When Han saw Yingbao, her expression changed, but she didn't say anything in the end. She lowered her head and walked to the side and sat down with the baby in her arms.
Chen Changping completely ignored Yingbao and sat down on another stool to rest.
Yingbao was puzzled, why did Chen Changping come back again
Wouldn't it be better for him to stay in the city? What's the point of rushing back in such hot weather
However, the question she did not ask was asked by Doctor Li.
After checking Chen Fengshi's pulse and testing her forehead, he said to Chen Laoshuan, "Madam Feng is suffering from the heatstroke. Just drink some water and take a rest. It's nothing serious."
As he said this, he told his second grandson to pour a few cups of tea for Chen Laoshuan and the others, and asked him to make a bowl of honeysuckle tea and bring it to Chen Fengshi.
Chen Laoshuan bowed to Doctor Li and said, "I'm sorry to trouble you, Brother Li."
Doctor Li waved his hand and asked curiously, "Brother Chen, did you just come back from the city?"
"Yes." Chen Laoshuan said, "My son Erlang is preparing for the county exam next year and needs to go to the county government's ceremony room to register in advance."
Not only do you have to register, but you also have to ask your instructor for help, find five candidates to sponsor each other, and then ask a student on government scholarship to sponsor the candidate.
These things must be prepared in advance. If you delay, you won't be able to find the candidates who are paired with you and the students who have signed the stipend agreement.
"I see."
Doctor Li chatted with Chen Laoshuan for a while, and just then someone came into the pharmacy to see a patient, so he went over to see the patient.
After drinking the honeysuckle tea, Mrs. Chen Feng looked much better, so Chen Laoshuan said goodbye to Doctor Li.
Before leaving, the Chen family members glanced at Yingbao intentionally or unintentionally. Chen Tiantian even smiled at her in a friendly manner.
Yingbao smiled back at her and waved.
Chen Tiantian was stunned, then turned around and left quickly.
At night, Yingbao lay in the linen mosquito net, listening quietly to Li Xihua falling asleep, and immediately concentrated and entered the cave.
She stood on the brown land, looked up at the apple tree that had reached the top of the cave, and decided to climb up to see if she could pick some Wudingzhi.
Although I have been an apprentice here with Doctor Li for a while, I have not neglected my daily exercise, and climbing trees is no problem for me.
Rubbing his hands, Yingbao put a bundle of ropes on his shoulders and climbed up the tree using his hands and feet.
He quickly climbed up a tree branch, selected a thick branch, tied a rope to it, and tied the other end of the rope around his waist.
Picking Wudingzhi is important, but your own life is more important, so you must take safety precautions.
Climbing up along the highest branches, you will soon reach the top of the cave.
The branches here were already very thin, and could barely bear her weight, but she still couldn't reach them.
Yingbao was not in a hurry and just looked at the top of the cave.
The Wudingzhi here seems to be different from the ones on the cave wall below. The leaves are larger and more translucent, and some leaves are even as big as eggs.
In the middle of those large leaves is a lotus-shaped bud, which is emitting a faint fragrance.
Yingbao took out the prepared shovel from her bag, stood up straight as much as she could, stretched out her arm and barely shoveled towards a bunch of large leaves above her head.
Several leaves and a flower bud were shoveled off, and two of them hit her in the face.
Yingbao grabbed it, but there was a cracking sound under her feet, the thin branch broke, and she fell down suddenly.
The incident happened so suddenly that she screamed in fright. Fortunately, there were many branches and leaves to cushion the fall, and she had a rope tied around her waist, so she was not killed.
When she slowly climbed down the tree, her face and body were scratched in several places.
I picked up the Wudingzhi that fell on the ground, brushed off the dirt, put it in my mouth and tasted it. The taste was similar to the small leaves.
Yingbao finished a whole leaf in just a few bites, put the rest in her pocket, and then slowly walked down the stairs to the gourd boat.
When she came out of the cave, she was surprised to find that the scratches on her body were gone.
