Chapter 27 Apricot's illness

The rain in the mountain is still falling. Fortunately, the terrain of the cave is relatively high. The mouth of the cave has been dug for drainage by the mountain. The accumulated water can't come in, but the raindrops will come in with the wind, and most of the ground near the mouth of the cave is wet.

Shanzi had to move the fire into it, and then sat on the innermost hayst with Xu Xinger. At first, they said a few words from time to time, but Xu Xinger gradually disappeared.

He turned his head and saw that Xu Xinger had fallen asleep on the hole, so he gently put the dried coat on her, covered her legs and feet with his clothes, reached out and plucked the fire to make the fire burn more vigorously.

Although it is summer now, the night in the mountains is still very cold, and the storm outside makes people feel more and more cool.

Xu Xinger slept uneasily. She could feel Shanzi dressed her, but she only felt that her body was so tired, her eyelids were so heavy, and she couldn't open it. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't wake up.

The whole person was cold and hot for a while. He wrapped his hands around his body and squeezed into the corner of the cave, but he couldn't help shaking, and his headache seemed to explode.

"Xing'er, Xing'er, what's wrong with you?" Shanzi didn't pay attention at first, but later felt that Xu Xinger's body was moving, as if she was uncomfortable to sleep. She wanted to help her lie on the haystack and sleep. Unexpectedly, as soon as she touched her arm, she felt that her whole body was too hot. Through a layer of thick cloth clothes, it could make the palm of her feel hot.

Xu Xinger could hear Shanzi shouting at herself. She also wanted to respond and wanted to wake up, but she couldn't control her body at all. The arm she was caught by him was so painful that she trembled and wanted to shrink back, but she couldn't use her strength at all.

Shanzi found that the person in front of him was trembling and reached out to touch her forehead. Sure enough, it was already hot and hot, and quickly helped her lie down.

Xu Xinger was wearing the mountain's coat. With such a move, the wide sleeves slid to the elbow, revealing the traces left by Ye's beating two days ago. The wound was not drugged in time, and it happened to be summer. It was already healing very slowly. Today, she ran to the mountain and sweated a lot and caught such a heavy rain. She originally did not Why can't my good body stand it?

"Mother...mother..." Xu Xinger muttered.

The mountain looked around anxiously. There were too few things to use in the cave. He could only wet a piece of clothes with rain at the entrance of the cave and put it on Xu Xinger's forehead, hoping to relieve her pain.

He took out the wound medicine from his arms and looked at it for a long time, but he didn't dare to help her apply the medicine. Finally, he had to give up and throw the medicine bottle aside.

Shanzi remembered that when he was at home when he was a child, the burning adult wiped his body with a burning knife. There was still some wine in the winepot at his waist, but before it was solved, he saw the wound on Xu Xinger's body and let go of his hand decadently.

He covered all his useful clothes on Xu Xinger, but he still couldn't stop her trembling. Finally, he gritted his teeth, put his hand to hold the person into his arms, hugged her and sat in front of the fire, and tried to warm her up.

"Mother... I want my mother..." Xu Xinger muttered weakly and said with tears.

"Xinger, wake up, your mother is at home, making food at home, boiling water, laying the quilt, and waiting for you to go home!" Shanzi looked at the tears flowing from the corners of Xu Xinger's eyes. She was going crazy and didn't know what to do at all. She could only say these nonsense over and over again and comfort her powerlessly.

I don't know whether it was because her body was warm or because of Shanzi's whisper, Xu Xinger finally calmed down and her cheeks were red. She stopped talking nonsense, but she also slept uneasily. From time to time, her body **, which scared the mountain every time.

The two stayed up until the early morning, and the rain outside finally stopped. The dark clouds were blown away by the wind. The morning light shone from the clouds and sprinkled in the quiet forest. Everything seemed very quiet and beautiful. It seemed that they were as angry as last night. It was just an illusion.

Seeing that the sky had cleared, Shanzi quickly reached out and touched Xu Xinger's forehead, but it was still hot, as if it was more serious than last night.

He didn't have much time to think about it. He put on his clothes first, wrapped Xu Xinger tightly, and quickly ran down the mountain with her behind his back.

Xu Xinger felt a little bumpy, as if she was on the boat. With the ups and downs of the waves, she had a headache. She moaned and found that her voice was also hoarse.

She regained her senses a little and half opened her eyes and said, "Brother Shanzi?"

"Well, I'll take you down the mountain and go home. You can put up with it for a while." Shanzi dragged her up and wrapped his hands around her legs as hard as possible to make her lie down steadily, but he accelerated her pace anxiously.

Xu Xinger woke up for a while, and then fell into a lethargy with the ups and downs of the mountain.

