Fisherman Fubao made his fortune by fishing

Zhao smiled and said, "You guys eat first. I'll make the medicine for your cousin before you eat. We're all family, so you don't have to wait for me."

Li Yuer suddenly jumped up to Zhao and sniffed the herbs curiously like an ignorant child. Then, pinching her nose, she said, "How disgusting."

Zhao's expression turned a little unnatural for a moment, but she quickly adjusted her mentality and comforted herself in her heart that the child was immature and she was so old, how could she have the nerve to get angry with the child.

Zhao said kindly, "No medicine smells good. Good medicine tastes bitter. The bitterer it is, the better it cures the disease."

"Really?" Zhao didn't intend to argue with her, but she didn't intend to let it go. She came here to cause trouble, didn't she?

"My father broke his leg a few days ago, and it was Grandpa Liu, the best bone-setting doctor in town, who treated him. Grandpa Liu is very kind, and the medicine he prescribed for my father was not so disgusting.

Grandma and Sister Mei'er made medicine for my father every day. After a few days, Grandpa Liu said that my father's legs had grown longer and that as long as he took good care of himself in the future, he would be able to walk like before. "

At first, Zhao didn't take it seriously, thinking it was just a child exaggerating.

But the more she listened, the more she felt something was wrong, and the more uneasy she felt.

She paused while putting the medicine into the medicine jar, then turned to look at Li Yuer and said, "Yu Baoer, what you said is true. After drinking the medicine for a few days, the broken leg will grow back."

Li Yuer nodded repeatedly and gestured with his hands: "After my father drank the medicine for a few days, the wound stopped hurting and started to itch. Grandpa Li said that new flesh was growing and it would be completely healed in a few days. Yu Baoer is a good child and never lies. If you don't believe me, ask my grandpa and grandma. My father can now use a stick to get around."

After saying that, Li Yu'er didn't wait for Zhao to continue asking questions, and turned around and jumped out, "Yu Bao'er is hungry, I have to go eat."

Zhao hesitated again and again, put the herbs into the medicine jar, and took it out again, repeating this three times. Finally, she made up her mind, wrapped the herbs in oil paper again, and put them on the top of the cupboard.

It is said that suspicion breeds evil, let alone a well-founded suspicion. The more Zhao thought about it, the more unsure she felt. She only had this one son, and no matter whether this matter was true or not, she couldn't afford to take the risk if there was anything fishy about it.

Having made up her mind, she picked up the lighter meal she had prepared for Brother Yi and went to the landlord's room.

Zhao knocked on the door a few times as usual, then pushed it open. She didn't expect her son to respond.

Ever since the accident, Brother Yi has been very depressed and occasionally falls into a coma.

At first, she thought that the medicine was working. According to common sense, the illness would heal quickly after taking the medicine and sleeping. But later she found that not only did Brother Yi not get better, the wound on his hand was bleeding from time to time. Brother Yi's health was getting worse and worse. In recent days, he seemed to have caught a cold and kept coughing, which made her feel very distressed.

It is said that when a child is sick, the mother feels the pain. Many times, she almost collapsed, but if she collapsed, what would Brother Yi do?

To her surprise, Cai Junyi was sitting at the desk, staring at a piece of paper in a daze.

Zhao was illiterate and didn't know what was written on the paper, but she could tell that the paper seemed very important to her son.

"Brother Yi, it's time to eat."

Cai Junyi retracted his gaze and looked at Zhao, "Lao Niang, just leave it alone."

Zhao didn't leave, but sat down beside him.

"Brother Yi, Mom wants to ask you something."

Hearing this, Cai Junyi turned his face away, looking as if he didn't want to say anything.

"Don't be afraid. I won't ask you anything else. I just want to ask how you are doing recently. Is the wound on your hand getting better?"

In fact, it was not difficult to tell from his face that Cai Junyi's health was getting worse day by day, but Zhao still wanted to hear it from her son himself. She always felt that her son was hiding something big from them.

Cai Junyi lowered his eyelids and said in a very low voice: "Nothing."

Zhao felt even more depressed. She knew her son and knew he had made up his mind not to tell them the truth.

She reached out for his hand, but he dodged it. Cai Junyi took the opportunity to put his right hand into his sleeve.

Even for a moment, Zhao saw the glaring red on the gauze on his right hand.

