Chapter 257 Wild
The next day, Lin Shu and Lu Shaotang led a group of people back to Qizhou.
A jeep could not accommodate them, so they had to take the tractor that Brother Lu and his team used to deliver goods.
This time, the goods that Brother Lu delivered to Qizhou were mainly linen bags, sanitary incense, high-end incense, medicinal wine, and rabbit meat.
There were a total of 20 barrels of medicinal wine, 12 barrels were purchased from Director Guan Wei, and the other 8 barrels were ordered by Director Sun and others from Lin Shu, and some were sold by Brother Lu himself.
Wine is expensive these days, and medicinal wine is naturally more expensive. It can be considered a high-end product, so the price is naturally not low.
Because it involves food and a lot of medicinal materials, the production volume will not be too high.
Now the Lujiazhuang Brigade has bought back the excess sorghum from many brigades in the commune. No matter how much more it buys, it cannot exceed the quota for the brigade's sideline business.
So 20 barrels is the most they can give out at a time, and at other times, they can only give out a few barrels at most.
The meat rabbits are ordered by many unit canteens.
It is already late autumn, and there is no grass or a lot of vegetables to supplement. Raising rabbits in the countryside requires consuming coarse grains, and many families don't have that much grain. Now they are gradually clearing out, leaving the female rabbits to breed and give birth to rabbits in winter.
So Brother Lu brought out a lot of meat rabbits this time.
Because it is a sideline business of the brigade, it can be sold in large quantities to the canteens of various units openly, and it doesn't have to set up a stall on the street, and no one will catch it. It is really quite easy.
This time, Brother Lu had to help Carpenter Tan pull half a truckload of wood back. This was something Lin Shu had agreed with her cousin Yang Shumin. Last time, her sister-in-law helped pull half a truckload. In the future, Brother Lu and his friends would help pull the wood when they went to the city to deliver goods. When they
arrived at No. 8 Courtyard, Lu Shaotang went to work, and Zhan Jiali didn't bother anyone and took the bus home.
Lu Hehuan couldn't wait, so she took Sister Lin to the Provincial Writers Association.
Lu Hehuan went to the Provincial Writers Association to report, and she would be assigned creative tasks later. Sister Lin joined the Art Association under the Qizhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and could also take on some painting work.
At that time, the Writers Association and the Art Association were both subordinate units of the Cultural Bureau of the Revolutionary Committee, and they had a staffing system and salary.
Sister Lin transferred her household registration and food and oil relationship to the Meiji Association, and will be able to receive a monthly salary of 35.85 yuan and buy 30 kilograms of food. Before, as a family member of an employee, she had no salary and only 26 kilograms of food a month.
Lu Hehuan is now on secondment to the Provincial Writers Association to write, and her monthly salary is also over 30 yuan. Her food and oil relationship has also been temporarily transferred to the province, and she has 30 kilograms of food a month, and other coupons are also available.
Go one day earlier, enjoy one day earlier.
Sister Lin originally wanted to go back to pack up and settle the children, but Lu Hehuan took her away.
Lu Hehuan: "Sister, my sister-in-law will take the children to clean up, anyway, she doesn't go to work."
Sister Lin: "Hehuan, although your sister-in-law doesn't go out to work, she is even busier at home."
Lu Hehuan: "Sister, don't think too much, I didn't mean that my sister-in-law doesn't go to work, I just said that she doesn't rush at home, and if we go late, we will be delayed for one more day."
She didn't want to go home for the festival. Mid-Autumn Festival is nothing special.
Sister Lin also knew that she either had a grudge against Lin Shu or was inconsiderate of others, so she didn't say much.
After they left, Lin Shu took the children to clean up the house and Sister Lin's house.
Guan Ze happened to have a stomachache today and took a leave to rest at home. When he heard that Panpan Tiantian and Hou Wei came back, he immediately ran over with a new picture book "Swallow Li San" to help clean up.
Panpan: "Aren't you sick? Take a rest."
Guan Ze was very energetic, "I'll be fine in the morning. I just don't want to go to school, hehe."
He gave some comic books to Panpan.
Panpan introduced his three brothers and one sister to Guan Ze.
Except for Hou Ying who was a little older than them and could play together, the other three brothers were all over ten years old and didn't like playing with children. Guan Ze was not very interested.
