Tian Jingui stood up immediately and came to the door. When she saw her mother unlocking the door, she couldn't wait to step through the threshold.
Suddenly, a middle-aged man with dark skin and a square face stopped her at the door, motioned her to sit on the threshold, then took out a small box, opened the lid, took out a load of beige ointment, and applied it to her swollen left side. He rubbed it on his eyelids, left forehead, and left cheek, and then said, Fortunately, the bee venom has not invaded the brain nerves. If the bee venom had invaded the brain nerves, I would have no way to treat you. If you apply this ointment, the swelling will subside after an hour, and you will be healed tomorrow. After you recover, I advise you to buy two live snakes on the street and release them, or you can buy two live snakes from a snake catcher and release them.
Tian Jingui felt that his face was greasy, and there was a pleasant feeling of relieving the swelling caused by bee venom, so he asked, "Gangzhong, why do you want to buy two live snakes and release them?"
Ma Youneng grinned slightly, showing off his beautiful white teeth. He said, you don’t know this, right? The snake ointment I applied to you was to fight poison with poison and cure your bee venom swelling. You don't know or consider that snake ointment is made by snakes. Snakes sacrifice their lives to become medicine and treat people's illnesses. It is not the snake's will. So whoever uses its physical body to make medicine to cure diseases, its spiritual consciousness will blame him. If a person who has no choice but to use snake medicine to treat an illness buys a few live snakes and releases them, his spiritual consciousness will remember the compassion and joy of the person who released them, save the lives of his kind, and eliminate his anger and abandon the occasional use of snake medicine. You have to be careful about the revenge of the perpetrator. I used snake ointment to cure your bee venom. Maybe next time, you may be bitten by a snake and get snake venom again. Only by being kind to all animals, including snakes, can you avoid being bitten or stung by animals inadvertently and getting poisoned.
Tian Jingui said, when I was a child, I set fire to a hornet's nest. Could it be that the burned hornet turned into a wasp and came to take revenge on me? Ma Youneng can definitely say that it is very possible.
Tian Jingui stood up from the threshold, and when he was about to leave, he said to him, "Ma Langzhong, how much money will it cost for you and me to cure this bee venom?" Ma Youneng said that he would not take any money.
Tian Jingui said again, then I will definitely help you get that thing done. The mother stood aside and said, my son will treat this disease with you, and it will be paid for. You must keep your word. When it's done, I'll buy a pair of shoes for you to wear.
Tian Jingui smiled, the skin of his eyelids moved, and there was still some pain in the lump that had not been eliminated. She gritted her teeth and said for sure, I am not like that unscrupulous mother and daughter, who burn bridges across rivers and are ungrateful. Old man and horseman, don’t worry, I will definitely do what I promised. As for buying shoes, there’s no need to do so. The groom treated me and he didn’t even ask for money!
Mom laughed, and Tian Jingui left here in laughter. Ma Langzhong returned to the house again, but instead of closing the door and locking it, he left it open, as if he had been depressed in the house for a long time and wanted to take in the fresh air outside.
Soon, the groom brought in his new daughter-in-law. This new daughter-in-law was named Tian Yingxing. Tian Jingui helped him find a matchmaker in his natal village, Tianjiazhuang.
On the wedding day, Tian Jingui made a special trip to have a wedding banquet. She and Tian Ginkgo were still distant relatives, but now they were even closer.
She often felt uncomfortable, so she would come to Majiazhuang to find a doctor to treat her, and she would inevitably sit down and chat with Tian Ginkgo.
Tian Yingxing said, I don’t know how to do medicine, so I can’t help you much. I want to devote myself to my family and do something tangible. Sister Jin Gui, what do you think we should do?
Tian Jingui blurted out that raising pigs is the best! Tian Ginkgo asked with some confusion, how good is it to raise pigs? Tian Jingui said that you can make more money. Tian Ginkgo disagreed and said, wouldn’t raising cattle and sheep both make money? Tian Jingui was asked. She pondered for a moment and said, anyway, our Yin family raises pigs. To be precise, raising a pig woman brings a lot of benefits. But there are also things that don't go well, and of course it's all my fault for being lazy. If I hadn't been lazy, that kind of thing wouldn't have happened.
