Chapter 496: Every Family Has Its Own Problems

Han Li came to his master's place after dinner to replace his father. He took his master's pulse and found that his injury was stable and improving. He breathed a sigh of relief. After bringing a glass of water, the master and apprentice sat together to study the "Five Elements Yin Yang Soul Sutra".

The methods described in it, such as choosing one of the five elements to trigger, using the five elements to generate each other, strengthening the five elements and showing Yin and Yang, will not be discussed for the time being, because this thing looks vague and cannot be started for the time being.

However, the route of "Jing" in the meridians described in the book requires the master and apprentice to carefully calculate the feasibility. This thing is not a joke. With the violent nature of "Jing", if there is a mistake, it will cause the meridians to burst. If you are unlucky, you may die directly. If you are lucky, you will be seriously injured. It is hard to say whether you can recover completely.

The master and apprentice discussed a lot that night. Unfortunately, at this stage of Han Li, the master can't give much help. In many cases, the master has only heard some related descriptions from the elders, but he dare not guarantee it when it comes to specific implementation.

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February 12, 1975, the lunar calendar year of Yimao, month of Wuyin, day of Jichou, the second day of the Chinese New Year.

Today in Sijiu City is the day for daughters and sons-in-law to visit their father-in-law's house for the New Year, but it was the day that Han's siblings were most reluctant to celebrate when they were young. However, the situation became a little better when they grew up, but the price was that they completely broke off the relationship with their uncle's family.

How to say it? Every family has its own problems.

Han Li's grandmother's home is Wangzhuang Village in the far suburbs of the southeast corner of Sijiu City. Not to mention that now the area outside the second ring road is considered a rural area, their place will be considered within Sijiu City only if the eighth ring road is built in the future.

Let's put it this way, it is infinitely close to the border of Hebei Province. If it weren't for the airport built nearby in the future, and a crosstalk artist built a private zoo in the surrounding villages, ordinary people would really not notice their border.

Han's mother has three older brothers and two younger brothers. As a girl, Han's mother still lives in the society at that time, and her situation at home can be imagined.

Later, after the matchmaker introduced them, Han's father and mother met.

But when it came to the final date, Han Li's grandmother and several uncles asked for a sky-high price for the bride price of selling their daughter.

(This involves the first set of coins, as well as a series of complicated issues such as salary certificates, salary points, food points, clothing points, allowance points, work points tickets, etc. Mao Sui will not go into details here to make people hate him. Interested people can check it out by themselves.)

At that time, Han Li's grandfather was still alive, but they had just arrived in Sijiu City not long ago. It can't be said that they were alone.

And Han Li's grandfather also felt that his health seemed to be failing, so it became the first priority for his son to get married.

They, as outsiders, didn't have many acquaintances in the local area, and they had to rely on luck to expect others to arrange marriages.

Although there were many princesses from banner families in Sijiu City at that time and they were very worried about getting married, as long as you were interested, the other party would not only not ask for a bride price, but would also give you money to send you to the house.

But at that time, no good family or motivated family would marry a princess from such a banner family as a wife.

The above situations together, even if it is a sky-high betrothal gift, the old man will accept it.

In the end, Han Li's grandfather begged for money and even borrowed money in the unit, and finally took out this sky-high betrothal gift for his son to get married.

Originally, when Han Li's grandfather paid this betrothal gift, he had already made it clear that the two families would not have any contact in the future.

But after the death of the old man of the Han family, Han's mother took over the old man's job, and Han Li's uncles from his grandmother's side were not happy.

They insisted that Han's mother transfer this job to her mother's family, otherwise, they would do something, and they even made several scenes in the street office and the bus company for this.

Han's father was able to follow his father from such a far place to settle in the city of Sijiu, and he was not a weak person who could be bullied.

Han's mother is also a sober person. She knows the situation and experience of her family from childhood to adulthood best.

Otherwise, the family would not have asked for that high betrothal gift at the beginning, and it was this betrothal gift that made their family still not fully pay off their foreign debts.

Now that her father-in-law has passed away and she still has to borrow money, and she is still holding her eldest daughter who is still breastfeeding, if she gives up this job, her family of three will really not be able to survive in the future.

Under the insistence of the couple and the reprimand of the relevant superiors, Han Li's uncles finally failed to succeed, but the conflict between the two sides deepened a lot because of this incident.

Even so, Han's father and mother did not owe gifts to grandma and uncles during festivals and the New Year, and they went to visit the New Year whenever they could, but Han Li's siblings never got a good look there.

What really broke up the two families was work, when Han's father's unit could arrange one person to take care of the children of employees.

I don't know how the uncle got the news again, and then there was another big fuss.

They said that girls will eventually get married, and if this job was given to Han Chunhong, a little girl, it would be a cheap job for outsiders.

It would be better to give the job to the nephew from her mother's side. Then, whether it is to support Han's mother or Han Chunhong, it will be more powerful.

One of the aunts even said that she had found a husband for Han Chunhong, who was her mother's nephew. She also said that her nephew was 158 cm tall and could get full work points by working in the fields and improve his life by fishing in the water.

Now let Han Chunhong go to the village with her to get married and have children, why should she work?

