Although Qin Ling was very hungry and ate very quickly, his eating habits did not look ugly.
People say that beauties look best under the light, and the same is true for handsome men.
Under the flickering candlelight, a pale-faced young man sat on the bed, his messy hair bound by the white cloth used to bandage his wounds. His handsome features were exposed, giving him a bit of a sickly pretty look, as if he was even better than the good-looking male educated youth in the village.
Tian Cai waited until he finished eating before taking the bowl and carrying it to the kitchen. When he came back, he had already staggered out of bed. "Where are you going?"
Just after he finished asking, he saw the man fall to one side. Tian Cai hurried forward to support him and put him back on the examination bed.
"What are you doing? Are you trying to kill yourself?" Tian Cai couldn't help but slow down his tone when the rebuke that was about to come out of his mouth touched his face.
The pale man dodged Tian Cai's hand, opened his lips, and said weakly, "Go home."
Qin Ling leaned against the wall, recovered from the dizziness and walked out again.
"Your current health doesn't allow you to go back without someone to take care of you. Stay here for one night. The captain will come to pick you up tomorrow."
He shook his head, leaned against the wall to open the door and went out. He found the direction of the gate by the moonlight and was about to go over.
"Wait a moment!" Tian Cai didn't expect him to stay, but thinking of this man's health and Zhang Defa's instructions, "You're not well yet. Since you don't want to stay here, take the medicine and go back to recuperate slowly."
Seeing him stop, Tian Cai went back to the house and got out a bottle of cold-relieving pills, and carefully explained how to take them.
Qin Ling stretched out his slender hand to take the medicine bottle, thanked her, opened the door and walked away staggeringly.
"What a weirdo!" Tian Cai muttered, but added silently in his heart, "What a good-looking weirdo." Thinking that the pills in the bottle had been added with dew to double the effect, he would definitely be fine as long as he finished eating them all, he was not so worried anymore.
She closed the courtyard door and the house door again before lying back on the kang. The warm quilt brought back the sleepiness that had dissipated. Before falling asleep completely, she was still thinking about telling Zhang Defa tomorrow morning so that he would have time to visit the Qin family.
The next day, just after breakfast, Tian Cai went to the captain's house. When he passed by, Zhang Defa's son Zhang Baocai was brushing his teeth in the yard. When he saw Tian Cai, he smiled widely, his mouth still full of foam, and called out to the house in a vague voice, "Dad! Tian Dahu is here, come quickly."
Zhang Defa didn't hear what his son was saying in the house. He lifted the door curtain and came out of the house and was about to scold his son when he saw Tian Cai in the yard. "It's Xiao Tian, come in and sit down."
Tian Cai refused, "Captain, I want to talk to you about something."
As soon as Zhang Defa saw her coming, he guessed what she was going to say and asked immediately, "What happened to that kid?"
Zhang Baocai had also finished rinsing his mouth by then, and he interrupted in confusion, "That kid, which kid?" Then he quickly realized, "Second Brother Qin?"
"He woke up in the middle of the night last night, ate a bowl of porridge and passed away."
Zhang Defa frowned and thought for a moment, "He should have gone home. I'll go check on him later."
After explaining everything, Tian Cai politely declined the Zhang family's invitation to dinner and went home. At that time, there was no farm work and many families only ate two meals a day. Tian Cai was a little uncomfortable with this and still ate three meals a day.
She didn't go out during the day for two consecutive days, for fear that something unexpected would happen in Qinling and there would be no one at home when she was sent to the hospital. On the third day, when no one came, she carried a bamboo basket and went up the mountain. However, she still left some useful medicine with Luo Xiuyan.
As soon as Tian Cai entered the mountain, she went straight to the traps she had dug. Three traps caught a pheasant and a rabbit whose hind legs were injured by bamboo thorns. She pulled a half-dry vine to tie up the rabbit and put it in a bamboo basket together with the pheasant.
Tian Cai accidentally stepped into a mud pit with his cloth shoes, and a lot of mud and water got into his shoes, making a gurgling sound when he walked. This was secondary, as the main problem was that his feet were a little cold.
However, since they had already entered the mountains, Tian Cai still planned to collect all the prey before going back, so he could only endure the discomfort in his feet and continue walking.
The trap by the river was also destroyed. There were bloodstains on the bamboo thorns inside. I don’t know what fell in and then ran away. It seems that the trap was dug too small.
Tian Cai rearranged the camouflage on several traps before going down the mountain carrying the bamboo basket.
The temperature has not dropped completely yet. The food outside may freeze at night but will melt again during the day. Without a refrigerator, the meat cannot be kept. She plans to kill the chicken and stew it, and then add some mushrooms picked in autumn to eat together.
The first thing she did when she got home was to take off her shoes, soak her feet in hot water and change into new shoes.
When Tian Cai was plucking the pheasant's feathers, Luo Xiuyan came over with the medicine box that she had left with her.
"I saw smoke coming out of your chimney and guessed you were back," Luo Xiuyan put the medicine box on the table in the main hall, pulled a stool and sat down opposite Tian Cai, watching her movements, and whispered, "A few days ago, my eldest brother also went up the mountain to hunt a rabbit and brought it back, but my mother didn't let him kill it. She asked my eldest sister-in-law to take it with her when she went back to her parents' home to visit relatives. Because of this, my second sister-in-law came home and made a scene."
Aunt Du has three children, two sons and a daughter. The two sons are Luo Daqiang and Luo Dazhuang, and the little daughter is Luo Xiuyan.
Luo Daqiang's wife was introduced by his family. She is a very decent, hardworking and honest person. Aunt Du and her husband have no complaints about this daughter-in-law. After learning that their son and daughter-in-law have only one child after so many years of marriage and that it is Luo Daqiang who is the cause, they are even more satisfied with this honest daughter-in-law.
The second son Luo Dazhuang's wife is called Tian Fangfang. She is the one Luo Dazhuang met himself. Her family is from the nearby Qingshan Village. Aunt Du said she didn't agree to it at all after asking others about this girl, but Luo Dazhuang liked her, and parents can't persuade their children, so they finally got married.
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