The medicine of rebirth

Chapter 263 Fish Porridge, Marriage Discussion
I don't know when Ning Chen got up to catch fish by the river. Anyway, when Zhao Shi and Su Banxi woke up, there were only their mother and daughter left at home, watching the fish swimming happily in the wooden basin. For a while, both mother and daughter were silent. Mrs. Zhao looked at the fish and looked at Su Banxi who was thinking about something with lowered eyelashes. Finally, she sighed and asked Su Banxi how to deal with it before starting to do it.

Su Banxi propped her chin and looked at the pagoda tree outside the window, her pupils were a little distracted, Zhao Shi looked at her several times and opened her mouth, but finally said nothing, the matter between Ning Chen and her was hers The mother can't intervene, the relationship is very delicate, it depends on the two parties involved.

But her silence doesn't mean that Su Banxi doesn't speak. What's more, she heard the conversation between Mrs. Zhao and Ning Chen last night, and thought about it for half the night. After much deliberation, it was because her temper was too selfish. Only then did Ning Chen bury everything in his heart, and his reluctance to tell her made her embarrassed.

Hey, he is still a fool after all, but he is a fool who loves her, protects her and thinks of her!

"Mother, do you think I'm doing something wrong?" Yoyo's tone contained an indescribable exclamation and subtle changes. Zhao lowered her head and scratched the scales of the fish while pondering her words: "In the end, it's still It depends on Xiaoxi's own intentions, it's useless for mother to say too much, although mother doesn't know why you have been procrastinating and refusing to get married, but she can probably guess some, no matter what you think in your heart, mother wants you Think carefully, it’s autumn, and there are still a few months and a year to go.”

The corner of Su Banxi's mouth twitched, "Well, I see."

Don't want to get married?

It doesn't seem to be the case.

Not fully developed body is just an excuse on the surface, but I don't know when, when it comes to getting married, Su Banxi inexplicably feels a little annoyed, not because she doesn't want to live with Ning Chen in the future, but because she doesn't want to face getting married The life after that seemed a bit like a phobia before getting married.

Most of the hospitals where she was asked to work were married women. Hearing them talk about her husband's attitude before and after marriage as if he had changed her mind all day long made her feel a little uneasy, although subconsciously Thinking that Ning Chen would not be that kind of person, but rationally, restlessness and irritability had the upper hand.

It is said that women are changeable, but men are more changeable than women. It is reasonable for her to be upset like this.

Glancing at the absent-minded Su Banxi, Mrs. Zhao sighed, placed the cleaned fish on the cutting board, washed her hands and wiped them before walking in front of Su Banxi, first touching her forehead with a cold hand, and a little The remaining heat made Zhao's eyes full of worry: "Why is it still a little hot? After drinking the porridge later, I will make you a pair of wind and cold medicine. Don't stop drinking it. You don't even look at Xiaochen, and you are also worried about you. It’s like, if you don’t eat well, he will suffer along with him, and he will go to the river to catch fish for you early in the morning, how cold the river is in autumn!”

Su Banxi's eyelashes trembled, and the gentle and delicate eyebrows finally showed a look of uneasiness in front of Zhao Shi: "Mother," her tone paused, Zhao Shi still looked at her tenderly, feeling her thin His face was full of worried and distressed eyes. Hearing Su Banxi call her mother in a low voice with a little grievance, Zhao's heart was sad and uneasy, but he didn't speak but nodded to Su Banxi to continue. She was listening. .

After receiving the meaning expressed by Mrs. Zhao, Su Banxi leaned into Mrs. Zhao's arms and closed her eyes tiredly, hiding the abnormally obvious restlessness and faint daze in her eyes, "I'm a little scared, but I don't know I was afraid of something, that's why I kept procrastinating and refusing to get married. Chenchen understood me and didn't make it difficult for me, so he wouldn't tell me even if he was wronged in his heart. He said he would wait for the day when I nodded and agreed, but I don’t know what year and month it will be until I nod my head and agree, everyone says he is smart, but in my opinion he is a big fool from the beginning to the end, he thinks of everything for me, and he never thinks about himself.”

