Chapter 7: The First Mother
Wang Rouhua filled the tank with a jar of water, which was not water from the sweet well, but the mountain spring water from the palace brought by the eldest brother of the guard at the head of the imperial wall.
In return, Wang Rouhua helped the guards who had no family in the capital to sew and mend the laundry clothes, although they kept saying that they didn't want money, but every time the guards didn't let her work in vain, there would always be three or five copper pieces hanging down with the basket along with the clothes to be washed and mended.
Wang Rouhua also heard that the nobles in the palace had gone to Cuiwei Mountain to escape the epidemic, and they would not return to the palace until at least the weather became colder.
The epidemic in the city of Tokyo has become more and more ferocious, and even in the daytime, there are not a single or two pedestrians on the streets, and even if there are, they are in a hurry......
The rich and noble families are gone, and the rest of the people in the city have reasons for inseparability, and they are waiting for the autumn wind to come.
Wang Rouhua also became extremely cautious, never walking out of the foot of the imperial city ten steps away, the imperial city encircled the Zhao royal family, and by the way, it also provided a natural protective layer for Wang Rouhua's mother and son, therefore, there was not a single dead person around her house who fell nearby.
Among them, there is the credit of Kaifeng Mansion, the area around the imperial city is a highly alert area with strict vigilance, and now Hugh has to say that no one is allowed to set foot within ten steps, and no one is allowed to set foot within ten zhang.
This time the epidemic was still found to be the root, I have to say that Kaifeng Prefecture is still a very efficient government department, and in the end it was found that it was just intestinal disease (dysentery), not a ferocious gas epidemic (cholera), which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
If it's a ferocious air plague, God knows how many people will die in the city of Tokyo......
After learning that it was a disease of intestinal disease, Tie Xinyuan would be washed by Wang Rouhua three times a day with warm water with salt, of course, the little fox also had such treatment, every day at sunset, when Wang Rouhua bathed Tie Xinyuan and the little fox, the guards on the imperial wall would look at it.
The room was full of sour smell, which was left over from Wang Rouhua's vinegar after thoroughly smoking the whole room three times.
A brand-new mosquito net occupies almost half of the house, Wang Rouhua does not allow Tie Xinyuan to come outside the mosquito net at all, and has to thoroughly check the mosquito net every day until not a single mosquito is found.
Although Tie Xinyuan wanted to see the mushroom field full of poisonous flies and Amanita phalloides again, he couldn't find any chance, as long as he dared to climb out of the mosquito net, Wang Rouhua would slap him on the ass a few times.
The autumn breeze is finally here.
Wang Rouhua's fruit core planted in front of the house also pulled out a tender green branch bud, such a young branch is unable to cope with the coming winter, which makes Wang Rouhua, who wants to plant a fruit tree for her son to eat the fruit, is very disappointed.
But there is also a bright side, which is that the epidemic is slowly disappearing......
Wang Rouhua looked at the street in front of her with her own eyes, and this street had not transported dead people for three days, so she calmed down.
But she immediately locked her son and the little fox in the house, pushed her own chicken cart and hurried to Mahang Street.
As a peasant woman, Wang Rouhua clearly knows that autumn should be the time to store grain, especially in this famine year, the price of grain will rise soon, and no one knows the importance of food to a family better than a peasant woman.
Tie Xinyuan, who is already nine months old, can already stand firmly on the ground, and after four months of uninterrupted exercise, he can now walk without Wang Rouhua's support in addition to not being able to run.
Lying down in the crack in the door, seeing that his mother was already far away, he beckoned to the fox, who skilfully got out from under the opening, climbed on the door, opened the latch with his mouth, and then pushed the door open with his paws.
In four months, Tie Xinyuan has only grown a little bigger, but the little fox has grown into a beautiful half-grown fox, as long as the pale yellow milk hair on its body fades away, and after growing new hair in winter, he will completely grow into a real silver fox.
Soon came to the place where the mushrooms grow, Tie Xinyuan was so disappointed, the straw mushrooms were growing everywhere, but the poisonous fly Amanita mushroom had long since withered, and the black spores were scattered everywhere, but there was not a single mature mushroom that was growing.
The little fox ate the straw mushrooms with relish, and sometimes took a bite of the straw mushrooms and sent them to Tie Xinyuan's side, and he wondered why Tie Xinyuan didn't eat these delicacies.
The saying that mushrooms from the north can withstand the cold wind is completely wrong.
The wind blew from afar, whipping up dead leaves all over the ground and hitting the high wall and falling to the ground, and soon the dead leaves almost covered the surface of Tie Xinyuan's feet.
His heart was as desolate as the autumn windβwhat a good mushroom, what a good mushroom for a child's self-defense, why couldn't it be for a long longer?
The little fox seemed to be frightened, and suddenly rushed to Tie Xinyuan's side, squatting on his lap and calling at a place with a lot of dead leaves.
