Chapter 4 Chapter 4 After Shen Xuan returned to the house, he started from…
Shen Xuan returned to the house and took out the pheasant from the straw pile.
He had already plucked and washed the pheasant outside, and now he was smearing salt on it and wrapping it in rice leaves. They wrapped it in mud and buried it in the ash.
You can use the ashes to sink into the paper or use dead branches to start a fire. He poured some well water into the pot of medicine and put it on the fire.
After a while, the water in the medicine pot boiled and the medicine was ready. Shen Xuan poured the medicine into an empty bowl, then dug out the pheasant underneath and broke open the soil outside.
The aroma of rice leaves mixed with chicken hits you in the face. Shen Xuan was afraid that someone would smell it, so he quickly wrapped it up with straw.
Then he walked into the room carrying a bowl of vegetable porridge and herbs.
"You must be hungry. It's time for lunch." Chen Xuan had been out for a long time and it was already past noon.
Xue Fenglin knew that he had a lot of things to do, and although he had been hungry for a long time, it was impossible for him to complain.
At this time, he was just a stranger rescued by Shen Xuan. Shen Xuan was very kind to take care of him and give him food and drink.
Although Xue Fenglin is a prince, he is not an unkind person. On the contrary, he had seen a lot of human relationships in the Marquis' Mansion and was quite experienced in this regard.
Shen Xuan opened the rice leaves, tore a chicken leg from it and handed it to Xue Fenglin, saying, “Lin Ye, I got a pheasant to nourish you, you eat it first.”
Xue Fenglin was stunned, thinking that Shen Xuan had specially gone to the mountain to catch a pheasant. After thinking about it, he handed the chicken leg back to Shen Xuan and said, “You’ve been tired all day, so you should eat the chicken leg.”
Seeing this, Shen Xuan smiled and said, "Isn't there still one leg?" Then he tore off the other leg and ate it, and stuffed this one into Xue Fenglin's bowl.
Lin Ye is a person who knows how to be grateful, Shen Xuan thought to himself.
Although he saved people only out of conscience and without asking for anything in return, it is better for the other party to be grateful than to be ungrateful.
It was a rare opportunity to eat meat, so Shen Xuan didn't hesitate and wolfed down half a chicken.
After Xue Fenglin had also finished eating, Shen Xuan cleared away all the dishes and chopsticks. But he didn't throw away the leftover chicken skeleton, he kept it for use.
Shen Xuan went out again with an old bamboo basket. The basket had a small mouth and a big belly and was used by the villagers to catch river fish.
Most villagers would go to places with fast-flowing and deep water to catch fish, but Shen Xuan did the opposite and went to a calm little river with a bamboo basket.
The river is not deep and there are usually few fish in it, so there is no one else here at this time.
Shen Xuan put the chicken skeleton into a bamboo basket and threw it into the ditch. After a while, the fishy smell of the chicken skeleton drifted into the water through the gaps in the bamboo basket.
Shen Xuan wandered around the ditch and found some wild wild rice stems. After digging up the water chestnuts, I went to collect the bamboo baskets.
In just over half an hour, the bamboo basket was filled with lively river shrimps.
Because of the lure of the chicken skeleton, a lot of river shrimps were caught this time.
Shen Xuan shook the bamboo basket with satisfaction and returned to the thatched hut with the river shrimps.
In the evening, after finishing the fire in the kitchen, Shen Xuan came back with a multi-grain pancake.
A multi-grain pancake would be fine if Shen Xuan was eating it alone, but it would not be enough for two people.
So he washed the medicine jar and boiled the water. Then throw in the water bamboo and river shrimp and cook them together to make a pot of river shrimp soup.
This time, Shen Xuan caught so many river shrimps that both of them had full bellies just from eating the shrimp meat.
After Meimei finished dinner and cleared the dishes, Shen Xuan looked at Xue Fenglin's leg and said, "Lin Ye, your ankle seems to have reduced some of its swelling. It seems that the herbs have taken some effect."
Xue Fenglin looked down and found that the hemostatic bandage tied around his ankle had loosened.
Shen Xuan untied the cloth strip and took a look. Sure enough, the purple and swollen scary wound had closed. The skin color there is not as dark as before.
