Yu Ying was speechless because of her bravery.
She withdrew her gaze from the bowl of orange fruit seeds and called out to Fu An.
"You put this fruit somewhere to dry in the sun. I will harvest it when night falls."
Fu An looked at his uncle and then his aunt, and seemed to understand something.
She even made her brother-in-law who had mobility issues do the work.
When Fu An was about to go out, Yu Ying suddenly remembered something and hurriedly called to him: "Wait a minute."
Fu An turned back to look at her in confusion.
Yu Ying asked: "Don't tell your grandma that I ordered your uncle to do the work."
Fu Wei lowered his eyes and wiped his hands for a moment, then slightly raised his eyes to glance at her.
Ask him to help, but he still comes secretly?
When Fu An was puzzled, he heard her say again: "If your grandma knew, she would definitely help your uncle do it. You definitely don't want to see your grandma tired."
When Fu An heard this, he immediately frowned and said, "That won't work."
"Since you don't want your grandma to know, then keep it a secret."
Fu An felt a little sorry for his uncle, so he hesitated for a moment.
After a pause, he nodded, glanced at his uncle guiltily, turned around decisively, and left the house without looking back.
When Yu Ying saw the look Fu An gave Fu Wei, she felt guilty, but not much.
Yu Ying put down the medicinal wine and brought in a basin of cold water.
She twisted the towel half dry and said to him: "Pull down your clothes."
Fu Wei was slightly suspicious: "No medicinal wine?"
Yu Ying explained: "It stands to reason that it should be applied coldly, but there are no ice cubes and the water is not very cold, so I can only apply a compress on what is there first, and then use medicinal wine to rub away the congestion tomorrow morning."
She unfolded the cloth and looked at him quietly.
After a moment of silence, Fu Wei took off the shirt he had just put on, exposing his left shoulder and arm.
Yu Ying was about to put a cloth on the bruised area, but she saw that there were old wounds where she hadn't looked carefully just now.
The skirt of the clothes is unbuttoned outwards, so it is difficult to cover the chest.
The thin chest still has the shadow of the firmness and undulations of the past, and there are tiny bruises, large and small, on the cold white chest.
- Like a scrape being dragged away.
As soon as the thought came to her mind, her eyes moved and fell on his shoulder blades, where there were still blood stasis and scab marks that had not yet dissipated.
Yu Ying suddenly recalled that there were traces of blood stasis and abrasions on his legs, feet and knee joints.
She had previously thought that the injuries were caused by someone breaking her legs, so she didn't think about it in detail. Now that she thought about it, it was more like being dragged and rubbed on the ground.
She didn't move for a few breaths. Fu Wei seemed to be aware of her scrutiny and said in an indifferent voice: "It's just an old injury."
It's just an old wound...
But Yu Ying knew that for him, the present was an old wound, but the past was also a new wound.
She closed her eyes, exhaled secretly, and then covered his arm with a slightly cool cloth.
His fingertips traced the skin of his arm, and Fu Wei's arm tightened slightly.
Yu Ying didn't notice, but just told her: "Every once in a while, when the cloth is slightly warm, you can change it, wash it, and apply it again."
Fu Wei nodded slightly and responded.
Yu Ying didn't ask anything, just said: "Except for the blood stasis on the leg which is temporarily immobilized, the blood stasis in other places on your body can be applied with hot compresses tomorrow."
Fu Wei pressed the wet cloth and remained silent for a long time. When Yu Ying pushed up her sleeves that had slipped down further and was about to turn around and leave the room, she spoke again.
"You know about me?"
Yu Ying, who was turning around, turned back to look at him, wondering if it was too late for him to ask now.
But he still nodded and replied: "I know better."
Fu Wei narrowed his eyes: "Since you know, you should know that the person who has exchanged identities with me for twenty years does not want me to live well. What he wants is for me to live a hard and miserable life. He is now powerful and wants to destroy me again. , it’s easy to destroy everyone around me.”
"Then what?" Yu Ying asked.
Fu Wei raised his eyes, looked at her, and spoke slowly: "It would be easy for him to destroy you, and all your efforts now will be in vain."
How could Yu Ying not know this, but she also knew that the era of the Wuling County Governor would soon pass.
Moreover, when war breaks out, she, a woman, may not be able to protect herself.
But he was able to protect himself even if he had a broken leg, so it was right to stay with him.
These cannot be said.
Yu Ying then changed her way of saying: "Where can I go? Is there a home all over the world, or should I go back to the Yu family?"
She paused and then said: "When I return to the Yu family, will that person let me go?"
