Chapter 479 480: Encourage
Yang Chunyan said hurriedly, "Badger lard is in the khaki jar at the bottom of the cupboard. Large blisters need to be pricked with a needle. There are iodine, alcohol, and silver needles in the medicine box in the main room. Wipe the needle with alcohol before pricking the blister."
These things were brought from my mother's home in case of emergency.
"Oh oh!" Li Qiuyue hurriedly followed the anxious Xu Shan and ran towards Yang Chunyan's house.
When Yang Chunyan ran back breathlessly, Li Qiuyue had already placed the badger lard and medicine box on the tree stump tea table. When she saw her coming, she quickly put down the silver needle.
"You should do it. I'm afraid of poking his tender flesh."
"Okay, you guys fix Dongdong's hand." Yang Chunyan stepped forward to take the silver needle, wiped it with alcohol and then began to pick the blister.
At this time, Xu Shan's wife also came over. Seeing her grandson crying, she wiped her tears with heartache, "The second son and his wife went up the mountain to dig truffles and left the baby to me. In the blink of an eye, he put his hand in the pig feed bucket."
Looking at the blisters on the child's hands, he was worried that his wife would come back and blame him, "Oh my! How come you are so senile? How come you forgot he was still here? I wonder how sad his mother will be when she comes back!"
Xu Shan said angrily: "We don't feel bad when our grandchild gets burned? We come back and complain and ask her to take care of her at home by herself!"
Xu Shan's wife glared at him and said, "You old man, how can they make money?" He was in his forties, but he didn't even consider the occasion when he spoke. When his sister-in-law Chunyan heard this, she thought her daughter-in-law was unreasonable!
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Yang Chunyan hurriedly changed the subject, "Auntie, have you rinsed him with cold water?"
Xu Shan hurriedly said, "The pig food was all over my hands. I scooped a few buckets of water to rinse them. Can't I just use cold water?"
"Yes! Rinse with cold water immediately after being scalded. This will cool the burned skin. It is best to rinse for 20 to 30 minutes."
"Is that so? We'll just rinse the pig food and come to your house to get badger lard."
After Yang Chunyan popped the big blister, she wiped the blood inside with a cotton swab, wiped it again with iodine to disinfect it, dipped some alcohol and wiped her hands again, then picked out badger lard and applied it to the child.
Xu Shan's wife said gratefully: "Look, doctors' families are different, they do it very carefully!"
"This way the wound will not easily get infected." Yang Chunyan stopped only after rubbing the badger lard all over the child's hands and wrists.
Badger lard has the effects of moisturizing the skin, promoting tissue regeneration and relieving pain, detoxifying and reducing swelling. It feels cool and comfortable when applied to burn wounds.
The child's hands felt cool and comfortable, and he fell asleep sobbing.
Yang Chunyan found a medicine bottle and put some badger lard in it. She also poured some iodine into a small medicine bottle. "Uncle Xu, Auntie, take these badger lard, iodine and cotton swabs back for your use."
Xu Shan's wife said gratefully: "Thank you very much, youngest brother! I will send the money to you when I return home."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Just use it. Remember to put the iodine in a cool and dark place after use."
The old couple thanked him repeatedly, "Thank you very much! Thank you very much! The dog at home has bred again, and the dog just wants to say thank you."
Li Qiuyue laughed and said, "Uncle Xu, leave one for my family and my eldest and second sister-in-law's families as well."
"Okay! I'll pick out three for you to keep." The old couple Xu Shan carried their sleeping grandson away.
After the two men left, Li Qiuyue said, "Ever since Grandpa wore that badger fur coat around the village, I think every household knows that you have badger lard!"
She paused, "How many badgers did you kill last time? I saw Uncle Daqing was wearing one, too."
"Four. Each of us got two. We boiled all the fat ones into oil. Mom and Erchun's family also have some. If no one else comes looking for us, you can talk to them."
"Well! This is a good thing. Others would sell it for money, but you are the only ones willing to keep it all."
"Yiding said it's not easy to see badgers and pigs in the mountains. I thought I wouldn't know what to do with the money I exchanged for it. I can't even find a place to buy these things."
Li Qiuyue thought about it and said, "Yes! If you hadn't kept it, Uncle Xu's Dongdong would have suffered."
"It's almost eleven o'clock. I'll go get some food. The truffles in the oven should be turned over."
"The third brother said that the family would kill a pig for the New Year tomorrow, so he bought a few pounds of spare ribs, a piece of pig heart, and two pounds of pork belly."
"We'll have spare ribs for lunch, save half for braising in the evening, and the other half for stewing radishes at noon." Yang Chunyan sealed the can of badger lard, picked up the can and walked towards the kitchen, "I'll go to the vegetable garden to pick red rapeseed sprouts."
Li Qiuyue said hurriedly: "I cut a bunch of cauliflower this morning, it's enough for three vegetables."
"OK!"
The two sisters-in-law went to the backyard. Li Qiuyue peeled potatoes and washed radishes, while Yang Chunyan cut the ribs into short sections and blanched them in water and put them in the pot.
Zhou Jiakang and Zhou Xiaoru came in carrying bags of urea. "It's so comfortable. A bag is full of urea from just a little rice. We fry the most in our family."
Zhou Xiaoru grabbed a handful and tiptoed to Yang Chunyan's mouth, "Aunt, it's the best to eat handfuls!"
Yang Chunyan bent over and let her feed her a mouthful. It looked full but there was actually not much.
Over there, Li Qiuyue grabbed Zhou Xiaolin's hand and said, "Oh my! Look at your hands, they are dirtier than chicken feet, and you're still stuffing them into your mouths."
