The train driver in the courtyard

"sick?"

"sick!"

"I'm sick"

Li Aiguo rolled up his sleeves to look at his strong biceps, then he supported himself on the jeep with one hand and did twenty one-handed stand-ups in one breath.

Without even taking a breath, he snorted twice, glanced at Zhou Ke and asked, "You call this being sick?"

Whoosh!
Zhou Klisuo took out a notice from his pocket, handed it to Li Aiguo, and said seriously: "You are sick."

The red stamp of the Ministry of Railways on the notice was reflected in his eyes.

Li Aiguo was silent for a moment, then suddenly covered his stomach and said, "Oh, I feel really sick all of a sudden, my stomach feels a little uncomfortable."

Zhou Ke said dimly, "The condition written on the notice is that you fainted suddenly due to overwork."

Li Aiguo: "."

Well, we don’t understand what’s going on.

But these days we are just a brick in the Ministry of Railways, and we can be moved wherever we are needed.

Since the hospital needs us, we can just lie in the hospital.

"I'll go back and pack my things and move to the hospital." Li Aiguo turned around and was about to enter the compound.

Zhou Ke moved sideways to block his way, expressionless: "You fainted."

Li Aiguo: "."

Seeing Zhou Ke's firm attitude, he realized that the matter seemed a little serious.

"Okay then, take me to the hospital now." Li Aiguo opened the door and bent down to get in the car.

Zhou Ke blocked him again.

"You fainted."

"."

finally.

Li Aiguo's face suddenly turned as pale as paper, and his body swayed involuntarily from side to side, like a candle swaying in the wind that could go out at any time.

At this critical moment, Zhou Ke was quick-witted and stretched out his hands like lightning, holding Li Aiguo firmly and preventing him from falling to the ground.

(The following is an omission of the two-hour playback, about eight million adjectives)
On this peaceful spring afternoon, Zhou Ke held Li Aiguo with one hand, looking panicked, and shouted: "Brother Aiguo, what's wrong with you? What's wrong? Are you overworked and fainted? Don't worry, I'll take you to the hospital right away."

Li Aiguo "looked" at Zhou Ke who was shouting at the top of his lungs, and reminded him in a low voice: "You've gone too far, Zhou Ke, your performance has gone too far, people will notice the clues."

Zhou Ke then reluctantly gave up his "performance" and hurriedly stuffed Li Aiguo into the back seat of the jeep.

But what about Li Aiguo's bicycle? It is an important property.

He was about to open the trunk of the jeep when he saw a donkey-faced man looking at him curiously. He rolled his eyes, pushed the bicycle over and handed it to the donkey-faced man.

"Comrade, please return Driver Li's bicycle. He fainted!"

Without waiting for the donkey-faced man to reply, Zhou Ke turned around and jumped into the jeep.

He stepped on the accelerator and the jeep roared away, leaving Xu Damao's face covered in black smoke.

Wow, this car has a really bad temper. Xu Damao raised his sleeve to wipe his face, looked at the jeep going away, and muttered softly: "Aiguo is sick. Aiguo is sick."

His eyes suddenly widened and he slapped his thigh.

"Oh my god, oh my god, Aiguo is actually sick! I have to tell Chen Xueru right away."

Xu Damao pushed his bicycle into the yard and ran towards the backyard.

The third uncle happened to be carrying a tin bucket. If he hadn't dodged in time, he would have been knocked away with the bucket.

"Xu Damao, what are you doing making such a fuss?" The third uncle picked up the tin bucket, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that it was not damaged, and asked with a frown.

"Uncle, it's bad. Aiguo is sick. I have to tell his wife right away."

Xu Damao didn't stop, just left a few words and ran away.

The third uncle was shocked.

"If Aiguo gets sick, we're in big trouble now."

The third aunt came up and asked, "What's the trouble, old man?"

The third uncle said helplessly: "With the relationship between our two families, we have to go visit them. We can't visit a patient empty-handed, right?"

The three aunts: “.”

He looked at the dried fish hanging under the eaves, gritted his teeth and said, "Let's be generous this time and take two small fish."

The three aunts: “.”

She sighed helplessly, walked under the eaves, pedaled the electric wheel, and shouted inside: "Jiefang, Jie Di, the two of you hurry up and do your homework."

After Chen Xueru learned from Xu Damao that Li Aiguo was ill, she seemed a little confused.

"Da Mao, did you see clearly?"

"Look carefully, the person driving the car is the railway police officer who came to your house to drink before. He is a close friend of Aiguo."

"That person is Zhou Ke, for sure. But why would Aiguo suddenly fall ill?"

