The Chun Tao sisters and brothers went out for the first time, and they felt excited and nervous when they got into the carriage, but they didn't want the carriage to travel for a long time, and these people fainted, Huzi was young, and he couldn't help but vomit at the moment. It was the carriage that had to slow down so that they could get used to it.

Zhao Ziyue was not in good health, and her complexion began to be a little ugly after walking for most of the day, but she still endured it so that everyone could not see it.

The carriage went all the way north, but it rained for four days in ten days, and the rain made the temperature change suddenly, Zhao Ziyue suddenly became sick again, at first he could still hold on, and asked Li Yan to grab the medicine to take it once, and just lay down for a while, but he didn't want to last for two days, but he couldn't get up when he lay down.

Everyone was frightened, and they didn't dare to continue to hurry, so they had to find a nearby farmhouse to borrow a few days to recuperate Zhao Ziyue before making plans, fortunately, they were now a little far away from Xiahe Village, and they were not worried that those Xiliang soldiers would come over at a moment.

The farmhouse he borrowed was only a poor family, with three earthen houses and four children, and he only made room for three cents of silver so that the group could be squeezed together. At this time, it is excellent to have a place to live, Li Yan was worried about Zhao Ziyue's illness and did not dare to delay, seeing that there were mountains here, he also asked the owner to borrow a basket to go up the mountain to find herbs that could be used.

Zhao Ziyue's little face was so red that he couldn't stop talking in his dreams, and Chun Tao put a towel dipped in cold water over and over on his forehead, just begging him to get the fever off as soon as possible. Xia He also held Huzi aside, and he didn't dare to blink more, for fear that Zhao Ziyue would have some accidents.

Yu Dalang sighed once, and when he got out of the house, he was making a dustpan with the male owner of the house, Zhang Da, but the hostess Qian was cooking oil-free wild vegetables in front of the stove. ”

Yu Dalang hurriedly waved his hand: "We were also born poor, don't pick these." ”

Nowadays, it is already excellent to have wild vegetables to eat, but if it is a famine New Year's Festival, it is not said to be wild vegetables, but I am afraid that the roots of the trees will not be eaten.

He walked up to Zhang Da and found a place to sit down and smiled: "Brother Zhang, that child in our family is very sick, I want to make a fish basket and go to the small river in front of me to see if I can catch two fish to make up for him." ”

Zhang Da kept in his hand, but smiled heartily: "It's just some worthless things, you can use it." ”

"Eh, thank you very much."

Yu Dalang used to be a good hand at fishing in Xiahe Village, and he naturally did a lot of things such as weaving fish baskets.

He used a bamboo pole to catch some aquatic plants in the water, wrapped them around the fish basket one by one, and then put them in the water.

Fishing is naturally best with fishing nets, but now it is not in Xiahe Village, so you can only use a fish basket to deal with it, hoping that a few fish will be hooked.

By dusk, when Yu Dalang came to collect the fish basket, there were already three or four palm-sized fish in it, and there were some small shrimp jumping around.

Zhang Da saw that he could really catch the fish with the fish basket and came back, and he also took the fish basket and studied it for a long time.

Chun Tao came out of the house, saw the fish in Yu Dalang's hand, and took it with red eyes: "I'll take it and make some soup for Ah Yue to drink." ”

Yu Dalang nodded, and asked Zhao Ziyue how he was.

"It's still like that, Brother Li hasn't come back yet, and I don't know what happened to him."

Li Yan has been in the mountains for several hours, and it is false to say that she is not worried, but she is a girl's family and worried about a foreign man, so she can't wipe off her face.

Yu Dalang didn't speak, got up and opened the curtain to see Zhao Ziyue.

The little face with the big palm is getting smaller and smaller, the feet are burned red, and the peeled lips are closed one by one, and I don't know what to say, but it is really distressing to look at it like this.

Huzi raised his head and asked him ignorantly: "Daddy, is Brother Yue going to die?" ”

When Huzi and his mother died, he was just a baby in swaddling clothes and didn't even know it, but gradually when he grew up, he always heard the mother-in-law with a broken mouth say that his mother died, he didn't know what the definition of death was, he asked Chun Tao, and Chun Tao told him: "Ah Niang lived too hard here, and went to another place, where she lived a much more comfortable life." ”

At this time, he saw that Zhao Ziyue was also working so hard, so he thought that Zhao Ziyue was also living too hard to die.

Yu Dalang didn't know how to answer Huzi's Tong Yan Wuji, so he only reached out and touched his head, looked at the unconscious Zhao Ziyue, and thought: He is a hard-working person, and he will definitely be able to survive this pass.

Zhao Ziyue is really hard in the end, Li Yan came down from the mountain and picked a full box of herbs, picked and picked for a long time, and then boiled a bowl of green medicinal juice and poured it in. Even for these two days, it was poured every two hours, but on the third day, Zhao Ziyue's fever receded, and people began to wake up, but they were still very weak, and seven hours of a day were spent in sleep.

