Chapter 28 Breaking the Bottom Line

"Come, He'er, drink this medicine!" Su Laoer pounded a bowl of black herbal juice.

"Ouch!" Su He slapped down his father's medicine, breaking another bowl.

Dirty black water, what kind of medical skills does this useless father know? He just fooled himself with some weeds!

"You!" Su Lao Er looked at his restless daughter with disappointment, "If you want to be hurt, then be hurt!"

Seeing that his daughter still had the energy to work, Su Laoer thought she would not die. He felt relieved and his worries faded.

After being repeatedly disturbed by his wife and daughter, Su Laoer felt exhausted both physically and mentally.

"Ah, ah!" Su He howled and squeezed towards the old woman, but was blocked by Su Bucheng and his son, and Su Laosan's family.

"Madam, I won't apply herbal medicine to you. Herbs have color and will leave scars. I'll put some honey on you instead." The old woman said, looking at Mrs. Du's face, which had some fine lines but was still charming.

"Thank you, Auntie!" Mrs. Du thanked sincerely.

"Come here, lady, your face is also seriously injured. Let me treat you too." The old woman turned to Wei and said.

"Thank you, Auntie! I'm fine, it's no big deal!" Wei hurriedly thanked her.

Salt and honey are both precious things. If you are not seriously injured, you will not waste your time on this favor.

I have nothing at home, and I owe so many favors to others. How can I repay them?

"What are you talking about, madam? Don't be careless with the wound on your face. If it gets infected and leaves scars, it will be too late to regret it later." The old woman said and started to take action.

Wei tried to break free, but Du held her back, "Zhen'er will listen to you, Auntie!"

Wei had no choice but to let the old woman heal her wound. When she used salt water to wipe the wound, she grimaced in pain and tears fell.

"Sister-in-law is so patient. Rubbing the wound with salt water is like torture, but she endured it without making a sound." Wei said with both tears and laughter.

"No way! Your back is all wet! But this method really works. Now that I've applied honey, it doesn't hurt much." Mrs. Du comforted.

The old woman looked at the two sisters-in-law and nodded in approval.

It is said that one should marry a virtuous wife, and this is the mistress who will bring prosperity to the family!

His hands moved much more gently, and his tone was gentle, "My wife has been afraid of pain since she was a child!"

"Auntie, you are right! It is Zhen'er who is rude. Just do what you have to do. Zhen'er can bear it." Wei said ashamedly.

"My lady, you misunderstood! Sprinkling salt water on a wound is extremely painful. Not only a woman, but even a man can't stand it! Otherwise, there wouldn't be the saying of rubbing salt on a wound!"

The old woman treated Wei's wound while chatting and laughing.

"Thank you, Auntie!" Wei felt the burning pain on her face eased a lot.

"Be careful and don't scratch the wound with your hands!" the old woman warned.

"It was saved by the fairy (Zhen'er)!" Du and Wei thanked.

"Keep this honey and apply it to the wound every day to make it heal faster!" The old woman poured two spoonfuls of honey.

"Auntie, you can't do that! This thing is precious. We are so grateful that you helped us. How can you ask for it again?" Mrs. Du and Mrs. Wei declined repeatedly.

Honey is precious and not easily available in Chang'an.

This place is remote, and the honey must be wild honey from the cliffs. It is not easy to get. If you get stung by bees, your head will be covered with swelling, which can be fatal.

"It's okay. This is the beehive my child picked from the mountain. We sold the extra ones, but kept these few for emergency use to save people. Now they come in handy." The old woman said with a smile.

Everyone present couldn't help drooling at the tempting aroma of honey.

"Alas!" The old woman packed up her medicine box and left. After hearing Su He's wailing, no matter how unhappy she was, she couldn't bear it anymore. "Come here, girl, let me take a look!"

"Ah, ah!" Su He squeezed in front of the old woman and opened his mouth.

"Oh my God! What did you eat to get injured like this?" the old woman exclaimed.

His mouth was full of blisters, his tongue and entire throat were red, as if the skin had been peeled off, and the mucous membranes of his mouth and throat were all burned off.

The old woman looked at Su He's injuries and felt distressed, so she had salt, honey, and some ointments for bruises and injuries in her hands.

Su He was injured in the mouth and the entire esophagus. Salt water was used for disinfection and to prevent infection, but for a wound like this, even drinking plain water would be more painful than torture, let alone holding salt water in the mouth.

"Ah, ah!" Su He pulled the old woman's hand and shook it, thinking that the old woman refused to treat him.

"I hurriedly drank a mouthful of the hot porridge that had just come out of the pot!" Su Ying replied, "Now I can only drink some cold boiled water to relieve the pain of my injury, and then I can slowly recuperate!"

"You're right, young lady!" The old woman couldn't think of a better solution. "This is the only way. As long as there's no infection or fever, it's fine. It just hurts for a while."

The old woman was a little confused. No one with a normal brain would pour something so hot into their mouth. Either their brain was not working well, or they were being bullied.

The old woman was certain that Su He was scalded, but she was suspicious whether she did it herself.

I don't want to get involved in other people's affairs, so there's no need to dig into them.

"Ah, ah!" Su He stared at Su Ying, his eyes like poison, believing that Su Ying deliberately refused to let the old woman treat her.

"Why are you glaring at me? Your oral mucosa is burned. The salt water will make you worse than death! There's no way to apply medicine, so there's no other way except to take care of yourself!"

Su Ying was telling the truth. If there were special ointments for burns in modern times, this was in ancient times, in the wild Lingnan.

The medicines in the old woman's hands are life-saving items that she is reluctant to use easily. She can't use up all her savings for this ungrateful troublemaker, right?

The breeze blew, and the fragrance of honey in Wei's hands was refreshing.

"Oh!" Su He rushed over, snatched the bowl, tilted his head back and drank the honey.

"Oh! He'er you..." Wei was caught off guard and Su He snatched the bowl away.

Earlier, Su He took the porridge bowl from Du Shi. Wei Shi thought that the bowl was too hot and Du Shi didn't hold it steady.

Now I understand that Su He fought desperately for food.

When the sweet honey entered his mouth, he felt a sharp pain in his mouth. The honey slid down his throat, and the pain almost made Su He faint!

But when the honey entered the stomach, the extremely hungry stomach was soothed and felt much better.

Honey is sticky and a lot of it remains in the mouth and throat, which relieves the pain a lot after the severe pain!

After catching his breath, Su He glared at Su Ying even more resentfully. She clearly knew that honey could heal her burns, but she deliberately said to let it heal slowly! What a wicked heart!

Su He drank almost all the honey, and the Su family members' faces were burning hot, it was so embarrassing.

Seeing this, Wei Shi didn't want to take it back. She just ate it. She couldn't beat Su He and make her vomit it out.

When everyone thought this was Su He's limit, Su He broke the bottom line again.

Su He turned around and snatched the medicine box from the old woman's hand.

"Hey! What are you doing, woman?" The old woman was caught off guard and was pushed and staggered, and her medicine box was snatched away.

Su He grabbed the honey jar from the medicine box and poured it directly into his mouth.

"He'er, you're crazy!" Su Laoer stepped forward to grab the honey jar.

The Su family came to take it away. This is the life-saving thing of the village chief's family. How could they let Su He ruin it?

"Pah!" Seeing that the honey jar was about to be snatched away, Su He spat into the jar several times.