Yu Mingxiang: ...
Hearing him mention "friends" made me feel inexplicably strange.
However, she didn't dwell on such a trivial matter and went around to the stove to get busy.
A moment later.
The food is heated up.
Eating alone, Yu Mingxiang didn't go to the backyard, intending to make do on the cutting board, but...
She had just finished serving her rice and sat down when she saw Gu Guanhai also serve himself a bowl of rice and sit down next to her.
Yu Mingxiang frowned slightly, "You haven't eaten yet?"
"Um."
Gu Guanhai nodded, "I'm waiting for you to eat together."
Yu Mingxiang: ...
When her husband was still alive, he would cook meals and wait for her to eat together, but...
In both her past and present lives, her husband had been gone for decades, and she could barely remember what he looked like.
With mixed feelings, Yu Mingxiang lowered her head and ate her rice.
Gu Guanhai's cooking wasn't very good. The stir-fried pickled vegetable strips were too salty; you could tell he added salt while stir-frying. The steamed buns were also soggy from being heated, probably because they were put into the pot with cold water.
However, she was not picky and ate very well.
Seeing the stir-fried bok choy in front of Gu Guanhai, she couldn't help but smile.
"You're quite self-aware; you know to make yourself something light."
Gu Guanhai smiled and said, "That's right, I'll listen to you."
Yu Mingxiang: ...
Following the doctor's orders, it tasted somewhat off when it reached his mouth.
She coughed lightly and asked casually, "Did anyone come to see me for a medical appointment this morning?"
“Yes, Grandpa Ji who watches over the fishpond in Jijia Village has a leg ache and came to get some plaster. I got it for him for you.”
"Um."
Yu Mingxiang nodded, and the two of them fell silent.
After the meal, Gu Guanhai volunteered to wash the dishes.
Yu Mingxiang glanced at him and left the kitchen.
Her daughter-in-law has finished her postpartum confinement period, so she can no longer stay at home to see patients; she has to go back to work at the clinic.
She was just going through the motions, doing her job as a village doctor. Although most people in Northeast China stayed home to hibernate during this season and fewer people got sick, she still had to fulfill her duties. As for her daughter-in-law…
The baby still needed to be breastfed, and in this freezing weather, Yu Mingxiang didn't plan to let her daughter-in-law go to the clinic to help out anymore.
Yu Mingxiang went to the old village chief's house and told him that she could manage the health clinic by herself in the winter and that there was no need to calculate work points for her daughter-in-law. She went to the health clinic in the afternoon.
After winter set in, more elderly people sought out Yu Mingxiang for treatment of ailments such as rheumatism, and her reputation for effective plasters spread.
Not only did people from neighboring villages come to her for her plasters, but people from the town also came from far and wide.
Yu Mingxiang sold her medicine to her neighbors cheaply because Gu Guanhai subsidized it, but...
When she sold them to people in town, she charged them the normal price.
In this way, her clinic also started to generate income.
Yu Mingxiang thought this was a good idea; perhaps they could turn a profit in the future and wouldn't need Gu Guanhai's subsidies anymore.
Just as she was thinking about it, someone knocked on the door to come and see her.
An old man twisted his side while eating, and his ribs hurt.
Doctors don't distinguish between men and women. Yu Mingxiang massaged the old man for a while, prescribed him a blood-activating plaster, charged him one cent, and then saw him out.
The medicinal herbs in her hands were all wild herbs from Baishan, and their medicinal effects were many times better than those artificially cultivated herbs in later generations.
The old-fashioned plasters have a long-lasting effect, lasting for six or seven days.
It's okay if it falls off in the middle; just heat it over a fire, stick it back on, and it will still work.
Yu Mingxiang had just seen the old man off when the door of the clinic was knocked on again.
She opened the door and saw a well-dressed young man, so she quickly welcomed him inside.
"Dr. Yu, I am Li Jincheng from the town hospital."
As soon as Li Jincheng came in, he hurriedly said, "I came to Hedao Village once before. I heard that your daughter-in-law was in confinement after childbirth, so I didn't go to disturb her. I counted the days and your daughter-in-law should have finished her confinement, so I came again."
Upon hearing this, Yu Mingxiang looked puzzled.
"May I ask what brings you here?"
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