Traveling through the 1970s: The young wife loves to make trouble

Chapter 62 How to Eat Snakes
Tao Qiuyi suddenly felt a little embarrassed. She had no intention of exposing the child's scars, so she had to change the subject. "Your grandma is sick. Why don't you ask the village doctor to come to your house to treat her?"

"We don't deserve to see a village doctor." The boy replied in a muffled voice.

Tao Qiuyi was stunned. What he said was that he was not worthy, not that he had no money.

Who is not worthy of seeing a village doctor? Naturally, prisoners in labor camps.

Thinking of the original owner's grandfather whom he had met before, Tao Qiuyi had a rough guess in his mind, but still needed to confirm it.

"What's your name?" Tao Qiuyi asked.

The boy suddenly looked up at Tao Qiuyi. It had been a long time since anyone asked him his name.

Ever since something happened at home and his grandfather, father and mother died tragically, his grandmother and he were sent to this village by a group of people. The children in the village called him the grandson of a labor camp prisoner.

Biting his lip, the boy replied, "Chen Hanying."

"Chen Hanying, Hanying, another name for Xue." Tao Qiuyi remembered that Grandpa Tao said his grandson was named Xiaoying, and she thought it was a girl's name.

The name has an English character in it, so it must be him.

She... actually knew that his name was another name for Xue. Chen Hanying widened his eyes in shock. His grandmother had told him that his name came from a poem.

Last night the weather suddenly changed, and a blanket of overcast sky brought with it the drifting cold flowers.

Using the cover of his pocket, Tao Qiuyi took out a pill from his ring and handed it to Chen Hanying. "Take it. It will keep you healthy when you return home, so your sick grandma won't have to take care of you anymore."

When Chen Hanying heard that the pill could keep her from getting sick when she returned home, she took it and swallowed it without thinking.

He ate it without even asking, and was so trusting. This kid was really carefree. Tao Qiuyi didn't beat around the bush and asked him directly if he could walk back by himself.

Chen Hanying shook her head and silently rolled up her thin trouser legs. "I was bitten by a snake."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Tao Qiuyi looked closely at his thin calf. There were two rows of teeth marks on his calf, but fortunately, the area around the teeth marks was not black. "Snakes are not poisonous."

"I know." This was also the reason why he didn't say it earlier.

Tao Qiuyi took out the ointment, scooped some with his index finger and applied it on Chen Hanying's legs. After spreading it, he pulled down Chen Hanying's trouser legs.

The burning pain disappeared and Chen Hanying blinked in surprise.

"Thank you, thank you, sister." Chen Hanying said thank you twice, and then asked shyly: "Can I know your name, sister?"

"Tao Qiuyi." After putting away the ointment, Tao Qiuyi began to feel conflicted. Chen Hanying was bitten by a snake, and she definitely couldn't go back. The mushrooms in her backpack could be placed in the ring space.

But Chen Hanying was so big that the backpack couldn't fit him.

She didn't mind carrying him back, but she was afraid that the boy would not agree. Tao Qiuyi pondered for a few seconds, and her eyes suddenly fell on the ancient tree she had put down.

There is a way.

"Let's go, I'll drag you back." Tao Qiuyi stood up and patted the dead leaves that might be on his body.

Drag...drag him back, how to drag him back? Chen Hanying suspected that Tao Qiuyi used the wrong words.

"You...you want to drag...me back?" Chen Hanying asked stutteringly.

"Yeah." Tao Qiuyi responded softly. She didn't know what Chen Hanying was thinking. Her attention was on the flower snake at the moment. After thinking about it, she walked over and picked up the flower snake.

Chen Hanying saw her pick up the flower snake and asked in horror: "What...what are you doing with it?"

Looking at the colorful snake, he remembered the pain of being bitten by a snake.

"Didn't you say you wanted to nourish your grandma and grandpa? This is just right." Tao Qiuyi pulled a piece of wild grass to tie up the flower snake, held it in his hand, turned around and saw Chen Hanying's frightened expression.

"What are you afraid of? This snake is not poisonous. You can eat it without worry. Even if it is a poisonous snake, the snake meat is not poisonous. Besides, although snake meat is cold in nature, it is indeed very nutritious. Eating it occasionally is good for your health."

"Snake...how can you eat it?" Chen Hanying obviously didn't believe her. Tao Qiuyi rolled his eyes at him, not wanting to discuss this topic with such an ignorant child. "Can you get up by yourself?"

"Yes." It was impossible for him to walk back to the village by himself, but he could still get up. Chen Hanying didn't have much strength in her body now, one because she was bitten by a snake, and the other because she was hungry.

Watching him get up by himself, Tao Qiuyi did not help him, but walked towards where he had placed the dead tree.

Chen Hanying was bitten by a snake and could not walk properly, so she limped behind Tao Qiuyi.

Waiting for him to get closer, Tao Qiuyi pointed at the dead tree and said to Chen Hanying, "Climb up and hold on to the trunk. I'll drag you back."

There was a buzzing in his head, and Chen Hanying was completely stunned this time.

"What are you standing there for? Climb up quickly!" Seeing him staying where he was, Tao Qiuyi deliberately threatened him, "It's getting late. If you don't go down the mountain now, you must want to spend the night here."

He didn't expect that Chen Hanying was really frightened. Without thinking twice, she climbed up the dead tree trunk and hugged it tightly.

"Remember, hold on to the tree trunk tightly. If you let go, you will fall down." After giving the instructions, Tao Qiuyi grabbed a branch of a tree with one hand and dragged it forward.

Chen Hanying was frightened again.

She...she...is so strong.

These are two trees, not two branches!
Because Tao Qiuyi suddenly increased his speed, Chen Hanying's screams were blown away by the wind and the forest.

Sparks and lightning flew all the way down the mountain. Tao Qiuyi first quietly sent Chen Hanying back to the thatched hut behind the big bamboo forest, and left without saying a word under the shocked and complicated gaze of Grandpa Tao.

"Autumn feeling?"

"Qiu Yi, you...you..."

"Qiu...Qiuyi, are you going to collect...collect firewood?"

All the villagers who saw Tao Qiuyi dragging two dead trees back were so shocked that they couldn't utter a complete sentence.

Tao Qiuyi ignored him and dragged the two dead trees back to the Wei family.

"You...you..." Xiao Huai was still shocked when he saw her dragging two trees back.

"What are you talking about? Speak your mind." Tao Qiuyi dragged the dead tree into the yard, threw it aside, and asked Xiao Huai. "I was not at home. Did anyone disturb your brother's rest?"

Xiao Huai shook his head, then nodded.

"Is it there or not?" He shook his head and nodded, the ambiguity made it impossible for her to judge.

"Yes." Xiao Huai said affirmatively: "Aunt Hehua came to see big brother, but she went back soon."

"What does Aunt Hehua want to do to your eldest brother?" Tao Qiuyi was a little surprised. She asked Xiao Huai if anyone had disturbed Wei Jingyuan, but in fact she only wanted to know if other people in the Wei family had provoked him.

I didn't expect that it would be Aunt Hehua who came to see Wei Jingyuan.

"I don't know." Xiao Huai shook his head.

Tao Qiuyi put the backpack under the eaves, pushed open the door and walked in.

"I'm back." Wei Jingyuan heard her conversation with Xiao Huai in the house.

"Xiao Huai said that Aunt Hehua came to see you." Tao Qiuyi said it directly.

Wei Jingyuan nodded.

Tao Qiuyi asked: "What does she want from you?"

(End of this chapter)