Tian Cai had lunch at Du Chunyan's house, chatted with the couple for a while, and made an appointment to come again tomorrow. He left when the time was almost up and took the bus directly back to the commune.
Du Chunyan's husband is Qian Liming. His ancestors all live in the county town. He just saw Tian Cai giving acupuncture to his wife. Her movements were smooth and flowing with the charm of a master, so he wanted to ask her to help take care of his mother's cold legs.
Qian Liming recalled that his old mother was tortured by rheumatoid arthritis every year, especially in winter or rainy days, when the condition was most severe. Qian Liming could often hear his mother's cries of pain.
When they were young, their family was poor. Their mother suffered a lot to support them and her legs became damaged. They swore since they were young that they must make a name for themselves and let their mother enjoy a good life and never have to work hard for a living again.
Now they have achieved it, but although their mother's living conditions have improved, the marks left by her hard life in the past are not so easy to erase.
As Tian Cai jumped off the donkey cart, a shadow suddenly appeared and pounced on her. She quickly reached out to catch it.
“Ah—ah—ah—”
Mimi hadn't seen Tian Cai for more than two months because she went to the commune to study. After she came back, she was very attached to her. During the autumn harvest period, she followed her to the fields every day and followed her back and forth. Later, after being comforted by Tian Cai and seeing that she was always there, she was willing to go out and play alone. However, she had to come back before dark and sleep with Tian Cai at night.
This morning before Tian Cai left, he specifically told the little guy that when he came back in the afternoon, it would run to the village entrance and wait for him.
"Okay, okay, I'm back, and I brought you some delicious food!" Tian Cai opened a small hole in the paper bag containing the meat buns in the bamboo basket and let it smell. "Right? It smells so good!"
"Ah!"
The man and the cat returned home happily.
Zhang Defa happened to be coming out of the house. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but laugh and shook his head, "He's still a child!"
"I was just a child then!" Suddenly a voice sounded behind him, startling the unsuspecting Zhang Defa. He turned around and saw that it was his unlucky son. He immediately took off his shoes and was about to go over and beat him.
"I don't care if you're a kid or not, I'm your dad! I've told you countless times to study hard, but you did rubbish on the test and embarrassed me. I'm going to beat your ass!"
"——I've already told you that I'm not interested in studying medicine——Ah——Grandma, my dad beat me again——" Zhang Baocai went to his grandparents' room crying.
When Mrs. Zhang heard the noise, she hurried out to stop them. "I told you the child is grown up and you can't hit him like that. Why can't you talk things over nicely?"
The Zhang family was in chaos again. The neighbors nearby were already used to it. Zhang Baocai had been tough since he was a child, and he would be beaten by the team leader almost every two days. If they hadn't been beaten for more than three days, they would feel uncomfortable!
Tian Cai and Mimi had meat buns for dinner today. She bought five in total, ate three herself and the remaining two were eaten by Mimi. After finishing the meat buns, she slowly drank the dew with a look of enjoyment on her face.
She looked at the sky and thought it was still early, so she packed up the towels for Datou's family, closed the door and walked over there, with Mimi following her.
When Tian Cai arrived, the Chen family had just finished their meal, and several adults were planning to go to the threshing ground to help thresh the wheat. When they saw Tian Cai coming over, they greeted him warmly.
"Dr. Tian, have you eaten yet? If not, have something here."
"I've eaten," Tian Cai said, not wasting time seeing that the other person was going to work. He handed the towel to Aunt Chen and said embarrassedly, "I went to the county to buy a towel. I specially picked out a plain and light-colored one. Aunt, please keep it for Datou."
A few days ago, Carpenter Chen had specially asked his wife to send something to Tian Cai, but he never thought that Tian Cai would return the gift. The couple looked at each other, and Aunt Chen stepped forward and continued, "Look, it's not easy for you to earn a little money, why are you still spending money on Datou? He's just a kid and doesn't need a towel. It would be better for you to keep it for yourself!"
"Don't say that, Auntie. This is just a token of my appreciation."
Aunt Chen's face turned red. Carpenter Chen had originally asked her to buy something for Tian Cai to express her gratitude, but she couldn't think of what to buy after a long time, so she simply stuffed fifty cents into his pocket. Now she knew that the towel she received was sold for eighty-seven cents at the supply and marketing cooperative. The key point was that in comparison, her act of giving money was even more shameless.
After delivering the towel, Tian Cai went into the house to check on Datou's condition. He saw that the little guy had recovered well and was in good spirits. Now he could no longer lie on the kang and kept pestering his mother to get out of bed.
After she left, Grandma Chen spoke up, "This girl is really nice. She doesn't like to take advantage of others."
Carpenter Chen also nodded and said, "Forget it, just send it back. I'll see if she needs anything else and make one for her later."
"Then I guess she either doesn't want it or will definitely give her the money."
Carpenter Chen: "...Forget it then."
In the end, he failed to deliver the gift and instead caused a lot of trouble to others. However, after this incident, he understood Dr. Tian's character and was unwilling to take advantage of him.
Aunt Chen breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that her husband and mother-in-law didn't ask her what she had given to Tian Cai. She couldn't help but reach out and pinch the money in the secret pocket on her waist. Is this matter over?
After taking a shower, Tian Cai also washed the clothes she was going to wear today and hung them out to dry in the yard before taking Mimi back to her room to sleep. She had to get up early tomorrow to go to the county!
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Tian Cai found the acupuncture point and gently twisted it a few times before inserting a needle. After inserting three needles in a row, she asked Mrs. Qian, "Auntie, do you feel anything? Is there a surge of heat?"
You know what, Old Mrs. Qian really felt it. She felt a warm current rushing up her legs, and her originally cold knees seemed to have warmed up a lot.
I thought that this old cold leg would never be cured and I would have to suffer from it for the rest of my life, but now it seems that there is still hope.
She couldn't help but say, "I really feel a warm sensation. It turns out that our ancestors' things are the most useful!"
Tian Cai inserted more than a dozen needles into Old Lady Qian's legs and asked Qian Liming to keep track of the time and remove the needles after twenty minutes.
The technique was very pure, Qian Liming saw it, and it was not at all like what Tian Cai said about having just learned acupuncture.
After the needle was removed, Mrs. Qian felt her knee carefully again. The pain in her knee seemed to have eased a lot. She couldn't help but get up and walk a few steps. She felt much more relaxed.
Seeing that his old lady's steps were lighter, Qian Limin was very satisfied with the effect of acupuncture. "Doctor Xiaotian, does my old lady need any other medicine?"
"You need ointment to assist in the treatment, but I didn't bring any medicine today. I'll go back and prepare it and boil it into ointment, and send it to you the day after tomorrow. From now on, I'll come here for acupuncture every five days, and do it three or five times in a row to see the effect." Tian Cai estimated the time tomorrow and felt it was not enough. The ointment takes a long time to boil, and it would be too late to send it to the county by tomorrow afternoon.
"Okay, okay, I'm sorry to bother you!"
The two of them walked out while talking, and when they reached the yard, they said goodbye to Qian Liming and left.
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