Quick Wear: Inferiority is the best dowry for men

ps: In ancient times, women were not superior.

It was a beautiful spring day with perfect sunshine.

As the adopted daughter of the barefoot doctor He Lu, He Sheng was responsible for going up the mountain to collect herbs.

This is Ningchang Village, located in the northern part of Qi State. There are more than 300 people in the village. There was a little boy named Tongsheng in the village. Later, he failed to pass the imperial examination and became the only teacher in the village.

He Lu is the only doctor in the village, but he learned his trade from books. His techniques are rough but effective. He picked up He Sheng when he was traveling outside, and he later brought her to settle in this village.

The village is backed by a mountain, which is a treasure trove for the villagers. They will go into the mountain for a walk during the non-busy farming season.

He Sheng carried a bamboo basket and set out into the mountains. When she came out, she met her neighbor Aunt Zhang who was going to the fields to deliver food to her old man. "Girl Sheng, are you going into the mountains?"

"Uh-huh."

"Be safe."

"Okay, I'm leaving first!"

When she picked herbs, she just picked whatever she saw, without deliberately looking for any particular one. The more she wanted to find a certain type, the harder it was to find.

After entering the mountains, there were dense trees. He Sheng walked along the path and picked fruits as he went, and finally reached the stream.

But today there seemed to be someone by the stream. She could see a person lying by the river from afar. She just thought it was some kid who ran away from home in anger and went to play in the mountains.

He Sheng approached, squatted by the river to wash his hands, and chatted with the person lying on the ground, "Whose child are you from? Did you have a fight with the adults at home?"

After washing and shaking off the water on her hands, she turned her head to look at the man, and found something was wrong.

The clothes he was wearing were made of fine materials and had embroidery, and it was obvious that he was not an ordinary man. He had an arrow in his abdomen and the back of his head was bleeding, staining the ground beneath him red.

It’s obvious at first glance that he’s being chased!

He Sheng took two steps back. This man must have fainted and didn’t see her.

According to the experience of countless romance novels, this kind of person who is well-dressed in the wilderness is obviously a big problem. If she rescues him, her whole family might be wiped out! She needs to leave this place of trouble as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, this man suddenly opened his eyes. He stretched out his hand to He Sheng with great effort, and said with a weak breath, "Save...save me...I will give you gold..."

He Sheng took two steps back again, then turned around and walked away as if he didn't hear anything.

She hadn't met this person today, nor had she been to the river. No, she hadn't even entered the mountain today! Who was it? I didn't know. There was no one by the river.

He Sheng passed away in a graceful manner. The man lying on the ground saw her go so quickly. The last glimmer of hope for survival disappeared, and he closed his eyes in complete despair.

I... God is so unfair...

He Sheng not only left quickly, but also kicked the leaves on both sides of the road onto her footsteps as she walked. Her covering technique was crude but it was not so simple that people could tell at a glance that someone had been there.

Her figure quickly disappeared into the woods.

What she didn't know was that there was a cliff above the river, and the cliff was now very lively.

……

He Sheng adjusted his mood and sorted out the herbs in the bamboo basket to process and dry them as usual.

No one from their family came to seek medical treatment today. He Lu went out for a walk, and when he came back he unexpectedly saw He Sheng.

"Sheng girl, you're back so early? That's strange. Every time you go into the mountains, don't you always wait until the sun sets before coming back? Why are you back so early today?" He Lu walked to her side with his hands behind his back and watched her prepare the herbs.

He Sheng was vague, "There are more mosquitoes in the mountains, and the bites are annoying."

He Lu calculated the days and said, "That's not right. Where do the mosquitoes come from at this time?"

"Oh, Dad, don't worry about it. Anyway, I just don't want to stay in the mountains anymore."

He Lu shook his head. "No, you always go into the mountains to catch some game, but today you only get herbs. This is so wrong. What happened in the mountains?"

After all, it was a small village, and meat was a luxury that only came once in a long time. However, there were pheasants and rabbits everywhere in the mountains. He Sheng would become greedy every time he saw them. He would not only catch two, but also roast and eat one in the mountains.

This was also the reason why she always came back so late. Now that He Lu had ruthlessly exposed her, He Sheng didn't know how to explain it away.

"It's okay. The rabbit has learned its lesson. I haven't caught it for a long time and I don't want to catch it anymore."

"Is that it?" He Lu still didn't quite believe it, but since she didn't say it, there was nothing he could do.

He Lu sniffed, "Tsk, why do you smell like blood?"

"Really?" He Sheng looked down at his clothes, trying to make sure that his clothes were accidentally stained with that person's blood.

"Who am I? No one is more familiar with the smell of this blood than me." He Lu knocked her head, "If you don't want to talk about it, forget it. I'm not interested in what you encounter. Just don't get hurt."

He Sheng chuckled, "Okay, I can protect myself from getting hurt."

He Lu shook his head helplessly, "You have been smart and tough since you were young. Who can let you get hurt? When you were a child, you were tripped by Aunt Li's son, and you threw him back on the spot. From then on, he would run away when he saw you, and he didn't suffer any loss at all."

"Oh, there's no need for you to mention this every time."

"Hey, how could I not mention it? After this incident, everyone said that I taught a good girl and brought up a wild girl."

"Tsk, it won't hurt to talk, and he was the first to attack, and I didn't even use any force. If I had used more force, he would have been killed."

"Hey, don't use too much force. If you kill Aunt Li, she's not an easy person to get along with. I'm afraid you won't have a peaceful life in the future." He Lu waved his hand, "No, girl, don't kill anyone."

"No more talking. Go inside and dry the fruits. It's just that we didn't pick enough. You still have to go into the mountains tomorrow."

"Can't I not go?" He Sheng tried to protest.

"If we don't go, we'll both be left starving."

"Isn't there land?"

"What can you do with that one acre of land?"

Their main livelihood is to treat patients. There is too much land, but not enough people and no time during the busy farming season. He Lu simply reclaimed only one acre of land and ignored it for two or three days. He only worked hard during the sowing season and left the rest of the time to fate.

When the harvest season comes, they will make money no matter how much they harvest from the fields. If they don't harvest anything, they will just lose the money to buy seeds, which is not much and will not starve them to death.

He Sheng thought so too. They had just started sowing the seeds, so how could there be any harvest?

Just go. If she goes into the mountain tomorrow, the man will definitely be dead. She will take a detour, and this man can't blame her. Just remember not to go to the river.

After she processed the last plant, she counted the number and found that there were too few. They were not even enough for someone to get a prescription. The blacksmith at the village entrance would come to get the medicine tomorrow, and there would not be much left after he took it. What's the point of running a pharmacy without medicine?

He Sheng wiped the dirt off his clothes and said, "Okay, that's it for today. We'll deal with the rest tomorrow."

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The next day, He Sheng took advantage of the early morning, holding a steamed bread in his mouth, putting another one in his bag, and carrying a bamboo basket and went into the mountains again.

We picked too little yesterday, so we have to make up for it today. He Sheng felt very sorry that it didn’t rain last night. After all, if it had rained, the possibility of the man dying would have been greater.