Ma Yulan asked Zuo Jingyan in surprise:

"No, who did you listen to?"

Zuo Jingyan told about Mr. Xing’s medical treatment for her:

"A Chinese medicine doctor said, didn't my stomach hurt when I was on my period? He said it was because I had a cold when I was a child."

Ma Yulan waved her hand and said with certainty:

"What you met must be a quack. You have never fallen into a river since you were a child. You were always sick when you were a child. I was afraid that you would be cold and covered you tightly. I wouldn't let you go out in the winter. Why?

Maybe catching a cold?"

Zuo Jingyan felt very strange. According to Mr. Xing's medical skills, it was impossible for him to get the wrong pulse, but according to her mother, she must have never fallen into ice water, let alone been cold.

When her mother said that Mr. Xing was a quack, Zuo Jingyan hurriedly tried to clear his name:

"Mom, the person who treated me is a descendant of the imperial doctor, a famous Chinese doctor in Jinghai."

Ma Yulan was stubborn: "Put him down, he is definitely a quack."

Zuo Jingyan had no choice but to change the topic:

"Mom, you said I was always sick when I was a child. What diseases did I get?"

Ma Yulan turned over and lay on the pillow, holding her head with one hand and looking at her daughter, recalling Zuo Jingyan's first serious illness as a child:

"You had a high fever just after you were born, before you were even a month old. I was so frightened that I could only cry. Your father called the barefoot doctor in our village. He couldn't cure you and you were rushed to a big hospital in the city.

Your father took you to the city overnight and stayed in the hospital for more than ten days before coming back. During those ten days, our family spent all their living expenses.

You would do it every winter after you came back. Every time you had a fever, you had to go to the hospital. Later, you found an old Chinese medicine doctor who gave you decoction and medicine for half a month before you recovered. You said you were always sick. Who dared to let you touch cold water?

?You won’t even be allowed to wash your clothes.”

Zuo Jingyan heard that she was so frail and sick when she was a child. No wonder her mother did not let the original owner touch cold water since she was a child. It turned out to be because of this, and the reason why she pampered the original owner was because she was not in good health.

Zuo Jingyan still felt that something was wrong. Mr. Xing would not take the wrong pulse, so she asked again:

"Mom, why did I have a fever? Didn't the doctor tell me?"

Ma Yulan’s answer this time was very definite:

"It was winter when you were born because of the wind and cold. People in the village didn't shy away from seeing you. They kept opening the door and let in the wind. You started to have a fever when you caught the wind."

Cold water has nothing to do with catching a cold and having a fever. Zuo Jingyan really couldn't figure it out and stopped thinking about it. She thought of another question:

"Mom, does our family have a genealogy?"

Ma Yulan sat up and looked at her daughter strangely: "Why do you ask this?"

Zuo Jingyan also sat up, took some clothes and put them on her mother, put her arms around her shoulders and said with a smile:

"I was just asking casually. I heard them chatting and said that big families have genealogies. I was curious about what they wanted to see?"

In fact, Zuo Jingyan was afraid that there was a genealogy in her family, so wouldn't she have revealed her secret by saying that her grandfather was the missing one?

Ma Yulan smiled: "Our family has a family tree. In those years, the Four Olds were broken and your father hid them. If you want to see them, ask him to get them back tomorrow."

Zuo Jingyan felt uneasy: "Ah? Ah!"

Come on, I can't sleep now.

Suddenly there was an old sow at home. Zuo Bolin was worried. He wanted to go out to take a look at it at night. Unexpectedly, he heard the conversation between the two of them. Zuo Bolin stood outside for a long time, forgetting to even look at the old sow, and turned around again.

Go back to the east room.

Early the next morning, Ma Yulan got up and prepared delicious food for Zuo Jingyan. Her daughter used to like to eat sugar cakes when she was at home. Yesterday, her daughter brought back thirty kilograms of white flour. She brought all the noodles back, so they must be baked.

Eat sugar cookies.

Zuo Jingyan didn't sleep well last night because she was worried about her grandfather, and she was still lying on the kang dreaming.

She dreamed that she was floating up and down in the dark water, and it was freezing cold all around. She wanted to cry and shout, but she couldn't make a sound. She thought she would die in this cold water, and her heart was filled with despair. Suddenly, a pair of big hands

Pick her up...

clang......

Just when Zuo Jingyan wanted to see clearly who had rescued her, she heard a loud noise and was awakened.

In the outhouse, Ma Yulan angrily picked up the big pot lid on the ground and glanced worriedly at the west room. Could such a big movement wake up her daughter?

Zuo Bolin came out of the east room, looked at the lid of the big pot without saying anything, and went out to buy food for the old sow and a few piglets. If he wanted to grow big fat pigs, he had to keep up with the food.

He went to collect some fallen grain and came back to make pig food for the pigs.

Zuo Jingyan yawned when she came out of the west room. She smelled the aroma of baked sugar cookies, sniffed hard, and leaned against her mother like a greedy cat and acted coquettishly:

"Mom, what can you make me something delicious?"

It’s great to have a mother, I can act like a spoiled child without restraint! I’m so happy in this life.

Ma Yulan blamed herself for waking up her daughter:

"Did it wake you up? Go and sleep a little longer, and Mom will bake sugar cookies for you."

"Mom, let me do it. I'm really good at making pancakes."

Zuo Jingyan had already woken up, and naturally she would not go back to sleep in again, so she offered to help.

Ma Yulan snatched back the spatula and pushed her daughter into the house to rest:

"I don't need you. When you were at your parents' home, you didn't have to do any work. It won't be okay if you get married and become a daughter-in-law without working. But when you go back to your parents' home, you can have a good rest."

When Zuo Jingyan couldn't help, she went out to use the toilet. The old sow and the piglets were kept in the backyard, and the toilet was also in the backyard. Zuo Jingyan said hello to them when she passed by the pig pen.

"Good morning you guys!"

The old sow thought she was here to feed, so she ran over humming, followed by several piglets, five pairs of eyes looking at Zuo Jingyan longingly.

Zuo Jingyan had empty hands and said awkwardly:

"Uh, wait a minute, I'll cook for you later."

The old sow groaned, not sure if she was dissatisfied, but she took the piglet and went back to lie down.

In rural households, feces produced in toilets are reserved for public use, and a septic tank is dug behind the toilet. In the summer, flies buzz around. Fortunately, it is only March, and the fumes are not so bad that people can't open their eyes.

Zuo Jingyan came out after going to the toilet and saw the old woman named Yang from the household on the left lying on the wall looking at the old sow. Her eyes seemed to be looking at a pot of pork instead of the old sow.

"Good morning Aunt Yang."

Zuo Jingyan said hello to her, and Aunt Yang was flattered and replied several times:

"Hey, eh, early, early, early."

When Zuo Jingyan was at her parents' house, she looked at everyone with their noses in the air and never talked to them. Later, she helped her once, only greeted her when they met, and even gave herself a piece of cloth as a reward.

Aunt Yang's eyes turned red as she looked at the old sow and the piglet. If she hadn't helped her, how could she be where she is today? Now that she's prosperous, shouldn't she repay herself?

Zuo Jingyan didn't see the calculation in Aunt Yang's eyes, so she said hello to her and walked back.

Mom doesn't have time to bake pancakes, so she goes back to make pig food. Just use corn flour and it's best to chop some vegetable leaves. The pigs eat it with balanced nutrition.
Chapter completed!