Chapter 31 Methods of Using Soil
The two old women were sitting on a long piece of bluestone in the kapok forest to talk about it, Lei didn't like to hear it, so she turned the topic back, saying that she was especially grateful to Lei's son, General Manager Wu Xiaofeng, for arranging her daughter-in-law to cook for migrant workers at a construction site, with a monthly salary of 1,500 yuan, which is good! But there are some problems at home, my grandson can't eat human milk, so he eats milk every day, and it is said that the girl who eats milk is not as smart as the person who eats human milk, and I am a little worried!
Although Ma agrees with this point of view, he takes the words ideally, how can there be such a statement, the milk-eating man is not the same smart?
At this time, the air was filled with the fragrance of flowers and plants, and Lei's nose fluttered, feeling that it smelled good.
Ma suddenly stood up, stretched out his hand and scratched on his neck, grabbed a red bar, and scratched it again, forming another red bar that crossed it. Her mouth was yelling, it was so itchy......
Ma quickly got up, and Lei also got up to help her, she shook her head, signaled that she didn't need support, and walked straight out of the kapok forest.
Lei's accompanied her and said, this is because you are allergic to the aroma of flowers and plants, I will send you to the hospital, right?
Ma waved his hand and said, no, no, just wait for the neck to stop itching!
Lei said, so be it! You rest at home for a while, and I'll go to the river to pick some willow leaves and decoction water to wash you, which is better than going to the hospital to take medicine and injections.
Ma didn't believe it very much, and planned to go to the hospital after a while, if the itch was uncomfortable, she would have to go to the hospital, but she didn't refuse Lei's kindness, and said movingly, then try it according to what you said.
Ma went around a field and went straight to his house in the east of the village.
Lei Shi did not break his promise, walked to the river, picked a large handful of willow leaves, took them home and put them in a clay pot mixed with water and boiled, at first it was a fierce fire, then it was boiled, until the full pot of water mixed with willow leaves was fried into a small half pot of potion, and she removed the medicine jar. At this time, the room was filled with the smell of medicine.
Xu Sigui is stepping on the rocking nest in the shape of a colorful dragon boat rhythmically with his feet at home, and the shaking nest is stepped on, shaking and shaking, and the children lying in it are easy to fall asleep.
In order not to wake up the child who was sleeping soundly, Xu Sigui, who smelled the fragrance of medicine, was choked, coughed lightly, and whispered, Mom, no one in our family is sick, why are you decocting medicine?
Si Gui, you don't care. Lei's wrapped a large piece of wet rag around the half-buckle handle of the crockpot, pinching it, and it was no longer hot. She went out with the potion pot, and then turned back to her son and said, Si Gui, I will go to Wu Xiaofeng's house in the east of the village, her mother has allergic skin and a red neck, I will fry some willow leaf water and give it to her to wash. You can't just let the child sleep, she wakes up, it's better to pick up from the shaker nest and go around, breathe good air, and the person is fresher.
I don't want you to tell you about your children. Xu Sigui had some emotions and had nowhere to vent, so he talked back. Of course, he didn't have an opinion about his mother, but he felt that it was a shame for him to be an adult man taking care of the children at home, so he rarely walked around the village from the west of the village to the east of the village with the child, at most he walked around the door of the house.
Seeing someone coming or someone passing by his door from a distance, Xu Sigui, who was holding the child, hurriedly retracted back to his house.
The house of the Ma family is at the east end of the village, with a mountain behind and a river in front.
But this kind of geographical advantage is not cared about by most people, only Mr. Feng Shui cares. There was a feng shui gentleman who came here to see, said that the direction of the house of this family is good, the front of the house is water, the back of the house is the mountain, according to the righteousness of the five elements of yin and yang, inferred that water gives wood, wood makes fire, water is a metaphor for salary, wood is property, and the fire owner is prosperous, and the descendants of their family will be able to have a lot of money, and the career is prosperous.
Many people associate Mr. Feng Shui's words with Ma's son Wu Xiaofeng, the big construction boss, and think that Feng Shui played a role.
Although the Ma family's house is similar to the shape of other people's old Ming and Qing dynasty houses, their family has renovated the house with this shape and structure, so as to not negate the old-fashioned layout and auspicious meaning.
Let's talk about the double dragon playing beads wood carving on the roof of this house! Two years ago, not only the color of the old Chen, the play bead was also missing half of the side, now the wood carving dragon body is painted, the color should be red red, the green green, especially the dragon scales because of the good yellow paint, so that the whole dragon looks brilliant, auspicious.
The spacious yard in front of the Ma family's house is hardened with cement, which can be done without staining ash on a sunny day and mud when it rains, and the people of the entire Kapok Village are very envious.
At that moment, Lei walked to the door of Ma's house with a large half-pot potion made of willow leaves, and Ma just walked out of the house with a bitter expression.
But when I met Lei Shi head-on, I smelled a smell of Chinese medicine, understood a little, and wanted to ask something, Lei Shi shook the crockpot in his hand gently and said, Ma's, I boiled a potion for you, wash your neck to see if it's still itchy.
Ma put down the hand that was deliberately raised to cover his neck, and a purple-red scratch mark appeared on his neck, like a crimson dry cloud, which gave people a feeling of heat and discomfort at a glance.
Ma waved his hand and said to Lei, thank you, no need, I will go to the dermatology department of the city hospital to see a doctor immediately.
At this time, her daughter-in-law Gong Yawen was holding the child and following behind, suddenly went around to the front, looked at Lei Shi with grateful eyes, turned around again, and said to Ma Shi, Mom, you just use Lei's boiled medicine to wash your neck, if you can stop itching, it's good, why go to the hospital? Besides, even if you want to go to the hospital, you have to wait until your son Xiaofeng drives back to take you there, I have already called Xiaofeng, and he said that he will come back in a few hours.
