Fish Leaping Farm Gate

Chapter 30 Illness
The next morning, Du Xiaoyu heard Zhao Shi's voice in a daze. She rubbed her eyes and yawned, feeling that she didn't get enough sleep.After all, it's a child's body. She sleeps longer than Du Huanghua every day, and she won't be woken up in normal times. What's going on with my mother today, why are you yelling so much?Du Xiaoyu was surprised, but when she listened carefully, she was calling her sister Du Huanghua.

"Yellow flower, yellow flower, if it's not up yet, what time is it!"

Du Xiaoyu hurriedly looked to the side, and found that Du Huanghua was really still sleeping, wrapped tightly in the quilt, not even showing her face.

"Sister!" She called out and pushed Du Huanghua, "Mother is calling you to get up!"

But Du Huanghua remained silent.

She panicked. In her impression, Du Huanghua was a person who was easily awakened. Why was she sleeping like a pig right now?So he quickly got up and went to her sister's side and lifted the quilt to have a look.

Du Huanghua's eyes were closed, her brows were furrowed, her face was pale and covered with sweat.

Du Xiaoyu touched her forehead with her hand, it was hot, she must be sick, so she yelled, "Mother, mother, sister is sick!" She jumped out of bed and rushed to the door.

Mrs. Zhao rushed up when she heard howling inside, "What are you talking about, Huang Hua is sick?"

"Yeah, I'm sweating. Mother, please go and get a doctor." Du Xiaoyu remembered that she saw something wrong with Du Huanghua yesterday, but she forgot about it later. Hey, if she had taken the medicine at that time, Maybe it won't be sent out, it looks like it should be a high fever, sweating so much, I don't know if it is serious or not.

"Put on your clothes and be careful not to catch a cold. Don't both of them get sick." Mrs. Zhao glanced at her. "You stay at home and watch your sister. I'll go to the doctor right away."

Du Xiaoyu put on his clothes and went out to the kitchen to find a hand towel.

When she used to have a fever, she used cold towels to cool down. She went out to the yard and hoisted half a bucket of well water up. When she entered the bedroom, she already had two towels in her hand, one warm and one cold.First use a hot towel to wipe off the sweat for Du Huanghua. The sweat almost wet the pillow towel, all over her neck. She wiped it carefully, and then put the cold towel on Du Huanghua's forehead.

During this process, Du Huanghua didn't wake up, and sometimes her teeth were still chattering, which frightened her to the core.

Children with high fevers are sometimes dangerous in future generations, let alone in ancient times. Fortunately, Du Huanghua is not a child anymore, but if it is serious, I really don't know if there will be any problems.

She was on pins and needles.

But Du Huanghua seemed to be immersed in a dream, and occasionally babbled a few words, all of which were sad.

She really wanted to sacrifice herself, Du Xiaoyu touched her face distressedly, these few days may seem like a few years to Du Huanghua, even if she is not willing to marry Mrs Liu, but for the sake of her family, she Willing to do anything, these contradictions and discomforts in her heart finally made her sick, right?

Du Xiaoyu sighed, took off the towel, put it in the well water, washed it again, and put it on her forehead again.

The doctor finally came, showed Du Huanghua's pulse, and said that he had a cold, so he wrote a prescription and said to use it first, and come back if it's not good.

After Mrs. Zhao sent the doctor away, she went to grab the medicine.

To be honest, Du Xiaoyu didn't trust this doctor very much. He was the one who saw Du Xian's back pain at the beginning. He spent a lot of money and didn't treat the symptoms at all. Isn't this contrary to traditional Chinese medicine?Isn't Chinese medicine just preaching to eradicate diseases?But she is not a medical student, and the little knowledge she has learned from medical books and Du Wenyuan is impossible to prescribe medicine, so she can only accept it.

Mrs. Zhao boiled the medicine and brought it over later.

Du Xiaoyu helped Du Huanghua up, and now she was a little sober, and Mrs. Zhao said that she was sick and asked her to drink the medicine.

Du Wenyuan also came back at noon, and had been letting Du Huanghua rest after drinking the medicine before. Now Du Xiaoyu and Du Wenyuan went in to see her, but her condition didn't improve at all, so Du Xiaoyu couldn't help complaining. "Look, that doctor is a quack doctor, and he re-wrote the prescription after saying something bad, how can this happen! Second brother, show me quickly."

"I see what's the use, and I don't know how to feel the pulse." Du Wenyuan said truthfully.

Du Xiaoyu didn't believe it, "Don't think I don't know, you didn't cure Daddy's back pain, it's just that Uncle Da Da used it as a cover for you."

Du Wenyuan was not surprised when she guessed it, and explained seriously, "Dad's back pain is caused by trauma, and I also tried some ancient methods, but the words 'look, hear, ask and cut' are not so easy, where should I go?" Learning? It’s impossible to just read books.”

These things need to be practiced, Du Xiaoyu understood, but also became more depressed.

"I think my sister has more heart problems." She thought for a while and said, "My sister is in such good health, I don't even see her sneeze."

Du Wenyuan stretched out his hand after listening, "What about the prescription?"

