"Dr. Yu, you should keep this to yourself. Don't tell anyone else. Guan Hai isn't a showy person."
Yu Mingxiang: ...
I stared at the old village chief's departing figure for a long time, unable to come back to my senses.
She met Gu Guanhai in the black market of Beijing. Her first impression of him was that he was a rough, lecherous man. However, now that they lived under the same roof, the rough man was still the same rough man, but the lecherous man was no longer the lecherous man she remembered.
Although he would intentionally or unintentionally approach her, he would deliberately maintain a distance from her daughter-in-law.
Big things reveal one's sense of responsibility, small things reveal one's vision, and details reveal one's character.
Even Yu Mingxiang had to admit that Gu Guanhai's character and integrity were quite good, completely different from her first impression.
"Mom, what's wrong with Uncle Gu...?"
Xue Ru observed her mother-in-law's expression, hesitating to speak.
Yu Mingxiang snapped out of her daze, took a deep breath, and said, "He's just wasting money, let's ignore him!"
Despite saying that, from then on, Gu Guanhai's water after every meal was "honey water" without fail.
As time went on.
The stinging in Gu Guanhai's eyes gradually subsided, and his vision gradually became clearer.
He knew clearly that the eye injury that had troubled him for many years was gradually healing.
Yu Mingxiang's work at the clinic quickly got on track. After all, it was the only place in the surrounding villages where people could see a doctor, and the prices were much cheaper than at the town hospital, so the villagers were all willing to come here for treatment. Yu Mingxiang and Xue Ru also got busy.
Xue Ru has a strong learning ability and quickly mastered the techniques of massage, making her a helpful assistant at the clinic.
As for Qin Weiguo and Qin Xiangdong, they were not used to working at first, and blisters appeared on their hands within two days. However, they gradually mastered the techniques of exerting force and got used to it.
The wardrobe that Yu Mingxiang made was delayed for a few days because the carpenter was busy making a goal and medicine shelves for the clinic.
The bed is here, the wardrobe has been delivered, and there's a place to put the clothes.
The house is starting to feel more and more like a home.
Compared to her previous life of being sent to the countryside, Yu Mingxiang is very satisfied with her current life.
Because of the cold weather in Northeast China, she quickly discovered that many of the elderly people who came to her clinic for treatment suffered from ailments such as rheumatism.
For this disease, painkillers can only temporarily relieve the pain; they do not cure the underlying cause.
Although Yu Mingxiang studied Western medicine, she also had some knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine. There are mountains behind Hedao Village, so she lived off the land. She reported to the old village chief and hung up a sign for the clinic. From then on, she would collect medicinal herbs in the mountains in the morning and see patients in the afternoon.
The mountain path was difficult to traverse, so Yu Mingxiang dared not let her daughter-in-law follow her up the mountain and instead told her to stay at home and rest.
Because the clinic's fees were so low, the villagers were grateful to the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. In addition, Xue Ru was pregnant, so even though they knew she stayed home to rest for half a day every day, the villagers didn't say anything.
Of course, among those who were also sent to the countryside as educated youth, some were envious, but...
Treating patients is a professional job. They really can't do this delicate work without the right skills. Even if they are envious, there's nothing they can do. Besides, if they have any illness or pain, they have to shamelessly go to Yu Mingxiang for treatment.
On the first day that Yu Mingxiang went up the mountain to collect herbs with a basket on her back, Gu Guanhai appeared behind her with a machete.
He didn't say anything.
Yu Mingxiang didn't say anything.
On the contrary, Xue Ru, who was worried about her mother-in-law's safety going up the mountain alone, breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the two of them going up the mountain together, and had other plans in mind.
That night.
Back in her room, Xue Ru mentioned the matter to her husband.
She felt that Uncle Gu might have ulterior motives towards her mother-in-law, while her mother-in-law was cold and indifferent, making it hard to say.
After listening to his wife's words, Qin Weiguo pondered for a moment and said, "My father has been gone for more than ten years. At first, some people advised my mother to remarry, but she refused for the sake of the three of us siblings. Now..."
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