Chapter 8
Angelica sinensis makes medicine
Mrs. Yan turned around and patted Li Shang's hand again, wiping away her tears.
The young man was a little uncomfortable facing such a scene for the first time, and he was even more at a loss. For him, family love was just words on a bamboo slip, and he had never tasted it.
Now it was the first rough feeling, and he couldn't help but think, this is how it feels to be cared about by someone?
Li Shang nodded: "We will come back to see you."
Mr. Yan also nodded and said worriedly: "The world is unstable, but I don't know how long I can live."
Shen Jingyuan comforted him: "You will live a long life, and Lihua Village will get better and better. Don't worry."
Mr. Yan only thought she was a comfort, and the old man beside him said: "Okay, don't say any more, let them go on their way, otherwise it will be dark and there will be no time to settle down."
Ms. Yan let go of Shen Jingyuan and Li Shang's hands: "Go."
The two nodded and embarked on the road, their figures getting smaller and smaller in the eyes of everyone in Lihua Village, and they were almost invisible.
The villagers of Lihua Village dispersed, but Ms. Yan lowered her head to wipe her tears. Suddenly she saw a huge golden rune that appeared on the ground for an instant. She rubbed her eyes and looked at the ground.
There is nothing but earth, mud and stones.
She sighed, as she was getting older, her eyes were getting blurry.
After leaving Lihua Village, Li Shang and Shen Jingyuan concentrated on their journey without stopping. Because they were afraid that heavy rain would trap them again, they were almost on the way to Kyoto for five consecutive days, except for sleeping and rest.
The two of them supported each other along the way, you looked for water and I looked for fruit, you ate pancakes and I lit the fire, and their relationship became more harmonious. Today, Shen Jingyuan will no longer be asked for a tael of gold for using Li Shang's things.
Kyoto is located in the north, and it is early autumn in September. The weather suddenly became cold very quickly. Two days before arriving in Kyoto, the two of them had an accident due to the cold weather. To be more precise, Shen Jingyuan had an accident.
While taking a shortcut, she suddenly fell down on the road and stayed awake all night.
Li Shang touched her forehead and discovered that Shen Jingyuan had a high fever. Because the illness was so severe, they took a shortcut, and there were no medical centers or villages in the wilderness.
Li Shang didn't know how to take medicine, and he was in a daze caused by the disease. When he was rarely awake, he was very anxious. For the first time, he was like a headless fly, feeling incompetent and powerless.
There is an abandoned house on the mountain, which must have been built as a resting place by the hunters who came to the mountain in the past.
Shen Jingyuan was carefully placed on the rotten bed covered with hay by Li Shang. He took off his clothes and covered her body, then turned to light the fire to make the room warmer.
Li Shang is a man, and his physique should be stronger than Shen Jingyuan's. The two of them were traveling together. Li Shang fell ill a few days ago, but Shen Jingyuan was fine. Unexpectedly, it was the calm before the storm. This time, Shen Jingyuan fell ill. It was very serious. She suffered from cold and abdominal pain, and her cough was worse than when Li Shang was sick last time. Now she can't even stand.
"We can reach Kyoto in two days." Shen Jingyuan woke up, took Li Shang's hand and said, "Take me to Kyoto. The illness is not urgent yet."
The young man stared deeply at the weak girl on the bed, "Your illness has been going on for two days, and I can't find the herbs you were looking for last time."
Shen Jingyuan's face was pale, and he softly picked up the tattered linen clothes covering his body: "Come on, put it on, it's too cold. Ahem, don't you be sick again? No one will take care of me then. Go to Kyoto."
She lay softly and weakly handed the Mai to him, fearing that he would also catch a cold.
Li Shang put it on silently, looking at the figure in the dilapidated house illuminated by the bright yellow light of the fire, without saying a word.
"Ahem. Don't worry about my illness... Ahem, go back to Kyoto first... Ahem, cough, cough, cough..."
Stop talking nonsense! Take me to Kyoto! Take me to Kyoto!
Shen Jingyuan screamed silently in his heart.
She had never been sick among the gods in her generation, and this time the cold wind was almost killing her.
Now she only thinks about Li Shang taking her to Kyoto. When she returns to Kyoto and returns to the Prime Minister's Mansion, her illness will be cured and she will be able to enjoy delicious food.
When Shen Jingyuan thought about how unsatisfactory he was when he was about to arrive in Kyoto, he couldn't help but shed a few tears of hatred for the iron.
From Li Shang's perspective, the girl was so weak that she was crying, but she forced herself to smile and said it was okay, and let him take her on the way.
There was a hint of emotion and unknown feeling in his heart.
"Let's talk tomorrow." After he said that, he turned around and went to sit by the fire.
Shen Jingyuan felt that he must have agreed, so he suppressed his coughing and lay down quietly. It didn't take long for him to feel sleepy and he fell asleep.
At night, apart from the sound of burning firewood, there was coughing from time to time in my sleep.
Li Shang stared at the fire and was a little upset. The coughing behind him became more and more fierce as the night went on, and his voice gradually became hoarse. When it became a bit tearing and harsh, he finally stood up and turned around to remove the Angelica sinensis in his bag. They were all taken out.
When Shen Jingyuan woke up, Li Shang handed the cooked angelica in front of her.
"Drink!" Li Shang said to the shocked Shen Jingyuan who opened his mouth wide.
"What is he doing with the money!?"
Lai Qian looked at Li Shang's actions in surprise and shook his head.
"Cough cough cough cough... I asked him to take me to Kyoto, he cough cough cough... why did he give me the medicine he had given me to protect and treasure? Cough cough cough..."
The medicine needs to be drunk while it's hot to be effective. Li Shang seemed to know Shen Jingyuan's shock. He spoke harshly and said awkwardly: "It's not for free. I don't want anyone to die in front of me. Angelica will save you." One life and ten taels of gold will be repaid to me one day."
Shen Jingyuan was stunned for a moment, and then he smiled. The pear dimples on his face were light and very pretty.
"Here's the money. You see, even though this guy is a philistine, he still has a kind heart."
She smiled like an old mother, but from Li Shang's perspective, her smile was like a clean and pure pear blossom, which directly touched the young man's heart.
Shen Jingyuan drank Angelica sinensis and slept all night. On the second day, her condition was much better. She could get out of bed and stand up. Her cough was much better. After eating the vegetable batter cooked by Li Shang, her strength was restored to seventy percent. Seven, eight, eight.
Li Shang let her rest for two days to make sure she was fine before starting her journey.
The rest of the journey was quickly completed. They went down the mountain and saw the moat of Kyoto, which was so majestic and vast. The Kyoto of Dayun Dynasty had stood behind the moat for seven hundred years.
Arriving at the gate of Kyoto, Li Shang looked up at the sky and found that it was getting colder and the linen clothes on their bodies had begun to fail to keep out the cold.
Turning around, he saw that the girl's tattered clothes were also very thin and pitiful: "Don't catch a cold again, I have no Angelica for you."
The girl took out the twenty copper coins that Mr. Yan had stolen and took out two of them to buy meat buns.
After eating vegetable batter for so long, she was really fed up.
"Mom, two meat buns!" Her eyes were brightly staring at the freshly baked buns on the steamer.
Chapter completed!