Stay silent in danger.
Yu Ying asked again: "After returning to the Yu family, do you think I can survive in the Yu family?"
The Yu family are the people who know Yu Liuniang best. It is impossible for her to play the role perfectly. Furthermore, by playing another person for a long time, she is afraid that over time, she will even forget who she is.
Perhaps he also thought that her situation seemed to be bad no matter where she was, so Fu Wei also fell silent.
Yu Ying sighed helplessly and said: "Nowadays, the only way is for soldiers to cover up the water and earth, and to act according to the situation. You don't need to tell me so much, I know everything you need to know."
She even knew things she shouldn't know.
After she said this, she turned and walked towards the door.
Fu Wei watched her open the straw curtain and walk out, lost in thought.
After a while, he put the warm cloth into the basin, then opened the thin quilt and looked at the pair of legs that he had disliked for more than a month.
Through the thin layer of fabric, it was obvious that something was fixed on the legs, which was unusually prominent.
After looking at it for a few seconds, he originally wanted to put the quilt back on, but after grabbing the quilt in his hand, he finally pushed the quilt into the corner.
Then, Fu Wei picked up the bamboo pole beside the bed, opened the straw curtain of the window, and looked out of the house.
In the courtyard, Fu'an, who was thin and tanned, was washing wild vegetables and adding fire to the pottery stove. He was only eight years old, but he had already become a householder.
Luo Shi, who was aging due to overwork in her early years, was stooped and had bad eyesight. She could only sit on a wooden pier and couldn't help even if she wanted to.
Little Funing has always seemed sick because she couldn't keep up with her food. She is almost five years old, but she can't even speak.
Fu Wei's last gaze fell on Yu Ying.
She has a lot of secrets, but needless to say, her current situation isn't much better.
They all have their own misfortunes, and they couldn't even drink gruel before, but aren't they still living tenaciously now?
I want to die but I can't.
He thought that since he had to live forever, maybe it was time to change his way of living.
By the time dinner was ready, it was already dark.
The thatched house was dark, so Yu Ying brought the pottery stove into the thatched house and lit the firewood again. There was a dim light in the house, but it was a little hot.
In order not to block the light, she boiled the medicine in only one stove.
The straw curtains on the windows and doors were opened for ventilation to prevent smoke from filling the house.
When Yu Ying brought the dishes to the table, she found that Fu Wei had not continued to cover his legs with the thin quilt.
I secretly thought that this might be a good change.
She brought up the cabbage and egg drop soup in two wooden bowls, and then placed the wild amaranth, which was simply fried with lard residue, on the table.
When the dishes were served, Fu An and Fu Ning stared at the oily man's eyes without even blinking.
Not to mention that after my uncle came, but also before he came, the brother and sister rarely ate meat, and the memory of eating meat still lingered on the day their parents left to go to the quarry.
Each dish and soup only contained a little bit of meat, but it was already extremely rich for the two brothers and sisters.
Yu Ying scooped half a bowl of rice for everyone, while Fu Ning had less.
Although it is not full, it is still more filling than porridge.
Fu Wei glanced at the dishes on the table, then at the half bowl of rice in front of him. He was silent for a moment before looking at Yu Ying.
In this barren Lingnan, poor Jade County, for only half a month, she surprised people again and again.
The Fu family went from having nothing to eating rice and non-vegetarian food, all because of her ability.
Yu Ying noticed Fu Wei's gaze. She raised her eyes and looked at each other. After a breath, Fu Wei narrowed her eyes, retracted her gaze and picked up the bowl and chopsticks.
Yu Ying felt confused, but she didn't say anything. She just said, "Let's eat."
Fu An and Fu Ning picked up the rice bowl, but they only dared to put wild vegetables and not oil residue. During this period, Fu An only dared to carefully put a piece of oil residue into his grandmother's bowl.
The moment Luo Shi ate the meat, he paused.
Yu Ying felt a little uncomfortable when she saw that they were so careful even when they ate their food.
There is not a lot of oil residue, so I estimate that one portion is about two grains per person.
Yu Ying still pulled out the oil residue from the wild vegetables, put two pieces into Fu Ning's bowl, and put another piece into Luo Shi's bowl.
Luo Shi seemed to feel it. When Yu Ying was picking up the second pill, she hurriedly covered her bowl and said, "I don't need it. You eat it. You eat it."
Yu Ying said calmly: "Eat it, otherwise the two children will not dare to eat it."
Luo Shi whispered: "One bite is enough for me. You have worked hard, so you can eat."
Yu Ying gave Fu An a look.
