There are more and more foreign refugees coming to Qiuye Village, with people arriving almost every day. Village chief Ye is so busy that he has no time to rest. His hands are sore from writing. He never thought that one day his hands would be sore from writing. You know, he didn't feel his hands sore even when he was ploughing in spring and harvesting in autumn.
"I think something is wrong. After the family at the end of the alley arrived, the refugees who came later all asked for household registration and to buy land." Ye Changtian said to Village Chief Ye, "Those people came in groups, and they all had cars! The one who came today even had an RV! Dad, do you know how much that is worth? You can still drive an RV after a natural disaster. I also saw its tires, they are new! They must have changed tires all the way and maintained them all the way to get here."
"What's so strange about this? There are always people who are richer."
"dad!"
Village Chief Ye looked at his son who was being serious. His son was not young anymore, at the age of 35, he was no longer as naive as he was at the age of 15. When he stared at his father, he could even feel the pressure his son brought to him.
"You little brat..." Village Chief Ye cursed, "Do you think your dad is a fool? I'm not stupid! But what can we do? They gave so much, I accepted the materials they used to buy land and household registration. Do you know how much more food the children in the village can eat? Children nowadays are suffering, and so is Xiaoyue in our family. She doesn't have enough nutrition, how can she grow taller? How can she grow up! I worry about it and can't sleep every day. Even if I don't accept those things, they will stay. The people in Yeshan said that refugees cannot be driven away, so why don't I follow their wishes and meet their demands and accept those materials?"
"But the title deed and the household registration book——"
"Yes, I wrote it. Since they wanted me to write it, they will definitely need it in the future. Changtian, I can't control it. I only focus on the present." He said to his son, "As long as the people in our village don't suffer any loss, it's fine."
Ye Changtian pursed his lips: "Dad, I feel very uneasy."
"What are you afraid of? This is Qiuye Village, and Yeshan is next door! We are the closest village to Yeshan. No matter where something happens, our village will not be in trouble. Yeshan will protect us." The elder of Ye Village was shrewd and calculated. "Listen to me, don't get involved in this matter. We can't do anything about it. Those people must have backers behind them. We can't stop them. Just live your own life!"
There were more and more people in the village, and a family moved into the open space behind Qiao Qingqing's tent.
Shao Shengan had seen the male owner of that house twice and frowned: "I think he looks very familiar."
One day he suddenly remembered: "He is Zheng Pingyun, the president of Huacheng XX Company, Qingqing, he is one of the top ten richest people in Huacheng, and my company has had business dealings with his company several times."
"I have also met the younger brother of Director Wang of the XX Bureau. He was in the area of deep water well No. 3." Qiao Qingqing also said.
"I feel like things are going to change here. You said this would be converted into a new community, and I think this is a sign." It's very telling that powerful people are coming here to put down roots ahead of time.
"Well, maybe... the main force is coming."
"Doctor Joe?"
Someone called her outside the tent. Qiao Qingqing coughed and said, "I'm here." She opened the curtain and went out.
In the tent, Shao's mother smiled and said, "Oh, Doctor Qiao, that's nice. My daughter-in-law is a doctor now."
Shao's father was also proud of it: "Our Shao family's ancestors are really prosperous. It's a pity that we can't go back to our hometown now, otherwise we must go to worship our ancestors and show off to them."
Qiao Songzhi smiled: "Sheng An is also very good. When they got married, I went to pay my respects to my mother and told her that Qingqing was getting married. Her husband was her childhood sweetheart. He is a very tall and handsome top student."
The parents were praising each other. Shao Shengan smiled as he played with Shao Shengfei's toys, while at the same time he pricked up his ears to listen to the noise outside.
The one who came to see Qiao Qingqing was a villager from Qiuye Village. She assisted her mother-in-law in delivering Ye Fang, and officially became famous in the village. At that time, Ye Fang screamed for two days during labor, and the villagers sighed and felt sorry, thinking that Ye Fang might not be able to give birth. In the end, Qiao Qingqing helped, and the child was born smoothly. Now it is almost a full month, although Ye Fang is gone... Alas, there is nothing that can be done about it. Postpartum hemorrhage, no one except the hospital can help.
