Farming with medicine

Chapter 31
For a few days, I didn't see the crazy girl Cardamom coming in or out. Cao Bailan got up early this morning, knocked on melon seeds and went to the next courtyard to find trouble.

"Osmanthus, your crazy girl hasn't come back yet?" Cao Bailan spat out the skins of the melon seeds into the yard that Liandong had just cleaned. He confidently said, "Tsk tsk, look, why your family's food is so good these days, could it be that crazy girl was caught as a thief."

Seeing that Cao Bailan came to inquire about the whereabouts of cardamom, Liandong took a broom to sweep the floor to drive people away, while Osmanthus poured the water from washing the rice on Cao Bailan.

"Hey, is it true that I was right?" Cao Bailan threw the melon seeds, and immediately blossomed happily, and hopped to the door, "I will go to my mother and talk to her carefully. I asked Boss Rong to sell cardamom, the scourge essence, to Boss Rong, but you refused, so it’s all over now, you really deserve it.”

Liandong was in a hurry when she heard it, and she wanted to argue with Cao Bailan when she chased after her, but Guihua held her back and said earnestly, "Don't make trouble, what Cardamom and the others did will lose their heads. Send it to the official office, bear with it."

After the sweet-scented osmanthus finished speaking, Liandong pouted her small mouth and bulged her cheeks and pressed her head to sweep the ground, "Go and sweep the door, this piece is all bald by you."

Liandong held the broom and tears were about to come out, "Auntie, you can still laugh, I'm dying of anxiety."

If Cardamom hadn't sneaked back the night before and told Osmanthus what happened, she would have gone to the town to find someone the next day, "What's the use of being anxious, as long as I know where my baby is and if it's safe, I can rest assured Now, back to this hut, I, a mother, have no ability to protect her well."

Carrying the basin, Osmanthus moved into the house step by step with heavy steps, and said to Anping with a forced smile, "It's time to drink the medicine in a while, we, Cardamom, will find another prescription for you, and I will let you Take it three times a day, why don’t you obey me?”

Anping sat up from the kang and was able to walk around the ground, but the farthest he could reach the village entrance was to sit under the big tree over there every day and stare at the dirt road in the mountain stream, but waited and waited and waited. It is true that the officials checked the murders of the previous few nights.

"Tell me, do those people who fell into the mountain stream have something to do with our cardamom?" Anping walked around the house restlessly leaning on a cane, wishing to recover his health now, so as to survive such useless days take medicine.

Osmanthus turned away and wiped away her tears secretly, "Stop thinking about it, our Doumao is only six years old, can we hurt them? I heard that they are some burly and strong men, their arms are thicker than our Doumao's body."

Liandong didn't know what happened, but only knew that brother Qi was injured, and Doukou was taking care of her personally. As for where the two were, Doukou didn't say, and even Aunt Osmanthus couldn't find out.

Hearing the movement in the room, he threw the broom and ran over, "Aunt Osmanthus, or I'll go to the town to inquire about it."

Osmanthus and Anping were talking about those people who fell into the mountain stream, when they heard Lonicera running in, they quickly stopped talking.

"No, let's wait at home, we will come back sooner or later," Osmanthus wiped the apron on her body with water-stained hands, and said to Anping, "I'll go and decoct the medicine for you, Lonicera, help aunt Tease the baby, let me cook for you."

Liandong pursed her lips, and carried the child to play outside in disappointment.

Zhang's mother-in-law came over with her little hands behind her back, and seeing the baby in Liandong's arms, she squinted her shrewd little eyes and asked sharply, "Yo, all the wealthy families of the old three have invited someone to come and see the baby."

"Grandma," Liandong was terrified of the Zhang family's mother-in-law, and when her shrewd little eyes narrowed slightly, it made her feel cold from head to toe.

Cao Bailan followed behind Zhang's mother-in-law, eating melon seeds and spitting out the skins, with a look of disdain, "Mother, go in and have a look, the Anping family is having a hard time these days, and they don't even know they are thinking about you. After leaving Anping, they have to live a good life so that your mother can also enjoy the glory, right?"

This is not a fight against injustice, it is simply a provocation, Liandong hurried into the yard with the child in her arms, and after seeing Aunt Osmanthus coming out of the woodshed and gave her a look, Liandong obediently carried the child into the house.

Osmanthus wiped her hands and said with a smile on her face, "Mother, you're here, I'll move a chair for you." After finishing speaking, she quickly turned around and moved the chair against the wall for Zhang's mother-in-law to sit on.

"Farewell, I'm an old woman who can't manipulate you, I just came to see my Anping, you should be busy washing rice and frying meat, life will be better, don't worry about me, a person who sells half of the soil, just worry about my son. "

Having said that, Osmanthus fragrans looked at Granny Zhang's complexion not very good-looking, it was not right to stand there for a while, and it was not right to go back to the firewood room to continue decocting medicine and cooking, so she smiled awkwardly, "Mother, then you will leave later Don't leave, stay here for dinner, since Anping got sick, you haven't had dinner with us yet."

Osmanthus fragrans felt that there was nothing wrong with saying this, but hearing it in the ears of the Zhang family's mother-in-law had another meaning.

"Why, blame me? I think your Anping is sick, and I can't count on it in the future, so you deliberately ignore the affairs in your yard?" Zhang's mother-in-law stared at the sweet-scented osmanthus with her hands behind her back, looking up and down, " If you don't want me to eat in this courtyard today, I, a woman in a death row, will definitely eat it too, Bai Lan, go and call my precious grandson over, don't cook at anyone's house today, just have a good meal with me."

Cao Bailan spat out the melon seeds in her mouth, twisted her body and responded with a smile, "Hey, mother, just be clear, I'll call Dahu right now, you don't know that Fugui spends all his money on wine and drinks these two days Oh, your precious grandson hasn't eaten meat these days, his little face has lost weight, and his skinny body has no flesh at all, he's all bones when he touches it."

Cao Bailan ran back to her home with the melon seeds, and led Duhu to the courtyard after a while.

Liandong looked at Dug's fat body, how could he be so hungry that he was full of bones, his face was as round as a full moon, how could he be thinner?Compared with the few days when she came to this house, she seems to be fatter.

"Lonicera, what are you doing in a daze, hurry up and help our big tiger wash his hands, and feed you for nothing," Cao Bailan lifted the bench and sat at a low table in the shade, yelling at Lonicera while eating melon seeds.

Osmanthus brought the food to the table from the firewood room, and explained to Cao Bailan, "Sister-in-law, Rendong is not our servant, so it's probably inappropriate to serve Duhu. You say this is not the county government."

Cao Bailan slapped it on the table, stretched her neck and reprimanded Osmanthus, "What do you know? This honeysuckle didn't even have a name before. Your cardamom is good. Pick up a piece of junk that my sister doesn't want and come back as a family." , it is her blessing to serve our family's big tiger, if she dares to say no, I will listen to you?"

　If I were honeysuckle, I wouldn't even listen to it. Take hot water to wash your tiger's hands. This is what pigs do when they shed their hair.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)