novelonline Chapter 1220 Fairy Grass Autumn Moon
Chapter 1220 Fairy Grass Autumn Moon
Chapter 1220 Fairy Grass Autumn Moon
Bai Zhao was somewhat reluctant: "I'm afraid he won't survive if he's frozen like this..."
"Mom, this is a life." Bai Jiaxuan put the person on the kang.
"Da, I'll go invite Mr. Leng." Qin Hao said, put on his fur coat and went out.
"Hao'er..." Bai Zhao chased after him for a few steps, but because of her bound feet, she could only watch Qin Hao quickly walk out of the courtyard gate.
"It's so snowy and windy, and you're too cruel as a father to let your child run so far over the mountain just for a beggar."
Bai Zhao complained.
"Okay, stop talking. This is a life anyway. Just consider it as a good deed for our Bai family." Bai Bingde saw that the beggar was dishevelled but pretty, so he couldn't help but think of finding a wife for his son. After all, the Bai family was too small, with only one son for three generations. What if something happened...
The snow particles were blown by the north wind and hit his face, causing pain. Qin Hao wrapped his cotton jacket tightly and stepped deep and shallow into the half-foot thick snow.
Mr. Leng's home is located under the old locust tree at the east end of the village. On normal days, it only takes a cup of tea to get there. But today, the wind and snow seemed to be deliberately blocking people, and he had to pull his legs out of the snow every time he took a step.
Finally, a quarter of an hour later, a small courtyard appeared isolated in a low adobe building.
As a "famous doctor" in Bailuyuan, whenever people encounter difficult and complicated diseases, they will ask him to treat them.
The Leng family is also a well-known wealthy family in Bailu Plain besides the Bailu and Lu family.
"Bang bang bang~~~"
After a round of banging on the door, a gentle voice came from inside the house: "Who is it?"
"Is Mr. Leng at home? This is a matter of life and death. Please come with me to the Bai family."
Soon, the courtyard gate opened, and a little girl of six or seven years old, wrapped in a thick coat, looked at Qin Hao curiously with a pair of bright eyes.
"I'm making medicine, come with me."
Qin Hao looked at the pretty girl in front of him and couldn't help but feel moved.
Following the little girl into the house, a medicinal aroma hit my nose. A thin middle-aged man wearing a black melon-shaped hat, an indigo coarse cloth gown and a thin face was gently stirring a dark, thick liquid in the pot.
"Are you the young master of the Bai family?" Mr. Leng looked up at Qin Hao and recognized him.
Qin Hao bowed to Mr. Leng and said, "Mr. Leng, human life is at stake. There is no time to delay. Please move on."
Mr. Leng paused while stirring the spoon, then waved to the girl: "Qiuyue, I'll leave this to you. After it's done, put it in the medicine jar."
"Okay." The girl took the spoon skillfully. It was obvious that she had boiled medicine quite often in the past.
Mr. Leng straightened his collar and said to Qin Hao, "Don't panic yet. Tell me what symptoms your patient has so that I can prescribe the right medicine."
"A frozen woman, she looks to be in her twenties, with frostbite on her face and hands, and she's still breathing..."
Listening to Qin Hao's slow description of the illness, Mr. Leng nodded slightly. He had heard that the young master of the Bai family was extremely intelligent. Now it seems that it was not all bragging. Generally, children in their teens rarely have such a calm demeanor.
"Okay, I understand. Wait a moment, I'll get the medicine box."
Mr. Leng went into the inner room and rummaged through the drawers and cabinets, probably preparing the right medicine. Only Qin Hao and Leng Qiuyue were left in the room.
When their eyes met, Leng Qiuyue quickly lowered her head again. Her father had made her recite the Rules and Precepts for Girls since she was a child. She usually stayed at home and seldom came into contact with the opposite sex of the same age. The atmosphere was a little awkward for a moment.
"Your name is Leng Qiuyue?"
"Hmm." The voice was almost inaudible.
"My name is Bai Hao."
"Oh."
As he was talking, Mr. Leng came out from the inner room carrying a medicine box.
"Qiuyue, take care of the house. Young Master Bai, let's go."
Qin Hao had no choice but to look away and follow Mr. Leng out of the courtyard.
The earthen walls on both sides of the village road were covered with white ridges by the snow. Occasionally, a few dim lights from the oil lamp shone through the window paper, making the night even darker. Just when Bai Bingde and Bai Zhao were worried, Qin Hao and Mr. Leng pushed open the gate.
"Mr. Leng, you are finally here." Bai Jiaxuan heard the noise and quickly pulled Mr. Leng into the house.
Human life was at stake, so Mr. Leng had no time to be polite and began to examine the woman's condition.
Bai Zhao patted the snow off Qin Hao's body with concern and said, "Son, you must be frozen. Come and warm yourself by the fire."
Qin Hao rubbed his hands and reached them to the charcoal fire, and immediately felt a lot warmer.
