Chapter 90 Sun Shan Faints
After the Dragon Boat Festival, it is the “three summer” time of “summer harvest, summer planting and summer management”, which is the busiest season for farmers.
Early rice is harvested and late rice is planted.
Sun Shan's lessons were also suspended, and Master Zheng gave his students a 10-day farming holiday and told them to go home and help with farm work. At the same time, he did not forget to assign homework, asking students not to forget their studies even if they were busy with farming.
Sun Shan would definitely not forget to complete the homework assigned by the teacher step by step, learn new knowledge ahead of time, and review old knowledge.
Helping with work in the fields during the day.
Huang, Su and Sun Bomin did not want Sun Shan to do it at first, but Sun Shan insisted and said, "Grandma, Dad, Mother, Master requires students to work in the fields. We cannot be lazy scholars who do not know the difference between the five grains and the six animals."
Sun Bomin thought what the master said made sense, and he would teach Shanzi everything about the family in the future. It would be best if he could go to the capital to work, but if he didn't have the ability, he couldn't go. If he stayed at the Sun family, he had to learn farm work, otherwise he would be laughed at by the villagers.
So he agreed to let Sun Shan go to the fields, but he didn't need to cut the crops and was only responsible for picking up the ears of grain.
Sun Shan went to the fields with Sun Bomin early in the morning, and after they finished cutting the rice, he picked up the weeds with a basket in his hand. The children around him did the same.
Although the Sun family has split up, they still work together.
The eldest sister Guyu was responsible for cooking at home, while everyone else went to work in the fields. Even Dege had to pick up a sickle to cut the rice, while men like Sun Boming were responsible for threshing the rice.
Here, rice is threshed completely manually. A rectangular wooden box about 1 meter wide and 1.5 meters long is made of wooden boards, and a large mat is laid underneath. People hold rice stalks and thresh along the edges of the wooden box.
After a day's work, my hands are sore and painful.
Sun Shan thought of a two-person foot-operated thresher, but unfortunately he had no materials and no ability to make it. He could only have an excuse to invent and make it when he grew up, read more books, and knew more.
The sun was shining brightly in the sky at noon, when the sun was at its hottest in the year. Sun Shan, wearing a straw hat, bent down to pick up rice ears.
She was already sweating profusely, her entire face was covered in sweat. She wiped it off with a towel, but it came back again after a while. This went on over and over again, making her exhausted beyond words.
I was reminded of the lines in Bai Juyi’s “Watching the Wheat Harvest”: “My feet are steaming with the hot earth, my back is burning with the scorching sun, I feel no heat even though I have exhausted my strength, but I only regret that the summer is so long.” Whether it is harvesting wheat or harvesting rice, it is equally hard work.
Sun Shan had been picking wheat ears for a while and felt thirsty, so he wanted to drink a bowl of herbal tea. He stood up and looked up, but suddenly his vision went dark.
When I woke up, I was lying on the bed, unable to speak. After opening my eyes, I was in a daze for a while, then closed them again, and opened them again. This time I felt much better.
This is the study room. Sun Shan sighed.
When the elder sister Guyu saw her brother open his eyes, she shouted in surprise: "Shanzi, are you awake?"
Sun Shan wanted to raise his hand, but he was too weak. He wanted to speak, but his throat was dry. He squeezed out a few words with difficulty: "Water... water... I want to drink..."
Guyu ignored what Sun Shan said and hurried out of the yard, walked into the main hall, and said to Su: "Mother, my brother is awake."
When Su heard that Shanzi had woken up, she wanted to get up, but she had been kneeling in front of the family deity tablet for too long and could not get up.
Guyu quickly helped Su up and supported her to Sun Shan's study.
Su finally stood up and immediately ran to Sun Shan's bed, crying, "My son, you finally woke up. I was scared to death."
Only at this moment did Su's heart calm down a little. She was so afraid that Shanzi would faint and never wake up again.
Sun Shan sensed Su's fear and tried hard to shout, "Mom...water..." He was so thirsty. His elder sister ran so fast that it was difficult to get a drink of water.
When Su heard her son asking for water, she nodded and said anxiously, "Okay, wait a moment, I'll pour you some water."
