It took the three of them an afternoon to finally clean up the yard.

After dinner, Lamei Ji hung at home, and after Aunt Zhou fell asleep, the two took advantage of the night to go down the mountain.

Lamei and Chuntao covered their faces with headscarves and stood at the door of Lamei's house. "Not going in?"

"If you go in, you can't get out. I'm just outside listening to the sounds. ”

It's late, the winter nights are too cold, and people go to bed early. Chun Tao can't hear anything, and so is naturally Lamei. But she stood there motionless and smiled, as if she had really heard something.

"Is there a sound?" After standing for a long time, Chun Tao was really a little cold, wrapped her clothes tightly, looked at Lamei who didn't want to leave, and had to ask.

"Yes, if you listen carefully, you can hear my father's snoring, and my sister-in-law's voice whispering to my brother."

Chun Tao listened carefully again, but still didn't hear anything, and stood helplessly with Lamei for a while.

"Let's go back! Too late. As soon as Chun Tao moved her stiff hands and feet, she saw Lamei stumbling, and hurriedly grabbed her hand and held her up.

"Chun Tao, do you think I'm unfilial like this?"

"I don't know, but you're brave." Even in modern times, there are very few people who can do this for love, let alone in this era. Although Lamei looks weak, she is unexpectedly strong.

"I'm not brave, I'm scared now. I'm afraid that I will regret it and become a joke. So I kept telling myself that I couldn't go back, absolutely can't go back. ”

"When you say that, I don't know if I was right or wrong to help you in the first place." After so long, Chun Tao is still not used to looking at problems from the perspective of this era.

"Whether it's right or wrong, it's my own choice, and it doesn't matter if you help me or not." Lamei held Chun Tao's hand and looked at her with a smile.

"Yes! The path you choose, even if it's a cliff, you have to jump! Chun Tao looked at the gloomy sky and remembered something.

"Cliffs?" Lamei unconsciously repeated it.

"Don't think about it, let's go back quickly! Beware of freezing to death. The cold wind disturbed Chun Tao, and Chun Tao interrupted Lamei, and the two of them quickened their pace to face the cold wind and went back.

On the second day, Chun Tao felt top-heavy and weak when she got up, and it seemed that last night's worries had come true.

I don't know what happened to Lamei. Chun Tao half leaned on the head of the bed, rubbed her temples for a while before putting on her clothes, and staggered to the stove room to start boiling porridge.

There was no food at home, and Chun Tao was not comfortable, so I boiled some sweet potato porridge and made some kimchi for breakfast. Another pot of red dates and ginger tea was boiled to ward off the cold. Although it was late, there was no medicine at home.

After doing these things, Aunt Zhou had already gotten up and fed the remaining chickens, and Lamei hadn't gotten up yet.

"What's wrong with Lamei? Still not up yet? ”

"I guess I'm sick." Lamei's physique is not much better than that of Chun Tao, so she must be sick on a cold day.

"Sick? Is it scared? I don't think your face is very good. Aunt Zhou reached out to touch Chun Tao's face, but she avoided her.

"I'm fine, by the way, how many chickens do you have at home?" Chun Tao didn't want to discuss her body with Aunt Zhou anymore, lest she find out and force her to rest.

"I counted five of them yesterday night, and I went to see another one this morning. Others, presumably, were taken away. ”

"Six is a lot."

"Mother understands, you have to relax."

"You help me look at the fire, I'll go see Lamei."

"Okay! There you go! If she is really sick, let her rest and don't get up. ”

"Hmm!" Chun Tao dragged her tired body and knocked on Lamei's door, and as soon as she opened the door, she saw Lamei's pale face and dry lips. "Are you feeling unwell?"

"No, it's just that people are a little groggy, I don't know what time, and I just get up late." Lamei was strong and energetic, but she was still weak.

Chun Tao reached out and touched Lamei's forehead and touched her own, the temperature was the same. "You have a fever, go and lie down in bed."

