The male protagonist is ill
In the early morning, the light was dim, and a little light seeped into the house through the cracks. Yu Ying stood up, casually tied her waist-length hair behind her waist with a cloth belt, and then left the house.
The weather was hot, but because it was morning and the area was surrounded by mountains, there was even some fog, so it was quite chilly in the early morning.
Yu Ying was wearing a long dress, but she didn't feel cold. It was just that she hadn't slept much the previous night, so her face was very pale, and there was a faint blue tint under her eyes.
After yawning, Yu Ying walked to the water tank and was about to scoop water to wash her face, but found that the water in the tank was almost empty.
The entire village is built with thatched houses, so there is no way there is a well. The only place to get water is a river one mile away from the Fuji family.
The old man of the Fu family has poor eyesight, and although the youngest is eight years old, he looks only six years old at most. Even if it is only a mile away, it is difficult to get water.
After hesitating for a moment, Yu Ying scooped only half a bucket of water and poured it into her palm little by little to rinse her mouth and wash her face.
While washing up, I heard the sound of a bamboo stick hitting the ground behind me. I knew it was Luo who had also gotten up.
The sky was only slightly bright and shrouded in fog, so Luo Shi still couldn't see anything.
Although you can't see it, you can still hear the sound of water splashing.
She frowned slightly, thinking to herself that Yu had been here for half a month, and during this half month she had almost always slept until noon. Why did she get up so early every day these days?
Luo was puzzled for a moment but then stopped caring. She groped her way over and put the clothes that her son and grandchildren had changed out of yesterday into the broken wooden basin.
Holding a wooden tray in one hand and tapping a bamboo pole with the other, he walked out of the yard with ease and went to the river to wash clothes.
It was still dark, and Mrs. Luo's eyesight was not good. If she went to the river to wash clothes, she would fall into the water if she was not careful.
Yu Ying frowned and watched Luo walk out, feeling a little worried.
Anyway, she had to go out to find some herbs today, so she limped out and followed him.
She did not follow Luo closely, but walked behind her at a considerable distance.
Luo's eyesight was poor and she walked slowly, so Yu Ying stopped and checked the weeds on the road.
Common herbs are not difficult to find. In the Lingnan region, herbs can be found everywhere along the country roads. However, the common people do not know how to distinguish them and just think of them as ordinary weeds.
You can see some common medicinal herbs every few steps. Bidens pilosa, which can treat bruises, swelling and pain, clear away heat and toxins, and dispel wind and dampness, can be found everywhere.
Current conditions do not allow her to take careful care of herself, so she can only use the oldest and simplest method, which is to mash the Bidens pilosa, steam it, and apply it for a few days to see the effect.
She has been here for several days now, and the redness and swelling on her ankles are not as severe as they were at the beginning, so the effect can be seen after applying it for two or three days.
She bent down and picked a handful of Bidens pilosa.
After folding it, I saw some summer cypress beside me and remembered the ups and downs of coughing in the next room yesterday. After thinking about it, I pulled some out as well.
There is a lot of miasma in Lingnan, so she needs to eat more lung-clearing food. Otherwise, even if she lives there for a long time, she will cough every night like the Fu family.
Cooking summer cypress and pig lungs together can clear the lungs and relieve coughs.
Pork was relatively cheap in ancient times, so pig lungs would be even cheaper. If she could go to the market, she would go and ask.
But the prerequisite is that you have to exchange the two silver leaves for silver first, and that little amount of silver is definitely not enough to cover the expenses, so you have to be frugal and calculate it carefully.
Yu Ying collected her thoughts and continued to pick a lot of herbs. Then she followed Luo to the river.
Some people got up and went out to work in the morning, and they were surprised when they saw Yu Ying.
This village is called Lingshui Village, and most of the villagers settled here after being exiled. Even if some were pardoned and could leave Lingnan, they had no money and could only stay here.
Fu Wei has been in Lingshui Village for a month, and Yu Ying has been married into Lingshui Village for half a month.
As for the second son of the Fu family, the villagers of Lingshui Village only saw him for a short while on the day when the people came, but the new bride of the Fu family saw him several times.
The new bride of the Fu family looked ugly because of the many dark spots on her face, but one vaguely felt that if those spots could be removed, she would probably be a beautiful lady.
As for the temperament of the Fu family's new bride...
He stole food and ran away a few days ago. It's obvious that he is not an easy person to deal with.
Yu Ying didn't care about the stares. After picking the herbs, she stood in the distance and stared at Luo.
In any case, she was bedridden for the first two days after she arrived, and Mrs. Luo did not ignore her. Putting herself in her shoes, she could not just stand by and watch.
As the sky gradually brightened, Luo finished washing the clothes, and Yu Ying returned before her.
After returning to the yard, she put down the herbs and went out to find two relatively round and clean stones. When she came back, Luo had also returned.
Yu Ying used half a bucket of water to simply rinse the stones and herbs, and then began to pound the medicine.
The sound of stones colliding came into the house. Fu An lifted the straw curtain on the window, rubbed his eyes and looked out. He saw Yu Ying pounding medicine with a puzzled look on his face.
Although I didn't know what she was doing, I still listened to my grandmother and ignored her.
Yu Ying vaguely felt that someone was staring at her. After mashing the herbs half-baked, she looked up at the big thatched hut.
