Chapter 26： Deliver porridge

Chapter 26 Delivering Porridge

The next day.

When Jiang Sanlang came back from his second brother's house, he said to his wife with a face of joy: "My second brother slept very deeply last night and didn't cough much. This morning, the fever went away."

"Really, oh, this is great." Chun Niang was pleasantly surprised, "Second brother, this is going to be better."

"It should be." Jiang Sanlang smiled, "The medicine prescribed yesterday still works, and I will get better after just one meal."

“It’s just too expensive, alas.” Jiang Sanlang shook his head and sighed, “One dose is always more.”

Chunniang didn't answer the call, thinking that the money she had spent yesterday was not enough for her feelings. If she continued to spend like this in the future, her family would not be able to survive.

But it’s impossible not to take it. Alas, I’m really worried to death.

Yingbao is also very sad.

Erbo's lung disease is not easy to treat, so he cannot stop taking the medicine. He must take three courses of treatment.

Three courses of treatment last for about forty-five days. If one dose of medicine is calculated as five days, it will cost ten taels of silver.

Ten taels, that’s ten thousand taels. The total money of the uncle, grandparents, and father may not amount to ten taels.

So, where does this medicine money come from?

How about she feed her second uncle some more Wudingzhi to help him get better quickly?

Although I don’t know whether that thing can cure lung diseases, Erbo has improved significantly, which shows that Wudingzhi should be effective.

Thinking of this, Yingbao ran to the west room and entered the cave in an instant.

The Wudingzhi in the cracks in the rock wall has lost one-fifth, but the top of the cave seems to have grown a lot more.

But the place was too high, no matter how hard Ying Bao tried, he couldn't get up.

Forget it, ignore it for now, wait until the rock wall is used up and then think of something else.

Yingbao carefully picked off the Wudingzhi leaves one by one and placed them in a clean pottery bowl. She stopped after picking thirty pieces.

Picked up a rolling stick and pounded them into a paste, then added some pool water and stirred, and half a bowl of transparent medicinal paste was successfully born.

At noon, Jiang Sanlang was boiling medicine in a medicine pot in the yard of his second brother’s house. He saw his little girl running up and down and asked, “Have Bao’er eaten?”

“Hmm.” Yingbao squatted on the ground and stared at the bubbling medicine jar, and said, “I want you to go home and eat.”

Ms. Leng doesn’t know how to prepare meals for her third uncle. She doesn’t even want to boil medicine for her husband, let alone enter the room where her husband is staying.

I guess he was afraid of contagion, because Dr. Li said that those who serve him closely should cover their mouths and noses with a cloth.

Of course, Jiang Sanlang and Jiang Dalang didn’t trust her to endure the hardship.

After all, this woman is cold-hearted. It would be bad if she secretly hid the ginseng slices and donkey-hide gelatin in the medicine, and it is not like she has never done such a thing.

A few years ago when Jiang Erlang fell ill, she took out the ginseng slices from the medicine bag and hid them under the bed together with money and belongings. Later, Ms. Jiang Liu accidentally discovered it and was so angry that she wanted to divorce her on the spot.

If it weren't for the fact that Er Ni was still young and pregnant with another child, and Jiang Erlang's desperate protection, Mrs. Jiang Liu would definitely send her second daughter-in-law back to her parents' home that time.

It was at that time that the three Jiang brothers split up.

These things were all learned by Ying Bao from eavesdropping on her parents’ conversations.

"Daddy will go home after your second uncle has finished drinking the medicine." Jiang Sanlang said, holding a piece of linen cloth to place his hands, opening the lid of the medicine jar and taking a look. When he saw that it was almost done, he removed the charcoal fire and took a large pottery bowl to hold the medicine. .

The concoction was poured into the earthenware bowl. Most of the bowl was dark, accompanied by a strong bitter taste.

Jiang Sanlang saw his little girl staring at the medicine bowl and was afraid that she would make trouble again, so he said, "Bao'er, go back first. Dad will be back soon."

Yingbao blinked, "I'll wait for dad."

Jiang Sanlang had no choice but to pick up the medicine bowl and go to the west room, warning: "Then you are not allowed to be naughty."

"Bao'er is not naughty. Bao'er wants to visit his second uncle."

Yingbao jumped up and down behind her father and ran into the west room where her second uncle lived.

