At the end of June, when the air was filled with the strong fragrance of herbs, in a small guest room in the backyard of the Shui family compound, a secret happened to everyone. According to the rules of the pharmacist's profession, Liu Xicai let the grain go down to a simple apprenticeship, kowtowed three times, and even if he received him under his door.

Pharmacist Liu Xicai called the grain into the house and called, "Baby, you sit." ”

It was a few days later, Liu Xicai didn't go to the field, he said he was not feeling well, and he rested in the house for a day. Picking up food was also because of other things, so I didn't go to Wolf Lao Crowtai.

There was a slight stunned feeling when picking up grain. Liu Xicai has always called him "grain", but suddenly called out a "baby", and he is not used to it.

Liu Xicai said again: "Baby, you sit." ”

The grain had to be straddled down on the edge of the kang.

Pharmacist Liu Xicai stared at the grain, that gaze, suddenly warm, suddenly wet, suddenly, became a cloud, people can't figure it out, what is he doing like this?

"Uncle—" Picking up grain softened, and shouted.

Pharmacist Liu Xicai moved, it was his body that moved, but he felt that the whole house was moving, the sky was also moving, and his uncle's heart was also moving.

"Baby, let me ask you, do you want to be a pharmacist?" Pharmacist Liu Xicai suddenly asked such a sentence. In my heart of picking up food, I immediately asked numb, asked tightly, and didn't dare to answer.

"Raise your head!" Pharmacist Liu Xicai suddenly raised his voice and gaze, forcing the frightened grain pickup. "Tell my uncle, in your heart, do you want to be a pharmacist?"

After picking up the grain, for a long time, he said timidly: "Uncle, I think, I want to ...... it."

"Then you tell my uncle, what do you do as a pharmacist?"

From the first day his father let him go on the road, he remembered one thing in his heart, people can't always be poor, poverty makes people bullied, poor makes people humiliate, and poverty makes them look down upon. But these have nothing to do with being a pharmacist, I want to be a pharmacist after following Liu Xicai, no, after sitting in the grass shed in the backyard with my father all night, no, it is earlier than this, it should be after the first wisp of medicinal fragrance on Qingshi Ridge.

"Say." Pharmacist Liu Xicai was obviously anxious to know the answer.

"Uncle, I don't know, I just want to be a pharmacist."

This answer was completely unexpected by Liu Xicai, but it also made Liu Xicai see the other side of picking up grain, this baby is honest and has not learned to lie.

"Okay, let me ask you again, one day in the future, when you become a pharmacist, what is the first thing you want to do?"

After thinking about it, he replied a little more calmly than just now: "Let my father live a good life." ”

"And?"

"Don't let people die in the ditch, take medicine to save them."

Pharmacist Liu Xicai stared at the grain in a daze, and for a moment, he took the grain and hugged it tightly in his arms, tears poured out at this moment, poured into his heart, poured into the unknown secret, and poured into his pain.

"Get on your knees!" Pharmacist Liu Xicai suddenly snorted.

Picking up food is not clear, plop down, and kneel down for Liu Xicai.

At the end of June, when the air was filled with the strong fragrance of herbs, in a small guest room in the backyard of the Shui family compound, a secret happened to everyone. According to the rules of the pharmacist's profession, Liu Xicai let the grain go down to a simple apprenticeship, kowtowed three times, and even if he received him under his door. Then, he picked up the grain with both hands and said in a voice that he had never heard before: "Baby, remember, from now on, you are my Liu Xicai's legs, Liu Xicai's feet, and my Liu Xicai's eyes." I, Liu Xicai, have this little ability, you can take it all away if you have the ability, but there is one thing, you can't commit it until you die. ”

"Uncle, which one?"

"Medicine is for saving people, not for harming people."

Picking up the grain nodded heavily.

"It's not just medicine, being a pharmacist is equivalent to turning yourself into medicine, this is a person, it's also a reason, can you remember it for the rest of your life?"

"Yes. Don't hurt people, only save people. ”

"Okay, in the future, you will be a medicine, a bitter medicine, a good medicine, a medicine that can withstand the pain, endure the humiliation, withstand the collapse of the sky, but only save people."

Picking up the grain nodded again.

"Okay, next, I'll teach you three, these three, you have to keep in mind that if you commit any of them, your uncle won't spare you. Your relationship with your uncle is all in these three, if you commit a crime, you will leave, and your uncle will not leave you for a moment. ”

This time, he didn't nod, but bit his lip tightly with his teeth.

A stream of blood oozed out.

Crimson blood.

"Plant medicine with your heart, the medicine is you, you are the medicine, the medicine is prosperous, and the medicine is defeated. Medicine is your heart, medicine is your flesh, medicine is your sister. ”

"The sea of medicine is vast, all herbs are medicines, only take their essence, know their gender, medicine can save people, it can harm people, it is to save or harm, take it from your ability. From now on, you must be familiar with the herbs, memorize the pharmacology, and be able to understand the medicine with your eyes, ears, hands, nose, and heart. Uncle Cao only teaches you three times, remember it, three times, whether you can remember it or not, it's all up to you. ”

"Medicine is different from medicine, and the principle of medicine lies in prescribing the right medicine and saving people with medicine. The principle of medicine lies in how the herbs can take the essence of heaven and earth, and collect the aura of the mountains. Remember, what you are planting is not medicine, it is aura, medicine is not spiritual, and grass is planted. There is no soul in a person, and a corpse ......"

Pharmacist Liu Xicai is still saying that his heart is so heavy that he can't hold it.

After that, the grain picker changed, and he became a different person. Whether in the field or in the backyard stable, collecting food is like a ghost, whether working or walking, the mouth is always moving, but it does not make a sound. Uncle Xicai can really do it, a medicine, really only said three times, from planting to picking, from the leaf surface to the stem, petals, medicinal properties, pharmacology, only three times, after speaking, it is like forgetting about this matter, never mentioned again. Whether you can write it down or not depends on picking up food. He was illiterate and had never even heard some words, but he had a pair of ears and a heart, from his ears to his heart, from his heart to his mouth.

Noted down.

"This baby is a god baby." One day, the pharmacist surnamed Cao overheard that he was picking up grain and carrying it to Uncle Xicai, and he said this sentence in surprise. Just as he was about to rejoice when he picked up the grain, Uncle Xicai glared at him evilly: "Go, wash my socks!" ”

The calm on the surface of the Shuijia compound could not hide its civil strife and panic, and on this day, the county magistrate Kong Jiexi rode a green mule to Qingshiling. The county magistrate Kong Jiexi has been waiting for Shui Er Ye in the county seat, Shui Er Ye judged correctly, Kong Jiexi was trapped by money, and he invited Shui Er Ye to the county seat just to discuss with him to borrow money. Second Master Shui didn't go, Kong Jiexi knew that this way to borrow money was blocked by Second Master Shui.

It was the adjutant Qiu Jiayuan who went out to greet him. Qiu Jiayuan has won the favor and respect of Second Master Shui since he showed his extraordinary ability to be a master in the matter of picking grass, and now he has a very high status in the compound. Except for the father and daughter of the Shui family, he has nothing to say to others.

The two shook hands and greeted each other, and walked into the courtyard one after the other, and the housekeeper came to take the reins of the mule, and said in a very strange tone: "The county magistrate also rides a mule?" The county magistrate Kong Jiexi ignored the housekeeper's old head and looked anxiously at the upper courtyard. Adjutant Qiu Jiayuan said: "The second master went to Xigou to see his in-laws." ”

"In-laws?" The county magistrate, Kong Jiexi, didn't react for a while.

"It's the way the cave cutter came." Qiu Jiayuan said.

Kong Jiexi sighed, his face a little gloomy. He just came from Pingyang Chuan, the Qiu family's business in Liangzhou City had some problems, some people took a look at the Qiu family's business, and wanted to take it for themselves, this matter really took a lot of twists and turns, fortunately, the matter was handled better than expected. He and Qiu Dacheng have repeatedly summed up, this matter cannot be known to Qiu Jiayuan at present, for fear that he will be distracted, the young man is young, and he is in front of the adjutant, don't be excited to provoke something.

