Chapter 10 Pei Changfeng's Mother's Relics
"Husband, are you awake?"
Seeing Pei Changfeng wake up, Su Wanwan hurried in, "The porridge is already cooked in the pot, shall I feed you?"
Pei Changfeng was indeed hungry. He still had important things to do later. Now that he had woken up, he had to conserve his energy.
"Thank you for your help."
Su Wanwan really wanted to rub his face hard. She had kissed him a lot when he was unconscious, but now that he was awake, he was as cold as ice. It was freezing to even touch him, let alone kiss him.
The porridge I cooked this morning was vegetable and lean meat porridge. It was sweet and smooth and melted in your mouth.
Pei Changfeng ate very politely. Although he was very hungry, he just ate slowly.
While feeding him, Su Wanwan couldn't help but think that what the matchmaker said before was true. Pei Changfeng had a very good appearance. Su Wanwan felt so when he was unconscious, and now that he was awake, Su Wanwan felt it even more.
Especially those eyes, which looked cold and clear when looking at people, just like the sky in early winter, filled with bleakness and chilliness.
Su Wanwan wanted to melt him, to see if it would melt like the snow in spring, bringing spring to all things.
Perhaps her gaze was too hot, Pei Changfeng looked at her.
Their eyes met, Su Wanwan pursed her lips and smiled, praising him, "Husband, you are so handsome."
Pei Changfeng choked and a faint blush appeared on his face. It was the first time he heard such straightforward praise. Su Wanwan was really... unusual.
Su Wanwan patted his back gently and said, "My dear husband, I have asked the village chief to go to the town to get a doctor. You need to take good care of your body."
Pei Changfeng thanked her, "Thank you very much."
"There is a loose board at the bottom of the wardrobe. Open it and there is a jade pendant inside. You can pawn it."
"Jade pendant?" Su Wanwan hesitated. "It's hidden in such a secluded place. Is it something very important to my husband?"
"It's a relic left by my mother," Pei Changfeng lowered his eyelashes, "I'm sick now and can't make a living. Everything at home depends on you. If I pawn the jade pendant, you will feel much more relaxed."
The existence of the jade pendant must be unknown to everyone. Su Wanwan shook her head and said, "No, this is something left by my mother-in-law. I have to keep it for you, my husband. We still have money, which can at least support us for a while. We can't touch the jade pendant until we are penniless."
Hearing her say this, Pei Changfeng smiled and said, "Miss Su, the jade pendant is a dead object, but living people have to look forward. Besides, my illness cannot be cured by a few taels of silver. I can redeem the jade pendant when I have the chance in the future."
Hearing him say this, Su Wanwan had no way to refute. She opened the closet door and searched for a long time before finding the movable wooden board. After prying it open, a small box appeared before her eyes.
She handed the box to Pei Changfeng, but Pei Changfeng motioned for her to open it.
There was a piece of fine cotton material wrapped inside the box. After peeling off the layers, a piece of warm mutton-fat jade appeared, engraved with auspicious cloud patterns and a small "Yang" character.
"This jade pendant..." Su Wanwan is different from other girls in the village. When her father Su was young, he traveled far and wide and brought back many good things. Su Wanwan can be considered to have seen the world.
Pei Changfeng's eyes fell on the jade pendant, with a hint of sadness in his eyes, "My mother brought this jade pendant with her when she came. Miss Su, thank you for your help."
Su Wanwan wanted to say something, but the village chief's voice rang out in the yard, "Changfeng family, I've asked the doctor to come back for you."
Su Wanwan quickly helped Pei Changfeng lie down, "Here it comes."
The village chief now respects Su Wanwan from the bottom of his heart, if not for anything else, but because of her love for Pei Changfeng, which is something many people cannot do.
After the doctor took Pei Changfeng's pulse, he looked at his injured leg and shook his head in embarrassment, "Your body has been damaged too much, there is no way to heal this leg."
Su Wanwan had been concentrating on waiting for the doctor to speak. "Doctor, as long as you can help my husband get better, I'm willing to pay any amount of money. Please think of a solution."
The doctor looked around the Pei family's leaky little house, then looked at Su Wanwan, "I really can't do anything about the legs, but the body can still be saved, but those herbs are not cheap, and it's not something that can be cured by taking one or two doses. Are you sure?"
"Sure," Su Wanwan nodded firmly, "As long as it can save my husband, I will sell everything I have to buy him!"
Pei Changfeng's long eyelashes trembled slightly.
The village chief couldn't help but ask, "How much does a dose of medicine cost?"
The doctor hesitated for a moment, and seeing that Su Wanwan was eager to save her husband, he did not lie to her, "One dose will cost at least three taels of silver. Your husband's body will need at least twenty doses of medicine for it to work."
Twenty sets... six taels of silver. The village chief smacked his lips and couldn't help but persuade Su Wanwan, "Changfeng's family, do you have so much silver in your hand? Changfeng has to spend nearly ten taels of silver just for medicine this month."
Many families only spend five taels of silver to marry a daughter-in-law. The village chief wanted to give some advice, but he couldn't open his mouth, so he could only make some suggestions.
"Village chief, I understand what you mean, but Changfeng is my husband. Since I'm married to him, I must do my best to treat him," Su Wanwan said to the doctor, "Please write a prescription, and then I will go to the town with you to get the medicine."
The doctor reminded, "The clinic cannot sell on credit."
"I have money," Su Wanwan first took out three taels of silver and gave it to the doctor, "Get ten sets first, and I'll get more after my husband finishes drinking."
The doctor nodded, "Okay, then you can come with me."