In the west room, Erni was standing by the kang, talking to her father with a worried look on her face.

The little girl seemed to have grown up all of a sudden. She explained to her father in a soft voice why her mother was not at home.

“Dad, my mother took her brother to her uncle’s house. She said that grandma is not feeling well and she will come back after taking a look.”

Jiang Erlang, who was lying on the kang, half-closed his eyes, with no apparent expression. He clenched his palms feebly and said hoarsely: "I know." Ying Bao was surprised.

The second wife, Leng, actually took Hu Zi back to her parents’ home at this time.

Her husband is ill. What on earth is this woman thinking?

No wonder I didn’t see Huzi, he was taken away by his mother.

“Second brother, it’s time to drink the medicine.” Jiang Sanlang put the medicine bowl on the small table, turned back and glared at the little girl, warning her not to touch the medicine bowl, and then went to help the second brother to get up.

ˆ Yingbao:.

She hasn’t done anything yet.

Looking back, I saw Sister Erni, who was also looking at me and couldn't help but scratch her head.

“Sister Erni, let’s go to uncle’s house to find Sister Danni, shall we?”

Ying Bao knew that it was impossible to secretly add Wuding Zhi into the medicine bowl, so he had to do the next best thing and invite Er Ni to find Dani.

Erni shook her head: "No, I want to take care of daddy."

Mom is not at home, and it is inconvenient for dad to drink water. She must stay at home and watch over him.

Ying Bao pouted and walked out of the house in dismay.

Jiang Sanlang fed his second brother the medicine, then helped him lie down and said, "Second brother, you go to sleep for a while. I'll be back as soon as I get back."

“Yeah.” Jiang Erlang nodded and closed his eyes.

Jiang Sanlang came out and saw that his daughter was like a wilted vegetable leaf. He couldn't help but smile. He knelt down and clapped his hands: "Bao'er, come here and go home with dad."

Ying Bao didn't want to go home, but it seemed like there was no use staying here by herself, so she stretched out her arms and asked her father to hold her, and asked without giving up: "Dad, has the second uncle eaten? Should we bring him food?"

“Have already had breakfast.” Jiang Sanlang carried his daughter and walked home. "Your aunt will cook porridge and bring it over at noon. We don't need to bring it to you."

“Oh.” Ying Bao was even more disappointed.

When she got home, she saw her father going to eat in the house, so she ran to her uncle's house.

As soon as he arrived at the door of his uncle's house, he saw Yuan Bao holding a stone ball in his arms and was about to go to the threshing floor to play football with some boys.

When Yuanbao saw his little cousin coming over, he thought he was reading a book like before, so he said, "Yingbao, the books are all on the table. You can read them yourself. I'm going to play football."

He has been addicted to football games recently, and even Youyou has fallen out of favor.

Ying Bao blinked: "Where's Sister Dani?"

“Make a fire in the kitchen.” As he said this, Yuanbao had already run away.

In the kitchen, Sister Dani is indeed cooking porridge, and the sweet rice fragrance overflows with the heat.

Ying Bao pursed her lips and smiled, and asked: "Sister Dani, are you cooking porridge?"

“Yeah.” Dani nodded and said specifically: “I cooked it for my second uncle.”

"Oh." Ying Bao became even more happy and asked quickly: "Are you going to send it to your second uncle later?"

"I'll send it to you when it's ready." Dani thought her little cousin wanted to eat it, so she whispered, "I'll leave some for you later."

Yingbao shook his head: "No, I'm full."

After a pause, he said, "Can I help you serve the porridge?"

Dani didn’t understand why her little cousin wanted to help her serve the porridge, but she still nodded: “Okay, then be careful and don’t spill it.”

"It won't spill." Ying Bao stood up on tiptoes excitedly and looked at the steaming pot. She gestured and saw that she couldn't reach the pot base, so she quickly moved a stool and placed it next to the stove.

After a while, the porridge was cooked. Dani turned off the fire, brought a pot and a big bamboo spoon, and opened the pot.

A puff of white steam, wrapped in the rich aroma of rice, hits your face.

Yingbao was afraid that Dani would regret it, so she immediately grabbed the bamboo spoon in her hand and stood on the stool.

Dani:.

Yingbao avoided Dani's strange eyes, scooped up the porridge with a bamboo spoon, and poured it into the jar.

(End of this chapter)