What came into view was a face whose nose was red from the cold but whose cheeks were pale due to blood loss.
Li Qiao put his finger under the man's nose. After a moment, he looked at Tao Zhu and said, "You're still alive. Give me the shovel. Go back and tell Ershan and Xia Ge'er that someone was unconscious due to the cold and thin clothes. Let them The two of you went into the kitchen to boil hot water."
"Also, ask them to keep it a secret and don't tell anyone else."
Tao Zhu understood that this was because he was afraid of Li Ershan and Li Xia. He said hello, handed the shovel to Li Qiao, and then hurried into the yard.
Li Qiao quickly dug the man out of the snow. The man was originally lying on his stomach. After Li Qiao dug him out, the bright red snow under his body was exposed. It was very large and looked very bright in this late winter morning. Very dazzling.
Li Qiao took off the man's robe. When he was taking off the robe, a white jade pendant fell from the man's waist. Li Qiao stuffed it into the man's arms, and then wrapped the red snow with his robe.
He was fast and it took less than a minute to do all this. Then he lifted the man on his shoulders and walked quickly into the yard.
Alas, he has lived in comfort for too long, so much so that he has lost all the vigilance and vigilance he developed during the last days.
There was such a person at his door last night. He didn't sleep at all. He hugged Tao Zhu and slept soundly in the warm quilt.
With this kind of vigilance, if like what happened in the TV series, and the gangster blew smoke into his and Tao Zhu's house first, he would most likely be in trouble.
The gentle country is intoxicating.
There was a small room with a kang in the backyard, but because no one lived there, the kang was bare. Li Qiao put the man on the kang, and then went to his and Tao Zhu's bedroom to get the quilt and medicine box.
The wound on this man's body is no longer bleeding, but it would be better to put some medicine on the wound.
At this time Tao Zhu came over and lit the kang with firewood.
Li Qiao carried the quilt and the medicine box back to the small room. He said to Tao Zhu, "We have to burn the package on the ground. It contains blood-stained snow and cannot be seen by outsiders."
"Okay." Tao Zhu carried the package and went out.
Li Qiao first spread the bedding on the kang, then tucked the man into the bed, and then used scissors to cut off the fabric from the man's wound.
The wound was bloody, so he wiped away the blood with cotton. There was no alcohol or iodophor here, so he applied medicine directly without disinfecting it.
This man's wound was on his abdomen and was as long as a finger. The wound was not big, but it was a bit deep, otherwise it wouldn't have bled so much.
He applied the golden sore medicine and bandaged it with cotton cloth. While he was busy working, Tao Zhu came in and he finished burning the package.
There was worry on his face: "Li Qiao, is this person a good person? Will he cause us trouble?"
"It doesn't matter whether he is a good person or a bad person, we are here to save people anyway. Saving people is right, let him wake up first."
"Don't worry, this is the capital."
Li Qiao turned to look at him and gave him a comforting smile.
Tao Zhu looked at his familiar smiling face, and the worries in his heart were wiped away little by little. Yes, he and Li Qiao were saving people anyway, and such a big man couldn't just watch him die.
He stood beside the bed: "Do you need my help?"
"It's okay, he is a man, I can do it myself." Li Qiao can do it by himself.
Seeing this, Tao Zhu put his hands behind his back and looked at the man in black carefully: "The material of his clothes is good, but he wears many layers. No wonder he is still alive after lying on the snow for so long."
"His face is quite pale, and it looks like he has never done farm work."
"But there are calluses on his hands, which should have been rubbed out during sword practice." Li Qiao said.
"Then who do you think he is?" Tao Zhu asked.
"He must be a young man from a wealthy family. There are calluses on his palms and fingers. One is from practicing sword practice, and the other is from practicing calligraphy. And even if he is unconscious, his whole body is extraordinary."
Li Qiao said, knotting the cotton cloth wrapped around the man's wound and wrapping it up.
He clapped his hands with satisfaction, then reached into the man's arms and took out the white jade pendant.
The jade pendant is made of fine mutton-fat jade, and its shape is very unique. It is actually a bamboo leaf.
However, there is an obvious gap at the end of the leaf.
Li Qiao weighed the jade pendant in his hand, then handed it to Tao Zhu: "Looking at this jade pendant, you can tell that this person is either rich or noble."
Tao Zhu took the jade pendant and saw the gap at the end. He immediately remembered the crisp sound he heard just now when he pushed the shovel down.
His heart tightened: "I made this gap with a shovel..."
How much does this jade pendant cost?
"It's okay, our family has a big business, can't we afford to pay for a jade pendant? Besides, you didn't know there was anyone under the snow at the time."
Li Qiao stood up as he spoke. He took the jade pendant and stuffed it into the arms of the man in black. Then he went to pack the medicine box behind him: "You continue to clear the snow. I will go back to the study to get a book and keep it. Don't worry. .”
Tao Zhu: "..."