"How is it, is there any movement over there in Liangzhou City?" Qiu Jiayuan asked.

Kong Jiexi knew what he was asking, shook his head, and said with a wry smile: "It's bloody." ”

"Don't blame you, Xi'an City is also in a tight situation right now, and even the army commander doesn't dare to speak easily."

Kong Jiexi nodded, now that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are in trouble, the sound of cleaning up the chaotic party is getting closer day by day, and when he left Liangzhou City a few days ago, he heard the news of the murder again. What was caught this time was a big man from the Communist Party in Liangzhou City, as well as the black third in Black Wind Valley, who was also secretly executed. His wife has a loud voice and is now in prison.

While the two were talking, the housekeeper came in with a teapot on his head, and Zhang Luo was about to pour tea, and the county magistrate Kong Jiexi hurriedly diverted the conversation and asked, "Is the medicine growing well recently?" ”

"Good, good, God seems to have eyes, the rain is extra frequent, and the sun is enough."

"Adjutant Qiu, you still said that God has long eyes, this God, I think he is blind." The butler answered. The county magistrate Kong Jiexi didn't answer the question, took the teacup, and took a sip. After that, pretend to be tired. The housekeeper said attentively: "Or, I'll lay a quilt for you, and you will squint first?" ”

The county magistrate Kong Jiexi was lying on the kang and pretending to sleep, and the adjutant Qiu Jiayuan quickly went to the carport. This carport was specially vacated for him by Shui Erye, and inside it was locked with the mysterious objects he brought from the carriage last time. The housekeeper has always wanted to solve the mystery here, but unfortunately, the second master of the water sent a message, who dares to take one more step to the carport, break the leg and don't complain.

At the time of the black meal, Shui Erye rode back to Qingshiling, and when he entered the door, he said: "This dream is so accurate, really accurate." ”

Second Master Shui suddenly decided to go to visit his in-laws because of a strange dream. When I got up in the morning, the second master of the water said that he dreamed of Bao'er, Bao'er gave him a dream, and she was not at ease picking up grass over there, she was worried about her father's coming, saying that the courtyard of the Shui family's mansion, but her father lived in a broken cave, and when it rained, the cave leaked so much that it could not stand up. The second master of the water thought about it, and decided to go to Xigou, no matter what he said, he couldn't make the new daughter-in-law feel uneasy. As a result, I went to Xigou, and I really saw that the kiln from which I came was not an adult.

"Alas, it's time to clean up his broken kiln."

The housekeeper took advantage of the situation and said, "Why don't you build a new yard for his family?" ”

"New yards? Do you have mountains of gold and silver in my water family? Ming'er sent a few people, pulled a few pillars, and built a canopy at the entrance of the kiln. The housekeeper nodded disappointedly, originally wanted to lend the opportunity to build a house on the road, and also repaired two side rooms at home, it seems that the wishful thinking was played early. After settling down, Second Master Shui asked, "Confucius's family has arrived?" ”

The housekeeper nodded hurriedly and said, "Look, I forgot about business when I was busy, the county magistrate has been here for a long time, and I have slept once." ”

"Oh?" Second Master Shui walked to the upper room in a panic.

That night, the lamp in the upper room remained on until dawn. Second Master Shui spoke, except for the adjutant Qiu Jiayuan, no idle footsteps were allowed to enter the upper courtyard. Adjutant Qiu Jiayuan is more like a loyal guard, guarding the door of the upper room all night. No one knows what the county magistrate Kong Jiexi had a secret conversation with the rich man Shui Lao Er of Qingshiling. The next day, when the sun reflected the entire Qingshi Ridge, the county magistrate Kong Jiexi got up and left the Shuijia compound, and people clearly saw that his face was cloudy.

The majestic and steep bluestone ridge suddenly became colorful and enchanting. The Chinese medicine that has absorbed enough rain and sunlight is like a flower bud blooming overnight, the first to bloom is licorice, the bell-shaped calyx is surrounded by a butterfly-like corolla, densely gathered in full bloom, or purple red, or blue purple, all at once make the bluestone ridge in July delicate and gorgeous. Then there is the astragalus, and once the yellow corolla is in full bloom, the whole mountain is rich. Standing on the top of the ridge, the colorful petals surround people can't open their eyes, as if, the bluestone ridge has become a sea of flowers, a world of flowers. In people's memories, in addition to wild flowers and weeds, Qingshiling only has the fragrance of poppies. But now, this colorful and gorgeous scene is simply suffocating. In the excitement of yo yo, the medicine planter enjoyed the beautiful scenery brought by the two pharmacists.

On the wolf crow platform, the short figure of collecting grain is hidden in the sea of flowers, and from a distance, the thin shadow seems to be about to be squeezed dry by the flowers. Pharmacist Liu Xicai followed behind him and watched him without saying a word. Picking up grain while administering medicine and fertilizing the back: "Astragalus, plant form, perennial herb." The stems are erect and branched in the upper part. racemes axillary; calyx bell-shaped, densely pubescent, with five calyx teeth; The corolla is yellow, the flag petals are oblong-obovate, and the wing petals and keel petals have long claws; The flowering period is from June to July, and the fruiting period is from July to September. ”

Liu Xicai smiled slightly when he heard this.

After eating the waist food, the two of them squatted on the hillside as usual and lied. Recently, there has been more and more noise between the two people, and there are more and more words to pick up grain, and only at this time can the old and the young seem relaxed, and they seem to match the fairy scenery set off by the flowers all over the mountains. In the casual chat, pharmacist Liu Xicai already had a general understanding of the life experience of picking up grain, but there was one thing that had been blocking his heart, and he couldn't ask, today, Liu Xicai planned to let go.

"Baby, noisy with your uncle, why is your sister sick?"

Picking up the grain was silent for a long time, but he couldn't open his mouth, and when he saw that his uncle really wanted to listen, his butt moved, and he opened the conversation.

It's all to blame on the three masters.

Three years ago, on the day when the green covered everything, the third master of the sheep herd seemed to be more energetic than picking grass, and he had to sing this little girl down. After singing August, Sanhan Ye continued to sing September:

"The peach and plum blossoms in September are nine times the sun,

I'm messing with my little sister about the flowers,

The fragrance of flowers is going to make trouble,

The little sister is embarrassed.

The peach and plum blossoms in October are frozen and cold,

My little sister and I sewed cotton robes,

Sew a cotton robe,

The little sister put on and went around three times. ”

Picking up grass was excited, his hands rolled into a trumpet, and he raised his neck and sang:

"November's peach and plum blossom winter festival,

My little sister and I put the winter child,

I made a meat knife,

The little sister tastes good.

The peach and plum blossoms in December are in the year of the year,

The sedan chair in the pink puff marries the girl,

married a talented girl,

The little sister looks pink and pretty. ”

As soon as she finished singing, she saw an eagle flying from the sky and flying to her head in the three fields. The grass picker eagle shouted, and danced with his hands. The third master on the top of the mountain also saw the eagle, ahhh ”

Before the words had been spoken, the hovering eagle suddenly swooped down, straight, flapping its wings, and came to the head of the grass. Picking up grass scared my mother, and just about to turn around and run, the eagle has arrived in front of me.

The eagle named Peng must have regarded the grass grooming as something, and people said so later, even He Da Huang of Donggou also thought that the eagle regarded the grass picking as something. No one can say what it was, but it was not a human being! He Da Yan said very surely, he has never seen an eagle pounce on a living person, isn't it? He Dajun said half of what he said, and he didn't say it, leaving a lot of suspense for people to guess. As a result, all kinds of legends about gleaning grass rang out in the ditch. The family didn't have the leisure to listen, although the eagle called Peng didn't pick up the grass and took it away, but it played in the three fields for half an hour, not high or low, just hanging above the head of the grass, in the cry of the grass, the eagle seemed to be very excited, but did not directly attack the grass, as if with some kind of malice, deliberately took the grass to be happy. The two huge wings made a thunderous sound, shaking the eardrums of the grass to rot. The day of picking grass was to experience a catastrophe more terrible than death, until the third Han Ye rolled down to the top of the mountain, rolled to the three fields, and made a posture with the eagle, the eagle called Peng was like having played enough, let out a wave of ridicule, flapped its wings and went away.

