The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man

So, she also gave the little bastard a bath.

The little wolf cub was still too young. If its fur remained wet for too long, it could easily get sick. She took a discarded face towel and wiped its fur, reserving it as its dedicated towel.

Her eyes glanced over at the two baskets of bayberries under the eaves. Fortunately, they were brought back when the rain had stopped, and were covered with banana leaves. When she lifted the banana leaves, the two baskets of bayberries weren’t wet.

She went to grab a hatchet and found a straight firewood stick as thick as her arm and about a meter long. With the hatchet, she removed the bark and bottom to create a downward curve. After peeling, she used the knife her second brother usually used to trim animal skins and fur, to smooth and round the stick.

Like that, a big pestle was made.

There was originally a large foot basin for bathing at home, and a few days ago, she bought a brand new wooden one specifically for making medicine or food.

She put the new large wooden basin in the yard, poured the bayberries into it, smashed the bayberries with the pestle, and then filtered out the bayberry juice with the prepared gauze.

Actually, it wasn’t as professional as the gauze of modern times, but just a white cloth she had bought earlier, suitable for filtering.

“Qingyue, are you making bayberry wine?” Xiao Yishan’s cold, male voice came from the secondary bedroom. He didn’t know what his wife was doing, but when she said she was going to pick bayberries to make wine before going up the mountain, he understood.

She looked into the room through the window and nodded slightly, “Mhmm.”

A few days ago, she had bought many bottles and jars, with smaller ones reserved for when she made medicine, while the six big jars that could hold around sixty jin were prepared for making wine.

The jars were cheap and she was afraid of breaking them, so she chose to mash the berries in a basin instead.

She stirred the mashed bayberry and sugar in a ratio of 500 grams of bayberry to 80 grams of sugar, and poured the mixture into the big jars. The bayberries from the two baskets just filled two big jars after being mashed and combined with sugar.

Covering the jars, she left a small gap for air, not sealing them completely. After ten days, the mixture would naturally ferment into wine.

After finishing all of this, she got busy preparing dinner. However, as third brother was in a deep sleep, she didn’t wake him up for dinner.

That night, Su Qingyue got up in the middle of the night. Though she got wet in the rain, she was fine, but the third brother had come down with a fever.

Fortunately, she had collected herbs that could be turned into antipyretic medicine. So, she boiled a dose and took it to him in a bowl, sitting on the edge of the bed.

Third brother lay on the bed with his eyes closed, and under the dim light of the oil lamp, his long eyelashes cast two beautiful shadows on his eyelids. “Wife…” His lips moved slightly, murmuring something hoarsely in his sleep.

Su Qingyue listened intently and heard him clearly.

She looked to the side, only to find second and fourth brothers both looking at her.

Their eyes were filled with unclear meanings.

Su Qingyue suddenly felt a bit awkward. She held the bowl in one hand, pinched third brother’s jaw with the other, and was about to force him to drink.

But he stubbornly clenched his teeth and refused to open his mouth.

“Open your mouth and take your medicine…” She couldn’t help but reprimand him softly.

With his eyes closed, he seemed to be in a haze, “Wife… feed me with your mouth…”

Hearing him say this, she didn’t think he was dreaming of her feeding him. He must have woken up..