Taoist life is hard. Bai Shiqi knows that Huang Youbi and his apprentice have no requirements for material life. Early the next morning, he dragged Shu Changfeng and Zhao Ziheng into the mountains to hunt and prepare to improve their lives.
Zhu Shoumei wanted to go, but Huang Youbi wanted to give Zhao Wujiu an acupuncture to soak in a medicinal bath, and he had to prepare the medicine for the medicinal bath, so he could only watch Bo Shiqi happily run away like a bird entering the forest.
Zhao Wu Jiu's expression changed, and it was rare for him to talk about it, he asked, "Listening to Brother Zhu, have you known Bai Shiqi since he was a child?"
Zhu Shoumei calmly reached out to test the temperature of the soup in the tub, and looked at Zhao Wu Jiu who had only taken off his clothes and trousers, showing a gentle smile: "I was naughty when I was seventeen and broke my leg. I was thrown into the countryside to treat my leg by the gang leader Bai, and her temperament was so restless that she forced me to run outside with her on my back every day. At that time, I was weak, so let’s not talk about it, I ran with her on my back for a while, not only The appetite is big, and even the body is much stronger." It was an unexpected joy.
Bai Shiqi has been able to hunt rabbits since he broke his leg on the mountain, and he also concealed the fact that Zhu Shoumei maliciously abandoned her. The two became attached to each other because of food, and the relationship finally eased, and a friendship gradually developed.
Don't look at Zhu Shoumei's gentleness and amiability. When he was a child, he was just a little hedgehog. Apart from trusting Huang Youbi, he was always vigilant to everyone else. Whenever there was trouble, he would prick up his ears and watch the four wilds nervously, with a deep sense of crisis. .
The two of them were eating grilled fish by the stream, and their stomachs were round. They lay flat on the big bluestone and slept together. When they heard a movement, Zhu Shoumei would sit up and look around to find the source of the sound, but Bai Shiqi fell asleep and died. Like a pig, he had to turn over and press him on top of him, threw the man on the big bluestone, rubbed his head on his arm and continued to sleep.
Zhu Shoumei turned over to get up: "Seventeen, someone is here."
Bai Shiqi didn't open his eyes and muttered in a low voice, "Little bastard, come here to disturb my sleep." The tone was very similar to that of the gang leader Bai.
It was Zhu Shoumei's classmates who came across. The children from the countryside went home to help the family work for half a day studying and half a day. These children were all middle-class in the village, and they bullied the thin and weak Zhu Shoumei on weekdays. The little lame man was very curious. He followed him today and saw from a distance that Zhu Shoumei put the little lame man by the water. The little lame man forked several fishes, scraped the scales and removed his belly, and made a fire by the water to bake it to eat. Insects are hooked up.
The two dogs headed by him were going to rob the rich and help the poor to be a hero. They killed him directly and grabbed the fish, but they were desperately stopped by the dog-head military commander, Fatty. So four or five Maotou children waited until they were full and lay down on the big bluestone slab before finally touching them.
The country child wore cloth shoes and deliberately lightened his footsteps and came around. Zhu Shoumei's long-term vigilance made his hair stand up. Since he entered Mengxue, he has been bullied by Ergouzi and others, but he did not dare to tell Huang Youbi, for fear The master felt that he was troublesome, so he could only prevaricate by falling on the mountain every time collecting medicine.
The area of this large bluestone is huge, and the two of them slept in the middle, with two grilled fish wrapped in banana leaves on the side—that was reserved for Huang Youbi.
The goal of Ergouzi and others was these two grilled fish, and before they could reach the banana leaves, they slapped their fat paws with a "pop".
Outsmart failed!
Ergouzi screamed, Big Fatty was dumbfounded, and the other three accomplices were furious, and Little Stone instigated: "Let's get together and fight together, I don't believe that we can't beat these two little bastards!"
Country children have been studying in school for a few days, but still can't escape the foul language.
Zhu Shoumei sat up in shock, and she was about to fight them desperately, and she was worried that Bai Shiqi would be beaten by someone on the big bluestone with his injured leg. Blame him for poor care.
Just as he was about to stand in front of Bai Shiqi, he was slapped and sat back by Bai Shiqi: "You sit and watch the play honestly." Bai Shiqi's eyes lit up, and he smiled and rubbed his hands: "I haven't been active for a long time. Well, I really didn't expect someone to come to the house to entertain the young master."
Xiao Shitou rushed forward heroically. Before he could reach the target, he was hit in both knees by a walking stick. With a thud, he knelt down on the edge of the big bluestone. The skin on his knees was probably torn, and his painful eye sockets were red. He almost burst into tears, but Bai Shiqi sat in the middle and shook his head: "Hey, you're welcome, there's no need for such a big gift when we meet for the first time!"
The little stone was furious and yelled at the rest of the friends: "You still don't beat this little cripple?"
A few children came over, and under Zhu Shoumei's trepidation, Bai Shiqi made these boys kneel or fall with just a cane, and some people knocked out their front teeth, and they all came back crying bitterly.
