Tang Dynasty good doctor

Chapter 56 Washing Parents' Feet

Wang Youcai didn't care about soaking his feet, but asked, "Ping An, what are you talking about? Why are you no longer with your parents in the future? What are you going to do?"

Mrs. Yang also reacted to the smell, and hurriedly asked: "Yeah, son, you are going to travel far away, why didn't you ask us in advance?" She was a little angry, when did my son learn to make his own decisions!

Wang Pingan smiled and said: "Isn't it just the matter of going to Beijing to take the exam next year? We can't let the imperial court set up the exam room in our Xuzhou. Besides, the distance is far away. I'm not a child anymore. I can't let my parents accompany me. You can't stand it either." That bump!"

Yang was overjoyed, and said: "It turns out that Master Qiu Shan really gave you a quota, why didn't you tell me earlier!" She was disappointed when she heard Wang Ping'an said that Qiu Wenpu had nothing to say, and now she heard what her son said. , hope rose again.

Wang Youcai clapped his hands and smiled and said, "I understand. Although I haven't given it now, I will definitely give it in the future." He said to Yang: "Old lady, this is just like what we do to tenants. If any tenant works hard, he will usually be paid. If our family works harder, I won’t say anything to him on the spot. If we have to wait until after autumn, we can reduce the rent, so we can reduce it, and we can give some new year’s goods!”

Mrs. Yang understood, and clapped her hands. Now she has a soft spot for clapping, and said with a smile: "Isn't this a good way to test whether the tenant is really diligent? If he exerts his strength twice, even though we see us If he didn’t say anything, but still worked hard, then this person must be rewarded. If he worked hard twice and saw that we didn’t say anything and didn’t do him any favors, he quit, and we just saved a lot of money! "

Wang Pingan couldn’t help laughing when his parents compared himself to a tenant, thinking: “It seems that ancient people are no worse than modern people. In the modern workplace, bosses use tricks on employees. It’s been used with great proficiency!”

He said: "Okay, let's go to the bedroom, my son will teach you how to wash your feet!"

"Do you still need to learn how to wash your feet? Which book will write about washing your feet!" Yang always thought that as long as it was written in a book, it was a university question. into the book!
The three of them entered the bedroom, and Wang Ping'an asked Ding Danruo and Ke Lianwu to help him find two high-waisted wooden basins, the circumference of which should reach the knees.The two little girls went out to search around, and only found one. The Wang family has quite a few basins, but if you want a basin that is too high, it will be difficult to find, unless it is a wooden barrel, and the wooden barrel has a handle. , the handle cannot be removed, so it is not suitable as a footbath.

Seeing this wooden basin, Mrs. Yang smiled and said to Wang Pingan: "Son, do you still remember this basin? It was used for bathing when you were a child. Your father specially hired a carpenter to make it. After so many years, my son has grown up. No, this pot can't hold you!"

Wang Pingan said: "When I was young, my parents bathed their children, and now my children wash their parents' feet." He asked his servants to bring hot and cold water, adjust the water temperature, and asked two little girls to prepare a large pot of hot water and put it on the bed. Set aside.Take off your shoes and socks for your parents and put your feet in the basin.

Wang Youcai shook his head and said, "This water is not hot enough, the water that Dad usually uses to soak his feet is hotter than this!"

But Yang said: "It's okay, why do you want to be so hot, the skin is hot red. Son, mother thinks that the water is a little too much, and it has reached the calf. We are washing the feet, not the legs. !" That's what she said, but the old lady was very happy in her heart, her son has grown up and is still so filial, how could a mother be unhappy.

Wang Ping'an first rubbed his father's feet gently, and said in his mouth: "The water for soaking your feet doesn't need to be too hot. If it's too hot, you will feel flustered, sweat, and get excited easily. As a result, you won't be able to sleep well!"

Wang Youcai still said: "But Dad just likes to sweat, the more sweat you sweat when soaking your feet, the better!"

Mrs. Yang scolded: "You old man, the son washing your feet is the smoke from your ancestral grave. I don't know how many generations of cultivation. You see that the children of that family are so filial, and they are so filial. They are full of food. I support you!"

