When Guan Baiyu came home from the hospital, he brought back two large glass bottles that used to hold "salt water", a syringe, and two small glass bottles the size of a thumb.
This small bottle is also filled with medicine. The nurse took out the medicinal needle inside and put it into a glass bottle hanging with water for Guan Baiyu to use, and then put it aside. Does he want this.
Of course Guan Baiyu wanted it, so Shi Zhen took the bottles and jars to wash them, and brought them home to Guan Baiyu.
Along the way, Guan Baiyu happily played with bottles in the tricycle, and said to Shi Zhen, "Brother, the lid of this small bottle is probably made of rubber. It can be used as a rubber, you know? I didn't use rubber when I was young. , just ask the barefoot doctor for this kind of bottle cap, he sees me pitiful, and will always give me a few."
"I know." Shi Zhen smiled. Before the 1990s, the entire country was in a period when materials were not very abundant. Any old thing could be developed into a new use.
The soft cap on this medicine bottle is used as an eraser and can be seen everywhere.
As for the large glass bottle... His family also has a salt water bottle brought back from the barefoot doctor, and his father used this bottle to drink water when he went to work in the fields.
It was noon when they got home.
I didn’t go to a stall to sell rice balls in the morning. There was a large pot of white rice cooked with glutinous rice at home, so Shi Zhen ate some casually. As for Guan Baiyu… The glutinous rice was not easy to digest, so Shi Zhen cooked him a bowl of noodles, and added some vegetables to it. , also added a few slices of lean meat, an egg.
Guan Baiyu leaned on the bed and ate slowly.
The effect of hanging water is immediate, he feels much better now, but his throat hurts when he eats...
Guan Baiyu didn't tell Shi Zhen about this, but Shi Zhen saw that he was eating slowly and thought that the doctor said that his throat was completely rotten, and he knew that he must be in pain.
After Guan Baiyu had eaten the noodles, Shi Zhen found Guan Jianguo's mother and bought a hen with her. After killing and shaved, he tore off the chicken fat and cut the thick skin with scissors. Clean, put in a pot and simmer.
Guan Baiyu is ill and needs to eat something to make up for it.
The chicken was stewed for two hours. When the stew was done, Shi Zhen picked up the chicken and most of the chicken soup, put rice and water in the remaining chicken soup, and cooked porridge.
Whether it's stewing chicken or cooking porridge, you don't need to watch all the time. During this period, Shi Zhen went to see Guan Baiyu from time to time.
Guan Baiyu slept for a while after returning home, but most of the time he was awake, Shi Zhen didn't let him study, only let him listen to the radio on the radio.
After putting the rice in the pot, Shi Zhen went in again and asked Guan Baiyu if he wanted some water.
Guan Baiyu had a sore throat and didn't really want to drink it, but Shi Zhen asked, and he still drank a little.
"Are you hungry?" Shi Zhen asked again.
Guan Baiyu shook his head.
Shi Zhen patted his head and told him to lie down, while he sat down on the chair next to him.
Seeing this, Guan Baiyu moved to the bed: "Brother, will you lie down beside me for a while?"
Shi Zhen thought about it and didn't refuse.
He pays great attention to his sense of proportion and does not have any contact with Guan Baiyu, but the normal relationship between brothers should still exist.
Otherwise, it will make Guan Baiyu doubt or think too much.
Seeing Shi Zhen lying beside him, Guan Baiyu was indescribably happy.
Shi Zhen slept next to Shi Xinghuo every night, but he never slept next to him. This was the first time, so good.
Thinking that Shi Zhen accompanied him to the hospital and took care of himself so much, Guan Baiyu asked, "Brother, why are you being so kind to me?"
"First of all, you are my brother," Shi Zhen said. "Secondly, and most importantly, you are worthy of my kindness to you."
Seeing that Guan Baiyu was a little dazed, Shi Zhen laughed: "If Guan Kai is my younger brother, then I guess I will visit him occasionally and buy him something. I must be too lazy to talk to him."
