Chapter 35 Does Promising Yourself Still Count?
In this way, Mantou Village had one more master and one more apprentice.
Tao Xiaoxi's real intention is not just wine. It is true that she needs people to do the hard work, but it is also true that she wants to get close to Li Nanshan. So she will definitely not miss this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.
Tao Xiaoxi, the master, was also a strange person. Every time Li Nanshan asked her what to do with the medicinal seedlings, she would simply say it wasn't time yet and to let them grow on their own. When the wheat fields were being irrigated and fertilized, Li Nanshan asked if he should fertilize them as well. Tao Xiaoxi shook her head and continued to say, "Let them grow on their own."
Li Nanshan became suspicious of Tao Xiaoxi.
Tao Xiaoxi pointed at the medicinal herb seedlings in the field and said to him, "Look for yourself, in just a month or so, haven't they grown a lot taller? This medicinal herb is not like other crops. It can't be fertilized. If you fertilize it, it will accelerate growth and the efficacy will be reduced. Many unscrupulous merchants out there accelerate growth, which results in the efficacy being halved, causing patients to waste money."
Li Nanshan was skeptical, but seeing that the medicinal herbs in the field had indeed grown a lot, he had to believe it.
On this day, Li Nanshan chopped a load of firewood for Tao Xiaoxi, chopped it and stacked it in the woodshed. When he came out, Tao Xiaoxi was waiting at the door with a bowl of noodles.
"If there's too much, it won't be considered a waste for me if you eat it." Tao Xiaoxi said.
Before Li Nanshan could speak, Granny Sun came over with an empty bowl, "More!"
Li Nanshan was about to give the bowl of noodles to Grandma Sun, but Tao Xiaoxi stopped him, "Eat yours, there's more in the pot."
After saying that, he pulled Mrs. Sun into the kitchen.
Li Nanshan was lost in thought as he held the bowl of noodles. This was a bowl of fine-grain noodles, and its exquisiteness was self-evident. However, Tao Xiaoxi's flawed excuse left him in a dilemma. This wasn't an accidental overdose; it was done on purpose.
Tao Xiaoxi hid in the inner room and looked through the window at Li Nanshan outside, who was holding noodles but not putting them into his mouth. She called Beibei and whispered a few words in her ear, and then saw Beibei coming out with another bowl of noodle soup.
"Uncle Nanshan, my mother said that the original soup should be used to dissolve the original food. You should eat this bowl of noodle soup as well. My mother has gone out for something. After you finish eating, just wash the bowl and put it on the table."
"Your mother went out?" Li Nanshan couldn't believe it. He just saw her go in, so where did she go out from?
"Yeah, I went out through the back door." Beibei said again, and then left.
After taking two steps, Beibei turned back and hooked her little finger at Li Nanshan.
Li Nanshan possessed the past.
"Mom said wasting food is the most shameful thing. Uncle Nanshan, you have to eat it all, otherwise Mom will spank you."
Li Nanshan's face felt hot, as if Tao Xiaoxi had really spanked him. He looked at the noodles in his hand, picked up the bowl, picked up the chopsticks, and started eating.
Originally, the matter of becoming an apprentice was not known to other people. Later, for some reason, a group of half-grown students in the village sang it as a song. What they sang was: Li Nanshan, it's really hard for you. You have to become an apprentice to a woman. It's a disgrace to the Li family.
When the ballad reached Old Man Li's ears, he wished he could pull his ears off. He covered his face with his hands and walked straight home. He tripped several times on the way and looked miserable. It was only a few hundred meters away, but it felt like a long march of thousands of miles. It was extremely difficult to cross mountains and rivers. When he finally got home, he was sweating profusely, his back was soaked, and he was out of breath.
"Call...call Nanshan back." Old man Li slumped on the doorstep and squeezed out a word from between his teeth with all his strength.
"What's going on?" Mrs. Li looked at the old man in panic, her face pale.