Su Wanwan turned to the village chief who was hesitant to speak and said, "Please keep an eye on Changfeng for me for a while. I'll be back soon. I've already fed him breakfast. Thank you for your hard work."
The village chief sighed and waved at her, "Go ahead."
Su Wanwan's parents are both gone, otherwise she wouldn't have married here. The village chief thought to himself that this was also a blessing for Changfeng, but what would happen after Su Wanwan spent all the money? How could she, a woman, make money?
Su Wanwan went to the town's clinic to get her medicine, and then went straight to a pawnshop.
The pawnshop clerk saw that she was dressed in ordinary clothes, but her face flashed his eyes, and the perfunctory words he blurted out immediately became serious, "Madam, what do you want to pawn?"
Su Wanwan had her hair in a bun, and she was not used to the title of "Madam" all of a sudden. She realized that she was being called and took out the box containing the jade pendant, "Take this as it is."
The clerk thought there was at most a silver object in it, but he turned out to be a fine-quality mutton-fat jade pendant. He couldn't make up his mind, so he asked the shopkeeper to come over.
The shopkeeper looked at the mutton-fat jade again and again, and then said, "Ten taels."
Su Wanwan immediately stretched out her hand and said, "Give it back to me. I don't want it anymore."
"This jade pendant is of average quality, and the carving is crude. Ten taels is already a high price," the shopkeeper thought Su Wanwan didn't know the value of the jade, "I'll add another tael and accept it reluctantly."
Su Wanwan smiled with her eyes bent, "Shopkeeper, our master said this jade pendant is a good thing. Your eleven taels is too much of a rip-off."
The shopkeeper then looked at her seriously. Seeing her beautiful face and thinking about the "master" she mentioned, he guessed that she might be a maid from a family who came to secretly help pawn things. "How about this, although the quality and carving of this jade pendant are average, it is the size of a palm, which is rare. I'll give you twenty taels, how about it?"
"That's too low," Su Wanwan said calmly, "Thirty taels."
The shopkeeper hesitated for a while, as if he had made a great decision, "Okay, thirty taels is thirty taels, let's just consider it as making a friend. If Madam needs anything in the future, please remember to come to our pawnshop."
Su Wanwan nodded, "Of course."
Su Wanwan felt relieved only after she got the three ten-liang silver notes. Her palms were full of sweat. When she was bidding the price with the shopkeeper just now, she actually had no idea at all. She didn't know the market price of the pawnshop and just wanted to ask for more.
Now I have thirty taels in my hand, which I can use to buy a hundred prescriptions for Pei Changfeng. He should be able to eat well. As long as he is well, his life will be better in the future.
After Su Wanwan left, the shopkeeper immediately put the jade pendant away like a treasure, "What a good thing!"
He made a fortune by buying a piece of extremely fine mutton-fat jade for thirty taels!
Su Wanwan came with a backpack on her back. She kept the silver bills close to her body and used the remaining money to buy a small piece of fresh meat and a bag of brown sugar.
When the village chief saw that she bought ten packets of medicine at once, he sighed again, didn't say much, and went home. After a while, the village chief's wife brought half a basket of vegetables and also left with something to say but stopped.
Su Wanwan sat under the eaves boiling medicine, her nose and forehead were all sweaty from the smoke from the fire. She looked at Pei Changfeng and smiled, "The village chief is kind, but we have thirty taels of silver in our hands now! Let me think of a way to make money, so I won't starve to death."
Pei Changfeng gently stroked the empty box containing the jade pendant, and hummed softly when he heard the words.
Su Wanwan knew that he felt bad. After all, it was a relic left by his mother. No one would be happy if it was just sold like this.
In order to make Pei Changfeng happier, Su Wanwan planned to cook some delicious food for him in the evening.
After the medicine had cooled, Pei Changfeng tilted his head back and poured it all down his throat. Su Wanwan, who was holding the spoon, was dumbfounded. Isn't it bitter?
Pei Changfeng looked at the small spoon in her hand. Was Su Wanwan planning to feed him medicine with a spoon?
The two looked at each other and were silent for a moment.
Su Wanwan took the empty bowl and said, "Husband, you, you are so awesome!"
Pei Changfeng let her wipe his mouth, "It's not bitter after drinking it in one gulp."
Su Wanwan thought about it carefully. When she was a child, her father coaxed her into taking medicine, and she didn't know how much sugar was boiled in the medicine, but she still didn't want to drink it.
Thinking of Father Su, Su Wanwan felt a little sad. She put a fan next to Pei Changfeng and went to cook.
Because the weather was hot, the meat couldn't be kept for too long. Su Wanwan divided the meat she bought today into two pieces, one piece was put in the well, and the other piece was chopped into minced meat. She planned to make a bowl of steamed egg with minced meat and a bowl of meatball soup.
After steaming the minced meat steamed egg in the pot, pour a little bit of sesame oil on it and it will make your tongue taste delicious.
Su Wanwan gave half a bowl to Pei Changfeng, and after he finished eating, she kept the soup warm in the pot and made meatballs into soup.
She took care of him so carefully and attentively that she fed Pei Changfeng five meals a day. Each meal was not much, but she never let him go hungry.
Pei Changfeng raised his hand, which now had a little strength left, and there was a slight light in his eyes.
Just as I finished making the meatballs, Pei Daniu's voice came from outside the yard, "Changfeng family, your relatives are here."
Su Wanwan wiped her hands and went to open the door. For a moment, she couldn't remember who would come. After opening the door, she saw Mu Chen and exclaimed in surprise, "Cousin, why are you here?"
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