Chapter 52 Fruit
Zhang Yongfeng set up the stall as usual. Hua's mother was in charge of processing brine at home. Hua Xiali and Hua Chunli took Hua's father to the county hospital. Hua Xiali chartered a car for the whole day and had a driver to help. The two sisters just had to go.
When Hua Xiali chartered the car, she told the driver to set off at six in the morning. Now it is already July and the mornings start very early. At six or seven o'clock the sky is already bright and the sun is shining brightly. It is not too early to set off for the hospital at this time because those who live close to the hospital have already gone to the hospital to queue up.
In fact, Hua Xiali took her father for examination and treatment, which was just a cover. She had her own spiritual spring water, which was more effective than any medicine. But she couldn't let others think that her father got better inexplicably. She had to let everyone see a process and make everyone believe that her father gradually recovered because of repeated examinations and treatments.
The temperature difference between morning and evening is quite large in this season. The morning breeze feels cool on the body, but it becomes extremely hot at noon. Hua Xiali and Hua Chunli sat in the bed of the truck. Neither of them spoke, just sitting there quietly.
"By the way, sister, when you filled out your application, what major did you choose?" Hua Xiali asked curiously.
"Kui Jin University of Technology's major is water conservancy and hydropower engineering; Kui Jin Agricultural University's major is seed science and engineering; and Ching Yuan University's major is international economics and trade. I'll study the major that comes with whichever school accepts me. If all of them accept me, I'll choose the water conservancy and hydropower engineering major at Kui Jin University of Technology," Hua Chunli said confidently.
It can be seen that she is confident about her college entrance examination results.
Hua Xiali nodded. "They are all very good majors. You will definitely be assigned a good job after graduation. Sister, when you receive the acceptance letter and decide on your major, buy some books and study on your own."
"What about you? What major do you most want to study?" Hua Chunli asked curiously.
"I want to study computer engineering," Hua Qiuli said.
The Internet era is about to arrive, and this profession has the greatest development prospects.
And she is not a complete newbie. In her previous life, when her two sons were admitted to college, she bought them a set of college student accessories, namely a mobile phone and a laptop.
No matter how hard life is, children must not suffer; no matter how poor life is, education must not be neglected. When it comes to her children's studies, she is quite generous. She would rather suffer herself than let her children suffer.
Although the laptop was bought for her son, it was like having two laptops at home at once, which meant having two valuable items. In order to avoid having no common topics to talk about with her child, Hua Xiali also simply learned some computer knowledge. After all, she was smart and had good grades in school, so she learned things very quickly.
So she has a certain foundation in computers. When she goes to college, if she works harder and strives harder, she should be able to learn it.
The driver found a spacious place to park near the county hospital. After getting off the car, he assembled the wooden cart. Then, he and Hua Xiali and the others lifted Hua's father off the car and put him on the wooden cart.
The inquiring glances from passers-by made Hua's father so embarrassed that he wanted to crawl into the ground. He didn't want to be treated as a joke anymore.
Hua Xiali let Hua Chunli go in first to queue up for registration, while she pushed Hua's father in from behind. Hua's father kept his eyes closed, pretending not to see everyone's inquiring gazes.
After registering and queuing, I went through a series of tests and was prescribed medicine. It was the same process as in the town hospital, and the doctor said similar things, meaning that there was no good way to treat it, and it was mainly based on taking medicine to slowly recover, combined with acupuncture, massage and other techniques.
Hua Xiali naturally knew this, but she didn't expect that just two visits to the hospital would be enough to restore a paralyzed person to health. All she wanted was for this action to let outsiders know how much their family had paid for the treatment. That was all.
Now we have changed the medicine so that my father can sit up. After a while, we will go to the city hospital again and then we can let my father stand up again.
When they returned home in the evening, everyone sent Hua's father back to his room. Hua Xiali gave the taxi money to the driver and asked him to stay at home for dinner, but the driver refused. However, he left Hua Xiali his phone number and told him to call him if he went to the hospital again next time.
Hua Xiali was planning to go to the city hospital, but it would take some time. Since the driver was willing to cooperate again, she didn't have to look for a new driver. Of course, she agreed readily, wrote down the phone number, and saved it in the Lingquan space.
Afterwards, Hua Xiali followed the driver's car because she was going to her fourth uncle's house in the evening.
Time passed by in busyness day by day. The weather this year was a bit strange. From the beginning of the Chinese New Year to now in July, there has been no rain. It has been extremely hot every day. When sleeping at night, I tossed and turned as if I was making a pancake. Hua Xiali almost always stayed at her fourth uncle's house at night. It was in the mountains with rich vegetation and it was cooler at night.
There are many kinds of fruit trees planted in my fourth uncle's yard, and there are only one or two trees of each kind. But when summer comes, every tree is full of fruits, which is very pleasing to the eye.
Every year in the past, Fourth Uncle would send some fruits to Hua Xiali's family, and would sell the rest on the street for money. But this year, the family had already made a lot of money from bamboo shoots and bamboos, so Fourth Uncle had no plans to sell the fruits. But he didn't waste them either, so he picked the fruits that were ripe and shared some with his relatives.
Then the rest were all given to Hua Xiali. Because different fruits ripen at different times and not all ripen at once, Hua Xiali would take some ripe fruit home every day.
When she got home, she took out enough for a few days and stored the rest in the space. This naturally ripened fruit was especially delicious, and you won’t be able to buy something this fresh in later generations.
Because the fruits sold in the market are picked in advance, they are picked when they are about 60% or 70% ripe, and they are not as delicious as those ripe on the trees.
That afternoon, when everyone was packaging salt in the kitchen, Hua Xiali carried a basket of fresh fruits and quietly went to Huo Beixi's house in the back.
She has been very busy recently and seldom meets Huo Beixi, so she doesn't know how he is doing these days.
Huo Beixi opened the door with a trace of fatigue between his brows. Hua Xiali felt a little guilty for disturbing his nap, so he quickly handed the basket to him, "I got you some fruits, very fresh, just picked."
"Thank you." Huo Beixi reached out and took the basket. There was no trace of anger on his face. He didn't look like a person who would get grumpy when waking up.