Servant of the Otherworldly Pharmacopoeia

It was only two months since I went home this time, because I just came back once, and it didn't cause such a big sensation last time.

The winter moon was approaching, and the two dared not hit the horse and run wildly. They wandered slowly all day before arriving at the village before dark.Xu Jiu was also deliberately slow, he didn't want Pang Pang to be seen by so many people.

Villagers go to bed early and wake up late, and most of them lie down after dark, and no one is willing to burn dung to light a lamp, and it is dark as far as the eye can see.When they went back, grandma was about to go to bed, when she heard Xu Jiu call the door, she became flustered.

"Nine, why are you back?"

Xu Jiu hurriedly gave her a comforting smile, and pointed to the child in her arms: "Grandma, keep your voice down, Fatty is asleep."

Grandma was taken aback, and her surprise was overwhelmed: "The child you picked up?"

Pangpang moved in Xu Jiu's arms, but was still sound asleep.Xu Jiu looked at her and nodded to her mother: "Fatty."

Grandma stopped talking, and while combing her hair, she took advantage of the skylight to light the lamp. The sunflower fat lamp was lit, and the flame crackled.This lamp oil is obviously impure, smells strong and sounds loud, but lighting a lamp is still an extremely extravagant behavior in the village, and generally people are reluctant to use it.

Xu Jiu avoided the thick smoke from the flames and sat down tiredly: "Mom, I'm thirsty."

His coquettish words brought the woman who was staring at the child back to her senses, and hurriedly scooped up a large bucket of water from the bucket in the corner of the room.

"Enough is enough, Mom." Xu Jiu is not thirsty, the water bladder in his storage space has a lot of water, but he just doesn't want to drink.He suffered from the cold all the way, even though he was physically strong, he felt that it was too much to bear, and drinking another ladle of cold water was just asking for trouble.

Grandma put away the water he drank, sat next to Xu Jiu, and looked at the child in his arms: "How old is it?"

"..." Xu Jiu replied wittily, "Three years old."

"Three years old, not as big as a cub who is a few months old."

Xu Jiu spread the child on his lap so that his mother could see clearly: "Our family will soon surpass them! Grandma, look at how good he is."

Perhaps Xu Jiu's love was too obvious, and he also dispelled the worry on Grandma's face, patted Xu Jiu's head and said, "Stinky boy, what's the use of being good-looking, how can you live in the future if you are so weak!"

"So I want to earn a lot of money so that my parents and our family will live in the city in the future."

Grandma patted him again: "You ignorant brat!"

Xu Jiu smiled obsequiously.

Pang Pang didn't eat much today. Xu Jiu prepared a big bucket of milk for him, but because he couldn't heat it, he didn't dare to pass it to him, and only let him eat some snacks.The child has a small appetite and drowsiness, and he will pass the day groggy.Xu Jiu put him on the bed, went out of the house and entered the simple stone kitchen beside him. Xu Jiu lit the sunflower dung, and hung the fat little milk bottle—the tin can presented by the housekeeper on the stand to bake.

Grandma blew out the lamp and came to sit with him: "Jiu, why did you come back suddenly?"

"The butler gave me a holiday." Xu Jiu didn't want to say more, "Don't worry, Mom, your son didn't cause trouble."

"That's good." Grandma was relieved. Ever since she went to see Jiu Hou last time, she was surrounded by the villagers for half a month. They all envied her for raising a good son and becoming a servant. With a mount, you can live in a big castle.

Outsiders are envious, but my mother has always been worried. He hopes that his son will live a safe and stable life. They are just poor wilderness people who have not seen much in the world. He, what should Nine do.

"Don't worry, Mom." Xu Jiu touched the woman's big rough hand, "I'm doing well."

The woman pulled him and asked, "Will you leave when you come back?"

Xu Jiu nodded: "Although I'm not going to the manor now, I'm still delivering eggs to the adults. I have to go back once every ten days. I spend the rest of the time with my mother."

The woman was very happy and grinned: "Okay, okay. Your father and the men in the village are going to save the winter. After hunting this time, we will stay in the house and wait for the heavy snow."

Xu Jiu nodded. To be honest, he had only seen that father so far, so he really didn't know what to say.

The tin can on the stand started to bubble, Xu Jiu carefully took it off, wiped his hands and ran into the house.After a while, he came out with a child in his arms. The child was still sleeping, wrapped in a soft and tight blanket, as round as a ball.

Grandma looked at her son, then at the child, and touched the little clothes: "This cloth is softer than the cloth in the city."

