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Jiang Ci advised: "It's not advisable to take a bath before your body recovers."

Yan Shu hugged the quilt and turned weakly to the side. The two looked at each other face to face.

"It's really uncomfortable. Why don't you go wash up in the space?"

Seeing Jiang Ci staring at him without speaking, with a clear rejection in his eyes, Yan Shu reached out and grabbed his sleeve and shook it.

Facing her pleading eyes, unable to say no, Jiang Ci sighed helplessly.

"Second uncle and second aunt are not asleep yet. They should be here soon. Don't go to the space tonight. I'll bring you a basin of hot water. How about you wipe it off?"

Seeing that he couldn't take a hot bath, Yan Shu could only settle for the next best thing and nodded.

Jiang Ci got up and got out of bed, tucked her into bed again, and then left the room.

Next door, Liu Wenniang and Yan Ersheng were awake all the time, and Yan Ersheng sat in the room and kept watch. It was not to guard against Jiang Ci, but mainly because the daughter was sick and an outsider was staying at the bedside, and they, as parents, couldn't sleep.

"Erlang is out. Maybe my daughter is awake. I'll go over and take a look."

Liu Wenniang immediately put down her sewing: "I'll go and take a look too. Erlang has been watching for a few hours. Let him go back to rest later. I'll go to accompany our daughter in the middle of the night."

"Alright."

The couple put on their clothes and went out together. When they came to the kitchen, they saw Jiang Ci boiling water.

"Erlang, but Shu'er is awake?"

Jiang Ci turned around and looked at the couple.

"I just woke up and the fever has gone down."

After a while, Jiang Ci came back with a basin of hot water, and Yan Ersheng and Liu Wenniang followed him into the house.

Yan Shu saw the three people coming in together and forced himself to sit up.

"Dad, Mom, are you still awake?"

Liu Wenniang walked to the bed and sat down with a bowl of brown sugar ginger water in her hand.

"We're really worried about you having a high fever."

"It's just an ordinary wind and cold that won't bother you. Don't worry, just go back to sleep."

Liu Wenniang handed her the brown sugar water: "How can you not be worried? You have never been sick during our escape, and now you suddenly fell ill. No one in this mountain has better medical skills than you. If your illness worsens, you don't know where to look. Who will treat you?"

Yan Shu reached out to take the bowl. He was sweating all over and now felt thirsty, so he drank up the bowl of brown sugar water while it was hot.

Passing the empty bowl to Liu Wenniang, Yan Shu smiled and said, "I'm much better now. I really don't need anyone to stay by my bed all night. The Chinese New Year will be here in a few days. Our family still has a lot of work to do these days. You all go back." have a rest."

Seeing that Yan Shu was in much better spirits, Yan Ersheng and Liu Wenniang left with peace of mind. Yan Shu also took advantage of the situation and drove Jiang Ci back to sleep.

After the three of them left, she simply wiped herself, changed into a pair of clean underwear, then lay down and continued to sleep.

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As the saying goes, illness comes like a mountain falling, and illness goes away like threads. It took three whole days for the cold to gradually get better.

She originally agreed to help Qi Tianlei see a doctor the next day, but because Yan Shu suddenly fell ill, she asked Yan Wu to go to Qi's house to say hello and said she would go there a few days later.

As a result, Mrs. Qi brought Qi Tianyi to visit her home that night, and they both came with a lot of things in their hands.

Old Mrs. Qi was carrying a basket made of bamboo strips in her hand, which contained a piece of pork weighing four to five kilograms, more than thirty eggs, some dry goods for the New Year, candies, snacks, etc. The large basket was filled to the brim. .

Qi Tianyi was carrying two old hens and two pieces of fine cotton cloth in his hands.

The total cost of these things is at least four or five taels of silver. Given the current conditions of the Qi family, buying so many things would probably empty out all the money in the family.

The Yan family knew about the situation of the Qi family, so they were naturally unwilling to accept such an expensive gift. However, Mrs. Qi refused to take the things back no matter what she said. After some rejection, Mrs. Qi simply pulled her away. Qi Tianyi picked up his sleeves and left in a hurry.

Liu Wenniang was a little confused.

"It must have cost a lot of money to send so many things to the Qi family this time. We can't accept anything."

Yan Shu had the same idea as Liu Wenniang. Qi Tianyi and Qi Tianyuan went down the mountain to buy these things yesterday. They thought they were new year's goods, but they didn't expect them to be gifts for her.

After thinking for a while, Yan Shu said: "Since Aunt Qi and Brother Qi refuse to accept it, it would be really ugly if we send these things back. Why don't we also prepare a New Year's return gift?"

Liu Wenniang thought about it and this was indeed the truth.

"This is a good idea, but what should we give away?"

"Don't worry, I'll think about it again."

There are still a few days until the Chinese New Year, so I will put aside the matter of sending gifts to the Qi family for now.

The furniture delivery person arrived in the afternoon, and a set of clothes boxes and a set of dowry items were added to Yan Shu's house. Finally, the empty room had two pieces of decent furniture.

It's New Year's Eve in a blink of an eye, and the villagers of Banpo Village celebrate the New Year in a foreign land for the first time. After several days of repairs, these dilapidated houses have become like a home.

Today is the day for every household to post couplets. Jiang Ci wrote several couplets and the Chinese character "福" early in the morning, while Yan Shu used scissors to cut some window grilles.

When she was in college, she joined a traditional culture club at school, including paper-cutting.

After a busy morning, Yan Shu cut many beautiful window cuts, such as "A Hundred Flowers Blooming", "Fuwa's Birthday", "White Butterfly Loves Flowers", "Fish Flowing on Lotus", etc. The lifelike paper-cuts came to life under Yan Shu's hands. Presented.

Liu Wenniang couldn't put it down and took it in her hand and looked at it again and again.

Aunt Mei came to the house and rushed to the door. When she saw Yan Shu's paper-cutting, she praised it repeatedly and begged Yan Shu to teach on the spot.

Yan Ersheng and the three brothers of the Yan family pasted the couplets and the characters "Fu" written by Jiang Ci on several house doors and gates, pasted the window grilles cut by Yan Shu on the newly replaced window paper, and hung them on a peach tree in the yard. With a few small red lanterns, the whole yard gradually took on a New Year atmosphere.

Many nearby neighbors saw the couplets at Yan Ersheng's house and came to ask Jiang Ci for help in writing one.

Jiang Ci was in a good mood today and spent the entire morning helping the villagers write couplets.

Post couplets and blessing characters in the morning, and eat hot dumplings at noon.

In the afternoon, we started to fry meatballs, fried brown sugar glutinous rice cakes, fried spring rolls, etc. We also steamed glutinous rice and red date rice cakes, bean paste buns, big meat buns, and pickled pork with pickled vegetables.

The family was busy until the evening, and finally prepared all the delicacies for the New Year.

After letting it cool down, Yan Shu wrapped one portion each in butter paper and put it in the bamboo basket given to the Qi family as a gift. He also put a bag of peanuts, a bag of red dates, a bag of fried melon seeds and dried melon seeds from the space. raisins.

Although they are small things, they are not cheap in this era of scarcity.

After preparing these, she fished out a few fat and big seabass from the space, twenty pickled duck eggs, and a jar of her own pickled chili sauce and pickles.

These things add up to a basket full.

After getting ready to return the gift, Yan Shu called Liu Wenniang: "Mother, let's go to Qijia."