Haopo later said that Dr. Qiao was very good at acupuncture and had good medicines on hand. Her reputation spread, and villagers would come to her for consultation from time to time. For those with mild illnesses, acupuncture would be given as many times as possible, and for those with more serious illnesses who needed medicines, villagers were willing to pay for the consultations. With the help of Yeshan, Qiuye Village suffered relatively little loss, and Yeshan often distributed relief supplies. Over time, most families had good financial resources.
"A child fell? Let me go and take a look." Qiao Qingqing was about to go back to the tent to get the medicine box, but Shao Shengan had already brought it out.
"Then let's go together." Qiao Qingqing smiled.
After they came back from the consultation, it was completely dark. On the way home, they encountered a group of people arguing. A teenager shouted, "My sister just doesn't like you! Don't be a toad wanting to eat swan meat!"
"Lin Dejun! If it weren't for your sister, I would have beaten you up!"
"Come on! Who's afraid of you, toad!"
"Lin Dejun!"
Hearing the name, Qiao Qingqing stopped.
"Lin...is he his son?"
Qiao Qingqing nodded slightly and looked at Lin Dejun with a cold look. Lin Dejun and another tall boy started pushing each other. Friends of both sides hurried to stop them. Not far away, a beautiful girl in a white dress and black hair came over and shouted crisply: "Dejun! Stop fighting!"
That was Lin Weini, the first child born to Lin Mingyong when he had an affair with Yu Manshu, only seven years younger than her.
Lin Weini, 21 years old this year, is thin, with long flowing hair, and walks gracefully. The boy who was fighting with Lin Dejun was immediately shocked and quickly withdrew his hands to tidy up his hair and clothes.
"Wei, Wei Ni, I didn't mean to fight with your brother."
Lin Weini walked over and frowned: "Zhang Qiang, for my sake, you should go back first. I will take my brother back too. It's dark now, and it's not safe to hang around outside."
"Sister! I——"
"Don't talk... okay, Zhang Qiang?"
Zhang Qiang nodded shyly and asked his friends to go back.
"Are you stupid? Let's go home. Mom is looking for you." Lin Weini pulled her unconvinced brother away. The light of the flashlight in her hand was getting farther and farther away, and their figures were submerged in darkness.
"So they've already arrived." Qiao Qingqing retracted her gaze, "Let's go."
"Qingqing, what are your plans?" Shao Sheng'an's mind flashed with Qingqing's haggard and painful appearance during high school. That was all thanks to the brother and sister just now. Before that, he had never thought that human hearts could be so terrible. Why would a brother and sister have such malice towards their half-sister whom they had never met?
On an ordinary day, the siblings asked someone to go to the school to meet Qingqing after school. When Qingqing knew that her half-siblings came to visit her, she was surprised and confused. At that time, he was called by the teacher to get the test paper, so he did not go with them. As a result, when he saw Qingqing again later, he saw Qingqing sitting in a trance in the flower bed.
In the following days, Qingqing was listless and often absent-minded. With his persistent care, Qingqing finally told the truth. It turned out that the brother and sister did not come to "recognize their relationship" that day, but to show off. They said a lot of ugly things, saying that Qingqing was unwanted, that she was born by her mother but not raised by her father, and boasted about how good her father was to them, mocking Qingqing as an ugly thing that was thrown away, pitiful and pathetic, and cursing that Qingqing would definitely not do well in the college entrance examination and would have to sweep the streets in the future...
Shao Shengan was really stunned at the time, but Qingqing would not lie, so the brother and sister must have said so.
But why?
