21. Firelight
It has been two days since the letter to the Qi family was sent.
Da Mao doesn't know where to come from, and he can still get food for four people at this time. Tang Qing is still cooking every meal, and Fuju is only holding a hand on the side. Qi Yu sometimes helps in the kitchen, and after being locked up for so long, he seems to have lost interest in the activities outside the house, and he feels that he can't open his eyes when he sees too strong sunlight.
At night, he ate a kind of green porridge, and Tang Qing boiled it thick and fragrant. Not only did Da Mao and Hibiscus drink a few more bowls, but even Qi Yu, who has a poor appetite these days, also drank a few more sips.
"This porridge is delicious, and something can be boiled. Da Mao said this, and got up again to go to the pot to serve porridge.
"Eat and eat, what do you do with so much talk. Fleur took the bowl in his hand and scooped another full bowl for him.
Tang Qing smiled, a little evil-minded, and said after Da Mao took a few sips: "This porridge is fragrant, made of grass seeds, do you know what grass seeds are, they are what the horse outside eats." After speaking, he wiped the corners of his mouth with some pride.
Da Mao choked again. "You can also eat this kind of thing, the rice that Lao Tzu brought back. He coughed, staccato and more.
Qi Yu's face next to him was also a little distorted and deformed.
Fuju poured a glass of water for Da Mao: "Don't listen to Tang Qing's nonsense, it's not the grass seeds that horses eat, it's the kind that fish eat." "
Da Mao, who had just finished breathing, almost didn't catch his breath.
Realizing that she hadn't made it clear, Hibiscus added another sentence: "When I went to the river with Xiaoqing to wash vegetables today, Aunt Huang next door gave it to us, saying that this kind of grass-seeded fish grows strong after eating, and people are more full after eating." Besides, you've just drunk several large bowls, and you haven't seen anything bad. "
"Blame me for being cheap, just eat delicious, and ask more. Da Mao thought to himself, "In the future, I don't ask what I eat is made, people are not as good as a fish." "
I couldn't take other people's grass seeds for nothing, and the next day, Hibiscus invited the next door to be a guest.
Aunt Huang took a little girl to the door, and when she entered the door, she was carrying a hard pumpkin in her hand, which was ripe at a glance.
As soon as the girl hiding behind her came out, Tang Qing was shocked: "Huang Ting?"
"Tang Qing. The girl was also shocked, she was still wearing a yellow dress, the dress did not fit well, the cuffs were tight, and the color was a little white.
When he met his old acquaintance in a foreign country, Tang Qing was very happy in his heart. I was going to make some millet flour cakes and pretend to be poor. At this time, the crucian carp that I had just caught yesterday was also stewed, and even the butter that I had not been willing to touch before was opened, and I dug up two large pieces, grabbed a handful of sugar, mixed some drivers, and rolled out a few butter dough cakes.
Before serving, Tang Qing still kept an eye on it, mashed the stewed fish, and cut the butter dough into small pieces.
Rao is like this, and the flavor in the mouth is not diminished at all.
Aunt Huang next door is Huang Ting's aunt, and not long after Huang Ting's father left, her mother also chased after her. Aunt Huang didn't have any children, so she took her over and raised her. A woman with a child in this world is inevitably a little harder.
While eating, Huang Ting suddenly cried, and tears fell into the bowl. Aunt Huang hurriedly pushed her bowl to another place: "Don't cry after eating, don't cry." "
Huang Ting ignored it completely, and cried louder: "People eat big fish and meat, and what kind of oil is expensive, our family eats millet flour cakes with chaff, corn flour cakes with slag, if my parents were here, I wouldn't have lived this kind of life, Mom, why didn't you take me away and throw me to my aunt to live a hard life." "
Da Mao put down his chopsticks heavily and glared at Huang Ting very unkindly. He has been following Boss Zeng all the year round, and his momentum is very capable of bluffing.
It's a pity that Huang Ting, who was crying, was immersed in her own world and didn't give him a look.
Aunt Huang was startled, and hurriedly covered Huang Ting's mouth, embarrassed: "This child has been spoiled by her parents, I will teach him a lesson when I go back." After speaking, he pulled Huang Ting to leave, "Big sister, I'll come to the door another day to compensate." "
Huang Ting was small, and although she kept holding the door, she was still dragged back by Aunt Huang. Her voice came from the wind: "It's all from the same village, why do they eat better than us." "
Removed the two of them's rice bowls, and everyone was a little unsavory. Tang Qing was dejected: "It's all my fault, if you don't take out the fish and make it, and don't use butter, it won't be like this." "
"What's your business, there are more people in the village who eat fish, and if you have the ability to catch it, you have the ability to eat, who can manage it. Besides, whoever comes to the house does not bring out the best things in the house to entertain. If you take something bad out and give it to them, it won't be a shame for my Uncle Chen. After Da Mao finished eating, he put his feet on the table with a chopstick in his mouth.
Fuju coldly pulled out the chopsticks in Da Mao's mouth, "What a stinky problem, I don't have a sitting appearance." "
Qi Yu, who is usually very quiet, also accosted: "If it is because of them, what millet flour cakes with bran eat at night, I will go on a hunger strike." "
Hearing this, the frustrated Tang Qing couldn't help but laugh. The accident that had just happened was quickly overturned.
