The autumn rain stopped before dawn, the roosters crowed outside and the sky turned white, and he slowly opened his eyes.
In the past few days, he had been immersed in a huge shock - he found that he had turned into another person. Not only had his appearance changed, but there was also a strange memory in his mind. Until today, the shock gradually turned into numbness, and he
I finally accepted this absurd reality - my soul went back to six hundred years ago and merged with the body of a young man named Wang Xian!
'I'm lucky to be alive...' He sighed softly, glad that he survived the catastrophe, and glad that he was an orphan without a wife or children to care about. It would make no difference where he lived...
Thinking of this, he was not dissatisfied with the transformation from his sinewy body to the skinny little body that he could not even move his fingers.
He was thinking about how to face his family when he suddenly heard a door creaking outside, followed by an angry voice:
"This plague chicken doesn't crow even at dawn! You will be stewed sooner or later!"
This voice came from a shrewd woman, who was Wang Xian's mother. After she finished training the chickens, she started training the people again, "If these lazy bitches don't get up, it will be dark if we go to bed again!"
In the midst of my mother's shouting, Wang Xian's eldest brother Wang Gui hurriedly dressed and got up, wiped his face randomly, and went to cook.
"Where's your wife?" I was feeding the chickens with a dustpan in my hands. When I saw that my son was cooking, she immediately grimaced.
"Cuilian..." Wang Gui had thick eyelids and thick lips, and he looked very honest. In front of my mother, he was like a mouse meeting a cat. When he heard this, he shrank his neck and said: "Today
That’s uncomfortable…”
"A body that lasts fifteen days in a month..." I snorted and cursed: "You're a liar!"
"Mom, I'm going to fetch water." Wang Gui smiled naively and picked up the pole standing in the corner.
"I, I, it sounds so awful, who did you learn this from?" The old woman snorted again, finished feeding the chickens, wiped her hands randomly on her apron, held a wooden basin in one arm, and carried a bucket in the other hand, then walked to the west wing.
Go. Don’t forget to tell Lao Dadao: “Sweep the patio before eating!”
"Yeah." Wang Gui responded obediently.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wang Xian lived in the west wing. Although he had woken up, he had not yet figured out how to face the family, especially the angry old woman, so he decided to close his eyes and pretend to be unconscious.
The door was pushed open hard, and the old woman with her head wrapped in a blue scarf came in carrying a bucket and a basin. In fact, this mother was very delicate, with clear black and white eyes. She was very energetic and did not have seizures.
When she was young, she didn't look like a tigress. But when she got angry, her black and white eyes became cold and sharp!
A sharp mouth can even scold a living person until he becomes angry, and then become angry again.
After entering the house, she first looked at her son. When she saw that he still had his eyes closed and motionless, she habitually cursed: "You bastard is not awake yet, I will be dragged to death by you!" Then she walked to the bed and lifted it.
I opened the quilt, turned him over, scrubbed him, massaged him... and even changed him into his underwear.
Speaking of which, despite being in bed for so long, Wang Xian's body is still as clean as ever, with not a single bed sore. This is simply a miracle in the hot and humid Jiangnan area.
Although it was already autumn, it was still very difficult for a thin woman to turn a sixteen-year-old man. Halfway through the work, I was already sweating profusely. She wiped the sweat and said depressedly: "People say that you marry a man.
Man, you need to dress and eat, raise your children, and prevent illness and old age. It’s better for me, I owe you the Wang family men in my previous life, and I will work as a cow and a horse for you!”
After that, she continued to wipe his armpits. Wang Xian was very ticklish and couldn't help but tremble.
My mother immediately became excited and rushed to the bedside. Wang Xian was still pretending to be unconscious, but my mother's big ear scraper was slapped on... It was a real beating, and he couldn't help but grit his teeth and crack his mouth in pain.
"Wang Gui, Wang Gui!" My mother looked at the vivid expression on his face and screamed with surprise: "Come on!"
Wang Gui was sweeping the floor outside when he heard his mother yelling. He threw away the broom and rushed in. He asked with his head covered, "Mom, what's wrong?"
"Look at your brother, he's awake!" As I spoke, I opened Wang Xian's eyelids and saw his eyes rolling. Now I couldn't pretend anymore, "What did Doctor Wu say?"
?”
"Doctor Wu said..." Wang Gui scratched his head and thought for a while and said, "I forgot!"
"Why don't you hurry up and call the doctor!" My mother couldn't stand his cowardly behavior, so she kicked her eldest son out with a flying kick.
Soon, Dr. Wu from the county medical department hurried over to examine Wang Xian. Since Wang Xian had accepted his current identity, he took this opportunity to 'wake up'.
In fact, without any examination, anyone who is not blind can see Wang Xian slowly opening his eyes.
The whole family was completely relieved. The younger sister Yin Ling jumped three feet high and laughed and jumped around the bed. Wang Gui also wiped away tears. Even Wang Gui's wife was very happy and asked Doctor Wu: "No need to spend more money."
Have you paid for the medicine?"
Doctor Wu was drinking tea to quench his thirst, and when he heard this, he sprayed Wang Gui in the face.
The old woman gave Wang Gui's wife a fierce look and said to Doctor Wu: "She is asking when will she be able to do something good?"
"There is no need to rush this," Doctor Wu said slowly, "He is too weak. I will prescribe a nourishing prescription and take it for a month."
"Ah, I still have to take medicine!" Wang Gui's wife was overjoyed and complained loudly: "He has already emptied the house, and he still takes it!"
"Can't you raise it slowly?" In fact, I am not willing to spend any more money. How can she still have money?
