It's past the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the weather is still as hot as ever, and I can only feel a little cool in the morning.

Xiao Yucheng practiced martial arts, changed his clothes, and saw that Xiao Yu was sweating profusely watering a few straws of herbs planted in the yard, so he walked over with a hesitant expression.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Yu held the water ladle in his hand, straightened his waist, and wiped his sweat.

Xiao Yucheng was a little embarrassed, took out something from his sleeve pocket and handed it over: "This is for you." ”

Xiao Yu took a look, it was a red pottery carp, less than an inch in size, the scales were smooth and lifelike, and there was a hole in the middle for rope wearing.

"You bought it?" Xiao Yu asked with a smile. Now that the family is much more affluent, Xiao Pei often gives some money for Xiao Yucheng to spend in school.

Xiao Yucheng nodded and said, "What I saw on the street was one-to-one money." ”

"Thank you. I love it. Xiao Yu held it in the palm of her hand and said with a smile. Xiao Yucheng was overjoyed when he heard this, turned around and said, "I'll go find a red thread." ”

"No, tie it to this."

Xiao Yucheng turned his head, and through the faint morning light, he saw Xiao Yu rolling up his sleeves and wrapping a red thread around his wrist, making his skin more and more white as jade. On the red thread was a dark red fish-shaped wood carving and a small mutton fat jade plaque. Xiao Yu untied the red thread and skewered the pottery carp, but he didn't tie it back to his wrist for a long time.

"Tie it for me." Xiao Yu held up the red thread with two fish in front of Xiao Yucheng's eyes, and stretched out his wrist again.

Xiao Yucheng felt that the roots of his ears were a little hot, and clumsily helped Xiao Yu tie the red thread, seeing that the white jade plate was warm and transparent, and the orchids engraved on it were also lifelike, and he knew at a glance that it was not extraordinary; The carp carved in wood is not finely made, so I took a few more looks.

Xiao Yu said: "This jade plate was given by my father, and I have carried it since I was a child, but the fish was engraved and given to me by my brother." ”

"You still have a brother? What about others? Xiao Yucheng was slightly stunned, blurted out the words, and immediately regretted it.

Seeing Xiao Yu's gloomy face, he said in a low voice: "We were separated in the early years, and there was no news of him until my mother died, and there has been no news of him so far. ”

Xiao Yucheng didn't know what to say for a while.

Xiao Yu turned to smile and said, "But it doesn't matter." Don't I have you and Sister now, and try to live every day, just as I hope for him. ”

"Hmm." Xiao Yucheng nodded, and then smiled again.

Xiao Pei went to feed the chickens, and came from the back of the house to put the wooden basin away: "What do you say, so happy?" ”

"Sister, come on, look at this."

"What is it?"

Xiao Yucheng took out another red pottery carp and handed it to Xiao Pei. Xiao Yu leaned over and said with a smile: "Cute, right?" ”

Although he felt that such a small object was dispensable, Xiao Pei couldn't bear to brush off Xiao Yucheng's kindness, praised a few words at the moment, and happily accepted it.

Xiao Yu glanced at Xiao Pei's white hands, thinking that he was cooking and feeding the chickens, but don't make his hands rough, and asked, "Is there any hand care ointment that I made before?" Now that the weather is dry, it is even more important to apply it every day. ”

Xiao Pei smiled: "There is still half a box, I remember." ”

After breakfast, Hao Jun hadn't woken up yet. Xiao Pei went to the field with Aunt Qi. Xiao Yu calculated the time, and it was time to give Xiao Yucheng a medicinal bath and acupuncture, and then prepare the medicinal materials and put them in the cauldron to boil the juice.

After cooking the medicinal soup, Xiao Yu called Xiao Yucheng, but he saw that he was a little unhappy, and he waited for a while before passing.

Acupuncture is best after a medicated bath.

As usual, Xiao Yu placed all kinds of utensils in the western room. When he arrived, Xiao Yucheng came back from taking a medicinal bath slowly and entered the house. After a moment, Xiao Yu estimated that he had already changed his clothes and was ready, so he went over to knock on the door.

"I'm not going to do acupuncture today." Xiao Yucheng's voice came from inside.

"Why?" Xiao Yu was surprised, "This medicinal effect can only be fully exerted after acupuncture." Quickly open the door, and everything is in the house. ”

Xiao Yucheng opened the door, turned around and sat back on the edge of the bed, holding the placket in his hand, his handsome eyebrows twisted slightly, but he was also a beautiful boy.

"Didn't you do acupuncture once every two months before? Why did you advance this time? ”

"Because you've improved a lot, now you're going to do it once a month. After this winter, it will become four months, and when you are fourteen or fifteen years old, you will even need acupuncture once on the 20th. The needle didn't hurt much, why did you resist so much today? ”

"I'm feeling a little sick."

Xiao Yu saw that his expression was indeed strange, so he said, "Stretch out your hand, I'll show you." ”

"No, I'll just take a break."

"That's not going to work." Xiao Yu couldn't help but say that he grabbed Xiao Yucheng's hand and gave him a pulse, and said for a while: "It doesn't seem to be a big deal, at least it won't affect acupuncture." ”

Xiao Yucheng directly refused: "I don't want to." ”

"Did you take the wrong medicine today?" Xiao Yu was angry in his heart, and couldn't help frowning, and said outside the house, "Hao Jun, are you awake?" Come here. ”

After a while, Hao Jun walked in with his eyes rubbed and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Rip off this kid's shirt for me!"

Hao Jun was stunned for a moment, saw the silver needle in Xiao Yu's hand, and immediately understood, and acted according to his words, easily suppressed Xiao Yucheng's struggle and stripped off the clothes on his upper body.

"Don't move, if something goes wrong with the needle...... Xiao Yu was slowly scalding the silver needle beside her, and when she saw Hao Jun knocking Xiao Yucheng down and lifting her clothes, she suddenly stopped talking.

"What's going on?" Because of heartache and anger, Xiao Yu couldn't help but show a sneer.

"Which turtle grandson did Lao Tzu killed him!" Hao Jun had already jumped up.

There was a purple-red whip mark on Xiao Yucheng's back, and the broken part had already scabbed, and it was still very dazzling. He wanted to cover it with his clothes very unnaturally, and said, "The day before yesterday, I provoked a classmate who was domineering, and he whipped him, and I have secretly beaten him back with Brother Qin." ”

Xiao Yu was silent for a while, and waved his hand to calm the angry Hao Jun.

Xiao Pei walked in from the outside.

"Sister." Xiao Yucheng quickly put on his shirt.

Feeling that the atmosphere was different, Xiao Pei asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?" ”

Xiao Yu smiled: "It's okay." Fang Cai Yucheng refused to take off his shirt, and I was talking to Brother Hao Jun about him. It's not the first time to do acupuncture, so there's nothing to be ashamed of. Now I'm going to start acupuncture, you two go out first, and you'll be fine soon. ”

In fact, Xiao Pei sometimes felt that she should avoid taboos, but she didn't say anything after all, smiled, and went out of the west room with Hao Jun, who looked uncertain.

Half an hour later, Xiao Yu and Xiao Yucheng also walked out on their feet.

Hao Jun glanced at it, and the two of them looked no different from usual, and suddenly wondered: Yucheng was bullied in school, and Ah Yu just forgot it?

Xiao Yu didn't know what Hao Jun was thinking, and saw that he was struggling to chop firewood, making him sweat profusely, so he hurriedly asked him to rest for a while.

Hao Jun helped with the work all day long, and Xiao Yu was a little unhappy in his heart.