But Old Man Su thought that his daughter took the job because she felt sorry for him and didn't want him to starve or freeze outside.
His big fat girl is really the best fat girl in the world! Su Xiaoxiao looked at the tears gradually welling up in her father's eyes, and her heart skipped a beat! No way, Dad, are you going to cry again?
You hold it in!
Don't forget you are a bully!
"Dad! I suddenly remembered something! This is for you!"
Su Xiaoxiao quickly took out the bone strengthening granules from her purse, which had been replaced with a porcelain bottle! Old Man Su's tears really stopped abruptly. He opened his eyes wide, staring blankly at the porcelain bottle handed over by Su Xiaoxiao, and asked, "What is this?"
Su Xiaoxiao said, "It's the medicine you took. I bought it last time, but I forgot to take it out."
Father Su took it and looked around: "Oh, you changed the bottle this time?"
This kind of porcelain bottle has better sealing properties and was given to her by Doctor Fu.
"Is it eaten the same way as before?" asked Father Su.
"Same thing, once a day, six pills at a time, before bed." Su Xiaoxiao said, "After taking this bottle, I should be almost recovered."
If possible, taking one last bottle to consolidate the therapeutic effect will be even safer.
After hearing what Su Xiaoxiao said, Old Man Su's eyes unconsciously lit up.
If it were a month ago, he didn't believe that his hand could be completely healed, but after witnessing the medicinal effects of these granules, he began to have confidence in his injury.
He was looking forward to the day when he could pick up a 200-jin sword again! Su Cheng carefully took the medicine bottle and suddenly felt emotional: "Alas, after a year, you and Ergou are one year older, and Dad is also one year older!"
Su Xiaoxiao was speechless: "Dad, you are only thirty-six! Very young, okay?"
People in ancient times got married early. Old Man Su married Chen when he was eighteen years old and had his first child, the original owner, when he was twenty years old.
The original owner just turned sixteen a month ago.
Old Man Su is handsome, tall, and a martial artist. He has a good physique. If he were in the past, he would have been a handsome uncle who would have charmed thousands of girls! In ancient times, people were considered old at the age of 20 and grandfathers at the age of 30.
Su Xiaoxiao said, "Dad, don't you feel that you are in better spirits?"
Father Su stretched his muscles and said thoughtfully, "Now that you put it that way, it seems to be a little bit true."
Su Xiaoxiao: Are you kidding? Going to bed early and getting up early is good for health. Children know that! Old Man Su touched his head handsomely and said, "My daughter, do you think I am getting younger?"
Su Xiaoxiao: "There are still wrinkles at the corners of the eyes."
Old Man Su: “…” - Old Man Su called Su Xiaoxiao to his room, looking a little mysterious.
"Dad, what are you doing?" Su Xiaoxiao asked.
Old Man Su opened the box and searched inside for half a day.
"Ah, I found it! I almost thought I had lost it!"
He turned around, sweating profusely, with an old mahogany box in his hand.
He handed the box to Su Xiaoxiao and said, "Open it."
Su Xiaoxiao took it and said, "The box doesn't look big, but it's quite heavy. It must be of good quality."
Father Su urged with a smile: "Open it quickly!"
"Oh." Su Xiaoxiao opened the peach wood box that was already stained with heavy traces of time. A dusty peach wood aroma wafted into her nose, with a faint hint of very clear and cool fragrance.
Weird and nice smelling.
Su Xiaoxiao's gaze fell on the brocade box, and she saw a jade pendant with a lustrous texture lying inside.
Ms. Li loved collecting jade in her previous life. Although Su Xiaoxiao had never studied it deliberately, she knew a little about it.
The jade pendant is of very old quality and can be called imperial grade jadeite. If it were made into a bracelet or a string of beads, its value would be inestimable.
Jade needs to be nurtured. When Su was a child, she often saw Ms. Li soaking her jade in water.
Humph, Ms. Li has never given her a bath!
She is not Ms. Li's biological daughter, but Feicui is! My thoughts have wandered away, so let's get back to Feicui.
It seemed as if Old Man Su had no such thoughts and just casually threw it into the bottom of the box. The jade pendant was seriously dehydrated and had lost its luster.
Fortunately, the jade is of old enough quality. If it were a younger type of jade, cracks would have appeared long ago.
"Dad, where did you get this jade pendant? It looks very valuable."
"A family heirloom." Father Su said, "It will be yours from now on."
Su Xiaoxiao was stunned: "Our family... still has heirlooms?"
Isn’t her father an orphan who grew up eating at many people’s homes?
Orphan is a nice-sounding term; the folks outside call them beggars and cowherds.
"Now it is!" said Father Su.
Su Xiaoxiao: “…”
Su Xiaoxiao asked, "Dad, how much money did you spend on it?"
"I didn't buy it. I must have... picked it up." Old Man Su recalled.
Su Xiaoxiao wondered, "What do you mean by should?"
Father Su explained: "Even I don't remember. I have had this jade pendant with me since I can remember. It looks like it could be worth a few dollars, so I thought that if I couldn't make ends meet one day, I would pawn it!"
