A Husband Who Traveled Through the Famine and Developed a Chronicle

Chapter 15 Escape
Bai Xia sat on the ground, took the kitchen knife in his hand again, ignored the dirt on his body, and calmly looked at the pig in front of him.

He stroked the sunken pig's head with his hand, and said softly, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."

I don't know whether I am comforting the pig or comforting herself.

She dragged the pig out of the pen, built a shelf with a bench, dragged the pig up with difficulty, and found a rope to tie it so that the pig would not struggle.

Li Xiuyuan held the wooden basin and looked at Bai Xia in horror.

"Set it here"

Bai Xia pointed to the lower part of the pig's neck.

He put the basin away tremblingly, and saw Bai Xia raised the knife in his hand, and all the blood fell into the basin placed below.

"Go help me light the fire"

Bai Xia scooped out all the river water stored at home and poured it into the pot, and asked Li Xiuyuan to light the fire. After the water was boiled, he began to take care of the pigs.

The two children were busy from the afternoon to the climax of the night, and Lin, who went to her mother's house, never came back.

After Li Xiuyuan finished his work, he was so tired that he lay on the ground and fell asleep. Bai Xia carried him into the room and took care of all the pork by himself, cutting and roasting the pork, and burning out the oil lamp little by little. , The sky is slowly getting brighter.

But Lin still didn't come back.

Bai Xia rubbed his red eyes, first cut a few pieces of meat and boiled a pot of broth, drank a big bowl by himself, ate more than half of the meat, and sat quietly at the door to watch.

Her hunch came true.

Lin did not come back.

I went to my natal family yesterday afternoon, but no one came back until this morning.

She kind of wants to cry.

Lin Shi loves Li Xiuyuan very much, she can't leave Li Xiuyuan and run away, she watched Lin Shi go in the direction of Lin Family Village.

At si o'clock in the morning, around ten o'clock, Mrs. Lin didn't come back, and Li Xiuyuan didn't get up either.

Bai Xia entered the room and saw that Li Xiuyuan had developed a high fever.

He was terrified.

She began to go out non-stop to fetch water again, half a bucket of water a day, and she had to fetch it.

After calling back, she twisted the handkerchief, wiped Li Xiuyuan's body to cool off, and rummaged through the dried wild vegetables she picked back. She remembered that there were a few wild vegetables that cleared heat, and when she found them, she boiled them in water and let them cool down. , hugged Li Xiuyuan and poured it in bit by bit.

"No doctor and no medicine"

"Brother Yuan, you have to be more aggressive."

"Jade Emperor, Guanyin Bodhisattva, please bless him"

"Make him well"

In the afternoon, the heat on Li Xiuyuan's body didn't disappear at all, but became even hotter. Bai Xia finally couldn't help but shed tears.

It's damn ancient.

She went back to her room to get an embroidery needle, ignited it to sterilize it, recalled in her mind the method of reducing fever in traditional Chinese medicine that she had seen, found the acupuncture point, pushed the skin up according to the memory, and then quickly pricked four or five needles, using force He squeezed out a few drops of blood, and then sat down on the ground.

"It's up to you whether you can survive, Brother Yuan"

"Your mother is gone"

"She didn't come back"

"I asked someone to inquire, and the Lin family said they had never seen your mother."

"She disappeared, disappeared"

"Maybe he was kidnapped, maybe he died somewhere"

"You have to get better, get up to study, get a job, become a high official, and then go find her"

"Perhaps she is still waiting for someone to rescue her."

"If you die, she will not be saved"

"You are a motherless child"

Bai Xia sat on the ground, chanting word by word.

Li Xiuyuan on the bed blushed with fever, and kept calling for his mother, but Bai Xia was not his mother, and he couldn't find her.

She wanted to go to Lin Family Village to ask in person, but she didn't dare.

She was worried that Li Xiuyuan would die if she left.

No one guarded him before he died.

He is still a child.

Bai Xia just guarded him like this, took the handkerchief and wiped his body again, over and over again.

There are no doctors in the village, only the towns have doctors, and the doctors in the towns cannot be hired without money.

So now we can only depend on fate, if Li Xiuyuan's fate is tough, he will survive, otherwise he will die.

Bai Xia's expression gradually changed from worried to indifferent, she wiped his body over and over again, like wiping an object.

What does it matter to her?
She wants to cry, but also wants to laugh.

She's not really Bai Sanya, it's Bai Sanya that Lin rescued, not her Bai Xia, she's not from the Li family, what does Li Xiuyuan's life and death have to do with her?
She was thinking wildly.

Since crossing over, she has been full and hungry, and now she owes the government more than 300 catties of food, but the food is owed by the Li family, not her Bai Xia, and she is already planning to run away. If he is sick like this, when he recovers and cannot pay the food, everyone will die.

So, she should have run by herself.

With a cold face, Bai Xia put the heated handkerchief back into the water and wrung it.

Just as she was thinking about it, she didn't notice that Li Xiuyuan on the bed opened his eyes in bewilderment, looking at her in a daze.

But when she looked back, those eyes closed again.

"Get well, let's run away together." She caressed his face and smiled lightly.

The night gradually deepened, and Bai Xia had already fallen asleep. She was lying on the bed, sleeping very restlessly. In her sleep, she didn't know that the high fever on Li Xiuyuan's body gradually receded, and she opened her eyes in the middle of the night. , sat up, and looked at her blankly.

While watching, while crying.

His eyes are deep and sad.

That's not the look a child should have.

"Three Ah"

He whispered at the corner of his mouth, tears streaming down his face.

"Three ya, three ya"

There were bursts of shouts in Bai Xia's ears, as if something was pushing her hard.

She woke up suddenly and raised her head. It was still dark in front of her. Subconsciously, she reached out to touch Li Xiuyuan's forehead. The warm forehead was a little hotter than hers, but compared to the daytime, it had already gone down.

She froze for a moment, and then there was a huge surprise.

The fever went away.

He is saved.

Bai Xia wiped her face and looked at the sky outside. It was about five o'clock at the end of Yin time. She got up and went to the kitchen, cooked a pot of wild vegetable broth, and after cooking, went to the room to call Li Xiuyuan .

"Brother Yuan, wake up soon"

"Brother Yuan"

Bai Xia yelled softly, Li Xiuyuan on the bed frowned, and slowly opened his eyes, his eyes were filled with confusion.

"Look, Brother Yuan, what is this?"

A unique smell of broth penetrated into Li Xiuyuan's nose, his eyes lit up, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Meat, there is meat, Sanya, I want to eat meat."

Having been ill for a while, Li Xiuyuan's originally round face lost a lot of weight, but now he is looking at Bai Xia eagerly, and he has no choice but to give it to him.

"Okay, I'll feed you"

She took a spoon and slowly fed the soup to Li Xiuyuan. Li Xiuyuan was like a hamster, drinking until his cheeks bulged.

After he finished the soup, he fed him the meat again.

After eating, Li Xiuyuan started to feel sleepy, Bai Xia touched his head, and said to him: "You obediently stay at home and sleep, I have something to go out later."

Li Xiuyuan squinted his eyes and nodded, and soon fell asleep.

(End of this chapter)