Xueba digs a hole and waits for you to jump

Chapter 349 201. The Dusty Story

Qiandaohu Town, Chun'an County, Hangzhou.

"Girl, don't take it to heart..." Aunt Lin held Tang Hongdou's hand apologetically. Chinese medicine practitioners would not tell her how to make pork belly, but she didn't expect that not only did she not tell her how to do it, but she was kicked out directly.

Not to mention that Tang Hongdou was young and thin-skinned, even Aunt Lin couldn't hold back her face.

"It's okay, Aunt Lin. After all, it's an ancestral folk remedy. It's not good for me to be so reckless to ask someone for truth."

Tang Hongdou said she was fine, but she was still very disappointed in her heart. Before she came to Hangzhou, she came with the idea that she could make Guan Xu's stomach healthy, but she didn't expect to be turned away without even seeing the pork belly.

"Don't blame her either. It is said that her husband was killed by a little devil during the Anti-Japanese War. When he died, the two of them didn't even have children! They lived to be in their nineties, and they have been widowed for so many years, with a bad temper. It's nice and normal."

"Over 90 years old?"

Tang Hongdou didn't expect that although the old Chinese doctor had wrinkles all over his face, his voice was still very sonorous, he walked in a hurry, and he seemed to be in good spirits.

"Yes, people say that she is helping her husband and living together, but such a lonely person has suffered for so many years..."

I know a lot about this old Chinese doctor, Aunt Lin. It is said that she has been living on this remote low mountain in Qiandaohu Town since her husband died. There is a forest near Aunt Lin's hometown, and Aunt Lin will not know this old Chinese doctor, nor will she know that this old widow is very good at medicine.

"Yeah, the people you love are gone, how sad it would be to live alone in this world..."

For some reason, after listening to the old Chinese doctor's story, Tang Hongdou naturally remembered the way Nanqiu was sitting by the grave of the official grandma in Houshan, talking to himself.

It is obvious that the words on the mouth are small and warm daily things, but the longing in the eyes is as thick as passing through the long river of time.

Compared with this old Chinese doctor, old man Nanqiu is considered lucky, because he still has sons and grandsons, and there are many people visiting Xiannan Bieyuan every day, so he is not so lonely.This old Chinese doctor probably won't speak a word to others for about ten days and half a month...

"Aunt Lin, why don't you go back first, and I'll visit you again."

Tang Hongdou and Aunt Lin took the bus from downtown HZ to Qianhudao Town, and Aunt Lin had to rush back to make dinner for her grandson, so Tang Hongdou was embarrassed to drag her to stay.

"Oh girl, don't ask for scolding by yourself. That old sister has a really bad temper. I've been with her for so many years and she always turns her back on her. Let's go back first. Aunt Fangzi, who treats stomach problems, will help you find out. That's it."

"It's okay, Aunt Lin, this Qiandao Lake town is very beautiful, and I don't think there will be many opportunities to come here in the future. If I still get kicked out, I'll just wander around by myself and go back later."

Aunt Lin’s hometown is here, and she has lived here for decades. Later, she moved to the HZ city to take care of her grandson and her husband. Qiandaohu Town has beautiful scenery and simple folk customs. It’s not unsafe for Tang Hongdou to be here alone. of.

"Okay, you go around, just remember not to take a boat. There is ice in the water this day, so it's not safe. When you come back, call your aunt, and I'll ask my son to pick you up."

"I'm sorry, Aunt Lin!"

After all, it hurts to hold the little grandson in the palm of your hand. Aunt Lin gave Tang Hongdou a general introduction to where he could go to play, and after explaining some things, he got on the bus back to Hangzhou. Chinese medicine is in the courtyard halfway up the mountain.

The gate of the fence was blocked by two hoes, so it must be impossible to get in. Obviously, the old Chinese doctor was tending herbs in the yard, but just like Tang Hongdou, who couldn't see Tang Hongdou, he was weeding and watering on his own.

It is winter, the sun is warm at noon, and the small medicine garden is full of greenery. The old Chinese doctor shuttles through it, a bit like the people in the story of Taohuayuan. The clothes they wear are still in the Republic of China, and their hair buns are rare. Tang Hongdou There is an illusion that I am in the self-sufficient small yard of a peasant woman's house in ancient times.

