Farmer's wife: My husband came back and the house was in chaos

After nightfall, the street in front of the academy became particularly quiet, as if shrouded by a mysterious veil. Without the hustle and bustle of the day, the street was empty at this moment. One could only hear the rustling of leaves in the breeze and the occasional barking of a dog. As the night deepened, the moonlight sprinkled on the bluestone road like water, reflecting a faint light. The shops on the street had already closed their doors.

"Is it always this quiet here at night?"

Yao Qingnian knew nothing about the nighttime streets of Anding County. She thought to herself, "The ancients usually worked at sunrise and rested at sunset. I guess it should be the same here, right? After all, this is how the village is. At night, everything is quiet and the villagers have already rested. How can there be any nightlife?"

At this point in modern time, the evening life has not yet begun. Night life officially begins after nine or ten o'clock. Late-night snacks and pedestrian streets are bustling with traffic. Yao Qingnian is usually out on missions or doing research in the laboratory. He rarely has time to hang out. Now he actually misses it a little.

"Of course not. This place is very lively at night. Many of our students live in the academy. We can hang out at night without the restraints of our families. It's so free. Since the incident in this shop, many students have gone back home."

"There are many shops on this street, including bookstores, teahouses, snacks, and clothing and jade. After the incident with this shop, this street became deserted."

Lu Xiangqian added that they usually lived in the academy. As children from a poor family, their families could not afford it, so they could save a lot of money in the academy to buy pens, ink, paper and inkstone. You know, paper was very expensive in ancient times.

"What time is the curfew here?"

This is a fictional era that does not exist in history. According to what is written in history books, every dynasty had a curfew, it was just a matter of morning and evening. The curfew was mainly to maintain social order and prevent unsafe incidents such as theft and fire.

"The curfew is from midnight, but it will be lifted during festivals."

The hour of Hai is nine o'clock in the evening in modern times, which is very late compared to other dynasties in history.

It is somewhat similar to the curfew system of the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, the curfew was lifted from the first month of the year to the Lantern Festival. Shops were also set up in the city and commercial activities could be carried out at night.

In ancient times, many dynasties had very strict curfews. In order to enforce the curfew, a warning drum was hung. When the drum sounded, all shops and city gates had to be closed and locked. People were not allowed to travel between blocks or go out on the streets.

Fang Ye's family lived in the city, so it was convenient for them to commute. Most of the people living in the academy were like Lu Xiangqian, who lived in the village but came to the academy to study.

"Come on, go into the shop and wait."

The three of them came to the shop and found an inconspicuous corner to hide in. After the conversation just now, Lu Xiangqian realized that Yao Qingnian was not as bad as the villagers said.

They stayed there from Youshi to Xushi, and there was no movement in the shop. Fang Ye began to doze off.

At three quarters past midnight, a strange noise was heard from the quiet backyard of the shop. Fang Ye was instantly awakened. He suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and grabbed Lu Xiangqian's arm tightly.

Looking out through the narrow gap, I saw a woman in a white gown, with dishevelled hair and a pale face. Under the moonlight, she looked very creepy. Next to her was a skinny child. They walked in from the back door of the yard hand in hand and walked into one of the houses.

"Ghost, there really is a ghost... Miss Yao, let's go!"

Fang Ye tried hard to suppress the fact that his hair stood on end and his voice was trembling.

"They are not ghosts. Look at how they walk. They are clearly human beings."

Lu Xiangqian took a closer look and saw that the child was dressed just like ordinary people, and the woman was only slightly dressed up. After a closer look, he did not find anything wrong.

"Let's go over and have a look!"

Yao Qingnian stood up and quickly walked towards the room they had entered, kicked the door open, and when she saw the scene inside, she was stunned.

I saw the child holding a black steamed bun and chewing it, and the woman next to him was wiping his mouth with love in her eyes.

"So it was you who did it. You made us panic. What's your intention?!"

When Fang Ye saw that it was not a ghost, he walked forward angrily.

Seeing them come in, the child hid behind the woman: "Who are you?"

The woman vigilantly protected the child behind her.

"I should be the one asking you this. I bought this shop. Who are you?"

Yao Qingnian's words were cold.

"Humph, you and he are the same kind of people, working together to kill us mother and daughter. As long as I am here, you will never be able to keep running this shop."

The woman's eyes were full of resentment and hatred.

"I don't care who you are talking about. This is my shop. I'll give you a chance. Take the child and leave. I will forgive you for what happened."

As soon as Yao Qingnian finished speaking, the child behind the woman suddenly fell to the ground and began to twitch.

"An'er!" When the woman saw the child like this, she didn't care about anything else and put her hand into the child's mouth.

"Get out! Close the door!"

Yao Qingnian asked them to go out and gave the child first aid herself.

"What are you doing?" The woman hugged the child tightly in her arms.

"If you don't want him to die, get out!"

There was no room for rejection in Yao Qingnian's tone. The child's symptoms were clearly sudden epilepsy, and if he wasn't careful, he could easily suffocate.

The woman hesitated for a moment and took her hand out of the child's mouth. Yao Qingnian took gauze from the space and put it into the child's mouth to clean the foreign objects around his mouth and nose. Lu Xiangqian and Fang Ye came back to their senses from the shock and took the woman out and closed the door.

Lay the child flat on the bed, keep his airway open, keep his head tilted to one side, unbutton his clothes, keep his airway open, and give him oxygen in the airway. The child's convulsions slowly stopped and he fell asleep.

Yao Qingnian brought the child into the space and took an X-ray. It turned out that the child had epilepsy due to skull defect caused by brain trauma, which can be treated through surgery.

After finding the cause of the disease, Yao Qingnian prepared medicine according to the situation and took the child out of the space.

After opening the door, the woman rushed in and sat down on the ground when she saw the child lying safely on the bed.

"Did the child have a head injury?" Yao Qingnian asked.

"how do you know?"

The woman perked up and looked at Yao Qingnian.

"This is not the first time this child has fallen to the ground and convulsed. It is epilepsy caused by brain trauma and can be cured."

When she heard that it could be cured, light appeared in the woman's dull eyes.

"Can you keep order?"

"can."

"If you can save my An'er, I'll do anything for you."

The woman knelt down and kowtowed to Yao Qingnian.

"Tell me why you are here."

Looking at the child lying on the bed, the woman seemed to muster up a lot of courage and told them the whole story.