The mountain took a shortcut to go down the mountain. Although it was more difficult to walk than the road, it was much closer and could still save a lot of time. He carried a person on his back, but he did not feel tired at all. He went straight down the mountain without stopping once, and even felt that he walked faster than usual.

He called Xu Xinger's name as he walked, hoping that she could hear and wake up for a while. Her lifeless appearance was really worrying.

But until he walked to Xing'er's door, she was still asleep and had no intention of waking up.

Xu Laosan worried at home all night and didn't fall asleep at all. When he got up in the morning, he saw that the rain had stopped and the dark clouds on the mountain had dispersed, so he hurried to go to the old house to find the old man Xu to discuss whether he could ask someone to go up the mountain to help find Xu Xinger.

When Shanzi carried the person home, only Ye sat on the bed in the room, guarding the three children who didn't wake up and shed tears. Hearing the sound of Shanzi outside, she was simply overjoyed. She even rolled and climbed down the kang. She didn't notice that her shoes were worn back. She ran out and saw her daughter lying on the back of the mountain and fell asleep. Yu fell to the ground, and his whole body almost collapsed in front of the mountain.

"Aunuch, be careful... Ouch..." Shanzi subconsciously reached out to help Xu Xinger and almost fell on her back. He quickly pulled back and hooked her body, but he could only watch Ye sit on the ground.

"It's okay, it's okay." Ye got up and looked at Xu Xinger without any response. He hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with Xing'er?"

"I got caught in the rain and began to have a fever in the middle of last night." Shanzi did not mention Xu Xinger's injury. There was a difference between men and women. Although he didn't mean to see it, it was still inappropriate to say it. Secondly, Xu Xinger is so fierce that she can beat her like that. I guess it's either Xu Laosan or Ye. It's natural for his parents to beat their children, and naturally there is no room for him to speak.

Ye quickly pulled Shanzi into the house and asked him to put Xu Xing'er on the kang. Suddenly, he remembered something and said to Shanzi, "Shanzi, help your aunt go to the front yard and call your third uncle back. He is ready to go up the mountain to find Xing'er. Just tell her that you are back and let him go home quickly."

Shanzi answered and turned to find someone.

Ye Shi only saw that Xu Xinger's clothes were not her own. Looking at the size and style should be Shanzi, although she thought that she should have been wet and changed her clothes, she still felt a little worried.

She turned around and put the door and untied Xu Xing'er's clothes. At that moment, she saw the red and swollen scars on her body, and her whole body was stunned on the spot. Only then did she understand why Xing'er burned so much after a little rain.

Ye lowered his head to wipe away his tears, went out to mix some warm water, and wiped Xu Xinger's body first. He didn't find anything else and traces that should not have. Then he was relieved, changed her into clean clothes, stuffed her back into the quilt, and pressed a thick quilt to make her sweaty.

"Mother... Mother, where are you... I'm not a child without a mother..." Xu Xinger suddenly curled up and cried.

Ye quickly put down the things in her hand, turned around and hugged her daughter. While patting her on the back, she comforted her softly and said, "My mother is here. Xing'er is not a child without a mother. My mother loves Xing'er."

The more she said, the more she couldn't help crying, and finally she simply hugged her daughter and cried loudly.

Xu Laosan and Shanzi were lifting their feet into the door and heard Ye crying in the room. They thought that something had happened to Xing'er. Both of them ran into the house in three steps and two steps.

"Aunuch, what's wrong with Xing'er?" The mountain rushed into the door and shouted.

"How's your daughter?" Xu Laosan is also a sweat in his head.

When Ye saw the man coming back, he quickly said, "Go and ask the doctor. It's so hot all over and hurt..." Then he began to cry again, "I was fascinated at that time. How could I do it..."

Xu Laosan first went to the side of thekang and looked at Xing'er. Seeing that she just had a fever and there was nothing else, he knew that it was Ye's old problem again. He turned back to Shanzi and smiled apologetically, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Isn't your aunt scared?"

"As long as Xing'er is fine." Shanzi was so scared that he sweated just now. Now when he saw that he was fine, his heart was put back in his stomach. As soon as the string in his mind was loosened, all the fatigue surged up, and even the tip of his fingers felt sore.

Xu Laosan went to the west room to wake up Tao'er, re-paved the bedding to greet the guests, and came back to call Shanzi and said, "Look at you watching Xing'er all night yesterday? I'll ask Lao Si to send you a message. You can go to the West Room and go to bed quickly. Let your aunt cook a bowl of ginger soup for you later. Don't get sick.

Shanzi waved his hand and said, "Uncle, you don't have to go to my house to deliver letters. It's common for me not to go home for a few days. They know my ability and won't worry. Go and hire a doctor for Xing'er. I'll take care of it for my aunt."

Xu Laosan was originally anxious. Seeing that Shanzi said so, he was no longer polite to him and trotted all the way to the village to ask for a doctor.