strictlysupreme Chapter 126 It is important to have a healthy body
Chapter 126 It is important to have a healthy body
After checking the layout of the factory, Huo Haocheng drove Gu Jinghe to the military hospital. In order not to expose Ruan Ruan's whereabouts, they dropped him off far away and then drove to a state-owned hotel to wait for them.
When they arrived at the state-owned restaurant, Ruan Ruan and Gu Jingming went in first to order food while Huo Haocheng parked the car.
"Sister, we have braised pork today. I want to eat it." Gu Jingming said to Ruan Ruan while looking at the menu hanging today.
"Okay, big sister, please give us one portion of braised pork, one portion of chicken stewed with mushrooms, salad cucumber, steamed eggplant, braised cabbage, and five portions of rice, three steamed buns, and two dumplings," Ruan Ruan said to the salesperson.
At first, the salesperson saw that there were only two of them, the brother and sister, but they ordered too much, so he wanted to stop them. But when he heard her say that she wanted five servings of rice, he knew he was wrong. So after Ruan Ruan finished ordering, he directly collected the money, "A total of five yuan and twenty-two cents, one catty of grain coupons, and two taels of meat coupons."
"Here you go, thank you, big sister." After Ruan Ruan gave the money and ticket, she and Gu Jingming sat at a conspicuous table near the gate.
"Sister, did we order too much?" Gu Jingming wanted to eat the braised pork when he heard that their meal required so much money and tickets.
The money and tickets for this meal were enough for them to eat at home for several days.
"Don't worry, sister has money. When I earn more money in the future, I will take you to eat more delicious food." Ruan Ruan looked at Gu Jingming who was still so young and started to worry about these things. It really fits the saying 'poor children grow up early'.
"Little brother, how often do you come to eat?" Ruan Ruan felt that it was a good thing to know how to save, but one should not be too frugal. Money is earned to be spent. It is better to let oneself and family eat better, be healthy and get sick less often.
"I haven't eaten here for a long time." Gu Jingming didn't understand why his sister asked this, but he still answered honestly.
"Then do you know how much an ordinary family like us earns in a month?" The ordinary families that Ruan Ruan was referring to were working-class families in the city.
"I don't know, probably at least a few dozen yuan." Gu Jingming didn't have the habit of asking about other people's family financial situation. It was just that most of his classmates at school came from working-class families in the city. He had observed them and felt that their families should not be poor.
"Yes, the cheaper ones cost thirty or forty yuan, and the more expensive ones cost hundreds of yuan. Do you know the current prices?" Ruan Ruan continued to ask.
"I know this. Vegetables are a few cents per pound, some are one cent per pound, meat is 70 cents per pound, rice and flour are also 50 cents, and coarse grains are cheaper, one cent per pound. And then, sister..." As for the current prices of goods and food, Gu Jingming would occasionally go shopping with Teacher Shen during holidays. He would do the hard labor to help carry the food back, so he was quite familiar with the prices.
"What's wrong? What are you two siblings talking about? Why does Xiao Ming have that expression?" Huo Haocheng parked the car and got in, only to see Gu Jingming looking at Ruan Ruan with a curious look on his face.
"Brother-in-law, my sister is asking me about the current price of food." Gu Jingming looked at Huo Haocheng coming back and naturally answered their previous conversation.
"Then do you think it's stressful for these families who earn only a few dozen dollars a month to eat better every day?" Ruan Ruan did not explain to Huo Haocheng immediately, but continued to ask Gu Jingming.
"For a family, let's say there are five people in the family, the vegetables, meat and staple food for a day are about one dollar and fifty cents, which means it's about forty-five dollars a month, and that's the price of eating meat every day. If they eat meat once a week, that means they only eat meat four times a month, so they can save eighteen dollars and twenty cents. That means each family's monthly expenditure is twenty-six dollars and eighty cents. Every family in the city can afford this." Gu Jingming used his arithmetic to quickly calculate their monthly expenses.
"So do you think it is more important to have a good body, or to ruin the health of your whole family for the sake of saving a little bit of money?" After hearing his calculations, Ruan Ruan had a new understanding of Gu Jingming's mathematics. He is definitely a mathematical talent.
"Of course it's a good body!" Gu Jingming blurted out when he heard Ruan Ruan ask this. Who doesn't want to have a healthy body now?