Shao Shengan and Qiao Qingqing couldn't figure it out. Qiao Qingqing even fell into confusion and lost her mind for a while. She had no mind to study. Her life circle was too simple. Although her parents divorced when she was seven years old, her father Lin Mingyong started to be busy with his career when she was old enough to understand and rarely accompanied her. After the divorce, she followed her mother and didn't feel very sad. Qiao Songzhi didn't want her daughter to learn to hate at a young age without experiencing other things, so she never said bad things about her ex-husband.
Therefore, in Qiao Qingqing's heart, father was just a distant word. When her classmates told her that her younger brother and sister came to see her, she knew that she had younger brothers and sisters. She had no hatred in her heart, so she naturally had no resistance to her younger brother and sister. She went to meet them with curiosity and a natural sense of closeness due to blood relationship, but she didn't expect to receive a basket of malice.
Later, after Shao Shengan's persuasion, Qiao Qingqing finally figured it out.
She didn't need to analyze and speculate the psychology of Lin Weini and her brother. She just needed to understand that she shouldn't take their behavior to heart. Since there was no emotion, there was no need to be sad about it. They wanted her to have a hard time, but she had to have a good life and get good grades.
"I don't have any plans." Qiao Qingqing held Shao Sheng'an's hand and continued walking. In their previous lives, they had a hard life. No matter how they boasted about how much Lin Mingyong loved them, she would just watch from the sidelines to see whether they could handle the love in the future!
Knowing that Lin Mingyong's family was also coming to Qiuye Village, Qiao Qingqing planned to tell her mother so that she would not be caught off guard when they met.
"He's here too?" Qiao Songzhi frowned. Thinking of what her daughter had said about her previous life, she felt so angry that her teeth were itching.
"Mom, don't be angry with that kind of person. What will I do if you get angry and hurt yourself? I forgot to tell you that I took away his little safe." He smiled and told me about going to Yulong Bay two years ago to take away the safe that Lin Mingyong hid in the pool. "He wants to work hard for his career in this life, but he has less capital than in his previous life."
Even in his previous life, Lin Mingyong was not that successful. In the tenth year of the apocalypse, he was only a small leader in the logistics department. In order to climb up, he gave up his daughter and daughter-in-law and even set his sights on his disfigured daughter. It can be seen that he has reached a bottleneck and cannot be promoted anymore. Without those gold and jewelry in this life, Lin Mingyong may not even be able to be a small leader in the logistics department.
Qiao Songzhi felt relieved, but also felt strange: "How could his wife just sit there and watch him do nothing and let him do what he wanted to her daughter?"
"I had never met Yu Manshu at that time. When I asked about his family, people told me that he was a widower."
Qiao Songzhi was stunned for a moment, thinking of the strong woman who looked gentle but had sharp eyes. Yu Manshu touched her belly at that time and said that she was pregnant but could not have an abortion due to physical reasons.
"I'm sorry to inconvenience you." Yu Manshu looked at her apologetically and with pity, saying the so-called apology but her eyes were condescending.
She shook her head: "No matter what happens to their family, as long as they don't cause trouble for us, who would want to bother with them!"
Qiao Qingqing hugged her mother and said with a smile: "Ignore them and live our own lives."
Qiao Qingqing's family gradually settled down in Qiuye Village, and she also gained some fame among the villagers with her medical skills. There was a shortage of doctors and medicine in the local area. There must be doctors on Ye Mountain, but ordinary people could not go up the mountain without permission. There were soldiers guarding the foot of the mountain with guns. There were doctors among the refugees from outside, but those who were willing to save people had no medicine, and those who had medicine asked for a high price. It had been several years since the natural disaster, and the medicine was getting less and less. Maybe one day, I or my relatives would get sick, and I would be short of a life-saving medicine.
Therefore, although more and more refugees gathered in Akiba Village, people could only endure when they were sick.
