Chapter 48: Going to the Countryside as Educated Youth in the 1970s 11
[This is a parallel fictional world. Please do not take any similarities between place names and people as they appear.]
Zhao Qiancheng continued, "You showed off the photos, and your father was punished for two months. If you do it again, he'll probably have to spend a year on the sea for training, or lead new recruits to survive on a deserted island for a year."
Zhang Xiaojia lowered her head and listened to the lecture. She didn't know how her father was doing. She would go to make enhanced health pills tonight and send them to her father. She would send him a few more bottles so that he would be punished less. She also tried not to make a fuss.
Zhao Qiancheng talked for a long time and was thirsty. This unfortunate child didn't even bother to pour him a glass of water.
Yanyan brought a plate of dumplings and a bowl of egg soup and placed them in front of Zhao Qiancheng.
"Uncle Zhao, this is my apprentice, He Xinyan, who is studying medicine with me." Zhang Xiaojia introduced.
Zhao Qiancheng rolled his eyes in his heart. He had just finished his studies and he was already taking in apprentices. He was just like his boss, and that was how he was deceived by his boss.
Eat dumplings and drink soup with big mouthfuls.
After eating, he said, "Xiao Jia, I am the division commander of the 7968th Army of the First Corps in Jiucheng Province. If you need anything, come to me, okay? The political commissar of Jiucheng City is also your father's old subordinate, Li Jianguo. You can also go to him if you have any problems."
After saying that, he took out a cloth bag from his pocket and handed it to her. Zhang Xiaojia took a look and saw a lot of industrial tickets.
Zhang Xiaojia accepted it without hesitation because she knew what gift she could give to Uncle Zhao in return.
After Uncle Zhao’s wife had a miscarriage, she has not been able to get pregnant. She has done all the tests and there is nothing wrong with her, except that the baby is not coming. The medicine made from her good pregnancy grass came in handy.
I immediately ran back to the room and took out two bottles of pregnancy pills from the space grid.
Zhang Xiaojia handed the medicine to Zhao Qiancheng. He took the medicine and looked at her with raised eyebrows.
Apart from keeping secrets, the boss really told her everything he could. Don’t they have any face to lose?
Zhang Xiaojia said stiffly, "This medicine has some serious side effects. Women have more sexual demands, so you should be more careful. If you are unable to do so, take this." She took out the paper-wrapped medicine from her pocket and handed it to Zhao Qiancheng.
Zhao Qiancheng's face darkened. He was stunned for three seconds before taking the medicine and roaring in his heart, "I have endless strength."
Zhao Qiancheng took all the medicine, but still needed to ask some questions.
Zhao Qiancheng asked, "Besides the side effects you just mentioned, are there any other problems? Will it cause harm to pregnant women? Pregnant women are already in their 30s. Will their bodies suddenly become weak after giving birth? I just want a child, but I don't want to lose your aunt even more."
Zhang Xiaojia knew he was worried, so she brought out Grandpa Feng. "This medicine was made by Grandpa Feng and me. Don't worry, the old man said it won't harm pregnant women in the slightest. If you're really worried, after I give birth, you can come get the health pills for me."
"Master Feng, the traditional Chinese medicine doctor?"
"right"
Zhao Qiancheng spread out his left hand and signaled with his eyes to take out the health pills.
Zhang Xiaojia had no choice but to run back to the room and take out two bottles of health pills. He said, "Uncle Zhao, take these two bottles first, one every three days. After you finish, you will know the benefits of this medicine."
"You didn't give it to your dad?" Zhao Qiancheng asked, otherwise the old leader would definitely bring it up.
"I was planning to give my dad the enhanced health pills, but they're short of medicine. I'll look for them in a few days. If I can't find them, I'll just have to give him the regular health pills."
Zhao Qiancheng stood up, knowing that the child was fine. He whispered, "Xiao Jia, the clinic must not make too much money. We don't mind losing money. You can write to your father and Old Feng frequently to ask for money to subsidize the clinic. Let the Lord of Central City know where your father and Old Feng's money goes. Do you understand?"
Zhang Xiaojia immediately nodded to show that he understood.
Zhao Qiancheng lowered his voice again and said, "In your father's army, all packages and letters will be opened and inspected by the logistics department, no matter who they are from, even if the boss is the deputy commander. In the middle of next month, the Lord of Central City will go to inspect your father's troops. Remember, crying children get candy."
