Chapter 38
Chapter 37 60s 37
After Xia Solstice went to give the children of other production teams two days of injections, he came back and was suddenly dragged aside by Aunt Ma to speak.
“Auntie, why are you so mysterious?” Xia Zhi said.
Aunt Ma said: “It’s the first day of the new year today.”
Xia Zhi said: “The first day of the middle school? What happened to the first day of the middle school?”
Aunt Ma said, “You forgot? I didn’t tell you what to do on the first day of the first year. Didn’t I go to town to buy something with you last time?”
When Xia Zhi remembered going to the fair, she and Aunt Ma went to the grandmother to buy incense candles, and suddenly realized: “You mean you want that…” She made a gesture of putting her hands together.
Aunt Ma only remembered when she saw her, she chopped her feet excitedly and said, “Yes, are you not prepared?”
Xia Zhi shook his head and said, “No, I don’t believe in this thing, so I didn’t do it.”
“Oh, I didn’t tell you last time, since you have returned to our brigade, you have to go to the countryside and do as you like, haven’t you forgotten?” Aunt Ma hated iron and steel.
Summer Solstice thinks so too. Aunt Ma said it last time, and today I specifically reminded her that she may not be so stubborn anymore, so she should join their superstitious team, so she nodded and said, “Remember, I will get it now. Can you make it?”
“Walk around, I know you didn’t buy anything last time, and you can’t do it if you want to. I will lend you a little bit, and you can return it to me next time you buy it.” Aunt Ma took Xia Zhi to her house after she finished speaking. , Opened the big cabinet in the room, took out the first incense candle and gold paper silver paper, took a piece of cloth and wrapped it up and said, “Let’s go, go to your house, I will teach you how to get it.”
Xia Zhi brought Aunt Ma back to her house. Aunt Ma sat on the kang with her and taught her how to origami money.
It was the first time for Xia Zhi to do this kind of thing, and it felt very novel. While she was learning from Aunt Ma, she listened to Aunt Ma talk about some taboos.
Aunt Ma said: “This paper money cannot be folded at night, it must be folded during the day.”
“Why?” This statement had not been heard before the summer solstice.
Aunt Ma said sternly: “Because the yin atmosphere is heavy at night, the thing you folded is for them. If they see it at night, they will be brought to the house. This is very bad for people. So it cannot be discounted at night.”
Summer Solstice: “…”
It seemed as if there was such a thing, but Xia Zhi couldn’t refute her kindness when Aunt Ma was so serious, so she could only nod her head and say yes, saying that she had written it down.
Aunt Ma was very satisfied with her studious in the summer solstice. After teaching her to fold twelve gold ingots, she taught her how to fold gold paper and silver paper. Fold one gold paper on top of every ten silver paper. After the six copies are made, the six paper moneys are staggered and stacked together, and then tied with a rope, so that a complete paper money is used for the donation.
After finishing all these, Aunt Ma said, “Oh, the current situation is not good. I can only do it as simple as this. If there is a chance in the future, I will teach you how to make a yuanbao pagoda.”
The summer solstice almost didn’t faint, so it’s simple! She felt so complicated when she was doing it. Aunt Ma actually wanted to teach her to make a more difficult ingot pagoda. Can she refuse?
Fortunately, there is still a long time before the reform and opening up. The village has to engage in feudal and superstition activities for many years. She can’t help but feel fortunate that she can still relax for more than ten years, just like that.
After finishing the paper money, Aunt Ma asked again: “Have you prepared the sacrifice?”
Xia Zhi said: “Sacrifice? What kind of sacrifice do I prepare? I don’t have anything in my house.”
Aunt Ma sighed and said, “I’ll go home and lend you some sacrifices, and you can return it to me after you worship.”
She said that she went home, and after a while she came over with a small basket, which was also covered with cloth.
“The conditions are simple now, so the sacrifices can only be simplified.” Aunt Ma said, taking out the baskets and placing them on the stove in the kitchen. “In the past, when we worshipped, we had to have flower baskets, good tea and wine. , Five-color fruits, five vegetarian animals, delicacies from the mountains and seafood, five vegetarians and six dishes, and finally a variety of gold paper and oil lamps and firecrackers.”
Aunt Ma later explained to Xia Zhi in detail what these things are. Xia Zhi only knew that the complicated origami money she just thought was still the simplest, because later Aunt Ma said that five-color gold and four-color gold are related to handwork. She was dizzy when she heard the tin foil, not to mention the Tianjin, Chijin, and Shoujin mentioned later. For the first time, she felt that her IQ was not enough, and she couldn’t remember the style of these paper money. .
After setting up the tribute, Aunt Ma took out two sweet potato tips from the basket and said: “Now we can’t make an incense burner by ourselves, so we can use this sweet potato tip instead. You can put incense and candles on it, come, give you.”
In the summer solstice, I took two sweet potato tips. I couldn’t help but sigh that the wisdom of the working people is really endless. How can such an incense burner be?
After she put the incense candle in, she stood firmly on the stovetop, having to admit that this kind of incense burner really works.