A gray-brown thorny ball rolled out of the dead leaves, Tie Xinyuan glanced at it, it was just a hedgehog, his eyes quickly lit up, and among the dead leaves rolled out of the hedgehog, a few red mushrooms appeared.
The impatient Tie Xinyuan kicked the hedgehog away with his tiger head shoes, took out the toy bamboo tube that his mother had made for him, carefully picked off the mushrooms, and then plugged the stopper.
The rest of the Amanita phalloides have turned into spores, which is not a big problem, and they will definitely grow back when they are watered by the rain in the spring of next year.
Walking along the city wall to the house, Tie Xinyuan did not mean to be tired, and after entering the house, he asked the fox to re-fasten the bolt and then get in from under the doorway.
The house was very dark, and my mother sacrificed the necessary setting of the window in order to keep warm, and only used firewood branches to cut it off casually at the door, and the house and the royal palace were facing the same direction, both facing south and facing north.
At this moment, a beam of afterglow shone through the door, shining on Tie Xinyuan's smug and somewhat arrogant little face. The little fox barked and got into the basket under the bed, showing only one head to watch Tie Xinyuan carefully tear the mushrooms apart, and then roast them on the brazier.
After a long time, Tie Xinyuan took off the handkerchief tied to his nose, lay on the doorway and took two deep breaths of fresh air, looked at the brown dried mushrooms on the tiles resting on the brazier, and laughed proudly.
He carefully put the dried mushrooms in the bamboo tube and motioned for the fox to go out and hide this thing, he was very worried that if his mother accidentally found out, he might make soup for himself to eat these fragrant dried mushrooms.
The little fox is very good at hiding things, and no one knows where it hides it.
After doing all this, Tie Xinyuan felt very tired, climbed into the low bed, and didn't have time to take off the tiger head shoes, so he fell asleep.
In the dream, he saw Yang Huaiyu with a spear in his hand, like a mad tiger, fighting fiercely with the guards in iron armor, and finally was stabbed in the thigh by the guards' spears, and then he fell to his knees, still babbling nonsense and wanting to fight.
At the same time, Bao Zheng sat in the lobby, adjudicating the case in his mouth, writing the judgment in his hand, and a thick stack of files was quickly processed, and then he threw down the pen in his hand and walked away laughing, leaving only hundreds of people in the lobby, and the sound of shouting grievances almost toppled the roof......
"Yuan'er, wake up, Yuan'er, wake up......"
An ethereal voice came, and Tie Xinyuan shouted in a daze, "Mother!" Then he sat up.
Seeing Wang Rouhua looking at herself in a daze, her eyes were full of surprise, Tie Xinyuan sighed softly and closed her eyes in resignation.
Sure enough, his little body was picked up by his mother, spinning in the air quickly, and his mother's lips rained down on his face, head, stomach, and buttocks......
"My source can speak."
"My source will be called my mother."
"My Yuan'er is really the smartest, the dogs of the Tie Lao Wu family can't call people at the age of two, and they always call their father Duoduo.
Hahaha, my son is really the smartest......"
"Seventh brother, have you seen it? Did you hear that? Our kids can talk......"
Wang Rouhua's transition from ecstasy to sadness was very fast, Tie Xinyuan felt her warm tears falling on his face, sighed again, and reached out to hug this woman who depended on him, in this life, the life connection between the two people is probably no longer only blood, I am afraid there is also emotional, these are like ropes that firmly bind the two lonely lives together.
This night, Wang Rouhua didn't sleep all night excitedly, and constantly lured Tie Xinyuan to speak, and after Tie Xinyuan patiently accompanied her to shout dozens of times, she could no longer resist the invasion of the sleeping demon and fell asleep.
Wang Rouhua, who hadn't slept all night, came out of the house when the sky was just white, and excitedly shouted to the guards standing on the city wall: "Brother Zhang, my family can speak." β
The guards on the city wall rubbed their eyes and yawned: "Iron family lady, it is not uncommon for your son to be able to speak, but you shouted everywhere early in the morning, and a certain family is very surprised." β
"My family Yuan'er can speak, and she called me dozens of times last night."
The guard laughed and said: "The son of a certain family called my father for more than ten years, and Lao Tzu didn't beat me when he should be beaten?"
Since your baby bump can speak, it means that he has grown up and reached the age when he should be beaten, and yesterday I saw him running around the city wall, hahaha......"
"Running around? It can't be, I bolted the door. β
The guards at the head of the city smiled and said, "Your son is a ghost elf, and I think your domestic fox is about to become a master, and he will open the door for your son."
Hehe, there is such a son, the lady of the Tie family, you will be angry in the future! β
Wang Rouhua's face changed suddenly, she turned around and entered the house, pulled the fox out from under the bed, looked at it viciously, and said, "You opened the door for Yuan'er?" β