"Xiaoxue, don't go to work this afternoon. Take out our white flour and make dumplings with everyone."
In the morning, Han Fei wanted Li Xue to rest and go for a walk in the town with everyone, but Li Xue did not go.
He said there was nothing to buy, so it would be better to earn a few more work points to prepare for having children in the future.
After Li Xue talked with Lin Wanru last time, she decided to stick to her own opinion on the issue of having children and not blindly listen to Han Fei.
Han Fei always felt that having a child now would be irresponsible to the child and would make the child suffer with him.
If I can't go back to the city for the rest of my life, does that mean I won't have children for the rest of my life?
"Okay, I'll bring the flour over in a moment."
This time, Li Xue did not insist on going to work. The new educated youth bought white flour, and Yang Baiyi hunted wild hogs. Even if her life was tight, she couldn't just take nothing and eat for free with a smug look on her face, right?
"We don't have white flour, so the wine tonight is ours. We eat dumplings with wine, and the more we drink, the more we have."
Zhang Hui spoke on behalf of the four of them.
"Sister-in-law, the white flour we bought is enough for making dumplings. Please don't feel embarrassed. Haven't we been eating the vegetables you grew all this time?"
Yang Baiyi knew that the old educated youth were living a rather stressful life, so he didn't plan to let them get anything anymore.
"That won't do. In the countryside, these vegetables are the least valuable. If you don't want to use our white flour, we should just eat separately tonight."
Han Fei and Li Xue also have their own persistence. Being poor is not a reason to take advantage of others.
Everyone had a quick bite at noon and then started to get busy.
Some people were dealing with wild hogs, some were picking beans from the vegetable garden, and some were kneading dough. Everyone was full of energy for the dumplings in the evening.
There is strength in numbers. Before Han Fei and his colleagues finished work, everyone had already wrapped the dumplings and were waiting to put them in the pot.
When Zhang Hui and his colleagues got off work, each of them carried a bottle of white wine and walked briskly back to the educated youth compound.
In the past, when the New Year pig was slaughtered during the Spring Festival, the educated youth could only get a few pounds of meat and had to go to the town to buy some more to make dumplings.
Since Yang Baiyi came, I can’t say that I can eat meat freely, but I can always eat it every now and then.
In the evening, everyone sat together, eating dumplings and drinking wine, feeling very happy.
In the next few days, Yang Baiyi stayed in the infirmary honestly, helping the members to see patients. In his spare time, he spent time with Lin Wanru, and his life was quite comfortable.
"Doctor Yang, wake up, help!"
"Big brother, open the door quickly, my brother has fainted from the fever."
Late at night, a series of urgent knocks on the door broke the silence of Chenjiatun.
Yang Baiyi woke up from his sleep and while putting on his clothes, he observed the situation outside through the grass beside the fence.
It was Goudan and an anxious-looking male member who were shouting outside.
"Comrade Yang Baiyi, is someone calling you outside?"
Everyone was awakened by the shouting.
"Well, someone must be sick. I'll go out and take a look. You guys can continue to sleep."
Yang Baiyi asked everyone to continue sleeping and he opened the door and left the main room.
"Goudan, what's wrong?"
Yang Baiyi came to the yard carrying a medicine box.
"Big brother, my brother has a high fever and is confused. Please go and take a look."
When Goudan saw Yang Baiyi, his nervousness subsided.
"Doctor Yang, I'm Goudan's father. I'm so sorry to wake you up so late."
The man next to him said a little awkwardly.
"Let's stop being polite at this time. Let's go and see the child. Goudan, lead the way."
Yang Baiyi pulled Goudan forward. The child had already fainted due to a high fever, so Yang Baiyi didn't dare to delay.
Under Goudan's guidance, Yang Baiyi came to a small farmyard, where a dim light was on in a side room.
"Mom, big brother is here."
Goudan pushed open the door and shouted into the room.
In the dim light, Yang Baiyi saw a child lying on the kang.
A woman was standing nearby, constantly wiping the child's body with a wet towel, while two old people were running around the room anxiously.
"Doctor Yang, please take a look at my grandson, what's wrong with him?"
Goudan’s grandmother Li Xiu Lian said anxiously.
"Auntie, please don't worry, let me see the child first."
Yang Baiyi came to the kang and saw Goudan's younger brother, who was about two or three years old. His face was red, he was mumbling nonsense, and his little body was twitching from time to time.
"When did the fever start? Why are you calling me now?"
Yang Baiyi first placed the thermometer under the child's armpit, then raised his head and asked.
The child was already having convulsions due to fever, and it was definitely not a recent fever.
"It's been two or three days now, but it was always a low-grade fever. It suddenly got worse tonight."
Goudan’s father Chen Feng thought for a while and said.
"You are too careless. Children have low immunity. A fever or cold may lead to other serious diseases. You can't be careless."
Yang Baiyi just gave a reminder and did not blame them too much. Children of this era were far less precious than those in later generations and were basically raised in a free-range state.
The family conditions are poor, the medical conditions are backward, and every household has several children. How can they be pampered?
Common fever and colds are usually just a tough thing to endure.
"It's almost 41 degrees. We need to reduce the fever quickly, otherwise the child will be seriously ill."
Yang Baiyi looked at the thermometer and quickly opened the medicine box to prepare the medicine.
After injecting the antipyretic medicine into the child's body with a syringe, Yang Baiyi began to use alcohol to physically cool the child down.
The special medicine took effect quickly, and with Yang Baiyi's continuous physical cooling of the child, the child's body temperature quickly dropped.
"Mom, stinky eggs are so hot."
Goudan’s younger brother woke up in a daze.
"Wake up, wake up, you stinky boy, you scared me to death."
Seeing her little grandson wake up, Li Xiu Lian's heart finally settled down and she burst into tears.
"You old woman, it's a good thing that the child woke up, why are you crying?"
Chen Laowai was scolding his wife, but he couldn't suppress the smile on his face.
"The child should be fine. I'll prescribe some medicine for you. Take it with warm water once a day. You'll be cured in three days."
Yang Baiyi took out a few packets of powder, tore them open and poured them out, wrapped them in paper and handed them to Goudan's mother Zhang Guiqin.
Yang Baiyi put the cold medicine bag back into the medicine box. There was a production date on it, so he didn't dare to throw it away.
"Thank you, Doctor Yang! You're a miracle doctor! How much is it? I'll get it for you."
Li Xiulian held Yang Baiyi's hand and kept thanking him.
"Give me fifty cents."
There were a large number of medicines piled up in the space, and Yang Baiyi only charged a few cents symbolically. He never expected to get rich from this.
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