Chen Xueru frowned, her mind was in a mess. She used to be very decisive in the street office, but now she didn't know what to do.

At this time, Aunt Liu and He Yushui rushed over after hearing the news.

Aunt Liu asked He Yushui to hold Chen Xueru, looked at Xu Damao and asked, "Which hospital was Aiguo sent to?"

"I... I forgot to ask." Xu Damao scratched his head.

"This is troublesome. They are driving a jeep, which is fast. We have so many hospitals in Beijing."

Chen Xueru also woke up at this time.

"Being a patriotic railway worker will definitely lead to being sent to the Qianmen Railway Hospital."

She was shot and stayed in Qianmen Railway Hospital for a while. She knew that it was the designated hospital for employees of Qianmen Locomotive Depot.

"Xue Ru, hurry up and ride your bike to the hospital. Yu Shui and I will pack some clean clothes for Ai Guo."

Aunt Liu helped Chen Xueru straighten her collar and said, "You are a patriotic daughter-in-law. Now that he is sick, you have to stand up for yourself."

"I understand, Auntie!" Chen Xueru nodded heavily.

She took a deep breath, suppressed her panic, pushed out her bicycle, and headed towards the Qianmen Railway Hospital.

******
Sunset dusk.

A figure suddenly appeared outside the courtyard.

This person seemed to have returned from another world.

His hair was messy, growing wildly like weeds, with strands tangled together and mixed with dead leaves and dust.

His face was rough and dark, carved by the scorching sun and mountain wind. His skin was tight, like dry land, with a few shallow cracks faintly visible.

He was dressed in rags. His originally neat clothes had become tattered and covered with scratches and stains after half a month of wear and tear.

The cuffs and trouser legs were torn into pieces by the thorns.

The third uncle was feeling sorry for the little fish. When he looked up and saw the person coming, he was so scared that he took several steps back.

"Huo, Jia Dongxu, where did you escape from?"

"Uncle, what are you talking about? What are you talking about? Who is fleeing?" Jia Dongxu, who had returned as a king, patted the sack on his shoulder and said proudly, "See? Fifty sparrows. I just caught them from the mountain. I'll hand them over to the neighborhood office in a few days, and then I'll be waiting to get a big award."

"You went to catch sparrows?" The third uncle's eyes widened. "But the superiors haven't told us whether sparrows are insects or not."

"You guys are so short-sighted. But I don't blame you, you are just simple-minded."

After saying that, Jia Dongxu ignored the third uncle and limped towards the central courtyard.

As he walked, Jia Dongxu greeted the residents.

"I removed four sparrows, and now there are fifty sparrows left. Isn't that amazing?"

"Hey, Dongxu, you are the most advanced person in our neighborhood."

The admiring looks from the residents made Jia Dongxu feel even more proud.

He was like a fisherman who had caught a big fish, and he even circled the yard twice more.

What disappointed him was that he didn't see Li Aiguo, and even the door of Li's house was tightly closed.

This made him feel like walking in the night in gorgeous clothes.

Jia Dongxu shook his head somewhat depressed, then turned and walked towards the Jia family.

Jia Dongxu's figure disappeared behind the crescent-shaped door, and the third uncle was about to squat down again.

His eyes fell on a figure who had just walked in, and he felt a chill on his back.

The man's hair was like a pile of dry straw, swaying in the wind in a disorderly manner, mixed with sand and dust, losing its original color and becoming gray and dull. The wrinkles on his face were as deep as a dry riverbed.

His eyes were deeply sunken, with dark circles around his eye sockets. His clothes were already worn out, his round-toed cloth shoes were full of cracks, and his five toes were sticking out.

"Yi Zhonghai, are you in a kiln?"

The third uncle rubbed his eyes and recognized that the man was Yi Zhonghai, the eldest uncle in the courtyard.

Yi Zhonghai was feeling very proud, but upon hearing this, the smile on his face disappeared immediately.

"Uncle, don't you want to wish others well? I tell you, your thoughts have seriously damaged the relationship between the residents."

Well, he starts to put a big accusation on people right away. It seems that there is nothing wrong with Yi Zhonghai's brain.

The third uncle swallowed his saliva and asked, "What are you doing?"

"I see! There are fifty sparrows. I, Old Yi, have worked so hard and endured so much suffering to get rid of the four crickets and contribute to the country's grain production."

Yi Zhonghai raised his head proudly and patted the sack on his shoulder.

Wow, this master and disciple must have discussed this beforehand!

"Uncle No. 1, you have a very high level of ideological awareness." Uncle No. 3 had learned from the previous experience, so he only said nice things this time.