But he also greeted them very politely.
It was almost time. Lin Shu took Hou Ying to cook, and Lu Ping asked Panpan and Tiantian to take them around the neighborhood, mainly to understand the surrounding environment.
Where are the schools, state-owned vegetable markets, comic book stalls, etc., what fun things are there around, etc.
Lu Ping and his friends also saw the police station, and stood at the door curiously looking around for a long time.
Lu An was even more curious, "Qizhou is so big, much bigger than our Qingxian County, it feels like it's bigger than several county towns
." Hou Bo smiled and said, "Of course, Qizhou used to be the prefectural capital, located in two county towns, and then it was expanded several times, and several large factories were opened, and now it must be bigger than several county towns."
Lu An: "I think so, we drove here for a long time."
Hou Bo: "Wait until the weekend, then I will accompany you to go out and play."
Lu An immediately asked excitedly what fun things there were.
Panpan, Hou Wei and others rushed to introduce the zoo, amusement park, park, museum, air-raid shelter, cinema, theater, big hospital, Qizhou University, Qizhou Technical College, etc.
The latter ones were added by Guanze, after all, Panpan and Tiantian had never been there.
Lu Ping was very interested in the university and wanted to see it.
He had no idea about it before, but now he heard the introduction from Auntie San, Uncle Chen, Zhan Jiali and others, and knew the process of the university becoming a worker-peasant-soldier university, and also knew some general circumstances.
Seeing is believing, so the more he listened, the more curious he became.
Hou Bo: "Tomorrow my aunt will take us to the school to register, and after school I will take you to visit the university."
Of course, we will go to Qizhou University first, which is the best university in the province, the provincial university.
It was getting dark, and they passed by the Revolutionary Committee in front but didn't go in, because they had to go home for dinner.
Sister Lin got home earlier than them, and was telling Lin Shu about her and Lu Hehuan's registration.
"It's really different if you have connections or not. We went there and handed in the letter of introduction and transfer documents, and they stamped it a few times, and Hehuan moved in directly. I came back and handed in the household registration to the street office, and I can buy food and other things here in the future."
If you don't have connections, you will have to wait for a few days for a normal transfer. If you give some gifts, they will process it quickly. If you don't give gifts, it's normal to take ten days or half a month. Either
this document is missing or your document doesn't meet the standards, so you have to run three or five times.
Anyway, it was very hard when they first moved here from my father-in-law's house in the arsenal.
Lin Shu smiled, "It can't be helped. It's said that it's easy to see King Yan, but hard to deal with little devils."
When Lu Shaotang and Chen Yanming came back, the house was naturally more lively.
This liveliness was mainly brought by Chen Yanming.
Panpan asked him sweetly how was it going to celebrate the festival at his godmother's house?
They learned a lot of teasing words about their sons-in-law in the countryside, such as "What gifts did you bring when you went to your mother-in-law's house for the festival? Do your mother-in-law and father-in-law like you?" and "My mother-in-law thinks you are getting more and more beautiful."
Unfortunately, my godmother was very busy after the festival. She had surgery every day, so she couldn't come over for dinner in the evening.
Chen Yanming said proudly: "Of course it looks better and better the more I look at it, especially when your sister Jiali is not here, then I am the center, and I will be the one who picks up food for me and lets me eat this and that."
Panpan Tiantian and Hou Wei were very envious when they heard this. Compared with Lu Xiuxiu and Hou Ying who don't like to visit, these three... mainly Panpan Tiantian, Hou Wei just follows to make up the numbers, they really like to visit.
They think visiting is particularly interesting. Visiting different people's homes is like opening an unknown world, which always brings surprises.
Lin Shu: Are you two treating visiting relatives as opening a blind box?
What's the style of this family, what's the fun of that family?
After dinner, it's time for games and chatting. Their children have always been learning and playing, and learning through entertainment. They learn new things and gain knowledge while playing games and chatting.
Especially Panpan, Tiantian and Hou Wei, many of them learned a lot from playing house.
When playing house, they played games of teachers giving lectures, and they learned arithmetic, recited articles, and guessed riddles. When playing games of doctors, nurses and patients, they followed Old Man Lu to identify acupuncture points, learn herbs, recite knowledge, and even do first aid and prescribe common medicines. Helping Old Man Lu to sort herbs and make medicinal wine was also playing house.
