The next day, it was still gray, and Su Yi's father had already gotten up and dressed lightly.

Then he took a purse that his wife had given him the night before, which was full of broken silver, and then went out of the room cautiously, and then closed the door with him.

After leaving the house, he first went to the thatched house in the backyard to relieve his hands, and then went around the front yard into the stove room, fetched water and washed his face, and then in the stove room, he made a fire in the stove hole, and got some food for the horses, and by the way, he warmed up the two cakes made by Su Yiniang earlier.

He took the hot bread and ate it, and soon finished it, and then went to the hall and poured a cup of warm water and drank it, and then went back to the stove, and took the horse's food to the backyard and fed it to the horse, and when the horse was ready, he led the horse out, and then made the carriage and the head of the carriage ready, and then led the horse to the front yard.

After leaving the courtyard gate, he turned around, put down the rope in his hand, walked a few more steps, and closed the courtyard door that he had just opened.

Then he turned around, got into the carriage, and drove the carriage to the town.

The sky was still gray, some early morning fog, and I couldn't see the pedestrians in the distance on the road, and I couldn't see the distance clearly, so Su Yi's father drove the carriage carefully and steadily.

To-day he also wears a hat, gloves, and socks made by his wife, and a black cloak over his cotton coat, which he did yesterday, except that when he came home in the afternoon, the cloak was untied in the carriage when he got out of the carriage, and the horse he was driving was also put on the objects made by his mistress.

The distance from Shimizu Village to the town is not too close, and there are occasional fields on both sides of the road, as well as occasional mountains.

The fog is still very heavy, and the air is very cold, and if you open your mouth and take a breath, your mouth and throat will be cold.

As he drove the carriage, a gust of wind came upon him again, striking him in the face, and in a moment his face was red again.

Fortunately, his cheek has learned to resist freezing and cold over the years, and he doesn't feel much pain.

When he arrived in the town, passing by the stone bridge, the fog finally lifted, and he drove the carriage all the way to the county.

The county is not far away, and it will take a quarter of an hour to catch the carriage.

But if he met a carriage coming back on the way, he would shout, old man, and ask the coachman who was driving the carriage if he had brought his child Ahe back.

After such a delay, it took him about two quarters of an hour when he arrived at the county seat.

He drove the carriage to the academy he knew, and the first time Ah He went to the academy was he sent there, and when he arrived at a academy, he got out of the carriage and hurriedly knocked on the door of the academy.

The door didn't open.

He knocked again.

Still not open.

He hurriedly knocked again.

Knocked on ~

Waited a while.

But there was movement, and the gate of the academy was opened by an elderly mother-in-law, who saw him and said, "Little brother, who are you looking for?"

Su Yi's father guessed that she might be the cleaning mother-in-law invited by this academy, "Auntie, I'm here to find my family Chen He, I'm here to pick him up." ”

When the mother-in-law heard about it, she was looking for Chen He?

She looked up and down at the man standing at the gate of the academy, and then saw the carriage parked not far behind him, a smile suddenly appeared on her face, and then she showed a trace of worry, and said, "You are the uncle of Ahe's child, right?"

Soydad nodded.

"That child, I have been sick with the cold for the past two days, and I am lying on the bed. The mother-in-law sighed.

The people in this academy are almost gone, but she, the cleaning lady Zhang, will have to stay for a few more days, and she must clean up the academy before she can go home.

It's also a shame that her home is in this county, close to the academy, and it doesn't hurt to be a few days later, if it's far away, the weather is getting colder and colder, and it snows again, it's inconvenient.

When Su Yi's father heard this, he hurriedly squeezed in the open door of the academy, and said as he walked: "Thank you aunt for telling me, do you know if my child has asked for a doctor?"

"Please, my old woman also boiled some medicine for him to drink, but it didn't get better, I told him to ask someone to go back and inform you first, he stopped me, and said something, it will be fine in two days, if you ask someone to go back and tell you, you will have to worry again~"

Su Yi's father didn't speak again, and only relied on his memory to speed up his pace and go to Ah He's room.

