Back to 1984: Hunting in the Mountains

Chapter 135 My old heart can't stand it

Miali sat on a small square stool with her socks taken off. Her right foot was visibly swollen and red like a boiled crab.

Seeing Yu Qiutang coming back, Mi Yali forced a smile and said, "It's okay. It will be fine after a while."

Yu Qiutang didn't say anything else. He just picked up the ladle, scooped a ladle of water from the tank, and quickly poured it on Miyali's feet.

"Um……"

Mi Yali cried out softly and subconsciously tried to retract her foot, but Yu Qiutang grabbed her ankle and said, "Don't move!"

After saying that, he quickly scooped up another portion of cold water, and while cooling Miali's feet, he told his sister to scoop up another basin of cold water.

Yu Chunmei hurriedly did as she was told.

After the ladle of water was poured here, the basin was brought over and placed next to the feet.

Yu Qiutang said nothing more and put Miyali's right foot into the basin. "Soak it for a while. Sister, help me find some clean gauze or thin cloth, and some thread."

"Oh, okay, I'll ask Qiuju." Yu Chunmei went next door.

Yu Qiutang helped Mi Yali change the basin of water, then frowned and asked, "What's going on? Why is it so hot?"

"Mei and I were frying pancakes. We put some on the chopping board to dry. I turned around suddenly and bumped into the wash basin, which fell right on my feet. There was some oil in the basin..."

Miyali spoke in a low voice, a little embarrassed, as if she was not the one who got burned, but she burned someone else.

"You are so careless. Just take your time. Burns are much more troublesome than cuts. What if it gets inflamed? It really makes me worried..." Yu Qiutang saw a thin bamboo sheet nearby and pulled it over to fan her feet.

Burns are difficult to treat. If it were the future, we would be able to easily buy burn ointment and go to the hospital.

But in this day and age, people use so-called folk remedies, such as applying cold oil and other things. In fact, these methods are not only ineffective, but may also cause new infections, which is absolutely not advisable.

All you really need to do is to use cold water to cool down for half an hour to lower the surface body temperature as much as possible, and then wrap it with gauze to prevent the surface skin from being rubbed and inflamed.

Then go to the hospital as soon as possible.

As for burns, the degree of damage caused by water and oil is also different. Water burns mainly rely on the instantaneous burns caused by quick contact, so as long as the water is not freshly boiled, it will not be very serious.

But oil burns are completely different. The boiling point of oil is lower, and when it falls on the human body, it will automatically evaporate. This process will absorb heat and cause secondary damage to the human body.

"Don't worry too much, it's really nothing." Miyali wanted to continue covering it up, but Yu Qiutang responded with a look.

He was really anxious. With her skin burned like this, how could she come to work later? If she couldn't work, she would not come again. How could they develop revolutionary friendship then?

This tiny spark that has just started needs to develop steadily. It is suddenly cut off. It will take a long time for it to burn again.

I don’t know when new opportunities will come.

This Mia Li is really something. From what I remember, she wasn’t such a careless person.

"Here it is. Do you think this will work?" Yu Chunmei was holding clean white gauze and some white thread for sewing quilts in her hand.

"Row."

Yu Qiutang took it and asked his sister to find a towel to wipe his feet. He carefully and cautiously wiped off the water, then carefully wrapped gauze on it and tied it tightly with white thread.

"I'll carry you out, be careful not to drag your feet on the ground."

"Why go?"

"Of course we should go to the hospital. With such a large burn, I might need to be hospitalized!"

Thinking of being hospitalized, Yu Qiutang became anxious again.

There have been too many things going on these days.

The family was building a house, and grandma was in poor health. He might have to go to the mountains to hunt musk deer, and Miali's feet were burned again.

He's a bit overwhelmed.

"No need to go to the hospital, it's not that fragile, it's just a blister, just wait for the blister to come out and pop it..."

"Don't!"

Yu Qiutang hurriedly stopped this dangerous thinking, "The last thing you should do when you have a burn is to pop the blister, otherwise the pus inside will come out and the area of ​​inflammation will become larger. Do you understand? Don't pop it. Wait for the blister to gradually get smaller, and then the new skin inside will appear, and the tangerine peel outside will fall off."

Miali had no choice but to nod.

After Yu Qiutang discovered that she had burned her feet, he seemed a little anxious. He spoke faster than before and his tone was much more serious, not as gentle as last night.

She felt a little guilty.

I was clearly paid to do the work, but I accidentally got burned and now things are delayed.

