plum city

Chapter 29 The Beginning of Summer That Year
That afternoon, Fang Yan found these three retired nurses. As Teacher Hu expected, they had no memory of the scene back then.One of them, I remembered, was that there was a pregnant woman from out of town who was staying in their ward. Because the obstetrics and gynecology department didn’t have many outsiders, a pregnant woman from out of town came to meet the conditions that Teacher Hu said could deepen the impression.

What impressed the nurse most was that other pregnant women and their family members in the ward were all very happy, especially after giving birth to a boy.

Only this pair of outsiders, the man, seemed to have only been to the ward once, and his face was sullen. After coming, he had a quarrel with his wife in the ward. What they said was their own words, and the nurse and other pregnant women and The family members couldn't understand what they were arguing about. They could only get a rough idea. Anyway, the man meant that he would not care about it.

In the end, he really didn't care and never came again. During the day, the pregnant woman was the family member of other pregnant women in the same ward. Seeing how pitiful she was, he could help if he could. At night, it seemed that someone from their factory had been sent. , stay overnight in the ward.

"Is it from Meicheng Knitting Factory?" Fang Yan asked.

"I don't know about this, but when you mentioned it, it seemed like it was. Oh, I remembered that her husband didn't come, but there was a man from Hangzhou who came several times, both before and after childbirth, every time. Every time I come here, I bring a lot of fruits and give them to our nurses to eat. They are very impressive. You are a Hangcheng guy. I will only remember those who speak Hangcheng dialect."

It can be determined almost immediately from the dialect that this impressive Hangcheng native is Fang Guofei.Fang Guofei wanted to hug him, so he came to please his biological mother. This was really in line with Fang Guofei's style.

What puzzles Fang Yan is why Fang Guofei visited his mother before she gave birth to him?Could it be that they had already agreed at that time that after he was born, he would give it to Fang Guofei?
If this is the case, it seems to make sense that his biological father stopped coming after coming once, had a bad attitude, and the two of them had a quarrel in the ward.

Fang Yan now regrets that he did not ask more questions about his life experience when Xu Ailian was alive.At that time, he felt that for Xu Ailian, this was not a topic she liked to talk about, so he rarely asked about it.If he asked more questions, Xu Ailian would tell him more.Even if I know more, I can't change anything.

Fang Yan asked the old lady again if she could remember anything else, such as the pregnant woman's last name and where she was from. The old lady shook her head and said no more. I only remember this little.

After running all day, it seemed that I had touched the edge, but in fact there was no actual progress. Fang Yan felt a little disappointed.

When going back and passing by Qingcheng Gate, Fang Yan passed through the city gate and walked outside the dam. He found a stone bench by the river, sat down, and stared blankly at the Xin'an River in front of him.

There are no reeds on the dike on the opposite bank. Now there is a long row of metasequoias, standing there like a row of brush tips. The Pistacia chinensis on the top of the South Peak Tower is becoming more and more leafy, like a tree for the people. This pagoda wears a straw hat.

Fang Yan thought to himself, probably no one would be so vigorous as to swim to the other side now.At that time, people drowned while swimming in this river every year, but no one was afraid. Even if someone died not far away, and the body was being salvaged, tens of meters away, other people were still swimming, indifferent.

At that time in Dialect, I heard people in the factory say that most of the people who drowned in the water every year were people from the Ye School, and the places were concentrated at the bend of the dam, called Laohu Bridge.

It turns out that there is a bridge here that can lead to Dongguan and Wushitan downstream. The Fuchun River Hydropower Station was built. After the water level was raised, the bridge went underwater. As a result, the underwater terrain in that place became very complicated, with undercurrents. There are also people who plunged in suddenly and got into the bridge hole, unable to get out.

The students at Ye School are all outsiders and are not familiar with the terrain here, so they often win the bid.

Now, Meicheng already has a bridge leading to the south peak on the other side, and all people coming and going cross the bridge.When there is no bridge, the place where Dialect sits is the ferry terminal to the other side.Fang Yan remembered that one year at the beginning of summer, he took a ferry with people from the factory. Meicheng people had the custom of eating broad beans, glutinous rice and climbing pagodas in the beginning of summer.

