Chapter 45 Building a House



Mo Xuan

Mo Xuan looked at Li Hetai and asked, "Do you feel something is wrong?"

Li Hetai said: "I see that the black air on your head has dissipated a lot, as if the poison in your body has been cured.

Your Highness, please eat first. After you finish eating, I will try it and you will know. "

King Xuan said decisively: "Try first, then eat."

Li Hetai was also anxious and wanted to try it immediately. However, as a doctor beside His Majesty the Xuan King, he had to put the Xuan King first in everything.

Hearing King Xuan say this, he immediately came over with a silver needle, pierced King Xuan's finger with the needle, and dripped the blood into the clean water containing the medicine.

After looking at the color of the water, Li Hetai laughed out loud several times before he realized that he had been rude.

"The poison in your Highness' body has really been cured. However, during the entire process when Miss Qin was treating your Highness's injuries, I was right beside him and never left his side.

She didn't give His Highness any medicine except a few glasses of water. How did she do it?

"Did you use a trick? No, there is no such a powerful trick."

While Li Hetai was still muttering, Mo Yue had already brought the food: a bowl of bird's nest porridge and six dishes, each one exquisite.

King Xuan had no appetite and only drank half a bowl of porridge and stopped eating.

He looked at Mo Yue and asked, "Miss Qin lives in Dawa Village?"

"yes."

Mo Yue secretly admired King Xuan for his good memory. Even though he was so badly injured, he came to report yesterday about the famous doctors in Yi County, and he actually remembered the name of the village where Miss Qin lived.

He probably remembered more than just Miss Qin. King Xuan probably remembered all the famous doctors he had inquired about.

King Xuan has a good memory and everyone around him knows everything.

King Xuan said: "Find an opportunity to go to Dawa Village again and ask Miss Qin if she is willing to be my doctor.

As long as she is willing to come, she can set any conditions. "

When Li Hetai heard this, he almost had an epileptic seizure. If Miss Qin came to King Xuan's side, he could learn a lot from her.

Especially the skill of suturing wounds, which is not something that can be done with a needle. Of course, he would not learn other people's medical skills for nothing. Miss Qin doesn't know how to prescribe medicine, so he can teach her.

Miss Qin is so young, she will become a master in just a few years.

Li Hetai was thinking happily when King Xuan ordered again:

"Whether she comes or not, you should send some rice and flour over there, saying it's a reward from the Xuan King."

Mo Yue saluted with her hands crossed: "Yes."

"You must be careful and don't bring trouble with you. Miss Qin is an ordinary girl. She has excellent medical skills, but she may not be able to protect herself."

Mo Yue said: "I will go tonight."

At about 1 p.m., a single-axle horse-drawn carriage entered Dawa Village. Just like last night, Mo Yue knocked on Qin Nian's door and brought two bags of rice, two bags of flour, and ten kilograms of large red dates.

Qin Nian accepted the reward from King Xuan.

Mo Yue's single-shaft carriage quickly left Dawa Village and returned to Yi County in the night.

Mo Yue also brought back another piece of news: Qin Nian declined to be King Xuan's doctor.

The next day, before dawn, Mrs. Li got up.

Recently, there was no shortage of food at home, and she drank spiritual spring water every day. She was not so thin anymore and had more strength.

Before the drought, her family had never bought rice because they were poor. How many years had they not eaten it?

She can't remember.

Today, she wants to cook some rice porridge. This rice is earned by her Xiaonian with her own ability, so it should be especially fragrant.

Breakfast is rice porridge, cornmeal steamed cake with red dates, and pickled radish.

Before the meal, Mrs. Li sent a clay bowl of porridge to Ye Meizi's family. They hadn't eaten rice for several years.

Ye Meizi was extremely surprised: "Auntie Li, how come there is rice?"

Granny Li chuckled proudly, "Our Xiao Nian helped King Xuan treat his injuries, and King Xuan gave this as a reward.

I made some rice porridge, let’s have a taste.”

Ye Meizi sighed: "Well, our Xiao Nian has become capable, that's great."

After dinner, Ye Meizi came over to deliver the clay pot, and Qin Nian pulled her: "Auntie, I want to renovate the house.

I see your house is in bad shape, let's rebuild it together."

Ye Meizi was a little troubled: "Xiao Nian, you also know that there has been no harvest in the fields due to the famine years, and they rely on hunting to make a living.

If you don’t have extra money, how can you renovate your house? ”

Qin Nian smiled with curved eyebrows and eyes: "Aunt Geng, I treated King Xuan's injury and he gave me a lot of medical fees.

I can help you pay for it first, and we can build the house while the work on the mountain is not busy now."

When Ye Meizi heard this, she became more interested, "I'll discuss this with your uncle Geng and his father."

Ye Meizi returned home and told Qin Nian about her plan to renovate the house together.

Geng Feng agreed: "Xiao Nian will help us advance the money first. After the house is built, I will go hunting in the mountains and sell the money to pay her back."

Geng Zhenhai also agreed: "My leg injury is almost healed, I can go hunting with Geng Feng.

It’s not difficult to earn back the money from building a house.”

After the matter was settled, the two families began to prepare.

The houses in this village are all built with stones and are more than one meter high, and then with adobe.

Those with slightly better conditions can use blue bricks instead of stones. A house is not an object and can be built once and lived in for a lifetime.

Qin Nian decided to use blue bricks, and both families agreed unanimously.

After making the decision, the first thing to do was to go to the foot of the mountain to pick up stones and transport them back.

This requires a large cart.

Geng Feng's family only had a small cart but no large one. They needed a lot of stones to build their houses, and borrowing from others was not an option.

Qin Nian decided to buy a large cart so that it would be convenient to use it for chopping firewood after the house was built.

Ye Meizi looked at Qin Nian and said, "Xiao Nian, please keep a record of how much money you spent.

When the house is finished, you will know exactly how much Aunt Geng owes you."

Qin Nian nodded and said generously: "Don't worry, Auntie, I will keep the account and remember it clearly."

That morning, Geng Zhenhai, Geng Feng and Qin Nian went to the county town together.

First I bought a big cart, and then went to the market to buy some vegetables.

When we returned to the village, it was already past noon.

Mrs. Li suggested: Our two families are not outsiders. We can work together and eat together. There is no need to make such clear distinctions.

In terms of food, Qin Nian's family has more, but Geng's family has more people working.

There was no one in the family who cared about calculative matters, and no one cared about taking advantage of others or being at a disadvantage. Mrs. Li's proposal was unanimously passed.

After lunch, Geng’s father and son and Qin Nian pushed a cart to the foot of the mountain to pick up stones.

When I met the villagers, I was shocked to hear that the two families were going to renovate their houses.

This is a famine year.

Geng Zhenhai explained with a smile: "Pick up more stones, hunt some game and sell it for some money, and then you can build a house."

The Geng father and son are hunters, and good hunters at that. Everyone in Dawa Village knows about it, and no one suspects anything.

But everyone was a little puzzled as to why Mrs. Li was renovating the house.

Most families in Dawa Village are poor, and Mrs. Li's family is the poorest among the poor because there is no man in her family.

In the past, farming was more difficult than for others, and all the work that required horses and carriages had to be hired.

Then there was a severe drought for three years. We couldn’t even harvest wild vegetables as well as others, so how could we have money to build a house?

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