CHAPTER IX

"You're finally awake." Yuehua faintly heard Si'er's voice: "I'll go and pour you a glass of water." Yuehua had an uncomfortable headache, her throat was smoking, her whole body was uncomfortable, and she barely opened her eyes: "Where is this!?" ”

"You have a high fever, and Po Chen is afraid that others will also be sick and move you here." Yuehua found out that this was a thatched house, there were a few thatched straws on the top of the head, the window paper was also broken a few holes, the adobe wall was peeling off, the adobe slag in the corner of the wall, and the roof was still crawling with cobwebs, the whole house was dilapidated, but the quilt on the bed was thick Although the room was leaking, Yuehua did not feel cold.

The furnishings of the room were also very simple, except for a bed and a table, on which rested a teapot with a missing mouth and a thick tea bowl with a missing mouth, and not even a bench.

"What time is it now?" Yuehua didn't know how long she had been sleeping, but she saw that the sun was shining outside, and the scenery outside the window was shrouded in the golden light of the sun, and she could see that the weather was good today.

"It's the next morning, you've slept all day, come and drink this bowl of water, Po Chen told me to pour you some water to drink when you wake up." Saying that, he brought a bowl of water to Yuehua, the water was warm, Yuehua felt very thirsty after sleeping for more than a day, and took a sip of it only to find that her throat hurt and she couldn't swallow it at all.

"You have a fever and burn your throat, and if you can't cure your throat, your throat will be bad, and the doctor in the army will come over to take a look at you and prescribe a prescription for you to boil medicine." Si'er said.

"I feel hungry." Yuehua hadn't eaten anything since noon yesterday, and she woke up hungry when she slept.

"I'll get you something." Si'er really went out to find something for Yuehua to eat, and after a while, she really brought two white-flour buns in, she broke the white-flour buns little by little and opened them in a coarse tea bowl, then soaked them in water, and took a small wooden spoon to feed Yuehua.

"Where did this white-flour bun come from?" Wheat is not produced in the south, and this thing is very expensive at the border.

"This is what I went to the kitchen to get!" Si'er said excitedly: "I didn't expect there to be white flour buns, you hurry up and eat them!" Yuehua looked at Si'er's appearance, she definitely didn't eat this white-faced bun, and she kept it all for herself, and she was a little moved in her heart.

This girl is only twelve or thirteen years old, and she is really simple-minded.

"Go and do your work, if you don't do your work today, you won't have anything to eat tomorrow, I'm already awake." Yuehua said.

"It doesn't matter, Chen Po said let me stay and take care of you, and also subsidize my food." Si'er smiled: "Let me tell you, don't I always secretly go to the kitchen to find something to eat, I am now familiar with the kitchen, and they still take the initiative to give me something!" This bun is what they gave. As he spoke, he took out a paper bag from his arms and opened it, with a few pickles in it, and a few pickles in his hand looked at Yuehua eagerly.

Yuehua hasn't seen this kind of pickle for a long time, and she feels greedy, but it's a pity that Yuehua can't eat it at all because of a sore throat at this time, Yuehua is afraid that she will not be able to go out after reluctantly eating a little bit of it, and there is something in her stomach that makes people feel much better, but her mind is still groggy.

Si'er also spoke like a little finch in Yuehua's ear about the period that happened in the past few days, but Yuehua often could only hear four or five sentences out of ten.

About an hour later, a military doctor came, in his fifties, with a thin face, a wrinkled face, gray hair, a long beard and long eyebrows, this military doctor looked like a skilled doctor, took the pulse, asked about the condition carefully, prescribed medicine and carefully told Si'er how to decoct the medicine, and then went.

During this period, Yuehua has been groggy.

As soon as the doctor left, he also went out to grab the medicine, only Yuehua was left alone in the house, she heard someone coming in and hearing someone going out in a half-dream, and after a while someone fed her the medicine, this medicine probably added something, Yuehua fell asleep after drinking the medicine, and it was already night when she woke up again, she felt much better after taking the medicine, her head was not so groggy, her throat was not so painful, but it was still very uncomfortable.

