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After the refugee incident in the 13th year of Xuanqing, the world seems to have returned to peace, but some rumors circulating in the dark always reveal some precariousness. What is it? After being imprisoned, the Southwest is not very safe, and the person at the top seems to be dying.

The rumors were passed around, and when they spread to this remote village, no one really believed them. Besides, even if they were true, how much did they have to do with them?The emperor's wealth and power are too far away from them, so far away that they are like symbols of fear but unknown meaning. After a few sneaky conversations after dinner, they turn to someone whose cow gave birth to a lame baby. Calf, the widow in which village stole a man at night and was bumped upright. When I was delivering goods in other places, I got a jar of good wine and made an appointment to drink it.

Naturally, Meng Huaize has heard of those too, but he is just a small doctor, he can cure people's diseases, and he can't control the prosperity and decline of this world. Rather than worrying about who is the person on the dragon chair, it is better to cure the old child in front of him. Runny nose.

Winter is getting colder every year, and the 23rd year of the twelfth lunar month is approaching. People around are busy, preparing new year's goods, offering sacrifices to the Stove King, setting off firecrackers, and sweeping the courtyard. The desertedness brought by the winter snow has been swept away in sevens and eights.

Others were too busy to touch the ground for the new year, but Meng Huaize had a rare leisure time, he was full of joy, and even his illnesses were reduced a lot.He didn't have anything to do, so he cleaned the house inside and out with everyone, and went to the mountain before the snow drifted down, prepared some New Year's food for the group of elves and put it on the lakeside. Wu Yue's monster power, he couldn't see them, but he could see the messy debris splashed in the grass next to him, it should be those silly goblins jumping happily.

After coming down from the mountain, he spent the remaining days in the house reading, thinking about how to treat the illnesses of the old people in Kaichun Village better.I thought this year would pass like this, until the 29th of the twelfth lunar month. In the middle of the night, Meng Huaize had just finished reading a book and fell asleep, when someone knocked on the door hastily outside the courtyard.

Meng Huaize has experienced this kind of thing a lot, he hurriedly followed the man without saying a word, put on the medicine box on his back, only to find out that it was Caizhi's house when he arrived.Red paper was pasted in the yard, but the house was full of crying and noisy noise. Meng Huaize rushed in without having time to think about it, and saw a woman sitting on the ground in the middle of the room, holding a two or three-year-old boy in her arms. The call was shrill, but the little boy was silent, his little face was blue and purple, and he couldn't even breathe.

Meng Huaize knelt down and wanted to take the boy over, but the woman lost her mind and hugged her so tightly that she refused to let go. Meng Huaize whispered, "Let go."

The woman trembled all over, and she let go of her hand obediently after listening to his words.

There was a big lump on the back of the boy's head. He must have hit his head and suddenly stopped breathing. Meng Huaize quickly made him lie flat, tilted his head back, and pressed on the sternum.The people next to him were crying and scolding, and Meng Huaize had no distractions. It was extremely dangerous to lose his breath. He didn't dare to relax for a moment. Just as he was about to lower his head, he saw the child under him choking and coughing. After slamming, the breath was unobstructed immediately, and he opened his mouth and cried loudly.He cried, but in the eyes of those around him, he was more gratifying than laughing.

The woman rushed over to hug the little boy, tears streaming down her cheeks, but her voice softly comforted: "It's okay, it's okay, mother is here..."

The child regained his breath, cried for a while and then quickly stopped, closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.Meng Huaize checked him carefully, and stood up after confirming that there was nothing serious, and told Cai Zhiniang who was standing aside wiping her tears some precautions.

After confessing to Cai Zhiniang, Meng Huaize's eyes fell on the woman sitting by the bed, she didn't look at Meng Huaize, all her thoughts were given to the boy who was sleeping on the bed.It's not that Meng Huaize has never seen Caizhi again these years. After all, this is Caizhi's natal family. Although she doesn't come back often, she still has to go there three or four times a year. At least, many times he even turned away before approaching Cai Zhi.At this moment, Meng Huaize looked at her, and found that the frank and brilliant little girl was no longer there, she was a mother.

No one can see time, but it quietly grows on everyone.

It was late the night before, and today is New Year's Eve, the last day of the year, Meng Huaize was lazy for a while with peace of mind, lying on the bed and reading for a while before getting up.

After tidying himself up, he went to open the courtyard door and found Caizhi standing outside the courtyard.

She didn't know when she came, she didn't knock on the door, she didn't make a sound, leaning against the wall with her head lowered, she was thinking about something, she raised her head when she heard the door knock, saw Meng Huaize smiled, and called "Doctor Meng" ".

"Why are you standing here?" Meng Huaize asked again, "Is the child alright?"

"It's okay," Cai Zhi shook her head and said with a smile, "I can eat, drink, and dance. I got up this morning and wanted to go out to play in the snow. It was a lot of shopping."

Meng Huaize also smiled: "That's good."

After this, the two of them were speechless, the tiny snowflakes were slowly drifting, and the two of them stood in one door and outside the other, no one said they wanted to come in and no one said they wanted to go out.Caizhi pinched and squeezed the hemp rope in her hand, and after a long time, she stretched out her hand, and under the hemp rope was a jar of sealed wine.

She lowered her eyes and said, "I was scared last night, and I couldn't thank you properly."

Meng Huaize hastily refused.

Under the stalemate, Caizhi suddenly laughed, and she raised her head to look at Meng Huaize: "Actually, it's not all thanks."

Some branches were overwhelmed, and the snow accumulated on the top fell on the snow ground. The branches above the head were still shaking tremblingly, and Cai Zhi's voice seemed to be shaking lightly.

