Selena had calmed down for a while, now felt her heart pounding again. Women are naturally timid. She still stoped the sense to not run away, which was considered extremely courageous. After stopping for a moment, she saw no one there again. Shee heard the sound, and he could neither move forward nor stop. After hesitating again and again, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk around the rusty iron, and then slowly move towards the direction of the sound.
As I got closer, I saw that there was a relatively flat stone on the inner wall of the cave, which should have been a resting place for passers-by. At this time, there was a dark shadow lying on the stone, which could only be seen by the dark light in the cave. It looked like he was a person. He seemed to be extremely cold. His whole body was curled up in pain. Even if someone came in, he would remain motionless in that position. If he hadn't heard this person coughing just now, she might have thought that dead man was lying on top.
Selena took a careful look and determined that the person was Lucio, because she remembered the clothes clearly. He was wearing this when he was carrying stones in Beerspa City. Selena's anxious heart finally settled down a little, and she couldn't help but take two steps forward, wanting to ask him why he came her home sneakily to throw away the gold last night. If he is caught and the matter is revealed, then his family will also suffer this unreasonable disaster.
Thinking of this, she quickly walked to the stone bed and just called out "Hello" when she realized something was wrong, because when she got closer she smelled a stench. This stench was not unfamiliar to her, she had smelled it a long time ago. , it was the smell of wounds that had not healed for a long time, festering and oozing pus. She thought of how it was when her father was carried back from the previous life. His whole body was stinking and the wounds were oozing pus. No matter how carefully she and her mother took care of them, it was just a drag. He left in about ten days.
At this time, she didn't care to hold her nose in disgust, and hurriedly stretched out her hand to cover the man's forehead. The temperature made her hands tremble.
After Maria had cooked dinner in the evening, she saw that her daughter, who had always been shut in the house to take a bath at this time, was in the yard with her hands, brushing a large clump of cattails that her father had just cut from around the pond. How Jose spoiled to her daughter! Selena just said she wanted cattails, Jose took his daughter to the nearby pond to cut a pile and came back. While Maria was cooking, the father were chopping firewood, and Selena was peeling cattails in the yard and was very busy.
What we ate at night was a few beef bones that Jose had brought back from the capital two days ago. She cut them into sections and made a pot of soup. She also put some white flour mixed with cornmeal pancakes on the side and fried a plate of wild vegetables and scrambled eggs.
Before, the family was in a tight situation and couldn't afford much meat, Jose had no choice but to listen to his daughter Selena and spend a few copper coins to buy some cheaper bones to try. Unexpectedly, after drinking the bone soup for more than half a month, the complexion of the family of three became better. They no longer look malnourished, and their body are stronger than before. Even Maria's face looks much better, and she often drinks some wild flower tea made by her daughter. Now she just feels that after recovering from a serious illness, her body is back to before, and she is busy inside and outside, but she doesn't have any illness at all.
So the family drank bone soup every three days. After dinner, Selena took the initiative to clear the table. Jose sat on the floor and knitted some bamboo baskets for home use. Maria kept knitting lace with her hands, and talking to Jose from time to time.
Selena looked at the remaining beef bone soup in the pot, hesitated for a moment, then took out a jar, then scooped three spoonfuls of soup into it, and then carefully put the jar into the backpack she usually carried when going up the mountain. At night, a figure quietly left the house and walked along the path towards the mountains.
Selena looked at the mud on her feet and endured the gurgling sound of stepping in the wet mud. When she finally couldn't help but want to lose her temper, she finally got to the place. Fortunately, the mountain stream not far from the cave. The spring water had just rained, and the water flow was extremely abundant, so her eyes lit up and I hurriedly rinsed the wet mud off my shoes, wrung out the water on the shoes and put them back on my feet.
Then she took a few steps into the cave with the bamboo basket on her back. Although the moonlight was still bright, the light in the cave was still dark. She groped her way to the stone, took off the bamboo basket from her shoulders, and flattened it slightly. Breathing rapidly due to the rush, she rubbed his wet hands against the old clothes, and then walked over. Lucio on the stone slab still maintained the same posture he saw before.