After some trouble, Mr. Leng gave Bai Jiaxuan a few doses of medicine: "When the medicine is ready, give it to her. If she vomits tonight, her life will be saved."
"Thank you, Mr. Leng. Here is the medical fee." Bai Jiaxuan handed Mr. Leng a piece of silver.
Mr. Leng did not refuse, as he made his living by this skill.
"If there's nothing else, I'll go back first."
Bai Jiaxuan hurried to boil the medicine, and shouted to the inner room: "Hao'er, send Mr. Leng off for me."
Qin Hao walked Mr. Leng all the way to the door.
"Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Leng."
"Doctors are like parents to their children. It's not hard work. Please stay, young master."
Looking at Mr. Leng's back, Qin Hao suddenly smiled. The reason why he volunteered to invite Mr. Leng was not to find a stepmother for himself, but to leave an impression in front of Mr. Leng to prevent the old man from matchmaking him up with someone else.
Back in the house, Bai Zhao was still complaining: "I don't know why I spent so much money to rescue such a beggar."
"Mom, it's a life after all. Besides, our family doesn't need this little money now." Bai Jiaxuan retorted.
Bai Zhao curled her lips and said, "If you continue to spend money lavishly, you will have to spend mountains of gold and silver."
Finally, Bai Bingde tapped his pipe and said, "Alright, send someone to watch over it tonight. Mr. Leng said that whether we can save our lives depends on tonight."
Bai Jiaxuan volunteered to stay and take care of her, and Bai Zhao could only mutter a few words and go back to the house in a sullen mood.
"Da, you care so much about her, are you attracted to her?"
Qin Hao's words made Bai Jiaxuan angry and embarrassed: "What are you talking about? If you keep talking nonsense, I'll hit you. Go to bed quickly. You have to go to class tomorrow morning."
"My uncle said that since it's cold recently, you don't need to go to class. Just study at home."
"Then get up early and study!"
"Da, I think that's what Master meant..."
"How can I talk to you, you little bastard? I think you're going to make trouble if you don't get punished for three days..." Bai Jiaxuan's eyebrows almost stood up.
Unfortunately, Qin Hao had already run away and made a face at him.
Looking at his son's back, Bai Jiaxuan shook his head helplessly: "You little bastard, you have no respect for your elders."
However, when he turned his head and looked at the delicate face of the woman on the bed, a ripple arose in his heart.
Early the next morning, Qin Hao got up and was about to go to the kitchen to get some hot water for washing, but he saw Bai Jiaxuan busy at the stove.
"Da, is she awake?"
Bai Jiaxuan raised the spatula in his hand and said, "If you keep talking nonsense, I will really beat you up."
"Look at you. I didn't say anything, but your uncle said you have a guilty conscience."
"Say it again, you bastard..."
Qin Hao picked up the hot water, made a face at him and quickly ran out of the kitchen, leaving Bai Jiaxuan alone in the kitchen, helpless and furious.
The snow stopped in the early morning, and a narrow path was cleared in the snow in the Bai family's courtyard. Qin Hao slipped into the wing room with hot water, and through the crack in the door, he saw Bai Jiaxuan clumsily feeding porridge to the female beggar. The woman had woken up, with a sickly blush on her pale face, and her eyelashes trembling slightly in the morning light.
"Have you seen enough?" Bai Jiaxuan suddenly turned his head.
"Da, the medicine prescribed by Mr. Leng is really effective." Qin Hao walked in with a smile. Bai Jiaxuan pretended to hit him, but he met the gaze of Bai Zhao behind him and could only put down his hand in disappointment.
Seeing the pretty face of the girl after she woke up, Bai Zhaoshi no longer acted as aggressively as she did yesterday. Instead, she asked softly, "You don't look like a beggar. How did you end up like this?"
The woman struggled to sit up and kowtowed to Bai Zhaoshi: "To answer your question, my family encountered famine, and my parents took me to escape. We encountered bandits on the way. My father pushed me off the slope to save me. I had no choice but to escape here alone..."
"What a poor man. Do you have any relatives in Bailuyuan?" Bai Zhao asked again.
The woman shook her head and sobbed: "Xiancao has no other relatives in this world."
"Since you have no other relatives, why did you just run to Bailuyuan to escape?" Qin Hao asked in a puzzled manner.
Bai Jiaxuan and Bai Zhao were also a little confused. Bailuyuan was not a wealthy place nearby. People usually went to the city to escape. Why did they go to this remote and poor place instead?
Seeing this, Xiancao quickly explained: "Actually, I came to seek refuge with you."
Bai Jiaxuan moved his head and found that the fairy grass was still pointing at him.
"Girl, are you confused because of the cold? We haven't even met each other..."
"Yes... I have seen you. You came to our house to propose marriage that day and left two bags of food. Later, I chased you out, but you ran away."
Bai Jiaxuan recalled for a long time, his face full of surprise: "Are you the daughter of Old Wu's family?"