The mother-in-law followed him quickly, and the courtyard door was not closed, and she also said: "Your Ahe, that child still said that you are far away, if I tell you, please run so far away, saying that you have to be busy driving carriages all day to earn silver, very hard, what is his sick cold? But I see that his sick cold is getting more and more serious~"

"He also said that he himself knows herbal medicine and knows some cold, and he doesn't listen to my mother-in-law no matter how much he persuades him~"

As he spoke, Su Yi's father had quickly found the front of the room, and he reached out and pushed the door, which was opened, and a burst of light pierced into the room.

There are many small beds side by side in the room, and there is a gap between each bed, and the quilts and pillows on the other beds are neatly stacked, only one bed has a little messy quilt, and a teenager is lying under the quilt.

His face was a little pale, and he looked sick.

The boy felt the strong light from the door being opened, opened his eyes, and glanced towards the door.

Then he saw his uncle walking towards him, walked to his bed, bent down and glanced at him, "Uncle will take you to the infirmary." ”

Before the boy could react, the man had bent down even more, picked up a pair of boots in front of the bed, lifted the corner of the quilt, and put the boots on the boy.

He saw that the young man under the quilt was wearing a lot of clothes, he thought about it and untied the black cloak on his body, lifted the quilt again, helped the thin and sick young man, put his black cloak on the young man, wrapped the cloak tightly on the young man, and then carried him out of the academy.

The mother-in-law naturally saw his actions behind them, and hurriedly followed them out, and said behind her: "On West Street, there is a good doctor, the doctor in there is good, and the medicinal materials are sold cheaper." ”

The man had already carried the boy to West Street, and turned back and said, "Thank you, auntie."

He drove the carriage all the year round, and he still knew his hometown county, so he didn't stop and continued to walk to West Street.

The man's stature was not very tall, and the thin boy he was carrying on his back was actually taller than him.

The streets of the county town are much larger than the streets of the town, and there are many more restaurants, restaurants, inns, pawnshops, and teahouses on both sides of the street.

The mother-in-law standing at the gate of the academy looked at their backs and breathed a sigh of relief.

Ah He, this kid, it's not easy.

She had heard about him.

His father had gone to the battlefield in his early years, and the war was gone, and his mother's heartbroken rope was twisted around his neck.

From then on, he was left to live with one of his elderly grandfathers.

The mother-in-law sighed again.

Fortunately, Ahe, this child has a good aunt and a good uncle, otherwise~

Where can he still come to this academy to study and listen to the master's teachings?

In a medical hall on West Street, a doctor was treating the thin young man who was sent in a hurry, looked at it carefully, prescribed several patches of medicine, and told him how to fry the herbs and drink them several times a day.

The middle-aged man who sent him hurriedly took out the purse he brought, took out the silver from it, and paid for the medical treatment.

Then he opened his mouth and said to the doctor of the medical center, can you borrow the stove in the backyard of their medical center first?

The doctor nodded, and called one of his healers to take the man with him.

Before the man went, he asked the doctor for a room, and carried the thin boy into it, and laid him on the bed for him to rest, and then unfastened his cloak, and helped him to lie down, and took off his shoes, and covered him with a quilt, and then put the cloak over the quilt.

The young man looked at his uncle, his face was still a little pale, he only opened his mouth, and said: "Uncle, this medicinal material is expensive, we can return a few patches of medicine, and leave two stickers, which can save a lot of silver." ”

"What is the saving? You're so resting, I'll go and decoction a patch of medicine first. ”

"Uncle, we have a lot of medicinal herbs in our family, I can dispense them myself, and it is difficult to earn so much silver for so much money. ”

"How can there be such a complete set of medicinal materials at home? Besides, isn't the silver just a spent? ”

With that, the man went out.

The man went into the stove, made a fire in the hole, and borrowed a jar of medicine to fry the medicine.

He slowly added one firewood after another, he had a lot of calluses on his hands, his face was still a little red, and the corners of his eyes were already wrinkled.

At this time, he sat on a small stool in front of the stove, and carefully lit the fire, the fire of this decoction could not be too big, nor could it be small.

