"Of course I did. I came back just to see you about this. It started growing just after three months of pregnancy, and it's getting bigger and bigger. I'm almost worried to death!" Luo Xiuyan leaned her face towards Tian Cai again, looking anxious, "Can you help me see if this thing can be removed? If it's because of pregnancy, it's easy to say, but I don't know if it can be removed after giving birth?"
Tian Cai led Luo Xiuyan to sit by the window and held her chin to observe her carefully.
This is the surface of the face called chloasma, which is caused by abnormal hormone metabolism in pregnant women. At least there is no way to solve it during pregnancy.
"There is no treatment. These spots appear because of abnormal body metabolism during pregnancy. You can't take many medicines now that you are pregnant. You can only take some measures to prevent it from getting too serious." Tian Cai flipped through the prescriptions in his mind. There were prescriptions for removing spots in the medical books, but they were all internal adjustments and external use, which were not suitable for Luo Xiuyan's current condition.
"Try to avoid sun exposure and wear a straw hat to cover your face when going out. The more you are exposed to the sun, the more it will grow," said Tian Cai, a former colleague of his. Some of them had stretch marks on their faces due to childbirth. Some of them gradually disappeared not long after giving birth, while others had some medical beauty treatments to remove the marks, but the process is relatively long and nothing is immediate.
Luo Xiuyan was obviously very discouraged after hearing what Tian Cai said, "It will take me more than three months to give birth!"
Tian Cai patted her head and said, "Hold on for a few more months. If you still have any symptoms after your confinement, I will treat you then."
"All right."
"Come, stretch out your hand, I'll feel your pulse first," Tian Cai took Luo Xiuyan's wrist, put three fingers on it, and felt it carefully.
"You are a little thin. Go back and eat more good food. You must gain at least three to five pounds. Otherwise, the child will not be able to grow up without enough nutrition!" Tian Cai's words were actually implicit. Judging from the pulse, the girl was showing signs of malnutrition. She was obviously very healthy before. She had only been married for half a year. I don't know what she ate every day at her husband's house to cause malnutrition.
Luo Xiuyan's face looked a little unnatural. To be honest, the Liu family was not bad. At least before Luo Xiuyan got married, it seemed that their conditions were similar to her own. But some things really could not be seen on the surface. It was only after they got married and lived together that she realized that her mother-in-law was a hundred times more frugal in food than her mother.
Moreover, her mother-in-law was extremely patriarchal. Even if the men in the family did not work in the fields, they could still eat dry meals. However, her two sisters-in-law, her younger sister, and herself could only eat dry meals in the morning and at noon on the days when they had to work. At other times, they could only eat porridge mixed with sweet potatoes.
Luo Xiuyan was shy when she first got married and was too embarrassed to tell others that she was not full. She could only use her own pocket money to secretly buy some biscuits and put them in her room. She would eat one when she was really hungry.
When Liu Chuanjie saw that she was hungry, he would sometimes secretly buy food for her.
Later, her brother-in-law and sister-in-law came to her room and saw her, and her mother-in-law knew it. She knew it all. Luo Xiuyan was so desperate that she didn't even let others buy food for themselves when she was not full. But her mother-in-law often criticized her after that, saying that she didn't know how to live and spent money lavishly.
Liu Chuanjie also talked to his mother about this matter, but the old lady was determined about one thing: as long as they didn't starve to death, it would be fine. If they didn't save money, how would they get the money to marry their youngest son?
Although her mother-in-law favors boys over girls, she would not sell her daughter, and the betrothal gift was based on the normal standards in the village.
Luo Xiuyan had personally witnessed how her mother got along with her two sisters-in-law, and knew that sometimes one shouldn't be too picky, but she felt really suffocated in her heart. The Luo family was different from the Liu family.
She also knew that it was not easy for her mother-in-law, a widow, to raise three sons and a daughter over the years, and she was used to living a simple life. But she was not used to it. Even if her two brothers were not well fed, she had to be well fed. The status of a girl in the Luo family and in the Liu family was so different that it was impossible for her to accept the gap for a while.
However, Luo Xiuyan didn't want to tell anyone about these things. She agreed to this marriage on her own. Her mother also said at that time that the Liu family had a large family, especially the unmarried sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, so it would be difficult to be a daughter-in-law. But she liked Liu Chuanjie as a person, and she was not wrong during the time they got married. He had always been very good to her.
Luo Xiuyan thought that once her brother-in-law got married and her sister-in-law got married, they would be able to divide the family property. Thinking this way, she felt more motivated in life.
Seeing her like that, Tian Cai didn't feel comfortable asking any more questions and didn't know what to say for a moment.
Luo Xiuyan curled her lips and asked her how she was doing recently.
When the two came out of the bamboo house, more than an hour had passed. Luo Xiuyan picked up the basket she had brought and handed it to Tian Cai. "There's a small pond not far behind his house with lotus flowers. These are the lotus seeds my brother-in-law picked last year and simply dried them. They taste good eaten directly like this, so I brought some over for you to try. The fresh ones haven't grown well yet. Chuanjie said it will take at least half a month. I'll pick some and send you some then. Here are the mushrooms I picked in the mountains a while ago. They're all the ones you like. They've been dried. Soak them in water before you eat them."
Tian Cai didn't refuse, and took it and said, "It just so happens that I have something to give you. I'll pack it for you now."
She took the basket into the kitchen, placed the lotus seeds and mushrooms on the stove, walked around the kitchen, and when she saw that there was nothing to give away, she took out a dried chicken from the bamboo shed in the backyard.
Luo Xiuyan saw it and refused repeatedly, "No, I don't want it. This is too expensive. I can't give you anything I picked myself. It's not worth much. Look at you!"
Tian Cai pointed at Mimi lying on the side and said, "This is something my cat scratched. It's not worth much. Don't you think you're looking down on it?"
Luo Xiuyan met Mimi's eyes and couldn't help laughing, "Since this guy caught me, I won't be polite!"
She felt warm in her heart. When she took the things away in the morning, her mother-in-law and sister-in-law looked unhappy. Now that she was taking the dried chicken back, who knew how happy they would be.
Luo Xiuyan picked up the basket and said, "I exchanged some mountain products for a whole chicken. I made a killing!"
Tian Cai was about to send the person back. As they walked, they chatted. Luo Xiuyan suddenly said, "Luo Juan is getting married again."
Tian Cai stared. She had never heard of this in the village every day!
"Really?" Luo Xiuyan thought Tian Cai didn't believe her. "I heard from my mother today that the man she found this time is also from the city, and he has a good job, but he's quite old."
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