Chapter IV

The next day, after breakfast at Tang's house, Uncle Jin drove a carriage to send Su Yan back to the village, the mountain road was rugged and the carriage was not easy to walk, Su Yan didn't let Uncle Jin send her up, and insisted on getting the carriage at the foot of the mountain.

As soon as I walked to the entrance of the village, a thunder exploded in the sky, and the clear sky was cloudy in a blink of an eye, and the raindrops of beans crackled and smashed down.

Su Yan borrowed a coat from Aunt Liu's house at the entrance of the village and put it on, and trotted home, the rain became heavier and heavier, and when it reached the bottom of the slope, the raindrops continued to weave a curtain between the heaven and the earth, and everywhere the human eye went was the endless rain, and all the ears heard was the thudding sound of raindrops hitting everything.

The road under her feet was muddy, and the embroidered shoes were stained with mud, wet and heavy, and Su Yanshen walked a little hard with one shallow foot.

It was easy to go uphill, and the door gradually appeared in front of her, Su Yan couldn't help but be a little faster, and when she arrived at the door, she was about to open the door but found a person squatting under the wall not far away.

The one who was cowering in the corner and looking up at her was not the one who had been lost for two days!

It was dark, Zhong Kang was huddled in the corner in a dark robe, and Su Yan almost didn't notice him.

The rain was so heavy, there was nothing to cover, he was already soaking wet, his hair was sticking to the side of his face, his lips were white, but he still looked up and smiled at her, quite pitiful.

With a "snap", the copper lock opened, and Su Yan beckoned to him: "Come in!" ”

Zhong Kang stood up against the wall, Su Yan raised her arms to support the clothes on her body and wanted to cover him in it, but the difference between the two figures was too much, even if Su Yan raised her arms, she was still a little short of Zhong Kang's head, she had to try to stand on her toes, and almost fell on Zhong Kang several times.

Fortunately, the yard was not big, and the two soon arrived and entered the house.

Zhong Kang stood in the room soaking wet, dripping with water under his feet, Xu was aware of this, he stood in one place stiffly, not daring to move, only a pair of dark eyes followed Su Yan around.

Su Yan found a clean set of clothes from the next room and handed them to him: "Change the wet clothes on your body," she paused, and looked at him suspiciously: "You, will you dress yourself?" ”

Zhong Kang nodded vigorously, and Su Yan breathed a sigh of relief and entered the back room.

When she changed her clothes and came out, the soaked clothes on Zhong Kang's body had already faded off, piled up at her feet, and a plain white robe was crooked on her body, and the white undershirt showed a corner from the placket, he grabbed the sides of the robe with both hands and couldn't help pulling, seeing Su Yan looking at himself, he hurriedly put his hands behind his back and grinned.

The whole robe was crooked from head to toe, and I don't know how he put it on, Su Yan shook her head helplessly, took a few steps closer and motioned him to open his arms and help him sort out the clothes on his body.

Su Yan's attention was all on the shirt in front of her, where could she see the triumphant smile on the face of the "fool" above her head, and it was easy to straighten the collar, she turned her hand to tie the tie under the armpit on the side.

Su Yan is petite, only to Zhong Kang's chest, to help him tidy up his clothes, he will inevitably stand on tiptoe, and the focus of the whole person is only the strap on his hand in addition to the square inch under his feet.

Suddenly, the person in front of him took a step back, and Su Yan stumbled in the direction of his retreat, and the whole person fell into a generous and warm embrace.

When she realized what was happening, Su Yan's little jade face turned red instantly, and she hurriedly let go of the hand that grabbed Zhong Kang's back because of her subconscious, took a few steps back, lowered her head and looked at her toes, the atmosphere was a little ambiguous for a while, and she couldn't help but even breathe lightly.

It was the first time that Su Yan was so close to a man that she couldn't say a word in embarrassment.

"Itchy."

Zhong Kang's innocent voice came from overhead, breaking the silence, and Su Yan bit her lip and looked up at him.

I saw that the dark eyes of the person in front of him were full of innocence, and he lowered his head and looked at her with puzzlement.

