11. Du Ruo's troubles
Just as he was about to try to move, his body suddenly flew into the air and was picked up by the Hunter Brother. Du Ruo was shocked and hugged his neck, feeling at a loss: "Hunter Brother Hunter Brother, you..."
Hunter looked down at her, carried her to the stool next to her and put it down. He squatted down, grabbed her ankle and twisted it twice. Du Ruo screamed: "It hurts, it hurts..."
Hunter: "Not broken."
Du Ruo was a little unbelievable: "Really, why does it hurt so much?"
Hunter: "I sprained my ankle and I'll have to rest for a few days."
How many days did Du Ruo worry immediately: "The mute lady is gone, and now she is the only one left here. She rests by herself. Who is working? She has to weed the rice fields, the vegetable garden has to be watered and cleaned, the chickens have to be fed, the ducks have to be put on, let alone cooking.
After a moment of worry, I suddenly remembered an idea and raised my head: "Can Brother Hunter help me make a crutch first?"
Hunter shook his head: "No."
Du Ruo was stunned: "How could it be impossible? Don't you do any furniture that is so difficult for bamboo couches?"
The hunter still shook his head. Du Ruo suddenly became depressed and thought of another idea: "When Brother Hunter goes down the mountain today, can he find a carpenter to make one?"
Hunter: "I won't leave today."
Du Ruo: "What does it mean if you don't leave? Could it be that you want to live here?" The hunter nodded, stood up and went into the house to take out her sewing basket, put it in her arms and said, "I'll be back in a while." He carried the bamboo basket up the mountain.
Du Ruo was stunned for a moment and came to his senses. He asked him what he was doing up the mountain. He could not hear it. He vaguely saw a strong figure on the mountain road. He disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Du Ruo sighed, it seemed that he could only wait for him to come back before he knew what he was doing. He took out the half-made apron from the needle and thread basket and sewed the lace.
While sewing, he looked up the mountain road. After sewing the apron in his hand, he saw Brother Hunter walking down from the mountain road, carrying two large bundles of firewood with a green bamboo, carrying it on his shoulders, and her bamboo basket was still hanging on the bamboo head.
After entering the yard, Du Ruo saw a lot of weeds in the bamboo basket and couldn't help but say, "I don't raise pigs, why are you doing so much grass?"
Hunter glanced at her, squatted down, took off her shoes and put them aside, paused and then lowered her socks and legs, revealing a tender white foot. Du Ruo then realized that his ankles were swollen and high, no wonder they were swollen and painful.
Du Ruo reached out to touch him, but was stopped by the hunter: "Don't move." Du Ruo looked up at him, but saw a short knife from his waist pulled out. Du Ruo was startled: "You, what are you doing?"
The hunter looked at her, reached out and grabbed the grass from the bamboo basket and put it on the stone next to it. He crushed it with the handle of the knife, pinched it and applied it to her ankle. It suddenly felt cool and it seemed that it didn't hurt so much.
Du Ruo then realized that he looked at the things in the bamboo basket: "This is medicine."
The hunter nodded: "This is a golden hairpin. Applying it on can reduce swelling and pain."
Du Ruo looked at him with admiration: "Brother Hunter, it turns out that you can still treat diseases, it's so amazing."
Hunter: "I'm not a doctor."
Du Ruo: "I'm not a doctor, I know these are amazing." Du Ruo always believed that as long as there is no one who doesn't like to listen to flattery, even the hunter like an iron tower in front of him was the same. Sure enough, although he was still expressionless, a smile flashed through his eyes. Even if it flashed, he could not escape Du Ruo's eyes.
However, the hunter brother was too old-fashioned and bandaged himself, but he kept his eyes open and tried not to look at his feet. There was a dark and suspicious red on his neck. Du Ruo looked down and just showed one foot. As for this, it was still the case that men in ancient times were like this.
As Du Ruodong thought about it, the hunter brother had already wrapped her foot into a big dumpling. Du Ruo couldn't help but say, "It's just a sprain, there's no need to wrap it like this."
The hunter simply spit out three words: "Okay, fast."
Du Ruo touched his nose, OK, OK, this is indeed a good reason.
Soon Du Ruo found that his previous concerns were completely redundant. Although Brother Hunter didn't like to talk, he was definitely a careful and thoughtful man.
Basically, it was not necessary for Du Ruo to say that he had done everything, even cooking. Although it was not very delicious, it was at least cooked. After dinner, it became dark. Brother Hunter carried Du Ruo into the house and placed it on the bamboo couch that had just been made in the afternoon, and then went out. The straw mat used by the leader Du Ruo was put in the next room by Brother Hunter, where there was a bedding left by the mute woman.
Du Ruo reached out and touched the bamboo couch under him. After sleeping for so long, Du Ruo almost forgot what it felt like to bed. Lying on such a bamboo couch, thinking of the man like a tower in the room next to him, he felt extremely stable. Such stability gradually turned into a strange sense of happiness. Du Ruo suddenly had an idea, it would be great if he could keep this man by his side for a long time. This man could not only chop firewood, carry water, but also do furniture hunting, and know herbs. He was very strong. Even if he twisted his feet, he could still carry himself in and out without any effort. If he missed such a free and diligent skilled laborer, he would not regret it for his life.