After all the sacrifices were placed, I would begin to bow down to worship the gods and pray with the gods. Unexpectedly, there is a standard language for worshiping the gods. Aunt Ma taught Xia Zhi how to pray to the gods: “My lord god, bless you, you can go in and out of the family safely. …”
In the following content, Aunt Ma asked Xia Zhi to talk about the things to do this year, and tell the gods about these things so that the gods will bless her. At the end, she ended with the sentence “Good luck at the beginning of the year and good luck throughout the year”. .
Although the whole process is worthy of complaining, Xia Zhi did not comment on it. After praying with a wooden face, I felt a little tranced. I didn’t know what I was doing just now. This incident completely subverted my worldview.
After chanting the words of prayer, incense was put on, and then waiting for the gods to receive their tribute. Aunt Ma explained the whole worship process to her in detail, and finally asked her: “How is it, remember?”
Xia Zhi nodded and said, “Remember.”
Aunt Ma then told her about all the days that need to be worshipped in the village. These days are connected, and it is almost a year to worship from beginning to end, and the face of the summer solstice is even more woody.
She didn’t know whether to tell the truth or not. If there were gods and they bowed down so piously, why didn’t the gods come to rescue them? Haven’t you seen the drought getting worse?
Recently, more and more people suffer from heatstroke and dehydration due to the too hot weather. They do not eat well, do a lot of work, and the climate is not suitable. Their worship activities have almost never stopped, nor have they seen the gods after they accepted the worship. To give them benefits, is it really necessary to continue doing such things?
Perhaps the comfort in the heart is more important. Perhaps the villagers’ worship to the gods is more of a kind of spiritual sustenance. Only such sustenance can support them to torment during these difficult days. The summer solstice will finally Still didn’t say what was in his heart, and didn’t try to break the illusion in Aunt Ma’s heart.
After the worship, Xia Zhi returned the edible tribute to Aunt Ma. As for the burnt incense candles and paper money, she kept the quantity in her heart, and planned to buy some from the old grandma when she went to the town to buy something to return. Aunt Ma.
After engaging in feudal superstition activities, the summer solstice ran outside for a few days. After vaccinating the children of several brigades, they returned to work in the clinic.
After that, she didn’t teach other people to learn herbal medicine, because there were not many types of herbal medicines nearby, and everything that should be learned was about the same. Even if you haven’t consulted Xia Solstice, you can go to other members who have learned to learn. So Xia Zhi refused other people to continue learning herbal medicine knowledge from her.
After taking the vaccination in the summer solstice, Ma Xiaomei came to her. Xia Zhi refused this time. Ma Xiaomei was defeated, but she was not angry. The main reason was that Xia Zhi was really busy and she even went to gather medicine by herself. It’s hard to make time. Seeing her so busy, Ma Xiaomei knows that she really has no time.
Counting it has been a month since Xia Solstice came to this world. She has been a doctor for a month. She has treated no one hundred or fifty patients. Gradually, her reputation has been beaten out. Now someone in the brigade near Xue Shantou is sick. Basically, they came to her instead of going to the town’s health center.
Among these circulated reputations, the most famous is Dr. Xia’s delivery skills. No matter how dangerous the mother’s condition is, as long as Dr. Xia arrives, the mother and child will be safe, so everyone knows that Dr. Xia is the master of gynecology. Therefore, I love asking her to deliver the baby very much. Only those who can’t call Dr. Xia will go back to find the midwife next time.
Xia Zhi was full of black lines in the face of this situation. She really did not expect that she would use her spiritual knowledge and aura to make herself a gynecological master. It was really cheating, she was the worst cultivator, right? ? If Gu Chaoying knew about it, I don’t know how to laugh at her.
She is an unmarried eldest daughter of Huanghua who delivered babies to these women every day. Faced with the flesh and blood of the women, she started to have PTSD. The first thing she did to get up every day during the summer solstice was to pray for today. There are no children, but unfortunately, family planning has not been carried out yet, so her prayers are difficult to take effect.
However, the fact that she became the master of gynecology has disadvantages, and naturally has advantages.
Before the summer solstice, the members of the staff were treated at a loss, basically doing business at a loss, because the family was already sick and could not generate income. Naturally, she couldn’t afford any medicine and she did not receive the consultation fee, so as long as she was seeing a doctor, she could not earn What’s the money.
But delivery is different.
It is a great thing to have a baby. The family has an import, and the people who ask her to go are happy, especially those who give birth to boys. They are generous. Not only are they rich, but they also give food, and some people even give them tickets.
Her income from delivering a child is basically equivalent to the income of an adult man in one day. If she is lucky, she can deliver several births a day when the mothers in several production teams rush, so she was able to deliver several births a day. For a period of time, I made a lot of money.
What can I do after I have money? Of course you can hire someone to do the work.
As it is said that being rich can make ghosts grind, it happens that her income is increasing sharply, and she has no time to gather herbs. She decides to use the money to buy herbs from the villagers. Most of the people who learned about medicinal herbs from her are children, she Buying herbs with the children does not delay the adults from going to the land to earn work points. Basically no villagers disagree.