I feel very sorry for Yu Qiutang.

"Come, I'll carry you out." Yu Qiutang bent his body in front of her.

"No need, I can walk by myself!"

"What can I do? If I trip and get scratched or burned, it will take a long time to recover."

"But……"

Seeing that Mi Yali was still reserved, Yu Qiutang was too lazy to wait. He suddenly picked up Mi Yali by the waist, gave her a princess hug, and strode out the door.

"ah!!"

Miali's face suddenly turned red all the way to her neck.

This man is too... too bold. He didn’t even allow me to carry the child on his back, but he just carried her in his arms.

"Put me down quickly, someone has seen us." She poked Yu Qiutang gently.

Yu Qiutang ignored him and went straight to Mi Wenzhong's bicycle and placed Mi Yali steadily on it.

"Sit still and don't move. If you fall, the wound will get bigger. If you lie on the kang for a longer time, you might even lose your foot."

Mi Yali helplessly watched Yu Qiutang talk nonsense.

Although she knew that burns were not easy to treat, she also knew that they would not be serious enough to require amputation. In order to make her feel more at ease, Yu Qiutang was willing to make up such a lie to a child.

"Sister, tell Fengzi to help take care of things here, and tell Brother Wenzhong that I'm sending Lili...Yali to the hospital, and tell him not to worry."

"Okay, go ahead and be careful on the road."

Yu Chunmei just witnessed her brother picking up Miali, and the girl didn't resist. This shows that their relationship is closer than she thought.

I was worried before that the two of them might not be compatible in terms of personality. Well, although burns are not a good thing, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as the two of them became much closer.

It's actually a good thing.

"Let's go. I ride fast and the road is bumpy. You have to hold on to me tight!"

"Yeah." Miali replied softly.

She had not yet fully recovered from the shock of being carried like a princess just now. She had not expected that although she looked thin and weak, like a stick, she was actually quite strong.

Although she is thin, she is tall enough, so she must weigh at least 110 pounds, so most people can definitely lift her.

But he looked relaxed.

In this case, if he carries the baby from the car to the new house in the future, fifty meters will be no problem at all, and a hundred meters probably won't be a problem for him.

what! !

What am I thinking?
She suddenly froze.

What does it matter whether it’s a new house or not? They haven’t even started dating yet. Just because of what he said last night, I started to have such fantasies?

It's really embarrassing.

The whole journey was so fast that Yu Qiutang almost kicked the chain to sparks. It took more than 20 minutes to reach the town hospital. Mi Yali was still reserved at first and tried to keep her body steady in the back seat, but as the speed continued to increase, the vibration became more and more severe. She could not control it and had to hold on to Yu Qiutang's collar tightly.

She kept telling him not to be too anxious, saying that a foot burn was not a serious illness. She had been helping her mother to light the fire and cook since she was very young, and she didn't know how many times she had been burned.

It would have been better if she didn't say anything. The more she talked, the more distressed Yu Qiutang felt. Although he agreed with her, he didn't slow down at all. Instead, he pedaled faster and faster.

He ran to the entrance of the clinic, left his car with a fellow villager who was looking after the car, and ran into the clinic carrying Miyali on his back.

The health center was still quite backward at that time. The inpatient department was relatively better, but the general emergency room was located in the back rows of bungalows, which looked almost like a school classroom.

Yu Qiutang asked several people before he got to the point of surgery. It was a small township hospital with backward medical technology and not many sub-specialties. There was no way he could even think of working in a high-end department like dermatology.

Only surgery can have some effect.

Fortunately, most people just endure their illnesses. If they really can’t get better, they go to the village pharmacy to get some medicine. They are reluctant and unwilling to go to the hospital, as they think that hospitals are places with many deaths and that entering once will cost them some life span.

Therefore, the hospital was not crowded, and the old doctor could even comb the few strands of his hair in front of the mirror.

Yu Qiutang carried Mi Yali inside, put her on the bed without saying a word, and dragged the old doctor's arm to Mi Yali, then half-said, half-shouted: "Doctor, treat it quickly, the burns are very serious!"

The old doctor was not in a hurry. He pulled out a pair of reading glasses tied with a rope from his coat pocket and put them on slowly. He didn't rush to look at Mi Yali, but first looked at Yu Qiutang, "Have you registered?"

Yu Qiutang said hurriedly, "Just watch first, I'll go and hang up now!"

The old doctor was even less anxious. "You can't see me without a registration. You have to follow the rules."

