Chapter 12 Kiss potatoes (2)

Li Aijie got up early and washed the pillowcase worriedly.When Qin Shan got up, she served him porridge and said, "The cough is so bad, let's go to the city today to have a look." "It's enough to stop smoking for two days." Qin Shan said with ashes on his face, "I won't watch it." Li Aijie said: "If you don't see how to do it, you can't stand it." "Coughing can't kill people." Qin Shan said, "If someone goes to the city and brings me two catties of pears to eat." Li Aijie thought to himself: "Coughing can't kill a person, but when a person vomits blood, he is close to death." This ominous thought made her tremble when she handed the porridge bowl to Qin Shan. She didn't even dare to look him in the eyes. Looking for words, he said: "It's such a beautiful day today, there is not even a speck of cloud."

Qin Shan let out a "huh" while drinking the porridge. "Old Zhou's pigs don't like to eat these days. Old Zhou's daughter-in-law is worried about finding someone to give the pigs an injection. You said it's autumn, how can the pigs still get sick?" "Pigs are not the same as people, when will they get sick?" Qin Shan pushed the porridge bowl away. "Why did you only drink half a bowl?" Li Aijie said in despair, "I sifted this millet three times, and there wasn't a single husk. It smells so good." "I don't want to eat." Qin Shan coughed again.Qin Shan's cough made Li Aijie tremble like an aftershock.

After breakfast, Li Aijie persuaded him left and right, and Qin Shan agreed to go to the city to see a doctor.They rode in the carriage that Fei Xili's family took to sell vegetables in the city, and the couple sat in the back of the carriage.Because of the rain, water still remained in the potholes on the road, so after the wheels ran over, strings of mud splashed up and hit the trouser legs of Qin Shan and his wife.Li Aijie said: "This autumn, don't be like the year before last, when it rained every day and made you look like a mud monkey when picking up potatoes." Seeing the whip, Fei Xili turned around and said, "Your family is afraid of continuous rain in autumn. Who asked your family to plant such a large piece of potatoes? Your family earns enough money to buy fifty horses, right?"

Qin Shan laughed: "Now there is no horse." Fei Xili let out a "huh ho" and said, "I don't go to your stable to lead the horses. What are you afraid of? Tell the truth." Li Aijie interjected: "Don't tease our Qin Shan, if the money from selling potatoes can buy fifty horses, he would have brought back a big girl to fill the house." Fischer laughed and the horse trotted happily.The carriage was bumping, and the bell under the horse's neck made the crisp sound of silver falling on a porcelain plate. Qin Shan said out of breath: "We don't have the idea of ​​filling in the house and taking concubines, and we are not landlords."

Li Aijie asked: "What if it's really a landlord?" "Then I will only marry you. We like the empress in the palace." Qin Shan spat and said, "When I die someday, you can use the money from selling potatoes to recruit a beautiful young man to marry you, and you will be blessed." The unprovoked joke made her face ashamed, and she almost shed tears. The doctor took a picture of Qin Shan and told him to come back in three days.Three days later, Qin Shan and his wife went to the hospital in the carriage that Fei Xili's family had brought to sell vegetables in the city.The doctor whispered to Li Aijie: "There are three tumors on your lover's lung lobe, one of which is quite large. You should go to Harbin for further examination."

Li Aijie asked nervously in a low voice: "Is he cancer?" The doctor said: "It's just a suspicion, maybe it's a benign tumor. We have limited medical conditions here, so we can't diagnose it. I think it's better to go as soon as possible. He is so young." "He is only thirty-seven years old." Li Aijie said desolately, "This year is his birth year." "The year of birth is always not going well." The doctor said sympathetically. When the couple returned to Li Town, they bought a few catties of pears. Seeing her parents coming back, Fen Ping was very happy, and thought her father had recovered from her illness, so she and Qin Shan robbed pears to eat.Perhaps the coolness of the pear played a very good role in eliminating phlegm and relieving cough. That night, Qin Shan stopped coughing and asked Li Aijie for warmth.The taste in Li Aijie's heart is really more complicated than the smell of seasoning shop.If he agreed to it, he was afraid that it would consume his blood and make his condition worse, but if he didn't agree, he was worried whether there would be such an opportunity in the future.The whole person seemed to be stung by a wasp, and there was no place to be comfortable, so he dealt with it awkwardly, making Qin Shan complain to her: "What's wrong with you tonight?"

The next day Li Aijie woke up early and looked at Qin Shan's pillow with a ray of soft morning light.The pillow was clean without a trace of blood, which made her feel a little relieved.I thought that maybe the doctor's words don't have to be taken to heart, and the doctor can't be foolproof.The couple did whatever they were supposed to do, such as pulling barnyard grass from the potato field, spraying autumn cabbage with pesticides, digging out garlic, weaving it into braids and hanging it on the gable wall.However, the good times didn't last long. Less than a week later, Qin Shan started to cough violently again. This time he saw the coughing up blood himself, and his expression was as numb as a wax figure.