The two old women were sitting on a long bluestone in the kapok forest and talking about this matter. Lei didn't like to hear it, so she changed the topic back and said that she was especially grateful to Lei's son, General Manager Wu Xiaofeng, for arranging her daughter-in-law to live there. A construction site provides migrant workers with a monthly salary of 1,500 yuan to cook and cook, not bad! But there are some problems at home. My grandson cannot take human milk, so he drinks milk every day. It is said that the children who eat milk are not as smart as those who eat human milk. I am a little worried!
Although Ma agreed with this point of view, he accepted the words idealistically. How could there be such a saying that those who eat milk are not equally smart?
At this time, the air was filled with the fragrance of flowers and plants. Lei Shi twitched his nose and felt that it smelled good.
Ma suddenly stood up and reached out to scratch his neck. Once he scratched it, a red line formed, and then scratched it again, forming another red line crossing it. She yelled, "It's so itchy..."
Ma quickly stood up, and Lei also stood up to help her. She shook her head, indicating that she didn't need help, and walked straight out of the kapok forest.
Lei accompanied her and said, "You are allergic to the aroma of flowers and plants. Should I take you to the hospital?"
Ma waved his hand and said, "No, no, just wait until the itching on your neck stops!"
Lei said, so be it! You rest at home for a while, and I will go to the river to pick some willow leaves and boil them in water for you to wash. It will be more effective than going to the hospital to take medicine and injections.
Ma didn't believe it and planned to go to the hospital if the itching became uncomfortable after a while. However, she did not refuse Lei's kindness and said with emotion, "I'll give it a try as you said."
Mr. Ma walked around a field and went straight to his home at the east end of the village.
Lei didn't break his promise. He went to the river and picked a lot of willow leaves. He took them home and put them in an earthen pot, mixed with water and boiled them. First, he burned them with fierce fire, then simmered them until he was full of willow leaves mixed with them. The pot of water boiled into half a pot of medicine, and she moved the pot away. At this time, the whole room was filled with a medicinal fragrance.
Xu Sigui was at home, rhythmically stepping on the rocking nest shaped like a colorful dragon boat. When the rocking nest was stepped on, it would sway, and the child lying inside would fall asleep easily.
In order not to wake up the sleeping child, Xu Sigui seemed to be choked when he smelled the fragrance of the medicine. He coughed lightly and whispered, Mom, no one in our family is sick. Why are you boiling the medicine?
Sigui, you don’t care. Lei used a large piece of wet rag to wrap half of the buckle-like handle of the earthen pot and squeezed it. It was no longer hot to his hands. She went out carrying the potion pot, then turned back to her son and said, Sigui, I'm going to Wu Xiaofeng's house in the east end of the village. Her mother's skin is allergic and her neck is red. I'll boil some willow leaf water and give it to her to wash. You, you can't just let your child sleep. When she wakes up, it's best to pick her up from the cradle and move her around so she can breathe good air and have fresh people.
I don’t want you to give orders about your children. Xu Sigui had some emotions and had nowhere to vent, so he talked back. Of course, it's not that he has any objections to his mother, but he feels that it's embarrassing for him as a grown man to take care of his children at home, so he rarely walks from the west end of the village to the east end of the village with his child in his arms. At most, he walks around in front of his house.
When he saw someone coming or passing by his door from a distance, Xu Sigui, who was holding his child, quickly retreated back to his house.
The Ma family's house is at the east end of the village, with mountains behind and a river in front. It is a good site with beautiful scenery and mountains and rivers.
But most people don't care about this geographical advantage, only Feng Shui masters care about it. A Feng Shui master once came here to visit and said that the house of this family is well oriented, with water in front of the house and mountains behind the house. According to the principles of yin and yang and the five elements, water produces wood, wood produces fire, water represents salary, and wood represents property. , the owner of fire is prosperous, and the descendants of their family will definitely have a lot of money and a prosperous career.
Many people associate Mr. Feng Shui's words with Mr. Ma's son Wu Xiaofeng, a big construction boss, and think that Feng Shui played a role.
Although the Ma family's house is similar in style to other people's old Ming and Qing style houses, their family has renovated the house with this style structure. This does not negate the old-fashioned layout and auspicious meaning.
Let’s talk about the wooden sculpture of two dragons playing with beads on the roof of this house! Two years ago, not only was the color old, but half of the bead was missing. Now the wooden dragon body has been painted. The color should be red or green, especially the dragon scales because they are made of The fine yellow paint makes the whole dragon look resplendent and auspicious.
The spacious courtyard in front of the Ma family's house is hardened with cement. It can keep out dust when the weather is sunny and mud when it rains. The whole Kapok Village is very envious.
At that moment, Mr. Lei walked to the door of Mr. Ma's house carrying most of the potion made from willow leaves. Mr. Ma just walked out of the house with a miserable expression on his face.
But when I met Mr. Lei, I smelled the smell of Chinese medicine again, and I understood a little bit. When I wanted to ask something, Mr. Lei shook the earthen pot in his hand gently and said, "Mr. Ma, I boiled some medicine for you and washed your neck." See if it still itch.
Ma put down the hand that she had intentionally raised to cover her neck, and a purple-red scratch mark appeared on her neck, like a crimson dry cloud, giving 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 right away."