"Of course, otherwise I would be a big boss. Old Yan, you should learn more in the future."

Although the third uncle behaved very humbly, he still couldn't escape a lesson.

Yi Zhonghai said a lot of things in a long-winded manner, then he carried the sack and walked towards the backyard with satisfaction.

Along the way, Yi Zhonghai greeted the residents in the compound.

"Sparrows are four-necked sparrows. I worked hard in the mountains for seven days and seven nights and finally caught fifty sparrows. Everyone should follow my example and contribute to the four-necked sparrow eradication, and strive to build our compound into an excellent four-necked sparrow eradication compound in the neighborhood."

Xu Damao said dimly: "Jia Dongxu also brought back fifty sparrows."

Yi Zhonghai: "."

He was silent for a moment, then turned and left.

back home.

The old lady felt heartbroken when she saw Yi Zhonghai's miserable appearance.

"Old man, why are you doing this? You are so old and still making trouble. Can't we just catch some mice like Aunt Liu and the others? Why bother to compete for the advanced position?"

Yi Zhonghai pushed the woman's arm away and said, "You know what? Once your mindset slips, you'll run into a lot of problems! As an old man in the compound, can my mindset be the same as that of the average resident?"

The aunt knew that Yi Zhonghai was about to be pushed to the edge of a cliff by Li Aiguo, and there was no way to persuade him at this time, so she stopped trying to persuade him.

They could only bring white flour buns to Yi Zhonghai, and then put his rags in a basin of water, ready to take them out for washing.

Yi Zhonghai stopped an old lady while wolfing down a white flour bun.

"Old lady, you don't have to wash the clothes. I have to go to the suburbs tomorrow."

"Ah? You're still going? Haven't you already caught fifty sparrows?" the aunt asked in surprise.

Yi Zhonghai choked on a steamed bun, his face turned red and his neck became thick. He only managed to swallow it after drinking some water.

"Jia Dongxu also caught fifty. I have to surpass him."

Aunt: "."

She felt that the two seemed to be caught in a vicious competition.

When Jia Dongxu returned home, he was warmly welcomed by Jia Zhang.

Jia Zhang looked at the sparrows in the sack, and excitement flashed in her triangular eyes.

"It's an honor, Dongxu. You will be honored this time. When the meeting starts, you will go on stage and speak. Our whole family will be honored."

Jia Dongxu had indeed been on the podium at conferences, but each time he did so he would make self-criticisms.

"Of course I have fifty sparrows here. I tell you, sparrows are much harder to catch than mice. I climbed up a tree more than ten meters high."

Jia Dongxu chewed on a black steamed bread, spitting everywhere, and told Jia Zhang about the difficulties of catching sparrows in the mountains. At this time, Qin Huairu got the news that Li Aiguo was ill from the third aunt, and went home to tell Jia Zhang and Jia Dongxu.

Jia Zhang was stunned at first and muttered softly, "Is this kid sick?", then she became excited.

She slapped her thigh and said, "God has a good eye. That thief Li Aiguo is going to be in trouble this time. Good days are coming for our family."

Jia Dongxu also hated Li Aiguo because he was detained a while ago.

At this time, he said loudly: "It would be better if Li Aiguo could not come out of the hospital this time. He bullied me all day long. Well, now he is in trouble. He deserves it!"

Seeing the two of them gloating over other's misfortune, Qin Huairu shook her head helplessly.

She felt that Jia Dongxu was a bit mean.

Qin Huairu asked in a low voice: "Dongxu, did you tell Master Yi about this?"

"Tell him? Why?" Jia Dongxu glared.

Qin Huairu said, "Master Yi is actually very good to you, but there was a misunderstanding between our two families, so we have become distant now. Now that you have this opportunity, you should build a relationship with Master Yi."

Qin Huairu knew very well that ever since the relationship between Yi Zhonghai and the Jia family broke down, the Jia family's life had been getting worse and worse.

Jia Dongxu was very concerned about his reputation and was not willing to go to Yi Zhonghai's house at all.

In the end, it was Jia Zhang who spoke, and Jia Dongxu had to stand up slowly.

Jia Dongxu came to Yi Zhonghai's house, knocked on the door, and told Yi Zhonghai the news. Yi Zhonghai just said lightly: "I know, Jia Dongxu, as a resident of the compound, don't gossip behind people's backs!"

Jia Dongxu was rejected and was about to leave.

Seeing Yi Zhonghai making a hand-made net, he frowned slightly.

"Master Yi, how many sparrows did you catch in the suburbs?"

"There were only about twenty of them. You know I'm old and can't climb trees. Even these twenty of them almost cost me my life."

