Chapter 63 Studying Medicine
"Yike, Yike, are you awake?" Godmother Wang Cuihua shouted outside the door early in the morning. Her voice was so loud that she woke up the child even though he was not awake yet.
"I'm awake, godmother, wait a minute." Yike got up from the bed, put on her clothes quickly, kissed Ziyi on the forehead, and said, "Dear, I'm going to wash up first. Godmother may be worried about my brother's condition. You take your time to get up."
"Don't be in a hurry. Put on your clothes before you go out. Walk steadily and don't fall." Ziyi stood up as he spoke and put on his clothes in no time. He was so fast that people who didn't know him would have thought he had just retired from the army. He put on his own clothes and helped Yike tidy up his clothes, tied his collar, turned it up, and buttoned it.
"You don't have to be so anxious. Now that you are out of danger, there is no need to worry. It is easy to get dizzy if you sit up like this." Ziyi chattered like an old mother.
"Oh, okay, I'll remember it next time." Yike answered casually, and hurried out. Ziyi shook his head helplessly, and sighed in his heart: "Will I remember it in the future? I'd better remember it myself."
"Godmother, let me wash up first. Has brother Jiankang's fever gone down?" Yike asked as they walked.
"I just touched my forehead and it seems I don't have a fever anymore. I got up twice to urinate last night and I'm not feeling cold anymore," said godmother Wang Cuihua. "That's a good thing. Let me tell you, it's good to drink more water and urinate more often when you have a fever. Think about it, when you have a fever, the water in your body evaporates, so you will faint due to lack of water. Drinking more water can replenish water. And drinking more water will make you urinate, so the heat from the fever can be expelled from the body through urine. So Brother Jiankang urinated twice at night to expel the heat from his body and he didn't have a fever."
"Yike, you are right. Your healthy brother was still having a fever in the first half of the night, but he no longer felt the fever after he urinated. It turned out that the heat was discharged through urine. No wonder you asked us to give your brother water frequently. You know a lot. You go wash up first. I'll go to your brother's place first. Don't be angry if I wake you up early in the morning. I just want to know if your brother has recovered. Alas! You don't know. Yesterday I thought I was going to lose this son. Fortunately, you stopped us from sending him to the hospital, otherwise we would have turned back halfway. Brother Haoran told us last night that your healthy brother could only live for one day at most. If my son was really gone, I would definitely not be able to live. Thank you to all the great gods, and thank you Yike. You saved your healthy brother, and it is equivalent to saving our whole family. You are the lifesaver of our whole family! Godmother really thanks you!" Godmother Wang Cuihua felt scared after hearing what brother Haoran said. Fortunately, she believed Yike and did not send him to the hospital.
"Godmother, don't think too much. Brother Jiankang is blessed with a long life, so he needs a sister like me to save him." Yike deliberately joked.
"Yes! You are right, you are his lucky star." Godmother Wang Cuihua also became happy, "Go, child, go wash up, take your time, I am relieved now, no longer in a hurry."
Yike was very happy having saved a life. If the patient wasn't here, she would have wanted to sing a song loudly, haha!
"Good morning, Mom!" As soon as I walked into the kitchen, I saw my mother Zhang Yuling busy making breakfast.
"Good morning! Yike, there's hot water for you, go take a shower."
"Mother is so nice!"
"Let's go together. Go wash up quickly, and don't talk nonsense here. After you wash up, go and check your health. Your godmother has been wandering outside since dawn, and she wants you to see her."
"Oh! Okay!" Yi Ke thought to himself that if he walked around outside, he wouldn't be afraid of hearing some embarrassing noises. Li Haoran and Zhang Yuling were not old after all. I remember one time when I was hungry, I went to the kitchen with Ziyi to get some dry food, and then my ear was stuffed with food. The sound insulation of these bamboo houses is not that good. Fortunately, they didn't dare to exercise last night, probably because they considered that Du Qingcang's family was here, otherwise Wang Cuihua would have been filled with the music of Nuwa creating human beings.
Yike thought to himself, but you went to wash up obediently, and then went to the guest room.
In the guest room, Li Haoran was already taking the patient's pulse. After Yi Ke entered, he called out "Daddy" softly, and then called Du Qingcang "Godfather," and then stood quietly by the side. Everyone was waiting for the result.
After taking Du Jiankang's pulse, Li Haoran looked at his tongue and said, "The medicine yesterday was very effective. The fever has gone away and the inflammation in his throat has improved a lot. Are you coughing less today?"
"Yes, I've coughed a few times since I got up. A few days ago, I couldn't stop coughing, but it's not like that today." Du Jiankang said weakly.
"Yike, come and take a look." Li Haoran called Yike.
"Okay, Dad." Yike walked over and said, "Brother Jiankang, congratulations on getting rid of your fever."
"Thank you, sister Yike, for saving me." Du Jiankang was still a little uncomfortable and his face turned slightly red when he spoke.
"What a big boy who loves to blush." Yi Ke laughed secretly. He touched his healthy forehead without showing any expression, then held his hand and touched it, but in fact he was secretly taking his pulse.
"Godfather, godmother, Brother Jiankang will not take the medicine he took yesterday today. I will prepare new medicine later. He will be fully cured after taking the medicine for two more days. You can rest assured."