Zhao said earnestly, "Brother Yi, you are the only child of our father and mother. If anything happened to you, we would not be left alone. Son, what happened to you? Can't you just tell mother the truth?"

Cai Junyi was struggling painfully in his heart at this moment, but in the end he said nothing.

He couldn't say it. How could he say it? It would be fine if he died, but what was the point in involving his family?

Zhao sighed lightly and walked away, looking back every few steps.

At noon, the aroma of Zhao's cooking spread far away in the village.

This attracted a group of greedy little kids to wander around the gate.

"Brother Naonao, what do you think is making at Uncle Cai's house that smells so good?" Erdan bit his fingers, saliva at the corners of his mouth.

"Need I say more? It must be meat! It smells so good, there must be at least a big bowl of it!" Naonao stretched his neck and sniffed hard towards the courtyard wall.

Nana was shaking her head and imitating her uncle's sniffing, with the two pigtails on her head swinging back and forth.

"It would be nice if I could try a piece." Biaozi said naively.

Nao Nao pouted and said, "You wish. Do you have any meat for me to eat?"

Biaozi immediately shook his head, "No, I don't even have enough to eat." He scratched his head and then said, "My family doesn't have meat. We only had dumplings during the Chinese New Year last year. I didn't taste much meat, it was all vegetables. It's not as good as the meat aroma from Uncle Cai's house from so far away."

Naonao was very upset and said, "How about we go eat meat too?"

Biaozi took it seriously and asked with bright eyes: "Brother Naonao, where are we going to eat meat?"

"Let's go fishing and eat seafood."

"Ah?" Erdan said reluctantly, "It's winter, and the sea is closed. Where can we get seafood? Besides, seafood smells fishy. We are tired of eating it. It doesn't smell like meat."

Naonao patted him on the forehead and said, "Stop talking so much nonsense. Just tell me whether you are going or not! I know where I can go to the beach. The sea is not closed there."

"Go, go, go!" Erdan said hurriedly, fearing that the other party would not take him with them. Seafood is not as delicious as meat, but it is meat nonetheless. Fresh seafood is much more delicious than the salted fish that has been eaten for a whole winter.

"Squeak-"

The door of Cai's house was opened, and the children were stunned and didn't have time to run away.

Li Yuer stood inside the door, looking down at them.

"You guys want to go fishing?"

"Who are you? Why are you here while we're going to customs?" Nao Nao asked back, "Why did you come out of Mr. Cai's house?"

In fact, they had known that there were guests at the Cai family, but they just didn't know them.

Li Yuer said: "My name is Li Yuer, you can call me Yu Baoer, the Uncle Cai you are talking about is my uncle, I am here with my grandma to visit relatives."

Li Yuer was wearing a goose yellow fine cloth dress and light blue pants. Her pretty eyes and eyebrows were vivid and lively, which made her very different from most of the children in the village who were dressed in gray.

Children also know how to judge people by their appearance. They think Li Yu'er is quite capable, so Nao Nao curled his lips and muttered quietly, "Idiot from the city."

Biaozi suddenly asked: "Did you eat meat at noon?"

Li Yuer was stunned for a moment, then patted his chest proudly and said, "Of course, I ate a small bowl." He even gestured.

"Wow! You are so awesome!" Erdan said enviously.

Nannan also clapped her hands and said, "Eating meat is awesome!"

Li Yuer said proudly: "This is nothing. If you take me to the sea, I will give you meat to eat. How about that?"

Erdan didn't believe it, "Is it true?"

Who would exchange meat for seafood? That person is really stupid.

"Of course, I, Li Yuer, always keep my word. I will do whatever I say."

Nao Nao asked: "How much meat can you exchange for?"

Li Yuer looked at him twice and tried to bargain, which was not bad.

"It depends on the situation, but I won't let you suffer any loss."

Naonao gave a wink, and several people formed a circle and started whispering with their backs to Li Yuer.

Soon, Nao Nao said, "Okay, we'll take you there, but you have to show us the meat first."

Li Yuer walked in and came out again with a chicken drumstick in his hand.

This was given to her by Zhao after lunch, wrapped in oil paper, probably to thank her for reminding her about the medicine.

Li Yuer didn't really want to eat, she was more interested in understanding the conditions of the coastal mudflats in Fushui Village.