[Rebirth] Medical Family

After all, porridge and water should not be full, Lu Jingnian's stomach growled twice, but he really felt hungry again.

So he couldn't stay on the bed anymore, so he slowly moved down to the floor, walked on one foot, and moved to the kitchen door.

Ou Zixi had already changed into a simple T-shirt and trousers, as if he didn't notice him coming, and was concentrating on turning the dishes.

Lu Jingnian moved over slowly, and on the table beside him was a plate of ready-made dishes, spinach and pork liver, a very common home-cooked dish, and the bottom layer of a white porcelain plate without too much decoration. It is fresh spinach with red leaves and green leaves, and on top of it is fried pork liver slices that are still steaming in a thick and uniform thickness, and sprinkled with a handful of white sesame seeds for decoration, which makes people appetite.

While Ou Zixi wasn't paying attention, Lu Jingnian didn't treat himself as an outsider, so he took the chopsticks and ate them secretly. The spinach was sweet and refreshing, and the pork liver slices were crispy, tender and smooth without any fishy or greasy smell. It has a special sesame aroma. Although he used to dismiss these home-cooked dishes, he couldn't help but eat two more bites now.

When Ou Zixi turned his head, Lu Jingnian was putting some food into his mouth, met his slightly surprised gaze, as if he had been caught, smiled awkwardly, and put down his chopsticks.

"Go ahead, the dishes are ready." Ou Zixi said indifferently, and put the fried dishes in the pot on the plate.

Lu Jingnian looked at it, and found that it was fried shrimp. The shrimp was very plump and tender, with small white fruits mixed in the middle, so he couldn't help asking him curiously: "Is this lotus seed?"

"Gorgon."

It was a traditional Chinese medicine that he didn't know, so Lu Jingnian didn't ask any more questions, and just stretched out his chopsticks to taste it. The shrimps were smooth and tender, delicious and elastic, and the small fruit called Gorgon fruit was also delicious, obviously they were the most common. The dishes he made taste much better than the ones he has eaten before, and there is no taste of additives at all.

Sitting at the table, Ou Zixi served him rice and soup. It was old chicken soup with mushrooms and red dates. He also added something he didn't know. The soup was bright yellow but not greasy. Lu Jingnian tried it and it was almost fresh After biting his tongue, the chicken was so tender that it almost melted in his mouth. Out of curiosity, he asked, "What's in it?"

"Goji berry, polygonatum odoratum, angelica, astragalus root, rehmannia glutinosa," Ou Zixi replied casually, "they are all for your blood and energy."

"I can't taste the bitterness of these medicines."

"Mushrooms and red dates are more delicious, so they are covered."

Lu Jingnian suddenly laughed: "Doctor Ou, you are the snail girl... no, you are the snail boy, right?"

"What is that?" Ou Zixi was a little puzzled by his leaping thinking.

It turned out that he didn't even know fairy tales. Lu Jingnian laughed a little more happily, but he didn't want to explain it clearly to him.

Ou Zixi curled his lips slightly, and didn't bother to talk nonsense with him anymore, so he filled his own meal and sat down.

Lu Jingnian rolled his eyes and looked around the kitchen environment. There are pots and pans here, and there are rare modern appliances such as refrigerators. He asked Ou Zixi, "You only grow medicines and not vegetables. You usually eat things like this. Where did the food come from?"

"Buy from neighbors."

"Are you rich?"

Lu Jingnian really couldn't imagine what this little doctor would rely on to make money. It seemed that he didn't charge half a dime for the doctor's visit to the child in the afternoon. Instead, he gave him several large packets of medicine. There are not many people who are so generous in this world. up.

"There will be a pharmaceutical factory in the city to collect the medicine."

Oh... so it's not that there are no otherworldly fireworks.

Ou Zixi started to eat, but he ate very little, and he ate very elegantly. Most of the food went into Lu Jingnian's stomach. Looking at him, Lu Jingnian couldn't help guessing how this little doctor was raised by others. Yes, why is there such a difference?

