When Gu Wan carried a bamboo basket and walked to the gate of the Wang family's courtyard, the sky was already dark, and the heavy snow for three consecutive days showed no signs of stopping, the sky was gloomy, like a black veil, and there was no shadow of the sun at all.

He sighed, swept the snowflakes from his shoulders, and raised his hand to knock on the door.

The master's house had apparently been waiting for a long time, and within a moment of her knocking on the door, the tattered, somewhat leaky mottled door creaked open, and a woman in her early twenties at most came out.

"Wan Niang is here?" As soon as she saw Gu Wan, Wang Mei's anxious face showed a hint of joy, "Come in, it's cold outside, sister-in-law cooked a pot of noodle soup and ate it together." ”

"Sister-in-law, no, there is still a fire at home, my brother wrote and said that I will be home in the next few days, I have to wait for him to ......" Gu Wan smiled and handed over the basket, "Is this today's medicine, or is it two bowls fried into one bowl and given to Rong Niu to drink...... Sister-in-law Wang is relieved, Rong Niu is cold, drank medicine, sweats, and will be fine. ”

As she spoke, Gu Wan pushed the basket into Wang Mei's arms, and turned around and left regardless of her obstruction.

Wang Mei shouted a few times, and when she saw that she couldn't stop it, she sighed unconsciously, her younger brother Wang Gang heard the movement, and when she came out, she only saw Gu Wan's back as she walked farther and farther: "Sister, this little lady of the Gu family is really capable, after taking the medicine she gave, our Rong Niu's body is really good, I went to see her just now, and she was still yelling that she was hungry." ”

Wang Mei was so happy that the fine lines at the corners of her eyes were stretched, and she said with a smile: "That's natural, the Gu family is different from us, people are scholarly, the family is literate and hyphenated, and can read, Mrs. Liu is a beautiful lady at a glance, not raised by our countrymen, I didn't feel it before, this Mrs. Liu is gone, Wanniang is also revealed, calm and atmospheric, worthy of being a scholar......

"Sister, look, I only said a word, and you praised the little lady of the Gu family like a flower."

"Of course I want to boast, if it weren't for Wanniang, I'm afraid my Rong Niu wouldn't be able to get over this hurdle." Wang Mei's heart trembled, and remembered that day her daughter couldn't stop crying, her body was so hot that she was scared, the whole person was swinging, and her mind was not sober, the only herbalist in the village spoke out, saying that she couldn't survive anymore, she was a widow, only such a daughter was by her side, if Rong Niu went, where would she still live, fortunately, Gu Wan heard the movement, came to see, and said that there were herbs at home that could cure her.

Wang Mei sighed, she was also sick and rushed to the doctor at that time, and she didn't think that Gu Wan could really save her daughter as a little girl, but she never thought that she really met a nobleman...... At that time, she was so flustered that she almost collapsed, Gu Wan, who was obviously just a little girl, was so calm, methodically prescribing prescriptions, taking medicine, decocting medicine, and staying awake all night, wiping her body with warm water and wine for Rong Niu, and finally let her daughter pass the ghost gate safely......

"I originally thought that as soon as Mrs. Liu went, Wanniang and Gu Dalang were left, and the Gu family's life was probably sad, but now it seems that Wanniang has the ability, this medical skill is much stronger than Guo Gui in the east of the village, and she also knows herbal medicine, and when their family Dalang comes home and the brothers and sisters are reunited, this day will definitely be able to go on."

Wang Gang nodded yes, his eyes also showed a bit of inexplicable envy, in this era, people have a natural awe of literate and hyphenated readers, the two sisters and brothers of the Wang family, none of them questioned Gu Wan, a seven-year-old child, can actually prescribe prescriptions and recognize medicinal herbs...... It is precisely because Gu Wan has studied.

Feng Dynasty, the winter of the twelfth year of Sedum

God also seems to have discovered that this short-lived dynasty, which had only been peaceful for more than ten years, once again entered the doomsday reincarnation that seemed to be unavoidable, and natural and man-made disasters continued throughout the year.

