After a simple rebirth

If the provincial stools in Guangdong Province are red plastic chairs, the city stools here are long wooden stools, commonly known as high stools, which are usually matched with the eight-immortal table. The eight-immortal table is usually placed in the corner to put things, and the stools are placed by the stove. When guests come, more stools are moved for others to sit on. One stool can sit 2-3 people.

There is a big danger with this kind of stool. If there are people sitting at both ends and one person leaves, the stool will easily tilt up like a seesaw, and the other person will easily fall along with the stool.

Fu Ying and her mother tried it several times. In the past, Fu Ying would suddenly stand up and her mother almost fell to the ground. But after being scolded so many times, Fu Ying knew that she couldn't stand up directly.

So usually the person sitting on the stool will, like Fu Ying, remind the other person when they are about to leave, "I'm about to get up, please sit in the middle to avoid falling."

Fourth Aunt Fu sat down and took some food to eat. She didn't say the dipping sauce was sweet, but she also asked about Fu Ma's trip to Zhangjiagou. When she heard that Fu Ma was going there to make medicine, she said she had plenty of all kinds of medicinal materials and that if she needed anything, she could go to her house to get it. Fu Ma nodded and said she would do it after dinner.

After finishing the vegetables, Fu Ying reminded Fourth Aunt and picked up some more to put in the pot to cook, but Fourth Aunt Fu took the opportunity to leave, as she was only visiting and would not stay for long.

After cooking for so long, other things besides vegetables can be eaten gradually. The crispy buns are fried and can be eaten when heated. But Fu Ying likes to cook the starch on the outside a little softer, which is very delicious with rice.

The method of making the small crispy meat here is similar to the small crispy meat sold outside, but since they are for personal consumption, they are larger and round, like a pancake. They are usually fried during Chinese New Year or important festivals, and if you fry a lot of them, they can be eaten for half a year. The Fu family didn't fry them, but this is from Fu Ergu's family. Fu Ying's family should wait until Chinese New Year to fry them.

Codonopsis pilosula was edible now. Fu Zhe was asked if he wanted to eat it. He nodded. Then the three of them ate one Codonopsis pilosula each. They bit off the root hairs in one bite and ate it in a few more bites. Fu Ying wrapped the rice, Codonopsis pilosula and sauce in green vegetables and ate it in one bite.

This big move caused Fu's mother to look at her again.

Fu Ying felt that Codonopsis pilosula was not as sweet as she remembered, but it still had a sweet taste and tasted better than when used in soup.

After eating other things, you can eat dried bamboo shoots. Dried bamboo shoots can actually be eaten raw or just boiled, but Fu Ying tried eating the ones that were just boiled and they were as hard as grass roots and not tasty at all.

Dried bamboo shoots must be cooked for a long time until they are soft to be more delicious. If you are stir-frying, it is best to soak them half an hour in advance and cut them before stir-frying. If you are boiling them, about 15 minutes will make them soft, tender, sweet and crispy.

As Fu Ying ate, she thought, would Second Aunt Fu come over later? But it didn't turn out as she thought, Second Aunt Fu didn't come until the end of the meal.

After the meal, Fu Ma asked Fu Ying to wash her comfrey, and Fu Ying asked Fu Zhe to wash the dishes.

Mother Fu went to Aunt Fu's house and brought back a bunch of herbs. Fu Ying took a look and honestly didn't recognize most of them. She had not learned much about medicine. The small white round pieces seemed to be Angelica dahurica, and she used to think the thin and short herbs were dendrobium, but later her colleagues told her that they were Imperata root. She couldn't really name the others.

With Chinese medicine, if one ingredient is missing or one is added, the efficacy will be different, so Fu Ying is still unsure.

Fu's mother asked her to bring the steamer over. She poured all the herbs into it, then asked Fu Ying to fill the pot with water. Then she put the whole pot on the stove and started to cook, with the comfrey on top.

"Don't you need to cover the lid?" Fu Ying asked Fu's mother.

"No, just boil it."

"Then why not use a clay pot? Isn't it better to use a clay pot to boil Chinese medicine?"

"We don't have a clay pot at home, so we can use this to cook it."

Fu Ying nodded, looking at the steamer, plus the full pot of medicinal materials, the scene in her memory jumped out again.

Fu Ying was sure that Fu's mother had also boiled this medicine in her previous life. At that time, she also used this pot. She didn't have to boil it until only the essence was left. She could drink the whole pot of medicine after it boiled. If there was no water left, she would have to add water and boil it again. Fu's mother drank it for about a week.

The memory is still clear and deep because of Fu Ma's behavior. Every time after dinner, Fu Ma would ask to bring her Chinese medicine up to heat it up, or put the whole pot up to cook, and when it was steaming, she would serve a bowl without boiling it. But because she couldn't control the heating temperature accurately, sometimes it was still too hot, so Fu Ma would leave the medicine there to dry, and no one knew where she went. Sometimes when she came back, the medicine was cold. Fu's family would always talk to Fu Ma, asking her to wait until she finished the medicine before leaving, so as not to waste the medicine and its efficacy. Fu Ma didn't change, she would just drink it in one breath, and continue running next time.

"Mom, what are you treating? Are you feeling unwell?" Fu Ying couldn't help but ask.

Seeing Fu Ying insisting on asking, Fu's mother sighed, "It's not a cure for any serious illness, it's just that women have abnormal periods. Drink it for a week and it will be fine."

Fu Ying understood that her menstrual irregularity was caused by her mother's excessive or inadequate menstruation. This was a physical problem, and also a genetic problem, because Fu Ying also had this problem, inherited from her mother.

Fu Ying wanted to sigh even more when she thought about herself. She hadn't paid much attention to this aspect, but it was true that it was almost September, and she hadn't had her period once in three months since her rebirth. She knew herself very well. She hadn't been in a relationship at this time, so it was impossible for her to get pregnant. It was just that her health was not good.

When Fu Ying first had her period, it was heavy and painful, and the cycle was long. She even took a leave to rest at home because of the pain. But since high school, it has become unstable. She doesn't have her period for two or three months, and when it comes, it's a week of heavy flow. After she turned 20, she doesn't have her period for two or three months. The flow is small but the cycle is long. The longest she has tried is one month.

In the previous life, she had not come at this time either. Fu Ying told her mother, but her mother was busy, so she had to go to the hospital for a checkup. The result was polycystic ovary syndrome, a common and troublesome disease in the future. Apart from difficulty in getting pregnant, easy weight gain, and irregular menstruation, there were no other major problems.

Fu Ying had a continuous checkup for a month. In fact, there was no other way except taking medicine and repeated examinations. Taking medicine and follow-up visits were a long-term and expensive process. In the end, Fu Ying took the initiative to stop going. After adulthood, she has been to the hospital three or four times and changed several hospitals. Because she was fat, the doctor said it would be difficult to get pregnant and she had to lose weight. After losing weight, she would have no problem with the disease if she had a child.

It’s like an inexplicable dialectical relationship. You understand it, but it’s so interconnected that you’re a little speechless.

But Fu Ying didn't force marriage and childbirth, so she just let things take their own course. As Fu Ying got older, her mother became more and more worried that she would be sad in the future if she couldn't have children, so she consulted a Chinese doctor and made her drink medicinal wine, but it didn't work very well.

Back to the present, Fu Ying is not in a hurry yet. She changes her living environment and sees how things go after living in her hometown for a while. If not, she may have to take the Chinese medicine.

After making sure that Fu Ma was not seriously ill, Fu Ying felt relieved. She prepared the medicine and asked Fu Ma to drink it as soon as possible. She put the medicine on the shelf for her, covered it, and went to review.