"Have you lived alone all this time?"

"No, my mother left home five years ago, and my father passed away only three years ago." Ou Zixi said calmly, his eyes were calm, as if he was talking about other people's affairs.

"Are you only in your early twenties? Who did you learn your medical skills from?"

"Father." From the previous life.

"What about cooking?"

"Mother." In this life.

"Why do you have to live in the country all the time? I think your medical skills are quite good. It shouldn't be difficult to find a better job in the city, right?"

Facing Lu Jingnian's constant chatter, Ou Zixi finally frowned slightly, and looked up at him: "Aren't you going to eat?"

Lu Jingnian smiled, knowing that he didn't want to answer him anymore, so he wisely stopped asking.

Ou Zixi drank the soup slowly, and after a while, he spoke again: "I prefer the life I have now."

Lu Jingnian looked at him again in surprise, and seeing his indifferent expression, he finally sighed softly in his heart, as expected, he was a person from two worlds with him, and this kind of life was impossible for him to imagine before.

The two of them were halfway through their meal when suddenly there was banging on the door and loud shouts outside, as if they were telling Ou Zixi to go out.

Lu Jingnian frowned displeasedly: "Who is this, why is he so rude?"

Hearing the sound, Ou Zixi put down the bowls and chopsticks unexpectedly, and without telling Lu Jingnian, got up and went out to open the door. There were seven or eight people outside the yard, all of them were neighbors from nearby villagers. As soon as Ou Zixi opened the door, someone rushed He came up and pulled his clothes and cried, "You give back my grandson! You killed my grandson! You give back my grandson's life!"

Ou Zixi froze for a moment before he could see clearly that the woman in front of her, who was blushing from crying, had a thick neck and a hoarse voice, and kept beating him was the Wang Po next door, that is, the grandmother of the tiger head who had been needled by herself in the afternoon, and the woman holding the tiger head The man who came, that is, Hutou's father, Wang Daming, squatted on the side of the road and slapped himself while squatting on the side of the road, seemingly regretting it.

The villagers who surrounded the courtyard were all relatives of Hutou's family, and they all pointed at him and demanded an explanation from him.

Ou Zixi was also a little dazed, and said in a daze, "Tiger head...is he dead?"

When he said this, Wang Po started howling again, and the force of hitting him became heavier.

And those villagers had already gathered forward, and some even wanted to attack him.

"What are you going to do?"

The sudden cold voice silenced the noisy crowd, Lu Jingnian walked forward slowly leaning on a cane, pulled Ou Zixi without a trace, pulled him away from Wang Po's hand, and then glanced coldly at him The barbaric villagers present asked again: "What are you going to do?"

☆, a big farce

The incident became serious, and almost the whole village came to Ou Zixi's house to watch the fun. The queen mother was still crying, and a group of relatives accused Ou Zixi and cursed at each other. From their intermittent speech, Ou Zixi Only then did Lu Jingnian and Lu Jingnian gradually understand what happened.

After Hutou was carried back by Wang Daming in the afternoon, he fed the medicine prescribed by Ou Zixi and fell asleep. Two hours later, he began to vomit profusely. His face went from pale to bruised, and his lips were also black. He looked as if he had been poisoned. Hours ago, he was out of breath and dead.

Ou Zixi was pulled away by Lu Jingnian, Wang Po couldn't slap him, so she sat down in front of him, howled and patted her thigh: "I'm just such a grandson, and I'm just gone, the old Wang family's third generation is single, why do you want me to go down?" Tell the old man, my grandson was killed by you, you return my grandson, you return my grandson!"

Ou Zixi was obviously a little confused, Hutou was fine when he left his house in the afternoon, why did he suddenly say it was gone?On the other hand, Lu Jingnian couldn't take a look at the shrew-like Wang Po and the group of villagers who were ready to move, and said impatiently: "It's not certain how the child died, you don't want to blame Dr. Ou until you figure it out. ..."