How much is it worth?
Did you misunderstand me? If this jade is sold, it can support several villages, right? How lucky is her father to pick up such a treasure? Su Xiaoxiao carefully examined the shape of the jade pendant and said to her father: "Dad, this jade pendant looks like only half of it?"
"Half?" Old Man Su muttered, "I picked up a piece of broken jade?"
Su Xiaoxiao quickly shook her head: "What I mean is that it is a pair of pieces. This is the piece on the left, and there should be another piece on the right. Together, they just happen to form a complete shape."
Father Su said, "I just picked this up."
Su Xiaoxiao looked at the jade pendant and asked, "Dad, do you still remember where you are from?"
Father Su shook his head: "I don't remember."
He drifted to Yangliu Village during a famine thirty years ago. He was only six years old at that time and his memory is almost vague.
Su Xiaoxiao had also heard about some of the events that happened back then. The disaster in Yangliu Village was more serious than that in Xinghua Village. Xinghua Village was helped by the old Su family, but dozens of people in Yangliu Village really starved to death.
Su Xiaoxiao asked: "Weren't you almost starving to death at the time? Why didn't you use it to exchange for something to eat?"
Father Su thought for a moment and said, "Maybe I was too young to think about it."
In fact, there were several times when he was on the verge of collapse, but he didn't sell the jade pendant and just gritted his teeth and got through it.
Why didn't it sell? He couldn't tell.
…
When Su Xiaoxiao put away the jade pendant and returned to the east room, Wei Ting was also there.
She was about to ask why you were in my room, but when the words reached her lips, she remembered that this guy's bed collapsed and he had legitimately moved in with her! Wei Ting was sitting on the bed, admiring a couplet on the table with the light coming through the window paper.
Appreciation was Su Xiaoxiao's beautified description, but in fact, this guy's eyes were more like scrutiny, an extremely critical scrutiny.
"You rummaged through my things!" Su Xiaoxiao said.
Wei Ting said calmly: "It fell on the ground, I just picked it up."
After a pause, he asked, "Who wrote it?"
Su Xiaoxiao said proudly: "A friend! How is it? Is it not worse than what you wrote?"
Even Dean Shen wanted to collect Master Xiang's calligraphy, so it couldn't be too bad! "Ha." Wei Ting sneered disdainfully.
"If you don't like it, don't look at it!" Su Xiaoxiao grabbed the couplet, rolled it up, put it back into the brocade box, and put it in the cabinet.
Wei Ting looked at the closed cabinet door, his eyes gradually becoming colder.
——
The three little ones cannot be kept at home and have to run outside even on snowy days. Su Ergou goes to the village to take the kids for a walk.
Old Man Su went back to his room to catch up on his sleep.
Su Xiaoxiao moved a small stool and sat in the backyard. She grabbed a knife and started making slingshots for the three little ones carefully.
She can do it, but the knife is a bit blunt.
"Give."
A slender jade-like hand holding a dagger was handed over.
Under the shed, in the shadow, the lighting was so harsh that one could easily end up with a pale face, but he managed to hold on.
When he first came, his skin was a light wheat color.
After recuperating at home for a month, he had basically no sun exposure except for the occasional times when he was called by Old Man Su to learn how to farm. However, his complexion did develop a jade-like whiteness.
He has nothing to do with femininity. He is full of heroism and murderous intent.
"Thank you."
Su Xiaoxiao took the dagger.
She had seen Wei Ting wiping this dagger more than once. It looked very sharp and she had been coveting it for a long time.
I finally found it today.
The first feeling is sinking.
Su Xiaoxiao pulled out the scabbard little by little and in a very ceremonial manner.
Wei Ting warned calmly: "It's very sharp, be careful."
Su Xiaoxiao tilted her head and smiled: "Are you worried about me?"
Wei Ting chuckled and said, "I'm just afraid that you'll dirty my dagger!"
Su Xiaoxiao tilted her head proudly: "Then you can just not give it to me, I don't care, you just care about me!"
Wei Ting ignored her.
Su Xiaoxiao began to cut the branches, and after one cut, she was amazed.
"Wow! What a fast knife!"
Could this be the rumored method of cutting iron like mud?
Su Xiaoxiao tried the knife a few more times and found it very easy to use.
"Wei Ting, what kind of dagger is this?"
"Like?" Wei Ting asked.
"Yeah!" Su Xiaoxiao said honestly.
Wei Ting said calmly: "Give me back the token, and I'll give you this dagger."
Oh my god!
So this is what you were thinking!
Su Xiaoxiao almost stabbed him.
I thought he had a change of heart and, seeing that she was having difficulty making a slingshot for her son, he offered his dagger to help her.
Oh, you really can't think too highly of men! ...
But after the three little ones ran out of the house, they started running in the snow. They were small and they disappeared while running.
Su Ergou dug the three kids out of the thick snow and sighed, "Look at you guys, you're not even as tall as the snow, yet you insist on coming out to play!"
