Reborn to Strive

When Guan Baiyu returned home from the hospital, he brought back two large glass bottles that were used to hold "salt water", a syringe, and two small glass bottles the size of his thumb.

This small bottle was also filled with medicine. The nurse took out the medicinal needle inside and poured it into a glass bottle with water for Guan Baiyu to use. Does he want this.

Of course Guan Baiyu wanted it, so Shi Zhen took the bottles and jars, washed them, and brought them home for Guan Baiyu.

Along the way, Guan Baiyu happily played with the bottle in the tricycle, and said to Shi Zhen: "Brother, the lid of this small bottle is probably made of rubber. Do you know that it can be used as an eraser? I didn't have any when I was young." , Just ask the barefoot doctor for this kind of bottle cap, he sees me as pitiful, he will always give me a few."

"I know." Shi Zhen smiled. Before the 90s, the entire country was in a period of very low supplies, and any old thing could be developed into a new use.

The soft cap on this medicine bottle is used as an eraser, and it can be seen everywhere.

As for the big glass bottle... His family also has a salt water bottle brought back from the barefoot doctor. When his father went to work in the field, he used this bottle to drink water.

It was noon when they got home.

I didn't go to the stall selling rice balls in the morning. I had a big pot of glutinous white rice at home. Shi Zhen ate some casually. As for Guan Baiyu... glutinous rice is not easy to digest. Shi Zhen cooked him a bowl of noodles and added some miscellaneous things to it. Vegetables, a few slices of lean meat and an egg were added.

Guan Baiyu leaned on the bed and ate slowly mouthful by mouthful.

The effect of hanging water is immediate, he feels much better now, but his throat hurts when he eats...

Guan Baiyu didn't tell Shi Zhen about this, but Shi Zhen saw that he was eating slowly, and thought that the doctor said that his throat was completely rotted, so he knew that he must be in pain.

After Guan Baiyu had eaten the noodles, Shi Zhen found Guan Jianguo's wife and bought a hen from her. Clean it and put it in a pot to stew.

Guan Baiyu is sick and needs to eat something good to make up for it.

The chicken was stewed for two hours, and when the stew was finished, Shi Zhen scooped up the chicken and most of the chicken soup, put rice and water in the remaining chicken soup, and cooked the porridge.

Whether it's stewing chicken or cooking porridge, you don't need to keep watching. During the period, Shi Zhen went to visit Guan Baiyu from time to time.

Guan Baiyu slept for a while after returning home, but was awake most of the time. Shi Zhen didn't let him study, but only let him listen to the radio on the radio.

Now after putting the rice into the pot, Shi Zhen went in again and asked Guan Baiyu if he wanted some water.

Guan Baiyu had a sore throat and didn't really want to drink, but even after Shi Zhen asked, he still drank a little.

"Are you hungry?" Shi Zhen asked again.

Guan Baiyu shook his head.

Shi Zhen patted his head, told him to lie down, and sat down on the chair next to him.

Seeing this, Guan Baiyu moved into the bed: "Brother, can you lie down beside me for a while?"

Shi Zhen thought about it, but did not refuse.

He pays great attention to propriety and does not have close contact with Guan Baiyu, but the normal relationship between brothers should still be there.

Otherwise, it would make Guan Baiyu doubt or think too much.

Seeing Shi Zhen lying beside him, Guan Baiyu was indescribably happy.

Shi Zhen sleeps next to Shi Xinghuo every night, but he has never slept next to him, this is the first time, it's great.

Thinking of how Shi Zhen accompanied him to the hospital and took care of him like this before, Guan Baiyu asked, "Brother, why are you so kind to me?"

"First of all, you are my younger brother," Shi Zhen said, "Secondly, and most importantly, you deserve my kindness to you."

Seeing that Guan Baiyu was at a loss, Shi Zhen laughed: "If Guan Kai is my younger brother, then I guess I will come to see him occasionally and buy him something. I must not even bother to talk to him."

Guan Kai is the little grandma's precious grandson. During this time, Shi Zhen had more or less contact with him.

This child... resembles his grandma very much.

Likes to take advantage of petty advantages, likes to speak ill of people behind their backs, bullies the weak and fears the strong, etc.

"Brother, do you hate him?" Guan Baiyu asked, "What do you like?"

"Of course I hate him, do you like him?" Shi Zhen laughed, "I like a younger brother like you."

For Guan Baiyu, if others give him one point, he would like to give back ten points.

Guan Baiyu's eyes lit up.

Shi Zhen knew that he had no sense of security, and said again: "Xiao Yu, you are my younger brother, and I will always treat you well."

"Brother, if you get married and have children in the future, will you still treat me well?" Guan Baiyu didn't dare to ask before, but today he cried a lot in the hospital, made a fuss again, and was coaxed by Shi Zhen , I dare to ask.

Shi Zhen asked back: "If you are married and have children, will you be too lazy to talk to my brother?"

Guan Baiyu said without thinking: "Of course not, brother, you will always be my most important person."

"I am just like you, and you are my most important person." Shi Zhen said seriously.

Guan Baiyu laughed. After thinking about it carefully, he felt that even if he got married and had children, he still wanted to be with his brother.

