Chapter 103 Seriously? A vacuum-sealed doorman?
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As soon as Li Shiyue finished speaking, the courtyard gate was pushed open, and Li's mother returned.
But she didn't come back alone; Li Chunli, dressed in red, was following behind her!
Both were shocked to see each other. Li Shiyue was puzzled as to why Li Chunli was in her house, especially following behind her mother.
Li Chunli was shocked by the two horses in Li Shiyue's yard!
That's a horse!
A single horse costs several dozen taels of silver!
However, after a moment of surprise, Li Chunli smiled at Li Shiyue and the others.
Although her laughter went unanswered.
It was Li's mother who spoke first: "October! Where did you get this horse?"
"I found it. Mother, what is this?"
Li Shiyue walked towards her mother, addressing her with a question, but her gaze was fixed on Li Chunli.
"October, I was just about to tell you that your mother was invited by Qin Tao's family to treat someone's illness."
Li Shiyue turned around and nodded to Zheng Meiniang without saying anything.
Li's mother gestured to Li Shiyue with her eyes and went inside. After a while, she came out carrying two packets of medicine.
"First, decoct one packet with three bowls of water until it becomes one bowl. If you don't have a fever tonight, then you don't need to drink this packet anymore."
If you develop a fever, decoct this packet and drink it as well.
After Li's mother finished explaining things to Li Chunli, Li Chunli thanked her and reached out to take the medicine packet that her mother handed her.
"etc!"
Li Shiyue suddenly spoke up, and Li Chunli's hand froze in mid-air. She turned to look at Li Shiyue with a puzzled expression.
"What about the consultation fee when you hire someone to see a doctor?"
"Are you trying to take these two packets of medicine for free too?"
Li's mother wanted to say something, but Li Shiyue looked at her first. Li's mother never contradicted her when they were outside.
Especially along the way, Li Shiyue basically made the decisions for everything that happened in the Li family, and Li Wangming had no objections to it, let alone Li's mother.
Seeing Li Shiyue's request, Li's mother withdrew her hand and naturally took back the two packets of medicine.
"No way? They're coming here with bare hands?"
Li Chunli, of course, did not bring any money to the door. Her cheeks flushed slightly from Li Shiyue's words. Looking at her under the torch held by Shi Tou, she was indeed quite beautiful.
"Auntie, I left in a hurry, I'll go back and get the money now."
After giving a hasty explanation to her mother, Li Chunli turned and left the Li family home.
After Li Chunli had run quite a distance, Li's mother glared at Li Shiyue reproachfully: "Look at you, why did you bully her?"
Li Shiyue didn't think this was bullying. "Mother, Mother, how did I bully her?"
When someone comes to your door seeking medical advice or medicine, how can they not bring money?
My mother was already very magnanimous to accept their invitation to see a doctor, considering our past friendship in the village.
Otherwise, given what Qin Tao did, would they still have the nerve to show their faces here?
"Just because I, Li Shiyue, am not home, does that mean there's no one else in the house who can pick up a knife?"
At this point, Li Shiyue shouted at Shi Tou, who was holding a torch, "Brother, from now on, if anyone comes to ask Mother for medical treatment without paying, just take a stick and beat them out!"
Shi Tou always listened to Li Shi Yue. He looked at Li Shi Yue and nodded seriously, agreeing, "If you don't pay, kick him out! I'll remember that!"
"...You child!"
After sighing, Li's mother had no choice but to talk about something else: "It's not that their family is sick, it's that Li Chunli met a young man while she was gathering firewood on the mountain and he carried her home."
The young man remained unconscious, and it was too late to go to town to see a doctor, so they asked me to come over.”
"Good heavens! The male lead is unconscious?"
With a blank expression on her face but already internally complaining, Li Shiyue looked at her mother and heard her continue, "I went over to take a look. That young man must be from a wealthy family. The clothes he's wearing, the headscarf he's using to tie his hair, the jade pendant hanging from his waist, and the shoes he's wearing—you can tell just by looking at them that they're high-quality items that ordinary families can't afford."
I wonder what happened? It just so happened to happen on one of our mountains.
I took a look and saw that he didn't have any broken bones, but he had some scratches and bruises. It looked like he had been unconscious for at least a day and a night.
The injury is on the back of the head, with a huge blood clot. In the past, I only went with your master to the prefectural city to see doctors from the Renmin University Medical Hall treat external injuries. How could I possibly do it myself?
"But we still have the medicine packets we bought on the way to reduce swelling, bruising, and fever, so I asked her to come and get them."
After explaining to everyone what had happened when she went out, Li's mother turned her head and looked at the two horses that had finished eating grass. She then took Li Xiatian's hand and started drinking water from the gourd ladle: "Tell me, where did you get these horses?"
You found it? Where did you find it?
I'll go and collect two more tomorrow at daybreak.
Li's mother's sarcastic remarks were amusing, and Li Shiyue burst out laughing. Then she pulled Li's mother along and led the whole family into the house.
Stone extinguished the torch and lit the oil lamp in the house, the torch having been lit earlier to watch over the horses.
Li Shiyue then told the family in detail what she had done that day, along with the two sisters, Li Qiutian and Li Xiatian.
"...We'll bring back two horses today. Tomorrow I'll go find Uncle Shui and the others to see if they're willing to come with me again."
If a lot of people go, they might be able to find all the horses in one trip!
Whether we keep them for our own use or sell them at the cattle and horse market for money..."
Before Li Shiyue could finish speaking, she suddenly stopped. She heard someone outside calling for the door.
Li's mother opened the door and went out with the two packets of medicine. After a while, she came back and showed everyone the string of copper coins she was carrying: "Li Shigui sent these."
Having said that, the Li family didn't pursue the matter further. If it weren't for the fact that lives were at stake, none of the Li family members would want to have anything to do with Qin Tao's family.
Didn't you see? Li Wangming hasn't said a single word all this time?
Mr. Li has been gone for a short time, yet no one has forgotten him.
Even if Li Wangming didn't know that it was Li Shigui who pushed his father off the boat, given the relationship between his father and Qin Tao's family, how could Li Wangming not feel disgusted by Qin Tao's family?
After taking out the food that had been prepared in advance from the kitchen, Li Shiyue ate her fill, washed her hands and feet, and then got onto the kang (a heated brick bed). She and the Li sisters, Li Qiutian and Li Xiatian, huddled together and chatted until they fell asleep.
No one in Liujiatun raises chickens anymore. Li Shiyue woke up according to her biological clock, lingered on the kang (heated brick bed) for a while, and then got up to wash her face.
Li Qiutian got up early, while Li Xiatian was still lying in bed sleeping.
Upon opening the door, one could see Li Wangming in the yard, carrying a wooden bucket to water the vegetables that had not yet sprouted in the long wooden box. He had planted the vegetables and was taking advantage of the ample sunshine to bring them out to bask in the sun.
Li's mother wasn't idle either; she sat in the yard twisting hemp rope, which was something the original inhabitants had always had.
There was someone in the kitchen; Zheng Meiniang was cooking over a fire.
After looking around, Li Shiyue turned to her mother and asked, "Where is my brother?"
"Tell him to go find some grass by the riverbank. If you won't eat it, how can you expect the two horses you brought back not to eat it?"
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