Chapter 589 Encountering Danger When Going Up the Mountain (Part 1)
Gu Anran looked toward the door. The door was open. She didn't see the "ugly guy" that Xingze said. She stood up and walked to the door. She looked around for a while, but she still didn't see anyone outside the door.
It is noon now, the sun is shining brightly, and people in the village are resting at home, waiting for the sun to go down before going to the fields to do some farm work.
At this scorching temperature, eggs can hatch even if they are placed outside. Unless there is an emergency that must be dealt with immediately, no one is hanging around outside at this point.
"Are you suffering from heatstroke? Are you hallucinating? Is there anyone there?"
Xingze pursed his lips and scratched his head, muttering in confusion: "It's strange, I clearly saw it just now..."
"Ignore him, let's go back inside and blow on the fan."
Gu Anran turned around and took Xingze's hand, took him to the water tank, scooped out a ladle of water and washed his son's dirty hands and face, and took him into the house to change out of his dirty clothes.
After washing up and putting on clean clothes, Xingze is the beautiful and cute little baby again.
"Mom..." He threw himself into Gu Anran's arms, raised his chubby little face and smiled perfunctorily with his eyes narrowed.
At first glance, it seems that they are trying to please for some purpose.
Gu Anran tapped the tip of her son's nose and smiled: "If you want to go to the amusement park in the city, just wait a few more days. Dad will be very busy these days. I will take you to play when dad is over."
Before he even opened his mouth, his mother saw through his little thoughts. Xingze put away his smile and turned it into a pout, with his little brows furrowed and his brows full of grievances.
"Dad is busy, doesn't mom have time? Brother Leilei said that the playground has added a lot of water games! There are also water slides! It's so fun!"
Gu Anran rubbed her son's head and explained softly: "Mom will go up the mountain to pick herbs later. Mom must seize the time these days to help a lady develop a scar-removing medicine."
"Scar removal medicine should be applied earlier, otherwise scars will appear easily. That lady loves beauty very much, and she will be very sad if scars are left."
Xingze drooped his head and thought for a while, then leaned into her arms and raised his head and said, "Okay, then I'll wait for a few days. But the baby is unhappy. Mom said that when you are unhappy, just eat something sweet.
I’m happy now, so can I eat jelly beans?”
Gu Anran smiled and pinched his little face, "You can eat it, but only two. If you eat more, your teeth will hurt at night."
"Um!"
Gu Anran went to get two fruit candies and gave them to Xingze.
The little guy immediately became happy after taking the candy. He even grabbed Gu Anran's hand and placed a soft kiss on her palm.
The jelly beans are stuffed into the mouth, and a little pimple bulges out on the chubby face, making it even cuter.
"Mom is right! Eating sweets really makes you happy! Mom, I went out to play with the puppy!"
Gu Anran warned him loudly at his trotting figure: "Don't run! Walk slowly! Don't run while eating!"
Xingze obediently slowed down and went to play in the yard with joyful little steps of shaking his head.
Gu Anran shook her head. In this hot weather, only children can play in the yard without being afraid of the heat!
She pulled out the chair next to the table and pulled it near the door of the room. She was half-lying on it lazily, with her eyes half-squinted and blowing on the floor fan. The peripheral light of her field of vision could just cover the entire yard, preventing Xingze from leaving.
own line of sight.
A slight sound of opening the door attracted Gu Anran's attention. He raised his eyes and saw Wang Shuzhen coming out of the house with several boxes of medicine in her hand.
"Mom?" Gu Anran frowned: "Dad, does your joint hurt again?"
"Yes." Wang Shuzhen came over and pushed several boxes of medicine in front of Gu Anran: "Anran, please help me see which one is the painkiller?"
Gu Anran picked out pain-relieving medicine and put it in Wang Shuzhen's hand, and said uneasily: "How about I give Dad a few injections? The effect is better than taking medicine."
"It's okay, just take medicine." Wang Shuzhen leaned close to Gu Anran's ear and lowered her voice and said, "Your father is too thoughtful to ask his daughter-in-law to give him an injection."
Gu Anran laughed: "Okay then, I will check the medical books later and prepare some external and internal medicines for Dad that are effective in treating joint pain."
Wang Shuzhen nodded: "That's okay."
Gu Anran took her mother-in-law's hand and rubbed it with her fingertips a few times. Her mother-in-law's hand was calloused, and the tips of her fingers could not be straightened, and they were bent like a pinch.
At first glance, it looks like a pair of hands that have worked hard all their lives.
"Mom, why don't you two elders stop going to the fields? It's time for you two elders to enjoy a happy life. When dad is tired or when the weather is bad, he will suffer from joint pain. You will also have severe back pain when you are tired."
Wang Shuzhen smiled and shook her head: "Leilei doesn't need to worry about us. Xingze has Tingting looking at him at this moment. We old couple can't sit around. We don't know what to do if we don't plant the land. Planting some land is just to pass the time."
, live your life to the fullest.”
The idea that labor is the most glorious is deeply rooted in the hearts of this generation.
A few years ago, when I went to a supply and marketing cooperative to buy something, I would often hear someone say a quotation from the chairman before buying something.
Gu Anran knew that he couldn't persuade his parents-in-law, so he had to say: "Then plant less, don't plant so much. When the work in the field is too busy, hire someone to do it."
Wang Shuzhen said with a smile: "There is only so much work in the fields, how can we hire people? Your dad and I just do some exercise."
Gu Anran said disapprovingly: "I have arthritis, but I still want to take painkillers and continue working in the fields. Is this called exercising? Isn't this a waste of the body?"
"If you stay at home doing nothing, your arms and legs will age faster. Just work for a few more years while you can still do it."
Gu Anran wanted to persuade them a few more words, but suddenly she heard someone speaking loudly in the courtyard.
"Xingze! Why are you still playing in the yard on such a hot day? I'm going to be roasted this time I go out! Come in with me! Auntie has bought you some iced watermelon! Go inside and eat some watermelon!"
Wang Shuzhen glanced sideways at the yard, laughed and cursed: "She makes such a loud noise when she speaks, and her voice is as loud as the loudspeaker! I heard her coming back eight miles away!"
When the sun sets to the west, the mountains not far away cast some shadows, and the wind that comes with it is less hot and humid during the day and more cool and refreshing.
Gu Anran carried a small bamboo basket on his back and prepared to go up the mountain to collect herbs.
Mo Tingting asked from the side: "Second sister-in-law, why do you have to go collect medicines? Isn't the medicine warehouse of the pharmaceutical factory quite comprehensive?"
Gu Anran explained: "To make a scar removal cream, there is a shortage of medicine in the medicinal material library. This medicine is not expensive and not commonly used, but it is necessary to make a scar removal cream. Wild ones are common at the foot of the mountain.
I’ll go find a few plants and I’ll be back in a minute.”
"Then I'll go with you!" Mo Tingting also carried a bamboo basket on her back, "I'm just going to dig some wild vegetables at the foot of the mountain."
"I'm going too! I'm going too!" Xingze heard this and chased after him, putting his two small hands into the hands of Gu Anran and Mo Tingting respectively.