Every year in the late eleventh month of the lunar calendar, the younger strong laborers of Sujia Village will organize a winter round-up.

Early in the morning, I saw a group of middle-aged men passing by the door of Su Rui's house.

Su Chenrui's eyes were sharp, and when he saw Su Changle and Su Yingying, he hurriedly greeted, "Uncle Chang Le, Uncle Chang Ying, come on."

Su Changying smiled heartily at Su Rui's sisters and sisters, "Okay, wait for Uncle to shoot a big wild boar for you to eat." ”

"Uncle, be careful."

Su Changle nodded, "There are a lot of us, you can rest assured." ”

After they left, Su Rui also carried a basket: "You are honest at home, eldest sister go out." ”

Su Ying hurriedly grabbed "Eldest sister, you won't follow the round-up, right?" ”

Looking at the worried eyes of her younger siblings, Su Rui chuckled: "Don't worry, the eldest sister won't enter the mountain." Just walk around the periphery and see if you can harvest some pheasants and rabbits or something. ”

"Eldest sister, we have chickens and rabbits in our house, we don't eat other meat, don't go."

Su Rui patted their heads: "Obedient"

After saying that, she turned around and walked out of the yard, Su Rui thought to herself, how to take out the pheasants and eggs in the space without finding an excuse to go up the mountain?

Finding a sheltered place from the wind, Su Rui took out five pheasants and more than thirty eggs, and just put them in the back basket.

Hearing a groan, Su Rui looked at the bushes not far away, hesitantly picked up the stick on the ground, and slowly walked over...

Walking in, sure enough, it was a person, stretched out his hand and shook it in front of his eyes, and then pushed it, the man sighed, slowly opened his eyes, and said weakly, "Aunt, girl, I was a little injured." Please save me, and I will repay you in the future."

Raising his hand, he pointed to his left shoulder and thigh.

Su Rui glanced at it and saw that this person was about twenty years old and had a handsome appearance, but at this time his face was pale due to excessive blood loss...

Su Rui saw that the man was well-dressed, thinking that he was a child of a rich family, and he didn't want to save him, for fear of getting into trouble.

But he couldn't pass the level in his heart, so he still resigned himself to holding him, "Can you still walk?" ”

The man nodded weakly...

Su Rui carefully helped him up and tried to take a few steps.

"The wound on your shoulder must be medicated, and the lower leg seems to be broken, so it must be healed as soon as possible."

After a pause, he said, "My house is at the foot of the mountain, and there are no residents around. ”

The man heard her unfinished words: "Thank you, girl, please help me get the medicine then." ”

Suri knew she had guessed right, someone was after him...

"We are thirty miles away from the county seat, and the only one who has an ox cart when it is ripe also went into the mountains this morning to participate in the round-up, and I don't know when we will go down the mountain. Now there is an old doctor in the village, if you don't dislike it, go back to his old man and get some medicine to stop bleeding and apply it to you. ”

He knew that the villagers came to the mountain to hunt today, and it was not the movements of those villagers that scared away the pursuers, and it was estimated that he was finished: "Then thank you, girl..."

Seeing that this person was getting weaker and weaker, as if he was about to faint, Su Rui hurriedly quickened her pace and stopped talking.

At the gate of the courtyard, Su Rui couldn't help herself, and hurriedly shouted: "Chen Rui, second sister, third sister come and help." ”

The three sisters and brothers walked out of the door and saw the eldest sister helping a young man, and immediately became nervous, "Eldest sister, who is he?" ”

At this time, the man was already unconscious, and he just walked forward instinctively...

"Don't ask so much, hurry up and help, second sister, you light the kang in the side room and cover it on the bunk."

"Third sister, you take the back basket into the stove room and have less hot water."

Su Rui took out some copper plates and handed them to Su Chenrui, "Chenrui, when you go to Grandpa Lu, you will say that my arm is injured and I have lost a lot of blood, and ask the old man to help prescribe some medicine." ”

"If he wants to come and see, you say that there is no need to bother, and that there are elders who can help with the medicine."

Su Chenrui agreed and hurriedly ran away, Su Ying laid out the kang and hurriedly helped put the man on the kang.

Su Rui took a few sticks, pulled some strips of cloth, and when the hot water was brought over, Su Ying helped, took off his outer pants together, left the underwear, and pulled up the calf pants, only to see a red and swollen piece.

Su Qiao saw the same injury as when Su's father broke his leg, and exclaimed, "Eldest sister, what's going on?" Did he roll down the hill too? ”

Su Rui was amazed in her heart, she was so seriously injured that she could walk down the mountain, her physical fitness was really not ordinarily strong, and she kept scrubbing her hands.

"It's broken, so you have to fix it quickly, otherwise you'll be lame in the future."

