90s Little Struggle

Chapter 33 Life
Even though the moonlight is good today, Zhao Laosi dare not ride a bicycle.

If you accidentally fall, I'm afraid that Xiao Hong will do something good or bad.

So in the middle of the night, I went to knock on the door to borrow an ox cart. Wu Julan also sat in the back, holding her daughter in one hand, and lighting the way with a flashlight in the other.

When they get to the town hospital, wake up the sleeping doctor on duty.

What doctors are most afraid of is the emergency call in the middle of the night.

So they knew that if the patient hadn't had an emergency, they would definitely endure it until the daytime.

Now seeing that the patient had a high fever, I hurriedly inquired about it, then did a simple examination, gave her an antipyretic injection, and put on salt water.

Zhao Laosi heard Xiao Hong's unconscious cry of coldness, went to the nurse to borrow a quilt, and covered her with the quilt that Xiao Hong had covered when they came.

Wu Julan stared at the bottle without blinking, paying attention to her daughter's condition.

After the two bottles of water were hung up, Wu Julan glanced at the sleeping eldest daughter, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and said softly to Zhao Laosi: "Go find a place to squat for a while, and go back after dawn."

Earlier, the doctor said that Xiao Hong was a little serious, and he had to hang the water for another day to see the situation and observe.

Then she must stay and take care of her daughter, so she can only let him go back first.

Thinking of the pork head meat that has not been sold at home, it is all money.

She told her worriedly: "If you meet Xiao Fang on the road, tell her to ride slowly, and don't fall down."

Zhao Lao Si replied: "Okay, then I will return the ox cart first, and come here on a bicycle in the afternoon. Do you have anything to bring?"

Wu Julan touched the money in her pocket, and thought for a while: "Just ask Yanyan to tidy up Xiao Hong's clothes."

When Zhao Laosi went back, he thought he would meet his daughter again.

But until he got home, he didn't see Xiao Fang's figure.

Yanyan was cooking breakfast at home, and when she saw him come back, she was anxious: "Father, you are finally back, the second sister said she was not feeling well, I took medicine for her, and she is still lying on the bed?"

Zhao Laosi knew that Xiao Fang had been weak since she was a child, and when the seasons changed, she would get a fever and catch a cold if she was not careful.

Xiao Fang is also a big girl, and she is not her own, so Zhao Laosi seldom goes upstairs in recent years.

Now he didn't care about these things anymore, and hurried upstairs, and asked with concern through the mosquito net: "Fang, what's wrong with you? How about I take you to the hospital?"

Xiao Fang felt that she might have fallen, and now her whole body hurts, and she still has a low-grade fever, which is really uncomfortable.

Hearing his words, I remembered that when I came here with my mother, she also had a severe fever. At that time, it was snowing and the ox carts were not easy to move. It was him who carried her on his back in the cold weather of March and September, under the heavy snow of goose feathers. Walked more than ten miles to the town.

It was also because of this that Xiao Fang happily called him 'Dad' instead.

"I'm fine!" Xiao Fang came back to her senses, lifted the mosquito net and asked worriedly, "How is my sister?"

She still remembered that Xiao Hong was beaten several times by that man, and she didn't know if there would be internal injuries or something.

"Your sister is much better." Zhao Laosi looked at her face and saw that she was also blushing abnormally, so he said concernedly: "You don't look well either, why don't I take you to the hospital?"

"Dad, I'm really fine. I'll be fine when I get sweaty and sleep." Xiao Fang was worried about something else: "It's just that if I can't get up, the stewed meat in the pot won't be able to be sold. Why don't you, Dad?" Take it to the town and try to sell it? If you can’t sell it, then take it back and share it with grandma and uncles?”

The children of the poor are in charge early.

Besides, Xiao Fang knows that pig's head is more expensive than pig's offal. Although the weather is cooler in the morning and evening, it's best not to stay overnight for those lo mei.

Anyway, she was reluctant to throw more than 30 yuan of lo-mei in her hands.

Zhao Laosi also wanted to go with her. After asking the price carefully, he asked Yanyan to pack Xiao Hong's clothes, and he hurried downstairs by himself.

When it rained before, he also accompanied Wu Julan to the town to sell pigs into the water, and he went to help hold the umbrella.

So I also know where they set up their stalls.

As for whether it would be embarrassing to do business, then he really wouldn't feel embarrassed.

You know, as a bamboo craftsman, he always rides a bicycle to solicit business in ten miles and eight towns.

What he is worried about now is that he will be late.

Now the vegetable market in the town is empty at nine o'clock.

When he came to the stall in the town again, he stopped the car, and an old lady complained to him: "Why are you so late today? Did you say you would come early yesterday? It's past seven o'clock now , if my old man insisted on eating this..."

"I'm sorry," Zhao Lao Si apologized with a smile on his face, "My girl is sick, so she came late today."

He introduced enthusiastically: "Today we not only have braised sausages, braised pork heart and lungs, but also delicious pork heads and trotters. What do you want, auntie?"

He put the barrel in order, took out the knife, first took the broken and boneless pig's head to the sticky board, and cut the meat into thin slices for the old lady to taste: "Do you like it?"

Xiao Fang said that the price can't be cheap, but it's okay to treat someone to eat a dollar or two.

In this day and age, no one thinks that meat is not delicious.

Especially the red, greasy and shiny pork head meat, which makes people greedy just looking at it.

After the old lady finished eating, she just felt endless aftertaste, and couldn't help but slapped her mouth. After asking the price, her face hurt: "One yuan and five catties? It's too expensive, can you make it cheaper?"

Zhao Laosi would definitely not be cheap, and took the opportunity to attract other customers.

The old lady became cruel and asked for a catty of pork head meat and a catty of braised sausage.

Who told the old man to have a treat today?

Zhao Laosi was lucky today, although he came a little late, but it was sold out in less than an hour.

Even the butcher's wife who sold the pig's head to them came to buy a catty of pig's head meat. After tasting it, she was full of praise: "Your craftsmanship is really good. I didn't expect that the pork head meat can be so delicious."

Although the name of pig's head meat is indecent and troublesome to make, it is indeed a good thing.

No matter it is steamed, boiled, stewed, or eaten hot with cold sauce, it is a good dish to go with wine.

The pork nose meat is fat but not greasy, chewy and chewy. Whether it is cold or cold, it tastes very good.

There is also pork tongue, the meat is tender and firm, full of toughness, no fat at all, no matter how you eat it, you will not get greasy.

The pig ears have more crispy bones, and the taste is particularly crisp and tender. It is definitely a good dish to accompany wine.

The remaining pork head meat is fat and thin, fat but not greasy, and it tastes delicious after a bite.

The only regret is that it is troublesome to set up, and it will take at least five or six hours to clean it up.

So that no matter how greedy everyone's mouth is, they don't bother to toss.

The proprietress of the meat stall said enthusiastically again: "How many pig heads do you want today? I can get them for you from home."

She mistakenly thought that these were Zhao Laosi's handicrafts, and she felt that she didn't have to worry about the pig's head in the freezer not being able to fit.

Zhao Laosi also smiled: "I'll go to the hospital first and ask my wife, if the child is still not well, I will rest for two days first."

(End of this chapter)