She exchanged glances with Fu An and was about to look away when she saw a figure behind him.
Because the room was dark, she couldn't see the man's face clearly, and could only vaguely see the man's outline.
——It is the outline of an adult man.
There is no need to think about it, this adult man is the male protagonist Fu Wei.
Although she couldn't see clearly, she could feel that the male protagonist was also looking at her.
His eyes were probably very calm and silent.
After a moment, Yu Ying looked away.
If she rashly said she wanted to check on his leg injury, Mrs. Luo might not even let her in. She would just think she wanted to harm her son, so she had to observe first.
Her attention returned to the herbs.
Logically speaking, the herb needs to be steamed before applying to the affected area to make it more effective. However, after taking a look at the fire rack that was so simple that it didn't even have a pot, she could only settle for the second best and just wrap the herb in a cloth.
I went back to the house and applied the herbs on my red and swollen ankle.
Without steaming the herbs, the effect will be much less, but it is still better than doing nothing.
This medicine needs to be applied for about an hour before changing it again.
Because she hadn't slept all night, she fell asleep in a daze. When she woke up, it was already an hour later.
After she changed the medicine, it was almost noon. Yu Ying found a longer and thicker branch, broke off the extra thin branches and used it as a crutch.
She came out of the house and found that Mrs. Luo and the two children were not at home. She didn't know where they had gone. She took out the thin quilt and dirty clothes and slowly walked to the river to wash them.
She met some people on the way, but because the villagers were only concerned about their immediate food and clothing, no one came forward to say hello when they saw her.
These villagers had long been worn out by poverty and were now nothing more than the walking dead, their eyes glazed over, their faces numb and lifeless.
Yu Ying sighed secretly. She was afraid that she would become like them, so she had to find another way out and couldn't go on like this.
She went to the river, washed her clothes briefly, and then went back.
After returning to the yard, he moved Luo's clothes aside to make some space to hang her clothes and quilts.
The golden sun is getting hotter day by day, and it is especially hot today. I guess it will dry up by the evening.
Yu Ying also put the herbs she picked this morning on the ground to dry. She looked at the broken and messy yard and sighed.
Maybe it was because Mrs. Luo’s eyesight was poor and the child was young, so she was unable to clean up properly.
The yard was overgrown with weeds, and the ground was covered with messy branches and leaves. There were also some wild vegetables that had been picked but not cooked and had already wilted.
Yu Ying, who was quite fond of cleanliness, thought for a moment, then squatted down and pulled and dug out the weeds. She stood up, took the broom from the corner of the wall, and swept the fallen leaves in the yard into a pile next to the fire rack so that she could use them for burning in the evening.
It took her nearly half an hour, and she finally gave up because she was so tired and dizzy, but she finally cleaned up the yard.
Just as he was about to go back to the thatched hut to rest, he suddenly heard a man coughing softly from another thatched hut.
Yu Ying paused and looked towards the thatched hut where the male protagonist was.
She looked around but did not see the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren.
After thinking for a moment, she turned around and slowly walked to the door of the thatched hut, leaning against a tree trunk.
She took a breath and asked through the straw curtains, "Can I come in?"
After waiting for a while, there was no response from the house.
Yu Ying remembered that the novel mentioned that in the first few months after the male protagonist returned to the Fu family, he rarely spoke and always sat alone on the couch in silence, without any expression.
In this situation, it would be difficult for him to respond to her.
After hesitating for a while, Yu Ying still walked in without being invited.
She lifted the straw curtain and took the first step inside when she smelled the pungent scent of herbs.
Because she had just been working in the sun, the room was dim and her vision was a little blurry. Everything in the room, including people, had double images.
After a while of getting used to it, the furnishings in the room gradually became clear.
This house is obviously better than the one she lives in.
There was a straw mat rolled up against the wall in the room, which should be the mat used by the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren to sleep on.
The other furniture was a small bamboo table, four long bamboo benches, and a bamboo bed that could accommodate two people.
Without exception, these bamboo furniture are many years old and have varying degrees of damage.
A man was sitting on the only bamboo bed.
Yu Ying looked up and met a pair of dark and cold eyes.
She was stunned for a moment.
Originally, she thought she saw the male protagonist who was in a miserable state and decadent and listless.
But the man sitting in front of her leaning against the wall, with a cold temperament, clean and tidy, and eyes covered with a layer of ice, made her a little surprised.
Even though his face was thin and pale, he looked sick, and he was wearing coarse linen clothes, it still couldn't hide his originally handsome appearance and tall and straight figure.
This male protagonist has a bit of the feeling of a sick beauty.
He sat on the bamboo bed, his eyes, expression, and the aura emanating from his body were all cold and cool.
There are some people whose temperament cannot be changed no matter how bad the environment or how unfortunate the experiences are.
Yu Ying felt that the male protagonist was one of them.
Yu Ying's gaze shifted from the handsome face to the legs covered by the thin quilt.
There was silence in the room for a moment.
She said dryly, "I was born into a family of medicine, so I know a little bit about medicine. Maybe I can help you heal your leg. Do you want to help?"
Fu Wei's face was cold, and his expression did not change at all because of her words. He looked away, closed his eyes, and did not give her any extra reaction.
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