At this time, the grass picker had fainted, and the third Han Ye howled and pounced on the grass, broke the head of the grass, held the face of the grass, and screamed in the grass, but found that the grass was not popular at all.

A good girl became like this because of an eagle.

There was silence on the hillside, and the people who spoke and those who listened all had expressions: horrified, frightened, frightened, and then dazed, suffocated like death.

In the fine wind, there are bursts of small peach plums:

"The peach and plum blossoms of July are seven and the seventh of the month,

That cowherd in the sky will be a weaver girl,

Brother Cowherd is in the east of the river,

Little sister Weaver Girl ...... in Hexi"

20

The days are fleeting, July is passing quickly, and August is about to pass. The smell of the Shuijia compound getting tighter and tighter makes everyone's heart high, maybe one day something will suddenly blow up.

Some people say that the Japanese have occupied most of China's rivers and mountains, some people say that the Japanese are about to wipe out the Kuomintang army, and some people say that it was the split between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party that gave little Japan a chance.

The tighter the war, the tighter the news about the medicinal herbs, and the tighter the smell of the Shui family compound.

The only one who doesn't feel tight is Shui Yingying. From July to August, Shui Yingying's figure was suddenly active in the medicine field, which was a new thing, and even Shui Erye was shocked by Yingying's changes. Whenever he saw Yingying going to the field, he would run over from a distance: "What are you doing in the field, the work is done by subordinates." Shui Yingying ignored her father, walked as usual, and walked into the field. The Chinese medicine in the ground rushed to the high level, which made Yingying's heart itch, and she couldn't help jumping in, following the example of Sister-in-law Wu, pulling weeds or fertilizing the medicine. A gust of wind blew, and the green waves followed the green waves, almost drowning her. Yingying's heart was infected by traditional Chinese medicine, and it also turned vigorous. She began to learn to do farm work earnestly, and like an honest farmer, she gave herself to the land. After a few days, her face darkened, and the sun extended that black to her neck, and whoever looked at it felt distressed, but she herself was not distressed. Sometimes, her footsteps would also slip to the wolf and crow platform, and slip behind Liu Xicai and collecting grain. The concentration of the food attracted her, and the mysterious energy in her mouth also aroused her curiosity, and she would ask coldly, "What are you muttering, can you be louder?" ”

When he heard it, he would be stunned, and when he saw that it was the third lady, his face would turn red. But he definitely didn't dare to talk nonsense with the third lady, so he could only smile innocently. This smile revealed a mouthful of white teeth. It was the first time that Shui Yingying had discovered that a long-term worker from Xigou had grown a beautiful white tooth. This tooth is very different from the man in her family, whether it is her father Shui Erye or her younger brother Bao'er, in her memory, the teeth are all burnt yellow, the same color as the smoky kang hole. It's her two brothers-in-law, their teeth are not so white, and they are not so good-looking.

Rushing this mouthful, Shui Yingying began to like this little long-term worker from Xigou.

So, when she is in a good mood, she will also take the initiative to walk over and ask some irrelevant topics. For example, how many households in Xigou do they live in? Donggou Yingying has been there, because the eldest sister is there, she is very unfamiliar with Xigou, she only knows that there is such a place, but she doesn't know what kind of people live in this place. After listening to the answer of collecting grain, she realized that the east and west ditches were different, and the west ditch was mostly lived by poor people who fled from the famine, and in the whole ditch, people lived in caves, and the house was a dream that she could not think of.

"Do a good job, if you can really learn the skill, I will ask my father to build you a courtyard house." On this day, Yingying suddenly said such a sentence, and Liu Xicai, who was walking in front, was so shocked that he turned his gaze.

From July to August, another thing that happened to the third young lady Yingying was that she no longer had a cold eyebrow with the adjutant Qiu Jiayuan. It's not that she and Qiu Jiayuan have resumed their previous relationship, no, she just figured out one thing, she is now an adjutant, and she came to help her family earn money, not the reckless naughty ghost before, nor the second sister Shui Ermei's brother-in-law, he is a popular person next to the army chief of Xi'an City, and the county magistrate Kong Jiexi has to give three points when he sees him. When I think about it this way, the knot that stuck in my heart is gone, it's really gone. When you face him again, your eyes can be calm, and your heart will be calm.

It's okay to be calm. Shui Yingying was most afraid that she wouldn't be calm, but now she has done it. So, she resumed laughing with Qiu Jiayuan, and sometimes, she made a joke or two, but it was only a sentence or two, and she left after the joke, and she no longer cherished him as much as before.

At the beginning of September, Chinese herbs such as peppermint and motherwort began to be harvested, and the days became busy. At this time, pharmacist Liu Xicai's hometown brought a message, saying that his old mother was no longer good and had to go back to take care of the aftermath.

Adjutant Qiu Jiayuan didn't agree at first, saying: "It's the time to be busy, who will worry about collecting and drying medicine when you leave?" Second Master Shui said the same: "I've been busy for more than half a year, so you can't go to the top?" ”

"Top to the end? My mother is dead, can I still hold my head? "Pharmacist Liu Xicai was anxious about the old lady, and his tone was bad.

Shui Erye coughed dryly, although the twelve were unhappy in his heart, he couldn't help but let the family guard the old lady, otherwise, what would people do if they still had sons?

After discussing and discussing, the adjutant Qiu Jiayuan said: "Go ahead, you settle down with Pharmacist Cao about receiving medicine, and if your mother is safe, she will come back early." As he spoke, he took out a silver ticket and said, "Take it, the road is far, and you will suffer on the road." Besides, if your mother is really a hundred years old, save money and raise children, you can't let the old man leave empty-handed, and have a big funeral, it's okay to ......" Adjutant Qiu Jiayuan suddenly couldn't go on, twisted his nose, and stopped talking.

The second master of the water is not easy to deal with, hesitated again and again, and said to the housekeeper Lao Feitou: "Go and rummage, if there is anything in the courtyard that comes in handy, give more." ”

There was nothing to say that night, and when I got up early the next day, a green mule came out of the hospital carrying a woolen bag, and the pocket was full, picking up grain and leading the green mule, sobbing as we walked. Pharmacist Liu Xicai said: "What are you smoking, it's not that you won't come back, look at your bad looks, you still want to be a pharmacist." ”

"Uncle—"

"Lift my head up for me, crying, how can I look like a man? Settle down with you, remember? ”

"Remember, uncle."

"Go back, I don't need you to send it."

After speaking, he snatched the reins, pulled the earth cliff, jumped up, jumped on the green mule, and left.

Collecting grain and looking at the big grass beach stupidly, until Uncle Xicai's shadow was gone, he went to the wolf crow platform alone.

After getting off the ground, it was already dark, picking up grain and dragging the tired body into the courtyard, and suddenly listened to the second master of the water drinking: "Come to the Lu family, you come!" ”

When he arrived at the upper courtyard, Shui Er Ye couldn't help but say that he gave him two mouths: "You bastard, eat things inside and out, say, what did you steal yesterday?" ”

Picking up grain was stunned, and after a while, he asked with a black brain: "Second master, what are you talking about, I don't understand picking up grain." ”

Syllable! Another one. "Dare to pout? Come on, tie me up and beat me! ”

The five sons immediately jumped out of the corner of the wall, holding the rope that had been prepared long ago, and tied up the grain.

"Are you good at talking or are you talking badly?" After tying up, Second Master Shui asked again.

"Second master, I really don't know what your old man is talking about." At this time, the food is no longer afraid, looking at the scene in front of him, there seems to be something urgent in the courtyard, maybe it is related to Uncle Xicai, Uncle Xicai will not be successful, right?

"Call me! Look how hard his mouth is! ”

Didn't allow the grain to struggle, the fist of the five sons had crackled down, and the five sons were really ruthless, his body was much stronger than the grain, and the strength of his hands was great, how could he withstand such a beating after a day's work of collecting grain, his eyes were black, and he fell.

