Farmhouse Green Plum

"Besides, if all the money is used to treat her illness, will my two children and I survive? Sister-in-law, you are so generous, why don't you take out the money to treat her?"

"Is she your wife or my wife? I'm treating her, how could you think of that!" Aunt Meihua was so angry that she jumped up and down, but she could do nothing about it.

After all, Zhao Hu is his brother-in-law, not his son, and as his sister-in-law, she can only do so much.

Daya was frightened. Although villagers seldom went to see a doctor when they were sick and would delay treatment as long as possible, Xiaoxiang's condition was obviously one that could not be delayed. If it was delayed any further, she would really die.

What Zhao Hu did was no different from murder.

She walked to the other side of Xiaoxiang, but like Lai Di, she didn't know how to comfort her. Her father was the bastard, and it was also her father who caused her mother to be critically ill.

Even if Xiaoxiang took out the money she earned, Zhao Hu, as the head of the family, would most likely take the money away without hesitation and would not provide medical treatment for his wife.

Xiaoxiang, on the other hand, will most likely receive a severe beating and be branded as unfilial and secretive.

Many villagers took turns to persuade Zhao Hu, but to no avail, and they dispersed one after another.

Daya looked at Xiaoxiang who was in despair, and recalled what she heard in the clinic the day before the autumn grain was delivered. She gritted her teeth and said to Yang and Uncle Song, "Uncle and Aunt, I don't want to go home tonight. I want to stay here with Xiaoxiang."

Yang looked at Zhang on the bed and scolded her harshly, "How can a girl stay out all night? Do you want to keep your reputation?"

Only then did Daya realize that something was wrong. In addition to Xiaoxiang, the Zhao family also wanted her father Zhao Hu and her brother Zhao Xiaogang.

She immediately changed her mind, "Then I'll go back later and accompany Xiaoxiang first."

There are still quite a few people in the Zhao family at this moment, especially Aunt Meihua and her husband, who are my brother’s sister-in-law. They will definitely not leave for a while.

Yang agreed and only reminded him, "Go home early, don't be too late."

After Uncle Song and Madam Yang left, after a while, Daya whispered, "Xiaoxiang, I'm thirsty, can you help me get some water?"

As he said this, he winked at her obliquely.

Xiaoxiang immediately stood up and walked towards the kitchen, and Daya pulled Lai Di to follow her.

"There's no hot water. I'll boil some for you." Xiaoxiang picked up the kettle and put it down again, saying in a hoarse voice.

"No, I'm not really thirsty." Daya waved her hands, feeling helpless and distressed, "It seems you didn't notice my look at all just now."

"Eye look? What eye look?" Xiaoxiang was at a loss.

Daya shook her head, "You walked so fast, I thought you received it."

"Don't you want some water? Hurry up and pour you some water so I can go back and look after my mother."

Daya looked outside and spoke in a low voice about business: "The day before the harvest was due, when I went to the clinic, I heard Doctor Ma mention a medicine that can cure colds. We can pick it and give it to your mother to try."

"Medicine for colds?" Xiaoxiang was confused and reacted slowly. She repeated the sentence subconsciously before she reacted.

"really?"

She grabbed Daya's hand, her eyes gleaming with hope, "Oh, I really am, we are collecting herbs and selling them every day, how could we forget about this!

Uncle Xu was bitten by a snake and he healed himself by collecting ground tiger grass! We can also collect herbs to treat colds! What is the name of that herb? What does it look like? Let’s go collect it now! "

As she said that, she pulled Daya and was about to go out.

"Wait a minute," Daya tried to resist, "Listen to me first. The medicine is called ephedra. It was Brother Lin who mistook other herbs for ephedra, and Doctor Ma was so angry that he wanted to beat him. I learned this from their conversation.

Ephedra is very easy to confuse with several other herbs, so I wasn't very confident I could identify it correctly."

Xiaoxiang felt as if she was splashed with a basin of ice water, and her excited heart cooled down. She knew very well that the 'Brother Lin' that Daya mentioned was the pharmacist's boy.

The herbs they knew were all taught to Daya by him. He would get them wrong, which shows how easy it is to get them confused.

Lai Di came over and said, "Why are you still hesitating? In this situation, we should try our best. If you don't give it a try, your mother will definitely die. If you give it a try, maybe you can save her!"

After struggling for a while, Xiaoxiang gritted her teeth and said, "Okay! Let's go pick them!"

Daya exhaled softly, "Ephedra has no leaves, it looks like a bunch of thin tubes inserted together. Think about where you have seen it before, and I will sort out the key points to identify it."

After a while, Xiaoxiang Lai Di remembered several locations, but was not sure. Xiaoxiang took out the sickle and tinderbox from home. The three of them prepared to set off and decided to go to the nearest location first to take a look.

Before leaving, Daya said to Lai Di, "Why didn't you tell your parents? It may take us a long time to come back.

"No need!" Lai Di rolled her eyes. "They may be discussing visiting relatives right now."

Daya was stunned, "They didn't come?"

She thought about it carefully and realized that she really didn't see Lai Di's parents just now. Daya was speechless. Lai Di's family and Xiao Xiang's family were both in the northeast of the village and were closer neighbors. Yet they were indifferent to their neighbors' problems.

"They went to the monk at Huian Temple to have a fortune-teller some time ago. They said that if they wanted to have a son, they couldn't be exposed to death from the winter to the first month of the lunar year."

At this point, Lai Di glanced at Xiao Xiang and said tactfully, "When they heard about Xiao Xiang's mother, they immediately wanted to stay with their relatives for a while and come back after the matter was completely over.

I had no choice but to come here by myself.”

Daya and Xiaoxiang didn't know what to say. Lai Di's parents were crazy about having a son.

He has visited all the temples and Taoist temples that are slightly famous. Although he is stingy on weekdays, he doesn't care about spending money when offering incense and offerings. He also has all kinds of strange and bizarre folk remedies.

The Yuan family in Wutong Village spent all their money on education, while the Luo family spent all their money on having children.

The three men avoided the crowd, went out through the back door, pulled out a handful of straw from someone else's haystack, tied it to a wooden stick, and walked a long way in the dark before they dared to light a torch.

Soon, they arrived at the first location.

I searched the land thoroughly but couldn't find any leafless grass growing in sections.

Lai Di scratched her head awkwardly, "I remembered it wrongly. I remember where it was. I remember pulling grass like that for fun when I was working on this field. I even blew it."

Daya looked at her family's land and said, "Look around the land. If we can't find it, we'll go to the next place."

The land of Lai Di's family is not big, and many places are bare. The three of them quickly searched around, but unfortunately they didn't find it.

Xiaoxiang was very disappointed.

Lai Di complained about her poor memory and comforted her: "Don't worry, there are still a few other places. Maybe the next one will have it!"

Although the winter in Xinghua Village is warmer than in the north, it is still very cold at night, and it is even more bone-chillingly cold on snowy nights.

Soon, Daya felt that she was almost numb from the cold, and her upper and lower teeth kept chattering. In the silent snowy night, the sound was creepy.