0p0 Chapter 109 The Busy Song Family
Chapter 109 The Busy Song Family
Old Lady Song took Song Rending to the back mountain to cut bamboo. Everything went smoothly along the way, but there were no major surprises.
But it’s not entirely without gain.
For example, Old Lady Song and Song Rending discovered a lot of useful herbs in the back mountain.
Like mint.
Everyone in this village knows how to make peppermint ointment. It is very effective in preventing mosquitoes and cooling down in the summer.
Since the beginning of summer this year, the weather has been exceptionally hot, so the wild mint in the fields in the village had long been picked, and the wild mint in the mountains should have been almost picked as well. However, Song Rending took Old Lady Song to wander around in the mountains and found a lot of it, which was exceptionally fresh.
It’s not a good idea to take these back and mix them with other things, so you can make a lot of mint ointment!
If the weather is too hot and you feel dizzy when escaping a disaster, apply this mint ointment on the acupuncture points on your body. The cool feeling can refresh you and relieve you from the heat.
As for other commonly used medicinal materials, they are even more important.
When escaping from a disaster, it is inevitable to suffer from various diseases and disasters, so medicinal materials are naturally the most precious.
Old Mrs. Song had bought the necessary pills and medicinal herbs for her home before, but at a time like this, who would complain about having too many herbs?
After returning home with a full load of picked items from the mountain, Old Lady Song called people to go to the back mountain to cut the thick bamboos she had carefully selected and transported them back home.
When they were returning home, someone saw them carrying bamboo and asked what they were going to do with it. Old Mrs. Song told them they were going to be renovating the house.
Everyone believed this statement. After all, everyone knew that Mrs. Song’s three daughters had all returned home to live. Wouldn’t the family have to renovate the house to make it large enough for them to live in?
There was some discussion in the village about the fact that the three daughters of the Song family who had become nuns had all returned home, but no one dared to discuss it in front of Old Lady Song.
There's nothing we can do about it. Who can help me since I have a son who is a juren?
The reason why Old Lady Song was answering questions perfunctorily was not because she did not want to share with them the news that the three years might be coming, but because if words were spoken without substantial evidence, the consequences would always be unpredictable.
Now, Song Sanfu has gone to see the village chief. After they return from their trip to Shierlipu Village, they will definitely make a corresponding decision.
Therefore, there is no need for her to waste her time talking here.
After transporting these bamboos back to the Song family, everyone in the Song family became even busier.
Maybe some children don’t quite understand, but when they see the adults busy, they will always come forward to help and join in.
Among them is Lang Twelve, the savior of Aunt Song Sumei, who has been recuperating from his injuries during this period.
He was a quiet person, and after waking up, apart from saying thank you, he could hardly say a few words a day.
If it weren't for 886, Song Rending would always remember that he was the villain in the book "The Real Daughter Disguised as a Man to Take the Imperial Examination", and would occasionally cast her eyes on him as he was recuperating from his injuries. Just relying on his quiet and taciturn personality, Song Rending could forget about him eight hundred times a day.
Unlike Song Sumei and Song Jiaoke who were exhausted due to hunger, Lang Twelve had more external injuries on his body. These injuries were obviously caused by the bumps and bruises when he was helping Song Sumei and her daughter escape, so it would take more time to recover than Song Sumei and her daughter.
Due to his miserable life experience and identity as a savior, everyone in the Song family cared about him very much, so his injuries that took time to heal healed faster.
During these days, he accepted the care of the Song family and also silently observed everyone in the Song family.
Song Sumei and her daughter were his saviors. He also knew that Song Sumei was a good person and that everyone in the Song family was kind-hearted.
However, having experienced the pain of being hurt by his loved ones, Lang Twelve would always involuntarily be wary in unfamiliar environments. Only when he had seen and observed it with his own eyes would he feel at ease.
During these days of observation, he truly felt the warmth that he had never felt before in the Lang Mansion, the kind of extremely real concern that he had not experienced since his aunt died.
This made him involuntarily want to integrate into this family.
As Lang Twelve, he passed the imperial examination and achieved fame, but his family gave it to his newly returned elder sister as a joke. His elder brother even wanted to kill him and silence him in order to prevent him from interfering.
When he escaped from the knife, Lang Twelve of Lang Mansion in Kyoto no longer existed in this world.
He touched the bandaged wound on his arm and thought to himself:
Why not give it a try? If you can really stay here, then say goodbye to the past completely. If not, then embark on the next journey and move towards the destiny that should belong to you.
Just like that, Lang Twelve walked out of the room where he was recuperating, and seeing Song Liwu and Song Lihu, who had been living in the same room with him for the past few days, moving things, he ran up to them and helped them.
He is trying, but others are not willing to accept his help.
When Song Liwu and Song Lihu saw him, they felt that the things in their hands were a little lighter, and they were indeed concerned about him with smiles on their faces:
"Twelve, you got out of bed and went out today!"
"Twelve, are you healed yet? You should rest for a while!"
The two did not refuse Lang Twelve's help, they were just concerned about whether Lang Twelve could do it and whether he needed to rest.
After receiving Lang Twelve's answer that he had no problem, the two men no longer expressed any refusal.
Naturally, the other people in the family also saw what was happening here, but no one suggested that Lang Twelve stop doing it.
Because based on what they learned from Song Sumei and what they knew from Song Rending's inner thoughts, everyone had already identified Lang Twelve as an orphan.
Not to mention that his situation is no different from that of an orphan.
He had the intention of saving Song Sumei and her daughter. The old couple of the Song family had already said that after Ben Lang Twelve's injury healed, it would be up to him whether to leave or stay.
Song Rending was sitting under the eaves with her sisters sorting herbs and drying them in the sun. When she saw what was happening over there with Lang Twelve, she didn't complain about anything.
Song Rending didn't feel bad at all about having a villain like Duolang Twelve in his family.
Because Lang Twelve is really a very capable person. Having him in the family is a good thing to a certain extent. If they encounter disasters and have to flee, if he really chooses to stay, they can escape to Fanxi Academy and register him as a household in the Song family again.
After all, it was a disaster year and many people were displaced, so it was normal for one or two of them to lack household registration information.
The mountains are high and the waters are far away, and some places have even disappeared without a trace, so no one would go to investigate.
As for the fact that he is a villain, that is even a small matter.
With a new identity, he can take the imperial examination again, pass the citizen examination again, and use serious means to deal with the Lang family. Then he will no longer be a villain, but a loyal minister of the court, eliminating harm for the people.
After all, how could a family that is capable of using its daughter to replace its son's fame and having its legitimate son sell out its illegitimate son be a good family with a clean record?