Chapter Twenty-Four: The Jade Crown
Qu Xiaomo only then remembered what he was doing here, so he got up and took the medicine bowl on the table, tested the temperature and felt that it was not soupy, so he sat on the edge of the bed, scooped a spoon with a spoon, bent over and whispered: "Big shopkeeper, the arrow in you is poisonous, and the little one carried you on your back for two days and two nights to find such a small village and stay in this aunt's house." ”
Then he winked at the golden stinger and whispered: "The little one kneels at the door in the middle of the night and holds two taels of silver to carry you into the door, and he will have to pay one or two taels of silver a month in the future." ”
As he spoke, he stretched out the wooden spoon in his hand to the mouth of the golden stinger, and said: "This is the prescription prescribed by the doctor, it is to clear the residual poison in your body, and the doctor said that you will have to lie down for at least two or three months if your body is to get better, so we can only live in this village temporarily for the past few months." ”
The frowning Jin Yu looked at the spoonful of medicine on the side of his mouth, hesitated for a moment or opened his mouth to drink, and then asked again, "What is this place?" ”
After feeding two more mouthfuls of Qu Xiaomo, he replied: "Qingzhou, Ningxian, Fenglai Village." ”
"Qingzhou? Are you heading west? Jin Yu asked, drinking the medicine she had fed
"Naturally, where else should I go?" Qu Xiaomo said while feeding the medicine: "The little one only heard from the big shopkeeper that the quiet capital is in the west, and you can only go to the west, and you are poisonous, so you can only find a place to find a doctor to show you." ”
"What poison did I get?" Jin Zhen asked
"I heard the doctor say that it is a snake venom called the Wanhua Snake, and the small one has discharged poisonous blood to you when it is in the cracks of the mountain, otherwise I am afraid that it will not last until yesterday, and the doctor will not come to see it." Qu Xiaomo said that he didn't forget to give credit to himself, but this is also a fact!
Jin Yu was in a coma for a few days and just woke up, he didn't have much energy at the moment, and he fell asleep again after drinking the medicine, Qu Xiaomo covered him with a thin quilt and went out to find Aunt Fang, who was cooking pig food.
"Auntie, can you have white rice? The shopkeeper just woke up and drank the medicine and fell asleep, I was afraid that he would be hungry when he woke up again, so I thought about cooking some porridge first. ”
Aunt Fang, who was holding a knife and stomping pig food, said while busy with the work in her hand: "You go to the rice bowl to get it, but you have to save a little, it's not easy for us to grow a little food, these rice are still exchanged for wheat by the owner." ”
Qu Xiaomo hurriedly responded obediently, followed her guidance to find the rice bowl, took it out with a bucket, washed it into the pot, and began to boil the porridge.
When I watched the firewood, I was full of thoughts about the idea of the jade crown of the golden sting, but now she is only thirty taels of silver, and she has to buy medicine, and she wants to buy meat and rice, and raise him, no matter how carefully she calculates, this bit of silver is not enough! After all, there are still two or three months, and now I hope that he will wake up slowly, so that she can cut first and then play, find a place to be a pawn or sell the jade crown, and now I have to ask with the courage to ask.
While boiling the porridge, Qu Xiaomo was also boiling the medicine again, the doctor said three times a day, after a while, Jin Yu woke up and ate the porridge and fed him a bowl of soup and medicine, it is better to take care of his body as soon as possible and leave early, who is sure that those people in black will find here.
After dinner in the evening, when he fed the porridge to Jin Zhen, he mentioned the matter of the jade crown and said: "The big shopkeeper, the little one only has thirty taels of silver, and the old doctor said that you have to drink medicine every day and eat some meat. ”
Jin Zhen, who was still weak and could only lie on the bed, raised his eyes and glanced at her, drank the white porridge with only some salt in the spoon in his hand, and then said, "You say." ”
Although the tone was still a little cold, because of his weakness, the tone was much better than the tone that made people feel like they were in an ice cellar before, so Qu Xiaomo took advantage of his weakness and let go of it, and said bluntly: "The big shopkeeper, the thirty taels of silver are all small, and they have been saved hard in the past two years, although they are all spent on the big shopkeeper now, the small ones are willing, after all, the big shopkeeper will definitely return them to the small ones in the future, right?" ”
"What if I don't pay it back? You're going to leave me here and run away alone? Hearing this, Jin Yu raised his lips slightly, and smiled for the first time in front of Qu Xiaomo.
Although the smile was very faint and flashed away, Qu Xiaomo still caught it, his eyes flashed with amazement, to be honest, for her, who is not an appearance association, this man is really beautiful to the extreme, it is hard to imagine that a man can look so bewitching and not have the slightest childishness, fortunately, this person does not smile often, and often has a straight face, otherwise I am afraid that I will hook up many girls' hearts!
After coming back to his senses, Qu Xiaomo hurriedly showed his loyalty with a dog-legged face: "How can it!" Is that kind of person small? Even if the thirty taels of silver are spent and there is no silver, the big shopkeeper in the future does not remember that the small one is still the same, and the small one is still the same dedicated service, and he will not hesitate to go up the knife mountain and go down to the sea of fire! But..."
