Chapter 5: Up The Mountain
After the family finished their meal and sent off a few villagers who helped, they washed and fell asleep.
There are three beds in the room. The innermost one belongs to Wen Jiarui and Madam Wu. Madam Wang sleeps with Wen Ran and Wen Nuan, and the three brothers, Wen Chun, Wen Hou, and Wen Luo, sleep on a big bed.
They're too poor, so they don’t pay attention to the distinction between men and women. It’s just good to have a place to stay.
After a busy day, everyone is tired. In the evening, the family smelled the fragrance of bamboo and soil and slept soundly.
Wen Nuan slept a lot during the day, and now she can’t sleep a little bit. She is also hungry and has a problem in her heart.
Hurry up and earn money!
It’s really uncomfortable to feel hungry.
But if she was asked to eat alone, she couldn't eat the food set aside by the family.
Always thinking about the past and present, planning the way forward. Then she realized that the most urgent thing is to take care of the body!
Wen Nuan raised her right hand, a cloud of purple qi lingered in her palm.
As soon as she thought of it, the purple qi flowed through her body, and her whole person was relieved a lot.
People were able to relax, smelling the fragrance of bamboo and soil, listening to the calls of insects, thinking about things, and gradually fell asleep when the day was about to dawn.
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Over the next two days, Wen Nuan treated her body several times with purple qi, and then she went from being able to walk on the ground to helping with some light housework.
After seeing Wen Nuan's change, the family is happy.
Finally, this is the day they hoped for.
Madam Wang thought that this was the result of the bowl of minced meat porridge, so Madam Wang set aside two teals to pay for medicine. The rest of the silver, she planned to use it to buy meat and rice to provide nourishment for Wen Nuan's body. So for Wen Nuan's meals, she eats half a bowl of minced meat porridge, while others avoid her to drink porridge water and eat wild vegetables. They dare not let Wen Nuan find out, lest Wen Nuan stop them.
In the past two days, when Wen Jiarui comes back from work every day, he will continue to build the bamboo house with his two sons.
There are many people in the family, it is inconvenient to live in the same room, so now there are two bamboo rooms.
After another two days, Wen Nuan felt that except for a weaker body, where it was easy to catch cold and fevers, she was completely indistinguishable from a normal person!
Wen Nuan couldn’t wait, she was too hungry.
And if she is so hungry, she believes other people are hungry!
I can’t go on like this anymore. Today, I must go up the mountain to find something to eat. I will see if there is anything that can make money by the way.
After eating early that day, everyone went out, leaving Wen Ran alone watching her at home, mainly because they were worried that she would be short-sighted. Although Wen Nuan guarantees that it won’t happen in the future, everyone is not at ease.
Wen Nuan walked out of the house and started her plan to go up the mountain to find food.
Wen Ran is now watering the newly opened vegetable plot in the yard.
Wen Ran is not idle even at home, and does all the work she can do. In the past two days, Madam Wang turned the soil in the yard and planted some vegetables.
She conscientiously took over the work of watering the vegetable garden. The water used for nourishing vegetables only needs to be scooped from the water tank.
The water in the tank was filled up by Wen Jiarui before dawn.
Wen Nuan seeing this, brought half a bucket of water over and watered the vegetable garden with Wen Ran.
Wen Nuan picked up a water scoop made of dried gourd shells and poured a scoop of water on the vegetable field. While watering, she said to Wen Ran, “Sister Ran, let’s walk around in a while!”
Wen Ran firmly shook her head: "Third Sister, you are in poor health. My mother said you can’t walk around, you will catch a cold!"
Wen Nuan started to bicker: "I'm better now. Don't you find that I am stronger than you? You see that I carry more water than you. I can throw the water farther than you, and the water is sprayed better than yours! It can be seen that my illness is cured."
Wen Ran thought silently, it was because she was still young!
She still shook her head: "No, Mother told me to look after you, and not let you go anywhere."
Wen Nuan continues to bicker: "The doctor said that life lies in exercise, and only by exercising more will the body become healthier and healthier! You see, I helped with housework in the past two days, and my body has become more and more powerful. How could I carry half a bucket of water before? Right? If you don’t use it, your body will slowly rust like iron! It will be ruined! Useless! Only when you exercise, people will get healthier and healthier!"
