Quick Wear: Cousin, Come to the Bowl Quickly

But who would have thought that as soon as these words came out, their eldest daughter, who was usually the most obedient and sensible, started shaking her head like a wave drum.

"If I don't go to the countryside, my younger brothers and sisters will have to go. They are so young, even worse off than me. How can they endure the hardship of going to the countryside?"

"Besides, I don't want to get married. If I rush into marriage just to avoid going to the countryside, and if I end up with someone bad, wouldn't my life be over?"

"What's more, the great leader has said, 'It is very necessary for the vast number of educated youth to go to the countryside and receive re-education from the poor and lower-middle peasants.' I can't lift or carry anything at home, so now is a good opportunity to go to the countryside and get some training..."

What she said made sense. Lin's parents looked at each other, unable to refute her. They could only nod reluctantly with a bitter face.

However, ideals are full and reality is very skinny. Lin Xi acted righteous and confident in front of her parents, but she ultimately overestimated her physical fitness.

This group of educated youth were poorly selected when they went to the countryside, and happened to arrive during the autumn harvest season in the Hongguang Brigade. A group of spoiled educated youth had just settled down in the educated youth site which was leaky from all sides. Before they could even catch their breath, they were all shouted into the fields by the brigade leader.

After a month of hard work, many educated youth complained bitterly and were exhausted. Those who were stronger were still fine, with at most back and leg pain and sunburn.

But those who were weaker soon fell ill under the double blow of working day and night to harvest and suffering from unfamiliar climate and water. The most seriously ill among them were Chen Caiqing and Lin Xi, two female educated youth.

Chen Caiqing was not used to the food in the countryside, and he rushed to help Li Weihua with the work. When it got dark, he didn't see the road clearly, and he stepped on a stone while carrying sixty or seventy kilograms of wheat. His foot slipped, and not only did the wheat spill all over the ground, but he also hit his head.

Lin Xi was weak to begin with, but he didn't want others to look down on him, so he worked hard and overexerted himself. Coupled with the unfamiliar climate and the north wind, he fell ill in bed.

The condition lasted for more than half a month, and there was no improvement. At first, the team leader thought that the educated youth was lazy and pretending to be sick, but when he came to his senses, Lin Xi was on the verge of dying. He panicked and hurriedly submitted an application to the provincial capital, requesting that the educated youth be allowed to return to the city for treatment, while driving a ox cart to take the person to the town health center.

However, the conditions of the town's health center were limited, and Lin Xi's illness was caused by fatigue, so the specific cause and treatment method could not be found. Therefore, the doctor at the health center only gave him two bottles of saline solution, hurriedly prescribed a few medicines, and asked the team leader to take him away immediately.

Before the reply from above came down, the educated youth could not go anywhere except the brigade and township where they were sent to the countryside. The county and provincial hospitals could not send them, and the town hospital would not admit them. The brigade leader had no choice but to take Lin Xi back to the educated youth site with several educated youths and let them endure it slowly.

But after taking all the medicine, Lin Xi's condition did not improve, and there was no response from the provincial government. It seemed that the person who had little flesh to begin with was reduced to just a bag of bones.

All the educated youth were in a panic, especially the female educated youth who lived in the same room with Lin Xi. They were worried almost every day. The first thing they did when they woke up in the morning was to check her breath to see if she was still alive.

Everyone had gone to bed last night, but Lin Xi suddenly developed a fever and started talking nonsense, which scared everyone. Just when they were at a loss, they heard a knock on the door.

When everyone opened the door, they found that the person standing at the door was Song Guanwen, the educated youth who was always taciturn and very distant from everyone else.

He held a bowl of black medicinal juice in his hand and handed it to the educated youth who came to open the door with an expressionless face. Then he took out a tin can from behind his back, raised his eyes to the room, and then said to the educated youth indifferently: "Give her the medicine."

His tone was so cold that there was no warmth at all, and his expressionless face made him look like an evil ghost coming to take his life in the middle of the night. He successfully made the female educated youth standing at the door shiver, swallow her saliva, and asked nervously.

"What, what medicine?"

Song Guanwen seemed speechless at the question from the young intellectual. He subconsciously frowned, his chest rising and falling, before he began to explain, "It's a herbal medicine, not poisonous."