After eating and washing, it is a difficult process of taking medicine as usual.

Yun Buxian took the medicine and honey water, and a small plate of candied fruit, the pill was Yang Ling's, and the medicinal soup was Qu Xiaobai's, Qu Xiaobai drank his own decoction, and was about to take the candied fruit to send, but found that the candied fruit had been eaten up by Yang Ling.

Qu Xiaobai: "......" is so bitter.

Yun Bu was busy and went to Guan Dong Lang to ask for a few, and when he came back, he saw that Qu Xiaobai had already drunk a sip of honey water to send the bitterness in his mouth, and teased Yang Ling with a smile: "You eat my candied fruit, and I will drink your honey water." ”

Although Yang Ling's expression did not change much, there seemed to be some doubt in his eyes, and Yun Buxian said: "The little master is much better than he looked at a few days ago, and when I look at him, his expression is more than before." ”

Qu Xiaobai said: "I look at it too." If it goes on like this, it will definitely get better. ”

For the people in this courtyard, hope is something as precious as life. Even if it's so ethereal that you can't touch it at all, you still don't want to give up.

After Yang Ling finished taking the medicine and rested for a while, Qu Xiaobai led him outside to wash radishes and pickle radishes.

Zhang loaded all the radishes on a cart and pushed them to the small river outside his house.

The river water is a mountain spring, it is very clear, it is better to wash vegetables, Mao took a knife to cut off the radish leaves whole, with a little radish head, a whole radish leaves will not be scattered, Qu Xiaobai was afraid that Yang Ling would spoil the leaves, so he went with him to wash the radish, and the errand of washing the radish leaves was handed over to Zhang.

Mao put the radishes with the head and tail removed in the basket, and the basket was lifted to the river, soaked in water, Qu Xiaobai and Yang Ling were on a flat stone, bent over, scrubbed one by one, and the washed radishes were packed in another basket.

Yang Ling held the small radish that Qu Xiaobai stuffed him in his hand, soaked it in the water and looked at it stupidly, seeing that Qu Xiaobai put one in the basket after scrubbing and washing, and he also put the radish with mud in his own basket.

Qu Xiaobai saw it, picked out his little radish again, threw it back into his hand, and grinned: "Yang Ling, you didn't do it properly, wash it again!" ”

Yang Ling took his little radish in a daze again, staring straight at the little radish with his eyes, and he didn't know what he was looking at.

Qu Xiaobai occasionally glanced at him, and the scene of Chu Chu and him moving to this small river to live came to mind.

He pretended to be a fool to deceive and tease her, on the surface he was stupid, but he would catch a few big fish from time to time to improve his life, and he would also go up the mountain to hunt some pheasants and boars and the like, in addition to not living well and dressing badly, their life at that time was better than many families in the village.

She doesn't know how to cook fish, and the fish whose internal organs are not cut and the scales are not removed will be directly put into the pot, and he still has no leftovers. She thought he was stupid at the time, but later she realized that it was because he loved her.

He pestered her at night to tell stories and sing nursery rhymes, and she still thought he was stupid, but every morning when she woke up, she was curled up in his arms in a strange position......

It's a pity that she kept thinking about going back at that time, and didn't cherish those warm and interesting times, and now looking back, those times that are clearly imprinted on her fingertips are out of reach.

Qu Xiaobai suddenly put down the radish in his hand, sat up straight, turned his head, his eyes fell softly on Yang Ling's face, and the corners of his mouth pulled out a little smile, and said, "Yang Ling, do you remember that we just moved here?" , There is no silver, there is no food, so you take advantage of the night when you come to bathe in the river, secretly go and catch a few fish and come back to improve my life. How did you catch such a big and fat fish with your bare hands? At that time, you were really powerful. ”

Yang Ling has never been a weak existence in her heart. Even if she is injured and demented now, in her eyes, no one can be better than him.

She smiled, tears welling up in her eyes.

Zhang and Mao didn't dare to make a sound, and silently brushed the radish. Far away, Wang Yunxiang of the Wang family also went out and walked towards this side, Mao's eyes were sharp, and he hurriedly carried a basket of washed radish leaves to his home, bumped into Wang Yunxiang's face, and whispered to her: "Mrs. and Lang Jun are talking, don't disturb quietly." ”

Wang Yunxiang understood, took the washed vegetable leaves from her hand, and said, "I'll go and blanch the leaves, and I'll go." ”

"It's okay, there's still a few baskets of leaves, I'll wash them."

Mao returned to the river.

Qu Xiaobai and Yang Ling talked for a while, Yang Ling didn't react, she picked up the radish again and washed it, and stuffed a small radish in Yang Ling's palm, "Oh, you pulled it off yourself and washed it yourself." ”

Seeing that she was no longer muttering to Yang Ling, Zhang dared to speak, "Madam, this water is too cold, you better accompany Lang Jun back to the house to rest, let's just wash it, there are not too many horizontal and vertical." ”

The Zhang family and the Mao family worked well, Qu Xiaobai glanced at it, and saw that she and Yang Ling had washed more than ten of them, and the two of them had already washed more than half of them, leaving only twenty or thirty radishes and a bunch of radish leaves, and nodded: "Okay, I'll bring a basket of radishes and go back first." ”

"No, we can just carry it."