Although Lin Ye's body was still swollen, his overall condition was improving. Moreover, his temperature has returned to normal this afternoon, so his life is safe. After a period of recovery, you will be able to get out of bed and walk normally.
"I don't know where you are from?" Shen Xuan asked after helping Xue Fenglin re-bandage his wound, "You've been out walking around for so long and haven't been home. Your family must be worried to death."
"Why don't you give them a message so they can come pick you up earlier."
Shen Xuan's question touched Xue Fenglin's sore spot.
He fell silent for a moment, curled the corners of his mouth sarcastically, but did not speak.
I just thought that I had been in trouble for so long, and I was afraid that my father didn’t even know about it.
Old Marquis Xue had never been close to him, but instead doted on his younger brother Xue Fengli, who was born to the Bai family.
In order to gain a foothold in the Marquis' Mansion, Xue Fenglin strives to be the best in everything.
If Xue Fengli did ten points, he would have to do one more point than the other party, otherwise he would not be in the eyes of Lord Xue at all.
But this kind of behavior offended the Bai family again. It’s just that he always suppresses his own son and treats him as a thorn in his side.
If the Bai family knew that he was here, they would definitely send someone to kill him!
When Shen Xuan saw Xue Fenglin's strange expression, he knew that he had said the wrong thing.
He thought again and realized that if it were someone else, they would have asked him to find their family long ago. Lin Ye has never mentioned anything about his family until now, so he must have a bad relationship with his family.
Everyone here has their own unspeakable secrets, and Shen Xuan himself has many secrets.
He put himself in others' shoes and thought that if Lin Ye didn't want to go home, there was no reason for him to force him. So he skipped the matter and changed the subject, saying to him, "I have room to stay here anyway. If you don't mind, you can go back after you are well again."
Xue Fenglin's eyes flickered when he heard this, and he looked at Shen Xuan and said, "Don't you mind me eating and drinking for free?"
"Didn't you promise to repay me in the future?" Shen Xuan joked, "How can you eat and drink for free?"
He smiled and lowered his head. His face was reflected in a golden color under the dim light, and his eyes looked watery.
Xue Fenglin's heart skipped a beat again, and many melodramatic scenes flashed through his mind, including fox demons repaying favors and female ghosts meeting scholars on the road and promising themselves to them.
After a pause, he said with complicated eyes: "That's true."
After that, after they had simply washed themselves, they blew out the oil lamp and lay down, one on the bed and the other on the floor.
The next morning, Shen Xuan got up early before dawn. He went outside in the dark, grabbed a handful of cornmeal, cooked a pot of rice porridge, and threw a few washed bird eggs into it.
After breakfast was ready, Shen Xuan drank some and ate two bird eggs. He put the rest in the room and then went up the mountain again with the basket on his back.
Today, he is going to dig bamboo shoots. Therefore, we arrived at the bamboo forest at daybreak.
He dug for a while in a hurry, not greedy for more, just four tender bamboo shoots, enough for a meal.
After digging bamboo shoots, Shen Xuan went down the mountain immediately. When I was almost home, I saw Zhong Ge'er and others coming out to dig bamboo shoots in the distance.
Shen Xuan quickly ran into the backyard so that he wouldn't have to meet them again and the bamboo shoots he dug would not be snatched away by others.
He hid the bamboo shoots in the old place before going to the kitchen to work. When I finished my work and returned to the room, I found that Xue Fenglin had already gotten up.
“Hey, Lin Ye, you look much better.” Shen Xuan was a little surprised to see that Xue Fenglin not only ate the breakfast and medicine he prepared, but also helped him wash the dishes.
He looked at Xue Fenglin carefully again and found that he was still having difficulty moving, but the swelling on his body was much better than before. Although his skin was still purple, his outline gradually became clearer, and he could be seen to be a young man in his twenties.
“I didn’t expect you to be so young.” Shen Xuan suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
When he rescued Xue Fenglin before, the other party was so severely poisoned that he looked like a human being.
Now that his true appearance was gradually revealed, he suddenly remembered that he was a man, and it was really too much for him to be in the same room with a young man like this.
"He is actually two years older than you." Xue Fenglin said after hearing this and looking at Shen Xuan with a smile.
