Chapter 139 Fever

How can a person not have dreams?

Yuan Ji thought, maybe he had had that experience before.

Before he was five years old, he lived alone with his mother. Although he didn't have a father, he lived a happy and carefree life every day.

It seemed that they didn't have much money at that time. 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 he now had a father, a grandparents, and a host of relatives.

He heard from others that the Yuan family had a lot of money, but his grandfather said that the 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 time 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 had never imagined that behind Yuan Ji's glamorous appearance was such an experience. It was as if her life was being controlled, so of course she couldn't be happy.

"I thought about it at first, but not later." Yuan Ji did not give a reason.

Yu Wan did not ask the reason, but she could imagine that a child who had been disciplined since childhood must have resisted in the beginning, but later, due to various reasons, the resistance failed and she could only let it go.

Even if not for himself, he has to think about his mother. It is not easy for a woman to live alone with a child outside. 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, as I grew up and started making money and learning how to enjoy life, I thought back to my past and realized that my life 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 is above. I'll 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."

After saying that, she tore off another piece of meat and gave it to him.

Yuan Ji was a little hesitant. Yu Wan couldn't stand the heat and urged him, "Hurry up and take it. It's burning me to death."

Yuan Ji's heart tightened, so he took it but didn't eat it.

Yu Wan looked at him and said, "Eat it. It tastes great. This kind of thing 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? Does it taste better than yesterday? Yesterday there were many people and we were grilling a lot of meat, so we were inevitably a little careless and the taste was a little worse. I spent a lot of time on this one today," Yu Wan was obviously very confident in her cooking skills, and subconsciously talked about the origin of carrying salt with her. "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 regretted it so much that I swore to bring salt when I go into the mountains from now on, and this habit has been kept 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 look for them in a panic because we were afraid that the cattle would eat the farm and we would have to pay compensation. We were so poor and had no money to pay..."

"When I was little, I couldn't swim no matter how hard I tried. All my friends could swim, but I was always laughed at for being a landlubber. Then one day I accidentally fell into a river, drank some water, and suddenly I could swim."

"When I was a kid, I used to dry the millet. There was only one black-and-white TV in the village, and it broadcast the White Snake every day. We kids would run to watch it right 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 in a joking tone. But whether it was a lost cow or grain being soaked by rain, it seemed like a big deal at that time.

Before he was five years old, he just didn't have much money, but he had never been able to endure hardship.

But that doesn't mean he has never seen how children from poor families live.

I just don't know when he started to become numb to everything around him.

Yu Wan's voice now seemed like a spring rain that poured down on his dry heart. He gradually began to feel sleepy. When he was half asleep, a pair of hands touched his forehead. He looked over and saw Yu Wan touching his forehead with a frown. Then he said with certainty, "You have a fever."

Really? Yuan Ji didn't feel much, "I... I don't feel anything."

Yu Wan sighed, "You can't be so numb as a human being. You don't even know if you are sick or not? Lie down first. I'll find some medicine for you."

Yuan Ji couldn't help but say, "The ground is dirty..."

Yu Wan was helpless, "Brother, it's already this late, why are you still caring about this?"

After saying that, he pushed the man down to the ground, not caring about his reaction.

People with fever are weak and breathless, 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 fell asleep quickly.

The next day, when Yuan Ji opened his eyes, he saw Yu Wan shaking his head from side to side, obviously wanting to sleep but not daring to.

He struggled to stand 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."

Yuanji had no impression of such things, but the cloth on his forehead explained everything.