Li Nanke looked at the boiling pot of medicine in front of him, his eyes a little hollow.
The dreamy feeling that pulled him from a dream to reality in an instant caused his brain to shut down for a few seconds, and it seemed like countless cotton balls were swelling in his mind.
After a while, his consciousness slowly returned to his body.
"Can't you be gentler?"
Li Nanke rubbed his eyebrows and kept complaining in his heart.
Every time he exited the 'Red Rain Dreamland' in this way, he had the urge to find a lizard to give him maternity leave.
The room was very quiet.
The sky outside the window was a bit dark.
As the last ray of twilight was erased, the entire sky seemed to be embedded with a layer of frosted glass, gray, waiting for the night to begin a new chapter.
The strong scent of medicine lingering in the room proved that he was indeed in the real world.
However, just to be on the safe side, Li Nanke picked up the firecracker and shot himself in the head. No blood and flesh appeared, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, this firecracker cannot be fired in reality, so it can distinguish dreams from reality.
"It's good to be alive."
When I walked out of the room, the cool breeze mixed with the scent of mountain grass blew in my face.
Li Nanke took a deep breath. As the turbid air in his chest was discharged, he felt much refreshed and felt like he was reborn in the world.
There was an old turtle lying in front of the door, lazily enjoying the evening breeze.
This old tortoise is quite large, about one meter long, somewhat similar to the Aldabra giant tortoise. However, its back shell is gray-white, with many snowflake-like patterns on it, and sometimes it reflects silver light when exposed to the sun.
Ever since Li Nanke came to this world, this turtle has been by his side.
Nickname - Lord Turtle.
According to the daughter-in-law, the turtle was a pet kept by an old Taoist priest and was a mythical beast. Whether in water or on land, he can run faster than a horse.
But Li Nanke remained skeptical.
The last time he secretly threw firecrackers into the turtle shell, he didn't see the other party running away very quickly.
But my other pet, the big white goose, runs extremely fast.
A few days ago, when he also blew up his butt by throwing firecrackers, the goose chased him for three days and three nights. Sometimes, even though he was dozens of meters away, in the blink of an eye the other person would rush over and peck him hard, and his desire for revenge was admirable.
There was no other way. In the end, Li Nanke kindly added some laxatives to the goose's food, and the goose calmed down a lot.
Carrying a towel and a wooden basin, Li Nanke came to the well and washed his face with cold water.
Not far away, on the edge of the pond, a white goose that is larger than ordinary geese is elegantly extending its snow-colored wings, showing off its beauty.
Li Nanke wiped his cheeks and said hello: "Sister Goose, are you feeling better?"
Sister Goose is a somewhat arrogant pet.
Unlike Mr. Turtle who is lazy, he is more diligent and goes to the small pond to clean himself from time to time. He always looks white and pure.
Normally he would be indifferent to everyone.
Including Mr. Turtle.
Although his wife said that these two guys were a couple brought together by an old Taoist priest, from the humbleness of Mr. Turtle that he wanted to lick but couldn't, and the arrogance and indifference of Sister Goose, Li Nanke knew that it would be difficult for these two to get together at the end of the world. Live life.
After seeing the man, Sister Goose raised her slender neck high and turned her head away from him.
He seemed to regard the other party as a villain.
Under the reflection of the water waves, Sister Goose's graceful and elegant figure is like an emotional and frozen painting, indescribably charming.
Mr. Turtle, who was lying at the door, watched eagerly, took two steps forward, and then lay back silently.
But it happened that Sister Goose glanced over coldly.
The humble turtle man subconsciously retracted his head into the turtle shell, not daring to look at the goddess.
Li Nanke looked at it funny and remembered that his wife said that Sister Goose was also a mythical beast raised by the old Taoist priest and could fly in the sky. I'm thinking about finding a time to take Sister Goose to the pot to stew her?
At around 2:00 am, the miracle doctor's wife finally returned from gathering medicine.
At this time, Li Nanke was bored, holding Sister Goose and sitting on Lord Turtle's back, blowing the evening breeze.
There is one person, one turtle and one goose, and the scene is joyful and particularly warm.
Originally, Sister Goose was very resistant to the man's hug, but she saw the other man took out a piece of brick that he got from nowhere and gestured something to its butt. Sister Goose suddenly changed from a violent state to a docile one, and she curled up in the man's arms obediently.
The man reminded him of the old yellow dog that used to be around the old Taoist priest. They were all dogs.
"It's still beautiful from a distance."
Looking at his returning wife, Li Nanke touched Sister Goose's buttocks and murmured to himself.
In the hazy sunset tones, the delicate figure of a woman is vaguely outlined, like a fairy walking out of a painting, graceful Pingting.
"Unfortunately……"
The man sighed softly, threw Sister Goose on the back of the turtle, and walked forward to meet her.
Before the old turtle had time to feel Sister Goose's light and delicate body, the latter flapped her wings and went to take a bath in the pond.
"I'm back. It's quite late today."
Li Nanke skillfully took the bamboo basket from the woman's back. The full basket of medicinal materials was very heavy.
The woman is tall, half a head shorter than the man. She looks simple in a plain white dress, but she has an indescribable sense of being otherworldly.
Especially those pair of pupils as black as lacquer, as beautiful as autumn water, which are indescribably beautiful.
