Zhao Shijian found it funny to see his sister dislike Wen Yishu so much, and quickly assured her, "Okay, okay, sister, if you don't like her, then I will definitely not let her get attached to me, don't worry."
Compared with a weird female educated youth, Zhao Shijian, who has a sister complex, certainly cares more about his own sister.
"Then let's make a deal. I don't want her to be my sister-in-law. You must keep your distance from her, brother. Don't be fooled by her sweet words, and don't let her seize the opportunity to rely on you." Zhao Shichu reminded him worriedly.
Zhao Shijian naturally agreed without hesitation. Although he felt that his sister was worrying too much, it would not hurt anything to give her a promise to reassure her, so he agreed without hesitation. At this moment, he was completely unaware of Wen Yishu's determination to win him over.
After hearing his assurance, Zhao Shichu felt relieved and went back to the kitchen to deal with the chicken.
In the evening, the brother and sister had a delicious meal of pheasant stewed with mushrooms. Before dawn the next day, Zhao Shijian took the other pheasant and some other tradable items to the black market in town to sell them. When he came back, he brought a bag of peanut candy for Zhao Shichu.
Zhao Shichu saw the bag of peanut candy and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He said to Zhao Shijian, "Brother, I'm not a child anymore. Why are you still buying me candy? I don't even like it. Don't waste your money in the future. Can't we save the money and buy other daily necessities?"
Zhao Shijian thought his sister had grown up and was worried about the family's money, so he quickly said, "Sister, it doesn't cost much to buy these candies. You are still young, how could you not like to eat candies? Don't worry, our family is not short of money."
Zhao Shichu had no choice but to put away the bag of sugar, planning to melt it and use it as filling for buns later. Sugar buns were delicious anyway.
After that, Wen Yishu tried her best to find an opportunity to get close to Zhao Shijian, but the farm work was very heavy at that time and everyone was very busy. Her daily schedule was fully packed, leaving her with no time to talk to Zhao Shijian, so she had to give up for the time being.
Zhao Shichu only had to work half a day every day. One reason was that the original owner was not in good health, and Zhao Shijian felt sorry for his sister and did not let her do too much work; the other reason was that the family raised two pigs, and she had to go up the mountain to cut grass for the pigs, otherwise the pigs would starve and become thin.
She carried a bamboo basket and a sickle and walked up the mountain. She had been walking on this mountain road since she was a child and could walk it with her eyes closed. When she was halfway up the mountain, perhaps her walking startled the wild animals on the mountain, and suddenly a snake rushed out from the side and pounced towards her with its mouth wide open.
Zhao Shichu's heart skipped a beat, and she quickly took a few steps back. Then she swung the sickle in her hand violently, hitting the snake in the middle, and the snake was cut in half at once.
After the snake was chopped off, it was still not dead. Its upper body stubbornly raised its head and wanted to bite Zhao Shichu. Zhao Shichu held down the snake's head with a sickle, then stepped on its hind half with his foot and chopped off its head directly.
This was a emerald green snake with fine scales all over its body. It looked quite pretty. Zhao Shichu recognized it easily. It was a poisonous bamboo pit viper.
After the snake's head was chopped off, its saliva remained poisonous for a long time. In order to avoid accidentally hurting others, Zhao Shichu dug a half-meter-deep hole on the side of the road and buried the snake's head.
After burying it, she looked at the two pieces of the snake body on the ground, thought about it, and picked them up and threw them into the backpack.
She walked slowly up the mountain while cutting grass for the pigs. When she had cut most of the grass, she was already quite far away from the main road. Just when she was about to go back, she suddenly heard intermittent groaning sounds.
She listened for a while and confirmed that it was a sound made by a person. She thought that the person might have encountered some hardship, so she looked in the direction where the sound came from.
A few minutes later, on a small slope, she saw a skinny old man lying on the grass, holding his foot and groaning in pain. There were two cows eating grass leisurely beside him.
Zhao Shichu recognized that the old man was a sent-down man who lived in the cowshed. Because he was old and frail, he could not do any work, so the production team made him responsible for herding cattle.
Zhao Shichu suddenly had an idea and remembered that in the original owner's memory, a few months before Wen Yishu and Zhao Shijian got married, an old man who lived in the cowshed in the village was bitten to death by a snake. Later, the old man's grandson came to the village to take him home, but only received his remains.
Could it be that the person who was bitten to death by the snake was the old man in front of me? That was too much of a coincidence.
Zhao Shichu walked over, squatted down and asked the old man with a painful face: "Were you bitten by a snake?"
The old man, Ye Song, saw the young girl appear before him, and his newly born hope was shattered all at once. He replied somewhat desperately: "Yes, she was bitten. The snake was poisonous."
"Let me see." Zhao Shichu said as he pulled away Ye Song's hand, which was shaped like a dead bamboo. Sure enough, he saw two small blood holes on his ankles, and the area around the blood holes was swollen, purple and swollen, and it looked like he was seriously poisoned.
Zhao Shichu quickly pretended to take out a bottle of medicine powder from his backpack, then swept the sickle with fire and said to Ye Song: "Old man, please bear with me for a moment. I will cut open your wound, squeeze out the poisonous blood, and then apply medicine to you."
"Do you have an antidote?" Ye Song asked, regaining some hope.
"My brother is afraid that I will get hurt or encounter poisonous snakes when going up the mountain, so he prepares some medicine for me." Zhao Shichu said calmly.
"Then I'll leave it to you." Ye Song was very grateful, "I can bear it, you go ahead." As he said that, he shifted his gaze away, as if he was going to give it up.
Zhao Shichu did not hesitate any more and immediately used the sickle to isolate Ye Song's wound, then squeezed the area around the wound hard, squeezing out a lot of black blood. During this time, Ye Song gritted his teeth and endured the pain, allowing Zhao Shichu to treat him.
Zhao Shichu squeezed for a long time. When he saw that the blood was no longer black but turned bright red, he stopped and sprinkled the medicine powder on.
The medicine she used was specifically designed to detoxify various poisons, including snake venom, so Ye Song's life was saved. But Ye Song himself didn't know that. When he saw Zhao Shichu treating his wound, he felt a little relieved. He thought it was because the poisonous blood had been squeezed out, and he didn't dare to believe that the snake venom was completely detoxified.
However, he was still very grateful to Zhao Shichu, so he said to her: "Thank you, little girl. If it weren't for me, my old bones might have died here."
"Old man, don't worry. The poison in your body has been eliminated. Just go back and rest for a few days. Don't worry, you won't die." Zhao Shichu comforted him.
Zhao Song smiled bitterly and said, "Thank you for your good words. It is my luck that I met you now. Little girl, if I can't get over this hurdle, you can help me clean up this old bone."