Even after the damaged meridians have been repaired, rehabilitation is still necessary. For Qin Yanzheng to fully recover, two months is only a conservative estimate.
Qin Yanzheng: "I am conscious now...it's related to the acupuncture you gave me. In other words, once you remove the needles, that warm feeling will disappear, right?"
"That's right."
Song Lan replied, "But don't let this affect your mood. After all, based on what you're feeling right now, it means that the meridians in your injured leg aren't completely necrotic, just damaged. Once the repair is complete, your injured leg can be said to have recovered to about 70-80%."
"I see."
He's not easily offended.
Besides, from the time he woke up until she applied the acupuncture, he had no feeling in his injured leg or below. However, after she applied the acupuncture, the warm feeling was real, which was enough to reassure him and let him know that there was really hope for his injured leg to recover!
Time slips away, bit by bit.
After Song Lan finished administering acupuncture to Qin Yanzheng, she didn't stay in his room for long. Firstly, it was already late and everyone needed to rest. Secondly, circulating internal energy while controlling the intensity and using acupuncture needles as a medium to repair the meridians in Qin Yanzheng's injured leg was no easy task.
The next day.
After finishing her exercise before dawn, Song Lan arranged for Qin Yanzheng and Qin Yaxin to make breakfast, while she went to the factory's grocery store, which sold vegetables, meat, eggs, and other daily necessities, to buy ingredients for the next two days.
Okay, actually she mainly wanted to buy pig's trotters.
There's a saying that you are what you eat, and since Song Lan had already told Qin Yanzheng that she would stew pig's trotters for him to nourish him, she naturally couldn't go back on her word.
In addition, she plans to buy some fresh pork so that the family can make dumplings for lunch.
"Sister-in-law, didn't you buy a bit too much?!"
Because she arrived early, Song Lan managed to buy everything she wanted. When Qin Boyan saw her carrying a bamboo basket full of ingredients, his eyes widened in surprise.
"I didn't buy much."
With a smile in her eyes, Song Lan said, "Just two pig trotters and two pounds of pork belly, plus some vegetables and a few snacks I bought for you."
"My second sister and I are too old to eat snacks. As for my younger brother and sister... they are lucky if they get a piece of candy occasionally."
Clearly, Qin Boyan was trying to save money for his family.
“You’ll definitely be hungry when you get home from school. If your family hasn’t prepared a meal yet, you can always grab a couple of cookies or a piece of pastry to tide you over.”
In her original world, not to mention other wealthy and powerful families, even in her own Zhenguo Duke's Mansion, each master's room was always stocked with pastries, which were made fresh daily by the kitchen.
If a pastry shop in the capital sells well, they will occasionally send servants to buy some from outside.
Even so, the pastries we bought were freshly made by the shop that day.
In short, Song Lan felt that preparing some pastries for the family was not a big deal.
Besides, she was only spending what she could afford; she wasn't trying to impress others by spending more than she could afford.
"Thank you, sister-in-law!"
Knowing that his sister-in-law Song Lan meant well, and seeing that Song Lan's expression was calm and did not seem to be lying, Qin Boyan was deeply moved and sincerely thanked Song Lan.
"Are you copying your older brother?"
Song Lan frowned slightly, but Qin Boyan didn't understand her meaning. His eyes were full of confusion, which Song Lan noticed. She couldn't help but sigh and said bluntly, "Your older brother always thanks me. I gave him an ultimatum for that. If he does it again, he can expect me to ignore him. Now you're doing this too. Do you expect me to ignore you as well?"
Upon hearing this, Qin Boyan replied without hesitation, "I won't say anything more, sister-in-law, please don't ignore me!"
"As long as you don't do it again, I'll have nothing to say."
Song Lan smiled and said, "We're family, and I'm the eldest sister-in-law. Whatever I do for you or for this family, it's all willingly done. I consider myself a part of this family."
I want to do my best to improve our family's life, ensure your health, and prevent you from worrying about making ends meet, thus avoiding any disruption to your studies. However, if you truly want to thank me, then repay me with excellent academic performance and by becoming upright and honest individuals with a clear conscience!
With a gentle tone and a smile playing on her bright eyes, Song Lan asked, "Can you do it?"
"I will do everything in my power to do it!"
Anyone can talk big. He can guarantee that he won't make any mistakes in his conduct and won't disappoint his sister-in-law. But in terms of academics, if he wants to achieve what his sister-in-law says, he will undoubtedly have to work hard in every subject and get high scores.
However, based on his current level, he is at best considered to be in the middle of the class.
In other words, to achieve excellent grades and rank among the top students in the class, he has to work very hard!
And this... may not necessarily yield results.
After all, good or bad grades are linked to intelligence. Just like some of his classmates in junior high school, they studied very hard and completed the assignments given by the teachers, but their test scores were always not ideal.
On the other hand, some students are also studying, but they play when they should play. They just listen attentively in class, complete their homework on time, and rank at the top of their class in exams.
Okay, for students who study hard, complete their homework diligently, but still don't get good grades, it's possible that their study methods are flawed.
But which category does he belong to?
Qin Boyan pondered to himself, thinking that he was quite smart, but he was a bit undisciplined and didn't really take his studies seriously... Then again, that was the old him. Now that he was in high school, he had the responsibility of tutoring his sister-in-law, so his attitude towards studying had changed since the start of the semester.
Now he's just waiting to see his results during the midterm exams. If he makes significant progress, then... then the reward his sister-in-law mentioned won't be impossible for him!
As his thoughts drifted to this point, Qin Boyan's gaze became serious and resolute.
Song Lan gazed at him, her beautiful eyes brimming with satisfaction: "A gentleman's word is as good as his bond, so it's settled then!"
"Um."
Qin Boyan nodded.
Song Lan smiled warmly as she asked the other person to take the cookies, pastries, fried dough twists, and other snacks they had bought to the living room and put them away properly, while she carried the vegetables and other ingredients to the kitchen.
That's what she was thinking: she would clean the pig's trotters in a little while and then stew them after lunch.
As for what Qin Yanzheng would eat for lunch, Song Lan had already decided before going to buy the ingredients—wontons.
With its thin skin and tender filling, it's easy to digest even after being cooked a little longer.
It was around 8:30 a.m., and Song Lan had cleaned and rinsed the pig's trotters, and prepared two kinds of dumpling fillings, one meat and one vegetable. It was past 9:30 a.m.
"Comrade Song, are you home?"
It was Wang Pujun's voice.
Upon hearing this, Song Lan paused for a moment, then walked out of the kitchen and saw Wang Pujun and a middle-aged couple in their fifties enter the yard. Without much thought, she guessed the identities of the middle-aged couple, smiled and greeted the three of them, then went to the tap to wash her hands.
"I'm busy right now."
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