He doesn't know how long he will be sick with this disease, lingering on the sickbed every day, accompanied by medicine, but still holding on to hurry, Yu Dalang and Li Yan disagreed, only told him to live here to raise his body and then set off, Zhao Ziyue could not only be raised with peace of mind.

Because Zhao Ziyue had to recuperate for a while, and it was not good to continue to live in Zhang Da's small house, Yu Dalang found the village chief of their Snake Mountain Village and rented a half-dilapidated empty house, and the whole family temporarily settled here.

The two girls' families in Chun Tao and Xia He are responsible for the trivial affairs of the family, Yu Dalang and Li Yan are responsible for the expenses of the family, because Li Yan understands medical skills and knows that this snake mountain is mostly herbs, so he will go to the mountain for a whole day when he is free, Yu Dalang except for occasionally going to the river to catch a few fish for Zhao Ziyue and Huzi to open meat, most of them also follow Li Yan up the mountain.

Those herbs were picked from the mountains and dried in the sun, and some commonly used ones were picked up for home, and the rest were bundled up and sold at a discount in the small pharmacy in the town.

It is precisely because of the herbs sold that this will not make the family eat empty, Zhao Ziyue is not in good health, so he can only sit at home every day and watch them busy, and his heart becomes more and more guilty, if it is not for his body to drag, I am afraid that no matter how slow the carriage is, it will be almost to Kyoto.

Chun Tao saw his frowning every day, and knew that he was delicate, and went to the front to comfort him: "You don't have to think about that much, you will be able to raise your body well, and we will all rely on you when we arrive in Kyoto in the future." ”

Zhao Ziyue knew that these words were comforting him, but in the end, he followed Zhao Yiheng is a heavy affection, and he felt more and more guilty in his heart, in addition to raising his body every day, he also gave the idea of asking Chun Tao to bring a few rabbits over to raise.

Rabbits are not expensive, and it is easy to feed and eat some grass, and the fecundity is strong, and the rabbit fur can be worth a few dollars, and a few of them are idle at home, so it is better to raise a little income.

It's just that this snake mountain village is also a barren place, and no one thinks of raising rabbits.

However, Yu Dalang and Li Yan came down from the mountain and smelled this and thought it was available, so on the second day, they loaded the medicinal materials they had at home and ran to the town, and when they came back in the evening, they really caught five or six rabbit cubs.

The rabbit cub is a small one, fluffy, holding it in his hand like a snow ball, and the tiger is very happy when he sees it, and he holds it in his arms like a very fun thing and does not let go.

Chun Tao was afraid that he would spoil the rabbit cub, so he coaxed him to let go, Li Yan smiled, and told Chun Tao about the method of raising rabbits.

Since then, a few snow-white rabbits can be seen jumping around in this half-broken yard all day long, and when a few rabbits grow up and the weather is cold, Zhao Ziyue's body has only been raised a little and repeatedly, so he has to nest in the house every day and not even go out.

And because they can sell the medicine for a few dollars, the villagers of this snake mountain village have poured into the mountains to collect medicine for money, and for a while, when they go up the mountain, they are mostly bare, where are there any herbs to eat, but seeing the family waiting for dinner, Li Yan and Yu Dalang thought about it for a while, and went to the distant mountain.

When they stayed up like this until the depths of winter, the faces and hands of these two people were frozen and cracked, and they bled when they touched the cold water when they opened their mouths, which made people feel distressed to look at.

Zhao Ziyue persuaded several times, but the two of them turned back and went up the mountain until the first snow this year, they really didn't go out, although they didn't go out, but they didn't stay idle, if it wasn't for the rabbits who served a few cubs, they were looking for something to repair the house, and they were afraid that the house would not be able to hold up if the snow was big.

The days are getting colder and colder day by day, seeing that the New Year is approaching, Zhao Ziyue is becoming more and more silent day by day, he never thought that he had been away from home for almost a year, and in previous years, the Spring Festival was spent with his father, and now his father and mother are afraid that they don't know his life and death.

It is said that every festival is full of relatives, Zhao Ziyue is delicate, and he wants to fly to Zhao Yiheng and Mu Mingshu more and more, but his body is not angry, this kind of day, don't say flying, even if you go out, you are afraid of contracting the wind and cold.

Zhao Ziyue's decadent mood is in everyone's eyes, but now they have to spend the New Year in Snake Mountain Village, in order to make Zhao Ziyue smile, Li Yan also took out the silver and picked a good day and said that he would take them to buy New Year's goods.

Zhao Ziyue was in a bad mood and didn't have much interest in this, but Huzi kept pestering him, saying that his birthday was coming and he wanted to go to the town to play, so Zhao Ziyue raised his feet and went out with them.

But he didn't want him to go to the lively town this time, not only did he not let go of his heart, but he got a terrible news, and he turned pale on the spot, covered his heart and spit blood, and became unconscious.