"Grandma, don't get up yet. Let me massage your legs."
She helped the old lady lie on the kang and pressed the acupoints skillfully.
"Oh, grandma is lucky to have met you, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get through this winter," Qin Qiuniang felt refreshed and loved Chen Tan's massage technique. "Tan Nier, Qin Li and I have seen everything you've done for me. It's only natural for him to spend money on you. Don't refuse, you deserve it."
Yesterday, Qin Li privately told him about the estrangement between him and this girl.
Judging from his tone, I felt a little regretful about what I said.
After spending some time together, she could feel that Chen Tan was a good kid.
It is also Qin Li's blessing that she is willing to live a good life with him.
"Grandma, you and Brother Qin saved me. I have no way to repay your kindness. How can I ask for your money again?"
Chen Tan's long eyelashes fluttered, and she had become a little dependent on the warmth of this family.
If she continued to take Qin Li's money for granted, the comfortable life without pressure would probably drag down her fighting spirit.
"Oh, you!" Qin Qiuniang didn't say anything else in the end.
She could see that this girl was ambitious.
It was already half past when Qin Li came back. Chen Tan and Qin Qiuniang were sitting in the backyard grinding herbs.
One grinds it with a millstone, and the other pound it with a stone ladle.
An old man and a young boy, talking and smiling softly, the picture is warm and harmonious.
Qin Li was carrying ten kilograms of tea oil in one hand and ten kilograms of ground tea bran in the other. He looked at the two of them, his heart filled with disappointment.
Perhaps, he is destined to be an unhappy person.
"Brother, I'm back."
Chen Tan saw him and quickly ran over to lend a hand.
Qin Li dodged by leaning to the side. "It's too heavy. You can't lift it."
"Those rough jobs should be done by the men, so don't go and help," Qin Qiuniang, holding the pestle, looked at Qin Li and smiled, "Quickly bring the carving knife and carve the mold, we're waiting to use it."
Qin Li silently put down the things in his hand, went to the pile of pine needles in the shed opposite, and found a set of carpentry axes, planes, saws, chisels, and rulers and inkwells.
Looking at the tools, Chen Tan was surprised, "Brother is really good at carpentry."
"Qin Li has been able to do it since he was young. No matter what job it is, he can learn the basics just by watching it."
Qin Qiuniang looked at Qin Li, who was planing wood across from her, and continued to praise him, "He made all the tables, chairs, and benches in our house. Even your new wardrobe was made by him."
"Really?"
Chen Tan felt inexplicably sad, as it should be considered that Qin Li had done that to Chen Yinhua.
I wonder if when he married Chen Yinhua he was planning to marry her off?
Realizing that he was in a bad mood, Chen Tan quickly changed the subject.
"Grandma, I've finished memorizing the medical book that Grandpa Xie gave me. I plan to go to him and exchange it for another one the day after tomorrow."
"Well, that old man has real skills. You can learn from him and you won't go wrong."
"good."
The three of them chatted while busying themselves. By noon, Qin Li had carved out ten small flower-shaped grooves using a wooden board of appropriate thickness.
Since it is used as a gift, it does not need to be too big, 50 grams is enough.
By dark, the frostbite ointment was ready.
She put it in an enamel basin and mixed in 100 ml of spiritual spring water.
Let it sit overnight and it will be ready to use tomorrow.
After dinner, Chen Tan helped the old lady to sleep, and then she worked overtime to make tea bran soap.
Compared to frostbite cream, tea bran soap is much more troublesome.
She filtered the tea bran powder through a fine cloth and set the fine tea bran powder aside for later use.
Put the coarse-grained tea bran residue, Polygonum multiflorum, Eclipta prostrata, Platycladus orientalis leaves together in a large earthenware pot and boil water.
After boiling out the essence of the soup, filter out the residue and let it cool.
Next, mix tea oil, palm oil and coconut oil in proportion, add appropriate amount of caustic soda water, stir evenly, pour into the tea bran essence soup, secretly add a spoonful of spiritual spring water, stir until thick, and pour into the flower-shaped mold.
Today, Cheng Li made ten wooden boards and one hundred small flower troughs.
I made three rectangular wooden boxes to make square tea bran soap without any patterns, which I kept for my family to use.
Agarwood was used to make exactly one hundred flower-shaped soaps and a wooden box of square soaps.
The weather is cold now, so we can remove the mold tomorrow morning.
She added water and wood ash to the Chinese medicine residue that had just been filtered out, and boiled out an essential soup containing alkaline ingredients.
She poured the essence soup into the fine tea bran powder that had just been placed separately, stirred until they were thoroughly blended, steamed it in a steamer, added coconut oil and spiritual spring water, and stirred it again until it became a thick chocolate-colored tea bran paste.
The color of this thing is not very pretty, but it is very nourishing to the hair.
She stored the tea bran paste in a clean porcelain jar, and it was ready for use after a month of saponification.
Tonight Qin Li just watched from the side and did not help her.
After giving her the two crochet needles I had finished, I put away my tools and went to sleep.
Maintained distance from beginning to end.
Chen Tan felt relieved instead.
Only this sense of distance prevents her from wanting to escape all the time.
The next day, Chen Tan got up, but Qin Li was not at home.
After she finished her horse stance, she went to the backyard and saw that the three hens had each laid a big egg.
The two pigs have doubled in size in the past two months and are estimated to weigh more than 300 kilograms.
Chen Tan quietly took out the sweet potatoes that Qin Li had stored in the cellar and cooked them for them.
She then took out some sweet potatoes that she had grown using spiritual spring water from the space to fill the space.
After finishing her work in the backyard, she went to the front yard to boil water for washing.
Just as she was about to cook, Qin Qiuniang came out of the bedroom.
"Grandma, why are you up?"
Chen Tan quickly helped the old lady to the kitchen.
Thinking that the old lady usually gets up after eight o'clock, and it's only a little after six o'clock now, she can't help but worry, "Is she feeling unwell?"
"It's okay, I'm not feeling that heavy, so I won't stay in bed." Qin Qiuniang waved her hand with a smile.
"Grandma is not a lazy bed-sitter. After dinner, I'll take a walk with you and you can take a nap in the afternoon."
Chen Tan fetched water for the old lady and helped her wash up.
Then he brought her a cup of spiritual spring water.
Once the old lady's health is in good condition, she won't have to stay by her side all the time.
"A glass of water in the morning cleanses the intestines and moistens the stomach. I'll remember that, old lady."
Qin Qiuniang took the cup and drank it in one breath.
The little girl told her that according to the medical book written by Old Man Xie, drinking a glass of warm water every day after getting up can clear out old stool and garbage in the body.
She has been drinking it every day recently, and her body has indeed become much lighter, as if she is ten years younger.
"Haha, grandma, the more you drink, the better you'll be. Sit down and I'll make you some noodle soup."
Qin Li didn't make breakfast this morning, which means he left early and probably won't be back all day.
She can cook the meals she likes without worrying about his stomach.
Fortunately, the old lady likes to eat soft food just like her.
The noodle soup was ready quickly, and after they finished their meal, they went to the backyard again.
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