No matter what, the three of them just want to play!
Suddenly, they were attracted by the sound of a baby crying.
The three of them looked in the direction of the voice.
"What's wrong?" Su Ergou asked.
Da Hu said, "Uncle, someone is crying."
"Did you?" Su Ergou said, "I didn't hear it."
"Yes." Erhu said.
"Yeah!" Xiaohu also heard it.
Su Ergou scratched his head and said, "Did you hear it wrong? Where is the person crying?"
The three men, one grabbed his left hand, one grabbed his right hand, and one pushed his buttocks, pushing him towards the Su family's house.
When he got closer, Su Ergou really heard the baby crying.
Su Ergou scratched his head and said, "What kind of ears do you three have? Can you hear from such a far distance?"
The one crying loudly inside was Su Yu Niang's child.
Su Yu Niang has suffered a lot. Since she gave birth to the baby at night, she has not only been suffering from constant abdominal pain, but also has no milk.
The child cried loudly because he was hungry.
Su Yu Niang was very upset, and she asked her eldest brother to go to the town to ask her sister-in-law's family for a doctor, but he hasn't come back yet.
Zhou from next door went to the Li family to take a look, and came back to tell Su Yu Niang that Xiao Zhao had started to produce milk, and there was so much milk that the child could not finish it.
These words were like a knife stabbing into Su Yu Niang's heart.
In order to give birth to a child smoothly, Su Yu Niang intercepted Xiao Zhao's midwife. As a result, not only did she give birth to a girl, but she also ended up in this state.
What kind of thing is this? Su Yu Niang couldn't bring herself to ask Xiao Zhao for help.
Finally, Fang couldn't bear it anymore and went to Li's house with the child.
No matter how Xiao Zhaoshi viewed Su Yu Niang, the child was innocent, so Xiao Zhaoshi took the child in her arms and fed him.
During this period, Su Xiaoxiao sent meat to the Li family every now and then. Old Li and Mrs. Qian were reluctant to eat it, so they gave it all to Mrs. Zhao and their two grandchildren. Mrs. Zhao was in good health and had plenty of milk.
After Su Yu Niang's daughter had eaten and drunk her fill, she finally fell into a sweet sleep.
Fang was very grateful, but when she thought of what Yu Niang had done, she felt a little embarrassed and ashamed: "I... I'll bring the baby back to feed him later."
Qian came into the house and said, "Put it here. It's snowing heavily. Aren't you afraid that the premature baby will get cold? Wait until Yu Niang's milk is started, then you can take the baby back."
Fang thought this was the only option.
"I'll ask Jinniang to come over later."
Xiao Zhao can help with feeding, but it would be a shame to trouble her with changing diapers.
After Fang left, Qian handed the cooked sugar-water egg to her daughter-in-law: "Are you not angry anymore?"
Xiao Zhao shook her head: "I'm not angry anymore. I should be grateful to Yu Niang for taking the midwife away. Otherwise, I would be the one who suffered."
Qian coughed lightly and said, "Don't say this outside."
Xiao Zhao smiled and said, "I know, mother!"
Qian is a good mother-in-law, and Xiao Zhao truly regards her as her own mother, so she says whatever she thinks, but she won't say that to outsiders.
It was not until the evening that Su Jinniang and Su Yu Niang's eldest brother finally invited the doctor back.
He is a young doctor in his early twenties.
"You are so young, can you be trusted?" Fang asked her son in a low voice.
Su Dalang said, "Dr. Lu happened to be out, so he asked me to find Dr. Zhang."
The truth is, the status of Yu Niang's sister-in-law's husband's family is not that useful at all. Doctor Lu was too lazy to see the patient, so he asked his apprentice to come over.
This apprentice had not yet completed his apprenticeship and had only learned half of the knowledge. In addition, since Yu Niang was a woman, it was inconvenient for him to diagnose her illness. He only felt her pulse and then randomly prescribed medicine.
Su Dalang rushed to the town to get medicine without stopping.
Rong'en Hall was closed on New Year's Day, but fortunately when he went to the town to see a doctor, he saw a small pharmacy open.
Su Dalang went there to get the medicine.
What no one expected was that after taking a bowl of medicine, Su Yu Niang not only did not get better, but she bled profusely, felt chest tightness, and fainted on the spot! Fang held her unconscious daughter and screamed, "Yu Niang--"
The people in the Su family were completely panicked.
When Su Dalang saw his sister become like this, he grabbed Doctor Zhang by the collar and said angrily, "You quack! I'll beat you to death!"
Doctor Zhang's face turned pale, and he said seriously, "How can I be a quack? I am a doctor at Rong'en Hall! It's obvious that you prescribed the wrong medicine!"
Su Dalang gritted his teeth and said, "I caught it according to the recipe you gave me!"
Doctor Zhang stiffened his neck and said, "That... that means the medicinal materials are not good! Many of the medicines are expired or inferior! They are like poison if you take them! Where did you get the medicine?"
Su Dalang said, "In the home of a doctor named Fu."
A fat chapter (end of this chapter)