When the countryside just started to promote eugenics, they played eugenics games for a long time. They knew all the terms such as IUD insertion and sterilization.
Tonight we are playing Swallow Li San, studying how to be a thief, how to fly over eaves and walls, how to pull onions on dry land, how to press acupoints, how...
The children were so excited reading the comic books that they were even more excited when discussing.
"Is this how Swallow Li San presses acupoints?" Panpan imitated the comic books and gestured.
Lu An immediately had a different opinion, "It should be like this."
Panpan: "But if you press acupoints, you have to press on the acupoints, right?"
Several children discussed it seriously, and even wanted to try to gesture.
Tiantian: "Stop! Don't gesture randomly, Grandpa said that some acupoints on the human body are very fragile and important. You can't poke them casually, let alone touch them hard, otherwise it will kill you!"
She pointed to several places such as the temples, the sides of the neck, and the heart.
Upon hearing this, Chen Yanming immediately praised the young lady for her knowledge, and then gave the children a lesson on how to protect themselves, especially how to avoid being hit in the vital parts when children fight, and also avoid hitting other people's vital parts, but what if their lives are in danger? Then poke the enemy in the vital parts!
Hou Bo was very curious, "Uncle Chen, can you really kill someone with one punch?"
Panpan rushed, "Of course you can. If my father had not shown mercy that time, he would have smashed Xu Ermao's face with one punch.
The skull is hard, and there are hard bones in the face, but the temples, nose, and chin are very fragile, and they can't withstand a full-strength blow from someone with a strong fist like Lu Shaotang.
Chen Yanming nodded, "So you must pay attention to protecting yourselves, and be sensible when fighting with others. "
They never teach their children "Don't fight with others". If someone bullies you, you still have to fight, but you can't have meaningless fights, and you must not overestimate your own abilities and suffer a big loss.
The children said they learned their lesson.
Especially Hou Bo and Lu An, they are somewhat impulsive.
Lu Shaotang came back from helping Lin Shu wash the dishes, and said to the children: "Starting tomorrow morning, the boys will follow us for morning exercises, and the girls can volunteer. "
His wife often couldn't get up and didn't like to get up early. He tacitly accepted that girls could sleep in and didn't need to get up early to exercise.
He took the children to exercise mainly to strengthen their bodies and learn some fighting skills. Girls didn't need to learn this, so it was okay. The main reason was that he didn't want his daughter to crawl around in the fights, and Hou Ying was a quiet person, so she definitely didn't like it, so he naturally didn't force it.
Anyway, the daughter and the son were twins, and they studied together. The boys could also do it after they trained well. Protect the sisters.
At night, Sister Lin took Lu Ping, Lu An and Hou Bo home to sleep. There were bunk beds in her two rooms, just right for the boys to sleep.
She had taken a job from the Art Association and had to work these days, so it was more quiet to paint at home.
Hou Ying slept here with her younger brothers and sisters.
So the next morning, when Lin Shu and the girls were still sleeping soundly, Lu Shaotang and Chen Yanming took the boys out for morning exercises.
The Public Security Group of the Revolutionary Committee, also known as the Public Security Bureau, They had a separate compound next to the Revolutionary Committee compound, which had a special training ground.
They went there to train.
The police officers who got up early for morning exercises saw a few young boys climbing up the tree as nimble and agile as monkeys.
Two of them were only seven or eight years old at most?
They were also climbing up the tree, and at that speed!
The speed of these children climbing trees was trained in the countryside. After all, there was no exercise equipment at home, and they could only run. It's tree climbing.
You said you were running around in the village?
You're guaranteed to be surrounded by the members watching you, thinking you're well fed. You work so hard every day, and you finally have some time to rest, but you're still running? If
you have that much energy, you can open up wasteland, collect fertilizer, or do anything else.
So Lu Shaotang taught the children to climb trees.
Climbing trees exercises all the muscles in the body!
Captain Yuan led a group of young people, "Director Lu, Director Chen, are these your own children?"
Lu Shaotang introduced them to Lu Ping and the other two.
Lu Ping brought his brothers to greet Captain Yuan and the others, "Uncle Yuan," and the others were all uncles.