He nodded.
This was true. He didn't know there was anyone under the snow at the time.
The couple left the small room. One put the medicine box back in the bedroom first, and the other carried a shovel and continued to clear the snow at the door.
It was already dark now, and several families in the alley were sweeping snow at their doorsteps. He finished sweeping the snow from his home to Xu's house, and then returned to the yard to cook.
Li Ershan and Li Xia had already boiled the hot water. Tao Zhu returned to the backyard with a bowl of hot water and asked Li Qiao to feed the bowl of hot water to the man in black. He went back to the front yard to make breakfast.
Grain and soy milk, steamed buns, egg pancakes, pork vermicelli buns, pickled radish cubes, take out a piece of the lean meat stewed yesterday and cut it into shreds, stir-fry it with the radish, this breakfast is ready.
The man in black didn't wake up until breakfast.
So Tao Zhu took Li Ershan out. According to the original plan, he was going to buy chickens, ducks and fish today. He would temporarily raise those that should be raised and fry those that should be fried.
Tao Zhu went out, and Li Qiao stayed in the small room reading a book while continuing to guard the man in black.
It was about ten o'clock, and Tao Zhu hadn't come back yet, but there was movement on the bed.
The man in black has a fever.
Li Qiao sighed, put down the book in his hand and went back to the room to look for herbs.
He had read a lot of medical books and stocked a lot of herbal medicine at home, so he could treat the man in black's condition.
Carrying a small stove into the small room, he boiled the herbs, and then he carried a basin of cold water into the small room, preparing to physically cool the man down.
Just as they put the cotton towel into the basin, Tao Zhu and Li Ershan came back.
The two of them went with Shen Hua, Zhuang Quan Zhou Yun, and the eldest brother of the Meng family, and everyone bought a lot of things.
Tao Zhu bought ten fish, five chickens and five ducks. These are used to make fried food. The weather is cold in winter, so the fried food will not go bad if left for half a month.
Tao Zhu put the chicken, duck and fish in the kitchen and then went to the backyard. He wanted to know if the man in black was awake.
"I'm not awake yet, and I have a fever."
Li Qiao had already placed the cotton cloth wetted with cold water on the man in black's forehead and neck, and he continued to wring the cloth to wet it.
If you want the temperature to drop quickly, it's best to apply several cold cloths on your body.
He continued to wet the cloth and prepared to put it on the wrist of the man in black.
"Then you take good care of him, I'm going to the kitchen." Tao Zhu said.
"good."
Tao Zhu left the small room and went to the front yard.
As soon as he entered the kitchen, there was a knock on the courtyard door, followed by Meng Yue's voice.
Meng Yue came to Li Qiao to solve his doubts.
He encountered something he didn't understand.
"Li Qiao is in the backyard, I'll call him." Tao Zhu asked Meng Yue to wait a moment, and he quickly returned to the backyard.
"You go ahead, I'll guard him."
Tao Zhu said to Li Qiao.
"Okay. When the medicine is ready, you can leave it alone. I'll feed it to him when I come back."
"Okay." Tao Zhu nodded.
Li Qiao and Tao Zhu changed shifts. Li Qiao went to the study room in the front yard, while Tao Zhu stayed behind to boil the medicine and watch over this person.
Li Qiao had been guarding the small stove just now, and his body was tainted with the smell of medicine, so when he saw Meng Yue, he smiled and explained: "I saw a good prescription when I was reading a medical book, so I took some herbs to try."
"I admire it." Meng Yue immediately gave a thumbs up. He admired Li Qiao's truth-seeking attitude.
He took out a few books from his arms and followed Li Qiao into the study. He had accumulated a lot of doubts in the past few days, and he was afraid that they would occupy a lot of Li Qiao's time today.
Tao Zhu quickly prepared the medicine. He got bored of waiting and looked at the man in black.
The man in black had a severe fever and his mouth turned white with dryness. He subconsciously opened his mouth to swallow, looking very thirsty.
Moreover, he seemed to be very hot. He twisted his body under the quilt a few times, and then raised his hand to take off his clothes.
Tao Zhu: "..."
He turned quickly.
However, before turning around, a flash of snow-white light broke into his eyes. He blinked, suspecting that he had seen it wrong.
After a moment, he couldn't help but turn back and take a look, just a look.
In the blink of an eye, what caught his eyes was white flowers.
The man in black was not afraid of the wounds on his body opening. He kicked the quilt aside and pulled his heart with both hands, exposing it completely.
The skin there is snow-white and extremely delicate, as if there are no pores.
It's not like a man's skin.
Li Qiao was also white, but not like this.
this……
His watery eyes widened and he was at a loss.
Is it a man or a little brother in bed?
This is related to whether he or Li Qiao will take care of this person.
He looked at the man's eyebrows.
There is nothing there.
Although the mole between his eyebrows is very light, you can see it if you look closely. This is a sign of his being a little brother.