"Of course," Doctor Wu twirled his beard and said, "But he has been lying down for too long, and his body has suffered a great loss. If he doesn't get recuperated quickly, I'm afraid he will still be a sick man when he recovers in the future."
"Is it okay to give him supplements directly?" I asked again.
"If the weak is not replenished, you will kill him if you replenish it now." Dr. Wu shook his head and said with compassion: "Brother and sister, Wang Xian is so young, we cannot let him get the root of the disease!"
"Yes." My mother's face changed for a while, and she finally nodded fiercely and said, "Sir, please prescribe it!"
So Wang Gui polished the ink, and Doctor Wu spread out the paper, wrote out a prescription, dried the ink, handed it to Wang Gui and said: "Go and take the medicine, eat it early and be good morning!"
"Yeah." Wang Gui responded, carefully took the prescription, and looked at my mother again.
"Send the husband back, and grab the medicine on the way." I sighed and said, "You tell Yuan Lu to keep the accounts first and settle them at the end of the month."
"Mom, the drugstore has told me not to give it to us..." Seeing his sister packing Dr. Wu's medicine box, Wang Gui whispered to his mother: "People say you have no credibility. You've been saying this for three months."
I haven't seen a penny yet..."
"How would you know if you didn't bother me?" I took off a gold bracelet from my wrist in annoyance, patted it in his hand and said, "Keep this over there, get the medicine first!"
"Yeah." Wang Gui breathed a sigh of relief.
Doctor Wu had already packed up and had been drinking tea leisurely. After the mother-in-law had finished speaking, he stood up and left.
"Wang Gui, go see Mr. off." The old lady took out a bunch of money from her waist, which was almost twenty coins, and handed it to her son.
When Doctor Wu saw this, he smiled and said: "Today the sun came out in the west, and I actually saw my brother and sister's money."
"I have troubled you so many times, and finally I have taken good care of my waiter." I said confidently. "This time I have paid off the consultation fee."
Doctor Wu stepped out and almost fell down. He turned around and said with a wry smile: "Is it worth a penny if you come with me for a consultation?" He waved his hand and said: "Forget it, I am a good person who will do it to the end, and I will give a free clinic!"
"Thank you very much, sir." The old lady didn't give in, so she took the money back from her son and said, "When my family becomes prosperous, I will also seal two bags of snowflake silver to my husband."
"If you dare to give it to me, don't dare to take it." Mr. Wu shook his head and laughed and went out. Wang Gui hurriedly gave it away.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After Wang Gui saw Mr. Wu off, the old lady glanced at her daughter-in-law and said, "Don't you feel uncomfortable anymore?"
Wang Gui's wife blushed and said: "It's not bad, I came over to take a look and I have to go back and lie down." Then she went back to the house dejectedly.
The old woman snorted and turned her eyes to her son. She was happy and angry at the same time. She was happy and understandable. She was angry because her son came out of a gambling house and was injured. The county did not solve the case, so in the end they could only
The case was settled as 'retaliation for gambling dispute'. So in my mind, this son was beaten because of gambling!
My mother had long been in despair for this idle and gambling son. When I thought that he would inevitably revert to his old ways in the future, which would make the family worse, I became extremely angry. If Wang Xian hadn't just woken up, I would have been scolded.
"I'll settle the score with you later!" I looked at my son again and again, and gave him a last hard look, then left Yin Ling to take care of him, and went back to the house to work. Perhaps it was the exhaustion after being excited, and her steps were a little shaky.
, when I walked to the door, I tripped over the threshold. I kicked the threshold and said angrily: "Saw it down sooner or later and burn the firewood!"
After my mother left, my younger sister Yin Ling cooked millet porridge in the morning, mixed it with some hot water, and fed it to Wang Xian. Yin Ling's personality was very similar to my mother's, but after all, she was young and not aggressive, just lively. On her side
Weizhu, while chirping, told the story of Wang Xian's situation after he fell into coma, and inevitably criticized him for his faults.
Through her words, Wang Xian knew that although the situation at home was very bad, if he hadn't put him down, he wouldn't be like now, not only in debt, but even unable to eat... Thinking of this, Wang Xian realized
Look, I just mixed garlic under my feet. It seems that my limbs are weak due to hunger.
Six hundred years later, there was still a saying of "returning to poverty after one illness". Wang Xian remembered that Lu Xun's family was also in such a state of failure, so he believed his sister's words deeply and couldn't help but feel the guilt of the eldest brother.
"The neighbors all told my mother that you will definitely not wake up. If you delay spending a day's money, you will drag down good people to death. It is better to cut off the situation as soon as possible. With a temper like my mother's, no one can do anything for sure.
You can't pull them back, if it were someone else's family, you would be dead!"
"Brother, even if I beg you, my family has owed so much debt to treat your illness. When you get better, be sure to break up with those people. Find a job Ansheng, okay?" After saying this, the younger sister became discouraged.
He said: "Forget it, it's easy to change a country and hard to change its nature. How can we expect you to change?"
Being despised by a teenage girl, Wang Xian wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl in, so how could he open his mouth?
"Open your mouth!" Seeing that he refused to eat, Yin Lingxing stared and said, "You want to go on a hunger strike after just a few words? If you have the guts, show it to us instead. Then my sister will kowtow to you to apologize!"
Wang Xian's face turned red with embarrassment.
Seeing that he still refused to eat, the little girl pursed her lips and said: "Second brother, don't be ignorant, our family is not what it used to be. We don't have millet in Fuyang, so my mother used old hens that were laying eggs to get these ten dozen
Jin, we have never tasted a bite!"
Wang Xian sighed deeply and finished the porridge in one mouthful without wasting a single grain.