pasture leisure

Chapter 268
Zhang Chi thought he was asleep, so he stretched out his hand and gently pushed him.

"Old Xu, Lao Xu, get up and eat."

After a while, when there was no response, Zhang Chi came to the other side, stretched out his hand to open the car door, and yelled at Lao Xu a few more times.

Seeing that Lao Xu didn't respond, he was startled, so he stretched out his hand in front of Lao Xu's nostrils for an interview. When Zhang Chi put his fingers in front of Lao Xu's nostrils and felt him breathing, he was relieved.

At the moment just now, Zhang Chi thought that suddenly Lao Xu was going to drive west on his ranch.

"Old Xu, it's time to get up and eat." Zhang Chi stretched out his hand and patted Lao Xu's forehead.

Zhang Chi's hand touched Lao Xu's forehead, and he felt that Lao Xu's head was very hot. He stretched out his hand and tried it, and found that Lao Xu's forehead was obviously hotter than his own.

Old Xu has a fever!
Zhang Chi stretched out his hand and pushed Lao Xu while continuing to shout: "Old Xu, Lao Xu".

Only then did Lao Xu react, and he opened his eyes and said to Zhang Chi with an uncomfortable face: "You eat, I feel very uncomfortable now...".

"Can you feel better if you have a fever? Wait a minute, I'll get you some medicine, and make ginger soup for you." After Zhang Chi said something, he went back.

"What's the matter, Mr. Xu?"

Seeing Zhang Chi's hurried appearance, Aunt Lu immediately asked.

"Old Xu has a bit of a fever, but it doesn't look too serious. I'll find some medicine for him to take, and I'll make some ginger soup for him to drink, and he'll be fine after a night's sleep," Zhang Chi said.

Aunt Lu smiled and said: "I have medicine here, don't go back to the house to get it, Lao Chen, you go and make a bowl of ginger soup, remember to use old ginger, not young ginger, forget it, I still have it." Come on. I have a few catties of old ginger hidden here, which is the most effective for this kind of disease."

Aunt Lu has encountered this kind of situation too many times. Everyone is working on the construction site. It is very normal to have a cold or fever. Aunt Lu has been cooking here for so many years. Become half a doctor.

A group of elders are together, and life is rough and rough, but Aunt Lu is different. She is a caring person, and she is usually willing to take care of the workers.Therefore, Aunt Lu is equivalent to the bosom friend on the construction site.

You can't go to the hospital for this matter. In the hospitals in the United States, if you just have a fever or something, they won't care too much about you. Generally speaking, they let you go home and carry it. Even if you ask for a doctor's appointment, wait until the appointment arrives. Doctor, it's fine if you don't know anything about your minor illness.

Therefore, as soon as a worker suffers from minor ailments such as eye fever, everyone immediately treats the head for a headache, and treats the foot for a foot pain.

Now that Lao Xu has a fever, he should treat it according to the method for fever first. It really won't get better, and it won't be too late to send him to the hospital tomorrow.

Aunt Lu found the medicine here, and put the medicine and water in Zhang Chi's hands: "You go and feed the medicine to Boss Xu, and I will bring the ginger soup over later, get these two things down, tomorrow In the morning there is usually no problem."

Zhang Chi nodded after listening, and came to Lao Xu's car with medicine and water, opened the door, and said to Lao Xu: "Old Xu, come and take the medicine."

Seeing that Lao Xu ignored him, Zhang Chi put water on the car, and then pulled Lao Xu up.

Old Xu was a little confused now, and his whole head was a little unclear. When he heard that Zhang Chi was about to feed himself medicine, he subconsciously opened his mouth.

While opening his mouth, his eyes remained closed.

Seeing Lao Xu's appearance, Zhang Chi thought for a while, added a little bit of gourd pulp to Lao Xu's water glass, then fed the medicine into Lao Xu's mouth, gave him two sips of water, and asked him to put the water in his mouth. The medicine was given down, so he continued to lie down.

Take the cup and go back to the dining car.

Aunt Lu saw it and asked, "Did you feed the medicine?"

Seeing Zhang Chi nodded, Aunt Lu said again: "Wait a while, Jiang Shui will be ready soon."

Zhang Chi said: "I'm not in a hurry."

While Zhang Chi was waiting for the ginger soup to be ready, Melika came over. She saw Zhang Chi standing beside the dining car, and asked with a strange expression: "I told you to come and find Lao Xu for dinner, why are you staying here?" Is it over? Where's the old Xu?"

"Old Xu is sick and has a little fever. He is lying in the car now. If I hadn't found out, maybe he would have to stay up all night by himself tonight," Zhang Chi said.

When Melika heard that Lao Xu had a fever, she was surprised and asked, "Why did you suddenly have a fever? Didn't you feel well this afternoon?"

"Yeah, you took off your clothes and went into the water with me to catch fish," Zhang Chi said.

When Melika heard it, good guy, the root cause of the fever has been found.

The current Amber town has not yet reached the warmest time of the year. The highest temperature in Amber town is around [-] degrees a year. It is impossible to get hotter. When it appears in the [-]s, it is often It is July and August of a year, and it is not yet July and August, so the highest temperature during the day is more than ten degrees.

