Chapter 4: The Last Days

Baicaotang

Yintong's mood was very depressed, hiding in the quilt, looking at Lin Lian who was asleep on the bed, and the fox tasted insomnia for the first time.

Tomorrow, that's it.

The night passed, the first morning light sprinkled, and it was a new day.

"Ahem."

Lin Lian woke up from the cough, sat up straight, touched her pulse and smiled bitterly.

The silver pupil hid under the quilt, afraid that Lin Lian would see it. It doesn't know what's wrong with it, it's only been half a month since it left the mountains and forests to come here, and it has so many emotions. Previously, the emotions were only happy and unhappy, usually happy and unhappy, depending on whether they were full or not full, good or bad. And it's always grinning happily and never tastes sad.

Yintong's heart was sour, and she looked at Lin Lian in the quilt, as if in this way, Lin Lian would not be able to see herself.

"Xiaoyin, it's early." Lin Lian woke up this morning as if she was missing something, and her heart was empty, it turned out that Xiaoyin didn't pounce on her like usual. Who said that the fox was arrogant, the usual Xiaoyin was cute and stuck to her, followed her, and drilled into her arms as soon as he found an opportunity. "Why don't you come here today?"

Silver Pupil stepped back, burying her head deeper, revealing its fox ass and drooping tail behind the quilt. The more the tail hangs down, the worse its mood is.

"It's already dawn." Lin Lian sat on the bed and watched the sunlight shine through the cracks in the bed, and sighed. "Xiaoyin, shall we send you back tomorrow? It's a little late today. ”

The silver pupil raised its head, the quilt slipped off its head, its eyes flashed, and the silver pupil looked at Lin Lian brightly. As soon as he changed his frustration, he opened his mouth and rushed to the bed, jumped into Lin Lian's arms, and drilled his head into it.

"It turns out that Xiaoyin is unhappy for this!" Lin stroked its shiny fur with pity, as always.

Silver Pupil was so happy that she kept licking Lin Lian's hand.

"Xiaoyin, it's not that I'm ruthless." Lin Lian sighed again. "You still have to go back, this place doesn't belong to you, and I can't take care of you for too long."

The tail of the silver pupil hung down again, retracted the cracked mouth, and lay on Lin Lian's thigh.

"Yo, it turns out that Xiaoyin is so reluctant to go back." Lin Lian became more and more sure that this little fox was extremely spiritual and could understand what he was saying.

When Yintong heard this, she immediately rubbed her head against Lin Lian's hand.

"Xiaoyin, I'm not in good health and can't take care of you for too long." Lin Lian held the silver pupil in her arms, touched its head lovingly, and sighed again.

"I don't want you to leave." Lin Lian said to Yintong faintly, and his sad and lonely expression was more like feeling sorry for himself. "I'm getting worse and worse, and I may not be able to take care of you." The body is getting weaker and weaker, which leads to drowsiness, otherwise it would not have been enough to wake up at dawn.

"Master taught me all the medical skills, but I failed him. My illness is a chronic disease, and I can't be cured. It's a pity that I can't apply what I've learned all my life. "If I can stop thinking about it so much and be less depressed, then I may still have a few more lives.

Lin Lian paused, and his thoughts followed his eyes to the distance, already drifting away. She needed to talk, and the fox in her arms became the only one she confided in. Her life is like a lonely cloud on the edge of the sky, in a corner of the sky, so inconspicuous, fragile and insignificant, turning into nothingness at any time.

"Is it so unacceptable for a woman to practice medicine?" Lin Lian sighed for the fourth time today. "The people would rather be sick and suffer than for me to help them take their pulse, saying that they are bad luck, that they are not abiding by women's morals, and that they are unethical. You see, the Baicaotang of Nuoda is empty every day, and no one has come to seek medical treatment for several days. Lin Lian laughed at herself, when sighing became a habit, just like the habit of being despised, the habit of being looked downon, and the habit of being pointed at.

"The secular concept is so important, and the defense of men and women is more important than life? Could it be that female doctors can only see women's illnesses for women, and women's families cannot go to the hall of elegance, how unfair the world is? ”

The more Lin Lian spoke, the more angry she became, and the silver pupil raised her head to look at her, her eyes slowly confused. It didn't understand why Lin Lian was angry about this, unhappy about it, and sad about it.

