That afternoon, the three men searched everywhere for books and medicine for Feng Ming'an, while Liu Mengmeng, after preparing gifts for her family back home, went home to prepare food for Feng Minghao and Liu Mingfeng to take on the train.
However, because the weather is quite hot now, she didn't prepare much. She just made a few dry pancakes and boiled some eggs, preparing some convenient and easy-to-eat dry food for the train.
By the time Feng Minghao and his friends had collected all the textbooks that afternoon, it was almost evening. They had collected three sets of high school textbooks in total, with some that were not complete sets. However, they bought them all and left them with Feng Ming'an. They had already decided to take two sets back the next day and leave one set for Feng Ming'an. Of course, the textbooks that were not complete sets were also left with Feng Ming'an. They would try to collect them if they could, but if they couldn't, they could leave them there. They might still be useful when the college entrance examination results came out.
When Feng Minghao and the others returned, Liu Mengmeng saw that it was getting late, so she prepared a simple dinner. After all, she still needed to prepare things for Feng Ming'an that evening. Knowing that Feng Ming'an wanted to take a bath, Liu Mengmeng carefully searched the house. She remembered there was a large wooden tub, and sure enough, she found it in the storage room under the stairs. After finding it, Liu Mengmeng had Feng Minghao move it out and clean it. After dinner, everyone started preparing the medicine and boiling water. By the time everything was ready, it was completely dark.
After Feng Minghao carried the boiled water downstairs to a wooden tub in a room, Liu Mingfeng adjusted the water temperature inside. Once the temperature was right, he gestured for Feng Ming'an to take off his clothes and go in. Feng Ming'an looked at his mother standing next to him, smiled shyly at her, and gestured for her to leave.
Liu Mengmeng laughed and scolded, "You brat, are you still embarrassed? I've been changing your diapers since you were a baby, and you're still embarrassed?" as she walked outside. After all, she was just saying it, but her son was growing up, so she had to be a little more discreet.
When Feng Minghao brought the hot water into the house for the last time, he was holding a bowl of dark, boiled medicine. Feng Ming'an looked at the bowl of medicine and felt nauseous just from the bitterness before he even tasted it. Because of his health condition since childhood, he had drunk a lot of bitter medicine, so he had a stress reaction as soon as he saw Chinese medicine.
Before Feng Ming'an could say anything, Liu Mingfeng gestured for him to take off his clothes and get into the bathtub. So Feng Ming'an took off all his clothes except for his boxer shorts and got into the tub. As soon as he got in, he felt that the water temperature was okay, but after he had adjusted for a while, he saw his cousin signaling his older brother to pour the bucket of hot water he was carrying into the tub. After that bucket of water was poured in, Feng Ming'an felt like he was being scalded.
Before Feng Ming'an could jump out of the bucket from the scalding heat, his brother held him down, while Liu Mingfeng took out the milky white liquid and poured 1/7 of it into the wooden bucket.
A miraculous scene unfolded: as soon as the milky-white liquid was poured into the water, the entire bucket of water turned milky-white as well, and Feng Ming'an noticed that the water temperature had suddenly dropped. Before Feng Ming'an could even show his surprise, he saw his older brother walk up to him with a bowl of steaming medicine, grab his chin, and force-feed him the entire bowl of medicine.
As soon as the medicine was poured into Feng Ming'an's mouth, he knew it was still bitter. Before he could even ask his brother to bring him some candy to sweeten his mouth, he saw his cousin, Liu Mingfeng, take a long towel, flick it in his hand until it became a slightly thick strip, then pry open Feng Ming'an's mouth and tie it around from front to back. Before Feng Ming'an could even wonder why his cousin was doing this, he felt a pain that spread from the inside out, a pain so intense it made him want to die.
Feng Minghao and Liu Mingfeng saw their underling's expression change immediately after his mouth was gagged. He let out a muffled groan and bit down on the towel. Just as he was about to jump out of the wooden tub, Feng Minghao shoved him back into the water.
"Bear with it, little brother. It will be very uncomfortable the first time, but it will get better afterward and won't be so uncomfortable anymore. The longer you stay inside, the more it will help your body."
As Feng Minghao spoke, he continued to exert force to prevent his younger brother from jumping out. You see, this prescription and that milky white liquid were the best formula that the research institute had developed recently. Although it hurt a bit, the effect was really good.
If they hadn't had a good relationship with Elder Hua, they wouldn't have been able to get that prescription at all. The milky white liquid was a reward from the organization for Liu Mingfeng's recent injuries, given to him to help him recover. However, both Feng Minghao and Liu Mingfeng knew about Liu Mingfeng's condition, so they didn't plan to use it. The person in the family who would most likely need it was Feng Ming'an.
The two had already discussed the medicinal uses when they were preparing to come to Feng Minghao's house from the research institute.
When Feng Ming'an was in so much pain that he was too weak to jump out of the wooden tub, Feng Minghao went out to prepare some late-night snacks with his mother. Liu Mingfeng stayed inside to watch over the food until Feng Ming'an came out after the food was ready.
After Feng Minghao came out, he went into the kitchen and saw his mother making dumplings, preparing to cook them for them the next morning. After all, as the saying goes, dumplings for those getting on the train and noodles for those getting off, and since they were going to take the train tomorrow, Liu Mengmeng wanted to make some dumplings to send them off.
Seeing this, Feng Minghao felt that there was no need to go through all that trouble. He could just wrap the dumplings and cook them as a late-night snack. After all, it was already late, and they would definitely have to get up very early the next morning. Even if they could cook them themselves, it would still make some noise, which would disturb their sleep.
When Liu Mengmeng heard her eldest son say that, she thought it made sense. So, when her younger son came out of the bath and went to his room to change his clothes, she started boiling water and cooking dumplings, just waiting for him to finish so they could eat.
After changing his clothes, Feng Ming'an sat down at the dining table and started eating, finishing two large bowls in one go. Liu Mengmeng and the others also each ate a bowl of dumplings. After finishing their dumplings and putting down their bowls, Feng Ming'an looked at his brother and cousin with a nervous expression.
"Brother, cousin, will this soak still hurt this much tomorrow?"
Seeing Feng Ming'an's expression, Feng Minghao and the others knew that he was a little scared of the pain today, so they smiled and told him that it was just that the first time would hurt a lot, but the second time would hurt much less, and it would hurt less and less as time went on. If the second time hurt as much as the first time, Feng Minghao and the others would not feel at ease, so they would go back to Liujiatun tomorrow.
When Feng Ming'an heard them say that the pain would be better tomorrow, he felt relieved. If it were like today, he wasn't sure if he could hold back from jumping out of the tub. Without someone holding him down, he really couldn't sit still!
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