After the two brothers crushed all the herbs, they roughly came up with a solution. The eldest sister and her husband stayed in Kaoshan Village, and his younger brother went back by himself. He had to return the cart to Aunt Wang and take the child back to take care of him.
As for where to live in Kaoshan Village, I will ask the captain of the Beishan Brigade for help to see if he can help me arrange to stay with a fellow villager.
Tian Cai mixed the ground medicine powder according to the ratio of the prescription, then secretly added dew, mixed it all together, and then he and Qu Ting washed their hands and sat at the table in the main room to rub the medicine pills.
Rubbing is simple. Qu Ting understood it after watching for a while, but her rubbing speed was much slower than Tian Cai's.
Tian Cai estimated the amount of medicine for each meal and wanted to roll one pill for each meal, which would be more convenient. However, when she rolled out the first pill, she laughed at herself because it was almost as big as a baby's fist. She had no choice but to roll it into a long strip again.
In her previous life, Tian Cai had seen a tool on the Internet that people used to make medicine balls. It was two wooden boards with some symmetrical grooves dug on them. She specially asked Carpenter Chen to help her make one. It was not difficult to make. With it, Tian Cai's speed in making medicine balls increased rapidly.
Qu Ting thought it was fun, so Tian Cai was responsible for rolling the medicine into long strips. She then used a wooden board to align the grooves and push hard, and it turned into pills of similar size.
By the time the man asked Zhang Defa to come over, Tian Cai and Qu Ting had already rolled out all the pills and put them in a bamboo tube, which was enough for her for more than half a month.
"Xiao Tian, come out for a moment." Zhang Defa called Tian Cai out to talk.
The two of them walked outside the courtyard, and when they were at a distance that could no longer be heard from inside, Zhang Defa asked, "How long will it take to treat his wife's illness?"
"About two months."
Zhang Defa nodded, pondered for a moment, and then tentatively asked, "Tell me, if you persuade those two brothers to move to our village, what are the possible effects?"
Tian Cai opened her eyes wide and looked at Zhang Defa, and he looked at Tian Cai. The two stared at each other for a while, and finally she gave in. "Are you serious?"
Zhang Defa nodded. He knew both brothers of the Wang family and admired them very much.
As mentioned before, Fangshan Brigade is mainly composed of families with two surnames, the Li family and the Wang family. The rest are outsiders. Although the Wang brothers also have the surname Wang, they only moved to Fangshan Brigade after the disaster a few years ago and have nothing to do with the Wang family in Fangshan Brigade.
The two families were notoriously xenophobic, so the two brothers chose to live at the foot of a mountain farther away from the village, and lived there for five or six years.
They had previously hunted a wild boar in the mountains. As soon as the news reached the village, the team leader led his men to carry the boar away and gave each of them ten extra work points, and the matter was settled.
What Zhang Defa was attracted by was the brothers' strength and their ability to hunt wild boars. Such people are honest and capable, and are popular everywhere, except in the Fangshan Brigade.
Tian Cai was a little confused about what was going on with Zhang Defa. When she came, there were 45 households in the village, and with her, it became 46 households. In the summer, the old couple of the Ding family passed away, and the Ding family split up, so now there are 49 households in the village. If the Wang brothers come, the number will become 50. Could it be that Zhang Defa has obsessive-compulsive disorder and likes integers?
But isn't it only a matter of time before these two brothers split up? Maybe within two years there will be 51 households.
Zhang Defa was still immersed in his own thoughts, wondering where there were any vacant houses in the village. He thought about it over and over again but had no idea. The few vacant houses before, all the better ones had been occupied by the Ding family. But he didn't let the Ding brothers occupy them in vain, as he asked them to pay money to the team.
In the end, Zhang Defa decided to let them live in the home of Old Lady Zhang first. That was the only five-guarantee household in the village. She had no children, but the old lady was in good health and did not need the villagers' care for the time being. She could do most of the housework at home and outside by herself. The villagers occasionally helped to fetch water, chop firewood and do some heavy work.
The Wang couple has been living in Mrs. Zhang's house for a while. They need to provide their own food and help the old lady with some work occasionally. Everyone has old bedding, so they can just borrow a couple of them when the time comes.
Old Mrs. Zhang lives to the west of Uncle Luo's house, which is not far from Tian Cai. She can go there for acupuncture every other day and she will be cured in less than two months.
The Wang brothers followed Zhang Defa to find their way home, and they also took their eldest sister over on a flatbed cart. Tian Cai was afraid that she would catch a cold, so he pulled an old quilt to cover her head.
Old Mrs. Zhang is over seventy years old. She is a little old lady with bound feet. She walks unsteadily and often has to use a cane. She has a slightly hunched back and her hearing is not very good. Villagers have to speak louder when talking to her, otherwise she can't hear clearly.
Tian Cai had seen her before, and the old lady had no health problems. She had a very good attitude, smiled every day, and rarely got sick. The old lady was best at weaving straw sandals, which were among the strongest and most beautiful in the village.
"Aunt Zhang's son died in the War of Liberation a few years ago. Later, after Uncle Zhang passed away, she was left alone." Although Zhang Defa and old lady Zhang have the same surname, they are not related. Taking good care of her over the years can be regarded as taking care of the family of his fallen comrade.
The Wang brothers were in awe when they heard this. They didn't expect that the old man had a son who had been to the battlefield. They secretly planned to take good care of the old lady while they were staying there. After all, they were strong and would not die from doing more work.
Tian Cai originally planned to go there more often in the future, but he didn't expect the temperature to drop suddenly, and many people have fallen ill recently.
There are many patients not only in Kaishan Village, but also in Qingshan Village. She has to go out for medical treatment every day, so she has much less time to rest. However, no matter how busy she is, even at night, she will remember to take time every other day to go to Mrs. Zhang's house to give acupuncture to her eldest sister.
After more than ten days of treatment, my elder sister has improved significantly. She used to be unable to even get out of bed, but now she can dress herself by leaning against the wall.
When her husband saw this scene, he was so excited that he hugged his wife and sobbed. The couple missed the child so much that they asked their younger brother to bring the baby over. The husband looked after the baby rarely, and he would bring the baby to the eldest sister's bedside every day to let her see it. Most of the time, it was Old Mrs. Zhang who looked after the child.
The coming of this family of three made her home much more lively. The old lady had nothing to do every day. After learning that the couple had left their three-month-old child at home, she insisted that the second son of the Wang family send the child over for her to take care of.
Now, her husband and children are by her side, and there is hope that her illness can be cured. My eldest sister is in a better mood, and her health will recover very quickly.
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