"Then do you know how much it costs to go to the hospital for a medical consultation and get medicine?" Ruan Ruan continued to ask.
"I'm not sure about this, but it should not be low?" Gu Jingming scratched his head and said.
"What are you doing? Your head itches." At this time, Gu Jinghe and Jiang Yuli came over.
"Sister-in-law, you're here. Sister-in-law, my sister just asked me how much it costs to go to the hospital for a medical check-up and get medicine. I don't know. Sister-in-law, you are a doctor, can you tell me about it?" Gu Jingming ignored Gu Jinghe and went straight past him to greet Jiang Yuli, and told her Ruan Ruan's question just now.
"If it's just a common cold and fever, then the medical consultation and medicine will cost about one dollar and fifty cents. If it's more serious and requires an injection or IV drip, it will be more expensive." After Jiang Yuli and Gu Jinghe sat down, they looked at Ruan Ruan and then returned to Gu Jingming's question.
"Ah! Is medical treatment so expensive? It can buy two kilograms of meat!" Gu Jingming thought it would only cost a few cents or one dollar at most, but he didn't expect that a common cold and fever would cost one dollar and fifty cents.
"Then do you think it's worth using the money you would have saved from medical treatment to buy something nutritious so that your whole family can have a healthy body?" Ruan Ruan guided Gu Jingming to think step by step instead of telling him directly that he should not stop eating just because he thinks it's expensive, but should pay more attention to his health. These words are much more useful.
"Sister, I understand. I won't think like this anymore. Instead of waiting until you get sick and then spending money on treatment, it is better to use the money from the beginning to buy something good so that you can have a healthy body. That's more important." Gu Jingming now understood what Ruan Ruan meant by asking him these questions. In the past, he just thought that he should be more frugal in life so that he would have money to treat the disease when he got sick, but he never thought about how to prevent those around him from getting sick.
Now he understands that most people get sick because of malnutrition and poor health.
"Just think it through. We only eat good food occasionally, not every day. This protects our bodies and is within our financial means. That's good enough, don't you understand? But if the economy doesn't allow it, then it won't be like this. There's nothing we can do about it."
Ruan Ruan and Gu Jingming said that she didn't want him to understand a truth but forget the essence of today's society. This would only bring him more trouble. It would be better if he didn't say it in the first place? At least in that way, he would still know how to save.
"Sister, don't worry, I understand everything." Gu Jingming felt that what his sister said was right. After all, a person who can be praised by the elders in the family cannot be wrong. So he will remember the principles that Ruan Ruan taught him deeply in his heart, which also made him eat on time when he is working, and keep exercising and replenishing nutrition, so that he can always have a good body to face the high-intensity work.
"Everyone at table one, your food is ready. Come and serve your food." Just when they were chatting happily, the waiter asked them to serve their food. The three men stood up and went to serve their food.
Ruan Ruan first divided half of the rice in her bowl into Huo Haocheng's bowl as usual, and then began to eat.
"Oh, sister-in-law, please keep an eye out for people with pus all over their bodies. If you see them in the hospital, tell my brother or Huo Haocheng immediately, and then you can go and quietly arrest these people." Ruan Ruan said to Jiang Yuli while eating. She remembered it now, so she told it first, otherwise she would forget it later. She didn't know why, but she always forgot things since she came here.
"Is there anything wrong with these people?" Huo Haocheng asked puzzledly.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you before. Someone informed me that the people who poisoned those girls wanted to poison them because the police ruined their plan. But then they drank too much and drank the drugged wine by mistake. Pus all over the body is a symptom of the poison. I heard that the person who made the poison wanted them to lure me out, so I need to trouble you to pay more attention to me. Anyway, they are all bad guys. Why should I save them? They won't die, right?"
Huo Haocheng understood that this person should be Ruan Ruan's system. Speaking of this, he hasn't seen 520 for a long time. It turned out that he went to help Ruan Ruan do bad things.
"Okay, I understand," Huo Haocheng said with a smile. There were so many people still there, so he didn't ask too many questions. It was enough for him to know the answer clearly.
Gu Jinghe and the other two glanced back and forth between the two of them several times, but still didn't understand. Could this be the tacit understanding between husband and wife? But they didn't ask any more questions, thinking that they would know sooner or later.
"Okay, I'll pay more attention to it during this period of time," Jiang Yuli also said that she understood.