Chapter 14: Second Sister Youdi (Catching Bugs)
As a result, everyone looked at Lai Di differently - a person who hadn't defecated for seven or eight days, was going to have a bowel movement after drinking a bowl of wild vegetable soup? The key point was that she could even predict the time so accurately!
Could it be that Little Chili’s mouth has been blessed?
Soon, the bedpan was delivered. Although everyone was standing far away, they could still hear some noise. However, no one left, as no one wanted to miss the moment of witnessing this miracle.
Ten minutes later, Cui Laowu was seen smiling happily.
Qin Lai Di knew that this was due to the circulation of moisture and heat.
"Auntie, boil water with motherwort every day for the next few days. Drink it when you are thirsty. Eat something light and easily digestible. I will come back in five days. Remember, you cannot eat motherwort for a long time." For fear that the Cui family would take credit for themselves and make reckless moves, she explained again the harm of eating motherwort for a long time.
"Okay, okay, thank you, uncle. You are really a great benefactor to our family. If your aunt can live one more day, I will kneel down to you..." Cui Laowu was so excited that his face turned red, and he cried and laughed.
Live one more day? Lai Di smiled calmly, this is not a big request.
Qin Lai Di knew that he was busy taking care of the patient, so she stopped talking and squeezed out of the crowd and went home.
The members of Sanlitun only then realized that the little girl's back had straightened up at some point, like a young poplar, ready to go and full of vitality.
In the next few days, Qin Lai Di was still worried, so she took time out every day to visit Cui's family. She was relieved to see that Auntie Wu's bowel movements had returned, her mouth was no longer dry or bitter, and her spirits were gradually improving.
In fact, jaundice is a disease that is both easy to treat and difficult to treat, because there are too many variant symptoms. If you delay treatment for a long time, a minor illness will turn into a major illness, and even be life-threatening. After a few days, when Aunt Cui's face gradually turned from dark blue to black and her black stools disappeared, it was almost cured.
Fearing that Cui's family might be worried, she asked them to go to the municipal hospital for a check-up. After confirming that there was nothing growing in her stomach, Qin Lai Di felt even more confident that the problem was solved.
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That day, the three grandparents were preparing to cook lunch when they suddenly heard Cui Laowu's voice: "Is your aunt home?"
Qin Lai Di thought that something had happened to Old Fifth Auntie, so she ran out of the kitchen and asked, "I'm here, what's wrong, Old Fifth Uncle?"
"Hey, it's okay, it's okay. These are the fish my second son caught in the river. Let you try them." In his hands were two wild crucian carps as big as palms, which were still alive and kicking.
"Don't be polite, Old Fifth. Keep it for your wife to nourish her body." Qin Guihua was also greedy, but there was a patient at home, so she couldn't take it.
"It's okay. We caught three. I left one for the baby's mother. She can't eat much by herself." He put the fish down and walked away, fearing that they would not want it.
Qin Guihua chased after him but could no longer see his back. She could only pick up the fish and take a look. The scales were shiny and the gills were fresh, but Wulitun was a mountainous area and she hadn't eaten fish in many years, and she didn't know how to cook it.
"Grandma, let me do it. Let's stew some angelica and crucian carp soup." Crucian carp has many bones and little meat. It is delicious when stewed with tofu, braised, or steamed. However, these cooking methods require the help of a variety of seasonings, and we don't have any of them at home now.
She had just dug some angelica from the mountains a few days ago. It was half dried in the sun, and it looked like a radish wrapped in a layer of yellow skin, and it smelled like a Chinese herbal medicine. She cut it into large pieces and boiled it in water, and then added two pieces of ginger. Soon the kitchen was filled with the unique aroma of angelica. She took this opportunity to add a circle of corn cakes, and when the angelica was cooked, she put the cleaned crucian carp in. Soon the soup turned into a gurgling milky white.
