The name Qin Huairu made Li Donglai stunned in the cold wind.
His calm mood was like a pebble thrown into a lake, creating little ripples.
Qin Huairu is three years older than him and is his fiancée.
To be precise, when Li Donglai and Qin Huairu were children, the Li and Qin families arranged a baby wedding for them.
The two wore crotchless pants and played together.
More than ten years later, Li Donglai grew up into a handsome young man.
Qin Huairu also became a flower in every country.
Because they were engaged, the two of them had known each other as husband and wife for a long time in private, and their relationship was very harmonious.
When the sun is shining, the two ignorant young people will go into the woods together and pick mushrooms on the grass.
After traveling to this world, he was blessed with a lovely wife, whom Li Donglai cherished very much and would give big mushrooms to Qin Huairu every time.
The mushrooms were covered with fine white dew and were particularly fresh and tender. Qin Huairu ate them with relish.
It was really a happy and happy day.
but.
Happiness is often very short-lived, it still has wings and can fly.
Everything changed when Qin Huairu went to the city to buy floral cloth to prepare for her dowry and met Jia Xudong.
One is a cowherd boy in the countryside, who can only face the loess and turn his back to the sky for the rest of his life;
One is a worker in a big city who gets public food every month.
Qin Huairu, who was greedy for vanity, made the choice easily.
People go to higher places and water flows to lower places. In fact, Li Donglai did not resent Qin Huairu.
However, it was early in the morning when Qin Huairu left, and Li Donglai was still sleeping soundly in bed.
She actually took away the fine steel pot from home.
It was the only decent furniture in the house.
This is a bit unbearable.
...
"Dr. Li, my niece is a woman with shallow eyesight. With your... superb medical skills, you will become famous sooner or later." Qin Daniu saw Li Donglai's gloomy face and quickly comforted him with a smile.
"Uncle Qin, don't worry, I have forgotten her a long time ago." Li Donglai was naturally grateful for his kindness.
"Forget it! I also have a niece, her name is Qin Jingru. She looks like a fairy in the sky. Would you like to introduce her to you... Hey... Dr. Li, don't leave!"
Before Uncle Qin finished speaking, Li Donglai disappeared in the cold wind.
He didn't care about Qin Huairu for a long time. He still wanted to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy salt.
The supply and marketing cooperative is located at the commune brigade headquarters, and the salesperson is an aunt in her fifties.
Seeing Li Donglai walking in, she immediately put down the melon seeds in her hand and greeted him with a smile on her face.
"Donglai, what can I buy today?"
Of course, for ordinary customers, the saleswoman will not be so enthusiastic at all.
It's just that the ridiculously young doctor in front of her cured her mother's hiccups for many years.
"Second Aunt Qin, please bring me a pound of salt." Li Donglai looked around the shelves and his eyes lit up when he saw sorghum glutinous rice.
This is a rare candy from the Qinjia Village Supply and Marketing Cooperative.
"Second Aunt, here comes... half a catty of sorghum glutinous rice!" Li Donglai decided to have a splurge here.
The saleswoman was very accurate. She grabbed a handful of sorghum glutinous rice and weighed it on the scale. Hey, it was exactly half a catty.
Salt costs 2 cents per catty, and sorghum glutinous rice costs 5 cents per catty.
Li Donglai handed the two cents to the saleswoman, took the salt and sugar, put them in the medical kit, and walked towards the west end of the village.
At the west end of Qinjia Village, there is a blue brick house with a thatched roof. This was Li Donglai's home in this era.
As soon as the crooked old elm door was opened, a chubby little girl with two braids upturned came up to her.
"Brother, you are back!"
"Little sister, are you good at home today?"
Li Donglai came up and took Li Xiaomei's hand.
My little hands are warm and it seems that I don’t need to put on any clothes.
She had a cough these days, and Li Donglai ordered her to stay at home and not go out.
"Good, I'm good. I've finished the homework you assigned me!" Li Xiaomei raised her little face and stared at Li Donglai's cheek with her big eyes. "I'm very proud, please praise me" written all over her face!
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Li Donglai did as she wished, touched her chin, and praised her: "My little sister is really amazing, my brother wants to reward you."
While speaking, Li Donglai took out the brown paper bag from the medical box under Li Xiaomei's expectant eyes.
"what is this?"
Li Xiaomei took it doubtfully and unfolded the brown paper. When she saw the sorghum cake inside, her breathing quickened and her little nose puffed twice.
"Is this...sugar?"
Unexpectedly, Li Xiaomei suddenly closed the paper package and handed it to Li Donglai.
"Brother, I don't like sweets!"
"Don't like sweets?" Li Donglai was stunned.