Yuehua saw Si'er lying on the table, probably waiting for her to wake up, Yuehua raised her arm with difficulty to wake her up: "Don't sleep here and turn around and freeze, it's not good." ”

Si'er saw her wake up and immediately danced happily: "Get up and eat something." Saying that, she was brought another bowl of soaked white flour buns, Yuehua was not so uncomfortable eating now, and actually ate all of them: "Don't sleep here." She couldn't help but admonish again.

"It's okay, I'll climb up and sleep with you in a while, what if you wake up in the middle of the night and fall to the ground!?" Si'er smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will serve." Si'er patted his small chest and swore that he said.

"Stay here if you want to." Yuehua saw that there were still a few pieces of white cloth on the table and asked, "What is this?" ”

"I have been sick a few days ago, and I will give each of you a piece of cloth to cut clothes." Si'er said hatefully: "It's really here, don't you wear clothes if you're not sick, only release materials, and you have to make your own clothes, it's really ...... After a day's work, who still uses hard work to make clothes. After speaking, Si'er suddenly became embarrassed again: "Actually, I don't know how to cut clothes, my mother didn't teach me before, and no one taught me." ”

"Oh, it's good to have it, you leave the fabric here and I'll cut it for you......" Yuehua is seriously ill, she really has no strength, and she is worried about Si'er: "If you don't want to go, come up and sleep, it's not fun to be sick." ”

Si'er really took off her clothes and lay in, and Yuehua carefully folded the quilt for her: "It's cold at night, cover more." ”

"You know, you're sick, take care of yourself and leave me alone." Si'er couldn't help but say, and pulled the quilt towards Yuehua again.

Yuehua looked at Si'er sleeping next to him, how many years has no one to take care of himself.

Yuehua had a lot of ups and downs in the first half of her life, she was abducted at the age of five, and there was only a general image of her life before the age of five in her mind, her home was about in the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, there were pavilions and pavilions at home, and there was a wet nurse who whispered to her when she was sick: "Nan Nan ......", and a dignified and gentle mother. There is also the gentle Jiangnan tune: "Dong Dong Dong, sell sugar porridge, Dong Dong Dong, sell sugar porridge, three catties of walnuts, four catties of shells, eat your meat, return your shell." But she didn't remember her mother and her wet nurse, and there was only a faint shadow in her mind.

These people seem to have existed in her life, and it really seems that they are just dreams.

At the age of five, he was abducted by a kidnapper, and begged for a living in the kidnapper's house, and at that time he learned to be calm, learned to look at people's faces, worked hard, and carefully served the abductor. She is probably really well-behaved and sensible, the abductors rarely harsh her, the abductor's daughter-in-law seems to like her very much, she has not suffered any great sins physically, and she rarely eats and dresses her, but she sees how the abductors torture those who are disobedient, and she is never grateful in her heart for not harshly criticizing her abductors and the abductors' daughter-in-law.

She is precocious, knowing that this is all in exchange for her obedience and sensibility, no matter how well she does, she will not be saved from being sold because she has done well, she is obedient and sensible just because doing so will make her life better.

Because of her good looks, she was sold to the palace at the age of eleven and went directly into the imperial study, and worshiped Qiu Yan, the first female official in the imperial study, as an aunt to learn the rules, and became a person in front of the palace. There are many rights and wrongs in front of the emperor, she has encountered bad things in the imperial study, bad people, all of them have come over, but she has already built a wall in her heart, she looks at the kindness of the heart can help people a little, but because of the psychology of helping each other, in fact, she must be thoughtful and emotional. She is very indifferent, and she is not a very emotional person.

At this time, she glanced at Si'er sleeping next to her, and a little help provoked her to pour out her heart and lungs to herself, as if Si'er was the only one in the world who did this to her, she felt: she had to be good to her in order to reciprocate.