There has been a change
At dinner time, the only sound was the sound of drinking porridge.
The three generations of the Fu family, grandparents and grandchildren, had not had a full meal for a long time, and had not tasted salty food for a long time, so they were in mixed feelings and drank porridge in silence.
Fu An seemed to be crying, and Yu Ying saw through it but didn't say anything.
Fu Wei was stunned when he tasted the red mushroom porridge for the first time.
There are no extra ingredients, only salt, but when you put it in your mouth, you will feel the freshness of mushrooms.
This was also the first bite of food that Fu Wei had eaten in more than a month of exile.
Everyone had different thoughts, and the meal was slowly finished in silence.
Not only did he finish the red mushroom porridge, but he also ate up a whole plate of wild fern.
As soon as they finished eating, Fu An, a skilled worker, started to clean up the dishes very actively. When he took the dishes out to wash them, Luo Shi, probably worried, also groped her way out and followed him.
Yu Ying moved the table to the wall and saw the straw mat beside it. Her expression became more complicated.
The current situation in this family is that Fu Wei sleeps on a bamboo bed, she sleeps on a pile of straw, and the oldest and youngest sleep on the ground.
Yu Ying was silent for a moment, then looked away.
He turned around to look at Fu Wei, told him "Don't get your legs wet", and then left the house.
Fu Wei glanced at her back and the little tail following behind her, and after two breaths he withdrew his calm gaze.
When Yu Ying left the house and was about to prepare medicine, she found that the little girl Fu Ning had been following her, following her wherever she went.
Yu Ying turned her head and looked at her, and she opened her big eyes with clear black and white, looking at her in a daze.
It has been almost ten days since she came here, and Yu Ying has not heard this little girl say a word.
Is it congenital inability to speak, or is it acquired?
These were not mentioned in detail in the text, so Yu Ying didn't know the exact reason. She could only wait until she was more familiar with the situation and then ask Luo in detail.
Fu Ning was still young and couldn't speak, so Yu Ying didn't treat her with the same guardedness as she did with others. So she smiled faintly at the little girl and let her follow her.
Yu Ying collected a lot of herbs these days, and they were almost dried in a day or two. With some of the herbs, she prepared several prescriptions for Fu Wei to drink, and also prepared several prescriptions for Luo Shi to drink.
Fu Wei's body is in a weak state, and he is in the middle stage of deficiency-cold syndrome. Without food supplements, he can only use mild herbal medicine to slowly regulate his body temporarily.
Luo's treatment focuses on calming the liver and improving eyesight, clearing away heat and detoxifying, and secondly, on the symptoms of persistent night coughs.
After preparing the herbs, I first boiled Luo's decoction, rolled the herbs into a bundle, and stuffed it into the medicine jar. At the same time, I boiled another pot of hot water. After it boiled, I added a small handful of Prunella vulgaris and simmered it for a while. Then I took it out and let it cool. I drank it as a herbal tea, which can moisten the throat and relieve coughs.
Yu Ying instructed Fu An: "Drink this water for the next few days. It will relieve your nighttime coughs. In the future, don't drink the water directly from the river. Boil it and let it cool before drinking."
The more Fu An listened, the more troubled he felt. He muttered, "Why can't we drink it? Everyone drinks it this way."
Yu Ying said calmly, "Boil it and drink it. It will only benefit your body and not harm it."
Mrs. Luo sat in the courtyard, feeling the cool breeze that blew in at dusk. She spoke to her grandson, saying, "From now on, just listen to your aunt."
Yu Ying looked at Luo.
The word "Auntie" always made her feel a little uncomfortable.
She hasn't even had a love relationship yet, but she has become someone else's nominal wife, someone else's daughter-in-law, someone else's aunt. The way she hears it makes her feel uncomfortable.
But now she stays in the Fu family as Fu Wei's wife.
We live separately now, so everything is fine. But what about after Fu Wei’s foot is healed?
Divorce peacefully, or... try to be with him?
Thinking of this, Yu Ying looked towards the thatched hut and glanced at the figure in the house.