"In the first year, I brewed a jar of wine for you. In the second year, I brewed another jar of wine. In the third year, I stopped brewing it. The jar in the second year was broken. This is the first jar of wine. I'll return the one-year altar to you." She bent her lips at Meng Huaize, for a moment she still looked like that carefree girl of seventeen or eighteen years old, "So, you have to drink well, just this altar , After drinking it, there is no more."

Meng Huaize's eyes fell from the smile at the corner of her mouth to the white hands holding the hemp rope. After a short silence, he didn't pick up the jar of wine, but said "wait for me", turned and entered the room, When he came out again, he had two wine glasses in his hand.

Meng Huaize removed the mud seal from the mouth of the altar, and when the seal paper was opened, the clear aroma of wine overflowed.Caizhi watched him fill one of the wine glasses, smiled, picked up the wine jar on the ground, and poured most of the other wine glass.

In the snowy sky, none of them spoke at first, sitting side by side on the threshold, each slowly drank their own glasses of wine.

After the second cup was poured, Cai Zhi opened her mouth and asked Meng Huaize if he was busy seeing patients, and if he had anything to do during the Chinese New Year.

Meng Huaize answered them one by one.

By the third glass of wine, she talked more.

She asked Meng Huaize: "Do you know how the second jar of wine was broken?"

Meng Huaize shook his head.

"He smashed it. At first he thought it was brewed for him, and he was very happy, but later he found out that it was not, and he was annoyed. He didn't even say a serious word to me before, but that time he sent a big one. Huo, pointing at my nose and cursing, made me think about who I married and how I want to live the rest of my life."

"He was so angry, but when he arrived, he didn't touch a finger of mine. Before he went out, he even picked up the broken porcelain pieces at my feet."

"When it was dark, I opened the door and went out, and saw him still sitting outside. I sat inside the house all day, and he sat outside all day. Seeing me go out, he still didn't dare to look at me." Zhi gently shook the half glass of wine in her hand, "At that time, I suddenly figured out that he has no great skills, he is just a solicitor, but from the day I entered the door, He didn't make me feel wronged at all."

"He's right, life has to go downhill," Caizhi laughed, "so in the third year, the newly brewed wine has become his treasure, and he has to take it with him everywhere, showing off to everyone, Showing off but refusing to drink it, you're killing yourself."

She spoke disgustingly, but there was always a smile on the corner of her mouth.

Meng Huaize looked at her, laughed too, and said, "That's great."

The glass was empty, Cai Zhi poured the fourth glass of wine, turned to him and asked, "What about you?"

"What am I?"

"Just keep going like this?"

Meng Huaize remained silent.

Caizhi moved closer: "Is what everyone said true?"

"What?" Meng Huaize was a little confused.

"Doctor Meng has a sweetheart! I just don't know who this person is. Xiaosan and the others have made many bets and guesses. Last time they said it was Lian Chun from the neighboring village, but Lianchun also got married this fall. Xiaosan lost A lot of money."

Meng Huaize shook his head and laughed, no wonder Xiaosan was annoyed seeing him at that time, as if he owed him a lot of money.

"So," Caizhi asked him, "Does Doctor Meng have a sweetheart?"

After a brief silence, Meng Huaize nodded: "Yes."

Caizhi let out an "oh", sat back to her original place, and took a slow sip of the wine while holding the wine glass.

Meng Huaize looked at her: "I thought you would keep asking."

Caizhi shook her head: "After so many years, it has not been done. There must be something hidden in it. No one in the village knows who she is. It means that Dr. Meng doesn't want people to know. If this is the case, what am I asking?"

"But," she paused, "if it doesn't work, can't you change it?"

Meng Huaize shook his head with a smile, and sighed in a low voice: "I can't."

After talking, the two stopped, and each held a wine glass to look at the mountains and snow in the distance.

Someone passed by, greeted them both, and asked, "Is Caizhi here too?"

Cai Zhi waved his hand at him, and said bluntly but familiarly: "Go to your business!"

When the man left, Cai Zhi wiped off the snow on the bottom of her clothes, put down her wine glass and stood up, said with a smile: "Let's go, if I sit for too long, I will be misunderstood. I have children, so it's not good."

She took a step, then stopped and turned around: "Doctor Meng, I will drink with you later, but it will not be this wine."

Meng Huaize smiled and raised his glass to her.

When I was a teenager, I spent all my thoughts in a drink. After the drink was gone, everyone left and went their own way.

After Caizhi left, Meng Huaize sat on the threshold and drank the rest of the wine by himself.

The wine was not strong, but he drank a lot, and when he stood up again, he was a little dizzy, so he went back to the room and slept for a while.He didn't want to sleep for too long, but when he woke up, the sky was already a little dark.

The sky in winter was already dark early, and it was snowing again, with a gloomy white overhead, but the villages not far away had a different color.Before it was really dark, the red lanterns in front of each house were already lit up, and all the lamps that were reluctant to light up before were also lit up. Burning incense, worshiping Buddha, cooking, and playing around the fire, there was no one in each house or hospital. It stopped, Meng Huaize could vaguely feel the hustle and bustle from such a distance.

Meng Huaize slept through most of the day, and didn't even have time to hang up the couplet lantern.Although he was the only one, but after all, it was Chinese New Year, and it was a bit outrageous not to post couplets.The Spring Festival couplets were prepared a long time ago. Meng Huaize pasted up several houses in the courtyard, and finally left the largest pair, which was pasted on the gate outside the courtyard.

The top of the gate was high, Meng Huaize moved a wooden stool, and stood on it to paste the banners.After posting it, he didn't come down immediately, but stood on the stool and stared at the couplet post for a while.

The laughter and laughter of people in the distance poured into his ears continuously, and he finally couldn't help sighing, just about to get off the stool, when he lowered his head, he faced a pair of burning golden eyes.

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