July 20, 1980

Qingfeng Village, Xipu Commune, Yuezhou District, Zhijiang Province

This is the hottest season of the year. Under the scorching sun, the ground temperature can even reach more than 50 degrees, which makes people lose their skin, and even the cicadas on the trees become weak.

There are farmers busy cutting rice everywhere in the fields outside Qingfeng Village, which has never happened in previous years.

When I went out to work in the fields, I didn’t ask the team leader to urge them and urge them, and I would never go to the fields at the hottest noon.

This year marks the first year since the launch of the household contract system in Yuezhou, breaking the big pot meal and making the villagers' enthusiasm for work rise unprecedentedly.

The strong laborers were reluctant to go home for lunch until noon, so the elderly at home prepared the meal at home and sent it to the fields.

At this time, a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old was shaking by the river when he was going home.

He had been cutting rice in his own fields for a morning, and now he is tired and hungry, and seems to have a little heatstroke. He looks in a bad state.

Chen Guolin, not far away, looked at the thin figure worriedly, sighed, and then buried himself in the process of harvesting rice. After harvesting several acres of rice at home, he went to help this poor nephew.

The young man was walking on the field stalk by the river in a dizzy state. Suddenly, he found a mullet fish wandering on the water on the shore. He touched his empty belly and decided to try to catch a fish back. So he found a big stone and prepared to kill the mullet.

As a result, I didn't master the sense of balance and accidentally fell into the river.

Perhaps because of not eating + hypoglycemia + heat stroke, the young man barely thrust on the water for a few times, and then slowly stopped moving.

Chen Guolin had a bad premonition, and always felt that something was going to happen today, so when he looked up again, he found that the young man who was still by the river just now was gone.

The strong sense of uneasiness made him run to the river quickly, and he saw that the young man had floated on the water without any struggle.

"Oh, no, the penis of Bingkun's family has fallen into the river. Wife, go and call someone."

Chen Guolin shouted for help while jumping into the river to save people. When Guolin heard this, his heart jumped out of fear, and immediately shouted to the villagers in the distance:

"No, the second son of Bingkun's family has fallen into the river."

Villagers in the distance came to save people, men jumped into the river one after another, and women gathered around them, and the third grandma jumped in an anxious manner:

"Sister Guolin, what's going on? Why did the second son of Bingkun's family jump into the river?"

Guo Lin's wife was stunned for a moment. She didn't say jumping into the river, but just said she fell into the water. Forget it. Anyway, falling into the water is similar to jumping into the river. The most important thing now is to save the person.

The men immediately caught the person, and the women beside Chen Guolin Chong shouted,

"Whoever you guys will inform the captain quickly, and Uncle Wang, saving people is important."

Grandma Third cried and howled: "Oh, so good young man, it's gone, it's gone. Why is this family so unlucky? Not long after being a father died, his son jumped into the river and died. It's such a miserable family."

The people watching around were anxious. Whether they were dead or not, they always had to save them. So Guolin's wife hurried to the second team to find Uncle Wang, the only one in the village who knew some medical skills. Mrs. Jinmu usually ran the fastest and was asked to notify the team leader.

So while running, Kaneki Sao shouted to the villagers in the fields on the road:

"Save people quickly, the second child of the Bingkun family jumped into the river and committed suicide! Save people quickly, the second child of the Bingkun family jumped into the river and committed suicide!"

When they heard that there was a lively life, both the villagers, who were kind-hearted and purely passerby mentality, put down their sickles and straightened their waists. They saw Chen Guolin carrying a young man in the distance, jumping and running towards the village, followed by a large group of villagers, crying and shouting.

The entire Qingfeng Village was sensational.

On July 20, 2020, Chen Xia, a surgeon from Jiangzhou People's Hospital, was fishing.

Chen Xia is 38 years old this year and is a "salted fish" doctor in the hospital. She has no goals to strive for at work.

Since childhood, the family has been in good condition. Both parents and brothers and sisters are medical workers. They have been smooth sailing in both student days and graduation. The only thing that makes him depressed is that the relationship between husband and wife is not very good.

The reason is that Chen Xia's wife was unwilling to have another child after being induced by fetal malformations when she was young. Chen Xia is a person who likes children very much, so the couple always quarreled about whether to have children.

As we quarrel, the more we quarrel, the less we quarrel, the more we quarrel, the more we quarrel, we probably won’t be far from divorce.

This morning, Chen Xia had another fight with his wife. He was so depressed that he picked up the fish gear and drove to the Zhijiang River to catch fish. Even though he was sweating all over by the sun, he was unwilling to go home to blow the air conditioner to face the wife who made him more and more unfamiliar.

Suddenly the fishing line was stretched straight and I got on the fish. Chen Xia excitedly lifted the fishing rod:

"Wow, it's so heavy, big fish, hi."

Chen Xia was alone in the sun at noon, but she accidentally slid on the grass by the river and fell into the river. Chen Xia, who usually swam well, only felt a strong suction at the bottom of the river and wanted to pull him to the bottom of the river.

