Chapter 204 203: Spend a lifetime to make up for it
Zhou Huaian looked at the sleeping Yang Chunyan and recalled what she said, feeling a little chilled.
Yang Chunyan's calm narration echoed in my mind. Thinking of the way she looked up at the ceiling of the tent when she talked about the child, my heart felt like it was being cut by a knife.
If it was a dream, it must be God's warning to her. No wonder she became so old.
If this wasn't a dream, I don't know how many lifetimes I've accumulated to be blessed enough to marry such a good wife...
Yan'er's life... Alas! If it's true, I really owe her a lot, not only her, but also the child who didn't come into the world, grandpa, old man...
Thinking of this, Zhou Huaian felt that he had committed a grave sin and that even a lifetime of effort to atone for it would not be enough!
He tossed and turned but couldn't fall asleep.
He has lived for more than 20 years, and this is the third time he has had insomnia, except for the time when his grandmother passed away and the first night of his marriage.
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When Yang Chunyan woke up, she found it was already daybreak. She turned around and saw Zhou Huaian had already gotten up. She hurriedly got out of bed, changed her clothes, and went to the mirror to take a look. She found that her eyes were still a little red and swollen.
When I thought about how I cried my eyes out last night, I felt a little embarrassed. I felt that after I came back, I had become younger and more delicate.
She didn't know when she fell asleep last night, but after crying her heart out, she felt better.
She rubbed her face and brushed her bangs down before tying her hair up.
Zhou Huaian pushed the door open and saw that she had already gotten up. "Yan'er, go eat quickly. Ding Ding Cat should be here soon."
Yang Chunyan nodded, "Have you all eaten?"
"Yeah!" Zhou Huaian glanced at her tenderly and said proudly, "I went to cut rapeseed for a while."
Yang Chunyan glared at him in reproach, "You still want me to praise you? You didn't even call me when you got up!"
Zhou Huaian touched her still swollen eyelids and said, "I told mom that you caught a cold and had a headache so I didn't fall asleep until midnight. I wanted you to sleep a little longer so I didn't call you! Go wash up and eat, I'll pack up."
He thought of the morning when his third sister-in-law asked if he had quarreled with Chunyan and heard her crying. It was like this when the family lived together, with people just a wall away, it was inconvenient to talk and do things.
"Yeah!" Yang Chunyan went out with an enamel pot and a toothbrush, and saw that the area from the courtyard gate to the steps was full of drying mats, which contained either herbs or rapeseed.
She went to the well to wash up and eat. Just as she put away the pots and bowls and left the kitchen, she saw Zhou Yiding limping in with his back on his back. "Is your leg better?"
Zhou Yiding smiled and said, "Much better. How's the youngest one?"
"I'm here!" Zhou Huaian came out carrying a kettle and steamed buns, "I'll give you some tea to drink on the way! Have you eaten yet?"
"I've eaten." Zhou Yiding glanced at him and said, "Let's go. The sun will be brighter soon."
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian took Zhou Yiding's backpack and put it into the backpack, then locked the gate. The three of them went out from the backyard together and saw Zhou's mother watering the vegetable garden.
"Mom!" Yang Chunyan shouted, "Let's go up the mountain."
"Oh, are you feeling better? Why don't you just stay at home for two days and let Laoyao and Yiding go up the mountain!"
"It's okay. I feel much better after a good sleep."
Zhou Huaian winked at Zhou Yiding, "You see, this is what it's like when you go out with a woman. She keeps nagging for a long time and you can't even leave."
Yang Chunyan rolled her eyes at him. She seemed calm and composed in the morning, but her true colors were revealed after half an hour.
Zhou Huaian touched his nose, and the three of them walked across the steps towards the path up the mountain.
Zhou Yiding's leg was injured and he couldn't walk fast. After going up the mountain, the three of them walked and rested along the way. Yang Chunyan saw that the mountain-driving whip, fish and loach skewers, and field yellow were all put into the backpack.