"Grandma, please open the door for me, I'll water it for you—"

"That lantern plant is also outside my house in my hometown, and it grows better than yours—"

"Mother-in-law, are you tired? Do you want to take a rest?"

……

Tang Hongdou leaned against the gate of the fence, stretched his neck to get close to the old Chinese doctor, and talked for a long time. The old Chinese doctor didn't even give her a look, probably because he was too annoying to dislike her, and he didn't even clean up the small bucket for watering the herbs. into the house.

Tang Hongdou sticks out her tongue, but she is not such a person who gives up so easily. She glanced at the short dirt wall next to her, rolled her dark eyes, clapped her hands and climbed up directly.

When Tang Hongdou was a child, he would go back to the countryside to live with his grandpa and grandma Tang for a period of time when he was on vacation. The children in the countryside had no entertainment. Climbing trees to pick fruits and going down the river to fish were their best games. Tang Hongdou's temperament naturally followed him to climb trees, Going down the river is fun. Although my skills are not as good as when I was a child, it is still easy to climb a small wall.

"Oh little ancestor, don't touch it!"

Tang Hongdou just squatted down, and the old Chinese doctor roared all over her body, frightening her so that her center of gravity was unsteady, and her foot accidentally stepped on the herb...

"Uh..." Tang Hongdou raised his foot to look at the herbal medicine that died tragically on the sole of his shoe, feeling a little guilty, "Grandmother... would you believe me if I said I was wronged..."

"Didn't the old lady tell you to go back! Go, go!"

The old Chinese doctor looked at the herbs with a distressed face. In her eyes, these herbs are alive.

"Grandma, the climate in Hangzhou is not suitable for growing dendrobium... Even if you want to plant it directly in the open air like you, it will not grow well..."

Tang Hongdou took a few glances before realizing that the herb he had stepped on was Dendrobium. Dendrobium is not uncommon in Yunnan, especially in recent years, medicine merchants have fried Dendrobium into a mystery, and wild Dendrobium is much less, but There are quite a lot of artificial breeding.

"Do you know it's Dendrobium?"

"Well, I'm from Yunnan, and I've seen a lot of them when I was a child. The white medicinal cap of Dendrobium that grows well is much fatter than this one. The leaves will also be bigger."

The old Chinese doctor looked at the dendrobium lying on the ground, and his eyes suddenly became cloudy, "Yes, in the unsuitable place, no suitable dendrobium will grow..."

"Mother-in-law..."

Tang Hongdou saw that the old Chinese doctor suddenly seemed to be more than ten years old and couldn't stand still, so he hurried up to support her.

The old Chinese doctor took a look at Tang Hongdou, the impatience when we first met is gone, looking at Tang Hongdou's white and tender face is like seeing himself when he was just married, then he should be Tang Hongdou Age, if you are young, you can't be a few years younger.

"I'm thirsty after being exposed to the sun for so long, go in and treat your mother-in-law to a cup of tea..."

After the old Chinese doctor finished speaking, he let go of Tang Hongdou's hand and went into the house by himself. Tang Hongdou didn't know why the old Chinese doctor's attitude had changed so much all of a sudden, but it was an improvement to be able to enter the house and drink tea. The secret recipe for pork belly is not far away!

"It's not good to get too much sun in winter, it's not good..."

While talking, the old Chinese doctor poured Tang Hongdou tea. It was not West Lake Longjing tea, but fried with some herbal medicine.

"Grandma, what is this?"

The old Chinese doctor looked at Tang Hongdou's big aura eyes and smiled slightly, his wrinkled face actually looked like a little girl's shyness, "The old woman doesn't know what it is, I have read so many medical books in my life, I have never seen this grass , This is the herbal medicine that my husband found by himself, although there is no record, but the old woman has been drinking it all her life, and nothing happens, but it warms the palace and stomach, and is good for women."

Tang Hongdou took another sip. This tea was really special. It tasted cool, but it was warm in the stomach. Before he could take another sip, Tang Hongdou's phone rang.

Seeing that it was Guan Xu calling, Tang Hongdou answered the phone, deliberately lowering his voice.

The official wanted to give Tang Hongdou a surprise, so he lied on the phone that he was preparing materials for the lawsuit. In fact, the official had already passed the security check and was waiting to fly to Hangzhou, where he hugged his wife and warmed the wine by the West Lake. , look at the snow on the broken bridge, kiss a small mouth by the way, eat a tofu!

