As Ruan Tang expected, Brother Ji was already waiting at the village entrance.
As soon as he saw the bicycle coming, he ran over. Ji Nanfeng lifted him up and sat him on the horizontal bar, then rushed home.
Grandma Ji and little brother Ji got up early in the morning to make bacon and sour beans vermicelli dumplings. The bacon was left over from their previous marriage.
Grandma Ji picked up a large basin of buns and asked Ruan Tang to eat them.
Ruan Tang ate a bun and took the hand from Grandma Ji. She once again asked Grandma Ji to go back to the county with her, but as expected, she was rejected by Grandma Ji.
Grandma Ji is old now and doesn't want to leave home no matter what, for fear that she will have no children outside and won't be able to send them back in time.
Ruan Tang brought back all the seafood she bought yesterday, and also brought back a lot of dried salted fish that she had previously dried.
"My mouth has lost its taste as I grow older, so I like this salty taste when I eat." Grandma Ji was delighted when she looked at these seafood.
Ruan Tang was worried that Grandma Ji would be reluctant to eat it all by herself, so she emphasized that the salted fish didn't have much salt in it and wouldn't keep for more than a few days. Grandma Ji said Ruan Tang didn't know how to dry the fish, and that next time she would take care of it and it would keep for a month or so.
Ruan Tang agreed with a smile, picked up three salted fish and steamed them, and cooked kelp and dried shrimp soup.
Just as the Ji family had finished their meal, a child's voice was heard at the door.
It was Li Tiewa, the son of Widow Niu.
Li Tiewa stood stiffly at the door of Ji's house. He wanted to ask Ruan Tangchen to go to the hospital to see his mother.
Secretary Hu took him to the hospital yesterday, and the doctor said his mother's condition was not good and she needed surgery.
He was afraid that his mother would not survive like Li Guaizi, so he trusted no one but Ruan Zhiqing, because it was Ruan Zhiqing who could tell at a glance that his mother was ill.
Ruan Tang agreed that she would go to the No. 1 County Hospital when she returned to the county the next day.
Li Tiewa thanked Ruan Tang and was about to leave when Grandma Ji took out a big bowl, put five buns in it and stuffed it into his hand.
His face turned red and he refused. He couldn't resist but said he was full after eating one.
"If you can't finish it, save it for breakfast tomorrow."
Li Tiewa's eyes were red, he hugged the bowl tightly, turned around and ran away.
Grandma Ji sighed, "This child has a miserable life. These days, the east family gives him some food, the west family gives him some..."
Widow Niu had just married into the Li family when her husband died. After a near-death experience, she gave birth to her son, Li Tiewa, but she developed a chronic illness that made him unable to work. She wanted to remarry with her son, but someone spread the word that she was a jinx, and no one dared to marry her.
Later, the Li family arranged for her to marry Li Guaizi. Li Guaizi had no son, and Widow Niu had no husband, so the two of them simply joined together as a family. Li Guaizi helped Widow Niu raise her son, and when Li Guaizi grew old, he asked Li Tiewa to take care of him and see him to the end of his life...
"Later, I don't know who said that the rumor that the widow Niu was unlucky in marriage came from the Li family. It was because Li Guaizi had set his eyes on the widow Niu and didn't want her to remarry... It was all a sin."
The news has spread throughout the village recently. In such a big village, only the Li family has been infected with the disease. It is because they have done too many immoral things, and this is retribution.
After dinner, Ruan Tang cleaned the house, and Liu Weifang and several young wives came to visit.
Several people helped Ruan Tang with the work, and Liu Weifang, with her big belly, eagerly shared village gossip with Ruan Tang.
Ever since Li Guaizi died, the villagers have been busy with marriage proposals.
Among them, Ji Tangbo's family was the most high-profile. They claimed that they would not pay a single cent of betrothal gift, and the woman was required to bring a dowry of 200 yuan. After all, the woman would become a city dweller as soon as she entered the family, and the children she would give birth to would also be city dwellers.