Mrs. Zhao patted Su Banxi's back lightly, and comforted him softly: "Silly boy, he thinks of you in everything just because he likes you. He seems stupid to you, but have you noticed that?" Xiaochen, this child, is only stupid for you. At the beginning, the things between the two of you made my mother mistakenly think that there was no relationship, or that it was indifferent, or that Xiaochen did something to apologize to you outside. ..."

"Mother, Chenchen is not that kind of person, he won't do anything wrong to me." Su Banxi frowned slightly interrupting Zhao's words.

Mrs. Zhao chuckled: "Look, you're in love. Mother knows how you feel about Xiaochen, but what mother doesn't know is why you refuse to get married, what's wrong or what's wrong with you. You can tell your mother what you say to Xiaochen. After all, mother is a person who has been here, so you should know a little bit about these things, otherwise you will get sick sooner or later if you have been bored in your heart. My fever and cough are not getting better, if I am hiding something in my heart, when will I get better!"

Su Banxi remained silent, and Zhao Shi did not urge her, but kept patting her back gently with gentle palms, making Su Banxi express all the worries in her heart as if to comfort her.

After listening to it, Mrs. Zhao was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed in a low voice. If it wasn't for the fear that Su Banxi would become angry from embarrassment, Mrs. Zhao would have laughed out loud, but Su Banxi's ears were still red and she buried her face in Mrs. Zhao's. She refused to lift it up in her arms, and Zhao Shi didn't laugh for a long time before clearing her throat and saying:
"It's really stupid to say that you are a stupid child. How can such a smart child be so stupid? Xiaochen's thoughts on you are seen by almost everyone in Tunjiawan, and Xiaochen Chen's parents were also famous for their affection when they were alive, and Xiaochen naturally wouldn't be so bad. Mother thinks that after getting married, Xiaochen will only treat you better, and the situations you mentioned will never happen of."

Su Banxi neither nodded in agreement nor shook her head to deny Zhao Shi's words, she just closed her eyes slightly, wondering what she was thinking, but the sound of knocking on the door from the outer courtyard made Su Banxi raise her head from Zhao Shi's arms and look at Zhao Shi Shi said: "Mother, go and open the door, I will stay alone for a while."

Mrs. Zhao looked at Su Banxi who was a bit more energetic today, then nodded and went out of the kitchen to open the door.

After Su Banxi stayed in the kitchen for a while, she looked at the fish on the cutting board, then got up from the chair, rolled up her sleeves and washed her hands to remove the fish bones to make sashimi porridge. Although she rarely went to the kitchen to cook, But the knife skill was practiced by Lao Yangtou in the kitchen. Removing fish bones and fish bones is a trivial matter, and the movements are quick and quick.

And the round-grained rice porridge that Mrs. Zhao had boiled long ago in the pot had already begun to boil. When the rice porridge was thickened, evenly sprinkle the sliced ​​fish fillets with coarse salt, pour them in, and roll them over. Toss with seasoning, sprinkle with crisp chopped scallions and serve.

The rich aroma of fish porridge was rolling in the kitchen, but Su Banxi had already lost her appetite. Looking at the bowl of snow-white fish porridge with crisp chopped green onions, she was in a daze, until someone behind her gently reached out and patted her on the shoulder. Looking at her, she saw that Mrs. Zhang, who was slightly fleshy in both body shape and face, looked at her with a smile, "What are you eating? It smells so delicious."

It turned out that it was Mrs. Zhang who knocked on the door. Zhang Dongmei had to go back to her mother's house first. She was too young to take her with her. But Zhang Ruishu went to the town to find Jin Zhou in order to know about the hospital and pharmacy. Xia Zhang and the girl, mother and daughter, couldn't sit still, so they came to visit with their children in their arms.

Now Mrs. Zhao was helping to sleep with the girl, so Mrs. Zhang got away and came to the kitchen to look for Su Banxi.

"It's fish porridge." While talking, Su Banxi got up and took out a bowl from the cabinet to serve Mrs. Zhang. After thinking about it, she said: "Maybe the taste is a bit bland. Put some coarse salt in it!"

