Chapter 43 Sequelae
"A kiss, okay?"
Su Wanwan shook her head firmly, "No, Senior Hu said that you can't do anything that consumes your energy. You should just focus on recuperating."
Hearing this, Pei Changfeng felt a little disappointed, but he still lay down obediently and didn't move.
Suddenly, his face was touched by very soft lips. Pei Changfeng's disappointment was swept away. He reached out and held Su Wanwan's hand, "Go to sleep."
After a good sleep, Su Wanwan got up the next day to make breakfast. After finishing the meal, she found Hu Qi coming out with swollen eyes.
"Senior, your eyes..."
"I'm allergic," Hu Qi stretched, "Oh, the weather is really nice, but the autumn heat is coming soon, it's hot."
Seeing that she was still carefree, Su Wanwan felt relieved and brought the noodles to the table. "Senior, please have breakfast. I made minced meat and potato noodles today. Please try it and see how it tastes."
"Everything you cook tastes good. That's called talent," Hu Qi said with a smile after taking two bites of noodles. "What are you going to make for lunch?"
"Red date and ginseng chicken soup, stir-fried pork with chili peppers that my senior likes, and fried tofu."
"Ginseng?" Hu Qi joked, "You are really willing to give it away."
"It's just a small ginseng," Su Wanwan's cheeks flushed slightly. Knowing that Pei Changfeng in the room was also listening, she deliberately raised her voice, "As long as it is good for my husband's health, I'm willing to buy it even if it's a hundred taels of silver."
"Okay, okay, I get it," Hu Qi shuddered, "My husband, my husband, every day, eh, it makes me sick."
Su Wanwan smiled and went to wash the pot.
After class today, Widow Liu came to see Su Chaochao. Her injuries had not yet healed fully, and she felt so much pain when she washed clothes or did some housework that she had no energy to take care of Su Chaochao. However, she would still come to see her once in a while.
"Your stepmother is pretty," Hu Qi said, "Your father likes beautiful women. He hasn't changed in all these years."
Su Wanwan was curious, "How did you know?"
"I guessed that you look like your mother, so your mother must be a great beauty. Your stepmother is also beautiful, so doesn't your father like beauties?" Hu Qi rubbed Su Wanwan's face again, "Little girl, you are so lovable."
Su Wanwan always felt that Hu Qi was a little strange today, so she asked tentatively, "Senior, are you married?"
"What do you think?" Hu Qi rubbed his eyes. "Who would dare to marry a woman like me?"
No wonder, Su Wanwan felt that Senior Hu must have treated her as a child. She held Hu Qi's hand and said sincerely: "If you cure my husband's leg, my husband and I will take care of you in your old age."
Hu Qi laughed so hard that tears came out. He held his stomach and lay on the table, unable to get up.
"What's so funny about this? Senior, you are such a weirdo." Su Wanwan muttered a few words and went to find Widow Liu.
When she heard that Old Mrs. Luo had died in prison, Widow Liu cried for a while, which was considered the last bit of affection between mother and daughter.
"Tell me, my mother is such a confused person," Widow Liu chatted with Su Wanwan while eating fried dough twists. "What's the difference between a son and a daughter? I'm telling you, you must never be a biased mother in the future. It hurts people's hearts."
Su Wanwan curled her lips and didn't tell her that she couldn't have children, so as to avoid her starting to cry again.
"I'm not partial," Su Wanwan rubbed the little dog's head, "right, Xiaoxiao."
Xiaoxiao called out in response.
After Widow Liu went back in the afternoon, Su Chaochao sat at the door for a long time and finally came to the conclusion that his sister's house was too small. It was impossible for his mother, him, his sister and brother-in-law to all sleep in the same room.
Su Chaochao, who came to this conclusion, walked around the yard and looked at the side house with a big hole in the roof that had not been repaired. She sighed and thought, forget it, her sister couldn't even afford to repair the roof.
Pei Changfeng kept looking at his tied right leg. He didn't feel any pain. One hour after he applied the medicine that night, the pain was gone. It was more like no feeling at all.
He pinched his knee tentatively and could feel the touch of his hand. He pinched it again and felt no pain.
Su Wanwan came in after finishing her midnight snack and saw him pinching her left leg and then her right leg. "Husband, what are you doing?"
Pei Changfeng raised his head somewhat awkwardly, "My hands are a little sore, let me move them around."