Since Zhu Shoumei settled in this small village, she has been bullied by these children a lot since she entered the Mongolian school. When she came home with Bai Shiqi on her back, she was willing for the first time, wishing she could make some earth as incense and worship Bai Shiqi.
"Seventeen, you are amazing!"
Bai Shiqi leaned on his thin back and said slowly, "You can be as good as me, as long as you eat more meat and exercise well."
Zhu Shoumei suffered a lot from a young age. Although Huang Youbi knew how to prepare soups and medicines, her cooking skills were extremely poor. She didn't know how to mix meat and vegetables, so she couldn't provide enough meat for growing children. No wonder Zhu Shoumei was not strong enough.
Zhu Shoumei carried Bo Shiqi home with her dream of being a strong man on her back. Only then did she serve two grilled fish. A few shrews were blocked at the door of the house, and each of them brought a crying child to the door to seek justice.
The leader was the fat aunt, the fat mother, whose voice was directly proportional to the figure, and when he shouted "Doctor Huang", the roofs of these three adobe houses were almost torn off: "Doctor Huang, look at your child who is taking my child off. to call…”
Before Huang Youbi could taste the delicious food, he received a crowd blocking the door to report his unworthy apprentice. Looking out through the fence, five women were holding five small crying bags, and one small crying bag had a broken lip and front teeth. It's gone, where is he still interested in eating fish, he turned his head and asked sternly, "What's going on?"
Zhu Shoumei had never seen her master look angry before, she shrank in fright, but she did not expect that Bai Shiqi would calmly say with a cane, "Old man Huang, let them all come in, there is no reason to be loud, let's talk about it today."
Huang Youbi was so angry that she knew that this brat from the old friend's house was difficult to deal with, so she could only invite a few women in.
Aunt Fatty came in and gave Zhu Shoumei a stern look, then pulled her big fat man to show Huang Youbi: "Doctor Huang, look at what my child beats yours!"
The other women joined in, and their main force was to severely punish the murderer.
Zhu Shoumei was so frightened that she was afraid that Huang Youbi would not want her, so she was about to go forward and kneel down to admit her mistake, but was pulled by Bai Shiqi's sleeve. She sat on the stool and knocked on the stone table: "Shut up, young master!" The woman asked the fat man with a stunned expression: "Did Shoumei beat you guys today?"
The fat man shook his head - if Zhu Shoumei had such a skill, how could she be bullied by them at ordinary times
Bai Shiqi pointed at Ergouzi Small Stone again: "You said, did Shoumei beat you today?"
Ergouzi glared fiercely: "He dares?!"
Several women were stunned.
Bai Shiqi scolded: "You little bastards usually bully Shoumei, right? He honestly didn't dare to complain to the old man Huang, and you bullied him time and time again. I didn't expect that I would suffer when I met the young master, so I cried. Shouting and asking the elders in the family to bring it to seek justice, how come you don’t see the word fairness when you bully Shoumei on weekdays? Are the books all read into the belly of a dog?!”
The few children who were scolded by her forgot to cry, and the fat aunt was speechless, still waiting to reason: "But... but... "
Bai Shiqi scolded: "But it's a fart! Your children are treasures, but other people's children are grass? Your children bully my Shoumei on weekdays, but now they have suffered losses and have the face to reason?" She suddenly took out from her boots A small dagger was thrown at random and hit a pecking rooster in the yard. The rooster fell down in response, twitched on the ground, and tried to get up and run for his life. is blood.
"From now on, you will give incense to the Bodhisattva every day, and pray that your family will be free from illness and disaster. Don't come to ask Doctor Huang for treatment! If you bully Shoumei from my family again, be careful, my lord, I will do it!"
The fat auntie is still eating Huang Youbi's soup recently. The villagers are frugal and can't afford a doctor in the county town when she is sick. But Huang Youbi not only has superb medical skills, but also often delivers medicines for free.
Master and apprentice Huang Youbi are both good-natured. The younger apprentice is quiet and obedient, and doesn't say anything when he is bullied. Huang Youbi is mild-mannered and kind-hearted, and doesn't care about money, but Bai Shiqi is not a good-natured person. He also slaughtered a rooster raised by Huang Youbi, and defeated others without fighting, causing Aunt Fatty and other women to retreat, and apologized to Huang Youbi and Zhu Shoumei.
The child who had knocked out his front teeth showed Huang Youbi a look, and said that it was time for tooth replacement, and new front teeth would grow in a while, which was not a big deal.
After the group retreated, Zhu Shoumei wanted to worship the dead Bai Shiqi and wanted to put her on his head, after many years he recalled the incident and still couldn't help laughing, and when he told Zhao Wu Jiu, he had a smile on his face: "Brother Zhao doesn't know. , that's the first time I feel... I think it's good to have siblings!"
Although Huang Youbi saved his life, but this gentleman was too reasonable, Zhu Shoumei was afraid of being abandoned by him, and he acted on his face in everything. Is there something I can't do that makes the master unhappy, so I become more diligent and find work when I get home.
No one can understand Zhu Shoumei's trembling psychology, and Huang Youbi, a bachelor who has been obsessed with studying medicine for most of her life, does not understand the psychology of sensitive children.
