ladybug

Title: The Wife's Covenant

Summary: Then you will be my wife, okay?

May 25th is Wei Yan's birthday.Because of the city strike to mourn Mu Zong, I can't open a medical clinic, I can only wait for the patients to knock on the door, and open the small door to let them in.In the afternoon I went to the store, went in through the secret door of the tailor shop, took the new clothes and shoes that I had ordered for Wei Yan a month ago, and went to Xu's Jade Warehouse with the one tael I picked up yesterday.I knocked on his door and bought a ladybug-shaped hair scarf ring with a red agate base and an emerald emerald star inlaid on it.When Xu Yiqing took the brocade and mahogany box and wrapped the towel and handed it to me, she smiled and said, "Dr. Li, you are spending another gold or two with me. The money for consultation is hard to come by, so take it easy." I put it in my arms carefully. Respond to him: "Somebody's [-]th birthday. He likes ladybugs."

I went back to the clinic but saw Qi Jin waiting at the door.I took out the key to open the door, and Qi Jin hurriedly urged beside me: "Hurry up, Shen Lian is sick, I'll get him some medicine."

"He has learned some medical skills from me, did he tell you what the disease is?" I opened the door and went in to put down the blessing lamp and Wei Yan's new clothes and asked him, "And why did he suddenly get sick?"

"He diagnosed wind-heat attacking the lungs himself." Qi Jin said, "Recently he practiced the exercises to a critical point. When I went back last night, he vomited blood. He vomited a lot. Fortunately, I came back early and rescued him. A little life."

"It doesn't matter if the wind-heat infects the lungs." I felt relieved that the wind-heat infecting the lungs should be treated with Xinliang antidote.From the medicine drawer, I took out Shuanghua, Forsythia, Skullcap, Fangfeng, Nepeta, and Bamboo leaves in sequence, and went across the yard to the kitchen to start a fire, and boiled these six ingredients in an earthen jar.

Qi Jin followed me and said, "It's very difficult to get sick after practicing my martial arts. Last night, when I probed his meridians, his internal energy was disturbed, and he fell ill as if he had experienced some great joy and sorrow." I understood a little bit in my heart, but it was inconvenient to share Qi Jin said, just ask him: "Is Shen Lian's throat red?"

Qi Jin said, "It seems to be swollen."

I said: "You go back first, boil a pot of hot water, and I'll come and see him when the medicine is ready." Qi Jin flew out of the wall.

Because Shen Lian's throat was red and swollen, I went back to the front shop and weighed some white silkworms, pounded them and put them in the earthen pot, and soaked perilla leaves.After the medicine is boiled, turn off the fire and add perilla leaves, put them in cans and carry them back to the house.Before leaving, I saw the blessing lamp on the front shop, so I took one with me along the way.

When I took a shortcut from the side of the river to Qi Jin's house, it was dusk.The evening wind blows across the willows lined up on both sides of the Caoshi River, the windows shaded by the willows are wide open, the last rays of the setting sun pass through the thick clouds and cast on the person sleeping with his back to the window in the room, the dark hair on the pillow is scattered and scattered Plated with a faint yellow color.

I walked around to the door of Qi Jin's house, knocked on the door, and Qi Jin said, "The water is boiling." I said, "Brother Qi, please bring a bucket to his room, and bring two towels and a spoon that he usually uses. .” Qi Jin said, “Okay.”

I went into his bedroom and dragged a chair to put the medicine jar.Shen Lian's forehead was covered with fine sweat, and a few strands of hair stuck to his forehead.His eyes were closed tightly, his lips were pursed until they turned white, and his face was flushed.I called my sickly eldest son: "Shen Lian, open your mouth."

He opened his mouth in a daze, the tip of his tongue was reddish, the thin tongue coating was yellow, and the uvula deep in his throat was extremely red and swollen.I take the pulse, and the pulse is floating and counting.He coughed a few times before saying hoarsely, "Li Ping, you... are here."

I said to my eldest son: "You are sick, of course I will come. Drink the medicine." Qi Jin brought a bucket with a towel on the edge and handed me a spoon. "Qi Jin, where is the water you poured for me?" Mrs. Qi shouted from the other side of the courtyard, and I said, "Shen Lian has me, Brother Qi, go and serve your mother." Qi Jin left.

Shen Lian said: "I don't drink medicine. Wind-heat causes minor lung problems."

I pushed back the wet hair on his forehead, helped him lean into my arms, and held the spoon to the lips of the restless eldest son: "Even if I serve you with my own hands, you won't drink?"

He lowered his head and drank, spoonful after spoonful, which quickly bottomed out.I put back the medicine jar spoon and said, "When your master comes back later, I'll ask him to wipe your body."

He closed his eyes and said, "Li Ping, I want you to wipe it."

I am used to wiping the patient with medicine, according to his words in the disease, unbuttoned his underwear, wet a towel in the bucket, wiped it carefully on his body, pressed on the acupuncture points from time to time, and then took a dry towel Wipe it again.After wiping, I put it flat and he said, "I'm going back."

"Cough cough cough, sleep with me." He grabbed my hand, "You slept with me when I first came here when I was 13 years old."

I was thinking about Wei Yan's birthday, but I was worried about the burning of Shen Lian's forehead, so I rushed in at the door and shouted: "Brother Qi, I will stay with Shen Lian tonight." When I came back, I said to him: "I'm with you even if I haven't washed. Sleeping?" He didn't respond, breathing evenly, but fell asleep.

I took off my coat and lay down next to him.She slept until midnight, only to be awakened by his raving.He muttered in his mouth: "Uncomfortable..."

I felt his forehead was no longer hot, and his eyes were tightly closed under the moonlight.I said casually: "It's not uncomfortable, it's not uncomfortable, I will accompany you as you said."

He asked inarticulately, "What about the future?"

I had no choice but to say, "In the future, with your wife, she will accompany you."

He grabbed my hand and suddenly increased his strength: "Then you will be my wife, okay?"

I don't know which girl he took me for.But I couldn't bear the pain, so I repeated my voice to perfunctory him: "Okay, okay. Shen Lian, let go of your hands first."

He relaxed his hands, and I breathed a sigh of relief before going back to sleep.