70 Chapter 70

◎There was a snowstorm everywhere◎

In the distance, amidst the white snow, a group of people trudged along, braving the north wind and treading waist-deep snow. They rode horses, their backs laden with dry supplies, and behind them pulled a sled. They rode for a while, then pulled the horses for a while.

They came over the hillside, through the forest, and across the snowfield.

They slowly grew from a small dot into a large circle, and one could already make out their robes made of roe deer skin and the sturdy leather belts tied around their waists.

"Mr. Yun, do you want to take a break?"

Mu Yun looked up ahead and could see the familiar house in the distance, buried under the endless snow.

"Don't lose your strength, keep going till the end."

Running too fast will kill the horse, and the same is true when walking in the snow. The horse cannot run fast and needs to be pulled from time to time. Its legs cannot move smoothly and it has to pull itself along.

Mu Yun walked in front, and the people behind him walked on the path he had paved.

It was not snowing. The sun was hanging in the sky, but without any of the fiery glow of a red sun. It shone brightly. The weather was still very cold, and the breath I exhaled instantly turned into white mist.

There was very little talking along the way, and the only sound was the heavy breathing of both humans and horses.

The closer you get to your destination, the more you can feel the unusual atmosphere.

When I got closer, I could hear crying all over the room.

"Xiao Liu! Xiao Qi! Sister-in-law!"

Mu Yunchong stepped on the auspicious snow and ran to the door of the house like flying. The door would not open, so he slammed it loudly.

"Xiao Liu! Xiao Qi! Sister-in-law!"

Xu Xiuying opened the door.

"Master Mu Yun?"

Mu Yun asked anxiously, "What happened at home?"

"Master Mu Yun..." Xu Xiuying cried sadly, "Come and see Madam Cheng, she, she..."

When Mu Yun heard that his sister-in-law had something to do, he almost fell down when he ran in.

"Little Daddy!"

"Little Daddy, Mom is dying..."

What does "can't do it" mean? Mu Yun suppressed the pain that spread from his heart to his throat and asked, "What happened to my sister-in-law?"

"Madam Cheng first caught a cold, then had a fever from time to time and couldn't get up. Now she can't respond even if I call her!"

Cold... Mu Yun just happened to have some medicine ready. He practically yelled, "Tell them to get the medicine out and boil it, quickly!"

There is medicine! Xu Xiuying was so happy that she didn't care about crying, "Auntie, hurry up and boil the medicine, let's go boil the medicine!"

Xiaoliu and Xiaoqi hugged Muyun and said, "Daddy, Mom won't die, will she? Can she still survive?"

"Little Daddy, I don't want Mom to leave. I don't want Mom to go back."

Mu Yun raised his hand and found that it was shaking. He placed his hand on Xiaoliu and Xiaoqi's head and gently rubbed it, telling them, and more importantly, telling himself, "It's okay. You'll get better after drinking the medicine. You'll get better..."

"Little Daddy, you're all wet."

Mu Yun's body was half covered with snow, which melted into water when he entered the house and got warm, making the ground wet. Xiaoliu and Xiaoqi had just hugged him, and their chests were also wet.

At this moment, Mu Yun remembered that he was still cold, so he quickly took off his robe and threw away his heavy boots. "Go and warm yourself up quickly, don't let the cold wind invade your bodies."

"Go, be obedient, I'll take care of this place."

When he was the only one left in the room, his emotions were boiling over. He sat down on the edge of the kang and with one hand, pulled Cheng Mu into his arms.

She was warm and still breathing.

Feeling the slight rise and fall of her thin body, Mu Yun's heart, which had been aching and swollen, slowly settled down.

Perhaps because of the change in body position, the person who had been unconscious suddenly started coughing and gasping for breath.

Mu Yun grabbed her hand and pressed two acupoints, and the cough that was gripping her heart gradually subsided.

"Mom is awake!"

"Mom! You finally woke up!"

Xiaoliu and Xiaoqi climbed onto the kang, and on the other side they also followed their father's example to support her.