There is quite a feeling of spring breeze when looking at each other.
However, her facial features and appearance are very ordinary. It is not ugly, but it is far from 'good-looking'. She ignores her figure and temperament, and is inconspicuous in the crowd.
"I went to the apricot blossom forest on the north side of the mountain today and got a good harvest."
The woman's voice was gentle and sweet, and her eyes couldn't hide the joy. "Not only did I pick three-leaf fire lotus grass, but I also dug out several high-quality Prunella vulgaris ganoderma under a thousand-year-old tree. Unfortunately, some of them were destroyed by wild beasts in the mountains..."
"Although the medicinal materials are precious, you must also pay attention to safety. There are many wild animals in the mountains."
Li Nanke frowned and expressed concern.
Seeing a little sweat on the woman's forehead, he took out his handkerchief to wipe it, but the latter took it and wiped it himself. He said with a smile: "It's okay. I have followed the master to collect medicine since I was a child. Over the years, I have been With experience, I know that those places are dangerous and not to be visited.”
Li Nanke wanted to say something else, but his stomach started growling first.
The man was a little embarrassed.
It's not that I can't get food, it's just that my miraculous doctor's wife's cooking skills have whetted my appetite, and it's hard to get other food together.
The woman smiled and then apologized: "I'm sorry that I came late, so I'll cook for my husband."
The woman's name is Luo Qianqiu, she has a gentle personality and can be called a good wife.
Although Li Nanke could feel that the woman was resistant to this marriage, at least she still had the attitude, words and deeds that a wife should have.
She never lost her temper or lost her temper.
That very ordinary face always has a gentle expression on it, whether it is facing her husband or the patients who come to seek medical treatment.
It's as if gentleness is her nature.
But in this way, a wall is built to alienate each other.
After carefully sorting the medicinal materials and brewing them on the stone table, Luo Qianqiu went back to the house and briefly cleaned them before entering the kitchen to prepare dinner.
"Let me help you."
Li Nanke rolled up his sleeves and volunteered. "What are you going to cook today?"
Luo Qianqiu didn't say anything, and handed over the river crabs she bought yesterday and soaked in a short tank.
"First make a stir-fried river crab with shallots."
Seeing that her husband had no idea what to do with the kitchen knife, Luo Qianqiu said with a smile: "First remove the shell, internal organs and crab gills, chop them into four pieces, and leave the rest to me." He added at the end. "This dish has the effect of unblocking the meridians, nourishing the muscles and activating blood, and is good for my husband."
"oh."
Li Nanke is not stupid, and he quickly handled the river crab under the guidance of his wife.
Luo Qianqiu quickly put the pot on the fire, poured the oil until it was sixty hot, and added the green onions and ginger slices while saying to Li Nanke: "Fry two more vegetarian dishes. My husband, please put the mushrooms and cauliflower in the basket." Take a wash first."
Li Nanke responded and started washing vegetables again.
The couple works well together, and the small kitchen has a warm family atmosphere.
"Are you still used to your husband being in the Yamen?" Luo Qianqiu took the initiative to pick up the topic. "It must be very tiring to be a co-worker. You have to face those..."
Perhaps because she realized that the word 'corpse' was inappropriate in the kitchen, the woman skipped it and then said: "If you don't like it, please don't do it. I'll go back and help you find another job, or go to a private school to help with the killing." Reasonable."
The woman didn't say anything about the job her husband had found, but she was still a little unhappy in her heart.
Although after the second year of Tianwu, wuzhuo no longer belongs to the humble industry, and all aspects of welfare have been improved a lot, but after all, you have to deal with corpses.
This also makes it difficult for people to make friends with him on weekdays, for fear of getting into bad luck.
Li Nanke smiled and said: "It's okay. It's not as busy as expected. The work is still very leisurely. After all, murders can't happen every day. And after becoming a gangster, I feel a lot cleaner. Those girls won't be greedy for me anymore, otherwise It’s really giving me a headache.”
There was a hint of helplessness in the man's joke.
It’s not just beautiful women who are harassed, sometimes handsome guys also rarely have time to relax. (I believe all book friends will understand this deeply)
Hearing this, the corners of Luo Qianqiu's lips curved in a slight arc: "My husband is a strange person. Shouldn't most men be happy to have countless beauties around them to admire and admire? There is no such thing as avoiding him."
"There is no way. If you want to live a long life, you must have good kidneys."
Li Nanke moved his waist.
Faced with words that seemed casual but could easily extend into ambiguous sentiments, the girl chose to change the topic: "I heard that there was a murder case in Dongqi County in the past two days."
Li Nanke nodded: "It's still a rumor about monsters."
The girl paused, took the kitchen knife and sighed: "This world is really uneasy."
Then he reminded her husband: "Monsters are all transformed from people who take medicines containing 'Red Rain' ingredients. My husband must be careful when touching corpses to avoid being contaminated by Red Rain."
"Don't worry, I'm always careful."
Li Nanke smiled. "Besides, with the ability of the Night Patrol Division, this matter will be settled in a few days."
"Night patrol department..."
The girl turned her back, gently stroking the sharp blade with her delicate white jade fingers, and there seemed to be a hint of sarcasm on her lips. "hope so."
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