First time sitting at the same table
Yu Ying spoke calmly, "Why do you care about me?"
After she said this, there was silence in the room.
He had never expected her to respond like this, and even Fu Wei, whose heart was as dead as death, was slightly stunned.
Yu Ying didn't ask for his consent, but simply lifted the quilt from his legs.
Fu Wei came back to his senses, his eyes lightly examining her face. After a long while, he said, "Clean the stains on your face, and it will be easy to find someone to rely on. You will have no worries about food and clothing in the future. Why waste your time in the Fu family?"
Just as she was about to lift up Fu Wei's trouser leg to check the affected area, she suddenly heard his words. Her pupils shrank slightly and a hint of surprise appeared on her face.
As if she had thought of something, she touched the "black spot" on her cheek, then looked at the face with a look of world-weariness. Yu Ying regained her composure and asked, "When did you find out?"
Fu Wei glanced at the stains on her face and said indifferently, "Sometimes it's thick, sometimes it's thin. Isn't that what you want people to notice?"
Yu Ying frowned slightly. His face was handsome, but his mouth was really unpleasant.
There wasn't even a bronze mirror here, so every time she could only look at herself in the water and apply the juice of wild fruits. She had been so busy these past two days that she had forgotten that she had spots on her face.
If you think about it carefully, there are probably not many people who can notice that her spots are sometimes darker and sometimes lighter.
Luo Shi couldn't see clearly. Fu An was still young and his mind wasn't that complicated yet, so he naturally wouldn't think of cheating.
She has seldom interacted with others since she came to this world. Aunt He only started interacting with her in the past two days, so she probably didn't notice it.
Yu Ying looked at Fu Wei, wondering if he was the only one who had discovered it?
After all, people who can achieve great things in the future must be much smarter and more observant than others.
Yu Ying's thoughtful expression did not fade, and this also caught Fu Wei's attention.
You can guess exactly what she is thinking with just a little guess.
"If we want to continue hiding it, we can only do it shallowly, not deeply." Fu Wei's face was cold and his voice was also very cold.
Yu Ying was silent for a moment, thinking that without a mirror, how could she tell whether it was lighter or brighter?
After being troubled for a moment, her eyes fell on Fu Wei, and an unrealistic idea came to her mind, but it stopped after only two breaths.
He doesn't seem like a kind-hearted person, so how could he help her check?
"Then I'll be more careful next time." After Yu Ying said that, she continued to lift up his trouser legs and slowly rolled them up.
When she saw that the tied cloth had been moved, Yu Ying's face darkened and she looked up at Fu Wei, who had a dull expression.
She stared at him seriously for a long moment before asking casually, "Did you move these bamboo sticks, or your legs?"
Yu Ying's voice was gentle, without any hint of malice, but it gave people a sense of seriousness and authority without being angry.
Fu Wei's eyes turned slightly, looking at her angry eyes. After she stared at him for a long time, he slowly spoke: "Mortals have three urgent needs, and I have them too."
Yu Ying was stunned, then remembered that there was no one in the Fu family to help him, and he had to do everything by himself, which was very difficult for him.
Despite this, Yu Ying was silent for a moment before telling him the seriousness of the situation: "Even if you're in a hurry, you can't move the bamboo here. If the joints are dislocated again, it will be difficult to put them back in place."
Upon hearing this, Fu Wei raised his eyelids slightly, his eyes were dead silent, and he said indifferently: "What if I recover? There will always be people who don't like me being healthy. It is very likely that I will break again after I recover."
Yu Ying tied the cloth strips tightly around him again. When she heard him say that, she knew what he meant.
Yu Ying was not in a position to comment on the wrong baby incident. It was an accident and there was no right or wrong.
But if you want to trace it back to the root of the matter, it was all Fu Wei's adoptive father's fault.
Perhaps the real young master felt wronged, so he wanted to destroy Fu Wei, but the Fu family felt more wronged than him. All the things were caused by his biological father's evil intentions.
If he had not colluded with those rebels to frame Fu Wei's biological father for collaborating with the enemy, how could his family and the Fu family's family have fled to the temple to avoid disaster?
If they didn't take refuge, how could they have taken the wrong child?
If it weren't for him, how could the Fu family be destroyed?
The Wuling County Prefect's family owes the Fu family a debt that cannot be repaid even with their lives.
After tying the strips of cloth again, Yu Ying looked up at him and asked, "So are you just going to sit there and wait for death?"
