Chapter 16 Chapter 16 He is the elder brother, he is not afraid of hardship...
Hundreds of kilometers away in Daqiao Street, Rongxi Town, two children holding hands and walking on the dirt road on their way to school sneezed at the same time.
"Your hands are warm," the eight-year-old Ning Shiqiu skillfully squeezed his three-year-old sister's hand, then reached out to touch her back, "Your back is warm too, and you're not sweating, so why are you sneezing?"
My sister has been talking since she was young. She is only three years old but already very eloquent. She immediately explained nervously: "Brother, I just sneezed because my nose was itchy. I didn't catch a cold. I won't go to my third grandfather's house!"
My third grandfather was an old Chinese medicine doctor. When I went to his house, I could always smell the bitter odor of medicine. All the children on the street were scared when they passed by his door.
If her third grandfather found out that she was sick, she would have to take bitter medicine, so she didn't like going at all.
Ning Shiqiu noticed that his sister's sleeves were a little shorter, and thought it might be because the clothes didn't fit her well: "No, you have to go. If you really get sick and don't take medicine in time, you have to go to the health center for an injection. Do you want to take medicine or get an injection?"
Ning Shiqiu had already decided that the preschool class would end one period earlier. When he got to school, he would tell his sister's homeroom teacher, Ms. Tao, not to let her out after school at noon, but to let her wait in the classroom for him to pick her up.
"Can I choose neither?" My sister lowered her head dejectedly: "I don't want to take medicine, and I don't want to get a butt injection!"
Ning Shiqiu shook the heavy schoolbag on his back, took his sister's hand again and walked forward: "Then don't hide after school at noon, otherwise when mom and dad call you next time, I will tell them that you are disobedient and I won't buy you delicious food when they come back."
"Well, then," the little girl agreed timidly, but a little unconvinced, "but you just sneezed too!"
"Yeah, so I'll go see my third grandfather at noon." Ning Shiqiu thought calmly, he is the elder brother, he is not afraid of taking bitter medicine.
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In Zhao Ruyue's rental house in Pengcheng's urban village, it's very lively.
When she was in the hospital, many of her fellow villagers wanted to go to the hospital to see her, but Ning Shaoming said that she was not in good health and did not have the energy to see people, and did not want so many people to disturb her.
Now that Zhao Ruyue has returned to her rental house, it is a signal that her health has almost recovered and she can be visited. Fellow villagers who were unable to visit her in the hospital before have come to visit her one after another.
In her previous life, Zhao Ruyue still kept in touch with some people and could see them from time to time, but she rarely saw some people or even never saw them again.
Especially some female friends, who have moved to other places with their husbands or sons and rarely return to their hometowns, feel very strange when they see them when they were young.
But they had a good relationship with her at this time, so Zhao Ruyue could only cheer up and deal with it.
A wave of people left work at noon, and another wave of people who did not come at noon came in the evening.
After finally chatting with everyone who came to visit her and seeing them off, Zhao Ruyue leaned on Ning Shaoming's shoulder and breathed a sigh of relief: "No wonder you didn't let me leave the hospital so soon."
If she had been discharged immediately when the doctor first mentioned that she could be discharged, she would definitely not have had the energy to deal with so many visitors as she does now.
In my hometown, if a relative or acquaintance is sick, it is the rule to visit them. Anyone who does not go will be criticized. So in order to avoid being accused of being unkind, many people do not care whether so many people going will disturb the patient's recovery.
This time, it was Ning Shaoming who told everyone that it would be the same if they came back after Zhao Ruyue was discharged from the hospital. This gave everyone a way out and they did not have to go to the hospital to visit her.
Everyone who came to visit was present. Some brought a bag of fruit, and some brought some dried goods, such as red dates, longans, dried mushrooms, etc.
All the fruits were opened on the spot and used to entertain visitors. In the end, only half of the fruits were left, but there were quite a lot of dried goods left, which they would not consume much of on a normal day, so they planned to save them and take them home during the Spring Festival.