When he opened his eyes again, he was lying in a straw hut in the backyard. Standing in front of him were adjutant Qiu Jiayuan and Cao Yaoshi. I felt dizzy and swollen in my head, my mouth was dry and bitter, and my chest was in sharp pain. "Water—" he called.

"Do you want to drink water?" It was Pharmacist Cao who spoke. "Say, baby, tell me what you did yesterday in the dark, and if you say it, you will have water, and meat soup."

Picking up the grain, he endured the pain and said: "Uncle Cao, what are you asking me to say, it was dark yesterday, I didn't do anything until it was dark yesterday." ”

"Didn't do it? Then you can lie down. After saying that, Pharmacist Cao went out, and he looked very angry about collecting grain.

Adjutant Qiu Jiayuan touched the head of the grain collector, touched his chest again, and said to Sister-in-law Wu: "Bring him a bowl of water to drink." Sister-in-law Wu quickly brought a bowl of water, and when she had collected food and drank it, Adjutant Qiu Jiayuan asked again: "You really didn't do anything?" ”

"No, not really."

"Well, I believe you."

These words surprised those present, especially the five sons. Adjutant Qiu Jiayuan left everyone behind and went to the upper courtyard. After a while, the dog ran and said, "The second master has spoken, let Brother Shiliang eat a bowl of rice first." ”

What was lost in the Shui family compound, even the adjutant Qiu Jiayuan didn't know, and Cao Yaoshi and the others had no way of knowing. Adjutant Qiu Jiayuan heard the clamor of Second Master Shui at noon, which was very strong, and he was taking a nap at that time. Adjutant Qiu Jiayuan jumped out of the house, and the shouts of the second master of the water rang out in the courtyard one after another, the courtyard at noon was very quiet, the grass beach was also very quiet, and the people who worked in the fields ate lunch on the mountain, and the dry food was radishes, which could save time. The Qiu family listened for a while, and realized that something might have happened on Second Master Shui's side, but he didn't rush over. It's not good to rush over in a hurry, it makes the family think more, he expands his chest twice, returns to his own room, and waits for the call of the second master of Shui.

It wasn't until the end of the day that the five sons came back from Gulang County, but the second master of Shui still didn't call him. It seems that the matter is not too big, maybe the second master of the water had a nightmare, the second master of the water who has never taken a nap in his life actually tried to take a nap recently, but according to Qiu Jiayuan's observation, he did not sleep steadily. When I was in Xi'an, the army commander never slept steadily, and scolded: "It's not easy for Lao Tzu to come to the world, and I sleep late this afternoon, wouldn't I have slept all the good time?" Also, Pingyangchuan's father Qiu Dacheng never takes a nap, and his father has a mantra that he sleeps out of laziness and illness. Qiu Jiayuan is just the opposite, since he followed the army commander in Xi'an, he has automatically developed the habit of taking a nap, it's not that he is lazy, the key is to do their job, and he must always maintain strong energy. The army commander has a total of three adjutants, Qiu Jiayuan is the latest to come to the army commander's side, and all his habits are learned from the other two adjutants.

Qiu Jiayuan was thinking wildly, and when he saw the five sons on a leash and let the dog chase him, he ran up the mountain in a panic, and after a while, the housekeeper Lao Tou and Sister-in-law Wu's dogs and dogs, returned to the courtyard out of breath. There was a commotion in the upper courtyard for a long time before someone walked in and said that the second master called him.

The enemy family went far away to the upper courtyard, but Second Master Shui didn't tell him what happened, but said: "There is a thief in the courtyard, and one of his important items is missing." ”

"When did you lose it?"

"It was dark yesterday."

Qiu Jiayuan sighed, and somehow, suddenly thought of Liu Xicai, but quickly shook his head. Second Master Shui said: "Adjutant Qiu, you have done a big thing, this thief is in the courtyard, you must help me arrest it, arrest me now!" ”

What exactly is missing? For two days in a row, Adjutant Qiu Jiayuan was thinking about this problem, and all kinds of signs showed that what Shui Er Ye lost was not something valuable, but this thing was very important in Shui Er Ye's heart.

I haven't been on the ground for three days since I picked up grain, and the violent beating of the five sons is really bad, and I still can't move because of the pain all over my body. Second Master Shui seemed to dispel his suspicions, and deliberately let the dog stay and take care of him. Last night, when it was dark, Pharmacist Cao suddenly came to the grass hut, kneaded him, wrapped the herbs in a hot towel, and gave him a hot compress for a while.

When the afternoon sun sprinkled over the courtyard, I heard a sound in the stable, and thought that the third lady must have returned. On the day of the beating of collecting grain, the third lady Shui Yingying went to Donggou, and it was the eldest sister who brought a letter to her to go. Sure enough, the snort of the mountain wind sounded in the backyard, and the snort was very kind. There are more than 20 horses in this courtyard, and they can tell exactly which one it is when they pick up grain without their eyes. Especially the mountain wind and the second master's mount Fierce Eagle, that voice is really special, I like these two horses when I pick up grain, they are really good horses.

When the sound in the stable died down, Shiliangyuan closed his eyes again, and as soon as he closed his eyes, the sound of the dog's footsteps arrived. The dog brought him a bowl of radish noodle soup and asked him to eat it. He shook his head and said he couldn't eat it. "If you can't eat, you have to eat, people are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panic." The dog's mouth is quite sharp, and these days, thanks to her taking care of the food.

"Where did you learn this?" Picking up food thinks the dog is interesting, this girl who is not much smaller than her sister picking grass, not only can her mouth speak, but she is also very clever, and her heart and eyes are especially good. Picking up grain has grown so big, except for his sister who picks up grass, no one has ever called his brother. Now, the dog's left brother and right brother make him feel really comfortable. As soon as I heard this, the pain in my body was much less.

"Brother Pick up grain, eat it, this soup was mixed by me secretly, and the second master doesn't know."

He didn't dare to push it anymore, struggled to take the bowl, and swallowed it in a big gulp. It is forbidden to cook secretly in the courtyard, if he finds out, he will be beaten half to death, no wonder the dog persuaded him to look at the courtyard at the same time. I just swallowed a few bites, and suddenly an egg popped out of the bowl, a tender poached egg!

The food picker was shocked, and then followed, and his heart was filled with something.

After eating, the dog was not in a hurry to wash the dishes and destroy the evidence. Standing strangely in front of the grain, a pair of eyes flashed, and for a long time, he whispered: "Brother Liangliang, do you know, what is lost in the second master's house?" ”

Picking up grain, his eyes widened, and no one told him what he had lost.

"I'll tell you, don't tell anyone else." The dog quickly glanced at the backyard, leaned close to his ear and said, "A pair of embroidered shoes." ”

"What?!"

Picking up the grain was still stunned, Shui Yingying's voice arrived: "Why do you want to plant false accusations to others, and beat them indiscriminately, it's livestock?" ”

Picking up the grain hurriedly struggled and moved down, the third lady Shui Yingying's footsteps had already arrived, and when she saw the appearance of the nest bag of the grain, Shui Yingying hated and said: "You didn't open your mouth, why should you be beaten if you didn't steal?" ”

Gleaning's lips moved, not knowing how to answer. Shui Yingying lifted his clothes, and let her see the red and blue wounds on his body.

"Tie five sons, tie five sons!" Shui Yingying's voice resounded in the backyard, and she shouted for a long time before she remembered that she had tied her five sons to the ground. Hateful sighed, and asked again: "Does it hurt?" ”

He held on and said, "It doesn't hurt." ”

"You don't dare to say that it hurts, if it's unproductive, you can't be more powerful!" As he spoke, he took something out of his pocket and threw it to the food. When I picked up the grain, it was a pile of plasters. Shui Er Ye and Ying Ying are both riding horses, and they always have this at home, this thing is expensive, and there is no cold Chinese medicine there, it was bought by Shui Er Ye from Liangzhou City. Fearing that people would see it, he hurriedly hid it.

