An orphan girl from a farming family: Everyday farming in the mountains during natural disasters

Heihei saw that Xia Qingyue finally responded. Heihei made excited humming sounds and scooped water even harder with the ladle in his mouth.

The heat was dissipated by the cool feeling, and Xia Qingyue felt as if her whole body was soaked in ice water. She felt a little cold and her whole body was shivering.

No, it's too cold.

it's too cold.

Under the impact of strong discomfort, Xia Qingyue opened her eyes, and everything she saw was pitch black, and she couldn't see anything clearly.

"No no no!"

A dog barking sound was heard from far away, and two bright eyes were seen in the darkness.

"Heihei?" Xia Qingyue was a little dazed and couldn't figure out the situation for a moment.

Why is it so dark? Why is she lying on the ground, still wet?

When the night wind blew, she sneezed three times and shivered.

"so cold!"

She rubbed her hands and stood up, barely able to stand still, her head feeling dizzy.

"Ah, I remembered!"

She remembered that she felt dizzy and fell to the ground. She lost consciousness and felt her body was hot as fire at first, and then as if she fell into an ice cellar, freezing cold.

Xia Qingyue clenched her hands, then released them. Her palms were hot and slightly warm.

"I have a fever and a cold!"

When she was working in the afternoon, her face became red and hot, and she thought it was due to the hot weather.

She looked around in horror. The sky and the earth were dark. She had been unconscious from the afternoon until dark and had no idea how long she had been unconscious.

As I was walking, I stepped on something hard and almost fell.

"Mmmm!" Heihei picked up the water scoop that fell on the ground.

Xia Qingyue followed the sound and felt smooth black fur, a wet face, and then an empty water scoop. As her fingers moved, she could feel some sunken marks on the scoop.

She suddenly realized that it was Heihei who saved her life!

The marks on the scoop are black teeth marks!

"Heihei, you saved me!"

Xia Qingyue felt relieved for surviving the disaster, but also felt lingering fear. With mixed emotions, tears welled up in her eyes. She hooked her hands around the black head and cried bitterly beside it.

If Heihei hadn't scooped up water and poured it on her to lower her temperature, why would she not have woken up from the high fever?

The terrible thoughts were like dense tree roots, firmly rooted in her mind and could not be shaken off.

She was just an ordinary person, timid and afraid of death, especially since she had just traveled to another world and lived a peaceful and stable life in seclusion. She didn't want to die so soon, but wanted to live a healthy, simple and happy life.

"Woooooooo..."

Xia Qingyue was very sad and cried for a while. Her weak body could not bear it anymore and she started to feel dizzy again.

She wiped away her tears, pulled herself together, and consoled herself: "Don't be afraid, it's okay, I'm still alive!"

Xia Qingyue walked to the earthen stove in the kitchen in the dark, lit the pine needles with a flint, and started a fire to dispel the darkness around her.

While adding water to the pot and boiling it, she went to the utility room to find some herbs that could dispel wind-heat, such as bupleurum, plantain, and honeysuckle.

She walked in front, and Heihei followed closely, obviously worried.

After finding the herbs, Xia Qingyue was deeply moved to see Heihei following her. With tears in her eyes, she stroked its furry head and choked up, "Thank you, Heihei!

Fortunately, fortunately I still have you!"

Heihei raised his head slightly and took the initiative to rub against her.

She washed the herbs and put them into the pot to boil. She beat two eggs to make steamed eggs and steamed duck eggs for Heihei.

Although she didn't feel hungry, she had a cold now and needed to eat something nutritious to help her body recover.

Xia Qingyue, who had a poor appetite, forced herself to finish the steamed egg. The chickens and ducks in the pen were not fed and would cry out every once in a while. She dragged her tired and weak body to pour out some fish and shrimp in the wooden barrel for them to eat.

Today she suddenly fainted and the fish cage was not retrieved.

After that, the bowl of black herbal water was cooled to the right temperature. It smelled strange, and you could imagine how bitter it was.

She held her breath, closed her eyes, picked up the bowl and drank it all in one breath.

Bitter!

His whole face was wrinkled.

After taking the medicine, she quickly got some hot water to wash up. Bathing takes a lot of energy and she didn't have the strength to do it now, so she wet a cloth with warm water to wipe her body and soaked her feet for a while.

After changing into clean clothes, Xia Qingyue fell drowsily on the bed. Before she lost consciousness, she tried her best to pull up the quilt and wrap her whole body.

One night, she felt hot and cold, in dire straits, and woke up twice in such discomfort.

When she woke up the second time, she sat up and drank the bowl of medicine beside the bed.

The medicine was cold and she didn't have the energy to get up and heat it up.

From beginning to end, Heihei stayed by her side all the time. Whenever she made the slightest movement, he would immediately come to the bedside to check.

At dawn, Xia Qingyue, who had been frowning and looking painful in her sleep, gradually relaxed and her breathing became long.

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Opening her eyes, Xia Qingyue looked up at the bright sky and realized that it was the next day and dawn had arrived.

She raised her hand to touch her forehead and was surprised to find that it was no longer hot.

The fever is gone!

She sat up with a smile. Although her fever was gone, she still felt a little dizzy and had no strength in her body.

They say that illness comes like a mountain falling and goes like a thread being pulled out. She has been working too hard recently, doing so much work every day that she could collapse just as easily.

To recuperate, you need to rest and it is better to rest quietly.

Xia Qingyue decided not to go out until she recovered from her illness and to stay in the tiankeng to recuperate.

After drinking the herbal medicine for several days in a row, Xia Qingyue's mouth felt tasteless and bland. She could resist eating spicy food and just hoped to get better soon.

She hasn't done much work in the past few days and has been lying in bed most of the time. Now that she has recovered some energy, she will wander around the tiankeng and water the vegetable garden.

After six days of recuperation, Xia Qingyue's cold was finally completely cured.

Having just recovered from a serious illness, she did not dare to be careless and did not do any heavy or strenuous work. However, she felt suffocated after staying in the tiankeng for so many days and could not sit still.

Maybe it was because the weather was hot. Since evening, mosquitoes appeared. They were not the big mosquitoes that were common in the previous life, but tiny little mosquitoes.

Don't be fooled by their small size, they can bite people very hard, and a big, extremely itchy bump will appear immediately.

So, that afternoon, she carried a backpack and went out, wanting to find some plants such as mugwort and mint to make her own mosquito coils to repel mosquitoes. She also took the opportunity to walk downstream of the stream to see if there were any mulberries. They were sweet and she wanted to eat some of them very much.

On her way down the stream she picked some mugwort.

There are a lot of cattails growing by the stream. Cattail sticks are good things and can be used to repel mosquitoes and relieve itching, but they are only available after August.

When they reached the downstream, Heihei had to pee urgently, so he stopped to take care of a personal problem. Xia Qingyue took the lead and headed straight for the mulberry trees. When she thought of the mulberry fruits, she subconsciously started saliva production and swallowed.

She hurried over and saw some black and purple fruits on the mulberry tree. She was very happy and picked a few and put them in her mouth. The juice was sweet.

Some mulberries were eaten by birds and insects, but she ignored them and only picked the good ones.

As I was picking the fruits, I heard footsteps and voices behind me:

"Look over there, there are people there, is that tree a mulberry tree? I see mulberries on it!"