Chapter 85 Chapter 85 Sick
This year's harvest task is particularly heavy because we bought more land and planted more things. Even Xiaolin and Huo Xiaobao came to help.
"The teacher said that studying doesn't mean we can't be lazy and not know the difference between crops, so let's come back to do farm work." Huo Xiaobao also grabbed a sickle and helped to harvest the wheat. Xiaolin was even more skilled than him.
Miao Ying was still fully armed, with only a pair of eyes exposed. His movements were not fast. Watching the wheat fall one after another, Miao Ying sighed. This year's harvest was enough to pay the taxes, and there was no need to spend extra money.
After harvesting the wheat, they still have to harvest the rapeseed. The villagers have become accustomed to this by the second year. When they see them going to the fields, they just ask about this year's harvest and don't ask anything else. After all, every household is very busy at this time.
Children are not very good at harvesting rapeseed. After all, the roots of rapeseed are much harder than those of wheat. So Huo Xing was the one who cut the rapeseed in several fields. After cutting, he could not leave the rapeseed on the ground to dry, so he had to take them home. The rapeseed scattered during the action fell to the ground and would produce new rapeseed in the future. They might bloom or continue to bear fruit and become part of this vast land.
The whole months of April and May were busy, busy with threshing wheat, drying it in the sun, and threshing rapeseed. Later, we were busy paying taxes. The remaining wheat and rapeseed were put into the grain storage room at home, and the harvest season slowly came to an end.
There were also a lot of things to do afterwards. They had to prepare to send Huo Xiaobao to Yunshan Academy to study, prepare to press oil, and Miao Ying also had to prepare things for setting up a stall.
Fu Lingzhi also came back and said that his brother had harvested all the rapeseed and asked Miao Ying what to do next.
The harvested rapeseed has been dried in the sun. What Huo Xing needs to do now is to build two more wooden presses at the place chosen by Fu Lingyou. This will be their oil press.
Miao Ying was tired from the farm work he had done recently, and he got caught in the rain while harvesting that day, and fell ill. His illness was very severe, and he had a fever and started talking nonsense at night, which scared the whole family.
Huo Xing almost didn't sleep the whole night. He kept wiping his body to cool him down and rubbing the palms and soles of his feet with wine. Finally, the fever subsided at dawn. After dawn, Li Hongying went to the nearby village to ask for the village doctor, the doctor they had visited before.
The doctor examined Miao Ying and said that he should have been ill some time ago, but he had been suppressing it. Now he might have relaxed, so the illness was stimulated all at once. There was no other way but to slowly give him medicine and recuperate. He said that his physical condition was still good now. If it was any worse, he would probably have a lifelong illness.
The most important thing was that before starting to do farm work, Miao Ying had just gone through a few days of illness. He was already exhausted and hadn't had a good rest, but he started working right away. His health wasn't very good to begin with, so all this stimulated all his illness.
These words scared the whole family. Xiaolin had been guarding his bedside and started to sob when he heard these words. Although Xiaobao didn't cry, his eyes were red.
Huo Xing listened to the doctor with slumped shoulders, then watched him write a prescription. After paying the consultation fee, he had to go to the town to buy medicine. He could only let Li Hongying and the others take care of Miao Ying while he had to go buy medicine quickly.
During the first two days after falling ill, Miao Ying was in a daze. He didn't know where he was or even who he was.
"How pitiful." A voice said. The voice was very gentle, but Miao Ying didn't like what it said.
Miao Ying frowned and realized that he was not pitiful at all. He had a family and a lover, so he was not pitiful.
"Then fulfill his wish. Our world is pretty good." Another voice sounded a little cold.
Miao Ying was a little scared when he heard this. He didn't want to go to any world, he just wanted to stay here, so he struggled to say no, but he didn't have any strength.
"Xiao Ying! Xiao Ying!" Huo Xing saw Miao Ying, who was originally sleeping quietly, suddenly breathing rapidly and shouting "No, no". Huo Xing quickly grabbed his hand and held him tightly in his arms.
Miao Ying suddenly opened his eyes and saw the familiar roof and felt a warm embrace.
"I had a nightmare." He had been in a drowsy sleep for two days. He had no strength to wake up and spoke in a low voice.
Huo Xing had already sat up and reached out to touch his forehead. Fortunately, it was no longer hot.
Miao Ying had been having a fever for the past two days and was always talking nonsense. He was sick for a few days, and Huo Xing endured it for a few days. Until tonight, Miao Ying slept more peacefully, so Huo Xing slept with him for a while, but was soon awakened by his nightmare again.
"The porridge is still warm for you." Huo Xing got up from the bed and helped him sit up a little. "Eat something first."
Miao Ying shook his head: "I don't want to eat it. It tastes bitter in my mouth."
During the days he was in a coma, he could feel that he was being fed medicine. Now his mouth tasted bitter and he didn't want to take any more medicine.
He took Huo Xing's hand, let him sit against the head of the bed, and then hugged him: "I had a nightmare. I dreamed that someone wanted to take me away."
He could clearly feel that Huo Xing's whole body was stiff, and the hand holding him was so strong that it felt like his bones were hurting. He raised his hand and patted Huo Xing's hand. Huo Xing realized that he had hurt him and loosened his grip a little.