Fang Yan remembered that time they crossed the ferry and walked along the long embankment on the other side, then climbed up to the South Peak from there to the South Peak Tower.There is a large stone tablet on the first floor of the Nanfeng Tower, which is as tall as a person. However, it is not standing. There is a problem with the foundation. The stone tablet fell over and the top of the tablet leaned against the wall of the tower. They climbed up and then used the stone tablet as a slide to slide down. .

Climb up the stone steps inside the pagoda step by step. When you reach the seventh floor, when you poke your head out of the window, you can see the branches of pistacia swaying above your head, as if you can reach out and touch them, and there are birds chirping on them.Some people also tried to climb to the top of the tower from the outside, but ultimately failed.

When going down the mountain, they came down from the other side of the South Peak.On the way, we passed several farmers' houses and also passed a grove. Under a large camphor tree, some of our companions bowed to the camphor tree and called it grandpa.Everyone laughed, and this guy said seriously that this camphor tree was really his grandfather. His father was in poor health when he was a child, so he came here and accepted this camphor tree as his godfather. Later, his health got better.

The camphor tree is very thick. Fang Yan and the five of them held hands to surround it. The inside of the camphor tree is hollow, and there is a tree hole as high as one person that you can walk into. Six or seven people can stand inside and look up. , you can see the tree crown above your head and the blue sky leaking through the gaps between the branches and leaves.

When he came back that day and went to bed at night, Fang Yan felt itchy all over his body. He tossed and turned uncomfortably all night. When he woke up the next day, he was shocked. His body was covered with red spots and his whole face was swollen like a pig's head.

There was still a shipment that day, and Fang Yan didn't even have time to go to the hospital, so he went to the factory like Zhu Bajie. Everyone who saw him laughed. When he asked, someone told him that it turned out that the short land they passed yesterday The woods were a patch of lacquer trees, and he was stung by the lacquer trees.

Fang Yan asked why he was the only one like this. Someone who knew told him that other people had been stung by sumac trees when they were children. There were sumac trees everywhere in the mountains around Meicheng. Which Meicheng people went to the mountains to cut firewood or pull bamboo shoots? The school organized When picking acorns, you have never been stung by paint. If you are stung by paint once, you will have immunity and will not be stung again next time.

It's okay, it'll be fine in two days, and you don't even need to go to the hospital.Everyone comforted him.

Someone else told him that if you want to get better quickly, you can smear your own urine on your face and body.Dialect finally didn’t dare to try it.

After the goods for the day were shipped, Fang Yan took the bus at around [-]pm and headed back to Hangzhou carrying a pig's head. It was already around [-]pm when he got home.

Xu Ailian was shocked when she saw him, and she and Aunt Yu immediately sent him to the emergency room of the Third Hospital. After examination, the doctor said that he was allergic to raw lacquer. He received an anti-allergic injection and some medicine before going home.

When she got home, she was already speaking in the dialect of a young man, and Xu Ailian forced her to take off all her clothes and pants.At the beginning, Fang Yan was shy and refused to take it off. Xu Ailian told him, why are you afraid of being embarrassed? There is no place on your body that my mother has ever seen or touched, so take it off quickly.

Fang Yan stood naked in front of Xu Ailian. Xu Ailian dipped cotton wool in ointment and wiped the red and swollen areas all over his body. The ointment was cool when applied, and Fang Yan felt that his body was no longer itchy and he breathed a sigh of relief.

The next night, after Fang Yan took a shower, he walked into Xu Ailian's room, obediently took off his clothes and pants, and asked Xu Ailian to apply ointment on him. After applying the ointment, Xu Ailian fanned him with a fan to keep him from getting wet. The ointment should dry quickly before you can wear clothes.

She didn't dare to turn on the air conditioner very low. Fang Yan was naked and already allergic. She was afraid that Fang Yan would catch a cold.

It took more than a week for the redness and swelling on Fang Yan's body to completely subside.

Fang Yan sat there, thinking of Xu Ailian, and his eyes became moist.

Fang Yan's cell phone rang. He looked at it and saw that it was Xiao Yu. Fang Yan picked up the phone.

Xiao Yu shouted on the phone: "Uncle, where did you go? The food is cooked and you haven't come back yet. Do you want to starve us to death?"

Fang Yan was startled, and then realized that the sky was a little cloudy. Looking at the time, it was already past six o'clock, so he hurried back to Xiao Yu:
"Right away, I'll be right there. I'll be back in a few minutes."

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