Chapter 469 Sun Penghai's Choice
Motion sickness is easy to control but difficult to eradicate.

Su Mingzhe took the patient's pulse and confirmed the diagnosis:
"It's motion sickness, not a serious problem. Put your hand here..."

Su Mingzhe said as he took Wang Quan's hand and taught him how to find the location of the 'Jiuwei Point'.

"This place is called 'Jiuwei Point'. It is an important acupuncture point on the Ren Meridian. You don't know what the Ren Meridian is? The Ren Meridian is the straight line in the middle of the front. The 'Jiuwei Point' is right at the sternum. Gently massaging it can cure fatigue, motion sickness, seasickness, and irritability."

"Come on, take a deep breath with me..."

After explaining some knowledge about traditional Chinese medicine, Su Mingzhe began to teach Wang Quan how to coordinate breathing and massage acupoints.

Wang Quan was skeptical, but followed and learned for a while.

Seeing that he had mastered the breathing rhythm, Su Mingzhe smiled again:

"Okay, now put your fingers on the Jiuwei point and massage it slowly, using the same strength as I did just now. Remember to coordinate with your breathing, inhale... inhale... inhale... inhale..."

Wang Quan just followed and learned for a while, and the sallow color on his face faded away at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Seeing the amazing effect, the other four people also looked at Su Mingzhe in surprise.

"Sure, Su Mingzhe, you have this skill!"

Sun Penghai saw the three girls, especially Yu Hong, looking at Su Mingzhe, and suddenly felt jealous. He pretended to be indifferent, bumped Su Mingzhe with his shoulder, and then joked:
"What else do you know? Tell us so we can open our eyes."

Su Mingzhe didn't mind Sun Penghai's condescending attitude. He just smiled and said to everyone:

"Rubbing the Jiuwei point is a relatively quick way to treat motion sickness. After all, this point is an important point in the Ren and Du meridians, and is very close to the heart and lungs. In the summer, when people wear fewer clothes, rubbing the Jiuwei point is okay, but in the winter, when people wear thicker clothes, it is easy to press the wrong point. If you still suffer from motion sickness, you can rub the Hegu point and the Neiguan point. One of these two points is above the base of the palm on the back of the hand, and the other is above the wrist. These two points are not as obvious as the Jiuwei point, but they are easier to find..."

With Wang Quan as a ready-made example, the other three girls couldn't help but follow Professor Su Mingzhe's method, find their own Hegu and Neiguan points, and start massaging them.

When Su Mingzhe saw this, he told them how to coordinate their breathing to better relieve motion sickness.

After a while, the three girls whispered to each other for a while, then came to Su Mingzhe and asked him to see who among them could find the acupuncture points more accurately.

These girls are all from cities. Although they do housework at home, because they are young, their hands are slender, white and tender.

Su Mingzhe didn't touch their hands, he just used his own hands to demonstrate.

In just a short while, everyone became familiar with each other and sorted out their ranks.

Su Mingzhe is twenty-one years old and is the oldest among the six.

Sun Penghai is the second, he is twenty years old, and Wang Quan is also twenty years old, but was born younger.

Both girls, Wang Yafang and Xu Kai, are nineteen years old.

Yu Hong is the youngest, only seventeen years old, and is also the only junior high school graduate among the six.

The convoy traveled for about three hours and finally stopped at a gas station on the side of the road.

The team leader asked everyone to go to the toilet together, and the team also refueled.

While the convoy was refueling, more than a dozen young people from Bayan County got on the buses.

These young people are educated youth from Bayan County who went to the countryside to work and will also be sent to Mulan County.

Comparing the two groups, the six educated youth from Jichun City were obviously not as energetic as these dozen people.

In fact, the reason is easy to understand.

Bayan County and Mulan County are adjacent to each other, and it is only more than 100 miles from Bayan County to Mulan County.

Even if you walk on your own two legs, you can still get home by marching for a day and a night.

The straight-line distance between Jichun City and Mulan County is more than 200 miles, and the winding distance adds up to more than 400 miles.

These more than four hundred miles are like two different worlds to people of this era.

The six people inevitably had a little sadness of leaving home on their faces.

Although a dozen young people from Bayan County also went to the countryside to work as educated youth, they did not leave their parents' sorrow. Instead, they were like birds that had been freed, ready to fly freely.

Along the way, the drivers of the fleet took turns driving, and the drivers continued to drive while they rested.

The car arrived in Mulan County at around two o'clock in the afternoon.

The person in charge of the educated youth center had already been waiting at the parking lot. According to regulations, the educated youth were first granted urban-to-agricultural household registration.

From now on, these more than 20 people will no longer have urban household registration, but rural household registration.

At this point, the dozen or so educated youth from Bayan County had lost the energy they had for the journey and could only stare in silence at their household registration transfer certificates.

"Cough cough!"

The person in charge had long been accustomed to this scene.

In addition, the suffering has just begun. If these educated youth cannot get used to the life here, then every day in the future will be extremely painful for them.

Thinking of this, the person in charge decided to cheer everyone up and encourage them:

"Students, according to the instructions of the superiors, although you are now registered as rural residents, the leaders still care about you. Your first month's grain and oil quota will still be distributed according to the urban household registration, 30 catties of grain per person, and 3 taels of cooking oil. Starting from the second month, the distribution of grain and oil will be calculated according to your work points."

