Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 14 The Girl Next Door
Hearing footsteps outside the house, the two people in the house turned around to look. When the door curtain was lifted and Li Yancheng saw who was coming, he was a little surprised.

"Xiaojuan, why are you back again? What happened?"

Putting down the book in his hand, he went out to greet him.

Xiaojuan smiled a little embarrassedly: "Nothing... nothing happened, it's just... Pingping and I had a conflict, she left alone first, I thought..."

"In that case, you can have lunch here before you go back. I'll tell the security guard to keep an eye out outside to see if anyone is pulling a cart towards your place and ask him to take you back."

"Thank you, Dacheng."

"Don't be polite. Come, sit inside. I have some steamed buns on the stove. Have a bite first."

Li Yancheng, who has lived for more than fifty years, is not a shrewd person, but he is definitely considerate. He knows what the girl next door wants to say. He also knows that the little girl is shy, so he directly invites her.

This also made Xiaojuan secretly relieved. She had thought everything through before coming here, but when she got here, she felt really embarrassed and was unable to open her mouth.

Zhou Guotao smiled and nodded to her as a greeting, then put down the book he was reading, strolled out of the clinic, and went to visit the next door.

His action made Li Yancheng a little nervous. The reason why he let Xiaojuan in was because she was there and he didn't have to worry about other people gossiping. But now he left without saying a word. What should he do?
Forget it, just do whatever you want if you love football.

He took out an unused water cup from the small cabinet under the table, boiled it twice with hot water, and then poured a cup of hot water for the girl so that she could warm it in her hands.

At the same time, he pointed at the steamed buns on the stove and said, "I just baked this. Eat some first. It's still about an hour before lunch."

He reached back and took a newspaper from the table and handed it over: "Here, you can read the newspaper when you are free. I don't have any other books here except medical books."

"Thank you, Dacheng. Sorry to bother you."

"It's okay. We are neighbors after all. It's not easy to meet an acquaintance when you go out, so we should take care of them."

Yes, in this era of underdeveloped transportation, it is really not easy to find an acquaintance dozens of kilometers away from home.

"Brother Dacheng, are you going back next month?"

"Yes, it should be between the 15th and the 20th. Isn't the Chinese New Year at the end of the month? Although there is no holiday."

Starting from this year's Chinese New Year, the Spring Festival holiday was cancelled and was not restored until the late 1970s.

There are few public holidays now, only seven in a year: one day for New Year's Day, one day for May Day, two days for National Day, and three days for Spring Festival.

As a result, before the Chinese New Year last year, a worker named Zhang from the Shanghai Glass Machinery Factory, in order to show off how capable he was, appealed in a local newspaper: "Don't stop the work on the 30th, and continue working on the 1st of the New Year."

Since the workers are aware of this, they must follow public opinion. Now the pitiful three-day Spring Festival holiday is gone.

Even the annual home visit leave originally given to non-local employees has been suspended. The notice said it would be made up later, but... hehe...

Xiaojuan didn't care whether there was a Spring Festival holiday or not. She would definitely not be able to go home anyway. The educated youth point had already notified them, and in fact it was just for the seven of them whose families lived in the city. The others lived far away and had no time to go back even if they wanted to, not to mention that they had no money.

"Xiaojuan, how many people are there in your educated youth center?"

"There are thirty-three people in our team."

"Do you all live together?"

"There are male and female dormitories. There are more males, about twenty people."

"You'd better write a letter to your dad and tell him that it's almost done. If you can be arranged a job, I'll let you go back as soon as possible. You just need to go through the motions." Xiaojuan knew what Li Yancheng meant by this. He just felt that their place was a bit chaotic and it would be better to leave as soon as possible.

"Thank you, Brother Dacheng, for reminding me. I will write a letter to my dad about it in the next few days."

It has been almost half a year since she came here, and she actually can't stand this hardship. Although she has to work at home, housework and farm work are two completely different concepts.

Li Yancheng's parents in his previous life had also been educated youth for half a year, and they knew that there were a lot of dirty things going on there.

The TV series "The Debt" filmed in the 1990s revealed the unknown side of that period.

A group of young people gathered together, they are all at the age of being hot-tempered and acting impulsively. It is inevitable that there will be some accidental discharge of a weapon, but they are all adults. If they dared to do it, they should dare to admit it. It is somewhat despicable to do such a thing as abandoning their wife (husband) and children.

"When I went back the other day, Zhihai told me that your second brother already has a girlfriend. Did you know that?"

"Ah? My second brother is already dating someone? I didn't know that."

"Haha, it's also from their hat factory. I heard your parents are quite satisfied. Isn't there a day off on New Year's Day? We can arrange a meeting between the parents of both sides on that day."

"Oh my god, this is too fast. I've only been out for less than half a year, but it feels like several years have passed."

"So you have to ask your dad to take you back as soon as possible. Don't delay any longer. When you go back, there will suddenly be a little boy in the house who calls you aunt."

"Pfft... Dacheng brother, you are exaggerating. How could it be so fast?"

Is it fast? If the parents of both parties agree on it on New Year's Day, and Duan Zhengyang and his partner get married as soon as possible, it is possible that they will have a child by the end of next year. It's just a normal speed.

After laughing, Xiaojuan suddenly felt something was wrong. Was the man in front of her really the taciturn brother from the next yard? He could actually joke?
"Why are you looking at me like that? Is there something wrong?"

Noticing that Xiaojuan was staring at him, Li Yancheng asked with some discomfort.

"Uh...it's just...I just suddenly feel that you, Dacheng brother, have changed a lot."

"You noticed it too?" Li Yancheng smiled slightly: "When I went back the other day, Zhihai also said that I had changed a lot."

"I can see it. Brother Zhihai is a police officer, so he can definitely see it too."

"Let's not talk about this anymore. The buns are almost done baking. Let's eat them."

"Oh"

The steamed buns on the stove had been roasted till brown on the surface. Xiaojuan put down the water cup in her hand and picked up the steamed buns. She gasped because of the heat, but she was reluctant to put them down.

I broke off a small piece and put it directly into my mouth without caring whether it would be hot or not. I chewed it twice and swallowed it.

The aroma of the baked buns made her feel so happy instantly that her eyes narrowed into slits.

She hadn't eaten fine-grain steamed buns for some time. After taking a bite of the toasted bun, she wanted to go home even more.

"Brother Dacheng, do you have any writing paper? I want to write a letter to my dad right now."

"Yes, we have stationery and envelopes. Come sit over here and write."

Li Yancheng stood up and went to his desk, took out a stack of letter paper and an envelope from the drawer, and pointed to the dip pen on the table.

(End of this chapter)