Chapter 389: Reborn in the 90s: The Tyrant Flower Chapter 390 — Ceng Xiazi

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

However, the tied-up Old Man was not honest.

Until Song Qiushui gave her a big slap, she did not stop struggling.

The Old Man seemed to also sense she was being helped; the struggling lessened somewhat, but she still made anxious yiya sounds.

The ditch bottom was soft and muddy; every step sank deep, and carrying a person was even more strenuous.

"Aiyo... Auntie Grandma... you old... look thin... how... how are you so heavy..." Song Qiushui was exhausted, grimacing and panting.

Chai Mi was also sweating on her forehead: "Less fucking nonsense... you hold steady, don't fucking fall into the big ditch again, or I won't be able to handle the consequences."

The two expended the strength of nine oxen and two tigers before finally carrying the Old Man up from the ditch bottom, then laboriously carried her back to Ceng Xiazi's small courtyard.

Ceng Xiazi had been leaning on a stick standing at the courtyard gate, waiting for Song Qiushui and Chai Mi to return.

"Old Codger! Receive the bride! Your wife... returned intact! Just... not too intact... my Auntie Grandma's leg is broken."

"Ai! This worry-free worthless wretch! Causing trouble for me again! Leg... leg broken again?"

"Mm, looks like it." Chai Mi was also quite tired, wiped her sweat, "Need to hurry and invite a doctor to set the bone."

Ceng Xiazi sighed, fished out a small cloth bundle from his bosom, inside were a few coins and some cent coupons: "Trouble you... run a trip... invite the bone-setter Wang from the village west side... money... just this much..."

Chai Mi didn't take his money: "You keep the money for now. Qiu Shui, your legs are fast, hurry and run a trip to Bone-setter Wang's house, just say Auntie Grandma fell and broke her leg, ask him to come quickly no matter what! I'll pay him later."

Song Qiushui went directly.

This old couple, one blind, one blind and deaf and mute, relying on each other to live to this age, truly difficult.

But this world is just like this; many people, especially those with physical defects. When it comes to marriage, it is very hard for them to find physically normal people.

For example, Ceng Xiazi is blind, so the village's young unmarried women definitely cannot marry a blind man.

The wife Ceng Xiazi married, most are also people sharing the same plight.

This way, they won't despise each other.

Anyway both have physical defects, everyone will get along peacefully.

Conversely if not like this, it's not easy to handle.

This era isn't the later generations; marrying a wife emphasizes "matching family status," completely not as open as later generations.

Later generations, possibly an eighteen-year-old girl marries an eighty-year-old old man.

Or a twenty-year-old young man marries a fifty-year-old menopausal her...

Those situations, in this era, are still very hard to realize.

"Jiu Gu Ye. Person I found for you, look... my building side room selecting date matter?" Chai Mi hesitated to speak.

Only then did Ceng Xiazi seem to recall this matter, patted his old partner's hand, signaling her peace of mind.

Although the old partner still wailed miserably, Ceng Xiazi also couldn't care that much.

At least Chai Mi and Song Qiushui brought the person back alive; without these two helping, the old partner would have either starved to death or frozen to death.

Being alive is enough.

Ceng Xiazi also didn't consider that much.

"I'll calculate for you now."

Then Ceng Xiazi began pinching fingers to divine...

After a good while, Ceng Xiazi said: "October 16th, Bing Chen day, suitable for breaking ground, raising beams, construction. Heavenly Virtue combines, Monthly Virtue combines, Three Harmonies auspicious spirits arrive, clash evil not violated. Starting work this day, foundation stable, dwelling peaceful, further benefits literary prosperity, prospers your family's Xiao Xiu'er's literary luck! This day, nothing better!"

"October 16th?" Chai Mi calculated in her heart, from now only four or five days, "In time! Thank you Jiu Gu Ye!"

Song Qiushui also returned at this moment, also crowded over: "Old Codger, accurate or not? Don't delay someone building a house."

Ceng Xiazi scolded in bad temper: "You less pull idle talk. Has Bone-setter Wang come?"

"Come come!" Song Qiushui pointed outside courtyard: "Doctor Wang came!"

Doctor Wang is actually a barefoot doctor.

Looks crooked-mouthed slant-eyed, one look is a "proper" doctor.

"Broken?" Doctor Wang went over to look, felt the bones, then took out a few boxes of Anaini for Ceng Xiazi: "No matter, not comminuted, just simple break. Rest, few days fine. One yuan..."

Song Qiushui stared dumbfounded: Fuck! Bone fracture treatment this perfunctory?

Even if a pig leg broke, wouldn't be this perfunctory!

This is a person after all.

Just look this simply, then leave a box of Anaini?

This Song Qiushui herself knows how too.....

"Ai, you fucking know how to treat illness or not, bone broken, you just prescribe two boxes of Anaini?"

Doctor Wang anxious: "Then how handle? This old age, you say how handle? Hospital hospital won't accept, can only rest..."

Ceng Xiazi also persuaded Song Qiushui: "Ai, doctor not wrong. Can doctor be wrong? My arm broken several times, all Doctor Wang treated."

Doctor Wang nodded, then symbolically gave old lady's leg, pulled hard straight, then took rope tied a wooden stick, counted as done: "Rest. I'm leaving... give money. Two yuan..."

Ceng Xiazi had Song Qiushui give two yuan.

Chai Mi at side: "Eh... fracture two yuan cured... hiss... truly divine doctor!"

But Chai Mi herself also understood.

People old, really no way to do surgery. Surgery risk, much bigger than resting like this.

This really isn't money problem, this old, broken can only rest, tossing might be even worse.

Song Qiushui curled her lips and muttered in a low voice, "This Doctor Wang is too perfunctory—two yuan for two pieces of painkiller, and the leg will be fine? My aunt's suffering..."

Chai Mi tugged at her, signaling her to say less.

She turned to Ceng Xiazi with a sincere tone: "Uncle, your aunt's leg probably needs proper rest for a while. Your own eyes are not good, so taking care of her won't be easy. I'll have Qiushui make a few more trips to bring you firewood and grain. If there's anything you need help with, just speak up."

The matter was settled like that, and Chai Mi and Song Qiushui prepared to leave.

But they were stopped by Ceng Xiazi.

"Girl, your family... are you planning to build a side room on the east side of your courtyard, next to where the sheep pen used to be?"

"Yes!" Chai Mi's heart sank. She indeed planned to build the side room on the empty ground right next to the sheep pen to the east. She had only mentioned this at home, hadn't even told Song Qiushui the exact location yet. "On the east side, where the sheep used to be tethered."

"That's it!" Ceng Xiazi nodded heavily, his tone grave. "That place—you must not disturb it casually now! Especially when digging the foundation!"

"Why? Is there... something to it?" Chai Mi pressed.

Ceng Xiazi gripped the copper coins in his hand: "Just now the divination showed 'Earth Dragon coiled, do not stir the hidden abyss'! Girl, beneath your family's sheep pen, or right next to where you want to dig, there's a nest of 'Earth Dragons' hidden!"

"Snakes?"

"Uncle, then... what should we do?" Chai Mi asked. "This side room must be built—Xiu'er needs a quiet place to study. Is there a way to resolve it?"

"A way... there definitely is." Ceng Xiazi finally spoke.

"Tell me! I'll definitely do it!" Chai Mi said firmly.

Afterwards Ceng Xiazi said in a low voice: "You should do it like this, like this, like this..."