Chapter 46: Going to the Countryside as Educated Youth in the 1970s
[This is a parallel fictional world. Please do not take any similarities between place names and people as they appear.]
Zhang Xiaojia looked at the group of girls seriously and said, "I will only accept one apprentice. He Xinyan will stay. If anyone else wants to learn, they can come and study tomorrow."
He Xinyan raised her head for the first time since coming here, and looked at Zhang Xiaojia with wide eyes.
Zhang Xiaojia smiled and said to her, "Would you like to be my apprentice?"
He Xinyan nodded vigorously and said loudly, "I do."
When it comes to memory, some people are born good at it. For example, she can memorize an article after reading it once or twice, and she will never forget it. Others can also memorize it after reading it once or twice, but they forget it quickly. There are also some people who still make a lot of mistakes even after reading it more than ten times.
Her apprentice He Xinyan takes longer to memorize than others, but her advantage is also obvious. Once she has memorized it well, she will not forget it.
It took her a week to memorize all 720 acupoints of the human body. It seems that this clumsy apprentice will need two months. After becoming familiar with the acupoints, the meridians will be easy to remember.
She didn't keep any records before, but now she classified the typical cases and wrote them down to leave for He Xinyan to read.
He Xinyan looked at the master quietly. She didn't expect that the master would choose her in the end. Now she felt it was as unreal as a dream. The doctors said that she couldn't be cured, but the master didn't care. He still gave Grandma Xiaocao an acupuncture and saved her life. It was really amazing.
Zhang Xiaojia knocked He Xinyan with the book and said, "Focus, do you understand?"
He Xinyan immediately replied "I understand"
Zhang Xiaojia motioned her to try it, and she quickly operated the cupping jar and put it on her arm.
Very good, the operation is not shaky, and he learned the skills immediately after two lessons. He is an operation-oriented player.
"Now that you've learned it, go and memorize the position."
He Xinyan went to carry it obediently.
Zhang Xiaojia stays at home every day, and the Spring Festival is coming the day after tomorrow.
Every time the Spring Festival is approaching, the market is held in Dijiutun, and Zhang Xiaojia takes his apprentice, Pangpang, with him.
This market had the most abundant items, with long queues at the He family's wine stall and the Ninth Village's corn candy stall.
He Xinyan said, "Master, today we are selling the wine brewed by our uncle. Do you want to queue up?"
"Is Uncle He Wu's wine so good? No, there are so many people here. Let's go back to the village and find the old patriarch to exchange it. We want to buy glutinous rice, chicken, duck, goose, and mutton today."
After walking around, Zhang Xiaojia was angry because he didn't buy any of them as they were all sold out.
Seeing a bag of hazelnuts, which cost 0.1 yuan per pound, Zhang Xiaojia bought them all.
I saw glutinous rice, it cost 0.2 yuan, only 5 jin, buy
She has everything else.
Zhang Xiaojia was still feeling depressed about not being able to buy meat at the market today when he heard his apprentice say that a pig was being slaughtered in the village. Zhang Xiaojia immediately took Pangpang to wait there.
When I got there, the place was almost empty and all the meat was gone. The pig's feet, pig's heads, and even pig's intestines had all been snatched away.
There were only a few bones left. Zhang Xiaojia looked at the bones and was pushed away before he could say anything. The team leader gave priority to selling them to the village.
Zhang Xiaojia could only carry Pangpang home. There was too much meat in the space, and she couldn't get it out through a clear path, so she could only eat it herself.
The next day, He Xinyan came to tell her that the He family was slaughtering a pig that afternoon. Zhang Xiaojia had given up hope. She couldn't even buy meat in the village, let alone from the He family. She couldn't even win the fruit last time.
At worst, you can use radish, shrimp, or radish and eggs as the filling for dumplings on New Year’s Eve.
On this day, Xiaoshui brought her a basket of eggs and 10 sticky rice dumplings, and the He family started their journey of sending sticky rice dumplings. This family got 4, that family got 6. After receiving all the dumplings, Zhang Xiaojia would take out a pen and write them down. If someone wanted to return the favor, Zhang Xiaojia would keep all the plates and plan to return the favor tomorrow.
