After walking the rugged path, when he came to an old brick house, Cao's father and Cao's mother were carefully loading cucumbers into cardboard boxes in the hall.
Seeing the stranger behind Cao Shan, Cao's father was very surprised. After asking a few words in crappy Mandarin, he immediately became overjoyed when he learned that it was the guest introduced by Tan Xiangyang. Throwing away the work at hand, urged Cao's mother to prepare meals in dialect.
Qianmai and others hurriedly stopped them. In order not to trouble Cao's family, they had already used coarse grains and snacks on the way there.
Upon seeing this, Cao's mother turned around and went into the back room without saying a word. After a while, he turned around again, and there was a square wooden basin with a thin depression in his hand, which contained the grapes and red dates that he had harvested this fall.
The black and red faces of the couple with a slightly restrained smile kept raising their chins at them, stuffing fruits into their hands, and signalling that although they can eat, there is more at home.
The people were so kind, and they readily accepted it. Seeing the guests' praise for their own fruits, Cao's father and Cao's mother showed a pleasant smile on the vicissitudes of life, as if they had received incomparable respect.
Although the speech communication was a little bit difficult, everyone still stumbled and started the routine. I learned that since the year before last, Cao Shan's eldest brother who was studying at the University of Science and Technology brought back some fruit and vegetable cultivation books. Since then, the Cao family has started planting fruits and vegetables out of season in the mountains, and their economic income has become much better than in previous years. The off-season verdant cucumbers stacked in the hall are the first try to grow this year, but they are growing well. Longquan wholesalers have established a supply and marketing relationship with them.
"Sister Cao Shan was married a year ago, and the young couple opened a hairdressing shop in the county. At this time next year, brother Cao Shan also graduated from university, and the burden on the family will be lighter by that time." Speaking of two diligent and outstanding children, Cao Father’s face is full of pride and relief: “At that time, the focus of the family will turn to Cao Shan. Even if you don’t come, we will also discuss sending him to a school for the deaf and mute, and sending him to a hospital in the provincial capital for treatment. "
"It's not that I boasted about the child in the seller. Cao Shan is really well-behaved and smart. He did a good job of picking water, cooking, herding cattle, and painting. Sometimes he would automatically go to the vegetable shed to give it to us. Fan." Mother Cao said, sighing deeply: "Unfortunately, the ears are so short... Otherwise, this child must be as good as his brother..."
The topic unknowingly turned to Cao Shan. Although Cao Shan has been deaf and mute for more than ten years, Cao's father and Cao's mother still can't accept this fact. Qianmai and others felt the same way, and felt faintly sad in their hearts.
"Cao Shan's sign language is very standard!?" Qianmai is half praise and half doubt.
"It was his elder brother who asked a student from the school for the deaf and mute to teach him when he was in high school in the county seat. The two of them are doing very well. The classmate is now working out of town, and when he returns home during the Chinese New Year, they will gather together. , Play together for a few days."
Qianmai nodded slightly, happy for Cao Shan to have friends.
From the small chat just now, it can be seen that Cao's father and Cao's mother readily agreed to Cao Shan's study in the city. Last night, she made a special call to discuss the general situation with the leaders of the Huayang School for the Deaf and Mute. There is no problem in trying or transferring to classes. What we need to do now is to understand Cao Shan and lead him to go to school voluntarily when he is "weary of studying".
"What'earthwork' does Cao Shan currently use?"
Latent Wheat chewed on the red dates and asked casually. Not surprisingly, Father Cao mentioned the iron piece in Cao Shan's mouth and the magnet behind his ear. In the end, he led everyone into the back room and quickly opened a big black porcelain jar.
Without waiting for Cao's father to introduce it carefully, Qianmai and others can't wait to wait and see.
I saw the small black porcelain tank bottom, slipping around seven or eight yellow worms, black and thick, and some even more than two feet in length. The lid was lifted, and the bottom of the tank suddenly saw light. Huang Yun seemed to be frightened, twisting their bodies, shaking uneasily, and some of them raised their pointed heads from time to time to look at people.
The three of them had their hearts beaten up, and they took two steps back in shock. Nan Weiwei's face was pale, she finally suppressed the scream that had rushed to her throat, no matter how polite, she quietly retreated behind Ouyang Xuan, her hair standing upright, she couldn't help shivering.
The situation of latent wheat is not much better. If it hadn't been for Father Cao to explain to the side, for a moment, she thought she had run into a water snake and almost ran away.
For a while, a short period of blank space appeared in the brains of all three of them. Later, Ouyang Xuan asked incomprehensibly, "Are these Huang Pan for Cao Shan?"
This seems to work. Huang Pan nourishes the spleen and nourishes the qi. Its nutritional value and health care value have long been recognized by people and confirmed by modern science.
Father Cao shook his head gently, bent over and closed the lid again, and said, "The old man in town said that killing Huang Pan and dripping blood into his ears can cure his deafness. Therefore, whenever I have free time, I will go to the field. Grab the Huang Yu, and raise it first if you have a lot of it."
This time, Nan Weiwei's mouth opened wider, enough to fit an egg. Today, she has experienced so many unbelievable things, and now her heart is about to start giving opinions.
