Lin Dan slept well, and the next day, the man in the suit brought her a bank card as expected, urging her to sign the contract as soon as possible. After sending these people away, Lin Dan changed into a clean set of clothes and went straight to the village chief's house.
"Xiao Lin, why are you here?" A fat old woman walked into the living room with a sad face.
"Hello, Aunt Zhu, is the village chief at home?" Lin Dan asked politely.
"Yes, but can you come another day? His old cold legs are acting up again, and now he can't get up because of the pain." Aunt Zhu sighed sadly when she mentioned her husband, but suddenly her eyes lit up and she said, "Xiao Lin, I remember when my husband Zhou was sick, your father gave him a folk remedy that was quite useful. Do you still have it?"
"What folk remedy?" Lin Dan immediately searched the original owner's memory, but found that Lin's father didn't know any medicine at all.
"It's that kind of dog-skin plaster. It smells stinky, like rotten orange peel. My husband Zhou said it's very effective!" Aunt Zhu described.
Lin Dan did not find any memory of this, but he did not expose his father's fault. He had a few ancient books in his hands, and I thought he must have seen some weird prescriptions in the books and took them out to show off. If the dog-skin plaster was really effective, Aunt Zhu wouldn't have thought of it now. She was just trying any possible cure for an illness in a hurry.
Fortunately, Lin Dan's mind is filled with a wealth of medical knowledge, including traditional Chinese medicine pharmacology, Western medicine pharmacology, and even more advanced genetic modification technology. I just don't know where she learned all these things from. She didn't worry about not being able to recover her memory, and immediately said, "Aunt Zhu, I secretly learned some medical skills from my father, so why don't I help Uncle Zhou?"
"You also know medicine? Well, that's great! I took our Lao Zhou to a big hospital in the provincial capital, but the doctors there couldn't do anything about his chronic cold legs. Let me tell you, Western medicine is really useless. Diseases like chronic cold legs still have to be treated by Chinese medicine. But there are really too few reliable Chinese medicine practitioners now. I think your father does have some real skills, but he went too early." Aunt Zhu's face froze when she said this, and she couldn't help but steal a glance at Lin Dan, fearing that she would be saddened by the scene.
Lin Dan just smiled bitterly and did not run away in panic like the original owner.
Aunt Zhu was relieved immediately. She led Lin Dan into the inner room and said, "Look, my old Zhou's knee is swollen bigger than a steamed bun. He has to bend his legs when he sleeps, otherwise he will scream in pain. He hasn't closed his eyes for three days. It's okay when the disease is not flaring up, but when it flares up, it's really torturous!"
The village chief barely opened his eyes and greeted Lin Dan with his dying breath. He didn't even have the strength to sit up.
Lin Dan lifted up his trouser leg and took a look, then nodded and said, "The situation is not very serious, I can just give him a few injections. I'll go home to get the moxa stick and will be back soon." As soon as she finished speaking, she walked out of the room and left in a hurry.
The village chief tried to ask, "Why is Xiaolin here? How can she know any medical skills?"
"I don't know why she's here. I haven't asked yet. How could she not know medical skills? Lao Lin teaches her at home every day. She must know everything Lao Lin knows. The hospital can't cure your leg. Let's use folk remedies to treat it."
The village chief was a man who had seen the world. He sighed and said, "Old Lin knows nothing. He just made some random plasters to fool me! I even burned a layer of my skin after applying his medicine!"
"Then when he asked you, why did you say it was particularly effective?"
"I'm just afraid that he will do it to me again. Lao Lin is a man who cares about his reputation, otherwise he wouldn't fall for that beast Bai Pengfei." The village chief sighed.
Aunt Zhu also looked worried. The two were talking about those old things when Lin Dan came back with some moxa sticks and said, "Uncle Zhou, take off your shirt and lie on your side. I will give you a few needles."
Since everyone was here and they were carrying tools, the village chief had to give Lin Dan some face, so he did as he was told. Aunt Zhu wanted to regret it, but she didn't know what to say after opening her mouth several times.
Lin Dan seemed to be completely unaware of the two people's resistance, and focused on using moxa to burn the old man's Shenshu, Mingmen, Huantiao, Guanyuan and other acupoints. He started from the back and slowly moved to the chest and abdomen, from top to bottom, in an orderly manner. He then moxibustioned a few acupoints on the legs, steamed the swollen area with the moxa stick that was emitting light smoke for a while, and then pinched it out with tweezers.
"Okay, the pain should be greatly relieved in less than ten minutes." She put down the tools and turned her palms habitually, trying to summon water to wash her fingers, and then she was stunned.
Am I from the magical world? As soon as this thought came to her mind, she shook her head and laughed, then resignedly ran out of the door and washed her hands with well water.
Aunt Zhu thanked him half-heartedly, and then asked, "By the way, Xiaolin, do you have anything to do with my old Zhou?"
"It's like this. I want to contract the mountain behind my house. I wonder if it's possible?" Lin Dan said, pointing to a big mountain not far away.
"The mountain behind your house? Sure, no one has contracted it yet." Aunt Zhu nodded without thinking, then waved her hand and said, "Come with me to Lao Zhou's study to look at the specific contract. I don't understand these things, so I can't explain them clearly."
"Okay, thank you, auntie." Lin Dan wiped his hands with a handkerchief as he walked.