No matter how he did, he could not escape this strange suction force. As he spent more and more time in the water, the last thought in his mind before losing consciousness was:

"Fuck you, this is a encounter with the monkey. I am the first doctor to drowned in Jiangzhou People's Hospital..."

The camera returns to Qingfeng Village in 1980.

Under the shade of the Qingfeng Brigade headquarters, half of the village people gathered together. Chen Yigen, the village party secretary and the captain of the production brigade, was smoking a cigarette and watching Awang save people in depression.

Awang is currently the only farmer in the village who knows medical skills. Of course, this knowledgeable medical skills is just a little bit of herbs in the mountains and fields. When I pick a little bit, it is said that it can cure headaches and fevers.

I don’t know whether it is effective. In this era, farmers in this era either make a fuss by themselves or take some herbs. Only if they are really serious, they will be sent to the hospital. However, the medical expenses are definitely not something that ordinary farmers can afford.

Since the previous rural cooperative medical system was abolished, rural medical care has taken the lead in entering the "market economy". Barefoot doctors no longer work only for work and only earn labor points like before, and all profits have to be paid to the collective.

Now, theoretically, you can go to a pharmaceutical company to buy medicine by yourself, and then add some profits to sell it to farmers. The more you make, the less you earn, the only one owns the barefoot doctor.

But the problem is that there were too few doctors in 1980, and there were few medical students. Both college students and technical secondary school students went to large hospitals, and even town-level hospitals were rarely visited, let alone commune or village-level hospitals.

There are only barefoot doctors who have been trained for a short time in rural clinics. Even such barefoot doctors are available in a few villages. There are no village clinics in the true sense, such as Qingfeng Village and nearby villages.

Ah Wang actually doesn’t know how to rescue drowning patients. He just uses the local methods passed down from the countryside.

Put the young man's abdomen facing downwards on the cow's back, hang his head and feet on both sides of the cow's back, and then pat his back constantly, wanting the young man to spit out the water.

Listening to Awang patting the young man's back, Chen Yigen felt a pain in his chest. He took a deep breath and cursed at Hong Lichang, the captain of the third team squatting next to him:

"How many times have I told you that I have taken care of the Bingkun family in your team. The three children are all scholars. How can I do farm work? Now I have forced a good young man to jump into the river and commit suicide. If it is reported, it will be ridiculed by outsiders for being ungrateful in the Qingfeng Village people."

The young man's father is Chen Bingkun, who is a doctor from the Fourth Hospital of Yuezhou. He usually has a headache and fever in the village. Chen Bingkun will help him see the disease. This has brought great convenience to the villagers of Qingfeng Village and made the villagers very grateful.

But three months ago, the hospital's internal medicine department caught fire in the middle of the night, and Chen Bingkun, who happened to be on night shift, unfortunately died to put out the fire.

Chen Bingkun's wife died of illness as early as last year.

The couple has a total of four children. The eldest sister Chen Chun is 21 years old. She is a student. After the college entrance examination resumed in 1977, she was admitted to Zhijiang Medical University and was also the first college student in the village.

The second child, Chen Xia, is 18 years old and the protagonist of drowning today. After both parents died, the family lost their financial resources and had to interrupt high school and go home to take care of their two young brothers and sisters.

The third child, Chen Qiu, is a girl. She is 14 years old this year. She is in the first grade of junior high school in Commune Middle School. She has excellent grades, but her family has no financial resources. It is still a question whether she can continue to go to school in the second half of the year.

Fourth, Chen Dong is the youngest younger brother, 10 years old this year, and is studying in a village elementary school.

Chen Bingkun is one of the few people in the village who eat public food.

When he was in the army, he learned medical knowledge from the army. After returning to his hometown of Yuezhou, he entered the Second Military Sanitation Hospital of Zhijiang Province, which was still in the army, and he became the director of the infectious department.

Later, the hospital was handed over to the local area and renamed it as "Fourth Hospital of Yuezhou".

Therefore, the Chen family's financial conditions are among the best households in the village.

Chen Bingkun earns more than 50 yuan a month, as well as various food coupons and other tickets. Although his wife has an agricultural household registration, she can earn work points in the village.

All four children of the Chen family can go to school, which is unique in the village.

But with the death of Chen Bingkun and his wife, the lives of the remaining four children suddenly fell into trouble. Chen Chun received a monthly subsidy of 19 yuan, which was only enough to support himself.

The second child, Chen Xia, had no choice but to drop out of school and go back to the village to do farm work.

This year is the first year for the village to implement the joint contract responsibility system, which is a great joy for most farmers.

But for the Chen family, who only has three students at home, this is a life-threatening situation. You can't work hard like before, and you have to do all the work in your own fields.

This year, Chen Chun has a task of controlling schistosomiasis in college and cannot go home during the summer vacation.

The two acres of land in the family can only be done by Chen Xia and his three siblings themselves. The three are all students and children. They are not bad at studying, but they are novices who do farm work. They have been harvesting two acres of rice for three days and have not finished it.
Chapter completed!