Guyu had already brought a bowl of warm water from the kitchen. Su took it and quickly fed it to Sun Shan.
Sun Shan was about to cry. He wanted to drink water before he fainted, and he wanted to drink water when he woke up. Finally, he was able to drink water.
He gulped down a big gulp, took a few breaths, and drank a bowl of water. Finally, he came back to life.
Sun Shan coughed a few times and said in a hoarse voice, "Mother, why did I faint?"
Speaking of this, Su became angry, but her son had just woken up, so she didn't want to lose her temper. She said gently, "You, hey, you don't know how to be tired. The doctor said you had heatstroke, so you fainted."
Sun Shan understood. He had never had a heat stroke in his previous life, so he didn't know what it felt like. Although he had a heat stroke this time, he still didn't know what it felt like. He just blacked out before his eyes and lost consciousness. When he woke up, his whole body was limp, he was weak and very thirsty.
Guyu brought in another bowl of warm water, which Sun Shan drank again.
Su said fearfully, "Son, don't go to the fields anymore. The doctor said you are weak and can't do heavy work. You need to take good care of yourself. It won't be too late to do it when you grow up."
The son was picking up ears of corn one second and fell to the ground unconscious the next.
Fortunately, it was right in our own field and everyone could see it.
Su and Sun Bomin were so frightened that their legs went limp and they could not even crawl to their son's side. Huang immediately fell down and could not stand up no matter how hard she tried.
It was the bystander, Uncle Sun, who was awake and quickly picked up Sun Shan, put him under the shade of a tree, took off his sweaty clothes, pressed his philtrum, forced cold water into his mouth, and wiped his head, armpits, thigh roots, groin, etc. with a wet towel.
Sun Shan still didn't wake up, but he was still breathing. Uncle Sun felt a little relieved. Seeing that his mother, eldest brother and sister-in-law were not doing anything, he asked the third brother to take care of them, and he and Aunt Sun carried Sun Shan to the next village to find a doctor.
As they walked, Aunt Sun gave Sun Shan some brown sugar water.
When the doctor came, he diagnosed the patient, performed acupuncture and bloodletting, and massaged the acupoints. After a series of treatments, Sun Shan's life was finally saved.
The doctor told the patient to rest and he would wake up once his body functions recovered. He also prescribed a few doses of medicine before leaving.
Uncle Sun didn't bring any money, but the doctor didn't mind and just told him to turn around and get it.
Sun Shan had been a frequent visitor since he was a child, and the doctor had known him for a long time. However, the child had been in much better health in the past two years, and the chances of meeting him had greatly decreased.
After returning to the Sun family's old house and hearing the doctor's diagnosis, Sun Boming and his family breathed a sigh of relief.
As it was the busy farming season and it was still early, Uncle Sun and Aunt Sun continued to work in the fields. Huang was frightened, but she went to the bedroom to rest after hearing that her beloved grandson was fine.
Sun Bomin actually wanted to stay at home to look after his son, but his second and third brothers were working in the fields, so he felt embarrassed and followed them to work. He asked Su to stay and take care of Sun Shan.
Sun Shan had never expected to faint, and it happened without any warning. Seeing that Su was worried, he comforted her and said, "Mother, I'm fine now. I will never work in the fields again. If I really want to, I'll do it when I grow up."
I have overestimated my physical health. It seems that I need to exercise more in the future. After all, the imperial examination also requires a strong body.
Su nodded and said, "You have a good rest. Mother will go to the field and tell your father that you are awake so that he can rest assured."
The head of the household must be anxious, but there is nothing he can do as housework is also important.
Sun Shan hummed, indicating that he was very tired and wanted to continue sleeping.
Guyu went to the bedroom and woke up Huang, telling her that Sun Shan had woken up.
Huang brought a bowl of medicine from the kitchen and said nervously, "My dear grandson, drink the medicine and go to sleep."
Shanzi suddenly fainted, which was very frightening. Huang recited several times, "May our ancestors bless you, and may grandpa bless Shanzi."
Sun Shan took the black medicine and drank it in one gulp. It was so bitter, even more bitter than the Guangdong herbal tea Bansha.
After drinking it, I ate a piece of candy, felt weak all over, lay on the bed, and fell asleep in a second.