Qu Xiaomo quietly looked at Jin Zhen, who couldn't see clearly with his eyebrows down, while feeding the porridge, and said: "But the most important thing now is to raise the body of the big shopkeeper, and the little one is thinking... Put your jade crown... Take it to the county and exchange it for some silver, so I can buy you some delicious supplements,... Do you think so? ”
Seeing that Jin Zhen didn't respond, he said: "The old doctor also explained that you have to eat some meat porridge, and the little one has to buy you a few changes of clothes, and it's not a way to always wear Aunt Fang's and Uncle Fang's clothes." ”
Everything that should be said was finished, but Jin Yu still didn't respond, until a bowl of porridge was drunk, he wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, and was about to turn around and go out before he heard him say: "The jade pendant stays, and the jade crown is taken away." ”
Qu Xiaomo's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she hurriedly turned around and thanked him, originally she didn't think about getting rid of that jade pendant, she had been waiting for this jade pendant for so long, and she had always seen it on her body, and yesterday she looked through it and found that this jade pendant was an old thing, and the jade crown was usually worn instead, so it should not be more important than the jade pendant.
After dinner, Qu Xiaomo was in trouble, when Jin Yu didn't wake up, she could still sleep next to him, and she could wash and change clothes, when people woke up at this time, this room is such a big place, where does she sleep at night? You can't squeeze with Jin Zhen like before, not to mention that he doesn't agree, he feels embarrassed and panicked, how can he fall asleep, and now that his chest is no longer tied, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not find out the clues.
After thinking about it, I still went out to ask my aunt and uncle for two long benches and a thin quilt, and after hearing her use, Aunt Fang was puzzled and said with a little impatience: "Couldn't we sleep together on the couch the night before?" Why is it so troublesome today? ”
Fang Laohan glared at her and said, "How can the master and servant sleep together, you go to the county seat to see which maid sleeps with the young lady?" Go get a futon. ”
As he spoke, he moved two long chairs to Qu Xiaomo and said, "Your aunt just talks a lot, don't rest assured." ”
Qu Xiaomo naturally won't take it to heart, people are under the eaves, and now is an extraordinary period, even if you give the silver waist pole, you can't be too hard, lest people drive you out and take him out of the way.
Old Man Fang and Aunt Fang came to see the woke up Jin Yu before dinner, this person had a cold face on the outsiders, his face was gentle and he chatted with them with a little smile, but as soon as the two of them turned around and went out to leave her alone, they turned back to the original ice cube.
Qu Xiaomo was a little indignant in his heart, but he didn't dare to provoke him in the end, he moved two chairs in at this time, and the golden stinger who had drunk the medicine inside had already fallen asleep, so he relaxed his hands and feet, and took two benches at a distance from the bed, took the thin quilt sent by Aunt Fang, and lay down with his clothes closed.
The two benches are not large and can't turn over, and it's weird and uncomfortable to lie flat all night, but there is no way there is no soft collapse and no other room here, and he has to take care of the golden sting.
In the middle of the night, it was uncomfortable to toss and turn, but after all, I was able to sleep, and I was woken up by Aunt Fang as soon as it was dawn in the morning, and I said yesterday that I would take her to the county, and the people in the village went out early in the morning to wait for the ox cart from the next village to come, and it cost five cents per person.
Qu Xiaomo also remembered to exchange the jade crown of the golden sting for some silver, Aunt Fang woke up as soon as she shouted, did not alarm the golden sting on the bed, tied her hair lightly, pulled her wrinkled clothes, and went out to do elementary school student radio gymnastics in the yard left and right, and her hands and feet were stiff and stiff.
After washing her face and rinsing her mouth, Aunt Fang came out wearing a set of clean clothes, wrapped in a blue cloth headscarf and carrying a basket, and held two steamed buns wrapped in a handkerchief in the other hand, handed one to her, and said: "There is a basket on the table inside, you quickly clean up, you can't catch up with the ox cart and walk for more than an hour, so eat a steamed bun mat on the way, and wait for it to be used in the county." ”
More than an hour, that's not more than two hours! Qu Xiaomo took the steamed bun and bit it, quickly poured out the washing water and entered the house, and put on all the things that were packed up last night, especially the jade crown that could not be forgotten.
Put all the things in the basket, cover them with a handkerchief, and follow the example of Aunt Fang to go out, and the two of them went down the path to the entrance of the village.
Aunt Fang's house is in the innermost part of the village, and it is cut some distance from the houses in the village, and this road leads directly from the village to the entrance of the village, so naturally it is necessary to pass in front of many households.
At this time, it is the time when the farm is busy, and many people are also in a hurry to go to the field to pound the crops, otherwise the sun will rise and it will be unbearable to be hot, so as soon as the morning dawns, someone opened the door and came out with a hoe, and greeted Aunt Fang, and saw Qu Xiaomo following beside him, and asked jokingly: "Yo, auntie, where are you looking for this girl, this looks so handsome." ”
It was a woman with a bamboo basket and a sickle in her hand, and when she opened the fence, she happened to meet the two of them, and asked after a cold talk.
Aunt Fang smiled and said as she had discussed before: "This is my cousin niece, my niece and son-in-law who passed by here two days ago were bitten by a snake, and I came to borrow it for a few days when I knew that I was here, Xiao Mo quickly called Sister-in-law Tian." ”
Qu Xiaomo smiled sweetly at the person: "Hello Sister-in-law Tian!" ”
"Hey~ Okay, good, this girl is really handsome, and her mouth is sweet."
After speaking, he looked suddenly enlightened, and said, "Oh! I said, yesterday I saw my uncle go to the county seat to invite a white-bearded doctor, and I was wondering if you were sick, and I discussed going over to take a look after I was busy today. ”
Aunt Fang smiled: "My body is very strong all year round, how can I get sick." ”
"That's it, I saw you picking pigweed in the field before, and you are in good spirits." Sister-in-law Tian said with a smile
Aunt Fang glanced at the sickle in her hand and said, "Don't delay you picking pigweed, I'll take my cousin and niece to the county seat to buy some things first." ”
"Cheng Chengcheng, you hurry up, otherwise you won't be able to catch up with the ox cart."