Old Mrs. Tian turned around and saw Congbao dragging Gu Xi into the yard. She quickly asked, "My Congbao, what's going on? Why did you bring someone home so casually?"
Congbao ignored the old lady and took Gu Xi to Tian Wangdi's room: "Gu Zhiqing, my sister said she had a stomachache and couldn't get up. Grandma didn't care about her. She just said she was going to die."
As soon as Gu Xi entered the room, she felt a gust of damp heat. There was only one small window in the room, which was filled with clutter that covered half of the window, making it impossible to open the window for ventilation.
The furniture consisted of a wooden bed, a straw bed with a straw mat on top, and a small cabinet. The rest of the place was filled with miscellaneous items and the environment was a bit bad.
Tian Wangdi curled up on the bed with her eyes closed, her face pale, her lips bloodless, and her face covered in sweat.
Gu Xi hurried over and touched her forehead. She didn't have a fever or a cold, so she asked softly, "Tiantian, are you having a period and your stomach is hurting?"
Tian Tian nodded weakly, too weak to open her eyes. Congbao added worriedly: "She didn't even eat lunch and she vomited earlier. Will my sister die?"
Gu Xi looked down at Congbao, whose eyes were filled with tears. He was not as unreasonable as the little bully before. Instead, he looked at Tian Wangdi with concern.
Gu Xi touched his head and said, "It's okay. I'll go back and get the medicine and bring it back later. Give me your sister's cup."
Congbao's short legs quickly took the cup and handed it to Gu Xi. Gu Xi walked home with the cup, but was stopped by Old Lady Tian: "What do you want to do? Why are you taking our cup?"
Gu Xi looked at the broken cup in her hand and said speechlessly: "It's just this cup. No one would pick it up if I threw it on the road."
After seeing this, Old Mrs. Tian agreed and ignored Gu Xi. She pulled Congbao away and stopped him from following Gu Xi out.
Gu Xi went back and found some brown sugar, ready to help make a cup of ginger brown sugar water. Wang Xu came back just in time and saw Gu Xi struggling to light a fire: "What are you doing? You're fiddling around in the kitchen as soon as you get back."
Gu Xi seemed to have seen a savior: "Come and help me, I want to make brown sugar ginger tea, can you help me light the fire? I'll cut some ginger."
When Wang Xu heard about the brown sugar ginger tea, he thought Gu Xi was feeling unwell: "Go lie down and rest first, don't do anything, I'll make it, I helped my mother make it when I was a child."
Seeing that he misunderstood, Gu Xi quickly explained: "It's not me, it's Tiantian. I just came back and Congbao dragged me to the next door to save her life. Only Mrs. Tian was home alone. Tiantian had a stomachache and was lying on the bed almost unconscious. I took a look and prepared to make some brown sugar ginger tea for her. The little girl is really pitiful."
Wang Xu did not comment on the situation next door, but he was very skilled in his hands. After a while, he prepared the brown sugar ginger tea, poured it into Tian Wangdi's cup, and handed it to Gu Xi.
Gu Xi took the cup and quickly went next door. Tian Congbao was waiting anxiously in the yard. When he saw Gu Xi coming, he followed her.
Gu Xi helped Tian Tian up and fed her brown sugar ginger tea: "Get up first and drink this while it's hot. It will relieve the pain a little. If the pain is still unbearable after a while, call me again. I have painkillers here."
Seeing Tiantian finish drinking the whole cup of brown sugar water and looking a little better, she gave Congbao a few more candies: "Keep these candies. Eat two and give the rest to your sister."
Congbao nodded and placed the candies under Tiantian’s pillow. He did not keep any for himself and quietly watched over Tiantian.
Seeing that nothing was wrong, Gu Xi was about to go back, but Tian Tian gently called her, "Sister Gu, do you have any extra menstrual belts? I gave mine to a friend in the village last time, and I don't have any more."
Gu Xi nodded in surprise. She didn't even have a menstrual belt. What should she do? "I have one. I'll go get it."
Gu Xi hurried back, went into the room, took out a menstrual belt and a small stack of straw paper as a cushion and gave them to Tiantian.
Tiantian weakly stood up, took the things, and was about to go to the toilet. Gu Xi asked worriedly, "Can you do it by yourself?"
Tiantian slowly got up from the bed: "I just drank some brown sugar water and I feel much better. Thank you, I can do it myself."
Seeing that she was fine, Gu Xi did not follow and turned to Cong Bao to tell her: "Your sister should be fine. When your parents come back soon, ask your mother to take care of her. If there is really no one to take care of her, come find me."
Congbao agreed again obediently. Gu Xi always felt that he was a different person from the one who made trouble last time: "Are you usually so well behaved? Why did you steal my things last time?"
Congbao looked at Gu Xi and lowered his head: "I'm sorry, I just wanted to eat egg cake, I didn't expect to get into trouble."
Gu Xi touched his head and said, "You are a good kid if you can correct your mistakes. From now on, if you want to eat something, you have to ask for permission before you move, okay?"
Congbao nodded again: "I understand. I won't get into trouble again."
Gu Xi didn't say anything more. When she returned, Wang Xu was already stewing fish soup. Gu Xi washed her hands and walked over: "I found out today that your naughty brother is actually quite sensible. When he was fighting for the egg cake with me, it was like two different people. He just apologized to me and said that he would not fight for it again in the future.
I just gave him a few candies and told him to eat two and give the rest to Tiantian. But he stuffed them all under Tiantian's pillow and didn't keep any for himself. It was really strange. "
Wang Xu did not react too much. He had already figured out the other party through years of competition. He only commented: "The younger the boy next door is, the more sensible he is. He might have been tricked into stealing your egg cake."
Gu Xi didn't think much about who ordered this, and asked again: "Why don't they go to school? I see a lot of children don't go to school?"
Wang Xu looked at Gu Xi, who looked puzzled: "Why are you looking at me?"
Wang Xu: "Did you promise to make clay pot rice for me?"
Gu Xi almost forgot about it: "Uncle, I will make you clay pot rice now."
Looking at Gu Xi's busy little figure, Wang Xu felt a little warm in his heart, and felt that this was probably what happiness meant. In order to motivate Gu Xi, Wang Xu took the initiative to provide some information about the village.
"There is no independent school in our village because we have limited teachers, so we run a school together with four nearby villages. The distance is a bit far, so it is not convenient for pick-up and drop-off and meals. We also have to pay tuition, so most people don't send their children to school. When they are older, there are literacy classes in the village, and we can send them to literacy classes for free."
Gu Xi then remembered that there was no nine-year compulsory education in this era. The tuition fees made many families choose not to go to school. The current education environment is not very good: "Then have you ever been to school?"
Wang Xu seemed to think for a moment: "My mother was my enlightenment teacher, but she passed away when I was just over five years old. My mother's teacher was in the next village at the time. After my mother passed away, he took care of me and taught me to read and write.
Later, he passed away when I was fifteen. I did not receive formal education, so I don’t know whether my level was at the primary school or junior high school level. "
Gu Xi nodded in understanding: "Then I will teach you when I have free time to study. Studying is always useful. Maybe the college entrance examination will be resumed someday."
Wang Xu was not opposed to studying. He actually loved studying when he was young, but he did not have the environment and conditions to study. He was forced to do so by life. "Okay."
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