Shui Yingying's voice was already ringing in the kitchen: "Dog, dog, where is the death?" ”

The dog may be destroying the evidence of the crime, just now she walked fast, half a step slower, and let the third miss bump into it, it doesn't matter if the third miss smells the egg, it will be terrible. Picking up food was worried about the dog, so I heard the third lady say: "In the past two days, you have been serving the Lu family, pass on my words, add two eggs every day, and add half a bowl of white rice soup." ”

Picking up grain was stunned in the grass shed, he never thought that the third lady of the Shui family would give such an instruction.

Later this day, another incident happened in the courtyard, Shui Yingying tied up the five sons and beat them. The reason is that Shui Yingying assigned the five sons to comb the mountain wind, but the mountain wind did not allow the comb, and the five sons saw that there was no one around, so they were ruthless to the mountain wind, but as soon as they hit, Shui Yingying appeared.

21

When the water family's compound was full of harvested herbs inside and out, Da Mei and Er Mei came to Qingshiling on the same day. Second Master Shui was scolding the new helpers in the backyard, telling them to be careful under their feet and not to step on the medicine. Ermei shouted timidly behind her: "Dad." ”

Second Master Shui turned around, his eyes were stunned for a few moments, and he suddenly said, "I'm not your father." ”

Ermei has lost weight and darkened, her delicate skin has become rough, her face is loose, and she even has wrinkles. It can be seen how hard she has been in these days. This torment is all because of the Qiu family's business in Liangzhou City, and Shui Erye only learned not long ago that the person who was greedy for the Qiu family's name in Liangzhou City was a person named Feng Chuanwu, who was very powerful, and he had successively dominated a lot of business in Liangzhou City, Sun and Li, all in the name of the previous war. If it weren't for the county magistrate Kong Jiexi and others, I am afraid that Qiu Jiaren's name would have been in his hands. That's it, I heard that the Qiu family also spent a lot of money, but Qiu Jiayuan, the adjutant in charge of planting medicine in Qingshiling, didn't know this, and Ermei and his father-in-law worked together to pass this turmoil.

Ermei called again: "Dad-"

Second Master Shui turned his head at this time, and just saw a young helper stepping on the medicine under his feet, and Second Master Shui stopped at once: "Your eyes are filled with, you can't see that it's medicine." ”

Da Mei thought that her father was losing his temper at them, and said unconvinced: "Who are you playing prestige for, go, Ermei, find Yingying." As they spoke, the sisters went out.

"Come back, you two outsiders, don't you see that the courtyard is full of medicine?"

The two of them stopped at the door of the backyard and waited for Shui Erye to come out. I saw a sack of medicine on his back, and he went around the courtyard. Da Mei said: "He is the grain collector from the Lu family in Xigou, and he can work hard." Ermei said: "If you don't work hard, your father can keep him, who is your father, I don't know yet?" ”

Seeing that the grain was sweating and tired to death, the two sighed at the same time, turned away, and made way for the grain picking. The gaze of the grain collector swept slightly over the faces of the two of them, and calmly dodged away. Ermei said: "This baby is honest at first glance." Da Mei answered: "No, I heard from the helpers that he is dexterous and can memorize the "Compendium of Materia Medica". ”

"Really?" Ermei was a little unconvinced.

"Who will recite the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and babble." Second Master Shui happened to hear it and grabbed a sentence.

When he arrived at the upper house, Shui Erye still had a gloomy face, and without waiting for Ermei to speak, he scolded: "Isn't your family too busy to get out, why do you have time to visit the door?" ”

There is a reason why Shui Erye scolded this, and there is also a reason for his cold face. There was a lot to collect medicine on the mountain, and the second master of Shui was afraid that he would not be able to be busy, so he sent his five sons to Donggou and Pingyangchuan successively, wanting his two daughters and sons-in-law to spare a few days to help him collect the medicine. didn't think about it, they were busier than the other, and they all said that they couldn't get away. It's okay if the son-in-law is busy, after all, people don't have the surname Shui, but Da Mei said to Er Mei that he was busy, and the second master of Shui felt very uncomfortable. Seeing her father busy with death, this daughter, is it for nothing? Second Master Shui already had a pimple in this matter, a big pimple, a radius of dozens of miles, and the only person he was poked in the backbone was that he didn't have a son. He hoped that his two daughters could help him untie this knot, but he didn't know......

"Dad, aren't we here?" Da Mei knew why her father was angry, and said with a smile.

"Came to see your father's laughter?" Second Master Shui glanced at Da Mei hatefully.

Da Mei laughed: "Dad is making a fortune now, it's too late for us to tie up, how dare we look at the laughter." Say, what do you want us to do? ”

"Don't do anything, it's cheap to eat."

"Dad-" Ermei was unhappy, in order to go back to her mother's house, she almost quarreled with her father-in-law, if it weren't for the man's family being worried about medicine and anxious to let her come, she wouldn't have come.

The three of them were talking, Yingying came back from the field, and as soon as she entered the hospital, she heard that the two sisters were coming, and she didn't care about putting the medicine in the backyard, so she threw it to the next person, so she ran towards the upper courtyard. When the sisters met, Sensei was happy. Yingying kissed the two sisters on the faces a few times in a row, beating and making trouble, it was not enough, and she yelled for her father to go out. When Second Master Shui saw the intimacy of the three of them, the anger in his heart disappeared. smiled and said: "Okay, okay, I'll go out, I'll go out, now I don't even have the right to squat in the house." ”

Later that day, the Shui family slaughtered a sheep for the first time and entertained their two daughters, when the fragrance of mutton permeated the courtyard, the three daughters of the Shui family, according to their father's division of labor, divided into three stalls, busy testing and drying medicine. When they were busy until dark and ate the fragrant mutton rice, the sisters couldn't take care of their father anymore, and whispered in Yingying's house in the South Courtyard.

On the same night, on the grass beach outside the Shui family compound, another pair of black shadows were also sighing and talking.

The way to the cave cutter was on the road when it was dark, he calculated the time, hit the west ditch to Qingshiling, slowed down his pace, and arrived in three hours, just when the people in the courtyard of the Shui family were sleeping. Sure enough, as soon as he sat down on Maliandun, familiar footsteps sounded on the grassy beach.

A few months ago, when he left the Shuijia compound, he took his son's hand and pointed it to him: "Remember, baby, this place is leeward, and it also avoids people, and in the future, Dad and you will talk here." "Since then, I have come here secretly, once before picking up grass and once after picking up grass. The father and son conveyed comfort and concern in this way.

Picking up grain and coming to Ma Liandun, he gently learned the call of a night owl, and said hurriedly: "Baby, I'm here." ”

Picking up grain and squatting down, he immediately took the baby's hand and choked his throat and said, "Baby, they, they beat you again?" He said, "No." The way to pick up the grain clenched tightly: "Baby, don't hide it from your father, your father is not blind or deaf, why did the Shui family bully you, your father knows." ”

"Nope."

"My wretched baby—" said Lailu, about to cry. Picking up food hurriedly reminded: "Dad, this is under people's noses." ”

The way came silently, wiped the snot, and shook it off hatefully. "Baby, bear with me, bear with the knife holder on your neck, I don't believe you can't get through."

Picking up the food snorted. Afraid that my father would be sad, I told my father about the recent changes in the Shui family compound, especially when it came to the third lady Shui Yingying, his voice changed: "She is not as cruel to me as before, and she also asked the dog to beat poached eggs for me." ”

He didn't believe it, thinking that his son was lying to him. After picking up the grain, he told the story before and after the beating, and he heard strangely: "How can it be, how can the third girl's temperament and notoriously stinky be good to you?" ”

"She's so good, the wounds on my body are still the plasters she gave."

"It's good, it's good, as long as the three girls don't bully you, your life will be better." Let's say it heartily.

Seeing that his father was no longer sad, he took out an egg wrapped in rhubarb leaves from his arms and handed it to his father: "Dad, you eat." ”

"Baby, where did you come from?"

"The dog gave it."

"You eat."

"I've eaten for miles, this, daddy."

The father and son pushed for a long time, but after all, they couldn't resist the temptation of the egg, so they peeled and ate it.

A faint smell of eggs wafted from the grassy beach.

In the heart of the road, a wave of happiness as a father rose.

