"Su Xiaoxiao also went to the county."
Upon suddenly receiving this news amidst his busy schedule, Lin Mo immediately dropped what he was doing and rushed out.
Suddenly, I remembered that hospitalization would cost money, and the Su family probably didn't have much.
So he turned around and ran back into the house, grabbed five bundles of ten-yuan bills, and hurried off to the county.
Chen Xin saw clearly the way he was running and stuffing money into his pocket.
So much money?
"Hey!"
Just as Lin Mo brushed past him, Chen Xin reached out and grabbed him.
"What do you want?" Lin Mo's tone was very indifferent.
"I..." Chen Xin stammered, glancing out of the corner of his eye at the Wang family of three who were peeling pine cones in Lin Mo's yard:
"Can I do some work for you to earn some money?"
Lin Mo chuckled softly, not responding directly, and shook off his hand to continue towards the county.
He clearly ignored and rejected her; he and the educated youth were at odds and had a long-standing grudge.
If it weren't for the various antics of these educated youth, it's no exaggeration to say that the village cooperative might have already been established long ago.
With so many mountain products, even if the pine cones are about to go out of season, we can easily use the next batch to grow other things.
For example, various mushrooms, wild roots and stems, as well as spices such as Sichuan pepper, mugwort, and thyme.
The area is extremely rich in natural resources.
Even the most common pine needles have economic value, but I don't have time to think about it now.
If a village cooperative could be established, even without any industrial or agricultural machinery, the collective's manual labor efficiency could be doubled.
At least it ensures that every household has enough to eat and wear, has coal to burn, and can eat meat every now and then.
How wonderful.
He had a general idea of the situation in the county: the Revolutionary Committee was focused on ideology, while the county government was focused on the economy.
What seem like irreconcilable contradictions are actually economic matters that should be managed by the economy itself, and it's clear that they can be manipulated.
To insist on using ideology to manage the economy is simply absurd.
"Lin Mo," Chen Xin finally decided to meddle a bit more after realizing that Lin Mo was distancing himself from him:
"Didn't you keep saying you wanted to marry Su Xiaoxiao?"
"Then I'd like to remind you that you'd better distance yourself from Jiang Ying. You keep saying you want to marry Su Xiaoxiao, yet you see her every day."
"What do you expect Su Xiaoxiao to think about this?"
"What?!" Lin Mo was completely speechless.
"Who sees Jiang Ying every day? When have I ever seen her? You're talking nonsense."
"..." Chen Xin was momentarily speechless.
“I saw him today, and it was Su Xiaoxiao who saw him.”
Hearing this, Lin Mo was completely confused:
"What are you talking about? I've been incredibly busy today, I haven't seen her anywhere!"
In Lin Mo's view, they, the educated youth, were all one group. Lin Mo casually mentioned this to Chen Xin:
“I know exactly what you were planning when you instigated the county officials to raid my house that day.”
"You actually tried to steal money from my house while things were in chaos. You call yourselves educated people? How could you do something like this? You're such hypocrites."
"I'll tell you the truth: I'm rich, and I have a lot of money."
"But don't even think about it. Only I know where I hide my money. Don't waste your time trying to steal it."
"Otherwise, not only will you not be able to come back, but your image as a scholar will also be ruined, and the villagers will look at you as if you were thieves."
Chen Xin's original intention was to build a good relationship with Lin Mo so that he wouldn't be isolated in the village.
As a result, he heard a lot of unpleasant things said, although he could tell that these unpleasant things were meant for all the educated youth, not just him.
Seeing that Lin Mo was in such a hurry to leave, he started to get anxious:
"Well, I can tell that Su Xiaoxiao wants to study. I can give her my books, and I also know where to buy textbooks."
"Could you..."
Lin Mo glanced at him coldly, unable to see what he was thinking.
Anyway, Lin Mo would never easily trust any of the educated youth; they were all just hypocrites.
He didn't intend to study; he just wanted to support Su Xiaoxiao's education.
"Let's talk about it when I get back."
Lin Mo brushed him aside and hurried on her way to the county. What an annoying guy, he was just dawdling around.
"I'll go with you."
Chen Xin actually chased after him.
This is so annoying, I hate it. Follow me if you want, I can't be bothered with you.
...
At the county health station, Su the carpenter's leg injury was quite shocking to behold.
A gash several centimeters long ran across his calf. The cut was so deep that it not only exposed the bone, but also cut about a centimeter deep into the bone itself.
"Good heavens, what happened? How did you manage to cut your own leg?!"
Aunt Su was so frightened that she screamed and sobbed, wiping away tears. Her commotion made the doctor treating her wounds frown.
The doctor rinsed the wound with hydrogen peroxide, causing Su the carpenter's blood pressure to spike in waves, leaving his forehead covered in cold sweat.
"You'll need to stay in the hospital for a few days. Your family should go and pay the hospital deposit. We'll start with 300 yuan."
These days, three hundred is a huge sum of money.
Farmers who work in production teams can't save more than a few dozen yuan a year. If a family of three can save a hundred yuan, they are considered very thrifty.
Su Xiaoxiao took out the money she had brought, which amounted to only two hundred yuan in loose change, and this immediately stumped her.
"Doctor, we only have... only two hundred, could you...?"
"Two hundred isn't enough," the doctor said patiently.
"This wound is too deep. It needs to be properly disinfected. After disinfection, it needs local anesthesia and stitches. Local anesthesia costs fifty yuan, and stitches cost two hundred yuan."
"A day's IV drip in the hospital costs twenty or thirty yuan, and you also need to take painkillers."
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