[Chapter 161 Chapter 161 A good person like Old Man Gu]
"Where are you going so late at night?" Shen Yuyao asked puzzledly.
"I went to see an old friend. You should know him, that's the old man Gu who changed the medicine for us before." Cheng Liyan explained.
Old man Gu?
Shen Yuyao actually knew this person.
He was the one who had changed the medicine and given them a prescription for free.
According to my second brother, that prescription played a remarkable role in controlling the spread of the epidemic.
When she heard that she was going to meet this person, Shen Yuyao immediately went back to the room and changed her clothes.
She was also very curious about this person.
When Shen Yuyao changed her clothes and came out, she saw Cheng Liyan still in the kitchen, squatting and looking for something in the bottom drawer.
She couldn't help but walk a few steps faster and asked, "What are you looking for?"
"I remember putting several small flour bags down here, white and unused. How come I can't find them?"
Shen Yuyao took out a few bags of noodles from the space and handed them over: "What are you looking for this for?"
Cheng Liyan took the bag of flour and said, "I want to get some food for old man Gu. Take a little of everything. His life is not easy."
Shen Yuyao couldn't help but look at her husband again.
She still remembered the pain this man felt when he found out that the medicine would cost eighty yuan.
I still remember that he muttered for a long time, saying that the old man was a profiteer and was raising the price.
How long has it been?
From the tone of your voice, your impression of that person has changed drastically!
Knowing that Cheng Liyan was going to deliver food to Old Man Gu, Shen Yuyao took back the bag of flour and put it back into the space.
Then he took out a few old ones and asked him to use the old ones.
Shen Yuyao had her mother ask someone to make those new flour bags for her, using the cheapest coarse cloth.
The bags were not very big, and each one could only hold about five kilograms of food when fully filled.
Shen Yuyao didn't take it seriously when she made these bags. She just didn't like things in her house not being arranged neatly.
I always feel that the existing grain bags at home are of different sizes and don’t look good when put together.
What she didn't expect was that one day Xiao Mei came to borrow soy sauce and she opened the cupboard.
As a result, the man was so shocked when he saw the identical flour bags under her cabinet that he said he had never seen anyone use such new cloth to make flour bags!
I also asked her whether the cloth was internal goods purchased from the department store, and whether they often had defective cloth for sale.
Xiao Mei said this without meaning it, but Shen Yuyao took it to heart.
Only then did she realize that making a few bags of flour was a luxury at that time.
After Xiao Mei left, Shen Yuyao immediately put all the brand new and unused bags back into the space.
Cheng Liyan didn't know what his wife was thinking about the flour bag, and he didn't care whether it was new or old.
He scooped out ten pounds of flour and five pounds of corn grits from the grain bag at home, and also used a small bag to fill it with two pounds of soybeans.
After that, he walked around the kitchen, and took the half can of lard that Shen Yuyao was covering with a plate and held it in his arms.
Turning around, Cheng Liyan showed an embarrassed expression when he saw his wife looking at him in shock.
He chuckled and said, "Well, we haven't received this month's gas coupons yet. I'll go to the finance department tomorrow to check. If there are any, I'll collect them first and then go buy gas."
Shen Yuyao waved her hand: "No need. Take it if you want. We don't lack oil. I'm just curious, why have you changed so much today?"
"Well, I heard something these days."
As Cheng Liyan spoke, he put all the things he had packed into a large cardboard box, and then asked Shen Yuyao to put it back into the space. The couple then rode their bikes out of the house.
Unless there are special circumstances, the couple always rides the same bike when they go out.
However, there were so many people in the yard that Shen Yuyao felt embarrassed to sit on the horizontal bar in front of the car.
Fortunately, it was already dark at this time and there were no people walking on the road outside.
So when Cheng Liyan straddled the car and supported himself with his feet while waiting for her to get in, Shen Yuyao naturally slipped under the man's arms and sat in front of him.
Cheng Liyan lowered his head, looked at his wife's furry little head, and couldn't help but chuckle.
He bent down and kissed the little head, then said "Sit tight", and with a push of his feet, the car drove forward.
It takes about an hour to ride from the military compound to the Chinese medicine hospital. On the way, Cheng Liyan told Shen Yuyao some things he had heard about Old Man Gu in the past two days.
For this field training, Cheng Liyan specially brought a medical worker just in case.
This health worker is married to a local girl, who now works as a nurse in a traditional Chinese medicine hospital.
Hearing the words "Chinese medicine hospital", Cheng Liyan immediately thought of the somewhat weird old man Gu and asked a few questions casually.
Then he realized that old man Gu was not an ordinary person. He was actually the vice president of a traditional Chinese medicine hospital and a well-known expert in the medical field!
Old Man Gu’s family has been practicing medicine for generations, and it is said that several generations of his ancestors have served as imperial physicians, and his father even served as a traveling doctor for high-ranking Kuomintang officials.
Later, he went to Taiwan.
Almost all of Old Man Gu's family members are gone, leaving only him.
In the past few years, because of his excellent medical skills, high political awareness and the initiative to distance himself from such a family, he was still very respected in the medical community.
But the wind has changed in recent years. Due to his family's burden, he was soon removed from all his positions and was kicked out of the revolutionary family.
He could no longer work at the Chinese Medicine Hospital and his medical license was revoked.
In addition, the house was smashed and ransacked, and finally even the house was confiscated.
Helplessly, Old Man Gu could only make a living by picking up scraps.
Old man Gu never married and had no children in his life, but he sponsored many children.
Some of these children have grown up, while others are still very young.
Even though he was picking up scraps, Old Man Gu still didn't forget to support them.
Of the little money he earned, apart from ensuring his basic food and drink, the rest was almost all used to raise his children.
The ones he was raising now were all “bastards” whose parents had been overthrown and sent to labor camps, and no one was willing to take them in…
Everyone in the hospital knew what Old Man Gu did.
After all, he has worked in the Chinese medicine hospital for his entire life. Not to mention that he has many students all over the world, but old man Gu has accumulated a lot of good relationships with people.
So he would occasionally deal in some medicine or write prescriptions for others to make some money, and everyone tacitly pretended not to know.
Not only do they pretend not to know, they also try to find ways to provide convenience.
After all, in today's environment, who can guarantee that they will have a smooth life?
Who dares to say that helping others is not helping yourself?
Some people even secretly hope that if they ever have bad luck in the future, their children will be able to meet a good person like Old Man Gu.
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