"Who are you! This is a matter in our village and what does it have to do with you as an outsider! Don't meddle in other people's business!" Lu Jingnian was interrupted before he could finish speaking. Someone rushed up and pointed at him with a blushing neck. Nose scolding, it seems that there is still a posture of doing something.

Lu Jingnian became more and more displeased, and frowned deeply: "I don't want to meddle in your business, but I can't watch you guys bully Dr. Ou. If you say it's your village's business, that's fine. Call your village When it grows out, we sit down and figure it out, and if it doesn’t work, call the police and call the police to deal with it.”

"Why call the police! Our baby is gone and you still have to call the police! Don't use the police to scare people! The police can't control the affairs of our village!"

Lu Jingnian's call to the police seemed to have touched their nerves, and the people who were already ready to move were filled with righteous indignation. Ou Zixi also quickly pulled his arm, signaling him to stop saying a few words. A middle-aged man wearing glasses walked out of the crowd, Walking forward, he also asked Ou Zixi: "Who is he? What happened to Hutou's death?"

Lu Jingnian sized him up and turned to look at Ou Zixi. Ou Zixi dropped the word "village chief" in a low voice, and said to the village chief, "He's my friend. Don't be angry if he doesn't know the rules in the village. I'm also I don’t know what happened. At noon, Brother Daming hugged Hutou and said that Hutou suddenly convulsed and became unconscious. I gave him an injection when I saw that it was a stroke. They went back after taking the medicine. The medicine was for stroke and hemiplegia. It was absolutely non-toxic. They said that Tiger Head suddenly vomited and then his face turned purple and then disappeared. Say it again."

After Ou Zixi finished speaking, Wang Po started crying again and shouted to Ou Zixi to pay for his grandson's life. The village chief frowned after hearing this, and turned to Wang Daming and said, "Go and hug the tiger's head, let's take a look." what is going on."

Wang Daming hesitated for a moment, got up and went back.

Fifteen minutes later, people from a village moved to the village chief's house.

The village head is also surnamed Wang, called Wang Jiandang. It should be said that everyone in this village is surnamed Wang, except for Ou Zixi, an outsider who moved here with his father five years ago.

The village head's house is not far from Ou Zixi's house, but the house is much bigger and more grand than his house. The yard is full of people, besides the village head, there are three old men sitting in the middle, who are among the villagers. The oldest one, who looked like a highly respected person, was wrapped in a straw mat and brought over to place in front of everyone. His body was already cold.

Ou Zixi stepped forward, knelt down in front of the tiger head and stretched out his hand, Wang Po started to shout again: "Don't touch the tiger head! Don't touch my grandson!"

Ou Zixi ignored her, stretched out his fingers to pick up some of the filthy medicine dregs that were about to solidify from the corner of his mouth, put it under his nose and smelled it, his expression immediately became serious.

Lu Jingnian came up on crutches and asked him, "What did you find?"

Ou Zixi didn't answer, stood up and asked Wang Daming: "After Hutou went back, what else did he take besides medicine?"

When Wang Daming heard him ask this question, his eyes flickered twice, and he hesitated: "No...no."

"Really do not have?"

"No……"

Ou Zixi and the others explained: "Hutou's vomit contains veratrum in addition to medicinal dregs. The medicine I prescribed to him contained a lot of salvia. Neither veratrum nor salvia are poisonous. If it is used in combination with other people, it will cause poisoning. If it is used on adults, it may not be a big deal, but the tiger head is young and the health is not good. If you eat this, you will not be able to survive."

The village head asked him, "What's the matter? Didn't you say that these two things can't be taken together when you prescribed the medicine?"

"Veratrum is not common, I did overlook..."

Ou Zixi felt a little sad when he said that, he watched the child Hutou grow up, he was always very well-behaved, and he died like this at such a young age.

Wang Po got up and rushed forward as if desperately trying to find Ou Zixi, while Wang Daming squatted on the ground and cried loudly. The other relatives became even more excited when Ou Zixi confessed his mistakes, and shouted for him to pay for the children. Just lose money.