In fact, even if he is stupid, he is extremely handsome......

Realizing this thought, Su Yan's cheeks became hotter and hotter, and she hurriedly covered her face and ran out, leaving behind the man with a sly smile.

Leaning against the wall and waiting for the heat on her face to go down, Su Yan returned to the house as if nothing happened, and fastened the rest of the ties on Zhong Kang's body very quickly.

Zhong Kang's figure is much taller and stronger than Dr. Han's, Dr. Han's clothes are a lot shorter on him, and his wrists and ankles are exposed, which is very nondescript, not to mention shoes, his feet can't fit into Dr. Han's shoes at all, they can only be loose.

Despite this, he was still very happy, grinning and baring his teeth at Su Yan.

Seeing his honest smile, Su Yan's face was a little hot for some reason, threw him a cloth towel to dry his hair, and ran away to the stove to make a fire to cook.

Although she didn't ask, Su Yan already had a rough guess in her heart, I was afraid that this person had somehow touched back to the village after he got lost from the county seat and his sixth son that day, and I didn't know how long he had been squatting in her door.

When he was changing his clothes just now, Su Yan probed his pulse, and his vitality was slightly damaged. It's not surprising to think about it, there are injuries on his body that haven't healed, and he hasn't eaten much in the past two days, and now he is still drenched in a solid rain, and he also loses his original foundation, and he can still smile at her stupidly, and if he were an ordinary person, he would have fallen to the ground unconscious.

The japonica rice was watered, simmered slowly, and boiled until it was thick and soft, and Su Yan added some wild dates picked from the mountains some time ago, although they were not as sweet as red dates, they were also sweet and sour.

I haven't eaten for two days, and I shouldn't eat it for a while, this japonica rice porridge is just right. Zhong Kang ate two large bowls and was still unsatisfied, Su Yan was afraid that he would eat too much at once, so he didn't let him eat the third bowl.

After eating, Su Yan cleaned up the original house where Dr. Han lived in Westinghouse and let Zhong Kang live in, he was hungry and tired in the past two days, and now the fatigue in his lower abdomen was even more difficult to ignore, and he fell on the kang and breathed steadily in a blink of an eye.

Su Yan turned around and pulled the door back to her room.

***

The rain fell for an afternoon, and it didn't clear until the evening, the night wind brought a damp breath, Su Yan sat in front of the window and read a medical book, this book recorded the cases and solutions encountered by Dr. Han when he traveled, and there were many folk remedies, Su Yan cherished this book very much, not only because of the recipe in the book, but also because this book is Dr. Han's life's work.

There was still no movement on the West House, Zhong Kang had been asleep for nearly two hours, Su Yan went to see him in the middle, probed his pulse and found that there was no tendency to fever, but he was too tired to wake him up.

There was a knock on the door outside the courtyard, Su Yan opened the door, Uncle Guo from the village stood at the door with his son Erzhuang, and Su Yan hurriedly welcomed the two in: "Uncle Guo, Erzhuang." ”

Uncle Guo is a mason, and people in the surrounding villages are looking for him to build houses.

Su Yan poured a bowl of water for the two of them, but Uncle Guo waved his hand: "Don't drink it, don't drink it, I'm here to ask you if there is any leakage in this house, right?" ”

Su Yan shook her head, "The East House and West House are not leaking, and the others haven't been seen yet." ”

Uncle Guo looked at her dissatisfied: "Alas! You baby! Treating others and saving lives is better than anyone else's, why don't you care about living your own life? It's not that Uncle Guo said that he would build you a blue brick house a long time ago, and he is not afraid of how heavy the rain is, but you just don't, tell me about you, who in the village has not received your kindness? Yes?! You just can't come up with that much money by yourself, and you can't afford to build two houses by one person! ”

"Uncle Guo, I'm rich......" Su Yan interjected.