Xiancao blushed and nodded.
Bai Zhao's eyes lit up when she heard this. She had asked her son to pull a cart of grain to marry a wife, but he didn't bring her back and there were two bags of grain missing. She was so angry that she scolded her son severely. She didn't expect that many years later, the woman would come back again.
"Hehe, young lady, you haven't fully recovered from your illness yet, so you can stay in our house and recuperate for a while." After saying this, Bai Zhaoshi pulled Qin Hao away, leaving Bai Jiaxuan and Xiancao staring at each other. The atmosphere was both ambiguous and awkward.
Bai Zhao told her husband the origin of the magic grass with exaggeration: "Old man, this is fate sent by heaven. I didn't expect that we could get a daughter-in-law in exchange for two bags of grain."
Bai Bingde took a puff of his pipe and said, "Humph, back then you kept scolding your son for committing a sin."
Bai Zhaoshi did not respond, but continued to chatter: "I think this girl is good, she is pretty and has a big butt. She is easy to raise..."
"Hehe, what are you talking about in front of the child?" Bai Bingde glared at his wife.
"Okay, go clean up the west wing and let him stay there to recover first."
"Oh."
After Bai Zhaoshi left, Bai Bingde waved to Qin Hao and said, "Hao'er, can your father give you a few more brothers and sisters?"
"Master, are you afraid that I will object to Dad getting married?"
Bai Bingde was not surprised, as his grandson had been extremely intelligent since childhood and was much more mature than other children of the same age.
"Tell me what you think?"
Qin Hao did not answer, but asked: "Master, who will have a better future for the Bai family?"
Bai Bingde was stunned but also felt fortunate. Fortunately, this child was his grandson. If he was born in the Lu family, several generations of the Bai family would probably have no chance of turning things around.
Late at night, when everyone was asleep, Qin Hao found his father sitting alone on the millstone, looking at the starry sky.
Under the moonlight, Bai Jiaxuan took out a faded sachet from his arms - it was an old thing of Qin Hao's biological mother.
"Hao'er, do you think your mother will be weird?"
Qin Hao said softly: "People should live for themselves."
Bai Jiaxuan gave Qin Hao a bear hug.
One morning three days later, Qin Hao was awakened by a strong fragrance, along with Bai Bingde and his wife and Bai Jiaxuan.
"Whose oil-splashed noodles are these? Why are they so delicious?"
As soon as Bai Jiaxuan finished speaking, Xiancao came out of the kitchen carrying two large bowls.
"Master, Madam, the water for washing is ready, hurry up and wash up and have breakfast."
At the dining table, Bai Jiaxuan was slurping the noodles, and so was Qin Hao. This was definitely the most delicious oil-splashed noodles he had ever eaten in so many worlds.
The way Bai Bingde and his wife eat is relatively good-looking. It’s not because they are gentle, but because they are old and their teeth are not so good, so they can’t eat fast.
"Anything else?" Bai Jiaxuan quickly finished a large bowl of oil-splashed noodles.
"Yes, I put down a lot. I'll go get it for you."
After Xiancao left, Bai Bingde suddenly said with some emotion: "This is what it means to live a good life."
Even the always harsh Bai Zhao said to Bai Jiaxuan: "Son, tell us what you are thinking."
In front of Qin Hao, Bai Jiaxuan was a little embarrassed: "What else can I think? Isn't it always you who make the decision on starting a family?"
Qin Hao rolled his eyes and said, “That’s not what you said at the beginning!”
It's just because you're greedy for her body.
The eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month is a good time to get married.
Twelve iron pots have been set up in the Bai family's courtyard. The butcher, Lao Wu, put the hairless whole pig on the cypress table, and with a flash of the knife, the basket was filled with bright red tenderloin meat...
At noon, the eight-immortal tables were arranged from the main hall to the wheat field. Mr. Leng was seated at the head of the table, with a rare blue-flowered porcelain wine cup in front of him - Bai Bingde specially took out Fenjiu from the cellar in the Guangxu period. Xiancao walked through the table in her pink wedding dress, and when her dress swept the base of the adobe wall, a few children were rolling around to grab candied fruits.
Looking at Xiancao's pretty and handsome appearance, Lu Zilin gritted his teeth and said, "What kind of shitty luck does Bai Jiaxuan have? He got rich and married a wife. Why does the Bai family get all the good things?"
Lu Taiheng glared at him and said, "Stop talking nonsense and eat your meal."
"Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west. No one is lucky all his life."
Lu Zilin knew that his father asked him to be patient, but he had already endured it for so many years. Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he walked behind Qin Hao.
"Haowazi, you married a stepmother, but you are eating delicious food."
Qin Hao sneered in his heart, this old guy is so insidious.
"Zilinda, when are you going to marry a new wife? I will be happy for you too."
The guests around laughed when they heard this. Lu Zilin was so angry that his nose was crooked. Isn't this a curse on his wife? Why can't he be so sensible as a child?