Chapter Twenty-Three: A Knock at the Door in the Middle of the Night
"Well, what my sister said must have made sense. Xue Fei never questioned Ruoxi's every word, she also tore off a piece of rabbit meat, and praised while eating: "Sister, your craftsmanship is getting better and better, this smoked rabbit probably can't even make a cupboard?"
"Thank you Xuefei for the compliment, I haven't eaten the food cooked in the cupboard, but I also think the smoked rabbit I made is delicious. Ruoxi finished eating rabbit meat, jumped off the rattan bed, took out a tattered quilt, there was no cotton wool in the quilt, Ruoxi spread the quilt on the ground, took off a few animal skins from the stone wall, threaded the needle, hastily intertwined together, and said to Xue Fei: "I sew the animal skin in this broken quilt, you spread it under the body, moisture-proof and warm, in winter, we are making a quilt of fox fur." ”
Xue Fei stared at Ruoxi, her eyes moistened, and said, "Sister, you love me like my mother, I can't live without you." Xue Fei squatted down and hugged Ruoxi's shoulders.
"Xue Fei, we will be together forever" Ruoxi held Xue Fei's little hand and said, "I don't sew it very finely, after you take it back, you are sewing it carefully." ”
Ruoxi folded the quilt and handed it to Xue Fei, and he put out the fire, cleaned up and ate, wrapped the remaining bone residues in lotus leaves, and threw them away when he was ready to go out. Otherwise, the food will be moldy, and there will be a peculiar smell in the house.
Although it was full of dried meat and animal skins, the room was only scented with wormwood and flowers, and there was no fishy smell. It can be seen that Ruoxi handled it very cleanly, Xue Fei looked at the jerky in the stone room reluctantly, Ruoxi pulled her and said, "We ate a stone pot of snake soup, a roast chicken, and a smoked rabbit, are you still not satisfied?"
"Sister, when are we coming back. Xue Fei hugged the animal skin quilt, her heart was warm, this meal was the fullest in many days.
"Come when you're hungry. Ruoxi said: "Aunt is gone, we don't have to guard it every day, as long as we avoid Sister Douhua's eyes, there will always be a chance to come out for a while." ”
While talking, the two girls quietly returned to their rooms in the front yard. Light the soybean oil lamp, Xuefei spread the rabbit skin quilt, and blow out the oil lamp. The two were lying side by side on the bed, and Xue Fei said softly: "Sister, I'm too full to sleep, you can talk to me." ”
Ruoxi turned over, sat up and said, "It's too full of food, a little supportive, but you can't light the lamp, if your uncle finds out that we haven't slept yet, he will come over to urge." ”
"If you don't light the lights, you can see how bright the moon is outside. Xue Fei put her arm around Ruoxi's shoulders and said, "Sister Ruoxi, it's our night light." As soon as I thought of those officers and soldiers just now, I panicked. ”
"It's all gone, there's nothing to be afraid of. Ruoxi said: "Xuefei, the day before yesterday, I saw that the ditch behind our house was dug up by the villagers, and they were digging and burning adobe, and I don't know who wants to build a house." ”
"It's not a house, sister, don't you know? I heard Granny Wang say that it was the great good people of the East who wanted to build an ancestral hall on the land of the cemetery, move all the wasted graves there, and build a pagoda, so that we could go there to burn incense and worship the Buddha in the future. Xue Fei sat up excitedly and said: "Now every family in the village is making preparations, and they have to contribute money to the ancestral hall, after all, their ancestors have been in people's fields all these years, uncle, aunt, tomorrow my mother will be buried there, my father said a few days, settle my good mother, and also follow the villagers to work together." ”
"Oh, that's right, that's a good thing. Ruoxi thought to herself: "I can't go to the cemetery to hunt in the future, I have to go farther." It is good to build ancestral halls and pagodas. ”
"Can we help?" Ruoxi said, "It's always okay to cook." ”
Xue Fei said: "Granny Wang said, let the two of us go to cook for everyone with his daughter and daughter-in-law, that's how it was arranged, sister, you can guess it." ”
Ruoxi pointed to Xue Fei's head and said with a smile: "Little fool, what can we do? It's just a meal, do you still need to guess?"
Xue Fei knocked her forehead with her hand and said, "Yes, sister." ”
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of a hurried knock on the door outside the door, and the middle-aged man and Ruoxi and Xue Fei in the room couldn't help but be startled, didn't this officer and soldier just leave?
There was a panic in the house, Ruoxi dressed very quickly, she folded her clothes and put them next to the pillow before going to bed, and put them on in a few seconds with a shake of the clothes.
"Who?" Ruoxi asked loudly, quickly jumping out of bed and rushing out with an arrow.
Xue Fei sat up, groped with her eyes closed, grabbed her clothes, and put them on her body in a daze.
"Sister, wait for me. Xue Fei went down to the ground to find her shoes, her hands trembled, and she put them on tremblingly. Timidly followed behind Ruoxi, Ruoxi secretly wondered in his heart, it couldn't be an officer and soldier, he kicked in the door just now, how could he change the knock on the door?
The middle-aged man also came out of the room, and he said in a low voice: "Ruoxi, Xuefei, Douhua fell asleep after taking painkillers, you two helped her out of the corner door of the backyard, and our family is destined to stop tonight." ”
"Uncle, if we don't leave, there's nothing to be afraid of. Ruoxi held a broom tightly in his hand and walked out.
"Obedient, Ruoxi. Wang Shiqi said angrily: "You and I are powerless, riding a broom, we can't fly to the sky, go quickly." ”
At this time, I only heard the knock on the door becoming more and more urgent, which showed that the person was very urgent.
Xue Fei was trembling with fright, her legs were weak, and she held her father's hand tightly, her face pale.
Ruoxi strode towards the gate and asked calmly, "Who?"
"Ruoxi, stop there. The middle-aged man, letting go of Xue Fei's hand, hurried up, grabbed Ruoxi, said in a stern tone, and with a little pleading, "Okay, listen to your uncle, go out to avoid." ”
At this time, I heard an old voice outside the door, and the old man was very polite, "May I ask if this is Dr. Wang's house in Taoxi Village?"
"It's the patient. Ruoxi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Uncle, I'll open the door." ”
"I'll go. It turned out that this middle-aged man's surname was Wang, and his name was Shiqi. is a doctor, this Taoxi Village is ten miles and eight townships, there is only one doctor like him, even if he comes to seek medical treatment in the middle of the night, it is a common thing, and he always responds to his requests.
Regardless of whether you have money or not, you have never refused to enter the door to see a doctor, you have been practicing medicine for more than 20 years, spring, summer, autumn and winter, wind, rain and snow, and no matter what the weather, as long as the patient comes to ask for treatment, she will carry a medicine box to diagnose and treat.
Wang Shiqi strode out and squeaked open the two gates of the courtyard. In fact, the big wooden door has been kicked and broken by the Yellow Turban Army, which is really dispensable, so the door and the lock are two things, which are to block the gentleman and not the villain.
The door opened, and I was greeted by an old man, driving a carriage, the old man was sixty miles away, full of silver hair, and his eyes were bright. The old man was pulling people in the car, covered with a white cloth, and he couldn't tell who it was from head to toe, Wang Shiqi immediately felt that something was wrong, this Gaifa was not a patient, but like a dead person.