Chapter 139 Fever
How can a person not have a dream?
Yuan Ji thought, maybe he had had that experience before.
Before he was five years old, he lived with his mother. Although he didn't have a father, he lived a happy and carefree life every day.
At that time, they didn't seem to have much money. If he wanted to buy candy or toys, his mother would set a goal for him and buy it for him after he achieved it.
Every time he gets the candy or toy he wants, he feels very happy and satisfied.
At that time, his biggest dream was to make a lot of money and give his mother the best life.
Later, he and his mother were found and brought back to the Yuan family, where they also had a father, grandparents, and a large number of relatives.
He heard from others that the Yuan family had a lot of money, but his grandfather said that money should not be spent indiscriminately unless he could accomplish a series of goals he had set.
From that time on, it was his grandfather who taught him and set various goals for him. Almost every day when he opened his eyes, there were various things waiting for him to do.
The reward at this time is not candy or toys, but the completion of a goal and the arrival of a bigger goal.
He followed his grandfather's plan step by step. His grandfather became more and more satisfied, but he became more and more numb.
"Have you ever thought about resisting?" Yu Wan asked.
She didn't expect that behind Yuan Ji's glamorous appearance, he had such an experience. It was as if her life was controlled by her. Of course, she couldn't be happy.
"I thought about it at the beginning, but not later." Yuan Ji did not mention the reason.
Yu Wan did not ask the reason, but she could imagine that a child who had been disciplined since childhood must have resisted at the beginning, but later due to various reasons, the resistance failed and she could only let it go.
Even if not for his own sake, he has to think about his mother. It is not easy for a woman to live outside with a child alone. Even if she finally brings the child back to her roots, she still needs to manage her life carefully.
"It seems that our experiences are somewhat similar, but you were found when you were very young, while I returned to my roots only after I grew up."
Yuan Ji had heard about this matter vaguely, but he was not interested in anything, so he didn't look into it in detail.
"Did you have a hard childhood?" he asked.
"I didn't feel it was hard at the time, because everyone around me lived the same way, and I got used to it. But later, when I grew up, started making money and learned to enjoy life, I thought back to my past life and realized that it was indeed a bit hard."
Yu Wan's rabbit meat was almost done roasting, and she began to sprinkle salt on it.
Yuan Ji watched her take out a small bag of salt from her arms, and was surprised again, "When did you bring salt with you?"
He remembered that all the ingredients were in another box, which was on top first.
Yu Wan said indifferently, "What's above belongs to what's above. I'll also carry some with me as a precaution."
Yuan Ji didn't understand, "Backup salt?"
Yu Wan blew on it, tore off a piece of meat, and stuffed it directly into her mouth before answering his question, "I always keep this habit when surviving in the wild... Well, it tastes good, but it's a little hot. You try it."
Then she tore off another piece of meat and gave it to him.
Yuan Ji hesitated a little, and Yu Wan couldn't stand the heat, so she urged him, "Hurry up and take it, it's burning me to death."
Yuan Ji's heart tightened, and he took it but didn't eat it.
Yu Wan looked at him and said, "Eat it. It tastes great. This kind of food is best eaten while it's hot. It won't taste good if it gets cold."
Yuan Ji's eyes fell on the rabbit meat and he slowly put it into his mouth.
"How is it? Is it better than yesterday? Yesterday there were many people and we were grilling a lot of meat, so we were inevitably a little careless. The taste is a little worse, but that's unavoidable. I put a lot of thought into this one today." Yu Wan was obviously very confident in his cooking skills, and subconsciously talked about the origin of carrying salt with him. "Once I went up the mountain with other friends to play, and we also caught game to grill, but we didn't bring any seasoning that time. So in the end, even though the game was grilled to a fragrant smell, it had no taste without salt. I was so regretful that I swore to bring salt when I went into the mountains from now on, and this habit has been preserved ever since."
Yuan Ji really likes listening to Yu Wan talk. It seems that many things become very interesting when they come out of her mouth, or her experiences themselves are interesting.
"When we were young, we often went up the mountain to herd cattle and played hide-and-seek. When we thought of the cattle, they had run away and we would go looking for them in a panic because we were afraid that the cattle would eat the dealer or something and we would have to pay compensation. We were so poor that we didn't have the money to pay..."
"When I was little, I couldn't learn to swim no matter how hard I tried. My friends all knew how to swim, but I was always laughed at for not being able to swim. Then one day, I accidentally fell into a river, drank a few sips of water, and after struggling around for a while, I suddenly learned how to swim."
"When I was a kid, I used to dry millet. At that time, there was only one black-and-white TV in the village, and it broadcast the TV series "White Snake" every day. We kids would run to watch it immediately after drying the millet. We got addicted to it and only thought about our own millet when it rained..."
Yuan Ji looked at Yu Wan and listened to her talking about this kind of thing in a joking tone. But whether it was a lost cow or grain being soaked by the rain, it seemed like a big deal at that time.
Before he was five years old, he was just not that rich, but he had never experienced hardship.
But that doesn't mean he has never seen how children from poor families live.
I just don't know since when he became numb to everything around him.
Yu Wan's voice now seemed like a fine spring rain that watered his dry heart. Gradually, he began to feel sleepy. When he was half asleep, a pair of hands touched his forehead. He opened his eyes and saw Yu Wan frowning and touching his forehead. Then he said with certainty, "You have a fever."
Yeah? Yuan Ji didn't feel much, "I... I don't feel anything."
Yu Wan sighed directly, "You can't be so numb as a human being. Don't you know whether you are sick or not? Lie down first, I'll find some medicine for you."
Yuan Ji couldn't help but say, "The underground is dirty..."
Yu Wan was helpless, "Brother, it's already this time, why are you still caring about this?"
After saying that, he pushed the man down to the ground, regardless of his reaction.
People with fever are weak and powerless, and Yuan Ji couldn't react even if he wanted to.
Fortunately, there was antipyretic medicine in the toolbox, so Yu Wan fed it to him directly, "Take the medicine and go to sleep. I'll keep watch tonight."
Yuan Ji wanted to say something, but the antipyretic had a sleeping effect and he quickly fell asleep.
The next day, when Yuan Ji opened his eyes, he saw Yu Wan supporting his head and shaking it from side to side, obviously wanting to sleep but not daring to.
He struggled to get up and found a wet cloth on his forehead.
Yu Wan opened her eyes when she heard the noise. Seeing Yuan Ji wake up, she reached out to test the temperature of his forehead, then breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank God, the fever has finally subsided. You had a high fever in the middle of the night, which really scared me to death."
Yuan Ji had no impression of such things, but the cloth on his forehead told it all.
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