A thin and rapid pulse is a sign of malnutrition.
If other people suffer from malnutrition, they can make up for the deficit after a period of time by adjusting their diet and taking nutritional supplements according to their body's needs. But An Chongwen is different.
This person was born with a weakness. His physical condition was much worse than others, and he had been carefully cared for since he was a child.
He had an asthma attack before and was examined by Tian Cai. Although he was weak then, it was not as serious as it is now. If he took good care of himself, he would not be much worse than an ordinary person.
"What have you been through these past two years? Your condition is much more serious than Elder Ju's. I'll go back and make you some medicine. Come get it tomorrow. Take it for half a month and then come back to let me take a look. I'll adjust the prescription then. You must take care of yourself. Your health is already not good. If you don't take good care of it, it will affect your lifespan. Do you understand?"
Tian Cai said in a serious tone, this guy really doesn't take himself seriously.
An Chongwen couldn't laugh when he talked about himself. He turned his eyes to the side and twitched the corner of his lips. "It's a hindrance, so be it. Anyway, there's no point in living in a place like this."
"Do you dare to say this in front of your brother?"
As soon as Tian Cai mentioned Gao Lin, An Chongwen suddenly stopped talking.
His life was saved by his cousin with great efforts. In the past few years in Kaoshan Village, most of the work that belonged to An Chongwen was contracted by Gao Lin.
An Chongwen was in poor health and could not do heavy work. Even if Zhang Defa did not treat the people in the cowshed harshly, the work they had to do was much dirtier and more tiring than that of ordinary villagers.
In the past, the mountain village was inconspicuous and no one paid attention to such a poor village in such a remote place.
But things have been different since the sanatorium was built. How many pairs of eyes are staring at the Beishan Brigade and the two captains, all wanting to get them down and come up themselves!
Under such circumstances, Zhang Defa became more cautious in his actions and would never give others any chance to catch him in the act.
Even Wu Deying, a female comrade who could not lift or carry anything, often had to follow the villagers to pick up manure and do jobs that she used to find dirty.
The men have to do heavy physical work every day, such as cleaning toilets, carrying sacks, moving logs, and breaking stones, which are the dirtiest and most tiring work.
I don’t know what Gao Lin and Zhang Defa discussed, but An Chongwen didn’t have to do these heavy work, but he needed to twist hemp ropes at home and hand over a considerable amount of hemp ropes to the production team every half a month.
Similarly, other people only need to work eight hours a day, but Gao Lin has to work the full twelve hours.
It’s not that Yue Changming doesn’t feel sorry for Wu Deying, but he was originally a mental worker, and now all this work is almost too much for him to handle. If he works for another four hours, he will probably die soon.
So no matter how reluctant Wu Deying was, he had to do these tasks.
In the past, Gao Lin could go to the mountains to hunt for wild game to improve the meals for the others, but he has rarely gone there in the past two years. Working more than ten hours a day has consumed most of his physical strength, and going up the mountain is basically impossible for him.
An Chongwen knew that his cousin had worked for him for the extra four hours, so he secretly gave some of his own food to Gao Lin, and always said that he had finished it.
They also made up various excuses.
Of course, Gao Lin didn't believe it so easily. He had to touch An Chongwen's belly to make sure it was really bulging before he would eat it.
In fact, An Chongwen, a grown man, was always busy even when he was not doing heavy physical work. This amount of food was not enough to fill him up, so he would go out to dig wild vegetables during the day when no one was in the cowshed.
Over time, you will become thinner and thinner.
Thinking about how he had been dragging his cousin down all these years, An Chongwen, a grown man, couldn't help but feel guilty and his eyes turned red.
Tian Cai didn't say much when he saw this, and he could probably guess what was going on.
The food in the cowshed consisted of cabbage leaves, radish tops and the like. It would be strange if he could be healthy if he didn't eat meat for a long time. She didn't know how to comfort him, so she just patted him on the shoulder and left.
It’s useless to say those things, it’s better to do something practical.
Tian Cai prepared the pills for An Chongwen that night, and then prepared another kind of nourishing medicine that was suitable for both men and women and could be taken by everyone.
Before leaving, he thought for a moment and carried over a rabbit that had been bitten to pieces.
Forget it, I’ll just do a good deed today.
She didn't want to eat the rabbit anyway. When the little guys were practicing hunting, there were always some trophies with particularly miserable deaths that were brought to her for display.
When Tian Cai ate such things, he always felt like he was eating their saliva. In the past, he would chop them up and mix them with dew to feed the smallest ones. If they really couldn't eat it, he would throw them back to the mountain.
When she arrived, Gao Lin had just returned and was sitting in front of the stove eating. The big man was hunched over on a small stool, wearing a gray coat. In the light of the fire from the stove, Tian Cai saw several patches on it.
"Why is Doctor Tian here?"
Gao Lin was a little confused when he saw Tian Cai coming in. They had been in the same village for so long, and even though they had not had much contact, Gao Lin knew that Tian Cai did not like visiting other people's homes and never went to other people's homes unless necessary.
"I'll deliver the medicine." Tian Cai said, taking out the bamboo jar from his pocket and handing it to him.
"Medicine?" Gao Lin swallowed the biscuit in his mouth and asked curiously, "What medicine?"
"This can is for your brother. I took his pulse today and he's severely malnourished. Take these pills for a while and then come back for a follow-up consultation." Before Gao Lin could say anything, Tian Cai handed over another, larger can. "This can is for you to eat. Both men and women can eat it. It's also for your health. And this rabbit was brought back by the lynx. You haven't eaten meat for a long time and you've done so much work. Eating some meat can also replenish yourselves. The health of both the old and the young is not good. What are we going to do in the future?"
Gao Lin stared at the things in front of him, his lips moved, and he said dryly, "Thank you."
If this was something given by someone else, Gao Lin would not dare to accept it at all, always feeling that it was a trap. But since the person was Tian Cai, he did not have that feeling.
There is still a long way to go, I will find an opportunity to pay it back later.
Tian Cai returned home quietly without disturbing anyone.
Gao Lin looked at the bamboo jar in his hand and thought about what Tian Cai had just said. He felt his throat was blocked and he couldn't eat.
He pushed open the door and called out An Chongwen, who was pretending to be asleep on the bed.
Old man Ju felt much better after eating some candy. As he was old, he slept less, so he was not sleepy yet. When he saw Gao Lin calling An Chongwen out, the old man propped himself up and sat up.
He pricked up his ears to listen to the noise outside, and as soon as the two started arguing, he would go over to mediate.
But after waiting for a long time, I could still hear vague voices outside the house at first, and then suddenly there was no movement.
"Nothing will happen to these two children, right?" Old Master Ju was worried, but he couldn't just open the door to check. So he nudged Yue Changming, who was lying next to him, with his arm and said, "Do you want to go out and check?"
"What are you looking at?" Yue Changming turned over and said nonchalantly, "You're already that old, what do you have to worry about?"
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