Captain Yuan looked at Lu Shaotang's muscular body and silently swallowed his envious saliva.
He and Lu Shaotang were not acquainted until they had a fight. When Lu Shaotang first came, he looked at the young Director Lu. Although he was tall and muscular, he was not very strong.
Anyway, he was not as strong as himself.
He felt that he could beat three Lu Shaotangs at once.
One day, he took the initiative to invite Lu Shaotang to a competition while he was doing morning exercises, and then... he became obedient.
He was convinced. This man didn't look very strong, but he was strong. When his muscles were stretched, they were like elastic iron plates. Let's
put it this way, if an ordinary person punched him, he might not feel anything, but the opponent's hand would hurt a lot.
If Lu Shaotang was not the director and his work was better than his, he really wanted to pull him into his team.
With such team members, as the captain, I can sleep two more hours every day.
Of course, these can only be thought of by myself.
As they were chatting, several people went to the cafeteria and happened to meet Yan Zhendong who was yawning and coming out to buy breakfast.
Yan Zhendong yawned loudly and said to them: "I really envy you guys with good physiques, who get up earlier than chickens and have more energy than cows!"
Captain Yuan: "Director Yan, is it possible that you are not in good spirits because you get up late?"
Yan Zhendong waved his hands and said depressedly: "No, this is an occupational disease. People who do writing work are prone to insomnia. If you can't sleep well, you can't get up, right?"
Chen Yanming suggested that he see a doctor.
Yan Zhendong: "Hey, it's useless. The doctor will prescribe sleeping pills for me. The more nervous I am, the worse I will feel."
Panpan, who was running and jumping with Hou Wei, suddenly said, "Uncle Yan, you have to see a Chinese doctor, get acupuncture, and drink some herbal soups. There are many herbal medicines that can help you sleep and calm your nerves, such as sour jujube seeds, polygonatum, lily, wolfberry, longan, etc. Oh, and there is medicinal wine. Didn't my mother give it to Aunt Chen? Didn't you drink it?"
Yan Zhendong looked at Panpan in astonishment. He knew that Lu Shaotang and the two children from Lin Shu's family were smart, but...how old are you? Aren't you too smart?
Panpan thought he didn't believe it, so he immediately asked an adult to endorse him, "My grandpa is a barefoot doctor, and he gets the certificate of the best barefoot doctor in the county every year. Tiantian learned acupuncture from him. You have trouble sleeping, so boil more herbs to soak your feet, and then acupuncture a few acupoints."
He also pointed to his hands and arms, "It's just a few acupoints, not the head, don't be afraid."
He was very dedicated to finding someone to be a test subject for Tiantian.
He didn't think he was fooling people, because when he was in the countryside, Tiantian helped grandpa to acupuncture people, and acupuncture was done on the hands, feet, arms, legs and back.
Grandpa said that she was very accurate in identifying acupoints!
They were in a hurry to go home for dinner, so they chatted for a few words and then dispersed.
Yan Zhendong also bought breakfast and went home. He couldn't help but say to Chen Huilan, "The two children in the Lu family are really amazing. They are very talkative. Today, Panpan told me a lot about how to relax and sleep. I was stunned."
Chen Huilan smiled and said, "How can it be true? Panpan is not good at this. Tiantian is really good. When it comes to seeing a doctor, Just like that doctor, oh, by the way, their grandfather is a doctor, very powerful."
Yan Zhendong: "Isn't he just a barefoot doctor? How powerful can he be?"
In Yan Zhendong's view, barefoot doctors are specially set up to fill the gap in the lack of regular doctors in the countryside. It's not like he hasn't worked in the countryside before, and he has also come into contact with local barefoot doctors. It's hard to describe. It
can be said that many barefoot doctors only know three tricks, analgin, chlortetracycline, and throat pills, nothing more.
Anyway, if you can get rid of the disease by enduring it, you can go to them and they will be fine. Of course, there may be problems. Some people go to barefoot doctors for high fever or inflammation, and end up being diagnosed with polio.
Yan Zhendong really doesn't have a good impression of barefoot doctors.