"I'm fine." Chun Tao pushed her to the edge of the bed, pressed her on the bed, and covered her with the quilt.

"I boiled some ginger tea, you wait until you finish drinking the porridge and drink some more, stuffy and sweaty."

"Chun Tao, I..." Lamei struggled to get up, but was pressed down by Chun Tao again.

"Don't say it, I know you want to help, but now you have to take care of it, and then help when you are done. Otherwise, it will be more serious and troublesome. ”

"Okay!" The last thing the Zhou family lacks now is trouble, and when Lamei heard Chun Tao say this, she didn't dare to force it anymore.

After serving the porridge to Lamei, Chun Tao and Aunt Zhou finished breakfast, and then went to give Lamei ginger tea, and finally sent rice to Zhou Kuiruo.

Chun Tao opened the door, and Zhou Kuiruo was already sitting at the desk and getting dressed. "You're here?"

"Let's wash up!" When Chun Tao put the basin, Zhou Kuiruo stepped forward and took the breakfast on it.

"How can one person take so many things." Chun Tao put the rice on the tray, put the tray on the basin, and brought it together.

"Convenient." Chun Tao rubbed her eyebrows and relieved herself.

Zhou Kuiruo turned around after washing and saw Chun Tao sitting on a chair with her eyes closed and frowning. "Why is your forehead so hot?"

Zhou Kuiruo wanted to help Chun Tao rub her temples, but found that her forehead was hot, and he grabbed her hand again, which was also hot.

"Do you have a fever?"

Chun Tao impatiently brushed Zhou Kuiruo's hand away, "No, it's just a little hot." ”

"Do you have a little bit of this? Your hands and feet are cold on weekdays, and they have never been like this today. Let's go and see the doctor. Zhou Kuiruo picked up the spring peach and walked out.

"I see, I'll go and see it. I'll enter the county seat later, and I'll see when the time comes, you can eat! Don't bother me. Chun Tao was exhausted and unconsciously said hurtful words.

"Good!" Zhou Kuiruo picked up Chun Tao, put her on the bed, and covered her with a quilt. "Then you can rest here first."

"No, there's something going on at home." Chun Tao wanted to tear off the quilt, but was grabbed by Zhou Kuiruo.

"Then tell me, what's going on at home?"

Chun Tao's spirit was already poor, and now she was lying in bed again, her mind was suddenly in chaos, and she couldn't think of anything. "There's... There are..."

"Then it seems that there is nothing to do, the most important thing now is that you have to rest."

There was still some temperature in the quilt, and the warmth invaded Chun Tao's body a little bit, eroding her will. "That's... Then I'll rest for a while, you remember to call me. ”

"Good! You rest! Seeing that Chun Tao was no longer moving, Zhou Kuiruo turned around and wrung out the handkerchief, and left it to dry for a while before putting it on her forehead.

After staring at her for a while, Zhou Kuiruo got up and went to eat. After eating, he re-wet the handkerchief and put it on her forehead.

After changing the handkerchief several times, the temperature on Chun Tao's forehead dropped a little.

Zhou Kuiruo wrung out the handkerchief, hung it up, walked to the door with the basin, suddenly stopped again, thought about it, stood at the door and splashed the water directly.

After pouring the water, he returned to the desk to concentrate on reading, but it didn't take long to hear Aunt Zhou's voice calling Chun Tao, and Zhou Kuiruo had to wake up Chun Tao. "Wake up, my mother called you."

Chun Tao opened her eyes hard and looked at him with a frown. "Hmmm! I know. ”

After finishing speaking in a daze, he closed his eyes and squinted for a while before slowly turning over and getting up.

"Lady!" The moment Chun Tao was about to walk out of the door, Zhou Kuiruo called out to her. "If you're tired, tell me."

Chun Tao didn't speak, and smiled back. Walking into the courtyard with a basin, standing in the warm winter sun, Zhou Kuiruo stood behind her and looked at her back.