A few days later, when Yingbao's day came, Jiang Sanlang and Chunniang came in a horse-drawn carriage to pick up their daughter and buy some things at the market.
On the way, Chunniang talked to her daughter about Chen Changping's family.
"The Chen family has been renovating their house recently, and Chen Laoshuan has also bought a lot of good farmland from the neighboring village at a high price, and they are all top-quality paddy fields."
Those were the fields that her daughter didn't allow herself to buy, but in the end they were all bought by Chen Laoshuan's family.
"Han gave birth to a son and named him Chen Xubao." Chun Niang frowned and said, "Yesterday, Chen Feng and Han brought their two girls to our house and brought a bunch of gifts to apologize to your grandparents. They said that it was all a misunderstanding and that the two families would get along well in the future. They also suggested that their daughter Chen Zhao and Dani become sworn sisters."
Yingbao was speechless: "Who suggested that?"
Chun Niang: "Who else could it be? That Chen Fengshi. She cried and confessed to your grandparents, saying that she was possessed by ghosts. Tsk! Fortunately, your grandparents didn't agree. She told your father afterwards and made him very angry."
Such a weird family is really rare. Fortunately, they were tactful and didn't dare to mention Yingbao. Otherwise, Sanlang and I would definitely make them suffer.
Seeing that her daughter was speechless, Chunniang hugged her and said, "Don't be afraid, Bao'er. It doesn't matter if they come back. Now Han has a son. It is said that he is very precious. She will never dare to harass our family again."
Everyone has a weakness, and Han's weakness is her son, so that woman should really not dare to do anything to Yingbao anymore.
Yingbao nodded: "Yeah."
Han got her wish and gave birth to a son, so there would be no more trouble. And Chen Xubao was at least seven or eight months old, so it seemed that he was really Chen Changping's child.
It seems that I am no longer useful to Han, so I should not have anything to do with her family.
That's very good.
Yingbao breathed a sigh of relief.
When she got home, the two dogs ran over from a distance, pounced on her excitedly, and almost knocked her to the ground.
Jiang Wu also came over and asked with a serious face like a little adult: "Have you been slacking off in your martial arts lessons?"
Yingbao pinched his cheek and said with a smile: "I am your sister and I am very diligent. If you don't believe me, let's have a competition."
"Let's compete!" Jiang Wu immediately got into position, ready to spar with his sister.
Yingbao took off her small shoulder bag, stretched her legs around Jiang Wu to warm him up, and suddenly she stretched out her leg and swept him over, knocking him down in one go.
"Haha! You lose!" Yingbao laughed triumphantly.
Jiang Wu got up from the ground in a rage, his face flushed and his neck thick as he said: "You have no martial ethics and are using dirty tricks!" And you even launched a sneak attack!
"No matter if it was a dirty trick or not, I won anyway." Yingbao decided to teach her brother a lesson by example. "If we go to the battlefield, whoever wins will survive. Who cares about martial ethics?"
Before she could finish her words, Jiang Wu grabbed Ying Bao and flipped her over, knocking her down, causing her back to become numb from the fall.
"Hahaha!" Now it was Jiang Wu's turn to be proud. He put his hands on his hips and laughed, "This is called giving someone a taste of their own medicine!"
Ying Bao grinned and climbed up, pointing at Jiang Wu: "Good job! I'll give you something good later! Humph!"
"What good stuff?" Jiang Wu came over.
Seeing that his sister ignored him, he quickly said, "Can't I let you drop it? What good thing is that?"
Yingbao picked up her bag and went inside, "Strengthening tea."
When Jiang Wu heard this, he hurried over: "Is this really a tonic tea?" He still remembered the tea his sister gave him every night when he had just started learning martial arts. The tea had a faint fragrance and made him feel refreshed after drinking it. By the next day, the soreness in his limbs had completely disappeared, and his endurance has been increasing little by little since then.
But later on, he didn't know why it was gone. He asked his sister about it, but she just said it wasn't ready yet and asked him to drink another kind of tea first, saying it was called health tea.
Although the health tea is somewhat useful, it is not as obvious as before.