Lu Jingnian curled his lips when he heard this, it turned out that this was the original purpose, when Wang Po rushed up, he stretched out his hand to block her, Wang Po lost her footing and fell to the ground again, this time she howled even louder.

Lu Jingnian turned a blind eye to the anger of the villagers, and said, "Doctor Ou said that weatweed is not common, so we have to figure out why the tiger head suddenly ate this kind of thing. Before accusing Doctor Ou, should you explain it to the end? What else did he take besides the medicine prescribed by Doctor Ou?"

An old man sitting next to the village chief tapped the ground with his cane in displeasure, and asked Ou Zixi, "Who is he?"

Ou Zixi was very embarrassed. Before he could speak, Lu Jingnian answered for him: "Who I am has nothing to do with Hutou, right? If I'm not here today, are you planning to take all the responsibility for killing Hutou?" Go to Dr. Ou? I can't see people from a village like you bullying him."

"None of us wants to bully Dr. Ou," the village head interrupted him very unhappy, "We will ask what happened."

Then he asked Wang Daming: "Think about it carefully, besides drinking the medicine prescribed by Dr. Ou, what other things did Tiger Head eat?"

"Medicated wine..."

Wang Daming didn't answer, but a woman next to him muttered in a low voice, which was heard by Lu Jingnian, and he raised his eyes to look at her: "What else did he eat when you said the tiger's head?"

Seeing that everyone's eyes turned to her, the woman was shocked, hesitated and refused to speak.

The old man who knocked on the cane reminded her: "If you have something to say, speak clearly in person, so that this person won't say that people from our village bullied Dr. Ou."

The woman glanced at Wang Po and Wang Daming, who were still howling, before hesitatingly said: "Hutou drank the medicine and still hasn't woken up. Mom was worried, and suddenly said that I was pregnant with Xiaohua for a while and felt uncomfortable all over. , always had headaches, nausea and convulsions all over the body. Later, after drinking the medicinal wine given by Dr. Ou, it was much better. He said that the condition of Hutou looked similar to mine at that time. It happened that there was still a lot of medicinal wine left, so he fed a bowl Tiger head to eat..."

The woman who spoke was the aunt of Wang Po's daughter, Hutou. Ou Zixi frowned upon hearing this: "It's veratrum wine for pregnant women to treat preeclampsia. I reminded you not to drink too much of that wine. There are many taboos, especially not taking it together with ginseng medicine."

When Wang Po heard what Ou Zixi said, she quickly continued to cry: "Why didn't you say that the tiger's head can't eat that! I didn't know that my grandson couldn't eat that! If you are a doctor, you can't even figure out this, so why not be a doctor!"

Lu Jingnian shook his head, and said to the village chief, "Since she fed the medicinal wine to Hutou herself, do you still think it's Dr. Ou's responsibility?"

The village chief was a little embarrassed for a while, and turned to the three old men for help, as if he wanted their advice. One of them, who had never said a word, glanced at the people present, and slowly said: "Don't always put the children in the dark when they are dead. It’s home, so let’s bury it quickly. Doctor Ou forgot to remind you that although he was wrong, you can’t blame him entirely. After all, it’s because you didn’t pay attention to feeding the child with medicine indiscriminately. Otherwise, Doctor Ou, You will pay for the burial of Hutou, so let’s forget about it, we are all in the same village, so don’t make it too ugly.”

The old man is the oldest and most respected person in the village. He is similar to the status of the patriarch. When he said this, other people would not be able to say anything even if they were dissatisfied, so the village chief quickly followed his words and said, "Doctor Ou, you can just give me a few words." Make an apology to Wang Po Daming and the others, and quickly bury the tiger's head, let's end this matter, don't make a big fuss and let outsiders see the jokes of our village."

Ou Zixi went up to help Wang Po, but was pushed away by the old woman. The old woman who was still crying was lifted up by her relatives and sent back. Wang Daming didn't take a second look at Ou Zixi, After leaving with Wang Po, the farce ended, and the spectators also left one after another.

