The fake daughter married into the mountains and had meat to eat every day during the famine

Fortunately, thanks to the medicine brought by Xu Qingye, Song Yuntang's treatment progressed smoothly.

After taking the medicine, the patient who had a high fever gradually had his body temperature drop and his condition was much better than before.

She was busy until evening before returning home.

Before entering the house, he burned a bunch of mugwort outside. After taking off his outer clothes, he carefully fumigated his body from head to toe before entering.

When I opened the door, Xu Qingye was sleeping on the lounge chair by the window, covered with a thin blanket.

Her sleeping face is as peaceful as a porcelain doll.

"You won't catch a cold sleeping this way."

Song Yuntang took a thicker quilt from the bed and walked over quietly to cover him with it.

The man, who had always been a light sleeper, didn't react at all.

Song Yuntang raised his eyebrows and leaned over to check his pulse.

After a moment, his brows relaxed.

That's not a problem. Could it be that he is tired from collecting medicinal materials these days?

Yes, he had just recovered not long ago, so it was normal for him to feel tired after such hard work.

Just as she was about to get up to get him something to eat, her hand was wrapped by a big palm as soon as she stood up. Then, Song Yuntang fell into the man's arms.

She lay on the man's firm chest and swallowed nervously, feeling that their current posture was somewhat ambiguous.

This man usually looked serious and calm, but whenever he had physical contact with her, he became like a different person, as if he could eat her up.

"Did I just wake you up?"

Xu Qingye shook his head, a lazy look in his eyes, "I woke up when you were fumigating moxa outside the house."

Song Yuntang's cheeks felt hot when the man looked at her, and she avoided Xu Qingye's gaze.

"Are you hungry? Do you want to go get something to eat?"

The man hummed softly.

"I'm a little hungry."

As he spoke, his hand on Song Yuntang's waist slowly tightened.

Noticing the changes in the man's eyes and body, Song Yuntang's heart was so nervous that it seemed like it was about to jump out, but he also felt inexplicably excited.

Xu Qingye noticed her nervousness, leaned forward and kissed her, then raised his hand to stroke her hair and said in a low voice, "In three months, Tang'er will be seventeen, right?"

Song Yuntang knew what he was thinking. After being married for so long, it was hard for him to endure it for the sake of his own health.

"Yes." Turning to look at him, "Xu Qingye, I'm actually ready."

The man raised his lips.

"I see. Are you hungry? Let's go eat first."

Song Yuntang was stunned. Did this man understand what she meant or not?

In the moment she was stunned, the man had already helped her sit up.

Just then, Xia Ning's voice came from outside the house.

"Master, I saw that you hadn't come out of the house yet, so I brought you some food and placed it at the door. Please eat it as soon as you are done with your work, so that it won't get cold."

Immediately afterwards, Song Yuntang heard the sound of something being put down and the sound of footsteps going away.

She was a little confused. Xia Ning was a skilled martial artist, and his footsteps were usually so light that they were almost inaudible. Why were his footsteps so heavy now?

Then he thought that Xia Ning had been with a man before, and he might have misunderstood what he and Xu Qingye did in the house.

Just as he was thinking about it, Xu Qingye had already brought in the food from outside.

The porridge was so thin that only a few grains of brown rice could be seen, pickled radish, and stir-fried cabbage with almost no oil.

Nothing else.

Xu Qingye looked at her.

"Is this all you eat these days?"

Song Yuntang nodded. She only realized that there was a shortage of medicine and food here when she hurried here.

"Qingshi Town is short of supplies. Master Zhu has been eating the same food as us recently, so I naturally have to follow the local customs."

The government has already used up all its money to buy medicine, so naturally there is no extra money left to purchase food. The food they are eating now is donated by nearby residents and merchants.

I don’t know when the relief food from the government will arrive.

Xu Qingye handed her a pair of chopsticks.

"Let's just make do with what we have today. Tomorrow I'll go to the mountains and see if I can hunt anything."

Song Yuntang took the chopsticks.

"You'd better not go. Less trouble is worse than more. These things are not inedible."

Xu Qingye nodded and said nothing more.

After they finished their meal, it was already dark outside.

After being busy all day, Song Yuntang was a little tired. He washed up and went to bed.

Xu Qingye had slept for the whole afternoon, but now he wasn't sleepy at all. He took a book, turned on the only dim lamp in the room, and read at the desk.

……

The next morning we had steamed bread that was as hard as a rock, a bowl of porridge, and some pickles.

Although the food was much worse than usual, it was still slightly better than what Song Yuntang ate at the Song family when he first came here.

Although the steamed bread is hard and hurts your teeth and gets stuck in your throat, it can at least fill your stomach.

But the taste was just like chewing tree bark, it was really disgusting.

It's dry and yellow, as if it were made of rice bran.

Song Yuntang couldn't swallow the last bit, so he only ate half of it. He gave the remaining half to Xu Qingye and took Xia Ning to continue treating the victims.

Xu Qingye bit the steamed bread in his mouth, a thoughtful look in his eyes.

It seems that I still need to get something to eat for the little girl.

The plague will definitely not be resolved in a day or two. If it continues for a long time, her body, which she has worked so hard to restore, will probably be broken down again.

Thinking of this, he cleaned the table, put on his face towel, found a stick from the yard, and went into the mountains.

When Song Yuntang arrived at the refugee resettlement site, Doctor Zhou and Shunzi had already arrived.

The two had experience in providing free medical treatment to disaster victims at the county clinic. With Shunzi and Xia Ning helping them, they were able to treat patients much faster than the other three doctors.

After working for about half an hour, someone suddenly rushed in from the door.

"Doctor Song, there's a tiger in the mountains today. Two people who went up to collect herbs were injured by the tiger. Their condition is quite serious. Doctor Song, please come with me to take a look."

Human life is at stake, Song Yuntang quickly stood up.

"Xianing, pack your medicine box and follow me."

Having said that, she lifted her skirt and trotted out of the house.

Although Shunzi wanted to go with him, he had to help Doctor Zhou, so he had to stay.

Song Yuntang followed the villager into the mountains. The two injured people had been carried out of the mountains by nearby officers, soldiers and civilians.

One man's leg was scratched by the tiger's sharp claws. The wound was very deep and the bright red blood almost dyed the entire trouser leg red. The other man's injury was relatively light, but he was also holding his arm and grimacing.

Blood still seeped from between his fingers from time to time.

Song Yuntang hurried forward and used silver needles and hemostatic drugs to help stop the bleeding. He then cleaned the wound, sprinkled wound healing medicine on it, and bandaged it. He also prescribed oral medicine to prevent wound infection.

Something suddenly occurred to me.

"The tiger was not subdued?"

The person who had just gone to notify Song Yuntang to come over shook his head and said, "When our group arrived, the tiger was scared away and didn't dare to chase it."

Song Yuntang's heart tightened.

"Xia Ning, go back and see if my husband is in the room."

Xia Ning nodded and was about to go back when someone said, "Is Doctor Song's husband the tall scholar who came yesterday? He seems to have gone into the mountains early this morning."