Under Xu Errui's urging, Qiaoyun raised his head and looked over: "Ah! It's Silver Lilac!"
Her eyes suddenly widened, not with joy but with fright: "Er Rui, where did you get your earrings from? Does mother know?"
Xu Errui was still laughing: "It was given to me by someone else. Please put it on and take a look!"
Qiaoyun seemed to have seen something terrifying and quickly stood away: "Give it to mother, I don't want it!"
Xu Errui put away the silver earrings and said, "If you don't want to forget it, then I'll leave it to my mother!"
Qiaoyun sat down again with her child in her arms: "Can you first tell me where the silver earrings come from?"
Xu Errui ate the noodles with a sigh of relief: "I used the herbal medicine to save someone's stomachache. It was given by someone else, not stolen. Look, I scared you!"
Knowing that it was a gift, Qiaoyun felt relieved: "Then tell me who has a stomachache that you saved?"
"I don't know him either, but he thanked me for sending it. Actually! Hehe, it's too simple!" Xu Errui explained clearly what happened while eating noodles.
It turned out that on the first day he went to the medical shed to help make a kang, he needed to find yellow mud and stones, and cut some reed curtain rods, so he took a few handymen to dig outside the village.
Xu Errui grew up in the village and knows best where to find good yellow mud. This trip is a bit far.
Before the earth and rocks were found, I saw a carriage with an escort parked on the official road, as if something had happened.
Xu Errui and the handyman did not come over. They only saw a middle-aged man getting out of the car and squatting on the side of the road, holding his belly and vomiting. A woman was serving him water.
Seeing that someone was sick, the handyman loudly said that there was a medical shed in the village and that he could go to Dr. Xu for treatment.
But the people in the carriage said they had to hurry and it was inconvenient to enter the village, so they just wanted to leave. They also asked how far Pingchuan County was.
Xujia Village is dozens of miles away from the county seat, and the nearest one is Lihua Town, which is only a dozen miles away. Although there have been bandits there, there are still shops there.
Seeing the carriage hurrying on its way, Xu Errui couldn't help but say: "You can collect herbs for emergencies. The loach skewers can cure abdominal pain and vomiting. There is no need to suffer. You can eat and drive on the road without delaying your business."
His voice was not loud, but the people in the car still heard it.
The man stuck his head in and said somewhat weakly: "Young man, what kind of herbal medicine do you know?"
He drank cold tea on the way and suffered bouts of abdominal pain that made him want to vomit but couldn't.
If you have enough time, you can rest for a while in the medical shed along the way, but now you need to return to the city urgently, so you can only bear the pain and hurry.
Only then did Xu Errui see clearly that this man looked middle-aged at first glance, but he was actually in his sixties, but he mistook him for his burly figure.
"I know, we can eat it ourselves!" Xu Errui said honestly, casually pulling out a piece of grass on the side of the road.
The old man frowned slightly: "This is Malan! Not the loach string you mentioned!"
Xu Errui scraped off the mud on the rhizome a few times, scraped off the black skin and took a bite: "That's the Malan you are talking about, and the same is the loach string. Isn't this old man a local?"
"Old man?"
The old man smiled and did not answer whether he was a local. He only asked the guard to pull out a few loach skewers: "Malantou is a good dish. I didn't expect that the roots can be used as medicine. Young man, you have learned a lesson! Lanzhi, give it to him Reward!"
"Mom, Qiaoyun, these silver earrings were given by that maid sister!"
Xu Errui had already explained this matter to Qiaoyun, but Qiaoyun didn't believe that he would give something away after just a few words, and thought he was related to that "Lanzhi".
Now that my mother has come home, Xu Errui will tell her story again.
Jiang Zhi naturally believed this kind of thing. The silver earrings were so small that they were nothing in the eyes of rich people who could bring escorts and ride in carriages. It was customary for people to reward them.
She said: "You said that the old man's speech is not from our place, and he is also well-dressed?"
Xu Errui nodded vigorously: "Yes, he speaks differently from us, so we can only barely understand it. Mom, you said before that Loach Chuan is also called Malan, how does he know that?"
Jiang Zhi said: "This old man is not from us, probably they are Malan."
Since it was someone else who was giving the reward, Jiang Zhi asked Qiaoyun to accept the earrings.
With her mother-in-law's permission, Qiaoyun happily took the cloth bag into the room and found a place to put it.
Here, Xu Errui took out another piece of paper from his body, which was full of words.
"Mom, this is the name of the medicine written by Dr. Xu. I also brought back those small bags with medicine samples inside.
Medical officer Xu said that everyone needs it. Nowadays, many people are suffering from colds and consume a lot of medicine. "
Jiang Zhi took the paper, which was filled with perilla, mint, kudzu and other medicinal materials for relieving symptoms.
But she still had to pretend to be illiterate: "Oh, how do you recognize this character?"
Xu Errui found the folded medicine bags and arranged them on the ground according to the names of the medicines. Then he took out the medicine samples and compared them: "Mom, Medical Officer Xu said that with this arrangement, you can recognize the names of the medicines!"
Jiang Zhi almost laughed. This is basically a medicine cabinet dispensing label, with one sign for each medicine and one bag.
It's just that Xu Dong was lazy and didn't take apart the names on the paper and paste them on them.
She was too lazy and called Qiao Yun directly: "Qiao Yun, come and identify yourself with Er Rui. Do you have any words or medicines?"
This forces the two of them to learn to read and recognize medicines. There is nothing wrong with young people learning more. In the future, they can live by farming and collecting medicines.
A craftsman will never die of hunger, and he can survive whenever he learns a skill.
After packing the medicinal materials overnight, Xu Errui and Xiao Man went down the mountain to work with a basket of medicines on their backs at dawn the next day.
Jiang Zhi stood on the high slope and watched for a while, until the two of them disappeared into the thick clouds and mist before returning home.
She was thinking about what Xu Errui brought back.
Refugees are being repatriated everywhere, and those staying in county and capital cities are also forcibly evicted, requiring the refugees to return to their registered place of residence to register and resume farming.
If the fields are still empty by the time of spring plowing, they will be forcibly taken back by the government.
This is just the government's idea.
The road is still not peaceful now. The refugees who have already found a place to stay definitely don’t want to take risks again. They will find ways to settle locally and delay their return home. No matter how hard the government forces them, it’s useless.
Jiang Zhi doesn't have to worry if he lives in the mountains.
My home is nearby and I can return to the village to cultivate the land at any time.
What she was thinking about was that the city was chasing people away.
Those villagers who followed the village chief and fled into Yuzhou Prefecture may be coming back.
How many people will come back after this trip, and what is your attitude towards getting along with them?
It had been a long time since I had dreamed of listening to a book. As a person in the situation, Jiang Zhi had no idea what Nie Fantian and the others were doing now.
Are you working hard according to the goals of the original book? Although your aunt is not dead, the supporting role should not be able to make waves and change nothing.
Time has passed, and she has been doing heavy farm work. From the few words of Man Nai and Chun Feng since she was a child, she has become more and more integrated into this role, and she can better understand the original hard work.
The original person was once just like Qiaoyun, a shy and charming girl who dreamed of getting married, having children, and caring for her husband.
But the good days didn't last long. Her life was ruined by an injured and confused husband, a pair of parents-in-law who were partial to their grandson, and a sister-in-law who left her children alone.
The heavy farm work wears away the youth bit by bit, and the death of the eldest child wipes out the last kindness.
In fact, this quagmire-like family and the moral kidnapping around her had long since killed her, leaving her a shell that survived through violence.