Although Wang Youcai was used to being scolded for a long time, he still felt a little uncomfortable being scolded in front of his son. He said, "Then your son even washed your feet. Could it be that your ancestral grave also smoked?"

The Yang family proudly said: "Our Yang family is the royal family of the former Sui Dynasty. I still have relatives in the palace. I heard that I have given birth to a prince!"

Wang Ping'an was taken aback, and said, "Is our family related to the emperor?"

Wang Youcai said: "Don't listen to your mother's bragging, you can't get married with eight relatives! It happened so many years ago, the court has changed, why mention that, you know someone, they know who you are, Don't bring up such nonsense in front of your son in the future!" The old man seemed extremely disgusted by Yang's mention of this matter, and unexpectedly became rude to his wife uncharacteristically.

Yang snorted, but actually shut up!
Seeing that his parents had such attitudes, Wang Pingan couldn't find out even if he asked about it, so he had to bury his doubts in his heart.He said: "Father likes to soak your feet in hot water. In fact, it is not very good for your body. Everything is suitable for each person. As Dad gets older, his body begins to weaken. Sweat is the fluid of the heart. If you sweat too much, Not good for the heart."

After rubbing his father's feet, he rubbed his mother's again, and said, "Mother said why the water should be put on the calves. This is because if the feet are soaked barefoot, the feet will be soaked, but the blood in the calves is still blocked, and the blood It still can’t flow well and flow all over the body, so the effect of bare feet will not be the best!”

Mrs. Yang didn't quite understand, so she had no choice but to agree, and glanced at Wang Youcai, and found that the old man was also at a loss, just like her, she was also in the same place, she was a little upset when the old man said a few words just now, see He didn't understand either, so he felt more at ease. If he didn't understand it, everyone wouldn't understand it together!
After Wang Ping'an rubbed her mother's feet, she began to press the reflex areas on her feet. Yang yelled a few times, and after a while, her eyelids could not be opened, and she slowly fell asleep.

Wang Ping'an wiped his mother's feet, helped her to rest on the bed, and said softly to Wang Youcai, "Father, ask someone to make another wooden basin, so you can soak your feet separately in the future. Mother's body is a bit cold, so it's best to soak her feet next time." Boil some ginger and put it in water."

Wang Youcai said: "Okay, I'll listen to you!" Seeing his son coming to press his feet again, he said: "You don't need to press your feet, you can go back and catch up on sleep. I guess you must have not slept well last night."

Wang Pingan said with a smile: "Press it, it's comfortable to fall asleep. When I write out the method carefully, both father and mother will learn from it. In the future, you two will press each other, learn the art of health preservation, eat well, sleep well and stay healthy!"

After pressing it for a while, watching Wang Youcai's reaction, he said, "Father, your joints are not good, add some safflower to the water when soaking your feet!" Not long after, Wang Youcai also fell asleep, so he served his father After getting into the bed, I left my parents' bedroom.

Just as he was about to go back to his study, a servant suddenly came to report that a couple had come to the front yard with a child in their arms. The child seemed to be on the verge of dying, please hurry up, young master!
Wang Ping'an had no choice but to go to the front yard. He didn't come out today, so the housekeeper didn't allow people seeking medical treatment to enter the yard, and they all waited outside.Wang Pingan went out of the gate and saw many people standing outside the gate, all of them came to seek medical treatment. At the front of the crowd was a couple in ragged clothes, holding broken bowls and wooden sticks. They looked like beggars. On the broken mat lay a child.

Seeing Wang Ping'an coming out, the people seeking medical treatment hurriedly saluted and called Ping'an's little doctor.When Wang Pingan came to the banquet, he saw that the child was listless and had a foul smell, lying on the mat and sobbing.

The beggar couple looked miserable, and they knelt down to Wang Ping'an together, and shouted: "Ping An's little doctor, please show me this child!"

According to the accent, this couple is not from Xuzhou, Wang Pingan said: "Where do you come from, how do you know me?"

The beggar said: "We came from Bianzhou. Our family was hit by a flood and we fled here. The child was sick and couldn't afford a doctor. We heard people say that the little genius doctor has a good heart and doesn't take money from the poor. That's why we dared to come here!"

Wang Ping'an said, "Fleeing from a disaster, could it be that this child got the plague?"Amitabha, don't!
　
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