Chapter 65 Men need to be coaxed
"Brother Jiankang, how do you feel? Are you still having a fever?" Yi Ke boiled the medicine and handed it to Du Jiankang.
"I'm much better now. I don't have a fever anymore and I'm not afraid of the cold anymore. Sister Yike, thank you for your hard work!" Du Jiankang quickly sat up and said awkwardly.
"We are brother and sister, why are you being so polite? When you recover from your illness, I will need your help in many ways!" Yi Ke sat at the table with ease, waiting for Du Jiankang to drink the medicine so that he could collect the bowl.
Du Jiankang, who had just recovered from a serious illness, did not look healthy at all. His face was still pale, but the two abnormal blushes were gone. Instead, his face was sallow. His eyes seemed a little more energetic, and his hand holding the medicine bowl no longer trembled. He gulped down the whole bowl of medicine in one breath and licked his lips. People who didn't know him would have thought he was drinking nectar.
"Is it bitter?" I couldn't help asking when I saw that he didn't even frown and there was not a drop of medicine left in the bowl.
"Bitter!" Du Jiankang looked at his sister who was looking at him curiously, and suddenly had the urge to play a mischievous game. He wanted to tell her that it wasn't bitter and let her taste it herself.
"I thought it wasn't bitter. You drank it so happily, like drinking wine in one gulp. Look at your bowl, not a drop of medicine will fall out even if I turn it over." Yi Ke joked that this cheap brother was too shy.
"No, no, the medicine is too expensive, don't waste it." Du Jiankang said embarrassedly.
"Oh! Did Brother Jiankang drink a lot of medicine?" Yi Ke thought, no wonder he was so weak, it turned out he was just a medicine bottle.
"I've been drinking since I was a kid. My dad sold all the prey he got from hunting for medicine, so our family has no money. I'm the one who's dragging it down." Du Jiankang became a little depressed as he spoke.
"Don't worry, Jiankang brother. I will take care of your medicine from now on. Although I don't have any other skills, I am good at collecting herbs." Yi Ke almost patted her chest to make the promise, "After all, he is my newly-minted brother. I can still help with this. It would be best if you can cure his weakness. That would be the real help." Yi Ke thought silently in her heart.
"Thank you, sister Yike. If it weren't for you, I might have died. I wanted to go earlier to avoid burdening my parents, but I am their only son and they don't even have anyone to comfort them. I was afraid they would go with me. I am very grateful to you for saving me this time. Besides, it takes time for you to collect herbs, and I can't take advantage of you. If you can give me a lower price for the herbs, you will be helping me. You can't just refuse all of it." Du Jiankang looked at Yike with gratitude. "You want to pay? Forget it. I won't sell it to you. Go to the pharmacy and buy it yourself. Humph! I don't recognize you as my brother anymore. You don't even consider me as your sister. How can a sister accept money from her brother? If you don't recognize me as your sister, I don't want you to be my brother. Humph! I'll go find my godmother and tell her that you're bullying me." Yi Kexiang pretended to be angry and picked up the bowl as if to leave. But the way she stood up so slowly didn't look like she was going to leave. It was obvious that she was waiting for her cheap brother to keep her.
"Sister Yike, wait a minute. I was wrong. I don't need to pay for it. From now on, I will drink the medicine you picked. Don't be angry." Du Jiankang hurriedly got up from the bed and tried to stop Yike, but his weak body staggered and he almost fell. Fortunately, Yike was quick-witted and held him up.
"Look at you. Your health is so poor, why are you still trying to be brave? Just drink my medicine first to get your body back, and then go out to pick herbs for me. Why do you have to talk about money? Let me tell you, relatives should not talk about money. Talking about money will hurt feelings. Relatives should only help each other, do you understand?" Yi Ke scolded Du Jiankang seriously, making this adopted brother blush and nod his head repeatedly. Yi Ke was so proud of himself.
"Okay, I won't joke with you anymore. I'm going to change the grass in the chickens' nest and put them under the sun to bask in the sun. I'm also very busy. You should sleep a little longer and you'll be fine when you wake up. When you recover, you have to help me with the work. You are my brother, and you can do it for me if I have any problem." Yi Ke didn't feel embarrassed at all. If anyone wants to say something, she will definitely answer you that she doesn't know the word "sorry". Hey! This is Yi Ke's logic.
"Yuling!"
"Cuihua!"
"Ike!"
There were shouts coming from outside the cave. Yike ran out of the cave and found Ziyi, Li Haoran and Du Qingcang were all downstairs. He answered with an "Hey!" and hurried back to call Zhang Yuling and godmother Wang Cuihua.
"Mom, godmother, Ziyi and Dad are all back," after shouting, Yike ran out again. She wanted to see what had happened. Aren't you supposed to come back tomorrow?
"Wow! There are so many wolves!" Yike was shocked when he saw wolves all over the ground and hurriedly ran to Ziyi.
"Hurry! Where are you hurt? Let me see." His hands kept touching Ziyi's clothes, lifting the back and the front, and he was even ready to unbutton Ziyi's clothes.
