Chapter 14: Growth
Under the warm sunshine, the cold winter wind of the past seems to have become gentle. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Lu Xiaofeng and Ye Yufei walked side by side on the street, and Lu Xiaofeng told her the legendary story of the NBA.
"After talking about black, let's talk about white, the Celtics, the team with green clothes, has a forward named Larry Bird, Bird, which means bird in English, so the nickname is Big Bird, he is a white man, and he entered the NBA at about the same time as Magic Johnson." Lu Xiaofeng told the story.
"His characteristics are that he is very comprehensive, and his shooting is very accurate, often more than 20 points, more than ten rebounds, and seven or eight assists."
"Isn't that the same as the magician?" Ye Yufei listened very carefully and remembered the characteristics of magicians.
"Well, Magic is organization-oriented, mainly on the outside, Bird is score-oriented, inside, but his three-point shot is very accurate, and he has won the three-point contest!"
"Didn't you say he played inside?"
"Sometimes he plays big forward, sometimes he plays small forward, as I just said, the technique is very comprehensive!"
"So is he inside or outside?"
"Well, you don't care if he's inside or outside, it's good to be a non-trivial person." Lu Xiaofeng scratched her head a little, the beautiful girl is simply a "problem girl".
"Speaking of his three points, there is a little story." Lu Xiaofeng hurriedly changed the topic, but she didn't get a response from Ye Yufei, shouldn't she ask "what story"?
Lu Xiaofeng turned his head to see that Ye Yufei was frowning, biting his lip, and his face was still a little pale, which startled him.
"What's wrong? Is there something uncomfortable? Lu Xiaofeng hurriedly helped her to sit down on a chair on the side of the road.
"My stomach hurts a little...... Ah" Ye Yufei pressed her hands on her abdomen and couldn't help but scream.
"Your face is white, I'll take you to the hospital." Lu Xiaofeng looked at her pale face, sweat came out, and she was very distressed.
"No...... Send me home. Ye Yufei just shook her head and whispered in pain.
"If you're sick, you're going to the hospital! Why don't you have a car? Hold it tight, I'll carry you. Lu Xiaofeng looked at both sides of the street, there was no taxi, squatted down, picked up Ye Yufei on his back, and began to trot in the direction of the hospital.
"Don't go...... I'm coming......" Ye Yufei lay on his shoulder, speaking intermittently, but her voice became smaller and smaller.
"What?" Lu Xiaofeng slowed down slightly.
"My eldest aunt is here......" Ye Yufei whispered in Lu Xiaofeng's ear, and Lu Xiaofeng only heard "aunt" clearly.
"Your aunt is at your house? She's a doctor? …… Uh, Aunt is here? Lu Xiaofeng finally turned the corner, stopped running to the hospital, stopped, turned around and strode towards Jin Guiyuan.
"Menstruating at such a young age? Isn't it going to be thirteen or fourteen? Lu Xiaofeng couldn't help but talk to himself as he walked.
"Ouch! Ye Yufei, are you a dog? The sudden sharp pain on his shoulder, Lu Xiaofeng couldn't hold back.
"Tell you to talk nonsense, 10 years old!" Ye Yufei's weak voice was very clear now.
"There's a pharmacy up there, let's go buy some medicine." Lu Xiaofeng saw the pharmacy on the street, but suddenly remembered the medicine he had made for his first girlfriend in his previous life.
"Doctor, buy some motherwort and red dates." Lu Xiaofeng entered the pharmacy, did not let go of Ye Yufei, and said directly to the female doctor in the pharmacy.
The female doctor looked at Ye Yufei on Lu Xiaofeng's back, smiled at Lu Xiaofeng, and turned around to grab the medicine.
Lu Xiaofeng had a thick face, but it didn't matter, Ye Yufei blushed suddenly, and quietly bit Lu Xiaofeng again.
Lu Xiaofeng endured it and didn't make a sound.
When he arrived at Ye's house, Lu Xiaofeng first put Ye Yufei on the sofa in the living room and lay down, asked Aunt Liu to find a hot water bottle, and after adding hot water, asked Ye Yufei to take the hot compress on her abdomen, and carried the medicine into the kitchen.
According to the experience of the previous life, first soak the jujube in water and set aside.
Then put the motherwort in a casserole, add water to boil over high heat, change to low heat and boil for half an hour, and then pour the liquid medicine and the soaked red dates into the pot to boil, and add some brown sugar.
The medicinal soup was poured into the bowl, dark red, Lu Xiaofeng tasted it, and the sweetness of the brown sugar almost suppressed the bitterness, and it was not unpleasant.
Lu Xiaofeng came to the living room with the medicinal soup, and saw that Ye Yufei's face was already bloody after the hot compress, and the pain should have been relieved a lot.
"Yuwei, are you feeling better? Come and drink the medicine. Lu Xiaofeng helped Ye Yufei up to sit up, and carefully stuffed a cushion on her back.
"Much better. What kind of medicine? Is it bitter? Ye Yufei frowned as soon as she saw the medicinal soup in Lu Xiaofeng's hand.
"Motherwort soaked red dates, I have tasted it, it is not bitter at all, sweet." Lu Xiaofeng said, and had already scooped up a spoonful and sent it to Ye Yufei's mouth.
Ye Yufei frowned and slowly swallowed the medicine, and then slowly swallowed it in.
"It's still a little bit bitter." Ye Yufei raised her head and said pitifully to Lu Xiaofeng.
"Okay, it's okay, it won't hurt after drinking the medicine." Lu Xiaofeng coaxed her to feed her another spoonful.
