Yun Cuihe smiled helplessly.
"I hope so. I don't know if my mother's body will get better. You are both young at the moment, so my mother really can't let go."
Hearing this, Chu Yue felt a little unhappy.
"Mom, it goes without saying that you are still young and your health will get better sooner or later, so don't think too much."
She didn't tell her about inviting Dr. Zhu in town today, otherwise her mother would feel distressed again at the thought of spending money.
Yun Cuihe only thought that Chu Yue was comforting her, and said with a loving smile: "Okay, mother, don't think nonsense, mother will try to live as many years as possible, mother will see your life getting better and better."
…
Chu Yue cooked dinner, Lu Xingan was responsible for lighting the fire, and Lu Xingping was responsible for picking and washing vegetables.
"Brother, we only have enough wild vegetables for one meal at home. All the wild vegetables nearby have been dug up. I'm afraid we will have to go to the mountains farther away tomorrow to dig them up."
There was nothing else to eat at home. If we didn’t dig wild vegetables, we would have to eat rice porridge every day.
Lu Xinghe, who had just put down the bucket, wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"It's not safe to go further inside. I'll go alone tomorrow."
Yun Cuihe, who was doing needlework in the house, immediately stopped what she was doing after hearing this: "We really don't have anything to eat, so let's just drink rice porridge for a while. I heard that there are tigers in the mountains. In the past few years, The big boy in your Aunt Lin's family went to the mountains and never came back. If you want to be good, my mother's body may not be able to withstand it."
When Lu Xingping heard that the mountains were so dangerous, he hurriedly agreed: "What mother said is that we still have rice porridge at home, so we can hold on for a while. When it rains, we can grow some vegetables ourselves."
Lu Xing'an also stuck his head out from behind the stove: "Tomorrow, Xingping and I will go for a walk in the nearby mountains. If we can find wild vegetables, we will dig them back. If we can't find them, we will make do with rice porridge. Brother, please don't risk going into the mountains. Now, if you have the time, why not read a book at home."
"Yes, eldest brother is the hope of our family. Only when eldest brother is good can we be good." Lu Xingping giggled as he spoke, and became more energetic in his work.
The words of the two younger brothers made Lu Xinghe feel warm in his heart.
Although life has been difficult these past few years, he feels that it is worth it every time he sees his family getting together.
In the kitchen, Chu Yue felt worried after hearing the conversation between several people.
If I keep doing this, I'm afraid the water I drink will be enough to choke me.
Fortunately, this is in the mountains. If there is really no water, you can still go to the mountains to find water. Life in Niutou Village is probably more difficult than here. I wonder how Xiaotao is doing?
She is still so young, and if someone does something bad, the Chu family will not treat her as a human being.
If they were close, she could still take a sneak peek.
Now that she is married so far away, it is really beyond her reach.
After the porridge was cooked, Chu Yue took out the porridge, heated up the meat and vegetables brought back at noon, and then stir-fried some wild vegetables before serving it to the table.
Since the food at home was almost finished, no one dared to eat meat as much as they had agreed. Everyone picked two or three pieces from the bowl and ate it with rice porridge and wild vegetables.
After eating and returning to the house, Chu Yue sat on the kang and looked at Lu Xinghe who was reading a book in front of the window.
"Ms. sir, if our family is going to build a house, do we need to buy some more rice?"
Lu Xinghe looked away from the book.
"Yes, I'm afraid it will be hard to find old rice in the town. When the time comes, we will buy back the brown rice. When we build the house, our family will also eat brown rice. We can save the old rice to eat after we move."
Chu Yue nodded, "I think so too. The salted vegetables that Xing'an pickled in the cellar are almost edible. If we build a house, there is really no vegetables, so we can only mix the salted vegetables with porridge."
Lu Xinghe hummed: "As long as I can have a bowl of food at this age, my eldest uncle and my second uncle are not very particular people."
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The last time Chu Yue went to Chenji Pharmacy to find Dr. Zhu, she didn't meet anyone. On the fifth day, Dr. Zhu took the time to visit Banpo Village.
He led a donkey and carried the medicine box to the entrance of the village. He stood outside the courtyard of the first house at the entrance of the village and shouted, "Is anyone here?"
The person who went out to see Lu Xinghe was Tian Chunyan. When she saw the doctor carrying a medicine box outside the courtyard gate, she quickly glanced at several rooms.
"Has anyone at home called a doctor?"
Doctor Zhu hurriedly explained: "Sister, I'm just here to ask for directions. Do you know where the Lu family is?"
"The Lu family?" Tian Chunyan stepped forward and opened the courtyard door, "What a coincidence, isn't it? This is the Lu family."
Dr. Zhu tugged at his beard. At that time, the girl told shopkeeper Chen that her mother-in-law was not in good health. The young girl in front of him was full of anger and had a loud voice. She did not look like a sick person.
"Are there no other Lu families?"
Tian Chunyan raised her eyebrows.
"Our old Lu family has the largest number of Lu family members in the village. There are many people with the surname Lu in Banpo Village. Don't they have other characteristics that the doctor wants to ask about?"
Doctor Zhu thought about it and said immediately: "The girl only said that her mother-in-law was in poor health. I forgot her exact name. I only remembered that she lived in Banpo Village and her husband's surname was Lu."
Doctor Zhu's description was unclear, and Tian Chunyan really couldn't guess it for a while.
Moreover, she didn't even make any guesses about Chu Yue. After all, given the conditions at Lao San's family, it was simply impossible for a doctor to come to see him at home.
Not to mention the high medical fees, the average doctor would not just come to see anyone casually unless they are relatives.
Furthermore, in her impression, Chu Yue did not seem like a kind-hearted person.
"Doctor, it's hard for me to guess now. In our village, the elderly people have some health problems. How about I ask my son to take you to ask a few families named Lu in the village?"
When Dr. Zhu heard this, he immediately frowned.
He is a doctor who goes to every household to ask if they want to see a doctor. It's fine if the people don't mind, but why should he beat and scold the people who have taboos?
At this moment, Lu Yufang also came to the entrance of the courtyard.
"The person the doctor is looking for has been to the drug store to sell medicinal materials a few days ago?"
When Dr. Zhu was talking just now, she stood at the door of her room and listened clearly.
The first person that came to her mind at that time was Chu Yue. After all, Chu Yue had just gone to town to sell medicinal materials a few days ago, and it completely matched the family described by the doctor.
"Selling medicinal materials?" Dr. Zhu's eyes lit up, "Yes, yes, that girl sold medicinal materials to Chenji Pharmacy. I came here because she said her mother-in-law was not well. If it had been anyone else, I wouldn't have come. .”
Lu Yufang smiled: "That's it. I'll take you to my third aunt's house."
"Then thank you very much, girl." Doctor Zhu hurriedly pulled his stubborn donkey and followed Lu Yufang towards Lu Xinghe's house. When he saw Lu Yufang walking around waiting for him, he said a little embarrassedly, "Miss Walk ahead and I will keep up, but for some reason my donkey suddenly lost his temper and became very stubborn."
Lu Yufang covered her mouth and smiled, turned around and walked slowly ahead.
