Chapter 026: A Good Man in Others’ Mouths

The wooden basin was small, but new.

Li Xinyue was surprised.

The Chen family didn’t have such good things!

“Where did you get this basin? It doesn’t look like it’s from home. Did you buy it?”

Chen Mingchuan explained: “This wooden bucket and the foot basin were both borrowed from a comrade.”

“Only this basin is mine. I bought it because I was afraid you would find the others too dirty.”

This man was indeed meticulous.

The basin for washing one’s bottom should not be used for washing feet!

Li Xinyue took another look at Chen Mingchuan.

Seeing that the towels he brought were all new, she was moved: He wasn’t completely a jerk after all!

There were mosquitoes in the bathroom at night.

After washing her bottom and changing the water to wipe her whole body, Li Xinyue returned.

The foot bath was already poured into the basin, a little hot.

“The doctor said you should soak your feet. It’s good for your condition.”

The anti-inflammatory effect of penicillin was indeed incomparable to the anti-inflammatory drugs of decades later.

She had a prescription in her mind, but she didn’t know if the current technology could make it.

Li Xinyue thought, when she got to the army, she would find a chance to go to the provincial capital and try her luck at a large pharmaceutical factory!

In this era, you couldn’t do business.

Doing business was speculation, but selling your own products didn’t count.

The prescription was hers, so this should be fine.

Li Xinyue sat down and put her feet in the foot basin. It was a little hot.

“Is it hot?”

“A little, but I can bear it.”

“Oh, then bear it. It’s more effective if it’s a little hotter.”

“I know.”

Listening to their conversation, the auntie spoke again: “Girl, I’ve never enjoyed this kind of treatment in my life!”

“When I was young, I had my mother-in-law watching me all the time, and my old man was too honest, he wouldn’t dare to spoil his wife.”

“Later, my father-in-law and mother-in-law passed away, and he didn’t remember this anymore.”

“Now he’s already gone to serve his parents underground. I’ve never had this kind of fortune in my life!”

Well, Li Xinyue admitted.

Men like Chen Mingchuan were indeed relatively rare.

Not to mention that machismo was prevalent in this era, even in her time, few men would do this.

She was married too.

Although it was only a nominal ‘marriage’…

Li Xinyue didn’t answer.

Chen Mingchuan, who was handing her a towel to wipe her feet, answered: “Auntie, she’s sick.”

“My wife lost her mother when she was young, and my mother’s hand was injured, so I have to take care of her.”

“Actually, you’re lucky too. You have both sons and daughters.”

“That’s right, that’s right!”

Although the auntie knew that raising children was a burden, some things couldn’t be said to outsiders.

Chen Mingchuan went to take a shower, and the auntie stopped talking.

After all, she had a high fever and had soaked her feet, so Li Xinyue soon fell asleep.

But in the middle of the night, she was woken up by mosquitoes.

She sat up in annoyance and startled the person who was curled up on the long chair and sleeping sideways…

“What’s wrong? Do you need to use the bathroom?”

Li Xinyue stared at the man who was climbing up from the wooden chair: “The wooden chair is more comfortable to sleep on. Are you still worried about something?”

“Don’t worry, although I don’t have many strengths, I keep my promises.”

Chen Mingchuan: “…”

I’m not afraid of squeezing you!

Li Xinyue was a little annoyed. A big man was so fussy!

Since he didn’t like the original owner so much, why did he act so kind?

Go to sleep wherever you want!

If it weren’t for the fact that he was taking care of her, she wouldn’t let this man get on the bed!

Li Xinyue pulled a face angrily: “There are so many mosquitoes. Do you have mosquito coils?”

Hearing that there were mosquitoes, Chen Mingchuan got up: “Did the mosquitoes bite you?”

“Nonsense!”

“How could she wake up if he didn’t bite her?”

“Hmm.”

“I’ll catch it.”

Catching mosquitoes and having someone fan you? Not bad treatment.

Li Xinyue didn’t bother to care where Chen Mingchuan slept. She was about to go to sleep, but just then, a patient passed by the door.

“Alright, stop groaning! Even if you’re in pain, I can’t do anything about it. I’m not a doctor!”

“Humph, humph, humph, can’t you just bear it?”

“The needle’s already been injected, I can’t do anything about the pain!”

“If you keep groaning, don’t blame me for leaving you alone here! You’re driving me crazy!”

“Wuuu… wuuu…”

The man and woman’s voices were loud, waking the auntie up.

“Ai, this gallstone pain is really torturous.”

“They’re from Wangjia Village. The woman has gallstones. She’s had three children, her body isn’t good.”

“It’s just that the surgeon at the hospital went to the provincial capital to study, so they can’t operate on her. She just has to endure the pain every day.”

“Her husband, he just yells and scolds her. He’s so impatient.”

“Today, she must be in a lot of pain. She couldn’t take it anymore, so she had the doctor inject her with painkillers.”

“Girl, that’s why I say, you’re really lucky to have such a good man!”

A gallstone surgery takes only three hours, and the incision is only a couple of inches.

But in this era, at the county-level hospital, there are very few people who can perform surgery.

This minor surgery was a piece of cake for Li Xinyue.

But now, her body couldn’t handle it, even if she could, no one would let her on the operating table.

Unless they were crazy.

But the auntie’s words were right, compared to that man, Chen Mingchuan’s scumbaggery was truly insignificant.

Her annoyance was quickly blown away by the gentle breeze.

Li Xinyue fell asleep again, she didn’t know when.

That night, she didn’t know if Chen Mingchuan slept on the bed later.

Anyway, when she woke up, he was no longer in the ward.

The auntie told her, “Your husband went to buy breakfast, don’t worry, he should be back soon.”

Li Xinyue rolled her eyes secretly: As if she couldn’t live without Chen Mingchuan!

“Thank you, auntie.”

“Auntie, did anyone come to accompany you today?”

Speaking of this, the auntie’s face looked bad.

“They should be coming. I have to have surgery tomorrow.”

To be honest, this auntie talks a lot and is also quite greedy.

But, she’s not a bad person.

Seeing the auntie’s appearance, Li Xinyue felt a lot of sympathy for her.

A seventy-year-old woman, although she hasn’t had surgery yet, leaving her alone in the hospital is pitiful.

“They will come, auntie, don’t worry.”

“If they don’t come tonight, they will definitely come early tomorrow morning.”

Hearing these comforting words, the auntie’s face improved a bit.

“Yes, now the less you work, the less work points you get. The work points in our team are valuable.”

“Last year, ten work points in our team were worth 78 cents, the highest in the entire brigade.”

This wage is really high.

When she was still in the orphanage, Li Xinyue overheard the working aunts chatting. They talked about how hard it was back then.

Working for a whole day, only a few cents.

They also said that this was good, saying that there was a production team where ten work points were only worth 7 cents!

This 78 cents wage was indeed something to be proud of.

“Your production team is really rich, auntie. Ours is much worse than yours.”

The auntie said, “Girl, actually, women have to marry well!”

“You know the woman next door? She committed suicide last night. Her husband found her collapsed in the toilet this morning.”