70s Xiao Que Xing

Chapter 385
"That's all about the training. If you have any questions, you can ask me at any time. However, Uncle Liu has been bedridden for a long time and has little activity. His digestion and absorption functions are correspondingly reduced, and he will be prone to constipation, so try to eat semi-liquid and easy-to-digest food. , eat more beans, milk, fish, lean meat, eggs, millet, brown rice, and green leafy vegetables, and eat less salt, animal offal, and fat." Xie Xiaonian instructed.

"Well, okay, I'll make a note!" Mrs. Zheng nodded seriously.

"Sister Yufang, come home with me to get the medicine! I'll get Uncle Liu's medicine for a month first, and then change the prescription after seeing the effect." Xie Xiaonian said while carrying the medicine box.

"Okay, I'll go to your house right away!" Zhu Yufang responded with a full mouth.

"Xiao Nian, thank you so much, I don't even know what to say." Before leaving, Aunt Zheng said very gratefully.

"I'm a doctor, isn't this what I should do, Ma'am, please rest, I'm going home to get some medicine." Xie Xiaonian said with a smile.

"Yeah, if you have anything to do in the future, come to Auntie. As long as Auntie can do it, I promise to do it for you." Aunt Zheng said reassuringly.

Uncle Liu didn't need any expensive medicinal materials, he had them at home, so after Xie Xiaonian went back, he packed up a month's worth of medicine in less than half an hour.

"One payment per day, three bowls of decoction and one bowl, three times a day, take after meals." After Xie Xiaonian gave the medicine to Yufang's sister-in-law, she instructed in a simple and clear way.

"Well, I remember, Xiao Nian, how much does this medicine cost?" Zhu Yufang took the basket full of medicinal materials, and asked while digging out the money.

"What kind of money do you want? Neighbors don't charge money!" Xie Xiaonian refused.

The medicinal materials are picked from the mountains. If she collects money, it will be a profit in the eyes of outsiders. If someone who wants to sue her for speculating, it will not be worth the loss.

"You have worked so hard to pick this medicinal material. Even if you go to the county, you can sell it for money. How can I not pay for it and ask for your medicine for nothing?" Zhu Yufang said in disapproval.

"When I was in my hometown, I treated the villagers without charging money. If you feel embarrassed, then follow the rules when I was in my hometown and exchange medicine for medicine."

"What is medicine for medicine?" Zhu Yufang asked in confusion.

"It's you helping me gather herbs, and come and return the medicines I grabbed for you. After the new year is over and spring begins, you can help me go to the mountains to gather herbs. I'll tell you what herbs to pick, but don't worry. , are some common medicinal materials, and won’t let you take much risk.”

"It doesn't matter, as long as there is something on the mountain, even if it is a deep mountain, we will find a way to pick it back. If this is the case, we will take advantage of you too much." Zhu Yufang said embarrassingly.

"It's not about taking advantage of the advantages. It's the same when I was in the village. If you help me collect the medicine then, it will be regarded as paying back the money for the medicine, right?"

"That's fine, next year I will definitely pick up a lot of medicine and come back." Zhu Yufang promised.

After thanking her thousands of times, Zhu Yufang hurried home to make medicine for her father-in-law.

And when she took out all the medicine bags in the basket, she found that there was a piece of pork about half a catty in it.

"Mother, look, Xiao Nian not only didn't charge us for the consultation and medicine fees, but also gave back a piece of pork at the bottom of the basket. What should I do? Do you want to send it back?" Zhu Yufang came out of the kitchen and took the basket to The mother-in-law said after watching.

"Since Xiao Nian has been given to us, don't send it back. Let's bring something back next time."

This time when Xiao Nian saw a doctor for her old man, the family owed them a lot of favors, so they don't mind owed a little more at this time.

"Mother, put this meat away, and take it out when guests come to the house." Even though the family hadn't eaten meat for a long time, Zhu Yufang was not willing to eat the meat.

Although her husband, son, daughter-in-law and youngest daughter can all make money for the family, and the meat coupons are distributed every month, but her father-in-law is not in good health, and she secretly replaces the meat coupons issued by the family with egg coupons that can nourish the body. If there are guests at home, they don't even have meat to serve them.

"No need, you can make this piece of meat directly at noon today. The family hasn't eaten meat for such a long time, so let others satisfy their hunger." Aunt Zheng said after gritting her teeth.

"Then eat half, and save the rest for Dad to cook meat porridge. Xiao Nian said that Dad needs to supplement nutrition."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Yufang ignored her mother-in-law's objection and went directly to the kitchen with the meat.

Seeing this, Mrs. Zheng sighed and said nothing more. The better her daughter-in-law is, the more guilty she feels.

Back then, the wages she earned for one pair of embroidery were enough to feed the family for a year, but now that the children are grown up, her family's life is getting worse and worse.

It would be great if her hands were not thick and her eyes were not dazzled, but no matter how much she sighed now, it would be in vain.

