There is a proverb in the Han Dynasty: a husband does not plough or suffer from hunger, and a woman does not weave or suffer from cold.

Male ploughing and female weaving is the most basic way of life for contemporary small farmers. Unless men are not employed or go out for military service, women become the main labor force in the household, and manual work such as working in the fields is essential.

The people in the mountains are much more relaxed, because they are far away from the world and are not subject to taxes and servitude.

Textile girls from different places are ingenious, using their best skills, coarse cloth and linen, silk and satin are all at hand. However, the cost of the latter is high, and it has only been ten years since I moved here.

Every girl in the valley knew how to spin and weave, and embroider and sew wedding clothes. After getting married, in addition to their daily needs, they also have to cut out a new set of clean and expensive clothes to wear at the coming-of-age ceremony before their children reach adulthood, placing a piece of hope and wishes on their parents.

In the entire valley, except for Ru Tingyu and Su Xing, there are all the others.

Since they lived here, the locals have made them several sets of plain clothes, all year round. It's just that no one dares to give that meaningful set of adult clothes on behalf of their parents, and they don't ask for it.

For example, Tingyu had a set of originals, but her home was burned down due to a disaster, and she didn't mention it since.

Su Xing didn't know about this custom until later, she is a modern person, she sounds fresh, and she doesn't care if there is one.

She has been following Ru Tingyu's side, speechless in front of people, and talking and laughing in the back. When the two mix together, people often see such a scene.

One man had a cold face and concentrated on healing.

One sits next to the desk, listening carefully to the patient's free talk, and a mahogany wolf pen dips the ink from time to time to write neatly.

To treat her own people, Tingyu only accepts daily necessities as payment. If it is enough, let everyone tell Su Xing about the customs and habits of their respective hometowns, or various experiences on the road of life instead.

It's the same outside, either giving money or detailing the customs of each place.

Su Xing carried an A4 white paper notebook with her, but she didn't dare to show it, wrapped the edge with a hemp satchel, and then wrote it. I didn't get used to it at first, but I just got used to it.

Contemporary paper, the quality is very different from modern.

She didn't dare to bring the ancient paper back to the modern era to make a name for herself, nor did she dare to show the modern paper in front of the ancients. Respect history, but not affect it. She knows too much, she tries her best to be a qualified bystander, witnessing history and witnessing the future, and recording them one by one for future generations to read and verify.

If there are any descendants in the future......

One afternoon, Su Xing was taking notes and classifying, and Tingyu suddenly said, "I have accepted three apprentices." ”

Su Xing was stunned, "Oh, what are your qualifications?"

"Okay. "They are all children who have been exposed to medicinal herbs or have been practicing medicine for generations in their families.

"Then how am I going to find you after that?"

Hearing the sound and knowing the meaning, the two have been together for a long time, and some things are self-evident. Ru Tingyu looked up at the sky, her eyebrows were light, and she didn't speak for a long time.

Su Xing didn't care either, and continued the work at hand.

"My jade pendant, what do you use...... Uh, shoot it and see if you can cross it. ”

Someone slapped his forehead, and his eyes lit up.

"Eh, yes, why didn't I think of that?" But seeing that the other party had already taken out the jade pendant...... Yes, shoot it, after all, the background changes often, and it is difficult to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

Yu Pei is Tingyu's most cherished baby, she always carries it with her, and she can find someone wherever she goes. Haha, I got a little carried away in history, and I forgot to dig my own skills, but fortunately someone reminded me by the side.

The moon is cloudy and sunny, and people have life and death.

Su Xing knew in her heart that Ru Tingyu was taking in apprentices to find a successor, which meant that she would leave the valley at any time. The witch doctor clan has disappeared from the world for more than a hundred years, and they are still recognized by people at a glance, which is the negligence of Rumu.

The bloody lesson made Tingyu realize that if people don't know, they can't do it unless they do. It is impossible for her to give up her medical skills, and giving up is tantamount to disappointing her mother's painstaking cultivation, her ancestry's bloodline, and her innate talent.

So what's the point of being a human being? The idea of getting married and having children disappeared as early as the moment when her parents died tragically.

Therefore, she does not plan to live in the valley forever, and she refuses to live in the future.

From Su Xing's mouth, I learned that there was no witch doctor clan in the future world, which meant that she had wiped out the clan. Skills are against the sky, not tolerated by the world, why not be free and easy, like a lonely soul wandering away from the world, to see the warmth and pain of life......

On the winter solstice, the cold wind howls, the snow falls, and the streets and houses are covered with a thick layer of snow. In the eyes of modern people, the simple and elegant houses, the flying snowflakes, are picturesque and full of strong traditional cultural atmosphere.

It was so cold that even though the curfew had been lifted, the streets were empty in the evening.

On a snowy night, two men in heavy cloaks walked slowly, crunching on the snow, and the ground-length tents dragged out traces behind them. The four big wolf dogs followed behind them, as if they were not cold at all, and they were very excited.

Su Xing shrunk in the gray-blue thick cloak, her little face was red from the cold, and her eyes greedily looked at the living monument in front of her. The doors of the houses on both sides of the street were closed, and a warm candlelight added a bit of warmth to the street, and bursts of music and laughter came from individual liquor shops.

The two of them walked and stopped, one looking around, the other looking ahead, each with his own thoughts.

Today's winter solstice, they had dinner but did not stay, and kept walking, unconsciously walking through many places. In the light from the roadside, you can see the front doors of some large shops, and under the walls, there are beggars huddled in hunger and cold.

Zhumen wine and meat stink, there are frozen bones on the road, and there is no place in the world that can be perfect.

The two of them continued to hurry.

People like this, such as Tingyu, have always turned a blind eye. Because my mother once said, "People with a strong will to survive know where to find someone to get through the difficult times together...... their ability is limited, and they only save people who want to live.

And that kind of place, either in a ruined house or in a dilapidated temple. The people who nest under the base of the wall are basically resigned to fate.

"Susu, you go back, I want to walk alone......" Standing in front of a ruined temple, Tingyu suddenly said.

Su Xing glanced inside, there was a flickering shadow of flames inside, and two thin children were timidly hiding by a broken wall and secretly looking out, as if they were worried that two uninvited guests would come to drive them away.

"Okay, then be careful yourself. Su Xing nodded, "Let Xiaofu and Xiaolu accompany you, and I'll pick them up in a few days." ”

"Hmm. ”

Su Xing bent down, touched Xiaofu Xiaolu's head and said a few words, then took Xiaoshou Xiaoquan and turned around and walked to the other side. There was no one around, about 100 steps away, the bright light flickered, and one man and two dogs gradually disappeared into the night.

As soon as she left, the woman who did not move in front of the temple instantly burst into tears, "Father, mother......" lowered her eyes, and felt a burst of sadness in her heart.

After standing for half an hour, her figure moved and entered the ruined temple......