The farmer accumulates wealth, and the tyrant oppresses the weak and the poor.

  【017】

  After Li Xin left, only Li Lan and Tang Mai were left in the courtyard. Li Lan looked at Tang Mai carefully, feeling that this little girl had a unique temperament that even some noble ladies couldn't match.

  "Mrs. Tian, you can call me Mai Er, I heard from Brother Xin that you're a doctor." Tang Mai saw that Li Lan had already taken an interest in her and revealed a cute smile, smiling lightly.

  "Really? What's wrong?" Li Lan smiled and looked at Tang Mai with great appreciation for his calmness, and the confident aura that emanated from him.

  "May I ask then, what diseases can't you cure around here?"

  "What's the disease you can't cure?" Li Lan chewed on Tang Mai's words, her tone slightly rising, and smiled as she lifted her head, seemingly observing the expression on Tang Mai's face. Seeing that Tang Mai only smiled and nodded at her, saying, "Yes, the one you can't cure."

  "I've been studying medicine with my uncle since I was a child, and in recent years, I've followed my father on his travels all over the country. If you say that there's an illness around here that I can't cure..."

  "Yes, I did encounter a patient in the neighboring village about a year ago. The patient had clearly demarcated round grayish-white patches on his scalp, covered with thicker grayish-white scales. His hair turned grayish-white and lost its luster. There were unevenly broken hairs at the affected area, and the remaining broken hairs could be easily pulled out. The patient said that his scalp felt itchy to varying degrees."

  "What's wrong, Mai? Are you still interested in this?"

  Tang Mai listened to Li Lan's description, and the first reaction in her heart was ringworm, also known as tinea capitis. It is more common in rural areas and has strong infectivity, which can be infected through contact with cats, dogs and other livestock that have ringworm. Ringworm can cause patchy hair loss and damage to hair follicles, and even after recovery, the scarred area cannot regrow hair.

  In her past life, she had encountered such patients when following her master to make a diagnosis. The treatment method was not difficult. First, all the patient's hair should be shaved off, which can effectively expose the affected area and facilitate subsequent treatment and observation of efficacy. The best way to treat tinea capitis is traditional Chinese medicine treatment, taking oral medication combined with external washing can effectively inhibit and treat the cause of tinea capitis.

  The method is indeed simple, what's important is the medicine taken internally, this kind of medicine, Tang Mei can refine it, it just takes some time.

  Tang Mai's first step now is to make Li Lan believe that a five-year-old girl like her has the ability to cure her incurable diseases, and after gaining Li Lan's trust, she will mention the matter of Tian Lao Tai Tai.

  At that time, Li Lan would come forward and talk to Tian Dizhu, and also come forward to treat Tian Lao Taizi's illness. She only needed to hide behind Li Lan, providing treatment methods and herbal medicines.

  If Li Lan couldn't finish it, she would ask Li Lan to invite everyone out and leave only Grandma Tian alone, cover Grandma Tian's eyes, and take action herself.

  If it still doesn't work out, or if something unexpected happens along the way, she can only use her previous life's master's name.

  If she really cured Lao Taitai's eyes, the credit would naturally go to Li Lan. She only needed to earn some reward from Li Lan and return it, believing that Li Lan wouldn't disagree.

  Li Lan saw Tang Mai's dark eyes rolling around and couldn't help but laugh, "Mai, what are you thinking about?"

  Tang Mai was pulled back from his thoughts by Li Lan's words, looking at Li Lan and saying, "Mrs. Tian, give me five days, I'll come find you after five days, okay?"

  Li Lan will be back home in two days, and five days later, she should return to Tian Didi's home.

  "You and Xing Ge are friends, so that makes you my sister too. If you want to come over and play, you're naturally welcome."

  "Tian Shao, you're really a good person. I'll go find Xing Ge now." Tang Mai showed her teeth in a smile, the missing tooth making her look even more adorable. Li Lan patted her hair and took some snacks from the room to give to her, telling her not to worry about time and to come play whenever she was free.