Tens of degrees and a small wind blowing like this, the body temperature is far lower than the actual temperature, so Lao Xu took off his clothes and jumped into the pond to catch fish. There is no problem in catching fish, because the water temperature will not change much. .

In other words, the water is not too cold, but if you come out with water droplets on your body, it will be hard to say when the wind blows again.

The same is true for Lao Xu, who caught the fish and showed off. Zhang Chi immediately put up the neutral gear behind him. This guy stood in the wind for a long time in his wet pants.

Standing like him, Zhang Chi can bear it, because he is young, in his twenties, his small body is just as old as a stove, but how can Lao Xu suffer from this? How old is he? , the body has already started to go downhill, standing in the air so wet, it would be strange not to catch a cold and have a fever.

"You still have the nerve to say that if you don't take Lao Xu into the water to catch fish, maybe he won't have a fever." Melika said to Zhang Chi, with a slightly complaining tone.

After hearing this, Zhang Chi realized that Lao Xu's fever might really have something to do with the two of them going into the pond to catch fish in the afternoon. Otherwise, where would he catch the cold?
"It seems that I really have something to say."

Zhang Chi scratched his head when he heard this, feeling a little embarrassed, but the embarrassment disappeared soon, because he had already given Lao Xu a little gourd pulp just now, and he felt that it would be evened out after two strokes.

Zhang Chi has never been sick, and it is not good for him whether the gourd pulp is useful or not, but for ordinary minor illnesses, such as cattle and horses getting sick, Zhang Chi will be fine if he throws it into the gourd or feeds it some gourd pulp. Fast.

Zhang Chi himself had never used it, but he felt that it was similar to using it on people, so he took advantage of Lao Xu's fever this time to try it out.

Everyone can understand this situation. Zhang Chi is just such a person, and he always holds a selfless spirit during the experiment. Besides, even if the gourd pulp has no effect, it will not kill people, and it is not too risky to use it on Lao Xu.

If it was replaced by his own good neighbor, Zhang Chi probably would have added gourd pulp instead of gourd pulp, and would have added things like red crane crest, a sprig of wormwood in the snow, and love flowers.

"We can't blame Zhang Chi for this matter. Sometimes Mr. Xu is like a big boy, he likes to play and play. If someone is willing to accompany him to be crazy, he must be very crazy. This time it is good." Yes, once when we were building a house in North Carolina, he went skiing with him, and almost scratched off half of the face, and it swelled up for several days... ".

Aunt Lu talked about Lao Xu's past embarrassment.

As we talked, the ginger soup in Aunt Lu's pot was ready. Aunt Lu lifted the lid of the pot and looked at the ginger soup with brown sugar. She felt that it was almost ready, so she stretched out her chopsticks and gave the sliced ​​ginger to the pot. Take it out, and pour a pot of ginger soup into a large bowl.

The big bowl is enamel, and the ginger soup is only half filled. Aunt Lu put the bowl of ginger soup in the bucket, so that the temperature of the hot ginger soup can be slightly lowered by using the water temperature.

It didn't take long to float in the water. After a minute or two, Aunt Lu picked up the bowl from the water and walked over to Lao Xu's car with it.

At this time, Lao Xu's spirit was much better than when Zhang Chi came here just now. He was still looking sluggish just now, he didn't bother to open his eyelids, and he looked like a dead snake.

But although people are not very energetic now, at least their eyes are open. Although they are confused and do not focus on the light, and they look like they are about to fall when the wind blows, they now know that they are uncomfortable.

"Oh, my head looks like it's about to split open, and my head also feels big... Sister Lu, what's wrong with me."

Seeing Aunt Lu, Lao Xu is like a child seeing an adult, and he actually has the meaning of acting like a baby. Of course, this doesn't mean much, but it definitely does, and Zhang Chi can see it.

Aunt Lu helped Lao Xu to sit up, and then put the ginger soup to his mouth: "Drink some ginger soup, you will sweat after drinking it, and you will be fine tomorrow."

When Lao Xu saw Zhang Chi, he glanced at it and started drinking ginger soup.

It has to be said that Aunt Lu's old ginger soup is very powerful. After drinking a bowl of ginger soup, Lao Xu's forehead was already covered with beads of sweat.

"Close the car door and have a good rest," Aunt Lu said.

When Zhang Chi and Melika heard this, they had to go back to the house for dinner.

The couple originally planned to ask Lao Xu to drink together, but now that Lao Xu is in such a dead state, how can the two of them have the nerve to drink? What is the meaning of drinking at this time, to celebrate Lao Xu's illness?

After the couple finished their meal, they watched a TV show together for a while, and it wasn't a serious show. After thinking about it carefully, the special TV show was quite silly, just a silly show.

But Zhang Chi and Melika kept seeing the show end.

The only advantage of this kind of silly show is that it can make you happy. It’s purely fun. It’s nothing profound, doesn’t require any education, and doesn’t need to be sensational. It’s just pure stupidity.

Just when the two of them had just finished watching the show, a voice suddenly came from behind.

"Is there anything to eat, I'm starving to death!"

The two were taken aback, turned around to see the person behind them, only to find out who it wasn't Lao Xu!

　I have to go back to my hometown tomorrow and ask for a day off.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)