Dragonfly skimming the water
At this moment when the situation was getting heated, there was a sudden knock on the door.
"Girl, the meal is ready, come out and eat with your man." The woman said through the door.
Lu Yu, who was almost able to kiss Bai Miaoke but was suddenly interrupted, looked a little gloomy. Looking at Bai Miaoke's retreating figure, his eyes were gloomy. The powerful official who usually kept his emotions secret almost had his unhappiness written on his face.
Bai Miaoke responded to the outside: "Okay, we'll be right there."
She tried to stand up but the man next to her grabbed her arm.
Bai Miaoke looked at the man's stubborn eyes with some amusement. She could have easily broken free from him, but facing this jade-like sick beauty, she chose to follow her heart.
Then the woman leaned closer, with a few strands of long hair falling down, vaguely covering the dragonfly-like touch of the water.
Prime Minister Lu, who got what he wanted, now blushed all over like a young wife who was teased. He never thought that Bai Miaoke would take the initiative to continue the kiss, although it was very short, but he clearly felt that his heart was trembling because of it, wanting to continue to deepen and go deeper.
On the other hand, the real young wife licked her lips as if she was savoring the taste, as if she was still not satisfied.
The people of this dynasty were open-minded, and men and women only needed to be in love with each other. Although Bai Miaoke had no experience in this, she was not a chaste woman. It was rare for her to find a handsome man she liked, so she would take advantage of him.
She chuckled, and seeing that Lu Yu was still holding her arm, she simply exerted some force and helped him stand up.
Lu Yu seemed to have just come back to his senses. His bottomless eyes locked onto the girl's pretty face like a black pool, then moved to the rosy lips where she had just stayed for a moment, as if he was a cheetah staring at his prey, full of possessiveness.
Bai Miaoke didn't notice the obsession in his eyes and pulled him out: "Let's go, husband, it's time to eat."
When I pushed the door open, I found that the muscular man was carrying a table in one hand and placing it in the yard. The wooden table looked a bit old, but it was very clean.
The woman was taking out food from the stove in the east, and there were already several bowls on the table.
Bai Miaoke took the initiative to go over to help. When she got closer, she found that the pot contained porridge made from various green leafy vegetables and brown rice. The woman had already scooped out two bowls of porridge with the most ingredients from the bottom of the pot and placed them on the stove.
"This is for both of you, bring it over."
Even though the porridge looked ordinary, it was a gift from the other person. Bai Miaoke still smiled gratefully and walked back to the table with two full bowls of porridge.
The woman shouted toward the courtyard wall again: "Erya, come back for dinner!"
Not long after, a little girl with two buns on her hair came running back. Her skipping steps stopped when she saw the two extra guests in the house.
She called out timidly, "Dad, Mom."
"Come and have dinner quickly. There are two guests in our house. Just call..." The woman stopped talking and suddenly realized that she didn't know the names of the two people.
Lu Yu took the initiative to speak: "My name is Lu Bai, and I am a scholar."
Bai Miaoke sat next to Lu Yu and tilted her head in surprise. She didn't expect him to give her such a name.
The woman asked her daughter to sit down beside her and said, "So it's Mr. Lu and Mrs. Lu. My husband's name is Zhang Dazhuang, you can call me Sister Zhang."
Lu Yu smiled and nodded, drinking spoonful by spoonful of the bland vegetable porridge in the bowl.
Bai Miaoke found it a little difficult to swallow, but it was also a thoughtful gesture from the other person, and she didn't want to say it out loud. She just stirred the porridge in the bowl from time to time, but didn't drink much.
Lu Yu seemed to have sensed something. After finishing his own portion, he reached out and took most of the remaining liquid in Bai Miaoke's bowl.
Bai Miaoke looked at him gratefully.
The farmer seemed to have noticed something, but he put on a simple smile on his dark face and said a little embarrassedly: "I didn't go hunting today, so these are the only vegetables we have at home. You can just make do with them. I'll hunt a rabbit for you tomorrow as a snack."
The woman looked at her man with pity and pride, and nodded to Bai Miaoke and the other man.
"May I ask how do you hunt?" Lu Yu asked.
"With a bow and arrows made by a blacksmith," the man replied.
Bai Miaoke and Lu Yu looked at each other, and they both thought of the flying needle crossbow arrow they encountered on the boat.
"Brother, do you have paper and pen at home? I'll draw a blueprint for you, and you can find a carpenter to make a crossbow for you to hunt." Lu Yu said.
So after finishing a bland meal, the man took out his worn-out brush and a few sheets of rough, yellowed rice paper and placed them on the stone table in the yard.
Under the dim candlelight, Lu Yu drew the structure of the crossbow in just a few strokes, and Bai Miaoke marveled at it.
Of course she knew how to use a crossbow, but she had never paid attention to its structure. Unexpectedly, a scholar like Lu Yu knew a lot about it.
She whispered, "How do you know the structure of a crossbow?"
"I've seen it in a book." Lu Yu replied. He had read all kinds of books, and his photographic memory came in handy at this time.
Bai Miaoke nodded with some admiration.
I gave the blueprint to the man, who took it and praised it repeatedly, saying that he would go find the carpenter in the village tomorrow.
The woman took out two sets of clothes from the house and handed them to Bai Miaoke: "These are the new clothes we made at the beginning of the year. You haven't worn them yet. Hurry up and change the ones you are wearing. I'll go get some hot water for you to wash."
