"Stop reading here this afternoon. Come to the medical clinic with me. Reading alone is useless at your level. It's time for you to get started. From now on, when you are free, go to the medical clinic to see Dr. Liu. Follow him. Whenever a patient comes, take your pulse first. Then write down the symptoms, pulse conditions, and prescriptions, and then talk to Dr. Liu. After a year and a half, if you don't make any mistakes, you can start training. .”
After putting down the medical records in his hand, Bai Jingqi arranged Liu Guangqi's itinerary.
"knew"
Liu Guangqi nodded after hearing this and had no objection. He couldn't bear to read the medical records every day, but what could he do if the old man didn't say anything.
"Okay, it's getting late and it's time to eat. Let's eat something together. There is roast duck for lunch today. If you don't eat it, you will miss it."
"Come on, now that you have spoken, I won't be polite. I happen to be greedy too. I was just about to say that I have two days free and go to hunt a pheasant outside the city for meat."
Hearing what Bai Jingqi said, Liu Guangqi was not polite to him. He supported me and walked towards the main room.
"Don't be polite to me from now on. If you're hungry, come over and eat. This big house doesn't miss you."
After spending a day at Bai's house and having a sumptuous lunch, Liu Guangqi said goodbye to the old man as it was getting late, and then walked back to the courtyard.
For several days, Liu Guangqi followed Bai Jingqi's instructions. After getting up every morning, he went to the Bai family's medical clinic to have a consultation with Dr. Liu.
And in order to be able to start his career as early as possible, Liu Guangqi did not hide his clumsiness and excelled when it was time to excel. Anyway, there was no problem with his background and he had a good foundation. So he directly showed his true level, and the medical skills he displayed almost made Dr. Liu trim his beard off.
Because what Liu Guangqi wrote was not only the same as what he wrote, but sometimes even the symptoms that he didn't notice were written by Liu Guangqi, and the prescriptions he prescribed were also very accurate, as beautiful as those who thought he had been practicing medicine for decades. Same as Chinese medicine.
Looking at Liu Guangqi's young face, Doctor Liu suddenly felt that his life had been in vain these past few decades, and the waves from behind on the Yangtze River did not push ahead.
After going to the hospital for several days, Liu Guangqi gradually regained the feeling of working at Zhongzhou Hospital. Just when Liu Guangqi was getting better, a piece of news disrupted Liu Guangqi's life.
Liu Guangqi had just returned from the medical clinic that day and was going to have lunch before going back. As soon as he entered the door, he saw a dark, middle-aged man sitting in the main room of his home. His appearance and body were somewhat similar to Liu Haizhong. Liu Guangqi took a closer look and saw that it was his uncle Liu Haizhu.
"Uncle, why are you here? Is there something important going on at home?"
Liu Guangqi looked at his uncle who was sweating profusely and looked tired from work. He quickly asked, "It's more than forty miles from Liujiazhuang to where Liu's family lives now. In this year of inconvenient transportation, if it weren't for the holidays, on weekdays, Relatives don't know how to interact with each other. Just like Liu Guangqi's family did not return to the village this year because they moved, but once they interact with each other, something will definitely happen.
"It's Guangqi. Something happened, but it's a good thing. Your eldest brother is getting married."
Liu Haizhu shook the straw hat in his hand and showed his smoke-stained yellow teeth at Liu Guangqi.
"Yes, this is a good thing, but I remember that my eldest brother is only seventeen this year. He is ready to get married. Isn't it a little early?"
Liu Guangqi recalled the memories related to his cousin in his mind. After thinking about it, he realized that his cousin was not yet an adult. It must be illegal to get married at this age.
"It's getting late. People in the village get married early. The earlier they get married, the earlier they have children. There are even earlier ones."
Liu Haizhu said with a smile. Seeing Liu Haizhu's nonchalant look, Liu Guangqi really wanted to say that it was illegal for you to do this, but then he thought about it, who cares even if it is illegal? This kind of thing has always been ignored by the people.
Besides, it's not a big mistake. Even if you're fined, it's useless. As long as the two families are willing, they can live together if they should. It didn't matter whether they had a marriage certificate or not. Even Liu Guangqi doubted whether they knew there was such a thing as a marriage certificate.
"Has the date been set yet?"
Liu Guangqi went into his room and took out a handful of tea leaves to make a pot of water for his uncle. In fact, it would be great if you could give the other party a bottle of cold beer at this time, but unfortunately the conditions did not allow it. It would be even more inappropriate to let people drink it cold and drink it for free. You can only make it hot if you brew it now, and you can't lose etiquette.
