Chapter 1008: Folk Remedies that Cannot Be Explained by Science

In the middle of the night, Zhao Jun was half asleep. He got up and touched Zhao Youcai's forehead, then touched his own forehead.

This was to compare whether the other person had a fever, but when his hand touched his forehead, Zhao Jun woke up from his confusion. There was no need to compare or test. His father had a fever, and the temperature was not low.

Zhao Jun hurriedly pulled the cotton jacket under the quilt and put it on his shoulders. He took the cotton pants and stepped on them and got off the ground.

Zhao Jun stepped on the cotton shoes, turned around and faced the kang. He held the edge of the kang with both hands and pushed his feet into the shoes.

At this time, Zhao Youcai on the pillow next to him was mumbling a lot again.

Zhao Jun gently put his hand on Zhao Youcai's face and felt that Zhao Youcai's cheeks were also hot.

Zhao Jun suddenly remembered that when he was on the mountain during the day, Li Baoyu had chased him and asked him for painkillers, saying that Zhao Youcai was feeling a little uncomfortable.

Zhao Jun remembered it at that time, but when he took Li Daguai down the mountain, the group of people had something in mind.

After Yongsheng arranged everything, Zhao Jun came out of the village and saw Zhao Youcai busy at the entrance of the village.

At that time, Zhao Jun remembered that Zhao Youcai took medicine, but seeing that Zhao Youcai was in good condition, Zhao Jun thought that the medicine had helped him.

"Dad." Zhao Jun leaned close to Zhao Youcai's ear and called him softly. Zhao Jun wanted to wake Zhao Youcai up and feed him some medicine.

Zhao Youcai was very uncomfortable at this time. The whole person was in a state of half-sleep and half-awake. He vaguely heard Zhao Jun's voice in his ear. Zhao Youcai's lips moved slightly and murmured: "Little calf."

Zhao Jun: "..."

This is his real father, otherwise Zhao Jun would have smothered him with a pillow.

Zhao Jun pulled the corner of his mouth, turned around and walked to the table against the wall, opened the drawer and took out a white pill.

This pill is a circle larger than the painkiller. It is a tablet of analgesic that Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan bought at the counter of the pharmacy when they went to Daohua County to sell bear bile.

This medicine is specially used to reduce fever, but people are hardy these days, and even children who run outside every day rarely catch colds and fevers. So no one has taken this medicine since it was bought.

Zhao Jun tore off a piece of medicine and took the thermos on the table to pour water into the jar.

There happened to be some cold boiled water left in the jar, so Zhao Jun added some hot water to it, picked it up and pursed his lips.

Feeling that the water temperature was just right, Zhao Jun came to the edge of the kang with the jar in one hand and the pills in the other, sat sideways next to Zhao Youcai's pillow, leaned down slightly and gently touched Zhao Youcai's shoulder with his elbow, and whispered: "Dad, Dad, get up and take a pill."

"Ah... little calf..." Zhao Youcai frowned and squinted his eyes to avoid the light, and saw that it was Zhao Jun, then changed his words and said: "Son."

Zhao Jun did not do the same as him. He first stuffed the pills into Zhao Youcai's mouth, and then used his free hand to help him up.

"What?" Zhao Youcai asked Zhao Jun vaguely with the pills in his mouth and squinted his eyes.

"Medicine." Zhao Jun brought the jar to Zhao Youcai's mouth and said, "Dad, you have a fever."

"Ah!" Zhao Youcai was a little more energetic at this time. He drank two sips of water to swallow the medicine, and then said, "I'm sweating."

"Dad." Zhao Jun helped Zhao Youcai lie down, covered him with the quilt, tucked the corners of the quilt, and then asked, "Are you scared today?"

"Huh? You..." Zhao Youcai, who had just closed his eyes, opened his eyes and looked at Zhao Jun, saying, "You fart."

Zhao Jun: "..."

Zhao Jun was not joking with his father, nor was he making fun of Zhao Youcai. He just wanted to know why Zhao Youcai was sweating.

