"Mother, don't talk so much, just taste it first." Zhang Shaofei said, picked up an orange, peeled it off quickly, and stuffed it into Wang Shaoxiang's mouth.
Wang Shaoxiang bit into it, and a sweetness like rock sugar immediately filled his mouth. After chewing a few more times, a smile appeared on his face, and he praised repeatedly: "Good, good! These oranges are indeed very different from the oranges we usually eat." ".
Zhang Shaofei pointed to the edge with his hand: "This is a local specialty from Lingnan - sugar orange."
"Sugar orange?" Wang Shaoxiang praised it, "No wonder it feels like eating candy when you bite it. I have never tasted such a sweet orange."
Zhang Shaofei said filially: "I brought it back from there specially for you to try."
Wang Shaoxiang spoke with a bit of pity: "The way you looked so impatient when you went into the kitchen to scoop out water from a wooden shell just now, I think you are very thirsty. In this case, why didn't you hide in Taishan? Where to eat these oranges?"
Zhang Shaofei replied: "I will endure my thirst and let it go. Mother, I want to leave more delicious food for you!"
Wang Shaoxiang praised: "Fei'er, you really have my filial piety."
After Zhang Shaofei finished speaking, he took out another paper bag from the bag and opened it carefully, "Mother, these are some better treasures."
Wang Shaoxiang leaned over and lowered his head, looking through the dim light: there were several ingot-shaped nests wrapped inside, about two inches long and about an inch deep, with small corners at both ends. If you look closely, they are silvery white. The filaments are woven into irregular nets and then densely piled up.
Wang Shaoxiang had never seen such a novel thing before. He blinked and asked, "Fei'er, what is this?"
Zhang Shaofei put his mouth to Wang Shaoxiang's ear: "This is a bird's nest."
"Bird's nests?" Wang Shaoxiang was touched by something, and his frown relaxed again, and asked, "Are they the bird's nests that the rich landlords eat on weekdays?"
"Yes. My mother is absolutely right this time." Zhang Shaofei nodded and said, "I have heard that bird's nest has five major functions: nourishing yin, moistening dryness, replenishing qi, tonifying the middle and nourishing the skin. It can treat lung yin deficiency, cough, night sweats, hemoptysis and other symptoms. Eating it on a daily basis can strengthen the body."
"No wonder the landlord wants to eat it to replenish his body." Wang Shaoxiang turned around and stared at Zhang Shaofei, "Bird's nests are very precious. How do you have the money to buy these things? You shouldn't have stolen them from the landlord's house. Right?" Although Wang Shaoxiang knew that her son had always been honest and would not do things like cocks and dogs stealing, she knew that bird's nests were extremely valuable and Zhang Shaofei didn't have much money on him. This thing must have a great origin, so she asked with a straight face. son.
"Mother, you have always taught me to be an honest person. How could I do those sneaky and bad things?!" Zhang Shaofei picked up the bird's nest and shook it. His attitude was particularly serious when he spoke, "Bird's nests are indeed very valuable. These are The bird's nest was given to me by the villagers in Guanghuai."
"Did the villagers give it to you?" Wang Shaoxiang still couldn't understand the doubts in his heart. "The country people are so poor that they can't take care of the next meal. How can they have the money to buy bird's nests for you?"
"There is a Yanyan near the place where I live in seclusion, which is the origin of bird's nests. Because I saved the life of the villager's son." Zhang Shaofei then talked about the origin of the bird's nest.
After listening to Zhang Shaofei's story about the origin of the bird's nest, Wang Shaoxiang's eyes filled with tears. She took the bird's nest, inspected it carefully, and said emotionally: "Fei'er, you have such a filial heart, you are really my good son."
Zhang Shaofei said apologetically: "Mother, after I left home, I couldn't take care of you at home. It's really hard on you."
Wang Shaoxiang looked very plain: "I am destined to be a humble person. I will suffer hardships when I am born."