At this time, her daughter-in-law Gong Yawen was following behind with her child in her arms. She suddenly walked around to the front, looked at Lei's with grateful eyes, then turned around and said to Ma, "Mom, you can cook it with Lei's" Wash your neck with medicine. If it can relieve the itching, it will be better. 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 he will be back in a few hours.
OK! Ma nodded, finally convinced.
She motioned for Lei to sit in the room.
Gong Yawen held the child in one hand and made tea for Lei with the other.
Lei didn't drink, but told Ma to sit down. She asked for a small white cloth, scalded it with boiling water and let it cool down, wring it out, then dipped the potion in the earthen pot and rubbed it on the purple-red lump on Ma's neck. Apply, rub, rub.
Ma felt an itch worm squirming on her neck. When Lei did this, it was killed immediately. She said excitedly, "Oh, this potion is good, it can relieve the itching!"
Lei said, if the effect is good, I will pick some willow leaves and boil them in water to kill the bacteria.
Then thank you. As Ma said, he thought to himself: I know this method, but I haven't tried it. Now that I know how to use willow leaves decoction to relieve itching and kill bacteria, why should I let others do it for me? What's more, Lei's age is about the same as mine, so it's unreasonable for her to move her old body to serve him.
Lei received her affirmation and answered more energetically and conscientiously, "Then what are you grateful for?" Your son has become prosperous and you arranged for my wife to do some work at the construction site. I am already very grateful to you. Although this is your son helping my family, first of all I have to thank you for giving birth to an excellent son, otherwise everything would be out of the question.
Ma was very pleased to hear what Lei said, and even subconsciously thought that Lei should help him as much as he could, but he couldn't say that.
Ma tactfully said on this topic that my son's company is mainly engaged in construction. Except for drawing design, which is technical work, other tasks are dangerous, cumbersome and require strength, so they generally do not recruit female workers.
Lei Shi kept nodding and uttered the word "thank you" repeatedly.
At this moment, most of the earthen jar of willow leaf water had been dipped and wiped by Ma, and the small white towel had clearly been dyed, showing a dark red color.
Ma didn't feel itchy anymore, and the marks on her neck that were scratched also faded away. It looked like the same dark red color that had been rubbed with iodine water after going to the hospital. The difference was that the water made from willow leaves gave off The smell of traditional Chinese medicine is much better than that of iodine water, and it is also much healthier.
At this moment, a car horn sounded. Everyone looked up and saw that a silver-gray car had arrived in the East Village and was driving slowly beside the cement field in front of the Ma family's house.
Lei wanted to continue rubbing it with Ma to avoid wasting the remaining potion in the jar.
Ma glanced at the approaching car and said excitedly to Lei, "Forget it, it's almost done. We'll wipe it next time."
Mr. Lei held the almost empty earthen pot in his hand and turned his head. He saw Wu Xiaofeng getting out of the car at the berth. He greeted her politely, then came to Mr. Ma and said, "Mom, Yawen called and said You are sick, and I drove here specially to pick you up and take you to the hospital to see a doctor. What's wrong with you?
Ma raised her left hand and touched the mark on her neck that had been dipped in willow leaf water. She waved her right hand and said, "No need to see a doctor. The itching is gone now."
Then he looked at Mr. Lei who was standing next to him and said to his son, Xiaofeng, your Aunt Lei wiped it for me with local methods, why do you need to go to the hospital and spend unnecessary money?
Wu Xiaofeng smiled and said to Lei, thank you Aunt Lei. In my heart, I was a little doubtful that this local method of treating diseases was unreliable, so I said, Mom, let’s combine local and foreign methods! It's better to go to the hospital and have a look.
Need not. Ma licked her hair that was lifted up by the wind on her temples, thought about it and said, Xiaofeng, if the itchy spot on my neck is still itchy in two days, it won't be too late to go to the hospital.
Wu Xiaofeng saw that his mother did not look like a patient, nor was she sick at all. There was just a dark mark on her neck, but she thought it was okay. He looked at Lei who was still carrying the earthen pot and said to his mother, "Mom, how should I thank Aunt Lei?"
Where, what is this? Still want to thank? Lei Shi 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, so her son forced the money into her hand before taking it.
Lei Shi praised, you are really a filial son. In fact, you don't have time to take care of her. Your daughter-in-law Yawen takes good care of your mother.
Gong Yawen stood aside and smiled bitterly. She felt a little emotional. Her husband didn't return home for several days and nights. He came back in a hurry and only talked to her mother, but left her alone.
At this moment, Gong Yawen took over Lei's words, I didn't take care of him, I couldn't take care of him well, even I couldn't take care of him. She glared at her husband, looking inexplicably angry.
Wu Xiaofeng understood. In order to appease his wife, he approached her, gently tugged on her sleeve, and led her into the bedroom of the house. He took out a wad of money without counting it. There were about ten 100 yuan bills each. , just put it into her hand and said, I am really busy these days, so I don’t come back much.
do not talk. Gong Yawen pushed the money that her husband had put in his hand, frowned and said, "If you don't come back very often, you won't return it at all, right?"
Wu Xiaofeng grabbed the wad of money that she pushed back and put it on the dressing table. He smiled and said to Gong Yawen, "Am I back now?"
Gong Yawen snorted dissatisfiedly, yes, you are back. Is this home a hotel? Even if it's a hotel, travelers have to wait one night before leaving. Why don't you just leave in a hurry and leave me a widow? Oh, you think you can just throw a few bad coins and everything will be over, but you can't live like this anymore.
