With one hand supporting Sanyuan and the other clutching his aching chest, Su Jiu had no choice but to plead for the culprit who had injured him:
"No! Calm down!"
He wasn't so soft-hearted as to refuse to kill, but this person was someone he and Ye Wenxue had painstakingly dragged and pulled for over an hour to rescue from the lakeside.
If they just kill him like that, without letting the seriously injured man do some work and pay the price, wouldn't all their hard work be in vain?
Not to mention that he applied the best medicine to the seriously injured man and was waiting to collect medical fees, so he couldn't let his excellent medicinal materials go to waste.
Sanyuan hesitated before speaking, "Isn't that a bad idea... Mother, if we really do as you say, how will we eat the cured meat?"
Shuangshuang and Siwang nodded in agreement.
Dazhuang released his hands from Yuanyuan's ears, his face extremely grim: "We can't let him leave."
Having finally found a place to stay, letting him leave would make the valley unsafe.
Da Zhuang glanced at Su Jiu but remained silent.
Ye Wenxue was only angered by his arrogant words and said a few random things. Even if she really wanted to kill the seriously injured man, she wouldn't use this method.
She even complained that the blood on the seriously injured man was contaminating the cured meat!
When they can't even afford to eat, how dare he compare it to the importance of meat?
“I was just joking. We’ve already saved him, so we can’t waste our time and energy. Help him onto the straw mat, and I’ll talk to him properly when he’s sober tomorrow.”
Da Zhuang had no objections, and Su Jiu, supporting his injured back, dared not voice any objections.
Ye Wenxue stepped forward and took Yuanyuan from Dazhuang's hands. She watched as the two helped the seriously injured man, and didn't forget to admonish the younger children:
"You're still young, you can't imitate what I just said. By the way, who called your older brother? What if Yuanyuan gets scared after seeing a fight?"
Siwang hung his head and nuzzled Ye Wenxue, saying, "It's me, Mother. I know I was wrong."
"Alright, let's go eat first." After settling the seriously injured man, Dazhuang came out and rubbed Siwang's listless head.
Ye Wenxue politely waited for Su Jiu to come out of the cave, and let him have a bite of the pork tripe, angelica, and red date soup first.
Su Jiu's lips twitched slightly. So they still didn't trust him and were using him as a test subject?
Su Jiu angrily downed a large bowl of soup: "It's not poisonous, I'm a doctor!"
"Oh," Ye Wenxue replied nonchalantly, distributing pork tripe, angelica root, and red dates to the eager children one by one. They ate the pork tripe soup mixed with porridge.
With two more people, Da Zhuang carefully estimated the remaining grains when cooking the rice, adding less rice and more water.
The porridge was cooked until very soft, so even Yuanyuan, who doesn't have teeth yet, could eat it. Therefore, there was no need to cook plain porridge for Yuanyuan. Adding some soft red dates and pork tripe soup was enough to fill her up.
After feeding the youngest cub, Ye Wenxue picked up her bowl and started eating herself.
The pork tripe was cooked thoroughly, making it chewy and springy. The red dates were soaked in the meat broth, making them fragrant, soft, and delicious. You'd want to have another bite after just one.
After another sip of the pork tripe and angelica soup, I felt even more comfortable all over.
Ye Wenxue couldn't help but eat a few more red dates, and asked the only person who wasn't engrossed in eating, "Where did you get these red dates?"
Su Jiu ate his meal slowly and deliberately, and even though there were no chairs around and he had to sit on the floor, he didn't look disheveled at all.
"There are several jujube trees on the hill where I live. These jujubes were dried and stored last year, specifically for making soup. How is it? It tastes pretty good, right?"
"That's good." Ye Wenxue rarely gave him a second glance. This man couldn't lift a finger, but he could live in the deep mountains and forests for several years. He must have a skill. "You can stay in the valley."
Su Jiu couldn't help but feel a little proud: "Of course, I owe my success entirely to my cooking skills..."
Looking at the few pairs of eyes surrounded by the firelight, he silently shut his mouth.
After the meal, Ye Wenxue took a walk in the valley to digest her food and also collected the dried wood ear mushrooms and mushrooms.
We didn't gather much of these mountain produce to begin with, and we ate quite a lot of it. What's left, even after drying, is only two or three pounds, not enough to last us for long.
After storing the dried mountain goods in the cave, Ye Wenxue went to the vegetable garden by the light of the fire and quietly planted all the sweet potato sprouts she had encouraged in her spare time.
She only had about three pounds of sweet potatoes stored in her storage space, roughly seven or eight of them. After this planting, she had no more sweet potatoes left.
Ye Wenxue couldn't help but feel fortunate that her wood-type ability was still intact and that she was nourished by the spiritual spring water; otherwise, in this sweltering weather, the crops would have been difficult to grow.
Dazhuang washed the dishes and the iron pot, then went into the cave to feed the seriously injured man some porridge. After that, he took his idle younger siblings to wash up and rest.
Before going to bed, Sanyuan, still thinking of the soup they had eaten that evening, gently inquired about Su Jiu's injured chest and waist.
"No...it's nothing." Su Jiu slowly returned to the cave, sat on the quilt, and began to ponder whether it was wise to go back to the valley with Ye Wenxue.
He survived, but his situation... wasn't very good.
At least before, he didn't have to squeeze into a cave with other people; he had a large bamboo house to live in.
At night, when Su Jiu was sound asleep, he was kicked for no reason.
He regained his senses with a cold expression, glaring at the grimacing, severely injured man: "Is this how you treat your savior?"
The seriously injured man, his face pale and covered in cold sweat, grumbled, "Quickly change my dressing!"
Su Jiu instantly understood why Ye Wenxue had attacked the seriously injured man for no apparent reason. He was also itching to fight back; if he hadn't been outmatched, he would have done it long ago.
"Given your attitude, I don't want to change your dressing. In fact, it was Lady Ye who used her connections to ask me to treat your injuries; otherwise, you would have been dead long ago."
Ye Wenxue and he saved his life, yet he still dares to boss people around and give orders. That's really going too far.
They also did not require the seriously injured man to perform the three kneelings and nine kowtows ceremony.
But can't this person even speak politely?
The seriously injured man turned his face away, his expression cold and hard: "She only saved me because she saw an opportunity to profit from it!"
"Otherwise what?" Su Jiu couldn't understand why the seriously injured man couldn't see it coming. "She's a weak woman with a child. If it weren't for the fact that you could help with the hard work, would she take such a huge risk to save someone who has nothing to do with her?"
"If you're so kind, why don't you give me all the money? I'll be grateful for this life, the next life, and the life after that!"
The seriously injured man's mouth twitched. A weak woman?
A weak woman who fought him to a standstill and beat him so badly that his wounds reopened.
Su Jiu could tell at a glance that the seriously injured man was a spoiled brat from a wealthy family who was out of touch with reality, ignorant of the hardships of ordinary people, and accustomed to a life where everything was done for him and he had never experienced what it meant to flee famine or to survive.
Su Jiu's eyes flickered slightly as she helped the seriously injured man remove his bandages and change his dressings, all while under the man's wary gaze. During this process, she offered the following advice:
“A person should keep their word. You went back on your word for no reason, no wonder she was angry. Besides, your injuries will take at least a month to heal. The world is unstable these days. If you leave before you're fully recovered, you could easily run into danger. It would be better to stay here and recover.”
The seriously injured man seemed lost in thought.
The next day, Ye Wenxue watered the vegetable garden and looked at the new batch of seedlings that had grown, but she felt no joy whatsoever.
"What? He lost his memory after I beat him?"
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