After drinking the medicine, Ye Yufei lay on the sofa and listened to Lu Xiaofeng continue to tell the story of the NBA, maybe the pain exhausted her physical strength, and she fell asleep after a while.
Aunt Liu took the blanket out, Lu Xiaofeng took it, covered her, found a small stool, sat next to the sofa, and looked at her quietly.
After Ye Yufei fell asleep, it may be that the pain had disappeared, the wrinkled eyebrows slowly stretched, the eyes were gently closed, the long and curled eyelashes finally quieted down, the delicate nose closed one by one with the breathing, and the full lips were slightly upturned uncomfortably after the owner fell asleep.
Aunt Liu was busy in the kitchen, as soon as the door was closed, the living room was quiet, it seemed that there were only two people left in the whole world, Lu Xiaofeng sat quietly, listening to the faint breathing of the sleeping beauty, indulging in this quiet atmosphere.
Until the sound of the door opening with a "click" broke this peaceful two-person world.
"Aunt Jiang is off work!" Lu Xiaofeng looked up and saw that Jiang Mingxiu had gone home.
"yes, the laughing wind is also there! Fei Fei, what's wrong? Jiang Mingxiu saw Lu Xiaofeng sitting there, but he was not surprised, and when he saw his daughter lying down, he hurriedly walked over.
"Oh, my stomach hurts, I fell asleep after taking medicine."
Lu Xiaofeng saw that Jiang Mingxiu had returned home, and when Ye Yufei woke up after a while, the mother and daughter must have a lot of whispers to say, and they were embarrassed to stay here, so they got up and said goodbye.
The Spring Festival of 1999 came very late, and it was already mid-February during the Chinese New Year, and the weather gradually warmed up.
Because of the relationship between Ye Jianguo's ruling party, Ye Yufei also stayed in Tiecheng this year, and after the Chinese New Year, she finally realized her wish to go to the countryside to see.
In the first two years, when the villagers were still digging in the fields, there were still more than a dozen families living in adobe houses.
Now, almost every family lives in a red brick house, the cement road leads to the yard of every house, the villagers who work in the coal mine, every household has bought a motorcycle, and in addition to the sound of dogs barking, there is more "booming" motorcycle sound in the village, which is a little less quiet but a little more energetic.
Growing crops in the field has become a sideline business for the villagers, and some families have abandoned the land in addition to growing vegetables, and simply planted trees, and occasionally there are a few families, and the old men and old ladies are idle, so they plant corn, rice and other crops.
After the merger and expansion of the coal mine, two five-storey buildings were built through land acquisition in the village, one is an office building and the other is a staff building.
The primary school in the village has been renovated, and a sports square has been built next to it, and even a high greenhouse, basketball court and table tennis table have been set up, all under the greenhouse, which is not only a staff activity area, but also a cultural square for residents.
During the heavy rain last summer, seeing that it was inconvenient for the children in the village to go to the town to go to middle school, Lu Guoqing bought a minibus in the name of the company and hired two drivers, every day at 7 o'clock in the morning and 7 o'clock in the evening, back and forth between Pingba Village and Tongjiang Town, which was regarded as a staff shuttle, and everyone took it for free.
When Ye Yufei arrived in the countryside, what she saw was such a "new countryside", which was not at all the appearance of adobe houses and yellow mud roads in her father's mouth, and she was a little disappointed, but she was also relieved.
As soon as Lu Xiaofeng returned to the city, he received the news that the Liujiang Bridge was about to be blasted.
I don't know how Ye Jianguo is pushing behind it, but in two or three months, the working group sent by the superiors made a conclusion on the Liujiang Bridge: the quality of the project is not up to standard, and it will be demolished by blasting.
As for the changes in officialdom, Lu Xiaofeng had met Ye Jianguo a few times in the Ye family, but he didn't show any tone, and even Ye Yufei didn't know any news.
However, Lu Guoqing heard the rumors of the fall of the number one leader, combined with the recent reports in the newspaper, Ye Jianguo appeared frequently, and the number one has not spoken for a long time.
At dinner, the family of three chatted about the recent hot Liujiang Bridge.
"Xiaofeng, do you know that after the Liujiang Bridge is demolished, it will be rebuilt?" Lu Guoqing suddenly asked.
"In my dream, it was rebuilt after the collapse, and now I take the initiative to demolish it, so I don't know." Lu Xiaofeng couldn't be sure.
"Aren't we getting a construction company now, your uncle said, we can fight to build a new bridge." Lu Guoqing stated his purpose.
"Dad, according to my analysis, now that the north bank is to be developed, the old bridge is definitely not enough, and most of the new bridge must be rebuilt. However, don't think about contracting to build a new bridge. Our construction company has only built houses, but bridge construction is different, and the requirements are much higher. Now that the tofu slag project has been demolished, the city must find the most professional and experienced company to undertake the construction, so many people are staring, you go to contract, isn't it asking Uncle Ye for trouble? ”
"I just said no, you have to ask your son, where can you earn all the money? Do you dare to embarrass Mayor Ye, the old man knows, he can't whip you with a belt? Qin Li also began to count Lu Guoqing.
"I'm just asking, what's going on? Isn't this negotiable? If not, forget it. Lu Guoqing laughed.
"Dad, this matter can't be sloppy. The matter of the bridge, our family must not get involved. This matter may be the most important thing for Uncle Ye, and we can't add to the chaos. If you want to do architecture, there is an opportunity. The province will soon build an inter-provincial highway, and once the road is repaired, Uncle Ye will definitely engage in a development zone, and there will be more opportunities for construction at that time. ”
"Really?"
"Is my word still false?"