Mrs. Zhang took a sip, and the smooth and glutinous glutinous rice porridge combined with the light taste of fish fillets, alluring taste buds bloomed on the tip of her tongue, making Mrs. Zhang, who came here after eating, suddenly feel that her stomach is empty. She was hungry, but because she thought that Su Banxi was a patient and had no appetite to eat, she only drank a bowl of porridge and then put down the bowl, but Su Banxi added another bowl for her, so Zhang didn't even say a word of rejection.

I had no choice but to look at Su Banxi and the fish porridge that she didn't even drink half of, "You are a sick person, so you should drink more. What's the matter if you scoop it all up for me!" The fish porridge put back on the table was rejected by Su Banxi shaking his head.

"Auntie, you can just drink it, there is still more in the pot, I just thought of something and I don't have much appetite for porridge." After speaking, she looked down at the fish porridge in her bowl, and the green onion couldn't reflect into her Looking into her eyes, it can be seen how many things are on her mind.

Mrs. Zhang stared at Su Banxi for a long time before laughing and said: "I'm afraid it's because of Xiaochen's business. Originally, my aunt thought that you should get married last year. My aunt's girl is a few months old, but the two of you even There was no movement at all, and many people in the village were wondering if the two of you had a quarrel."

Su Banxi didn't refute, just sipped the fish porridge and nodded lazily. Everyone could easily see who she was worried about. Could it be that she was acting too obviously?

"Both of you are sixteen, and you are not young anymore. Your mother should have taught you all these things, my aunt is an outsider, but I just talked to your mother a few times before I found out what happened between you, Xizi you How can such a smart person usually have trouble with this matter? If you want to be together, why should you care so much? When you meet such a person who is sincere and willing to think about everything for you, what do you want? "

Zhang's speech is much more direct than Zhao's, and it is easier to hit Su Banxi's heart. I saw her silently holding the fish porridge in a daze. The dazedness dissipated as if encountering the first ray of sunshine in the morning, and the faint smile on the corner of his mouth made Mrs. Zhang laugh too.

Afterwards, the two of them just talked about some common things, but the most talked about was about Zhang Ruishu. Mrs. Zhang was very afraid that Zhang Ruishu did something wrong and made Su Banxi lose everything. Never let up, "Auntie, don't worry, you don't just let Brother Ruishu do it alone, I will also help take care of it, but sometimes I will let Brother Ruishu do it alone when I can't spare a hand." From the looks of it, such a trivial matter as Ruishu's intelligence will definitely not trouble him."

Mrs. Zhang nodded, but the worry on her brows still did not dissipate, so Su Banxi didn't say anything more, and the girl over there was full of sleep and began to cry for milk. Mrs. Zhang carried the child into the back room, Only then did Mrs. Zhao go to make medicine for Su Banxi, but Su Banxi insisted that she dared not drink the medicine, so she had to sit under the eaves and read a medical book.

In the evening, the afterglow of the setting sun painted an indifferent tranquility on Su Banxi's face. Her misty eyes kept looking ahead but she didn't know what she was looking at. There was no preserved fruit to remove the bitter taste of medicine in her mouth, so Mrs. Zhao simply made it for her. She stuffed some sweet-scented osmanthus sauce into her mouth, making Su Banxi's tongue twitch to swallow the sweet-scented osmanthus sauce with the sweet scent of honey and sweet-scented osmanthus.

The sweet-scented osmanthus sauce made this time is improved. It is made with wild honey mixed with freshly picked sweet-scented osmanthus. The taste is better than the last one, and it is more nourishing. When Zhao is at home, he will make some simple ones. Pastries or glutinous rice dumplings come out and are eaten with honey osmanthus sauce.

Therefore, her complexion is ruddy and shiny, and her skin is so fine and smooth that people can't tell her actual age. Zhang Dongmei is so envious that she can't wait to eat at Su's house for every meal. Mrs. Zhao welcomed her with a smile and even taught her How Zhang Dongmei made honey osmanthus sauce made Zhang Dongmei fatter, and talking to Zhao all day made Zhao smile a lot more.

The first thing Ning Chen did when he came back was to ask Su Banxi if he had eaten and drank his medicine well today. She nodded and said it was not counted, but Zhao Shi had to nod and speak. When I went to eat, Su Banxi just drank fish porridge and couldn't eat dinner for the time being, so she moved a stool and sat under the pagoda tree by herself.