Su Rui asked Su Ying and Su Qiao to hold on to the stick and tie it tightly, Su Rui was sweating tiredly, but the man just frowned tightly, and did not cry out because of the pain.

Su Chenrui will come back and run into the side bed: "Sister, the medicine is back, Grandpa Lu is still worried about wanting to come over." I didn't let me come. ”

"Grandpa Lu also said that if the bleeding can't stop, I'm going to call him."

Su Rui nodded and instructed Su Ying, "Second sister, you wash a cloth, and Chen Rui, let's give him medicine." ”

The outer shirt was taken off, and the inner shirt was already soaked with blood, and the blood was red...

When I took off my underwear, I saw a deep stab wound, five or six centimeters in diameter, which could be seen to be caused by a sword wound.

Applying the hemostatic medicine given by Grandpa Lu, Su Rui motioned to Su Chenrui to help the man up and carefully wrapped it in gauze. After doing everything, the man was still not awake, as if he had fallen asleep...

Su Rui washed her hands and explained to Su Chenrui: "Chenrui, look at this person, I'll decoct the medicine." ”

Entering the stove room to prepare for the man's decoction, seeing that Su Qiao was already frying, Su Rui smiled with relief.

"Qiao'er, thank you for your hard work."

Su Qiaorou shook her head and chuckled: "Eldest sister, it's hard for you to take care of us." However, eldest sister, you are really good, you have caught so many pheasants. ”

Su Rui touched her nose weakly, "Well, I just happened to meet a nest, I don't know if I was scared stupid by the people who rounded up in the morning, and I didn't run away when I saw someone." ”

"By the way, slaughter all five"

Su Ying wondered: "Eldest sister, don't we keep this?" ”

Su Rui shook her head: "An adult pheasant has a big temperament, as long as you tie it, you won't eat or drink." It won't be long before you're starving to death or starving, and you're going to run away if you're not tied up. ”

After thinking about it, he said, "Besides, we also have to give New Year's gifts to the old house during the New Year, and we just have a few enough eggs to eat." ”

Su Ying understood, "Then eldest sister, you can rest for a while, and Qiao'er and I will slaughter the chicken in a while." ”

Su Rui nodded, "Well, take out a hen to stew, and the others are frozen in the snow nest." ”

After speaking, Su Rui returned to the back room and saw Su Wan playing on the kang with Su Chennan.

Su Rui stretched out her arms and said to Su Chennan, "Chennan, let the eldest sister hug you." ”

The little guy ran over and said, "Big sister, hug." ”

Su Wan was sour again, pouting her little mouth, "Eldest sister, you are always partial to the little brother, and you don't take the initiative to hug me." ”

put down Su Chennan and nodded Su Wan's nose: "You little vinegar bag, eat your brother's vinegar." ”

"Hmph" Su Wan turned her head arrogantly...

In the evening, the man finally woke up.

Su Rui took this bowl of chicken soup, went into the side bedroom and asked, "Are you awake?" Drink some chicken soup and drink medicine later. ”

The man was leaning on the kang and closed his eyes to recuperate, when he heard the voice, he raised his head, saw that it was the little girl who saved him, took the chicken soup and said, "Thank you, girl save me"

"We didn't dare to let the doctor come to your home to treat you, so we just fixed your leg. If you don't feel at ease, ask my cousin to take you into the city another day. ”

Su Rui saw that he had finished drinking the soup, so he took the bowl and called out to Su Chenrui, who was taking out: "Chenrui, bring the medicine over." ”

"Here we are." Su Chenrui went to the side and handed the medicine to Su Rui.

"I only have a few children in my family, you can rest assured that you are here to recuperate, we will not ask you for your kindness, and we will not ask you who you are and where you are from. If you can go, just go straight away, and we don't know anything if anyone asks. ”

Su Rui handed him the medicine and stared into his eyes.

The man smiled slightly: "Don't worry, girl, I'm not a bad person, it's just that there is a traitor in the family, so I was injured and fled to the mountains." ”

After thinking for a while, he said: "The girl doesn't have to use the honorific title all the time, my surname is Song, the second oldest in the family, I am twenty-six this year, you can call me the second uncle." ”

Su Rui muttered in a low voice: "Bad people don't carve words on their faces."

Song Lao Er has been practicing martial arts for 20 years, and his ear power is amazing, how could he not hear Su Rui's muttering? Just smiled lightly, and said in his heart, "What an interesting girl, much more interesting than his eldest nephew"

"Then Second Uncle Song will rest, dinner will be brought to you."

Song Er nodded, "Good ........."

The people who rounded up in the mountains came back two days later and brought back two wild boars, a wild deer, and some rabbits, pheasants, and so on.

The round-up people had one for each person, many families were poor, and they all sold or exchanged for food to eat, and Su Rui exchanged two catties of wild venison for her younger siblings to try.