Ye Wenxue stared at him.
Su Jiu calmly replied, "During my house call, I'll have to stay at your place temporarily."
He was worried that someone might come looking for him, and he was probably planning to find another place to stay.
As for how long he'll stay... now that he's moved in, he'll shamelessly try every means to stay.
His mind shifted, and he continued, his words laced with a hint of mockery: "You bring your own medicinal herbs, you don't have to worry about anything, and you can even help build the house. You'll get a free laborer."
Ye Wenxue was moved by his sincere words.
Even knowing that the person in front of him was not simple and should not be provoked, he thought again that he had already saved the person and owed him a favor, so what was there to be afraid of about staying temporarily?
Of course, Ye Wenxue also had her own ulterior motives.
The children are too weak, and they might get typhoid fever or fever again at any time... It's always more convenient to have a doctor near our home than to have to search for one everywhere.
She thought back to the few remaining caves in the valley: "...Okay, but you can't bully my child."
Su Jiu's expression was complicated. You might not believe it, but he was more afraid that her child would bully him.
After all, just by looking at Ye Wenxue, you could tell her son wasn't someone to be trifled with.
Within half an hour, Su Jiu returned home, packed his belongings, and, with nothing in his sleeves, dragged a large bag of luggage and carried a bundle down the mountain.
Ye Wenxue looked puzzled: "Stay for a few days?"
Su Jiu coughed and said, "I'm weak and afraid of catching a cold, so I brought a blanket."
Ye Wenxue didn't want to know what this person was up to. She rolled her eyes and took the bundle from Su Jiu's hand: "Let's go, hurry up."
Before nightfall, Ye Wenxue and Su Jiu returned to the valley to put down their bundles, found the seriously injured man who had fallen unconscious again, and together they half-lifted and half-dragged him back.
The children, who hadn't seen many people since entering the mountains, were quite surprised.
Mother and my older brother went to the lake and found two people. That's amazing!
Shuangshuang and Siwang pulled Sanyuan along to squeeze into the cave that Su Jiu had been given to join in the fun.
A man was holding a persimmon in his hand and eating it with great relish.
Su Jiu looked at Ye Wenxue's three children, then at the simple and dark cave, and began to understand why she had taken such a big risk to bring back two men she had only known for a short time.
—It's time to build a house.
Although the valley is large, there are not many caves to live in.
The cave where he is now was originally used to store persimmons, chestnuts, kiwis and other wild fruits, and the air still retains the fragrance of wild fruits.
The seriously injured man fared even worse; those who were unconscious were not allowed to choose a cave and were assigned to sleep in the cave where cured meat was being smoked.
If he hadn't had some kindness in his heart and hadn't been able to bear to lay the seriously injured man, who had been in the lake for several days and was still unconscious, directly on the ground, the seriously injured man would probably have suffered from a high fever and typhoid fever.
Su Jiu sighed heavily.
Shuangshuang and Siwang thought they had disturbed his consultation, so they quickly stepped back and hid behind Sanyuan.
Sanyuan had met Su Jiu before. After giving him a shy smile, she half-hid behind the wall and watched him take the pulse, apply medicine, and bandage the seriously injured man.
Su Jiu washed the remaining medicine from his fingertips, waved towards the outside of the cave, and called to Sanyuan: "Where is your mother?"
Sanyuan wasn't afraid of him and also liked the blend of fruit and herbal scents in the cave. He stepped forward and handed him a wild kiwi:
"Mom's busy, do you want to eat?"
Su Jiu glanced at him, sensing that the kid wasn't up to any good, and gave a forced smile:
"No need, you eat. I need to talk to your mother about something."
Sanyuan grunted and pointed to the person who was still unconscious: "Uncle Su, when will he wake up?"
Su Jiu's lips twitched, and he stood up, pushing Sanyuan out: "I don't know yet, maybe three to five hours."
Ye Wenxue is busy.
After personally inspecting the silt by the lake, she quickly came up with a way to build a house.
However, she had never built a house from scratch before, and was unsure if her idea was feasible, so she decided to build a kitchen and stove first.
As Su Jiu emerged from the cave and strolled over, Ye Wenxue had already chopped the wood and was assembling it into a rectangular mold with consistent length and width and a hollow interior.
Dazhuang squatted down beside her, holding Xiaoyuan, and carefully observed his mother's every move.
As Ye Wenxue worked, she casually chatted about everyday things.
"Siwang wasn't careful when feeding the rabbit, and it almost choked to death? It's okay, it's just one rabbit, and it won't be raised for long. In a few days, we'll find a day when Mom will make you roasted rabbit meat."
Da Zhuang, who had a stern face, was ambushed by Xiao Yuan Yuan, who gently kissed him on the cheek.
He was taken aback, his face softened, and he no longer cared about the rabbit. He smiled and taught his little sister not to kiss people indiscriminately.
Little Yuanyuan's eyes darted around, clearly indicating she wasn't listening to him.
Su Jiu watched Ye Wenxue and her child interacting intimately from a few steps away, and a smile couldn't help but appear on his face.
Afterwards, he remained silent for a while before walking over and sitting down in front of Ye Wenxue.
Seeing that he seemed to have something to say, Ye Wenxue patted the dust off her hands and called to Dazhuang, "Go cook. Tonight we're having pork tripe stewed with chestnuts. Let's invite Shuangshuang and the others to help out."
Da Zhuang glanced at Su Jiu, who was dressed in hemp clothing and looked different from them, responded, and went to call Shuangshuang and the other two over.
Siwang took the wild kiwi from Sanyuan and presented it to his elder brother like a treasure: "It's so sweet!"
Da Zhuang, who had been tricked once before, chuckled and decided to assign him to peel chestnuts.
"Speak your mind." Ye Wenxue finished building several molds and continued chopping wood.
During her free time, she glanced at Su Jiu and felt that he was being evasive and definitely had ill intentions.
Su Jiu coughed lightly, leaned closer, and lowered his voice: "I added a mild herb to the healing medicine. If he has ill intentions or breaks his oath..."
His voice grew softer and softer, and he moved closer and closer.
Ye Wenxue pushed the person aside with her axe in hand and asked in surprise, "Aren't you a doctor?"
She understood what he meant.
It's just that they poisoned someone when they were seriously injured. As long as someone has bad intentions, they'll kill them.
To be honest, Ye Wenxue felt it was unnecessary.
She still possesses her supernatural abilities and martial arts skills, making it easy for her to deal with an injured person.
But she also understood that Su Jiu meant well, so she didn't say it directly.
"What's wrong with the doctor? I didn't directly poison him."
He was only trying to help the man by applying poison to his wound.
The added medicine tasted a bit bitter, but as long as he didn't have any bad intentions, it could actually speed up his recovery.
Ye Wenxue said "Oh" and tossed the axe over: "Help me."
She still remembered what Su Jiu had said.
Su Jiu pursed his lips, weighed the axe in his hand a few times, and felt that the weight was acceptable. Following Ye Wenxue's posture and her instructions, he swiftly chopped down with the axe... but missed.
Under Ye Wenxue's increasingly cold and irritable gaze, he tried his best to remain calm: "It's been too long since I chopped wood, I'm rusty, let me get used to it."
The next moment, Su Jiu took a deep breath and chopped down hard, successfully splitting the wood in two.
But he used too much force and fractured his wrist.
Ye Wenxue looked at Su Jiu, who was sweating profusely from the pain: "???"
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