As if it would be contagious, Ouyang Xuan's heart also shook suddenly: "This... is there a basis?"
"Yes... Brother Cao Shan went to check it." Father Cao's voice was low, just like howling, but he wasn't sure in his heart. He looked at the strange expressions of Qian Mai and the others, and he couldn't help but feel shocked. Could this "earthwork" not be used
Soon, Latent Wheat came back to his senses and slowly spoke up, pulling his eyelids, and his tone was always calm: "There is a record in "Materia Medica": the eel replenishes the five internal organs, removes rheumatism, and treats the mouth with blood. Eyes are crooked, ear drops can cure earache... But Cao Shan is not earache..."
Cao's father and Cao's mother paled when they heard this. Mother Cao, who had been silent by her side, suddenly hurriedly pulled Qianmai's hand, pointed to the broken branches and leaves of two large baskets in the corner not far away, and asked: "What about this? This... does it work? Yes. A distant cousin of my natal family said that someone had cured his deafness with a decoction."
Latent wheat would also like to know what this kind of broken branches and leaves is. So, without answering, I asked: "I don't know this medicine. Who is the'someone' that your cousin said? How long has it been taken? How is it taken?"
"We don’t know much about this. This cousin, he also heard from the Guizhouese who also worked in Wenzhou. He said that he was a deaf middle-aged man. He went to the mountain to dig up this kind of firewood and took it home to wash it. Net, chopped and dried, and then decocted with water every day. In less than half a year, the ears are very bright."
"We heard it and thought it was also a hope. Seeing such a well-behaved child, unable to keep up with his studies, being played around by his classmates, and disgusted by the teacher, I felt really uncomfortable, so I went to find it in the mountains. I watched Cao Shan drink for a few days. , There was no adverse reaction, and I thought that without spending money, I kept letting him decoct every day."
"How long has Cao Shan taken so far? Is it effective?"
Hearing this, Father Cao's thick black eyebrows slowly gathered towards the center of his eyebrows, and he looked out the window, and sighed helplessly: "It's useless. This medicine is very bitter and the smell is very unpleasant. Every time it is even tricked. After adding a lot of brown sugar to the medicine, Cao Shan was willing to drink it."
"By the third month, Cao Shan refused to drink again. He woke up in the morning and brushed his teeth and started retching. My his mother and I were suffering every day, seeing it in our eyes and in our hearts. Although it was forcing him to drink, But he drank the medicine in front of the stove, and his mother secretly wiped his tears behind the stove. But, despite this, we just can't die this heart. After four months, Cao Shan started to eat slowly and sometimes vomited. I got sour water. His elder brother and sister found out when they got home and scolded our old couple. We are really regretful now..."
Father Cao's eyes slowly turned red, his Adam's apple rolled, and he could see that he was suppressing a certain emotion. At the beginning, he still thought about words and words, and the tortoise was speaking in crappy Mandarin, but later, when he was sad, he unknowingly came up with a series of dialects.
Qian Mai and the others listened quietly. Although some syllables are incomprehensible, the general meaning is still understandable.
Anyone who does not eat the fireworks in the world knows that his son has been sick for a long time and suffers crimes. As a parent, there is no way to live a peaceful life.
The crowded and gray wood house was filled with a downturn, and Nan Weiwei didn't even know how many times Nan Weiwei sniffed secretly.
After a long while, Qian Mai took a deep breath, revealed the smile that he had worked hard for in the workplace, and broke the silence: "Since we have tried so many'earthworks' and they are all ineffective, then we... don't need it. The most urgent thing is to raise Cao Shan. I’m in vain, learn cultural knowledge, and be an educated person in an all-round way. I can’t be anxious about ear matters. After a few years, medical technology has advanced, and everything will be solved gradually.
While the crowd sighed and sighed in the wood shed, the subject person Cao Shan was very busy. Wearing rain boots, carrying a bucket and a broom, he washed and washed the cowshed.
From the back door, he was so active and diligent, so calm and natural. There is no inferiority complex, no complaints, no irritability, no comparison, no imbalance, everything is as calm as it is.
At this moment, Qianmai was extremely grateful to God for allowing Cao Shan to live in this deep mountain surrounded by water and simple folk customs. It gave him a strong will like a mountain, a clear heart like a beautiful water, and also cultivated his optimism and open-mindedness in watching the sunrise and sunset and the clouds. And most importantly, by God's blessing, Cao Shan is still young, does not understand world affairs, does not understand sadness, and everything in his mind is still ignorant.
If everything is predestined, then God let her meet the beautiful Cao Shan in such a time, Qian Mai doesn't know whether this is her luck or Cao Shan's luck.
"Did you decide to take him away?" Nan Weiwei leaned forward and asked quietly in Jintian dialect.
"I'll talk about it later after I've seen the painting. Also, you're wrong. It's not that I want to take him away, but he chooses whether he wants to go with me or not." Qian Maimai solemnly declared, in exchange for Nan Weiwei's eyes. Hatred. (To be continued, if you want to know what is going on, please visit www.qidian.com, there are more chapters, the author is supported, and the genuine reading is supported!)