Chapter 1657 - 1078: Heroine of the Republic 52 (5000+)_2

Chapter 1657: Chapter 1078: Heroine of the Republic 52 (5000+)_2

Ten days later, An Yi went to change the dressing for Gu Cheng. Because their door curtain was woven from straw, it couldn’t be pulled open at all. The door was open, but the curtain was too thick to be of any use. She didn’t bother to fiddle with it. When changing his dressing, she might have been a bit heavy-handed and touched the wound, causing the man to make all kinds of strange noises, which irritated An Yi: "Shut up, what is a grown man humming for?"

"I suspect you did it on purpose. You weren’t this heavy-handed before. My wound has scabbed over. Look, you touched it and now it’s bleeding again!"

An Yi pretended not to see it, applied medicine to his scabbed wound, and wrapped it with a bandage. The chest wound had healed, but the leg still needed time to recover.

Suddenly, he thought of something: "Where is my tray? That’s my amulet. If it weren’t for that tray, I might be dead. I actually forgot to ask you for it earlier,"

Upon hearing this, An Yi, without hesitation, opened her medicine box, rummaged inside for a while, found the golden tray, and slapped it into his hand.

"Here are paper and pen, write an IOU. From saving you until now, I’ll reluctantly accept one hundred yuan from you. If you have no money, items will do, but they must be worth this much!"

The man gaped: "One, one hundred yuan? Are you robbing me?"

"Your body is in pretty good shape and recovering well. After this dressing change, you can handle it yourself. You’ll be fully recovered by next spring, so don’t get careless. It’s best to use a cane when you go out. That cane is my gift to you. Why is one hundred yuan too much? Do you really think your life isn’t worth that much?"

"I only earn fourteen dollars and fifty cents a month, where am I supposed to get one hundred yuan for you?"

An Yi packed up the medicine box: "You can give me things, like gold bars or something?"

Gu Cheng’s face changed drastically in an instant: "Gold bars? I don’t have those!"

"If you don’t have them, then give money. Let’s make it before the New Year, I’ll give you a month to prepare, not unreasonable, right?"

It’s now mid-December in the solar calendar, and mid-January is the Lunar New Year. One month is a bit tight, but she just felt that he had gold bars. If she could save them back then, how could someone like him who smokes and drinks not have saved a few gold bars around?

She knew he smoked and drank because when she first saved him, he smelled of smoke, and there were wine bottles at his house, so he definitely drank. The quilt quality looked decent; he even had a military coat. He wore ragged clothes outside, but at home, he had a few valuable items. Just because others didn’t see them doesn’t mean she couldn’t.

Exchanging one hundred yuan for a gold bar is not a loss!

But Gu Cheng felt he was losing out big time. Yet An Yi didn’t care about him: "I’ll come again on the 29th of the lunar month to collect debts, weigh it yourself!"

Her words sounded casual, but indeed were full of threats, which made Gu Cheng very displeased: "Woman, you’re really greedy."

"My family took the risk to shelter you for half a month and saved your life. Just for a gold bar, you call me greedy? I even gave you food, and for that half month cleaned your waste for you, and none of that costs money? Do you think I saved you and did all those chores for free? Once the money is delivered and received, we’ll never know each other again, wouldn’t that be better?"

With that said, she rode her bike and left the shantytown, while Gu Cheng sat there brooding, pondering whether her care during that time was worth a gold bar.

"What a cheapskate!" Gu Cheng’s impression score of An Yi dropped considerably again.

During the Laba Festival, An Yi cooked a big pot of Eight Treasure Porridge, using plenty of ingredients: peanuts, red dates, goji berries, corn kernels, red beans, glutinous rice, lotus seeds, adzuki beans, and more than ten kinds combined into a large pot of nutritious, tasty, thick rice porridge. Because it was sweet and varied, they spent the whole day drinking that big pot of porridge.

It was accompanied by Sour and Spicy Seaweed Strips as a porridge side dish. They didn’t eat any staples, as the porridge was thick. If hungry, they roasted some sticky bean buns or sweet potatoes to eat, reflecting the distinctive Northeast style.

Twenty days after Laba is the New Year. On the tenth, An Hu, who had been away for a month, returned. After getting off the car in the county, he walked straight home, bringing back about fifty jin of frozen fish. These fish were huge; some were as long as an arm, leaving everyone astonished.

"I threw the smaller fish back into the lake, only keeping the big ones. This month everyone treated me well, and the work I did was all within my capability, so I feel quite accomplished. This year our family doesn’t have to worry about lacking meat for the New Year."