In contrast to Ji Tangbo's family, the bachelor Yang Wanbi didn't worry about his son's marriage at all. He even said that his son was still young and that learning skills was more important.
As for the Xu family, when Liu Weifang mentioned it, he secretly glanced at the Xu family's yard.
The Xu family has been in turmoil these days.
Du Xueqing's university enrollment quota was snatched away by Qu Wenli, and the two broke up completely. Qu Wenli also moved back to the educated youth camp from Xu's house, and in a few days, Qu Wenli would enroll in the school.
Du Xueqing was in a rage for two days and felt a little uncomfortable in her stomach. The Xu family took her to the hospital and she stayed there for two days. After she came back, she stopped in a rage.
Zhang Xiaohua curled her lips, "The Xu family really thinks the quota belongs to them. They gave it to Qu Wenli today, and they want to give it to Du Zhiqing tomorrow. My brother-in-law also graduated from junior high school."
There are many junior high school graduates in the village, and Captain Xu insisted on giving the quota to Qu Wenli, which made many families object.
Especially after Ji Rong and his friends started working at the machinery factory, the threshold for their family suddenly became much higher, which made the villagers more active. If a family had a college graduate, and then a leader after work, the ancestors would be very proud.
Ruan Tang listened to gossip all day and got up before dawn the next day.
As soon as I opened the gate, I saw a basket at the door. The basket was full of clean shepherd's purse and a large bowl.
Ruan Tang laughed. She didn't expect that even Li Tiewa knew that she liked to eat shepherd's purse.
Ruan Tang put a whole basket of shepherd's purse into the backpack, and rode her bicycle into the city with Ji Nanfeng.
Along the way, they saw border defense soldiers fully armed to kill snails in the Red River, and the Honghui Society was still guarded by green military uniforms.
They got off their bikes and inquired about the situation. They learned that, with the help of a military doctor, the Honghui Society had established a medical station dedicated to treating Chinese medicine patients. However, due to the poor medical care and shortage of medicines, three deaths occurred in the Honghui Society.
She knew that her time was running out and she had to develop praziquantel quickly.
After arriving at the machinery factory and attending classes in the maintenance department for a whole morning, she bought two steamed buns from the cafeteria and went to the county hospital.
Widow Niu was assigned to the infectious disease department, and she first asked the attending physician about her condition.
Widow Niu’s attending physician was an acquaintance, Lu Ling, a student of Dr. Guan.
After Ruan Tang explained her purpose, Lu Ling refused to tell her on the grounds that it was not the patient's privacy to be disclosed.
Ruan Tang did not argue with Lu Ling for too long and went straight to Widow Niu's ward. She saw her eating steamed buns soaked in water. When she saw Ruan Tang, she was stunned at first, and then asked Ruan Tang to leave quickly, because there were all sick patients here and it was not good for her to stay for long.
Ruan Tang took Widow Niu out of the inpatient department and asked what the doctor said.
Widow Niu was terrified when she heard she needed surgery. All she remembered was the swelling. After the doctor left, she started to think about it. Surgery would cost a lot of money, and she was afraid she would have to borrow money and then die, leaving her poor son, Xiaoji, saddled with debt.
Upon hearing this, Ruan Tang immediately guessed that the liver was enlarged due to schistosomiasis and that part of the liver needed to be removed.
If the surgeon was Lu Ling, Ruan Tang was a little worried, fearing that Widow Niu would die on the operating table. After all, Lu Ling couldn't even remove a small fish bone.
"Ask the doctor for the checkup list first. I'll come back to see you tomorrow at noon."
Widow Niu wiped her tears and sent Ruan Tang to the hospital entrance. "Ruan Zhiqing, my life is worthless. It's not worth you running back and forth."
"Since I've accepted Li Tiewa's consultation fee, it's my responsibility to cure you."
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