The person in charge said this, and seeing that no one responded, he paused, and then said:
"Of course, the leaders still care about you. They know that you have just arrived and you will definitely need a period of adaptation. Therefore, even if you cannot get enough work points for some reason, we will still provide you with basic rations to ensure that you do not go hungry..." This leader has some level of ability. Although it is not high, it can still comfort people.

His words were almost like saying, you are just a bunch of young soldiers from the city, even if you can't do farm work and just want to live here, we won't starve you to death.

After hearing this, everyone finally felt that it was acceptable.

Afterwards, everyone began to distribute their first month's food and oil.

After the grain and oil were distributed, everyone got on the horse-drawn carriage that came to pick them up into the village.

Su Mingzhe and other six people were assigned to the same place, Baiyashan Village.

The person who came to pick us up this time is the village chief Liu Jigen of Baiyashan Village.

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Village Chief Liu participated in the Anti-Japanese United Army. Later, he was injured and retired and returned to his hometown, where he served as the company commander of the Mulan County militia company.

Later, when he was older, he returned to Baiyashan Village and became the village chief.

Although the old village chief is almost sixty years old, he is still in good health.

The six people's food bags weighed a total of 180 kilograms, which the old village chief picked up lightly and threw onto the carriage.

"The village chief is so strong!"

Wang Quan looked at the old village chief's dark and strong arms with envy, then looked at his own thin arms and legs, and suddenly he had the urge to follow the old village chief to exercise and transform his body.

"Come on, one of you will sit in the front, the girls will sit in the middle, and two more will sit in the back."

The old village chief must have been a soldier for half his life, and his tone of voice is firm and powerful.

As soon as he finished speaking, Sun Penghai was the first to laugh:
"Village head, let me sit next to you. It's a good opportunity for me to learn how to drive a cart from you."

With Sun Penghai's interruption, Su Mingzhe and Wang Quan did not speak anymore. After the three girls sat in the middle, they spontaneously sat at the back of the car.

The carriage frame is not big, but it is more than enough for seven people.

Seeing that everyone was seated, the old village chief waved the whip in his hand, and with a sharp crack of the whip, he let the tall, dark red horse lead everyone forward.

"Everyone, sit down. We still have more than 60 miles of mountain road to go back. The road out of the city is good. We need to walk faster. When we reach the mountain road ahead, we can save time."

After the old village chief gave some instructions, he cracked the whip in his hand twice and shouted "Oh, oh, go!"

The people from the city were watching in wonder, and they wished the old village chief would whip them a few more times and yell at them a few more times.

The old village chief naturally would not let them have their way, as he also wanted to save horsepower.

The car drove about five or six miles out of the city and began to go uphill on a narrow mountain road.

Only then did Sun Penghai suddenly realize that it was a wrong decision for him to sit in the front.

It turned out that the mountain road was basically lined with bushes, mainly thorny sticks.

The scientific name of the prickly ash is Acanthopanax senticosus. Its fruits are sweet and delicious after turning black. In addition, the young leaves can be used for cooking when they are still purple-red. The rhizomes can also be used as medicine to treat rheumatism.

This is such a good shrub, although it can be said to be full of treasures, but it also has a bad side, that is, the branches are covered with sharp barbs.

Sun Penghai sat at the front of the car and hung his legs outside the car so that he could turn around and chat with Yu Hong.

It was fine before when I was walking on the wide road, and I looked quite cool.

Now the carriage was driving on a narrow mountain road, and soon his trouser legs were pierced with several holes by the barbs of the crutch.

When the sharp barbs pierced through his pants and stabbed into his legs, Sun Penghai endured it for a while, his face twisted as if he had eaten Coptis chinensis, hideous and terrifying.

Yu Hong, who was originally being dragged by Sun Penghai to chat, couldn't help but ask with concern:
"Sun Penghai, are you okay?"

"It's okay, what can happen to me?"

Sun Penghai still wanted to force himself to be a man, but his smile now looked uglier than crying.

Yu Hong glanced down his trouser legs and saw that both of his legs were covered with blood.

The girl was kind-hearted and couldn't help but ask the old village chief:
"Village head, Sun Penghai was stabbed by a bush on the roadside and is bleeding. Can you slow down the carriage?"

After hearing Yu Hong's plea, Sun Penghai felt as if he had drunk honey. He also looked at the old village chief, staring at him eagerly, hoping that the carriage would slow down a bit.

The old village chief had already noticed Sun Penghai's situation, but after hearing Yu Hong's words, he just laughed:
"Wouldn't it be fine if he just put his legs on the frame like I did?"

Yu Hong glanced at the old village chief's sitting posture, and then looked at Sun Penghai.

Sun Penghai's face turned red. The reason why he had his legs hanging down outside Che's house was to make it convenient for him to turn around and chat with Yu Hong.

If he put his legs on the front frame and leaned forward, Sun Penghai would not be able to turn around and chat with Yu Hong who was sitting in the middle of the carriage.

It doesn't seem to be that difficult to choose between legs and women.

Sun Penghai made his choice quickly, turned around, and, imitating the old village chief, put his legs on the frame.

Yu Hong thought about it and understood the reason, then silently lowered her head with a red face.

(End of this chapter)