A doctor who travels through two eras

Chapter 7: Not Enough Food at Home

After the door was closed, only the Lin family members were left in the room.

Lin Kucan sat at the table, taking his youngest son's pulse with his eyes closed, while the other members of the Lin family watched nervously.

Ten minutes later, Lin Kucan opened his eyes, with confusion and puzzlement in his eyes:
"Qizi's pulses at the Cun, Guan, and Chi parts are neither floating nor sinking, neither fast nor slow, four or five beats per breath, neither loud nor soft, calm and gentle, with a consistent rhythm. He doesn't look like someone with a brain disease."

Lin Sanqi complained in his heart: I just traveled through time, I'm not mentally ill, do you really think I'm stupid?

But there was still a silly look on his face:
"Dad, I, I really can't remember anything about the past. Everything is blurry and blurry. I..."

Jin Caifeng hugged her youngest son and complained:

"I'm not sick, Zai Zai. If you can't remember the past, then don't remember it. Just come back. Mom will take care of you. Mom will never lose you again."

Lin Sanqi could feel the heavy maternal love. Kind people should be treated kindly, so she smiled and said:

"Thank you, Mom."

Lin Gancao also took over the younger brother's hand and carefully examined his pulse:
"I don't seem to have any chronic illness. Oh, I have some kidney deficiency and insufficient kidney yang. I guess it's caused by malnutrition due to living outdoors."

Lin Sanqi was a little embarrassed. He was breaking up with his girlfriend from college. To commemorate their lost love, the two of them stayed in a hotel for a whole night. How could it not be in vain?

Lin Gancao didn't know that his "little brother" was playing so wildly, so he explained to himself:
"My brain shouldn't be a big problem. To explain this using Western medicine, I must have suffered a lot in the past 10 years, and my head was damaged, which led to my amnesia.

In the words of Chinese medicine: forgetfulness is caused by a weak heart. The heart governs the blood vessels and is the repository of the mind. If the evil wind takes advantage of the blood and qi, it will cause the yin and yang to be out of harmony, causing the body to be sometimes empty and sometimes full, and the blood and qi to be in disorder, causing the mind and spirit to be weak and forgetful.

So this is probably why my father didn’t find anything abnormal when he took my pulse before.”

Lin Kucan looked at his eldest son with a smile. He was his best successor and the best inheritor of the Lin family's Chinese medicine skills.

"What the boss said makes sense, Qizi, since you have forgotten the past, just forget it. Let me introduce you again. This is your eldest brother Gancao. He is now working with me at the Kuanjie Chinese Medicine Hospital as a doctor.

This is your sister-in-law, her name is Fu Muxiang, and this is your eldest nephew, Lin Jiageng, who is 5 years old this year. He was born during the years when you were away, so this is the first time you have met him. "

Lin Sanqi quickly stood up: "Boss, sister-in-law, nephew, hello!"

Lin Gancao patted Lin Sanqi on the shoulder and said with a smile: "We are family, so you don't have to be polite."

Fu Muxiang also smiled: "It's good that Qizi is back. You don't know how much your father and mother have missed you all these years. After you got lost, they haven't really smiled happily."

Hehehe~~~
The whole family chuckled, except for the second sister-in-law Pei Xuehua, who secretly curled her lips.

Lin Kucan pointed at another family of three and said:
"This is your second brother Du Zhong, who is also working at Kuanjie Chinese Medicine Hospital, but in the acupuncture department. This is your second sister-in-law Pei Xuehua, who, like your eldest sister-in-law, is also a staff member of our hospital. This is your little niece Lin Zhenzhen."

Lin Sanqi stood up again: "Second brother, second sister-in-law, you are so nice!"

Compared to the enthusiasm of the eldest brother Lin, the second brother Lin was a little colder: "Qizi, you have forgotten everything about your childhood, but you must have remembered the 10 years you were lost, right? How did you survive in this city?"

This is the question that everyone in the Lin family wants to know.

After all, in this age where everything requires money and tickets, it is not easy to have enough food and clothing.

To put it bluntly, you won't find any food even if you search the trash can. Nowadays, every household is not well fed, so how can they throw away slop?

What's more, the household registration system is so strict that you can't take a single step without a letter of introduction. Although the world is big, you can't just go anywhere you want.

Lin Sanqi was scratching his head, knowing that he had to make up another lie, so he thought back to the period literature he had read, thinking about what the social conditions were like in the 1950s and 1960s.

The reasons you make up cannot be too out of touch with the times.

"Oh, me, I was actually taken in by a group of big brothers and big sisters in the past few years. They were all engaged in the black market business, which the northerners call the pigeon market. I was their little brother, helping them to keep watch. They provided me with food and clothing. My brain was also damaged by someone in the black market."

Lin Sanqi thought to himself, he is really a smart guy. He has found the cause of his amnesia. Moreover, the people in the black market come and go without a trace. Even if you want to find someone to prove it, you can't find it.

Lin Kucan sighed when he heard this:

"Most unfaithful people are scholars, and most righteous people are butchers. It seems that the black market is not full of local hooligans. There are good people too. Qizi is also thanks to these people."

Lin Duzhong didn't take it seriously: "Don't let them lead you astray, little brother. These people are capable of doing anything."

Jin Caifeng was dissatisfied: "Qizi has been well behaved since he was young. When has he ever been arrogant? Zhongzi, how can you say that about your brother?"

Pei Xuehua immediately defended her husband when she heard this:
"Mom, that's not necessarily true, people change.

Another thing is that our family’s food ration is tight right now. Mom, you, me, and my eldest sister-in-law only have a monthly ration of 21 kilograms, my eldest brother and Du Zhong have 25 kilograms, and my father is a cadre and has more food, but he only has 29 kilograms a month.

Gengzai and Zhenzhen have even more, with a monthly ration of only 8 jin. The key point is that most of these rations are coarse grains such as cornmeal and a small amount of two-liang flour. In the past, they also distributed some rice, but now there is not even a trace of rice.

We are already struggling to make ends meet with this amount of food, and now we have one more person. As the saying goes, a young boy can make his father poor. Dad, mom, big brother, big sister-in-law, don't blame me for saying harsh words, how are we going to live in the future?"

Lin Duzhong then took over and said:
"As for the house, our family is well-off, so we were given three main rooms in the east wing of the Princess's Mansion. The east room was given to my eldest brother and his wife, and the west room was given to our family. My parents could only divide the main hall into two rooms, front and back, so that people live in the back and eat in the front.

Gengzai and Zhenzhen have grown up, and they also need their own space. They can’t share a room with their parents, right? Now that my younger brother is back, this is of course a good thing, but where will he live? What will he eat? These are all things that everyone needs to consider.”

As soon as these words fell, Lin Duzhong and Pei Xuehua looked at each other, with a hint of cunning in their eyes.

Lin Gancao and Fu Muxiang looked at each other, with deep helplessness in their eyes.

The head of the family, Lin Kucan, sneered. The old man had lived for more than fifty years and had seen countless people. How could he not see the little thoughts of his second son and his wife?
The young couple had been looking forward to separating for a long time, and this time they took the opportunity to lose their temper.

(End of this chapter)