Chapter 19: Soberness (Second Watch)
It was still the same group of black-clothed guards, but this time it was menacing, and everyone in the village had to be present, and even those in the fields were called back.
After those guards checked everyone, they said with a solemn face: "Listen, there is a very dangerous person escaping nearby during this time, if you find any traces, you must report it in time!" ”
Unlike last time, this time they brought a portrait, albeit in white.
This painting is a bit abstract, but despite this, Zhao Mo standing in the front row still recognizes it at a glance, and the person in the painting is lying in his own home!
Her face changed a few times, and when she walked to the door with a gloomy face, she found that Li Yuan had followed her in at some point.
"Sister Mo'er, you say...... Could it be him? ”
She secretly calmed her heart, which was beating fast, and said calmly: "Brother Li, do you mean Shopkeeper Song?" I didn't have any goods these days, so I didn't look for him in the morning! ”
She paused, and said casually, "Let's make more dried meat, I see that there is money to be made here, so it is better to stock up on more goods." ”
Li Yuan looked at her for a long time before he sighed and said, "Okay, I'll tell my father when I go back, and I'll go into the mountain a few more times in the past few days while I am resting after turning over the ground." ”
"Actually, you don't have to go into the mountains, we just buy pork and come back to make the same, although the taste may not be the same."
"Buy pork?" Li Yuan looked at her in surprise.
Zhao Mo poured him a cup of buckwheat tea, nodded and said, "After all, it is too dangerous for you to go into the mountains to hunt, anyway, lean meat is not expensive, we can afford it." It's just that star anise and cinnamon are a bit of a hassle. ”
"No trouble!" Li Yuan said with a smile, "You don't know, star anise is very common, but most people think it's used for spices, but who knows that it's so delicious to make dried meat!" ”
"That's good!"
Zhao Mo thought about it and told him the plan that he had been thinking about for a long time.
"Brother Li, why don't we just cooperate! Whether it's dolls or preserved meat, we work together and make a split of the money. It's just that the dried meat will have to wait for a while to know the market, so let's talk about the details of the doll now. ”
She laid out her plans one by one, and discussed with Li Yuan to improve some details.
The two kept talking about Zhao Rong coming back from school in the evening.
Knocking down the last item, Li Yuan's eyes were full of shock and admiration when he looked at her.
"Why is my eldest brother looking at me like this?"
"If you were a man......"
"Big brother said it was funny, it's good that I'm a woman."
Li Yuan smiled suddenly: "It's that I'm thinking too much." ”
"I'll send my eldest brother out."
When she came back, Zhao Li had already heated the meal in the kitchen, and Zhao Rong was bringing the prepared meal to the stone table in the courtyard to prepare for dinner, and there were squatting beans next to the stone table.
People in the countryside eat dinner very early, while the sky is still bright, there is no need to use oil lamps, and when it is dark, they can almost go to bed.
As soon as the three sisters, brothers and sisters sat down, Zhao Rong couldn't wait to say to Zhao Mo: "Sister, Brother Qingshan was beaten today. ”
Zhao Mo was stunned, and it took a while to remember that Zhao Qingshan was the second son of Dafang, who had been studying with Mr. Lin, and I heard that he was going to end up this year.
Hearing that something had happened to him, she hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”
Zhao Rong twisted a small face, and told what happened in the afternoon with some disdain.
It turned out that Zhao Qingshan and his classmate Yang Jicai's sister taught each other privately, and after being discovered by Yang Jicai, he blocked him at the door of the school as soon as he went to school and beat him to the point that his nose was blue and his face was swollen.
"Sister, I see that Brother Qingshan was beaten badly!"
Zhao Mo let go of his eyebrows, raised his hand and knocked on the door of his head, and said: "Then you have to remember clearly, if you have a girl you like in the future, you can take a good test, and then invite a matchmaker to come to the door to propose, you must not do this kind of thing that ruins people's reputation." ”
Zhao Rong blushed and muttered, "I don't want to like girls!" ”
"Yo, then you plan to marry for the rest of your life?"
Zhao Rong said extremely seriously: "It's good not to get married, except for my sister and Sister Li, girls are so troublesome!" ”
Zhao Mo shook his head: "When you meet someone you like, see if you don't slap your face!" ”
Who knew that Zhao Mo's words became a prophecy, and what happened many years later really made Zhao Rong ...... It smells so good!
After eating, Zhao Mo took hot water to see the unconscious person, but as soon as he entered, he met a pair of black eyes.
"Are you awake?"
Zhao Mo withdrew his surprised eyes, put the basin down, and walked to the bed to look at him, "Are you hungry?" There's still some food left, but I don't know if you can eat it. ”
In fact, it is better for a seriously ill person like him to drink some gruel or something, but it is a pity that when I think of him...... Hehe!
Xie Yu still stared at the person in front of him without blinking for a long time before he slowly opened his mouth, and spit out a word in a hoarse voice: "Water." ”
Zhao Mo raised her eyebrows, silently poured a glass of warm water and handed it over. Xie Yu wanted to sit up from the bed, but unfortunately he was weak and struggled several times in vain.
She couldn't look at it, so she had to put the cup down and help him up against the cold wall. There are no pillows at home, and it would be good for poor families to have a rice stalk pillow, so don't want any big pillows.
He gasped, his face pale, and he looked at the rough cup in her hand, his slender eyebrows furrowed.
Although I hate him very much, I have to admit that he is really sick and beautiful like this!
It's a pity that Zhao Mo didn't eat him: "You have the strength to drink yourself, right?" My family is like this, so poor that I can't open the pot, you can drink it if you want. ”
At the end, he couldn't help but mumble and complain, "It's not good for you to fall in someone's house, but you fall in mine." ”
Xie Yu almost couldn't lift it in one breath, he secretly clenched his fists with a gloomy face, glanced at her, and then let go.
After all, she resigned herself and silently stretched out her slender, bony hand, took the porcelain cup from her hand, lowered her head and took a small sip.
"Eat? After eating, you probably have the strength. ”
Then, he was able to leave.
Thinking about it like this, Zhao Mo's mood suddenly improved, and there was a smile on his face.
"If you can't eat it, I can cook you some porridge, although you may not be used to it, but it's better than having an empty stomach."
Xie Yu looked at her with a very strange look, and nodded slightly after a while.
Zhao Mo was in a good mood and didn't bother with him.
went out and told his brother and sister about his soberness, and then lit a fire to eat.
Simply cooked a pot of gruel with minced meat, spread out two tender egg cakes, added two side dishes, and drove Zhao Rong and Zhao Li to practice calligraphy and embroidery, and then brought the food into the house.
By this time it was already dark, she lit the oil lamp, glanced at the person who had been leaning on the head of the bed and didn't know what to think, and asked, "Can you get up?" Eat at the table or in bed? ”
Since she entered the room, Xie Yu's sloppy eyes have become focused. Hearing her words, he propped his hands on the bed, and was about to stand up with a pair of worn cotton shoes.
Seeing him so difficult, she sighed, put down her meal, and walked over to help.
As soon as the man stood up, the whole person shook for a moment, and then fell straight towards her.