Chapter 8: Hunting
The fat man glared at the shopkeeper Zhou a few times, and then sneered: "Since you doubt my medical skills, why do you bother to come to me for a doctor?" ”
Shopkeeper Zhou raised his eyebrows and glanced at the fat man, and said leisurely, "If it weren't for Dr. Xu's visit and he hadn't come back, and he was afraid of delaying the child's condition, would it be your turn to be the fat man?" Outsiders don't know, don't you count it yourself? Compared with Dr. Xu, your yellow fat man's medical skills are not half a star. ”
Before, if it weren't for Dr. Xu's endless prescriptions to restrain the plague day and night, I am afraid that Mao'an Town would have become a hell on earth.
Looking up at Liu Zhimo, who had a calm face, Shopkeeper Zhou sighed in his heart, but it was a pity that Liu Fuzi couldn't survive until that time, left a few children, and let go.
Huang Fat Man hated others the most for comparing his medical skills with Doctor Xu, he was angry and reddened, and pointed to tell Shopkeeper Zhou to get out.
If Xu Heng's old guy hadn't been lucky enough to come up with a prescription to restrain the plague, would he be where he is today?
Liu Zhimo couldn't see that Shopkeeper Zhou was insulted like this, he reached out and probed his sister's forehead, felt that the temperature had cooled down, his heart relaxed, and said to Shopkeeper Zhou with a smile: "Shopkeeper Zhou, my sister is fine, she can leave." "This Baicaotang, he doesn't want to stay longer for a moment.
Shopkeeper Zhou stood up, patted the non-existent dust on his robe, and looked at Huang Fat Man with a smile, "Huang Fat Man, it's not me talking about you, just your hospitality, it's not your face that is lost, but your master's face." With that, he raised his feet and walked out of the Baicao Hall first.
Jishitang and the master behind Baicaotang have always been at odds with each other, and he is not afraid of offending Baicaotang with his words.
The fat man had a gloomy face, staring at the shopkeeper Zhou gloomily, until the person couldn't see it, then he snorted coldly and shook his hand into the inner room.
One day, Baicaotang will eradicate Jishitang.
Back at Jishitang, Liu Zhimo pulled Liu Zhiyan and kowtowed deeply to Shopkeeper Zhou and Brother Yaotong, thanking them for their help.
Liu Zhimo knew that if it wasn't for the medicine boy brother to find Shopkeeper Zhou, Shopkeeper Zhou would not know about him.
"Xiao Li Gongzi, you are too polite, hurry up." Shopkeeper Zhou stretched out his hand to help the two of them up, and said kindly, "It's late at night, and Sister Ling has just lost her fever, so you can rest here for one night and go back tomorrow morning!" ”
Liu Zhimo could tell the difference, so he thanked the shopkeeper Zhou again, and the shopkeeper Zhou waved his hand and asked the medicine boy to take them inside to rest, and he turned around and went home again.
Afraid that Liu Zhirou would heat up again, Li Qingling and Liu Zhimo took turns to take care of her, but fortunately, the next day, she didn't have a fever again, and the two of them were completely relieved.
said goodbye to the medicine boy, and drove home with an ox cart.
Everyone in the village got up early to work, and when they saw Liu Zhimo carrying an ox cart carrying Li Qingling and the three of them back, they all asked him curiously where he was going?
Liu Zhimo patiently answered their questions, and everyone listened to it and comforted them before they dispersed to work.
Li Qingling exhaled lightly, saw Liu Zhirou who had woken up, hugged her and asked her softly, if there was anything uncomfortable.
Liu Zhirou was still young and couldn't express herself, she shrunk into Li Qingling's arms, put her little hands around her neck, and whispered, "Sister..."
"Huh? My sister is here, isn't there anything uncomfortable? Li Qingling touched her forehead, and when she felt that it was a normal body temperature, she was relieved.
wrapped the quilt around Liu Zhirou again, afraid that it would be cold to her.
This move woke Liu Zhiyan up, he opened his eyes in a daze, saw Liu Zhirou awake, happily moved over, took her hand and called her.
Liu Zhirou turned her head sideways to see Liu Zhimo, grinned and smiled, and reached out to let Liu Zhimo hug her, Liu Zhiyan hurriedly hugged her over, "Sister, does your head still hurt?" ”
"Pain?" Liu Zhirou tilted her little head sideways and thought for a moment, then shook her head, "It doesn't hurt." ”
"It doesn't hurt." Liu Zhiyan was relieved, his sister's fever scared him this time, and he must take more care of his sister in the future to prevent her from getting sick.
Back at Liu's house, as soon as the ox cart stopped, Li Qingling heard Li Qingfeng shouting to Zhao, "Mother, sister, they're back." Ran this way while shouting, ran to Li Qingling, looked at Liu Zhirou in her arms and asked, "Is Rourou okay?" ”
"Alright." Li Qingling smiled, gave Liu Zhirou to Liu Zhiyan to hold, she took off the quilt on the ox cart, and put it in the room.
When he came out, Zhao came over with the porridge that had already been cooked, "You came back so early, you should be hungry, hurry up and come over and eat!" "Push the porridge before everyone.
Li Qingling and the others didn't come back this night, and the Zhao family was very worried, because they were afraid that Liu Zhirou would have three long and two short, but fortunately it was fine.
Liu Zhimo thanked Zhao gratefully, picked up the rice porridge specially cooked for Liu Zhirou, and prepared to feed her.
