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Jiang Yanyi had cried enough, sniffed, and then remembered to ask him, "Why are you here?"

Feng Shuo looked at her red nose from crying, concealed the pity in his eyes, and said, "I heard about the Chu family, and I didn't see you in the antique soup shop, so I came looking for you."

He glanced sideways at the gray snowy street and asked, "Want to ride a horse?"

Only then did Jiang Yanyi realize that he came here on horseback. His black war horse stood not far away. Although it was not on a leash, it was very humane and did not run around. From time to time, the child stomped the horse's hooves to shake off the snow on his body.

Jiang Yanyi has never ridden a horse before, and now she is in a heavy mood, and she really wants to run around to relax, but looking at the horse that is half a head taller than the whole person, she struggled: "I don't know how to ride a horse."

Feng Shuo glanced at her, "Of course I will take you."

Jiang Yanyi still remembered the injuries on Feng Shuo's body: "Your old illness is chilly, so I don't want it anymore."

Feng Shuo directly took her hand and walked towards the horse: "The cold wind has been blowing in Xizhou camp for so many days, it's not short of time to carry you around."

In the past, his fief was in the south, and the hidden dangers of old diseases were not obvious in winter.I arrived in Xizhou at the beginning of this year, and it was very cold here, and the old injury on my back hurt repeatedly. After recuperating with medicated diet and bath for so long, he is in good health and has improved very quickly. obvious.

His hands and feet were cold indoors before, but now the hand he was holding Jiang Yanyi was warm in the snow.

Feng Shuo got on his horse and reached out his hand to Jiang Yanyi.

Jiang Yanyi hesitated for a while before handing him his hand. In an instant, she felt her whole body being pulled up vigorously, and her body was lifted into the air. When she landed firmly on the horse's back, Feng Shuo had wrapped her tightly in the warm fox. In Qiu's cloak.

"Let's go." His clear voice almost came out close to Jiang Yanyi's ears.

Maybe it was because the weather was too cold, but the hot air he exhaled when he spoke fell on her skin, and the touch was particularly obvious.

As soon as he clamped the horse's belly, the horse spread its hooves and ran towards the empty long street.

This street was originally owned by the Hu family, but now the Hu family has been confiscated, the shops along the street are closed, and there are no pedestrians on the street. snow foam.

Jiang Yanyi leaned back because of the inertia of the horse running, and her back was right against his chest. He held the rein with both hands, and his arms naturally formed a protective circle, as if the sky was falling. , he can protect her well.

The wind blowing head-on was icy cold, Feng Shuo didn't let the horse run too fast, the cold wind didn't hurt his face, but the depression that lingered in his heart seemed to be taken away by the coolness blowing on his face.

Row upon row of houses retreated quickly as if they were going backwards, the ice under the eaves was shining in the morning light, and the mountains in the distance were covered with snow, showing a gray-green color like a smoke cage.

A snowflake landed on Jiang Yanyi's eyelashes, and she blinked lightly. The snowflakes melted and turned into fine droplets hanging on her eyelashes. Her eyes reflected the nearby long street and the crowds in the distance. A mountain is like a lake.

Feng Shuo drove his horse out of the city directly, the official road was surrounded by mountains, and the dry grass covered with thin snow lay down on the side of the road, the desolation added to the desolation.

Jiang Yanyi listened to the sound of trampling horseshoes, looked at the vast world in front of him, and slowly calmed down.

Finally, when Feng Shuo stopped his horse, she said, "Thank you."

Feng Shuo said: "between you and me, do you still need to say thank you? When spring starts and the weather is not so cold, I will teach you how to ride a horse."

She said, "Okay."

Feng Shuo continued: "Your strength is too weak, I'm afraid you can't draw the bow and arrow, but you can learn how to use it. I will teach you how to swing the knife and where to stab the sword to kill people."

"When I'm here, you can do nothing. But when I'm not by your side, you have to have the ability to protect yourself."

That's why he knew that she was struggling to open a shop, but he didn't stop her.He respects all her decisions, saying "for your own good" is not a reason to wantonly break the other party's wings, he is willing to watch her transform from a chick to an eagle.

Jiang Yanyi's eyes were faintly red because of his words, and she asked, "Feng Shuo, why are you being so nice to me?"

