Siheyuan: Starting to work in the street office

Song Lili had never experienced these things. Although everyone knew that supplies were in short supply and ordinary people's lives were not so good, among the people she had come into contact with, there was really no one who had no food to eat. She had only heard about it.

After returning home, the house was already warm. The two took off their outer cotton clothes and gathered around the stove, heating up some hot water to warm themselves.

"Brother Zhongshan, I didn't expect their lives to be so difficult. This is still in the Forbidden City. Some people even have trouble getting food."

It can only be said that Song Lili's parents protected her too well before. The first ordinary person she met was Zhong Shan, and Zhong Shan was an exception. He had everything he needed, which made her naively think that ordinary people lived a good life and at least they could eat enough.

Zhong Shan looked at Song Lili and said, "Our courtyard is relatively good. Most of them are workers. A few families only have a hard time in winter. The per capita income is more than 5 yuan. In other courtyards, there are many people with a per capita income of less than 5 yuan, and they live on the minimum living allowance. Not to mention that outside the four-nine cities, there are many people in the countryside who can only dream of having a full meal. Those people have it even harder!"

Seeing that Song Lili was not in high spirits, Zhong Shan comforted her again: "Don't think too much, just live our life well, life will get better day by day."

That night, Zhong Shan used all his skills to serve Song Lili to her satisfaction. His mood recovered. Zhong Shan lay on the kang, holding the sleeping Song Lili in his arms, and secretly supported his old waist:

Logically speaking, my body is so strong, I can't be weak, it's only been a few days, why do I feel tired? It must be that I haven't practiced recently and neglected it. It seems that for a happy life in the future, I still have to exercise every day!

The next morning, Zhongshan got up and practiced the Five Animal Exercises. Although it was Qigong, the moves were not very complicated. Just like the health-preserving boxing, a small space in the room was enough for practicing.

After Song Lili woke up, she saw Zhong Shan doing things slowly in the room. After watching for a while, she asked curiously, "Brother Zhong Shan, what are you doing?"

Zhong Shan ignored him and continued to do the movements. After he finished this round, he turned around and said, "Lili has woken up. She practiced the Five Animal Exercises for a while. It's good for health. I haven't practiced it for a long time.

Do you want to learn? I’ll teach you. It’s good for your health!”

"Okay, can you really exercise by doing it slowly?"

Song Lili looked very curious, and after getting dressed, she asked Zhong Shan to teach her.

Zhong Shan taught the movements: "This is related to Qigong. You should learn the movements first. After you are familiar with them, I will teach you Qigong."

After hearing what Zhong Shan said, Song Lili became even more curious: Why does Brother Zhong Shan look so much like a liar?

But she also started to learn seriously. The movements were not complicated. After teaching for a while, he let her practice by herself and then Zhongshan went to cook breakfast.

After they finished their breakfast, Zhong Shan took out the book on acupuncture points and meridians he had read before and handed it to Song Lili: "Read this when you have nothing to do in the future. I will teach you Qigong after you have read it well."

When Song Lili saw the book he handed over, she was overwhelmed and said with a bitter face, "Ah? When I was a child, my mother wanted me to be a doctor and forced me to memorize medical books. I couldn't even memorize them. Now that I've grown up, I still have to memorize medical books?"

When Zhong Shan heard what Song Lili said, he thought it made sense. Song's mother was a doctor, but apart from her, there was no other doctor in the family.

So I asked Song Lili: "Did you memorize a book about meridian points when you were a child? It would be convenient if you had."

Song Lili still had a bitter face: "I did recite it, but I didn't memorize it."

Zhong Shan smiled when he heard him say that: "You still have some basics, much better than me. I started from scratch when I was learning. Go home after get off work and read it. Don't read medical books at work. Once you have learned it well, we can practice together. It is very good for your health."

When she heard that Zhong Shan wanted her to learn, and she didn't want to disappoint Zhong Shan, she had no choice but to agree.

After get off work, Zhongshan rode his bicycle and Song Lili sat on the back seat, and they went to the Song family. Song Lili's elder brother returned to the Northeast, and Song Lili got married again. Now the old couple of the Song family must be very disappointed. Zhongshan and his wife live nearby, so they can only come back more often to accompany the two elders.

After dinner at Song's house, Song's mother saw that Song Lili was bored and not in a good mood, so she asked her: "Lili, what's wrong with you? You look absent-minded."

When Song Lili heard her mother asking her, she replied with a bitter face: "Alas, I saw Zhongshan practicing something, so I wanted to learn from him. I didn't expect that I would have to learn meridians. He gave me a medical book and asked me to memorize it. I finally managed to avoid my mother, but I didn't expect that I would have to memorize a medical book after I got married!"

When Song's mother heard what Song Lili said, she became more excited: "Xiao Zhong, you still have medical books at home. Are you interested? When Lili was a child, she asked him to study medicine, but she refused to learn, which made me very angry. By the way, what are you practicing? Why do you still need to learn meridians?"

Seeing how excited Mother Song was, Zhong Shan probably thought that he was also interested in Chinese medicine, but he was destined to disappoint her!

"Mom, I'm practicing Hua Tuo's Five Animals Exercises. I bought an old book in Pigeon Market. It didn't look fake, so I followed the instructions. I also bought the medical books at home in Pigeon Market. At that time, I saw that there were quite a lot of books and it seemed that the inheritance was orderly, so I spent a lot of money to buy all the books. This book of Five Animals Exercises was also among them. I went back and practiced it myself according to the book, and I actually practiced it correctly!"

When Song's mother heard Zhong Shan say this, although her thoughts were shattered, she still blamed Zhong Shan and said, "How dare you practice on your own, kid? Fortunately, you practiced the right way."

After he finished speaking, he showed an interested look again: "Did Pigeon City receive it? How many books did they receive? Are they all medical books?"

Seeing her interest, Zhong Shan did not hide it: "I can only say that there are a lot, several boxes, and some of them, according to the stall owner, were passed down from their family, a complete set of imperial physician inheritance. At that time, I was also excited when I saw so many medical books, and I spent a lot of money to buy them all. After I came home and sobered up, I realized that I didn't need them. It's too late to study at my age, so I put them all away!"

Song's mother retorted, "You can't say that. If it is really a complete inheritance of an imperial physician, then it is worth spending any amount of money. It is not only the experience of several generations, but also a lot of unique secret recipes. These things are priceless."

Seeing how interested she was, Zhong Shan was not stingy: "All those books have been put away. If you are interested, go take a look when you are free. There are too many things to carry on a bike, otherwise I would have brought them here!"

Mother Song thought about it for a while, and finally her curiosity and love for those medical books overcame her reserve as an elder, and she said to Zhong Shan: "Well, I really want to read them, so I won't refuse. Where did you put those books?"

Zhong Shan thought about it and realized that there were too many people coming and going in the quadrangle, so he said, "Put it in my second courtyard. The place where I live now is too small and those books take up space. There is no place to put them."

When Song's mother heard Zhongshan say that these medical books took up space, she was also furious, but when she thought that Zhongshan was not studying medicine and did not have the same passion as her, she let him do as he pleased.