With more people, the work can be done quickly, and the things in the bamboo house can be finished in one day.
But when we returned to the city, it was already night.
In order to prevent a large group of people entering the city from being too conspicuous, Shen Zhixi specially ordered the people below to dress up in disguise and return to the city in batches, so as not to arouse suspicion and leave behind rumors.
When she arrived at the house, Shen Zhixi was extremely exhausted and could no longer hold on.
She had already gone to bed, but Cui's mother pulled her up again and told her to eat well first and drink another bowl of anti-fetal medicine.
She was extremely sleepy, but she endured it for the sake of her children.
After dinner, when she was about to drink medicine, she was stunned while holding the medicine bowl. Especially when she saw the jelly beans handed over by Cui's mother, she felt even more complicated and indescribable. She felt very upset and wanted to push the medicine bowl away. I don’t want to drink anymore.
"Miss." Cui's mother stroked the back of her hand and sat down beside her, "Miss, are you worried about Tang Zhou's injury?"
Shen Zhixi raised his eyelids slightly and remained silent without answering.
"I know that the young lady is not a careless person, but when she sent Tang Zhou away, she didn't take his medicine with her. Those medicines are not the kind that can be found in mountain villages. Let's not talk about the medicine that is imported. If the medicine applied to the wound cannot be applied and replaced in time, as the weather is hot now, it will quickly become inflamed, bleed, and pus, and you will die if you drag it on. Why, Miss..."
Shen Zhixi held the medicine bowl a little harder with his hands, and his eyes fell on the jelly beans beside the medicine bowl.
"Didn't you say that the people in that village were very kind?" she asked.
"Yes, I asked about this very carefully. Although there are not many people in that village, their people are very kind. People in the nearby mountains often get injured while hunting and are rescued. There are no carriages, horses, or even mules in their village. , in order to send the seriously injured people to the city for treatment, several people took turns walking for a day and night to carry the people to the hospital. I also verified many times that these were all facts, and then I dared to choose Qingyao Village."
"That's it." Shen Zhixi frowned and smelled the bitter medicine in the bowl.
After a while, he continued to speak.
"I originally thought that I would take him to the government office in the city first, or to a small village closer to Yanzhou City, but when I think about the large population in the surrounding area, it is inevitable that some traces and traces will be missed. If you want to check it out, you can't guarantee it. They will definitely find us. Over at Qingyao Village... If they want to cure Tang Zhou's injury, they must go to the city to find the doctor. By then they will naturally find the notice at the city gate, and everything will become natural. , it will never involve us. I thought about it a lot, but in the end I just felt funny and laughed at why I had to think so much."
She took the jelly beans, grabbed the candy wrappers at both ends, and murmured to herself again.
"Everyone has been sent away, what else is there to think about."
Then, before taking the medicine, he tore off the candy wrapper and stuffed the jelly beans into his mouth.
After biting into two pieces, he held it in his mouth for a long time.
"These jelly beans are for you to relieve pain after you drink the medicine. Why are you eating it now? Forget it, I'll get you another one." Cui's mother got up and went out, taking one as she passed by the smoker. cigarette.
Shen Zhixi looked over in a daze. Maybe she was so tired that she was hallucinating, but she actually saw Tang Zhou's face in the light smoke. It was what she saw when she was bitten by a snake and hallucinated that night. Tang Zhou's appearance.
Before I knew it, all the sugar in my mouth melted.
"It doesn't matter, you will develop feelings for a dog after getting along with it for a long time..."
She comforted herself, and immediately poured the anti-fetal medicine into her throat with the medicine bowl. After drinking it, she put down the bowl. Her face was so painful that it was ugly, but thinking about Tang Zhou before, he could bear it. She Why not?
When Cui's mother came back with the jelly beans, she had already taken off her shoes and socks and lay down on the bed.
Looking at the empty bowl on the table, Cui's mother was lost in thought.
"My good lady, why did you go to bed now? Even if you haven't washed up yet, you are indeed very tired after staying up all night and day, so I won't bother you. Come on, eat this candy. You haven't liked taking medicine since you were a child, and you always have to coax and lie to get it, and you always say that you feel bitter in your mouth."
Shen Zhixi faced inwards sideways and did not take the jelly beans handed over by Cui's mother.
She didn't reply, just shook her head to indicate that she didn't want it.
Seeing her eyes closed tightly, Cui's mother guessed that her appearance was related to Tang Zhou. She stretched out her hand and patted her waist gently and said, "Go to sleep. You will feel much more comfortable after a good sleep. Nothing will happen." If you can’t get through it, you can’t let it go.”
Shen Zhixi was indeed very tired and sleepy, and fell asleep soon after closing his eyes.
In the dream, someone called her name affectionately.
"Lily of the valley."
"Lily of the valley."
"Lily of the Valley..."
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"Lily of the valley!"
Tang Zhou woke up from his dream, sweating profusely.
There was no light in front of him, but the rotten damp smell in the room proved that he was still in the same place when he woke up earlier.
There was snoring in his ears, and it was so loud that even his screams when he woke up failed to wake the man.
He remembered that the village chief called the man's name, Yu Shan.
And listening to the snoring, it was estimated that it was already dark outside.
When I stood up, there was a dull pain in the injury on my back.
After getting off the ground and putting on his shoes, he groped forward. Within a few steps, he accidentally kicked something. He reached down and touched several benches placed together. The hair on the top of his head that he touched on the back of his hand made him Realizing that Yu Shan had given up his hand, he was lying casually on the uncomfortable wooden bench.
He walked around without making any big move to wake anyone up.
Earlier, he had been emotional and guarded against everyone, paranoid that neither Yu Shan nor the village chief was a good person. Now that he has calmed down and thought about it, he was too impulsive, too impatient and hurt someone. He almost strangled the village chief to death, but the fact that he is still lying here proves that they are not bad people.
He went to the table and felt his candy bag and the letter.
Leaving the money bag behind, he only stuffed the sugar bag and the letter into his arms, and then groped toward the door.
After a long while, I finally touched the door, pulled the bolt open and went out.
It was extremely quiet outside, with only a few night owls calling from the distant mountains and forests from time to time.
I walked out the door but had no direction.
In addition, almost all of his clothes, especially his back, were stained red with blood. When he walked, he always staggered due to weakness. The white clothes stained with blood looked very strange at night, like a walking corpse.
When he couldn't support himself, his body fell uncontrollably. When he fell on one knee, he even threw the jelly beans in his arms.
He was anxious and reached out to the ground.
The candy bag fell a little far, and I couldn't touch it for a while. I couldn't help but become even more anxious, causing me to kneel down on my knees, almost in a prostrate posture, and kept sweeping up with my two palms. Fortunately, it was not a round ball. , it won't roll away and is fairly easy to find. I found it by searching around a few times.
He held the candy bag tightly in his hand as if it were his most cherished treasure.
