The Black Sheep (The Black Horse) - Chapter 38

The moonlight shines on the Sanqing Hall, and Xiaodaotong dozes in the side hall.

Zhu Shoumei was lying on the couch in Huang Youbi’s room, staring at the beams with her eyes open. The snoring of the master in the back room fluctuated like a tide, and his mood also fluctuated with the snoring.

In the end, Huang Youbi decided to let Bai Shiqi live in Zhu Shoumei’s room. Zhao Ziheng also said: “We three of us squeeze in one room, and 17 people live for one chapter. Is this too unfair?” Attentively asked: “Seventeen, why don’t we live together?” Zhao Wujiu slapped him on the shoulder, “Let you sleep wherever you go, a lot of nonsense!”

Zhao Ziheng was aggrieved, but his grievances were ignored.

Zhu Shoumei had something in her heart. This small couch was used by the master on weekdays for sitting and lying. He couldn’t stretch his legs, he could only half-bend, and he couldn’t sleep even more.

The frosty moonlight outside shone on the window, and he couldn’t help thinking of his childhood.

Zhu Shoumei was an orphan when she was a child. She was adopted by an old beggar since she was a child. She stumbled and lived until she would be able to beg with a dog stick. The old beggar passed away in that winter, and he almost never survived that winter when he was left. Huang Youbi returned from practicing medicine, passing by the ruined temple, and found him with a high fever, which saved his life.

Since then, Huang Youbi has a thin, thin medicine boy who is not even famous. Later, the name is to save the scholar in Zhujia Town. The scholar was cautious when he learned of his life experience.

Zhu Shoumei has been diligent and eager to learn since she was a child. Everyone who has experienced hardship knows how hard life is now. She dare not slack off when she knows pharmacy. Except for waiting for the master, he spends all his time studying medicine, but he broke. Bai Shiqi on the leg was sent by Bo Zhenting and entrusted to Huang Youbi for care and treatment.

Bai Zhenting’s original words were: “This **** in my family is very good, otherwise he won’t break his leg. Huang brother, just take strict discipline!”

At that time, Huang Youbi temporarily lived in the countryside of Suzhou and rented three earthen huts, not far from the scholar’s official residence of Murakami’s enlightenment. After healed the bedridden lady, Zhu Shoumei was sent to enlightenment.

Zhu Shoumei has limited time every day. He not only has to study, he has to study medicine, cook rice, and help Huang Youbi to dry the herbs. He is too busy to deal with it. Suddenly one day a child with a broken leg was added to the family. He was seven or eight years old with red lips and white teeth. He was more lovable than him. Huang Youbi always remembered him. When he went to the mountain to collect medicine, he always told him: “You must be optimistic about Seventeen and don’t let her run around.”

At that time, his personality was more restrained, and he was still hiding the survival rules learned by begging in his heart, protecting food like a little beast. Huang Youbi’s words made him feel a deep sense of crisis in his heart. He always felt that this kid was here to grab his master. , Neither dared to throw him out and angered the master, nor was he willing to take care of him.

Bai Shiqi has been a child from the second generation of Jiangsu Cao Gang since he was young. There is a small group of soldiers under his hand. He suddenly resigned and was thrown into the countryside by Bai Zhenting. The loneliness was about to sprout. Zhu Shoumei was very affectionate. “Shoumei Shoumei” couldn’t help but commented on him: “The old man who named you must be uneasy and kind. He is thin and weak. What else is called “Shoumei?” Mei has it!”

Zhu Shoumei cherishes her name very much and cherishes everything she has. Hearing Bai Shiqi’s name insulting him, he took advantage of Huang Youbi to go out and pressed Bai Shiqi to the ground to be beaten, but he was wrapped around her neck in the mud. The ground rolled around, a cloth gown was so dirty, the sleeve on the left was scratched, and he almost cried out angrily-this was made by the neighbor’s aunt and he loved it very much.

Seeing his crying face, Bai Shiqi was puzzled: “If your clothes are dirty, just change one. I didn’t cry. Why are you crying?”

Zhu Shoumei glared at her fiercely: “What do you know?!” How can a child whose parents love him understand his sadness?

The classmates in the Mongolian Academy are loved by their parents, and some grandparents are still alive. Who has tasted his hardships?

Zhu Shoumei hated the child in front of her, and found a chance to go into the mountain to collect medicine to entice him: “There are many wild fruits in the mountain. I picked them and washed them in mountain spring water. They were sweet and sour, but they were delicious.”

