Chapter Ninety-Eight: Charm
Ah Yuan doesn't know medical skills, but he knows that the reason why opium poppies make people "talk about tiger color" is because they are addictive, and the reason why they are addictive is because drugs can bring people supreme happiness, and all the physical and mental pain will melt away one by one, until they fall into an even more painful abyss.
However, Li Wei's father is already standing on the edge of the most painful situation, which is the end of his life, and I am afraid that he will not have the opportunity to become addicted.
"Sister Wei, I want to make a few paper cigarettes for Master Li, light - easy to smoke - to make people like -", Ah Yuan couldn't elaborate on her plans, if she could, she didn't even want to mention the word "cigarette".
Li Wei's narration is still in my ears: "The doctor used a lot of methods, and the hemp was boiled, but the father refused to drink the bitter medicine, he said, death is death, you can't go in a daze, you have to be sober to zuihou-."
Ah Yuan held a handful of tobacco leaves, tears flowed all the way, no one knew what this silent sobbing woman had experienced, an unspeakable pathos tightly wrapped her heart, every beat, the pain was irrepressible.
Life is such a fragile thing, no matter how alive and jumping the individual, they are as humble and lowly as an ant, when the wind blows, life is raised like dust, and then thrown away, I don't know where I am, when the big foot comes, life is crushed into mud, there is no time to call for help, there is no time to sigh -
"Chengguang - I want to go home - ", the woman with tears in her eyes, holding a handful of tobacco leaves and looking at the man behind the counter, that look is definitely more touching than Ah Fu's "dog eyes".
Boss Bai was in a hurry, and the big pu fan wiped his daughter-in-law's tearful eyes, smeared his face with flour, and mixed into a batter, how could he be embarrassed in that scene?
"What the hell is going on?" Boss Bai dragged his daughter-in-law to the backyard and picked up a wet cloth towel to wipe his face. I was worried.
"Yes-Sister Wei's father--no!" Ah Yuan's face was cold, and he was much more sober, and grabbed Boss Bai's arm: "Chengguang, I have to go home now, make something, and give Sister Wei-."
"Then I'll send you away!" Boss Bai continued to maintain the characteristic of not asking questions, and immediately pulled off his apron and went to the shop.
But the store is so busy, Bai Laosan can't handle it alone, and that Ah Fu is a useless dumb gourd. Hold a bowl that can be broken!
Ah Yuan shouted: "You don't need to send it, I'll just walk home by myself!" ”
Actually, no matter how sad it feels. Only the parties themselves can understand it, Ah Yuan is just taking advantage of the scenery to make love and feel sorry for his friends, and Boss Bai really has nothing to do with this sadness.
Every minute of every day. There are people who are welcoming death, and people are heartbroken, but the flowers will still fall in meetings, and they still have nothing to do with their own others, and they still have to continue to struggle to survive. Or talk and laugh -
Old Man Li's illness is indeed not related to Boss Bai's itching, but Ah Yuan's feelings are closely related to Boss Bai.
He categorically refused to let his daughter-in-law go on the road alone. What's more, she cried into tears, and she was aggrieved like a child.
This is the saying "heavy color and light friends", of course, the woman who is now heavy has cried so much that she has lost her color. The one who was lightened was the brother - Bai Laosan.
The ox cart moved slowly. With Bai Laosan's infinite grievances, he will take on the main job of the ramen restaurant alone, and after hard work, he will use his two legs to walk back to the confusion array.
Fortunately, there is still Ah Fu by his side, although he never speaks, but as long as those big wet eyes look at him, he feels that everything is meaningful.
It's okay if the sister-in-law is gone, with that wolf-like gaze, the third child is really afraid that he will eat Ah Fu.
Many times, when one person is good to another person, and there is no reason, it is really good.
The atmosphere on the ox cart was still very solemn, Ah Yuan no longer cried, but he didn't want to speak, Boss Bai was originally dull, naturally, he could only communicate a few words with the big scalper.
At the entrance of the town, I saw the figure of the white-clothed scholar again, stupid and dumbfounded, with no focus in his eyes.
There are sad people everywhere, amorous are always blown away by the rain and wind, and Ah Yuan even has a trace of compassion in his mind, if it weren't for the scholar's eyes suddenly turbulent, when he met Ah Yuan's gaze-
Isn't this little white face waiting at the entrance of the town, or preparing to capture the heart of an ignorant woman? And he is so cold that he even has to cast a net on this wrinkled faceless woman who is crying?
Ah Yuan glared at the scholar fiercely, and the ox cart went away.
The white-clothed scholar's expression was a little embarrassed, and after seeing the ox cart for a long time, he finally turned around and left the town with slow steps, the noon sun shining down, and his shadow was extraordinarily short, like a ball of hope and thought.
A man of this age still can't see the emotional matter clearly, he didn't keep it when he should have kept it, and he was reluctant to be decisive when he should have been decisive.
aiqing, very much like a poppy, delicate and gorgeous, swaying, extremely enchanting, once perceived, you can't stop, knowing that you can't get close, and you are far away.
