Tian Cai shouted thank you to the man from afar, then squatted down, put the scattered things into the bamboo basket and put it on his back again, and went down the mountain safely.
After Tian Cai arrived home, she immediately put Cai Ping's wicker box into the cellar, and then blocked the entrance with wooden boards. She even piled the wooden boards covering the cellar in the kitchen with straw for kindling.
I'll buy a few more jars and put them in the cellar, and pickle some vegetables in them.
Tian Cai hid several medical books in the quilt, and temporarily placed the other things in the main room. She had never seen the man before, so she had to put the bamboo basket aside and return it when she had the chance.
After Tian Cai had planted all the saplings in daylight, he added two drops of dew into the bucket and then carried it over to water the trees.
Then I packed up the things I brought back and put them back where they should be.
Tian Cai looked around and found that the house looked more and more like home. According to later generations, her house should have a rural style.
Just after dinner in the evening, Aunt Du came over with an unfamiliar woman. The woman was holding a little boy with red eyes in her arms.
"What's wrong?" Tian Cai came forward and asked.
"The child keeps complaining about stomachaches," Aunt Du said before Luo Fuying could say anything, and then introduced him to Tian Cai, "This is my aunt Yingzi. She married into the Fangshan Brigade and now comes back to visit us. This child is her son. He keeps complaining about stomachaches. Tian Cai, can you take a look at him and prescribe some medicine?"
"He didn't feel pain all the time, just occasionally. When I took him to the commune clinic, the pain went away. The doctor couldn't figure out the reason, but just told him to be careful about his diet and give him food that's easy to digest." Luo Fuying added that no one knew the child's condition better than her, his mother.
When the child had a stomachache, the first thing Tian Cai thought of was appendicitis. She wanted to let the child lie on the examination bed, but she found that she didn't have it at all, so she had to let the child go into the house and lie on the kang.
"Come, let's lie down flat. Auntie can check what's wrong with your belly." Tian Cai saw that the little boy was a little shy, so she quickly talked to him and teased him, "What's your name?"
Bingbing looked at his mother and saw that she was still with him. He became bolder and said, "My name is Bingbing."
"Call me Bingbing, what a nice name." Tian Cai reached out and pressed on the area where his appendix was. "Then Bingbing, can you tell me where your stomach hurts? Is it here?"
Bingbing shook his head.
"Is that where?" Tian Cai changed the place again.
Bingbing shook his head again.
There was no pain on either side, so Tian Cai gently pressed the middle again, "Is that here?"
Bingbing nodded, opened his eyes wide and said nothing, just looked at Tian Cai softly.
"Pain around the umbilicus," Tian Cai thought, and she looked up at Yingzi. "Is the child nauseous, vomiting, or experiencing loss of appetite?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Luo Fuying nodded quickly after hearing this. She had always thought that the child had no appetite because he had eaten something difficult to digest, so she changed the way she treated him. When she saw that he was no longer uncomfortable, she took him to her eldest brother and sister-in-law's house. Unexpectedly, it started again last night. This doctor is really amazing! "Doctor Tian, what's wrong with my son?"
Tian Cai didn't answer and skipped over the prescription for roundworms in her mind. The most important ingredient was the Croton tiglium, which was not available in the local mountains. She didn't know where to buy it.
"Take your child to the county health center and tell the doctor that he has roundworms. He'll prescribe deworming medicine," Tian Cai explained. She also explained the possible causes of the worms. "You should pay attention to your child's hygiene habits in the future. Wash your hands before eating and drink boiled water."
When she heard that there were roundworms in her stomach, Luo Fuying finally breathed a sigh of relief. She had thought that the patient had some serious illness.
Seeing that she didn't take it seriously, Tian Cai had to speak more seriously to scare her, "Normally, he wouldn't feel anything if he had roundworms in his stomach, but he has a stomachache now, which means that the roundworms in his body have become so numerous that they have no place to move and have begun to attack the intestinal wall. Once they drill a hole in the intestine, will your son's life be in jeopardy?"
"Really, really?" Luo Fuying realized the seriousness of the matter after hearing this and asked hurriedly.
"Of course it's true. It's too late today. Take your child to the county health center tomorrow and pray that the medicine can drive the worms out."
"What if I can't ejaculate even after taking the medicine?" Luo Xiuyan asked weakly.
Tian Cai only then saw her, not knowing when she had arrived. "In the worst case scenario, if we really can't get them out by beating them down, we'll have to have surgery to remove them one by one from my stomach."
Luo Fuying's legs went weak and she almost fell down. Aunt Du grabbed her and said, "Yingzi, Yingzi, don't let your imagination run wild. Tian Cai also said that this is the worst-case scenario. Let's go to the county tomorrow. The medicine will definitely work!"
These days, people think that anything requiring surgery must be a serious illness. Luo Fuying paused for a moment before she began to cry, "I told her not to give him milk but to feed him raw water, but she refused to listen. What if we can't get rid of the worms? My Bingbing, why is your life so miserable?"
"What's so hard about this? Just be careful next time. Eight or nine out of ten people have worms," Tian Cai said casually to comfort him. Stomach worms are a very common ailment in the countryside. "Just take him to the health center as soon as possible to buy deworming medicine. It's just a minor illness."
"Is it really a minor illness?" Luo Fuying looked at Tian Cai with tears in her eyes. "Then Doctor Tian, can't you just prescribe some medicine?"
"I have a few other herbs, but I don't have the main ingredient, the Quisqualis chinensis. Even if I did, it wouldn't be of any use!" The child's condition was already quite serious. Tian Cai remembered that the health center sold anthelmintics at that time. "We ordinary people should take anthelmintics regularly too, to expel the worms while they're still small. Otherwise, no matter how many delicious foods you eat, they will all be absorbed by the worms. If you don't believe me, just look at what he poops out; every one of them will be plump and white."
"Ugh—" Luo Xiuyan couldn't stand it anymore and ran away covering her mouth.
Aunt Du smiled awkwardly, thanked Tian Cai, picked up the child, and dragged her sister-in-law back.
Tian Cai washed his hands and went to the kitchen. He had originally planned to eat noodles in the evening, but now he didn't want to eat it anymore. Well, he decided to cook some corn grits porridge.
I also forgot to ask Aunt Du who the man who lent her the bamboo basket was, and why he was always thinking about it because he hadn't returned it.
After soaking the corn grits in hot water, Tian Cai went to get water to wash the cucumbers. She was going to mix some cucumbers and stir-fry some rapeseed tonight. The rabbit meat she had eaten at noon was a bit greasy, so eating some vegetables in the evening was just the right way to cut off the oil.
The corn grits were not soaked so quickly, so Tian Cai went to the yard to chop firewood after washing the vegetables. She didn't like to chop a little bit every day, so she would chop the firewood neatly many days in advance and stack it against the wall.
Sometimes when my obsessive-compulsive disorder strikes, I have to saw a protruding piece of firewood into the same length.
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