When they reached the halfway point, Zhou Yiding waved to the two of them and said, "I can't do it anymore. I'll sit for a while before I go on."
"Okay, sit for a while." Zhou Huaian helped him sit down, took the water bottle out of the backpack and handed it to him.
Yang Chunyan drank a few sips of water, and then she saw that the barren slope was covered with lilacs with beautiful purple flowers. "Huaian, I'll go dig up the lilacs. Gather the ripe seeds for me."
Zhou Huaian took a look and asked, "Is that thing also useful?"
Yang Chunyan nodded, "This stuff is very useful. It can be used to treat snake bites and children with mumps. If you dig some and mash it up, it can also be used to apply on the wound."
Zhou Huaian plucked off a capsule and put it in Yang Chunyan's handkerchief. "I found that most of the herbs in the mountains can cure snake bites. It seems that God knows that there are many snakes and insects in the mountains, so he put a lot of snake and insect killers in the fields."
Yang Chunyan: "Everything is interdependent and mutually exclusive. There is also a rumor that where poisonous snakes are found, there must be herbs that can detoxify within seven steps!"
"It's really possible in the mountains. Look, there are not only ground lily grass but also mountain whip here!"
Viola yedoensis is also known as wild violet, plow grass, arrowhead grass, and yedoensis grass.
The taproot of Viola yedoensis is yellowish brown with fine longitudinal lines. The leaves are gray-green with blunt serrations on the edges, shaped like a plowshare, glabrous or covered with short hairs on both sides; the flower stems are slender, the flowers are lavender, and have thin tubular spurs. The capsule is oblong or split into three fruit valves, with many seeds.
Viola yedoensis tastes bitter, slightly pungent and cold in nature; it has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and reducing swelling; it is mainly used to treat furuncles, carbuncles, mumps, scrofula, erysipelas... poisonous snake bites, etc.
The two men dug up all the large trees that had bloomed, and left the ones that had not bloomed.
The three of them were delayed along the way and it was already noon when they arrived at the forest farm.
Zhou Daqing heard the noise and walked out of the yard. When he saw Zhou Yiding, he hurried forward to check his leg, "Let me see if it's better?"
Yang Chunyan looked at his anxious expression, and then she understood why Zhou Yiding’s wife said that her father-in-law was a son slave!
Thinking of this, she suddenly remembered that Zhou Yiding's wife was his niece from Sanniang's family. She had a straightforward and hot-tempered personality, and she must be what they call a hot pepper.
"Old man, you just watched it yesterday. The youngest brother and sister-in-law are here now. Why don't you wait a while before watching it!" Zhou Yiding said embarrassedly.
Zhou Daqing patted him on the shoulder and said, "Laoyao and Chunyan are not strangers. You only hurt your leg, not anywhere else. There's nothing to be embarrassed about."
"Don't be embarrassed!" Zhou Huaian said with a smile: "Let's go in and see the dog first, you show it to uncle slowly."
Yang Chunyan greeted Zhou Daqing and followed Zhou Huaian into the yard. They saw Dahei and Dahuang lying on the steps basking in the sun. When they saw them coming, they wagged their tails.
Yang Chunyan looked at the dog's injuries and found that they were much better and its repair ability was quite good.
Zhou Huaian rubbed the dog's furry head and said, "Dahei, Dahuang, hurry up and get ready. We'll go hunting in the mountains and catch some rabbits and roast them for you to eat."
Hearing about food, the dog looked up at the two of them, then lay down helplessly.
Zhou Daqing and Zhou Yiding walked in. "Youngest, Chunyan, I cooked some rice and stewed some pig's trotters. Eat and take a rest."
Zhou Huaian smiled and said politely: "Sorry for the trouble, Uncle Daqing!"
"Well!" Zhou Daqing glanced at him, "Do a good job and let those who look down on you see it."
"I'll remember that." Zhou Huaian responded seriously.
(End of this chapter)
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