Chapter 192 Dalang, it’s time to take medicine (2)
Having made up her mind, Huo Shichu had to face reality. She said to Wei Dalang straight away:
"Although your family used herbs and food to exchange for my return, I have no intention of becoming a real couple with you. However, I will take good care of you while you recover. After you recover, I will find a way to return the herbs and food to you in exchange for my freedom. What do you think?"
Huo Shichu didn't think that Wei Dalang would refuse, because he was an honest and simple man and it was difficult for him to refuse others. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been a soldier for almost ten years and sent his salary back home obediently, and he wouldn't have been helpless even when he was betrayed. If he had any brains, he wouldn't be so honest.
Sure enough, Wei Dalang just glanced at her calmly and agreed: "Okay."
Huo Shichu smiled immediately, and said, "Then I'll clean the house first, and then go to the next door to borrow some rice to cook. I can't always trouble others - but I don't know if others are willing to lend it to me?"
She was a little worried again. After all, she had just arrived here and didn't know anyone. Moreover, even if she had silver and rice in her companion space, she couldn't use them openly.
Oh, do I have to go back to my old job and go hunting in the mountains?
"Go to Aunt Zhou's house in front. I gave her some silver and asked her to take care of my meals these days. She will give you rice." Wei Dalang said.
"Okay..." Huo Shichu responded and went out. Fortunately, although the deserted house was deserted, there were still people living around it. Huo Shichu didn't walk far before he saw a family in front of him.
She walked up and knocked on the door: "Is this Aunt Zhou's house?"
"Grandma! Someone is looking for you!" A little boy of seven or eight years old was playing in the mud in the yard. When he saw Huo Shichu, he looked at her curiously and shouted.
Soon, there was the sound of rapid footsteps, and a familiar voice asked, "Who is it?"
Just as he finished speaking, an old woman with gray hair and wrinkles appeared in front of Huo Shichu. Huo Shichu asked hurriedly, "Excuse me, are you Aunt Zhou? I'm from Wei, Wei Dalang's family. I want to borrow something from you..."
"Wei Dalang's family? Oh, you are the wife that Dalang's stepmother exchanged for a bag of corn..." Aunt Zhou suddenly realized and stared at Huo Shichu without blinking. Although she had seen Huo Shichu and applied medicine to her, she saw her in dim conditions at that time and could not see her clearly.
So when Huo Shichu was standing outside in broad daylight, Aunt Zhou squinted her eyes and looked her up and down carefully, and finally saw her appearance clearly: "She is a pretty girl..."
She murmured something, then raised her voice and asked, "What do you want to borrow, Dalang?"
"I need buckets, rice, pots and bowls and the like. If you can lend them, please lend them to me. If not, I'll ask other people." Huo Shichu didn't bother to be polite with her.
"We do have rice. Dalang gave me some money to buy it. I can spare a bucket for you to use for a few days, but I can't afford a pot. We only have one." Aunt Zhou explained as she filled Huo Shichu's bucket with rice. She then took out a bucket and said, "You can use it as it is. I'll go to other people's homes and ask if they have a spare pot or jar."
"Then I'll trouble you, Aunt Zhou." Huo Shichu thanked him, took the things and went back first.
"Grandma, who is that sister? Why haven't I seen her before?" The little boy asked his grandmother curiously. Aunt Zhou lowered her voice and said:
"Why call her sister? Call her aunt. That's the wife your uncle Wei got back yesterday..."
"Then why didn't you drink the wedding wine? Isn't there a banquet when you marry a bride? There should be meat to eat." The little boy asked innocently again.
Huo Shichu walked far away and could not hear how Aunt Zhou answered her grandson. The original owner and Wei Dalang had such a perfunctory and frivolous marriage that the Wei family was already very sad to provide a bag of grain, so how could they possibly pay for a banquet?
Fortunately, the Wei family was not so shameless as not to share even the broken bowls and chopsticks with Wei Dalang. Huo Shichu saw several chipped bowls, two pairs of blackened chopsticks, and a clay pot with a missing piece of the lid in the kitchen.
Huo Shichu threw away the two pairs of black and dirty chopsticks, went to the vicinity of the house to break off a few branches, and then asked Wei Dalang for a dagger he had brought back from the battlefield, and cut the branches into chopsticks.
If she had a sturdier knife, she could have dug out a few wooden bowls, but unfortunately Wei Dalang's dagger was very ordinary and could not be used to cut trees. She had no choice but to scrub the chipped bowls with dirt and ash.
Since two people in the family were injured, Huo Shichu did not cook any complicated meals. Of course, even if she wanted to cook, there were no ingredients for her to make. A skilled cook cannot cook without rice, so she could only make porridge.
While the porridge was cooking, Huo Shichu was not idle either. She fetched a bucket of water from the river, found a broken wooden basin in the house that was still usable, and started to clean up the house.
Wei Qi lay on the bed, closed his eyes and listened to the noises outside, the sounds of footsteps, water, and wiping things. Even though they were not loud, Wei Qi could hear them clearly.
He didn't expect that the young girl who was exchanged back to be his wife would become so calm today, as if her crying and despair yesterday were all his illusion. She would rather die than stay when she saw his appearance yesterday, but today she calmly accepted this fact and really planned to take care of him. She was also smart and rational when negotiating terms with him.
Can a person's mind change so completely in just one day? Wei Qi was puzzled, but if she said she wanted to stay, he would not chase her away. At least if she stayed, it would be more convenient for him.
Thinking of this, Wei Qi looked at his legs. The injuries on his legs were indeed very serious. They were comminuted fractures and basically could not be cured. Even if they were cured, he would only become a cripple. If he recovered well, he would be able to walk but would not be able to exert force. If he recovered poorly, he would only be able to use crutches.
With his disabled legs and feet, he was basically useless in this village where people could only rely on farming. No wonder the Wei family kicked him out of the house out of courtesy.
However, Wei Qi was not worried. He was confident that he could completely cure his leg without any sequelae. So even though he was in a terrible situation now, he was not panicked in his heart because he knew that the current difficult situation was only temporary. Once he recovered, everything would be fine and he could take revenge.
"Da Lang, would you like some porridge?" Huo Shichu brought the porridge cooked with rice oil to Wei Da Lang's bedside, helped him up, touched his skinny body, and couldn't help but feel a little pity for him.
Alas, he was seriously injured and abandoned by his family. He must be very desperate and hopeless, right? The double blow to his body and mind, he is strong enough not to collapse. It is normal for him to be so thin...
She had no idea that Wei Dalang was not in as much pain as she imagined. Instead, he was thinking about sharpening his knife to take revenge after his wounds healed.
(End of this chapter)
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