"Look, Liu Hongshao." Huang Xinrui wiped the sweat from her face and gestured in a direction with her eyes.
Li Xiyue looked over and saw that it was indeed her. She hadn't seen her for a long time, and she had lost a lot of weight, but she seemed to be in good spirits.
Huang Xinrui whispered to her, "I heard she's been bullied by her colleagues at the commune health center and is having a hard time."
"Because of Wang Lao Er's matter?" Li Xiyue asked.
Huang Xinrui nodded, panting heavily, "She deserved it, she deserved to suffer like this."
Li Xiyue neither confirmed nor denied.
"How is Teacher Xu doing lately?" Li Xiyue asked, thinking of Xu Hongmei.
I haven't seen her since I got back.
As Huang Xinrui ran, she said, "Her incident caused such a big fuss, she definitely can't go back to school. You know those gossipy women in our brigade, they've talked about her behind her back a lot. She hardly ever goes out. Haven't you seen that she hasn't come to training these past few days?"
"She just finished her postpartum period, is she able to come?" Li Xiyue asked.
“It’s one thing to be in confinement, but she really rarely goes out…” Huang Xinrui looked around and lowered her voice to say, “However, I heard from Lao Wang that the team plans to give her that worker-peasant-soldier quota.”
Li Xiyue nodded. "It would be a good thing if she could leave here and go outside."
"Run faster! If you don't finish within the allotted time, you'll have to do ten push-ups!" Xu Guoqiang shouted through a megaphone.
Li Xiyue and Huang Xinrui dared not utter a word and quickly sped up their run; they certainly didn't want to do push-ups.
The training was tough but fulfilling. The brigade only got busy preparing for spring plowing after the ground thawed.
The clinic's work had long since returned to normal, but Uncle Xu Liu decided to retire this year, leaving all the medical and medicinal tasks to Li Xiyue. If she was too busy, he would come back to lend a hand.
Li Xiyue naturally had no objection. He was getting old and had worked hard all his life; it was time for him to enjoy his retirement.
Ever since Li Xiyue said that Erniu was her apprentice, Erniu has studied even more diligently. Starting this year, she also plans to teach Erniu practical skills.
When she came to see a doctor, Erniu was put in charge of writing prescriptions and dispensing medicine. Once she was skilled, she would teach Erniu how to examine patients. She would take good care of this apprentice, and after she left, the brigade's clinic would rely on her.
That day, the sound of a tractor rang out in the village, attracting everyone to watch.
"Our tractor is back! We finally have a tractor again!"
"Yes, yes, when it's time to harvest the grain, we won't have to carry it to the commune basket by basket anymore."
"This is a tractor! I never thought our brigade would have a tractor one day."
"So beautiful, so magnificent!"
"Can I touch it? I want to touch it, but I hope it won't break?"
"How did the tractor break? Look at you, so full of yourself."
Li Xiyue had just returned from treating the piglets in the brigade when she saw the tractor and became a curious onlooker.
Wang Jiaxing sat on a brand-new tractor, while Xu Guoqiang, Xu Yongshun, and other cadres sat in the vehicle, all beaming with joy.
Li Xiyue sidled up to Huang Xinrui in the crowd and asked with a smile, "Wow, your husband can even drive a tractor."
"He drove in the city before he went to the countryside, and he's the only one in our brigade who knows how to drive," Huang Xinrui said proudly, like a giraffe. "From now on, he'll be our brigade's tractor driver."
Li Xiyue exclaimed, "Indeed, opportunity favors the prepared mind. You and Lao Wang, one a scorekeeper and the other a tractor driver, won't you be a dual-income couple from now on? Life will be wonderful."
"Hahaha..." Huang Xinrui was so happy she couldn't stop smiling. "Yueyue, you can talk, talk more, I love to hear it."
Li Xiyue glared at her and said, "Look how pleased you are with yourself."
"Come and lend a hand, let's carry the fertilizer down." The cadres had had enough of sitting and finally got out of the car to help carry the fertilizer.
Hearing that the fertilizer had arrived, the villagers rushed forward, two people at a time, carrying a bag of fertilizer as if it were some rare treasure.
On this day, smiles were on the faces of all the members of the brigade.
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