While clinging tightly to the tree trunk to keep herself steady, Zhong Misu apologized to everyone, saying, "I'm so sorry, I'll remember everyone's kindness today! Once my leg is healed, I'll treat you all to meat!"
No one responded. Jiang Aiguo said coldly, "We'd be grateful if you could just keep your sly Su Qiaoqiao in check!"
Zhong Misu gave a bitter smile.
Sun Shengtian said, "Don't wait until your leg heals. Why don't you give me five yuan now, and I'll go down the mountain to the county to buy some meat! I'll also buy you two pounds of bones to help mend your broken leg!"
Upon hearing this, Zhong Misu immediately began laboriously rummaging through her pockets.
Jiang Aiguo shouted, "Sun Wukong, what do you think you're doing?!"
Sun Shengtian said awkwardly, "I was just joking, hehe..."
Zhong Misu had already handed over ten yuan: "Brother Sun, I'm not joking! Thank you for your trouble! I really want to eat meat, so I'm sorry to have troubled you to make this trip!"
Sun Shengtian snatched the money and said with a grin, "Jiang Aiguo, if you're so capable, I'll buy some meat, and you can't eat it!"
The thought of soon having meat gave everyone a renewed sense of energy.
Half an hour later, after taking turns seven or eight times, the group finally carried Zhong Misu to the village clinic.
When Zhong Misu saw that the old doctor from the clinic was using crutches to treat him, he completely broke down.
Jin Dachun nudged Zhong Misu's broken leg with his crutch: "It's dislocated! Call Ruyi, I can't fix it!"
Shen Heping ran back to the educated youth compound and learned that Su Ruyi and Su Tong had gone to Sanhe County.
He went back to the village clinic and told everyone the news.
Sun Shengtian had already gone to Sanhe County to buy meat. When the others heard the news, they could only put Zhong Misu on the treatment bed at the village clinic and then dispersed.
Zhong Misu lay quietly.
It turns out that the "test" was actually the old doctor's apprentice.
I wonder how good her bone-setting skills are?
She didn't seem to have much strength...
At this moment, his broken and dislocated leg was in excruciating pain.
I was extremely weak, and my thoughts kept wandering.
One moment it's Su Qiaoqiao's arrogant and domineering demeanor, the next it's fragments from her previous five lives.
After a while, he watched as the old doctor, who also had a broken leg, poured him a glass of water and brought it in.
He quickly sat up and reached out to take it, saying, "Thank you, doctor!"
His mouth was already parched.
Unexpectedly, when he reached out to the left, the old doctor moved the cup to the right.
He reached out to the right, and the old doctor moved the cup to the left.
After doing this seven or eight times, Zhong Misu withdrew her hand.
The old doctor reached out and splashed a glass of cold water on his face: "So you're not blind after all."
Zhong Misu was splashed with water in his face before he realized that the old doctor in front of him must know that he had spat on his apprentice's face and was taking revenge!
He hurriedly said, "I'm so sorry! Dr. Jin, I'm really sorry!"
Jin Dachun glared at him again, then slowly walked away, leaning on his cane.
Zhong Misu stuck out her tongue and licked the water that had dripped to her lips.
I don't know if it's a mixture of sweat or tears, but it tastes salty.
It wasn't until sunset that Su Ruyi and Su Tong hurriedly returned to Dingjiatun.
Both of them carried a square basket, a local specialty, heavily filled with various supplies purchased from the supply and marketing cooperative—soap, lamp oil, work gloves, matches, flashlights, etc.
The two bought almost everything that the supply and marketing cooperative sold.
Su Tong spent 80 yuan of the 880 yuan he had just received.
Su Ruyi unloaded the basket from her back in Jin Dachun's yard and took all the lunchboxes off the handlebars: "Master, wash your hands, it's time to eat!"
Su Tong cautiously asked Jin Dachun, "Dr. Jin, may I invite a few of my friends to come over for dinner?"
Jin Dachun chuckled as he moved to wash his hands, replying, "Why not? It's more lively with more people! So much food, it would be a waste if we couldn't finish it!"
Su Tong happily rode his bicycle back to the educated youth compound, placing the basket on his back directly in the middle room of the backyard.
Then he found Shulan and told her that she didn't need to cook for Jin Dachun that night.
Shulan said embarrassedly, "I feel bad taking this money!"
Su Tong stuffed a handful of seven or eight fruit candies into her hand: "We are already so grateful to you for your help!"
After exchanging a few more polite words, Shulan blushed and accepted the candy, and Su Tong returned to the backyard.
Shen Heping, Ji Xuchang, and Li Wang were all called out by him, and the four of them headed straight for Jin Dachun's house.
Ten minutes later, as dusk began to fall, the group sat around the stone table in Jin Dachun's courtyard.
Su Ruyi lit a pot of mugwort to repel insects, and then turned on the kerosene lamp.
On the stone table, fifteen lunch boxes were crammed full.
This time, we didn't cook anything special, but the dishes were already plentiful enough.
The staple food includes not only rice, but also steamed white flour buns with blooming flowers.
Jin Dachun took out a bottle of Moutai.
The eyes of the male educated youth lit up, and they all cheered!
Everyone ate their fill, finishing every last bite of the food.
Su Tong raised his glass: "I'm going back to Haicheng tomorrow. Thank you all for taking care of my sixth sister during this time!"
Everyone knew he was leaving, but they didn't know he was leaving tomorrow morning.
It was a farewell, a bittersweet one.
At this moment, Zhong Misu, who was lying on the treatment bed in the village clinic, was only separated from these people by a wall.
It got dark, and no one came to light a lamp.
He could hear the noise from the backyard with exceptional clarity in the darkness.
When he first heard that Su Ruyi had returned, he wanted to call her to help him set his bones, but he was too embarrassed and opened his mouth several times but couldn't make a sound.
Now, he heard Su Tong say that he and Su Ruyi were also from Haicheng.
Zhong Misu's head exploded with a bang.
Is it possible...?
But he quickly dismissed his idea.
If Su Ruyi was his lover, why did he meet Su Qiaoqiao first?
He waited quietly for another half hour, listening to the laughter and chatter coming from just across the wall.
At this time, the educated youth compound managed to get some meat, no matter how hard they tried.
Sun Shengtian borrowed a bicycle from a villager he knew and rode it almost creating sparks along the way.
Pork in Sanhe County is cheaper than in Haicheng. It costs 45 cents per pound with a receipt and 75 cents without a receipt.
He naturally didn't have a ticket.
He bought six jin of pork that didn't require ration coupons, and another five mao (0.5 yuan) of meat from a large bone that had been shaved clean, spending a total of five yuan. The remaining five yuan went into his pocket.
At the unanimous request of all the male and female educated youth for braised pork, Shulan made braised pork with potato vermicelli, corn cakes, and radish and pork rib soup.
The male and female educated youth waited foolishly for half an hour, drawn by the delicious aroma of braised pork.
The saliva I swallowed almost filled me up.
"Shulan, if you stew it any longer, the meat will shrink!" someone shouted.
"Exactly, it all turned into steam and disappeared!" someone responded.
These educated youths, in their eagerness to eat meat sooner, have even begun to distort basic physics principles.
Shulan was under so much pressure that she had to cook it ahead of schedule!
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