He has a good physique and is skilled in martial arts, so he recovers faster than most people. Yesterday it was very difficult for me to even get up, but today I can move slowly.
Seeing Shen Xuan busy all around, he took the initiative to help him wash the dishes.
Even the eldest son of the Xue family was doing something like washing dishes for the first time. Once you get the hang of it, you'll find that it's not difficult at all.
Seeing Shen Xuan's surprised expression, he actually felt quite happy.
Shen Xuan was quite relieved to see that Xue Fenglin was in much better condition.
He told the other party to have a good rest at home. So he took his backpack and went up the mountain to catch snails.
In the past few days, Chen Xuan has explored all the nearby streams. He was afraid that if he explored too many streams, snails would not grow, so he went to a place that was a little further away.
This time, after he changed the money, he bought two herrings and a piece of tofu on the roadside.
Shen Xuan, who was thinking of having a nice meal of fish soup and stewed tofu, just walked near the back door when he heard an unusual noise coming from the entire Shen family yard.
broken! Shen Xuan thought it was not good, fearing that Lin Ye had been discovered by the Wang family, so he quickly hid the herring and tofu and pushed the door open.
As soon as he entered the room, he saw Wang Xiaolian standing at the back door with an angry look on her face.
As soon as she saw Shen Xuan, Wang Xiaolian became even more angry and yelled, "Great! You shameless thing are finally back! Why don't you explain it to everyone quickly!"
Wang Xiaolian grabbed Shen Xuan’s wrist and dragged him to the front yard.
When passing by the utility room, Shen Xuan looked inside. The door of the utility room was open, and indeed there was no one inside.
Arriving at the front yard of the old house, Shen Xuan saw Xue Fenglin standing in the middle. Not only were there people from the Wang family around, there were also many villagers watching, and even the village chief Li Youtian was alarmed.
Xue Fenglin hadn't recovered yet, but he was trying to straighten his back and looked at the villagers around him with pride.
"Chen Xuan is back!" Wang Xiaolian shouted, brought Shen Xuan to Xue Fenglin, and pushed him in the direction of Xue Fenglin.
Then he pointed at Xue Fenglin and asked, "Chen Xuan! Tell me the truth, is this wild man hidden in the house by you?"
Shen Xuan saw countless pairs of eyes looking at him, and knew that he couldn't hide it anyway. He looked at Xue Fenglin helplessly and nodded.
He had known for a long time that the Wang family would definitely make a fuss if they knew that he had rescued a strange man, so he thought of hiding the matter secretly and waiting for the other party to recover. He didn't expect that it would be discovered so quickly.
Seeing that Shen Xuan accepted it so straightforwardly, the villagers who were watching immediately started to whisper and make a buzz of discussion.
The villagers loved to join in the fun, and at this moment they began to gossip about Shen Xuan and the man with great excitement.
“Isn’t this man the one who fell at the entrance of the village that day? I was wondering why he disappeared the next day and was picked up by Shen Xuan?”
"Chen Xuan and this man have been in the same room for a long time. I'm afraid they have been having an affair. I can't believe he looks stupid on weekdays, but he is like this."
"After all, she can't get married after she turned 18, so she wants a man. But she likes a guy like this, so it can be said that they are attracted to each other."
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While the villagers were talking about Shen Xuan, Wang Xiaolian, who was the same age as Shen Xuan and had not yet married, felt that she had also been slapped in the face.
He got so anxious that he grabbed a broom and hit Shen Xuan. She cursed, "You are such a shameless person, Shen Xuan! You look so foolish and stupid, but I didn't expect you to be so hungry that you would bring a man back to steal his life?"
"You are ugly and stupid, so it's fine that you like this ugly guy. But if you bring him home, what if he covets my beauty and ruins my innocence? As an unmarried boy, will I still be able to live as a human being in the future?"
Shen Xuan quickly stretched out his hand to block it, but found that Wang Xiaolian's broom did not fall down, but was caught by Xue Fenglin.
I don't know when Xue Fenglin rushed forward, snatched the broom from Wang Xiaolian's hand with an angry look and broke it in half. He protected Shen Xuan behind him, pointed at Wang Xiaolian with the broom and said, "You are the ugly one. Brother Chen saved my life. We are both innocent. How dare you scold him again?"
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