This made Tian Ginkgo sound a little confused. She asked doubtfully, "Sister Jin Gui, I don't quite understand what you are saying, what is laziness and not laziness?" Tian Jingui pursed his lips and smiled, then told the story of how he was lazy and missed work. Of course, it had to do with raising pigs. This starts with the black sow she raised in the Yin family with a white flower on its belly.
Last time, she was too lazy to pull hogweed to feed the pig, so she simply drove the pig to the wasteland in the valley to eat wild vegetables like a cow grazing. But he was bitten by a wasp, and it took a lot of trouble to find the doctor to cure the lump on the entire left face connected to the left eyelid.
She came home very late, but did not drive the sow home, and even forgot about it. First, the father-in-law lost his temper and asked her to find him.
She explained why she was bitten by a wasp and didn't look for it. After that, her mother-in-law scolded her, since you were bitten by a wasp, you should come back and deliver a letter asking us to go to the valley in advance to look for pigs. We are looking for them now, but we still don’t know where the pigs are.
As a result, when my father-in-law and mother-in-law saw that the pig had not come home that night, they lit a torch and went to the wasteland in the valley to look for it, but found nothing.
It was nearly midnight when they returned home, exhausted and full of resentment towards Tian Jingui, their daughter-in-law. But one day a week later, the black sow not only returned to the Yin family's pig house, but also brought back a litter of wild boar piglets. This is good fortune! Her father-in-law and mother-in-law no longer complained about her, but praised her and said, "We wrongly blamed you. If you hadn't led this sow to the mountain to look for food, it would have been impossible for her to bring back a litter of wild boar piglets." Or if you go and get rich, our Yin family will benefit from you.
Tian Jingui thought: This sow was the reincarnation of your son Yin Manyuan. Maybe he remembered that he had not repaid his parents for their kindness in raising him before his death, and he still wanted to repay the kindness even if he became a pig. She didn't express this thought, she just covered her face and laughed muffledly.
There are a total of 12 wild boar piglets in this litter, and each one is more beautiful than a domestic pig. They all have black and white pole flowers on their bodies. Even if they buy them back and don't raise them for meat, they are quite interesting just for viewing.
The Yin family kept these 12 wild boar cubs in captivity. When they entered the pen, each weighed only about ten kilograms. After raising them for a month, the largest one grew to more than 30 kilograms, and the smallest one weighed twenty-eight or nine kilograms. They were all sold to people near and far, earning a total of more than 1,200 coins. If they were of the same weight, The number of domestic piglets can be sold for five or six hundred yuan at most.
Therefore, my father-in-law and mother-in-law were very happy and often said that my daughter-in-law, Jin Gui, was a lazy person who was not willing to pull pig grass to cook and feed the pigs, so she drove the pigs out into the wild to eat wild vegetables. She ignored them and reaped the benefits.
After the wild boar cubs were sold, the father-in-law and mother-in-law asked Tian Jingui to take the black sow to the wasteland in the valley and let it forage for wild vegetables like a cow grazing. They left it alone, hoping that like last time, it would come back again in a few days. Bring back a litter of wild boar cubs.
But a few days later, the black sow not only failed to bring back a single wild boar piglet, but was also bitten all over her body. When she got into the pig house, her blood was dripping all the way. It quickly solidified and turned from red to purple. Then it becomes dirty and mixed with dust.
The Yin family speculated that the black sow might have been bitten by a male wild boar on the mountain. They all blamed themselves or regretted it: if they had not been greedy and had not expected the black sow to go back to the mountains to lure back the wild boar cubs, such an accident would not have happened.
As the daughter-in-law, Tian Jingui had stronger bones than the two old men, she wanted to be more diligent and slowly recuperate the bitten black sow until it fully recovered.
But in the end, it backfired. The black sow came back and spent the night in the pig pen. The next morning Tian Jingui walked into the pig house and saw the black sow lying motionless on the stone slab. I thought it was sleeping, but when I looked carefully, I saw that the black sow was not breathing. She went into the pig pen and touched it. She found that the black sow was already stiff. The pot of soy milk placed in the pen last night was still intact. It seemed that the black sow died without taking a sip.