As expected, Bai Shiqi was cheering and clamoring to go, her legs were still tied with a board fixed, walking with a crutches, and sometimes she also made Zhu Shoumei carry her on her back. Most of the time Zhu Shoumei was reluctant, but in front of Huang Youbi she behaved very well.

He carried Bai Shiqi into the mountain, and along the way, he cursed hundreds of times as “dead fat man”. A child loved by his parents might not even taste the hunger. , Desperately carrying her back to the mountainside, he had to go to gather medicine for an excuse, let her rest in place, and ran away.

That afternoon, Zhu Shoumei was uneasy, the heavens fought, and he wanted to go back countless times, and rejected his ideas countless times. When the sky darkened, he finally panicked, thinking of the disgusting eyes that he was about to welcome the master. Maybe He would still think that his mind was not right, just like the children in Murakami who secretly scolded him, thinking that he is a “wild boy without a father, no mother and no discipline”, and he feels like he has crushed a heavy stone and cannot breathe Angry.

He ran halfway up the mountain in one breath, but Bai Shiqi was not there, almost sweating out of his body, and yelled, “Bai Shiqi——”

After yelling, a sleepy voice came from above: “It’s so noisy!”

When Zhu Shoumei looked up, he found that Bai Shiqi was sleeping on the branch of the tree. She turned over impatiently, and was about to fall off. She mumbled: “You are so noisy, don’t you come? ”

“I…I…who said I won’t come?”

Bai Shiqi turned over and sat up, hung on a rope and slid down. He took the rope back and stuffed it into his clothes. He carried a small cloth bag in the other hand and stuffed it to him. Complained: “The golden burnt fragrance that was just roasted was left lingering all afternoon. The taste is so bad that I can’t wait to throw it away. It’s a waste of my little master’s craftsmanship.”

Zhu Shoumei smelled a scent of meat.

He opened the bag and didn’t know what the lining of Bai Shiqi’s small cloth bag was. It was also oil- and water-proof. Even cold barbecued meat was meat. Zhu Shoumei bit down it viciously. It was more delicious than dried meat, so he swallowed it hard. Then we almost burst into tears: “How did you…how did you get it?”

Huang Youbi is not particular about eating and drinking. Anyway, he can’t be hungry or frozen, but children are greedy for meat for no reason. Seeing the rabbits and pheasants in the mountain forests, they also think that it is a dish of walking meat dishes. Thinking about it, you will drool, Zhu Shoumei He didn’t have the ability to hunt, so he could only watch.

“Catch it.” Bai Shiqi patted him on the shoulder: “I’m going back, old man Huang will be swearing when it is too late.”

Old man Huang was not very polite to Bai Shiqi, who was a guest, and he was not wrong when he should be scolded. It was more fierce than the third-minded young apprentice.

Zhu Shoumei carried Bai Shiqi with roasted rabbit meat in her arms. She couldn’t tell what it was like. She carried Bai Shiqi with one foot deep and the other lightly and went down the mountain, feeling anxious, for fear that Bai Shiqi would complain to Huang Youbi. I don’t know how many reasons I thought about, ranging from “I forgot…” to “Gathering herbs and fascinated…”, but none of them were useful.

Huang Youbi saw the two children before coming back after dark. He was about to have an attack, but Bai Shiqi took the lead: “Your family can’t even eat meat. If my father comes back and sees me as thin as your little apprentice,” Don’t feel so distressed? We went hunting in the mountains!”

Bai Zhenting never wronged his own son materially, and left a generous consultation fee for Huang Youbi. Unfortunately, Huang Youbi, a wealthy expert, quickly helped the poor in the same village. Everyone could only eat vegetables, leaves and carrots.

He felt a little guilty in his heart, and when he asked the two children who were “going into the mountains to hunt”, he was not so confident: “What can you two children hunt?”

Zhu Shoumei was relieved, and quickly handed the roasted rabbit that she had eaten to Huang Youbi: “Master… Seventeen, he really hunted rabbits, this is roasted rabbit meat for you!”

Huang Youbi took it and took a look at the lamp. It turned out to be rabbit meat. It smelled very fragrant. He sprinkled a rabbit leg and gave the rest to Zhu Shoumei: “You eat it!”

That was the first time Zhu Shoumei ate roast rabbit meat. He felt that it was the best food in the world.