Qu Xiaobai didn't listen, picked up a basket of radishes, and shook Yang Ling's hand, "Let's go, let's go home." ”

Yang Ling followed her indifferently.

Back at home, Qu Xiaobai put the radish in the yard, went to the kitchen and got a small table out, found two more stools, and then took a cutting board and a kitchen knife in the kitchen, Wang Yunxiang asked curiously: "What is Mrs. doing with the knife?" ”

"Dry some radish strips, Sister Wang, have you ever eaten dried radish vegetables?"

Wang Yunxiang shook her head: "No." How do you mix this sun-dried radish with vegetables? ”

"I haven't done it before, but I've eaten someone else's mix before, so I'll try to make some of it myself today." Qu Xiaobai laughed, "I have inquired with people about the method, that is, cut the radish into strips, first salted it, and then dried it, when you want to eat it, soak it in water a little, soak it softly and mix it with condiments, the tendons are delicious, and it is very delicious." ”

This really didn't learn from Du Niang, she used to like to eat porridge with dried radish, she has a friend, who is from the countryside, and is particularly good at doing this, the method she got from her.

Wang Yunxiang said: "It's the first time I've heard of this practice." Madame, put the knife there, and I'll cut it when I get back. ”

"It's okay, it's not a lot of work, I'm talking to Yang Ling while cutting, it's good."

She sat opposite Yang Ling, still took a smaller radish and stuffed it in Yang Ling's hand to play, and told him: "It's okay to eat, it's a little spicy, but it's delicious." ”

Yang Ling silently held the little radish, but her eyes fell on her hand chopping vegetables.

Although the original owner is very good at farm work and is good at cooking, she only bears the body of the original owner, and she really doesn't do well with the things that the original owner will do. This man held a knife and cut the radish very clumsily, and it took a quarter of an hour to cut a radish and the radish strips cut out were thick and thin, and she herself was embarrassed: "Yang Ling, are you thinking that I can't work?" You must be thinking that I can't work! But this turnip is too hard to cut! I originally thought that a person as smart and capable as I could do anything at a glance, but why is it so difficult to cut turnips? ”

Wang Yunxiang scalded a basket of vegetables and was taking them out to dry, when she heard her muttering, she couldn't help laughing: "Madam, you can put it, I'll cut it later." ”

Qu Xiaobai made a mistake: "I still don't believe that I can't cut a radish well!" ”

Wang Yunxiang had no choice but to smile and go on her own.

"You're not a worker, I wonder how you grew so big in Poplar. You can't even cut a turnip, won't your father and mother really beat you? ”

Dong Lang carried a small stool and sat side by side with Yang Ling opposite her, but she noticed that he was a little further back than Yang Ling, and the little straight man had a hot temper, but in such a matter, he paid so much attention to details, Qu Xiaobai couldn't help but look sideways slightly.

But he did not spare him: "I used to be beaten badly with your lord, how good do you think I can do my work?" ”

"I look at it too. But what's the deal with those cocoons in your hands? Can't work and grind so many cocoons? ”

Dong Lang also carried a kitchen knife in his hand, as a miracle doctor, he usually knows how to do things like cutting medicine, so he cuts the radish without any effort, and the thickness and length of the radish strips cut out are extremely uniform, compared with the radish strips cut by Qu Xiaobai, and directly wins.

Qu Xiaobai looked at the radish strips he cut out, his heart was extremely sour, as if he had eaten a big lemon in one bite, "Who said I wouldn't be able to work anymore?" Didn't I come back with Yang Ling pulling a lot of turnips? Hey, your radish strips are too finely chopped, and they won't be there when they're dried! ”

Dong Lang: "...... Poor little turnips, they didn't survive until it was cold, so they were cut and dried. ”

Qu Xiaobai glared at him: "Are you deliberately angry with me?" ”

"Don't dare, how can I deliberately be angry with you?"

"That's intentional."

"Not really!"

"Deliberately."

Dong Lang's hand holding the knife was trembling: "Little master, I'm here to ask you about it." The codex you wrote last night is getting more and more sloppy, and there are so many words that it knows me and I don't know it, can you please not write it so sloppy next time? ”

Qu Xiaobai suddenly said, "You're stupid enough." "I took the opportunity to hit him a little. In fact, she understood what was going on, she copied too many books last night, and in the end she was dizzy, so she used to bring out some simplified words, and it was normal for Dong Lang not to know it.

Admittedly, she wouldn't tell him, not because he was stupid, but because he hadn't learned.

"Cut all these turnips, and I'll tell you what those words are."

Qu Xiaobai took the opportunity to blackmail him.

Dong Lang looked at the dozen radishes in the basket, and the corners of his mouth twitched, is she really a farmer's daughter? This little bit of work made her look at it like this.

"Oh, isn't that a little more?" Dong Lang asked reluctantly. In order to prevent her from arranging some strange work for him, she must not be allowed to see that he despises these little jobs.