That's good!,Yang Xiaobei muttered. This is the school in her mind! When she was a child, the low school building, the empty teaching level, the enthusiastic teachers, and the experience of starving every day are still vivid, at that time, I was how I envied the beautiful primary school campus in the city, all kinds of rich extracurricular activities!

Because the school did not have lunch and did not provide a place for hot meals, the elementary school at that time was relatively early, usually at 2-3 o'clock in the afternoon. The children were hungry until they came home before they could eat. The deepest impression in my memory is the feeling of being hungry when I come home from school every day and rush into the kitchen to find the food I have left. What I'm afraid of is not staying in school, but being too hungry!

The children were not hungry in the first place, and there were no snacks and dry food to fill their stomachs and support them. Bring rice, it's too hot in summer to get rancid, and it's too frozen into ice lumps in winter. Even if it is lukewarm, there is nothing delicious about cold rice, and eating too much hurts the stomach - Yang Xiaobei's stomach disease fell at that time, and there are many children like her.

That kind of suffering didn't seem to be much in the eyes of people in his father's time, at least they wouldn't be hungry, would they? It's just a little late, and the family keeps food! But Yang Xiaobei doesn't want to experience that kind of hardship anymore. Within his own capacity, Huang's Primary School has built a safe and hygienic canteen from the beginning, so that teachers and children can eat nutritious hot meals.

The villagers of Taohua Village walked out and were proud of the school, "Our school has a free lunch, but there are no schools in the county!" Taohua Village is rich, the welfare is good, and the education is famous in the township, which brings the benefit that the girls in Taohua Village no longer worry about getting married, and the boys have become fragrant and sweet.

At that time, Director Liao and Yang Xiaobei were worried, but now it has become the least worrying thing to worry about. Now that family planning has been implemented for so many years, there is no longer as fierce contradiction as it was at the beginning, and even the most conservative old people have accepted the facts. The women themselves were amazed when they talked about the pain of the struggle.

The people in the country are the kindest and best managed. Even though it is a serious conflict with the ideology for thousands of years, people still choose to accept it after a painful run-in period. Just like the housing prices in later generations are getting higher and higher, and all kinds of injustices are becoming more and more serious, but people still silently grit their teeth and carry the housing prices that require several generations of hard work to afford, and accept the huge gap between the rich and the poor of "the same people have different lives". The reason is that when the day can go on, no one will try to resist.

This is a big country with thousands of years of history, and many Confucianism instilled in the common people by feudal rule for a long time, which will produce such gentle people. Just like now, even if Yang Xiaobei still has many deficiencies, in the eyes of the villagers, these are good enough and satisfying.

People in the countryside are not as exposed to shocks as the outside world, constantly chasing after those ethereal things and running for their lives. For them, the big house is built, the money is in hand, the children learn well, and they will have a good future...... These are all there is to life, isn't that what we are pursuing?

Back at the clinic, there are very few patients approaching the Chinese New Year. The traditional thinking is still very taboo about taking medicine and seeing a doctor in the new year, one is more busy, and the other is that you can wait until the new year without being in a hurry to see it, so you don't have to make the New Year unhappy. So the clinic is the most deserted during this time, and as for the new year - it is simply closed, and no one comes anyway.

But Yi Huifen will still insist on not closing until the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month. To put it bluntly, the clinic is also service-oriented, open all year round, even at night, emergency patients will find their homes. In the past few days, I have been busy preparing things for Xiaobei, and the clinic has been a little unable to take care of it, and I have to rush over to clean it up as soon as it is done. When Yang Xiaobei came over, she was preparing the things that needed to be sterilized and putting them in the pressure cooker.

After leaving the clinic, Yang Xiaobei did not forget this, although it is still in this small room over the years, the utensils and supplies in it have been updated several times, and the shotgun has been replaced. The pot that disappears every day with a full grunt has long been made a rice bowl for the cat.

While he was talking, the cat came. It's still that meow, Yang Xiaobei's first patient when the clinic first opened. At that time, it was only a half-sized small orange cat, and it had eaten a poisonous mouse by mistake, and was brought over by a kind-hearted aunt to be used as a live horse doctor. It seems to be true that "cats have nine lives", and the little guy stubbornly survived. And I think it's my other home.

It's not far from home, so I usually come here to take a walk when I'm fine. When Yang Xiaobei came a few times ago, it was unfortunate that he hadn't seen it for a long time. "Hey...... Where are you?" she was amazed, how many years had it been?

"People live well, but when they are old, they always like to run away from home. I usually have cat food for him here, and when he is hungry, he will come by himself. Yi Huifen said while cleaning. "People are old and fine, and cats are sensible when they are old, so they must have seen you come back. ”

The orange cat was very attached to Yang Xiaobei when it was a child, and it often came over with a mouse or something! Now it no longer has the lively spirit it used to be, and its slightly dry hair and emaciated body mean that it is old, and it is not as light as before, and it walks steadily to Yang Xiaobei's footsteps, rubs around her trouser legs, and then lies down comfortably and begins to enjoy the afternoon sunbath.

It couldn't speak, but this series of actions made Yang Xiaobei's heart very comfortable. I don't care about the old cat wandering outside all the year round, I picked it up and put it on my lap, sighed along the fur, "I don't know if I can see you when I come back next time!"

The older a cat gets, the less time it spends at home, a habit that is diametrically opposed to that of dogs. Finally, when it senses that the end is approaching, it will go back to take a look, and then leave alone, finding a place to die silently. Maybe it's nature, maybe it's not willing to part, the cat race is so cold. The same is true of their wild close relatives, who leave the colony alone when death comes. The cat is not much at home anymore, and as a less well-fed domestic cat, it may not live long.

"It's a good death for a cat to live so long, it's rare!" Yi Huifen also thought. Birth, old age, sickness and death are natural laws, and no one can escape them. This question reminded Yang Xiaobei of one thing he had been worried about before.

When you are not at home, you are most concerned about the health of your family. In the past, his parents were in their sixties, especially his mother's poor health, Yang Xiaobei always had some accidents, and he couldn't come back in time. I have thought countless times that if my mother really had a stroke like my grandmother, no matter what career or work, she would fucking get out of the way, and she would definitely come back to take care of her parents as soon as possible and be by their side.

But sometimes I hate myself, why do I have to wait until my parents are old and sick to come back? What my parents want is not to take care of them when they are sick, but to accompany them at ordinary times.