When she returned to Uncle Xu's house, it was almost dark. Uncle Xu was looking out the doorway. Seeing her return, he hurried forward and asked, "Girl, are you okay?"
"It's okay, what's wrong?" Li Xiyue asked in confusion.
Uncle Xu Liu felt relieved, but also felt a little regretful. "I shouldn't have let you go up the mountain alone. You're a girl, what if something happens to you?"
"I brought Xiaobai with me, so you don't have to be afraid." Li Xiyue pointed to the black dog beside her.
Uncle Xu said, "That's not safe either. Next time we go up the mountain, we must have two people."
Doesn’t that mean we can’t go into the mountains?
"Come, carry the basket for me." Uncle Xu took the basket.
Xu Guoqing came out, grabbed the basket, and looked through it. "Let me see what herbs Sister Li picked. What is this? I've never seen it before. Is it medicine?"
Uncle Xu Liu looked over, his eyes widening. "Dendrobium officinale? Girl, you actually picked Dendrobium officinale? Where did you pick it?"
"On a rocky mountain, I don't know where it is. Xiaobai took me there." Li Xiyue quickly gave the credit to Xiaobai.
Xiaobai raised his head, proudly.
"What is this? Ginseng!" Xu Guoqing didn't know what Dendrobium officinale was, but he knew ginseng, and his voice broke.
Uncle Xu Liu took a closer look, his beard trembling with excitement. "There's also ginseng, a hundred years old. Girl, are you the mountain god's biological daughter?"
"My grandfather has been digging herbs for half his life, but he's only found ginseng twice, and that was only a few decades ago." Xu Guoqing gave Li Xiyue a thumbs-up, full of admiration. "Sister Li, you're amazing!"
Li Xiyue scratched her head, feeling embarrassed, and pushed the credit back to Xiaobai, "Xiaobai found it."
The little white tail swung like a propeller, small chicken legs, big chicken legs.
Uncle Xu squatted down and pulled Xiaobai's head hard, "Good dog, I'll go up the mountain with you to collect herbs tomorrow!"
Xiaobai, who almost became bald: "..."
Where's the chicken drumstick you were supposed to get? Why is there only the giant iron paw of a biped?
Xu Guoqing looked through other medicines, including rare ones like blood ginseng. The grandfather and grandson concluded that Li Xiyue was the mountain god's biological daughter and was born with this quality. They would be sure to follow her up the mountain.
It was getting late, so Li Xiyue and Uncle Xu and his grandson locked the courtyard door and went to Xu Dashan's house.
Xu Dashan not only invited them, but also Xu Guoqiang's family and Xu Xiangyang.
Li Xiyue handed a bag of brown sugar to Xu Dashan, but Xu Dashan refused to accept it. "You saved my wife and child, so we should be grateful to you. How can we accept your things?"
"My aunt just gave birth and needs nutrition. This is what I brought from home. It's not much, but just a token of my appreciation." Li Xiyue said.
She took two taels of brown sugar. Although she saved Xu Dashan's wife and children, it was not good for her to come to the house for dinner empty-handed.
Uncle Xu and his grandson also brought two sets of tonic medicine.
Xu Guoqiang and his family also brought eggs and wine.
Even Xu Xiangyang brought some food; no one came empty-handed.
There are no elderly people or relatives in Xu Dashan's family. Grandma Yu and Sun Xia are helping to cook in the kitchen, while Xu Guoqiang, Uncle Xu Liu and Xu Xiangyang are talking in the main room.
Xu Guoqing and Hu Zi went to the backyard arm in arm to look at Xu Dashan's hunting equipment, and took Xiaobai away by the way.
Li Xiyue wanted to go to the kitchen to help but was driven out by Grandma Yu, so she could only go to see the mother and child.
"Aunt, what do you think?" Li Xiyue sat down beside the bed and was relieved to see that Fang Yue'e looked good.
Fang Yue'e smiled and said, "Everything is fine, Li Zhiqing, thanks to you... I said that to you on the donkey cart, I hope you don't blame me."
"I understand." Li Xiyue smiled and shook her head. In that situation, nothing Fang Yue'e did would be surprising.
Looking at the baby in Fang Yue'e's arms, who was nursing with sweet slurping sounds, she asked, "Where's the baby?"
"It's fine. Although it was premature, it weighed six kilograms. The doctor checked and found nothing wrong. He just told me to come back and take good care of it."
Li Xiyue was completely relieved. The child weighed five and a half kilograms at just over seven months old. It was obvious that Xu Dashan took good care of his wife.
Fang Yue'e looked at the child in her arms and smiled, "You saved both my life and the child's. Dashan and I have discussed having the child recognize you as his godmother."
Li Xiyue: "..."
That’s not necessary, right?
"But the captain said that you are not married yet, and adopting you as your godparent will affect your marriage. We planned to let the child recognize you as his sister, but then we thought, you are so outstanding, we can't take advantage of you."
At this point, she sighed, "Li Zhiqing, we don't know how to repay your kindness."
She wasn't being polite, she really didn't know how to repay her.
Li Xiyue said, "I'm a doctor. Saving lives is my duty. Besides, Uncle Dashan has already given me a thank you gift. Don't mention any gratitude in the future."
"You saved my life and my child's life twice, no, three times. If anything had happened to me and my child, Dashan wouldn't have survived either. You saved our entire family, how could we not repay you?" Fang Yue'e rocked the nearly asleep child. "But there's still a long way to go, no rush. We'll repay you slowly."
The meal was ready. Fang Yue'e was still in confinement and could not go out. Xu Dashan brought the meal into the house and then went out to entertain the guests.
The wine Xu Guoqiang brought was the same bottle that Li Xiyue drank at his house that day, and Xu Xiangyang poured it for everyone.
Xu Dashan picked up the wine glass and said excitedly: "I'd like to toast everyone. If it weren't for all of you sitting here, our family would have... Well, I won't say anymore. It's all in the wine." After that, he drank a full glass.
Everyone drank the wine in their cups.
Xu Dashan filled everyone's cup again, toasting his benefactor one by one. Finally, he filled a cup and looked at Li Xiyue, as if he had a thousand words to say, "This cup is for Li Zhiqing. Thank you for saving my wife and children, and also saving me... I'm a rough man and not very good at speaking. I just want to say, if you need anything in the future, just look for me and I will definitely help."
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