After entering March, Tian Cai, as a grassroots medical worker, received a notice from the Huang County Disease Prevention Command for the first time. This is a recently established department to prevent meningitis.
Tian Cai suddenly remembered that there was such a period in history. At that time, the number of people infected reached millions and the death toll was also hundreds of thousands, but she didn't remember the exact time.
Because the disease is caused by pathogenic bacteria entering the blood circulation system from the nasopharynx, Tian Cai and others were given a manual on preventing meningitis and some brown-yellow medicine, which was said to be dropped into the nose to prevent encephalitis.
After she and Doctor Liu came back, they immediately organized a meeting of the team leaders and health workers of each brigade, told everyone how to prevent encephalitis, and distributed the medicines.
"Everyone should tell their teammates recently not to go out unless it's something serious, and people coming back from the city should also try to avoid it."
During the previous linkage, Tian Cai didn't know about the other brigades, but no one from the Beishan Brigade went. It was said that there was a young man from Qingshan Village who clamored to go, but he was tied up and beaten by his father and was unable to go.
Zhang Defa personally keeps the medicine in Kaoshan Village. Anyone who wants to go to the county can go directly to him, register and get the medicine dripped in before they can go, and they have to get it dripped again when they come back.
Originally, he didn't think much of this matter, but only agreed reluctantly after Tian Cai repeatedly reminded him. Anyway, it was a bit troublesome.
Tian Cai also prepared some medicine himself and gave some to every household. After a period of time, nothing happened, so he relaxed a little.
After making sure that nothing was wrong, Tian Cai made soap again. She was now very skilled at doing this and could even experiment with adding different medicinal herbs to make it have various effects.
Add mint to refresh the mind; add mugwort to reduce inflammation, kill bacteria and brighten the skin; add white peony root, white angelica, white hyacinth, white poria and other medicinal herbs to whiten and remove spots. She would keep a few pieces of each of these soaps for herself, and the rest would be exchanged with the villagers.
Most people exchanged for food or eggs, but some also exchanged for other things. Huaihua exchanged for clothes she made for her.
Tian Cai couldn't solve the problem of the soap's color for the time being. She made it by mixing wood ash and water boiled from medicinal herbs. Even if she filtered it with fine cotton cloth several times, it still couldn't be completely transparent, so she could only use it like this, no matter whether it looked good or not, as long as it was useful.
At first, she only gave Qu Ting and Liu Yanqing a small piece of whitening soap to try. After all, her face was white and tender because of the dew, and she had no feeling after using anything, so she had to ask others to help her try it.
As a result, Liu Yanqing became much whiter after only one month of use. She only looked in the mirror when she applied the cold cream every day. She didn't notice it at all when she looked at herself every day. It was He Yuzhen who discovered it first.
That day, she had intended to go to the mirror and squeeze the new pimples on her face. Just then, Liu Yanqing finished wiping her face and turned around. She couldn't help but linger on her much whiter face for a while, and said a little uncertainly, "Yanqing, you seem to have become whiter!"
Girls are very sensitive to this topic. Li Lili immediately turned around and looked at Liu Yanqing several times, "It seems to be true!"
After more than a year of adjustment, Qiu Xiaohuan's temperament has become much more restrained. Although she is not a close friend of the female educated youth in the courtyard, she can talk to them calmly. She didn't notice that Liu Yan had become pale, but it was true that her skin was better than before. She wanted to say something unpleasant but then held it back.
"Really?" Liu Yanqing heard this, holding her face in her hands happily, and squeezed in front of the mirror to look at herself, "It seems that I have really become whiter!"
The two asked her what she had been using recently. Liu Yanqing thought about it and realized that she had never changed her vanishing cream. It couldn't be that it only started to work recently. It could only be the whitening soap given by Tian Cai.
"It should be the whitening soap given by Tian Cai. I have been using it for almost a month. I didn't expect it to be so effective!" Liu Yanqing said happily. Not only did her skin become whiter, she felt that her skin was also much smoother!
"Does she have any more? If I go to buy it, can she sell it to me?" Li Lili asked hesitantly. Although she had never had a direct conflict with Tian Cai and they didn't talk much, she still had the face of buying meat from her before, right?
"If she had it, she would definitely sell it to you. Cai Cai has a very good personality!" Liu Yanqing said.
As someone who was directly affected by Tian Cai's temper, Qiu Xiaohuan rolled her eyes and muttered, "What a good personality!"
So Tian Cai's whitening soap became a coveted item among the female educated youth. The first one to come and buy it was Li Lili. Tian Cai would not go against the money, and soon Dr. Tian's whitening soap quietly spread among the young girls and wives in the village, and even spread to the educated youth's home in Qingshan Village.
Tian Cai planned to stop making it this time. There were not many soapberries left at home, and she had to save some to make soap liquid for washing clothes. If she wanted to make it again, she would have to wait until the new soapberries came down in autumn.
She raised her wrist to check the time. It had been half an hour, and the clear water on the ash had already settled out. She couldn't help but feel happy again. Having a watch was really convenient.
That’s right, Tian Cai now also owns a watch.
She had saved enough money to buy a watch a long time ago, but she hadn't bought it before because she didn't have a watch ticket. However, this problem was solved by Commander Yu, and she also had a lot of money left. In short, Tian Cai cured Commander Yu's patient and gained more than all her previous gains combined.
Tian Cai, who got the watch ticket, immediately put on medicine and put on a homemade mask. He went to the county to choose a Shanghai brand ladies' watch, which cost him 125 yuan. His wallet was almost empty, otherwise Tian Cai would not have been in a hurry to make soap to earn extra money.
Li Guangxia came with a basket to find Qu Tingniang to work with her. Her little granddaughter was still breastfeeding, so she quickly found an excuse to come out and get some peace and quiet.
But when Qu Ting saw her coming, a trace of embarrassment flashed across her face. She made up an excuse to say hello and left. After she left, she hid behind the door and eavesdropped.
Li Guangxia watched Qu Ting leave and secretly asked Qu Ting's mother if she had mentioned introducing a partner to Qu Ting.
Qu Tingniang smiled helplessly, "I mentioned it to her, but she's stubborn and says she doesn't want to find one yet. I can't do anything about it."
Li Guangxia sighed what a pity.
After hearing this, Qu Tingniang asked curiously, "Didn't the captain's wife introduce the Chen family kid to Wang Songhua before? Why didn't it work out? Could it be that Hu Xiaohong didn't like him? I saw her showing him off everywhere before, so she must have been very happy about it!"
"She is not only very happy, she is extremely happy!" Li Guangxia looked down on Hu Xiaohong whenever she mentioned her. She was a complete snob, who flattered the powerful and bullied the weak all day long. She cared about whether everything was good for her family. She was polite to those who could see the benefits, and avoided those who could not see the benefits like the plague. She and that woman were from the same village, so she knew who was like the other.
Qu Tingniang frowned and said, "Why did you introduce the Chen family boy to my daughter? You are just waiting for Hu Xiaohong to become an enemy of my family!"
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