"The book says that eating too much sugar will damage your teeth!" Li Xiaomei swallowed, but her eyes were determined.
"...." Li Donglai.
Looking at the stubborn Li Xiaomei, Li Donglai seemed to understand her concerns and knelt down to look at Li Xiaomei.
"Little sister, my brother is now a doctor and can earn 20 work points a day. We will never be hungry again in the future."
Three years ago, Li Donglai's parents were swept away by the flood while trying to harvest crops during a flood.
With the lack of labor force, the lives of the Li brothers and sisters fell into difficulties.
I can’t get enough of the wild vegetable dumplings and wheat bran.
Later, the life at home changed when Li Donglai became a barefoot doctor.
Of course, Li Xiaomei knows that her brother is now very capable, but money cannot be spent carelessly.
My brother also wants to get a wife.
Isn't it because my family is poor that Sister Qin abandoned her brother and married into the city?
However, Li Xiaomei knew that she couldn't say that.
She couldn't sprinkle the salt her brother had just bought on his wounds.
"Well, this can only happen once. Don't buy it again next time!" After some hesitation, Li Xiaomei bit her lips and reached out to open the paper bag.
He carefully took out two pieces of sorghum glutinous rice from it, and then placed the paper package in the bedside cabinet.
That cabinet belongs exclusively to Li Xiaomei, and Li Dong is never allowed to look at it.
Of course, she didn't lock it either.
"Brother, this big one is mine, and this small one is yours. We can't snatch each other."
Li Xiaomei separated two identical candies into different sizes.
She was afraid that her brother would give her the candy.
"I won't grab it, I definitely won't grab it!" Li Donglai felt warm in his heart and opened the candy wrapper.
In his previous life, he also bought sorghum glutinous rice from the supermarket.
However, the skin of that kind of sorghum glutinous rice is wrinkled and shows an abnormal yellow color, which is reminiscent of the rendering of pigment.
The sorghum glutinous rice of this era is obviously much more authentic. The fruit is angular, straight, and slightly red, making people think of red sorghum at once.
When you put it in your mouth, you will taste the light sweetness at first, then your teeth will come into contact with the soft fruit body, and finally it will taste very chewy.
As for the thin transparent film wrapped on the outside, it is the essence of sorghum glutinous rice and should be saved for last.
It took the brother and sister more than ten minutes to finish a piece of sorghum cake.
Then, Li Xiaomei started cooking.
It's not that Li Donglai doesn't want to cook, it's that he doesn't even eat the rhubarb at the entrance of the village.
Seeing his little sister weighing her feet and working in front of the tall stove, Li Donglai's fatigue from the day immediately dissipated.
Since the death of his parents, he and his sister have been dependent on each other for life and death.
It was with his little sister that he could get out of the haze left by Qin Huairu.
Soon, Li Xiaomei prepared the meal.
It's still mushy with grain grits.
The only dish is pickled radish strips.
But Li Donglai ate very well.
While eating, he looked at Li Xiaomei with her head buried in the porcelain bowl and sighed in his heart.
My little sister has also reached the age of going to school, maybe it’s time to go to the capital.
After dinner, Li Xiaomei washed the pots and dishes, and Li Donglai lit the kerosene lamp and wrote a letter with a pen under the dim light.
The recipient of the letter is an old comrade in Beijing and a patient of Li Donglai.
...
Five months later.
The wheat seedlings in the field have already headed, the breeze blows, and the green waves ripple on the vast land.
Li Donglai and Li Xiaomei took Qin Daniu's ox cart to the capital.
The big ox struggled to walk on the cement road with its hoofs. From time to time, it was frightened by the speeding iron box, and it was stunned with its head raised.
This square monster’s butt is smoking!
Fortunately, Uncle Qin is an old handlebar type and always swings the whip at the right time.
"Doctor Li, please come back to Qinjiazhuang when you have time." The ox cart slowly stopped in front of a gate.
Li Donglai took Li Xiaomei's hand, looked at the words 'Red Star Rolling Mill' on the door, and then turned back: "Uncle Qin, thank you for taking care of me over the years. I, Li Donglai, will never forget it. If anything happens at home, please tell me
Feel free to come to me."
"Oh, what a good young man, he is so talented, and he became a doctor in the city in a blink of an eye. My niece is so unlucky!" Uncle Qin gave a regretful smile and waved his whip.
"drive!"
The bullock cart drove farther and farther, submerged in the flow of bicycles, and took away Li Donglai's past.
"Little sister, please wait in the guard room for a moment while my brother goes to complete the formalities." Li Donglai entrusted Li Xiaomei to the security officer of the steel rolling mill, and then strode towards the personnel office of the logistics department.
Of course, he also forgot to carry the package that he had prepared two months ago.
