"Just now the team leader asked us to follow the people in our village to learn how to harvest rice, so we thought of coming to learn from you." Liu Yanqing didn't know why, facing the calm gaze of Doctor Tian, she couldn't help but use the word "you", and her little thoughts seemed to be exposed under this gaze, which made the hairs on her back stand up.
It was unclear what the two men's purpose was, so Tian Cai assumed they were indeed here to learn how to harvest rice. "I just learned today too. If you don't mind, you can watch from the side. When you've seen enough, I'll give you a scythe to try out."
Upon hearing this, Liu Yanqing was immediately grateful and thanked him repeatedly. She pulled Liu Yanlin to find a place nearby where they would not be in the way.
Tian Cai then lowered her head and continued to cut the rice, but this time she didn't dare to be too leisurely. She pretended to cut the rice with great effort and pretended to be very tired.
Luo Xiuyan had seen the conversation just now. When she was cutting alongside Tian Cai, she winked at her and whispered, "I can teach you one too!"
Tian Cai was immediately amused by her little expression. This girl was obviously trying to be lazy, so he looked up and called out to Liu Yanqing, "Let your brother go over and learn from her, and then you two can try it together later."
When Liu Yanlin heard this, he went to Luo Xiuyan very tactfully.
Luo Xiuyan immediately worked harder to cut the rice, acting like a master.
They cut for more than ten minutes, then asked the brother and sister to take over. They corrected their posture and when they saw that they were cutting properly, they let them do it on their own. Then they went to the edge of the field together to drink some summer-cooling soup.
"It's not bad to have a little apprentice. I can take some time off!" Luo Xiuyan said happily.
Tian Cai's kettle contained an enhanced version of the summer-heat-relieving soup. She also took out two bamboo cups, originally intending to share them with Luo Xiuyan, but when she thought of the empty-handed appearance of the brother and sister, she decided not to use them and would use this to serve each of them a normal cup later.
The two of them drank a few sips at the edge of the field, then prepared some for the siblings before returning to the field.
At this time, the two siblings had been cutting for almost twenty minutes. Liu Yanqing's arms, which had never done any heavy work, were so sore that she could hardly lift them, and her waist was still bent.
Luo Xiuyan asked them to stop and handed them the summer heat soup. "Drink it. This is Tian Caicai's special and effective summer heat soup."
Tian Cai didn't say anything. She was too lazy to resist the various nicknames the girl gave her after they got to know each other.
This was the first kindness Liu Yanqing and her brother received since they arrived in the countryside. She quickly wiped her hands on her clothes, took it, and handed a cup to her brother before drinking it in big gulps.
Even after they learned how to do it, the two of them did not leave. They followed Tian Cai and Luo Xiuyan all day, taking turns cutting rice. They only stopped working when one group finished ahead of them.
On the way back, Liu Yanlin felt distressed as she watched her sister kneading her aching arms and waist. "Sister, why did you have to work so hard today? Didn't the captain tell us to learn today and then rest?"
Liu Yanqing patted her brother's shoulder. "Mom used to say, 'You take what other people say seriously.' The captain told you to take a break, and you dared to take a break? I'm telling you, work harder and you won't die of exhaustion. Be diligent in everything you do, but don't try to be too brave if it's not your job. Otherwise, you'll give others the impression that you're easy to bully. You have to find the right balance."
Liu Yanlin nodded. Anyway, his mother said that he should listen to his sister when he went to the countryside. His sister was much smarter than him, so what she said was right.
Tian Cai didn't feel very tired after working all day, but her armpits were sweating a lot from wearing long sleeves in the sun, and she felt itchy from scratching her body with straw so much. She went home and boiled a pot of water, then closed the door and took a good bath. She used the remaining water to wash the clothes she wore for work today.
After cleaning up, Tian Cai, with her damp hair loose, carried back two buckets of water and went to the vegetable garden to pick some leeks. She planned to make leek dumplings tonight. While she was washing them, she saw Zhang Defa coming over with two educated youths.
The female educated youth was held by the male educated youth, and bright red blood was seeping from the places where her calves were tied with cloth strips.
Tian Cai hurriedly brought a stool over and asked him to put it down. He went into the house, picked up the medicine box, squatted down and was about to untie the cloth strips.
"Are your hands clean? You touched her wound without washing them." the male educated youth shouted.
When Tian Cai heard this, she looked up. Before she could say anything, Zhang Defa's already ugly expression became even uglier.
"I just finished washing and was about to cook when you guys came."
Only then did Xu Bingshuai notice the girl's face. Although she was not as fair as the girls in the city, she had a pair of very beautiful eyes. When she looked at him with such clear eyes, even he was stunned.
Seeing that the male educated youth had shut up, Tian Cai reached out to untie the strips of cloth. Before his hand even touched the strips, the female educated youth began to sob, "It hurts! It hurts! Be gentle!"
The voice was sobbing, which did not make people feel pity, but instead made them feel irritated for no reason.
Tian Cai ignored her, used her strength to hold her legs and quickly untied the cloth strips. There was a slanted wound on her calf, about one finger long, which seemed to have been cut with a sickle. The wound looked relatively clean, but she still used tweezers to clean the bloodstains next to it.
He was planning to disinfect the wound with white wine, but as soon as the white cotton cloth touched the wound, the female educated youth screamed. Tian Cai was so scared that his hand trembled and he pressed hard on the wound.
Xu Bingshuai was so distressed that he kept pacing around anxiously, constantly asking Tian Cai to be gentler and gentler.
After disinfecting, she rummaged through the medicine box and found some common trauma medicine and sprinkled it on the wound. She handed the rest directly to the female educated youth and said, "I don't have any gauze here. You can go back and bandage the wound with a clean cloth. Just change the dressing yourself every day."
"But, but, I can't reach my calf, how can I change it?" the female educated youth said crying.
Tian Cai: "Aren't there other female educated youth with you? They can all help you change."
"Then how can I go back now? I can't walk." The female educated youth looked at Tian Cai accusingly with her red and swollen eyes.
Tian Cai glanced at the male educated youth next to him and said, "You can go back the same way you came here."
"What if it gets infected?" She continued crying.
Tian Cai's patience is running out. "As long as you don't touch water and don't live in a doghouse or pigpen, it's not that easy to get infected."
The female educated youth was about to say something when Zhang Defa spoke up, pointing at the male educated youth and saying, "Send her back."
It was only at this time that Xu Bingshuai realized that this female doctor was not as easy to deal with as he had imagined. After paying the money, he quickly picked up He Yuzhen, thanked her and left.
"How did they raise it? They're so pampered!" Zhang Defa sighed.
Tian Cai was not incomprehensible. The delicate girl, who was ignorant of worldly affairs, came to this place and joked, "You have to give her some time to grow, right?"
The two talked for a few more words before Zhang Defa left with his hands behind his back.
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