You are unlucky and I am tough

"Okay, I'll go back first."

Cheng Lizheng was trying to stand up with the help of a cane. Cheng Zhengyi was about to help him up when Cheng Shuang was quicker and stepped forward to support him. "Grandpa Lizheng, let me help you out."

As she walked out, she calmly placed one hand on the old man's pulse. She had already noticed that Cheng Lizheng's face was not in a good state.

At the same time, she winked at Wei Qinglang and pointed to the backpack containing the prey on the ground.

Wei Qinglang understood immediately, removed the hay covering the chicken, took out a pheasant, and grabbed Cheng Zhengyi who was about to leave and stuffed the pheasant into his hand.

"Uncle Cheng, I think the village head doesn't look well. Maybe his headache has come back. Take this pheasant back and make some chicken soup for him."

"No, no, pheasant soup is good. Save it for making soup for your brothers and sisters."

"We still have three rabbits, so we can't eat this much. The meat will go bad if we don't eat it. I've troubled the village head a lot lately, so please accept it."

Cheng Zhengyi looked at the pheasant in his hand with embarrassment. He turned his head to glance at his old father's back and sighed softly, "Okay, then I'll take it. I was thinking of killing a chicken tomorrow to give him some nourishment. As he gets older, his headaches are really tormenting, and medicine is becoming less and less effective."

Cheng Lizheng went outside the yard and found that his son was holding a pheasant. He was immediately unhappy and hit him twice with his crutch. Cheng Zhengyi was hit twice and supported him to explain.

The father and son gradually walked away. Cheng Shuang saw that his brothers and sisters were all in the house, and whispered to Wei Qinglang, "I want to treat the village head grandfather. I just took his pulse, and I can cure his headache."

Wei Qinglang was surprised. "I heard that doctors in town and the county can't cure this disease. You can cure it. Do you mean completely cure it?"

Cheng Shuang nodded, "Of course it's completely cured."

Wei Qinglang was surprised. He knew that the elderly people in the village all suffered from headaches. Wei Changgui had a headache before and he banged the table and smashed the bowls at home. The headache lasted for two or three days.

He thought that Cheng Shuang's medical skills only meant knowing herbs and being able to cure minor illnesses and pains. It turns out he was so powerful.

Cheng Shuang was afraid that her brothers and sisters in the room would hear her, so she pulled Wei Qinglang into a corner and whispered, "Grandpa Lizheng's symptoms are probably caused by long-term inhalation of toxic gases. The toxins have accumulated in the body, passing through the blood-brain barrier and damaging the nervous system, which is why he has a headache."

"Gas poisoning?" Wei Qinglang didn't understand anything else, he only understood that he had inhaled toxic gas.

Cheng Shuang nodded. "Hydrogen sulfide or mercury poisoning both have these symptoms. I'm not sure which one it is, but I can cure this disease."

Wei Qinglang frowned and pondered for a moment. "Although I'm not good at chemistry, but the fact that hydrogen sulfide and mercury can be produced does not mean that the surrounding area..."

Cheng Shuang nodded with a look of "you guessed it right," and said, "There are mines in the mountains, and they are iron or gold mines. Due to long-term natural weathering and rain erosion, harmful substances in the underground ores are gradually released, forming high concentrations of harmful gases in local areas.

These toxic gases are blown out during the windy season. Although the toxins are very small after being diluted, the villagers have lived here for a long time and the toxins accumulate in their bodies to a certain level, which starts to cause headaches. If the toxins in the body are not completely eliminated, no matter how many medicines they take, it will only treat the symptoms and not the root cause.

"So that's how it is." Wei Qinglang looked educated. "Is this disease difficult to treat?"

"It's not difficult for me to treat, but it requires Gastrodia elata, which ordinary people can't afford. That's what I think..."

Cheng Shuang expressed her thoughts, "The day after tomorrow I'll sell the Gastrodia elata I have, and then buy some finished Gastrodia elata for the village head to use for treatment. After that, I'll discuss with him how to treat the villagers. There's Gastrodia elata in the old forest. If that doesn't work, we can organize the villagers to go into the mountains and look for it. What do you think?"

"Yes, yes."

Wei Qinglang frowned slightly. "But if you want to treat the villagers, how do you explain your sudden ability to practice medicine?"

"It's not something that can be cured right now."

