Medicine Girl Jingjing

Chapter 1 Li Laoshi is happy to have twins

On the morning of the twelfth lunar month in the cold winter, the sky in Liuyang County, Tanzhou was covered with dark clouds. After a while, there was a thin drizzle of snow, and the temperature gradually dropped.

The winding and long rural dirt road is full of people coming and going, and the villagers in coir raincoats and holding umbrellas are happily busy entering Taihe Town to purchase items needed for the New Year.

Li Laoshi, a burly man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, wore a blue robe inside and a thick coir raincoat woven from palm leaves. He pushed a wheelbarrow full of items and quietly came out from the back door of Taiqing Temple. He walked ten miles on the official road, and after three Entering Taihe Town at the fork, I met a few familiar villagers, greeted them and rushed home.

Li Laoshi's real name is Li Changsheng, a native of Qujia Village. He is 20 years old this year. He is now a fire worker in the well-known Taiqing Temple with a radius of hundreds of miles.

He entered Taiqing Temple when he was ten years old to do odd jobs, and he only earned dozens of copper coins a month including food and lodging.

Later, he learned to read and count with his guest (wife), and was promoted in Taiqingguan to work as a kitchen accountant, with food and lodging included, one or two dollars a month, and a lot of food during festivals.

He has been introverted since he was a child, honest and responsible, and never lied to harm others. After staying in Taiqingguan, a place where people gather together for several years, he still maintained his true colors. The Taoist priests gave him the nickname "Li Laoshi". Do not bully him.

The sleet turned into light snow, the snow was drifting, and the ground was covered with a layer of white before Chen Shi. The weather was a little cold, and there were many people walking on the dirt road, and the snow turned into frozen ice, which was slippery and hard.

Li Laoshi had learned martial arts from Taoist priests, so he had the strength to easily push the wheelbarrow carrying nearly [-] kilograms of goods forward, and finally set foot on the winding and rugged dirt road in Qujia Village before noon.

"elder brother!"

"father!"

Two young children in Tsing Yi who were about the same height ran out of the village shouting excitedly.

The tall boy with a round face, thick eyebrows, tiger eyes and red lips is called Li Yunqing, the son of Li Laoshi, who is six years old this year.

The little boy with a melon-seeded face, red phoenix eyes and pink lips is called Li Qubing. He is Li Laoshi's younger brother. He is five years old this year.

There is only one year difference between the pair of uncles and nephews, and the nephew is one year older than the uncle.

Li Laoshi didn't stop pushing the wheelbarrow in his hand, and walked forward with even bigger steps. Thinking of the two closest women in the world at home, he smiled and asked his younger brother, "How are your mother and your sister-in-law?"

Li Qubing followed the wheelbarrow with two calves, and hurriedly replied: "Mother is fine. Sister-in-law's stomach is so big, it looks like a big wooden basin has been stuffed in it."

Li Yunqing smiled playfully and jumped on the wheelbarrow, beckoning Li Qubing to come too.

Li Qubing looked at the height of the wheelbarrow, shook his head and said, "I'm afraid of falling, so I won't sit on it."

Li Laoshi's home is at the end of the village, and the wheelbarrow drove past more than forty families before arriving.

Qu waited at home all morning, when he heard Li Qubing's uncle and nephew calling, he hurried out of the main room to greet him at the door.

Quzhu is Li Laoshi's mother. She is 38 years old. She is tall, with dark skin, round face and big eyes. She wears a simple bun and wears dark blue long jacket and trousers. She looks healthy and energetic.

He Shi also wanted to go out, but was stopped by Qu Shi to stay in the main room warmed by a charcoal fire.

He Shihe Liyi is Li Laoshi's guest, three years older than him, 23 years old this year.

At the end of the year, there were a lot of pilgrims at the Taiqing Temple, and even the kitchen was very busy. Li Laoshi hadn’t come home for a month. Looking at the main room with the closed door, he said a little excitedly: "Mother, it’s snowing, hurry up!" Enter the house, I will unload the things in the miscellaneous room and go there."

He estimated the date, the guest of heaven will give birth in the next few days, and he will be a father again, so he is very excited.

Qu Shi looked at the cart full of items covered with oiled paper, and asked with a smile, "What did the temple give you this year?"

Li Laoshi pushed the wheelbarrow to the front of the miscellaneous room, turned around and said, "Mother, in addition to last year's food and incense candles, Guanli also gave me ten catties of white flour, five catties of dried dates, four catties of sesame oil, and three catties of brown sugar."

He Shi is a northerner who likes to eat pasta.

He is the white flour who specially asked the kitchen steward for it.

"It's worth five taels of silver." Qu's smile was more intense and quick to shake off the snow on the second son and eldest grandson, and said to the eldest son: "I will unload the things, you take off the coir raincoat and go to see sister Yi. "

This daughter-in-law of hers was picked up by her husband doing business in the north. The origin is unknown, but she is beautiful, gentle and polite, can read and write, and is good at embroidery. , She is also a bit better than the ladies from rich and noble families in the county.

She is kind by nature, and she will treat her daughter-in-law well even without her husband's exhortation to "treat her daughter-in-law as a married woman".

She does housework quickly and well. During her daughter-in-law's pregnancy, her son was not at home. She was considerate of her daughter-in-law's difficulty, so she took care of all the work, so that her daughter-in-law could raise the baby with peace of mind.

Li Laoshi's heart had already flown into the main room, but he didn't want to let Qu's trouble, so he unloaded all the things on the wheelbarrow to the miscellaneous room, and pushed the wheelbarrow in.The unicycle belongs to Guanli and has to be returned.

Looking at her husband's face flushed red from the ice and snow, He called her son softly, "Go and serve some hot ginger soup for your father."

She is taller than Qu's, with fair skin, long face, almond eyes, red lips and white teeth, beautiful appearance and long hair like black ink, wearing a simple side bun, wearing only a peach wood hairpin inlaid with silver fish, and wearing a dark green loose cotton gown, With a belly twice as big as that of an ordinary pregnant woman in the same period, it is difficult to hide her innate elegance.

Li Laoshi's eyeballs fell on He Shi's face and he couldn't turn his eyes away. He only knew how to smile innocently. After drinking the hot ginger soup, he inadvertently looked down at He Shi's terrifyingly large belly, and his heart jumped in shock.

When He Shi was pregnant with Li Yunqing back then, her stomach was much smaller than this, and she cried out in pain all night during childbirth like this.

Now that He's stomach is so big, what will happen during delivery?

There was no smile on his face, and he didn't have a good appetite for lunch. He hurried back to Taiqing temple in the afternoon, knelt down and kowtowed three times to the temple master to get a letter from him, and then walked [-] miles to the temple. Taoist nun Zifeng, the master of Taiming Temple with excellent medical skills, is invited to his home.

Two days later, in the middle of the night, He Shi saw redness and began to have labor pains.

Taoist Zifeng took a female Taoist apprentice and stood by He's side to deliver her in an hour.

As the first rays of morning light pierced the night to illuminate the earth, a loud cry of a baby was heard in the delivery room.

After a while, an extremely loud and even deafening cry of a baby came out, directly covering the cry of the baby in front of him, and Qu Shi was so happy that he went to all directions to thank the Taoist gods, saying in his mouth: "His father , My daughter-in-law has added two healthy grandchildren to our family."

Taoist Zifeng was short-tempered, so she couldn't help explaining loudly: "Female benefactor, your daughter-in-law is not giving birth to twins, but twins."

(End of this chapter)