It would be nice if his brother was like him.

"Brother, when we build a house in the future, we can build it together and share a wall in the middle, and the courtyard can just not have a wall. When you come to my house for dinner, I will make it for you." Guan Baiyu said.

Shi Zhen knew the kind of house Guan Baiyu was talking about.

When building a house in the countryside, sometimes in order to save money, two families are built next to each other and share a wall in the middle.

Of course, it is easy to cause conflicts if you do this, and it is usually done by brothers.

Some people have a patio in the middle, and they are directly connected to each other, so that they can communicate with each other.

Shi Zhendao: "Yes. But we should live in the city in the future, and then we will live in the opposite door. When we get older, we will play Tai Chi together, play chess together, and walk the dog together." He is not from Guan Baiyu's village at all, naturally Houses cannot be built in the village.

Even Guan Baiyu, if he didn't have a separate household, the village wouldn't grant him a homestead.

Most importantly, they will definitely leave here in the future.

"Well, brother, when I get off work, I'll go to your place."

"Okay." Shi Zhen agreed.

Guan Baiyu is too young now, he was crushed by him in his previous life, he is not sure what will happen in the future.

But he is really looking forward to such an old life.

The more Guan Baiyu thought about it, the happier he became, and he started talking again. As he talked, his heart settled down, but suddenly there was no sound around him.

He turned his head to look, only to find that Shi Zhen was asleep.

Shi Zhen didn't sleep for long, but woke up within half an hour.

It was time to make dinner, so he went out to fry two dishes and cut up the cooked chicken.

There is no need to make rice, there is still a lot of glutinous rice left in the morning.

After finishing the dinner he and Shi Xinghuo got together, Shi Zhen tore off another chicken leg, tore the meat on it and chopped it into pieces, put it into the cooked porridge, and added chopped green vegetable leaves and chicken liver.

Before he stewed the chicken, he threw away all the oily chicken skin. There was no oil in the chicken soup for porridge, so it would not be too greasy.

As for the taste... the taste is so-so, but easy to swallow.

Before the money came back, Shi Zhen first brought the porridge to Guan Baiyu.

Guan Baiyu was sitting on the bed holding the porridge, laughing non-stop: "I'm like a confinement woman, drinking chicken soup and porridge on the bed."

After speaking, he was worried again: "Brother, why are you still buying chickens? Did we spend a lot of money today?"

Shi Zhendao: "You are the most important thing, what is money?"

Guan Baiyu laughed again.

Seeing him like this, Shi Zhen knew that he had been thinking about things all day long before, but now that he talked about it, he finally got better.

Guan Baiyu's mood is indeed much better. Instead of thinking about what will happen to Shi Zhen after he gets married, he starts to think about what will happen to the two of them in the future.

In fact, there are many couples in the village who have a bad relationship. Guan Jianguo's father, his second grandfather, lives separately from his wife.

There is also his little grandfather, who has a bad relationship with his little grandmother, so in fact, the second grandfather usually sits and chats with the little grandfather at the door of the house.

In winter they sit in the sun, in summer they sit in the shade.

That's fine too.

Guan Baiyu figured it out, so he stopped worrying about getting angry.

But he still didn't want Shi Zhen to get married too early, and he didn't want Shi Zhen to be nice to others.

He is a bit selfish and always hopes that Shi Zhen only cares about himself.

When Guan Baiyu was in a good mood, he felt that his body was also recovering, and he didn't want to go to the hospital the next day.

I don't know if it's because Guan Baiyu has never had an injection before, but the effect of Guan Baiyu's water hanging was immediate, and he didn't have a fever anymore.

His condition was stable, so Shi Zhen did not insist on sending him to the hospital to hang water.

Hanging too much water will damage the body's immunity. If possible, it is better to take medicine.

However, although Guan Baiyu didn't have a fever anymore, his throat was not healed, and the pain even after drinking water lasted for several days, and then gradually improved.

During this time, Shi Zhen brought home a medicine box, which contained a thermometer, bandages, bandages, antipyretics, cold medicine, and several bottles of vitamin tablets and calcium tablets.

Guan Baiyu was sick, so Shi Zhen let him take some vitamin tablets every day. As for the calcium tablets, he planned to let him take them after he recovered from his illness.

Guan Baiyu was sick at home for three or four days before going to the town to read again.

Then, the weather got hotter day by day, and in a blink of an eye, it was the end of May.

Shi Zhen saved another sum of money, which he used to buy things, such as gas stoves and liquefied gas cylinders.

In addition, it was already summer, whether it was him, Guan Baiyu, or Shi Xinghuo, they all needed to buy some summer clothes.

When he and Shi Xinghuo came out of the village, they took their better clothes with them. Although these clothes were a bit dusty, as long as they were washed clean, they were barely enough to change into.

But he and Shi Xinghuo didn't have summer clothes.

Guan Baiyu did have a few, but they were all old and didn't fit well.

Guan Baiyu's clothes are all given by the villagers, and the winter ones are fine. Some children can't wear them after two or three years and bring them to him, and they won't be too worn out.

But summer clothes...

