Chapter 30: Already woke up
After quietly drinking a bottle of glucose, Shen Wan's strength had already recovered, so she continued to collect herbs on the way.
Seeing Aunt Zhou following her stealthily, she had a rough idea in her mind.
She picked up a herb and looked at Xie Mubai with a smile: "Drink less water, I will boil some medicine for you later."
It turns out that this medicine is not applied, but boiled!
After hearing this, Aunt Zhou quickly bent down and picked one.
In short, she would pick whatever the ugly woman picked.
After a while, she had a small handful in her hand.
Aunt Zhou vaguely felt that she could now pick herbs and sell them.
Even without the Lin family, she wouldn't have to live in such financial difficulty on the road.
The weather was still very hot, and everyone started to rest before noon.
As soon as Aunt Zhou sat down, she asked Zhao to borrow a small pot to boil medicine for Sun.
Zhao had never touched water since she was a child, so how could she do such rough work? She didn't even know how to use a tinderbox, and she struggled for a long time but couldn't light the fire.
Scarface saw this and went forward to light the fire for her.
Zhao didn't dare look at him, but just thanked him in a low voice.
Scarface seemed not to hear, and stood up and left.
"Hey, someone has taken a fancy to your sister-in-law." Shen Wan poked Xie Mubai and said in a low voice.
Xie Mubai frowned, and said in a cold voice with a hint of blame: "Don't talk nonsense!"
"How could I be talking nonsense?" Shen Wan said with a wicked smile, "Look at Scarface, when has he ever cared so much about someone?"
She didn't have much affection for her sister-in-law Zhao, nor did she have much hatred towards her.
Of course, she also didn't think that the dignified and beautiful lady would fall in love with an official like Scarface.
The sons of the Xie family are all outstanding in appearance and are both talented in literature and martial arts.
After meeting such an outstanding man, how could Zhao fall for a lowly official like Scarface?
"I told you to stop talking!" Xie Mubai looked sullen and seemed a little annoyed.
Shen Wan stuck out her tongue and made a face at him.
It goes without saying that someone doesn't want his widowed sister-in-law to remarry.
"Okay, I won't tell you!" She smiled mischievously. "Drink some water. Look at your lips, they're so dry they're almost peeling."
Xie Mubai took the bamboo tube and took a sip nonchalantly.
This water is extremely sweet. Every time I drink it, I feel refreshed and as comfortable as if I had just soaked in a hot spring.
After struggling for most of the day, Zhao finally managed to boil the medicine.
Qian and Li helped Sun up and made her drink a large bowl of medicine.
The medicine was extremely bitter, and Sun felt so nauseous that she almost vomited all over the floor.
But she still endured it, firstly because good medicine tastes bitter, and secondly so that she wouldn't have to walk.
"Why isn't my third sister-in-law awake yet?" Zhao wiped the sweat from her forehead and asked in surprise.
She had seen Shen Wan's medical skills, and it seemed to be quite good.
After hearing this, Aunt Zhou was furious.
"How did you cure it?" She raised her voice and looked at Shen Wan fiercely, "If it doesn't work, you have to return the money!"
Shen Wan still had an idea about Sun's condition.
"Don't worry." She took the bamboo tube from Xie Mubai's hand and said with a smile: "In less than an incense stick of time, your precious daughter-in-law will not only wake up, but also get up!"
Get up?
Not to mention Aunt Zhou, none of the prisoners present believed it.
Sun is so sick and has a back injury. Even if she wants to crawl, she needs the strength to do so!
"If she can get up, I'll kowtow to you three times in public!" Aunt Zhou's eyes lit up and she said immediately, "If not, you'll give me back the money!"
Since someone insisted on kowtowing, Shen Wan naturally had no reason to refuse.
A curious person got a stick of incense from somewhere and stuck it directly into the ground and lit it.
Suddenly, everyone's eyes fell on the incense.
The incense was getting shorter and shorter, but Sun was still lying there motionless, with no sign of waking up.
Hu Dahai looked at it and couldn't help but feel anxious for Shen Wan, so he came out to smooth things over: "Let's all go away. What are you doing with these boring things?"
"Master, you can't be partial!" Aunt Zhou immediately perked up when she saw this. "This is something Shen Wan and I have agreed on. There's no going back on our word!"
Shen Wan also nodded: "It is true that we cannot regret it."
Seeing that she was determined to do so, Xie Mubai did not try to dissuade her, and Hu Dahai had nothing to say.
Shorter and shorter!