"Boyfriend?"

The old Chinese doctor took a sip of tea with a clear expression on his face, "Is the girl asking him about the folk recipe for pork belly?"

Tang Hongdou nodded with a blushing face. The old Chinese doctor must have guessed that he had ordered Guan Xu to eat well just now, "Well, his stomach is not very good, and he often has problems."

"My husband used to have a bad stomach..."

Tang Hongdou read the old doctor's three sentences saying that she couldn't do without her dead husband, and was a little curious, "Mother-in-law, do you have a good relationship with your husband?"

"Yeah, the relationship is very good..."

The old Chinese doctor poured himself another cup of herbal tea, "Girl, do you want to hear a story, mother-in-law will tell you a story."

Tang Hongdou nodded, and the old Chinese doctor smiled, and began to tell this rarely mentioned story——

"In the past, there was a famous landlord in Hangzhou. There was a lady in the landlord's family. She never married because she was ugly and had a vulgar personality. She was a fat man weighing two hundred catties. The family property still has no one to marry her."

The eyes of the old Chinese doctor drifted far away, "Although that lady is not good-looking, she likes to read medical books very much, and her medical skills are not bad. One day, this lady and her maid went to the back mountain to look for herbs, and found a man in the back mountain covered in blood. The man who studied medicine saw the reason why the patient should not be saved, so he secretly carried this man back without telling the family."

"The lady has read a lot of medical books. It's okay to take a pulse and write a prescription, but it's not good to deal with the gunshot wound. I can only watch the man's wound become inflamed and the high fever persists, but there is no way."

When the old doctor said this, his brows were tightly frowned, as if the helpless lady was her, "Later, the lady thought that this man was going to die at home, but one night this man woke up unexpectedly, and took a sharp knife to cut his arms and legs. Slashed the thigh and took out the bullet by himself."

Tang Hongdou's heart was wrenched together when he heard it. In junior high school, he remembered that there was a text in which he learned about generals who refused to be anesthetized during eye surgery in order not to affect his ability to command battles soberly. He also clearly counted the total After cutting a few times, Tang Hongdou thought that there were not many such people in the world, but there were quite a few of them.

"Then what happened later? Did that man come back to life?"

"He was able to cut his own flesh, of course he came back to life..." The old Chinese doctor continued to tell the story, "When I first saw this lady, she was terrified, but after she calmed down, she was deeply moved. I admire this man, so the lady took care of him carefully, the man's face became less pale, and the heroism between his brows became more and more visible, he was very handsome, and the lady fell in love with him before the man woke up."

"A few days later, the man woke up. When their eyes met, both hearts beat very fast. The young lady was very excited because she knew that this man also fell in love with her."

Tang Hongdou listened very seriously, "This young lady is so brave, she must have been very feudal at that time, she dared to bring a strange man home, and fell in love with the person she wanted to love according to her own heart, even though she was not good-looking, But she must have a beautiful heart!"

The old Chinese doctor smiled, "Yeah, it was very feudal at that time, and of course a lady from a landlord's family couldn't mix with a wild man of unknown origin, but this man didn't know, this man always thought that the one who saved him was the one next to that lady." Maid."

"Huh? Then what happened?"

"Later, later on, this man went to beg the servant girl, that is, the young lady in his eyes, saying that he didn't ask for money or money, and only hoped that the young lady could marry this maidservant to him. After the incident, come back and marry this person."

"Has this man come back to marry this lady?"

The old Chinese doctor smiled and shook his head, "No..."

Tang Hongdou was a little disappointed, but the old Chinese doctor hadn't finished speaking, "Because this lady left with the man, they bought a pair of red candles in a remote mountain, and they were married if they worshiped heaven and earth, and the man didn't know until later , this little girl is actually pretty good, the freckles on her face are all painted on, and the bloated figure is because she was wrapped in several layers of cotton cloth. Later, the lady asked the man why she was not beautiful, gentle, and did not have a prominent background , he is still willing to marry himself. The man said that because he fell in love with her kind heart, it has nothing to do with her family background and appearance. "

At this point in the story, Tang Hongdou can also guess that this lady should be this old Chinese doctor, and that man should be his husband who died young——

"Mother-in-law, this young lady is you, right?"

(End of this chapter)