Chapter 76 A Mad Dog
"A young wife stripped naked to warm her frozen husband with her body." This story was a rare sight in the barren and entertainment-starved Northern Wilderness. It soon spread to all the nearby villages and companies, big and small.
Not only people in the dormitory were discussing it, but even the cooks in the cafeteria were talking about it with great interest.
Yun Qiao could hear people talking about it wherever he went, but it wasn't until a few days later that the topic gradually faded away.
That evening, the correspondent Lu Xun finally returned from the field office and brought her the herbs needed to make frostbite cream, which he delivered directly to the educated youth dormitory.
Fog rose in the evening. Lü Xun had just jumped off the horse-drawn cart. A thin layer of ice shards had formed on his clothes and hat, and even his exposed eyebrows and eyelashes were covered with white frost.
He was shivering from the cold, and his voice was a little intermittent.
"Ye Zhiqing, I've bought all the herbs you requested. Can you open them and take a look?"
"Don't be in a hurry to see it, let's go inside and talk."
Yun Qiao took the large cloth bag he handed over, but didn't open it immediately. He led him into the house, picked up his enamel teacup, and poured him a cup of hot water. "Comrade Lu, you must have been frozen all the way back from the field office. Drink some hot water to warm yourself up."
"Thank you." Lu Xun tore off his outer cotton gloves, revealing his hands still wearing lace half-finger gloves, and tremblingly took the enamel teacup and held it.
The water, freshly poured from the thermos, was still warm. Lu Xun sipped it.
The hot water warmed his mouth and stomach. The cozy temperature gradually helped him recover, and his brain, which had been numb from the extreme cold, also returned to normal.
In the inner room, Zheng Wenjing heard Lu Xun's voice and ran out happily: "Comrade Lu, did you buy the herbs?"
There were no black marks on her hands in the past few days, but as expected, two hard bumps grew on them. She didn't feel anything during the day, but one night when she went to bed, the back of her hands became extremely itchy. No matter how she scratched or made a fuss, she couldn't relieve the itchy feeling.
She was hoping that Yun Qiao would make the frostbite cream as soon as possible to relieve her pain.
Lu Xun nodded: "Yes, I bought them all."
He looked at Yun Qiao and said, "Comrade Ye, take a quick look. Is there anything wrong? I can take it back and exchange it with someone else."
Yun Qiao had already untied the plastic bag that wrapped the medicinal herbs. There was a layer of kraft paper inside the plastic bag. The two layers of packaging wrapped the medicinal herbs tightly, and they were not soaked by the moisture from the fog at all.
Yun Qiao held the medicine bag under the light and examined it carefully. After looking at it with her eyes, she took it under her nose and sniffed carefully. After checking everything, a smile appeared on her face. "The herbs are fine. There's nothing wrong with them. They haven't been fumigated by sulfur. They're all good."
"That's good." Lu Xun breathed a sigh of relief. "This is my first time buying herbs from a Chinese medicine pharmacy. I don't know anything and I'm afraid I'll be ripped off."
After saying this, he undid his inner clothes, took out a wallet from his chest pocket, took out a 1.4 yuan coin from it, and handed it to Yun Qiao: "Comrade Ye, this is the money left over from buying medicine."
"How come there's so much left? Comrade Lu, it's so cold, and I'm sorry enough to ask you to run errands without paying you. Please don't put any money into it."
The frostbite cream she had was made with good ingredients. Although she didn't know the exact price of Chinese medicine nowadays, she had roughly estimated that even if she could save money, it wouldn't be this much.
"I didn't pay for it," Lu Xun explained. "This medicine costs fourteen and eighty cents a piece. After deducting my share, there's exactly one and fourty cents left. Besides, this frostbite cream was made for me, so I'm happy to run errands for you."
After hearing what Lu Xun said, Yun Qiao put the remaining money into his pocket and said, "It's too late today. I'll prepare the frostbite cream tomorrow and send it directly to your office."
"OK."
Lu Xun put his scalp hat on his head and said, "Then I'll be leaving first. Goodbye, Comrade Ye."
"goodbye."
As soon as Lu Xun left, Qi Chunhui suddenly rushed out from another room. When passing by Yun Qiao, he deliberately bumped Yun Qiao's arm with his shoulder.
Yun Qiao's arm went numb from the collision and he staggered backwards.
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