Guan Kai is the grandson of the little grandmother, Shi Zhen has been in touch with him more or less during this time.
This kid... looks just like his grandma.
Likes to take advantage of others, like to speak ill of people behind their backs, bully the soft and fear the hard, etc.
"Brother, do you hate him?" Guan Baiyu asked, "What do you like?"
"Of course I hate him, do you like him?" Shi Zhen laughed, "I like a younger brother like you."
For Guan Baiyu, others give him one point, and he can't wait to give back ten points.
Guan Baiyu's eyes lit up.
Shi Zhen knew that he was insecure, and said again: "Xiaoyu, you are my younger brother, I will always treat you well."
"Brother, if you get married and have children in the future, will you still be nice to me?" Guan Baiyu didn't dare to ask before, but he cried a lot in the hospital today, made a scene again, and was coaxed by Shi Zhen. , dare to ask.
Shi Zhen asked back, "If you were married and had children, wouldn't you be too lazy to take care of my brother?"
Guan Baiyu said without thinking: "Certainly not, brother, you will always be the most important person to me."
"I am like you, and you are my most important person." Shi Zhen said seriously.
Guan Baiyu laughed, he thought about it carefully, and felt that even if he got married and had children, he still wanted to be with his brother.
His brother is like him, that would be great.
"Brother, we can build a house in the future. We can build it together. For the kind that shares a wall in the middle, the patio can be without the wall. When you come to my house for dinner, I will make it for you." Guan Baiyu said.
Shi Zhen knew the kind of house Guan Baiyu was talking about.
When building houses in the countryside, sometimes in order to save money, two houses are built next to each other, sharing a wall in the middle.
Of course, doing this is easy to cause conflicts, and generally brothers do this.
Some people have a patio in the middle, and they are directly connected to facilitate mutual communication.
Shi Zhen said: "Yes. But we should live in the city in the future, and then we will live opposite the door. When we get older, we will play Tai Chi, play chess, and walk the dog together." He is not from Guan Baiyu's village at all. Naturally You cannot build a house in the village.
Even Guan Baiyu, if he does not have a single independent household, the village will not grant him a homestead.
Most importantly, they will definitely leave here in the future.
"Well, brother, when I get off work, I'll go to your place."
"Okay." Shi Zhen agreed.
Guan Baiyu is too young now, and he was bent by him in his last life. He is not sure what will happen in the future.
But he was really looking forward to such an old age.
The more Guan Baiyu thought about it, the happier he became, and he started talking again, talking and talking, his heart settled down, but suddenly there was no sound around him.
He turned his head to look, only to find that Shi Zhen was asleep.
Shi Zhen didn't sleep for long, but woke up after half an hour.
It was time to make dinner, and he went out to fry two dishes and cut up the cooked chicken.
There is no need to cook the rice, there is still a lot of sticky rice left in the morning.
After preparing dinner for him and Shi Xinghuoqian, Shi Zhen tore off another chicken thigh, tore the meat on top and cut it into pieces, put it into the cooked porridge, and added chopped green leaves and chicken liver.
Before he stewed the chicken, he threw away all the oily chicken skin, and the chicken soup for porridge had no oil in it, so it wouldn't be too greasy.
As for the taste... the taste is so-so, but easy to swallow.
Before the money came back, Shi Zhen brought the porridge to Guan Baiyu first.
Guan Baiyu sat on the bed holding the porridge, laughing non-stop: "I'm like a woman confinement, drinking chicken soup porridge on the bed."
After he finished speaking, he was worried: "Brother, why are you still buying chickens? Did we spend a lot of money today?"
Shi Zhen said: "You are the most important, what is money?"
Guan Baiyu laughed again.
Seeing him like this, Shi Zhen knew that he had been thinking about things for most of the day before, but now that we talked about it, it was finally a lot better.