Some fellow villagers didn't know what to buy, so they gave a red envelope. According to the rules of their hometown, the amount was not large. Most of the time, they put 20 to 50 yuan in the red envelope depending on the closeness of the relationship.
Ning Shaoming took out his account book and wrote down all the people who had given him gifts or red envelopes. These would be favors that he would have to repay in the future.
I had a simple dinner in the evening and went to bed early.
I woke up early the next morning and was about to go out when it was the landlord's family and the family of another victim of the secret filming who came to my house with gifts to formally express their gratitude.
Zhao Ruyue was glad that there were still a lot of fruits left over from yesterday. In order to entertain the guests, they also bought a lot of disposable water cups and a bag of tea.
Otherwise, I might not even be able to prepare tea for the guests today, which would be too rude.
After entering the room and closing the door, Lu Fa acted as a middleman and introduced the two parties to each other after exchanging pleasantries.
After putting down the gifts she brought, Lu Xinyi pulled another little girl, Zhou Jiayi, to stand up.
The two held hands and stood side by side in front of Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming, bowing to them and thanking them: "Thank you Aunt Zhao and Uncle Ning for saving us. If it weren't for you, we don't know what situation we would be in now."
They know more about their case and know that they are relatively lucky in this case and have not been forced to do anything that goes against their conscience or destroys their worldview.
Some girls are no longer at the stage of being secretly photographed. They are even forced to harm their family members, friends, and even entertain customers.
At this moment, Lu Xinyi and Zhou Jiayi were sincerely grateful and thankful to Zhao Ruyue and his wife.
Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming hurriedly supported the two little girls: "This is just a piece of cake. I believe that no matter who finds such illegal behavior, they will report it. We are just doing what we can. Fortunately, your parents are more concerned, otherwise we will have no choice."
The two sides chatted for half the morning before the Lu and Zhou families left. They also booked a hotel to treat them to dinner in the evening and asked them to come and have a look.
The gifts brought by the two families filled up half of the room. After they left, Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming spent half a day cleaning up, and the whole morning passed like this.
When Zhao Ruyue was free, she looked at the time and said, "It's almost twelve o'clock. If we rush to the post office now, they will be off work. Let's go earlier in the afternoon."
It was winter, but Ning Shaoming was sweating while sorting the gifts. He wiped the sweat off his forehead and said, "This is the only way. What do you want to eat for lunch? I'll make it."
Zhao Ruyue said, "If you want to eat boiled rice noodles, go to the nearby small food store and buy some to cook. If they don't have any, forget it. You can just have porridge."
Ning Shaoming went out for a while and was lucky today as the small vegetable shop still had rice noodles for sale. Usually it was only available in the morning and sold out by ten or eleven o'clock.
After lunch, the two went out, and when they arrived at the post office, the people there just started working.
In the past, every time she came to the post office, Zhao Ruyue would buy phone cards and queue up in front of the phone, preparing to call home later while Ning Shaoming went to send money.
This time, after Zhao Ruyue bought a phone card, she went to see Ning Shaoming fill out the remittance form and asked him to teach her.
Ning Shaoming was not surprised. The factory where Zhao Ruyue worked before was owned by Gao Guangqiang's brother-in-law, and he had already helped her quit her job.
There was no need for Zhao Ruyue to look for a new job before the New Year, and he planned to let her find an easy job in the future.
In this way, Zhao Ruyue will have more free time than him in the future, and it will definitely be more convenient and timely for her to go to the post office to send money.
Ning Shaoming taught her while she filled out the remittance form skillfully. People of their generation did not receive much education, but they attached great importance to handwriting. They firmly believed in the saying "the handwriting reflects the character of the writer", so Ning Shaoming and Zhao Ruyue practiced calligraphy very seriously when they were in school, and now both of them have excellent handwriting.
After confirming that the information was correct, Ning Shaoming handed over four hundred yuan.
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