Seeing that Ou Zixi was in a bad mood, Lu Jingnian asked him softly, "Go back?"

The old man who finalized the solution suddenly called to Ou Zixi: "Xiao Ou, come here, I have something to tell you."

Ou Zixi nodded, said "you go back first" to Lu Jingnian, and followed the old man.

☆, poor to jingle

"Who is that man who spoke to you? Why did you bring people back to the village so casually?"

Facing the old man's questioning, Ou Zixi explained helplessly: "Two days ago, he overturned his car from the mountain, he couldn't walk and hurt his head, so I took him in for a few days."

Hearing this, the old man frowned even tighter: "Do you know his origin?"

"He is an ordinary person who fell down the mountain because of an accident."

"Then when will he leave?"

Ou Zixi remembered what Lu Jingnian said about his fiancée who ran away with someone and didn't want to go back to face him. He was at a loss for words, so he could only perfunctoryly say: "He is my friend and wants to stay with me for a while, but don't worry, he won't give anything to people in the village. Get in trouble, and I'll keep an eye on him."

After Ou Zixi said that, the old man didn't have much to say, so he changed the topic: "Xiaoqing will come back after the Mid-Autumn Festival next month. I sent you a letter two days ago. You can read it."

Ou Zixi thanked him and accepted the letter.

But when he returned home, Lu Jingnian didn't go in, but sat on the stone outside the courtyard gate and waited for him.

Ou Zixi stopped in front of him, and asked suspiciously, "Are you squatting here to be the door god?"

Lu Jingnian laughed, the little doctor would have joked: "I was guarding the door for you, just now the old woman's house next door came over to poke her brains out, if I didn't sit here and guard, maybe I would go to your house to grab something to pay them grandson."

Ou Zixi didn't believe what he said, so he walked in. Seeing that he was ignoring him, Lu Jingnian could only stand up with difficulty, and moved in with a cane.

When Ou Zixi entered the room, he got under the bed and hooked an earthen pot out. Lu Jingnian watched him dumbfounded as he removed the bricks on top of the earthen pot, and took out handfuls of five-yuan, ten-yuan, and 20-yuan banknotes from inside. Counting one by one, it took a long while before he came back to his senses and asked him, "Is this where you hide your money?"

Ou Zixi nodded casually.

"Why don't you release the bank? Are you afraid of being gnawed by mice?"

"The bank is in the city, and there are no mice in my house."

"..." Lu Jingnian didn't know whether to laugh or cry, seeing him earnestly counting the money one by one, he became curious again: "These are all your belongings? Why do you have all these small change? It's not much, is it?"

Ou Zixi took out another stack of red bills from the bottom of the jar: "There are also whole bills."

Just not much.

In the end, after all the calculations, even a steel plate was not spared, and it was only in the early [-]s.

Seeing his sad face, Lu Jingnian comforted him: "I just heard that their family is going to bury the tiger's head on the back mountain, and they don't want to buy the money for the cemetery, so they will just bury it. I think two or three thousand is enough. "

Ou Zixi shook his head: "I plan to give them 3 yuan."

"Giving that much?" Lu Jingnian said in his heart that the family looked like thugs. He killed the child in his ignorance and extorted money. Giving them so much money was completely cheap for them.

But Ou Zixi said: "Give me some peace of mind."

In any case, he was indeed negligent, and he should have given a warning when he thought that they still had that kind of wine in their house, otherwise he wouldn't let Hutou die just like that.

"Doctor Ou, you are really a good person." Lu Jingnian said sincerely.

Ou Zixi looked up at him and asked back, "Aren't you a good person?"

Lu Jingnian smiled wryly and shook his head, a good guy or something, compared to Ou Zixi, he is indeed far behind.

Finally, Ou Zixi stuffed the money back, heaved a sigh of relief, and said, "Forget it, I'll go to the city tomorrow."

Upon hearing that he was going to the city, Lu Jingnian immediately became vigilant: "Why are you going to the city?"

