The child stopped crying when the third basin of water was changed. He felt less uncomfortable as the temperature of his arm dropped. Children don't know how to pretend. Once they feel a little more comfortable, their naughty nature comes out and their little hand keeps digging in the water.
Tian Cai pulled the child's arm closer to take a closer look. No blisters had appeared yet. She went back to the house to get some burn ointment, wiped the water stains on the child's arm with white cotton cloth, applied an even layer on it, and wrapped it with dry cotton cloth.
She didn't wrap it thickly, just to prevent the child from moving around in his sleep at night and getting the ointment on the quilt.
"It shouldn't be serious. There aren't any blisters. Just apply some medicine for a few days and see." Tian Cai scooped some burn ointment into a homemade bamboo jar and put it in it. He couldn't help but remind him, "Don't let it get wet. If blisters form, don't be afraid. Bring it to me and I'll take care of it. Remember to change the medicine every day. Just watch him and make sure he doesn't scratch after he falls asleep."
After collecting the money for the medicine and seeing off Yu Guoqing and his group, Tian Cai continued to clean up the dishes that had not been washed yet. In the afternoon, she had to go to Carpenter Chen to customize a Chinese medicine cabinet and desk. Tomorrow, she would go back to the mountain to move the things in the wooden house here. She didn't have the money to buy new ones.
As soon as he came out of the house, he saw Zhang Defa heading towards Luo's house, and Tian Cai hurriedly greeted him.
"Hey, Xiaotian, how is the house being cleaned?" Zhang Defa hadn't seen Tian Cai in the village for two consecutive days. The last time he saw her was at a meeting in the team headquarters the night before yesterday.
"I've been pruning the vegetable garden these past two days and it's almost finished. I'm just waiting for Uncle Chen's furniture to arrive."
Zhang Defa nodded. "That's great. If you have any problems that you can't solve, come to me."
Tian Cai: "Village head, can the county health center or the commune clinic give us some Western medicine, or syringes or something?"
Zhang Defa had always thought that Tian Cai was a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine. After all, the pills she had given out a few days ago were all hand-rolled. But the moment this girl opened her mouth, she actually asked for a syringe. "Do you know how to use it?"
"I know a little bit. At least I can give injections." Tian Cai said modestly, "In the future, if you feel that the pills are not working well enough, you can get an injection. Some diseases can be cured quickly with an injection."
Zhang Defa was happy when he thought of those bottles of effective pills. A few days ago, his mother had a headache and was in so much pain that she couldn't eat. He remembered that there were painkillers given by Tian Cai at home, so he took one out and gave it to his mother. Within five minutes, his mother got up from the kang and said that the pain was gone.
Zhang Defa also wanted Tian Cai to obtain permission from the commune or even the county health center, but the girl's household registration was a problem. "Let's wait a little longer. Let me ask the commune if they can match us up."
"Okay," Tian Cai just asked to let her practice this skill so that when there is a real crackdown on traditional Chinese medicine in the future, someone will stand up and testify for her and change her medical practice direction.
After the two separated, Tian Cai went to Carpenter Chen's house. This time she wanted to order a medicine cabinet and a desk, and also get some wooden boards. It would be inconvenient to put anything in an empty house.
Tian Cai picked out a relatively regular-shaped piece of wood from the remaining wood used to build the fence, measured the same length with a bamboo stick, and then sawed it into four table legs bit by bit. He then used a slightly thinner piece of wood as a cross brace and a wooden board as a tabletop. It didn't take long for a rectangular coffee table to be made.
"There are just a lot of burrs." Tian Cai reached out and touched a few corners, and decided to leave it like this for the time being. He would have plenty of time in winter when he could no longer do farm work, and then he could slowly scrape it off with a knife.
She used the remaining wood to make two benches and a small wooden bench. They were a bit ugly, but they were useful.
Tian Cai exchanged some coarse cloth with several aunts. They were all made from cotton grown by each family, which they spun into yarn and then wove into coarse cloth on a loom. Aunt Du said that the cloth was off-white right after it was woven. The light green piece that Tian Cai bought now was dyed by them themselves using dyes bought at the market, and it would definitely fade after the first few washes.
The dye was shown to Tian Cai. A small bag could dye a lot of cloth. People nowadays are frugal, so a little color is enough. Only dark colors need to be put in more. Moreover, the dyed cloth is used to make clothes or quilt covers and curtains.
Grandma Gao was very skillful and had tie-dyed a lot of floral cloths. She didn't dare to take Tian Cai's red or pink ones, but only asked for two pieces of light green and one piece of light blue.
She planned to dismantle Cai Ping's old cotton-padded clothes to make a cushion and put it on the stool in the living room to keep warm in winter.
For the light green piece, Tian Cai asked Dong Zi's mother, the most skillful woman in the village, to make a cotton coat for him, which would be perfect to wear when it gets cold in a while.
It was another busy day. In the evening, Tian Cai made spinach and egg soup with the newly grown spinach in the vegetable garden, and ate it with cornmeal pancakes.
Because there were no cabinets in this house before, everything in the house was visible at a glance. Tian Cai planned to move all of Cai Ping's previous things here tomorrow and put them in the cellar. She dug out the stones on one side of the cellar wall and dug out about an additional square meter of space inside, then covered it with something so that it could not be seen from the outside.
As for the man with slicked-back hair that Scarface mentioned, she could only find out about it later.
The next morning, Tian Cai had her meal and went to the mountains carrying a wicker basket. She tied the gate with a hemp rope. Everyone in the village did the same. As long as they saw a rope hanging on the door, it meant that no one was at home. If someone had something to do, they would come back later.
However, considering that she was a doctor, she still went around to Luo Fuli's house and told Aunt Du that she was going up the mountain.
After Tian Cai left, Aunt Du's sister-in-law Luo Fuying came out of the room. She came here yesterday and slept in Xiu Yan's room at night.
"Sister-in-law, who was that person who just spoke to you?" Luo Fuying stretched his neck and glanced in the direction where Tian Cai left. "She doesn't know him. I haven't seen her before."
The Luo family had been living in Kaoshan Village before. Later, Luo Fuying married into the Fangshan Brigade. However, the two production teams belonged to the same commune and were not far away, so she had to come back several times a year.
When the old couple of the Luo family were still alive, Luo Fuying would live at home when she came back. Now that old Mrs. Luo is gone, she lives at her eldest brother's house when she comes back. The brothers and sisters have a good relationship and come back several times a year.
"That girl's name is Tian Cai, she's a newcomer to the village," Aunt Du couldn't help but smile whenever she mentioned Tian Cai. The thing on her daughter's chest, which was called a rash, has now subsided a lot, and Xiuyan said it's not itchy anymore. "Don't look at her young age, she's a doctor!"
"Oh, you're a doctor! That's great. Are you married?" Luo Fuying couldn't help but ask.
Aunt Du has always had a good relationship with this sister-in-law. Upon hearing this, she patted her lightly and said, "She's only sixteen. Why get married? Why get married so early? There's endless housework to do every day. I want to keep Xiuyan for a few more years!"
Luo Fuying was not angry when being photographed, and said mischievously, "Forget it, there's an old saying that goes, if a girl grows up, she can't be kept. If she is kept, she will become an enemy. If Xiuyan has a lover, you should not be a stumbling block."
"I'm not stupid!" Aunt Du rolled her eyes at her. "Didn't you say Bingbing always has stomachaches? Let Tian Cai take a look when she comes back."
"Then let's take a look."
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