Song Shu pulled Song San Xiao over and carried him on his back, carrying him home.
“What’s wrong with Lao-san?”
Grandma Song came out of the house, ready to go to the kitchen to make dinner.
“Young Master Gu gave him an altar of good wine to bring back, and he gave it to drink on the way.”
Song Shu complained in a jarred voice, he had just smelt it, the wine smelt too good, even better than the wine Yue’er had bought, it was just that it was all cheap for Lao San alone.
“He can really ……”
The first thing you need to do is to carry him inside the house and I will clean him up when he wakes up.”
The purpose was achieved, Song Shu carried the man into the house and placed him casually on the kang, without taking off his shoes, and pulled the quilt from one side to cover him up.
Song Wangyue walked into the courtyard.
Grandma Song took three or two steps over, “Yue’er, how is the young master of the Zhang family?”
“Doctor Yao said it belongs to a fetal illness, he can’t cure it.”
“In that case, ……”
She was also a mother and knew what it was like for a mother whose child was sick, not to mention that the Zhang family only had this one only son.
“Tired, go back inside and rest, grandma go cook.”
Song Wangyue went to Xu’s house.
Xu was making the family’s clothes for the New Year, Grandma Song’s and Master Song’s were done, and now it was Song Lin’s that was being made.
“Mother’s needlework is just great, why didn’t I learn how to do it?”
Song Wangyue pulled a stool and sat down on the edge of the bed.
Xu was afraid of stabbing her, so she collected her needles and smiled, “You look quiet, but you’re actually very naughty, so you can’t learn.”
“I follow my father’s example.”
“No, whenever your father went hunting in the mountains when you were little, you had to go with him, and every time your grandfather carried you to the mountain pass, coaxing you that there were wild animals on the mountain that would eat the children, in order to scare you back.”
Song Wan Yue also smiled, both hands only on the edge of the bed, with her hands on her cheeks, “Mother and father have taken a lot of trouble to raise me, but the good thing is that I am healthy and well, unlike that young master Zhang, who is always bedridden.”
“No, the moment I saw Madam Zhang kneeling today, Mother was also glad that you were in good health.”
“Mother sympathises with Madam Zhang, doesn’t she?”
Xu nodded, “As a fellow mother, mother can feel her feelings.”
“But there are so many sick people in this world, Mother can’t pity them.”
Xu stopped her hand and looked up at her, “Yue’er, do you think that Mother should not have said that she should let Dr. Yao go and help Mr. Zhang today?”
After Song Wan Yue and Gu Yi went to fetch Doctor Yao, Xu went back inside and regretted it a little.
For so many years, Dr. Yao had been the Gu family’s doctor and did not see anyone else but the Gu family. Would she make things difficult for Gu Yi and Dr. Yao by doing this?
“I know that Mother and the family are soft-hearted and sympathetic to Madam Zhang, if it’s something our family can do, there’s no harm in Mother saying so, but after all, Doctor Yao is the Gu family’s doctor, we can’t cause trouble for others.”
“Mother understands.”
“I knew Mother was icy smart and understood what I meant, when you have the chance, tell the family about it too.”
“You. ……”
Xu poked her forehead in a doting manner.
……
“Sister.”
Erma was sitting up straight, practising her writing with a brush, when she heard the movement and turned back.
Song Wangyue walked up to her and stroked her head, “Have you learnt?”
Er Ya nodded her head heavily, “I have.”
Saying so, she put down the brush and picked up the words she had written to show her, “This is Er, Er Ya’s Er, and this is Ya, Er Ya’s Ya.”
“Er Ya is so clever.”
Er Ya instantly smiled with her eyebrows.
Song Wangyue picked up her brush, “Sister will teach you three more characters, Song – family – village.”
……
Inside the academy, after the last class of the afternoon, Song Si went back to her dormitory.
Since Lu Xing had been thrown out of the academy, he was the only one in the dormitory.
He took out the key and opened the cupboard, took out his clothes and put them on the bed, and was about to change and wash them when there was a knock on the door of his dormitory.
When Song Si turned around, Qin Qian came in carrying a bed of bedding and a book basket behind him, smiling at him, “Scholar Song.”
Song Si frowned and watched him put the bedding on the other bed, without saying anything, he just said, “From now on, just call me by my name.”
“Yes, I am not good at learning, so I will ask Brother Song Si to teach me more in the future.”
“You can ask anytime.”
With that, Song Si drew the curtain between the two beds, changed out of his clothes, put them in a basin and took them out to be washed.
Qin Qian looked up, watching his back, and frowned as well.
He had been trying to get close to Song Si all these days, but Song Si had always been polite and distant to him, so he could only think of such a way to find a housekeeper and make silver to live with Song Si.
……
The next day, it was just after dawn.
A miserable cry from Song San Xiao woke up half of the Song family village.
Grandma Song took a broom and chased Song Sanxiao all over the courtyard, beating him, this no-good, disgraceful person had disgraced himself in front of the Gu family.
Song Sanxiao was carried back to the house by Song Shu yesterday and slept until now, even when the family got up to work in the morning without being awakened.
He thought Song Wangyue had told him about his heart for Qi Ying and was so frightened that he ran wildly around the yard, holding his head.
Elder Song stood under the eaves of the house, puffing on his tobacco pouch, “Beat, beat him hard, make his mouth water.”
Song Shu also stopped setting up the ox cart and rushed off to the market, standing to the side to watch the fun.
Song Lin, still not satisfied with the beating Song San Xiao had received, went to the corner and drew a fist-thick wooden stick, “Mother, here’s this.”
“I was wrong, I won’t dare again.”
Seeing how pitiful he was, Xu couldn’t bear to see him, “Mother, forget it, Sandi hasn’t had a drink for months since he was beaten up, so it’s understandable that he couldn’t hold back for a while.”
Drinking?
Not because of Qi Ying?
Song San Xiao suddenly understood something and scurried past Song Wan Yue’s doorway with his head in his hands, “Yue’er, you’ve trapped me again!”
“How dare you rely on Yue’er!”
The broom lump in Grandma Song’s hand flew straight out and hit him right on the head, causing Song San Xiao to scream.
Having seen enough of the hilarity, Song Shu set up the bullock cart and carried all the ingredients onto it, while Liu Cui Lan came out with the money box in her arms and sat on it.
Song Sanxiao also limped out and sat in front.
He didn’t even eat breakfast, he didn’t wash his face, he didn’t change his clothes, he was still in the same clothes as yesterday, he had slept all night and was wrinkled.
Song Shu leaned to the side in disgust, and after driving the ox cart to the marketplace, he first fetched water for him to wash his face, and then let him flatten his own clothes.
Song San Xiao was distracted all morning, and when it was almost time for school to end, he came up to Liu Cui Lan, “Second sister-in-law, I saw that Si’er liked these spicy skewers when he came over last time, why don’t you make him some and I’ll send them over.”
“OK, I’ll make some more and let those of his fellow students try them too.”
Liu Cui Lan nimbly made them, put them on two plates and covered them with a cloth. Song San Xiao didn’t drive the bullock cart either, and carried the two plates directly to the entrance of the college.
