Chapter 294 New Members in the Mountain 3
It turned out that this family had all fled from Africa. The man was named Zhang Dachui, 52 years old, his wife was named Hong Xing, 31 years old, and their sons were named Zhang Maoming and Zhang Maoye, seven and five years old respectively.
Zhang Dachui reached out and called the two children over to show Yi Ke.
The clothes these two boys were wearing should be Chen Fugui and Xu Chaoqun's clothes, but the boy wearing Chen Fugui's clothes had a skinny body and wore loose clothes, which made him look empty, as if he was wearing adult clothes secretly, and he looked funny.
Both of them were yellow and thin, with their faces covered with a thin layer of green-yellow skin. Their bodies were thin and straight, like tiny bamboos. The two black eyeballs were deeply sunken in the eye sockets, and at this moment, they were rolling around non-stop. One could not help but worry when looking at them, whether they would accidentally roll out.
Hong Xing's body is tall and thin, with a gray and thick face, exposed cheekbones on both sides, and deep sunken cheeks. His eyes are blank and lifeless, and his thin body looks like a piece of paper that will be blown down by the wind.
Zhang Dachui is not much better than Hong Xing. His fingers are like dry branches, and his leg was broken, so after it healed, he became a cripple like he is now.
"Is your wife born unable to speak?" Yike looked at Hong Xing, who was so skinny that he was as thin as a bamboo pole.
"No, my mother scalded me with boiling porridge." The man lowered his head and said guiltily, "It's all my fault. I can't even protect my wife and children."
Yi Ke's heart was shaken so much that his voice trembled: "Why?"
"Because my wife gave the child half a bowl of porridge, the child was sick and they didn't give the child food, so my wife scooped half a bowl of porridge for the child. Then my mother asked my eldest sister-in-law and my younger sister-in-law to hold my wife down and poured the boiling porridge into her mouth."
"What are you doing? Can't you help your wife?"
"I wasn't at home. I was outside repairing the road. My eldest brother should have gone to repair the road, but my father wanted me to go. When I came back, her throat was broken and she had a fever. If I had come back later, my wife would have died because they didn't treat her at all."
"It's so vicious!" Yi Ke cursed angrily.
"That's why I asked for a division, but they didn't even give us any food. It was the brigade secretary who gave us some money and food, and issued a certificate to let us out begging. I feel sorry for my wife, doctor comrade. She is in poor health and can't do heavy work. Please don't abandon her. I will help with her share. Besides, we can eat less." Zhang Dachui pleaded.
"Don't worry, I won't abandon you. If you can't do heavy work, do lighter work. You have to eat more, not less, otherwise your health will not be good. I don't like people with poor health. So, you are not allowed to eat at all in the future, understand?" Yi Ke said seriously.
Zhang Dachui and his wife nodded gratefully and said, "Thank you! Thank you! You are a good person."
Yike got the good guy card, and felt a little better, so he said in a friendly manner: "Open your mouth so I can see."
Hong Xing opened her mouth and found that the woman had severe oral inflammation and her throat was badly ulcerated.
"Your mouth and throat are all sore, and it must be very painful. Why don't you ask the doctor to prescribe some medicine? It must be very uncomfortable." Yi Ke said with a heartache.
"What's wrong? It's rotten. Didn't you say it doesn't hurt anymore? Is it healed now? Why are you so stupid?" Zhang Dachui's eyes were red.
Hong Xing's eyes were filled with tears, and she kept shaking her head as she looked at the man.
"Doctor, please treat her. No matter how much it costs, the money for the medicine will be deducted from her salary. If one year is not enough, then two years." Zhang Dachui ignored his wife who kept pulling his clothes and begged.
The two children with pale faces and long-term malnutrition came forward and hugged their mother's hands, tears falling down, looking so pitiful.
"Don't worry, it can be cured. After it's cured, you may be able to speak again, but it will take a long time, at least more than a month."
"Can you speak after being cured? Is that true?" Zhang Dachui asked excitedly.
"It should be possible. There is a good chance. As long as you cooperate with the treatment, you will be well soon."
"Wife, did you hear that? You can speak, you can speak." The couple cried with joy.
"Mom, mom, you can speak now. That's great, mom, mom." The two children also happily jumped and pulled their mother.
Finally, Ke prescribed a prescription for Hong Xing and arranged for the two of them to have jobs without doing heavy work. They were specifically responsible for the planting and management of medicinal herbs in the medicine garden, and they would repay the money for the medicine with their work.
Both of them bowed to Yike in gratitude and vowed in their hearts to manage the medicine garden well.
From then on, Yike had two most loyal administrators.
It took him half a day to finally take the pulse of these dozen people, prescribe medicine for those who were sick, and record their identity information in a book. Each person also has a special medical record for future reference.
In the afternoon, everyone was preparing tools for tomorrow's rice harvest, and the women were busy sewing clothes for the newcomers.
All the coarse cloth that Yike bought last time to be used in the incubator has now been taken out to make clothes. Although the fabric is too rough, it will scratch your delicate skin and cause discomfort when you wear it.
The group of people who came in yesterday were all in tatters with holes of all sizes in the clothes they were wearing and the clothes they brought in their bags. I can't even tell which side is inside the clothes and which side is outside. It’s not as good as these coarse cloth clothes. At least these clothes made of cloth can cover the body.
Yike was filled with guilt. She didn't expect Ma Youcai to find someone so quickly. She had originally planned to go out of the mountains to buy cloth and ask a tailor to make it after the autumn harvest. She also planned to make uniform clothing, just like the factory uniforms in her previous life.
Plans cannot keep up with changes. Now she can't help feeling bad about giving such poor quality fabrics to these people to wear.
Zhang Yuling saw Yike's worries, so she tried to persuade him, "Yike, have you seen people outside? How many people in the countryside can wear clothes without patches? They can't even get enough food, so who has extra money to buy cloth to make clothes? Adults at least have patched clothes, and children, when they can't wear the clothes that the older children wear anymore, give them to their younger brothers and sisters. The clothes that people outside wear are all like this, new for three years, old for three years, and patched for another three years. This means that new clothes are worn for three years, worn for another three years, and patched for another three years when they are torn. We can make a new set of clothes for each of them, and they will only be grateful and will never dislike them. Moreover, this kind of cloth is wear-resistant when used for farm work, while those soft cloths will rot in no time if worn for farm work."
After listening to what his mother Zhang Yuling said, Yike realized that he had made another mistake of empiricism and still regarded the present as his previous life.
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