"Go and call Nanshan back." Old man Li kept repeating this sentence, as if he was hanging by a breath of immortal energy. When the breath of immortal energy was gone, he would be gone too.
But when Li Nanshan came back, he was already dying. He opened his eyes wide, gasped, and grabbed his son Nanshan's hand. He seemed to have something to say, but he couldn't utter a word. His throat was strangled.
"Dad, have you believed the rumors outside? I have done nothing to let our ancestors down. You have to believe me!" Li Nanshan supported his father, kneeling at the head of the bed with tears in his eyes.
Unfortunately, Old Man Li didn't listen. He rolled his eyes and was about to die.
Tao Xiaoxi arrived at this time and saw that she was holding a ginseng in her hand. Without saying anything, she stuffed the whole ginseng into Old Man Li's mouth.
Old Man Li used all his strength to resist, trying to spit out the ginseng in his mouth, but Tao Xiaoxi covered his mouth tightly with a cloth and said, "If you don't want to die, keep it in your mouth!"
Old man Li didn't want to die, but this way of living was too cowardly. At that moment, he really thought, forget it, I don't want to live anymore.
But the medicine worked, and he gradually regained consciousness and sanity, and his out-of-control limbs became obedient. Facing the savior who had just saved him again, Old Man Li closed his eyes, turned his face away, and pretended to be asleep.
"Okay, he's fine now. Just take good care of him. He has a heart disease. Medicine can cure the disease, but not the heart." Tao Xiaoxi said, wiping the sweat from his head.
"Thank you, thank you!" Mrs. Li thanked Tao Xiaoxi profusely and was almost about to kneel down, but was stopped by her second sister-in-law.
Tao Xiaoxi didn't care about her kneeling. She turned around, gestured to her sister-in-law, and went out.
My sister-in-law also came out.
"I told you to find you, Xiaoxi. I didn't expect you really have this extraordinary ability to extend people's lives!" The sister-in-law admired and appreciated from the bottom of her heart. It was Tao Xiaoxi who she asked her husband to find just now.
Tao Xiaoxi didn't want to say much. Who could understand the frustration she felt right now? She only had two life-extending ginseng plants in her space, and tonight she'd given one to Old Man Li. She didn't know what had happened. Logically, her relationship with the Li family wasn't that deep. Even if she had feelings for Li Nanshan, it wasn't enough to sacrifice a ginseng plant.
Tao Xiaoxi, oh Tao Xiaoxi, you are really bewitched by a ghost! Tao Xiaoxi said inwardly in frustration.
After bidding farewell to her sister-in-law Zhou Lan, Tao Xiaoxi walked back down the path feeling dejected. She admitted that when she was saving the man, she hadn't thought much about it. She hadn't thought about what would happen between her and Li Nanshan, nor had she thought that Old Man Li would dislike her. She was completely focused on saving lives. As a doctor, saving lives was her duty.
Tao Xiaoxi was somewhat moved by herself, but not much. She knew full well that, from ancient times to the present, the consequences of self-touching were usually not good. Rather than being moved, it would be more accurate to say she was crying because of her own stupidity.
Just as she was walking away in a depressed mood, Li Nanshan came up from behind and actually grabbed Tao Xiaoxi.
He was breathing rapidly, sweat was pouring down his face, and his eyes were fixed on her anxiously, as if he had a thousand words to say to her.
Tao Xiaoxi had never seen Li Nanshan like this before, and she looked at him and stared at him.
But one minute passed, and then another minute passed, and Li Nanshan still didn't speak.
Tao Xiaoxi retracted her gaze and said, "Your father is just a little angry. As long as everything goes well tonight, it's fine. Don't worry."
"Does what you said still count?" Li Nanshan finally spoke, but his words were incoherent.
"What?"
"You said that I should pledge myself to you."
Tao Xiaoxi's dim eyesight and depressed mood suddenly brightened up at this moment, "It counts!"
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