Seeing that he had a reaction, Tian Cai tried several other acupoints, but Mr. Shi did not give any other feedback.
Old Mrs. Shi was very surprised. "Doctor Tian, is there any cure for my brother's leg?"
Tian Cai pondered for a moment and said, "He can feel some of the needles I just gave him. This proves that his spinal nerves are not completely necrotic. After a period of treatment, he should see improvement. Although I can't guarantee that he will be able to recover to his pre-illness condition, he will definitely be better than he is now."
However, Tian Cai does not have a specific plan for treatment. She still needs to go back and look through medical books and carefully consider the acupuncture method. There are too many parts of the spinal nerves involved, so she must be extremely careful.
Old Master Shi's eyes were red. He held the mattress on the kang tightly with one hand and did not speak, for fear that he would sob if he opened his mouth. With the other hand, he held Old Lady Shi's, and after a long time, he thanked Tian Cai in a hoarse voice.
Shi Dazhu was standing outside the window and also heard what Tian Cai said. He couldn't control himself and covered his face with his hands and cried bitterly. It was not until he heard a woman's shouting from the main room that he hurriedly wiped his tears and went into the house.
Tian Cai did not prescribe medicine for Mr. Shi. He made an appointment to come back another day and went out with Mrs. Shi.
She walked around the village again, visiting several of her old patients, giving some acupuncture and some prescribing medicine. She also went to see Wan Xiuli. The two hadn't seen each other for a long time, so they talked for a while and returned to the village when it was almost dark.
On the other side, Zheng Wang was very well behaved for a while after being taught a lesson by Mimi. Half a year passed, and seeing that Zhang Defa and Tian Cai no longer bothered him and both seemed to have forgotten him, he started to act again.
Although Zheng Wang was idle in the village, his eyes were not in vain. He could guess most of a girl's personality at a glance, so he would pick on those who were shy and dared not speak out, or find young girls and coax them back to let him touch them with just a little benefit.
This method has been proven to be effective. Zheng Wang has been staying at home obediently for half a year and has been feeling suffocated for a long time. So he has recently come out to hang out.
The old lady of the He family has been in a bad mood ever since she was humiliated by Tian Cai. She thought that after all these years of being in the village, this was the first time someone dared to confront her in person. The more she thought about it, the angrier she became.
However, she has been busy with He Jinzhi's marriage these days and has not had time to deal with that girl. Now Jinzhi's marriage has been agreed with the man's side, and the two sides have not yet exchanged the betrothal gifts, so the marriage is considered a foregone conclusion.
When He Jinzhi learned that her marriage was settled, she lay on the bed and cried bitterly, saying that she had a miserable life and could not be with the man she loved.
Why can't Second Brother Qin earn more? Then she can negotiate with her mother. Maybe her mother will agree for the sake of the betrothal gift, and then they can be together!
During this period, the He family and the man's family in Donglin Commune started a tug-of-war over the issue of bride price. The man's family felt that the bride price was too much. Even if they married a fresh and juicy virgin girl, eighty yuan was the maximum. The He family asked for one hundred and fifty yuan, which was simply selling their daughter.
The two families asked He Laosi's wife to pass the message back and forth several times, and in the end the price remained unchanged, which was one hundred and fifty, but the He family had to give two new sets of clothes.
After thinking about it, Old Mrs. He readily agreed. She planned to make the one for Jinzhi with coarse cloth. Anyway, her daughter was used to wearing coarse cloth since she was a child, and maybe fine cotton cloth would not be comfortable for her!
As soon as she had some free time, Old Lady He prepared to teach Tian Cai a lesson. She didn't tell anyone about this matter. She thought about it for several days, went out quietly several times, and got most of the things done.
No one in the family noticed anything unusual except He Jinzhi. She followed Old Lady He when she went to the Zheng family for the last time.
He Jinzhi didn't dare to get too close, and the two of them spoke in low voices. She pricked up her ears and heard words like "Tian Cai" and "Houshan" intermittently.
He Jinzhi's mind moved, and thousands of thoughts flashed through her mind, finally settling on the scene of her lover appearing in the backyard of Tian Cai's house. She snorted lightly and quietly returned home.
But after that, He Jinzhi paid even more attention to Old Lady He's movements. Seeing that she hadn't been to the Zheng family for several days, she felt a little anxious. What did her mother mean? Was she not going to do anything? Or was she waiting for something?
He Jinzhi couldn't ask, so she could only worry anxiously.
One day, Zheng Wang had just left home when he saw Qiu Xiaohuan carrying a bamboo basket up the mountain. He couldn't help but keep his eyes on a part of the girl that seemed even taller because of the bamboo basket straps.
Zheng Wang couldn't help swallowing his saliva, "Fuck, this is fucking awesome!"
Ever since Qiu Xiaohuan asked her parents in Beijing for help to return to the city but was refused, she has become much more obedient in Kaoshan Village. After she calmed down, she was able to get along harmoniously with the other people at the educated youth site. They cooked together and took turns collecting firewood. Today it happened to be Qiu Xiaohuan's turn.
In the past, she didn’t dare to go into the mountains alone. Later, some kind ladies in the village told her that there was a forest not far from the bridge. There were shrubs and many dry branches there. If she didn’t dare to go into the mountains, she could go there to cut some.
Qiu Xiaohuan had been there several times. The forest was not dense and not far from the village. Gradually, she was not so afraid anymore. Sometimes she dared to follow the villagers and go a little further inside, but she only dared to wander around the periphery.
Today she tied up the chopped firewood and was about to drag it down the mountain when she saw a bunch of purple wild flowers on the wetland not far ahead. It looked a bit like what the villagers called pen ink splashes.
Qiu Xiaohuan wanted to pick some firewood back, thinking that it was not far away and she could just pick it up and put it in a bottle, so she put the bundle of firewood aside and walked over quickly.
It was really a fountain pen spray, also known as amaranth. There seemed to be seven or eight flowers in this cluster. She picked them all and took them back. Just after she finished picking them, she looked up and saw another cluster not far away. Qiu Xiaohuan couldn't help but ran over to pick them again. She repeated this several times, and she was getting farther and farther away from the place where she had just chopped wood.
When Qiu Xiaohuan came to her senses, she also realized that she was not in a hurry. It was not her first time in the mountains. She knew that although there were many wild animals in this mountain, they only moved in the deep mountains inside and rarely came here.
So Qiu Xiaohuan continued to pick the fruits with her head down. She had already made plans to give some to each educated youth, so that Yan Xudong would accept some because others had some.
Thinking that the flowers she picked would appear on Yan Xudong's desk, Qiu Xiaohuan couldn't help but smile with her lips pursed. She had an inexplicable illusion that the wild flowers were replacing her to be with her lover.
The moment she lowered her head, she heard the sound of footsteps on branches behind her. She thought it was the villagers coming, so she stood up and looked over, but saw no one.
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