In a hurry, Yu Qiutang grabbed the old doctor's shoulders with both hands and lifted him up, "I'm going to hang it up now. Now you see, if she hasn't dealt with it well when I come back, I'll smash your place, huh?!"

Then he threw the old doctor to the ground.

The old doctor was shocked and dazed. Seeing that Yu Qiutang was not someone to be trifled with, he had no choice but to pull over a chair and sit down to untie the white gauze on Miali's feet.

"The hospital has its own rules."

Yu Qiutang saw him start to move, then ran out to register.

At that time, hospitals did not have as transparent information as in later generations. If you wanted to go somewhere, you could just look at the large central screen and there were guiding signs everywhere. There were also many guides stationed in various places, and each one was more enthusiastic than the other when you asked.

Now he had to ask several doctors and patients before he found the registration room in the corner. He quickly registered and ran back to the surgery department.

Running back and forth, he was sweating profusely.

After returning, the old doctor was applying a purple potion to Miali. Despite his age, his hands were very steady.

Yu Qiutang put the registration number on his desk. He looked back and said, "That's right. Without rules, there will be no order. I will see the doctor only when I see the registration number."

"Doctor, is it serious?"

Yu Qiutang knew that in the hospital, no matter how powerful a person is, he has to keep his head down. This will remain the case at any time during economic and social development, and nothing will change.

The old doctor did not answer immediately, but applied the medicine carefully. Although his attitude was not very positive just now, he was quite dedicated when it came to his job.

"It's not serious. With careful care and keeping away from water, he will be able to get out of bed in about three to five days."

Yu Qiutang felt relieved and said quickly, "Thank you for your help."

The old doctor stood up, rubbed his old waist, and sat back at his desk. "Sign me up."

"it is good."

"Name?"

"Miyali."

"age?"

"Twenty... Oh, not yet twenty, nineteen."

"Is it twenty or nineteen?"

"nineteen."

"marital status?"

“Does this also need to be registered?”

"Just say what I'm told to say. Why are you being so long-winded?"

"unmarried."

"Unmarried?" The old doctor pushed his reading glasses and looked at Yu Qiutang. "She is your sister?"

Yu Qiutang looked at Mi Yali and said helplessly: "Doctor, do you have to ask this?"

The old doctor shook his head. "That's not necessarily true."

Yu Qiutang thought, why are you asking? It's just a burn, not a prenatal checkup, but then the old doctor said, "You still have to be careful about relationships between men and women, don't mess around."

Miali blushed immediately.

Yu Qiutang is really speechless.

If this happened in the future, he would definitely cause trouble for the old doctor, but at this time, he could only admit defeat.

Even if there is a commotion, many people will stand on the old doctor's side after hearing the whole story.

In traditional times, people attached more importance to the relationship between men and women.

"Take this to pay for the medicine."

"Oh, thank you~"

Yu Qiutang was about to go out when Miyali stopped him, "Wait, Yu Qiutang, I'll give you money."

"Keep it. I have money."

"Hey..."

Before Mi Yali could say anything, Yu Qiutang had already run out of the ward.

She had no choice but to put the little change she had taken out back into her pocket.

In fact, she didn't have much money. She worked in an apricot kernel factory and had only a few yuan of pocket money left for herself after paying the family expenses.

As a woman, you always have to keep some money for personal use, and there are some things that you can't tell your family about.

As soon as she entered the hospital, she immediately thought of the expense issue and was anxious. If she spent too much, she didn't know how to cope with it.

According to her idea, she came to Yu Qiutang to make money, and got burned, so it definitely had nothing to do with Yu Qiutang. It was good enough that he could send her to the hospital, so why would she spend his money?

So, when Yu Qiutang returned to the ward with the medicine, she whispered to him, "I'll ask my brother to give you the money after we get back."

"No, this is a work-related injury. I am responsible for it."

"What do you mean by work-related injury? I got burned by accident. It has nothing to do with you."

"There's no need to say more about this. We are all children of the underworld, so we should be open and honest. Money is just a thing outside of our body. Even if we lose it, we can get it back. Don't take it too seriously."

Miali stared at him.

I don't know what nonsense he is talking about.

Who are you and I? We are all old farmers. I don’t know where these witty remarks came from.

"Go back if you're fine. Be careful not to get wet, eat spicy food, or anything that makes you irritated..."

While washing his hands, the old doctor signaled to the two that if they were fine, they should leave quickly and not show affection in his ward.

My old heart simply can't take it.

(End of this chapter)