"Huo Xing, I want to drink some water." Miao Ying's lips were a little dry. Huo Xing had been using a spoon to moisten his lips these past few days, but because of the fever, his lips were still dry.
Huo Xing hurried to get him some water. Miao Ying drank two bowls and finally felt less thirsty. He looked at Huo Xing, who was squatting beside the bed, feeling somewhat bewildered, and smiled slightly: "Don't worry, I won't leave."
Huo Xing didn't say anything, but just stared at him for a moment without taking his eyes off.
Miao Ying reached out and touched his brow bone: "Don't frown, it doesn't look good. I'm fine now."
Huo Xing held his hand and was reluctant to let go for a long time.
"Change my clothes." The clothes on his body were soaked with sweat and then dried. Now they were sticking to his body and he felt very uncomfortable.
Huo Xing found his clothes in the closet, then carefully helped Miao Ying up, took off his clothes, and put on clean, soft new clothes.
After all the tossing and turning, Miao Ying felt sleepy again. He leaned on Huo Xing's shoulder and slowly fell asleep.
I slept very well and felt much more relaxed when I woke up in the morning. However, I seemed to have sweated a lot while sleeping, and my clothes became uncomfortable again.
There was no one in the room at the moment. Miao Ying sat up and prepared to find some clothes to change. Before he could get up, Huo Xing came back with breakfast in his hands. Seeing Miao Ying stand up, he quickly put down his food and came over to help him: "What do you want?"
"Change clothes, they're wet again."
Huo Xing helped him find clothes and changed them for him, then watched him drink a bowl of rice porridge. Only then did he feel truly relieved. As long as he could eat, he would be fine.
After he finished his meal, when Huo Xing went out to put away the dishes, Xiaolin and Huo Xiaobao both came into the room. Xiaolin's eyes turned red when she saw him, and so did Huo Xiaobao's, making Miao Ying not know how to comfort them.
"Don't cry, I'll be fine soon." Miao Ying gently wiped away Xiao Lin's tears. "I ate a big bowl of rice this morning."
"Brother, don't be so tired in the future." Xiao Lin grabbed his hand, "I will grow up quickly, and you can leave any work to me in the future."
Miao Ying smiled and said, "Okay, then you should eat more and grow stronger."
Huo Xiaobao refused to give in: "Brother! I won't go to school anymore. I'll just stay at home and work. I won't achieve anything by studying anyway."
Miao Ying frowned, called Huo Xiaobao over to him, raised his hand and pinched Huo Xiaobao's face: "Who taught you to say such things?"
Huo Xiaobao was already sad because he could not pass the imperial examination, and seeing Miao Ying sick like this, he was really anxious, so he spoke out his true feelings in a hurry.
"Your brother, Master Song, and I have already discussed this. We will send you to Yunshan Academy this September. Don't worry about whether you can pass the imperial examination or not. Just study hard and learn the truth. Who knows what will happen in the future? Maybe there will be a turning point in the future."
Seeing that Miao Ying was angry, Huo Xiaobao curled his lips, sat on the edge of the bed, and said nothing more.
"I haven't talked about you yet. Master Song told me a few days ago that you have been a little impetuous recently, and I haven't had time to deal with you yet." Miao Ying spoke a little hurriedly, choked again, and started coughing violently.
Xiaolin and Huo Xiaobao were both frightened. Fortunately, Huo Xing came in with medicine and patted his back. It took him a while to recover. Huo Xing looked at Huo Xiaobao and asked silently.
Huo Xiaobao pouted and didn't dare to say anything more.
After sending the two children away, his grandmother and mother came to see him again. With the elders around, Miao Ying couldn't act coquettishly and say that he didn't want to take the medicine. He could only drink the medicine honestly. There must be coptis root in the medicine, and it was so bitter that he stuck out his tongue.
Only after watching him drink the medicine obediently did Li Hongying and her grandmother leave. After they left, Huo Xing stuffed a piece of candy into his mouth.
We have been making candy at home these days, but Miao Ying never thought candy was so delicious before.
The medicine seemed to contain tranquilizing herbs. After drinking the medicine, Miao Ying felt sleepy again. Huo Xing helped him lie down and let him have a good rest.
After a short nap, Fu Lingzhi came back. He had been at the farm these days, helping Fu Lingyou take care of the farm affairs. He only had time to come back today and heard his godmother say that Miao Ying had been sick for several days. He was so scared that he hurried into the room to see him.
Miao Ying had just woken up and saw Fu Lingzhi blinking at him.
"Are you okay? It's all my fault. I didn't come back a few days ago." Fu Lingzhi touched his forehead and then his face.
"What does it have to do with you?" Miao Ying laughed. "Everything is fine now."
Fu Lingzhi shook his head: "How can you say this is good? You haven't even seen your face, it's as white as a ghost."
Miao Ying rolled his eyes: "Have you ever seen a ghost?"
Fu Lingzhi smiled and said, "I'll bring you some supplements someday. You should eat more."
Miao Ying looked at him and remembered something. He and Fu Lingzhi had sex at about the same time. Fu Lingzhi was not at home during those days, and he didn't know what was going on.
"You, your brother, are everything alright?"
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