On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, light snow fell.
Today Li Sanniang did not get up even after the fifth watch. Today was a special day. Li Sanniang had already asked for leave from the Imperial Medical Office, so she was not required to be on duty today.
Luzhuer is already ten years old and has stopped sleeping in the same bed as Li Sanniang for a long time.
After all, it was a routine that she had long been accustomed to. Even if Li Sanniang wanted to close her eyes and sleep for a while, she couldn't fall asleep.
In this way, Li Sanniang took advantage of the situation. After she was fully dressed, as soon as she opened the door, there was a wave of cold air rushing into the house from outside the door.
The cold air breathed into the nose, so cold that it made people want to shiver.
It was not bright yet. The first thing Li Sanniang saw was Qiuxiang boxing in the big yard of her new home. The second thing she saw was the layer of white on the ground.
Li Sanniang stood under the corridor and watched for a while. When Qiuxiang finished her boxing, she quickly called to Qiuxiang and said, "I told you to get an indoor practice room for you. You don't have to let the snow fall here. It's cold in the morning. "
Qiuxiang knew that Li Sanniang felt sorry for her. She raised her hand to wipe the sweat beads from her temples, turned her head and smiled flatteringly at Li Sanniang.
After all these years, how come Qiuxiang doesn’t know Li Sanniang’s weakness?
Facing Qiuxiang's smile, how could Li Sanniang have the heart to talk about her again?
"Go and wipe it quickly, don't catch the cold."
"Hey!"
Li Sanniang watched Qiuxiang go to the kitchen, then turned around and went to the next door room Knocking twice on the door, she called softly: "My grandma's eldest baby, baby Pearl, are you awake?
Yes, it's time to go out on the road today. It’s still long.”
Lu Zhuer was a good-tempered person, so Li Sanniang just called her once and she answered.
After the three of them had packed up, and one of them ate a steamed pancake with fried chicken and vegetarian stuffing, Lao Shi also knocked on the door outside.
"Sanniang, it's me, I'm here."
"Hey, here, I left it for you, eat it on the way."
Old Shi doesn't either She declined, took the oil paper bag handed over by the third lady and put it into her arms.
"Auntie, I want to watch Jing'er with Uncle Ten in the carriage."
Li Sanniang has always responded to Lu Zhu'er's words. She did not stop her because of the cold wind outside, but instead The cloak that had been brought out early was put on her body.
Leaving the alley and walking towards the street with a gentle clatter of horse hooves, Li Sanniang slightly raised the curtains and looked at the street scene outside.
The weather with light snow did not stop Chang'an people who got up early from starting their busy day.
There are streams of steaming heat wafting from the entrances of every breakfast shop. The peppery mutton soup cakes are really hot on such a morning.
Li Sanniang could see how delicious the food at this shop was when she saw the queues forming outside the Zhouji Mutton Soup Shop.
While waiting in line at Anhuamen to leave the city, Li Sanniang specially invited Lao Shi to buy some hot sweet pear soup from a roadside tea stall.
"Auntie, let's buy another pot and take it with us. Uncle Fang must also love this sweet soup."
Li Sanniang was very excited when she heard what Lu Zhuer said. It took him two breaths to realize, "Hey, you're right.
Your uncle Fang ate so much bitter medicine soup, didn't he just want to drink this sweet soup?"
Turning her head, Li Sanniang raised her hand to wipe the corners of her eyes, turned around and said to Lao Shi outside: "Old Shi, please go buy another pot, we will take it with us."
These days Chang'an City was bustling with activity. Even if they left the city and were on the official road, the howling cold wind did not stop the caravan from moving forward.
The carriage Li Sanniang and the others were riding in followed the convoy out of the city, and faced a large caravan with dozens of camels carrying goods. Luzhu'er was wearing a cloak and sitting on the shaft of the carriage, looking curiously at the two-humped camel with a thick coat, and the Western Hu man sitting between the two humps of the camel, with a different face, curly hair, and bright colors. The costumes are very interesting.
After passing the caravan waiting to enter the city, Luzhuer approached Lao Shi and whispered to him: "Uncle Shi, they are really smelly, I'm afraid It’s not like I walked on the road without taking a shower.”
As soon as we got to the official road in the outer three cities, the flow of people, carriages and horses suddenly decreased a lot, but there were always three or five carriages passing by Li Sanniang's carriage.
After walking for about an hour, after the snowflakes in the sky turned into big snowflakes, Li Sanniang and the others finally arrived at today's destination.
The carriage stopped at the gate of a farmer's yard. Duoshou, wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat, had been waiting here for a long time. He already had a layer of white on his body.
“Why wait early?
It’s cold today, don’t freeze.”
Duoshou bowed to Li Sanniang before replying with a smile: "Sanniang, it's okay, I didn't wait long."
Qiuxiang handed over a basket, and Duoshou quickly took it: "Again I missed Sanniang’s things. Thank you Sanniang.”
Li Sanniang smiled and said to Duoshou, “Let’s go and see your master.”
Li Sanniang held the basket in her right hand and held Luzhu'er in her left hand. Qiuxiang stood aside and held an oil-paper umbrella for Li Sanniang. Lao Shi followed everyone silently.
Following Duoshou all the way up the mountain, we climbed for more than a quarter of an hour before reaching the halfway point.
We arrived at the place after turning in the southeast direction halfway up the mountain.
"Sanniang, please talk to Master Li, I will wait at the intersection."
Li Sanniang looked at the clean tomb with only a piece of white snow and knew that Longevity must be They come up to clean every now and then.
I don’t know if it was because of the spirit of heaven and earth or if it was a coincidence. The snow that had been falling all the way stopped as soon as Li Sanniang took the incense and lit it.
“Aniang, Uncle Fang knew that we came to see him!”
Li Sanniang smiled at Lu Zhuer and said nothing more.
Li Sanniang took Luzhu'er to burn incense on Fang Chengxian's tombstone, placed four tributes, and added the pot of sweet pear soup that was still warm at this moment.
The year Lu Zhuer just passed her seventh birthday, Fang Chengxian left this world forever a few days later.
In fact, Li Sanniang, Li's father and even Dr. Liang had long known that such a day would come. Fang Chengxian's condition was already not very good that year.
By the middle of that year, he could no longer get out of bed.
Li Sanniang and the others discussed whether they should take a gamble and fight fire with fire to gain a chance of survival. In the end, Fang Chengxian took the initiative to give up the idea.
Fang Cheng, who was so thin that there was only a handful of bones left, first said to Li Sanniang: "Sanniang, don't force me, just leave it like this.
I have not lost anything in my life. , Jingzhen, I have a close friend like you, and I am lucky enough to meet you and doctors with such superb medical skills as Dr. Liang and Dr. Li, who have helped me extend my life for so many years.
I am satisfied, really. I’m satisfied.
Sister, I’m tired, that’s it.”
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The length of life is limited, may we all Live a wonderful and profound life in a limited life.
Death is not terrible, what is terrible is before death.
However, birth, old age, illness and death are something everyone has to experience. We cannot control death, so we must live a good life seriously and spend every day well while we are alive.