Knowing that Lu Shaotang's father is a barefoot doctor, he also helps everyone make medicinal wine, and the reputation of the medicinal wine is also very good, but he thinks that medicinal wine depends on the prescription, as long as there are good medicinal materials and wine, it will be fine, which is different from seeing a doctor.
Lu Shaotang's father is a barefoot doctor, mostly because of his son's influence, but no one talks about it, and he certainly won't say it.
But if you ask him to believe how good Lu's father's medical skills are, I'm sorry, he basically doesn't believe it.
Chen Huilan has a good relationship with Lin Shu. Although she has not personally experienced Lu's father's medical skills, she doesn't like her husband to belittle others.
"That must be good, otherwise why not always give the title of Advanced?"
Yan Zhendong smiled. Outsiders may not understand the matter of giving the title of Advanced and think it is very sacred, but people in their circle know it very well, isn't it?
With Lu Shaotang around, it is very easy for Old Man Lu to get the title of Advanced.
He didn't mean to belittle it, mainly because the current social atmosphere is like this, he and the people around him are like this, how normal is it?
However, Chen Huilan praised Old Man Lu for being amazing, and everyone said that the medicinal wine he prepared was good. "If we consider Mr. Lu's face, everyone only needs to buy it once. How can we keep buying it? Not only do we buy it for ourselves, but we also buy it for relatives and friends? You don't know, but Director Guan Wei has also added the medicinal wine to the procurement list."
Yan Zhendong was surprised and said, "Is it true?"
Chen Huilan: "Of course it's true. The one that replenishes qi and blood is very useful for me. I see that you are older, so it's not bad for you to drink some of that one. Lin Shu said that those that replenish qi and blood can also replenish the kidneys. Kidney deficiency can easily lead to insomnia. Drinking this can also calm the nerves and help sleep, which is very good."
Yan Zhendong: "Do I still need to replenish the kidneys?"
I don't drink aphrodisiac wine!
Chen Huilan pouted and asked, "Don't you know whether you need to take supplements or not? Isn't it
because you have poor sleep that you have kidney deficiency due to age?"
Yan Zhendong refused dryly, but in the evening he secretly heated up a small cup of tea and drank it with some peanuts.
I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but I felt that I slept more soundly the next day, without so many messy dreams.
I got up early today and cooked noodles directly without going to the cafeteria to get food. After dinner, I ran into Tiantian and others on the way to work.
Yesterday, Lin Shu sent the children to school. Hou Bo, Hou Ying and Lu An went to elementary school with Panpan, Tiantian and Hou Wei, while Lu Ping went to junior high school.
The families of government employees send their children to school smoothly without any setbacks.
Even though Lu Ping and his brother were not registered here, they did not receive food from here. They just followed their uncle to study and paid tuition, so the school naturally had no objection.
Lu Ping felt the gap between the city and the countryside after just one day of class.
Although the whole society does not attach importance to education now, there is still a huge difference between provincial capital cities and rural areas. The teachers there are of higher level, and the knowledge they teach is more accurate, and they can also quote from a wide range of sources.
In this way, most teachers in rural areas are private teachers, and their level is low. Primary school teachers teach primary school students, junior high school teachers and even primary school teachers teach junior high school students. The quality of teaching can be imagined. In addition,
rural schools have classes in the morning and go to the brigade to work in the afternoon. There are countless labor holidays in a year, such as spring plowing and planting holidays, wheat harvest holidays, autumn harvest holidays...
There is not much time to study seriously throughout the year.
Lu Ping felt the benefits of education in the city, and was also very clear about the gap between himself and his good classmates, so he naturally studied more seriously.
On the way to send his younger brothers and sisters to school, he recited the text by the way.
In the countryside, teachers never asked us to memorize texts. The teachers here did ask us to memorize texts, but most of the students didn't do it.
He thought that since the teacher asked us to do it, it would be better to do it than not to do it.
When he saw Yan Zhendong, he was the first to greet him.
Tiantian's eyes lit up when she saw Yan Zhendong, and she said with a smile: "Uncle Yan, I have learned a lot of ways to treat insomnia from grandpa. If you have insomnia because of overusing your brain, you should reduce your thinking, eat some food that nourishes the mind and kidneys, strengthens the spleen and stomach, and you can also combine it with acupuncture, massage, foot bathing, exercise, etc. Come to my house after dinner today and I will teach you."