There are 60 households in the He family, and 58 of them received sticky rice dumplings. They are all families with elderly people. They have all received acupuncture and cupping in the health center this month. I counted and found that I received 312 sticky rice dumplings.
She can eat sticky rice dumplings for a long time.
Zhang Xiaojia had a headache and didn't know what to give as a return gift. After thinking for a long time, she decided to make pills, which was her specialty. Zhang Xiaojia planned to make a batch of health-preserving pills tonight.
Zhang Xiaojia made the health-preserving pills, wrapped them in paper, and asked Yanyan to deliver them to her, telling them to give them to the elderly people in the family, one pill a week would be enough.
There were hidden dangers, but she didn't expect Ping An to send her 2 kilograms of hind leg meat and 3 kilograms of pork belly. When Zhang Xiaojia saw pork for the first time in this world, her eyes were filled with tears.
"Ping An, how much is it?"
"Sister, this meat was sent by the He family. The He family doctor and the teacher of the He family school each received 5 kilograms."
On New Year's Eve, He Xinyan came early in the morning to help her with the cooking. She made stir-fried chicken offal with kimchi, chicken feet and prawn vermicelli casserole, pumpkin pancakes, a braised sea fish, a plate of cured chicken, braised pork and potatoes, stir-fried bean sprouts, and dumplings (with radish and shrimp filling, pork and cabbage filling, egg and leek filling).
Ping An brought the fruit wine he brewed, which was sour and sweet. Zhang Xiaojia liked it very much.
"Master, you eat meat, why do you eat bean sprouts?"
"I like"
"Sister, pumpkin pie is delicious, soft and sticky, with a sweet milky flavor.
Zhang Xiaojia only then realized that there is no holiday on New Year's Eve here. Farmers have to work all year round and only have two days off during the Spring Festival. Farmers really have the hardest time.
The city also has one day off per week.
Early in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year, He Xinyan came to wish her a happy new year with a 2-jin piece of pork and a 10-jin jar of wine. Zhang Xiaojia gave her a big red envelope and a brand new notebook and pen.
The children in the village also came to pay New Year's greetings. Zhang Xiaojia gave each of them two pieces of sweet potato rice candy and two pieces of fruit candy.
Although superstitions are being dispelled now, deep down, Chinese people still believe that it is best not to go to the hospital during the Chinese New Year. Zhang Xiaojia has had a very quiet time during this period.
The fat boy next door was taken by his blind grandmother to visit his aunt in the next county, and everything became quiet all of a sudden. Zhang Xiaojia planned to prepare some Chinese patent medicines. In the interstellar world, there are vaccines for chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes, and they are given vaccines at birth. She planned to prepare vaccines for these chronic diseases.
"Sister, my aunt (the blind grandma) is dying. Can you go to the county town?" Ping'an ran over and shouted.
Zhang Xiaojia was startled and said hurriedly, "Don't worry, Ping'an. Didn't the blind grandmother take Pangpang to visit her sister's family? What's going on?"
Ping An paused for a few seconds and said, "Sister, I don't know the specific situation. It was Uncle He who told me. Now my father wants you to go to the county city hospital with him."
Zhang Xiaojia took the medical kit and went to the assembly point. He got on the tractor and watched He Wu driving fast while He Qi and He Ba smoked.
When they arrived at the hospital, the four of them ran all the way to the ward. In the corridor, they heard Pang Pang's desperate cries. Zhang Xiaojia had a bad feeling.
When we arrived at the ward, the blind grandmother had already passed away.
Pangpang wiped his tears with his arm, picked up the fruit knife on the table and stabbed it directly at He Shijiu.
Zhang Xiaojia immediately threw out the silver needle, and He Wu immediately went over to take a look. Fortunately, it was winter and Pangpang was wearing a lot of clothes, so he didn't have much strength. The knife only penetrated one centimeter into the skin. Zhang Xiaojia took out the hemostatic powder and poured it directly on the wound.