Qiao Qingqing has medicine on hand, and I heard that she also has ginseng. This is a bright halo, and more villagers are willing to come to her for treatment. But Qiao Qingqing doesn't prescribe medicine every time. When she prescribes medicine, she takes out crushed powder or soaked medicine. She said that the reserves are limited, and everyone believes this. Doctor Qiao's family only has a tricycle to carry luggage. I heard that people came here on foot. How much can they carry? It would be great to have some powder. They have been able to get through some minor illnesses in the past few years. Their body's resistance has increased a lot. If they can take some powder to speed up the recovery, it would be good.
The most common case treated by Qiao Qingqing was heatstroke, so she diluted the Huoxiang Zhengqi water with water and a large bottle could be sold out in just three or two days.
There were many types of rewards. The more generous ones gave a handful of rice, while the ordinary rewards were a bundle of firewood, a piece of clothing without patches, or an enamel cup. She also received a bamboo chair, which was the reward she received after she helped a child with a sprained ankle to fix the bones.
When the refugees from outside heard the news, they came to ask if they could sell him ginseng. Qiao Qingqing sold a box and asked for payment in gold, and the man readily agreed.
Later, there were occasionally such non-medical, purely business-oriented cases, and some people even came to ask if there was a certain brother.
“…” Although Qiao Qingqing did hoard a lot of things, she had never hoarded this kind of thing.
The man was a little disappointed, but finally bought some American ginseng.
Qiao Qingqing didn't sell more. After three sales, she said there was no stock left. No matter how high the price was, even if someone offered her a car, she refused.
"There really is no more. Otherwise, I live in a tent and have only a three-wheeled motorcycle at home. Why wouldn't I want an SUV? There really is no more, alas!"
After a few times, no one came to her to buy things anymore, and Qiao Qingqing focused on being "Doctor Qiao" and honing her medical skills while treating the villagers.
There are quite a few pregnant women in Qiuye Village. Haopo said that she is old and unable to do it, so she often asks Qiao Qingqing to help deliver babies. She speaks directly: "Everyone has nothing to do, so they can just have babies at home. In fact, Afang is lucky. At least her baby survived. In the past two years, I have dealt with three cases where both adults and children died. Alas! The village chief said that giving birth is painful these days, and asked the villagers to take it easy, but outsiders can't control what couples do at home at night. This family today gave birth to one during the heavy rain before, and one last year. That one was very difficult to give birth to, but look, there is another one this year! They really don't want to live anymore."
Qiao Qingqing cooperated with Haopo several times and learned some knowledge about midwifery. Haopo was also happy to teach her: "This is a good skill. My grandmother taught my mother, and my mother taught me. In the past, everyone gave birth this way. Later, people's lives became better, and the government did not allow people to give birth at home, so my skill was abandoned. I never thought that I would have to be a midwife again at the age of 70. You are young and a doctor, it would be great if you could learn how to midwife."
Shao Shengan was happy for his wife's successful career, but also worried about his own inability to find a career direction. He thought that there was definitely no need to repair circuits or electrical appliances in the village, but there were some on Yeshan.
There is a solar generator on Yeshan Mountain. At night, the lights are always on. Since there is electricity on the mountain, the equipment that needs electricity to start must be turned on, and once the equipment is turned on, it needs maintenance. He heard Qingqing say that there is an arsenal in Yeshan Mountain, and he doesn't know where there is a coal mine. He guessed that there might be an iron mine if there is an arsenal. In short, there should be job opportunities on Yeshan Mountain.
So when the military truck on Yeshan came down to deliver supplies, Shao Shengan went to ask, "Are you recruiting electricians?"
Jun looked him over and asked, "Are you an electrical engineer?"
"I'm not, but I can do some routine circuit maintenance and wiring. I can learn more advanced content."
"The mountain has recruited some professional talents before, and there is no shortage of them for the time being. You can register first, and we will notify you to come for an interview if we need you."
Shao Shengan was very happy: "Okay." He wrote down his name, hometown, education and address in the notebook.
The five deep wells in the village were dug quickly. Water is now the most precious resource for life, so five people were left on Yeshan Mountain to guard it. The leader, Wu, also discussed with the village chief, asking him to make arrangements for fetching water, so that the villagers would not rush in, and that no one person or group would occupy the deep wells and prevent others from getting water.
