Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 22 Rally
In the town at around ten o'clock in the evening on a winter day, not even a ghost can be seen, let alone a person.

The three grown men, two middle-aged and one young, couldn't sleep if they went home, so they just squatted on the roadside with cigarettes in their mouths, chatting with each other.

We talked about everything from the child’s birth to his/her growth, and then to a series of problems that may be faced in the future.

As they were chatting, Zhou Guotao and Ma Quanhu felt something was wrong.

After the two looked at each other, they looked at Li Yancheng at the same time, their eyes full of confusion.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

Li Yancheng felt a little frightened by the strange looks from the two of them, and quickly moved to the side a few times, creating some distance between him and them.

"No, Yancheng, you don't have any children, nor do you have any brothers or sisters, so how come you have so many experiences in raising children?"

Nowadays, basically every family has several children. If both parents work, the older children will take care of the younger ones. There are also many children who are sensible at an early age. They not only take care of their younger siblings, clean the house, but also cook.

Especially in rural areas, when both parents go to the fields to work and earn work points, the eldest child, regardless of gender, has to do everything, including taking care of the younger ones, washing clothes, cooking, sewing and mending, and being proficient in everything.

After the crops are ripe and harvested, the parents still have to carry the children on their backs to go to the fields to pick up wheat and rice ears. It is not much easier than for adults. Some of the crops are not even as high as the stove, so they have to cook even if they stand on a stool. There is no other way.

But these are all cases where there are brothers and sisters in the family, like Li Yancheng...

"Uh……"

Oops, no wonder people say that too much talk leads to mistakes, the ancients were right.

"I have never raised a child, but I grew up as a child myself. Besides, there are children in my courtyard who are several years younger than me. I helped take care of them before."

He was not talking nonsense. Whether it was little Ningning from the Jin family who lived in the west wing, or Cai Qiling who had moved to Yangchao District with her parents in the east wing, Li Yancheng had helped take care of them when they were young.

Well, that's one explanation.

……

If there is anything that spreads quickly, it is definitely gossip.

The next day, January 11, happened to be the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, and Mulin Town held gatherings on the second and seventh days of every month.

After entering the twelfth lunar month, every market is extremely lively as everyone is preparing for the upcoming Spring Festival. Even though there are no holidays and firecrackers are not allowed this year, the streets are still crowded with people.

After saving money for a year, I have to cook two delicious meals for the Spring Festival to improve the food. It is certainly impossible to have big fish and meat, so I have to make some dumplings stuffed with meat. At the very least, I have to make some dumplings stuffed with oil residue. If I am really poor, I can make do with cabbage stuffing.

Those who are better off would even buy a few feet of cloth to make new clothes for their children, which could be considered a new beginning for the New Year.

What happened last night was already spread all over the rally this morning, with all kinds of comments.

In short, the core idea is being indecent, and everyone knows who it refers to.

There were also many men who had a sour taste in their mouths when they talked about Accountant Chang. Li Yancheng, who was also walking on the street, couldn't help shaking his head secretly when he heard this.

As a person, you still have to learn to love yourself first. Only when you take yourself seriously will others look up to you.

Through the fragmentary words of many villagers from Tangzhishan Village who came to the market, he also pieced together a general idea of ​​why the girl had come to this point.

Two days after leaving him that day, the girl went to the county town and checked at the county hospital to confirm that she was not pregnant. It was just because of malnutrition, blood deficiency, and endocrine disorders that caused irregular menstruation. She took the medicine prescribed by the doctor and went back. Originally, the matter was over. Although her roommates knew that she had someone outside, no one said anything, so the matter was still kept secret, and naturally there was no gossip.

But as luck would have it, that day when she was undergoing a checkup at the county hospital, she was seen by someone from the village.

The man was free, so he ran over to ask the nurse. At that time, there were no regulations regarding patient confidentiality, so the nurse casually said it was a pregnancy check.

Now that’s good, that person spread the news immediately after he went back.

All kinds of rumors came at her face, and the girl thought she could withstand it, but she didn't know that the root of her tongue could be fatal.

How could she, a young girl who had never experienced any storms and had just graduated from school, have the experience to face these things? Within two days, she was completely broken down both mentally and physically.

That guy named Chang is a guy who has the courage to untie other people's belts but doesn't have the courage to take responsibility.

The combination of these two things made the girl collapse directly, and things came to this point.

Shaking his head to dispel the random thoughts in his mind, Li Yancheng looked carefully at the market to see if there was anything he could buy.

Yes, and quite a few.

Chickens and eggs, these are things that make him drool, and they must be taken.

There is even beef?

Oh, the Beef Town gave me a letter of introduction proving that he died of old age.

The beef was cheap, the same price as the spareribs he bought that day, 65 cents per pound.

This thing may not be seen once a year. It is mainly used to protect working cattle and slaughtering is strictly prohibited.

Although he was extremely greedy when he saw this thing and wanted to buy it all, he was just thinking about it and only bought two kilograms. The butcher was selling it on behalf of the village and did not require meat coupons, only grain coupons.

Come to think of it, every village now raises pigs. At the end of the year, apart from handing over one pig to the town, basically each village can keep one or two for itself. After slaughtering the pigs, they just give a share to the villagers. They never go out to buy meat, so meat coupons are useless. But food coupons are very useful.

Li Yancheng was like a hardworking little bee, poking here and there, and in a short while he had spent more than 50 yuan and 20 kilograms of food coupons.

In this era, this is a huge sum of money.

The harvest was not small, but because he only bought a little and put it away as he went, not many people knew him, so he didn't show much. When he finally returned to the clinic, he was holding a bag of corn grits in his hands.

The things he quietly stored in the warehouse were enough for him to eat for a while.

He still didn't dare to do what he wanted in town, but it would be different when he went back in a few days. The city was big, and as long as he didn't buy at the vegetable market near his home, almost no one in other places would recognize him.

If all else fails, you can go to the ghost market, where you can find almost any imaginable or unimaginable thing, and you can buy it as long as you have money.

However, the ghost market is also under the supervision of relevant departments. If you are caught accidentally, it will be better if you are buying things. You will be criticized and educated, fined, and then someone from your unit or neighborhood committee will come to take the goods away.

It is not so easy for those who sell things, especially those who sell various tickets. They will basically be sentenced if caught.

Of course, there are not many ordinary people who can sell tickets. After all, ordinary people don’t have the resources to get so many special tickets.

(End of this chapter)