The uncles also said that if Han Chunhong's job was not given up this time, Han's mother would not look for them if she was angry in the future, and they would not recognize this sister, etc.

These words directly ignited the anger of Han's father and his wife. They did not help to pay back the foreign debts in these years, and they always complained about the small amount of things they brought back, saying unpleasant things in a yin and yang tone.

They did not help to take care of the children for a day. The couple had no elders, so Han's father could only take the eldest girl when he was at work and Han's mother could hold the second girl when she was at work. After the twins Han Li were born, the eldest girl could help, and they were considered to have passed the most difficult days.

After Han's eldest sister was scared and cried, Han's father turned hostile, and Han's mother even said that they would break off the relationship and never contact each other again.

Several uncles and aunts wanted to make a fuss after hearing this, but it was a time of great wind, and their fuss was reported by the aunt of the neighborhood. These people were arrested and treated as typical examples of driving, and the two sides successfully severed their relationship.

Since that year, every second day of the Chinese New Year, the Han brothers and sisters would find ways to make their mother happy.

This year's situation is better, because there are two future daughters-in-law, the Yun sisters, so today is a day of laughter and joy.

February 13, 1986, the third day of the Chinese New Year in the lunar calendar, the year of Yimao, the month of Wuyin, and the day of Gengyin.

Today is the annual city race in Sijiu City. Participants get their license plates and start the race in front of Tiananmen Square on this day.

However, before the race started, there was a specially organized student square to cheer, and those children who were able to enter the square were all good students.

This race is one of the few large-scale events in this era. Although Han Li was not interested in participating, he brought his family to the scene early today to watch.

After this day, the family returned to the rhythm of working before the New Year.

Han Li still lives in his master's house and takes care of him personally. He still practices boxing and feeds birds every morning.

During the day, he discusses boxing, chess, and books with his master, and ponders the feasibility of the prescriptions and medicinal diets in another book that his master brought back.

The Yun sisters now come here every morning to cook, wash clothes, and clean the house, and then go back to Mianhua Hutong in the evening.

Time quickly came to the eighth day of the first lunar month. The injuries to the master's spleen and other parts have almost recovered. Only the heart and kidneys have not fully recovered. According to Han Li's uninterrupted observations these days, it will take at least three years for these two internal organs to recover as before.

When the Yun sisters came here today, there was a person behind them, and this person was "Aunt Liu".

Han Li hurriedly invited the other party to come to his rest room to chat. Unexpectedly, her arrival not only interrupted Han Li's peaceful life, but also "added" some difficulty to him in boiling ointment.

"Xiao Han, you know this situation, so I won't beat around the bush. I just want to ask, can this ointment increase the fragrance without reducing the effect?"

Increase the fragrance? Han Li understood it as soon as he thought about it. People with high paraplegia cannot urinate or defecate on their own, and often accidentally make their trouser pockets, beds, and quilts dirty.

In this case, even if someone takes care of them, the odor of feces and urine cannot be avoided. Servants who live in this environment for a long time will gradually become impatient.

At this time, it is not suitable to spray perfume anywhere, otherwise it will seem too luxurious, so they put this idea on the ointment.

Although the "Stretching Pain Relief Ointment" originally had a fragrance, it was later removed by Han Li because it was unsightly. However, he could not easily and directly agree to this matter, otherwise it would seem that the ointment he had prepared earlier had hidden something, so Han Li considered it for a long time before speaking after hearing this question.

"Aunt Liu, it's a little difficult to add fragrance to the stretch pain relief ointment without affecting the effect, but it shouldn't be a big problem. I need to conduct two experiments to give you a definite answer."

"Okay, I know that Xiao Han can do it. I will have someone send more medicinal materials today, but I just heard about your master's situation. I wonder when you have time to start trying?"

"My master can be left to my partner to take care of during the day, and I will come back to serve him at night. It should be no problem, but Aunt Liu, what kind of fragrance do you think is suitable to add? Different fragrances require different fragrant medicines, and the attempts required here are also different."

"This. It's best to have a few more flavors, so that exchanging them back and forth can also make the patient feel better."

Hearing this, Han Li was not polite. He directly picked up a pen and paper and began to write down some fragrant medicines that could add items to the ointment. Among them, he also secretly added a lot of spices that he had been looking for but had not found before.

With these spices, Han Li can make a kind of incense beads that can be worn by his family for a long time according to the secret recipes in "History of Chinese Incense Culture" and "Incense". These incense beads are inconspicuous, not only can they prevent mosquito bites, but also are good for health if worn for a long time.

After receiving the paper, Aunt Liu put it away without even looking at it. She talked to Han Li for a long time before getting up and leaving. Finally, when she left, she said that she would try her best to send someone to deliver the necessary medicinal materials and incense today, and hoped that Han Li would start trying as soon as possible.

Han Li watched the back of this "Auntie Liu" getting into the car and leaving, thinking that although it was the first time they dealt with each other last time, it happened before the Chinese New Year, and the other party gave him a good thing like a washing machine.

Although this time was the second time they dealt with each other, and there was no big day like the Chinese New Year in between, this time it did increase the difficulty of boiling the ointment, and he was now looking forward to what the other party would give him this time.