From time to time, he glanced at the medicine jar of the decoction, and the white smoke slowly came out of the medicine jar, and after waiting for a while to see that the decoction was done, the man took out the unburned firewood in the stove hole, extinguished it, and put it in front of the stove hole, and then stood up, found a clean bowl and spoon, and drew some water from the wooden barrel with well water in the stove room, washed the bowl and spoon, and washed his own hands, and then went to see the medicine jar.

He glanced at the medicine jar, picked up a rag on the stove and held the upper half of the medicine jar, and went to the room where Ah He slept.

He gently kicked the door with his leg, opened it, walked in, closed the door with his leg, and then walked to the bed with the very hot medicine jar, and placed the medicine jar on the desk beside the bed.

Although he was holding a rag outside the medicine jar, his hands were already burning a little red, but he didn't care, he only opened his mouth and whispered a few times Ah He, and when Ah He woke up after sleeping, he went out to the stove room to get the freshly washed dishes and chopsticks, and then poured some decoction from the medicine jar into the bowl.

Then with a bowl in one hand and a spoon in the other, he scooped up another spoonful of decoction, blew it, and blew it again~

At this time, Ah He was already half-leaning against the wall next to the bed, and his uncle was sitting on a wooden stool next to the bed.

The uncle was already blowing a lot of cold on the spoonful of medicinal soup, so he handed it to Ah He, "Drink two sips first, wait for a while to get colder, and then you can drink it yourself with the bowl." ”

Ah He nodded and took a sip obediently.

Then, blow, feed, drink, and take another sip~

In the middle of the ring, the bowl of medicine in his uncle's hand had been fed to Ah He and drunk, and then he stood up again and poured out the remaining decoction in the medicine jar, which was not very hot, into the empty bowl, and then handed it to Ah He and told him to drink it.

After drinking the hot medicine, Ah He's face was still pale, but he looked a lot better.

He stretched out his hand and took the bowl of soup and medicine, and drank it, and soon the bowl of soup and medicine was finished, and then his uncle took the empty bowl and chopsticks, and said, "You rest for a while, don't lie down, just lean against the wall like this, sit for a while, and then lie down and rest again, and I will go and pour the dregs of this medicine first." ”

Ah He nodded, and then looked at his uncle with the medicine jar and bowl, and the spoon went out of the door, and closed the door.

When his uncle was gone, he looked down and saw a black cloak on the quilt he was covering, and the black cloak was sewn from coarse cloth, with a layer of cotton hidden in it.

Such a cloak, Ah He knew, was made by his aunt.

He also had it, but his cloak was much better, and his cloak was made of muslin inside and out, and his cloak was also black, and he was embroidered with black thread and good bamboo.

Ah He glanced at the black cloak again, stretched out his hand, and touched it.

Su Yi's father outside took the medicine jar and found a person from the medical hall and asked where the medicine residue was poured?

He followed the man's instructions and poured out the dregs, and then took the jar and bowl and spoon and went to the stove again, and then washed them with clean water, and then put them in their original places.

Then he picked up a few other patches of medicine that he had put on the cabinet in the stove room. He went to the front yard again, gave the doctor some broken silver and said something to him, and then the doctor nodded, and Su Yida took a few patches of medicine in his hand, went back to the backyard, and went to look for Ah He.

When he found Ah He, Su Yi's father asked, "Is your body more comfortable?"

Ah He nodded.

"Let's stay in this hospital for another night, if you are comfortable, the doctor is here, I can come and see you in time, and after tonight, you are better and we will go home." ”

Ah He shook his head and stopped: "Uncle, what if it snows suddenly? Besides, staying in this medical hall will definitely cost money." ”

Uncle shook his head, "You don't need to spend money, the eldest lady of this pharmacy is very good, I look at the sky outside, I guess it won't snow today, let's just say so, I'll put this medicine on this desk, I'll go to your academy to bring the carriage, do you want to bring something?"

Ah He thought for a while and said, "Then please help me go to my bed and bring those two books to my bed." ”

"Good. ”

Then Su Yi's father went out.

Ah He watched his uncle go out, and when he went out for a while, he remembered that he forgot to ask his uncle to put on this cloak.

He reached out and touched the coarse cloth cloak again.

There was a hint of tenderness on some pale faces.