Guan Baiyu's mood is indeed much better. He doesn't think about what will happen to Shi Zhen after marriage, but starts to think about what will happen to the two of them in the future.
In fact, there are many couples in the village who have a bad relationship. Guan Jianguo's father, his second grandfather, lives separately from his wife.
There is also his little grandfather, who doesn't have a good relationship with his little grandma, so in fact, usually, the second grandfather sits at the door of the house and chats with the little grandpa.
In winter they sit under the sun, in summer they sit in the shade.
That's fine too.
Guan Baiyu figured it out, so he stopped worrying about getting angry.
But he still didn't want Shi Zhen to get married too early, and he didn't want Shi Zhen to be nice to others.
He was a little selfish and always hoped that Shi Zhen only cared about himself.
When Guan Baiyu was in a good mood, he felt that his body was also better, and he was unwilling to go to the hospital the next day.
I don't know if it was because Guan Baiyu had never had any injections before, but Guan Baiyu's effect was immediate and he did not have any fever.
His condition was stable, but Shi Zhen did not insist that he continue to go to the hospital to hang water.
Hanging too much water will damage the body's immunity. If possible, it is better to take medicine.
However, although Guan Baiyu no longer had a fever, his throat was not feeling well, and the pain even after drinking water lasted for several days, and then it slowly improved.
During this period of time, Shi Zhen took home a medicine cabinet, which contained a thermometer, bandages, bandages, antipyretics, cold medicine, and several bottles of vitamin tablets and calcium tablets.
When Guan Baiyu was sick, Shi Zhen asked him to take some vitamin tablets every day. As for the calcium tablets, he planned to let him take it when he was cured.
Guan Baiyu was sick at home for three or four days before he went to the town to read.
Then, the weather was getting hotter day by day, and in a blink of an eye, it was the end of May.
Shi Zhen saved another sum of money, which he used to buy things, such as gas stoves and liquefied gas cylinders.
In addition, it was summer now, whether it was him, Guan Baiyu, or Shi Xinghuo, they all needed to buy some summer clothes.
When he and Shi Xinghuo came out of the village, they brought their better clothes with them. Although these clothes were a little dirty, as long as they were cleaned, they were barely enough to wear.
But he and Shi Xinghuo have no summer clothes.
Guan Baiyu had a few pieces, but they were all old and didn't fit well.
Guan Baiyu's clothes are all given by the villagers. They are fine in winter. Some children can't wear them for two or three years and bring them to him, and they won't be too torn.
But summer clothes…
In summer, clothes are changed and washed frequently, and teenagers of this age are still playing with clothes. In addition, rural people generally buy larger clothes and wear them for a few more years... Those for Guan Baiyu have been wearing short sleeves for at least two or three years. All a little out of place.
The collars of Guan Baiyu's summer clothes were all discolored and drooping, and some places were hung by branches or stained with oil stains. Wearing such clothes would give people a sloppy feeling.
Shi Zhen planned to take him to buy some clothes.
The day to buy clothes, Shi Zhen set the Children's Day on June 1.
Although Guan Baiyu is fourteen years old, he is not considered a child, but he should have never received a Children's Day gift before, and now he can make up for it.
Shi Zhen and Guan Baiyu agreed in advance about buying clothes.
This morning, Guan Baiyu followed him to set up a stall in the town, and helped him collect money when he sold rice balls. When he sold out, the two went to the second floor of the vegetable market to buy clothes.
On the second floor of the market, there are many shops that are divided into small rooms, many of which sell clothes. The prices of things here are not expensive, that is, you have to bargain.
Shi Zhen was impatient to bargain, but at this time, many people would not give a real price, so he could only pay it back.
Shi Zhen, who learned from Qian Qiqi that the price of buying clothes here can be directly cut in half, took Guan Baiyu for a stroll.
