Chapter 7: Not Enough Food at Home
After the door was closed, only the Lin family members were left in the room.
Lin Kucan sat at the table, taking his youngest son's pulse with his eyes closed, while the other members of the Lin family watched nervously.
Ten minutes later, Lin Kucan opened his eyes, his eyes filled with confusion and puzzlement:
"Qizi's pulses at the Cun, Guan, and Chi points are neither floating nor sinking, neither fast nor slow, with four or five beats per breath, neither loud nor soft, calm and gentle, with a consistent rhythm. He doesn't seem to be suffering from a brain disease."
Lin Sanqi complained in his heart: I just traveled through time, I'm not mentally ill, do you really think I'm stupid?
But there was still a silly look on his face:
"Dad, I, I really can't remember anything about the past. Everything is blurry and blurry. I..."
Jin Caifeng hugged her youngest son and complained:
"I'm not sick, Zai Zai. If you can't remember the past, then forget it. Just come back. Mom will take care of you. Mom will never lose you again."
Lin Sanqi could feel the heavy maternal love. Kind people should be treated kindly, so she smiled and said:
"Thank you, Mom."
Lin Gancao also took over the younger brother's hand at this time and carefully took his pulse:
"I don't seem to have any chronic illness. Oh, I do have some kidney qi and yang deficiency. I guess it's from living outdoors and being malnourished."
Lin Sanqi was a little embarrassed. He was breaking up with his college girlfriend. To commemorate their lost love, the two of them spent an entire night in a hotel. How could it not be a waste?
Lin Gancao didn't know that his "little brother" was playing so fancy, so he explained to himself:
"My brain shouldn't be a big problem. Using Western medicine to explain this, I must have suffered a lot in the past 10 years, and my head was damaged, which led to my memory loss.
In the words of Traditional Chinese Medicine, forgetfulness is due to a weak heart. The heart governs the blood vessels and houses the spirit. If wind evil invades the blood and qi, it can cause imbalance between yin and yang, causing alternating periods of emptiness and fullness, and blood and qi to become chaotic, leading to a weakened mind and forgetfulness.
This is probably why my father didn't find anything abnormal when he took my pulse before."
Lin Kucan looked at his eldest son with a smile. He was his best successor and the best inheritor of the Lin family's Chinese medicine skills.
"The boss is right, Qizi, since the past is forgotten, just forget it. Let me introduce you again. This is your eldest brother Gancao. He now works with me at the Kuanjie Chinese Medicine Hospital as a doctor.
This is your eldest sister-in-law, Fu Muxiang, and this is your eldest nephew, Lin Jiageng, who is five years old this year. He was born during the years you were away, so this is the first time you've met him.
Lin Sanqi quickly stood up: "Boss, sister-in-law, nephew, hello!"
Lin Gancao patted Lin Sanqi's shoulder and said with a smile, "We're family, so there's no need to be polite."
Fu Muxiang also smiled: "I'm glad that Qizi is back. You don't know how much your father and mother have missed you all these years. They haven't been truly happy since you went missing."
Hehehe~~~
The whole family chuckled, except for the second sister-in-law Pei Xuehua, who secretly curled her lips.
Lin Kucan pointed at another family of three and said:
"This is your second brother, Du Zhong. He also works at Kuanjie Chinese Medicine Hospital, but in the Acupuncture Department. This is your second sister-in-law, Pei Xuehua. Like your eldest sister-in-law, she's also a staff member of our hospital. This is your niece, Lin Zhenzhen."
Lin Sanqi stood up again: "Second brother, second sister-in-law, you are so kind!"
Compared to the enthusiasm of Big Brother Lin, Second Brother Lin was a bit colder:
"Qizi, you've forgotten everything about your childhood, but you must have remembered the ten years you were missing, right? How did you survive in this forty-nine city?"
This is also the question that everyone in the Lin family wants to know.
After all, in this era where everything requires money and tickets, it is not easy to have enough food and clothing.
To put it bluntly, you won't find any food even if you search the trash can. Nowadays, every household is not well fed, so how can they throw away泔水?
What's more, the household registration system is so strict that you can't take a single step without a letter of introduction. Although the world is big, you can't just travel wherever you want.
Lin Sanqi was scratching his head, knowing that he had to make up another lie, so he thought back to the period literature he had read, thinking about what the social conditions were like in the 1950s and 1960s.
The reasons you make up can't be too outrageous and out of touch with the times.
"Oh, me, I was actually taken in by a group of older brothers and sisters over the past few years. They were all engaged in the black market business, which the northerners call the pigeon market. I was their little brother, helping them keep watch. They provided me with food and clothing. My brain was also damaged by someone in the black market."
Lin Sanqi thought to himself, he is really a smart guy, he has found the reason for his amnesia, and the people in the black market come and go without a trace, so you can't find anyone to prove it even if you want to.
Lin Kucan sighed when he heard this:
"Most unfaithful people are scholars, and most righteous people are butchers. It seems that the black market is not full of thugs. There are good people too. Qizi is also grateful to these people."
Lin Duzhong was a little unconcerned: "Don't let them lead you astray, little brother. These people are capable of doing anything."
Jin Caifeng was dissatisfied: "Qizi has been well-behaved since he was young. When has he ever acted arrogantly? Zhongzi, how can you say that about your younger brother?"
Pei Xuehua immediately defended her husband when she heard this:
"Mom, that's not necessarily true, people change.
Another thing is that our family's food rations are tight right now. Mom, you, me, and my sister-in-law only have a monthly ration of 21 kilograms. My brother and Eucommia ulmoides have 25 kilograms. Dad is a cadre and has more food, but he only has 29 kilograms a month.
Gengzai and Zhenzhen have even more, and their monthly ration is only 8 jin. The key point is that most of these rations are coarse grains such as cornmeal, and a small part is two liang of flour. They used to receive some rice, but now there is not even a trace of rice.
"We're already struggling to make ends meet with this ration, and now we have one more person. As the saying goes, a young boy can eat his father out of poverty. "Mom and Dad, Big Brother and Big Sister-in-law, please don't blame me for being harsh. How are we going to live in the future?"
Lin Duzhong then took over and said:
"As for this house, our family is well-off, so we were given three main rooms in the east wing of the Princess's Mansion. The east room was given to my eldest brother and his wife's family, and the west room was given to our family. My parents could only divide the main hall into two rooms, front and back, so that people live in the back and eat in the front.
Gengzi and Zhenzhen have grown up, and they also need their own space. They can't just share a room with their parents, right? Now that my younger brother is back, that's a good thing, but where will he live? What will he eat? These are things we all need to consider."
As soon as these words fell, Lin Duzhong and Pei Xuehua looked at each other, with a hint of cunning in their eyes.
Lin Gancao and Fu Muxiang looked at each other, with helplessness in their eyes.
The head of the family, Lin Kucan, sneered. The old man had lived for more than fifty years and had seen countless people. How could he not see the little thoughts of his second son and his wife?
The young couple had been looking forward to separating for a long time, and this time they took the opportunity to lose their temper.
(End of this chapter)
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