"Borrow money."

After Ou Zixi finished speaking, he picked up the pot and stood up and was about to go out. Lu Jingnian hurriedly called him: "Where are you going?"

Ou Zixi was puzzled by his question: "Didn't you say you want to stay with me for a while longer? I'll give you the bed and I can't sleep on the sofa all the time."

"Do you have somewhere else to sleep?"

"The locked room next door was originally my father's room. I can live in it after cleaning it."

"Then you hold that pot of money..."

Ou Zixi bit his lip: "I'm afraid you will take it away."

It was really embarrassing to be honest, and Lu Jingnian was even more speechless. This little doctor is completely cute and cute, right?

The breakfast of the next morning was still porridge, black glutinous rice, yam, red dates, longan, brown sugar, Ou Zixi simmered the porridge all night, it was thick and sticky, full of fragrance, Lu Jingnian asked with a smile as he put it into his mouth Ou Zixi: "Your blood-enriching porridge is for women, right?"

"You don't need to drink." Ou Zixi frowned again, and said, "I will save money in the future, unless you pay me for medical expenses and food expenses."

"..." Lu Jingnian wisely changed the topic: "I wanted to ask you last night, what did the old man tell you when you were called?"

"Be more polite," Ou Zixi said with a little displeasure, "Third Uncle is a very good person, if he hadn't asked to help me yesterday, those people wouldn't have let me go like that."

"Then what did he tell you?"

Ou Zixi looked up at him: "He asked me why I brought you, an outsider, into the village to break the rules here."

"what?"

It was really the first time that Lu Jingnian knew that there were so many closed and old-fashioned feudal places in this era. What other personal things would Ou Zixi want to take him in?Is it possible that the village head and patriarch still wants to be the feudal emperor of this small village?

But Ou Zixi obviously didn't think so: "I promised him that you won't cause trouble for them. You can stay here if you want, but you can't cause trouble."

"...No." Lu Jingnian was completely taken aback by the little doctor's seriousness, so he complied.

Ou Zixi has already put down the bowl: "You can just watch TV here after eating or sleep. I'll go to the city and come back in the afternoon."

"I'll go with you." Lu Jingnian said without hesitation.

Ou Zixi looked at him suspiciously: "Didn't you say you didn't want to go back and face it?"

Lu Jingnian smiled: "I didn't say go back, I went to the city with you to borrow money, and just made a phone call."

"As you like."

After breakfast and tidying up, Ou Zixi went to push a small tricycle, and pouted at Lu Jingnian: "Come up."

Lu Jingnian rolled his eyes again: "Take this to go to the city? Even if you drive to the city, it will take more than two hours. If you ride this, I think we won't be able to get there until dark."

"Go to the bus station." Ou Zixi was also speechless to Lu Jingnian's words: "It will take half an hour, and then take the bus into the city."

That's more or less.

On an August day, the sun was shining brightly, and it felt good to ride a bike on the mountain road. Lu Jingnian lay on the back of the bike basking in the sun, and squinted his eyes comfortably.

When walking past the mountain, Ou Zixi suddenly said, "That's where you fell off the mountain that day. The wreckage of the car is still there."

Lu Jingnian looked along the direction he was pointing, and sure enough, in the bushes at the foot of the mountain, he could vaguely see a car that had been burnt to nothing but its iron shell.

He watched quietly, with a look of confusion in his eyes, and asked Ou Zixi: "Didn't the other people in the village hear and see the car exploded? Didn't they bother you?"

"This is the back mountain. It's far away from the village. You can't see it if you don't go around. And it rained heavily not long after I came back from carrying you that day. The fire must have been extinguished."

"Then why are you here?"

"My medicine field is here."

Lu Jingnian took a closer look and found that not far from the wreckage of the car there was indeed a field planted with medicinal herbs, which was nearly ten acres in size, so he was a little curious: "Your income comes from this field? How much money can you earn? "

"The pharmaceutical factory in the city comes to harvest once a year in autumn. The medicine here is better than that of other places. Although the output is not much, I can probably earn eight to nine thousand at a time."

