has arrived at the team."
Her nails dug into the soft flesh of her palm. This dress was adapted from the heroine in "Popular Movies". She wanted to look more fashionable than her country girl cousin and stand together to be the most dazzling. Unexpectedly, the clam oil was wasted, and Cheng Lei stared at it for a long time as if he was watching a monkey show.
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