"Lin Nanxing! You stole my licorice tablets again!"
In the early morning, in the military district family compound, a six-year-old girl's vigorous shout was heard. The little girl with pigtails stood with her hands on her hips, staring angrily at her twin brother who was hiding under the grape trellis.
Lin Nanxing stuffed the last piece of licorice into his mouth and made a face: "I am helping you test the medicine! Great grandfather said that licorice is mild in nature and sweet in taste, and can cure all kinds of poisons..."
"Bullshit!" Gu Baizhi grabbed her brother's ear and said, "You even stole my hawthorn pills yesterday!"
There was a faint laugh from under the grape trellis.
Lin Banxia came over holding a dustpan and said, "Nanxing, who was crying and saying they had a toothache last night?"
She squatted down and put her fingertips on her son's wrist. "Your tongue is covered with thick fur again. No candy today."
Gu Baizhi immediately raised her little face in pride, but her mother pinched her nose the next second: "You too, you haven't settled the score for giving Brother Gangdan an acupuncture yesterday."
"That was a practical class!" the little girl confidently took out a mini needle bag, "Grandpa said I was very accurate in finding the Hegu acupoint!"
Lin Banxia held his forehead and sighed, his eyes full of helplessness.
Ever since the chapter on pediatric acupuncture was added to the Barefoot Doctor's Manual three years ago, her twin boy and girl have become the most troublesome little devils in the family compound - yesterday she acupunctured the Yongquan acupoint of Political Commissar Zhang's grandson to cure bedwetting, and the day before yesterday she added Poria cocos powder to the flour in the kitchen, saying that it could strengthen the spleen.
"Mom!" Nanxing suddenly pulled her clothes, "Dad is back!"
Outside the courtyard gate, Gu Shiqing's jeep kicked up a cloud of dust.
As soon as he finished speaking, two small figures jumped onto him like monkeys.
Gu Shiqing picked up the children in each hand, and his stubble made them giggle. The sunlight shone through the grape leaves, casting mottled shadows on them.
"By the way," Gu Shiqing suddenly lowered his voice, "The Ministry of Health has just issued a document to promote the TCM emergency diagnosis and treatment program throughout the country."
His eyes were full of pride: "All these textbooks were compiled by you two, grandfather and grandson."
"Mom!" Bai Zhi suddenly struggled to the ground and held up a small notebook. "The meridian map I drew was chosen by my great grandfather! It will be printed in the new edition of "Children's Acupuncture Atlas"!"
Nanxing took out a stuffed doll and said, "I'll use it as a teaching aid for acupuncture classes! When you insert needles into acupuncture points, a light will light up!"
Gu Shiqing squatted down and looked at the ugly cute puppet carefully. Suddenly he found that its eyebrows and eyes looked a bit like his own: "This..."
"Looks like dad, right?" Nanxing said proudly, "I deliberately chose the ugliest buttons as eyes!"
The laughter startled the sparrows flying under the eaves.
"Mom!" Bai Zhi ran over holding a crooked moxa stick, "I'll do some health-preserving moxibustion for Dad!"
Nanxing chased after him and shouted, "You can't moxibustion the navel! Grandpa said that's the Shenque point!"
Gu Shiqing ran around the yard wailing, with several small holes on the hem of his military uniform left by the smoke from the wormwood.
Lin Banxia was laughing when she was suddenly embraced in a warm embrace.
"What are you thinking about?" Gu Shiqing asked while rubbing her head.
She looked up at the stars in the night sky and said, "Thinking back to the first time we met, you fiercely told me not to touch you."
Gu Shiqing smiled and kissed her earlobe: "I'm begging you to touch me now."
He put his hand on her belly: "But this time, we agreed not to have twins?"
The moonlight gently enveloped the courtyard.
Under the grape trellis, the two little guys had fallen asleep on Grandpa Lin’s lap, with the unfinished moxa in their hands.
The smoke from Grandpa Lin's pipe flickered, and the lights of thousands of homes in the distance formed a starry sky.
Wherever there is family, that is the beautiful world.
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