"Eight or nine thousand? Then you live on eight or nine thousand for a whole year?"

"Ah."

Lu Jingnian suddenly felt that it was not easy for this little doctor to save the 1 yuan while living in such a difficult situation, so he replaced him with borrowing money and losing money for no reason. It is estimated that Nian will be able to pay off the extreme injustice, but although the little doctor is a nice person, he seems to have a stubborn temper. Lu Jingnian wanted to persuade him, but let it go, Ou Zixi probably won't listen.

"Can you live like this?"

Ou Zixi didn't take it seriously: "They don't charge me much for buying vegetables with my neighbors. Wang Po often sells vegetables to me. In fact, they are very honest and honest people. I like this place very much. It is better than living in the city before. Good time here."

Dutiful and honest?Lu Jingnian thought of those people who surrounded Ou Zixi to extort money last night, and he couldn't agree with him at all, and confirmed once again that the little doctor was really dumbfounded.

"Have you lived in the city before?"

"Well, I moved here five years ago. My grandma married from here. After my mother left home five years ago, my father took me back and forth."

It's rare that Ou Zixi seems to be in a good mood today, and he said so many words in a way to save face, but the more Lu Jingnian listens, the more he doesn't like it: "Have you ever studied?"

study?Ou Zixi secretly thought that in his previous life he studied in a private school for many years, and later obtained a degree of fame, but here he opened his eyes and became a 12-year-old Ou Zixi, and then followed his father who was devoted to making traditional Chinese medicine. Mother didn't care about him, and has been like this until now: "I haven't read it."

Lu Jing sighed softly when he was young. It is really not easy for this little doctor who does not eat fireworks to be born so different, but in fact, it may not be a good thing, right?

☆, go to the city to borrow money

The person Ou Zixi is going to borrow money from is a cousin of his father who is now a professor at the medical school in the city.Lu Jingnian accompanied him to the faculty dormitory of the medical school, instead of going upstairs, he just waited for him downstairs, looking up at the very well-built high-rise elevator room, he was a little speechless, both graduates of the medical school, how could Ou Zixi's father be confused? In the end, let his son guard a few acres of land and live on less than a thousand dollars a month?

Sitting on the flower bed below for a while, seeing that Ou Zixi hadn't come down, Lu Jingnian looked around boredly, saw a grocery store not far ahead, hesitated for a moment, then stood up with a cane, and moved slowly past.

After explaining the purpose of his visit, the proprietress generously let him do whatever he wanted. Lu Jingnian thanked him and picked up the receiver. His fingers paused for a moment on the button, but he finally pressed it.

After three rings, the phone was picked up.

"Hi, hello, who are you looking for?"

A young female voice came over the phone, Lu Jingnian was a little surprised, she didn't make a sound, but she didn't hang up either.

The person over there yelled three more times in a row, then fell silent for a while, and when he spoke again, his tone was choked and trembling: "Is it Jing Nian? Is it you?"

A complicated look appeared in Lu Jingnian's eyes, but he still didn't speak.

The person over there asked anxiously: "Where are you, Jing Nian? I don't believe Jing Cheng said that you went abroad. Where are you? Tell me where you are?!"

Lu Jingnian forcefully put down the phone, closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, the emotions in his eyes had been concealed. He thanked the proprietress of the grocery store and went to wait for Ou Zixi downstairs in the dormitory.

Of course, he regretted it a little. If he had known earlier, he would not have made this call. He never thought that he would be picked up by the wrong person. If she told that person, he would suspect that he was still alive and send someone to investigate... Lu Jingnian thought about it and shook his head again. After he rolled down from such a high mountain, the car exploded and burst into flames. Those who were chasing him must have seen it, and they must have thought he was dead.

After another half an hour, Ou Zixi finally came down slowly. Lu Jingnian frowned and asked him, "Did you borrow the money? Why did it take so long?"

Ou Zixi nodded: "I have borrowed it."