It seems that she will consider the suggestion of her old friend and exchange the only two pieces of embroidery left at home for money.

No matter how reluctant she was, she couldn't just watch her family become impoverished day by day because of the old man's illness, and the whole family suffered accordingly. If she got sick again, her family would be completely emptied.

After Mrs. Zheng waited for her daughter-in-law to go back to the kitchen to cook and boil the medicine, she sat on the edge of the kang while considering the possibility of selling embroidery, and followed Xiao Nian's order to train passively first and then actively train, helping her man carry Raise your arms, stretch your legs, move your fingers, and move as much as possible.

The next morning, when Xie Xiaonian went to Aunt Zheng's house to visit Uncle Liu with a bag of malted milk and ten eggs, as soon as she entered the door, she saw Aunt Zheng sitting on the kang in the house, wearing glasses and wearing a small dress. embroidery.

Judging by the size of the dress, it should belong to her great-granddaughter.

"Xiao Nian, why are you here? Is there something wrong with Uncle Liu's illness?" Aunt Zheng asked worriedly.

"No, isn't Uncle Liu discharged from the hospital? I just wanted to bring something to see." Seeing that Aunt Zheng misunderstood, Xie Xiaonian hurriedly said.

After speaking, he handed the things in his hand to Aunt Zheng.

"You are too polite, kid. Why do you take such expensive things? I can't accept them. Besides, didn't you come to see them yesterday?"

Xiao Nian didn't even charge her husband to see a doctor, so how could she have the nerve to accept Xiao Nian's things.

"Yesterday I came as a doctor, but today I came as a neighbor. It's different. Auntie, you can keep the things. You can save this malted milk essence for Uncle Liu to drink. It's not good for his body." It's good." Xie Xiaonian persuaded.

I heard that malted milk extract was good for her husband's illness, and it was so hard to buy, her family had no way out, so Aunt Zheng accepted it with the cheek, but she refused to accept the eggs anyway.

Xie Xiaonian had no choice but to agree.

After sitting on the edge of the kang, Xie Xiaonian looked at the small clothes in the sewing dustpan, and said with a smile: "Ms. Zheng, the embroidery on this clothes is so beautiful, your hands are so skillful."

"Huanhuan's clothes are all made of adults' clothes. The fabric is not strong. In addition, she is just two years old, which is the time for clothes. In just two days, there will be many holes in her body. I think it's just a patch. It doesn't look good, so I embroidered some flowers and plants on or around the patch, and it will look more beautiful."

Seeing that Xie Xiaonian praised her, Aunt Zheng said it was very useful.

"Mother's idea is really ingenious, and the embroidery is also beautiful. If you didn't tell me, I wouldn't have noticed that it was a patch!" Xie Xiaonian praised sincerely.

"That is, when my mother was young, she was a very famous embroiderer in our hometown. The double-sided embroidery on my table and the tiger on the back wall were all embroidered by my mother." , someone offered us 500 yuan for one piece!" Zhu Yufang said proudly.

"I thought it was bought by you, but I didn't expect it to be embroidered by auntie, auntie, your craftsmanship is really good." Xie Xiaonian really admired it from the bottom of her heart this time.

After finishing speaking, Xie Xiaonian couldn't help getting up, and went to observe those two things carefully, the more she looked at them, the more amazed she became.

Xie Xiaonian had only seen works like this on TV in her previous life, but she never thought that she would have the opportunity to see such perfect embroidery with her own eyes after wearing it here.

Aunt Zheng has such a skill, she can definitely be called a master level person.

"It all happened when I was young. Now that I'm old, my eyes are useless, and my hands are thick, I can only embroider a few small flowers and grasses on rags." Mrs. Zheng said with a smile.

She had heard many compliments like this when she was young, so she didn't take it to heart.

"Mother, you are just modest. If someone else has such good craftsmanship, I wish everyone in the world would know about it. And even if your hands are too thick to embroider on silk and satin, you still have the craftsmanship, so you can still embroider." It's a few blocks away from others. Unlike me, I don't have any talent in this area, and my mother taught me so seriously, I can't learn well." Zhu Yufang said with some shame.

"It's not your fault. I have been learning embroidery since I was a child, but you only started learning it after you married into our family, and after you got married, you still have to do housework all day long. If you are like me, you don't do anything. If it’s embroidery, maybe it’s better than me!”

Even though the daughter-in-law does not have much talent in embroidery, Aunt Zheng still said comfortingly.

She can embroider so well by herself. Apart from talent and love, the most important thing is to study hard.

Even when she was married, her husband supported her in doing what she liked. Seeing that she was afraid that her hands would get thicker, he took the initiative to undertake all the housework for decades, until his daughter-in-law entered the house.

If the embroidery workshop hadn't closed down later, and she had to go to the fields to earn work points, maybe she would have never done anything other than embroidery until she was old.

Aunt Zheng saw that Xie Xiaonian seemed very interested, so she asked: "I see you are very interested, do you want to learn? If you want to learn, I can teach you."

(End of this chapter)