"I can do my best to arrange this. Now that there is water, everyone is so happy that they won't cause any trouble." Village Chief Ye was a little helpless. "But I can't take care of people who are not villagers of Qiuye Village. You have to take care of this."
Village Chief Wu nodded: "I have roughly counted the number of people. The number of outsiders is twice that of your village... So, the people of Qiuye Village will be divided into three wells, and the outside refugees will be divided into two wells. Do you think this is acceptable?"
Village Chief Ye readily accepted it. The world is not good, although the refugees from outside have occupied the survival resources of the villagers, as long as the leaders of Yeshan can protect the interests of their villagers, the two sides can still live in peace.
For the refugees, Wu set up a water schedule. The deep wells were closed when the sun rose, and water could be drawn after sunset and before sunrise. Each household could only draw water once a day, and adults, children and the elderly were allowed two liters of water a day. As for the order of drawing water, Wu also made arrangements, and drew lots to plan the water-drawing time.
Village Chief Ye also provided a water meter. The water specifications were set by Squad Leader Wu, so he could only arrange the time for the villagers to fetch water. After the lottery, Qiao Qingqing's family was assigned to fetch water between 3 and 4 in the morning.
"Let's go in two groups." Shao Sheng'an said, "I'll take the mothers to fetch water first. Qingqing, you take dad and big brother."
Qiao Qingqing had no objection to this arrangement. When the time came, Shao Shengan and the other three set out with buckets, and came back at 3:30 with half a bucket of water.
"There is a water receiver, which is made of two-liter beverage bottles. The well water is first pumped up and put into the bucket, and then the beverage bottles are used to measure the water. Each person measures one bottle, so there are three of us, so there are three bottles, no more." Shao Shengan explained, "It's good this way. Squad Leader Wu is there to watch over us, and the team is very orderly. There is no quarrel or fighting."
"Then let's go quickly!" said Shao's father.
After the deep water well was opened, the atmosphere in Akiba Village became noticeably more cheerful.
Although one person only had two liters of water a day, which was limited in time and quantity, it was already a luxury after the high temperature! You should know that among the water supplies distributed on Yeshan Mountain, there was only one 350 ml bottle of water a day. It was good to have two mouthfuls left after cooking (the rice was very hard because of insufficient water). In the high temperature, I sweated profusely every day, and my throat was smoking due to lack of water. I wanted to lick back all the sweat.
Everyone was in high spirits, as if it was Chinese New Year.
Qiao Qingqing's family had no shortage of water. The tap water she stored was enough for her family to eat and drink for at least fifteen years. During the rainy season, she stored a lot of rainwater for life. Qiao Qingqing boiled the water from the deep well and used it to make summer heat medicine. Before adding the dried honeysuckle to the water, she tasted it first.
"Isn't it tasty?" Shao Shengan asked when he saw her frowning.
"It's a little bitter." Qiao Qingqing said, "It's okay. You can't taste it after boiling the honeysuckle. I'll add a little bit of rock sugar."
She didn’t add a lot of honeysuckle, just a pinch, and finally put a piece of old rock sugar.
After boiling for more than an hour, the honeysuckle was boiled into transparent flocs. After cooling to room temperature, Qiao Qingqing filled a pot and asked Shao Shengan to take it to squad leader Wu and the others: "Bring a bowl."
Shao Shengan smiled and nodded: "Then I'll take my brother with me."
An hour later, Shao Shengan and the others came back and the kettle was empty.
"Squad Leader Wu refused to drink at first. I persuaded him for a long time, but they were too tired and just stood there motionless."
"The sun will soon rise. Once the deep well is locked, they can take a break."
"By the way, I also met the village chief and his son Changtian. I gave them all the extra honeysuckle water I had."
Qiao Qingqing smiled and said, "That's great. Even if I didn't meet the village chief, I would still like to send some to his family."
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