Chapter 32 Not Qualified for Surgery
The Le family has a field. Since Le’s father could not do heavy work, Grandpa Le passed away. Grandma Le took the initiative and handed over the land to the Zhou family for renting, leaving only the garden in front of and behind the house and the garden beside the village. of land.
In addition to setting aside an area for growing green beans, beans and other vegetables, the Le family father and daughter planted the entire garden with corn, and planted some peppers, eggplants, etc. in the middle, which facilitated management and saved land. Most of the land was planted with sweet potatoes.
Baogu raises chickens and sweet potatoes. When the piglets come back in the sixth or seventh month of the lunar calendar, they will feed the sweet potato vines first and then the sweet potatoes. When the New Year comes, they will kill the New Year pig, which weighs more than a hundred kilograms at least. Even if there is meat for the New Year, it can also be sold. Partially save some money.
In the past few weeks, Le's father has used the weekends to plant sweet potato seedlings on the land outside the village. The garden in front of the house is almost full, leaving only the garden behind the house.
Le's father, who was embarrassed by his own children, fled to the back garden as if running away. Le Yun, who was lagging behind, neatly changed into long-sleeved clothes, took off her sandals and put on a pair of rubber shoes, and slipped behind the house with a clanking sound. Working in the garden, for the sake of her father's face, she stopped worrying about the problem.
The weather has been good at the beginning of spring this year, and the corns are growing well. The roots are strong and the stems are strong. Flowers are beginning to bloom on the top of the head. The corn stalks that are about half the waist have also grown into shape. You can eat tender corns when you wait for the new season in June next month.
The corn leaves are green and pleasant. When the wind blows, the corn seedlings tilt in one direction and then rise up, swaying like waves. A fresh aroma spreads with the wind, full of the smell of a prosperous pastoral.
The children of the poor have long been in charge of the family. Leyun has been working behind the adults since she was very young. Apart from pear fields, she has not been able to do anything else for so many years. She can cook at home, know farm work in the fields, and can get scholarships when studying. A standard new age all-rounder.
When he arrived at the garden, Mr. Le Xiao took the hoe from his father's hand to dig the hole. After washing the tendons and cutting the marrow twice, his body was light and he could weave in and out of the rows of corn, so dexterously that he didn't even break a single corn leaf. She didn't feel tired even when she was working, like a robot, like a whirlwind from one end of the ground to the other, digging the hole and then going back to plant the potato seedlings.
Dad Le holds the potato seedlings and crutches in his right hand, and inserts the vines with his left hand. After many years of practice, his hand speed is no slower than that of a normal person. Just because he has to move the crutches and be careful not to trip over the corn seedlings, it affects his work overall. speed.
Dad Le was observing his daughter while working. The more he watched, the more he became puzzled. His little cotton-padded jacket seemed to have been injected with chicken blood today. It was so fast. Is it because he was one year older, so his strength and speed of movement also doubled?
He felt weird in his heart, so he didn't ask. Anyway, it was a good thing and not a bad thing. Besides, girls are not like boys. Girls always have little secrets. He always turned a blind eye when he shouldn't ask.
Just like he knew that there was a handsome boy from the Chao family who kept in touch with his little cotton-padded jacket. If any other parent would have treated his child as a child in puppy love, giving ideological lessons to his child every day, he did not interfere with his girl's friendship. Freedom, he believes that children will handle relationships with friends.
So in comparison, Dad Le is a very reasonable and open-minded father. He will not dictate his children's affairs or interfere in their children's decisions. He respects his children.
Labor is a joyful thing. It took the father and daughter less than an hour and a half to plant potato seedlings in the garden behind the house, and they finished the work happily.
It takes about seven days to half a month for the potato seedlings to grow new shoots after they are planted in the ground. When the new shoots and new branches grow to a few inches long, add more fertilizer to help them pile up the roots so that they have a place to form stems. With vine weeding, you don’t have to worry about management all the time.
When it was time to finish the work, Xiao Le ran to the edge to pry two handfuls of green onions. Le ran home in high spirits and went to the water press in front of the house to clean it.
Dad Le went home and changed out of his muddy shoes. While the child was washing green onions, he went back to the room to find safflower oil, rolled up his trousers and wiped his calf. His right calf would suffer from rheumatic pain every time it was rainy, especially in spring. Most frequently in summer.
He had just applied the medicine a few times when he heard a knock on the door. He hurriedly hid the medicine and then moved to open the door.
Le's father lives in the outer room of the two rooms on the left side of the house, and the back room is used as a guest room. Le Yun lives in the outermost room on the right. The inner room is used as a refrigerator and storage room for corn, millet, etc. If there are many guests, it can also be used. Temporary reopening.
Le Yun knew what her father was doing when she smelled the safflower oil. When she saw the door opened, her father looked cautious and said with a tigerish face: "Dad, does your leg hurt again? Why didn't you tell me?"
"No, it's just a little sore. I put some medicine on it and it's fine." Lele's father firmly denied it. He dared to admit that his family, Lele, would probably take away all the work and wouldn't let him go to the ground again.
"Dad, go sit outside and I'll give you a massage." Le Yun didn't believe it and went straight into the room to look through the drawers in the closet.
Le's father's room is very simple, with an old-fashioned canopy bed, a handmade wardrobe popular in the 1990s, and two old desks from that era. The furniture is old, neatly packed and cleaned.
"No, I'm fine." Dad Le insisted. In a blink of an eye, he found that his girl had found the medicine out of the drawer. He was embarrassed. It's not good for a child to be too smart. No matter where he hid it, she would find it. can be found.
"Dad, your girl wants to study medicine, so you should treat your girl as a guinea pig and let me study now." Regardless of whether her father agreed or not, Le Yun pushed her to the main room outside. Near the door, ask him to sit down and get a small stool to sit opposite.
Father Le was afraid that his feet would be dirty and smelly to the child, so he wiped them again and again with the pants of his other foot, and then carefully handed it over to the child.
Putting her father's feet on her knees and rolling up her trousers, Le Yun turned on the "X-ray scanning" function of her eyes, and things that could not be seen with the normal naked eye emerged bit by bit.
Le's father's calf bone was fractured fourteen years ago. When he was sent to the hospital for treatment, the alignment and alignment of the fracture were not ideal and shifted. Later, it became a malunion, causing functional failure of the limb. He was classified as a seventh-level disability. .
Le Yun could clearly see the dislocation of her father's leg bones. The main bone was twisted at an angle, so that originally his toes were pointing straight, but now they were tilted to the outside, at least at an angle of three degrees. How should I describe it? The way it looked, she couldn't find the words.
In addition to the displacement and misalignment of the fractured end, there was also a meridian that was probably severed by the bone back then and was not reconnected in time. Now, the meridian is blocked, causing her father's right calf muscles to gradually atrophy, and the right calf is significantly shriveled than the left calf.
After looking at it intently for a full minute, Le Yun checked her father's leg injury three times. She was very sad at that time. She could see the injury clearly, found the cause, and knew how to correct it. The problem was She currently does not have the qualifications to perform surgery on her father. What could be more devastating than this?
(End of chapter)