In the end, the girl who was stuffed by Mrs. Zhang to drink was full, she was smiling so much that she could hardly see her eyes, her little hand was stuffed in her mouth, and the saliva was flowing down the corner of her mouth. In the end, it couldn't resist the girl's perseverance, so I had to tilt my head and watch her smashing her fingers, her fingers were delicious, her eyebrows and eyes were soft with a sense of tranquil beauty.

Getting married may not be as bad as imagined, isn't it!

It should be okay to give it a try. No matter what, Ning Chen can't really ask Ning Chen to wait for her for a year or so. Now that he has suffered so many grievances, no one can expect that he will be in love again in the next year or so. Will continue to be wronged again because of her.

When sleeping on the kang with Mrs. Zhao at night, Su Banxi turned over and looked at Mrs. Zhao with bright eyes. Mrs. Zhao's hair was about to stand on end from her eyes, and she couldn't help but move out She moved her body and asked in a low voice: "Xiaoxi, don't look at mother with such eyes, mother is panicking in her heart, do you have something to say to mother?"

Su Banxi nodded, hummed, then turned her eyes and said: "Mother, I figured it out, it's not an option to drag it on like this, and I don't want Chenchen to suffer any more grievances because of my relationship." .”

The words were not very clear, but Mrs. Zhao understood the meaning of Su Banxi's words in an instant. First, her expression was complicated for a moment, and then she said: "It's good that you can figure it out, but you little girl When did you become so ignorant and shy, and tell your mother such straightforward things."

Su Banxi smiled and approached Zhao Shi and said, "What are you talking about in front of your mother?"

Mrs. Zhao nodded at Su Banxi's face, retracted her hand and thought about it: "Although your father and mother have been preparing for your marriage, but you suddenly said it, you can't do it right away, you still have to call Xiao Zhou came over last week and everyone sat together to discuss and discuss, and we will not be able to arrange marriage matters for you until the beginning of next year at the earliest, and winter is about to enter, even if there are any auspicious days, it will depend on God's mood."

Su Banxi pursed the corners of her lips. Of course she knew about these things, but she was not in a hurry to get married, and when she said those words to Mrs. Zhao just now, her whole body instantly became lighter, as if her heart had been pressed all the time. She gasped for breath when she fell to the ground suddenly with a big stone.

It turns out that getting married is not such a scary thing. She used to be a little narrow-minded. If she had talked to Mrs. Zhao earlier, she probably wouldn't have to worry about it for such a long time. It also caused Ning Chen to suffer a lot of grievances and suppressed pain. , It's really inappropriate.

The mother and daughter murmured for most of the night before Su Banxi couldn't bear it anymore and fell asleep first, while Mrs. Zhao got up after watching Su Banxi for almost a cup of tea, got up and went to Su Shi's room, and shared what she had just said with Su Shi said something, and Su Shi, who was dozing off after a busy day, immediately woke up, stared at Zhao Shi with wide eyes, and then recovered a bit and asked Zhao Shi in a complicated mood: "Xiaoxi really told you so , Hey, my daughter is too old to keep her."

Let Mrs. Zhao pat him with a smile: "I'm telling you something serious, you can't let our daughter stay at home with you, a bad old man, for the rest of your life. Although I don't want our daughter to marry off, Xiaochen is a good boy who knows everything. , it’s better than marrying to someone we don’t know well in another village, and I’m not afraid that Xiaoxi will be bullied or wronged.”

After all, children are the darlings of their parents, and Mrs. Zhao is even worse. Although he kept talking about their marriage, only Su Shi knew the reluctance in his heart. It wasn't until dawn that the two yawned and decided to make up their minds. I didn’t go up the mountain to see herbal medicine today, so I asked Su Wen to go to the town to ask Jin Zhou to come to Tunjiawan to discuss their marriage, and Jin Zhou was so busy these days that he didn’t have enough sleep and was irritable. Heard about this Immediately afterwards, he was full of energy, and when he walked, there seemed to be a gust of wind under his feet, making Su Wen behind him helpless for a while and had to catch up.

(End of this chapter)