She might try to accept Fu Wei and continue living like this, but Fu Wei might not accept her.
If they can't become husband and wife, then maybe they can ask for recognition as siblings, which is not impossible...
Thinking of this, Yu Ying quickly stopped thinking about this thing that didn't even have a shadow, shook her head, and shook out this thing that happened so long ago.
After coming to her senses, Yu Ying continued to pick up the herbs drying in the yard and then brought them back into the house.
Seeing that both the grandparents and grandchildren were standing in the yard, he ordered Fu An to go into Fu Wei's thatched hut and bring out two bamboo stools.
As night fell, only the faint light of fire illuminated the courtyard. Because some grass was burned to repel mosquitoes, the mosquitoes were not so rampant for the time being.
It was the first time that Mrs. Luo was outside in the yard enjoying the cool air after dark, after her eldest son and daughter-in-law had gone to the mining site.
Listening to the chirping of insects and feeling the cool breeze, the gloom in my heart dissipated a lot.
None of the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren entered the house. Fu An watched the fire, while Fu Ning sat on a stone. After taking a look at the sky full of twinkling stars, he withdrew his gaze and looked back at Yu Ying who was checking to see if the medicine was ready.
It was completely dark when she finally finished boiling Luo's medicine. She wrapped a wet cloth around the handle of the medicine pot and slowly poured it into the medicine bowl.
The replacement shirt had been torn into pieces by Yu Ying and used in various places.
The weather is hot now. If she doesn't go out, she will wear a blouse and a coat. If she goes to town, she will wear her only shirt.
After making the Luo family's medicine soup and washing the medicine pot, I began to decoct Fu Wei's medicine.
While waiting for Luo's medicine to cool down to 70%, Yu Ying took a piece of cloth, rinsed it with the six-point hot summer cypress tea, wrung it gently, and applied it to Luo's eyelids while it was still hot.
Mrs. Luo tilted her head back and let her do as she pleased.
When the hot towel was applied, it was a little uncomfortable, but soon, the soothing feeling gradually spread and it was very comfortable.
Yu Ying: "Apply a compress to your eyes every evening. It will help relieve eye fatigue. Combined with the decoction, your vision won't be completely restored, but it will gradually become clearer. Your vision won't be blurry during the day like it is now, nor will it be nearly blind at night."
Now that he could still see after hearing, Luo, who had originally thought that he was destined to go blind, secretly tightened his grip.
Who would want to be blind if they could see?
"During the day, cover your eyes with a cloth to prevent the strong sunlight from hurting your eyes." Then he looked at Fu An who was standing by the stove and said, "You can tie the cloth around your grandmother's eyes later. I'll give it to you tomorrow."
Fu An, who had been paying attention to her words, still looked unruly and replied perfunctorily: "Whatever you say."
After spending many days together, Yu Ying knew that Fu An was just being stubborn, but she still did what she had to do.
After applying the medicine for about half a minute, Yu Ying took off the cloth which was no longer warm and handed the medicine which had cooled down a lot to Mrs. Luo.
"After taking the medicine, you can go to bed."
Luo was very cooperative and didn't say a word of refusal.
As a doctor, what I like most is patients who cooperate with me.
It took half an hour before Fu Wei's medicine was ready.
The boiled medicine was slightly hot, and Yu Ying was not confident in letting Fu An bring it in, so she brought it into the house herself.
She groped her way into the room in the darkness, and walked to the bedside in the dim moonlight. Seeing a blurry figure sitting on the bed, Yu Ying said softly, "If you want to be cured, drink this medicine. If not, I'll take it out and throw it away."
In the dim light, Fu Wei looked at the figure outside the bed. He was silent for a moment, then spoke, "I do have the will to die, but I've been holding on until now because of something the person who broke my legs told me."
Yu Ying was slightly stunned. She never thought that he would suddenly open his heart to her.
After thinking about it, she followed his words and asked, "What did you say?"
