Chapter 135: Rescue the Boy
Chapter 135: Rescue the Boy
Seeing him wake up, An Yue twisted the rough cloth in her hands and said calmly, "You'd better not move. Stay in my house for the time being and take good care of yourself."
After saying that, An Yue immediately stood up, picked up the wooden basin and went to pour water.
After pouring the water, he put down the basin and took a look at the rice porridge in the pot.
The rice porridge was almost done, so she gently stirred the bottom of the pot a few times to prevent it from sticking to the bottom of the pot.
"Wait a little longer, the rice porridge will be ready soon." An Yue sat under the stove again and handed over firewood.
At this moment, the air suddenly became quiet.
Two strangers who didn't know each other's names.
Half a quarter of an hour later, the rice porridge was ready.
An Yue fed the boy half a bowl of rice porridge. The two of them drank some porridge under the stove to fill their stomachs. After An Yue put down the bowl, she picked up the small basket and the sickle, ready to go out and dig some herbs.
After the boy finished drinking the rice porridge, his condition improved. He lay down and asked, "Hey...! Where are we going?"
An Yue turned to the boy and said, "First of all, my last name is not 'Hey'. My last name is An, and my name is An Yue."
"Secondly, although I don't know your first name or last name, please rest assured that since I let you come to my house, I will definitely not ignore you."
After An Yue finished speaking, she picked up the basket and walked towards the yard.
When the young man heard An Yue say this, he felt inexplicably warm in his heart.
He lay quietly in the pile of dead leaves under the stove, repeating in his mouth: "An Yue...An Yue..."
An Yue arrived at the wasteland and dug a basket of herbs in just a cup of tea.
There were plantain, thistle, dandelion, mugwort, houttuynia cordata, etc. They were all common herbs, and I dug some of them all.
As she walked towards home, she deliberately went around to the paddy field, preparing to wash the herbs before taking them home.
An Yue kept thinking about the steps her grandfather and uncle used to take to prepare the herbs.
I vaguely remember that they put the herbs in a garlic mortar, mashed them into a paste, then scooped them out and added boiling water. They seemed to have filtered out the herbal residue before feeding them to my cousin.
An Yue sighed and complained in her heart: [Alas! Who knows how I could travel through time! If I had known earlier that I would travel through time, I would have memorized some necessary books in advance. ]
Although she tried hard to recall, she couldn't remember many details.
An Yue washed the herbs, picked up the basket, and walked towards home.
As she walked, she muttered quietly, "What if these herbs can't cure it? What if the boy's wound gets infected and he dies at home? What then?"
Thinking of this, she stopped, frowned, and muttered: "Why don't we take him to town and find a doctor for treatment?"
Then the question arises again. Going to town to see a doctor will cost you money.
At this moment, An Yue had an idea in her mind: "Let's not talk about life and death for now, who will pay for the medical treatment? Even if we put aside the money for the medical treatment, what if he is a criminal..." When An Yue thought of this, she was really scared again.
Yes! If he were a criminal, he would definitely be regarded as an accomplice of the criminal if he were brought to town with an unknown person.
An Yue and he were not related in any way, they were just casual acquaintances, and her kindness in helping him was already a huge favor.
Furthermore, An Yue herself is in a difficult situation and cannot save herself.
She would not let this struggling little family fall into the abyss again for a stranger.
Now she is able to live a good life in this small family because of her careful budgeting and hard work.
Along the way, An Yue thought about it, weighed the pros and cons, and finally decided not to take him to the town.
She planned to use these herbs to treat him and try her best. Whether it would succeed in the end would be up to fate!
After returning home, An Yue went to the kitchen.
Since there was no garlic mortar at home, I had to carefully pick a few herbs I had just dug up, cut them into sections and put them in a bowl.
She came to the boy with herbs and warm water and said calmly, "Eat these herbs."
The boy opened his eyes and saw a bowl of weeds. He asked with an embarrassed look on his face, "How can I swallow these weeds?"
"Just treat it as a dish. There's rice porridge in the pot. Do you want more?"
The young man looked at An Yue and shook his head, then looked at the weeds in the bowl with a look of resistance.
"Life or death, it's your choice!"
After An Yue finished speaking, she placed two bowls in front of the young man and turned around to pick up the messy things that the thieves had thrown on the floor in the house.
The young man looked at An Yue's back and hesitated again and again.
Finally, he closed his eyes, mustered up the courage, picked up the herbs and put them into his mouth to chew.
As An Yue cleaned up the house, she said leisurely, "You rich and powerful young masters are used to eating delicious food, so these weeds are naturally hard to swallow."
"But for me, it is not only a weed, but also an edible wild vegetable and a good medicine for curing diseases and saving lives."
The boy didn't say anything, but just stuffed the fruits into his mouth one by one.
"What...what is this?" The young man asked with a black face and disgust after eating the Houttuynia cordata.
An Yue looked at his expression and couldn't help but covered her mouth and laughed, saying: "This is called Houttuynia cordata, it can clear away heat, detoxify and reduce swelling."
The young man looked at the Houttuynia cordata in the bowl with disgust, looking resistant and unwilling to eat it.
"That's fine! If you don't want to eat the Houttuynia cordata, just put it aside and eat the rest!"
After hearing what An Yue said, the young man had no choice but to do as she said.
After a while, the boy finished eating the herbs obediently.
An Yue came over, collected the bowl, and placed it on the stove, saying, "These herbs need to be taken once every hour, three times a day."
After hearing this, the young man's mouth twitched a few times, and his face looked like an eggplant hit by frost, wilted and listless.
An Yue was tidying up the house, and the boy fell asleep again without knowing it.
It was already the end of the Wei hour.
An Yue finally cleaned up the house.
Sitting on the bench at the eight-immortals table, drinking water from a bowl.
At this time, a voice came from outside the door: "Yueyue, are you busy?"
It was my sister-in-law Meng Xiuer. She came under the eaves of the east room carrying a big bowl.
"Sister-in-law? Please come in!" An Yue put down the bowl of water and hurriedly walked forward with a smile.
Meng Xiuer smiled and said, "Yueyue, this is the chicken leg I reserved for you two. I brought it to you at noon. You were not at home at that time, so I had to take it back."
An Yuexi smiled and bowed sideways, saying, "Yueyue thanks sister-in-law."
"Why are you still being polite to me?" Meng Xiuer said, and prepared to pour the chicken leg into An Yue's bowl of water.
Meng Xiuer had just gotten married and was extremely unfamiliar with this environment.
However, she felt that An Yue was like her own sister, sensible, hardworking, smart, sweet-spoken, and she was comfortable and at ease getting along with her.
"Sister-in-law, have you been at home from 7am to 5pm?"
Meng Xiuer shook her head and replied, "No, the warm spring sun is suitable for sowing, so our whole family went to work in the fields."
After hearing this, An Yue frowned and said with a disappointed look on her face:
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