He was right beside them, and when she heard the mother and son talking one after another, they decided on the matter with a smile on their face. She couldn't help but shudder, but then she thought that they didn't have a daughter in the main house, so whether she was a concubine or not was none of her business, so she felt relieved and pretended not to hear it at first.
Li sat aside, looking around at the expressions of everyone in the room with her narrow eyes, then lowered her head silently.
Tang Shiyue had already trotted to the village doctor's house.
The village doctor and his wife had obviously heard about what happened here. The village doctor glanced at her and said, "It's not that urgent. There are still ten days left anyway."
Tang Shiyue smiled faintly and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely pay it back within ten days."
The village doctor nodded.
The village doctor asked her with a smile: "Would you like to have lunch here?"
Tang Shiyue took out the copper coin and asked, "What did you do?"
The village doctor's wife was delighted to see that she understood the situation: "I fried eggs today, made celery soup... and soup noodles..."
Soup noodles are noodles that are easy to digest. They should be suitable for Xiaoyao. Tang Shiyue nodded, paid the money, and ate with Xiaoyao.
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By the evening, Xiao Yaoer looked much more energetic, but the village doctor still said: "It's okay to go back now, but it's not safe. If you want to be safe, it's better to stay here for another day..."
Tang Shiyue knew what was going on.
They just thought that they could earn more money by cooking, and they were reluctant to let Qiao Zonger go. But she didn't mind too much. After all, the longer she stayed, the more serious Xiao Yaoer's condition would appear, and she had a reason not to go home.
So they stayed another night.
Chencunyi is like a small clinic, and people from nearby villages often come to see the doctor. There are two or three beds in the side room, which is specially used for patients to stay overnight. If they bring their families with them, they can stay in another side room, which is equivalent to a VIP ward. So it is not inconvenient at all.
Tang Shiyue got up early the next morning and had dinner at the village doctor's house again. She told Xiao Yaoer to wait for her here obediently, and then she came out carrying the basket on her back.
So poor!
Suddenly she lost two taels of silver and was in debt. She felt that she was really poor.
When she got to the top of the mountain, she walked along the paths where there were no roads. While she was struggling to make her way forward, she looked around carefully, not missing any gullies or bumps, and even parted the grass to look around.
I picked a dozen white pears along the way and also picked some purslane. Purslane is thick and juicy. Modern people often use it for cold dishes, but the ancients believed that it was a rare delicacy. Sometimes even the nobles in the court ate it as a way to understand the people's sentiments.
The basket was full, but she didn't find anything good, not even a tiger's paw mushroom... Could it be that after working with that unlucky guy Qi Jing twice, her luck was gone?
Tang Shiyue complained inwardly, but continued walking forward. After everyone had passed by, he suddenly stopped.
She stepped back, pushed aside the bushes with her sickle, examined it carefully, and was overjoyed! It was Polygonum multiflorum!
Tang Shiyue half-knelt and half-squatted on the ground without caring about her image, then bent down and carefully dug up the soil bit by bit, fearing that she would break the skin. It took more than half an hour before the brown rhizome was finally exposed.
She cheered up, threw away the sickle, and carefully pushed away the soil bit by bit with her hands. Finally, she dug out the rhizome, which turned out to be two complete human figures, and one of them had an obvious extra thing between its legs.
The most valuable Polygonum multiflorum is the human-shaped Polygonum multiflorum, and the yin-yang pair is the most expensive! It is hard to find! What's more, it has been at least a hundred years since Polygonum multiflorum was able to take human form. If you meet Qiao Zong'er, it will not be a problem to sell such Polygonum multiflorum for several thousand taels!
The startup capital is in place! The medicine garden is waving to her!
Tang Shiyue's face was filled with joy. He quickly found some long grass and wrapped it up tightly. Then he turned the basket upside down, put the purslane on top, and then put the white natans on top, and walked down the mountain excitedly.
It was still early, around noon, and Tang Shiyue hadn't reached the foot of the mountain yet when he suddenly saw thick smoke billowing up into the sky. Tang Shiyue was surprised for a moment, and quickened his pace. After running for a distance, he discovered that the fire was actually in the Qi family!