Fu An was stunned for a moment, he seemed to understand what she meant.
After thinking about it, he said to his grandmother: "Grandma doesn't eat it, and neither do we."
Even Fu Ning put the bowl on the table.
Although Luo Shi couldn't see it, he heard the sound of the bowl being put down. After hesitating for a moment, he quickly moved his hand away from the mouth of the bowl.
Yu Ying gave her two pills, and then gave them to Fu An. Fu An looked at her in surprise, then lowered his head and whispered "Thank you" in a low voice.
When it was his turn to be in danger, I saw him randomly picking up the smallest piece of oil residue.
Yu Ying stopped worrying about him.
Fu Wei's desire for food and drink is not heavy, and after pinching him once, he did not pinch him a second time.
After finishing the meal, Yu Ying gave each of them half a bowl of egg soup that was still slightly warm.
After a bowl of egg drop soup entered his stomach, he felt comfortable all over, and Fu An felt as if he had strength all over his body.
After eating and drinking, both children's faces were filled with satisfied smiles.
Fu An consciously cleaned up the dishes.
The pottery stove was extremely hot, so Yu Ying did not move out. Instead, she heated hot water in the house and planned to let several of them take turns scrubbing it with hot water.
There were no conditions before, so the grandparents and grandchildren, including Fu Wei, all used cold water. The whole family was already weak, and washing in the cold river water would only make them more weak and cold.
Yu Ying lit a fire in the courtyard. After the light came, her grandparents and grandchildren also sat in the courtyard.
The refreshing and gentle wind carries the fresh smell of green grass, which calms down people's mood.
Just when Yu Ying was about to rub the seeds of the lily fruit, Fu An ran over and said with an unnatural look on his face: "I'll do it, you rest."
His awkward behavior made Yu Ying amused: "No need, you are weak and can't do it well."
It is not easy to knead the seeds into thick juice.
I originally thought about letting Fu Wei do it, but seeing the blood on his arm, I decided to forget it and wait for two days.
While rubbing the seeds of the pomelo fruit, the hot water was already boiling. Yu Ying asked Fu An to take out some new cloth towels that she had cut out from the house.
"You, your sister, and grandma, one person each," she said.
Fu An was stunned: "For us?"
Yu Ying nodded. The cloth towel they used was in some state of tatters. She didn't see it, so she went to pull off a few feet of cloth today.
Fu An was surprised and happy at the same time, as if he had found a treasure. He couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, and then secretly said to his sister: "Sister, we have new towels."
Yu Ying then asked Fu An to scoop half a basin of water into her house, and then helped Luo Shi into the house.
These days, Luo Shi and Fu Ning went to Yu Ying's house to clean up at night.
While Roche was scrubbing, she would wait outside the house.
When watching Fu An help Luo Shi into the house, Yu Ying felt that this was not a long-term solution.
After thinking about it, maybe when I build the kitchen tomorrow, I can suggest that a little space be used as a bathroom.
While thinking about how to do it, she rubbed the fruit seeds. After the thick slurry came out, she poured it into the bucket, let it sit for a while, and then put it into the water tank after all the water was used up.
Luo Shi groped his way out of the house, the water boiled again, and it was Fu Ning's turn.
Fu Ning also scrubbed it by herself, but because she was too young, she couldn't always wash it clean.
Yu Ying filled a new basin with hot water, mixed it with cold water and brought it into the house. At the same time, she asked Fu An to bring the old basin into the house.
Pulling Fu Ning into the room, he asked her warmly: "Auntie, can I help you take a bath?"
Fu Ning pinched the hem of his clothes and then nodded gently.
After taking off her clothes, Yu Ying was startled when she saw Fu Ning, who was so thin that her ribs could be seen.
Although I was shocked, I also knew that even after a few days of improvement in food, I wouldn't be able to gain much meat. Not to mention that the current food was not very good. To gain meat, it would still take a while to slowly recover.
After regaining her mind, Fu Ning stood in the old wooden basin, then scooped up water from a ladle and poured it on her body.
Help her wipe the dirt off her body.
Fu Ning looked at his little aunt who was helping him take a bath, and felt warm in his heart, and he liked her even more.
After Yu Ying finished all the things, she simply scrubbed. When she came out of the house to pour water, she found Fu Ning squatting outside the house.
Yu Ying asked: "Why don't you go back to sleep?"
Fu Ning stood up, stretched out his little hand to grab Yu Ying's clothes, and looked at her eagerly.
Yu Ying seemed to understand what she meant. She asked tentatively: "Do you want to sleep with me?"
