Seeing her like a frightened deer, Lu Tu couldn't help but laugh: "I have to bandage you up."

"Thank you for your trouble, my lord."

After the pain subsides, a person's senses become exceptionally sharp. When Lü Tu grasped Song Yuxi's calf again, she felt as if she had been electrocuted, and the hairs on her body stood on end.

"Don't move. Do you have any clean cloth on you?" Lu Tu looked around and saw that the only piece of cloth in the whole room was under him, and it was filthy and completely unsuitable for bandaging his wound.

Song Yuxi nodded shyly: "Yes."

With her dirty little hands, she pulled out a piece of pure white, high-quality silk from her bosom. This was a handkerchief woven by her mother herself, meant to be used to cover the spotting of menstrual blood on their wedding night.

Unexpectedly, Lu Tu grabbed it without saying a word, even smelling it to check for any strange odor, before burying his head and concentrating on bandaging her wound.

Song Yuxi was both ashamed and delighted! She was ashamed that Lü Tu would so openly hold and play with such a private thing, but she was delighted that she could see that Lü Tu genuinely cared for her.

After boiling the handkerchief in hot water and wringing it out, Lü Tu bandaged her wound and began preparing the garlic extract.

He originally intended to cultivate penicillin, but penicillin takes a long time to develop, and the current environment is too harsh; it might end up being cultivated into aflatoxin.

Therefore, he chose the safest and most easily absorbed antibacterial ingredient currently available: allicin.

Allicin needs to be enzymatically hydrolyzed at around 50 degrees Celsius, then mixed with anhydrous ethanol distilled from spirits and heated further. Finally, after filtering out excess impurities, we obtain allicin, which is extremely precious in this era!

The entire process lasted for nearly an hour. Song Yuxi witnessed the whole thing and was very curious, having never seen such complicated steps before.

Lu Tu was focused on working among the various pots and pans, occasionally letting out an excited cheer, while also raising his index and middle fingers at Song Yuxi.

Although Song Yuxi couldn't understand it, she was still deeply shocked!

Lu Tu first applied some ointment to her wound, then used a spoon to scoop something up and brought it over, saying, "Drink it."

Without the slightest hesitation, Song Yuxi swallowed the allicin in the spoon in one gulp.

Lu Tu laughed and said, "Aren't you afraid that I'm concocting poison?"

Song Yuxi smiled and said, "I've never seen anyone make poison without keeping it a secret."

The two smiled at each other, but suddenly froze at the same time. In this chaotic world, two lonely hearts collided and sparked a flame.

Lu Tu slowly moved closer, and Song Yuxi nervously closed her eyes, her long eyelashes trembling. When Lu Tu gently kissed her lips, Song Yuxi's heart seemed to freeze.

"Your leg will be fully healed in no time."

"Really, my husband? You're so good to me! I don't know how to thank you enough." Song Yuxi excitedly wrapped her arms around Lü Tu's waist, her face beaming with happiness.

Lu Tu took the opportunity to pull her into his arms and gently patted her back: "Isn't it easy to thank me? Just don't let me be exiled to slavery a year from now."

Song Yuxi naturally understood his implied meaning, and immediately buried her head in Lu Tu's arms shyly, humming in agreement.

Inside this dilapidated hut, the two nestled together, feeling each other's heartbeats, and Lü Tu felt a tranquility he had never experienced before.

Upon closer inspection, Lü Tu was surprised to find that Song Yuxi was not as thin as she appeared from afar. Her figure, hidden beneath her loose robes, was curvaceous and alluring, which stirred Lü Tu's heart.

But this warmth didn't last long, as a draft swept through, instantly taking away their body heat, especially Song Yuxi, whose wound infection had worsened, and whose body was now trembling like a leaf.

The house was already bare, and all his belongings were on his body. There wasn't even a basic mattress. Even a rough man like him, who often went on missions in the wild, couldn't get used to sleeping on a bed of dry straw infested with fleas, let alone the delicate Song Yuxi.

It was the dead of winter, and Wuchuan was located in the northern border region, with thick snow piled up outside. Only then did he realize why the word "poverty" was often mentioned together.

Winter is truly a nightmare for these poor people! Even in the 21st century of my previous life, the poor did not have a decent winter.

The burden of survival is undoubtedly the most urgent task at present. Fortunately, he was a hunter in the past, and his family has an ancestral water buffalo horn bow, which is well maintained and hangs on the wall.

For someone who had long been engaged in field combat, hunting was not a difficult task. He took off his tattered cotton coat and draped it over Song Yuxi, leaving the dagger at home as well, and instructed her, "You rest at home for a while, I'm going out hunting."

"Husband, wait a moment." Song Yuxi carefully took out a gold hairpin from her bosom and handed it to Lü Tu: "I just came from Huai Shuo City yesterday. The mountains are blocked by heavy snow everywhere. There may be jackals and tigers. Husband, you can pawn this hairpin first and go hunting in the mountains in a few days."

Lu Tu wanted to refuse, but seeing Song Yuxi's unwavering gaze, he took the exquisitely crafted gold hairpin and held it tightly in his hand: "Yuxi, I'm sorry to have to ask you to pawn your dowry right after you married me."

Song Yuxi gently brushed the dust off Lü Tu's clothes: "You are my husband, and I believe our lives will get better and better. What is this little bit of money? Even if my mother were alive, she would support me in doing this!"

"Yu Xi, you are so good." At this moment, Lu Tu felt an overwhelming surge of love in his chest and couldn't help but kiss her. He reluctantly pulled away after a long while.

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