After eating the eggs, he burped and asked again: "What have you learned these days?" ”

"Uncle is gone, no one teaches me, I figure it out by myself."

"Your father heard about Uncle Xicai, without him, you have to work harder. By the way, is Pharmacist Cao willing to teach you? ”

It was not easy to answer for a while, but when I came to the heart, I seemed to understand, and said: "Father has inquired with Leng Chinese Medicine about planting medicine, it is not difficult, as long as you use your heart, you can learn it in three or five years." Leng Chinese medicine said that one must make hard work, and the other is to identify it with heart. There are many herbs in the world, not necessarily those taught by the pharmacist, there are hundreds of them in the pharmacy of Guangleng Chinese medicine. ”

"Dad, I'm discerning, today, I'm still identifying a medicine in the grass at the top of the ridge."

"That's good, that's good, Dad is afraid that you only know rote memorization, but don't know how to distinguish alive."

The night was so thick that it could not be dissolved, and there were many unknown secrets hidden in the grassy beach in September.

22

After all, Pharmacist Cao couldn't control it and threw the fire on the head of the grain.

The medicine is mined separately, that is, whoever grows the medicine will lead the people to pick it and dry it separately in the yard. At the beginning, people ran to Pharmacist Cao's side, especially the five sons, as if they wanted to embarrass the grain. Slowly, the situation was different, first there were a few Sister-in-law Wu's dogs, and then, there were more people coming to the Wolf Crow's side, and later, even the third lady Shui Yingying came. As soon as the third lady came, the popularity of the grain pick-up side was much more prosperous than that of Pharmacist Cao.

That's it, anyway, Second Master Shui has hired a lot of helpers, and Pharmacist Cao will not worry about no one following him to collect medicine.

However, no one expected that there would be gossip on the ridge. At the beginning, the gossip was only spread among a few people, and it was passed on and on, and it couldn't be stopped, in the medicine field, on the road, in the drying field, and even in the courtyard, as long as the helpers met their heads, they all exchanged heads and ears, and talked mysteriously. Talking about something, gossiping. Gossip is right and wrong, gossip is the bane, and gossip is a handful of salt sprinkled on the hearts of the parties.

The medicine planted by the two pharmacists is different, and the medicine of Pharmacist Cao is small, with thin stems, like a baby who has not eaten enough, and he is not energetic. Liu Xicai's, the meat is thick, the leaves are fat, and the medicine is really soaring as soon as it is picked in his hand, which reminds people of the poppies planted by Shui Erye. This is not counted, the difference in the long field is not too big, and I can't see it if I am not careful, and I can't see it in the yard, let the wind blow for a few days, and the sun will dry for a few days. Even if you don't understand medicine, even if you think it's a grass, you can still see the obvious difference between the two at a glance.

Pharmacist Cao's face couldn't hang up, it's not that he couldn't hang up the gossip, he didn't take the gossip seriously at all, he couldn't hang up the difference. As a pharmacist, Cao Mou certainly will not turn a blind eye to the scenery in the courtyard, in fact, he is also observing restlessly, waiting, waiting for the sun to make the difference smaller, waiting for the wind to blow away Liu Xicai's little advantage, so that the gossip that is getting louder and louder will become a fart, and only the smell of the yard will not smoke people.

It's a pity that he still let the gossip fall down, and the smoke becomes more and more uneasy.

On this day, Pharmacist Cao inexplicably came to the Wolf Lao Crow Terrace, picking up grain and concentrating on collecting medicine, behind him, followed by the dog and Sister-in-law Wu on the left and right. Standing on the ground, Pharmacist Cao's eyes were in sharp pain. It wasn't the grain that stimulated him, it was the medicine that had not been picked up in this place, and the flowers that the wind could not blow away in September. I've been growing medicine all my life, why can't I grow it all the time? It's okay to plant Liu Xicai, and lose to the person who wants to eat the grain, so how can he be at ease?

"Pick up food, pick up food, you wolf eat!" As soon as Pharmacist Cao was excited, he learned from Qingshiling's words and scolded.

Picking up grain and turning around, he was too attentive, and Pharmacist Cao suddenly screamed, scaring him.

"Uncle Cao, what are you talking about?"

"Say your dad is big! Your baby is growing up, and I can't listen to my words? ”

"No, Uncle Cao, didn't I pick medicine?"

"Pick, pick, do you pick medicine like this? Look, how much medicine have you taken in this place? Throw away the fat and the meat, and throw the thin one? ”

When he looked back, he saw that he had only picked the fat meat, and the thin ones were still growing in the ground. This is not Liu Xicai's settlement, pharmacist Liu Xicai only said that when collecting medicine, take the eyes to pick, and the eyes will know how to pick with the hands. Uncle Xicai said it very generally, but he didn't say anything specific. According to the common practice of pharmacists, the collection of medicine is from the bottom of the ridge to the upper ridge of the stubble, without leakage or neglect. There are many medicines, but few people, so it saves time and effort, and furthermore, no matter whether fat or thin, it is medicine in the hospital.

Didn't pick up food. Picking up grain is to pick with the eyes, the eyes let him pick which flower, he picks which, on the same flower, the eyes let him pick which leaf, he picks which leaf, the eyes can't see, keep it first, hand it over to the wind and the sun, and after a few days, the eyes can see it again, and then pick it from the beginning.

"Okay, no wonder everyone runs to you, it's so good to grind foreign workers here." Pharmacist Cao finally caught the handle, and if he caught the handle, he had to teach a lesson, so he stood on the ridge of the ground and taught him a hard lesson to collect grain. After teaching for a while, he said sharply: "Come back, lay down the ridge and go up, and leave no one!" ”

After picking up the grain and not moving, after hesitating for a moment, Yuan lowered his head and went to collect medicine.

The dog looked at Pharmacist Cao nervously, for fear that he would pounce on the ground and pick up the grain.

Yao Shi Cao really pounced in, because he walked violently, and the sound of crackling medicine breaking sounded under his feet. "God, medicine, medicine......" the dog yelled. He still ignored the grain, he didn't believe it, Pharmacist Cao really dared to step on the medicine in this place.

Yao Shi Cao can't control himself, and if he can control it, he won't come to this land! Just as Pharmacist Cao raised his fist and was about to vent heavily to collect grain, a voice sounded on the ground: "Cao, come out and smoke." ”

Standing on the edge of the ground is the second master of Shui. Behind the second master of the water, there is the third young lady Yingying.

Second Master Shui was very strange, there were so many gossips in the courtyard, he couldn't hear it, as always, he was good to Pharmacist Cao.

"Cao, come out and smoke a cigarette."

Pharmacist Cao had no choice but to turn his head, smile on his face, and go to the ground to smoke. Shui Yingying glanced at Pharmacist Cao, and then at the medicines that he had stepped on just now, and without saying a word, she went into the ground to pick the medicines that had broken branches.

On the second day after Pharmacist Cao finished venting, Second Master Shui unexpectedly stood behind picking up grain. A look was handed over, and the dog and Sister-in-law Wu went down the mountain with the medicine on their backs. In the field, just the two of them for the time being, the helpers were far away and could not hear the speech.

Second Master Shui quietly stared at picking up grain and collecting medicine, watching him deftly hit this medicine and jump to that medicine, watching him accurately pick off the fat leaves or flower bones, and watching him ...... Second Master Shui was dazzled and didn't know what to look at.

In the end, the second master of the water didn't say a word and left.

At the end of September, the harvesting of traditional Chinese medicine has come to an end temporarily, and all the flowers and leaves have been picked, and the remaining stems and roots have to wait for a while. The second master of Shui instructed the housekeeper to slaughter three sheep, cook three pots of mutton, and let Wu's sister-in-law dig a few baskets of new yams, mutton pads yams, and a strong fragrance rose in the courtyard of the Shui family. For the first time in his life, Shui Er Ye also held a bowl and squatted in the courtyard to eat with his subordinates. The fragrance of medicine and meat overflowed the courtyard of the Shui family as if marrying a daughter-in-law again. Yao Shi Cao held the bowl and hid in the wall far away, these days he doesn't talk to Shui Erye, and he easily doesn't talk to people, and his face always has a color that can't get along with people. The fifth son is diligent, and Uncle Cao is affectionate. was eating, I saw Shui Erye walking to the front of the grain picker with a bowl, and just about to get up, the second master of Shui had already scooped a large piece of mutton specially scooped to him by Sister-in-law Wu and gave it to the grain. Picking up the grain was startled, and he squatted down again as if he couldn't believe it.