This was the first time Qin Lai Di had tasted meat after such a long time since her rebirth. Her mouth was watering. She used to be sick and Lao He would not let her eat this or taste that for fear that it would affect her blood sugar and blood lipids. Now she has no diseases except for the gluttony.
The three generations of grandparents were getting ready to eat when a woman in her early twenties suddenly walked in through the door. She had an oval face and big eyes. She was actually quite pretty, but her cheekbones were a little high, making her look a little ordinary.
"Are you getting ready to eat? I came at the right time."
Qin Guihua and Pan Di simply ignored her and turned away. Lai Di knew that this was her dear second sister Qin Youdi, who was married to the leader of the production team next door. They had several large houses with green bricks and tiles, and they were strong and hardworking, so they lived a good life.
"Are you angry with me? Well, I'm also busy at home and couldn't get away, so I forgot about delivering the food." She came over with a playful smile and took Qin Guihua's hand.
It turned out that two months ago, the family was in dire straits and had borrowed everything they could, so the old lady sent someone to tell the team next door to send back 20 kilograms of food. It was not for free, but a loan from her, and she would return it after the grain was distributed at the end of the year. But the damn girl received the message but did not send the food.
Not to mention the old lady was angry about this, even Pan Di wrinkled her nose and said, "Humph, I won't talk to my second sister."
"Hey, little girl, you still have a temper. I haven't seen you for two months. You have grown a lot taller, and your eyes look brighter."
I took cod liver oil supplements in time. Although I am still not as tall as my peers, I have grown taller.
"Humph, if everyone was like you, who only cared about the husband's family and didn't care about the life and death of my own family, we would have starved to death long ago!"
Qin Youdi smiled awkwardly, "Hey, was it Lai Di who prescribed the medicine? I heard in the village that my third sister cured a terminally ill patient with a bowl of wild vegetable soup. I heard it was Aunt Cui Wu, right? Oh, everyone in the area knows about Aunt Cui Wu's condition. She's just trying to get by... You don't know, but now people are saying that our third sister is a little miracle doctor!"
She had also heard about the sow's delivery, but she didn't believe it. After all, how much weight did her own sister have? But recently, everyone had spread the story of the wild vegetable soup curing diseases. Even every word the third child said that day had been learned by everyone. When she first entered the village, she saw with her own eyes that Aunt Cui Wu was basking in the sun at the entrance of the village in high spirits!
"Third brother, you are really good at hiding things. Why didn't you show it before?"
Qin Lai Di had no expression on her face. She actually didn't like her second sister since she was a child. Her eldest sister was honest and kind, always taking care of all the housework, and could earn work points with her grandmother at a young age, while her second sister was incompetent at everything, ranked first in eating, and had a thing that was slipperier than a loach.
When she was young, if the four sisters had something good, she would always find ways to coax the eldest sister and the youngest sister to take their share. If her grandmother found out and wanted to beat her, she would still stick her neck out and say that they gave it to her voluntarily.
Qin Lai Di, who was always angry and injustice-ridden, hated her the most, and the two sisters had many fights. But after her grandmother passed away and her eldest sister went crazy, only this annoying second sister wrote to her, called her, and sent her things, although she never replied or accepted them, never giving her a chance to gain benefits from her.
Even after she was driven away by Zhao Haiyang, her second sister with gray hair came to her house on crutches to make trouble for her, and said that at worst she could go back to the countryside with her, and that her son was filial and would definitely give her something to eat... Not to mention that during the years when grandma was sick, it was she and her second brother-in-law who pulled the stretcher to take her to the hospital, and each time she stayed in the hospital for ten days or half a month, and she paid for it and contributed to the cost.
Thinking of this, Lai Di couldn't pretend anymore and hugged her, "Humph, the most heartless person in our family is our second sister."
"Hey, you dead girl, how can I be so heartless? You didn't even invite me when you were eating fish, and you still have the nerve to..." Without anyone asking him to do so, he took the bowl and chopsticks and started to pick the thickest part of the fish's belly.