When there was only an inch left of the incense stick, Aunt Zhou straightened her back and looked at Shen Wan with a smug look on her face: "Hurry up and pay!"
She felt that she had made a lot of money this time.
Sun applied the medicine and didn’t lose a penny!
If she had known this, she would have asked this ugly woman to treat Sun's injuries earlier.
"No rush, wait a little longer." Shen Wan disagreed.
She just didn't believe how much longer the Sun family could hold on!
I've been taking the medicine for so long, it should have taken effect.
Just as the incense was about to go out, Sun suddenly screamed.
She suddenly sat up from the stretcher and crawled forward desperately.
"Third... Third sister-in-law, what are you doing?" Li's face turned pale with fright.
Before she could finish her question, she heard a sudden and overwhelming sound.
Immediately afterwards, an indescribable stench filled the sultry air!
Shen Wan looked at it and couldn’t help laughing: “Auntie Zhou, you can kowtow now.”
What she had picked before was not medicine for injuries, but laxative.
Zhao was also a strong woman. She boiled all the herbs together. It would be strange if Sun didn't have diarrhea.
Upon hearing this, Aunt Zhou's expression suddenly changed.
Her face turned pale and she stammered, "I... I am your elder! If I kneel down to you, it will shorten your life!"
"Haha, the rules of the Xie family are really weird. Even a concubine dares to call herself the master's elder." Shen Wan rolled her eyes and smiled coldly.
Seeing this, Zhao stepped forward and advised, "Fifth brother's wife, please forgive me this time."
"If the incense goes out and Mrs. Sun doesn't wake up, do you think Aunt Zhou will forgive me?" Shen Wan asked back.
Of course Aunt Zhou wouldn't do that, and Zhao knew it very well.
At this point, she didn't know what to say.
"Let's just forget it." Seeing Zhao's frustration, Scarface stepped forward and pleaded, "There's no point in just kowtow a few times. Why don't you punish her with something else?"
Shen Wan thought about it and said, "Okay, then I'll give you face."
"It just so happens that Sun's clothes are dirty now, so let Aunt Zhou wash them for her."
Upon hearing this, Aunt Zhou was so angry that she almost fainted.
Asking her to wash those dirty clothes stained with feces for Sun was even more painful than killing her!
"Hurry up and go!" Scarface said sternly, "If you don't go, you'll kowtow!"
Helpless, Aunt Zhou had to do as she was told.
At noon, the officials began to cook free mung bean porridge.
Of course, the women of the Xie family could only work, and there was still no porridge.
Aunt Zhou washed clothes under the scorching sun for half a day and felt her head was swollen. She also wanted a bowl.
“None of yours.” Shen Wan said coldly.
Aunt Zhou immediately became angry and demanded fiercely, "This is all public money. Why do others have it but not me?"
"Who said this is public property?" Shen Wan said bluntly, "These mung beans are all mine. I can give them to anyone I want."
"It's not just you. Anyway, no one has ever cursed me or my man!"
"There's no reason to give my things to some heartless people."
"Even if I pour it out to feed the pigs, I will never give her a single bite!"
Before she finished speaking, she stood up and went to wash her hands.
The convicts were so frightened that they quickly lowered their heads, fearing that they had done something wrong and offended the ugly woman.
Aunt Zhou was so angry that she was fuming, but she could do nothing but watch those bowls of mung bean porridge go into other people's stomachs.
As soon as Shen Wan finished washing her hands, she saw Qian, who was distributing porridge, standing in front of Xie Mubai with a bowl of mung bean porridge.
"Fifth brother, have a drink." She smiled gently.
Xie Mubai shook his head: "I'm taking medicine and can't drink this."
Qian's expression changed slightly.
"It's okay to drink less." She thought for a moment and smiled, "The weather is so hot and you're weak. It would be troublesome if you got heatstroke."
"Just consider it as a favor to my second sister-in-law and drink at least one sip."
She smiled and handed the bowl to Xie Mubai's lips.
"Didn't I tell you not to drink mung bean porridge?" Shen Wan walked forward with a sullen face and snatched the bowl away. "Why are you so disobedient?"
"If you continue like this, I won't treat your leg."
Xie Mubai smiled, then looked at Qian: "You saw it too, she doesn't allow me to drink."
"I'm a patient and I have to listen to her."
Qian smiled awkwardly and left with the mung bean porridge.
"Why did she insist on letting you drink porridge?" Shen Wan looked at her gradually receding back with a look of doubt on her face.
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