Old Mrs. Shi had been waiting in the yard since Tian Cai entered the Wan family. As soon as she appeared at the gate, she hurried to welcome her in.
"Lan Zi! Lan Zi! Come out quickly, Doctor Tian is here!"
As soon as the old lady finished speaking, Shi Fulan came out of the house, holding her belly. She looked a lot fatter than before. Although her belly was flat, her posture and movements clearly showed that she was pregnant.
Tian Cai: “…”
She followed them to the main room, and Shi Fulan consciously put her wrist on the table.
"Have you had any special reactions recently?" Tian Cai took her pulse and looked at her face. She seemed to have gained a lot of weight and looked much better than the last time she came.
Old Mrs. Shi interrupted, "Yes! He vomits a lot, every morning!"
"How long has it been since your period started?"
Old Lady Shi was about to speak when she got stuck. She really didn't know this, so she nudged Shi Fulan with her elbow and said, "Speak for yourself."
"Almost, almost two months." The voice was as shy as usual.
Tian Cai nodded, confirming that she was pregnant. Her pulse was smooth and round like a bead. "Yes, she is pregnant. Judging from her pulse, she is almost two months pregnant."
Old Lady Shi and Shi Fulan looked at each other and smiled. Although they could guess it in their hearts, wasn't it more authoritative for Tian Cai to say it out loud?
Tian Cai then gave a few more instructions on pregnancy precautions. Seeing how quickly Shi Fulan had gained weight, he thought for a moment and said, "Just eat normally during pregnancy. Occasionally, you can have something good to replenish your body. But remember not to overeat or eat five or six times a day. If the baby gets too big, it might be difficult to deliver it, and you'll be the one who suffers."
Old Lady Shi responded repeatedly, smiling broadly as she said, "It's my son-in-law who's so eager to give all the delicious food at home to Lan Zi, leaving him to eat only coarse food. He feels that Lan Zi has suffered too much in the past few years, so he always brings back some meat to nourish her. He really cares about her!"
Tian Cai nodded and said nothing more. The medicine she prescribed for Shi Fulan was only enough for a week. She never came again and there was no need for medicine now. She said goodbye and left.
As a result, before she reached the village entrance, the news of Shi Fulan's pregnancy had already spread.
Old Mrs. Wu walked home with a sullen face. When she met Tian Cai, she couldn't help but glared at her. Tian Cai saw people behind her pointing at her and whispering, and occasionally heard the word "pregnancy", which made her understand that although there were no communication tools in the countryside at that time, the speed of information transmission was not slow at all.
Mimi had not returned when Tian Cai got home. She poured the wine she bought into a clean large canning bottle, put the snake gall in, sealed it, and placed it high on the top of the medicine cabinet.
Snake gall wine is a good thing. As a medicinal material, snake gall has the effects of clearing the liver and improving eyesight, dispelling wind and dampness, and relaxing muscles and tendons.
Snake gall has been highly praised by doctors since ancient times for its use in wine. It has a very good auxiliary therapeutic effect on diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, hemiplegia, and infantile convulsions, which cause sore waist and weak legs, rheumatic bone pain, and numbness of the limbs. Even if you don't drink it yourself, giving it to others is a very valuable gift.
In the evening, Dongzi's father came to see Tian Cai for a consultation, saying that his grandfather's back pain had worsened again.
"What happened? Wasn't he fine a few days ago?" Tian Cai picked up the medicine box and hurriedly followed Dongzi's father.
"It's because he can't sit still!" He also felt a headache when talking about this. Tian Cai had given him an acupuncture before, and he was told to recuperate for a while and not to get tired. As a result, the old man went up the mountain to pick mushrooms with a basket on his back. He accidentally stepped on empty air and fell. Now his waist can't move at all. He had to find someone to go up the mountain and carry him down because no one came back for a long time.
When they arrived at Dongzi's house, Tian Cai heard Grandma Zhang scolding him when he entered the house. Grandpa Zhang knew he was in the wrong and lay on the kang without saying a word. The old lady stopped talking when she saw Tian Cai coming, but her face was still unhappy.
Tian Cai didn't bother to be polite with them. He went forward to examine Mr. Zhang before feeling relieved. "It's just a sprain. He needs to take good care of himself this time. He'll probably have to stay in bed for ten days to half a month."
"What took you so long?" Before Grandma Zhang could say anything, the patient herself was already unhappy. "I still have so much mountain produce to pick up!"
"Pick it up, pick it up! I think you don't want to live anymore, so you should be buried in the mountains and sleep with the mountain products you miss so much!" Grandma Zhang was so angry that she said something without thinking. She was such an old person, and it would be fine if she couldn't help, but she would cause trouble to her son every day.
Seeing that the old lady was so angry, Tian Cai didn't dare to say anything. She just gave her acupuncture obediently. When the time was almost up, she removed the needle, gave her a few instructions, and left.
But Mr. Zhang reminded her that it was time to pick mountain products.
The next day, Tian Cai carried a large bamboo basket and a woven bag and went up the mountain. She sold a lot of chestnuts, hazelnuts and pine nuts last year, so she wanted to pick more this year.
Because Luo Xiuyan was preparing for her wedding, Aunt Du didn't let her go out, for fear that her skin, which had been whitening with great effort, would be tanned again.
Tian Cai went straight to the chestnut tree from last year. Since he was familiar with the road, it was no problem for him to make two or three trips a day until he had picked all the chestnuts from the tree.
Next, she collected hazelnuts, pine nuts, oil mushrooms, hazel mushrooms, and anything else that could be found in the mountains. Soon the front and back yards were filled with them to dry in the sun. When they were almost dry, she piled them into the cellar. When she saw that the small cellar was almost full, she started to carry them back to the county.
It just so happened that he had to go to the county every five days to give acupuncture to the old lady of the Qian family, so Tian Cai sold the mountain products.
Mrs. Qian’s legs are much better now. She didn’t feel any pain even when it rained a few days ago. She will have another acupuncture after today. As long as she takes good care of herself in the future, the pain won’t recur.
When the acupuncture was finished on the last day, Qian Liming and Du Chunyan both came. They saw that old lady Qian walked much more agilely than before.
Du Chunyan happily paid and said with a smile, "Xiaotian, your cooking skills are really good. My mother-in-law's cold legs have become a source of worry for my husband and me. I don't know how to express our gratitude to you!"
Qian Limin also said happily, "Yes, yes, yes, Dr. Xiaotian, if you need anything, just tell us. We will definitely do what we can."
Tian Cai exchanged a few polite words with them. She was not short of money now, and compared to money, it was more useful to exchange some supplies occasionally.
"By the way, Dr. Oda, can you sell me some more of your hair growth shampoo?" Qian Liming rubbed his hands and said a little embarrassedly.
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