Wen Ran thought carefully after hearing this, Third Sister did a lot of housework in the past two days, washing the dishes, sweeping the floor, and helping to grow vegetables in the yard. She was all right, even her face turned ruddy.
Grandma always said that one’s strength should be exercised, and the more you practice, the greater your strength.
Is more exercise really better for the body?
Walking in the village anyway, there should be no problem.
Wen Ran thought of this, and nodded: "In a moment, I will walk around with my Third Sister."
She could watch, if Third Sister gets tired, she will take her home immediately, as long as they don't go far.
Bickering success! Wen Nuan smiled and said: "Okay!"
So she worked harder. She has to be quick, otherwise Grandma Wang won't be so easy to fool when she comes back.
Soon the two of them were busy.
Wen Ran locked the gate of the courtyard, and the two of them went out.
Wen Nuan brought a sharpened bamboo pole before going out. The excuse is that she can use it as a cane when she gets tired.
Wen Ran felt that Wen Nuan made sense, so she didn't think anything of it.
The two went out, Wen Ran wanted to bring Wen Nuan to the village, but Wen Nuan walked down the trail to the back of the mountain.
Wen Ran was anxious: "Third Sister, didn’t you mean walking around in the village? Why do you go to the mountain? You can’t go up there! There are wild boars in the mountains."
"I didn’t say to walk in the village! There are so many people in the village. I don’t want to see too many people, so let's just walk around the foot of the mountain. Don’t be afraid! Besides, the back mountain is closer to our home, isn’t it?"
After hearing this, she thought that Wen Nuan was afraid because some children in the village would make fun of her for for being medicine jar, sick and delicate, and calling her a plague star.
Those people are too bad, so don't go to the village, lest Third Sister get sad and jump into the river again.
So the two of them walked into the mountains.
Coming to the foot of the mountain, Wen Nuan deliberately walked a few steps calmly to the side, and then pretended to be pleasantly surprised: "Sister Ran, I saw a pheasant in front of me. If we can catch it, there will be pheasant to eat in the evening. "
Wen Ran's eyes brightened when she heard that there was a pheasant! She can catch pheasants!
"Really? Where? Why didn't I see it?"
"It's right in front, covered by the grass. Let's go and take a look. Maybe we can still pick up bird eggs in the mountain."
"Third Sister, you wait for me here." Pheasant and pheasant eggs are quite tempting, and this is where Wen Ran usually picks firewood. It is safe, so she rushed forward without even thinking about it.
Wen Nuan followed behind Wen Ran and couldn’t help but quietly compare in her heart!
"Go on ahead, I'm fine alone."
Wen Ran nodded when she heard. She came here almost every day, it was very safe.
There was no pheasant, but the two saw a hare.
Wen Ran excitedly said: "There are wild hares!"
Before the word “hare” was spoken, the bamboo in Wen Nuan's hand flew out and hit the hare’s neck all at once.
Wen Ran was stunned!
She turned her head stiffly to look at Wen Nuan: "Sister, where is your bamboo pole?"
She still couldn't believe that the bamboo pole that struck the hare belonged to Third Sister.
"We have hare meat to eat tonight!" Wen Nuan ignored her silly words, and walked forth happily, pulling up the bamboo pole and picking up the hare.
Wen Ran: "..."
Is this really her Third Sister?
If she weren't with Third Sister every day, she would suspect that someone was pretending to be her!
Why did the illness get better, and she suddenly became so capable?
It’s not like this before?
After packing up the hare, Wen Nuan turned her head and said to the dumbfounded girl: "Sister Ran, let’s go! We can still catch pheasants. I see where the pheasants are running!"
Wen Ran hadn't recovered from the shock, and stupidly followed forward.
The road on the mountain is not difficult to walk, because the path is often taken by the villagers.
But this also means that there will be no mountain products on this road.
Wen Nuan walked in the direction where no one went down. After walking not far, she saw a pheasant, but there was an eagle clutching the pheasant!
Wen Nuan saw an eagle with a little unfavorable looking wing, holding a flapping pheasant with its claws, and it seemed like it could not fly.
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