Zhu Shoumei added enough medicinal soup to the tub, she easily picked up Zhao Wu Jiu and put it into the tub, smiling, "I was thin and thin since I was a child, and since I woke up at seven o'clock, I have intentionally exercised. Not to mention, the strength is not small."
Don't look at his gentle appearance, the muscles under the half-old cloth robe are hard, Zhao Wu Jiu felt it when he was picked up by him.
"I didn't expect that at seventeen, I was so eloquent."
Zhu Shoumei reached out and stimulated the acupuncture points on his legs, thinking to himself: Seventeen is more than articulate, and clearly has a chivalrous heart since childhood.
"I also asked at the time why Seventeen was so daring, yet dared to fight against the adults. She said with a fearless expression, these people are not as scary as her family's gang leader. These women were just shouting, they were frightened and ran away." He smiled strongly, and his hands stopped for a moment: "Brother Zhao, I don't know, after these people left, she asked me to boil water. The chicken was scalded and plucked, and a few herbs were found in the master's medicine box to make a pot of chicken."
The taste still haunts him.
Perhaps what made him unforgettable was the first time in his life that he was protected by others for no reason, standing on his side indiscriminately, which made him finally open his heart, forgetting the cold eyes he once suffered, and accepting Bai Shi Seven's friendliness.
Zhao Wu Jiu's lower body was surrounded by the hot medicinal soup, the acupuncture points on his legs were pressed by Zhu Shoumei, in the steam, he imagined Bai Shiqi when he was a child, and a rare jealousy arose in his heart - jealous that the man in front of him was actually with him. Bai Shiqi was so familiar with him when he was a child.
Wen Tao also knew Bo Shiqi when they were young, but the two characters were seriously different. Bo Shiqi didn't say anything nice about him, and he was rude when he started to clean up, but Zhu Shoumei was completely different and a special existence.
"Then your relationship got better?"
Zhu Shoumei lowered her head and pressed his acupuncture point, her voice full of smiles: "To tell the truth from Brother Zhao, I have walked sideways for the three years I have lived in the village since then."
After the fat aunt went back, she thought about it, if she offended Doctor Huang, her mother-in-law's medical expenses alone would be a lot of money, and it would be very difficult for them to pay for the family. .
She pulled the fat man and taught him a lesson, and warned him not to bully Zhu Shoumei in the future, and sent a basket of eggs that he had saved up to go to the city to exchange money to Huang Youbi's house.
Huang Youbi refused to accept it, but was pulled by Bai Shiqi to accept it. She even said shamelessly, "I'll be a fat aunt to apologize for the big fat bullying my family's thin plum!" Said: "As long as the big fat doesn't bully my thin plum from now on, Dr. Huang will still look after your family. But if you bully again, if it's in my hands, be careful of your big fat arms and legs. I It's not serious to start!"
Even though Aunt Fatty had this intention, she blushed in embarrassment when a child exposed her face to face, said goodbye to Huang Youbi, and left in a hurry.
It was not dark yet, and the other four families came over with gifts.
Huang Youbi was angry at the bacon, eggs, wild tea hen and other objects on the table, and wanted to teach Bai Shiqi a lesson, but she reprimanded him before he even opened his mouth: "Old man Huang, please don't thank me, The reason why I started out for Shoumei is because you are about to give him up!"
Zhu Shoumei is diligent and studious on weekdays. Even if the gentleman in Mengtong Hall praised him, he also felt that the child was attentive: "Where have I been raised?"
Bai Shiqi pointed at Zhu Shoumei and said critically: "Why didn't you raise the waste? Look at him, what a boy who is shy by your raising, not only his eyes are shy, but he doesn't even dare to let go of his throat when he speaks, I know. If you say you are raising an apprentice, if you don’t know, you are still raising a slave. If he left this to my father, he would have been beaten to death!”
Huang Youbi has studied deeply in medicine, but he is still blank in parenting. He doesn't know what a normal child should be like. But it became a big problem.
"Your father beats the child because you are too naughty, Shoumei is sensible, how can you be beaten like you?"
Bai Shiqi rolled his eyes: "Old man Huang, are you stupid? Don't watch my father beat me, but he is proud of me. I am so good at keeping a bunch of hairy kids in good order. My father despised those idiots the most in his life. Men who have no responsibility for their sacks, scolding them are worse than women. If Shoumei hadn't stopped me today, I would definitely apologize to Fatty and the others. Obviously I'm right, I'm often bullied. I'm just a small counterattack today. Under his eyes, he almost apologized, the man dare not insist on right or wrong, don't you feel that you have been abandoned?"
Huang Youbi was speechless by her speech. She ate a few pieces of chicken with her head down. That night, she added twice as much yellow lotus to Bai Shiqi's soup.
It was Zhu Shoumei who boiled the medicine. He smelled the strong yellow lotus smell and wanted to drink the medicine for Bai Shiqi.
He couldn't help laughing when he mentioned it today: "I was young at the time, and I wasn't familiar with the master's temperament. In retrospect, the master also has such a cola side."
Seventeen said, my family's thin plum.
She said: What about the thin plum in her family.
What is Huanglian's bitter medicine, he is willing to block the knife for her!