Zhou Tao, who was sitting to the side, was also stunned. She didn't dare to speak and stared intently at Zhou Quan's feet.
Li Mai put away the silver needles and nodded to Zhou Quan, "Let's continue with the medicinal bath tonight."
"Okay, I'll do whatever you say." Zhou Quan's heart was somewhat unsettled at this moment, and his voice trembled slightly as he answered Li Mai.
Li Mai smiled and said, "Alright, you lie down and rest for a while. I'm going to the mountain to help my master find the kind of herb he needs and see if I can find one that is flowering."
"Okay, let Xiaotao and Xiaolei go with you," Zhou Quan instructed.
“Okay!” Li Mai agreed.
Zhou Tao followed Li Mai out excitedly.
"Sister-in-law, can we tell our parents about this?"
"Is it better not to say anything?"
"But wouldn't it be heartless not to say anything? They've been hoping that our eldest brother would get better."
After they went outside, Li Mai watched her muttering to herself and chuckled. "It's alright. It's good to talk to Mom. If there's a feeling, it means things are moving in a positive direction. You can let Mom and Dad know, but tell them not to tell anyone else, lest people come to the house every day and treat your brother like a monster."
"Okay, I know, don't worry, big brother, no, don't worry, sister-in-law!" Zhou Tao was so happy that she misspoke, stuck out her tongue and replied before running back into the house.
Seeing her fourteen-year-old sister-in-law's vibrant appearance, Li Mai smiled and called Zhou Lei, asking him to go with her to the back mountain to find some herbs later.
She needs to go find Viola yedoensis.
Even if she encounters a plant that doesn't bloom, she'll transplant it into her space to cultivate and plant it, and one day it will fill a field.
With the spiritual spring water, she will have no trouble surviving, and her growth rate will be many times that of the outside world.
"Okay, sister-in-law, what kind of herbs are you looking for?" Zhou Lei thought his sister-in-law was looking for herbs for his brother, so he quickly went to prepare a basket and a small shovel.
After Zhou Tao shared the good news with Zhao Shi, she was about to change her clothes and go up the mountain with Li Mai. Li Mai told her to stay home with Zhu Zhu while she took Zhou Lei with her.
Hearing that she wouldn't be leading her and Zhuzhu, Zhou Tao pouted, and Zhuzhu was also unhappy.
Li Mai said she was going to search deep into the forest because she was afraid that if they encountered danger, she wouldn't be able to take care of the three of them. She would only take Zhou Lei with her so that she could save him in case of an emergency.
When Old Man Zhou heard that there was danger, he was reluctant to let them go.
Li Mai said it was nothing, and that she would stop walking if she saw something was wrong. She told Old Man Zhou to prepare to take Zhou Quan to town the next day.
Old Man Zhou could only tell her not to go too far and to come back before sunset.
Li Mai responded.
After they left, Zhou Quan heard what Zhu Zhu had said about Li Mai and immediately became worried about Li Mai.
Unable to concentrate on his reading, he could only continue exercising on the kang (a heated brick bed).
After Li Mai led Zhou Lei into the mountains, she didn't go to the places they had been to before, as she remembered that they didn't have it there. She tried to look in flat areas or cliff edges, as her master said that those places had a higher chance of having it.
Unfortunately, they couldn't find a single violet by sunset, so they could only cut a basket of alfalfa for the rabbit and dig a basket of wild vegetables for the chicken before heading home.
When the two of them went out, each of them carried a bamboo basket on their back.
On the way, Zhou Lei asked Li Mai what the uses of Viola yedoensis were, and Li Mai gave him a brief explanation.
"The whole plant of Viola yedoensis can be used as medicine. It has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, and can also treat carbuncles, boils, poisonous sores and malignant sores."
Zhou Lei memorized everything his sister-in-law taught him, and she had already explained the appearance of the violet flower to him.
When Zhao and Old Man Zhou learned that they hadn't found the herbs they wanted that afternoon, they comforted Li Mai.
Li Mai shook her head and said it was fine, she would go look for it another day.
After dinner, Zhao helped boil water, and Li Mai began preparing the bath tub for Zhou Quan's medicinal bath that evening.
This time, Li Mai directly placed a spiritual herb from her space into the bathtub and added a bowl of spiritual spring water.
Including the drinks given to my family and Zhou Quan today, we've finished the three bowls' worth for today.
It was still Old Man Zhou and his two sons who helped Zhou Quanjin into the bathtub. After he had soaked in the tub, Li Mai returned.
This time, because it was a medicinal bath, hot water had to be added every 15 minutes.
The whole family was busy that night preparing Zhou Quan's medicinal bath.
Seeing hope gave them even more strength to do these things.
Zhou Lin would fetch hot water from the kitchen every fifteen minutes, while Zhou Tao and Zhou Lei were responsible for boiling the water.
Li Mai was responsible for heating water for Zhou Quan by the bathtub.
She also asked Zhou Quan to massage and rub his leg muscles and acupoints on his feet in hot water.
After he went to bed that night, Li Mai pricked his toes with a needle again. He said he still didn't feel any pain, but he could feel the needle pricking him.
When Li Mai pricked the soles of his feet with silver needles, he would twitch and say it was itchy.
Li Mai chuckled, but didn't know what was going on. She could only ask her master tomorrow.
The next day, Li Mai and the others went to town. This time, Zhou Tao and Zhu Zhu did not come with them. Only Li Mai, Zhou Lei, and Old Man Zhou took Zhou Quan with them.
Zhou Lin wanted to stay and go with them again in the morning, but Li Mai stopped him, telling him to work with his master to make the wheelchair as soon as possible, saying that his brother might be able to use it soon.
This day was the third day of the seventh lunar month.
Ten days had passed since their last trip to town, and in those ten days, the Zhou family had undergone significant changes. This time, instead of renting someone else's oxcart, Old Man Zhou and his son Zhou Lei sat on the shaft of the cart and drove their own oxcart, taking Zhou Lei and Li Mai to town.
Inside the car, Zhou Quan sat next to Li Mai.
It feels quite different to travel in your own car.
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