After the meal.
As usual, Yu Mingxiang brought out the spiritual spring water.
Gu Guanhai: "..."
Looking at the overflowing "honey water" in front of him, he smiled and drank it all in one gulp.
Nothing was said that night.
The following day, the family of four officially began their life in the countryside.
Yu Mingxiang prepared the meal early. After the family ate, the village's work gong sounded, and she and Xue Ru saw their two sons off.
"Remember to wear gloves properly. Don't try to do too much on your first day. Start with the easiest jobs to get used to it and take it slow."
"Don't worry too much about the centimeters or anything like that. Mom won't let you go hungry, so don't worry!"
"..."
Unlike the "Old Nine" who were sent down to the countryside for labor reform, the educated youth sent to the countryside received similar treatment to the villagers, with more pay for more work.
The more centimeters you accumulate, the more food you can get, but...
Yu Mingxiang has a stockpile of goods, and her space is also filled with chickens, ducks, pigs, and sheep...
With plenty of grain and meat, she didn't care about the small amount of grain distributed by the village, and naturally, she didn't want the children to be tired.
"Mom, don't worry!"
The two brothers comforted them for a bit, then went to the meeting point together.
After they left, Yu Mingxiang and Xue Ru also went out.
The location of the clinic has been decided; it will be located at the other end of the village.
The village rented a storage room in a farmer's house at the edge of the village, facing the street. They sealed off the door facing inwards and opened a door facing outwards, then hung up a sign to turn it into a health clinic.
Yu Mingxiang and her daughter-in-law's task on the first day was to take an oxcart to the town hospital to get medicine.
In those days, medical conditions were limited. Even if a clinic was opened in a remote mountain village, the amount of medicine that could be dispensed was extremely small, consisting mainly of common medicines such as iodine solution and anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs. The variety was limited and the quantity was also very small.
The next day, the clinic door was open, and the carpenter brought over the prepared medicine rack. Yu Mingxiang then placed the medicines she had brought from the town hospital on it.
Looking at the empty medicine shelves with very few medicines, Yu Mingxiang sighed.
I couldn't resist secretly adding some more.
Her family drinks spiritual spring water every day and is in excellent health. The medicine her senior brother stocked up for her won't be needed for a while.
Yu Mingxiang didn't expect that Gu Guanhai would arrive just as she finished arranging the medicine and writing down the price list.
Watching him loitering in front of the medicine shelf, Yu Mingxiang exclaimed, "!!"
My heart was pounding with tension.
Unlike the honest and simple farmers in the village, Gu Guanhai had been out in the world for many years and was very knowledgeable. Yu Mingxiang didn't know if he knew about the drug dispensing quota of the village clinic, and she was afraid that he would find something amiss, after all...
Her senior brother had stockpiled the medicine for her; if the matter were investigated, it might implicate him.
Gu Guanhai noticed her nervousness, glanced at the prices on her menu (a few cents each), and left without saying anything.
Yu Mingxiang: ...
I breathed a sigh of relief as I watched him leave.
However, not long after he left, the old village chief arrived, bringing with him a stack of ten-yuan notes.
Seeing that the old village chief was about to leave without saying a word, Yu Mingxiang couldn't help but stop him.
"Uncle Village Chief, did he pay for this?
She secretly added medicine to the prescriptions and set extremely low prices for the villagers' medical treatment. The clinic not only failed to make a profit, but even lost money.
Yu Mingxiang originally planned to cover the losses herself, considering it an act of helping the poor and needy villagers, but unexpectedly, the old village chief sent her money.
She didn't think the village would cover the cost.
The old village chief knew who the "he" she was referring to was.
"It was him who produced it."
The old man smiled and said, "He said that Dr. Yu's desire to help his neighbors is well-intentioned, but you shouldn't have to pay for it."
“Our village is poor and remote. Over the years, he has helped us a lot behind the scenes. Back in the 1950s, during the great famine, many people starved to death all over the country, but thanks to his help, not a single person in our nearby villages starved to death…”
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