"Thank God! Thank all the great gods! My heart is finally at ease." The godmother clasped her hands together and bowed to the people around her.
"That's great. I'm finally relieved." Godfather Du Qingcang also let out a long sigh of relief.
"Dad, can you teach me how to take a pulse?" Yike decided to take advantage of this opportunity to learn how to take a pulse so that he wouldn't have to make excuses when he went to the doctor in the future.
"Okay, I'll teach you now. Let's use health as an experiment. Do you have any objection to health?" Li Haoran's father is also a man of action and is ready to teach Yi Ke right away.
"Okay, no problem." Du Jiankang answered without hesitation.
"Then I'll go make porridge for Jiankang." Godmother said and left.
"Godmother, you can add some green vegetables, chopped up, when the porridge is ready."
"good!"
"Brother Jiankang, lie down and take a rest. Just lend me your hand."
"Hmm!" Du Jiankang's body was already weak after his serious illness. He couldn't sit still for such a long time. As he lay down, he thought to himself, "My new sister is so considerate."
So father Li Haoran explained how to take a pulse and demonstrated it, and Yi Ke took Du Jiankang's hand and began to learn how to take his pulse. In order to show that she had a talent for studying medicine, she became quite proficient in it after just a few attempts. Li Haoran's father was so happy that he shouted, "He is a genius!"
Godfather Du Qingcang also kept praising him and almost laughed out loud. How can you praise someone like that? Things like “like a delicate and translucent glass lamp - it becomes bright at the touch of a button;” and “the soul is like window paper - it becomes transparent at the touch of a button;” I don’t know where my godfather heard these compliments from. It’s really funny and embarrassing. Du Jiankang had fallen asleep, so Yike quietly left. Du Qingcang and Li Haoran also quietly left and closed the door. Yike went to the medicine cabinet to get some herbs first, while Du Qingcang and Li Haoran went to the kitchen to see if breakfast was ready. Getting ready for breakfast.
"Yike, mom and dad are calling us to have breakfast." Ziyi came over and said.
"Okay, I've got the herbs too." The two of them went to the kitchen together.
Breakfast is already on the table: scallion pancakes, vegetables, boiled eggs, steamed sweet potatoes, and white porridge.
Du Qingcang and his wife felt mixed emotions when they saw such a sumptuous breakfast. Although they are all mountain people, their lives are very different.
"Brother, I will live with you from now on. Look how rich your breakfast is, it's almost as good as a full banquet. I can feast on the food by following you." Du Qingcang praised.
"Okay, then move the things here when you go back." Li Haoran accepted Du Qingcang's compliment without any modesty.
"I'll go back and pack up today, and move in tomorrow. Kang'er is sick and can't be exposed to the wind anyway, so he doesn't need to go back. Cuihua and I will go back, and I'll trouble you, brother, to look after Kang'er." Du Qingcang was also a straightforward person. He moved in right away when he said so.
In fact, their cave was flooded and it would take at least ten days or half a month for the cave to dry up. They originally wanted to stay temporarily in Ziyi and Li Haoran's cave, but now that they have a better place to go, of course they moved immediately. Yizi didn't know this, but everyone else knew it well.
"How about letting your sister-in-law stay here, and Ziyi and I will help you move?"
"Will this delay your work?"
"Hey, brother, why are you so fussy? Just answer yes or no, and don't worry about the rest."
"Okay, thank you for your help, brother."
"I wonder if the others want to come out?" Li Haoran said.
"I think they will come out after seeing how good the environment is here. This heavy rain not only flooded my cave with rainwater, but also several other caves. It's just that their caves are bigger, so people may not have been exposed to the rain. However, the caves are also wet. If you live in them for half a month, you will get sick sooner or later." Du Qingcang analyzed.
"Then let's ask them this time when we go back. If we want to come out, we should come out now. We can also plant some crops and have a harvest in the fall." Ziyi also suggested.
"You can grow crops here. What kind of crops?" Du Qingcang asked in surprise.
"You don't know?" Li Haoran asked.
"I don't know. How would you know if you didn't tell me?"
"You don't even know you can grow crops so you want to move out? Have you ever thought that there are fewer animals outside, what will you eat if you move out?"
"I didn't think about it. Anyway, I will do whatever my elder brother does."
"You are such an old man and you don't use your brain when doing things. What if..."
"There are not so many what-ifs. I'm stupid, so why don't I just follow a smart person like you? You won't harm me anyway. Tell me quickly what crops can be planted?" Du Qingcang retorted.
"Okay, okay, I won't talk to you about this. Do you know how to plant rice? Do you know how to plant sweet potatoes? In short, you can plant whatever you want, as long as you have the strength."
"This is a mountain forest. Is there any land suitable for planting?"
"Yes! There are a lot. I'll take you to visit them when you move in. You'll live there in the future. I've planted dozens of acres of rice, but unfortunately, due to the rain, many seedlings were buried in the mud. It took Ziyi and I a whole day to prop them up. I don't know if they've grown well now. I didn't have time to check yesterday. You can check them out after I help you move in."
Du Qingcang opened his mouth for a long time. With dozens of acres of rice fields, how much rice would be harvested in the fall? There was no need to pay public grain in the mountains, and he would not be able to eat it all. He suddenly felt that it was right to follow his elder brother.
After breakfast, Ziyi and Li Haoran went to help Du Qingcang move.
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