"You are my unmarried wife. I am not good to you, but to whom." He wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with his fingers: "I originally planned to come to propose marriage when your mother and the others arrived in Xizhou..."

He didn't say anything later, but hugged her gently: "Don't think wildly, and don't be afraid, no matter what happens, you still have me."

The heavy snow is very cold, but this embrace is very warm.

After being in this other world for so long, Jiang Yanyi knew for the first time that it was such a feeling to completely rely on and trust someone.

Since then, there have been people to tell the joys and sorrows.

***

Although Mrs. Jiang was buried in the capital, she still had to obey the mourning period.

Mrs. Chu's mood is unstable, and she has to persuade Jiang Yanyi to eat three meals a day. She can only live in the newly bought house of the Chu family and can't take care of the shop. Fortunately, there is Chef Yao on the stove, so she can't do anything. In trouble, the old scholar can also help to look at the accounts. Yang Xiu can bring the accounts back every night for Jiang Yanyi to have a look.

The 1 taels that Chu Changping gave her before, she spent frugally, and there were 8000 taels left after furnishing the house, and she returned it to Chu Changping, who asked her to keep it by herself.Jiang Yanyi refused to take it, so he handed the bank note to Mrs. Chu that night.

Jiang Yanyi is more concerned about the injury on Jiang Yangui's leg. There is a saying that "a hundred days of injury" may be caused by bumps and bumps on the way to Xizhou. Jiang Yanyi saw him face in pain several times 』White, sweating profusely.

Obviously, the "medicine" for external application is changed every day, and the "medicine" for internal use is also taken every day. Jiang Yan can't figure out what is wrong.

She was worried, and the next day, she invited a famous doctor from Xizhou to see Jiang Yangui's wound.

Jiang Yanyi hadn't seen the wound on Jiang Yangui's leg before. Every time she came to see him, he had asked his servants to change the "medicine" for him. This time the doctor removed the wound on his foot to check the wound. Jiang Yanyi realized that his wound had suppurated, and there was a layer of carrion outside the wound.

The doctor looked at it and shook his head: "The wound can't fester like this anymore, the carrion has to be dug out."

Jiang Yanyi's heart twisted into a ball.

Jiang Yangui lay pale on the bed, as fragile as a piece of fragile porcelain, but he still said to her: "Sister, don't look at it, it's disgusting."

Jiang Yanyi couldn't hold back her red eyes: "The injury on your leg has worsened, why didn't you say it?"

She turned around and was about to go out to call the guard who usually served Jiang Yangui's daily life: "Chu Zhong!"

"Sister, don't blame Uncle Zhong. I didn't let Uncle Zhong say it. My grandmother was in poor health when she was near Japan. I don't want her to bother her anymore. Anyway, it's a useless leg. If it gets worse, it will be like this. The doctor dug it up." Even rotten flesh will fester." Jiang Yangui said with a pale smile.

It is severe winter now, the wound on his leg is too tightly packed and it is easy to fester inside, but if it is not tightly packed, it will be even more difficult to treat the wound with frostbite.

His leg had festered once when he was in the capital, the doctor scraped off the rotten flesh and it is still the same now, Jiang Yangui no longer expects anything from this useless leg.

Jiang Yanyi was anxious and angry, so distressed that he didn't know what to say, "Do you know that if this injury is too corrupted, you may have to cut off both of your legs to save your life?"

The ancients didn't understand the concept of amputation, so she could only explain the consequences to Jiang Yangui like this.

Jiang Yan saw that his younger brother was in a daze, as if he didn't know the consequences of the deterioration of the wound. He couldn't bear it, so he turned to the doctor and said, "Please dig out the rotten flesh on his leg."

But the doctor waved his hands again and again, put away the medicine box and walked out: "I am not skilled enough in medicine, so I dare not take this risk! Girl, you should ask someone to go to the barracks for this kind of rotten trauma, the military doctors in the barracks The best at handling those."

As soon as the doctor left, Jiang Yanyi looked at Jiang Yangui who was lying on the bed, and said, "Do you really want to torture yourself to death? Or do you want to piss me off?"

Although Jiang Yangui has experienced so many changes and matured a bit, he is still only 14 years old, and he doesn't understand some knowledge that he has never been exposed to before.

