Li Wenxiu had already laid out the straw, and the couple lay on it, covered with a shabby quilt.
Covering his head with a quilt, Ye Yutong took out the things and whispered: "Mom, eat quickly."
After finishing the biscuits and fruits, the two of them lay on the bed and talked.
Li Wenxiu sighed: "Your uncle Yongchang's Xiaochun, I don't know what's going on in the past two days. He keeps having diarrhea. Your aunt Yongchang is so anxious that there are blisters on her mouth."
Ye Yutong then remembered that in that book, Uncle Yongchang only had two sons and no daughters. Did he die on the way to escape from famine?
This is not impossible. There are many difficulties and dangers on the way to escape. Even if an adult gets sick, it will be difficult to survive, let alone a three-year-old child.
She thought of the two bird eggs that Aunt Yongchang gave her, and said to Li Wenxiu, "Mom, how about I go to the gods and ask them if I can ask them for some medicine?"
Li Wenxiu stretched out his head, looked around, and then whispered:
"Go! Speak carefully to the fairy. If she doesn't agree, forget it. Don't force it. The fairy is so good to our family, so we can't push it too far."
"I understand, mother." After Ye Yutong said that, he flashed into the space.
She first went to the well and fetched two buckets of water. The water she fetched last time was almost finished.
She brought water in bamboo tubes every day. In the past three days, they had drank two large barrels of well water.
This well is very magical. For example, if the water is drawn today, it will rise to its original position in two days. Although the water rises slowly, it will be enough for their family of five to drink.
She filled the boiled well water in a bamboo tube, went to the basement to get a pack of antidiarrheal powder, and poured a small amount into it.
Adults should take one packet of this medicine. Xiaochun is three years old, so taking half a packet should be enough.
She didn't know what kind of disease Xiaochun had, but taking antidiarrheal powder for diarrhea should be symptomatic, right?
She was afraid that the children would lose their appetite, so she added some sugar.
After getting these ready, seeing that it was still early, she took the basket and went to the mountain again. She hadn't picked up eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs for three days. I don't know how many were destroyed by those beasts.
She plans to come in every night from now on to pick up eggs and harvest the ripe vegetables in the fields.
They don’t know how long they will have to walk on the road, but from now on they will be able to feed their family in this space. The food in the fields is not willing to be wasted at all.
Now there are more than 20 geese and hundreds of chickens and ducks on the mountain. They haven't come in for three days, and the ground is full of eggs.
She ran to the basement four times in total before she finished picking up the eggs on the mountain, and her small body almost collapsed from exhaustion.
She really didn't have the strength to pick the fruits and vegetables in the field, so she was going to let her mother come in and clean them up tomorrow.
When I was about to go out with the bamboo tube, I thought about it and picked up three more rye buns and some biscuits I baked myself.
Li Wenxiu was afraid that others would see that her daughter was not under the quilt, so she held up the quilt with her hands and legs. Ye Yutong came out of the space and lay in her arms.
"Mom, this is the medicine given by the gods. Give it to Aunt Yongchang and let her feed it to Xiaochun."
He took out another cloth bag and said, "There is some food in here. Give it to sister Xiaochun as well."
Li Wenxiu took the bamboo tube and cloth bag and looked around. Not far away, there were some people who were awake and sitting there talking.
The floor shop built by Yongchang's family is near Ye Mingxuan and Ye Mingzhe's floor shop.
Li Wenxiu quietly walked over, sat next to her son's bed, and shouted softly: "Guilan, Guilan."
Yongchang's daughter-in-law was holding Xiaochun in tears, while Yongchang was sitting there, looking at his little daughter in silence.
The two sons didn't sleep either, and both looked at their sister in their mother's arms with red eyes.
Yongchang heard someone calling his wife's name, glanced back, and picked her up.
He said to his daughter-in-law, "Sister-in-law Wenxiu is calling you. Go and see if anything is wrong."
She wiped her tears and said, "Then let me go over and take a look. You can cover my daughter's belly so she doesn't catch a cold."
Wang Guilan came over and said with a forced smile: "Sister-in-law, why haven't you rested at this late hour?"
Li Wenxiu pushed her two sons inside and pulled her to sit down. Take out the cloth bag and bamboo tube.
He whispered in her ear: "Guilan, when I went to town to see Tongtong last time, I asked the doctor to prescribe some antidiarrheal medicine. I have mixed it with water. Do you want to give it to Xiaochun? "
Wang Guilan asked in surprise: "Sister-in-law, do you really have the medicine? Then can my Xiaochun be saved?" After speaking, she covered her mouth and started to cry.
Li Wenxiu shushed her and said in a low voice: "I don't know if this medicine is useful for Xiaochun? If you don't worry, let Xiaochun take a meal and try it."
Wang Guilan held her hand tightly and said gratefully: "Sister-in-law, I know you took out this life-saving medicine for my Xiaochun. Don't worry, no matter whether Xiaochun can recover or not? Our family will remember you. A great favor.”
Li Wenxiu sighed in her heart. She knew that the magic medicine would definitely work, so she said this just so that Yongchang could take care of her children on the way.
It's not that she likes to play tricks, she knows how dangerous the road to escape is.
She doesn't even have a man in her family, so she has to think of ways to win over a few people? But the concern for Xiaochun is also sincere.
She patted Wang Guilan's hand and said with a smile: "Guilan, what are you talking about? Dafeng and Yongchang are good brothers who grew up together.
The two of us have been like sisters over the years. Xiaochun is my biological niece. Could it be that I have to watch her get sick? Can I still hide the medicine and not take it out?
Then who am I, your sister-in-law, and how can I be worthy of the friendship between our two families over the years? "
"Sister-in-law." Wang Guilan was so moved that her eyes turned red after hearing her words.
Li Wenxiu took out the cloth bag again and whispered to her in a low voice, "There is some food in this. You can take it to replenish Xiaochun's health, and don't let anyone see it."
When she heard that it was food, Wang Guilan quickly refused and said, "Sister-in-law, we have food at home. You can take these things back and let the children eat them!"
Thinking of what her man said yesterday, she whispered: "Yongchang told me yesterday that if we go to the capital, we may have to walk for a month or two. Sister-in-law, your family must save some food."
Li Wenxiu listened to what she said and thought that there must be a way for their family's food to come from.
He leaned into her ear and said, "Guilan, to tell you the truth, your brother Dafeng left some money for us when he left, but all that money was used for Tongtong's medical treatment.
My son-in-law gave us some money two days ago, and our family also bought some food. We should have no problem getting food to the capital. "
After saying that, Li Wenxiu thrust the cloth bag and bamboo tube into her hands.
"Go back quickly, feed Xiaochun the water from the bamboo tube, let her eat something, and sleep with her in your arms at night. Maybe she will be fine tomorrow."