Alright! Ma nodded, finally convinced.
She motioned for Ray to come and sit down.
Gong Yawen held the child in one hand and made tea in the other hand and served it to Lei's.
Lei didn't drink it, but told Ma to sit down, she asked for a small white cloth scalded with boiling water to cool it, wrung it out, and then dipped the potion in the clay pot to compress, rub, and rub the purple lump on Ma's neck.
Ma Shi felt that there was an itch worm wriggling in her neck, and she was killed immediately when she was made by Lei Shi, she said a little excitedly, alas, this potion is good, it can stop itching!
Lei said, if the effect is good, I will pick some willow leaves and decoction water with you to sterilize.
Then thank you. Ma Shi said while thinking in his heart: I will also use this method, but I didn't try it, now that I know how to use willow leaf decoction water to relieve itching and sterilization, why bother to let people do it for you? What's more, Lei's is about the same age as herself, and it is a little unreasonable to ask her to move her old body to serve herself.
Lei Shi was affirmed by her, and replied more energetically and with a conscience, then what are you thankful for? Your son has made a fortune and arranged for my daughter-in-law to do a share of work at the construction site, and I am already very grateful to you. Although your son is doing my family a favor, first of all, I have to thank you for giving birth to an excellent son, otherwise everything would not be able to be discussed.
Hearing Lei's say this, Ma was very pleased, and even subconsciously thought that Lei's should help him as much as he could, but he couldn't say that in his mouth.
Ma Shi said tactfully on this topic, my son's company is mainly engaged in construction, except for drawing design is a technical work, other jobs are dangerous and cumbersome, and it requires strength, so it generally does not recruit female workers.
Lei Shi kept nodding his head, and repeatedly spit out the word thank you.
At this moment, most of the crockpot willow leaf water had been dipped and rubbed almost by Ma's, and the small white towel was clearly dyed, showing a dark red.
Ma Shi felt no longer itchy, and the scratched marks on his neck also faded, as if he had rubbed iodine wine in the hospital, it also showed a dark red color, the difference was that the water boiled from willow leaves emitted the smell of traditional Chinese medicine, which smelled much better than the medicinal taste of iodine wine, and it was much more healthy.
At this moment, a car horn sounded, and everyone looked up to see that a silver-gray car had driven to the East Village, slowly driving on the side of the cement yard in front of the Ma family's house.
Lei wanted to continue to rub with Ma Shi so that the remaining potion in the crockpot would not be wasted.
Ma Shi glanced at the car that drove over and said to Lei Shi very excitedly, forget it, it's almost over, I'll wipe it next time.
Lei Shi clasped the almost empty crockpot in his hand, and turned his head, but saw Wu Xiaofeng get out of the car in the berth, greeted her very politely, and then came to Ma Shi and said, Mom, Yawen called and said that you are sick, I specially drove you to the hospital to see a doctor, where are you uncomfortable?
Ma Shi raised his left hand and touched the mark on his neck that had just been dipped in willow leaf water, and waved his right hand again and said, no need to see a doctor, now it's not itchy.
looked at the Lei family standing beside him and said to his son, Xiaofeng, your Aunt Lei wiped it for me with a soil method, why do you have to go to the hospital to spend money in vain?
Wu Xiaofeng smiled and said to Lei, thank you, Aunt Lei. But I was a little suspicious that this kind of local method was unreliable in curing diseases, so I said, Mom, let's combine local and foreign! Let's go to the hospital.
No. Ma Shi pulled back the hair that was picked up by the wind on his sideburns, and thought about it, Xiaofeng, if the itch on my neck is still itchy in two days, it will not be too late to go to the hospital again.
Wu Xiaofeng didn't look like a sick person, and there was no trace of sickness, but there was a faint mark on his neck, and he felt that it was okay, and then looked at Lei, who was still carrying a crockpot, and said to his mother, Mom, how to thank Aunt Lei?
Where, what is this? And thanks? Lei spoke first.
Ma said, I want to thank her.
Wu Xiaofeng immediately took out a hundred yuan from his body and handed it to his mother and said, I am busy outside and have no time to take care of you.
Ma didn't want it, but her son just took it by stuffing the money into her hand.
Lei Shi praised, you are really a filial son. Actually, you don't have time to take care of it, and your daughter-in-law Yawen takes good care of your mother.
Gong Yawen stood aside and smiled wryly. She had some emotions in her heart, her husband didn't return to the house for a few days and nights, and came back in a hurry to talk to her mother, but he left her cold.
At this moment, Gong Yawen took Lei's words, I didn't take care of it, I couldn't take care of it, I couldn't take care of it. She glared at her husband, inexplicably looking disgusted.
Wu Xiaofeng understood, in order to appease his wife, he approached her, tugged at her sleeve, led her into the bedroom in the house, took out a wad of money, and didn't count it, 100 yuan a piece is about ten, so he stuffed it directly in her hand and said, these days, I am really busy, so I come back less.
Stop it. Gong Yawen pushed the money that her husband stuffed in her hand, frowned and said, "If you come back less, you won't come back, right?"
Wu Xiaofeng grabbed the wad of money that she pushed back and put it on the dresser, smiled and said to Gong Yawen, Aren't I back now?
Gong Yawen snorted dissatisfiedly, yes, you went back, is this home a hostel? Even if it's a hostel, the traveler has to leave overnight, are you better than a traveler, leave in a hurry after a while, and let me stay a widow? Oh, you think you'll be done with a few stinky bucks, and you can't get by.