Chapter 54: Coming to Find Mrs. Li
Aunt Chunhua and Wang Xiu'e glanced at each other, and persuaded gently, "If they like to say those words, let them say it, don't worry about it, it's important to take care of your body." β
ββ¦β¦ Don't worry, I'm not for myself, and I have to take care of it in order not to let them succeed! Yang Huiyun said with some annoyance.
Gu Changning rarely heard A-Niang's words so magnificently, and he pricked up his ears very freshly.
"What nonsense are you, the child is still here." Wang Xiu'e glanced at her angrily, and alluded to Gu Changning's location.
Gu Changning immediately pretended to be stupid and smiled at them, indicating that he hadn't heard anything.
"Ning Ning, you go to the backyard to see if it's time to add water and chicken food to the chicken coop." Yang Huiyun found that her daughter was also in the main hall, and her face was embarrassed, so she coughed and sent her away.
"......" Gu Changning looked at A-Niang speechlessly, wanting to say that she had just been to the chicken coop half an hour ago, but seeing A-Niang's unnatural appearance, she left the main hall without saying anything.
Anyway, she guessed more or less what the two aunts were going to say to A-Niang, in fact, it was okay, there were some things that she and her brother couldn't say, and even if they did, A-Niang might not be able to listen to them.
But it's different to be a person of the same generation as A-Niang to explain it, if you want to come to the two aunts, A-Niang can listen to it somewhat, right?
Gu Changning left the main hall step by step and went to the backyard.
Speaking of which, these two things are inseparable from Mrs. Li, she has been making small movements behind her back, Gu Changning also feels annoyed, if only there could be something to stumble her and let her not have so much free time to do things.
This was originally just an idea that Gu Changning came up with at random, and he didn't want to realize it in the near future.
Five days after this incident passed, Gu Changning was going to dig a bird's nest in the woods on the edge of the village.
Originally, she wanted to call Yang Jin and them, but several of them happened to encounter work at home and couldn't go out, so she had to come out by herself and dig out the bird's nest in the afternoon when the adults were all going to work in the fields.
This season is the time when the birds breed, and there are many birds in the mountains, and there are people who come to steal the crops every year, so the children in the village go to catch the birds whenever they have free time.
The first is to prevent them from overbreeding and eating the crops in the field next year, and the second is to fight tooth sacrifices, although the meat on the birds is not more than that on the poultry and livestock, but in any case, it is still meat.
So Gu Changning took his tools and went to the trap to trap the bird.
Set the birds, although Gu Changning didn't do much, but he was also a person who had lived for a lifetime, and soon found his own problem and corrected it, and set three birds in an hour, she felt that it was almost over, so she stuffed it into the burlap bag together, tied the mouth of the bag, and prepared to go home.
In addition to these three birds, she also found a few bird nests in the trees, it is estimated that the female birds went to forage, and there were no birds near the nests, Gu Changning took a total of five or six eggs and went back.
There are more than a dozen eggs in these bird's nests combined, and Gu Changning didn't take them all because she knew that she should not kill them all.
Now is not a year of great famine, her family is not short of food at present, even if there is no such eggs, it doesn't matter, so she only took five or six bird eggs back to Ah Niang and her brother to taste, and the rest of these are either waiting for the female birds to hatch, or let the children in the village who can't eat take them to cook and eat, so that they can save their lives.
Gu Changning skillfully put the bird's eggs in a small basket the size of a palm, covered it, and hung it on her waist to prepare to go home, but at this moment she heard someone stop her.
"Eh, little sister, let's inquire about something, is this Xinghua Village?"
Gu Changning turned around, and there was a woman who was about forty or fifty years old standing by the forest on the official road for two years, although the clothes on her body were also made of coarse cloth, but the material was still new, and there were no patches, let alone shauffles, plus they were neatly dressed and clean, and they had a hairpin neatly tied in their hair, so they knew at a glance that they were decent people at home.
"Yes, this is Xinghua Village, do you have anything to do?" Gu Changning asked.
She guessed that this should be a family in the village that came to relatives, after all, it didn't look like they were here to fight the autumn breeze, but she didn't expect the other party's next words to make her heart skip a beat, and her eyes narrowed involuntarily.
"That's right, we've heard...... There is a Dr. Li's family who lives here, we met this Dr. Li's wife, and came to see her, I don't know if you have the way? If you recognize, please lead the way, little sister, oh, there is some food here for you to take. The woman standing on the left looked more flexible than the one on the right, directly explained their intentions, and stuffed Gu Changning with a handful of peanuts.
"Mrs. Li? I know it, so come with me. Although Gu Changning didn't like Mrs. Li, the two aunts in front of her didn't provoke her, and they stuffed her with food as soon as they met, so that she couldn't refuse ruthlessly.
It's just to lead the way, this is not soft on Mrs. Li!
Gu Changning said secretly in his heart, and then walked in front of the two aunts to lead the way.
At this time, everyone was working in the fields, there was no one at the entrance of the village, and the two aunts followed closely behind Gu Changning, and the words of the conversation between the two faintly came into her ears.
ββ¦β¦ Little sister, I heard that this Li Niangzi's eldest son is almost twenty years old and hasn't married a wife yet, will there be anything wrong? These were the words of the more reserved aunt on the right.
