The kang (heated brick bed) for left-behind women

Chapter 124 Small Task

After dinner.

After Li Ruoxue finished her housework, the two of them took chairs to cool off in the yard during the hot summer.

Under the locust tree in the center of the village, many elderly people and women were chatting.

Lin Dachun and Li Ruoxue didn't go; the two of them stayed in their own yard, looking at the stars and chatting.

At this moment, village doctor Sun Xiangu entered the courtyard at dusk.

She wore an indigo shirt, and her hair was neatly tied back.

She does have a slender and graceful figure.

She was also carrying a medicine bag in her hand, which was her first aid kit for medical visits, and she usually carried it with her at all times.

"Dr. Sun, is this the end of your patient visit?"

"Yes, Uncle Dachun, are you free?" Sun Xiangu walked in and sat down in a chair.

"It's too hot outside. Let's cool off. Come and sit down with us." Lin Dachun asked Li Ruoxue to give up her seat.

Li Ruoxue was sensible enough to give up her seat and then went inside to get a new chair.

"Uncle Dachun, I have a good business deal to discuss with you," Sun Xiangu said, looking around and lowering her voice.

Lin Dachun sat up straight, thinking about what good avenues he could find.

He has indeed been short of money lately because there are no jobs that bring in money, and the money has been spent on brewing wine, planting sea buckthorn, and other things, so he is very anxious.

Sun Xiangu sat down on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed) and said without beating around the bush, "A group of interns have arrived at the town's central hospital."

Lin Dachun hummed in agreement, waiting for her to continue.

"He studies andrology and gynecology," Sun Xiangu said, her eyes fixed on Lin Dachun's face. "We're missing a patient—to be precise, we're missing a mannequin."

"Model?" Lin Dachun didn't understand.

"It's... for people to see." Sun Xiangu gestured. "Take off your pants, lie there, and let those interns watch while the teacher explains male pathology. Just once, and you get ten yuan."

The courtyard fell silent for a moment.

Li Ruoxue, who was standing to the side, stopped fanning herself with a palm leaf fan.

She didn't look up, but the tips of her ears were already red.

Lin Dachun's face darkened: "Sun Xiangu, this job of yours..."

"Don't rush, let me finish." Aunt Sun waved her hand. "It's not shameful. It's proper teaching in the hospital. Those interns are all intellectuals from the city, destined to become doctors. You lie there, let them examine you, give a lecture, and you'll earn ten yuan—ten yuan, Brother Dachun! How many kilograms of tofu would you need to sell?"

As she spoke, she pulled two five-yuan bills from her cloth bag, brand new and gleaming under the oil lamp: "Look, I brought all the money. They said if I'm willing, I can come to town with them first thing tomorrow morning."

The bills were placed on the kang table, like two red-hot charcoal pieces, burning everyone's eyes.

This morning, Sun Xiangu, a barefoot doctor, went to town to get medicine. The town's central hospital had given her the task of helping the village find models.

Lin Dachun stared at the money.

Ten yuan.

Li Ruoxue worked from dawn till dusk selling tofu, earning five cents per pound, and she had to sell two hundred pounds.

How many soybeans do you need to soak to make 200 jin (100 kg) of tofu?

How many millstones should be pushed?

How many blisters do you get on your hands?

Lin Dachun glanced at Li Ruoxue, and Li Ruoxue looked over as well.

Lin Dachun knew that she had thought of these things as well.

"So...you mean...show it to people?And then explain it?" he asked, his voice hoarse.

"Yes." Sun Xiangu nodded. "This is a very serious matter, and we can't be too conservative. Why don't you ask Ruoxue for her opinion?"

Lin Dachun recalled Widow Su's red eyes and her words, "I'm not that kind of woman."

Now, another ten dollars are placed in front of me, this time more direct and more blatant.

"Um," Li Ruoxue suddenly spoke, her voice soft, like a knife slicing through the silence, "since it's a hospital matter, it must be a legitimate business, not like those brothels, right? Besides, why did Dr. Sun come to us and not someone else? It means you're a qualified person, and this kind of money isn't something just anyone can earn."

"That's right, why would I look for someone else but you?" Sun Xiangu meant the same thing; she certainly didn't look for Lin Dachun randomly.

Lin Dachun has a very well-defined physique and body shape, with clear bone structure, and he is also healthy. These are all requirements of the town's central hospital for human models.

If they just randomly sent some old geezer there, the doctors and nurses would be disgusted to death.

"Okay then," Lin Dachun agreed.

"Okay, I'll pick you up tomorrow morning," Sun Xiangu said cheerfully.