Uncle Guo waved his hand, and his saliva flew: "Uncle knows that you are rich!" It's not uncommon for us to have that little money, hey, no! You see, you're going astray, it's not a matter of money! Why don't you want to build a new house to live in? Don't say that it's not troublesome! Isn't it just two houses! How much effort can it take! You're a baby! A female doll, why is it tougher than when your uncle and I were young! ”

Uncle Guo will say these words almost once, and when he says it, it is a long speech, Rao is Su Yan can't stand it no matter how demure her temperament is, seeing that Uncle Guo is getting more and more excited, Su Yan hurriedly glanced at the second Zhuang behind him.

"Aya......" Erzhuang poked Uncle Guo's waist and called him in a low voice.

Uncle Guo was stunned: "What's the matter! ”

Er Zhuang pointed to the house above his head: "Didn't we come today to show Dr. Su if the house is leaking?" ”

"Oh! Right! Uncle Guo patted his head, got up from the chair, and saw that Su Yan still had a book in his hand, he said in a rough voice: "That's okay, Doctor Su, what should you do, I'll take Erzhuang to show you, if there is any leakage, I will make it up for you!" ”

As she spoke, she took the wooden box containing the tools and started to work, and Su Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

If you want to say that Su Yan is really afraid of only two people in this mountain village, one is Aunt Liu at the entrance of the village, and the other is Uncle Guo. Both of them are the kind of people who catch Su Yan and teach a lesson endlessly, but they are all for her good, and Su Yan has to listen obediently.

With a "creak", the door of the West House was pulled open from the inside, and Zhong Kang, who was sleeping in a daze, came out of the room, his robe was loosely draped over his body, and he didn't even wear shoes under his feet.

Although it was summer, it had just rained, and the ground was very humid, and he had to get cold if he stepped barefoot for a while, so Su Yan stopped him from continuing to walk in front of him: "Go back and put on your shoes." ”

"Huh?" As soon as he woke up, his mind was still dizzy, Zhong Kang didn't hear what she said for a while, and stood there looking at her stupidly with his mouth open.

How long did it take to bring people home, Su Yan found that she sighed as many times as she had in the past year, she got up and walked up to him, helped him tie his robe, and repeated: "Go back and put on your shoes." ”

"Oh." Now that he finally heard it clearly, Han Han responded and shook back to the Westinghouse.

"Goose-like." Su Yan couldn't help but mutter, her eyes full of smiles.

After putting on his shoes and coming out again, Zhong Kang was almost awake, and with his trademark smirk showing a mouth full of white teeth, he squeezed hard at Su Yan's side.

Su Yan didn't care, she just looked at her medical book, but suddenly a series of "gurgling" sounds rang in her ears out of nowhere.

There were two more sounds, and Su Yan turned her head to look at Zhong Kang, her gaze falling on his stomach.

Seeing Su Yan looking at herself, Zhong Kang took two steps back, holding his stomach and smiling at her embarrassedly.

Looking at the sky outside, thinking that it was time to eat, Su Yan got up and went to the stove room to cook.

To say that Su Yan should have the most nourishing life in the whole village, there is no shortage of money, and she doesn't have to think about a big family if she wants to buy anything, not to mention that the people in the village also send her some food from time to time.

But Su Yan was born very rough, in the past, when Dr. Han was there, she was fine, she has lived more casually in the past two years, obviously has a good skill in cooking, but she is always too lazy to do it, the most common on the dinner table is rice porridge and pickled courgette, you can eat three meals by boiling a pot of rice porridge every morning, sometimes you don't even cook at all, chew some herbs and gnaw a fruit, and a day passes.

Today, Uncle Guo and Er Zhuang are here, and there is another Zhongkang, so Su Yan naturally can't deal with it as usual.

The basket of eggs that she helped Chen Quan's mother-in-law deliver two days ago was still not moving, and Su Yan pulled a few green onions from the backyard and prepared to spread a few green onion egg cakes.

Chop the green onions and set aside, break all the eggs in the basket and stir, then scoop a few large bowls of white noodles with water and egg mixture and stir well.

Spread the pancakes with hot oil, and in a short time, more than a dozen egg cakes were spread.

The egg cake made by Su Yan is different from the thick flour egg cake in the village, she is willing to put oil and eggs, and the cake is yellow and clear, which makes people have an appetite at a glance.