Chapter 309 Bloating
Dong Hesong smiled and said, "Yes, that's him."
Qingfeng is younger than him, so Yaya can call him great-grandfather or grandpa.
Yaya stood behind Dong Hesong and said, "Grandpa, I want to fight with you too."
Huo Jiusi stood on Yaya's side. He had watched Dong Hesong fight once and had memorized all the moves, and he fought very well.
Yaya's hands could keep up, but her feet couldn't.
Dong Hesong didn't teach Yaya either, thinking that he would correct them both after she had memorized the movements like Huo Jiusi.
After practicing boxing for an hour, the three of them had a simple breakfast and went up the mountain with their backpacks.
Although Dong Hesong is quite old, his legs and feet are still very strong and flexible, and he can walk very fast when going up the mountain to collect herbs.
Huo Jiusi followed closely behind, pulling Yaya. Yaya felt a little tired halfway up the climb, so Huo Jiusi carried her on his back.
Dong Hesong saw it but didn't slow down.
There was a big pine tree on the mountain. Dong Hesong and his friends sat under the tree to rest for a while. Yaya drank a lot of water because it was hot.
"We have to go up the mountain earlier tomorrow, otherwise it will be too hot when the sun rises."
Dong Hesong rubbed Yaya's head and said, "Yaya, is it bitter to collect herbs?"
Yaya shook her head: "Grandpa, it's not hard. Yaya can hold on."
After saying that, she looked at Huo Jiusi embarrassedly. Huo Jiusi had fair skin, and it was not known whether it was due to the sunlight or the tiredness of carrying her, but her little face was flushed and her forehead was covered in sweat.
Yaya took out a small handkerchief and raised her hand to wipe the sweat off Huo Jiusi's forehead: "Little devil, I'm sorry for tiring you. I will exercise well when I go back, and try to wait until winter comes so that you don't have to carry me on your back anymore."
"You are still young, don't worry." Huo Jiusi shook his head: "I'm not tired."
He is the one who needs to strengthen his training. He still lacks the ability. He is so tired just by carrying Yaya up a mountain. How can this be acceptable?
Dong Hesong saw the interaction between Huo Jiusi and Yaya.
In fact, he asked Yaya to come over, firstly to let her follow him to identify herbs, and secondly to let her come over to exercise.
If he were ten years younger, he would not be willing to be so strict with the children. It's a pity that he is too old.
“Ya Ya, this is pine bark.”
Dong Hesong took a small piece of bark from a pine tree and examined the buds: "Do you know what therapeutic effects it has?"
Yaya recalled the books on herbal medicine she had read in the past few months, and returned to Dong Hesong: "Pine bark is also called red dragon bark. It is bitter, astringent, and warm. It enters the lung and large intestine meridians. It has the effect of astringing and promoting tissue regeneration when used externally."
"Not bad." Dong Hesong was very satisfied.
It was a sunny afternoon, so they lay down under a pine tree and took a nap. When they woke up, they walked down the mountain.
Along the way, Dong Hesong collected the herbs he needed and tested Yaya by the way.
Yaya hasn't finished reading the book yet, so she knows some of the medicine and some of it not. For the ones she doesn't know, Dong Hesong will explain the medicine in detail to Yaya.
It was already evening when they got home. Huo Jiusi and Yaya were responsible for spreading all the collected herbs on bamboo strips to dry in the sun.
The village chief and his wife brought a particularly sumptuous meal.
Dong Hesong usually eats very simply, usually porridge and side dishes, or he cooks some noodles and gets some wild vegetables.
But Huo Jiusi and Yaya were still young and in the growing period. He knew that the Yue family fed Yaya very well every day, so he naturally could not treat the two children badly when they came to his place.
Yaya and Huo Jiusi were really hungry. Huo Jiusi actually ate a big steamed bun, while Yaya ate half of it. They also ate a lot of dishes.
After dinner, it was almost dark.
There is no TV or electric lights here, so Dong Hesong still lights a kerosene lamp.
The three of them sat in the yard to enjoy the cool air. Dong Hesong told Yaya how to deal with the herbs they picked today and some prescriptions for them.
He didn't expect Yaya to remember everything, he just wanted to teach her as much as possible.
The village is much cooler than the city, especially since Dong Hesong lives at the foot of the mountain and has to cover himself with a thin quilt when he sleeps at night.
Knowing that Yaya was coming, Dong Hesong prepared medicine bags in advance and placed them in Yaya and Huo Jiusi's room. He also specially made mosquito nets for the two children.
After washing up, Huo Jiusi and Yaya went to bed to sleep.
"Little devil, this bed is a bit hard, I can't sleep."
The previous second, Yaya was talking to Huo Jiusi, and the next second she was hugging Huo Jiusi's arm and snoring.
Huo Jiusi smiled helplessly, tucked the quilt around Yaya, and soon fell asleep.
Although they were very tired the day before, the two children regained their energy after a good night's sleep.
But this day Dong Hesong would not go up the mountain to collect herbs. Instead, he would sort the herbs, and then he would go to visit a patient at home.
To organize the herbs, you just need to turn them over. Some of them are chopped with a guillotine and then dried.
After finishing all this, at around eight o'clock, Dong Hesong carried the medicine box and brought Yaya and Huo Jiusi to a house in the neighboring village.
The patient's son had been waiting at the door for a long time. He kept thanking Dong Hesong as he walked into the house: "Dong, my mother's condition has improved a lot, thanks to you. It only took three doses of medicine. You are really a miracle doctor."
"Have you been to the hospital for another check-up?" Dong Hesong has heard such praise too many times. Now he only cares about the patient's condition.
"No, you know my family's situation. A trip to the hospital costs at least a few hundred dollars, and my mother's health can't handle it."
The patient's son smiled awkwardly and said, "Please come over and take another look at my mother."
Dong Hesong shook his head: "In your mother's condition, I can only give her medicine to keep her stable. You still have to go to the hospital for a check-up."
As they were talking, they entered the house and saw an old lady lying on the kang. The old lady was very thin, but her belly was surprisingly big, as if she was a pregnant woman in her seventh or eighth month.
When the old lady saw Dong Hesong, she wanted to get up. Dong Hesong stepped forward, put down the medicine box, and pushed the old lady back. He took out the pulse pillow and put the old lady's wrist on it with a serious look on his face.
"No, take your mother to the hospital immediately. Her condition is urgent." Dong Hesong told the patient's son: "Go now, don't delay."
When the patient's son heard this, he quickly borrowed a flatbed cart and took the old lady to the hospital.
"Great-grandfather, does that grandma have ascites?" Tang Bao asked Dong Hesong.
Dong Hesong was shocked: "Ya Ya, how do you know that it is ascites?"
Western medicine uses this scientific name, while traditional Chinese medicine refers to it as ascites.
If the old lady's family had come to see him earlier, they could have used medicine to slowly treat her condition, but they came too late.
The last time he came, he told the old lady's son to take her to the hospital immediately, but when his son saw that her condition got better after taking the medicine, he thought of letting him treat the old lady again.
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