Chapter 242 243 Smallpox
Mrs. Liu was holding a tray with the freshly stewed tonic soup on it, and said with a smile: "Madam, the old lady brought the ginseng and asked me to stew the chicken soup. I skimmed off the fat and brought it to you."
Li Yu took the soup and scooped out a spoonful. It was neither cold nor hot, but the taste was really unflattering for the food during this period of confinement. Li Yu simply picked up the bowl and drank it in one gulp.
At this time, the child started crying. Li Yu hugged the child distressedly and coaxed him for a while, but the child showed no sign of stopping and started crying even louder.
Zhou Jia also panicked: "What's going on? Why do you keep crying?"
Mrs. Liu hesitated for a moment and said: "Madam, sir, the child will cry when he is hungry or has diarrhea, but we don't seem to have a wet nurse in our house."
Li Yu said: "I plan to feed it myself, so I didn't ask for a wet nurse. Xiao Xi, why don't you ask the husband if he wants to take medicine?"
"Okay, I'll go ask." Zhou Jia had mentioned the matter of inviting a nanny a few months ago. Li Yu didn't agree but still said it truthfully. Zhou Jia felt that what Li Yu said made sense, so he left it to her. .
After a while, Zhou Jia came back with a blushing face and waved for Mrs. Liu to go out.
After a while, the child finally lay in his mother's arms and took his first mouthful of breast milk. Zhou Jia looked at his son's anxious look and smiled softly.
On the third day of washing, Zhou Jia only invited Tu Dianshi, the Yu family, and the Zhong family, and it was over after a while.
It was New Year's Eve in a blink of an eye. After Zhou Jia paid homage to his grandfather and mother, he went to the study, spread out the drawing paper and began to draw a family portrait.
Two hours later, Zhou Jia showed the family portrait in front of Li Yu and said with a smile: "Yu'er, starting from this year, I will draw a family portrait every Chinese New Year. When my son grows up to our age, when he sees the family portrait, he will know who he is." From such a small baby, he grew so big in one year."
Li Yu looked at the woman in the painting who was holding her child and standing in front of the flowers with a happy smile on her face, and Zhou Jia who was standing side by side with a happy face on her face. His eyes were moist. He looked at Zhou Jia and said softly: "Xiao Xi, Thank you."
Zhou Jiajuan finished the painting, sat down next to Li Yu, put his arms around her shoulders, lowered his head against her forehead and said, "I am the one who should say thank you, Yu'er, thank you!" The couple put their heads against each other and smiled at each other. .
On the day when the child was one month old, the couple did not plan to organize the full moon ceremony. They were afraid that the merchants would come to give gifts and would not be able to repay the favor, so they invited Tu Dianshi to call Ruyi's family back from the village. They all sat down to celebrate together. Had full moon wine.
Zhou Jia became busy after the New Year, and Mr. Qian was busy buying seeds, farm tools, and cattle for poor families on credit. Zhou Jia and Tu Dianshi took the fish scale books and were busy dividing the fields for the people who were opening up wasteland. The relocated families had to re-register their household registrations. It took the two of them a month and traveled to several towns to settle those people.
In a blink of an eye, it was March in Yangchun when everyone was busy. Yang Wei took Uncle Dashui to Da'ao Village to open up wasteland, and Ruyi took over the management of Zhuangzi's affairs.
After the child turned three months old, he could play babbling with Li Yu for a while every day. Zhou Jia looked at his chubby son and laughed when he was teased. When he came back from the office every day, he would look at it first after washing his hands. Son, the father and son kept babbling.
Mr. Wen also loved Yangyang. Every day when he came back from the free clinic, he would hold him to see the herbal medicines while explaining the uses of various herbs. Li Yu felt that if the child was older, he would probably be able to recognize a lot of herbal medicines, and he also knew The medicinal properties and uses of various herbs.
Zhou Jia and Li Yu received another commendation from the emperor. The emperor rewarded him with a box of antique calligraphy and painting, and a box of gold and silver. The queen rewarded Li Yu with two sets of headscarves, a box of East beads of the same size, and several pieces of tapestry brocade. The emperor ordered Zhou Jia to produce as many varieties of corn as possible, and someone would come to pull the corn seeds after the autumn harvest.
When the millet seeds were soaked, Li Yu took Yang Yang to Zhuangzi. All the families who had settled on grain seeds with Li Yu last year came. Li Yu kept his promise and exchanged the grain seeds to those families.
Yang Wei came back from Dayao Village and reported to Li Yuchen: "Madam, more than 200 acres of farmland and more than 100 acres of mountain land have been opened. The remaining land will not be started until the farming season is busy."
Li Yu looked at Yang Wei's dark and thin appearance and said with pity: "You kid, I see that you are dark and thin. It's time for you to grow taller. Why don't you hire more people?"
Yang Wei scratched his head and said with a smile: "Madam, don't worry, I'm strong! There are less than twenty households in Da'ao Village, so I hired all of them who could work."
"Okay! You go and have a rest first and then go back to Dayao Village tomorrow morning." Yang Wei agreed and withdrew.
Ruyi's Qijin is already nine months old. He is drooling and looking at Yangyang in the cradle with curiosity. If he doesn't pay attention, he pokes Yangyang's chubby face with his chubby fingers. After he succeeds, he purses his lips and snickers. .
The two children were talking to each other in baby talk that others could not understand. Yangyang yawned after talking for a while, closed his eyes and ignored Qijin.
When Qijin saw that Yangyang no longer played with him, he burst into tears. Li Yu picked up Qijin and coaxed him: "My brother needs to sleep. Sleep more and he will grow faster. When he grows up, he and Qijin will go to school." Qijin sobbed and nodded, and stopped crying.
When planting rice seedlings, Zhou Jia became more and more busy. He often went to the fields in the countryside, especially those who had just opened up wasteland for farming. Zhou Jia often took people from the village to guide them.
Li Yu returned to the county government office from Zhuangzi. Mr. Wen came back from the free clinic. Instead of approaching the mother and son, he stood in the yard and watched from a distance. He said with a heavy face: "Xiaoyu, today I treated a child. The child was diagnosed with smallpox. The child lives at the end of Dongjie Street. I have asked Tu Dianshi to lead people to deal with it. Don't take Yangyang outside these days. The Ruyi family's child was also brought back to the county from Zhuangzi. If you come to stay at the Yamen and there is Yu Niang, you should also send someone to say hello loudly."
"Smallpox" Li Yu screamed. Thinking that this was a deadly virus in this world, Li Yu nodded and immediately sent someone to notify Xiaoyu and Yuniang.
Mr. Wen said to Li Yu: "Yes, everyone should be careful, especially children. I will go back and look through medical books to find useful prescriptions."
"Okay, be careful and don't get too tired." Mr. Wen waved his hand, pointed at the robe on his body and said, "I also need to change and burn the clothes on my body."
Li Yu nodded, carried the sleeping Yangyang into the house and put him on the bed. He sat on the edge of the bed and looked at his red face, recalling the scene when he was vaccinated against vaccinia when he was a child.
Although most people in later generations know that cowpox was taken from cows that had suffered from smallpox, the question is, how was it taken out? Will the effect be the same as that of future vaccines? Is it very toxic?