Guan Baiyu was someone who had never seen the market before, and he had a good time shopping at the small shop upstairs in the vegetable market.
But while walking, Guan Baiyu suddenly pulled Shi Zhen into a nearby store.
"What's wrong?" Shi Zhen was a little puzzled.
Guan Baiyu and Shi Zhenjin's store is very small, no more than ten square meters in total. There are all kinds of women's clothes hanging around it, and there is a small table and a stool in the middle. The owner sits here.
Most of the shops here are this big, unless the owner rents two shops.
Guan Baiyu didn't answer Shi Zhen's question, but went to see the clothes here.
"You want to buy clothes? The clothes I have here are all very good. I came in from the provincial capital, and everyone there wears it like this!" the shopkeeper said.
Shi Zhen: "..." Although he has never been to the provincial capital, he has been to Changxi City, and he went again a few days ago.
Nowadays, there are people who dress very crudely, but there are also very fashionable ones. The girls in Changxi City are wearing beautiful dresses, jeans, flared pants, high-waisted pants, and so on. Here... These floral shirts, floral trousers, and red and green peony shift dresses, which he never saw young girls wear in Changxi City.
It was Guan Baiyu, who looked quite serious.
However, Guan Baiyu only looked at it. After watching for a while, he reached the door and looked out.
After looking around, he breathed a sigh of relief and said to Shi Zhen, "Brother, let's go."
Shi Zhen followed Guan Baiyu out and asked Guan Baiyu, "What happened just now?"
"I saw Guan Kai's mother just now." Guan Baiyu said.
What the hell happened to see Guan Kai? Shi Zhen knew this little daughter-in-law who was not good at anything in the mouth of the little grandma. She was a woman who knew how to dress up, and her appearance was not bad.
She is thirty-seven or eighteen years old, with wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, but her figure is very good, her skin is fair, and she is very charming.
She is actually a good person, and she is very kind to Guan Baiyu. She used to give Guan Kai's clothes to Guan Baiyu to wear.
The little grandmother said this when she came to them before, and Guan Baiyu told him that the little grandma would not let Guan Kai give him his mother clothes.
After that, the little grandma took all of Guan Kai's old clothes and gave them to her little daughter who also gave birth to a son.
Because the little grandmother spent all day in the village talking about how her daughter-in-law was bad, Shi Zhen was very sympathetic to the little grandma's daughter-in-law.
But this person, he really has never met, because in his previous life, Guan Kai's parents divorced very early, and he has never met.
He didn't know what happened to Guan Kai's mother, but he did know what happened to Guan Kai's father. After the divorce, he wanted to find another one, but he was too picky and never found it.
Anyway, when Guan Kai's father wanted to sell the house because Guan Pingguo gambled money and owed debts, when he fought with Guan Pingguo and entered the police station, he still hadn't found his wife.
But he... still didn't give up looking for his wife.
Now Guan Baiyu looks so mysterious...
"What the hell happened to Guan Kai?" Shi Zhen asked.
Guan Baiyu said: "Guan Kai's mother is holding a man's hand... That man is not my uncle."
Shi Zhen: "..." These days, the little grandmother and Guan Pingguo speak ill of him in the village every day, telling people everywhere that he does not let Guan Baiyu go to school, and forcing Guan Baiyu to work for him.
He also spread rumors that the things he did were not clean, saying that he came here because of something outside...
Anyway, the little grandma is very good at making up stories!
If not many people believed in them, Shi Zhen would definitely take a knife and go to their house for theory.
One of the little grandma's lifelong hobbies is to gossip about people, but now... their family is probably going to be the target of other people's gossip.
As for Guan Kai's mother, although she didn't do it right, Shi Zhen actually understood her a little bit.
Yesterday, the little grandmother told people that her daughter-in-law had taken a bath at night and put her underwear in the tub and left it in the tub for the night, so she was disgusting and so on... When you meet such a mother-in-law who has to say everything, normal people really can't stand it.