Nonsense, she came back hungry at this time specifically for this lunch!
Qin Guihua rolled her eyes at her and said, "Shut up!"
Youdi was so thick-skinned that she was not afraid of anything. She even urged Laidi to talk about marriage. Recently, the biggest news in the nearby villages revolved around the third child. Her marriage and medical skills were almost equally shared by the gossipers.
When she heard that the other party was a technician, she was envious and jealous at the same time. When she heard that the other party's parents were in the Great Northern Wilderness, she suddenly became worried. She was worried that her third child would not live well, but also worried that he would live too well.
"Bah, everyone knows your little tricks, so put them away as soon as possible."
Youdi has been married to Niu Dagang for three years and gave birth to a son the year before last. She is also quite good at talking, so she is living very comfortably in her husband's family. So no one asks her about her life in her husband's family as they do about Ailan. Anyway, if they ask, all they hear is that she has had a fight with her sarcastic sister-in-law and successfully gained the upper hand, or that she has successfully subdued her mean sister-in-law.
After dinner, Qin Youdi inspected the whole place, but found nothing good. She could only look at the hill of sacks. "Grandma said these are the herbs you picked in the mountains. Please help me check if there are any we can eat. We can bring some back to feed my sister-in-law."
Qin Lai Di was very upset.
"You said that you can't finish all these medicines in a short time. How about selling them to a medicine purchasing station?"
"I heard that you should be careful not to get caught by the red armbands. It's not considered profiteering. There are people in our village who sell eggs and vegetables secretly. My father-in-law turned a blind eye to it."
Qin Lai Di has been thinking about making money for the past two months. She actually went to the purchasing station to ask twice, but people only wanted valuable things like ginseng and gastrodia. She got up early and searched late for two months but couldn't find a single ginseng root. As for the ordinary herbs she picked in the mountains, most of them were malnourished, crooked and cracked dates, and their quality was far inferior to that of artificially cultivated ones. People refused to buy them.
Qin Youdi didn't care what she thought, and continued to talk to herself, "There was a little girl in our team who was really smart. She started to sell eggs secretly. When she didn't have enough to sell, she would buy eggs from members and make a profit from the difference. Later, others followed her example. What do you think she did?"
"She actually pickled chicken and duck eggs and took them to the government compound in the city to sell them, making another fortune. What do you think of her brain?"
Qin Lai Di suddenly had an idea.
So, in the next half month, everyone saw that Qin Lai Di was even busier. She had to raise pigs, collect herbs, and stay in the yard in the smoke and fire until late at night, frying and pickling.
Finally, after being busy until the National Day, Lai Di picked a sunny day and went into the city again.
She boarded a tractor at the entrance of the village. Fortunately, there was only one young man with her. The young man wore a pair of metal-rimmed glasses and looked very gentle. Since he was assigned to the Wulitun Youth Point, everyone only knew him as Liao Siyan, and no one cared about his full name.
After all, there were quite a few educated youth assigned to the commune every year. These young people from the city had no idea how to do farm work, and some even pretended to be sick and cheated. As a result, they still had to share food with the other members at the end of the year, so there seemed to be a natural gap between the members and the educated youth.
Lai Di is an exception. She has an outgoing personality and is curious about everything. She always asks them questions and eventually she is able to infiltrate the "enemy".
For example, she knew the young educated youth Liao in front of her. His family was from Haicheng, and his father was a packaging worker in a radio factory. He could have taken over his father's job soon, but because he couldn't bear to see his sister suffer in the countryside, he took the initiative to give up the job to his sister... From 1966 to now 1973, he has been in Wulitun for a full seven years.
In the past, although I knew about Liao Zhiqing's background, I didn't take it to heart. But at this moment, I suddenly remembered something - Lao He also worked in the radio factory, could he and the Liao family be colleagues?
Then we have to have a good chat!
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