Su Yuhe took Jiang Lin to the county town to deliver medicinal herbs.
The alley was narrow and deep. Jiang Lin frowned more and more as he walked. He glanced at Su Yuhe inconspicuously. This girl was really brave.
Dandan had been squatting at the door. When she saw Su Yuhe from afar, she jumped up and ran towards them.
Just as he was about to pounce on Su Yuhe's thigh, he was stopped by a hand: "Where did you come from, little brat? Do you know me? Just bump into me!"
Dandan's face tensed up, she grabbed Jiang Lin's hand and opened her mouth to bite it.
Su Yuhe stopped him in time: "Hey, don't bite, Dandan!"
Dandan let go of Jiang Lin and turned around to hug Su Yuhe's legs, but was stopped by Jiang Lin again: "No!"
Dandan glared at Jiang Lin.
Su Yuhe pulled Jiang Lin: "Don't scare him!"
She rubbed Dandan's head and said, "He is not a bad person. Let's go and see your grandfather."
Perhaps because he had the desire to survive, the old man was in much better spirits than before.
Even the tall Jiang Lin standing at the door blocked the light. Suddenly seeing a stranger, the old man's eyes became defensive. Su Yuhe explained: "This is my boyfriend. Don't worry, he won't say anything."
The old man nodded: "Have you found them all?"
"It's about the same. I saw some people who looked almost the same, and I couldn't tell them apart, so I just picked them all. You have to tell them apart yourself."
In order to conceal his whereabouts, Jiang Lin put the herbs inside the fire starter and carried them over.
The removed kindling grass was thrown into the yard, and the grandparents and grandchildren could keep it to burn.
The old man got the knife from somewhere and asked Su Yuhe to wash it, burn it over the fire, and boil half a pot of hot water.
Jiang Lin took it and did it silently. The old man glanced at him and said: "Your partner seems to be a dull person."
Su Yuhe smiled but said nothing.
There is a stone mortar in the yard, a corner of which is broken but it does not affect its use.
The old man asked her to crush the herbs. Jiang Lin had just come in with a knife. Upon hearing this, he put the knife on the table, turned around, went out, brought in a basin of steaming boiling water, and placed it on the kang.
Then he carried the herbs picked by the old man and went out to work silently.
"Okay, you go out too." The old man asked Su Yuhe to take the child out as well.
Su Yuhe hesitated and said, "I'd better stay. I can help if there's anything I can do."
"I'm going to scrape the meat with a knife later. Do you want to watch?"
The bedsore on the old man's leg is very serious. In order to treat it, the dead tissue must be removed and the skin regenerated.
"Uh." Su Yuhe thought for only a second before taking the child out. "If there's anything, just call me."
Su Yuhe squatted in the yard and watched Jiang Lin pounding medicine. It was amazing that Jiang Lin looked so fascinated by everything he did.
Dandan doesn't like this man. When he comes over, her sister's eyes are full of him!
In order to show his presence, the child pulled Su Yuhe's hand and asked her to play with him.
Jiang Lin glanced at the child and found him very annoying: "What are you playing with? You are so dirty."
Dandan pouted, looking aggrieved.
Su Yuhe found it funny: "You should wash and change your hair. Although your hair is short, it is all tangled."
Firewood was piled up in most corners of the kitchen. The big pot on the stove was covered with a wooden lid and a layer of dust. Only the small stove made of a few bricks underneath was in use.
I guess the child usually makes a fire and cooks here by himself. Jiang Lin boiled hot water in a small aluminum pot. The pot was not big, and he poured it all out just now.
Su Yuhe fetched some fresh water and prepared to boil some water.
The child was very excited to see Su Yuhe in the kitchen, as if the kitchen was his own.
Without saying much, she squatted next to Su Yuhe and stuffed firewood in.
"Forget it, I won't wash it." Su Yuhe found that the only basin was used by the old man. After the water was boiled, it was not touched. The old man would definitely use it again later, so it would not be wasted.
The old man called for help, and Su Yuhe hurriedly took the child in.
The old man was sweating profusely, and the basin was filled with red turbid water with some floating foam.
When Su Yuhe thought about what these crumbs were, she felt sick on the spot: "Ugh~"
Jiang Lin carried Su Yuhe out: "We all know what he is doing, why did you run in?"
Jiang Lin went into the house by himself and said to the old man in a bad mood: "Uncle, what do you want me to do?"
The old man was barely breathing and didn't care about Jiang Lin's rudeness.
He asked Jiang Lin to bring in the pounded herbs, then gritted his teeth and applied them himself, wrapping them with cloth.
After all the operations, the old man collapsed on the kang and gasped for breath.
The room smelled terrible. Jiang Lin picked up the dirty things he had made and poured out the dirty water.
Su Yuhe stood in the yard holding the child's hand: "Is everything done?"
The dirty water mixed with blood and flesh was scary and disgusting. Su Yuhe must be so clean and beautiful. Jiang Lin thought that if he hadn't come, with her personality, since she agreed to help others, she would definitely endure the discomfort and do these things.
Jiang Lin snorted: "It's almost done. Fortunately, my brother is here, otherwise..."
The child brushed past Su Yuhe's water and ran inside, calling out to Grandpa, "Are you okay?"
Of course the old man was not well, but he was almost there. After a long while, he was finally able to sit up. He let Su Yuhe in.
Jiang Lin has been following Su Yuhe, with an oppressive look in his eyes.
The old man had experienced many ups and downs, and he was not afraid of the young man's eyes. He took out an old herbal book, pointed to a few, and asked Su Yuhe to help find them.
Su Yuhe knew in her heart that after looking for it once, there would definitely be a second time, but this time Jiang Lin was there. Thinking of Jiang Lin's reluctance to go up the mountain with her, she subconsciously looked at Jiang Lin.
Jiang Lin frowned. "How many times are we going to have to look for this? Will it ever end?"
The old man lowered his head and said nothing. Su Yuhe sighed, pulled Jiang Lin, and said to the old man, "It's okay. I'll find it for you."
The old man raised his face and said: "It's not that I have to look for it many times. After this search, it will be almost gone. Then I can treat other diseases myself."
Su Yuhe didn’t know what other illness the old man had, nor did she know how he planned to treat it. Should he find some medicinal herbs?
He didn't say anything, but Su Yuhe remembered the silver needle she had dug out before and stopped talking.
There were quite a lot of herbs to find this time. Su Yuhe was afraid that she might remember them wrong, so she found a dusty piece of paper and pen in the corner and roughly sketched out their shapes.
The old man looked much more energetic and talked more. "My last name is Shi. If you don't mind, you can just call me Grandpa Shi. What are your names?"
Su Yuhe replied: "My last name is Su, Su Yuhe, and his name is Jiang Lin."
The old man nodded and said nothing.
Su Yuhe boiled water and filled the thermos, then heated up the remaining steamed buns for the old man to eat.
She suggested: "Dandan hasn't taken a bath for a long time, right? Can I take him back? I'll bring him to you tomorrow."
Old Man Shi shifted his gaze to Dandan, who was holding Su Yuhe's hand and seemed willing to go with her.
Old Man Shi took out another gold bar and wanted to hand it to Su Yuhe.
Su Yuhe refused repeatedly, but Jiang Lin took it without hesitation and put it in his mouth just like what he saw on TV: "It's really gold. Good job, old man."
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