The Golden Family, rising from the Western Regions

Chapter 44: Sacrificing Oneself for a Fortress
"Dong Dong Dong~"

"Brother, are you in there?"

There was a knock on the door, accompanied by Erhu's loud and rough voice.

More than an hour has passed, but Li Xiao has not returned yet.

Erhu couldn't sit still anymore and came out to search in each yard.

Finally, Li Xiao's horse was found in a relatively spacious courtyard.

According to the people of Houzhai, Hou Tiancai and his wife originally lived here, and it was the best courtyard in the village.

However, the door was closed at this time. Erhu called out twice but received no response, and he immediately became anxious.

It seemed that he was worried that something might happen to Li Xiao, so there was a loud bang and the door was knocked open by Erhu.

After entering, Erhu was a little dumbfounded.

Li Xiao was standing in the main room fine, nothing happened to him.

"Brother, I called you several times and you didn't respond. Why don't you open the door?"

"I thought something happened to you!" Erhu said guiltily.

While talking, Erhu looked behind Li Xiao.

Just then I saw a woman walking hurriedly, looking frightened, covering her mouth and running into the inner room.

Then there was a retching sound from inside.
"Hou Tiancai's wife?"

Erhu's eyes suddenly opened wide, as if he had discovered a new world.

"Brother? You guys~"

Erhu looked incredulous, pointing his finger at Li Xiao, and then at Huang Xiuer in the inner room.

I feel like I was fooled by Li Xiao.

Li Xiao had clearly told him yesterday that it was best not to lose his virginity before the age of sixteen.

But how do you explain this scene?

Li Xiao felt a little uncomfortable with Erhu's contemptuous look, and he felt very unhappy.

Good things are interrupted!

So he pulled Erhu out of the room, walked into the yard, climbed on his horse, and said in a firm tone:

"We are innocent~"

"Her husband died and she was feeling sad, so I came here to comfort her~" Li Xiao explained.

The situation at the time was this: "Madam Hou, you don't want your husband to be cut into pieces, do you?"

But what Li Xiao didn't expect was that Huang Xiuer's answer was "I want to"!
Hou Tiancai's act of leaving her alone and running away had obviously hurt Huang Xiuer deeply.

From love to hate, he could actually bear to watch Hou Tiancai being cut into pieces!

The change in the woman's attitude completely confused Li Xiao, and he didn't know what to do next.

After being stunned for several seconds, he finally said, "Madam Hou, your idea is wrong."

"You are husband and wife, one body. How can you watch your husband suffer?"

Li Xiao believed that Huang Xiuer still cared about Hou Tiancai in her heart, but women are naturally hypocritical.

So, Li Xiao prepared to teach this woman a good lesson, so that she could change her bad habits of speaking and remember what it means for husband and wife to be of one mind.

So the two of them are really innocent, and Li Xiao is just educating a woman who lost her husband to mend her ways.

Faced with Li Xiao's words, Erhu was obviously a little unconvinced. He rode on his horse, walked out, and looked at him with raised eyes.

"Yesterday you said you were sixteen~"

Li Xiao interrupted him and said, "I'm already sixteen!"

Erhu was choked to the point of being speechless and was shocked by Li Xiao's shamelessness.

But it seemed as if I understood it.

My elder brother is not pretending to be chaste, but he really doesn't like the women of Karluk. He just has high standards.
"This woman is indeed much prettier than the Karluk women~" Erhu muttered.

Seeing Erhu's determined look, Li Xiao didn't want to explain anymore.

The mouth is on other people's body, let them say whatever they want!
As long as I believe in my heart that I am innocent, it’s fine. After all, I really haven’t had time to cross the moral bottom line!

"Has it been an hour already?"

Li Xiao looked up at the sky and saw that the moon had risen very high.

Before I knew it, so much time had passed.

"It's almost an hour and a half!" Erhu looked at Li Xiao with a resentful look.

The four of them waited there foolishly for a long time, but they didn't expect that Li Xiao was actually comforting the young woman.

"Haha, it's okay~"

"Second uncle's injury won't last more than half an hour!" Li Xiao said with a chuckle, obviously feeling a little guilty.

So the two of them quickened their pace and quickly returned to the yard they had been in before.

He first took a look at Li Erjiang's condition. Because Dahu and Erhu wiped his body with a wet towel, his body temperature had dropped a little and his complexion looked a little better.

“It seems to be having some effect~”

Li Xiao nodded happily and said, "The next step is to treat the wound. This is the root cause. If the rotten wound is not treated properly, the temperature will only get higher after a while."

Next, Li Xiao began the final preparation of allicin.

First, find a clean cloth, block the mouth of the jar, and filter out all the alcohol inside.