He Qi hugged Pang Pang and prevented him from coming forward.
He Shijiu couldn't stand the pain from the powder and kept yelling for a minute. Wu Feifei was so scared that she waited until He Shijiu stopped yelling, and then she also yelled, "Hubby, how are you?"
He Shijiu's skin was itchy as if there were ten thousand ants crawling on it. After a while, he said, "I'm fine."
Wu Feifei stood up and cursed, "How dare you stab your own father with a knife, you beast? I'm going to report you to the police."
He Shijiuhe and He Wu shouted at the same time, "Shut up."
Zhang Xiaojia came to her mother-in-law and checked the cause of her death. It was a car accident, ruptured internal organs, craniocerebral injury, hemorrhagic shock, and she died after falling into a coma.
Zhang Xiaojia closed her eyes. If she were there, without the medical cabin and advanced medical equipment, she might not be able to be saved even with her silver needles.
Pangpang bit his lower lip to keep silent and stared at He Shijiu fiercely.
He Shijiu walked over, pried open Pang Pang's mouth, and handed his arm over. Pang Pang bit it hard.
When He Wu saw that He Shijiu's wound healed instantly, he became more convinced of Zhang Xiaojia's medical skills and more disappointed with Shijiu.
Knowing he couldn't get anything out of him in this situation, He Wu left.
Seeing He Shijiu's arm being bitten and bleeding, Zhang Xiaojia walked over, hugged Pangpang, and said gently, "That's enough, Pangpang, I'm sorry, I'm late, I'm sorry."
Pangpang opened his mouth, hugged Zhang Xiaojia and cried, "Sister, I don't have a grandma anymore. I asked him to invite you over, and he clearly promised to invite you, but he lied to me. I hate him, I hate him, I never want to see him again."
Zhang Xiaojia slowly stroked her back, held her in his arms and comforted her.
He Wu came back with a new set of clothes and gave them to Zhang Xiaojia. With red eyes, he said, "Xiaojia, please change my second aunt's clothes."
Zhang Xiaojia nodded and said to Pangpang, "Pangpang, let's dress grandma."
Zhang Xiaojia took Pangpang to clean the blind grandmother and put clothes on her.
He Wu led He Shijiu out of the ward. As soon as he reached the door, he raised his hand and slapped He Shijiu hard. He asked in a cold tone, "Why didn't you tell us? Didn't Pangpang ask you to find Zhang Xiaojia to help? Why didn't you go and find him?!"
He Shijiu covered his face, his heart filled with regret and self-blame. He knew he had made a big mistake, thinking that she was only 18 years old and could not have any superb medical skills.
Seeing her sprinkle medicine powder on his wound and it healed quickly, he regretted it, deeply regretted it. If he had listened to Pang Pang at that time and asked Zhang Xiaojia for help, perhaps his mother would still have a chance of survival.
He Shijiu choked up and said, "Fifth brother, I was wrong. It's all my fault. I shouldn't have disobeyed Pang Pang. If I had gone to find her earlier, maybe Mom wouldn't have died."
He Wu's eyes were red. He took a deep breath and tried to calm down.
He Qi walked over, patted He Shijiu's shoulder gently and said, "Brother, this matter can't be blamed entirely on Shijiu. No one expected Xiao Jia to have such high medical skills."
After completing all the formalities, Zhang Xiaojia and Pangpang had already dressed the blind grandmother, and He Ba also brought the coffin. He Wu, He Qi, He Ba, and He Shijiu together carried the blind grandmother and put her into the coffin.
He Wu refused to let Wu Feifei enter the He family, so He Shijiu had to take his twin sons back.
According to He Wu's temper, he doesn't even want He Shijiu.
Even the He family did not dare to open a mourning hall. All the He family members just stayed in the ancestral hall in the dark all night. Early the next morning, all the He family members sent the blind grandmother up the mountain.
Pangpang followed Zhang Xiaojia all the time, not talking or crying, and looked dazed. Zhang Xiaojia had no choice but to take her to make warm soup and share it with the He family so that she could go and thank them.
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