"Oh~" Su Wanwan didn't expose him, "I cooked vermicelli, do you want to eat it?"
Originally, the two of them ate three meals a day, but since Hu Qi came, they have changed to four meals a day.
"I don't want to eat anymore." Seeing her face flushed, Pei Changfeng walked over with his cane and wiped her face with a wet cloth. "Wipe it."
Su Wanwan rubbed her cheek against his palm and said, "My husband still loves me."
Pei Changfeng coughed lightly, "This is natural."
Su Chaochao, who was passing by, saw them talking together and shouted, "Sister and brother-in-law, don't you eat vermicelli?"
Su Wanwan took a deep breath and said, "Here it comes."
It's just inconvenient to have kids at home!
Hu Qi was drinking vermicelli soup in the kitchen. She took a sip of the soup and looked up at the moon. She suddenly asked Su Wanwan, "Little girl, how did your mother die?"
Su Wanwan was stunned for a moment and shook her head. "I don't remember much. It seems that she was going to be a doctor to save people, but she fell off a cliff on the way. When my father found her, she was already dead."
With a crisp sound, Hu Qi's bowl fell to the ground. "Why is this bowl so slippery? It's a pity to waste such a bowl of fish soup. Your fish soup is very good. Cook another bowl of fish soup noodles for me tomorrow. Don't forget to put more green onions. It's still early now. I'll go out for a walk and come back."
"Where are you going, senior?" Su Wanwan slapped Su Chaochao's hand as she was about to pick up the broken bowl, "I'll go with you."
"No need," Hu Qi waved his hand, "I'll go relax by myself."
"Senior is really weird," Su Wanwan muttered, "Are you going out to feed mosquitoes so late?"
Su Wanwan swept up the broken pieces of the bowl on the ground, let Su Chaochao eat a bowl of noodles, and gave the extra bowl to Pei Changfeng, because Hu Qi usually ate two bowls of rice.
Hu Qi took a walk until the next morning. Su Wanwan hadn't slept all night, worried that she had run away. She was relieved when she saw her come back.
Hu Qi said nothing, went back to the room and fell asleep, and did not wake up until the evening.
Su Wanwan and Pei Changfeng looked at each other. One thought that Hu Qi was worried, and the other thought that Hu Qi might have lost his way at night.
Su Wanwan handed the pork elbow she had saved this afternoon to Hu Qi, "Senior, do you want to eat the noodles now or wait a while before eating?"
"Just eat the elbow," Hu Qi mixed some soup into the rice, "Come, sit next to me."
Su Wanwan did as she was told, and when Hu Qi had almost finished eating, she asked him considerately, "Did you get lost last night?"
"Lost?" Hu Qi laughed. "You are such a cute little girl. You are not lost. You were just outside in the wind and forgot the time. Don't worry about me. I will be fine."
Hu Qi said, "Your husband's legs will be sculpted for the second time tomorrow. Go buy some cotton in the morning. This year's cotton has not been harvested yet, so buy cotton from last year's harvest. Also, heat a pot of water, let it cool, and add some wood ash. I will use it in the evening."
Su Wanwan took note of everything she said carefully.
The next day, Pei Changfeng followed Hu Qi into the house after dinner. Su Wanwan didn't know what they were doing, but she could only guess that it must be very painful.
But there is a saying that goes, "Only those who have endured the most hardships can become the best." The hardships her husband has endured are almost as much as others have endured in ten lifetimes. As long as the hardships are followed by sweet rewards, the days to come will definitely be sweet.
Inside the house, Hu Qi did not use a knife today, but a needle instead. She filled Pei Changfeng's mouth with cotton to prevent him from tearing his lips again.
When it was over, Pei Changfeng still felt severe pain, which seemed better than before, but the pain had reached this point, so he no longer cared whether it was a little more or a little less.
After finishing, Hu Qi used cold water to clean the blood on the wound and said in a deep voice: "After seven more times of shaping, it can be sutured. There is something I didn't say in front of that girl. The exams will be held for nine days, one every three days. You have to use the medicine I gave you after each exam. The medicine is strong and can relieve pain, but it can also make people excited. It is also harmful to the body and will leave sequelae. Have you thought about it?"
"I've made up my mind," Pei Changfeng said, his voice trembling from the pain. "I must take the exam, I must."
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