Zhang Xiaojia watched Zhao Qiancheng leave.
From that day on, Zhang Xiaojia no longer went out. He asked the He family to pick up and send all the packages. He also stopped going to the market and could only ask Xiaoshui to go to the market to buy eggs.
Early on Sunday morning, He Shijiu brought the twins to see Pangpang.
Fatty ignored He Shijiu and the twins. After He Shijiu put the twins down, He Liu called him away to deal with the blind grandmother's things.
Pangpang was eating sticky rice dumplings alone. It turned out that his sister didn’t like such delicious sticky rice dumplings.
Zhang Xiaojia didn't try to persuade him. No one could persuade him in such a matter. It all depended on what He Shijiu would do. What if she succeeded in persuading him, and Pangpang started to have expectations, and He Shijiu would come two or three times and then stop? What would Pangpang do then?
Give them independent space, and don't care as long as they don't fight. Zhang Xiaojia asked Xiaoai to go invisible and live broadcast for her.
He Xinyan was very nervous and kept looking into the room, worried that Pang Pang would be hurt.
"Master, aren't you worried? What if Fatty stabs someone again?"
"I won't stab you. Last time, Pang Pang was sad and irrational. Pang Pang is usually very well-behaved and would not do that. Besides, He Shijiu is not here, so what are you afraid of?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a child crying. He Xinyan hurried in and Zhang Xiaojia followed slowly.
I saw Pangpang sitting at the desk writing big characters. One of the little boys was sitting there watching Pangpang write seriously, while the other was sitting on the ground crying.
When Pangpang saw Zhang Xiaojia, he said nervously, "Sister, I was writing big characters seriously, but he was sitting on the ground and clamoring for sticky rice dumplings."
Zhang Xiaojia smiled and said, "Pangpang is really well behaved and studies hard."
"I'm very good and I won't cry for a bite of food."
"Yeah, Pangpang is the best. I'll make you delicious noodles with shrimp for lunch."
He Xinyan was speechless. "Master, can you be more responsible? A child is sitting on the ground crying. Can you please stop chatting for now?"
He Xinyan walked over and said, "Get up. How could a child of the He family sit on the ground and cry for a bite of food? Stop crying."
The child sitting on the ground immediately rolled over and said, "I want to eat seafood noodles too. If you don't give me some, I won't get up."
The little boy sitting next to Fatty shouted, "He Pingchen, get up!"
"No, I will get up only if they give me noodles and prawns."
Zhang Xiaojia was afraid that the child would cry, so she just left. It wasn't her own child, she didn't have a good impression of him, and she didn't have the patience to coax him.
Zhang Xiaojia saw on the video that Pang Pang threatened, "If you cry again, I will kick you out."
The little boy named He Pingchen stopped crying.
At noon, Ping'an and He Xinyan brought the food over, saying that He Shijiu had bought it and asked Ping'an's mother to cook it and send it over. He Shijiu did not eat here.
Pangpang didn't refuse and started eating.
In the evening, Pangpang leaned against Zhang Xiaojia and said, "Sister, do I have to recognize these two brothers?"
Zhang Xiaojia thought for a moment and said softly, "Return sincerity for sincerity. If he treats you well, you treat him well too. Feelings are developed through getting along with each other."
"If they're always nice to me, but I still don't like them, does that make me a bad kid?"
Zhang Xiaojia gently told Pangpang: "No, everyone has their own preferences and feelings. This doesn't mean you are a bad kid. Maybe as time goes by, you will find that you will slowly like them in the process of getting along with them! If you really don't like them, just let it go! The bottom line is that you can't use their kindness to hurt them."
"Well, I still don't quite understand, but I'll remember what you said."
When Zhang Xiaojia's package arrived at the army and was given to her father, no matter who it was, the package had to be unpacked and inspected.
The Lord of Central City asked, "Whose package is this?"
"It's a package from Deputy Commander Zhang Guocheng."
The Lord of Central City: "Demolish it, no need to wait for him to come"
I opened it directly and found a bag of 3 jin of dried bean curd sheets, 3 jin of fried peanuts, 10 jin of sweet potato vermicelli, 2 cured chickens, 5 jin of dried mushrooms, 3 jin of dried wild vegetables, 5 jin of Huang's, 2 jin of cured pork belly, 3 jin of corn candy, 100 pieces of ointment, 6 bottles of enhanced health pills, a box of hemostatic powder, and a box of sleeping pills.