  After Tang Mei left, she accompanied Li Xin for a while and then said goodbye to him and went home.

  Lian Xiulan was still waiting for her in the kitchen, and when she came out, she greeted the chatting aunties and took Tang Mai home. Along the way, Tang Mai kept reminiscing about the nearby mountains, which ones had the most medicinal herbs, what kinds of herbs they were, and what diseases they could cure.

  She must hurry up and go up the mountain to pick herbs. Even if it's not for treating illnesses, the herbs and medicines made from them can be sold for money.

  After determining the target, Tang Mai returned home and had a good rest for the night.

  The next day, the sun shone brightly, a gentle breeze blew, and the weather was fine.

  Tang Yuanshan took Tang Mi, Tang Ke and Tang Guo to the fields to work. After that, Tang Mai stretched her waist and got out of bed, no longer using the excuse that she was uncomfortable with her body, sticking to Lian Xiulan, even asking Lian Xiulan to go to the fields to help Tang Yuanshan.

  Let Lian Xiulan go and help. Firstly, it's convenient for me to handle things, secondly, Tang Yuanshan's lesson is almost done.

  These two days, Lian Xiulan didn't go to the fields, and Tang Yuanshan seemed to know he was wrong too. He took on all the work by himself and suddenly lost a lot of weight. On the surface, Lian Xiulan didn't say anything, but actually she was heartbroken. If it weren't for Tang Mai needing her, she would have gone to help Tang Yuanshan long ago.

  As for Lian Xiu Lan and Tang Yuan Shan, she didn't want to comment on them. After all, one was her mother and the other was her stepfather. She had come back to repay a debt, not to stir up family conflicts.

  After Lian Xiulan left, Tang Mai found a bamboo basket from the kitchen, put it on his back and climbed up the mountain.

  Time flies, the sun on my head has moved from east to west. Tang Mai's short arms and legs can't walk fast or far, but fortunately, relying on memories of past lives, I've collected a lot of herbs, including those for treating carbuncles.

  She returned home, but Lian Xiu Lan and the others had not yet come back. She sat down to rest for a while, sorted out the herbs, washed them clean, put them away, and couldn't help but crawl onto the bed and lie down.

  Lian Xiulan returned home in the evening and found that Tang Mai was still sleeping. There were many more flowers and grasses in the house, but she thought Tang Mai had just gone out to play.

  At night, she was caught and ate something, Tang Mai crawled back to bed, and this sleep lasted until the next afternoon. Xiu Lan and others went to work in the fields again, and the pot still kept her food warm.

  She ate some and started working hard against time.

  Before she knew it, the day Tang Mai had agreed with Li Lan arrived. She dragged her big and small bundles of herbs to the back door of Tian Dizhu's house, where she ran into an old woman who was taking out the trash.

  "Isn't this Tang Jia's second daughter? How did she carry so many things?" The old lady hurried forward to help, and Tang Mai revealed a smiling face. "Auntie, I'm here to see Mrs. Tian."

  "Perfect timing, the young mistress just got back yesterday and was asking about you. Come on, I'll take you in right now."

  "Thank you, grandma." Tang Mai said thank you and took the things and followed her in.

  Li Lan heard someone calling her from outside, and as soon as she walked out, she saw Tang Mai carrying several bundles, and for a moment, she was stunned. "Mai'er, you... what are you doing?"

  Digression

  The Sick Husband's First Wife

  One morning, she crossed over and before she could even figure out her situation, she was pulled onto a flower sedan chair and directly married off.

  Get married?

  Marry whom?

  A sickly child, and a dying one at that.

  Having lived for more than half of her life, she didn't have time to indulge in romantic love affairs. She didn't want to become the weak and incompetent eldest daughter of the Liu family overnight, only to quietly get married off.

  What?

  Is she still half-foolish? Is there something wrong with her brain?

  But she was perfectly normal, her behavior was normal, and her thoughts were even more so.

  What?

  Grandma doesn't like it?