Reborn in 1977

To make a long story short, it only takes about ten minutes to tell.

Chen Fan turned to look at Jiang Tiantian, smiling as he said, "Overall, she's not living well over there, but it's not too bad either. Although she's been eating pickles for three years, she hasn't gone hungry. The conditions in the countryside are like that; other families only have a bowl of green vegetables more than her. She won't starve, but she won't live a good life either.

As for her cautious and protective demeanor, it might be a good thing for her. Although the people of Lujiawan won't do anything to her, the educated youth are another story. Now, after three years, at least she's safe and sound, and that's enough."

Jiang Tiantian hugged the letter and cloth bundle in her arms, looking at the rolling river and letting out a long sigh.

After a while, she smiled faintly, "It's good enough that she can live like this. I'm relieved as long as she's not being bullied."

Then she turned to look at Chen Fan, "Thank you."

Chen Fan shrugged and smiled, "You're welcome."

After a pause, he said cautiously, "Will there be any repercussions from today's events?"

Jiang Tiantian took a deep breath, turned her head to look ahead, and exhaled a long breath, "What repercussions could there be? It's just more trouble, that's all. My parents and I are already used to it."

Chen Fan's eyes darted around, and he asked softly, "That woman earlier said you were once engaged and then rejected?"

Then he quickly added, "It's okay if you don't want to talk about it. I'm just curious, what kind of person wouldn't want you?"

Jiang Lili chuckled and shook her head, "There's nothing I can't say. Everyone in the cotton mill knows, and many people in this area have heard about it."

After a pause, she continued, "It was when I first graduated from technical school. Many people came to propose marriage, and in the end, my parents chose an 'excellent young man' from an ordinary working-class family. He also graduated from technical school, but he was two years older than me. We were both about the right age to get married.

I thought he was honest and dutiful, and he worked very diligently, so I agreed. We were already preparing to get married when my parents suddenly had an accident. That very day, he asked the matchmaker to come and call off the engagement."

After saying that, she turned to look at Chen Fan, smiled, and said, "That's it. There's nothing else. I had only met him a few times because I was busy with work, so I didn't feel like I had lost anything at the time. It's just that my parents felt sorry for me and felt guilty in their hearts, but I didn't care at all."

Chen Fan nodded slowly, "Well, I think it's a good thing too."

Jiang Tiantian was stunned and tilted her head to look at him, "Huh?"

Chen Fan spread his hands and smiled, "It's a good thing it was before you got married. If it had been after you got married, wouldn't you have been even worse off?"

Jiang Tiantian burst out laughing, "You have a very novel way of looking at things."

Chen Fan smiled and said, "That's how it is. And this incident allowed you to see his true colors, so it can be considered 'escaping from the tiger's den,' right?"

Jiang Tiantian smiled and nodded, "Listening to you say that, I suddenly feel like it's a great thing?"

Chen Fan smiled and said, "Hey, that's the way to think about it."

Jiang Tiantian chuckled for a while, paused, and then asked, "What are you doing here at the prefectural committee this time? Is there anything I can help with?"

Chen Fan's gaze fell on the envelope in front of her chest, "Didn't she say in the letter?"

Jiang Tiantian smiled and shook her head, "She only said that you were invited by the Health Department, nothing else."

Chen Fan deliberately patted his chest, "Thank goodness, I thought I was the main character in the letter. It turns out I'm just an embellishment."

After making a joke, Chen Fan continued, "Before, I was at the health center, learning medical skills from an old Chinese medicine practitioner for a few months, mainly focusing on first aid. Then I spent some time organizing the first aid methods I knew and taught them to the veterinarians in the team so that they could provide emergency treatment in case of sudden situations, without having to wait for a doctor to come or rush to the health center."

Jiang Tiantian's eyes lit up, "That's a good thing."

She asked in confusion, "But what does this have to do with you coming to the prefectural committee?"

Chen Fan smiled and said, "The barefoot doctor in our team compiled what I taught into a 'First Aid Manual' and gave it to the health center. The health center thought it had some value and reported it to the county, and finally it reached the prefectural committee. The Health Department of the prefectural committee asked me to come over and work with them to improve this manual and prepare to edit it into a book for publication, it's that simple."

Jiang Tiantian's eyes widened, "Gosh, are you going to publish a medical book?"

