Chapter 43: This is simply a fantasy!
When Zhou's mother asked this question, she happened to see the money already arranged on the kang.
She raised the corners of her lips and smiled at Chen Xiang.
He walked over, sat down on the kang, and asked casually, "Have you counted the money? How much is it?"
Chen Xiangxian and Zhou's father looked at each other and smiled.
Then she raised her hand, slowly raised four fingers, and shook them at Zhou's mother: "Mom, here are these."
"Four?"
Mother Zhou's eyes widened in surprise: "Really?"
"Really that many?"
"real!"
Chen Xiang nodded: "It's four dollars and seven cents!"
She grabbed Zhou's mother's hand and squeezed it slightly to express her excitement: "It's 70 cents more than four yuan! Mom~!"
After hearing this, Zhou's mother was dazed for a moment.
Even though there were hundreds of coins right in front of her, it still felt so unreal.
She murmured, "Old man, is this true?"
Father Zhou pursed his lips tightly together, and a cough sounded deep in his mouth, but it was quickly suppressed by the man.
His voice was a little hoarse when he spoke: "Of course it's true!"
He sighed, "Times have changed. With the reform and opening up, the country's policies change every day. We ordinary people no longer have to earn work points to exchange for food. Everyone can do some small business."
"But my dear, we have to accept our age and fall behind the times. In the future, we will have to rely on young people like Xiaoxiang who are smart and courageous to make our country more prosperous and powerful!"
Chen Xiang listened very carefully.
She suddenly realized that the older generation had a particularly deep sense of family and country.
The goal of our lifelong struggle is to make our country strong and prosperous.
We must bring out the spirit of "doing" and strive for this lofty and sacred goal, generation after generation, without stopping.
Chen Xiang hugged her legs, rested her chin on her knees, and said with a smile: "Dad, don't say that!"
"You and my mother are still very young!"
Zhou's mother raised her eyebrows: "That's right! I haven't become an old woman yet!"
"Yes, it's very beautiful."
Father Zhou smiled faintly at his wife and began to coax her softly.
Chen Xiang: “…”
Seeing the way my parents-in-law looked at each other made me feel sad.
She is sitting here, feeling quite embarrassed...
Chen Xiang coughed lightly.
Pointing at the money, he said, "Mom, please put the money away. I need to hurry up and trim some more leaves for the rice dumplings. They are used up quickly."
"OK."
Mother Zhou nodded in response.
The two of them started to work. Chen Xiang went to the kitchen to get all the rice dumplings leaves in the house, while Zhou's mother found an iron box and put all the money she earned today into it.
He also carefully wrote down the account and put it together with the money.
Finally, Zhou's mother hid the iron box at the back of the cupboard. After finishing all this, she returned to the kang and trimmed the rice dumplings with Chen Xiang.
I was busy until about three in the afternoon.
Father Zhou's cough worsened, and even his breathing became heavier and more labored than usual. After a while, he was coughing so hard that he couldn't stand up.
His face turned red and his eyes were bloodshot.
Zhou's mother patted her husband's back and said worriedly, "It must have been caused by the lunch he cooked. Now the effect of the medicine has worn off, and the situation is serious."
Chen Xiang stood beside him, frowning slightly: "Mom, does Dad need to take medicine?"
Mother Zhou pointed to the side and said, "Xiaoxiang, go get the medicine for your dad. It's in that basket, in a white box..."
"Okay! I'll get it!"
Chen Xiang responded quickly, turned and walked to the cabinet, took out a box of western medicine in white packaging, poured some water, and took the medicine back to the kang.
"I have it, Mom."
Zhou's mother: "Just put it there."
Chen Xiang hummed and put down the bowl of water, with the medicine still in her hand.
She looked at the name of the medicine, her face tense, and said to her mother-in-law, "Mom, this medicine has serious side effects. You can't take it often."
When she was paralyzed and hospitalized, she had nothing to do and studied these things.
Even if this medicine is effective in treating my father-in-law's asthma, it can kill him if used for a long time...
Zhou's mother was stunned: "Ah? This medicine works."
Chen Xiang: "If my dad takes too much of this medicine, it will cause irreversible damage to his kidneys and liver. According to the frequency of my dad taking the medicine, the side effects will only be more serious!"
When Zhou's mother heard her daughter-in-law say this, she looked helpless and asked, "What should I do?"
Chen Xiang closed her eyes and said, "Just eat it for now. I'll take my dad to see a Chinese doctor later. Chinese medicine is a warming and tonic medicine that will do little harm to the body."
Zhou's mother: "I took your father to see a Chinese doctor, but the effect was not obvious."
Chen Xiang asked, "Where did you see it?"
"He went to the county hospital. The old Chinese doctor was very famous here, but the prescription he prescribed had no effect at all on your father's illness."
Chen Xiang nodded slowly: "I've heard of that old Chinese doctor."
"But, Mom, we really can't take any more of this Western medicine. Since the Chinese medicine in the county is not good enough, let's go to Changling City Hospital to see a Chinese doctor!"
Zhou's mother: "Okay, I'll listen to you."
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Ten minutes after Mr. Zhou took the medicine, it took effect.
He was not coughing as much, and his breathing was much smoother than before. He was leaning against the quilt, his eyes slightly drooped, and he felt drowsy.
It's dark outside now.
Mother Zhou didn't care about anything else. She quickly got up, put on a cotton jacket, left the room, went outside to get some firewood, and started to heat the kang and cook.
Chen Xiang returned to her room and lit the kerosene lamp first.
She fell on the bed, looked at the dilapidated roof, and let out a long sigh.
suddenly!
Chen Xiang's eyes lit up and she thought of something.
By the way, that pot of Clivia!
She quickly got up from the bed and looked directly at the pot of Clivia on the windowsill.
When she saw clearly, Chen Xiang's deer-like eyes brightened again. She slipped on her shoes, picked up the kerosene lamp, and walked over quickly.
The dim light followed the figure as it approached, then stopped, and the entire Clivia was wrapped in the light of the kerosene lamp.
Chen Xiang leaned in and observed for a long time.
From the leaves to the rhizomes, not a single inch was left untouched. I never expected that the flower would change so much in just one day!
The roots are shiny and the leaves are smooth...
This process is like the transformation from a white-haired old woman into a graceful young girl.
Unbelievable!
This is simply a fantasy!
Chen Xiang took out the remaining nutrient solution, looked at it, and smiled.
It is indeed a nutrient solution worth one hundred thousand gold coins.
It’s expensive for a reason!
Since the nutrient solution was real, she quickly gave it to her father-in-law.
Thinking of this, Chen Xiang returned to the east room, thought for a while, prepared a bowl of milk powder for Zhou's father, and then poured a drop of nutrient solution into it.
Then she called out to Zhou's father softly.
I felt relieved when I saw him drink the milk powder.
Chen Xiang returned to the cabinet and poured two drops of nutrient solution into the thermos. Anyway, the water here would be drunk by her father-in-law, so it wasn't a waste.
After doing all this, Chen Xiang was in a good mood.
Later, when she took her father-in-law to see a Chinese doctor, she would add some nutrient solution into the medicine every time she boiled it.
I guarantee that it won’t be long before your father-in-law is cured!
Thinking of this, she felt even happier.