Selena reached out and carefully touched Lucio's forehead. It was still as high as before, as was her father in the previous life. At that time, the doctor said that if the temperature was not lowered and the fever continued, the person might not be able to survive in three days.
Probably because her hands were cold, Lucio actually moved slightly, but he was obviously a little delirious from the fever. He just subconsciously rubbed the comfortable coolness on his forehead, and seemed to make a sound similar to "mom" in his throat, and finally no more movement.
Originally, she was quite resentful along the way, and felt that the move was a bit silly. After hearing those vague words, sh couldn't help sigh slightly. Her impatient heart suddenly softened. She took back her hand on the man's forehead, then opened the bamboo basket on one side, took out an oil can and a wick, then placed it on the bedside and lit it with a flint. Only then did the room become a little light, but the lighting is enough.
If you think about it carefully, this person has a really rough fate. His parents suddenly passed away, and his life suddenly fell from the clouds. From being called a young master to being scolded as a beggar, the gap and pain involved are not something ordinary people can bear.
Now he has to suffer this crime again, hiding in this cave where a bird does not lay eggs, not daring to ask a doctor, not letting anyone know, I can only resign myself to fate and fend for myself here.
Thinking of what she had done in the past two lives, Selena felt really guilty. The key was that she didn't understand at that time that it was better to bully a white-headed man than a poor young man. She took a small jar wrapped in clothout of the bamboo basket. Fortunately, she became the count's lover at that time, otherwise this person might not let her go in the future.
The jar was filled with juice boiled from the cattail roots she dug up last night. In her previous life, her father could not afford the expensive antipyretic medicine antelope horn from the drug store. Later, she followed the advice of other doctors and dug a lot of cattail roots to make soup. , it still has some effect. There are many cattail roots like this beside the pond, so you don't need to spend a penny.
Selena washed the cattail roots and added two drops of magical spring liquid into them while soaking them. In addition to stimulating the aroma of the plants, the spring liquid can also greatly enhance the medical effects of the plants. After absorbing the spring liquid, ordinary medicinal materials would be more efective. She hoped that it would be of some use for him. She carefully poured the medicine in the jar into a bowl, and then carried it to the edge of the stone slab.
In order to prevent the medicine from choking his trachea, she stuffed a piece of dry wood under his neck, pinched his nose, scooped up a spoonful of medicine, and slowly fed it into his mouth along the gap between his teeth. In a short time, eighty percent of the medicine was taken.
Drinking only cattail root water can only temporarily prevent Lucio's body temperature from rising. If the source of the disease is not eradicated, the fever will come back again and again. She knows this very well. In her previous life, her father was quietly carried back with wounds all over his body. Even after drinking a lot of cattail root water, he had recurring fevers, and finally died in pain.
Selena thought of this and immediately moved her eyes up and down Lucio's limbs to see if there was anything strange. Sure enough, she saw a large amount of blood on the right leg. The color was dark red. Because the pants were originally dark, you couldn't see it unless you looked closely. Strange. Selena was a little embarrassed. If it was an arm or foot, she could use cattails to apply it to stop the bleeding, but Lucio's wound was at the base of his right thigh.
Selena suddenly felt that there was something wrong with her brain. Coupled with the coldness of the cave in the middle of the night, she once again felt that she should stay up on her bed at home not stay here. Fortunately, this man is still alive. If he were dead, it would really scare people to death.
Selena stood next to the stone slab and reached out to tear open the blood-stained cloth. However, the cloth didn't need to be torn off at all. It had already been broken into pieces and stuck to the wound with the blood. Selena was sweating profusely before wetting the cloth around the wound and cleaning it. Without wiping away the sweat, Selena took the oil lamp beside the stone bed and took a closer look. Even though she was mentally prepared, she couldn't help but be shocked.