"I remember it all." Du Xiaoyu recited it, "Bupleurum, licorice, knotweed, big green leaf..." She also learned a little bit, and she paid special attention to Du Huanghua's disease, so naturally she had to take a good look at the prescription.

"It is indeed very effective against wind and cold." Du Wenyuan nodded, "But maybe it would be better to add some anti-depression, like tangerine peel."

"Is there anything wrong if I make a mistake?" Du Xiaoyu asked hurriedly, "I can't eat it and make my sister get sicker."

"It's okay, you can make candy from dried tangerine peel for ordinary eating and playing." Du Wenyuan said and took out a few copper coins, "You can grab some later and mix it with candy for sister to eat."

Du Xiaoyu stared, "You actually have money?"

"Mum, what's wrong?" Du Wenyuan was puzzled.

"It's nothing!" Du Xiaoyu gritted her teeth. She didn't have a single copper coin on her body. Mrs. Zhao took all the money she earned. She never thought of leaving even one copper coin for her. She thought it would be three. All children are like this, they don't have any pocket money, but Du Wenyuan actually has it, it's really patriarchal!
Seeing her angry look, Du Wenyuan laughed, and took out half a sling of copper coins and put them in her hand, "Keep it well and don't throw it away, it's just this little property, I have to come and get it tomorrow if I need it."

The copper coin was warm, Du Xiaoyu stood there like a log, and said after a while, "Really let me here, are you afraid that I will take it for myself?"

Du Wenyuan pinched her face, "What are people afraid of here." After speaking, he went out.

Half a penny of copper money, fifty cents, heavy, what an eccentric mother, why did you take it to Du Wenyuan?Afraid that he will be hungry and buy something to eat on the way?Du Xiaoyu muttered for a while, and went out to catch tangerine peel.

There is only one pharmacy in the village, and it is very lively. It seems that many people are sick during this time.

She stood there waiting for the buddy to grab the medicine, when she heard two women beside her chewing their tongues.

"...The threshold of Liu's family is about to be stepped on. Before, Mrs. Liu was afraid that she would not find a good wife. Now she has to be picky."

"What's the matter?" The other one obviously didn't know, and asked, "Master Liu is a bit learned, but he is thirty after all, and he has a daughter. If he wants to find someone else's girl, she must be upright and innocent. How can there be such a thing?" Easy! Why are you still picky? You have to send a good daughter to their home?"

"You haven't heard of it yet?" The previous one said mysteriously, "Oh, a student of Mr. Liu has become such a third-rank official. I heard that you can often see the emperor... come to see Mrs. Liu in person. , What a big official this is, Mr. Liu is going to take another examination for juren or something, it's not easy to be an official."

"Oh, there is such a thing!" The other said in surprise, "Then the yellow flower of the Du family is not a cheap pick, and she will become an official's wife in the future."

Du Xiaoyu hurriedly turned her face away when she heard this, lest they recognize it, she didn't expect the rumor to spread so quickly!Aunt Wu is really not a cover!

But these third-rank officials are too ridiculous, right?

Mr. Liu is only 30 years old, and his students are nowhere to be found. It takes a genius to be a third-rank official!But exaggeration is fine, if it is passed on to the Bao family, she must not be rushed to death. Not only Du Wenyuan will be an official in the future, but Mrs. Liu will also be an official. The whole family is an official, so you are afraid of their little landlord?Sooner or later, the family property will be taken away!
She couldn't help laughing at the thought, Zhu Shi didn't know what mood she was in now, she would probably acquiesce if she was so vain, and then swelled up, people are very greedy.

But Mrs. Zhao didn't know these things. When Du Xiaoyu came back and saw her looking at the jade pendant in the bedroom, did she feel compelled to pawn it off?

Just thinking about it, Aunt Wu came, and she should come to see Mrs. Zhu, but it was embarrassing for Aunt Wu to lie.

Seeing Mrs. Zhao put the jade pendant under the pillow in a hurry, Du Xiaoyu's heart skipped a beat, and while Mrs. Zhao was talking in the yard, she ran in quickly, and took out the jade pendant to have a look.

Curiosity killed the cat. She had always been suspicious of this thing, but no one in the family knew about it. She frowned suddenly thinking about it, but she didn't necessarily ask Du Wenyuan, but her father Du Xian didn't know about it. How could he know?
She checked the jade pendant over and over again, only to find that the jade, which looks like clear water from a distance, has such a peculiar texture, like countless small ice flowers condensed inside, that there is no need to carve patterns at all. Rui Beast is even more addictive.The touch of the jade pendant is also quite good and warm, which reminds her of that poem involuntarily, "There are tears in the moon and pearls in the sea, and the sun in Lantian is warm and the jade produces smoke."

Therefore, based on her previous experience with jade, she infers that this jade pendant must be worth several hundred taels of silver, which is definitely not something Zhao can afford, and even the landlord's grandmother's family may not be able to afford one.

They only earn a few hundred taels a year from a thousand acres of land, and there are still so many people who need to support them. How can they spend all the money they earn in a year to buy things?Isn't that crazy!

Therefore, Du Xiaoyu became more and more puzzled, where did this jade pendant come from?What secret is it hiding?

(End of this chapter)