Cheng Shuang pondered, "One month, starting from January, I'll go to the county town more often this month. Then I'll say that I've taken an old wandering doctor as my teacher. It'll be fine as long as it makes sense. As long as I cure the village head and the villagers, how can they not believe it?"

Wei Qinglang nodded, "That makes sense."

"Third brother and sister-in-law, what are you talking about? It's time for dinner." As soon as the two finished speaking, Wei Xinyi ran out and called them to eat.

Cheng Shuang quickly responded, "I'm coming."

Dinner was coarse flour pancakes with wild vegetable and mushroom soup made by Cheng Pan. It had already gotten cold because I wanted to wait for my brother and sister-in-law to come back and eat it together, so I just heated it up again.

Cheng Shuang and Wei Qinglang were indeed hungry after running in the mountains all day. They took a bite of pancake and a sip of soup in unison, and ate with great relish.

Cheng Chen was afraid that his elder sister would not have enough to eat, so he silently tore off half a piece of pancake and handed it to her.

Cheng Shuang took it and put it back in his bowl, then pinched his face, leaving an oil mark on his cheek.

Cheng Chen touched his face and felt the oil on his hands, "Big sister is annoying."

Cheng Shuang laughed out loud, and the others followed suit.

After eating half his fill, Cheng Shuang slowed down and sipped his soup. "Let me tell you something. Today, we've caused trouble for the villagers. I think we should thank them. We've pickled two pieces of meat at home. I'm thinking of dividing the three rabbits we hunted today into seven portions and sending them to the villagers who accompanied Nanxing up the mountain. What do you think?"

Wei Nanxing was the first to nod in agreement, then looked at Wei Qinglang.

Cheng Shuang also looked at him "Brother, you..."

"Cough cough......"

"Ah no, husband, what do you think?" Cheng Shuang spoke too quickly and changed her words quickly.

Wei Qinglang gave her a look that said "pay more attention" and nodded, "I have no objection."

After making the decision and finishing their meal, the Wei Qinglang brothers lit candles and started to prepare the rabbit. They cut it into seven parts and then delivered them to the seven villagers' homes one by one overnight.

When they came back after delivering the rabbit meat, everyone else had already fallen asleep. Wei Qinglang also returned to the room. As soon as he entered, he saw Cheng Shuang bringing the backpack into the room. She was standing at the table, carefully cleaning the dirt off the Gastrodia elata with a small brush.

He stretched his neck a few times and sat down opposite. "I just went to the village head's house to deliver rabbit meat to Uncle Cheng. The village head asked us to go with him to the home of Mr. Cheng tomorrow."

The original owner had no memory of Mr. Cheng, so Cheng Shuang asked in confusion, "Why?"

"Let's buy some land. The old man has always been worried that we won't have enough land to grow crops and will go hungry. He has good intentions, so I agreed."

Cheng Shuang thought so too. "Let's go, I'll also go and see what the rich parents in the village are like."

"Then you go ahead and do your work. I'm going to take a shower."

"together."

"Ah..." Wei Qinglang, who was moving his neck, paused.

Cheng Shuang saw his expression and knew that he had misunderstood. She rolled her eyes at him and said, "Brother, what are you thinking? I mean we should go in together and line up to take a shower."

I had tried it during the day, but the mall in the space didn’t work, so I went into Qiancheng Shuang and bought shampoo, shower gel and facial cleanser in the mall, then brought them in and put them in the bathroom for daily use.

Wei Qinglang also asked Cheng Shuang to buy him a new razor in the mall. He was very happy thinking that he would have room to restock the space in the future.

After taking a comfortable shower, Cheng Shuang also washed her hair and dried it with a hair dryer. It felt like a dream.

It’s a pity that she still has to sleep outside. After lying on the earthen kang, she couldn’t accept the difference. She made up her mind that the first thing she would do after selling the medicinal materials was to build a new house to live in.

Not only the house, but also food, clothing, housing and transportation must be comfortable. She is fighting for the chance of rebirth not to suffer.

Thinking of this, she turned around and faced Wei Qinglang, calling softly, "Wei Qinglang..."

After calling out, there was no response from the other side and the room was quiet. Cheng Shuang waited for a while to make sure that the person was asleep.

I fell asleep as soon as I hit the bed. I must be very tired today.