9. Strange numbers
Grandma's expression became dissatisfied:
"Oh, you young people, you just can't endure hardship, when Grandma was young, she was often injured, and she had to drink a jar every day!"
Huang Junming hurriedly waved his hand:
"Grandma, I don't mean that, I mean can I condense it, that's what...... According to traditional Chinese medicine, five bowls of water are boiled into one bowl of water."
"That's not good, the medicine is effective, you boil it into one bowl, don't you lose four bowls, no, no"
"Grandma, I didn't mean that"
Huang Junming replied eagerly.
Grandma was also anxious, and hit Huang Junming's head with a cane:
"No! Whatever it means, it's anyway! I'll finish this jar of medicine! ”
Seeing that the three of them couldn't talk about grandma, they had to keep sighing, and their eyes were full of sympathy when they looked at Guo Dongdong.
Ling Ye's stomach suddenly rumbled, and he thought that it was the third day he had been here, and he hadn't eaten yet.
"You're hungry"
Grandma turned around, picked up the medicine that Guo Dongdong put aside, and handed it to Ling Ye:
"Then you drink first"
Yes? Ling Ye looked at Grandma in surprise, this is medicine to treat injuries, and he is not injured, so he can't drink it.
Grandma seemed to see through Ling Ye's thoughts and explained:
"This medicine cures all kinds of diseases, such as cold, fever, constipation, diarrhea, headache, epilepsy, gout, hydrocephalus, heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys, immortality, cancer, cerebral palsy, dysmenorrhea, anemia, premature ejaculation, impotence, ......"
"What? It can also cure premature ejaculation and impotence," Ling Ye was surprised.
"Yes, you have this disease, then drink it quickly"
"I didn't!"
Ling Ye took the medicine and retorted fiercely.
"Oh, that's fine, if you are sick, you will be cured, and if you are not sick, you will not be able to defend yourself."
After speaking, Grandma also found a place to sit down:
"Grandma won't harm you, this medicine is good for your body, and you won't be hungry when you drink enough"
Seeing Grandma say this, the three of them also trusted Grandma, so they used a wooden basin to take medicine, and drank it in turn.
Huang Junming admired the taste of the potion, and boasted that although it smelled stinky, it was sweet and his stomach was not hungry.
But Ling Ye knew what was in it, and with a heart of resistance, he still drank it resignedly.
Grandma looked at the three of them with a smile, and said softly:
"You always remind me of when I was younger, by the way, guess how old I am?"
The three of them looked at Grandma, her wrinkled skin, her palms like dead wood, sitting on her back, and her old voice.
"More than 90, right?"
Huang Junming drank the medicine and said vaguely.
"Yes, Grandma looks young, just like 70 years old, etc...... How much did you just say? ”
Huang Junming finished drinking the medicine and handed the basin back to Ling Ye:
"90 huh? Isn't that right? That's 100 years old."
"Hiss" Ling Ye and Guo Dongdong gasped, no matter how old a woman is, she doesn't want to hear that she looks older than her actual age.
Grandma's expression was serious, her angry eyes stared at Huang Junming, her hand holding the cane, and it creaked, she was obviously angry.
It's just that Huang Junming didn't realize it at all, and he was still talking:
"My grandmother is like that, crumpled and bark-like, her teeth have fallen out, and her speech is leaky......"
Ling Ye hurriedly covered Huang Junming's mouth and said with a smile:
"60 years old, like 60 years old"
Yu Guang saw that Guo Dongdong gave him a look, suddenly realized something, and hurriedly said:
"30 years old! What 60, you look like an eldest sister, where can you tell how old you are?"
Grandma sighed, her hand relaxed, and her expression became gentle:
"Grandma also knows that she is old, when Grandma was young, many people chased her, from the small door of my house, you can row to the entrance of the village, but at that time, Grandma liked a guy, who lived next door to Grandma's house, called Ai Zhizhi. Ai Zhizhi, you know that he likes knowledge and likes to read books when you hear this name."
Grandma paused, as if caught in a memory:
"He worked very hard, so he went to high school step by step, and later was admitted to university, there was such a college student in our village, every family wanted to marry their daughter, but he just liked me and came to me to propose marriage"
Grandma's face showed the shy joy of a girl:
"After I got married, I followed him to the research institute in the desert, he was doing mechanical engineering technology, he went to work, I washed and cooked at home, and I lived a very happy life."
"Later, during the Chinese New Year, the institute held a dance, and many people brought their families to participate......"
Suddenly, a bell rang, interrupting Grandma's narration, and Grandma immediately straightened up and looked out of the tent.
The bell rang only once and then stopped, and the sound was so soft that if it weren't for the silence around them, they would have suspected that they had heard it wrong.
Grandma also sat down slowly, lowered her head and did not speak, they asked, and Grandma ignored it.
As the three of them took the pot and drank the medicine, the potion in the jar was also much less.
After drinking this medicine, the three of them felt warm in their stomachs, and their bodies were indescribably comfortable, and they moved their bodies and found that their joints became more flexible.
Ling Ye looked at Huang Junming and found that his original bleeding wound from hunting stinging rats had now scabbed, and it seemed that in a few days, it would heal completely.
Guo Dongdong also said that she was completely healed and the wound was no longer painful, but everyone still felt that she needed to drink more medicine.
Huang Junming yawned, tidied up his clothes, and was about to lie down, when he heard Ling Ye's exclamation:
"Huh? Huang Junming, you have numbers on you! ”
"Numbers? What number? ”
Huang Junming suddenly soared, looked in front of him, and turned around again, trying to see his back clearly.
"Here"
Ling Ye pointed his finger at Huang Junming's back, there was a thumb-sized scar on his shoulder, the shape of the scar was the number 5, it had already been scabbed, and now the dark gray scab had fallen off a little, revealing new pink flesh.
"It's 5," Midnight replied.
Huang Junming crossed his shoulder to look, he could indeed see a number, and he thought of something, and pulled it over the night to see.
Ling Ye's clothes have always been intact, but there are some blood stains on the back of the clothes, which have long since solidified, and the color has also turned dark brown.
Huang Junming saw that he couldn't see the numbers clearly, so he asked Ling Ye to simply take off his clothes so that he could see it more clearly.
Ling Ye looked at Guo Dongdong and Grandma, a little embarrassed, but he couldn't resist Huang Junming, so he took off his clothes resignedly.
As soon as they took off their clothes, everyone gasped, there were large and small scars on Ling Ye's back, densely packed, although they had long been healed, but the color of the skin was different from the intact skin around them, and it was obvious that these were old wounds.
Seeing that Ling Ye lowered his head and didn't speak, everyone was afraid that asking would remind him of bad memories, so they didn't ask.
Huang Junming pointed to Ling Ye's back and compared a number ————7