Yang Chunyan then noticed that the trouser pockets and coat pockets of several people were filled with popcorn and rice crackers. "You are full of popcorn, how can you still eat the braised spareribs for lunch?"
Zhou Jiakang patted his stomach and said, "I can eat more!"
"Okay! Xiaowen, go to the main room and get a bag. Bring some popcorn to Qiaoling and ask grandma to come over for dinner."
Zhou's father took the carpenters and bricklayers to the town to repair the house and did not return to Funiu until the afternoon. Zhou's mother also brought Luo Qiaoling here to eat together.
Zhou Jiakang hurriedly said, "Aunt, give us more. My grandma, Xiaoxi and Xiaoniang also want to eat!"
"Be good!" Yang Chunyan rubbed his head, "Go to the mountain and call the old man back. It's time to eat later."
"Okay!" Zhou Jiakang ran to the backyard.
Li Qiuyue packed popcorn for the children. Yang Chunyan looked at the time, took off her cotton jacket, picked up a bamboo rake and walked towards the baking room.
As she walked into the baking room, a wave of heat hit her in the face. By the time she had turned over all the truffles in the two baking rooms, she was already sweating profusely.
When Zhou Jiakang called the old man down the mountain, Zhou Jiaming, Zhou Xiaoqian and Zhou Jialiang, who were at school, also came back.
Zhou Jiaming jumped in happily, "It's winter vacation!"
Li Qiuyue smiled and said, "Take the admission letter today and show Auntie San how you did in the exam?"
The brothers' shoulders slumped, "Not as good as Xiaoqian's."
Zhou Jiakang ran up to Zhou Xiaoqian and asked, "Sister, did you get 100 points in the exam?"
Zhou Xiaoqian said somewhat frustratedly: "100 points in math, 98 points in Chinese, almost 100 points!" The teacher said that her composition was not good enough, otherwise she would have got 100 points.
"Oh my!" Zhou Jiakang cried distressedly, "Dad said that if you get 100 points on the test, you'll get a five-yuan reward!"
The Zhou Jiaming brothers stood there dejectedly, complaining in their hearts: You are not satisfied with such good scores in the exams, are you trying to kill me?
After hearing this, the old man happily took out three dollars and said, "You are very capable if you get 100 and 98. I will give you three dollars as a reward."
Zhou Xiaoqian happily took it, "Thank you, ancestor!"
The old man nodded and looked at the two brothers who were standing there with pouty mouths. "What about you? You didn't do as well as Xiaoqian. How much did you score?"
Li Qiuyue: "You didn't fail again, did you?"
"I passed." Zhou Jialiang handed over the notice. "Math 76, Chinese 65, both passed. The teacher said I have made progress!"
The old man nodded, "That's progress! But compared to Xiaoqian, you still need to work harder!"
Yang Chunyan looked at Zhou Jiaming, who was looking downcast. "What about you?"
Zhou Jiaming handed her the notice. "Math 70, Chinese 69. The teacher said that if you work harder, you can get into junior high school."
Yang Chunyan found that you have indeed made a lot of progress compared to the first half of the semester. "The teacher said that you have made great progress in the second half of the semester. Auntie will give you two yuan as an encouragement."
Zhou Jiaming happily took the two pieces and said, "Thank you, Auntie!"
"Aunt, there's me too!" Zhou Jialiang quickly took the notice and showed it to her, "Aunt, you see I've made a lot of progress too!"
Yang Chunyan rubbed his head and said, "Give me two dollars as a reward as well. I'll try to get five dollars next year!"
Zhou Jialiang's eyes lit up with joy, "Thank you, Auntie!"
Yang Chunyan patted his shoulder and said, "Put your schoolbag away, wash your hands and come to eat."
Li Qiuyue put the cauliflower on a plate, and the rice in the pot started to steam.
Mother Zhou walked in with Zhou Xiaolin by her hand. "I heard that Li Wu's Xiaoping scored 100 points again. How come this child is so capable?"
The two brothers who were happily eating popcorn quickly shrank their necks.
Fortunately, Li Qiuyue changed the subject, "Mom, is that vicious woman Zou Cuifen still bothering Li Wu?"
"The Zou family came and made trouble once, but the Li family helped drive them away." Zhou's mother sighed, "Look at Li Wu, he is honest and hardworking, but he married such a thing, and Wang Chunhua is hardworking and diligent, but she married a scumbag like Cai Ermei.
A man cannot live peacefully without a good woman, and a woman cannot live peacefully without a good man. In my opinion, the matchmaker should pair those shameless people together to make them suffer each other, so that the good people will not suffer losses! "
Li Qiuyue picked up the rice steamer and said, "It's as simple as you said!"
The old man said, "People should be down-to-earth and do their duty. People like Cai Ermei and Zou Cuifen, who are young and strong, don't think it's a big deal. But when they get old, you will see that they live worse than the wild dog at the village entrance."
After listening to this, Yang Chunyan felt that what the old man said was right. Many of those people shown in short videos in later generations abandoned their wives and children, or abandoned their husbands and children to fool around when they were young, and when they couldn't make a living in their old age, they would play the victim and seek sympathy, and then go home to find their biological children to take care of them in their old age.
After everyone sat together and had lunch, Zhou's mother took the children back to the old house.
After Zhou Huaishan turned over the truffles, he went home with Li Qiuyue to take a nap.
The old man said to Yang Chunyan, "You go and take a rest. I'll lean on the recliner and watch the stove."
Yang Chunyan looked at the time and saw that it was only half past twelve. Zhou Huaian and the others might not be back for another two hours. "Okay, I'll sleep until two and then get up."
(End of this chapter)
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