Bai Miaoke took it with a smile, "Thank you very much, where can I boil water? I'll help you."
But the woman waved her hands and said, "Your husband's wound is still bleeding, you should take good care of him. The water is ready, it's just a matter of adding some firewood."
Bai Miaoke was stunned for a moment before she looked at Lu Yu's chest, and sure enough, blood was oozing out of there again.
She hadn't noticed it just now, and hurriedly helped him sit down on the kang, "Why are you bleeding again? Does it hurt? Take off your clothes so I can see the wound."
Seeing the anxiety in the woman's eyes, Lu Yu pretended to be calm and took off his shirt.
The cloth that had just been bandaged in the morning was covered with blood, and there was a tendency for blood to continue to ooze out. Bai Miaoke frowned and touched the ten taels of silver in her arms.
"Wait a minute, I'll find some medicine for you." He left with just these words.
When I walked to the east room, I saw the woman making a fire and boiling water in front of the stove. Her daughter was sitting beside her, reading a tattered book by the firelight.
"Sister, my husband's wound has been bleeding non-stop. I wonder if there is a doctor in the village who can help take a look."
"Yes, yes. There is an old man named Wang at the head of the village. He's a doctor. Villagers go to him for help when they have a headache or fever." The woman was a little nervous when she heard about the bleeding.
"That's right. We only have ten taels of silver on us right now. I don't know if it's enough." Bai Miaoke scratched her head. This family was obviously not wealthy, and she was too embarrassed to ask for a loan.
After hearing what Bai Miaoke said, the woman was stunned for a moment before she said, "It costs so much to see a doctor in the village. A few copper coins are enough for a common headache or fever. If you go to the town, you won't need so much."
Bai Miaoke breathed a sigh of relief: A few copper coins? Is it so cheap...
She then said, "Can you take me to see Doctor Wang?"
The woman looked at the fire on the stove, pointed at her daughter sitting beside her and said, "Er Ya, accompany this sister to the village to find Uncle Wang."
Bai Miaoke also looked in the direction of her finger at the little girl who was about ten years old. The little girl with a chubby face nodded, stood up and carefully placed the book in her hand on the small stool.
Does such a young child know the way? Bai Miaoke was very skeptical, but she still took her chubby little hand and walked away.
Walking on the path in the village, Bai Miaoke was interacting with children for the first time. She thought for a moment and asked, "Er Ya, what book were you reading just now?"
"The Analects of Confucius." The little girl replied.
"Wow, you can recognize so many words at such a young age, that's amazing." Bai Miaoke knew that many poor families would not let their girls learn to read, so she praised sincerely.
"Sister, how many words do you know? There are many words I don't recognize, can I ask you?" The little girl's face was a little red.
"Of course, I should be able to recognize them. Even if there are some that I don't know, you can ask my husband. There is no character that he doesn't know." Bai Miaoke boasted on Lu Yu's behalf, and her tone unconsciously contained some pride.
The little girl really showed an admiring expression: "Sister, can you stay a few more days?"
Bai Miaoke thought about Lu Yu's injury, touched the little girl's head, and said, "See how my husband's injury is. Who do you usually learn to read from?"
The little girl blushed and said, "Murakami's Xu Xiucai sometimes holds classes. I went to listen to them a few times."
Bai Miaoke smiled at her and said, "It's not shameful to be studious. Women also need to learn more so that they can understand more truths."
The little girl nodded, not quite understanding.
The two of them talked as they walked, and soon they arrived at the door of a house at the entrance of the village.
"Is this the one?"
Arya nodded.
Bai Miaoke went forward and knocked on the door. After knocking several times, an old man with half-gray hair and a missing front tooth came to open the door.
"Why are you knocking?" The old man's impatient voice stopped the moment he opened the door and saw Bai Miaoke.
"Young lady, you are from the village, right? What's the matter?" the old man said, stroking his beard.
"My husband is injured, and I would like you to go and see him." Bai Miaoke said.
"What injury? I charge for my visits." The old man looked at Bai Miaoke.
"Can the knife wound be treated?" Bai Miaoke was a little anxious, and her tone was a little more impatient. She didn't want to waste time with him here. If it weren't for the child, she would have carried this man back.
The old man was still hesitating and wanted to continue bargaining.
Bai Miaoke couldn't stand it any longer, so she reached out and grabbed the old man's skinny wrist, and pulled him out of the door with force, "I have money for you, come with me."
The old man was in pain from her grasping, and begged for mercy, saying hastily, "I'll go, I'll go, isn't it okay? Wait for me to get the medicine box."
"I'll go with you to get it. Bring some more hemostatic drugs." Bai Miaoke directly escorted the person into the house.
"Okay, okay." When the old doctor heard that more hemostatic drugs were needed, he realized that this woman and her man might not be an easy task, so he stopped talking nonsense and was very quiet along the way.
Soon, they returned to the small courtyard where they were staying.
Bai Miaoke led the people to the door of the west room and knocked twice, but there was no response from inside. She simply reached out and pushed the door open.
The room was pitch black, and a person could be vaguely seen lying on the kang, but not moving.
Bai Miaoke's heart skipped a beat. She took two steps forward without even turning on the lamp, wanting to check Lu Yu's breath as he lay on the kang. Her outstretched hand trembled slightly.
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