Chapter 66: Recuperation
"Li Xiuyuan"
Seeing the horse, but not seeing anyone, Bai Xia shouted, but there was no movement.
She couldn't help frowning, and shouted again: "Li Xiuyuan"
"Li Xiuyuan"
shouted three times in a row, only to see Li Xiuyuan slowly sliding down from a tree in the distance, his footsteps staggered to the ground, and his voice responded weakly: "Bai Xia, I'm here"
Following the voice, Bai Xia saw him, under a tree a hundred meters away from here, the shade of the tree was shading, and it was difficult to see it if he didn't look carefully.
Bai Xia tied up the horses, and Li Xiuyuan didn't let go of the one he was riding, so he sat on the ground, holding the small pebbles in the soles of his feet.
When she dealt with the official errand, she didn't feel it, but now that she had solved the problem, she realized that the stone on her foot was like a thorn in the palm of her hand, and it hurt so much that she felt difficult to walk.
After picking out the larger ones, she took out the water bladder she had collected from the officials, took the clay pot and her feet, poured water and rinsed it, and washed away all the mud and sand embedded in the flesh.
After washing, squeeze out the pus, and take a strip of cloth to bandage.
She took out another pair of straw sandals and wrapped them in layers of cloth, until she could not put them on and tie her feet, and then she put them on again.
Li Xiuyuan had already come over, and when he saw the wound on Bai Xia's foot, he stopped in place helplessly, his eyelids drooped, he didn't dare to look at it, and his fingers rubbed his cuffs crampedly.
Bai Xia finished bandaging and beckoned to him: "Come here"
He stepped forward obediently, Bai Xia had already wrapped the wound on his foot and put on the newly prepared straw sandals, although it still hurt when he walked, but he didn't have the feeling of pins and needles, and this pain could be endured.
Li Xiuyuan stepped forward obediently, stepping on the hot ground with his bare feet, maybe because of guilt, maybe because of something else, he never looked up.
"Sit down"
He sat down as he said, Bai Xia reached out to grab his ankle, he subconsciously shrank a little, looked at Bai Xia's cold eyes, and finally gave up resistance, still by her lifted his feet, one by one the blisters had already burst, small stones and mud and sand were trapped in the broken blisters, looking extremely miserable.
This appearance is not much better than Bai Xia's feet.
Bai Xia didn't speak, he reached out to pick up a bigger stone, Li Xiuyuan's feet trembled, but he pursed his lips and didn't make a sound, his hands pinched his cuffs tightly, and there were big drops of sweat flowing down his forehead, I don't know if it was hot or painful.
Maybe both.
The larger stone was taken out, and Bai Xia took out another water bladder, taking water to wash the wound on his foot.
The child's flesh is tender, and after walking such a long way, he was chased and killed by officials and ran away, and the soles of his feet were so broken that he could hardly see them.
Li Xiuyuan was pampered by the Lin family again, and the blisters on the soles of his feet were much more serious than Bai Xia's, and it was hard to believe that he hadn't cried out of pain, so he walked all the way.
It's a pity that I didn't think about it when I bought medicine in Wuzhen, and I didn't buy some gold sore medicine, so I don't even have some anti-inflammatory drugs now, and I don't know if the wounds of the two will be inflamed.
took a strip of cloth to wrap up the wound after cleaning, and according to the look of the pair of straw sandals he was wearing, he made another pair for Li Xiuyuan and put it on his feet, Bai Xia got up, filtered the water in the crockpot, boiled it in another crockpot, and stored it in a bamboo tube.
Three horizontal lines were drawn with a dagger on the upper edge of the bamboo tube and marked so that it would not be used as drinking water.
In the world of great drought, every cent of water is precious, filtered, boiled, sterilized, and preserved, and can be kept for washing feet, so as not to always live a dirty life.
After dealing with the wounds on his feet, Bai Xia took out his old clothes to make curtains, hung them around several big trees as a shield, and made one a little farther away, took out two clay pots again to pour a bladder of water each, and poured the remaining water of himself and Li Xiuyuan into two clay pots respectively, and put them into two simple bath sheds that were enclosed.
"Go scrub it and change your clothes" She took out two changes of clothes, one for Li Xiuyuan, and one for herself.
Li Xiuyuan didn't talk nonsense, and went to the curtain with his clothes.
There were a lot of blood stains on both of them, especially Bai Xia's face, there were blood stains on their clothes, and they were sticky and smelled fishy.
The cloth for wiping the body is only the size of a palm, although it is too small to wipe too large an area when used, but it can save water to the greatest extent.
Bai Xia wrung out the cloth, first wiped the blood off his face, and then changed his clothes to wipe off the dirt on his body.
She put the dirty clothes directly into the transformation pool, the blood stains on it have dried, the word learning appeared in the transformation pool, and the name of the clothes is also displayed as blood-stained dirty clothes, which means that when she takes out this clothes, the clothes will also be in a dirty state.
After changing into clean clothes, Bai Xia felt that he was alive again.
Li Xiuyuan on the other side was not done yet, she took out a comb to comb her hair into a ponytail, wrung out the strips of cloth, filtered out the water in her used crockpot, and made a fire to boil.
Li Xiuyuan scrubbed her and saw that she was boiling water, so he followed her example, mixed cotton cloth with mud and sand, filtered the water he had used, and then asked her for a clean crockpot, and also boiled the water and packed it, and marked it at the same time.
After disposing of the water, Bai Xia took out two steamed buns, took a bamboo tube of water from the conversion pool, handed the steamed buns to Li Xiuyuan, poured half of the bamboo tube water into him with the empty bamboo tube, and ate the steamed buns.
"Bai Xia, how many officials are chasing after you?"
Li Xiuyuan took the steamed bun, but did not eat it, frowning with a worried face.
Bai Xia chewed steamed buns in his mouth, took a sip of water and replied, "Two"
"And what happened to them?"
"Dead"
Li Xiuyuan gasped, even though his stomach was already hungry, he didn't have any appetite, and couldn't help but speak: "There are about ten officials in this batch, and now there are four dead, I'm afraid that the rest of them won't give up."
Their lives are in danger.
"I know"
Bai Xia killed one steamed bun and took out the second one, and his stomach was so hungry that he had to eat before he could work.
Seeing that she was eating wholeheartedly, as if she had already made a calculation, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but feel a little relieved, picked up the steamed buns and ate them, and while eating, he thought about how to deal with the remaining officials.
"The county magistrate of Wu County must be planning a big conspiracy, it is likely to be a rebellion, these officials are just a small team, and they have not seen the return trip for a long time, I think they have received the order of the county magistrate to guard the exit of the refugees"
"Refugees must travel 60 miles a day, and most of them will leave Wu County today"
"Refugees are displaced today"
"We killed the officials, if we alarm the government, we will definitely send more people to deal with us, so we must not let the government know, then the remaining people, we can't let them go back"
Li Xiuyuan said while eating steamed buns.
Bai Xia ate steamed buns and drank water, and didn't even give him a look.
His complexion changed, and he couldn't help asking, "Bai Xia, what are you going to do?" ”