All of Ah Yuan's body and mind were cast on this pot of poppies at this moment.
After several days of careful care, the poppy was ripe, and the fruit was slightly smaller than an egg, a little like a small pomegranate turned upside down, with a hard shell and many small seeds wrapped in the skin.
It is said that Chinese medicine uses poppy husks as medicine, and the prescription is also known as "imperial rice husk" or "poppy husk". It is harvested after "cutting tobacco" in summer, removing the stems and seeds, and stir-fried in dried vinegar or honey-roasted for later use. Poppy husk is sour and toxic in nature, and contains more than 30 kinds of alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, narcotine, papaverine, etc., which can relieve pain and cough -
It is said that the leaves and rhizomes of the opium poppy can also be dried and crushed to make smoke, which anesthetizes people's nerves.
Ah Yuan is not a drug lover, and in her previous life, it was impossible for her to come into contact with the process of how to make poisonous cigarettes, where to pick this thing and how to mix it in cigarettes, she really didn't understand.
However, subconsciously, her hands, still so agile, uprooted the entire poppy tree, and every branch and leaf ripped open the mother's body, and the broken quilt was spread out on the grinding plate.
A baby poppy sent by the owner of Nian Ren Tang ended its short life in this way, although this flower has magically extended its life to autumn.
"Daughter-in-law, you-", Boss Bai couldn't help but sigh when he looked at Ah Yuan's "spicy hands destroying flowers", even though he was a big old man and didn't know how to appreciate flowers and plants, but he wouldn't tear the branches and leaves to pieces so cruelly.
He didn't know that what Ah Yuan was looking forward to at the moment was that the branches and leaves would dry quickly, and then soon.
Li Wei is still suffering from witnessing her father's pain, as a friend, what can she do to alleviate her sadness and hopelessness?
The happiest thing is to accompany each other with your relatives for a long time, but what I am most afraid of is the process of slowly becoming distant from the people you care about, which is really a pain from the heart.
Ah Yuan sat next to the grinding plate, turning the dazzling branches and leaves that were still green from time to time, the late autumn sunshine was already as light as a glass of warm boiled water, and if it went on like this, even if it was boiled for three or four days, it might not be able to make tobacco dry.
Boss Bai guarded his daughter-in-law and didn't pay attention to other idle things, Cailian and Li Zhuzi's footsteps were gentle, and they didn't dare to interrupt their thoughts easily.
It wasn't until Bai Laosan came home that he asked about the ingredients of Ah Yuan's braised eggs: "Sister-in-law, the eggs in the shop are selling fast, we have to cook some more and prepare them, what do you say, I'll cook them." ”
"Put what? Sichuan pepper, big ingredients, wild vegetable leaves--stir-fried haode wild vegetable leaves-", Ah Yuan muttered and repeated, how did she forget, the sun is not dry, you can stir-fry on the dry pan -
A small fire was lit in the stove, and the iron pot was burned dry, and Ah Yuan trembled his fingers and scattered the branches and leaves of the poppy, the smashed poppy husks, and the poppy seeds as small as sesame seeds, into the iron pot.
The tender white little hand makes a frying spoon, again and again, passing from the bottom of the pot, grabbing the roasted goods, then spilling, and grabbing again-
Ah Yuan insisted on doing it herself, she didn't want the Bai family's relatives to have access to poppies, so Boss Bai could only squat next to the stove, careful, guarding the faint flames.
A strange aroma still rose in the sky above the stove room, and meandered and swirled, enveloping the entire Bai family's small courtyard.
Ah Yuan's fingers had been converted into mechanical movement, hot, red, but he didn't feel pain.
In her heart, there is a wave of joy, her whole body is warm, every cell is called "comfortable", and even, her feet are fluttering, like soaring clouds and mist-
"Daughter-in-law - you are so nice - so beautiful - ".
Boss Bai was whispering something, she couldn't hear it clearly, she just felt that the joy was too full, this shijie was too beautiful-
"Sister-in-law, what kind of food do you cook? Why is it so fragrant? Little Awen rushed into the stove room, recently he got out of school very late, and always stayed with Mr. Cai to read books and ask questions, he wanted to master all of Mr. Cai's knowledge in his head at once!
The cold air poured into his brain, Ah Yuan regained a trace of consciousness, and weakly hugged Ah Wen's head into the cauldron, and instructed lightly: "Quick! Put out the fire in the stove - call - help your brother - go out - don't allow - don't - don't move - in the pot - ".
In front of her was a brilliant glow, her body rose lightly again, her mind was out of her body, her soul wanted to laugh happily, Ah Yuan barely leaned on Ah Wen's body, and it seemed that she spit out again: "Ah Wen - so cute - it's - it".
What kind of chaos the Bai family is, the two most authoritative Bai family members, will not know, how Xiao Awen cried and called the second brother, the third brother and the elder sister, the voice is so erratic, so distant-
This fragrance is so enchanting, how can it be consumed by mere mortals?
PS:
Thanks to Sasa, thanks to JanSam for the daily encouragement, dear, wrote about the poppy, and the loneliness was wondering, will there be a day, Jan
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