Hearing this, Jia Dongxu breathed a sigh of relief, said goodbye to Yi Zhonghai, and left.

After closing the door.

Yi Zhonghai suddenly burst into laughter.

In his opinion, the mountain that had been pressing down on his head was finally overturned.

If Li Aiguo fell seriously ill, he would no longer have to worry about maintaining his position as the boss.

Without this "troublemaker" in the compound, management will surely be easier.

Xu Damao, Zhang Gangzhu and Nan Yi are some troublemakers. Although they are noisy on weekdays, they are actually brainless guys.

If it weren't for Li Aiguo, Yi Zhonghai firmly believed that he could easily subdue all these people.

Yan Bugui also became disloyal, and once he got the patrol team and the poverty alleviation fund, he would deal with them one by one.

Yi Zhonghai thought about it and became excited.

At this time, an old lady also inquired about the news and returned home.

"Old man, I heard from Old Yan that he is going to visit Li Aiguo in a few days. Are you going?"

"Go, why not? I have to prepare a big gift for Li Aiguo!" Yi Zhonghai raised his lips to smile sinisterly.

Yi Zhonghai felt that he was now a liberated serf singing!
Zhang Gangzhu, Nan Yi, and the Li and Chen families in the neighboring compound also learned the news that Li Aiguo was ill. They were all anxious and wanted to find out about Li Aiguo's condition.

Li Aiguo did not expect that a minor "illness" would cause such a stir in the compound.

Even if he thought about it, he wouldn't care.

Because he had been sent to the Qianmen Locomotive Depot Hospital and was undergoing a full set of examinations.

Li Aiguo thought he was as strong as a bull and there was nothing wrong with his body at all.

But Zhou Ke said, "Brother Aiguo, since we are here, why not do a checkup? You don't want me to fail to complete the task assigned to me by my superiors, do you?"

Looking at the pitiful Zhou Ke, Li Aiguo could only nod and agree.

After receiving instructions from the ministry and learning that Li Aiguo was "seriously ill" and should be taken seriously, the hospital formed a medical team composed of experts.

Two internists, two old Chinese medicine practitioners, and three health doctors all surrounded the bed.

In this ward with a solemn atmosphere, everyone's expressions were serious and focused. The air seemed to be frozen, making people feel depressed.

Li Aiguo looked around and suddenly felt that he might not live long.

"Should we start now? Stop standing there and do some checks and take the pulse if necessary."

Now, Li Aiguo has become a fish on the chopping board. What can we do? We have to cooperate.

The group of doctors surrounded them with heavy faces.

"It hurts a little, just bear with it."

Li Aiguo: "."

"Hey, young man, your kidney fire is strong. Did you drink too much tiger penis wine?"

Li Aiguo: "."

"Tsk, tsk, this muscle is so solid, it must be all lean meat."

Li Aiguo: "."

Fortunately, I was wearing clothes during the examination, otherwise it would have been a human feast.

The so-called full examination these days is actually just a combination of inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation and other methods. The limited medical instruments are thermometers and sphygmomanometers.

The whole process took less than half an hour.

"The Western medical examination showed no problems. The heart rate and blood pressure were all normal, and the physical examination also showed no abnormalities."

"The pulse is gentle, strong and regular, the complexion is ruddy and the luster is natural, which indicates that the qi and blood are full and the organs are functioning in harmony.

The eyes are bright and energetic, and the liver opens up to the eyes, which means that the liver has sufficient qi and blood, and its drainage function is normal, which can nourish the eyes with qi and blood and make them bright and energetic. "

After taking the patient's pulse, Dr. Chen, the leader of the expert group, gave his opinion.

To put it simply, Li Aiguo is now as strong as a bull.

"Okay, can I rest now?"

Li Aiguo rarely gets sick and no one has ever "tortured" him like this.

You can't blame him. There were no X-rays back then, and physical examinations were all done by doctors massaging their bodies with their hands.

Anyone would feel uncomfortable being rubbed by several grown men.

Doctor Chen was about to leave with the expert team when he suddenly thought of something. He looked at Li Aiguo and said with a smile, "Comrade train driver, you often sit in the driver's building. The working environment is very bad. It is easy to have blood sugar problems. How about we do a urine test?"

He was afraid that Li Aiguo didn’t understand, so he explained it again: “If the pancreas in the human body cannot work normally, it will lead to abnormal insulin secretion, which will increase blood sugar.

If it is serious, it will lead to complications. This disease was called diabetes in ancient times.