While mother and son were talking, Zhang Shaofei noticed that Wang Shaoxiang was scratching his body with his hands from time to time. He leaned over and asked with concern: "Mother, what's the matter with you?"
"No...it's nothing..." Although Wang Shaoxiang's mouth answered like this, the itching on her body could not be controlled for a while, and she couldn't help but scratch it again.
The flame of the oil lamp on the table was still flickering. Only then did Zhang Shaofei carefully examine Wang Shaoxiang's skin. Seeing that there were many red spots of different sizes, high and low, he pointed at her skin and asked: "Ah, Mother, how could you do this?"
Wang Shaoxiang frowned sadly: "I don't know what happened. Ever since I went to Taishan to cut grass that day, I once got into a bush and accidentally sprained my foot when I went down the mountain. When I went to bed that night, I felt all over my body. It’s hot and my skin is getting itchy.”
Zhang Shaofei stretched out his left hand to Wang Shaoxiang: "Mother, let me feel your pulse."
Zhang Shaofei said this with a certain degree of confidence. When he was sent to live in Fengshan Village, Xinzhou, he stayed overnight at Longshan Temple and was taught by an old monk.
"Okay, I'll take a look tonight to see if our Wang family really has a doctor who can cure diseases." Seeing Zhang Shaofei say this, Wang Shaoxiang stretched out his right hand.
Zhang Shaofei placed his index finger, middle finger, and ring finger on the back of Wang Shaoxiang's wrist. The index finger pointed at the inch, the middle finger pointed at the guan, and the nameless finger pointed at the ruler. He listened to Wang Shaoxiang's pulse for a while, and then asked Wang Shaoxiang to stretch his fingers. Pull out your tongue and let him look at its coating.
Zhang Shaofei came over and looked, smelled, asked, and examined, and then said: "Mother, you now have a red tongue, yellow and dry coating, and a slippery pulse. This is a sign of the raging internal heat of the epidemic poison. Now the heat poison is entangled in the five internal organs. , to treat it, it should clear away heat, cool blood, and detoxify.”
Wang Shaoxiang was a little convinced: "Ah, Fei'er, although I don't understand the pathology you talked about, but you explained it clearly and clearly. It seems that you know how to treat a doctor. This disease may be caused by my careless eating recently. of."
Zhang Shaofei analyzed: "Mother, you don't know how to take care of your daily food and drink. In addition, you may have accidentally come into contact with the trees on the mountain that day, which caused skin allergies and redness, swelling and inflammation. If you are sick, you must seek medical treatment in time. A Jinbo in the village is a famous doctor in all four towns. , he is very capable of treating skin and other rare and complicated diseases. Have you ever seen him about this disease?"
"I have been to Uncle Ajin many times," Wang Shaoxiang sighed and shook his head helplessly, "Uncle Ajin once prescribed mountain herbal medicine for me. I followed his instructions, taking the medicine and using the potion at the same time. I came to wash myself, but it didn’t work at all.”
Zhang Shaofei said inexplicably: "The prescription prescribed at the beginning is not good. You can ask Uncle A Jin to change it to another prescription."
Wang Shaoxiang complained: "Uncle A Jin also changed my prescriptions several times, and said that he had increased the dosage of medicine, but it never got better. In the end, he spread his hands and said that he had tried his best and there was nothing he could do anymore."
Zhang Shaofei added: "Since Uncle Ajin in the village can't cure your illness, you can find a good doctor elsewhere."
There was a dark cloud on Wang Shaoxiang's face: "In isolation, Uncle Aquan has found three doctors for me and prescribed me several doses of medicine, but it still doesn't improve. Instead, my symptoms are getting worse. Alas, the doctor came to treat me. I tried to get a tangerine, but nothing got better. Now, I have no choice but to accept my fate. At my age, I don’t think I will live much longer in this world, so forget it.”
"Mother, don't be so pessimistic," Zhang Shaofei bit his lips and muttered, "There is no difficulty in the world that cannot be overcome. I will find a way to treat you."