Cheng Mu slowly woke up and found a face she hadn't seen in a long time. A glimmer of light flashed in her misty eyes. "Mu Yun is here." Her tone was very soft, like a sigh. "I'm not dreaming, am I?"

At this time, Mu Yun was half hugging her and should have put her aside to sit against the wall, but he didn't want to move.

He wouldn't move until she protested.

Unfortunately, she moved. She said, "I'm fine. I just caught a cold. I don't want to make you suffer."

She wanted to sit by herself, so Mu Yun helped her and put a soft pillow behind her waist.

Xiaoliu and Xiaoqi snuggled up to her, one on each side, and said pitifully, "Mom, you didn't wake up no matter how hard we tried to call you. We were so scared. Luckily, Daddy came."

Cheng Xi touched their faces and said, "Why are you crying like this?"

She smiled and asked Mu Yun, "How did you get here?"

Snowstorms hit everywhere, and many people in the city froze to death. Many more families had no food, and could only grind beans and wheat to eat raw. Firewood and charcoal were extremely expensive. Mu Yun guessed that they were in an even worse situation in the countryside, so he bought charcoal at a high price and sent it to them.

The road was difficult to travel on, and they took two days to walk a distance that used to take only half a day on horseback.

Fortunately, he had picked up some medicine for treating the cold.

After the medicine was ready, Cheng Mu refused to be fed and held the bowl herself, but refused to drink.

Xiao Qi asked, "Mom, are you afraid of hardship?"

Xiaoliu offered red dates and raisins, "Don't be afraid, mother. Drink a sip and I'll feed you one."

Cheng Xi smiled and affectionately touched them with the back of her hand.

Chinese medicine is bitter, and I don’t know if it’s right for my condition. I don’t want to suffer in vain.

But the pairs of anxious eyes in the room were looking at her, as if she would get better immediately after drinking it.

She decided to give it a try, so she closed her eyes and drank it all in one gulp.

It’s so bitter, so bitter that my tonsils are about to pop out.

Mu Yun handed over a bag of candied dates. The dates were candied and the skins were peeled. They were sweeter and easier to digest than the dried dates in Xiaoliu's hand.

Cheng Xi smiled at him gratefully and quickly picked one up and put it in her mouth.

Mu Yun asked Xiao Liu and Xiao Qi to eat some as well, "I bought this especially for you."

Xiaoliu and Xiaoqi shook their heads together, "Save them all for Mom to take after she takes her medicine."

Xu Xiuying: "You are so filial."

Mu Yun brought a lot of charcoal, seven people and eight horses. They also brought their own dry food and hay for the horses. They originally planned to send Mu Yun there and then go back together, but when they heard that there were wolves in the village, Mu Yun told them not to leave in a hurry.

"Let them have something hot."

Cheng Mu arranged them all to live in Zhao Datian's house, gave them wheat and a stone mill, and let them grind their own flour, roll their own noodles, and make their own dumplings.

Guier came back from patrolling the village and said that they did not find any wolf footprints today.

Xu Xiuying said: "Maybe he ran away to another place."

Cheng Wei reminded: "Don't take it lightly."

"Many people and animals were frozen to death in the blizzard. Wolves couldn't find food, so they flocked to where people gathered," Mu Yun said. "Wolves always appear in packs, and hungry wolves are even more ferocious."

"You tell me." Gui'er rolled her eyes at him, took the dumplings from Yu, and gulped down a few big mouthfuls. "Aren't you here to help?"

Mu Yun kindly reminded her, but she was arrogant, so Mu Yun kept silent.

Guier said that she had trained the young men in combat methods. Wolves are beasts, and no matter how cunning they are, they are not as smart as humans. They have weapons, and she will be responsible for fighting the alpha wolf.

After Gui'er finished speaking, she specifically asked Mu Yun, "What do you think?"

Mu Yun didn't speak.

Gui'er: "I asked you but you didn't tell me."

Mu Yun pursed his lips and suppressed the anger in his chest.