For people like him and Zhao Youcai who hunt in the big area, no dirty things can get close to them. But they encountered danger in the mountains, and sweating and catching a cold due to fright was different from a normal cold.

Just like when the little Zhuge lost the chain saw when he was just starting out, Zhao Jun was scared when hunting a bear, and he came back and slept for a night and got a fever.

So, Zhao Jun wanted to find out what happened to Zhao Youcai.

It is said that if you want to save face, you will suffer in life, and Zhao Baotou is exactly the kind of person who wants to save face.

After scolding Zhao Jun, Zhao Youcai slowly closed his eyes and said unhappily: "When I was hunting, you were not there. I can be scared."

"Not scared." Zhao Jun frowned and said: "I asked you if you were sweating after being scared?"

"Don't waste your time." Zhao Youcai turned around and said with his back to Zhao Jun: "Turn off the lights and go to bed."

But he was facing that side, which was where Zhao Jun's quilt was.

Seeing this stubborn guy, Zhao Jun curled his lips helplessly, took off his clothes, went to the kang, turned off the lights, and got into the quilt and lay down.

But Zhao Jun did not fall asleep after lying down. After closing his eyes for a while, he quietly reached out and touched Zhao Youcai's face.

"Uh um..." Zhao Youcai grunted, and Zhao Jun pulled his hand back.

Zhao Youcai's fever did not subside at all, which made Zhao Jun unable to sleep peacefully.

Ten minutes later, it was almost half an hour since Zhao Youcai took the medicine. Zhao Jun reached out his hand from the quilt and touched Zhao Youcai's forehead.

Analgin is very effective. It has been half an hour since he took it. It should have worked, but Zhao Youcai's fever still hasn't subsided.

"Alas!" Zhao Jun sighed lightly. He had no choice but to continue waiting and observing.

Another half an hour passed. During this period, Zhao Jun checked on Zhao Youcai several times. Seeing that his high fever had not subsided, Zhao Jun couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

He sat up directly from the quilt, first took his cotton jacket and put it on, and then pulled Zhao Youcai's cotton jacket over.

This is a new cotton-padded jacket made by Wang Meilan. Zhao Jun holds the collar of the cotton-padded jacket with one hand and reaches into the sleeve from the inside with the other hand. After grabbing the cuff, he turns the sleeves inside.

In this way, Zhao Jun turned the cotton-padded jacket over three times, with the outside of the cotton-padded jacket facing in and the inside facing out.

Then, Zhao Jun called Zhao Youcai awake again.

"Ah um..." This time, Zhao Youcai stopped calling him "little kid" and was mumbling speechlessly.

Zhao Jun asked Zhao Youcai to lean against him, put the cotton-padded jacket on Zhao Youcai, and then put him back into bed.

There are many things in this world that science cannot explain. Among them, the same is true for some folk remedies.

It's like having a needle hole in your eye. Just take a piece of red thread and wrap it around your middle finger. In less than ten minutes, the needle hole will disappear without a trace.

If you are frightened and sweat, and then catch a cold due to sweating and the high fever does not go away, you can wear your clothes inside out when taking medicine is ineffective.

There is really no scientific basis for this kind of thing, but after ten minutes, Zhao Youcai's fever subsided surprisingly.

After testing the temperature on Zhao Youcai's forehead with the back of his hand, Zhao Jun secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Then he observed for a while and felt that Zhao Youcai was indeed fine, so he went to sleep peacefully.

…

The next day, November 30, 1987.

Wang Meilan and Zhao Chun got up early to cook. There was a big event in the Zhao family today. They had to wash rice and grind flour to make sticky bean buns.

The cotton trousers were not finished yet, but the women working there said that as long as the men and children had something to wear, they were not in a hurry and took out the sticky bean bags first.

Even twenty or thirty years later, sticky bean buns are still deeply loved by people in Northeast China. For people of this generation like Zhao Youcai and Zhao Jun, men don't like to eat anything sweet when eating.