In summer, clothes are often changed and washed, and teenagers at this age are still playing around with clothes, and rural people generally buy clothes that are bigger and wear them for a few years... Those for Guan Baiyu have worn short-sleeved clothes for at least two or three years , are a bit out of shape.

The collars of Guan Baiyu's summer clothes were discolored and drooped, and some places were hung open by branches or stained with oil. Wearing such clothes would give people a sloppy feeling.

Shi Zhen planned to take him to buy some clothes.

Shi Zhen decided to buy clothes on June [-], Children's Day.

Although Guan Baiyu is already fourteen years old, he is no longer considered a child, but he should have never received a Children's Day gift before, and now he can make up for it.

Shi Zhen and Guan Baiyu agreed in advance to buy clothes.

This morning, Guan Baiyu followed him to the town to set up a stall, and collected money for him when he was selling rice balls. When he sold out, the two went to the second floor of the vegetable market to buy clothes.

On the second floor of the vegetable market, there are many small shops, many of which sell clothes. The prices here are not expensive, but... you have to bargain.

Shi Zhen was impatient to bargain, but at this time many people would not give a real price, so he could only pay it back.

Knowing from Qian Qiqi that Shi Zhen, who can directly cut the price of clothes in half here, took Guan Baiyu for a stroll.

Guan Baiyu is someone who has never seen the market, so he had a great time visiting the small shop located above the vegetable market.

But while walking around, Guan Baiyu suddenly dragged Shi Zhen into a nearby shop.

"What's wrong?" Shi Zhen was a little puzzled.

The store owned by Guan Baiyu and Shi Zhenjin is very small, only about ten square meters in total. There are various women's clothing hanging around it, and a small table and stool are placed in the middle, where the owner sits.

Most of the shops here are this big, unless the owner rents two shops.

Guan Baiyu didn't answer Shi Zhen's question, but went to look at the clothes here.

"You want to buy clothes? The clothes here are very good. I came in from the provincial capital, and everyone there wears them like this!" the shopkeeper said.

Shi Zhen: "..." Although he has never been to the provincial capital, he has been to Changxi City, and he went there again a few days ago.

Nowadays, some people are dressed in very rustic clothes, but some are also very fashionable. Girls in Changxi City now wear beautiful dresses, jeans, flared pants, high-waisted pants, and so on. Here... …These floral shirts, floral trousers, and red and green peony shift dresses, he didn't see young girls wearing them in Changxi City.

It was Guan Baiyu, who looked at it quite seriously.

But Guan Baiyu only looked at it, he looked at it for a while, then he arrived at the door and looked out.

After looking around, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Shi Zhen, "Brother, let's go."

Shi Zhen followed Guan Baiyu out and asked Guan Baiyu, "What happened just now?"

"Just now I saw Guan Kai's mother." Guan Baiyu said.

What the hell happened to see Guan Kai?Shi Zhen knew this little grandma's daughter-in-law who was not good at anything. She was a woman who knew how to dress up, and her looks were not bad.

She is 37 and [-] years old, and has wrinkles around her eyes, but she has a good figure, fair skin, and a very charming appearance.

She is actually a nice person, she is very kind to Guan Baiyu, she even gave Guan Baiyu clothes to wear before.

The little grandma told them about this before when she came to see them, but Guan Baiyu told him that later the little grandma stopped letting Guan Kai's mother give him clothes.

After that, the little grandma gave all of Guan Kai's old clothes to her little daughter—her little daughter also gave birth to a son.

Because the little grandma talked about how bad her daughter-in-law was in the village all day, Shi Zhen sympathized with the little grandma's daughter-in-law.

But he has never met this person, because in his previous life, Guan Kai's parents divorced very early, so he has never met him.

He didn't know what happened to Guan Kai's mother, but he did know what happened to Guan Kai's father. After the divorce, he just wanted to find another one, but he was too picky, so he couldn't find it.

Anyway, when Guan Kai's father wanted to sell the house because of Guan Pingguo's gambling debts, when he fought with Guan Pingguo and broke into the police station, he still hadn't found his wife.

But he... still didn't give up looking for a wife.

Now Guan Baiyu looks so mysterious...

"What the hell happened when you saw Guan Kai?" Shi Zhen asked.

Guan Baiyu said: "Guan Kai's mother is holding a man's hand... that man is not my uncle."

Shi Zhen: "..." These days, the little grandma and Guan Pingguo speak ill of him in the village every day, telling people everywhere that he doesn't let Guan Baiyu go to school, and force Guan Baiyu to work for him.

They also spread rumors that the things he made were not clean, saying that he came here because he committed a crime outside...

Anyway, the little grandma is very good at making up stories!

If not many people believed them, Shi Zhen would definitely take a knife and go to their house to argue.

One of my grandma's hobbies in her life is to gossip, but now...their family is probably going to be the object of gossip.

As for Guan Kai's mother, although it was wrong for her to do so, Shi Zhen actually understood her a little bit.

Yesterday, the little grandma told people how disgusting her daughter-in-law took a bath and left her panties in the tub overnight without washing them... Normal people really can't bear to meet such a mother-in-law who has to talk about everything.