Since he was thrown down by Wu Xinlian, Tang Qing has been introspecting. She knows her bad fault, that is, she is soft-hearted. This can't be changed, or rather, she hasn't taken this problem seriously.
was wronged by the teacher and bullied by a colleague, and he was very angry at the time, but as long as the other party apologized, he couldn't get angry, and he could only sulk in one life. In my previous life, I had my parents' arrangement, and I just had to concentrate on my academics and classes. In this life, Tang's father and Tang's mother are also very loving. Life has always been smooth, and it seems that being a good girl is enough for her.
But the accidents that kept happening during this period of time made her grow up slowly, she no longer dared to underestimate the people around her, and she would carefully think about the pros and cons before doing things, and the small details that she was indifferent to in the past also cheered up to face them.
It's hard to say how effective it is, but she's slowly growing.
Tang Qing, who was silently cheering himself up, closed his eyes in the dark, moved away and accidentally kicked his hibiscus, and fell asleep sideways against the wall.
On the fourth day after the letter was sent, Qi Yu, who was rarely willing to bask in the sun in the yard, suddenly fainted.
When Da Mao carried him into the house, his whole body was hot, and his face was a little abnormally flushed. Qi Yu had a high fever. Different from the last high fever, others still have some consciousness, just shouting hot for a while, cold for a while, and some convulsions, and the condition is very weird. Of course, Tang Qing, a half-hung medicine farmer, didn't dare to give him medicine casually.
Da Mao invited the village doctor to come back, and the people were so frightened that they retreated outside the house, saying that Qi Yu had a deadly illness and could not be saved. On this day alone, there were three people in the village who discovered this condition, and Qi Yu was already the fourth case that this doctor had seen.
Tang Qing has been taking care of Qi Yu in the house, trying to reduce his fever. As soon as the doctor said "it will be contagious", Da Mao and Hibiscus did not dare to run into Qi Yu's house for a single step. It is just convenient for Tang Qing to access the pharmacopoeia and medicinal materials in the space at any time.
To be on the safe side, Tang Qing took the chickens in the space to test the medicinal properties of the herbs. She found that although the herbs in the space were different in nature and did not look like the ones outside, even if they were eaten wrong and matched incorrectly, they would not cause much harm to the body, at most they would make a fuss in their stomach.
The antipyretic grass looks similar to Bupleurum and even has a similar effect, so Tang Qing has been feeding Qi Yu with this. Although Qi Yu's fever still did not subside, it was better than the menacing condition before. Although the pharmacopoeia talks about the efficacy of each drug, complex conditions still require a combination of medicinal materials.
Tang Qing, who has no medical foundation, only memorizes the content of the pharmacopoeia for the time being. In the evening, Qi Yu's condition was a little recurring, Tang Qing gritted his teeth, and mashed herbs like astragalus and a plant called "purple millet" and fed them to Qi Yu. Like the astragalus plant, the effect is similar to that of astragalus, clearing away heat and dampness, purging fire and detoxifying. The "purple millet" sexual fever can be used to treat the symptoms of wind and cold. Qi Yu is afraid of cold and heat, it may be "cold and hot exchanges", according to the principle of "Xiao Chai Hu Granules", which is a must-have for the family in his previous life, Tang Qing chose these two medicinal materials together.
At about two or three o'clock in the night, Qi Yu's condition improved, and Tang Qing, who had finally squinted, was awakened by a heavy knock on the door.
Confused, really reluctant to get up, Tang Qing thought: Anyway, Da Mao and Hibiscus will go to open the door, I'll squint for a while.
But no one opened the door for a long time, and the knocking sound outside gradually evolved into the sound of slamming the door. Tang Qing woke up from her drowsiness, the whole room was quieter by the rumbling outside, she shouted the names of "Da Mao" and "Hibiscus", pushed open one door after another, and there was no one.
A strong panic swept through her whole body, Tang Qing didn't even dare to open the door, Da Mao and Fuju ran away, the luggage of the two of them, and most of the food in the kitchen were gone, probably because they were afraid that the target of the carriage was too big, so the two did not drive away.
The group of people who smashed the door outside kept scolding: "Are they all dead, open the door quickly." "
Tang Qing forced himself to calm down. first moved the unconscious Qi Yu into the space, then turned back to put away the remaining ingredients in the kitchen, and finally hid in the space himself. There is only one situation in which the space is allowed to enter except for Tang Qing, and that is that the person is not in a state of wake: either asleep or unconscious, and the side effect is that the person who enters the space in a coma will remain unconscious all the time.
Peaceful village, this night was full of firelight.
When Tang Qing was woken up, there were already fires in several places in the village, but strangely, everyone was indifferent.
No matter how strong the door is, it can't help but be banged all the time. Soon, a group of people stepped on the fallen wooden door and entered the house. The people who came in were holding torches, most of them were middle-aged laborers from the village, and there was a small figure of misfit in the menacing procession, it was Huang Ting.
Hearing that she was going to Tang Qing's house and locked them all up in the quarantine area, Huang Ting also jumped to follow behind the adults.
Finding that there was no one in the house, everyone breathed a sigh of relief: "Even if they know each other, they will run away first, otherwise, we will have to drive them away." "
Since a patient suddenly died in the night, two more families in the village have invited doctors to visit patients with low-grade fevers.
For a while, people were panicked, and it was rumored that there was an epidemic and that they wanted to isolate all these people. That's why tonight, driving people everywhere and burning down dwellings happened.
Finding that there was no food left, and not caring about the value of the ornaments in the house, the villagers burned down the entire house in disappointment.
And this qiē, Tang Qing in the space didn't know.