Yan Zhendong: "I drank some medicinal wine last night, and it worked well." Tiantian
: "Uncle Yan, you have to persist for a long time. Drinking only a little medicinal wine can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. There are many other methods, you can try them all."
Yan Zhendong actually felt that he could not refuse the hospitality of a bunch of little brats.
It's really weird!
Then he agreed.
Tiantian was very happy, finally there was a wild patient! Her big eyes were bent with smile, "Uncle Yan, don't worry, you are not very strong now, I can definitely cure you, and I don't need you to pay."
Yan Zhendong: "..."
I hope you don't make me sick.
Although she was full of doubts, Yan Zhendong was a man of his word. After dinner, he and Chen Huilan strolled to Lin Shu's house.
Seeing the couple coming together, Lin Shu was quite puzzled. In the past, Chen Huilan came alone, why did Yan Zhendong come today?
Is he looking for Lu Shaotang to do something?
Tiantian heard Yan Zhendong coming, and happily poked her head out of their room and greeted him: "Uncle Yan, come quickly, we are all ready."
Lin Shu turned her head to look at Lu Shaotang: "???"
What's going on?
Chen Huilan laughed and said, "Your Tiantian said that she can cure Old Yan's insomnia. Let him come over tonight and try it. Old Yan agreed."
It doesn't matter. It won't cost you anything. Let's give it a try.
Lin Shu looked at Yan Zhendong and said in surprise, "Director Yan, why don't you go see a doctor if you feel unwell?"
Find a little girl to see a doctor? Are you careless or do you want to play house with a child?
Although Yan Zhendong didn't take it seriously before, he said seriously now, "I heard Tiantian's words make sense. What's the difference if I don't follow the doctor's instructions? I'll give it a try. What if it works?"
Lin Shu: Okay, as long as you are happy.
In the room, Panpan and a few others have already helped Tiantian set up the tools for medical treatment.
Needle kit. After all, Father Lu loves his granddaughter and gave her a set of basic needles.
The moxa sticks used for moxibustion are all made of moxa floss that has been grown for many years. The members asked Old Man Lu to make them by hand, and the effect is very good.
The scraping board and acupuncture pen are made of ox horn, and were brought by Doctor Zhan from the hospital.
The scraping oil is the medicated oil given by Grandpa, which is very luxurious.
In addition, there are also prepared foot therapy herbs, mainly peeled ginger slices, peppercorns, and dried moxa leaves, which are common and cheap. She can't get them because they are expensive, so she has to go to the hospital to buy them.
Chen Huilan praised: "Look, this is too professional, Old Yan, you are here, it's worth it."
Yan Zhendong believed it, really, this is too professional.
He immediately became confident and readily offered himself to Tiantian as an experimental patient.
Soak your feet first, then lie down on the bed for further treatment.
Tiantian also knows her limits. For example, when acupuncture is used to treat insomnia, only the Sanyinjiao and other acupuncture points on the limbs are used, while the Baihui acupoint on the head is replaced by moxibustion.
Yan Zhendong didn't dare to move at all. What if his hair was burned?
What he thought in his heart was that this kid was really amazing. His whole head was burning. Unknowingly, needles were inserted in other places.
For some reason, he felt his consciousness sink in his head, as if a broken dragon stone fell in his consciousness, and he fell asleep directly.
Looking at the snoring Yan Zhendong, Chen Huilan was stunned. She forgot to complain about Yan Zhendong's snoring and looked at him in surprise, "Really fell asleep?"
This is too... too effective!
Old Yan usually tossed and turned when he lay down, and couldn't wait to fall asleep. It was really annoying.
Tiantian said, "Uncle Yan still needs to take care of himself, calm his mind, and clear his heart to get rid of his worries, otherwise he will get worse and worse. If he didn't suffer from insomnia, he would fall asleep after lying down and pressing his chin twice
, and there would be no need for acupuncture at all." Lin Shu whispered, "Well, Doctor Xiao Lu, your patient fell asleep here, will he be sleepy when he goes home later?"
Doctor Xiao Lu was particularly considerate of the patient, "My stepfather has gone to my stepmother's place, so my sister and I will go to sleep at my stepfather's place at night."
OK, the arrangement is clear.