Chapter 4

When the daughter of a poor family grows up, she only has the road of getting married, a person who has no connections and no resources, and none of the relatives in the family are officials, and there is no rich and noble family among the relatives, if you want to get rich, it is impossible to climb to the sky in one step, so she has no golden finger after passing through, and she grows up as ordinary as others, living an ordinary life, plain, but she is also content, living a solid life, and she does not have the dream of flying on the branches and becoming a phoenix overnight, and becoming rich and extraordinary.

On the way to the river, the surroundings are too quiet, every step she takes, there is a creaking sound of the leaves and branches on the ground, she grew up in Luwei Town, she is very familiar with everything in Luwei Town, this road, she has walked many times, where there are big stones on the road, she knows, so she will not be afraid of the dark.

After arriving at the river, she squatted down and began to wash the vegetables by the faint moonlight, and after washing the cabbage, she raised her head to look at the river, and she saw that next to the riverbank, about two or three meters away from her left hand, there was a dark shadow on the water, which was usually absent, as if it had suddenly appeared.

She thought it was the shadow of the tree in front of the river reflected in the water, she didn't want to pay attention to it, and after washing everything, she was ready to go back, but the eyes would catch a glimpse of that side, and she still felt strange, and when she looked closely, she found that it was not a shadow, but a thing that I didn't know what it was, and it looked a little heavy and bulky.

She found a long wooden branch and poked it at the object, which felt that something was wrong, it was a real thing, and the thing slowly floated close to her, and when it got closer, she suddenly saw it clearly.

It turned out to be a person, facing up, with a nose and eyes, I don't know whether it was drowning or being thrown away, and I don't know which direction it came from, this river is along the top all the way down, passing through several places, it is said to be thousands of miles long, called the Su River, and the water that the people need to use within a radius of 100 miles is supplied by this river.

Dead people, there are corpses in the river.

Wang Xiuhua was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she almost fell into the water, the wooden branch in her hand was not thrown, not thrown, after the frightened emotion, her first thought was whether the cabbage she had just washed had to be washed again, or had to throw away those cabbages, could the cabbage still be eaten?

Before dawn, she was the only one next to the river, so quiet that she only heard all kinds of insect chirping, except for her, no one saw the corpse, and the corpse slowly floated to the bank of the river, she took a deep breath and then fixed her eyes to look closer at the corpse that stopped, and found that the corpse's face was not swollen to the extent that she couldn't see the face clearly, her eyes did not bulge, she carefully tried to snort, and there was still breathing, the person was not dead, it was not a corpse, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Since the person is not dead, she can't see death without saving it, so she gritted her teeth and fished the person up, and the washed cabbage was not taken, she first hunched the unconscious person on her back like carrying goods, the drowning person was a man, if she didn't work often on weekdays, her strength was not small, and she might not be able to move, so she carried him back to the bun shop step by step.

The front of this bun shop is a shop, there is a three folding wooden doors in the middle, after the wooden door is a small courtyard, just enter the house, the courtyard is in front of the main house, the east and west wings are on both sides, she put people on the floor of a room, began to hold the lamp, three oil lamps are lit, just to see who is rescued.

This person has been soaked in the water for a long time, his face is pale, and his skin is even more wrinkled, she can only see that he is a man, about thirty years old, without any ornaments on his body, only wearing a thin white undershirt, she touched the fabric, although this cloth is soaked in water, but she can also feel its silky softness, made of some kind of silk satin, completely lint-free, like the first time to wear, very new.

She tried to press on his chest more than a dozen times, the man did not spit water, the whole person passed out, there was no reaction, the only underwear on his body was dirty and wet against the body, she thought about it or helped him take off the dirty clothes, used a towel to help him simply clean and wipe one or two, brought her father's clean clothes to put on him, and took out the iron charcoal basin, burned some firewood and black charcoal into it to keep him cold, thinking that after dawn, she went to the town pharmacy to find a doctor to show him.

They say that it is a town here, but it is similar to the village, but they want to call the name bigger to bring some good luck, it was called Luwei Village before, and then it was renamed Luwei Town, a very small place, not particularly prosperous, there are only two doctors in the town, who are responsible for seeing a doctor, but also responsible for prescribing medicine and catching medicine, wearing many hats, the day is not yet dawn, she is afraid that the pharmacy has not yet opened, and the doctor does not live in the pharmacy, she may be empty.

After getting people to bed, Wang Xiuhua returned to the river and took back all the things she had left behind.

Buns still have to be wrapped, she is the only bun shop in this town, if she doesn't make buns, the townspeople who want to eat buns today won't be able to eat, the big deal is that she wraps a little less and ends work early.

But she thought about it, this ancient woman is extremely particular about paying attention to reputation, reputation is bad, pedantic people can drown her with spittle, she suddenly picked up a strange man, if she is the only one who knows the cause of this matter, and then in the mouth of the townspeople, she became a strange man in the middle of the night, hooked up with a strange man to spend the night and steal. The swing of love. The woman, especially the man, was unidentified, and she had to be more cautious.

So she decided not to make buns first, today this bun is not sold to become a success, she is going to carry the bronze rosette oil lamp out to find Aunt Feng next door and them, tell them about this bizarre thing, by the way begged them to help, everyone has been saved here, no matter what, I have to continue to save it, let the other party live, just about to leave, her hand was suddenly caught, and the cold touch made her startled again.