Life is not just about romance, it also has more to do with firewood, salt, rice and vinegar.
Whenever it is near the beginning of winter.
In the past few days, the ban on horse-drawn carriages has been lifted in all streets and alleys.
In particular, each Jiefang truck could drive freely on Chang'an Avenue by placing a license plate with a blue background and a picture of a cabbage in front of its window.
The winter storage of cabbage for the year is about to begin again.
"Boss, I need to ask for leave to buy cabbage."
Zhou Jiao had no reason not to allow it, so she quickly let him go.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, we also celebrated "Double 11" in the past and "bought, bought, bought", but now what people are crazy about buying is a bunch of cabbages!
And you can still ask for leave from your unit or department openly!
During these ten days, all departments have to give way to people's livelihood issues.
Every morning, there are several Jiefang brand trucks lined up in front of the grocery store, and the trucks are filled with cabbages wrapped in green leaves.
Next to the truck stood two or three large scales, with dozens, sometimes hundreds, of people lined up in front of them. Each person held a food voucher, which they used to receive their food.
As for the grocery store staff, they all went out to help. If they were short of manpower, they would ask for help from nearby government agencies and senior students from the school.
Even in the streets and alleys all over the city, you can see old men and women who get up early for morning exercises or walks happily carrying or pulling cabbages home in carts.
Now with greenhouses, after two years of development, urban residents can occasionally eat fresh vegetables even in the severe snowy winter.
Like fresh green vegetables, leeks, cucumbers, loofahs, beans, and even tomatoes, etc., but not only are they expensive, but they cannot replace the main dishes.
These fresh vegetables, which are sold at a few cents per pound, can only serve as a seasoning compared to the Chinese cabbage, which costs 2.3 cents per pound when it is more than 90% cooked and only 1.6 cents per pound when it is 50% cooked.
Chinese cabbage is good.
It is cheap, good quality, easy to store, and can be eaten all winter.
You can stir-fry cabbage, boil cabbage, stir-fry cabbage with vinegar, stir-fry cabbage with pork slices, stir-fry cabbage with tofu, make dumplings stuffed with cabbage and meat, pickle cabbage, and use it as a dipping sauce when eating mutton.
Just like in previous years, Zhou Jiao's pace, which had just slowed down, began to hurry again.
Although there are a waiter and an aunt at home, there is also her elderly master.
As Uncle Hu and Aunt Ya get older, they have difficulty carrying heavy goods, such as buying coal briquettes and cabbages when winter comes.
Not to mention that several of her senior brothers also have families, after all, this is her master, and she should take care of him personally.
Fortunately, the old house hired two veterans in the past two years, and the compound had its own logistics and notification attendants, which saved her a lot of hard work.
She had just finished pickling cabbage for her master and had no time to take care of her own family when the old man caught a cold and had diarrhea.
To be honest, this was her master's own fault.
Even at his age, he is becoming more and more like a child. He is greedy and hides it from everyone else, learning to eat popsicles like the babies in the alley.
Then he ran back to have mutton hotpot. After the meal, fortunately Zhang Guoqing came to pick up his wife in the evening, otherwise Zhou Jiao would have been scared to death by him.
Less than five minutes after the meal, not only did his face become paler and paler, but he also rushed to the toilet at an unusually fast speed for someone of his age.
After a lot of effort, Zhang Guoqing finally took care of him and he started to shiver as soon as he lay down. He refused to tell the truth and refused to take Western medicine. He insisted on taking Chinese medicine.
Zhou Jiao, who knew her master's temper well, could only speechlessly ask the old man to tell her the name of the medicine. She had learned all the medical skills in vain, but she met the most uncooperative patient in history.
After listening to the several kinds of Chinese medicine, Zhou Jiao couldn't bear to complain to the guilty old man with white hair, and rushed to the pharmacy next door to get the medicine first.
Zhang Guoqing, on the other hand, saw something in his expression, laughed angrily, and held the old man's hand, "Come on, old man, you should come home and live with me. You can't live without someone watching you."
"Nonsense! I just ate too much mutton and I'm too weak to take it."
"Yes, it's best to quit drinking too." Zhang Guoqing finished speaking, and seeing him glare anxiously and curl up again, he was frightened and said quickly, "Okay, okay, okay, don't worry, I'll listen to you."
"That's more like it."
"Is it really okay not to go to the hospital?"
"Well, I'm a doctor myself."
Those who heal others cannot even heal themselves!
Zhang Guoqing had no intention of arguing with him. "Yes, you're always a miracle doctor. How about I discuss something with you? Can we hire another auntie, or a young man?"
Doctor Hu looked outside and said, "Shh, keep your voice down. Don't let your uncle Hu and his wife hear you. I'll just be more careful next time."
Zhang Guoqing rolled his eyes at him in annoyance. "You're always so worried about things. How about moving to the old house? The compound doesn't allow for freedom, but the old house won't allow for freedom, will it?"
"No, all my old friends are here. I'm tired and can't talk anymore."
Neither this nor that is acceptable, and he even closed his eyes and refused to talk. This attitude made Zhang Guoqing so angry that he wanted to curse at the old man. He glared at the old man and had to tuck in the quilt for him.
He felt sorry for the old man whenever he thought about it. The reason he didn't want to go to the compound and the old house was because he was afraid of causing trouble for his family before leaving. He was really overthinking it.
As his only disciple, how could Zhou Jiao not be his descendant?
He now understood why Uncle Hu and Aunt Ya had always supported their eldest nephew. They probably had this concern.
After Zhou Jiao prepared the medicine and gave it to the old man to drink and rest, Zhang Guoqing told Xiao Zhu to go back and inform his father-in-law and others. He was really worried about leaving the old man alone here.
Who knows if I might have a high fever in the middle of the night!
The medicine was still effective. After a while, the old man looked much better and his diarrhea stopped. After struggling for more than half an hour, he finally started snoring.
Zhang Guoqing spread the bedding at the end of the kang, waved goodbye to Uncle Hu and the other man, and asked Zhou Jiao to lie there and rest for a while. In case something unexpected happened, she would have to give her an injection first!
Whether it is an injection of Western medicine or an injection of traditional Chinese acupuncture, he believes in his wife.
"I can't sleep."
"It's okay, the old man is blessed with a long life. You can rest assured. Starting tomorrow, I will let Xiao Wei and Xiao Chen take turns to come here during the day to take care of the old man."
"Can they handle it? Or we can hire someone else, preferably one who can stay here at night. I'm worried he might get up in the middle of the night and fall."
"Let Xiao Wei and Xiao Chen come first. I plan to observe them for a while. If everything goes well, they will be very useful."
Zhou Jiao nodded in understanding. It was such a shame to have such a young man working as a guard in his house.
That night, the couple couldn't fall asleep and stayed up until the early morning. They only breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the old man drink a big bowl of white porridge and start talking and showing off again.
This person is almost a centenarian, and the time they can spend with him is getting less and less.
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