"Probably not, it's not that Li Dazhu hasn't gotten married so late, it's because Dr. Li is a benevolent doctor, and he can't bear to charge money for the villagers' medical treatment in the past, so his family can't afford the dowry, so Li Dazhu won't talk about his daughter-in-law so late?"
Gu Changning's eyebrows jumped, and his eyes were full of incredulity.
Who was that guy they were talking about? Dr. Li? Benevolence of the doctor? Can't bear to charge money for medical treatment?
Qingtian and Bairi are really hell, who told them this, they don't talk to drafts!
Gu Changning felt an itch at the root of his teeth.
"If it's because of this, the dowry will be less, I don't ask Sister Hui to marry into a rich family, I just hope that her future parents-in-law will be kind-hearted and her husband will be kind, then it will be good." The aunt on the right side said with emotion.
"Don't worry, it will." The woman on the left said soothingly.
Gu Changning, who was walking in front, just wanted to roll his eyes when he heard this, and complained in his heart, the situation of Dr. Li's family was obviously the exact opposite of what this aunt expected!
Just when she was thinking about how to expose the true face of Dr. Li's family without a trace, the aunt on the left handed her the opportunity.
"This little girl, I'm really sorry to have forgotten you for a while."
"It's okay, aren't you here to find Mrs. Li? Presumably, there are patients waiting to be treated at home, just like my aunt at the beginning, which is understandable. Gu Changning pretended not to hear what they were talking about, and said with an innocent look.
"Just like your aunt? What's wrong with your aunt? Before the woman on the right could stop, the woman on the left was already asking quickly.
"It's nothing, it's just that my father passed away a few months ago, and my mother already had a body at that time, and I saw red under sadness, or Dr. Li gave my aunt a doctor." Gu Changning, steady, you can do it!
Gu Changning gave goosebumps in his heart for the way he spoke like this, and on the other hand, he played the role of a naΓ―ve and ignorant little girl.
"Oh, that's right." The woman on the left stretched out her hand and patted Sister A's hand, squeezed her eyebrows and said, "Look, I'll just say it, Dr. Li is really a good doctor who hangs the pot to help the world and rejuvenates with his wonderful hands." β
After listening to Gu Changning's words, the woman's face on the right hand side also improved a lot, and she was no longer as panicked as before.
Gu Changning resisted the urge to sneer, and continued to say casually: "Well, but the aunt can prepare the silver taels?" If the patient at home is in a hurry, you must prepare the money in advance. β
"What, what silver taels?" After only three seconds, the two women were stunned, and the woman on the left hand side stammered and asked.
"It's the silver taels used to see a doctor, and you need money to buy medicine, see a doctor, and buy a prescription." Gu Changning pretended to be puzzled and asked.
"......" The two women paused and were silent for a moment, and then the older woman asked, "How much money did your family spend on the doctor?" β
"Our family?" Gu Changning frowned and thought for a while, and said, "I don't know how much I see, but it cost one or two taels of silver to buy the fetal prescription prescribed by Dr. Li for my aunt...... Yikes! I promised Aunt Li that she couldn't tell me about it! The two aunts should not know if it's okay? β
Looking at Gu Changning's pleading gaze, the older woman paused, and nodded slowly in her gaze.
"A fetal prescription for ten taels of silver? What a panacea! The younger woman was still amazed, but the older one had come to understand.
Her face was slightly pale, and she looked at Gu Changning and said with a smile: "Little girl, auntie can not tell this matter, but you have to answer one thing honestly, okay?" β
"Auntie, you say."
"The eldest son of Dr. Li's family...... Why is it that you are almost twenty years old and have not married? β
The younger woman was stunned for a moment, and looked at Sister A and Gu Changning blankly.
"I don't know much about this, I just heard from the aunt in the village that when Brother Dazhu was fourteen or five years old, Aunt Li looked at the girl in our village, but after two or three years of watching it, I didn't find a satisfactory one, and then I set my sights on the girl in the neighboring village." Gu Changning blinked with a pair of big eyes, very sincere.
"That's the case......" The woman who asked smiled lightly, and then said, "Little sister, is it okay for my aunt to agree with you?" β
"What's the matter?"
"My aunt suddenly remembered that there was something else going on at home, and I couldn't go to Dr. Li's house to visit, can you not tell her about it as if you haven't met my aunt today?"
"Hmm......" Gu Changning frowned, her face was full of puzzlement, she glanced at the expectation in her aunt's eyes, and nodded ignorantly, "Okay, since my aunt can't go to see Aunt Li, then I won't say it." β
"Good boy, you can take all these things and eat them." The woman took the bag of peanuts, stuffed them all into her, and then dragged the other aunt out of Xinghua Village.
Gu Changning carried the peanuts in the hem of his clothes, looked at the backs of the two aunts leaving, and then put all the peanuts into another empty bag, then turned around with satisfaction and prepared to go home.
Well, she saved a girl who was about to enter the fire pit today, and her heart was beautiful!
"Long time no see, 'brother'."
At this moment, a slightly familiar Qingling voice suddenly came from behind him, and Gu Changning suddenly froze, tensed his body and looked at the comer.