Yang Chunyan and a few others carried fabrics and cotton, came out of the department store, and went to the hotel together.
Yang Dongmei pointed to the kitchen and said, "There is rice and oil in there. The hotel staff will come to work tomorrow. I will come over when they arrive."
Li Qiuyue smiled and nodded, "Okay, ask them to point out where you need to clean to Qiuxia. She is very efficient and likes cleanliness."
"Okay." Yang Dongmei took them to the room. The room was bright and contained a bed, a small square table and several stools.
"She took all of Aunt Wang's things. The mattresses on the bed belong to the hotel. They can use them as they please. Next door is the warehouse. There are quilts in there. If they feel cold, just let them use them."
Li Qiuyue nodded gratefully, "Okay, this room is much better than their shack."
Yang Chunyan and Zhao Huifang put cotton on the bed. Yang Dongmei took Li Qiuyue to the next door to get two quilts and helped make the bed. When they returned to Desheng Hall, they saw that Wang Zhen and Zhou Huaishan had not returned yet. Li Qiuyue felt worried and went to the Chinese medicine hospital.
After looking around and asking the person at the registration office, he finally found the orthopedics department in the yard behind the outpatient department. He saw Li Qiuxia holding her child in front of the glass window and Zhou Huaishan squatting nearby smoking, so he hurried over.
"Huaishan, how is Dalin?"
Zhou Huaishan stood up and spit out his cigarette butt. "The doctor broke the bone that had grown out of alignment and then reconnected it. He's applying medicine inside now. Wang Zhen is watching from inside!"
He shook his head and said with lingering fear, "Dalin was in so much pain when the bone was set that he fainted from the pain."
"Oh!" Li Qiuyue sighed after hearing this. "The bones that have grown back have to be broken and reconnected. Just thinking about it makes me feel anxious."
When Li Qiuxia saw her coming, she also came over with the child in her arms, looking at her with joy in her eyes, "Third sister, the doctor said it has been connected. Now they are applying plasters to help the bones heal."
"Okay! You don't have to worry about it now." Li Qiuyue happily took the child. "I've found a place for you to live. Take good care of yourself here for a while before going back. Don't get hurt again."
Li Qiuxia nodded repeatedly, "Thank you, Third Sister. I understand." She then said happily, "Doctor Liu said that as long as I take good care of myself for a period of time and don't do heavy work in the future, I will be able to do ordinary farm work."
Li Qiuyue: "You have to listen to the doctor. When the mushrooms come out, you should pick the good ones, dry them, and sell them to Baicaoping. Slowly, your family will get better."
"Yeah! I remember that."
At this time, the door of the clinic opened, and Zhou Huaishan hurried in. Seeing Wang Zhen helping Gao Dalin, who was leaning on a cane and looking pale, stand up, he hurried forward to support him, "Doctor Wang, let me help him."
Doctor Liu said to Gao Dalin, "You'd better stay in bed and rest for a while. Come back in a week to change the medicine."
Gao Dalin nodded weakly, "I'll remember. Thank you, Doctor Liu!"
Doctor Liu nodded and said, "Go back and take good care of him."
Zhou Huaishan helped Gao Dalin out, and Doctor Liu wrote another prescription for Wang Zhen, "He should take this prescription for three days, and you can just prescribe it for him in the future. He is so young, but his body is so weak. He needs to take good care of himself, otherwise he will have more illnesses when he is a little older."
Wang Zhen took the prescription and put it in his pocket. "His family is very poor. It was only because of Zhou Sange and his wife that they came to the county town. Otherwise, he might have been lame like that."
"People in the countryside who don't have an income do have a very hard time. They usually just have to endure minor illnesses and bear major illnesses until the day they can no longer bear them. That's when they'll be free." Doctor Liu sighed. "As doctors, what else can we do except help them save some money on medicine?"
"This is the only way." Wang Zhen was also a little sad. "Grandpa Liu, I'll go back first. I'll come back and have tea with you."
"Okay!" Doctor Liu agreed with a smile.
Zhou Huaishan helped Gao Dalin to the outside of Desheng Hall. He thought of the doctor asking him to lie down. "Qiuyue, go borrow a bicycle from Dongmei. We will take him to the hotel and let him lie down first."
"Oh!" Li Qiuyue hurriedly ran in from the alley and saw Yang Dongmei and others sorting out the cleaned clothes. "Xiaomei, borrow your bicycle for a while. We will take Dalin to lie down and rest."
"Here, just push it away." Yang Dongmei said as she picked up the bag and handed it to her. "Inside are Wang Zhen and I's clothes, all washed and placed here, you can take them up with you."
"Yes, thank you very much!" Li Qiuyue took the bag, put it in the back seat of the car, and pushed it out of the yard. When she saw Wang Zhen coming in, she said, "Doctor Wang, thank you for your help!"
Wang Zhen smiled and said, "It's okay. I'll bring the medicine to him later."
"Okay, I'll take them there and be back soon." Li Qiuyue pushed the bicycle outside, helped Gao Dalin sit on the back seat, and led them towards the hotel.
Wang Zhen went back and told Yang Dongmei and others about Gao Dalin's condition, then went to the clinic to get medicine.
Yang Chunyan looked at the time, thinking that she hadn't seen her son for a long time, and she didn't know why he was crying at home. "Huai'an, it's past four o'clock. Xiao Jiuer may have cried several times. I think we shouldn't go take pictures. We will go back when Third Brother and the others come back."