At this time, the garlic paste is no longer useful. What is needed is alcohol, and the allicin has been dissolved in the alcohol.

The second step is to pour the alcohol into the distiller and heat it for distillation.

Soon, the alcohol in the still became less and less, and after cooling, it turned back into alcohol and flowed back into the jar.

After all the alcohol evaporates, a thin layer of pale yellow crystals is left at the bottom of the distiller.

This is the final form of easily prepared allicin.

"It's done~"

Li Xiao looked at this thin, pale yellow crystal with a look of delight on his face.

He finally made an antibiotic!
Although the allicin he produced still contained a lot of impurities, and its effect was far less effective than penicillin.

But in this ancient battlefield with extremely high infection rates, it was good enough to have inferior antibiotics available. How could one have the right to demand better ones?

Little did people know that this tiny amount of allicin could save the lives of many Han soldiers on the battlefield.

How many soldiers can be saved from the pain of amputation?

Li Xiao carefully scraped out the allicin crystals at the bottom of the jar and divided them into two parts.

Half of the medicine was taken orally by my uncle by mixing with water, and the other half was applied to the wound.

In fact, allicin should not be applied to wounds easily, because the spiciness of garlic will stimulate swelling of the wound.

But there was no way. Li Erjiang's injuries were too serious. Even swelling was better than continuing the infection.

Moreover, after returning to Hexibao, the wound needs to be deeply treated, the dead flesh needs to be removed, it needs to be re-sutured, and allicin needs to be used to eliminate the infection.

The next morning, Huang Xiuer opened her eyes and looked at the familiar furnishings in the room, but everything had changed.

She slowly got up from the bed. She felt dizzy and weak all over, and most importantly, her cheeks hurt.

tired!

So many things happened yesterday. Huang Xiuer's fate had changed on this day, making her confused and full of anxiety about the future.

So after Li Xiao left, Huang Xiuer didn't feel sleepy at all. She fell into a deep sleep only when it was dawn.

In less than an hour, I was woken up by the noisy sound outside.

So I got up, endured the physical and mental fatigue, and started packing up my things, taking away everything I could use.

After a while, Dahu and Erhu came over.

"Hou~"

After seeing Huang Xiuer, Erhu subconsciously wanted to call her "Hou Huangshi", but was immediately interrupted by Dahu!
"Mrs. Huang, please take a rest first. We will help you pack your things!" Dahu said with a slight smile.

Then the two of them started helping Huang Xiuer.

"You guys~"

Looking at the two people's behavior, Huang Xiuer suddenly felt a little at a loss.

But we also know that these two people are the guy's younger brothers, and they must have been assigned by that guy to help.

Thinking of her own situation, Huang Xiuer did not refuse Li Xiao's kindness. She nodded gently and said, "Thank you~"

Not long after, all the valuable and useful things in Huang Xiuer's house were packed up.

There were so many things that it would take at least a dozen horses to pull them.

"According to my brother's instructions, you can keep all these useful things, but I can only give you half of the cattle, sheep and horses!" said Dahu.

According to Li Xiao, he wanted to confiscate the part of the couple's property that belonged to Hou Tiancai.

The remaining part belonging to Huang Xiuer was left for her to continue living.

Of course, if it weren't for what happened last night, Li Xiao would definitely have confiscated all her belongings.

"Thank you, brother, for me!" Huang Xiuer said.

It is not easy for a woman who has lost her husband to live. Even if she returns to Huangsha Village, she still has to live according to the mood of her family.

But with this half of the cattle and sheep property, she no longer has to rely on others, whether in Hexi Fort or Huangsha Village.

"Well, you can go and thank him yourself~" Dahu smiled lightly and helped Huang Xiuer drive the cattle, sheep and horses out of the yard.

He planned to take her and many people from Houzhai away from here and start a new life.

Dahu is smart and thinks a little more than Erhu.

I guess what Li Xiao was after was not Huang Xiuer’s beauty, but definitely her identity and background.

The daughter of the leader of Huangsha Village!
Although Huangshazhai is smaller than Hexibao, if it can be pulled onto the chariot of Hexibao, it will greatly enhance the power of Hexibao.

Therefore, in Dahu's view, Li Xiao's behavior was completely self-sacrifice for the fort, and was for the sake of the great cause of the entire Hexi Fort.

After Da Hu and the other man drove out the cattle and sheep, the yard was empty with only an isolated house left.

Huang Xiuer stood in front of the courtyard gate, took a last look, sighed softly, then turned around silently and mounted the horse.

Hou Tiancai is dead, and the Hou family no longer exists. She can no longer be considered a woman of the Hou family.

This place will have nothing to do with her from now on~
(End of this chapter)