"Don't! You're not hurt! Really!" Ziyi hurriedly held Yike's hand. He felt warm in his heart. It felt so good to have someone care about him! Although he is not a person who lacks love, the feeling of care from family and lovers is completely different.
"Ziyi, you are injured. There is blood on your clothes." Zhang Yuling also ran over. She was shocked when she saw the blood and hurriedly pulled Ziyi to be checked.
"Mom, I'm really not hurt. I was rubbed against it when I was moving the wolf." Ziyi was a little helpless. Why did everyone like to strip his clothes?
"What? You can only see your son-in-law and not your man?" Li Haoran on the side felt a little jealous. Look at Du Qingcang. As soon as Wang Cuihua came, she nervously asked him if he was hurt. She was concerned about him, but she was the only one who cared about him. She only had Ziyi in her eyes and didn't care about her man at all.
"You are still jealous of Ziyi! They know you are very powerful, so how can the wolves hurt you? When tigers see you, they will just turn around and run away, so I am not worried about you! Who told you to be so powerful!" Zhang Yuling pouted. She was already in her forties, but she was still jealous. She could tell at a glance that her man was not injured and there was no blood on his body, but Ziyi had a lot of blood on his body. Of course she was worried about Ziyi, but she coaxed the man with her mouth. Men need to be coaxed!
"You are very knowledgeable. I won't bother with you. Go to the cave and get a basin to put the meat in." Li Haoran pretended to be generous.
"I didn't expect our mother to be so good at talking. Look, she's coaxing dad so hard that his teeth are showing." Yi Ke whispered in Ziyi's ear.
"You can talk too." Ziyi thought to himself, "Not only can you talk, but you can also flirt with people. Every time you flirt with people, you run away and are not responsible at all." But his face looked calm.
"How did you run into a pack of wolves? It would be dangerous if you were alone." Yi Ke counted them, "Oh my god! Fourteen, that's a lot. You guys are really amazing."
"I originally wanted to take a shortcut and go early and come back early. Besides, there are usually no groups of carnivores outside this area because there are not enough prey for them to eat. I can't figure out why they ran out. My father and godfather don't know either." Ziyi frowned and said, "Something big must have happened inside Longshan that we don't know about."
"No matter what happened, we have to be careful recently. It rained heavily for so many days recently. Some places may have been flooded or landslides may have occurred. Maybe animals from other places have come to compete for territory." Yi Ke analyzed.
"You know so much. That old man told you all that." Ziyi said.
"Yes, there are many related stories. For example, there was a landslide after a heavy rain and the whole family was buried. Do you want to listen to it?" Yike tilted his head and looked at Ziyi with a smile.
Seeing her smiling face like a flower, Yu Yi couldn't help but reach out and touch her smiling face.
"Ah! What are you doing? You touch it even though your hands are so dirty." Yike slapped Ziyi's messy hand away.
"Hehe!" Ziyi grinned and stretched out his hand in front of Yike, "It's clean, not dirty."
"You are not allowed to touch that," Yike glared at Ziyi.
"Okay, I won't touch you! It's because my wife smiles so beautifully." Although Ziyi spoke the last sentence in a low voice, Yike still heard it, and Ziyi got another roll of the eyes.
"I'll go deal with those wolves." Ziyi ran away quickly, as he couldn't make his wife angry.
"Hmph! You're lucky you know what's best for you." Yi Ke scolded arrogantly.
As soon as Ziyi left, Yike's eyes fell on the wolves. At this time, she discovered the special thing about these wolves. They could all be killed with one arrow.
Yike looked around the dozen or so wolves carefully and found that except for one or two wolves, all the others were killed with a single arrow. "Don't look at it. It's just as you thought. Except for those three, the rest were shot by your father and Ziyi with one arrow. The leader wolf was also shot by Ziyi, with both eyes shot through. Ziyi said that shooting the eyes would not hurt the skin, and he wanted to use the skin to make clothes for you. Look, it's the one in his hand, silvery white. This son-in-law is really good. Not only is he good at archery, he also loves you and is very good at kung fu. This is a good son-in-law that is hard to find even with a lantern." Du Qingcang kept praising. Godmother Wang Cuihua also agreed. In short, as long as the mother-in-law likes the son-in-law, everything will be good.
One can just stand there and say nothing, acting shy. But she nodded vigorously in her heart: "Yes! Yes! What you said is right. My husbands in both lives are awesome!"
"Hey, Qingcang, Ziyi and I will be responsible for skinning, and you will be responsible for cutting the meat. Yike and your mother will wash the cut meat and put it in the hanging basket." Li Haoran instructed everyone to divide the work and cooperate, and try to finish the process before dark.
So, by the spring, everyone was working busily. The lively scene made people who didn't know the situation think it was New Year's Day. Piles of wolf meat, stacks of wolf skins, and basins of offal. Isn't this the slaughterhouse in the village during the New Year?
I used to like eating dog meat the most. Wolves and dogs are inseparable, so wolf meat can be regarded as dog meat. All those things like five-spice dog meat, dog meat hotpot, hand-torn dog meat, and dog meat with spicy peppers, now in Yi Ke's mind, the word "dog" has been replaced by the word "wolf". I really want to eat, what should I do?
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