Zhou Huaian was also worried about the child crying at home, "Okay, I'll go tell Wang Zhen."
After hearing this, Yang Dongmei said, "Sister, we have meat and vegetables at home, why don't you have dinner here before leaving!"
Yang Chunyan smiled and shook her head, "Forget it, with such a big family, you have a single stove, and I don't know when we can eat."
Yang Dongmei: "Wang Zhen asked about it this morning at the mutton restaurant. They also have stir-fried dishes. It's a good time for us to go there when Third Brother and his family come down."
Yang Chunyan: "No, I've wanted to go back for a long time. When we're done with our work next month, we'll bring Jiuer and have some fun here for a few days."
After hearing this, Yang Dongmei could only say, "After we are busy next month, we will go to the provincial capital to hold a wedding banquet in March. Remember to bring Jiuer with you then."
"Don't worry, I'll remember it. I'll definitely bring Jiuer with me when the time comes." Yang Chunyan thought that she would have to come again in a few days to find the jewelry craftsman who made her last time and make two things for them as gifts.
Zhou Huaian looked at Zhou Huairong and the others who were sitting in the main hall watching TV with gusto, smiled and shook his head, "Look, after the New Year, when the people who install the electric poles connect the electricity and buy a TV at home, I'm afraid these kids won't even want to go to school."
"It will take three to five months for the three villages to install it together. Do you think it can be connected?" Yang Chunyan stretched her neck to take a look. Even Zhou Xiaolin leaned against Zhou Xiaoqian and watched with great interest.
"It's getting hot, so I'll just go get a fan and blow some air!" Zhou Huaian said as he got up and went to the clinic. Wang Zhen, who was picking out medicine according to the prescription, said, "Please record the amount you spent in the account, and we'll settle the bill when his brother-in-law gets better."
Wang Zhen smiled and said, "It's okay. Gao Dalin was also harmed by a quack doctor. If he had found a reliable doctor at the time and had his leg been reattached, he wouldn't have suffered this pain today."
"Alas!" Zhou Huaian sighed, "In a remote place like Baicaoping, it's not easy to find a good doctor."
Wang Zhen thought about it and agreed. "I heard that they are inside Baicaoping. It takes a day's walk to get there. It's good to have a local doctor in such a remote place."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "Yes, I used to think that Fu Niu was the poorest mountain in the world. Since I started collecting herbs and traveled to more places, I found that there are many places worse than Fu Niu."
Wang Zhen thought for a moment and said, "When a person goes to more places and interacts with more people, his knowledge and experience will naturally be different from before when he was stuck in one place."
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "Yes, I have learned a lot, and my thoughts are different from before."
Wang Zhen stopped what he was doing, looked at him with a smile, and said, "When you go to a prosperous place in the future, you will have a different feeling than you do now."
Zhou Huaian: "Wait a few more years, when Jiuer is older, I'll take them to see him, so Chunyan won't have to play outside and worry about the child."
Wang Zhen put down the scale and started to pack the medicine. "All mothers do this."
Zhou Huaian also stepped forward to help, "Wait for my third brother to come down, then we'll go back."
Wang Zhen looked up at him and said, "Are you not going to take pictures?"
"No." Zhou Huaian said with a smile, "Wait for you to buy me a point-and-shoot camera, and I can take pictures anywhere in the mountains."
"That's right, the scenery in the mountains is much better than in the county town." Wang Zhen repeated what Dr. Liu said to him, "Gao Dalin is so poor at such a young age.
It seems that the conditions there are worse than Baicaoping. If they can recognize the herbs, we can help them."
"I don't know the situation over there either. They don't even know a few herbs from their appearance." Zhou Huaian thought of Li Qiuxia's family and said to him, "They don't know herbs, but there are a lot of mugwort in the mountains!
I tell you, there is no one in the countryside who doesn't know mugwort. A few days before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, I asked them to help collect and deliver the grass. After a few days, I can help them."
"Okay, they should be able to do this." Wang Zhen stacked up the medicine bags, tied them together with a hemp rope and carried them out of the clinic together.
After a while, Zhou Huaishan came back on a bicycle. Wang Zhen gave him the medicine and the medicine pot. After telling him what to pay attention to, he turned the bike around and left.
"Third brother," Zhou Huaian called him and said, "We are planning to go back. What are you and sister-in-law going to do?"
"We'll go back with you too." Zhou Huaishan said as he pushed his bicycle. "I'll take the medicine up and come down with Qiuyue."
I promised to lend money to Qiuxia and the others, so I can't owe Wang Zhen and Laoyasa all the money. I have to go back and get the money and pay off what I owe first.
Originally, the two planned to come down together. When Li Qiuxia saw the fabric and cotton bought by Qiuyue and the clothes sent by Yang Dongmei, the couple were so grateful that Gao Dalin, a man of great courage, even shed tears.
He couldn't bear to see that scene, so he rode back on his bike.
When Zhou Huaian saw him leave, he said to Zhou Huairong and his brother and several children who were watching TV in the main room, "It's almost dark, how long do you plan to watch?"
Zhou Jiakang ran out after hearing this. Seeing that the sun had already set, he asked, "Dad, aren't we going to take pictures?"
Zhou Huaian rubbed him and said, "Next time, it's too late today, Xiao Jiuer should be crying at home."
Zhou Jiakang nodded, "Bring Xiao Jiuer with you next time." (End of this chapter)
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