When he returned home, Xiao Zheng told his master how to treat Xiao Hai's father, in addition to taking traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture, and how to massage the elderly. Mr. listened to Xiao Zheng's detailed introduction to the massage method, interrupted his words from time to time to ask some questions, and when Xiao Zheng finished speaking, he closed his eyes and thought for a while and said to Xiao Zheng: "Apprentice, whether you are a scholar or a doctor, your talent and understanding are all superior, even if the master wants to go through all the peers of the year, it is far inferior to you." You can compete with you in terms of comprehension is only your ancestor, you must cherish your talent, although your way of doing things is beyond the master's expectations, but every time you make the teacher happy, you can now give birth to what skills are bold to show. The greatest pleasure of being a teacher is to choose a good talent and teach it, and I will not take the initiative to teach you anything in the future, most of the things that your master and I have learned all my life have been written in the book, how to use yourself to understand, and you will ask if you don't understand. What you lack now is experience and experience, and in this process, you must be cautious in your words and deeds, humbly seek advice, and be well-informed in order to reach the road. After hearing this, Xiao Zheng was also very emotional, and said respectfully to the master: "The disciple obeys the master's orders" "Well, this is very good!" ”

At the beginning of the winter of the lunar calendar, Xiao Zheng had practiced calligraphy in the morning and had not yet gone out, when he saw Xiao Hai and others pushing a few frame carts with more than a dozen men from Li Zhuang, and the carts were full of adobe and creaked into the courtyard. The last car sat Xiao Hai's father with his little grandson, the old man looked much better than a few days ago, and after getting out of the car, he said to Mr. and Xiao Zheng: "Two benefactors, the old man has been healed by the two, and he sleeps on the kang every night, and his whole body feels relaxed, I didn't expect this method to be so simple but so effective, so the little old man thought that this thing must be useful to the old man, so he took his son to make the decision for you and pulled some adobe over, It's okay to just make a kang for you, sir.

Mr. let Xiao Hai's father into the middle hall first, and after checking his pulse, he said to Xiao Zheng with a smile: "Most of the cold qi has been expelled, and the kidney meridian is full of qi and blood, thinking that the decoction and acupuncture prescribed to him by the teacher are impossible to achieve such a miraculous effect in the short term, it seems that massage and fire kang have played a role, and most of the credit for this miraculous effect of treatment is yours, this method is simple and easy to implement and brings benefits to the elderly, and has accepted a good apprentice for the teacher." Xiao Hai did not disturb Mr. to see his father's doctor, and busily instructed others to move the adobe on the car to Mr.'s house and start to build the kang with mud. To Xiao Zheng's surprise, the speed and technique of these men's pankang are obviously more than a step higher than a few days ago, Xiao Hai said to Xiao Zheng with a smile: "Brother Xiao, after you came back with everyone to make the kang last time, the big guy saw that this kang was a good thing, these days I didn't do anything, not even the iron was beaten, we helped each other to build the kang, and by the way, we also helped Lou Shide's Wazi's kang to help on the pan, you see that we are all about to become masons, haha......."

Seeing a few people busy at Mr.'s house, some men in the village who had nothing to do came over to see the excitement, anyway, it was winter time, everyone had nothing to do, and they chatted together to pass the time. The fire kang is a new thing to the people in the village, and the gentleman is very popular, and everyone wants to come over to help with the work, so the speed of work is even faster. After the kang in the room was built, knowing that Mr. likes to be clean, Xiao Hai took Dong Ershun and a few people to find white ash and began to paint Mr.'s room, and Mr.'s room suddenly brightened up a lot. The stove was lit, and after a while, the room became warm and warm, which also made Mr. very happy, and seeing Mr. like this, Xiao Hai and the others also smiled happily like children.

When I saw the babies playing on Mr.'s kang, I thought that there were still a lot of adobes in my village, so I called a group of villagers in Shenhe Bay to run again. The people of the two villages pulled all the remaining adobe over, and in three or five days, they built a kang in the children and Xiao Zheng's house. Then the room where the babies studied was painted, and the babies lay on the warm kang like little milk cats, and they tossed for a long time before stopping.

Seeing that the babies were happy, Xiao Hai also begged Mr. to take Xiao Changning to read and write, Mr. agreed without hesitation, Xiao Hai gave Mr. only a jar of three pulp, and smiled so much that Mr.'s eyes narrowed together. Since then, I have often seen Lou Shide and Xiao Changning coming from Li Zhuang, and the two of them quickly became good friends, and they had a lot of fun on the way to and from school together, and Lou Shide, who usually doesn't talk to his classmates much, also slowly came into contact with some classmates.

In the six or seven days that Xiao Hai worked on the kang, the master and apprentice gave Xiao Hai's father further treatment, and Mr. gave the old man acupuncture a few times, and prescribed some herbal medicines, and then Xiao Zheng massaged the old man regularly every day, and Mr. also watched Xiao Zheng's massage techniques on the side, and the two discussed it from time to time. Under the treatment of the master and apprentice, the old man's condition has improved significantly, and now he can straighten up and walk slowly in the village.

The villagers of Shenhe Bay are not stupid, seeing that Mr. and the fire kang in the school are so wonderful, it is simple and easy to learn, and they understand it all after two glances. Some smart and ingenious people went home and started to look like and get rid of the mud, and some people who were not very smart came over and asked Xiao Hai how to do it. Xiao Hai is also happy to answer questions, seeing who in the village is still busy and take the initiative to help, a few clever men in the village to see how to move the billet, the west family to direct how to pan kang, for a while a few tiger-fighting men provoked the villagers to cheer.

Now as soon as I got out of the hospital, the streets were all covered with adobe, and the villagers were busier than the autumn harvest. The stupid fire flue was not left well, and the house was full of smoke and smoked tears, so he ran to find Xiao Hai and a few people to help take a look, which caused the surrounding neighbors to laugh. Some mothers-in-law burned so much that they lit the kang mat, almost burned their own quilts, and inevitably received a slap, and they didn't dare to go out to say it, for fear of being embarrassed! The small village tossed for about ten days, and finally finished all the kang. Some of them were even more ruthless and even wanted to go to the cowshed to make a kang for the two cows, but Xiao Zheng, who was crying and laughing, hurriedly stopped this unreliable idea.

Every morning and evening there is a curling smoke in the chimney on the roof, with such a heating artifact, no one will burn a charcoal basin to heat up in the cold weather, that thing is not only not warm by the fire, but also easy to be poisoned by charcoal, the people in the village are also a lot happier in the cold winter, the villagers respect the master and apprentice more, and walk on the road away from the old man to call Mr.

When he was fine at night, Mr. set up a small table on the kang and lit a lamp, and sat under him with a tiger skin cushion to read at night. Mr. scalded his feet with hot water before going to bed, sometimes Xiao Zheng waited for Mr. to do a foot massage after soaking his feet, Mr. also enjoyed it happily, in Mr.'s own words, it was so comfortable that he was about to fly, and Jin'er looked at Xiao Zheng with a lot of tenderness in his eyes.

The little daughter-in-law and aunt in the village brought needlework to find Xiao's mother in a group of three or five, everyone sat on the kang, fried one or two handfuls of beans, chatted while doing the work, and then went home leisurely, and then sent everyone away and closed the courtyard door, stepping on the early winter night, taking a deep breath of cold air, and suddenly exhaling the turbidity out again, looking up at a crescent moon in the air, such a day, very good!