"What magic pill?" Luo Fuli didn't understand his wife's sarcasm at first. When he realized what was going on, he said, "Hey, what are you talking about? I want Doctor Tian to help my eldest wife. It's been five years since she gave birth to Xiaoyang, and she hasn't mentioned adding another child to the Luo family."
Aunt Du's mind was diverted to this matter. To be honest, her eldest daughter-in-law was called Sun Hongying. There was really nothing for her to find fault with. Her personality and appearance were good, except for the issue of having children.
It's obvious that she got married two years earlier than Da Niu from Luo Laoer's family. He has already given birth to three sons, while my family has only given birth to one in eight years.
If you say she can't get pregnant, she has given birth to Xiaoyang. If you say she can, there has been no news for so many years.
"How about asking Tian Cai to take a look?" Aunt Du hesitated, "But she's still a grown-up girl, how could she understand?"
"Whether you understand or not, let's see first."
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After arriving home, Tian Cai threw the empty bamboo basket directly in the yard, calmed down the impatient little panda who wanted to crawl over, went to the kitchen to boil a large pot of hot water and heat up the kang, and then picked a few cabbage leaves and threw them to the little guy.
Because he didn't know whether this little thing was a meat eater like a cat or a vegetarian like a panda, Tian Cai just treated it as a vegetarian to save trouble. He seemed to be very happy chewing on the cabbage leaves every day.
After boiling the water, she took a bath first, then changed out of her clothes, washed them, and hung them in the yard. Then she went to cook with her wet hair down.
After dinner, she went down to the cellar again, this time filling a larger bamboo basket. Tian Cai didn't plan to bring game with her to the county tomorrow. If she brought it too often, people would think it was easy to get.
Tian Cai was so tired from the busy days that he fell asleep as soon as he made the quilt. He didn't care whether his hair was dry or not. Anyway, the kang was warm and it dried in a short while.
The next morning she took the team's donkey cart to the commune, and then took a bus to the county. After selling all her things, she went home without shopping for long.
As soon as Tian Cai entered the village, she carried a bamboo basket and went straight to Luo Fuli's house. She wanted to exchange it for food. When she arrived, Luo Xiuyan and Aunt Du were at home, so Tian Cai told them her purpose.
"Come in and sit down first," Aunt Du asked Luo Xiuyan to go to the brigade headquarters to find Luo Fuli. She pulled Tian Cai to sit down and brought her a bowl of barley tea. "Try this. If your uncle Luo likes to drink it, I can taste it too."
Tian Cai placed the bamboo basket at his feet, took the barley tea, and sat on the bench. "I've been busy stockpiling firewood for the past few days. I just had some free time, so I hurried over here."
"I heard from Xiuyan that if you are too busy, just tell your aunt, and then we will ask our eldest and second sons to help you collect firewood." Aunt Du said enthusiastically.
Tian Cai quickly refused, "No, no, I'm the only one at home, and I can't burn much. I'm just worried it won't be enough, so I'm storing some more."
"Yes, I'm telling you, it's very cold in our village in the winter. It's better to store more firewood. At worst, if we can't burn it all, we can just keep burning it next spring."
The two chatted about this and that for a while, and Tian Cai felt that Aunt Du must have something to say but was embarrassed to say it, and she was always evasive in her words. So she didn't ask any more questions and just cooperated in the conversation until Uncle Luo came back.
Luo Fuli was a man of few words. After he entered the house, the two of them went straight to business. Tian Cai wanted to exchange for 100 kilograms of rice, 100 kilograms of wheat, 50 kilograms of corn, and some sweet potatoes.
Luo Fuli pondered, his own might not be able to do it, but there was still the second brother. "Okay, I'll find someone to carry it over for you tonight."
Tian Cai was overjoyed. She had just been wondering if she had asked for too much, but if she wanted to eat rice and white flour, both needed secondary processing, and removing the rice husks and wheat bran would also result in a lot of waste.
Luo Laoer's family probably wants money. As for what kind of pills Luo Fuli's family wants, he said he would tell us when he delivers the food.
Tian Cai returned home with a head full of questions. He was a little confused. If he wanted some pills, he should just say it directly. Why was he being so mysterious?
She went home and put the money she earned today in a box. After thinking for a while, she counted out thirty yuan from it. This money should be enough to exchange it.
While there was still time, Tian Cai took apart the bedding and took the wooden basin to the river to wash. She went to the backyard to check the soap she had made before. It was still not fully solidified, but it looked like it would be ready in another three to five days.
When Tian Cai arrived at the river, there were several women from the village washing clothes. It was unknown what Liu Guihua said that caused the others to exclaim in surprise.
She paused, not wanting to go any further. This Liu Guihua's mouth was like the waistband of an old lady's cotton trousers. She would make a big fuss about a little thing and let the whole village know about it. It would be fine if she just knew about it, after all, every family has something to talk about, but she would add fuel to the fire and distort the facts.
He has been beaten up many times because of this mouth, but he still has no shame.
She is quite capable and strong. Her husband is Bao Jinshan, a famous lazy man in the village. It is not easy for her to raise two sons and a daughter.
Everyone took what she said as a joke, and she was actually a good storyteller. Tian Cai felt that it was a waste of her life to be born in this era. If she were born in the future, she would definitely be an entertainment gossip reporter who could make up all kinds of stories for you.
Tian Cai was about to turn around and go back when Sun Xuelian saw her and quickly called out to her, "Doctor Tian, come and do the laundry. Come on, I have room here."
When the women nearby saw Tian Cai, they greeted her and moved aside spontaneously to make room for her.
Well, it would be bad if he didn't go. Tian Cai thanked everyone one by one and then put down the basin.
She had seen villagers using a mallet to wash clothes before, so she tried it and got one for herself. The soap wasn't working yet, so she was using soapberry water in a bamboo tube. This was water boiled with soapberries, and it had pretty good cleaning power.
Besides, I wash my bed sheets quite frequently, so they aren’t that dirty.
After exchanging a few pleasantries with a few people, she stopped talking and the topic returned to the gossip that Liu Guihua had just told.
She soaked the sheet in the river water, fished it out, poured soap on it and started beating it.
Amidst the constant "bang bang" sounds, Tian Cai was forced to learn that there was a boy from the Qin family in the village who brought misfortune upon his father, mother, and entire family. According to Liu Guihua, all the hens next door were brought to death by misfortune.
Tian Cai didn't know the person they were talking about and had never seen him before.
After listening to the gossip of these women, she learned that this man had a twin brother. When the brothers were six years old, their parents died unexpectedly, and they were taken in and raised by their uncle who lived in Fengchan Village. They must have suffered a lot of abuse there.
When the two brothers were ten years old, they ran back to Kaoshan Village by themselves. At that time, the older brother had become stupid, but he was obviously normal before. It was the younger brother who was not stupid.
My uncle's family refused to agree to my return. They raised me until I was ten years old, just when I could work, but I ran away because I came to Kaoshan Village many times to make trouble.
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