Cheng Mu scolded Gui Er lightly, "Alright, stop teasing him. Mu Yun is helping him in his time of need, so be more polite."

Gui'er raised her eyebrows, and when she was about to start eating dumplings again, her stomach suddenly started churning and she almost vomited.

Xu Xiuying asked, "What's wrong with you? Are you in a hurry to eat?"

Guier quickly put down the bowl and ran out to vomit.

Xu Xiuying patted her back and said, "I guess you got caught in a lot of cold wind outside, which has chilled your stomach. Drink some hot soup later."

After vomiting, Guier grabbed a handful of snow and stuffed it into her mouth.

Xu Xiuying wanted to dig it out for her, but Guier said, "The fire is burning up."

Xu Xiuying: "So angry? Did you have a firecracker in your stomach? You spoke so rudely to Master Mu Yun, you deserve it!"

Back in the house, she couldn't bear to see the bowl of unfinished dumplings. "Sister Xiuying, take it away quickly. I don't want to eat it anymore. Just looking at it makes me full."

Cheng Xi laughed, "Why are you being so petty today?"

Gui'er asked, "Where's Muyun?"

Cheng Mu: "You drove him away."

"I'm just a little upset."

"What's bothering you?"

Gui'er sat on the edge of the kang, thinking for a while: "It's possible that Li Yu and Chen Hu provoked me too much today. The most likely reason is that the wolf's footprints have disappeared. We made so many preparations, but it escaped."

"It's a good thing the wolf is gone. If it comes across you, it will hurt you."

"The key is that it's not dead yet. I don't know when it will come back. I'm afraid it will come back when everyone is not paying attention! It's better to kill it and save me the trouble every day."

"That makes sense. But if it doesn't come, you have nowhere to look for it. You're fighting a defensive war, not a war of annihilation. Stop worrying about it."

After drinking the medicine, Cheng Mu felt better for a while. She arranged the people brought by Mu Yun, talked for a while, and ate the noodle soup specially cooked by Yu Shi. It took about half an hour. After that, she kept coughing, and her stomach was churning. The bowl of noodle soup she had eaten was poured out again.

The most terrifying thing is the difficulty in breathing, shortness of breath, and feeling like I could faint at any time.

"Mu Yun, what should we do?"

Yu and Xu Xiuying cried head to head, causing Xiaoliu and Xiaoqi to also shed tears.

Mu Yun looked at the pale, hazy-eyed woman and wished he could take her place. "Go boil some more medicine." "One more bowl, as long as she feels a little better."

Yu and Xu Xiuying had no other choice but to rush off.

Cheng Mu half-opened her eyes and raised her hand to Mu Yun. Mu Yun quickly leaned forward and asked, "Auntie, what do you want?"

Cheng Mu grabbed his hand. Her hand was small, but her skin was smooth. Mu Yun used force to hold it tightly. She tried to pull away, but Mu Yun was completely unaware. Cheng Mu used all her strength to say, "Hold it."

Mu Yun loosened his grip, and her hand opened, and there was something extra in his hand.

Cheng Mu: "Help me slice it."

Mu Yun took a look and asked, "Ginseng?"

Since falling ill, Cheng Mu has been feeling weak all over, coughing uncontrollably, and suffering from shortness of breath and chest tightness. She has no medicine, and there is only ginseng in her space, which is inconvenient for her to take out, so she can only chew the ginseng roots secretly.

It’s great now that Mu Yun is here, I can even slice it and eat it.

Whether chewing or holding, ginseng is still somewhat useful to her at present. It can relieve the symptoms of chest tightness and shortness of breath. Perhaps she is not dead yet because of the ginseng.

The most terrible thing is the cough. I am really afraid of coughing. When I cough, I feel like all my internal organs want to be coughed out.

Sometimes it is a dry cough, sometimes there is phlegm.

Before drinking the medicine, she coughed violently again. When she lifted the handkerchief that was covering her mouth, it was red.

Yu and Xu Xiuying were both dumbfounded, and Cheng Mu herself was also stunned. Everyone could recognize it, blood.