"That's all for training, if you have any questions, you can always ask me. However, Uncle Liu has been bedridden for a long time, with little activity, and his digestion and absorption functions have been reduced accordingly, and he will be prone to constipation, so he usually tries 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 fatty meat. Xie Xiaonian instructed.

"Well, okay, I made a note of it!" Aunt Zheng nodded seriously and said.

"Sister-in-law Yufang, you and I should go home and grab medicine together! I'll give Uncle Liu a month's worth of medicine first, and then change the prescription to see the effect. Xie Xiaonian said with the medicine box in his hand.

"Okay, I'll go with you!" Zhu Yufang replied.

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

"I'm a doctor, isn't this what I should do, auntie, you rest, I'll go home and grab medicine." Xie Xiaonian said with a smile.

"Well, if you have anything to do in the future, come to the eldest mother, as long as the eldest mother can do it, I guarantee that it will be done properly for you." Aunt Zheng said reassuringly.

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

"Pay once a day, fry three bowls of water three times a day, and take it after meals." After Xie Xiaonian gave the medicine to Yufang's sister-in-law, he instructed simply and clearly.

"Well, I remembered, Xiao Nian, how much does this medicine cost?" Zhu Yufang took the basket full of medicinal herbs and asked while taking 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, in the eyes of outsiders, it will be profitable, and when the time comes, let someone with a heart sue her for speculation, it will be more than worth the loss.

"This medicinal herb is also what you have worked so hard to pick, even if you go to the county, you can sell it for money, how can I not pay for your medicine for nothing." Zhu Yufang said disagreeably.

"When I was in my hometown, I didn't charge money for medical treatment for people in the village, so if you feel embarrassed, then follow the rules of my hometown and exchange medicine for medicine."

"What is a drug for medicine?" Zhu Yufang asked puzzled.

"It's you who help me collect medicine, and come back the medicine I caught for you. After the New Year, after the beginning of spring, you will help me go to the mountains to collect medicine, and I will tell you when the time comes, but you can rest assured, they are all common medicinal materials, and you will not be at great risk. ”

"It doesn't matter, as long as there is something in the mountains, even if it is deep in the mountains, we will find a way to pick it up. In that case, we are taking advantage of you too much. Zhu Yufang said embarrassedly.

"What is taking advantage of or not taking advantage of, it was the same when I was in the village, you help me collect medicine when the time comes, and it can be regarded as paying back the medicine money."

"That's okay, I'll definitely pick up a lot of medicine next year." Zhu Yufang said reassuringly.

After thanking her for her kindness, Zhu Yufang hurried home and decocted medicine for her father-in-law.

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

"Mother, you see, Xiao Nian not only didn't charge us for consultation and medicine, 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 said after showing the basket to her mother-in-law.

"Since Xiao Nian has given it to us, then don't send it back, let's take something back next time."

This time, Xiao Nian gave her old man a doctor, which made their family owe a lot of favors, and they didn't mind owing a little more at this time.

"Then mother, put away this meat, and then take it out when there are guests at home in the future." Even though the family hasn't eaten meat for a long time, Zhu Yufang is reluctant to eat the meat.

Although her husband, son, daughter-in-law and youngest daughter can make money for the family, and they also have meat tickets every month, but her father-in-law is not in good health, and the meat tickets issued by the family are secretly replaced by egg tickets that can replenish the body.

"No need, you can make this piece of meat directly at noon today, I haven't eaten meat at home for so long, and I can satisfy other people's cravings." Aunt Zheng gritted her teeth and said.

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

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

When Aunt Zheng saw this, she sighed and didn't say anything, the better her daughter-in-law was, the more guilty she felt.

I think that the salary she paid for embroidering a pair of embroideries back then was enough for the family to eat for a year, but now that the children are older, her family's life is getting worse and worse.

If only her hands weren't thick and her eyes weren't flowering, but no matter how much she sighed now, it would be in vain.

It seems that she has to consider the advice of her old friend and exchange the only two embroideries left in the family for money.