Seeing this scene, Pharmacist Cao closed his eyes in pain.

Second Master Shui dropped the bowl, he was full, he was happy, and his heart overflowed with joy one by one. He left everyone behind, walked straight to the stable, took out the eagle, jumped up boldly, and ran to the grassy beach with a "ride".

On the grassy beach in September, the second master of the water was swayed by the rolling waves.

If it weren't for a sudden fright, the whole of September would have been perfect, enough to make Second Master Shui remember it for ten or eight years.

It was on the fifth day after the mutton was eaten, Da Mei Ermei had returned to her mother-in-law's house before and after, the first day there was a drizzle, very cotton, just wet the turf, the yard was busy stacking up the medicine, the second master of the water was not at ease, and deliberately took out some broken pockets and felt, and told to cover the medicine. The second master of the water remembered something, he wanted to find food, but he didn't see the shadow of this baby.

The next day, before the sky cleared, everyone lay in the grass hut to relax. These days, I really have been busy enough for everyone, and I'm scared, so this kind of weather is very pleasing to everyone. Second Master Shui was nagging in the upper room again, probably because Shui Yingying had caused something with the fifth son, which made him unhappy. Shui Yingying is now more and more unable to get along with the five sons, every time she sees this subordinate, she always has to pick on the starting point, and provokes the five sons to hide when she sees her. Second Master Shui felt that this was not a good thing, he watched the fifth son grow up, the person was not bad, and the legs were also diligent, for a time, the second master of Shui was still quietly thinking in his heart, if he really couldn't find a better master, he would recruit the fifth son into the door. However, this idea only turned around in his mind, who to recruit into the door and when to move, it is not easy to decide, he must use time, and also look at the face of the girl Yingying.

The second master of the water was thinking blindly, and suddenly he heard the dog crying and shouting and ran in: "Oh no, second master, brother picking up grain, brother picking up food, he ...... it"

"Tell me slowly, the wolf didn't chase you."

Second Master Shui couldn't see the people in the courtyard frightened, there was something big and small, like a wolf coming, shouting that made people have pimples on their heads.

"Second master, brother picking up grain, brother picking up grain......"

The more anxious the dog became, the more speechless he became. Shui Yingying walked in from outside and glared at the dog viciously: "Your brother is dead!" ”

"Not yet, but soon."

"What?!" The second master of the water was so shocked that he jumped out of the house with a jump.

Just in time for Sister-in-law Wu to go up to the house in despair, the two almost bumped into each other.

"What's wrong?!" The second master of the water grabbed Sister-in-law Wu and asked.

"Come to Lu's house, come to Lu's house and faint!" Sister-in-law Wu pulled and cried.

When Shui Erye followed Sister-in-law Wu up the mountain, he picked up grain and curled up on all fours, convulsions. His face was pale, and the corners of his mouth were foaming at the mouth. As soon as Shui Erye touched it, there was still heat on his head, and he shouted at Shui Yingying, who came with him: "Quickly carry people, carry them to the courtyard." ”

Shui Yingying didn't care about calling others, picked up the food by herself, and ran down the mountain. Later, a few subordinates chased after her, took the grain from her, and carried him into the courtyard in turn.

Picking up grain and lying in the grass shed, the cold sweat beads on his head fell like beads, his lips were purple and blood-purple, and the second master of Shui even asked a few words, but he rolled his eyes and couldn't answer. Shui Er Ye was in a hurry, this symptom was similar to the symptoms of the pharmacist Liu Xicai, but it was more terrifying than Liu Xicai.

What must have been eaten? Second Master Shui thought to himself.

"Tie the five sons, tie the five sons, what are you grinding against the slow death ghost, ride a fast horse to Donggou, please come to the cold Chinese medicine."

Tie the five sons slowly, reluctantly got on the horse, and went to the east ditch.

The dog brought a bowl of vinegar and cried to fill the food. Shui Yingying snatched it over, squatted down, and personally poured vinegar on the grain.

After pouring vinegar for half a day, the symptoms were not light, and the pain became more and more severe. The dog was so anxious that he pinched his hand and asked, "Brother Grain, where does it hurt?" "The grain picker's eyes turned white twice, and he didn't move. Frightened, the dog let go of him: "Brother Grain is dead, Brother Grain is dead." ”

"Clamp!" Shui Yingying drank and scolded the dog out of the house. The second master of Shui was sweating in a hurry, and called Sister-in-law Wu to go to the house to get ginseng, saying that she would take the thickest one. Sister-in-law Wu panicked, went into the upper room for a long time and didn't come out, Shui Erye was so angry that she scolded again: "There is no one who is useful, and you can't take the root ginseng." "I was about to go to the upper house, but Sister-in-law Wu gave it up, and in her hand, she really took a ginseng. The dog hurriedly came from a distance, snatched the ginseng, and went to the kitchen without saying a word. After two bags of cigarettes, in the anxiety of everyone, the dog came to the backyard with a bowl of hot ginseng soup.

Shui Yingying took the ginseng soup and wanted to feed the grain, Shui Erye stretched out his hand and said, "I'll come." Shui Yingying didn't argue with her father, silently handed over the bowl and stepped aside. Second Master Shui looked at the ginseng in the bowl, and his eyes suddenly blurred.

This ginseng is the most valuable of Shui Erye, and it was bought by an old friend at a large price when he went to Liangzhou City three years ago. I don't know why Sister-in-law Wu just flipped it? The second master of the water was not distressed, he just sighed, it seems that there is a fixed number of everything, and what he is reluctant to eat turns out to be reserved for the life-saving mile of the baby who picks up food.

The second master of Shui sighed with emotion, and at the same time, little by little, he fed it to the mouth of the grain. According to the people in the ditch, no matter what people eat, as long as they are fed ginseng, this life cannot be lost. The second master of the water prayed, God, you can let this baby go, this baby is my baby.

After feeding the ginseng soup for a long time, the face of collecting grain slowly became colored, and Shui Yingying, who had been guarding the side of collecting grain, finally had color on her face. She said to Sister-in-law Wu: "Don't worry, this person from the Lu family has a big life." When Sister-in-law Wu heard this, the tears in her eyes stopped.

When the sun went down, the fifth son came back from Donggou, and when he entered the hospital, he said: "I'm tired to death, I knew that I would run for nothing, so it was better not to go." ”

Shui Yingying jumped out of the room: "What about the people, tie up the fifth son, what about the people my father asked you to invite?" ”

Second Master Shui also came out when he heard the sound, and when he saw that there was no one immediately, his heart was half cold.

"I'm not there, I've asked around, but I don't know where I went." Said the fifth son.

"Absent?" Second Master Shui's eyes were frightened and rested on the face of the fifth son, I don't know why, today's words of the fifth son made him not believe it.

"It's just not there, can I still invite it when I'm here?"

Shui Yingying wanted to have a seizure, but Shui Erye hurriedly gave his daughter a look and sighed: "Providence, providence, it seems that the only way to resign yourself to fate is to do so." ”

The father and daughter returned to the straw hut, and their hearts tightened up again to collect food.

Second Master Shui was right, and he didn't go to Donggou at all. "I'm not so stupid, I love to die, I love to live, and I don't care about my. Why do you want me to go and hire someone? He rode his horse for a walk on the grassy beach, and then went to the sister river, which at the end of September became clearer and clearer, and the roaring water shone blue, and the golden bowls by the river were still in full bloom, reflecting the beauty of both sides of the river. The fifth son was originally a person who didn't care about the scenery, but at this time, he seemed to be greedy. He picked a large handful of gold bowls, threw them as he walked, and muttered in his mouth: "I call you eccentric, I call you eccentric, die, it's good to die!" ”

Estimating that the hour was almost up, he tied the fifth son before riding on the horse, swaying and walking back, along the way, he suddenly remembered Shui Erye, suddenly, remembered Shui Yingying, in short, it was all about the Shui family.

