She was alone, and the team leader asked her some time ago if she wanted to find an apprentice in the village to take care of her. The apprentice would go out to dig herbs while she would stay at home to see patients.
She first proposed to select two more people to learn, and whoever has better learning ability would be kept as an apprentice. However, the team leader was unwilling to do so, saying that if one more person was left here, he would take so many work points for nothing every day, and the villagers would definitely not be happy about that.
He also said that Tong Yiya could only choose people from the village and no one else could be chosen, and she would not agree. If she taught everyone in the village, it would be her turn to be the barefoot doctor.
So Tong Yiya said, "My medical skills are not that good. I learned everything by myself. How can I teach others?"
The captain knew that she was unwilling to teach, and he couldn't force her, so he could only say, "That's fine, just let her do it herself."
From then on, Tiantian no longer used all the herbs she dug. Most of the herbs she dug every day were dried and stored in her space. Whenever she didn't need them when the time came, the team leader would ask about it, saying that all the usable herbs in the mountains had been dug up, unless they went deep into the mountains.
These people didn't dare to agree to let her go digging in the mountains. If something happened, no one in the village would be able to escape responsibility, so they would have nothing to say at that time.
So the matter ended there, and the team leader and the others never mentioned it again. When she went out to dig for herbs, those people would try to come in the morning and evening to see the doctor and get the herbs.
Now Tong Yiya gets up every morning, eats breakfast, and then goes up the mountain with her backpack and medicine hoe. The wild fruits in the mountains have been ripening one after another recently.
She usually goes to the edge of the deep mountains to dig herbs. Normally, no one in the village would go there, so only Tong Yiya had picked the wild fruits there in the autumn in the past two years.
Because she often went into the mountains to dig for herbs, she took note of the fruit trees and small berry trees in the mountains.
The autumn harvest has not started in the village yet. While she goes up the mountain to dig herbs, she also picks the ripe fruits from the trees and puts them into the space when she goes down the mountain.
When we got home, we ate what we could, and dried the rest to keep as snacks during the winter.
This year she still got a lot of persimmons from the space and made them into persimmon cakes, but she was the only one making it this year.
She was resting at home that day, and Fu Shinian, who hadn't seen her for a long time, came to see her. When he entered the yard, he saw her peeling persimmons alone.
Tong Yiya saw someone coming and asked, "Fu Zhiqing, what's the matter?"
"Ah, I don't have anything serious to do. I just wanted to ask if you have any insect repellent. This may be because we are close to the mountains, and there are a lot of mosquitoes recently." Fu Shinian made up an excuse.
After hearing this, Tong Yiya also understood the trouble he was talking about. When she first moved here, mosquitoes kept buzzing in her ears all night long when she slept at night, which was very disturbing.
Later, she got some mugwort and mixed it with some medicinal powder to make mosquito coils. Also, in the summer, she would sprinkle some insect-proof and ant-proof powder around the courtyard wall. Only then did things get better.
She was about to put down the persimmons and scraper in her hand and said, "Yes, I'll get it for you now. Sorry to bother you waiting for a while."
Seeing that she still had a lot of persimmons to peel, Fu Shinian thought that he had nothing to do in the afternoon, so he might as well help here and have more time alone, so he hurriedly said, "Tong Zhiqing, you can focus on the work in your hands first, I'm not in a hurry."
"Oh, then I'll send it to you later." After hearing what he said, Tong Yiya looked at the dirt on her hands and thought that it would be troublesome to wash her hands. Seeing that he was not in a hurry to use it, she suggested sending it to him in the evening.
"It's okay. I have nothing to do in the afternoon anyway, so I'll help you with the work here. You can give me the medicine when you're done," said Fu Shinian, as he walked under the eaves, pulled a stool and sat down next to the basket of persimmons.
Seeing that there was only one scraper in the basket, he raised his head and asked Tong Yiya: "Tong Zhiqing, do you have any extra scrapers?"
"Ah... yes, then I'll trouble you, Fu Zhiqing," Tong Yiya said, and went to find a scraper.
"It's not a problem. I just don't know what Tong Zhiqing is going to do with all these persimmons," Fu Shinian asked.
Seeing that she went to get another scraper, I picked up the one she had just used and started scraping a persimmon.
Tong Yiya came back with a scraper a short while later. After sitting down, she replied, "I'm going to make dried persimmon cakes with this. When it's done, I'll give some to Fu Zhiqing and you guys to try."
Fu Shinian had eaten persimmon cakes before, but he never knew how they were made. When he heard that Tong Yiya wanted to give them persimmon cakes, he did not refuse and said, "Then I won't be polite to you, Tong Zhiqing. If you need our help in the future, don't be polite, just call us directly."
"Okay," Tong Yiya responded
Later, Fu Shinian scraped one, then watched how Tong Yiya operated it, then pulled the string on the rack on one side, scraped the persimmons on it and tied it up.
The two of them worked for an entire afternoon before they finished peeling the two large baskets of persimmons. Tong Yiya felt her hands were almost exhausted, and she looked at Fu Shinian with a bit of guilt.
After thinking about it, he said, "Fu Zhiqing, please have dinner with me tonight. You helped me for the whole afternoon, so you should treat me to a meal, right?"
Fu Shinian didn't want to refuse, but when he thought about his good brother who was still at home, if he knew that he had eaten the delicious food made by Tong Zhiqing behind his back, he would definitely quarrel with him, so he still refused: "No, Tong Zhiqing, I still have to go back to cook, I'll eat at your house next time."
Tong Yiya thought that he had another child at home, so she was not stingy with the food and said, "Call Dong Zhiqing over to eat with you later. If you think it's not good, bring his food rations over. Anyway, I can cook for one person and two people.
Also, you need to take the medicine back and light it in the room. It’s better not to leave anyone in the room after it has been smoked for a while. Also, you need to take the medicine powder back and sprinkle it first.”
Fu Shinian finally agreed and said that he would bring food for both of them in a while. He also asked Tong Yiya to wait for a while while she cooked, as he wanted her to teach him.
The two people behind put the scraped persimmon peels in a winnowing basket and spread them out to dry, then got water to wash their hands. Tong Yiya went to the pharmacy to get the medicine powder and her homemade mosquito coils and handed them to him. She also taught him how to use them, and then Fu Shinian went back.
When Dong Weibing learned that he could go to Tong Zhiqing's house for dinner in the evening, he was so happy that he wanted to go immediately.
Later, Fu Shinian pulled him back home and used the medicine powder and mosquito coils first. Then the two of them brought the rations to Tong Yiya's yard.
Guard Dong still brought a bag of pastries as a gift, and Tong Yiya did not refuse. She thought that in the future, she could give some of the dried fruits she made to the two of them, so that they could interact with each other and get along well in the next few years.
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