When Fu Wei looked at her, he heard her say, "If you die, everything will be over, but what about those who are still alive? Besides, you are still alive. Since you are alive, wouldn't it be better to have two healthy legs than you are now?"
Yu Ying withdrew her gaze, pulled down his trouser legs, and said calmly, "If you don't want treatment, tell me as soon as possible, and I won't treat you."
After saying that, she turned around and walked out of the house without even looking at him.
But just as he stepped out of the thatched hut, he seemed to remember something and retracted his foot. He turned to look at Fu Wei on the bamboo bed, narrowing his eyes slightly with suspicion. "Just now, you seemed to be telling me to clean up my reputation and find a backer so that I can have food and clothing without worries. Did you mean that I should use my body to seduce others?"
Fu Wei looked at her silently and asked indifferently, "Life is difficult. Men are slaves, women are prostitutes, and people sell their children to survive. Isn't this normal?"
Yu Ying looked at him in silence for a long time. She didn't know what he had been through. He had such a profound experience after only being in Lingnan for more than a month. She also didn't know if he had already known about the hardships and difficulties in the world.
Not knowing the answer, Yu Ying didn't delve into it. She just said seriously, "Using your beauty to please a man is a choice you only make when you're desperate. Now that I still have a way to go and can support myself, I will definitely not choose that path."
After saying this, Yu Ying walked out of the room with a stern face.
Fu Wei stared at the empty door in a daze, and only looked away after a long while.
Sitting quietly on the bamboo bed, Fu Wei looked out the window, his eyes falling on the slender figure in the yard.
She narrowed her eyes slightly, recalling the look on her face when she spoke just now, which faintly revealed a tenacity that refused to admit defeat.
Not only is it tenacious, but it is also full of enthusiasm.
His thoughts turned, thinking of her deftness in taking his pulse and adjusting his bones. It would take at least ten years of practice to achieve this level. Moreover, even men of her age who had studied medicine since childhood were not as calm as her.
What kind of upbringing and environment can produce a woman with such character and ability?
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Outside the yard, Yu Ying, who originally had no intention of cooking wild vegetables, finally took the washed wild bracken.
Wild fern is delicious when eaten cold, but due to lack of ingredients, we can only blanch it in water and mix it with salt.
But because there was only one clay pot and porridge was still being cooked, Yu Ying used the washed medicine pot that was ready to be used to boil medicine first.
He filled it with water, piled up a few stones, and placed the medicine jar on top.
He looked at Fuan and said, "Boil the water here too."
Fu An glanced at her and curled his lips, but still turned the fire to another simple stove.
Yu Ying glanced at the two stone stoves and thought of one more tool to be replaced - the ceramic stove on the table.
When she bought the pottery pot, she asked, and she learned that a single pottery stove cost ten cents, and a double pottery stove cost eighteen cents.
The double-burner can burn two pots at the same time, which not only saves firewood but also saves time.
Luo and Fu Wei will have to take the medicine for a long time, so this double-mouthed ceramic stove is very necessary.
Besides, it’s not raining or windy now, so we can still make do like this. But if it’s windy or rainy, we’ll probably have to eat only raw wild vegetables.
Suddenly, Yu Ying suddenly remembered the Lingnan region. It seemed that there were hurricanes and heavy rainfall from July to September every year.
If you calculate now, it’s already July!
Yu Ying's heart trembled, and she turned back to look at the shabby thatched hut where she lived, feeling scared.
If there is a hurricane, won’t the house be blown away?
But... this place is surrounded by mountains, so there shouldn't be any big hurricanes, right?
If it really doesn't work, cut down a few thick bamboos and twist some ropes to reinforce it inside and outside.
Yu Ying still had one more thing on her mind.
"It's bubbling!"
Fu An suddenly shouted, and Yu Ying came back to her senses instantly.
Waking up, she glanced at the bubbling clay pot, squatted down, and stirred the bottom with a wooden spoon to prevent it from sticking.
After stirring for a while, I scooped up some rice and saw that it had changed a little. I had to simmer it for a while before adding the red mushrooms.
Yu Ying put down the wooden spoon, then took a basin and went to the river to fetch water.
You can’t rely on an eight-year-old child for the entire family’s water needs.
Although a sprained ankle requires adequate rest to heal faster, her current situation does not allow her to rest much.
She went to fetch two basins of water and took a look at the rice porridge that was almost done before putting the red mushrooms into the ceramic pot and half-covering the lid to prevent it from boiling over.
After a while, a faint fragrance wafted out of the pot.