At the time of the black meal, the people in the courtyard gathered, and when they heard that the grain had been poisoned, they all gathered around to see, and all their faces were dyed with the same color. Pharmacist Cao also walked into the grass shed, touched the head of the grain collector, touched his stomach again, and said, "What is so powerful that it can pour medicine on a living person at once?" ”

Adjutant Qiu Jiayuan walked into the courtyard at this time, and in the past two days, his steps have been running back and forth in Qingshiling and Gulang County, and as soon as the Chinese medicine is harvested, he has to consider the matter of transporting it out. Seeing the miserable white face of the grain picker, and the body that twitched from time to time as if it was convulsive, he tightened his voice and said: "You can't delay it like this, if you delay it any longer, I'm afraid it will really kill you." ”

"Then what to do, the cold Chinese medicine is not there, who still works in and out of this ditch?" Second Master Shui has been in a hurry for a day, and for a while, I don't know why I'm in a hurry.

"Ride a fast horse and send it to Gulang County." Adjutant Qiu Jiayuan said decisively.

"I'm afraid I won't hit, this baby, can you move?"

"Yes, it's okay to lie down, if you move, I'm afraid you won't even be able to catch your breath." Pharmacist Cao said.

Adjutant Qiu Jia is far from silent, this worry is not unreasonable, if something happens on the road, I am afraid it will be even more difficult to clean up.

"Then you can't wait any longer, right?" He looked around, his gaze finally stopping on Pharmacist Cao's face. "Pharmacist Cao, you know the principle of a hundred herbs, no matter what you eat, there is always a solution, right?"

"What do I know?" Pharmacist Cao's body subconsciously shrank back, and said, "It doesn't work if you feed ginseng, I'm afraid, it's not an ordinary poison." ”

"Pharmacist Cao, you just want to think of ideas, right?" Second Master Shui was almost pleading.

In the prevarication of Cao Yaoshi's no-no-go, no one paid attention, and the dog quietly pulled out of the crowd, touched the stable, took out a fast horse, jumped on it and ran. By the time people reacted, she had already left the courtyard gate, and Sister-in-law Wu was so frightened that she shouted behind her: "My God, that's a fast horse, you dare to ride-"

Finally survived the night, and this night, everyone had a hard time. Second Master Shui went to the backyard almost every half an hour, and when he came, he asked, "Are you better?" Sister-in-law Wu, who had been guarding her side, shook her head painfully. Her hand firmly grasped the grain, for fear that as soon as she let go, the baby would kick away. He didn't sleep with the fifth son, he was afraid that the dog would ride a horse to Donggou, and in that case, the lying would be exposed. He was so angry and scared that he could still sleep.

I'm afraid that only Pharmacist Cao is asleep. The five sons came in twice in the middle of the night, and both times he was snoring as usual.

The sky was thin, and when the first rays of morning light spilled into the courtyard, the grain suddenly screamed, and then the whole body trembled violently. Sister-in-law Wu shouted tightly: "Come to Lu's house, come to Lu's house, wake up." Picking up the grain, he heard Sister-in-law Wu's cry clearly, and grabbed Sister-in-law Wu with both hands, her mouth wide open. Sister-in-law Wu said slowly, she didn't know what to shout, so she heard a hoarse voice from picking up grain: "Dad, sloppy, sloppy, dad-"

"Come to the Lu family, come to the Lu family!"

"Caocao, you wait for me, wait for me-"

"Come on, come to the Lu family, and go to the underworld."

Shui Erye stomped on his shoes and ran over with a panicked face, just when he heard the last shout of collecting grain: "Caocao-" Shui Erye slammed his heart: "Oh my God, I burned a black incense, but I still didn't keep him." ”

Just when people heard the news and came to the grass hut, outside the courtyard gate, on the grass beach, a green mule carried a person, and ran towards the Shuijia compound with all his strength. The people on the mule seemed to realize that something was wrong in the courtyard, and kept shouting at the green mule, and the green mule ran all night, and saw that he couldn't run, but the person on his back urged him tightly, hissed to the sky, and raised his hooves, as if he was trying to exert his last strength.

Xiao Wuzi was the first to see someone coming, and before the green mule stopped, he ran over: "Pharmacist Liu, pick up grain, pick up grain, he ...... pick up grain"

"What's wrong with picking up food?"

As he asked, the pharmacist Liu Xicai had already jumped off the mule, pulled the blanket on the mule, and threw himself into the grass shed. "Providence, providence." When the second master saw Liu Xicai, he knew that he couldn't die if he picked up grain, so he collapsed on the ground and sighed.

Pharmacist Liu Xicai touched his nose to pick up grain, opened his eyelids and looked: "Vinegar, get vinegar!" Sister-in-law Wu said: "It's not useful, I've poured it a few times." ”

"If you tell you to take it, you can take it, what a mouth!" Liu Xicai was so anxious that he was about to roar.

"I'll take it, I'll take it." Sister-in-law Wu hurriedly went to the kitchen. Shui Yingying had already taken the vinegar and walked over. This night, Shui Yingying didn't fall asleep, and when she heard the news that pharmacist Liu Xicai was back, she ran over from the South Courtyard.

The vinegar was served, but the pharmacist Liu Xicai was not in a hurry to pour it, and looked at the people around the four sides: "Go out, watch the excitement and look at the grass beach!" ”

When the helpers saw that Pharmacist Liu had such a big fire, they were so frightened that they smeared oil under their feet and slipped out.

Shui Yingying was the only one left in the grass shed, Liu Xicai glanced at her and said, "You go out too." ”

Shui Yingying came out obediently.

Liu Xicai pulled down the straw curtain, and the people in the courtyard couldn't see anything.

Pharmacist Liu Xicai didn't dare to slack off, so he unbuttoned his trouser belt at the moment, and urinated in his mouth when he picked up food, but he couldn't urinate in his mouth, and he urinated in his nostrils. Later, urine went to the ears and eyes. After urinating, Liu Xicai pried open the mouth of the grain picker and poured vinegar into it. Pinch his nose while pouring, and press his knees hard against his stomach to pick up food. Finally, a bowl of vinegar was poured in, and the body that picked up the grain reacted. Liu Xicai was overjoyed for a while, knowing that the baby was saved, he hurriedly turned over his body, rubbed his back, rubbed for a while, took out a small medicine bottle from the blanket, poured some potion into the palm of his hand, and rubbed it again. After rubbing your back, rub your ears, and then lift your body with all your strength, put your head and feet down, and shake it vigorously. After a few flicks, he turned him over again, craned his neck, took out a sun-dried herb from his coat, lit it, and smoked it in his nostrils. Smoked and smoked, he raised his head sharply and spit it out.

"Oh my God, you're finally throwing up. Spit out, spit hard. Liu Xicai said as he took a piece of grass and stuck it in his mouth, and the grass was inserted into his throat.

Hearing the sound of vomiting outside picking up grain, they all knew that pharmacist Liu Xicai had saved the grain.

Second Master Shui looked up to the sky and smiled: "God, you still have eyes!" ”

Time passed for a long time, and he finally opened his eyes, and in the haze, he saw that it was Uncle Xicai who was hugging him, his lips moved, and he called Uncle.

"Baby, you're scared to death for me, if I come half a step late, I'm afraid I won't be able to see you." Liu Xicai burst into tears, and he couldn't control himself anymore.

Picking up the grain and struggling, he grabbed Uncle Xicai's hand: "Uncle, I saw my sister-"

"Nonsense!" Liu Xicai hugged him, and couldn't help but burst into tears in his heart.

"Baby, you ate urinary poison weed." For a long time, pharmacist Liu Xicai said.

"Uncle, I don't know, I see it looks weird, I thought it must be medicine, so I tasted it, don't think about it......"

"You foolish baby, is that easy to eat?"

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded in the courtyard, followed by the sound of dogs following the way. No one expected that the dog went to Xigou overnight, and followed the way to the Valley of Broken Souls overnight!