Seeing this, Zhao stretched out his hand and took it, "Zhimo, you eat yours, I'll feed Rourou, don't be hungry." ”
"Thank you, auntie." Liu Zhimo didn't shirk either, picked up the bowl and ate it quickly, he planned to finish drinking the porridge, so he went to fetch some grass and sent it to the village chief's house, thank the village chief for borrowing an ox cart for him.
After drinking the porridge, Liu Zhimo told Liu Zhiyan to take good care of Liu Zhirou at home, and he went to the kitchen to get the sickle and back the basket and prepared to go out.
Li Qingling chased after her, took out the half tael of silver from her sleeve, stuffed it into him, and asked him to go to the neighboring village Pork Rong to cut a pound of pork and send it to the village chief's house.
In this era, cattle are very valuable, and they are not willing to borrow them casually, so Li Qingling hopes to have a good relationship with the village chief, and he can borrow them next time.
Hearing her words, Liu Zhimo nodded, clutching the silver she handed over, his family owed her family so much, and he didn't care about it anymore.
He secretly vowed that he must support his family, and after marrying her in the future, he would not have to work so hard for her.
Looking at Liu Zhimo's back with the basket on his back, Li Qingling's eyes darkened, she still had to find a way to make money, and she really couldn't afford to be sick without money.
Besides, the Zhao family is about to give birth in two months, and if there is no money, they can't invite their biological mothers.
Thinking of this, her desire to earn money became stronger and stronger.
When Zhao finished feeding Liu Zhirou and Li Qingling returned home with her, she couldn't help but speak.
"Mother, I want to go to Songshan to have a look." Matsuyama is far away from here, she hasn't been there, only from her father, it's sparsely populated, there is more food, she wants to go and see it, right?
She also thought about it, and now she can't do anything else besides hunting, even if she wants to, and having no principal is a big difficulty for her.
But as soon as Zhao heard what she said, he immediately shook his head and objected, not letting her go, hunting is so dangerous, if she is not careful, even her life will be lost, how can she rest assured that she will go?
Li Qingling lowered his head and unconsciously buttoned his nails, "Mother, let me go, I won't go into the deep mountains, just take a look at the shallow mountains, there will be no danger." ”
"No, I don't agree with you going, you will die of this heart!" Zhao's attitude is very resolute, she has no children and his father, and she doesn't want to lose her daughter.
pursing her mouth, Li Qingling was silent, she knew that no matter how much she said, she would not be able to convince the Zhao family, but she made up her mind to go once, if she didn't go to a trip, she would not give up.
Zhao seemed to realize that her tone was heavy, she sighed and softened, "Xiaoling, my mother only has you and your brother, and there can't be any more accidents, otherwise my mother won't be able to live." ”
After a while, Li Qingling raised his head, "I know." "It's just that what she has made up her mind will not change, her family is surrounded by walls, and she doesn't fight, when will this day be the end?" Mother, I didn't sleep last night, go go and rest first. ”
"Okay, let's go!"
Zhao thought that Li Qingling had let go of the idea of going to Songshan, and there was a smile on his face.
Li Qingling woke up and went to help the Zhao family with the work in the fields, and behaved normally.
But in the middle of the night, she quietly got up, took her father's bow and arrows that had hunted before, and walked out of the room on tiptoe, went to the kitchen, groped for the back basket, put the fire fold, and a missing clay pot into the back basket, and walked out cautiously.
"Little Spirit..."
A scream startled her, Li Qingling clutched her chest, turned around nervously, lowered her head and didn't dare to look at Zhao who was standing at the door.
But she was very helpless in her heart, she was so careful, but she was still seen by the Zhao family.
If she hadn't wanted to go to the toilet, she wouldn't have seen her daughter who wanted to leave in the middle of the night, Zhao's tears rolled in his eyes, and he looked at Li Qingling with teary eyes.
After waiting for a long time and not hearing Zhao's voice again, Li Qingling couldn't help but whisper, "Mother, you are going to give birth to a baby soon, but there is nothing to eat at home, I'm afraid... I'm afraid you won't be able to give birth, so..."
"You have to go, don't you?" Zhao's tears flowed down his eyes.
"Yes..."
"Then go ahead!" After Zhao said this, he turned around and no longer glanced at Li Qingling.
Li Qingling looked up at Zhao in disbelief, but saw her trembling back, she closed her eyes vigorously, didn't dare to look at it anymore, and only whispered the way, I will come back safely.
When the words fell, he turned around and ran.
Hearing the footsteps in the distance, Zhao covered his mouth and cried suppressedly.
Li Qingling looked at the moon and walked slowly to the outside of the village, walked for about four hours, and the sky was bright before he found the pine mountain.
She immediately found some edible mushrooms on the mountain, washed them in the stream on the side of the mountain, put them in a clay pot and boiled them with water.
When she was full, she squinted and rested before continuing her walk into the mountains.
After walking for about two quarters of an hour, she saw a pheasant, and her eyes lit up immediately, and there was indeed food here.
She quickly took off her bow and arrow, carefully aimed at the pheasant, pulled the bow hard, and shot the arrow, but unfortunately the shot missed, and the pheasant was frightened and flew away.
Li Qingling frowned, she hadn't shot an arrow for too long, and her hand felt rusty, and besides, this arrow was still too heavy and too big for her now, and when she had money, she must hit an arrow that suited her.
With a light sigh, she took her bow and arrow and shot it at the trees in front of her, practicing her hand.