Chen Fan smiled and shook his head, "Not really. At most, I can only be considered one of the editors. The main credit still goes to the Health Department and the experts in various hospitals."

"That's still amazing!"

Jiang Tiantian exclaimed, then suddenly changed her mind and looked at him suspiciously, "That's not right. Things shouldn't be that simple. If it was just compiling first aid knowledge into a book, they wouldn't need to ask you to come over at all. They could do it themselves. There must be a reason why they need you to come to the prefectural committee!"

Chen Fan pointed at her, "No wonder Lili always says you're smart. I didn't expect you to see through even this."

Hearing this, Jiang Tiantian couldn't help but smile sweetly, "Your words can't stand scrutiny. The door of the Health Department is not so easy to enter. Tell me, why?"

Chen Fan smiled and said, "It's because I deduced a new first aid method that has some effect on treating airway foreign bodies. They asked me to come over and improve this new method together."

"Airway foreign bodies?"

Jiang Tiantian pointed to her throat and asked, "Is it like when you get something stuck in your throat while eating?"

Chen Fan nodded, "Yes, that's mainly it."

As soon as Jiang Tiantian heard this, she immediately seemed a little excited, "Is this first aid method difficult?"

Chen Fan, "It's not difficult, it's very easy. With your intelligence, you're guaranteed to learn it as soon as you learn it."

Jiang Tiantian quickly said, "Then can you teach me?"

After a pause, she looked a little worried and a little apologetic, "I don't want to deliberately take advantage of you. It's just that my parents are always in a hurry when they eat, and my mother almost choked last night. Fortunately, she was okay later, so I want to learn it in case I can use it sometime."

"So that's how it is?"

Chen Fan nodded suddenly, but his expression was a little hesitant.

Seeing his expression, Jiang Tiantian couldn't help but feel a little anxious, "I-Is it not possible?"

"It's not that."

Chen Fan immediately shook his head and said more tactfully, "It's not that I can't teach you, it's just that I don't want to deliberately take advantage of you."

Jiang Tiantian was immediately stunned, "Huh?"

Chen Fan made a slightly embarrassed gesture, "This first aid method requires the rescuer to hug the patient and then forcefully squeeze the abdomen."

As soon as Jiang Tiantian heard this, her face turned red and she lowered her head.

Chen Fan chuckled awkwardly twice and continued, "Actually, I came up with this method accidentally when I was practicing martial arts."

Jiang Tiantian turned her face to look at him, wondering what the relationship was between practicing martial arts and first aid.

Chen Fan pointed to his abdomen and smiled, "When the abdomen is hit hard, will there be a feeling of nausea?"

Jiang Tiantian smiled somewhat awkwardly, "I haven't been punched in the stomach before."

The next second, she reacted, "Ah, you mean, forcefully squeezing the abdomen will make people want to vomit, so you can spit out the things stuck in your throat?"

Chen Fan nodded, "That's about the idea."

Jiang Tiantian looked at him, her eyes full of admiration, "You are so amazing, a method that is obviously meant to hurt people can become a way to save people in your hands!"

Chen Fan laughed, "Actually, it's nothing. It's just that I happen to have learned a little bit of medical skills, so I put two and two together."

Hearing him say that he had studied medicine, Jiang Tiantian couldn't help but think of the scene when he treated her, and her pretty face couldn't help but blush again. However, Liu Jie's words echoed in her ears, as well as her younger sister far away in Lujiawan, and her heart sank immediately, repeatedly reminding herself not to overthink it.

Chen Fan didn't know she had so many thoughts. After thinking for a while, he said, "It's not convenient for me to teach you directly. However, I will go to the health school tomorrow to talk about first aid methods. If you are free, you can go and listen. I will find someone to take you in then."

Jiang Tiantian came back to her senses, looking at him with a face full of surprise, "Really? Is that okay?"

Chen Fan smiled, "It's just a small matter, why not?"

Jiang Tiantian pursed her lips and smiled, "Thank you."

After a pause, she lowered her head again, her face with a bit of shyness and a bit of shame, "It's so much trouble for you, but I can't do anything, I'm really embarrassed."

Chen Fan shook his head and smiled, "Speaking of which, I really have something I need to trouble you with."

Jiang Tiantian immediately looked up at him, "Tell me, I will definitely do my best to do it."

Chen Fan gestured, "It's like this, I just built a house…"

Jiang Tiantian nodded, "Lili mentioned it in her letter."