Diabetes can be detected by urine test. If the sugar content in the urine is high, it means that the blood sugar is high. "

Li Aiguo knew how to test his blood sugar, but he didn't expect that hospitals now have equipment for routine urine tests.

They are doing this for the good of us, Li Aiguo.

Li Aiguo did not refuse. He took the enamel pot handed to him by the doctor and went into the toilet, where he filled the enamel pot with water.

Li Aiguo handed the enamel pot to Zhou Ke.

"Go and check it out."

"I swallow?"

"Yes, I'm a patient. This is the second floor. You don't want me to send him down for examination in person." Li Aiguo widened his eyes and looked at Zhou Ke in surprise.

He felt that he could no longer get along with this brother.

Zhou Ke looked at Li Aiguo, with a hint of hesitation in his eyes, but then he remembered that this was his brother.

Brothers who are as close as brothers!
Zhou Ke resolutely picked up the enamel jar, raised his neck high, and put the jar to his mouth. He looked like he was about to drink it heroically. For the sake of his brothers, he was willing to make sacrifices and never back down.

Li Aiguo was startled and quickly hugged the enamel pot to stop Zhou Ke.

Zhou Ke was puzzled: "Brother Aiguo, don't you want me to swallow my urine?"

Li Aiguo pointed at the stairs and said quietly, "There is a urine test department on the first floor. You can give the enamel jar to the laboratory technician and you don't have to drink it yourself."

Zhou Ke blushed on the spot.

He scratched his head and said, "I thought it was swallowing urine. But my method is not wrong. If the urine contains a high sugar content, I can definitely taste it."

What a nitpicker! Li Aiguo handed the enamel pot back and said, "Try it now."

Zhou Ke: "."

In the end, Zhou Ke went downstairs with the enamel pot.

At least I didn't lose any points for this damn pun.

A moment later, Zhou Ke came back and handed the test form to Li Aiguo.

"Blood sugar 5.1"

"Very normal." Team leader Chen nodded with satisfaction.

The superior had specifically instructed that we must take this opportunity to give the train driver a thorough physical examination.

Once the disease is discovered, every effort should be made to treat it.

Although there is no explicit regulation for this kind of instruction, its level is very high.

Even Team Leader Chen, an old doctor who once served as the head of the health care team, did not dare to be careless.

Now that he saw that Li Aiguo was in good health, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt relieved.

It's just that this time the task seemed a little too easy to complete.

Team leader Chen walked around Li Aiguo and nodded.

"Well, now that you're here and you're hospitalized, it would seem a little strange if we don't do anything."

"How about we help you remove your appendix? Doctor Zhang in our team is an expert in appendectomy and he will make sure it's done beautifully."

Still can play like this!
Li Aiguo quickly covered his stomach.

"Team Leader Chen, I remember now. I seem to have insomnia."

"Insomnia. This is a serious disease. Come here, Lao Zhang, please take Driver Li's pulse again." Team leader Chen became alert and called an old Chinese doctor.

In the end, Li Aiguo saved his appendix by drinking ten doses of nourishing the mind and calming the brain decoction.

Chen Xueru had already arrived at the hospital by this time.

I finally breathed a sigh of relief when I learned that Li Aiguo was sick on orders.

"Brother Aiguo, you scared me to death."

Chen Xueru's eyes were red and swollen, and it was said that it was caused by the strong wind. Li Aiguo didn't believe it at all.

Li Aiguo held her hand and said, "Don't worry. You know my physique. There's no way I'd get sick."

Chen Xueru's little face turned red instantly, and she gently punched Li Aiguo on the shoulder.

“This is a hospital.”

"Ahem!" Light bulb Zhou Ke stood up at an inopportune moment: "Hey, there's a living person here."

Chen Xueru blushed.

"Zhou Ke, aren't you going back to accompany Huang Shuxian?" Li Aiguo felt that Zhou Ke was too tactless.

This is a single room with clean bedding, and it is dark outside.

There seems to be a cartoon called Night Shift or something.

Zhou Ke said helplessly: "I want to go back too, but I still have something to do."

He walked up to Chen Xueru, handed her a confidentiality letter and asked her to sign it.

"Swear an oath."

It's just a simple illness, but I have to sign a confidentiality agreement and swear an oath, which seems ridiculous.

But Chen Xueru also realized something at this time.

There is a special medical team, a separate ward, and fully armed security officers guarding the ward door.

All this shows that Li Aiguo was ordered to get sick this time in order to show it to some people with ulterior motives.

Chen Xueru took a deep breath, raised her hand and said, "Whatever I am involved in, I will never reveal it to my wife, parents, friends, relatives, and children as long as I am alive."

(End of this chapter)