When Jiang Yangui said that his leg continued to deteriorate and he might die, his eyes revealed a bit of fragility and pain: "Sister, our surname is Jiang, not Chu after all. I don't want to cause trouble for my grandfather's family." If it wasn't for my useless legs, why would my mother lose her life?"

He was afraid that Jiang Yanyi would be sad, so he didn't tell her that when he was in the capital, the medicine prescribed by the doctor originally contained painkilling pills, but it was too expensive. My aunt heard that the medicine was only for pain relief Yes, so I didn't let my servants buy it.Mrs. Jiang once begged to go to the aunt, but she was ridiculed by the aunt, who said inside and outside that the Chu family had paid a lot of money for him to see a doctor.Such similar things, large and small, have happened many times in the capital. If it weren't for these, why would Mrs. Jiang take such risks when she left the city.

The misfortune of the Chu family was caused by them, the first aunt's eldest daughter lost her marriage because of this, the second aunt chose to divorce for fear of being implicated, Jiang Yangui knew that both the first uncle and the second uncle hated them, and didn't want to take care of him as a burden.

He has no right to hate them.

But when he thinks of his mother's death, his heart throbs with pain, wishing he could replace it, why is such a useless person like him still alive and well!To live and continue to be disliked by others, dragging down his sister!

Jiang Yanyi knew that Jiang Yangui was able to say such a thing, and thinking about the attitudes of the two uncles of the Chu family, she also guessed that he and Mrs. Jiang might have suffered a lot when they were in the capital. She looked at the bed and gritted her teeth and cried. The young man who couldn't stop crying said with distress: "You also know that my mother is gone. After all, you are the only relative I have in this world. If you have something good or bad, what do you ask me to do?"

"Sister..." Jiang Yangui cried silently with his shoulders trembling.

Jiang Yanyi held his hand and said: "You have to live well for the sake of sister and dead mother, you know? Nothing is more important than living. If you don't want to stay in Chu's house anymore, I will stay in the capital." We rented a house on Hufu Street, and there is another room that is vacant, we will move in when you recover from your injuries, and my sister opened an antique soup shop, which is enough for our daily expenses."

She remembered Jiang Yangui's leg injury, so she called someone to come in and bandage him up with new herbs. Chu Changping was not at home, so she had to go to Feng Mansion herself.

Feng Shuo went back to Xizhou Camp, but when the steward Fuxi heard that she wanted to hire a military doctor, he hurriedly ordered someone to ride a horse to Xizhou Camp to deliver a message. Afraid that she would have to wait impatiently, he lent her the doctor of Fengfu to let her Bring it here to show Jiang Yangui the injury first.

Feng Shuo's doctor is better at internal treatment. After all, Feng Shuo is rarely injured, but he takes care of it himself, and almost never asks the doctor to help with external injuries.

The doctor looked at Jiang Yangui's injury, and took his pulse again. After reading the "medicine" prescription Jiang Yangui was taking now, he frowned and said, "For this kind of injury, with this "medicine" prescription, you have to take Huangqin Analgesic Pills." It worked, otherwise his wound would have been inflamed, how could it be better."

Jiang Yanyi hurriedly asked: "Where can I buy Huangqin Analgesic Pills? I'll order someone to buy them right away."

When Jiang Yangui heard the words "Huangqin Analgesic Pill", his dark eyes froze for a moment, but Jiang Yanyi was busy asking the doctor now, so he didn't notice the change in his expression.

The doctor shook his head: "That's the medicine that can only be found in the Xinglin Medical Center in the capital. Where can it be sold in Xizhou? But the old man can make this medicine, but it will take some time. How many medicines are there in it?" Hard to find."

"Thank you doctor!" Jiang Yanyi hurriedly thanked her.

The doctor glanced at Jiang Yanyi's suppurated leg, and said, "I'll prescribe another prescription for the past few days, and I'll fry it for my younger brother to eat. After the Huangqin Analgesic Pill is prepared, I will replace it with this medicine." square."

He is not good at dealing with trauma. The carrion on Jiang Yangui's leg was eventually dug up by Doctor Hu who came from the barracks. As soon as I felt the pain, the carrion and pus in the wound had been cleaned up.

Dr. Hu Jun gave Jiang Yangui re-medication, and told him to pay attention to his daily diet. Regarding Jiang Yanyi's transformation from a camp prostitute to Miss Chu's cousin, he was a little shocked at the beginning, but he didn't feel the slightest bit later. Show curiosity.