But even if they don’t eat white bean buns, they still like to eat sticky bean buns. This is not because he is reluctant to eat. For example, Zhao Youcai is like this. If he eats white bean buns, he only eats the outer skin and not the bean filling inside. But as for sticky bean buns, he ate twelve in one meal yesterday morning.

Don't underestimate the twelve sticky bean buns, they are quite filling. Only Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun could eat twelve.

There was a lot of busy work today. Wang Meilan and Zhao Chun got up early, and the two of them got up before dawn to light a fire and cook.

Zhao Chun poured water into the big pot, and Wang Meilan put the soybeans in the dish rack, preparing to go to the tofu shop to exchange for two kilograms of dried tofu.

But at this moment, the cry of a child came from the east room.

Zhao Chun threw the gourd and gourd on the stove and quickly ran to the east room. Wang Meilan no longer cared about scooping soybeans, and when she entered the east room, Zhao Chun had already picked up the child.

"Why is my grandson crying?" Wang Meilan asked, and Zhao Chun said: "The child peed."

"Huh?" Wang Meilan was startled, then saw her eldest daughter saying a little embarrassedly: "I was too lazy yesterday and didn't pee my child when I woke up."

Zhao Chun couldn't help but feel lazy after staying at her parents' house for these days.

"It's okay, it's okay." After hearing what Zhao Chun said, Wang Meilan gently touched Zhao Chun's arm and said, "I'm going to get a quilt for my grandson."

As she said that, Wang Meilan raised her hand and pawed the little boy's chin, smiled and whispered, "My eldest grandson knew that grandma made a new quilt, so he peed on the old quilt after it was done."

After saying that, Wang Meilan took the flashlight on the kang cabinet and walked to the west room.

These days, Wang Meilan specially made two sets of quilts for her children using small floral cloth. But those were packed together with Zhou Jianjun's cotton-padded jacket and placed in the cabinet in Zhao Jun's room.

In normal times, if Zhao Jun didn't get up, Wang Meilan would definitely not come to his room. But today the child was in need, so Wang Meilan quietly opened the door of the west room.

Although Wang Meilan was tiptoeing, there was a strange beast guarding Zhao Jun's bed. The little lynx jumped up from Zhao Jun's pillow, landed on Zhao Youcai, and made a "ouch" towards the door.

"Kitten!" Wang Meilan called the little lynx's name in a low voice. When the little lynx saw that it was one of her own, she immediately became quiet.

But the noise it made had woken up Zhao Jun, Zhao Youcai and the little black bear. Zhao Jun only raised his head slightly, but Zhao Youcai suddenly jumped up from the kang.

Zhao Youcai's movements were a little too big, and the little lynx was so startled that he jumped directly into Zhao Jun's arms.

"What time is it?" At this time, Zhao Youcai no longer had a fever, but he felt weak in his limbs and dizzy.

Zhao Youcai, who was in a daze, thought Wang Meilan came to call him because he got up late, so the first thing he said was to ask about the time.

"It's only four o'clock." Wang Meilan didn't know that Zhao Youcai had a fever last night, so she just said: "You two go on to sleep..."

Speaking of this, Wang Meilan flashed the flashlight she held and saw the cotton-padded jacket Zhao Youcai was wearing inside out.

"Ouch." Wang Meilan was stunned and asked, "It was cold yesterday? Why did you put on a cotton-padded jacket?"

"Huh?" Zhao Youcai was stunned when he was asked. After Zhao Jun put him in a cotton-padded jacket yesterday, Zhao Youcai's fever subsided and he fell asleep until now.

"Oops!" Wang Meilan felt something was wrong. She walked to the edge of the kang and took a closer look. She gently lifted the collar of Zhao Youcai's cotton-padded jacket with her hand and said, "Why is this worn inside out...ah..."

Wang Meilan and Zhao Youcai have been together for so many years, so they naturally know something, so they immediately asked: "Are you scared?"

Wearing a cotton-padded jacket inside out is two things, but the long needle eye remedy is really useful.