3. Chapter 2 Past and Present Lives
Finally, Duan Ding finished his illness, Qiluo also finished taking the medicine, the young man closed the door, and the family returned to their home in the back hall. Duan Ding saw Qiluo's small medicine basket and glared at Qiluo sharply.
Qiluo remembered that she had just made such a mess that she forgot to dry the medicine she had collected in a dustpan. Her father never taught herself that, she hadn't taken medicine for eighteen years, and she forgot that fresh herbs should be dried separately in time, otherwise the effect of the medicine would be greatly reduced.
"Okay, she just saw that I was too busy, so she came over to help." Aunt Duan hurriedly gave Qiluo a look, and Qiluo hurriedly picked up the medicine basket and put the herbs separately on the empty dustpan in the courtyard.
Doctor Duan is known as the Divine Needle Duan Ding, his temperament is the same as his name, calm and square, but there is one point, maybe Fang Zheng is used to it, and he is notoriously strict with his family and apprentices.
Duan Ding and his wife don't look at it as having only one daughter, but Duan Ding thinks that he is just one daughter, so after he found out in his daughter that he had the talent to study medicine, he wanted to pass on his lifelong skills to her. So he was a hundred times more severe with her than with others.
Kira has actually been afraid of her father since she was a child, and when she was sixteen years old again, she was glared at by her father again, and she still trembled and was a little flustered.
"Master, okay, Qiluo is already well-behaved enough, I didn't see how good her gesture was to grab the medicine today, after you prescribe a prescription, she can catch it immediately, faster than me." Aunt Duan poured a cup of tea for Duan Ding and persuaded with a chuckle.
"It's too dry, and it has to be grinded." Duan Ding glanced at his wife and shook his head.
"Grinding where is like sixteen years old!" Aunt Duan scolded her husband lightly, and looked back at Qiluo, who was quietly packing up the medicinal herbs in the courtyard. Seeing that when my daughter was concentrating on cleaning up the medicinal herbs, she was a little distressed.
I saw that she professionally separated the medicinal materials, put the ones that should be exposed to the sun and put them in a place where they could be illuminated by the sun, and the ones that should be dried were put in the shade under the trees, and by the way, the medicinal materials collected the day before were sifted again, picked out the fallen debris, and then moved the position.
Qiluo quietly packed up the medicinal materials in the courtyard, the drying of medicinal materials is actually the same as cooking, different times, the needs are different, so even if the medicinal materials are imported from outside, Duan Ding will let Qiluo process them again, so she has a memory, she has these medicines in her eyes, and then these medicines have really accompanied her for a lifetime, and she seems to be the calmest only when she is with these medicines. All of a sudden, she seemed to have returned to the small courtyard where the Cheng family belonged to her, and she stood there quietly, completely forgetting everything.
Duan Ding also glanced at his daughter with his wife, noticed his daughter's blue face, put down the prescription, got up and came out, grabbed her wrist, and for a while, "You tested the poison yourself?" ”
"It's not much, I've already eaten the antidote pill." Kira almost forgot about it, and hurriedly explained.
"Go to the meeting, and write down your feelings later." Duan Ding was really meticulous and lived up to his reputation for being strict and square.
Kira still insisted on finishing the medicinal herbs before returning to the room. In fact, in the past 18 years, she has rarely thought about everything at home and her parents. She is immersed in her own shijie. She almost forgot about her room, she really came back, and the moment she entered the door, she was stupid.
couldn't be stupid, because she suddenly found that her room in the Cheng family was exactly the same. In the middle is a low couch, and on the left side of the low couch is a row of small low cabinets. On the right is the partition flower stand, originally on the flower stand of the Cheng family, there were antiques, and later, she put medical books and medicine books. At the end of the flower stand, against the window, there was a low table, with pen and ink, which was where she read and wrote, and in the corner, there was a big needle-burning bronze figure. And now, her room was full of this, and she didn't even know it.
Sitting on the couch, looking around at the room where he used to be, and gently stroking the mattress on his collapse, it has been eighteen years! sat down on his own couch, gently touched her mattress, and suddenly was stunned, her mattress turned out to be fur? Although the quilt surface of the bag is not satin, the texture of the fur cannot deceive people.
Open the low cabinet on one side, in which her clothes are placed according to the season, as well as some small jewelry. The position is the same as that of her in Cheng's house, or in other words, the habit of placement in Cheng's house, in fact, she has also developed a habit since she was a child.
"Come and drink the medicine, your father just fried it, how many times did he tell you, don't try the medicine outside, it's too dangerous, what if the amount is wrong?" Aunt Duan came in with a bowl of medicine.
Qiluo doesn't need to taste it to know that it is licorice soup, but with the addition of five-flavor honey to taste, in fact, the licorice is already very sweet, with the addition of refreshing and slightly sour five-flavor honey, in addition to detoxification, and it will be delicious, more important is to reconcile her uneven mood just now, she is really stupid, she would think that her parents don't love her, she is really stupid!
"What are you doing, hurry up and drink." Aunt Duan scolded lightly.
Kira drank it silently, and suddenly saw her mother's cuffs and necklines decorated with new cloth. Because their clothes have been worn for a long time, the clothes are not so easy to wear out, but the cuffs and necklines are very easy to be raw, so every time they make a new dress, they will use the corners to make some cuffs, and the neckline is kept for spare, but between the new cloth and the old cloth, there will always be a difference in color, at a glance.
She suddenly thought of the clothes in the cupboard just now. She didn't have many clothes, but she remembered very well that she would make new clothes every year, and what she remembered most was that her mother used all kinds of cloth to make clothes for her. At that time, she was always very annoying, and what her mother said the most was that the girl's family should be dressed brightly. But she couldn't remember when her parents had made new clothes.
"What do you want to eat at night?" Aunt Duan saw that her daughter had drunk the medicine, and asked with a smile, although she knew that she would not answer, she still asked every day.
"Personally, please?" Qiluo finally spoke, all these years, and he is not used to being really polite to people, but he can only say this after thinking about it for a long time.
"What?" Aunt Duan was stunned for a moment, not knowing why her daughter suddenly said this.
"It's not that you don't have money, please ask someone to help you! At least the family chores, let people help. Qi put down the bowl, wiped her hands, poured a bowl of water for her mother, and helped her sort out the placket that had just been unsorted because she was holding the medicine.
Aunt Duan looked at her daughter in a daze, a little unsure of what happened to her daughter? I think my daughter is a little different, before my daughter was silent, always keeping her head down, only when she was looking at medicine and books, she was calmer, and other times, she was really cowardly. At this time, she was really calm, and her eyes seemed to meet her for the first time.
"You're old, it's time to take a break." Kira gently touched her mother's sleeve, "In the future, my daughter will take good care of you." ”
She actually said this to herself, for eighteen years, she served Cheng An's mother Cheng Lao Taijun for eighteen years, she didn't regret it, but she regretted that she couldn't do anything to her parents.
In the last life, I must have made my parents very miserable and disappointed, right? Could it be that God gave her a chance to start over, that is, to let her be filial to her parents in order to atone for the sin of unfilial piety in her previous life?