Chapter 22: The Two of Them Are Left
Yuehua and the others finished giving the sergeants the medicine, and they were so tired that when they got to the meal, they sat down and watched the buckwheat baba that was served, everyone look at me and I look at you.
"I came back to work and had food and vegetables, but now it has become buckwheat baba again, and my feelings are only good! I'm here for a meal, otherwise I won't come because I'm tired and tired, and I won't come next time I want to come. "A palace maid vomited bitterness.
Yuehua looked at the buckwheat poop on the table, smiled bitterly, grabbed a buckwheat poop, soaked it in the noodle soup and ate it in small bites.
They were eating, and Tang Jian's little apprentice walked in, bowed and smiled, "Sisters, are eating!" There's one more thing I have to bother you with, so you don't have to go! Just go to a few people. ”
"Aunt Xie also asked a few of us to twist the thread, let's go first!" The palace maids immediately grabbed the uneaten cakes and ran away.
"I've got a little bit of something to do." As he spoke, he walked away.
Before Yuehua could react, she and Hongluan were left, and the two of them looked at each other and smiled: "Let's go!" ”
"To be honest, this job is not easy, the two of you are not enough, so I don't have to call a few more people over." The medicine boy smiled bitterly.
Hongluan is straightforward: "Don't you see them running faster than rabbits!?" This time, I know that things are not light, and they will not come. ”
The medicine boy touched his head and was a little embarrassed: "Thank you, two sisters." ”
"Okay, I'm just here to have a good time, hurry up and take us there, finish it early and leave early." Hongluan said with a smile, Yuehua suddenly liked her kind of cool temperament.
Yuehua only vomited when she saw the bloody gauze that had just been removed from the two baskets, Hongluan was not very polite, and opened her mouth to ask: "Don't these things have to be thrown away, what are you doing here!?" I want to vomit when I look at this thing, so get it. ”
"These gauze, cotton and other things are in demand at the border, and those who have used it once are reluctant to throw it away, wash it after using it, scald it with boiling water and continue to use it, this is only a little bit today, if you encounter a war, you can fill this field." The little medicine boy made another move: "It's really annoying the two sisters." I'll come too, sisters, don't dislike my clumsiness, help me lay down, hammer gauze for you, and help you boil water. ”
"I feel uncomfortable when I look at it, so I don't wash it." Hongluan shook his hand and walked away.
Yuehua saw that people were doing this to be low, and they were here to work, so she couldn't be embarrassed by a little medicine boy anymore, "Don't talk about it, it's exactly two baskets, let's have one basket for each person." As she spoke, she carried a basket to the stream, and she felt disgusted when she looked at the bloody gauze, and she didn't want to touch it with her hands, so she only hooked one out with her index finger and thumb, and threw it on the stone slab by the river, and the other end of the gauze was immersed in the water, and the river immediately changed color, and the dark red blood stain spread.
Hongluan stood there for a long time without moving, and finally saw that Yuehua had washed several pieces, and felt embarrassed to let Yuehua wash alone, so he reluctantly moved over to wash it together.
"You have a good temperament, don't wash it to see what he can do to us." Hongluan muttered.
"That's my character, if I didn't ****, I wouldn't have come at the beginning, and I would have complained about people to do the work.
We have to work here, we have to do it if we complain, we have to do it if we don't complain, and when you complain, people won't thank you even if the work is done, so it's better not to say it! If you really don't want to, you will do this work quietly this time, and you won't come next time. Yuehua took the mallet and hammered it a few times and said with a smile: "When you come back, let me work, you all know that you are bitter, tired and disgusting, what are you still doing." ”
In fact, according to Yuehua's temperament, she knew that she would never come because she would not get any benefits from doing the work, but in the past few days because of Si'er's affairs, she had to beg Chen Po, Chen Po is also honest to herself, she is a real person, she has won the good of others, and she wants to do more work for others when she asks for help, so everyone doesn't come, she still puts down her own work.
"Where did I want to come, it's just that everyone has been talking about all kinds of things in the weaving room these days, so that I don't have the heart to weave, and I don't like to listen to what they say, so I have to hide out." Hongluan rubbed the gauze: "You say, they have no choice, they just know what to do with chattering together!" Don't listen to it! Drill into my ears and make me panic, so I might as well come out. Hongluan complained to Yuehua.
Autumn is coming, the river is a little cold, Yuehua is afraid of getting her shoes wet, she lifted her skirt, took off her shoes and socks and squatted on the bluestone slab by the stream, these blood-stained things are difficult to scrub, and she smeared the honey locust over and over again with a mallet hammer, and finally when the sun was about to go down, there was still a small half frame left, her hands were soaked white in the river, and the right hand holding the mallet was strangled by the handle of the mallet with a red mark, and her arm could not be lifted.
"I'm quitting, I'm going back!" Hongluan was so tired that he threw the mallet and was about to leave.
"Sister, you can't go, if you don't rub these bloody gauze clean today, Ming'er's blood will not be washed clean if it is coagulated on it."
"So what to do, I'm not going to do it." As he spoke, he sat down on a large rock next to him and rested.
Yuehua looked at her really tired: "I'm tired too, and I want to rest too." He turned his head to the little medicine boy and said, "Let's soak these bloody gauze here first, my arm is also uncomfortable to death, let's go boil the water first, and I will sit and rest for a while." ”
The little medicine boy saw that Yuehua didn't mean to pick and choose, so he readily agreed.
Yuehua and Hongluan carried the full frame of gauze, the little medicine boy moved the small one, fortunately there was a water tank where the water was boiled, the water in the water tank was full, they lit a fire, they sat there to rest, the water was boiling, and the washed gauze was poured into it to boil, the gauze was obviously washed and rinsed, the water in the pot still turned pale red, and the smell of blood could be faintly smelled, and it took a quarter of an hour to get the gauze out of it, and boil the water again, and this time the water was clean.
The last step is to take out the boiled gauze with long bamboo chopsticks, and the little medicine boy tells him not to use his hands. In the army, there is a special air-drying room for drying gauze, and the gauze is hung on long bamboo poles, hung in rows, and then a gauze cover is taken out and covered to prevent dust.
It was almost dark after Yuehua and the others finished drying, but there was still a small half-frame outside, Yuehua couldn't afford to do it, Hongluan had no intention of continuing to do it at all, and the three of them looked at the small half-frame gauze and were making trouble.
"As soon as I said that no one was working, someone came." Hongluan was clever and sharp, and he could notice from a distance that a girl was walking here, this girl was not tall, about twelve or thirteen years old, wearing a white cloth dress, wasn't it four!