Because the Fu family was at the very edge of Lingshui Village, about half a mile away from the nearest family, Yu Ying was not worried that someone would smell the fragrance and come over, thinking that she was going to use the red mushroom to poison the Fu family.
Smelling the fragrance, Fu An couldn't help swallowing and watched the fire more actively.
About half a minute later, the porridge was ready.
It was her first time cooking porridge, and she wanted to have something delicious. Besides, neither of us eat a lot, so Yu Ying didn’t add too much water, so the red mushroom porridge was quite thick.
Because red mushrooms are red, the porridge made from them is also red. If you don’t know this, you really wouldn’t dare to eat it.
But after Fu An knew that this red mushroom was not only non-toxic but also delicious, he had been thinking about it all the time.
Yu Ying put some salt in the porridge, stirred it, and then served it up. She then asked Fu Anquan to bring it to the bamboo table in the house. Then she put salt in the bracken and stirred it.
In a short while, a plate of fern is ready.
Fortunately, the Fu family still had wooden plates and bowls, otherwise they wouldn't even have anything to eat with, which would be miserable.
In the house, Fu Wei watched his nephew bring the porridge to the table one by one. After a while, a faint fragrance drifted towards him.
A moment later, the nominal wife brought in a plate of wild vegetables.
Fu Wei frowned slightly.
Are they planning to have dinner in the house?
Since Fu Wei came to the Fu family, except for the time when the grandfather and grandson would spread a mat in the corner to sleep at night, they would not stay in the house for a moment. Even their meals would be eaten outside, as if they were afraid of disturbing him.
Are you not afraid now?
Yu Ying didn't even look at Fu Wei, and said to Fu An, "Help me move the table to the bedside."
Fu An was startled, but after hesitating for a moment, he looked at the delicious rice porridge on the table and instantly obeyed.
He still has the awareness that if he wants to eat her food, he has to cooperate with her.
Yu Ying and Fu An moved the table to the side of the bed, and Fu Wei looked at her coldly.
Yu Ying pretended not to see his look and just asked Fu An to call his sister in and then help his grandmother in.
When Mrs. Luo heard that they were going to have dinner in the house, she hesitated for a while. Fu An urged her, "Grandma, that woman and my uncle are waiting for us."
Hearing her grandson mention "that woman", Luo frowned and scolded, "That's your aunt."
Upon hearing this, Fu An retorted, "She's not some little aunt. If she were, why wouldn't my uncle live in the same room with her instead of squeezing in with us?"
Mrs. Luo was speechless for a moment, not knowing how to explain, but she still said firmly: "Anyway, from now on you have to call me aunt, not that woman, understand?"
Fu An exhaled and replied reluctantly, "I know."
After the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren entered the house.
Fu Ning waited until her brother helped her grandmother sit down before she obediently climbed onto the bench.
Although he was staring at the rice porridge and was very hungry, he sat upright without any other movements, and was so well-behaved that people felt good about him.
After everyone sat down, Yu Ying said calmly, "Tables are for eating. There's no reason to leave them empty. Don't you agree, Erlang?"
Yu Ying looked at Fu Wei, who had a cold expression.
Fu Wei looked at her but didn't say anything.
Because he didn't say anything, Luo's face became a little nervous. No one dared to pick up their chopsticks. Yu Ying didn't pick up her chopsticks either, just looked at him.
Fu Wei was silent for a moment, then withdrew his gaze. He finally picked up the bowl of porridge in front of him and said calmly, "Eat."
With his words, the tension on Luo's face suddenly relaxed a lot.
"Grandma, sister, the porridge is a little hot, please eat it slowly." Fu An picked up the porridge, but quickly put it down because it was too hot.
He secretly glanced at his uncle, whose expression didn't change at all and who wasn't afraid of the heat at all. For some reason, he felt a little impressed.
Fu An withdrew his gaze, picked up some bracken and put it into his grandmother's bowl, then took a spoon and scooped a small spoonful of porridge, blew on it a few times, and then carefully fed it to his sister.
Yu Ying watched and found it hard not to be moved.
She looked at Fu Wei, and Fu Wei also looked at his nephew, but seemed to notice that she was looking at him, so he looked away.
After Fu Ning tasted the delicious and tasty porridge, his big eyes suddenly lit up and he liked it very much.
Fu An fed his sister a few spoonfuls of porridge before he had time to eat a spoonful himself. After eating the porridge, he paused.
After a few breaths, he lowered his head for some reason, not wanting others to see his red eyes.
It had been a long time since he had tasted such delicious porridge, and it had been a long time since he had sat at this table and had a good meal together.
He also missed his father and mother...
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