Now in this world, the heroes are rising, the Shui family can no longer sit steadily, there are bandits everywhere, even if it was a small place in a corner of peace, it is also desolate, the young and middle-aged people either let the court pull the strong men, or fall into the grass for the cowards, go out to beg for a living, the rest, most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled......

The last rice shop in the southeast corner was also closed, Gu Anran led a thin donkey, stopped under the signboards scattered in front of the rice shop, and finally sighed and continued to walk in the direction of home.

When it was dark, Gu Anran finally arrived at the door of the house, looked at the mottled gate, stopped, did not return for three years, and was timid...... Having lost his mother, who has been working hard to support the family, he is only 15 years old this year, can he take responsibility and take care of his only young sister......

His eyes were dry, and as soon as the tears fell, they condensed into ice.

There was a lot of snow in the sky, and the overwhelming snow hit his body, even if Gu Anran was wearing an old jacket made of wolf skin, he could barely resist the cold, his whole body was cold, and there was no trace of heat......

The slightly bulky door creaked open wide.

Gu Anran's head was immediately covered with an oil-paper umbrella, and as soon as he looked up, he saw a little girl standing on the steps covered with mottled green moss, wearing filial piety clothes and stomping her feet!

Sitting on the bed with a thick, dusty wolf skin mattress, holding steaming rice porridge in his hand, Gu Anran exhaled, looked around, and in the depths of his eyes, there was a faint surprise -

He studied abroad, and his mother usually wrote to him, always saying that his family life was fine, but he knew that now the world is chaotic, life is difficult, and there are only widowed mothers and young sisters at home, and his mother is still sick in bed all the year round, and life is more difficult than other people's homes, if he does not promise his deceased father, he must study hard, he is never willing to leave, but now it seems that his mother and sister have a good life, the bedding on the bed is clean and warm, or brand new, just now I saw my sister make a fire to cook, clean the house, in an orderly manner, obviously already a good hand......

It's just that my sister is too thin, and her mother's health has never been good, so I'm afraid it's hard to take good care of her, but she wants a young girl to take care of the housework......

Gu Anran felt a pain in his heart, pride and guilt in his heart, and when he looked up, he saw Gu Wan holding a box of inky black ointment and coming over to give him medicine.

"Wanniang, don't be busy, brother is fine!"

Gu Wan raised her head, smiled, didn't speak, just lightly applied the medicine to Gu Anran on her hands that were red and swollen from the cold.

Gu Anran groaned comfortably, he came all the way, the wind was cold and dewy, and the cold in his body condensed, making his hands full of chilblains, and the pain was piercing.

"Wan Niang, what kind of medicine is this?"

"A few years ago, there was a Langzhong in the village, and I learned a few hands from him, but I made it homemade." Gu Wan said a few words simply, and then said no more, she hadn't seen her eldest brother for decades, for fear that she would show traces when she spoke...... She knows that her eldest brother has always been a smart person.

Of course, Gu Wan was purely worried.

"Our Wan Niang is really good at it......" Gu Anran smiled with relief, squinting her eyes and enjoying the service of the baby girl.

The current Gu Anran is just a teenager. He looked at the girl who was thin and weak as if a gust of wind could blow it away, only full of distress remained, I heard that the girl learned the ability, only happy, how could there be any doubts?

After applying the medicine and signaling him to rub it for a while, Gu Wan took out the needle and thread and helped him sew the broken hole on the sleeve of his clothes.

With her movements, Gu Anran's eyes fell on a sewing basket on the bed - inside was an unfinished sachet, the style of the sachet was quite ordinary, but the embroidered patterns on the surface were extremely chic, and most of the embroideries on the market were only auspicious patterns, Rui beasts and other embroidery, it was actually embroidered with a 'splashed ink landscape painting', novel and elegant......