Time Travel to the Educated Youth Era [Space]

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In a remote and dark corner of the courtyard wall, Tao Xiang hid her face in her collar, lowered her head and leaned against the wall behind her. The tiny snowflakes blew on the ends of her black hair, and she looked well-behaved and quiet.

Comrade Gu stood straight, holding something wrapped in a piece of soft cloth in his hand.

He came to deliver medicine, or soup, which was in the iron lunch box that Tao Xiang had dropped earlier. After untying the cloth and the lunch cover, half of the lunch box was filled with hot soup, and the lingering smoke and the fragrance of medicine filled the air.

After just one sniff, Tao Xiang's clear eyes wrinkled and she held her breath, her face slightly bitter: "Medicine?"

She didn't like taking medicine. Before she traveled through time, she would not take medicine if she was sick. This was the case with Western medicine, not to mention the bitter Chinese medicine.

"It's Siwu Tang, which is extremely useful for nourishing the body." Comrade Gu explained in detail, and passed the lunch box to Tao Xiang's mouth, "Drink it while it's hot."

As he moved the bowl closer, a strong smell of medicine rushed straight into Tao Xiang's nasal cavity. The soup in the lunch box was brown and clear, and it was obviously full of medicinal properties.

Tao Xiang wanted to kneel down to take this bitter medicine, hesitating and staring with eyes wide open.

"No, I'm in good health, I really don't need to take medicine..." She waved her hands repeatedly, with a somewhat resistant expression.

Comrade Gu did not say anything after patiently persuading her twice but to no avail, but just lowered his eyes and looked at Tao Xiang, his eyes were extremely serious.

Tao Xiang also tilted her head to look at him, and seeing that he did not persuade her anymore, she thought he had changed his mind and finally stopped forcing her, and she was relieved.

Unexpectedly, Comrade Gu was silent for a long time, and then whispered: "I cooked this specially for you..."

In the cold wind, this sentence ran into Tao Xiang's ears word by word.

She had never heard the cold and aloof man in front of her speak in such a gentle tone of frustration. She was surprised and felt guilty, as if she had committed a heinous crime and failed Comrade Gu's kindness.

Her mind was hot, and she said hesitantly in a soft voice: "Then I'll try it..."

In fact, just to fool the other party, Tao Xiang frowned and took a small sip of the steaming medicine soup in the lunch box from Comrade Gu's hand.

I thought it must be bitter like Coptis chinensis, but it turned out to be sweet?

The sweetness was accompanied by the fragrance of honey, and the bitterness was not so obvious.

Tao Xiang's brows relaxed at once, and she felt the aroma of medicine and the sweetness of honey intertwined in her mouth, which was magical. As the hot medicine flowed into her stomach, her limbs and bones were warmed up at once.

"Did you add sugar?" Tao Xiang took another sip on her own initiative, savored it slowly, and asked curiously.

She always felt that the sweetness was not right, not like sugar or brown sugar.

Comrade Gu replied: "It's wild honey."

The impoverished Gu family could not afford the edible sugar provided by the supply and marketing cooperative.

Recalling half an hour ago, behind another wall, Mr. Gu in the cowshed was holding a small black earthenware jar and was so angry that he blew his beard and glared: "You little bastard, what have you done!"