"Really? Tiger's that good now?"
"Um!"
Lin Hu smiled smugly. Back when he was studying in town, the teachers didn't speak English at all, and there were no English classes.
His ability to keep up with the pace of English classes so quickly after transferring schools is unbelievable, even to his teachers.
"Third Uncle, I ate well, wrote, and drew at the nursery today."
Lin Yao, wearing a white robe, squatted on the ground, vigorously washing vegetables in an enamel basin with his small hands.
"Wow~~~, our Yaoyao is so well-behaved too!"
Hehehe~~~
After hearing Lin Laosan's praise, Lin Yao moved his little hands even faster and started singing the nursery rhyme he had just learned at the nursery school that day.
As Lin Li listened to their conversation, she pushed her bicycle into the yard and parked it.
"I could hear you laughing and talking outside the gate. Tiger and Yaoyao both behaved well today. We'll have an extra meal tonight."
"Oh yeah!!!"
The two little ones used words they had just learned to express their joy.
Lin Li closed the courtyard gate, walked into the main room, and placed the dishes she had packed from Nanhai Pavilion yesterday on the table.
"Come and eat first. We'll make the dishes we haven't cooked yet tomorrow!"
Lin Laosan stood on tiptoe, leaned half his body out, and glanced at the dishes on the table in the main room.
"Tiger, take the dishes that are cooked on the stove over there. Yao Yao, don't wash the vegetables yet, put them in the refrigerator later, and cook them tomorrow. Let's eat something good today!"
"good!"
The two little ones obediently followed Lin Laosan's instructions and got to work!
When Lin Laosan brought the prepared meal to the main room, he was tempted by the various dishes on the table.
"Mom, did you get it from the South China Sea Pavilion?"
"Yes, these are all Chef Wang's specialties."
"I can tell, I'm really craving this."
Lin Laosan jogged back to the kitchen and got four sets of bowls and chopsticks.
Lin Hu stood up, took the bowl and chopsticks, and served Lin Li a bowl of steaming white rice.
"Milk!"
"Thank you, Tiger!"
Lin Li took the rice bowl, smelled the fragrant rice, and squinted her eyes.
After everyone else had served their rice, the three of them waited for Lin Li to pick up her chopsticks before they began to eat.
"Third brother, have you made an appointment with Professor Chen?"
"It's arranged. I'll bring them back to the courtyard at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon," Lin Laosan replied while eating.
After hearing this, Lin Li swallowed the food in her mouth.
"Okay, I'll be back to wait for you tomorrow at noon."
After picking up a shrimp, squinting as she ate it, Lin Li continued.
"By the way, I'm going to Hong Kong in a while, so you'd better take good care of Tiger and Yao Yao!"
"No problem, don't worry!"
After learning that Lin Hu and Lin Yao would be coming to Beijing to study, Lin Laosan gave up his dormitory and started commuting to school every day.
He knew Lin Li would be very busy, and he was worried about leaving the two children at home alone.
"Grandma, go ahead and do what you need to do. Yao Yao and I will listen to Uncle San's advice carefully."
"Yes, Yaoyao will be obedient!"
After arriving in Beijing, Lin Yao and Lin Hu became increasingly lively and talkative, acting more like little children.
"Tiger and Yaoyao are such good boys!"
The four chatted and laughed, and even the moon in the sky seemed to smile and turn into a crescent moon.
...
The next day at noon, Lin Li returned from the hospital early, ate lunch, took a nap, and waited for Lin Laosan to bring Professor Chen and his daughter over.
About a minute after 2 o'clock, Lin Laosan opened the courtyard gate.
A man in a dark blue Zhongshan suit nervously rubbed his acrylic gloves and greeted her politely.
"Hello, Dr. Lin."
"Hello Professor Chen, please come in and have a seat."
Lin Li smiled and led them into the courtyard.
Professor Chen's daughter, standing behind him, had her head down. The heels of her army-green cloth shoes were worn shiny. She was clutching the strap of her canvas bag tightly, and a handkerchief printed with the double happiness symbol was sticking out from the corner of the bag.
The two followed Lin Li into the main room and sat down.
"Dr. Lin, my daughter and I have come here today to ask you to examine my daughter Chen Xue's infertility. She has been married for three years and still doesn't have a child..."
Upon hearing her father's words, Chen Xue's eyes began to redden, and tears welled up in her eyes.
"I see!"
Seeing Chen Xue's red eyes, Lin Li took her hand, stood up, and held the acupuncture box.
"Come with me for a checkup!"
He led her to the guest room and pointed to the bed.
"Lie down!"
Chen Xue lowered her head, obediently walked over, took off her shoes, and lay down.
As she lay down, Lin Li noticed a faint scar on the back of her neck. "Was it from scratching a rash when you were little?"
Chen Xue looked up and quickly said, "Back in '76, I had a fever, and the barefoot doctor in the countryside gave me penicillin..."
After Chen Xue lay down, she walked to the bedside, smiled gently, and looked at her as she spoke.
"Don't be afraid, let me take your pulse first."
Upon hearing Lin Li's words, Chen Xue regained some color in her pale face, her lips curled up slightly, and she nodded.
Three fingers were placed on Chen Xue's wrist. "Her pulse is wiry and thready, indicating liver qi stagnation."
Chen Xue listened to Lin Li's words in a daze.
I heard it, but I didn't understand it!
Lin Li lifted Chen Xue's shirt, revealing the skin on her lower back, where there was a light brown bruise.
"Is this the needle from last time?"
Chen Xue nodded.
"Did you feel warmth in your lower abdomen after the last acupuncture treatment?"
She took out a silver needle from the rosewood needle box, the red silk thread tied to the end of the needle trembling slightly.
She obtained this box of silver needles from her spatial storage. The needles had a matte finish in the sunlight, unlike the glaring stainless steel needles used in hospitals.
Chen Xue bit her lip and nodded.
Lin Li gently turned her wrist, and the silver needle steadily pierced the Guanyuan acupoint, the red thread at the end of the needle swaying gently with her breathing.
"When the liver is stagnant, the blood stagnates, and the uterus is not nourished. I'll go get the medicine pot; wait for me a moment."
Chen Xue gave a soft "hmm".
Lin Li quickly returned to her room, packed all the necessary medicines into a wooden box, and brought them over.
After returning to her room, she opened the celadon medicine jar, and a rich medicinal aroma wafted out. Inside were angelica, motherwort, and brown sugar, all of which were good medicinal materials taken from her space.
Lin Li took the silver moxibustion stick and heated it over an alcohol lamp.
The faint humming sound that silverware makes when heated.
“Dr. Lin,” Chen Xue said softly, watching Lin Li’s movements.
“We’ve been to Peking Union Medical College Hospital and military hospitals…”
"Western medicine says the fallopian tubes are adhered and surgery is needed."
Lin Li finished speaking for her and pressed the warm silver moxibustion stick onto Chen Xue's Sanyinjiao acupoint.
The moment the silver touched her skin, Chen Xue shuddered slightly, then her brows relaxed.
"Relax."
She whispered, "Put the seventh silver needle into the Qihai acupoint."
Chen Xue's eyelashes trembled, and tears welled up in the corners of her eyes.
After her miscarriage last year, she kept dreaming of the unborn child at night, sometimes a boy, sometimes a girl, always wearing a little bib she had sewn herself, with crooked stitches.
The loudspeakers in the alley began broadcasting news, reporting on the current construction achievements in various places.
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