Even if she was reluctant, she couldn't watch her family become poorer and poorer because of the old man's illness, and the whole family would suffer with it, and if she was sick again, her home would be completely hollowed out.

After Aunt Zheng and her daughter-in-law went back to the kitchen to cook and boil medicine, she sat on the edge of the kang while considering the possibility of selling embroidery, and helped her man lift his arms, stretch his legs, move his fingers, and move his fingers as much as possible according to Xiao Nian's instructions of passive training first, and then active training.

The next morning, when Xie Xiaonian carried a bag of malt milk essence and ten eggs to Aunt Zheng's house to see Uncle Liu, as soon as he entered the door, he saw Aunt Zheng sitting on the kang in the house, wearing glasses and embroidering on a small dress.

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

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

"No, isn't this Uncle Liu discharged from the hospital? I thought I'd bring something to see. Xie Xiaonian saw that Aunt Zheng had misunderstood, so he hurriedly said.

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

"You kid is too polite, why do you take such a precious thing, I can't accept this, and didn't you come to see it yesterday?"

Xiao Nian didn't charge any money for her husband's medical treatment, so how could she be embarrassed to accept Xiao Nian's things again.

"Yesterday I came as a doctor, but today I came as a neighbor, it's different. Auntie, you can keep the things, this malt milk essence can be kept for Uncle Liu to drink, it is good for his body. Xie Xiaonian persuaded.

I heard that malt milk essence is good for her husband's illness, and this thing is so difficult to buy, her family has no way at all, so Aunt Zheng is cheeky to accept it, but she refuses to accept the eggs.

Xie Xiaonian couldn't help it, so he could only agree.

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

"Huanhuan's clothes are all changed from adult clothes, the fabric is not strong, plus she is just two years old, it is the time to spend clothes, as long as two days can have multiple holes in the body, I see that the patch is not good-looking, so I embroidered some flowers and plants on the patch or around her, and it can be more beautiful."

Aunt Zheng saw Xie Xiaonian praising her, and said very helpfully.

"Auntie's mind is so ingenious, and the embroidery is also beautiful, if you hadn't said it, I wouldn't have seen that this was a patch!" Xie Xiaonian praised sincerely.

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

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

After speaking, Xie Xiaonian couldn't help but get up, and went to observe the two things carefully, and the more he looked at them, the more amazed he became.

A work like this, Xie Xiaonian had only seen it on TV in his previous life, but he didn't expect to have the opportunity to see such a perfect embroidery with his own eyes when he wore it.

Aunt Zheng has such a craft, and she can definitely be called a master-level person.

"That's all when I was young, I'm old now, my eyes are useless, and my hands are thick, so I can only embroider a few small flowers and grass on my torn clothes." Aunt Zheng said with a smile.

She had heard a lot of such compliments when she was young, so she didn't take them to heart.

"Mother, you are modest, if others have such good craftsmanship, I wish everyone in the world could know about it, and even if your hands are thick now, you can't embroider on silk and satin, but the craftsmanship is still there, and you still throw others a few streets. Unlike me, I don't have the slightest talent in this area, and my mother teaches me so seriously, I can't learn well. Zhu Yufang said with some shame.

"It's not your fault, I started to learn embroidery since I was a child, but you started to learn after marrying into our family, and after marrying, you still take care of housework all day long, if you are like me, you don't do anything, only embroidery, maybe embroidery is better than me!"

Even if the daughter-in-law really has no talent in embroidery, Aunt Zheng still said comfortingly.

She can embroider so well herself, in addition to talent and love, the most important thing is to study hard.

Even if she got married, her husband supported her to do what she liked, and seeing that she was afraid that her hands would become thicker, he took the initiative to take on all the housework, and did it for decades, until her daughter-in-law entered the house.

If it weren't for the closure of the embroidery workshop later, she had to go to the field to earn work, maybe she would never have done anything other than embroidery in her old age.

Seeing that Xie Xiaonian seemed to be very interested, Aunt Zheng asked, "I see that you are quite interested, do you want to learn?" If you want to learn, I can teach you. ”