"Child, it's tender, of course you need to use it better. Besides, I didn't buy his clothes." Xu Jiu took out a small bowl and spoon as if by magic, and poured the tin can of milk into the bowl, Stir slowly.

He did it seriously, and grandma said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to take care of children, grandma is old."

"Grandma, don't say that," Xu Jiu said hastily, "Grandma is very young, and you are the only youth in the village!"

The woman was amused and laughed.

Xu Jiu pinched the child's nose, Fatty shook his head like a little pig, but he still didn't wake up.Xu Jiu pinched again, after a few times, the child opened his eyes, and saw Xu Jiu's expression, whether he was going to cry or not.

"Fatty, get up and drink milk."

When the child heard this, he was not interested. He yawned and wanted to continue sleeping.

"Baby fat, get up, we're at Grandma's house!"

Grandma stretched her head in front of the child in response to the occasion, and the plump eyes that were originally squinted immediately widened, looking at the woman in front of her with a dumbfounded expression.

"Hahaha..." Xu Jiu suddenly felt funny, helped the child sit up, picked up the bowl, "Drink milk first."

The child drank obediently, and took a sip to look at the woman.

"It looks really fair, does he drink milk every day?"

Xu Jiu nodded: "Children drink more milk and grow taller."

Grandma shook her head: "Milk is so expensive, our children grow up eating meat."

Xu Jiu knows that people in this world are very strong from birth. Babies can eat meat in addition to milk, and they can roll all over the mountains and plains before they are one year old.

"Grandmother, the housekeeper of the manor likes us fat and fat. He gave the milk and the clothes to Fatty. It didn't cost me much to raise fat."

"That's not the way to say it. How can we keep using what others give us to raise our children." Grandma observed the child carefully, reaching into her clothes and pinching his arms and legs. "I'm three years old, how can I feel so small."

Pangpang tried his best to avoid the stranger's touch, but he couldn't dodge it. He stopped drinking the milk, and hugged Xu Jiu's neck and rubbed hard.

"Grandma, Chubby is a bit shy." Xu Jiu held the woman's hand in his hand and dangled the child with one arm, "He doesn't know you yet."

Grandma was surprised: "Why is this less courageous than a girl."

Chubby deflated mouth.

Seeing that he had only drank half a can of milk, Xu Jiu was a little helpless: "Mom, you can just play with him for a while tomorrow, he is so cute."

The child suddenly said in a muffled voice: "Go home."

"Huh?" Xu Jiu turned the child's head to face him, and put his head against his head, "Fatty, we agreed at home."

Fatty was kissed by him a few times, most of the restlessness after waking up disappeared, his head swayed from side to side, looking at this strange place, and then at the woman over there: "Ah?"

Although it was a slurred question, Xu Jiu still heard it clearly, kissed the child, and nodded: "Is that so, brother's aunt."

Fatty looked at the woman for a while, and after the woman smiled at him, he quickly buried his head in Xu Jiu's neck: "A-ma-ok."

Ah, it's on the opposite side, little fat fat!Xu Jiu didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Grandma, our Fatty is greeting you!"

The woman also found it funny: "This little doll is really cute."

Xu Jiu bit his ear at Pang Pang: "Ah, you're praising Pang Pang, did you hear me?"

The child was motionless.

A piece of cow dung was gradually burned, and Grandma shoveled the ashes that still had sparks into the house, and approached Xu Jiu's stone bed: "While it's still light, hurry up and pack up and lie down."

Xu Jiu nodded, put Pang Pang, who looked like brown sugar, on his knees, and brushed his teeth and Pang Pang's teeth with a small homemade brush dipped in salt powder.

"Poor and exquisite!" Grandma looked at the little brush and was surprised, but she had seen the world once in the city. There were all kinds of tricks in the city, such as things for bathing, washing teeth and washing face. There were many beautiful ladies there. to buy.

One big and one small raised their heads and looked at her with bared teeth.

Grandma looked at the pair and sighed.She sleeps on this side of the house. People in the wilderness are not so particular. A house that can shelter from the wind and rain is enough. The whole family lives in the same room, but the stone beds of the parents and the older children are kept. Just together.

Xu Jiu hugged Pangpang and lay down, but there was no woman's snoring in the room.

"Mom?"

"Ah."

"Grandma, do you remember the tanning method I taught you last time?"

Grandma said roughly: "Of course I remember, your grandma is not stupid."

"Yes, Grandma is the best." Xu Jiu boasted sincerely, "Grandma, you didn't tell anyone about this, did you?"

"No, the elder won't let me say it."