"Why do you seem unhappy? Is it not going well?" Lu Jingnian saw that the little doctor was in a good mood when he came here before, but now his eyes were clouded, and he couldn't help guessing that the family upstairs refused. lend him money.

Ou Zixi shook his head and didn't say much. In fact, he still owed this family some money. He borrowed it for his father's funeral three years ago. The 1 yuan he saved was originally intended to be returned to them, but the money was not paid. Pay it back and borrow another 2 yuan. Although Uncle Tang didn't say anything, Aunt Tang was very unhappy about what she said.

Thinking of these Ou Zixi sighed lightly, forget it, fortunately, the money will be paid back in a month.

Seeing that he didn't answer his own words, Lu Jingnian continued to ask him: "Did you tell them when to return it?"

"next month."

"what?"

Ou Zixi finally smiled: "The notoginseng planted three years ago can finally be dug up now. When the batch of notoginseng is dug out this month, the village chief said that it can be sold for tens of thousands, and the money can be paid back at that time. "

It turned out to be the case.

Lu Jingnian asked him: "Do you want to go back now?"

Ou Zixi shook his head: "It's already noon, aren't you hungry? Let's go eat and go back after eating."

Lu Jingnian was penniless anyway, and he happened to be hungry. Since Ou Zixi said to eat lunch, he naturally wanted it, and Ou Zixi asked him very considerately: "What do you want to eat?"

Lu Jingnian thought of the signboard of the hotpot restaurant he saw when he got off the car, and suggested, "Hotpot."

"Eat hot pot this season?... Whatever you want."

But Ou Zixi took him to a small hot pot restaurant not far from here, sat down at the table, Lu Jingnian looked around the environment of the restaurant curiously, and then asked him: "Why did you choose Li?"

"Medicine hot pot, I have eaten here once in a while, and it's okay."

The bottom of the soup came up quickly, but the bottom of the clear soup was milky white, white and attractive, and there were three or two red and plump things floating on it. Lu Jingnian knew it, and he also knew wolfberry. The leaves don't know what kind of vegetable it is, and the others don't.

"It's licorice. These thin flakes include Codonopsis pilosula, Angelica and Astragalus." Ou Zixi explained to him in a good-tempered manner.

Lu Jingnian was a little skeptical: "Is this soup base not bitter?"

"you try."

After heating for a while, the bottom of the soup has gradually boiled, bubbling and bubbling, the milky white soup does not know what was added, Lu Jingnian reached in with a spoon suspiciously, scooped up a little soup, and slowly brought it to his mouth, After taking a sip, his eyes widened unexpectedly. The soup was very fresh, with a faint medicinal smell but not astringent. What surprised him most was that there was a smell of wine mixed in it.

Ou Zixi's words answered his doubts: "Original glutinous rice wine is added to it."

No wonder so, although it is a bit strange to add rice wine to the soup base, but the taste is really unbearable.

The side dishes also came up quickly. A plate of lean beef with the meridians removed was cut into large and thin slices, bright red, and the meat looked fresh and tender. A plate also had the film removed and cut into slices. Thin and tender beef liver, a plate of fresh tripe that looks like a faint grass flavor, a pile of fish balls with white meat and porcelain color, as well as dried tofu, shiitake mushrooms, potato chips, kelp, spinach, and some vermicelli.

Seeing that Lu Jingnian picked up the plate of beef and wanted to pour it all down, Ou Zixi hurriedly stopped him: "Have you never eaten hot pot? This food is made by rinsing. It won't taste good if you pour it all down before you have time to cook it."

Lu Jingnian smiled awkwardly. Although he was embarrassed to say it, he had never eaten it. He lived the life of a wealthy young master for more than [-] years. He didn't bother to let him eat, so he offered to eat hot pot today, just to have a taste.

Ou Zixi picked up a piece of beef, rinsed it in the steaming pot for a few times, picked it up after the color faded, dipped it in the prepared seasoning, and then put it into the bowl in front of Lu Jingnian.