The boy was persuaded by Uncle Mu Su to go back to his home to rest. Then he opened the cabinet in the room to grab medicine, prepared the prescription and asked Asiya to take it to the backyard to brew.
As for himself, he continued to be busy looking for medicinal materials and flipping through medical books.
Zhuang Youjie was quite curious about the structure of this wooden building. Would it even have a backyard? Anyway, from his observation of the outside along the way, he couldn't tell the structure inside the wooden building at all.
But he couldn't follow him to watch. After all, he now had to play the role of an older brother who was worried about his comatose brother, so he had to respect his own identity.
While selecting medicinal materials, Mu Su told Zhuang Youjie that his father was once the most powerful doctor in Shuizhai.
Although he is not as skilled as his father in medicine, he will definitely try his best to treat Liang Yuanque.
Uncle Musu's father's name is Heerza. Their family has been a doctor for generations, saving lives and healing the wounded in the water village.
Horza was a very talented man who had made amazing achievements in medical skills at a very young age, but he felt that this was still not enough.
After all, Shuizhai has developed for so many years, but there are still many difficult diseases that make all doctors helpless.
He Erza believes that although Shuizhai has been developing, the development is too slow. This slowness is not only reflected in medical skills.
At that time, the water village was almost completely isolated from the world. The ancient clan rules stipulated that those who left the village would never return.
But even so, Heerza still embarked on the road to travel. He felt that Shuizhai needed development, and development required communication with the outside world.
Most people do not support him, including his wife and Mu Su's mother.
But there are still a small number of people who secretly came to express their attitude to Horza.
Most of them are young people. They have gradually become tired of the small world of Shuizhai, but they do not have the courage of Heerza.
They promised that they would do their best to take care of Horza's family while he was away traveling.
After Horza left, he never entered the water village again for decades. In the early days, he would bring back new things from the outside world and put them outside the village.
Shuizhai refused to accept this "apostate", but accepted what he brought back.
Some are tools that will save people more effort in life and work, some are plant seeds that have never grown in Shuizhai, and more are medicinal materials that match his status.
Until one time, he quietly placed a thick medical book outside the village and left a message for his son Mu Su.
Since then, Horza has never brought anything back.
Some people said that he was nostalgic for the colorful world outside and did not want to go back to the water village. Some people said that he died outside in an accident.
Mu Su picked up his father's medical skills, inherited the family profession through self-study, and became a doctor in the water village.
Among the young people who bid farewell to Horza that year, one person gradually rose to prominence in the village. He advocated Horza's idea of promoting development through external exchanges, and his ideas gradually became echoed by hundreds of people.
Later, he became the leader of the village. From the moment he took office, the village began to communicate with the neighboring town of Luo Chuanshui.
More and more young people are learning Chinese, hoping to get a job as a "purchaser" and leave the village to contact the outside world.
But there are still many people in the entire water village who oppose this method.
Most of them are elderly people, headed by the once powerful high priest of Shuizhai. Of course, there are also some young people who are influenced by their families and are members of the "old school".
For example, the boy Zhuang Youjie just met, his family is old-school, especially his brother, who is young but very paranoid.
He couldn't see the boy learning Chinese, but the boy wanted to be a buyer, so he would secretly come to Mu Su to practice.
This is why Mu Su used Chinese to communicate with him just now, and they spent all kinds of time practicing with the boy.
Listening to Uncle Mu Su's story, Zhuang Youjie had a bold idea in his mind. Could Wang Ming, who died mysteriously, be killed by the conservatives in Shuizhai?
After all, he entered the village with the young people from Shuizhai who were out shopping, and did not get the consent of the conservatives. What if they cleared out the outsiders in anger?
But he couldn't directly ask Mu Su whether the old guard had killed anyone. After all, they were compatriots of the same lineage.
So he thought for a while and asked in a tactful way, "Uncle Mu Su, is there a good relationship between the reformists like you and the conservatives? Are there usually conflicts?"
Mu Su had no doubt that he was there and shook his head very naturally, "How could it be? I just told you that the compatriots in our village are very united. Even if they have different ideas, there will be no conflicts."
Zhuang Youjie nodded, so to speak, the conservatives were not such an extreme group of people. Since they could live in peace and harmony with the reformists in the same village, they would not kill Wang Ming in anger.
No matter how much you hate outsiders, the most you can do is to drive him out just like you did to that reporter.
Then why did Wang Ming fall into the river? What does his death have to do with the water village? What did he experience in the water village during his lifetime?
Zhuang Youjie's mind became more and more confused. He looked at Liang Yuanque and said to himself, brother, we have successfully sneaked in. You should wake up soon. Is the case still under investigation?
During the conversation with Mu Su, Ashiya prepared the decoction and carefully brought it over. Zhuang Youjie thanked her and took it.
Liang Yuanque no longer vomited blood, but his face still looked like a dead person.
Zhuang Youjie was holding the medicine bowl and was wondering how to put it into his mouth when he saw Liang Yuanque's eyeballs move under his eyelids.
This was either an unconscious movement of a person in a coma, his eyes were shaking, or he was sending a signal to Zhuang Youjie.
Seeing that he finally woke up, Zhuang Youjie felt completely relieved. No matter what happened in the future, as long as Liang Yuanque was by his side, he could always handle it.
He helped Liang Yuanque up and brought the medicine bowl to his mouth. Liang Yuanque drank it by himself without him having to do anything.
Zhuang Youjie's position was just right to block the sight of Mu Su and A Shiya, preventing them from seeing Liang Yuanque's reaction.
Time passed minute by minute, and there was no clock around him. He didn't know how the Shuizhai people calculated time. Zhuang Youjie could only judge based on his usual life experience. It was almost late at night.
Ashiya couldn't hold it any longer at first and covered her mouth and yawned. Musu asked her to go upstairs to rest.
Then he left a candle for Zhuang Youjie and the others, extinguished the other kerosene lamps in the room, and went upstairs.
Seeing them all leaving, Zhuang Youjie put the candle on the bedside and gently pushed Liang Yuanque, "Hey, wake up, they are all gone."
But Liang Yuanque remained motionless.
Zhuang Youjie thought he was pretending to be addicted, so he pushed him again and said in a slightly louder voice, "Hey, wake up."
Liang Yuanque still didn't respond, but suddenly stretched out a hand and grabbed his wrist tightly.
His fingers were very cold, which made Zhuang Youjie feel excited.
Under the flickering dim candlelight, Zhuang Youjie noticed that Liang Yuanque's lips moved, and his mouth shape seemed to be saying,
"Blow the lamp!"