Chen Fan smiled and continued, "I specially reserved a room as a study, but our commune doesn't have many books, and buying all new books might be more expensive, so I wanted to ask you, do you know where there are places that sell used books? And it needs to be a place with a large quantity and variety."

Jiang Tiantian said without hesitation, "Yes."

As she spoke, she got up and stood up, "Come with me."

After speaking, she walked towards the embankment.

Chen Fan was stunned for a moment. Was it that fast?

Then he quickly followed behind her.

Soon after, they went up the embankment, and Jiang Tiantian pointed in a direction and said, "There are two very large factory-like buildings over there, do you see them?"

Chen Fan nodded, "I see them."

Then he asked curiously, "What is that place? Why isn't it built inside the embankment, but on the outer embankment?"

Houses by the Yangtze River are generally built inside the embankment. Only places like docks, shipping companies, and waiting halls are built on the outer embankment, close to the river.

But looking at the houses over there, they didn't seem to belong to any of these categories, so he was naturally a little strange.

Jiang Tiantian looked back at him and said, "That is the Yunhu Waste Recycling Company."

Chen Fan widened his eyes, "The Waste Recycling Company is here?"

Jiang Tiantian nodded and said, "Yunhu has many waste recycling companies, but they all belong to the sub-district offices and district offices. There is only one regional waste recycling company, which is here.

Don't think it looks small from here, it actually covers a large area. It takes more than ten minutes to walk past it. Useful materials selected from waste stations at all levels in the entire Yunhu area will eventually converge here, including piles of old books.

These old books are generally kept for a few months to see if there is a place that needs them and can be recycled. Books that exceed the time limit will be sent to paper mills as raw materials."

(A relative works inside. Back then, as long as I went to his place, I would run to "Taobao." There were many treasures inside)

Chen Fan looked at the waste recycling company, his eyes no different from discovering a treasure.

When I was at the Nanhugongshe waste recycling station before, I heard Director Fang from the station talk about the old book processing process. This time I came to the district committee, I was thinking about whether there would be an opportunity to go to the regional waste recycling company to take a look. I didn't expect that place to be here!

After Jiang Tiantian finished speaking, she lowered her head again and murmured, "It's just that I don't have any acquaintances inside, so I can't find a way to take you in."

If it was before, as long as she used her father's name, even if she didn't know anyone, she could go inside to find treasures openly. At worst, she could buy the books back at the waste price.

Now it's no longer possible. If she uses her father's name again, it will only attract ridicule.

Jiang Tiantian felt very guilty that she couldn't help Chen Fan.

Chen Fan smiled and waved his hand, "It's okay, as long as I know the place, I'm just afraid that I won't even be able to find the direction."

After a pause, he said again, "Do you think the Health Department has any connections that we can get in touch with?"

"Of course!"

Jiang Tiantian immediately raised her head and said, "No matter which unit they are from, who doesn't want to know good doctors from major hospitals? If it's a higher-level health department, then it goes without saying."

She suddenly woke up, a look of surprise on her face, "That's right, you were invited by the Health Department to help, you must be very familiar with them, asking them to help buy some old books from the waste recycling company is definitely not a problem at all!"

Chen Fan looked at her and smiled, "They help me buy books, and you help me find the place. We have to express our gratitude."

Jiang Tiantian smiled embarrassedly, "I just said a word, that doesn't count as helping."

After saying that, she pondered for two seconds, raised her head and said, "You have helped me and Lili a lot, why don't I treat you to dinner at noon?"

Chen Fan patted his stomach, "Oh dear, I would like to eat this meal, but unfortunately I don't have the appetite today."

Jiang Tiantian looked at him, "You, do you have other things to do?"

Chen Fan pointed in the direction he came from and smiled, "There are two friends waiting for me outside."

Jiang Tiantian pursed her lips and smiled, "Then next time, I'll treat you next time."

After sending the letter and asking about the place to buy used books, Chen Fan was considered to have completed his mission. He waved goodbye to Jiang Tiantian, "Okay, then next time, I'm leaving, goodbye next time."

He didn't forget to remind her, "Tomorrow at 8 am, I'll wait for you at the entrance of the health school."

Jiang Tiantian nodded lightly, waving her right hand, "Okay, see you tomorrow."

Chen Fan looked at her, turned around and walked down the embankment.