But how to stay? Du Ruoke did not forget his current identity. He is a widow of the Lu family. His place is to guard the tomb for the second master of the Lu family. He is willing to keep a man here. Can the Lu family agree?
Then he thought about it, it would be fine if he didn't let the Lu family know. Erxi only came for about half a month. Although Lu An had been here twice, he once warned himself not to seduce him while the old man was visiting the grave, and once he took the mute woman away. On normal days, he was the butler of the Lu family, so he would not run here if he had nothing to do.
Speaking of this, it is still feasible to keep Brother Hunter as long as you are careful. As for how to keep, the only bargaining chip is probably yourself. And Du Ruo is very clear that it is not accidental that Brother Hunter helps him several times. If he wasn't interested in him, it would be a fool who would work so hard.
However, the premise is to ask whether the hunter brother has a wife. Even though he is a widow, he cannot be a mistress in a mess.
The next day, Du Ruo came together and found a bamboo stick poked on the edge of the bamboo couch. I don’t know when the hunter made it. Du Ruo tried it, which was very convenient.
Originally, her feet just twisted and applied that calendula. After sleeping for a night, she had already improved a lot and could walk around. Du Ruo left the house and didn't see the hunter. She looked up and saw that the bamboo basket hanging in the shed was gone. She probably went up the mountain. Du Ruo entered the stove and saw a fire buried in the mud stove. A can of white porridge was warmed in the pottery jar on top.
Brother Hunter's cooking skills are really not very good, so he only needs to cook it, so he doesn't have to think about the taste.
Du Ruo cut a piece of the dried rabbit meat dried in the shed, chopped it up and threw it into the clay pot. He then went to the vegetable field to save the tender leaves of the cabbage. When the dried meat was soft, he put the cabbage into it and took it down. He stir-fried another vegetable and fryed the remaining pheasant eggs with poached eggs.
After the preparation, the hunter brother came back, carried a bundle of bamboo, carried a hare in his hand, and the bamboo basket was filled with baskets of mushrooms and bamboo shoots, and he really returned with a full load.
Du Ruo was overjoyed and hurriedly came up to meet him and took the rabbit: "I also said that the hunting clip is useless and I can't catch prey for several days."
Brother Hunter: "Change another place."
Du Ruo: "I told you how did you catch a rabbit today? Wash your hands and have a meal."
The hunter nodded and washed his hands by the water tank in the yard, sat down to have a meal. After dinner, Du Ruo cleaned up the dishes and still made needles and threads in front of the door. Seeing the hunter go to the rice fields to weed and fetch water from the pond to water the vegetable fields, he came over to change the medicine for Du Ruo.
The swelling has been reduced. Yesterday, the swollen ankles have returned to slimness, but the skin has been dyed green by the grass juice of the golden stamens, which looks a bit creepy.
Hunter took a wet cloth to wipe it clean, then pounded the new one and bandaged it.
Du Ruo looked at him and said, "Brother Hunter, you didn't go down the mountain yesterday. Are you not afraid of your family's concern?"
The hunter looked up at her and said, "Not afraid."
What does Du Ruoxin mean when he said that he was not afraid, was he not caring about his family’s concerns, or he had no family members at all. This is not the core of his question, okay?
Du Ruo asked again, the hunter brother had already stood up and went to repair the house. After noon, he said hello to Du Ruo and went down the mountain. He came back when it was almost dark in the evening. He carried several medicine bags in his hand and put them in the shed. Du Ruo opened it, which was the medicinal materials such as pepper, angelica, and angelica, and angelica, which he mentioned last time.
After dinner, he went back to the room and lay on the bamboo couch. Du Ruo was quite depressed, thinking that his skills had declined, why didn't he ask about such a simple thing?
Another day later, Du Ruo's feet were already neat, and Brother Hunter went down the mountain again. He walked for three days and came back three days later to start making rocking chairs... In less than a month, Du Ruo's house had changed into new bamboo furniture, tables, stools, rocking chairs, and two bamboo cabinets to hold clothes.
The house was also repaired by the hunter brother, the rice in the field rose higher again, and the vegetables in the vegetable garden grew. Looking at the green vegetable patches and listening to the sound of frogs in the field, it should have been very comfortable, but Du Ruo was very upset.
What she was worried about was the Hunter Brother. Du Ruo sat on the big bluestone beside the pond and looked at the figure reflected in the water. It was not her Wang Po selling melons, but her white skin was really good. Although she was not a stunning beauty, she had a bit of pity. Most men were full of protection. Such petite and lovely type should be the favorite of men, especially men like the Hunter Brother, who should protect the weak in the sky.
But, he has been so obvious, why is he still indifferent? Now that the lonely man and widowed man have been almost a month old, the relationship between the two has not made any progress. Is it because he was wrong? Or is the hunter just simply trying to be a living Lei Feng and help others?
Chapter completed!