Tang Shiyue was startled and started to jog. When he arrived breathlessly, he saw that the two dilapidated houses of the Qi family had been engulfed in flames.
This place is right on the edge of the mountain, far away from where the villagers gather. At this time, those who can work are busy in the fields. There are only some women and children at home. A few people are standing around pointing and talking from a distance.
Tang Shiyue said anxiously: "Put out the fire quickly!"
Someone asked, "It's burning so badly, how can we save it?"
Tang Shiyue rushed inside and asked, "Is anyone there? Is anyone home?"
"Girl Yue, why are you so anxious?" Someone said, "The young master is not here. He left early in the morning."
Tang Shiyue breathed a sigh of relief, then suddenly thought of something: "But doesn't he have a younger brother? I heard he's still young!" She called inside again: "Is there anyone else? Is anyone there?"
Someone whispered, "His brother is a fool!" The meaning was clearly that, if he's a fool, just die.
"There's a haunted house in the village, it's too early to be scared, the sooner it burns!"
Someone else said, "Don't worry, Miss Yue. We called out to her just now, but no one answered. There must be no one there."
"That's right. If someone had come out earlier, even a fool would have known to cry and scream."
At this moment, half of the courtyard wall collapsed with a loud bang, and Tang Shiyue clearly saw two pieces of clothes that were obviously children's clothes hanging under the tree in the courtyard.
Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be prepared for the worst!
Tang Shiyue didn't hesitate any longer, she put down the basket and ran to the ditch. She was thin and small, so she rolled into the river, pulled off her outer robe to cover her head and face, and rushed in.
The fire was huge, with thick smoke and scorching heat. Tang Shiyue covered her face with her wet sleeves and quickly walked around outside the house.
At first glance, she saw a child clinging to the corner of the main room, standing straight and motionless. The smoke was so thick that Tang Shiyue was crying. She couldn't even open her eyes. She was afraid that she had seen it wrong, so she hurriedly said, "Hey! Come out quickly! I'll take you out!"
After calling several times, the child didn't move, like a clay sculpture or a wooden sculpture. Seeing that the outer clothes would be dried out if he waited any longer, Tang Shiyue gritted his teeth and rushed in.
She saw clearly that it was a child, only four or five years old, with his eyes closed, huddled in the corner. Tang Shiyue rushed over to pull him, but failed to move him. The child's whole body was as stiff as a stone.
But with this pull, the child suddenly let out a low whimper from his throat, like the whimper of a dying animal.
When Tang Shiyue turned back hurriedly, she bumped into a pair of red eyes.
He stared at her straight, and even though there was so much smoke, he didn't blink for a long time.
She didn't have time to think at all. She used all her strength to pull him over, hugged him in her arms, protected him with her body, and rushed out quickly... The flames rolled up the straw on the roof and kept falling. It fell on her and slowly burned. Tang Shiyue hissed in pain, rushed out of the yard, and rolled on the ground several times.
The villagers nearby were also quite surprised and exclaimed: "There really is a child!"
Some people reacted quickly and took buckets and basins to the river to scoop water and poured it on them. The fire was put out in a short while, and the villagers helped her up. Tang Shiyue took a breath and looked at the child in her arms.
The child was very beautiful, with the same phoenix eyes as his brother, with big black pupils, staring at her, motionless. His clothes and hair were all burnt to pieces, and the exposed skin was also burned, but he seemed to feel no pain.
Tang Shiyue shook him: "Are you okay?"
The child did not answer, and someone whispered, "Isn't this child a fool?"
“It really looks like that.”
Just then, someone exclaimed, "Look at the child's hands!"
Tang Shiyue hurriedly turned his hands over and saw that his hands were small and he was holding something in his palms. His skin was torn and his flesh was exposed. Tang Shiyue was stunned for a moment and ran to the village doctor's house without thinking too much. Many nosy village women followed him.
After the village doctor examined him, he sighed and said, "I'm afraid he can't be saved!"
What? Tang Shiyue was shocked.
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