Farming with medicine

Chapter 13
Cardamom didn't dodge or dodge, and calmly followed the officer carrying the knife into the prison car. Her small body was sitting in her arms and holding the basket, which contained honey and the herbs she had just picked today.

The prison car squeaked and creaked slowly along the edge of the village to the county seat. Osmanthus followed the child all the way outside the village. Cardamom waved to her, "Mom, I'll be back tomorrow, you stay at home and look after daddy, daddy." The pharmacy is in the woodshed."

Although the child smiled as if nothing had happened, but Osmanthus fragrans' heart ached, what if there was an emergency.

Osmanthus hugged the child and ran back, turning her head, and just met Chunjuan who heard the movement and came out to check the situation. Seeing Chunjuan, Osmanthus choked up and looked down at the baby in her arms. Chunjuan's sister-in-law sighed from her arms Carry the baby who just fell asleep, "Go, I'm thinking about Anping's medicine, follow Cardamom to have a look, I can't give birth to a baby and I know the pain in your heart, go and have a look."

Osmanthus fragrans stood under the big tree at the entrance of the village, watching the prison car slowly disappear from sight, instead of following, she followed Chunjuan back to the cottage.

Running on the road in a hurry, Osmanthus fell three times in a row and sprained her feet, and her arms were bruised and purple. As soon as she entered the door, she yelled, "Mom, can you lend me a hundred coins first?"

The mother-in-law of the Zhang family said with a straight face, "Crazy girls can't spend their money, and you are added. Why do you want money?"

Chunjuan looked at Osmanthus feeling distressed, and took the remaining 23 copper coins from herself and stuffed them into Osmanthus' hands, "You also know that my sister-in-law is ill, and the money will not get better even if you spend a lot of money. This is the only thing left at home, you take it and use it first." .”

Osmanthus fragrans held the copper plate in her palm and choked and said, "I can't take this money, sister-in-law, take it back." She knelt on the ground and begged Zhang's mother-in-law, "Mother, you see, when Anping was not sick in the past few years, we gave you money every year. For your five taels of silver, please help me once, I never asked you."

In the past, Anping worked as a carpenter everywhere when he was not sick, and almost all the money he earned every year was honored to his mother-in-law.

"My old lady is not dead yet, don't kneel to me, bad luck, I'm going to cook meat for the tiger, and my grandson will be back soon," Zhang's mother-in-law was planning shrewdly, this baby The grandson ordered Boss Rong's woodshed and was taken into custody, so he must have been shocked, and she had to find a way to calm down the shock for his grandson.

Chunjuan was angry in her eyes, but she didn't dare to shout loudly for fear that Anping would hear her, so she could only hold the baby in one hand and help the sweet-scented osmanthus up, and then took the hairpin from her own head and stuffed it into the sweet-scented osmanthus's hand, "Take it, It’s worth a hundred yuan no matter what, hurry up, or you won’t be able to keep up with the prison van if you’re late.”

Osmanthus fragrans is really helpless, her mother-in-law is not a mother, but she is a cardamom mother, so in the end she can only accept things with gratitude, "Sister-in-law, I will definitely pay you back this money, and return this hairpin to you. I can't take your dowry." When," he said, put the money in his pocket and ran out of the village.

Chunjuan went to the firewood room to decoct medicine for Anping, and when she came out with a medicine bowl, she bumped into Zhang's mother-in-law. .”

Zhang's mother-in-law bent her back with her hands behind her back, stretched her neck and said to Chunjuan, "Osmanthus borrowed the money, don't ask me if you can't afford it, that crazy girl has been a money loser since she was born, and now she's so cheap Placing money on her, I don’t know if this Anping mother-in-law has lost her mind.”

As soon as the words were out of her mouth, there was a coughing sound from inside the thatched cottage, Chunjuan angrily knocked Zhang's mother-in-law away with her body, "Good dogs don't block the way."

Anping struggled to sit up from the kang, and seeing Chunjuan coming in with a medicine bowl, he asked, "Where's the baby?" Also much better than before.

"Follow Cardamom to go up the mountain to collect herbs for you, and I may not come back tonight. I will babysit for your family today, and let our counselor come over to be your company with you in the evening," Chunjuan lied to avoid Anping Worry.

Anping took the medicine bowl handed to him and drank the medicine. He patted his chest and said, "I feel much better in the past two days. I may be able to go to work in a few days." He turned over and wanted to get out of bed. We have to find the baby mother and the child."

Chunjuan put her sleeping baby on the kang, knowing that Anping would not be able to stop her if she insisted on going out, she casually said, "I will take care of you all day and night, take care of your baby, and finally go up the mountain with Dou Kou for a quiet night, and you will stay at home peacefully." Just wait, who in the woman's house hasn't had time to wash up yet."

Having said that, Anping is still worried about the two of them. It happened that Qi Tengmiao came back with a bamboo basket on his back, went into the thatched cottage, put down a jar of honey and walked away. Cardamom had told him not to tell her father anything, but to be a mute .

"This? Who are you?" Anping glanced at Honey and then at the little man standing in his house, with a strong physique, a coarse cloth shirt and straw sandals carrying a bow and arrow, "Are you Brother Qi's child?"

Qi Tengmiao didn't know who Qi Ge was, but he just nodded and wanted to get away quickly. Anping looked him up and down and muttered to himself, "You guys still live on the mountain, have you been there for 8 years?"

Chunjuan knew that Qi Tengmiao and Doukou were friends, and heard that Anping mistook him for an old man's child and said along the way, "You can take care of it at ease. With this child following on the mountain, the two of them can't be lost." Qi Tengmiao hurried to do what Cardamom told him.

He nodded respectfully and said goodbye. A horse outside the door was waiting for him snorting and flicking its tail. Seeing him come out and roaring in the air, Qi Tengmiao got on his horse and ran out of the village.

He and Osmanthus were separated by two quarters of an hour, one was slower and the other was faster, and they took Osmanthus on the way and entered the county together.

Osmanthus had never been on a horse in her life, and when she arrived at the county government office, her internal organs would be blown out, so she hurriedly asked Qi Tengmiao, "What can you do for me, cardamom?"

He blushed and didn't speak, and rushed into the county government office, only to be stopped by the officer before he remembered to beat the drum first and wait for the summons.

The county magistrate was sitting in front of the hall. Underneath lay Cao Ergou, who had bandaged his wounds. Next to him was cardamom, and to the right, Cao Bailan, Da Hurong, stood on one side and was arguing angrily. Master Ling held a teacup and drank tea leisurely.

"Master, it's time to leave the court, Madam is still waiting for you," the master leaned into the magistrate's ear and reminded softly, and the county magistrate frowned, "What's the hurry, my house can still be above this court Sleepless?"

The master rubbed his hands with a troubled face, "Yes, you are right, but you have not returned to your room for more than a month, and it is really difficult for this lady to be so small. I know that you love the people like a child." , but do you also pay attention to the matter in the backyard?" The master raised his sleeve to wipe the sweat from his forehead, he held his head and repeated the original words of his wife, and he didn't dare to miss a single word.

　12:8 noon, [-]:[-] p.m.

　　Everyone, are you being good today, (づ￣3￣)づ

　　
　
(End of this chapter)