Xu Jiu was silent. Although the village is not big, it also has complex interpersonal relationships. Especially for what he is going to do, it is better to be cautious when it involves interests.Xu Jiu was thinking about miscellaneous things silently. Seeing that he was silent, the woman thought he was asleep, and gradually fell asleep too.

Inside the room was the sound of three people breathing.

……

After driving all day yesterday and spending most of the night thinking about it, Xu Jiu still woke up very early the next day.

He greeted the woman, kissed the sleeping chubby, put on a water resource detector and went out at dawn.Although it was quiet in the morning, many people had already woken up and were busy with their own work.Seeing Xu Jiu was startled, Xu Jiu greeted them, lied about exercising, and continued jogging around the village.

The village was indeed barren, and the water resource detector hadn’t responded. The mirror surface was completely dark, and occasionally only a small blue dot the size of a needlepoint flashed away, indicating that the only bit of water was hundreds of meters underground.

Unconvinced, Xu Jiu ran all over the village, and gradually became discouraged. He realized that he had underestimated the people in the wilderness. Even if they lived in poverty, the natural intuition for water cannot be ignored. The village is indeed a barren place.

It was already dawn, Xu Jiu wiped his face and ran home panting.

The sunflower beasts raised at home were taken away by the third-class housekeeper a few days ago, otherwise they would freeze to death during the three-month winter.Raising sunflowers is the only income for most of the villagers, but few people dare to try raising sunflowers in winter, so they had to give up the money, hoping that Dongyue would pass by soon.

When Xu Jiu went back, grandma was packing the package he brought back. She took out a large piece of fresh meat and asked, "Where did this meat come from?"

It was the ribs of an unknown beast in space. Although it was only ribs, it still weighed over a hundred kilograms.

"It's the big bird that honors your flesh." Xu Jiu joked.

Grandma had a good impression of the famous beast, and happily fiddled with the meat in her hand: "Oh, that's great."

Xu Jiu laid out the miscellaneous things in another package: "This...these are for you, Grandma." They were some daily necessities, and a whole piece of cloth.Xu Jiu opened a small box: "I see that many people in the city wear it, and it looks good."

In front of him is a silver necklace.

Grandma wiped her hands, looked at but didn't answer: "How much does this cost, what a waste of money!"

This silver chain cost Xu Jiu two silver coins, which was the monthly salary paid to him by the housekeeper before he left.Thinking of the butler, Xu Jiu's mouth tensed up, and he smiled and said, "It's not expensive, grandma looks good with it!"

The woman's eyes were a little red: "The elder's family only has one ring, how can I wear a necklace!"

Xu Jiu saw that although the woman was distressed, she was really happy. She had never worn any jewelry in her life. Some women who loved jewelry only strung them with stones or iron bars to form a circle, and some directly wore leather ropes. No one in the village has ever brought anything of value to Ah Mo's ring.

Xu Jiu picked up the thing and put it on the woman's neck, looked left and right, and said with satisfaction, "Grandma is so pretty!"

The woman wiped her eyes, feeling a little embarrassed by the carefree person, and punched her son a few times.

Xu Jiu saw the bed move from the corner of his eye, turned his head to meet the fat black eyes, and strode to the bedside to pick him up: "Say, darling, isn't it good?"

Fatty nodded without understanding the situation.

Xu Jiu invited the credit and said, "Look, Mom, our chubby family says it looks good!"

Grandma made a gesture to hit him.

Xu Jiu rushed out of the house with Pangpang in his arms: "I'll give our Pangpang hot milk to drink."

"You prodigal son." The woman touched the necklace, happy and angry, carefully took it off, squatted down and continued to pack things.

Xu Jiu watched her secretly while wiping Pangpang's hands and face, the sunflower dung burning enthusiastically.

"Mom, I'll go to the wasteland after dinner."

"What are you doing in the wilderness?"

Xu Jiu didn't say that he wanted to find water, but fooled him: "Just go and have a look, anyway, the rider is a sanda beast."

"Aren't you going to your uncle's house first when you come back?"

"Go back from the wasteland!" Xu Jiu kissed the fat little fat claw, "Auntie, cut a piece of meat for Abo's house, tear some cloth for him, and save half of the snacks in the food box."

Grandma's voice came from inside the house: "You still need to say it. Go play and don't worry about it."

Xu Jiu responded, and poured the boiled milk into a bowl to feed Pangpang: "Grandma, I'll go out later."

"go Go."

Xu Jiu came to the side of the stone stable with the child in his arms, and fed the sanda beast a large piece of meat. After it finished eating, he turned over and sat on it with Pangpang, and began to walk out of the village.