"Don't talk nonsense!" Li Changsheng immediately retorted. Despite his strong and resolute character, his eyes immediately turned red when he heard his mother's words.
His mother smiled weakly and said, "I know my own physical condition. Two months ago, your father sold two acres of the best land by the river, and then used the money to send me to a hospital of foreigners in the provincial capital. Foreign doctors all said that I was terminally ill with lung cancer. Unfortunately, I can't wait until you get married, nor can I see my grandson. I can't accompany your father and you anymore, and I've caused you so much trouble."
Li Changsheng placed the bundle on his shoulder on a black painted wooden cabinet beside the bed, and he no longer knew what to say. His inner joy of returning home to visit his parents was swept away.
His mother, however, spoke like a last word: "My child came home from far away Guangzhou, and I cannot lie in bed. My child's father, please help me up, and I will go and boil some hot water for the child to take a bath."
"Changsheng is our own child, so don't be too polite. You're not feeling well, so don't worry too much about etiquette." Carpenter Li hesitated.
The woman insisted on getting out of bed and lit a tung oil lamp. Seeing that his mother was thinner than when he left, Li Changsheng quickly stood up and helped her sit on the bench opposite the small table. His mother is a woman from a wealthy family in the Guanzhong region. When Li Changsheng's father, carpenter Li, made furniture for her family for half a year, the two met and liked each other. Despite the opposition of the whole family, his mother resolutely married here in the backward and poor mountainous areas of southern Shaanxi. After the two married, his mother farmed and raised chickens at home, educating her children, and spreading a virtuous reputation throughout the countryside.
In the dim light, Li Changsheng's mother's face didn't look very beautiful, and her body looked even thinner after a long illness. Her clothes seemed to have grown in a big circle, but she braced herself up and forced herself to talk about family matters with her son. Her straight and simple expression between her eyebrows and eyes was no different from Li Changsheng's. What they said was all about Li Changsheng. Li Changsheng inquired about her illness, but she skipped it in a few words. She didn't care about her illness. Finally, she said, "Your father used up the family savings in order to cure me, and the valuable things in the home were almost sold out. He was also in poor health due to years of hard work. You should take more care of your father's health in the future."
Carpenter Li just sat silently aside, listening to the conversation between his wife and son. From his mother's speech and behavior, Li Changsheng deeply felt the upbringing of girl from wealthy families in the Guanzhong region, as well as the charm of appearance and morality created by family traditions. Even as the successor of Taoism, he couldn't help but be moved by the way his mother looked down upon her own life and death, yet she still cared about her husband and son.
No wonder his father's carpenter is very skilled, and the property left by his grandfather is not bad. When carpenter Li was young, there were so many girls with outstanding physique and beauty in a dozen nearby villages that carpenter Li never cared. He remembered one year when his grandfather celebrated his birthday, and many relatives and friends brought gifts to celebrate. At the birthday banquet, carpenter Li's best friend was a bit drunk.He made fun of carpenter Li, who never flirted with young women in the village after getting married:“Carpenter Li, is he marrying an ugly wife or a shrew who keeps her husband in strict control? "Carpenter Li dropped his glass and said," This is the last time you said that. The next time I hear you say such boring things, we will break up! A real man should only have one woman in his eyes, that is, his wife! "
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Li Changsheng knew his father's feelings for his mother, and if her mother died of illness, his father would die in sorrow. He also cannot accept the result of both parents' deaths.
Since it's useless to take medicine for a mother's illness, it's better to try his Taoist Kung Fu. Li Changsheng reached out and grabbed one of his mother's hands and said, "I also learned a little medicine while working in Guangzhou. Mom, can I test your pulse?"
His mother hesitated for a moment and looked at his son's eager gaze. She couldn't bear to refuse his kindness, so she stretched out her arm.
Li Changsheng held her wrist with one hand, and placed the index, middle, and ring fingers of the other hand on his mother's wrist. Then he closed his eyes and felt the vitality of her internal organs.
This is an important method for diagnosing patients in traditional Chinese medicine.The pulse at the patient's wrist can be used by a Chinese medicine doctor to sense the vitality of internal organs.
The different positions of the patient's hands and wrists correspond to the energy strength of the heart, liver, kidneys, lungs, and stomach.
After Li Changsheng's diagnosis, he fell into a deep thought: "The black energy in his mother's liver and lungs has almost disappeared. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that all internal organs have both black and gold energy.". Healthy people have the same amount of energy in their internal organs, so they maintain a balanced state. So the mother's liver and lungs will eventually become necrotic.
His mother had no hope for her illness for a long time, and she looked calmly at Li Changsheng, waiting for his conclusion. Li Changsheng did not give up. He closed his eyes and continued to ponder.
Carpenter Li has a rough surface, but a delicate and sensitive heart, which is a quality possessed by a skilled carpenter. When he saw Li Changsheng holding his wife's two wrists together and closing his eyes, he couldn't help but whisper, "Son, do you think there's still a turnaround?"
A soft and pleasant voice came: "The foreign doctor said that I am in the advanced stage of lung cancer, and the cancer cells have spread. My son does not need to be embarrassed."
Li Changsheng opened his eyes and smiled "Mom and Dad, don't worry. Mom has been ill for too long, seriously damaging her vitality. Vitality is the ability of the body to resist disease, as well as the ability to restore health. According to traditional Chinese medicine, drugs only alleviate pain, not cure disease. The real cure for disease is the vitality in everyone's body. When a person's vitality is too low, taking drugs has no effect. However, I unintentionally learned a simple kung fu for replenishing vitality. I will teach my mother to practice this kung fu to replenish vitality. My mother may be saved."
What Li Changsheng didn't say was that he could directly input his own vitality gained through Taoist martial arts to his mother. It simply requires one hand to be placed on the mother's navel and the other hand to be placed on her hips. This kind of physical contact is inevitably rejected by the mother.
Another thing he didn't say was that it was Taoism's Four Seasons Health Preserving Kung Fu. The original method was to imitate the movements of defecation. When squatting, the two arms are placed on the calves, and the blood from the whole body is forced into the internal organs by the weight compression. When inhaling, let golden energy enter the body from the back, warming the whole body.His mother would definitely refuse this gesture.
This kung fu is simple and practical, with good results. Li Changsheng used to have frequent stomachache and diarrhea, so he gave it a try, and the result was very good for treating diarrhea caused by abdominal cooling.
Li Changsheng is considering how to adapt and achieve the same effect by changing an elegant posture. After thinking for a moment, he came up with an alternative plan.
Li Changsheng asked his mother to lie prone behind the bed and slowly walked over. He rubbed his hands vigorously until the palms of his hands were hot, placed them in the position of his mother's two kidneys, and then put the black energy in his body into his mother's kidneys through both hands.
The soft black energy feeds the life of the world like the sea at night. Black energy gradually fills the mother's kidneys. Then fill the liver and lungs that lack black energy along the meridian channels between the internal organs in the body. Li Changsheng felt that his mother's body was a deep mineral cave. He used the golden solar energy to dredge her whole body meridians, and then put all the black energy in his own body into his mother's body. Li Changsheng reached his limit, emitting a layer of white water vapor above his head.
Li Changsheng's mother's body began to shake and her back began to heat up. The black energy inputted into her body moistened her internal organs, making her feel warm and comfortable all over, and she fell asleep unconsciously.