A doctor who travels through two eras

The scene returns to daytime.

The five children took the note from Lin Sanqi and exchanged wild vegetables for 5 kilograms of corn flour. They were so excited as if they had won 500 million.

Aunt Li also kindly advised:
"Child, take this corn flour home quickly and store it for your parents. Don't let anyone see you on the road."

No kidding, if someone saw you on the way, they would really come to rob you. In the face of hunger, laws and morals are all bullshit.

Yang Xiaojie, the oldest of the five children, quickly nodded and said:
"Got it, ma'am. We'll go home now."

After saying that, Yang Xiaojie put the food into the basket, grabbed a few handfuls of weeds to cover it up, then held it in his arms and ran towards his village as fast as he could.

How long has it been since these rural children have eaten flour? The steamed bread at home is all black and tastes like lime powder, not to mention fragrant.

But as she ran, Yang Erni couldn't help herself:
"Brother, I want to eat steamed buns."

Several children nearby also nodded and said, "Brother, let's go back and secretly steam some buns for ourselves."

Children are not stupid. Although 5 kilograms of corn flour is a lot, their parents will definitely hide it and not let them eat it after they take it home. Even if they share it, with so many people in the family, how much can they get?

People are selfish, and children are no exception.

Yang Xiaojie was also hungry, but he was already 12 years old and sensible, so he hesitated: "It's not good for us to eat, right?"

His younger brother Yang Xiaoshan said indifferently:

"Brother, these cornmeal are what we earned, what's wrong with us eating them? As long as we don't tell our parents, no one will know."

The other children nodded again: "That's right, we won't tell anyone."

Yang Xiaojie felt a strong sense of hunger in his stomach. He looked around and made up his mind:

"Making steamed buns is too complicated. You have to let the dough rest and knead it. Why don't we just fry it in a pan and add a little salt. The fried flour will also be very fragrant."

"Yes, yes, fried noodles are good!"

"Come on, let's go home now while the adults are in the fields."

So the five children hurried back home, closed the door, Yang Xiaoshan lit the fire, and Yang Xiaojie started to fry the vermicelli.

Soon the aroma wafted out, making the children drool. Before the food could cool down, they took handfuls and ate up a pound of rice noodles in a short while.

The rice noodles smell delicious and taste even better, but there is one bad thing about them: they are too dry. Most people cannot eat them unless they are extremely hungry.

The five children were still not satisfied after eating the vermicelli, and all looked at the remaining corn noodles on the table.

Yang Xiaoshan suggested weakly: "Brother, how about we fry some more? If you want to eat, just eat until you are full. I am still hungry now."

"Yes, brother, let's fry some more..."

"The fried noodles are so fragrant, I want some more..."

The little devil in Yang Xiaojie's heart was also tempting him at this time: fry some more, fry half more, and just leave half.

People cannot resist temptation. When they are young, they cannot resist the temptation of delicious food. When they are young, they cannot resist the temptation of beautiful women. When they grow up, they cannot resist the temptation of money. When they are old, they cannot resist the temptation of immortality.

So Yang Xiaojie decided to go all out today: "Okay, let's fry another pound of corn flour."

"Okay, okay, big brother is so nice~~~"

Then the second pound was put into the pot, followed by the third pound, the fourth pound, the fifth pound...

At the same time, old lady Yan Cuihua also happily returned to her home with two scallion pancakes in her arms.

"Master, hurry up and close the gate."

When the old man saw the bark in the old woman's basket, he cursed angrily:

"It's just some elm bark. Are you afraid someone will come and steal it? Why are you so weird? Hurry up and cook it. My sons and his family need it to eat in the evening."

Old Lady Yan snorted and took out two cakes from her bosom and showed off:
"Nao, let me show you what this is. It's a juicy scallion pancake."

The old man was very surprised when he smelled it: "Where did you get this pancake? Who in our village got rich? They actually fry pancakes with oil? And they are made of white flour."

The old lady pointed to a place not far away and said:

"I'm lucky today. I met two young men from the Chinese Medicine Hospital Farm on the mountain. These cakes were given to me by them. Ah Hua, my third sister-in-law and I each got two. After all, we are from the city, so we are generous enough."

The old man took the scallion pancake, smelled it, and then reluctantly handed it back to the old lady:
"Share this cake with your grandchildren. We old men don't need it. There's not enough for us to share."

"Okay, our two daughters-in-law are so greedy that they ate everything when they came back. I just can't stand such lazy women, huh!"

The old lady was afraid that her daughter-in-law would come back and she would have nothing to eat, so she quickly called her grandchildren over, tore open the scallion pancake with their hands, and began to enjoy it happily.

There is hardly any oil in the countryside all year round, let alone now during this time of famine. Only those who have eaten tree bark can appreciate how delicious scallion pancakes are.

The old lady wanted to give more to her grandchildren, but with all the delicious food in front of her, she finished the whole pancake by herself unconsciously, and her eyes kept glancing at the unfinished scallion pancakes in her grandchildren's hands...

