"Besides, you were badly injured during the birth. You must take good care of yourself during the confinement period. It's best not to get out of bed except to go to the toilet. Don't try to take supplements just because you're weak. First of all, not all supplements are suitable for you. You need to recuperate slowly. I'll leave a menu with all the food you can eat."
Tian Cai looked at the wrapped baby on the kang again. His thin body was not much bigger than his father's palm. He was born prematurely and was suffocated in the womb, so his face was slightly blue. She gave the child a quick check and found that although he was a little weak, there was no other problem.
"Don't worry too much about the child. After all, he was born prematurely, so it's inevitable that he looks a little thin. When you are in better health and have more nutrition, you can breastfeed the child. He will get better soon." After thinking about it, without missing anything, Tian Cai took a pen and paper and wrote down a few menus on the kang table that were not beyond the family's means and were nutritious.
She handed the menu to Hu Cuihua's mother, then gave her a few more instructions before getting up and leaving. Cuihua's mother hurried out to see her off.
"Doctor Tian, I didn't have the courage to ask in front of my daughter just now whether the baby she gave birth to was a boy or not?" Cuihua's mother sent Tian Cai to the door and asked after making sure that no one in the house could hear it. She came too late and didn't see it.
Tian Cai was stunned for a moment before nodding, "It's a boy."
Cuihua's mother finally breathed a sigh of relief, clasped her hands together and bowed to the sky. Seeing Tian Cai's puzzled expression, she explained, "You don't know, I gave birth to four daughters in my lifetime and raised them all by myself. People say that our Hu family only gives birth to daughters. Cuihua is the eldest in the family. If she also gave birth to a daughter, I'm afraid the rest of my family would have a hard time finding a husband."
Tian Cai did not comment on this, and he knew that it was impossible to explain to people at that time why the gender of the baby depended on the man. But he just couldn't imagine that the woman in front of him with half white hair was not even fifty years old. Maybe she was tired of raising a child alone.
Indeed, if a woman wants to be young and beautiful, she should not get married or have children.
She knew the way back to Kaoshan Village and was not afraid of walking at night. Zhang Daniu wanted to take her back again, but Tian Cai refused. "Your wife can't leave her alone. I can walk by myself. I'm used to walking on mountain roads every day to collect herbs!"
"Well, then, Doctor Tian, please be careful on the road!" Zhang Daniu was also worried about his wife, so he didn't insist after hearing her say that.
Tian Cai waved at him and walked out of the village carrying the medicine box on his back.
The temperature on the mountain in the early morning was extremely low. Tian Cai wrapped his clothes tightly, but his ears felt painful from the cold. He simply let his hair down to cover it, put the medicine box back on his back, and jogged back home.
After returning home, Tian Cai took off the blood-stained clothes and put them aside. He added some more firewood to the stove, scooped a basin of hot water to soak his feet, washed his hands and face again, climbed onto the kang, and fell asleep soon after.
When he woke up, it was already bright outside. Tian Cai stared blankly at the ceiling, and was a little unconscious for a while.
After lingering in bed for a while, she got up to wash and fetched water to wash the clothes she took off last night. Blood stains were difficult to clean, so Tian Cai rubbed them repeatedly with the soap she made for a long time before washing them clean. She wrung them dry and hung them in the yard to dry.
For breakfast, she had the leftover pheasant stewed with potatoes from last night. After cleaning up the kitchen, she went to the pharmacy to get medicine for Hu Cuihua. All of the medicines were fortifying the blood and qi. Her health had been poor to begin with, and this delivery had severely damaged her vitality. I'm afraid she will have to rely on pills for a long time to come.
Tian Cai added a whole drop of dew to the medicine last night, and the efficacy increased several times. Now she dare not add so much to the tonic medicine, otherwise she will be completely cured within a year or two, and what should she do if everyone comes to ask for medicine?
Other people who become doctors are trying to become famous, but I try my best but still can't stand out.
There was still a lot of dew in stock at home. When Tian Cai took out a small bottle and was about to collect the bean sprouts produced today, he was stunned. The sprout that originally had only two bean petals and half a leaf now had a complete third leaf growing out of it, if the previous bean petals were counted as two leaves.
The tip of this leaf appeared a long time ago, but it never came out completely. A part of it came out a few days ago, and it came out completely today. There was no gradual process in between. It felt like it suddenly appeared halfway and then suddenly came out completely.
Each previous change took a long time, but this time it only took a few days for the leaves to grow halfway to fully grown. What is going on?
What happened in the past few days suddenly flashed through her mind, and she seemed to have found the common ground between these two growth points.
The half leaf that appeared was because she rescued Qin Ling whom she met on the mountain, and the whole leaf that grew out was because she saved Hu Cuihua?
The common point between the two times is that she saved a life each time. Does this thing's growth depend on her saving lives?
I just don't know what good will it do her if it grows leaves? When I think back to the two leaves, the daily dew it produced was already incredible. I wonder what the third leaf will bring her. Could it be more dew?
Tian Cai hurriedly took another small bottle and connected it to the bottom. She saw that where the dew seeped out, there was a crystal clear water-like substance condensed as usual. She poured it into the small bottle, and it was still just one drop.
That shouldn't be the case. Could it be that the effect is even stronger? Tian Cai decided to do an experiment.
She diluted the previous dew and poured it on the vegetables planted in the wooden box in the bedroom. She also diluted the new dew she received today in the same proportion and poured it into another one. She would wait and see the effect in the evening.
As a result, an uninvited guest came to the house before evening.
Tian Cai looked down at the red panda rubbing against his legs and humming, and said jokingly with a smile, "Oh, you still remember to come over. I thought you had forgotten me."
The red panda didn't understand what Tian Cai said, but it knew that this person could definitely save it, so it dragged itself all the way here.
Seeing that it was not feeling well, Tian Cai patted its head soothingly, then took the mat and spread it on the ground, and took two oil lamps to illuminate it. After washing his hands, he parted the fur under the little guy's body, and was shocked when he saw what was going on.
A bloody little paw was exposed under the red panda's butt.
Tian Cai hurriedly made a new batch of labor-inducing medicine according to the one Hu Cuihua had taken yesterday. After the medicine cooled down a little, he fed it to the humming little panda. After a while, the labor started.
The first one had not moved since it was born. She tried pressing its chest alternately with her two thumbs with moderate force, but there was no response. She then gave it artificial respiration, but it still didn't work. Seeing that the cub was indeed beyond saving, Tian Cai placed it next to the red panda.
The red panda seemed to know that the baby was dying, so it lowered its head and licked it. After a while, when it saw that the baby didn't respond, it made a whimpering sound.
There was nothing wrong with the second one. It was a red mass with its eyes closed. Its breathing and heartbeat were normal.
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