"Ugh." It's the fifth time I've sighed, "You say, how nice it would be if one day this worldly frame could be broken!" Women can remove their veils and walk out of the streets openly, walk into the court openly, help people see a doctor and heal openly, and puff up their chests to stand side by side with men. Instead, he was assigned to marry as soon as he was born, stipulating that he would not bury the door without leaving the second door, embroidering wedding clothes for himself in the room every day, following his father at home, marrying his husband, and following his son when he died......"

Lin Lian's eyes were full of sadness.

"Xiaoyin, you know what? What do they say about me? Lin Lian's eyes slowly filled with tears, and she told the fox about her pain and grievances. Once the bitter water is complained, it is like a bucket that can never be emptied, full of grievances, and only this little fox is willing to listen. "They said I didn't deserve to get married, a twenty-five-year-old girl, no one wanted it. Pointing fingers behind my back, saying that I show up all day long, and I deserve to have no friends, no husband, no husband and no mother, and I will be lonely and widowed for the rest ......of my life."

Lin Lian's tears fell on the back of his hand, one by one in a string, the silver pupil's heart became more and more sour and happy, licking the back of Lin Lian's hand, without a teardrop, just lick it, soon, its speed could not catch up with the speed of the teardrops. The silver pupil only knew that day, its mouth was full of bitter and bitter taste, and so was its heart.

One person and one fox, just like this, snuggle up to each other. Yintong used her warm body to cover Lin Lian's cold hands, so she wanted to go back to the forest and bring some sweet fruits back for Lin Lian to eat. Silver Pupil felt that her eyes were hot and astringent, and her mouth was bitter.

Lin Lian talked to himself all day, and since that day, his health has become even worse, but he never mentioned that he wanted to send Xiaoyin back to the mountains and forests. One person and one fox spent a life of isolation from the world in the Baicao Hall, Lin Lian was in better health, so he opened the door of the Baicao Hall, and when he was not in good health, he lay in the room for a day.

Silver Pupil didn't know how to help her, it had always felt that it was very powerful, with first-class hearing, outstanding vision, a keen sense of smell, and a fox smelly line, compared to other foxes, it was careful, scheming, could play dead, and could swim, but none of these could help Lin Lian.

Silver Pupil's mood became worse and worse with Lin Lian's body. Occasionally, it disappeared for a long time, bringing fish in its mouth, chickens in its mouth, and firewood. It also brought a rat and a snake, and after Lin Lianhua was frightened, he stopped chattering.

It always remembered Lin Lian's surprised and happy expression when she first saw the chicken on the ground, but it also remembered that Lin Lian looked at the blood stains in the room with disgust, so it put the loot in the kitchen later. The silver pupil wanted to see Lin Lian smile, whether it was a gentle smile, a puff smile, or a happy smile, it found that as long as Lin Lian smiled, his mood would become very good, like the cloudy sky, which instantly turned into a clear sky.

Lin Lian looked at the kitchen and saw that there was another fish in the kitchen, knowing that it was Xiaoyin's masterpiece, she touched the head of the silver pupil, and tore off a piece of the leftover chicken from last night and put it on the palm of her hand, the silver fox looked up arrogantly and looked at Lin Lian. Lin Lian smiled dotingly, tore off a small piece of chicken, fed it piece by piece, and the silver pupils were slowly eating one by one.

"Thank you!"

A word of thanks, is to thank the fish with silver pupils, and also thank you for the fat with silver pupils on the last journey of life. Silver Pupil likes her to feed, she doesn't like the way Silver Pupil relies on her.

Silver Pupil tilted her head to look at her again, and saw the sadness in her eyes, and the chicken in her mouth was not delicious, like chewing wax. The silver pupil didn't want to eat it, but it still ate reluctantly, because it could feel it, and seeing it eat happily, Lin Lian's sadness could be alleviated a little.

In this way, one person and one fox waited silently in Baicaotang, the fallen leaves outside the door turned into snow, spring was too late, and Lin Lian had no spring.