Fu Wei suddenly smiled, a pathetic smile in the darkness, his voice low and slow: "If I commit suicide, the five members of the Fu family will be buried with me."
Yu Ying was startled, her face filled with shock. After a moment, she turned to look out the window at the courtyard, then lowered her voice, "But that was someone he'd been family with for twenty years! How could he be so cruel?!"
"If you want to know the reason, go find my biological mother."
After that, he continued slowly, "If he can break my leg once, he will break it a second time. He won't let me turn things around."
The saddest thing is that the father he called for twenty-one years ended up being the cold shoulder to because he was taken away by mistake, and condoned everything his own son did to him.
Yu Ying heard a lot of helplessness in his tone.
He had his own reasons for discovering that his father was framed and the Fu family was wronged. These reasons were closely linked to each other and must not be revealed by her. If she revealed them, future events would change and everything would no longer be under her control.
After a long silence, Yu Ying said, "It seems you can't bear to leave the Fu family, so you're still alive. Since you're still alive, then live as a healthy person. At most, you can hide the fact that you have legs for now, and then reveal it when you think of a way."
Fu Wei reached out and accurately took the medicine from her hand in the darkness, and slowly said, "That's exactly what I meant."
Yu Ying didn’t know why Fu Wei suddenly changed his mind, but it was a good start.
The corners of her mouth curved slightly, revealing a faint smile.
***
A night passed, and the first ray of sunlight in the early morning penetrated the narrow thatched hut through the gap in the straw curtains. Yu Ying got up from the straw bed.
She took out a wooden comb to comb her long hair, then used a thorny hairpin to tie her hair into a single bun. After tidying her clothes, she rolled up the straw curtain to let the warm morning sun shine into the house and dispel the darkness.
The small but clean and tidy thatched house suddenly became bright.
The firewood was neatly put in the corner, and on top of the firewood were some half-dried herbs.
After Yu Ying finished everything, she went out of the house and lifted the straw curtain. She saw the little girl Fu Ning squatting outside the door, staring at it eagerly.
When Yu Ying saw her, she was stunned for a moment, helped her up, and asked in surprise, "Why are you up so early today?"
Fu Ning didn't say anything, just gently pinched Yu Ying's sleeve.
Seeing her like this, Yu Ying didn't know what was wrong with her and could only let her do as she pleased.
Luo was sitting outside the house, and Fu An was nowhere to be found.
Yu Ying washed up with a little tail. After washing, she turned around and looked at the little girl's unclean face, so she took some water and wiped her face. The little girl raised her face obediently and cooperated very well.
After wiping, the stain was finally washed away. Her skin was yellow due to malnutrition. At the same time, her eyes, which were clearly black and white, looked large because of her small face.
After Yu Ying washed her face, she looked at her messy long hair, flipped it over, and found no fleas.
It's relatively clean, but the hair is really messy.
Yu Ying asked her, "Do you want me to braid your hair into a beautiful braid?"
Fu Ning hesitated for a moment, then nodded timidly.
Yu Ying brought her into the house, and slowly combed her long, soft hair with a comb, then braided her hair down in clumps from the top of her head. After braiding to the end of her hair, she tied the ends of her hair with the cloth ribbon she had used before.
After tying it, the little girl carefully touched the braid on her head with her small hands, her eyebrows suddenly curved, and she revealed an innocent smile.
Yu Ying said gently, "Okay, let's go out and play."
The little girl walked towards the door step by step, fearing that if she walked too fast, her braids would be messed up.
When she left the house, Fu An also came back with water. Seeing his sister's brand new look, he widened his eyes and asked in surprise, "Sister, where is that messy chicken nest on your head?"
The little girl, who had been teased by her brother for having hair like a bird's nest, reacted immediately, puffed up her cheeks unhappily, and ran to her grandmother angrily, as if she didn't want to pay any attention to her brother.
When Yu Ying came out of the house, she happened to see the little girl looking angry, and a smile appeared on her face.
Compared with her dull look a few days ago, the little girl's face seemed to have a hint of vitality.
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