Qin Nian
After bandaging his injured leg, Qin Nian looked at Ye Meizi, his eyes filled with gratitude: "Aunt Geng, I have to go back to your house to get badger oil.
You applied the ointment to my grandmother just in time, which not only relieved the pain but also prevented the wound from infection.
I will remember your kindness, aunt, and I will repay you one day."
"Silly girl, why are you saying these things? Don't you have to pay back all the injuries of your uncle Geng?
If such a long wound is not sutured, the bleeding will never stop. Every time I think about it, I get scared to death.
We are neighbors, which is better than distant relatives but also better than close relatives. Please stop speaking in a distant way in the future.
You can use all the badger oil. If it’s not enough, I’ll ask Geng Feng to go to Lihua Village.
His uncle is also a hunter, and his family also has badger oil."
The badger oil given by Ye Meizi was packed in a clay jar, and half a jar weighed three kilograms.
Qin Nian said: "That's enough."
Ye Meizi stood up and said, "Auntie Li is injured, and you have been busy for so long, you should take a rest.
I'm going back. If you need anything, ask Geng Feng to come over and help. Don't be polite."
Geng Feng, who was standing by the door, also said sincerely: "Xiao Nian, if you have anything to say, just ask."
Qin Nian felt warm in her heart, and there were some in the corners of her eyes: “Aunt, Geng Feng, I will call you if there is anything, and I won’t be polite.”
Ye Meizi and Geng Feng went back.
Qin Nian went to the kitchen and got a bowl of spiritual spring water and brought it in: "Grandma, you are sweating, drink some water."
Mrs. Li was indeed thirsty, so she took Qin Nian's hand and drank the entire bowl of spiritual spring water.
Qin Nian took another pillow from the kang cabinet and said to Mrs. Li who was sitting against the wall, "Grandma, lie down for a while.
There is no water at home, I will go get a bucket."
Mrs. Li nodded and said in an approving tone, "Geng Feng is a very quick-witted boy.
Seeing that my legs were burned, he ran into the kitchen and scooped half a basin of water and poured it on my legs.
The second time, I simply moved the water tank out and poured all the water on my injured leg, which quickly lowered the temperature.
My skin didn’t fall off.”
She suddenly blinked a few times: "Xiao Nian, Geng Feng poured all the water in the water tank onto my legs.
Where did you get that bowl of water just now?"
Qin Nian reacted quickly: "Grandma, in a hurry, Geng Feng pointed the mouth of the jar at your injured leg and poured it.
It wasn’t poured out so cleanly that there was just enough left for one bowl.”
Mrs. Li nodded: "Yes, Geng Feng is indeed very fast. Oh, he is really energetic. It's good to be young."
Even after being burned like that, she still looked envious, envious of Geng Feng's youth.
After Qin Nian helped Mrs. Li lie down, she said, "I'll go get a bucket of water and come back to make lunch."
"etc."
Mrs. Li hurriedly called Qin Nian: "Xiao Nian, although my leg burns were related to Li Dahua and the others' sudden arrival, the main reason was my own carelessness.
You can't hide it from me and go to Dahe Village to settle the score with them.
You also know that before Li Dahua gave birth to you, she had already given birth to a bull boy, who is two years older than you and is eighteen years old this year.
After throwing you away, she gave birth to two more bull boys, one fifteen years old and the other ten years old.
There is also the adult bull Qin Rongsheng, plus the two ghost soldiers Qin Pozi and Li Dahua, can you defeat them?
If you go alone, you will definitely be caught and sold by them, and then you will never see your grandmother again."
In Li Po's mouth, men are bull balls and women are ghost soldiers. What kind of metaphor is this?
Qin Nian laughed so hard that she squatted on the ground and tears came out of her eyes.
After drinking a bowl of spiritual spring water, Mrs. Li felt less pain in her legs. She smiled and continued:
"When my leg injury heals, I'll have plenty of ways to deal with them. When the time comes, I'll take care of grandma. I guarantee that I'll give that family a hard time."
Qin Nian smiled and nodded: "Okay, I won't go to find them alone. When grandma's leg injury is healed, we will go together."
She agreed this verbally, but in her heart she was thinking that she must find a chance to teach Li Dahua and the others a lesson.
Let them never dare to come here to ask for people every now and then.
After living a good life, we have to build a house and repair the courtyard wall first, so that Li Dahua and others can't come whenever they want.
Qin Nian took a long time to bring back a bucket of water. He didn't find any wild vegetables today, so he had to continue drinking corn paste.
Early the next morning, after washing up and having breakfast, Qin Nian opened the old cabinet on the kang and took out the two taels of silver that he had hidden.
"Grandma, I'm going to the county town."
Mrs. Li's corn paste was made from spiritual spring water, and she drank it. The pain in her leg was relieved a lot, and she even had some strength to speak:
"What are you doing in town?"
"Your leg is injured. It's not good to drink corn paste all the time. Millet porridge is more nourishing. I'll go buy a few pounds."
Mrs. Li disagreed: "Xiao Nian, we didn't even have a few mouthfuls of corn paste last year.
Now that we have enough to drink, why do we need to buy millet? Your grandmother is thick-skinned and not so delicate.
No, no, no."
Qin Nian didn't listen to her either. He left after saying, "I'll ask Aunt Geng to come over and check on me later."
After she finished speaking, no matter how loudly Mrs. Li called her, she did not turn back and just left with the two taels of silver.
After entering the county town, Qin Nian went to the rice shop first. A few days ago, cornmeal was 20 wen per jin, but in just two or three days, it rose to 30 wen per jin.
The price of millet has reached ten cents per pound, which is very costly for the lives of the poor.
For the sake of Mrs. Li, Qin Nian still spent 800 coins to buy 20 kilograms of millet, and spent another 10 coins to buy 2 kilograms of brown sugar.
Qin Nian came back before the hour of Si. Seeing that she had spent almost one or two taels of silver, Mrs. Li felt so distressed that her breathing became rapid.
Although she felt sorry for him, Mrs. Li was an old lady who knew how to repay her gratitude. She looked at Qin Nian and said:
"Your uncle Geng is also injured, give him some millet and a pound of brown sugar.
The neighbors live there, a family of three, and they are all nice people.”
Qin Nian agreed, filled a clay bowl with millet, weighing about three pounds, put a bag of brown sugar on it, jumped over the low wall, and entered Ye Meizi's house.
There were guests at Ye Meizi's house, Geng Feng's aunt and cousin. The cousin's surname was Tang, and her name was Tang Xiaomei, who was the same age as Qin Nian.
Seeing Qin Nian sending good things over, Ye Meizi was happy and touched.
Qin Nian smiled and said, "Aunt Geng, you said yesterday that we are close neighbors, so there is no need to be polite."
Geng Feng looked at Qin Nian: "Xiao Nian, why didn't you call me when you went to the county town? It would be great if I could go with you."
Qin Nian said: "I thought you went up the mountain to hunt. If you had known that you didn't go up the mountain, I would have called you."
Tang Xiaomei suddenly said, "My cousin just came back from going up the mountain."
Her tone was unfriendly, as if she disliked Qin Nian a little.
Qin Nian glanced at her, didn't take it to heart, jumped over the low wall and went home.
She cleaned the pot and used the spiritual spring water to cook two bowls of millet porridge. Millet was expensive, so she wanted to cook only one bowl for her grandmother.
But Qin Nian understood that in her grandmother's heart, she was the most important. If she didn't eat, she couldn't eat anything her grandmother said.
Qin Nian put a spoonful of brown sugar in his grandmother's millet porridge, and both the grandmother and grandson ate it with smiles on their faces.
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