In Xu Jianguo's impression, no matter whether they are new recruits or veterans, or ordinary people or not, as long as they have experienced this difficult time, no one cannot eat.
In fact, the root cause is that people in this era have no food in their stomachs.
Because Xu Jianguo had space and was in the army, eating meat was not difficult for him. However, people in other places might not have meat to eat every meal. Not to mention far away places, even in Sandaliang Village, even when the grain harvest was good, every household was still reluctant to eat meat.
So later on, whenever meat dishes appeared on the dinner table, people would generally say, "This dish is only suitable for Chinese New Year!" This shows that people's lives in this era were still quite difficult.
And eating like this tonight is definitely a luxury even for military leaders like Su Dingshan and Ma Guoliang.
Xu Jianguo even went to the duty room to take a look. There were six people, more than 20 kilograms of mutton, and two large cabbages, but there was nothing left.
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After dinner, Tai Wei and the other two were responsible for cleaning up the dishes, while Xu Jianguo, as usual, made a pot of tea for Su Dingshan and Ma Guoliang using the space well water, and then found an excuse to leave.
Half an hour later, Xu Jianguo returned to Ma Guoliang's house with the herbs, then went into the kitchen and started making the ointment that would be needed later.
After the three of them finished washing up, Xu Jianguo helped Su Dingshan into the bedroom and lay down on the bed. Then he turned around and went to the kitchen to bring in a large bowl of ointment and placed it on the bedside table.
Ma Guoliang was still stopped outside the door by Xu Jianguo. He was so angry that he was fuming, but he could do nothing about it.
"Old man, since there are a lot of shrapnel and bullets in your body, it may take a little longer tonight. I will use acupuncture to help you sleep later. You just need to have a good sleep." Xu Jianguo said with a smile.
"Okay, I'll listen to you!" Su Dingshan said with a smile.
After Xu Jianguo finished speaking, he took out three silver needles from the needle bag and inserted them into three acupuncture points on Su Dingshan's head. As he continued to gently twist the silver needles, Su Dingshan slowly closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep after a while.
Seeing that Su Dingshan fell asleep, Xu Jianguo activated the Eye of Time and Space, then took out the acupuncture knife and began to operate on the old man.
Nearly two hours passed in the blink of an eye. It shouldn't have taken so long, but after Xu Jianguo helped Su Dingshan deal with all the shrapnel and bullets on his body, he remembered what they had talked about during dinner.
Back then on the battlefield, in order to avoid being discovered by the enemy, Su Dingshan led a company of soldiers to hide in the icy river water for more than an hour in temperatures of more than ten degrees below zero. Later, all the soldiers, including him, developed severe rheumatism, and suffered unbearable pain when it was cloudy and rainy.
As Su Dingshan grew older, his toes, fingers and both knees showed varying degrees of joint deformation, so after dealing with the shrapnel and bullets in the old man's body, Xu Jianguo made a temporary decision to help him treat his rheumatism.
At the same time, he also wanted to try to use the spiritual power in his dantian to perform a lost acupuncture technique in the medical tradition, the Nine Phoenix Needle.
According to the records in the tradition, the Nine Phoenix Needle is a very strong and yang acupuncture method, which is specially used to deal with various yin, dampness and evil diseases. Rheumatism, in essence, corresponds to yin and dampness diseases.
Xu Jianguo took out nine silver needles from the needle bag, eight short and one long, then pinched the tail of the needle and began to mobilize the spiritual power in his body and infuse the spiritual power into the silver needles.
As spiritual power was continuously injected into the nine silver needles, the needle tips gradually turned red, and at the same time, they continued to emit a trace of hot breath.
Xu Jianguo stared at the tip of the silver needle. When a critical point was reached, his pupils shrank slightly. Then he moved like lightning and quickly inserted the silver needle into two acupuncture points on Su Dingshan's shoulders, and then into his arms, legs and feet.
In a blink of an eye, eight silver needles were inserted into the acupuncture points. Xu Jianguo did not hesitate. He picked up the last long needle in his hand and accurately inserted it into the last acupuncture point three inches below the old man's navel. The six-inch long silver needle was almost completely inserted.
After the nine silver needles were inserted into the acupuncture points, Xu Jianguo let out a long breath and sat down on the chair behind him.
"This Nine Phoenix Needle Technique is really not for human use. It consumes too much spiritual energy!" Xu Jianguo thought to himself.
As the Nine Phoenix Needle Technique was used, Su Dingshan's skin began to slowly turn red, and his body temperature also rose. Then sweat began to continuously seep out of his pores, and the color of the sweat was a dark gray. After a while, a large area of the bed sheets and pillowcases were wet.
Xu Jianguo was not surprised at all, but nodded with satisfaction. The gray sweat on Su Dingshan's body was the damp air that was forced out of his body by the extremely strong and yang power of the Nine Phoenix Needles, and this damp air was the culprit of Su Dingshan's rheumatism.
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It was ten o'clock in the evening. Xu Jianguo collected all the silver needles on Su Dingshan's body one by one, and then walked out of the room with a large bowl of ointment.
At this time, Ma Guoliang was still sitting on the sofa. When he saw the bedroom door open, he quickly got up and came forward.
"Jianguo, why did it take so long today?" Ma Guoliang asked.
"Commander, don't worry. I have taken out all the shrapnel and bullets in the old man's body. I also helped him with rheumatism. You go in and take a look. I'll go wash my face." Xu Jianguo said with a smile.
"What? Rheumatism is also cured?" Ma Guoliang asked in disbelief.
"Well, okay, old man, just have a good sleep tonight. You'll know when you look at the joints in his hands tomorrow morning!" Xu Jianguo nodded.
"My goodness, your medical skills are really amazing. Now the old leader may suffer less!" Ma Guoliang patted his shoulder heavily and said with a big laugh.
But just as he finished speaking, he heard the old man's voice coming from the room: "Big face, come in! I finally got a good night's sleep, why are you making noise outside?"
Ma Guoliang shrank his neck, the smile on his face froze, and he walked into the house with an embarrassed look on his face.
Xu Jianguo looked at his commander like a mouse seeing a cat, couldn't help laughing, and turned to walk towards the bathroom.
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