Those who have lived to their age have seen all kinds of turmoil, what to say, what not to say, what to be curious about, and what not to be curious about.

After sending the two doctors away, Jiang Yanyi comforted Jiang Yangui a few more words before going to the kitchen to make medicine for him.

Jiang Yanyi was lying on the bed, her expression seemed calm, but her hands hidden under the quilt were tightly clenched into fists, her eyes were dark and deep, and she couldn't see to the end.

**

Uncle Chu's first wife, Mrs. Liu, heard that Jiang Yanyi had invited three doctors to see Jiang Yangui, and she was so angry that she slapped the table in the room: "She is really not in charge of the family, and she doesn't know how much firewood, rice, oil and salt are, so she invited three doctors all at once. What about the capital city? Why did everyone lose to her? The Chu family owes her the Jiang family for co-authoring?"

Liu's eldest daughter, Chu Shubao, was doing embroidery and said, "Mother, don't say a few words. I went to see Yan Gui's cousin yesterday and found that his complexion is not very good. Maybe it's because of his leg injury. Seriously, cousin Yanyi is also worried. The whole family escaped to Xizhou after taking their lives, and you still say these things as if they were supporting each other."

Mrs. Liu was very angry at her eldest daughter: "She caused you to lose all of your marriage, and you still speak for her?"

Chu Shubao threw down the embroidery and said, "What's wrong with that marriage? Well, Kang Erlang has no fame and no character, and there are five or six maids and concubines in his family! You still tell me that this marriage is good, you Is it my mother?"

Mrs. Liu said angrily: "Your eyes are higher than the top. Your uncle is the servant of the household department. How fat is the household department? Your father is white, and you think you have the fate to marry into the prince's family?"

Chu Shubao muttered: "It's his uncle who works in the household department, not him. My third uncle was the general soldier of Yunzhou a few years ago! His rank is much higher than him!"

"You also know that was a few years ago!" As soon as she mentioned this Liu, she felt so regretful that her intestines turned green. He has a head and a face, if the marriage was settled at that time, why would he stand tall among the dwarfs later?

Speaking of Chu Changping, Mrs. Liu was also full of resentment: "Your third uncle always favors your third uncle and your third uncle is weaker. Do you know that this family almost died because of your third uncle's meddling in other people's business!"

Chu Shubao said disapprovingly: "Third uncle said that if you only show off your prestige among your brothers and sisters, that's called bullying, but if you dare to be aggressive with outsiders, that's real prestige! Whenever there are brothers and sisters in the Chu family who are bullied, we have to unanimously external!"

The more Liu talked to her daughter, the more worried she became. If this silly girl is taught by Chu Changping, she might be sold and have to help count the money one day. She was so angry that she poked Chu Shubao's forehead vigorously with her finger. : "What do you believe in what your third uncle says? Why can't you listen to what I teach you? Why did I give birth to you so brainless?"

She was really panicked, so she asked the woman in charge to go out: "Mother Qin, come with me and have a look, if that girl from the Jiang family buys a bunch of tonics like ginseng and deer antler, the money will go to the public account I don't recognize it!"

The woman in charge looked embarrassed and said: "It was the money given by the cousin girl herself, and the money was not paid from the public account."

Only then did Liu feel a little more at ease, but when she thought of why Jiang Yanyi had settled the money that Jiang Yangui had invited the doctor so readily, she became upset again: "It is said that the third brother bought this house and gave her 1 taels of silver to pay for it. She arranges."

She swept through the furnishings in the house, pursed her mouth and said, "Nothing is too shabby in this room, and she has kept a lot of these 1 taels of silver bills in her pocket!"

Chu Shubao rolled her eyes: "Mom, the remaining 8000 taels of silver bills were given to my grandmother by my cousin last night. You always said that my aunt can't be a human being. Eight catties and eight taels!"

Just as Liu Shi was about to get angry, she got up and walked out the door: "I'm going to see Yan Gui's cousin."

Liu shivered with anger, pointed at Chu Shubao's back and said to the woman in charge, "Is she my own daughter?"

The woman in charge said: "This...how is it that the eldest lady is not your own, Madam? When you gave birth, the old slave was watching by the side, and the maid and maid did not even touch her hands!"

Mrs. Liu glared at the woman in charge, she felt that she might be pissed off here today.