At dinner time, Xu Fenglian woke Zhan Chunlan up again and asked her to help the old lady up and feed her.

The old lady was completely unconscious. Zhan Chunlan called her for a long time but she didn't wake up. People outside kept asking her to go out and bring in food. She was worried that she might have found the wrong acupoints or used too much force. So she grabbed the old lady's hands tightly and said, "Grandma, get up quickly. You've been sleeping for a long time. It's time for dinner."

The old woman felt as if her hands were being crushed in her sleep. She struggled to open her eyes. It wasn't a dream; the pain was very real. She shook her hands violently, saying, "Are you still squeezing them? Is there something wrong with my hands too?"

“Eh…right!” Zhan Chunlan froze for a moment, then regained her composure: “You were asleep just now, and I massaged your whole body. It’s here in your hand that there’s a big blockage. You see, I just pressed it lightly and it turned purple. This is a sign of poor blood circulation. If there were no problem, you wouldn’t have these symptoms.”

The old lady looked down and saw that her hand was indeed bruised. She nodded, as if she believed it.

After feeding the old lady dinner, Zhan Chunlan fetched water to help her wash up.

She's been here for several days, and no one has ever cleaned her body. They just used this face wash water to vigorously scrub her chest and back.

After wiping her body, the old lady felt much better and praised her, saying, "My granddaughter is so kind to me. She knows to wipe my body. I've been lying down for more than a month, and your second and third aunts didn't even bother to wipe me."

Zhan Chunlan chuckled and continued to massage her. With experience and knowing the general direction, it became much easier.

I just pressed it and then let go, forgetting to check the exact location. I'll have to fumble around for a while next time.

When Zhan Chunlan woke up in the morning, she felt that the sheets were wet. She turned her head and saw that the old lady had wet the bed!

She was put to sleep in the afternoon, and after waking up, she drank a large bowl of thin porridge to replenish her fluids. Before she could even say she needed to use the restroom, Lan put her to sleep again. An afternoon and an evening like this would be exhausting for a normal person, let alone an elderly person like her. It must have been really difficult for her.

When she woke up and saw this scene on the bed, she felt embarrassed and didn't speak as confidently as before: "Oh, I'm getting old. I was just too sleepy yesterday and forgot to go to the toilet. Please remember to remind Grandma next time, because my memory isn't as good when I get old."

She made it consistent with herself, so Zhan Chunlan didn't have to find an excuse to help her cover up the lie. She stood in front of the wardrobe and helped her find a change of clothes.

She had broken her leg, and it was difficult for her to move alone, so she immediately called out, "Second Aunt, Third Aunt, come and help me, I can't do it by myself."

When the second aunt came in, she found that the old lady had wet the bed. She immediately scolded her mother-in-law. The old lady probably knew that she would have to rely on her to support her in her old age, so she didn't say anything back.

Zhan Chunlan: Show me that domineering attitude you have when you're trying to control me, why don't you talk back?

Since Zhan Chunlan developed the "acupressure" business, she has completely broken free from her identity as a maid. Every day, when her family members are at work, it is her free time. She can either go up the mountain to dig grass, lie around in the space, or watch Xiao Cheng work from a distance. Time flies by.

It's just a little boring, sigh~ a happy problem~~~

That day, when everyone came back from work at noon, it was noisy and chaotic. In the past, only the children would bicker, laugh, and fight, but today even the adults were grinning and discussing things intensely, occasionally pointing at a few children and telling them to learn their lesson.

Zhan Chunlan quietly moved to Xiao Cheng's side, nudged his shoulder, and gestured towards the group with her chin: "Hey~ what's wrong with them?"

"I heard a little kid fell into the latrine. Luckily, he was smart and didn't move. He only shouted when he heard the adults finish work." As Xiao Cheng said this, his expression was somewhat distorted, a mixture of laughter and pain.

Everyone looked cheerful, which meant the child had been rescued. She reached out and patted Xiao Cheng's shoulder on tiptoe: "Hey~ it's nothing. Kids just like to imitate adults. This kind of situation will happen every now and then. You'll understand after a while."

As mentioned before, in the entire Xiangshu Brigade, and even the Zhongxing Commune, every household's toilet used to be a pigsty. People usually used the toilet inside, but there was a small opening outside where they could scoop out manure to water their vegetables.

Adults are often too lazy to walk more than squat at that small opening to use the toilet.

When children see this, they will imitate the adults and squat there.

But lacking experience, they dared not squat too close, so they squatted down from a distance and slowly moved back. Adults might be blocked by the toilet wall, but children are not tall enough to be protected, and "thump" they would fall into the toilet.

Zhan Chunlan had witnessed this the last time she returned to her hometown.

At that time, all the adults had gone to work, and only the two grandparents were at home. The child was shouting for help in the cesspool, but he was so loud that he would sink in if he tried to push, so he dared not push any harder.

Grandma hadn't seen her granddaughter for a long time, so she started shouting and looking for her everywhere. Later, the child said that she heard her granddaughter, but she couldn't reply loudly; she had to reply in a very soft voice, like a kitten, so her grandma didn't hear her.

Her grandmother was terrified. All the adults were at work, and Zhan Chunlan was the only young person at home. She was dragged along to search for her for a long time.

Zhan Chunlan followed her grandmother, searching everywhere around the house. They searched for a long time, but couldn't find it. They were extremely anxious. Zhan Chunlan told her grandmother to hurry to the fields and call for help; they could search together more quickly.

She was on her way to the toilet when she vaguely heard a sound. She had never experienced this before and couldn't see the source of the sound no matter how she looked around. She considered all sorts of unnatural phenomena and almost went from being a staunch materialist to a staunch theist.

Fortunately, her grandmother heard Zhan Chunlan's screams and rushed over. She immediately understood what was happening and looked straight into the cesspool. She was terrified to death; the child's entire body was almost submerged.

I quickly called for the old man, but that damned old man was just laughing loudly in the yard, not moving an inch.

Grandma had no choice but to work with Zhan Chunlan to scoop the child out with the long handle of the manure scoop.

After the child's mother returned, she boiled several pots of water to bathe the child.

Zhan Chunlan rescued the child and took him away. She really didn't want to recall what the child looked like, and for a long time she didn't pass by her house.

But, since they were living in the same production brigade, she still ran into the child. As it turned out, the child was still acceptable after being cleaned!

This time, Xiao Cheng had no experience. After hearing about this, he followed the crowd to that house. When he fell, the child had just come up. Seeing so many people in front of him, he grinned and laughed. As a result, dirt and maggots fell down.

He couldn't bear to watch and ran outside to vomit on the spot.

Now that Zhan Chunlan has asked about it, that memory has been brought up again, and he went to vomit again.

After this incident, Xiao Cheng didn't dare to go near the toilet for a long time, especially when passing by that small opening. He would keep a distance and stick out one foot to step on the board in front of him every time he went to the toilet, afraid that the board was not sturdy and he would fall down.