"It's decided, the day after tomorrow."
"puff"
When Liu Guangqi heard about the wedding day, he spit out the sip of hot tea he had just taken into his mouth.
"The day after tomorrow? Shouldn't we get engaged first and then get married? Why is it so tight?"
Liu Guangqi stared at his uncle and asked stammering with wide eyes.
"Engaged"
Liu Haizhu still looks cheerful,
"We were engaged, why didn't I know when?"
Liu Guangqi quickly searched through his memory, but could not find any information about Liu Guangxiao's engagement.
"It was two months ago, three months ago."
"Then why didn't you inform my dad? It's such a big deal. If he knew about it, he would be angry with you."
The most important thing for Liu Haizhong is face, but now his nephew is engaged and will get married soon. As an uncle, he still doesn't know anything. If Liu Haizhong knew about this, he would definitely be furious.
"It's too troublesome to come here. The toll is so expensive and you have to walk so far. Your grandfather said you don't need to notify your dad. Wait until the married liger comes to call your dad back."
Liu Guangqi was silent after hearing this. There is a distance of more than 20 kilometers from Nanluoguxiang to Liujiazhuang. Only half of the distance is served by buses. The rest of the distance can only be walked on foot if there are no mules and horses. And the fare for such a small distance is enough to buy a pound of stick noodles. No wonder Liu Guangqi’s grandfather is reluctant to part with it.
"Where's my mother?"
After chatting for a long time, Liu Guangqi realized that Liu Ma was nowhere to be seen.
"Your mother went to the factory to call your father. She left and sat for a while. She will probably be back soon."
As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Guangqi heard the sound of Liu Haizhong pushing a cart through the door.
"Brother, what do you mean? Why didn't you tell me about Guangxiao's engagement? Do you not care about me as a brother? Do I belong to the Liu family?"
As expected by Liu Guangqi, Liu Haizhong had already started to investigate before he entered the house. He was obviously very dissatisfied with his elder brother's behavior.
But fortunately, Lao Liu was not an unreasonable person, and he was no longer so angry after hearing Liu Haizhu's explanation. Instead, he started asking if all the things for the wedding were ready.
"It has been prepared for a long time. A new quilt, two pillows, and the rest will be enough."
"Well, old lady, please bring the money to buy a thermos bottle later. You're already getting married and you can't live without a thermos bottle. Let's see what else you need for your wedding. By the way, a basin. Buy another basin. Buy two, one for washing your face, and one for washing your face. Wash your feet.”
"no, I'm fine"
Hearing that his brother was buying this and that in order to keep his son's face bright, Liu Haizhu quickly stopped him and kept saying no. But Liu Haizhong was determined to support his nephew. Even after buying a kettle and a washbasin, he even wanted to sell clothes to Liu Guangxiao. However, as soon as he proposed this idea, Liu's mother stopped him with a look. Are you kidding me? How much does a piece of clothing cost? If my son doesn’t have any new clothes yet, then he still has money to buy new clothes for other people’s children.
"Then buy a pound of candy."
Seeing that it was impossible to buy clothes, Liu Haizhong turned his attention to food again.
"Is the banquet ready?"
Liu Haizhong asked after sitting cross-legged on the kang and smoking.
"I get worried when I talk about this. The girl didn't ask for anything. She just asked for the banquet to be a good one with at least five tables, and every table must have meat and vegetables. I calculated that the meat alone would cost two More than ten kilograms, where can I get so much meat?"
When he heard about the banquet, Liu Haizhu, who had been smiling since entering the door, showed a sad face for the first time.
"This is a problem."
Liu Haizhong also fell silent when he heard that the banquet was lacking meat. It's not that I can't afford it. If I really buy it at the market price, it actually doesn't cost much, which is more than half a month's salary of Liu Haizhong. Now Liu Haizhong's family doesn't have to buy rice or noodles to eat. All the money is left. After a few days, I saved a lot of money.
This means that prices have stabilized recently. If this was the case in the early months of the war, the first thing to buy as soon as wages were paid, otherwise, haha. Not to mention anything else, the ticket price for the Forbidden City was 100 per person when Liu Guangqi and others went there before, but now it has become 500 per person, which is a five-fold increase.
So the money spent on buying meat is really nothing to the old Liu family. The problem is that there is a price but no market. Most of the meat on the market has been transferred to the Korean front line and given to the volunteers. Only a small amount is still circulating in the market.
However, it was obvious that this part of the circulation could not be purchased by the Liu family. The meat was probably ordered as soon as it was unloaded from the pig.