But she forgot a key point: if her stomach is in a state of hunger for a long time, it will contract and the secretion of gastric juice will decrease.

After suddenly eating this oily pancake, my stomach couldn't stand the stimulation and I got sick.

Old Lady Yan started to vomit, first vomiting all the scallion pancakes she had eaten, then she had nothing left to vomit, and finally she vomited yellow water. Old Lady Yan, who was already skinny, became completely limp after such violent vomiting, and could not even stand up, and she felt like she was going to die.

The old man and his grandchildren were so scared that they burst into tears.

When the sons ran back from the fields, he was already dying.

As soon as the daughters-in-law smelled the stench in the house, they covered their noses and ran away, not caring about their mother-in-law's life or death. They thought it would be better if she died so that there would be one less person to feed.

So at the critical moment, the son wants to be his biological mother, the daughter-in-law will despise him, but the son still can't bear to see his mother die.

"Dad, what's wrong with mom? What did you eat?"

"Your mother became like this after eating scallion pancakes. Oh, what should I do?"

When the daughters-in-law heard this, they immediately jumped up:

"Well, Dad, we're working so hard in the fields, and you're eating scallion pancakes at home? Where did you get the flour? The little oil you had was all wasted, right?"

"That's right, Mom, how could you do this? You ate all the delicious food by yourself?"

"Oh my god, how many scallion pancakes must I eat to vomit like this? Isn't this too cruel?"

The old man was so angry that he blew his beard and glared:

"Shut the fuck up, everyone! This scallion pancake was given to me by a kind-hearted person from the Chinese Medicine Hospital Farm. And your mother didn't eat it alone. Your kids ate it too. Keep your fucking mouths shut!"

When the daughters-in-law heard this, instead of being embarrassed, they had an idea:

"Dad, Mom's illness was caused by the people at the Chinese Medicine Hospital. We have to go find them. Besides, they are doctors and have medicine."

"Yes, Dad, we can't just watch Mom die at home. If people tell others about this, they will scold us for being unfilial children."

"If they didn't give our mom scallion pancakes, would she be like this?"

For a while, several people in the Yan family quarreled with each other.

In Taiping Village next door, when Yang Heshui returned home and opened the gate, he saw his son, daughter, nephews and nieces rolling on the ground.

Yang Heshui was so frightened that he dropped his hoe to the ground. "What's wrong? What happened?"

"Dad, my stomach hurts so much!"

"Uncle, help me."

Yang Heshui vomited and sat on the ground: "What did you eat? Tell me, tell me quickly."

People who are extremely hungry will dare to eat anything, especially children. Although there are many wild vegetables in spring, not all of them can be eaten, and some are poisonous.

Many children die every year from accidentally eating poisonous wild vegetables.

There are many children, and you might say it doesn't matter if one dies, but now all five children are poisoned, which means they are all going to be wiped out. How can that be tolerated?

Soon all the members of the Yang family came over.

Suddenly, the Yang family cried loudly, attracting all the neighbors.

If it were 2023, I would definitely call 120 immediately to save lives.

But in the rural areas in 1960, when barefoot doctors had not yet been popularized, if there was an emergency patient at home, people could only wait to die at home and hope for a miracle.

No one thought of sending them to the hospital. Although Changping County Hospital was not far away, did they have money? Besides, they had five children.

Village Chief Li also rushed to Yang's house and felt distressed when he saw the child rolling on the ground in pain:
"What did this child eat? Find a way to induce vomiting."

Yang Heshui cried and said, "Village Chief, I have already urged them to vomit, but this won't work. I heard they ate fried flour, and the five little kids ate a full 5 kilograms of fried flour."

The surrounding villagers exclaimed: "Heshui, you actually have so much flour hidden at home?"

"Where does your family get the flour? Don't we all eat in the cafeteria?"

"Village chief, check where they get the flour. My goodness, a child can eat 5 kilograms, which means there must be more at home."

Yang Heshui was so angry that he almost vomited blood. His child at home was dying, and these people only cared about flour.

There is a saying on the Internet in later generations: Jealousy makes a person unrecognizable.

"This flour is not from our family. It was given to us by a young doctor from the Chinese Medicine Hospital Farm. My child exchanged it for wild vegetables. Please be more polite with your words!"

Village Chief Li rolled his eyes and offered an idea:

"We can't blame the people at the Chinese medicine hospital for this. They mean well, but the child is in this state. We are neighbors, so we have to help our child, right? Hurry up, everyone, help and send the child to the farm!"

"Okay, listen to the village chief, quickly pull the ox cart out and send him to the Chinese medicine hospital!"

So the two groups of people from the two villages met at the Chinese medicine hospital. In addition to the family members, many villagers also came to watch the fun. For a while, the deserted Chinese medicine hospital farm became bustling.

Lin Sanqi was so scared that he thought the wolves were coming again! (End of this chapter)