Chapter 5 Yuan’s Medical Expenses
Chen Qi went to the back room and took out a lidocaine needle, a syringe and a debridement bag from the space operating room.
The most important thing is that when he picked up the mysterious scalpel and held it in his hand, he felt as if the knife and the man were one.
Chen Shu and Chen Hua knew that their brother studied medicine, but they had never seen him show his skills, so they were full of curiosity and gathered around the table to watch the operation.
I saw Chen Qi first apply lidocaine on both sides of the proximal end of his finger. After a while, he waited for the finger to be numb, then disinfected it, and then took out the scalpel.
The moment he took out the scalpel and prepared to do it, the scalpel seemed to come alive. Chen Qi felt that he was not performing an operation to cut his nails, but that the scalpel was actively guiding him on how to perform the operation.
Within a few minutes, part of the nail on the affected side was cut off, the thick liquid was drained out, disinfected again and bandaged. The operation process was very fast and the effect was perfect.
The entire operation process, including Chen Qi's professionalism, was witnessed by the patient himself. When he finally looked at the finger wrapped with gauze, the middle-aged man was extremely happy.
"Doctor Chen, is this good?"
"It's not good. You'd better go to the barefoot doctor every day to change the dressing and take some anti-inflammatory drugs. You'll be fully recovered in about a week or two."
While cleaning up, Chen Qi warned that this feeling was just like having a minor outpatient surgery in his previous life.
The middle-aged man was naturally grateful, and finally took out 2 yuan from his pocket and put it on the table.
"Dr. Chen, you know that the people in our mountains are poor, so don't think it's too little."
Chen Qi scratched his head and accepted it. After all, he had put in all the mental work, and he also had a debridement kit and an anesthetic.
"Okay, I'll accept it without mercy. Be careful not to touch the water when you go back."
After the middle-aged man left, Chen Hua and Chen Qi looked at the two 1-yuan yuan with the image of a female tractor driver on the table, filled with curiosity.
"Brother, in such a short time, you have earned two yuan? This eldest sister has to carry bricks for four days, and she can pay my tuition for one semester."
Chen Qi shook the banknotes and curled his lips, "Just this? 2 yuan? In future generations, if the pre-operative examination fees, operation fees, and medicine fees are added up, you can't even think of leaving without 1,000 yuan.
How do you spend your unexpected extra money?
The three brothers and sisters were sitting at home together, holding their chins in their hands and thinking about this problem.
The younger sister Chen Hua thinks it should be handed over to the elder sister and saved for next semester’s tuition.
The younger brother Chen Shu thought that he should buy some meat to eat. The reason was that he had not eaten meat for half a year, and now he wanted to take a bite when he saw the pigs raised by others.
Chen Qi thinks Chen Shu is right and should buy meat to eat.
Mainly because the scene of the silly elder sister carrying bricks under the scorching sun shocked him so much. He had thought about being reborn and endured hardship, but he never expected that it would be so miserable.
Compared with the three scholars in the family, the silly eldest sister is the one who needs nourishment the most.
"How about we go buy some meat now and give the eldest sister a surprise when she comes back?"
Chen Shu jumped three feet high: "Okay, okay."
Chen Hua objected deliberately, but when he thought of the big white fat meat, he really couldn't resist the temptation, "Okay, let's buy pork."
The three brothers and sisters did what they said, regardless of the scorching sun outside, each put on a broken straw hat and rushed to the commune barefoot.
There is a small market where Xingtang Commune is located. Although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs.
For example, there are movie theaters, supply and marketing cooperatives, non-staple food stores, health centers, primary and secondary schools, police stations, governments, and even a small mini guest house.
The three brothers and sisters of the Chen family walked for nearly an hour before reaching the commune. The three of them were full of curiosity and kept looking around as they walked.
Chen Shu and Chen Hua rarely come to the commune. To them, the commune is like a "big city", full of prosperity, and there are novel things in the supply and marketing cooperative that they have never seen in their lives.
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Although this is obviously just a small mountain village commune where cars can’t even drive.
For Chen Qi, a reborn guest, he is full of curiosity about everything in the 1980s. After all, he has never experienced this era. It feels like he is in Hengdian Film and Television City.
The buildings on the street, the clothes of the people, and the red slogans on the walls all gave him the feeling of "experiential travel".
The three of them walked around and stood at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative for a long time. When they saw bottles of soda on the counter, the three of them, who were dry, hot and thirsty, swallowed their saliva.
But when they saw the price tag of 2 cents, the three of them could only shake their heads and left without saying anything.
Chen Qi never dreamed that he would be reborn in 1981 and couldn't even afford a bottle of soda. It was such a failure.
It seems that how to make money during the summer vacation and how to support the family is the next most important task.
The three of them came to the grocery store. When they saw the pieces of pork, Chen Shu and Chen Hua both exclaimed:
"Brother, look, there's so much pork."
"Master, how much is a pound of pork belly?"
The pig-butcher, who was wearing a dirty apron, looked impatient: "Go, go, look at you like that, do you have money?"
Chen Qi waved two one-yuan bills in his hand.
The pig-butcher was stunned and said with a smile:
"Oh, can't you tell? These mountain guys are actually really rich. No, this pork belly costs 1 yuan per pound. Look at this big fat meat four fingers thick. It's beautiful. It costs 1 yuan and 2 cents per pound. This lean meat costs 1 yuan.
9 cents and 5 cents per catty."
Chen Buer felt that his ears had heard it wrong. Lean meat was actually 2.5 cents cheaper than fat meat?
What idiot would buy fat meat?
In his previous life, when he went to the cafeteria to eat, he would always pick out the fat meat. The fat in his mouth was full of cholesterol, and the little nurses who loved beauty would avoid it.
Chen Qi decided to remind the other party: "Master, are you wrong in calculating the price?"
The pig-butcher was unhappy: "How could the calculation be wrong? It's also in our commune. If we go to the city, everyone will rush to sell it, and you need meat tickets to buy meat. Do you mountain guys have any?"
If you want meat stamps, no one in Xingtang, a purely agricultural commune, can eat pork. Obviously the people have strong opinions, so they don’t want meat stamps, but the price is a little more expensive.
Chen Qi was being smart, so he thought, don't blame me for taking advantage of the loophole, so he took out the banknotes and slapped them on the murder case:
"Just give us two pounds of lean meat."
The pig-butcher was stunned again, and then a strange smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "Okay, two pounds of lean meat, look at it, the scale is high, it's 1 yuan and 9 cents, please keep this as change."
Chen Qi paid the money and carried the lean meat hanging with a straw rope. He felt so beautiful and shouted to Chen Shu and Chen Hua:
Chapter completed!