Chapter 2 Life is the first thing to be able to eat (Part 1)
Feeling a little hot and salty corner of his mouth, Tang Que slowly woke up. He knew that it was the woman covered in patches who came to feed her son. She had no idea that just three days ago, his son had actually changed.
Tang Que still didn't open his eyes as before. He pretended to be unconscious the other two days ago because he had not understood his situation and always thought he was dreaming. But now he still didn't open his eyes because he didn't know how to face this woman, that is, his nominal mother.
"I don't know how many times this chicken soup has been heated?" The woman still fed rice soaked in chicken soup tonight. The chicken soup looks very thick because it is too hot. As for the rice, there is no fragrance of Northeast fragrant rice eaten in later generations. Instead, it dissipates like the most yellow brown rice in later generations.
Tang Que finished the meal in conjunction with the woman's movements, but the woman did not leave in a hurry after feeding her like she did the previous two days ago. After putting the thick black pottery bowl in her hand on the log table with one leg missing by the bed, the woman was stunned when she looked at Tang Que.
Tang Que opened a very small gap with the obstruction of the dim light in the room. He was a peasant woman with wrinkles on her face. She was wearing clothes full of patches. What made Tang Li feel good about the peasant woman's clothes were covered with patches, but they were washed cleanly and could smell the smell of soapybeans.
Tang Que found that although the peasant woman's eyes fell on her, she was actually floating without focal length. By the way, she was stunned. Looking at her truest face and expression after being stunned, Tang Que inexplicably thought of the image of Xianglin Sao in Lu Xun's "Blessings".
However, the peasant woman didn't murmur anything, but let the tears in her eyes slowly slide down in a daze. It should be said that such a scene is indeed very effective in touching the hearts of the people, so that it is difficult for Tang Que's heart to keep the indifference of the bystanders.
She was stunned and shed tears silently. After about a stick of incense, with a "creaking" sound of the door opening from the outside door, the peasant woman suddenly woke up. After wiping her tears, she reached Tang Que's forehead with her hand, then turned around and left the room with a bowl.
Now Tang Que felt that the peasant woman looked like Xianglin Sao, not only her expression just now, but also her calloused hand.
"The head of the family is back!", through a cracked earth wall, the sound from outside came in clearly, and the peasant woman's voice was full of hope, "How about it, have you bought the red ginseng?"
"How is Cheng'er today?" The man's voice also seemed old, with a very thick fatigue.
"The fever has subsided a lot, but I haven't woken up yet. Red ginseng... has it been bought?"
"No", after a hard sound, there was a long silence. "The guy in the medicine shop said that this red ginseng is from Silla in the sea, and it is more than 60% higher than the white ginseng that Cheng'er ate a few days ago. I don't have enough money."
"...more than 60%...who are we still...how much difference?"
"If you want to buy two taels of 2 taels as Dr. Zhang said, it would be 131 cents away. However, I asked at the festival today that Fangzhou red ginseng next door is cheaper, and I can save about 20 cents."
"One Hundred and Thirty-one...Grandpa, so much difference? Our house..."
"Ask a doctor, get medicine, and buy white ginseng in front to save Cheng'er's life. The money for selling the old house has been almost spent." The old man's voice said this and was silent for a long time, "I've been rushing all day, and my legs are indeed weak. I'll wait for me to take a break and then go to Baocheng to have a look."
"Can Baocheng be rich? You are not embarrassing your daughter Orchid," with a creaking sound, the peasant woman who sat down fell into silence. This silence made the atmosphere inside and outside the house very heavy, and even Tang Que inside felt heavy depression.
A long time later, the peasant woman made up her mind and whispered: "One boss, please go and invite Liu Lizheng, ask him to bring paper and pen, and then invite Zhang Hua, who is literate in the village, to be a middle-aged person. The wife of Liu Lizheng praised me for my good food and food several times, and also said that her family still lacked a stove woman. Two days ago, I heard from Liu Saner's family that the stove woman can sell for eight-dollar money in the city market. If there are good people in the middle and the teeth can be made, they can sell one and half more hanging, so we will calculate the eight-dollar money. If the boss is in charge, you can remember this price."
"What are you selling?" The old male voice had a little more low-key feeling, "Do you still have a mu of paddy fields on the river beach?"
"Paddling fields cannot be sold...", accompanied by the excited voice of the peasant woman, there was a crisp "clang" sound. It was obvious that the stone pottery bowl fell to the ground and broke, "Our family only has this acre of paddy fields..."
After hearing this, Tang Que could no longer remain silent. He finally understood why the house he lives in is so dilapidated and why the chicken soup he ate was hot and hot. If the family sold the house in front and had nothing to do with him to cure his son, then if he doesn't wake up now, he would have to sell people and land outside, and the money for selling people and land must be spent on him.
Furthermore, from the beginning of hearing this, Tang Que, who understood the causes of the incident before and after, was indeed moved by this poor couple. It is indeed a sin to watch such parents continue to be tortured.
"Ah!" Tang Que's soft cry just now came out, and the sound of talking outside stopped immediately. Then he heard two "clang clang" sounds. The curtain of the house was lifted like a gust of wind, and the peasant woman ran in.
"As long, you're awake," the peasant woman asked and tears came out. The simple-looking man behind him was also surprised. His wife stole the first thing she wanted to say, and she was left with dry lips and couldn't speak.
Looking at the look of the two people in front of him who were surprised and didn't know how to express it, Tang Que suddenly felt a warm feeling in his heart, "I'm awake, you... you are not allowed to sell land, let alone sell people." His voice turned around, and Tang Que still didn't shout the words "father and mother".
"If you don't sell it, we won't sell anything. That acre of paddy fields will be kept for you to marry a wife." Perhaps because I had been worried for too long during this period, the peasant woman could no longer hold back when the incident happened to make her son wake up suddenly. As she spoke, she wiped the circles with the corner of her clothes and wiped the tears more and more. Finally, she cried out happily. The peasant's eyes turned red, and she said unconsciously, "Don't sell, don't sell", repeating it over and over again.
Since they had woken up, in order to make them feel more at ease, Tang Que simply forced himself to get out of bed. His body had been lying in the bed for a long time, and his legs were inevitably weak when he walked. Although the couple were also worried about their son's body, they finally showed a real smile when they saw that he could get out of bed and walk around.
Tang Que looked at this smile and felt intuition and felt a little warm and panicked.
With the help of the couple, Duan Que walked out of the cracked house and came to the uneven courtyard. He first looked at the houses around the village, then looked at the mountains surrounding the village, and said to himself softly: "From now on, I will start a new life here."
Since he had fully accepted the reality, Tang Que did not lie on the bed anymore and began to recover his body every day. The inexplicable high fever of this body completely subsided the next day. It took about ten days for Tang Que, who had recovered to the age of seventeen, was already walking freely.
It was also through this period that Tang Que figured out the general environment and geographical environment he was in. Although the original owner of this body could not distinguish between the age name and the name of the year. He only knew that Prince Luling, who originally lived in a different state, returned to Beijing and became the emperor again, based on this memory, Tang Que knew that he was in the era of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang that ended the Zetian Wu Empress Dynasty.
Chapter completed!