“Is it always this rich?”
"No, not really. Apart from the two and a half cured chickens and 20 kilograms of sweet potato vermicelli sent during the Chinese New Year, the rest are all dried wild vegetables and mushrooms."
"There's another letter here."
"read"
When I opened the letter, there was a letter inside and a small envelope with a top-secret prescription written on the outside.
"Dad, hello!
Did you know that there's a market every month in our village? When I first arrived at the market, I was stunned. However, only villagers and educated youth who had settled there were allowed in. You couldn't enter. Comrades were guarding the market, and you had to stamp your entry and exit.
These chickens were bought at the market, but only once a year because it was the New Year and the chickens didn't lay eggs in winter, so the villagers would take them out to exchange for some money. I bought all the chickens at the market and gave you four and a half (I gave you two and a half last time), one and a half to Aunt Leng, and I kept one for myself.
Dad, actually I think I'm a much better doctor than Grandpa Feng. I saved the patient who the doctor ordered could not be cured. You tell Grandpa Feng that I seem to have mastered the Feng family's internal strength acupuncture in the Feng family medical manual. The He family asked me to take the medical exam, so I took the exam. Now I'm working as a village doctor. The small envelope must be kept strictly confidential. There are two prescriptions in it. One is a hemostatic drug, and the other is a modified version of the drug that can make a person unconscious in three seconds. You can find someone to experiment with this hemostatic drug. I've tested it on chickens. The bones of the chickens were exposed. I poured the powder into them. The wound healed in one minute and recovered in three minutes, leaving only a scar. But the chicken was in so much pain. I should have used Pu'ru animals, but I'm afraid of mice, and I dare not experiment on myself.
I have asked someone to test the drug and it found that an adult will fall into a coma in 3 seconds at most and will not wake up until 10 hours later.
I want to admit my mistake to you. I didn't live in the Youth League Home because I needed my own laboratory room to do experiments.
Didn't you give me 4,200 yuan? I bought a courtyard house in Dijiutun for 500 yuan. It has nine rooms. I've now used five of them as a clinic. The furniture and equipment for the clinic cost another 160 yuan. My clinic, while small, is fully equipped. I dug a ground fire dragon, otherwise the patients would get cold during acupuncture, which cost another 170 yuan. I spent 270 yuan on a set of scalpels, and I got some essential Western medicine. I also did some experiments on hemostasis and drugs, which made me spend 2,500 yuan. I've spent more than half of the dowry you gave me, Dad. Now I realize I don't have enough money. I used to do experiments at Grandpa Feng's house, and he always paid. I didn't expect him to be so generous. Please give me a few more acupuncture sets. The elderly here come to the labor union for acupuncture. I don't have enough needles.
But fortunately, I now have a monthly salary of 10 yuan and 20 kilograms of food, but you send me 50 yuan every month, Aunt Leng sends me 20 yuan, and Grandpa Feng sends me 30 yuan. I get 110 yuan a month, which is enough for me to eat well, but if I want to do experiments, I have to use my dowry.
Dad, you told me to serve the people, so I did these things
The hospital charges a registration fee, but I don't. Their acupuncture or cupping costs 0.3 yuan per session, but mine costs 0.1 yuan. I also made an ointment, which is very effective for back pain and pain after training. The cost of this ointment is 0.08 yuan, but mine costs only 0.11 yuan. The ointment in the hospital is even worse than mine, and it costs 0.2 yuan.
Dad, don't worry about me. I'm fine. Don't send me food coupons. I have enough food to eat. But you still need to send me money. My clinic has almost no money.
I'll also give you six bottles of enhanced health pills. The elderly in the He family are taking these pills, and they've improved significantly this winter. Take one every three days, and you'll see the results. If they work well, take three more bottles and flatter the Lord of Central City!
Uncle Zhao said you have to train with the new recruits, and you have to write reports and do work at night. I'm very worried about your health. Don't worry, I won't dare to show Zhang Yang again, and I won't show the photos again. Dad, you and Aunt Zhu must be well. Don't let Grandpa Feng go out to the sea to send me seafood in the middle of the night. What if something happens and I have to do it? That's it, Zhang Xiaojia, March 29, 1969.
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