The two of them went to the study and found a stack of information about contracting barren mountains. The general mountain forests cost 50 to 100 yuan per mu, but the mountain behind the Lin family's house only cost 16 yuan per mu. There were a total of 3,000 mu, and the contract fee was only more than 40,000 yuan a year. In 70 years, it was more than 3 million yuan, which was completely within Lin Dan's affordability.
She looked at the contract carefully and was about to finalize the matter when she saw the village chief walking in wearing a thick coat and said anxiously, "Xiao Lin, don't be greedy for this bargain! Do you know why the contract fee for the mountain behind your house is so low? The mountain is full of rocks. It's not easy to plant fruit trees or flower seedlings. Otherwise, someone else would have contracted it long ago, and it wouldn't be your turn!"
Before Lin Dan could say anything, Aunt Zhu shouted in surprise, "Hey, Lao Zhou, how did you stand up? Is your leg okay?"
The village chief rolled up his trouser legs, patted his knees which had completely subsided in swelling, and exclaimed: "Xiao Lin is the one who has a way! Scholars are really different, after all, you must have inherited your father's true teachings!" He had begun to doubt his own judgment. Those dog-skin plasters must have been effective, but he had applied them in the wrong way. It turned out that he had misunderstood Lao Lin all these years. He was so ashamed!
Aunt Zhu squatted down and took a closer look at her husband's knee. She was surprised and said, "The swelling has gone down in just a short while. Xiaolin's medical skills are better than her father's!"
"That's right, it's not swollen or painful anymore, it's so damn comfortable!" The village chief was very happy, so he didn't want Lin Dan to suffer any loss.
Lin Dan waved his hand and said, "Uncle Zhou, I know your good intentions, but I contracted this mountain not to plant fruit trees and flower seedlings, but to grow medicinal herbs. Some herbs do not require very fertile soil to grow, and I know my limits in this regard, so don't worry. By the way, if your old cold legs relapse in the future, just ask Aunt Zhu to call me and I will come right away." After that, he took out his cell phone and asked Aunt Zhu to write down his number.
The original owner's life was very secluded. Although he grew up in a village, he never interacted with others. He only bought a mobile phone in recent years, and there was not even a single acquaintance in his address book.
Aunt Zhu said you're welcome while carefully writing down Lin Dan's phone number. Her husband, Mr. Zhou, has an attack several times a month, and is in excruciating pain every time. It hurts her so much to see him like this! Lin Dan could restore Lao Zhou to normal in just one hour, so she had complete faith in Lin Dan.
The village chief was relieved when he learned that Lin Dan contracted the barren hill to grow medicinal herbs. As for where her money came from, he didn't ask a single question. Old Lin's family has been raising orchids for hundreds of years, so their craftsmanship must be amazing. He has a vague idea of how much a top-quality orchid could sell for.
After finishing his work, Lin Dan went up the mountain to pick some herbs and did not return home until the evening. She has already planned her future. She might have been a doctor, a magician, a tailor, a weaver... but she definitely never raised a child. She didn't know what to do to save Bai Zhilan, she could only make sure she had good food, good drink, a good career, a good love, and everything was good.
However, how can you make your children live better than anyone else? That would definitely cost a lot of money! This is the only chance to extort money from Liu Manni and Bai Pengfei. There will be no chance next time. Lin Dan can't just sit there and do nothing.
Fortunately, her head is a treasure trove of knowledge, and she has just as much planting techniques and experience as Lin's father. Father Lin only knew how to grow flowers, but she not only knew how to grow flowers, but she could also grow medicinal herbs, fruits and vegetables, and even cultivate mutant varieties. With this knowledge, she had the confidence to let Bai Zhilan live a richer life than the Bai family.
While she was thinking, she had returned to the wooden house, and saw several old ladies squatting by the road chatting. They were all delighted to see her coming, "Xiao Lin, we've been waiting for you for a long time!"
"What can I do for you?" Lin Dan took out the key and opened the door.
"Xiao Lin, we all heard from Zhu Jiamei that you can cure chronic cold legs, right? My wife is also sick and is lying in bed screaming in pain. Could you please go and take a look?" Several people spoke at the same time.
Lin Dan closed the lock she had just opened and said simply, "Let's go, I'll go and take a look." It was her instinct to cure illnesses and save lives. Moreover, this small mountain village was very poor. All the young and middle-aged people had run away, leaving only the elderly and children. Many of them cannot even take care of themselves, so how can they cross mountains and rivers to go to the town to see a doctor? As fellow villagers, we all help whenever we can.
The elderly people rarely had contact with Lin Dan and were originally worried that she was difficult to talk to, but now they were so happy that they couldn't stop smiling. There is a doctor in the village, which is really convenient for these old guys! In the future, when anyone gets sick, they no longer have to wait for their children to rush back from work and take them to the hospital in the provincial capital. Old Liu, who lived at the entrance of the village, was dragged to death in this way. It's scary to even think about it!
The more the old ladies thought about it, the more they felt that Xiaotian Village couldn't do without Lin Dan, so they flattered him, "Xiao Lin, Lao Zhou said you want to contract the mountain behind? Don't worry, we all voted in favor!"
"Yes, yes, yes. No one but you can take over this mountain. If you don't have the money, we'll leave the mountain to you!"
"Xiao Lin, you grew up under our watch, so of course we support you!"
Lin Dan felt both amused and warmed, so he could only smile and nod.
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