Chapter 155 Practice makes perfect
"Not sure, let me check first."
As she spoke, she held Zhou Qiuyu's arm, kneading it inch by inch from the shoulder downwards. When she pinched her upper arm, Zhou Qiuyu cried out in pain, "It hurts!"
"Hold it."
Zhou Qiuyu, "..."
Zhou Qiuyu made a sound of grievance, and then when it came to her wrist, she started screaming again, her face twisted in pain.
The little thing, with its wrinkled face and tearful eyes, looks so pitiful.
Wang Nan and the others were heartbroken.
"What's wrong with Qiuyu?"
Ge Sujuan looked worried. Yi Chichi sighed and retracted his hand. "Muscle strain. The wrist joint was slightly sprained because of the wrong posture."
"Can it be cured?"
"Yes, but she can't do heavy work these days."
This happened to be a good opportunity, as it happened to coincide with the wheat harvest. In terms of labor force, she was not so important as to be irreplaceable.
But it delayed her from earning centimeters.
And centimeters are linked to her food ration for the following year.
Zhou Qiuyu panicked and pleaded pitifully, "Chi Chi, can you help me heal quickly?"
"cannot."
Whether it's a muscle strain or a wrist sprain, there's actually no good treatment. Either you apply ice or hot compresses or use a plaster brace to immobilize the injury.
Otherwise, it's medication.
But if you want to recover completely, you still need to rest and avoid weight bearing and strenuous activities.
"I'll take care of it for you first. You can talk to the captain about getting an easier job."
But you can't continue to cut wheat, it will cause secondary injury to the wrist joint and aggravate the condition.
Zhou Qiuyu didn't want to change, she wanted to get the full centimeters.
One more pound of food is better than one less pound of food. She can't expect her companions in the Youth League Home to subsidize her.
Even when times are tough, she still has to work hard on her own.
Thinking of this, she asked, "Uncle Yaozi, do you have any solution?"
Yi Chichi thought about it and said, "It's not very clear."
I've never seen Uncle Yaozi treat sprains and strains before, "You can give it a try."
"I'll go find Uncle Yaozi and try."
She finished the food in the bowl in a few bites and left with puffy cheeks.
After Yi Chichi and the others finished their meal, they went to work on their own initiative.
Half an hour later, Uncle Yaozi arrived.
She quickly went over to inquire about the situation, "Uncle, is Qiuyu's arm healed?"
"I gave her a medicinal wine that is specially used to treat sprains and bruises, and she was given a new job, turning over wheat in the drying yard."
The wheat is harvested, threshed and dried at the same time.
Some people are responsible for transporting the bundled wheat back, while others are responsible for unloading the wheat, threshing it, and then laying it out on the drying yard to dry.
When the wheat is collected at night, the person in charge of drying it has to drive away the birds that steal the wheat.
This job was for Qin Jiu and his group of kids. The space was very small, just three centimeters.
Now Zhou Qiuyu went to dry the wheat, Yi Chichi sighed, "Qiuyu is probably going to cry."
"I went there crying."
Uncle Yaozi didn't know whether to laugh or cry. When the girl heard that she was going to accompany the children to do the three-centimeter drying work, she burst into tears.
She refused to go and insisted that she could continue to harvest wheat.
If he hadn't threatened her and really done it, her arm would have been broken, and there's no telling how long that kid would have been pestering Liu Lao San.
"Is her family's condition very poor?"
Yi Chichi rolled his eyes and said, "There are only a few educated youth in the courtyard, and the conditions for them are good."
But that was before, now it’s Guan Mingyue.
Yan Wanwan and Ning Haitao have been excluded from the group with good conditions.
Uncle Yaozi said "oh" and his eyes fell on her hands.
"Take good care of your hands and don't get calluses."
He didn't even dare touch silk, for fear of scratching his old hands.
"There is ointment applied."
This concerns her eating ability, and she cannot afford to be careless.
Just as he was about to speak, he heard a noisy sound in the distance, followed by the voice of Yaozi.
"Someone's got a problem."
Yi Chichi spoke with certainty, and Uncle Yaozi hummed, "Do you want to go or should I go?"
"You go ahead."
She decided not to go because it would be too troublesome to take off her gloves.
So, Uncle Yaozi quickly left, went to the edge of the field, got the medicine box, and headed in the direction where the sound came from.
Yi Chichi withdrew his gaze and continued to work. The harvested wheat was tied into bundles.
Liu Chengyong came over with a shoulder pole to carry the wheat. Seeing this, he praised, "Yi Zhiqing's wheat is getting better and better as it is bundled."
"Practice makes perfect."
That's true. He left carrying the wheat on his shoulder. The heavy wheat bent the shoulder pole, and it hurt just looking at it.
Ten minutes later, Uncle Yaozi came back with a smile on his face.
"Good news?"
She inquired curiously.
"Erhua is pregnant."
Yi Chichi’s eyes suddenly widened. This was really good news.
Last year, Erhua's wife fell because of a black-browed snake, and she lost her six-month-old baby...
"Wait, is she fully recovered?"
“It’s not a big problem.”
This means to be well taken care of.
"So she can still work?"
"If I change jobs, I definitely can't do my current job anymore. My children are more important."
This child has a different meaning not only to Gensheng and Erhua, but also to the village, and must be protected.
They can't let the Li family be without successors.
Erhua's pregnancy again was good news for the people in the village. Therefore, after work at night, the team members went to Li's house in the dark to give gifts.
This family gave two eggs, that family gave two small fishes, and there were also finger-thick shredded meat and the like. Although the quantity was small, it was more than enough for the many residents in the village.
Each family contributed a little, and after the autumn harvest, Erhua not only did not lose weight, but even gained a little weight.
All the nutritious food went into her mouth, and Li Gensheng became as thin as a monkey, but he did not feel bitter, instead, he looked very happy.
After all the wheat, corn cobs and other grains were harvested and stored, he couldn't wait to hand in the public grain tax and hurriedly started the autumn hunt.
Yi Chichi raised his hand, "The powder is not ready yet."
As soon as these words came out, everyone present saluted at her.
Yu Qingqing was even more surprised and asked, "Didn't you say it was in the works?"
Just waiting for the annual autumn hunt to enjoy the delicious meat.
Why is the person in charge of the medicine powder still dragging his feet?
Yi Chichi also felt aggrieved, "How can I have the time? I was busy like a top before, collecting and digging herbs and processing them. I haven't even finished the wheat harvest yet, and then I have to harvest corn cobs and so on."
After calculating the time, the captain expressed his understanding, but he still wanted to know, "When will the medicine be ready?"
"I've been working hard these past few days, and I've almost finished paying the public grain."
There's still time.
Li Gensheng was too late because the baby in his wife's belly was craving for meat, but he didn't have the courage to go into the mountains to hunt alone.
It is November now, the weather has turned cold, and there is a big temperature difference between morning and evening. Animals that are sensitive to temperature have also entered the stage of storing food in preparation for the winter.
There is not much prey in the mountains. There are large beasts such as jackals, tigers, leopards, wild boars, etc. in the deep mountains.
He was afraid that he would not get any meat and instead lose his own people.
So, after thinking it over, he decided to go and see if he could buy some meat for his wife on the day of paying the public grain tax. If not, two big bone sticks would be fine.
Unfortunately, Yi Chichi had the same idea as him.
So, she prepared the medicine powder the day before the grain payment, and the next morning she took Qin Jiu and followed the large group to the commune.
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