Three and a half women in four courtyards

Chapter 123

Hou Ming dreamed of having children and wives at home, so he didn't go with Gao Shicheng.

He was begging for food along the way, while looking for the way back to Chilechuan.

After walking for more than two months, I finally climbed on a small coal train at a small railway station, and got off secretly at the terminal, only to realize that I had arrived in Chifeng.

When he came out of Chifeng and walked towards Chilechuan, he realized that something was wrong, and no one was willing to give it to any family he asked for food.

If he didn't come to eat, he remembered that he still had some frozen steamed buns he had picked up from the devil in his pocket.

At this time, I don't care whether it is poisonous or not, let's fill my stomach first.

He gnawed on the frozen steamed buns bit by bit, and drove against the northwest wind, feeling weaker and weaker as he walked, and sometimes shivered.

When he reached Pianpoyu, he couldn't move anymore, so he wanted to lie down and sleep for a while, but Wan Siqiang found out and took his life.

The main room of the Hou Family Courtyard.

"Ang, it's time to eat! You struggle (hardly support, cheer up) get up and eat something, the more you don't eat, the more you will lose your energy! If you are good, take your time." Hou Zhang put the table on the kang, and Yang Cuizhi put the food Serve it.

"Alas—" Hou Mingli struggled to get up.

After Hou Zhang helped him, he managed to sit up and looked at the dishes on the table. Hou Mingli said, "Ang, it's too oily. It makes me sick and want to vomit."

"Ang, look at your hypocrisy. It's not easy to be a little oily now. Haven't you seen a lot of families who can't even eat." Hou Zhang said and ordered him, "Then let's order, just order millet Porridge to drink."

"Oh, then, let the children eat together! There are so many dishes, I can't eat them!" Hou Mingli saw that only Hou Zhang was holding Xiaodangxian and Yang Cuizhi at the table.

"That can't be done. We can't break the rules. Children have to eat in the east room before they grow up. The dishes are all the same, enough for them to eat." Mrs. Hou Zhang held Xiao Dangxian in her arms and nursed her.

"Dangxian! That's a good name, it has the word 'Dang'." Hou Mingli touched the little Dangxian's head and said, "Oh, ever since I knew that the old ladder is the Communist Party, I've been obsessed with the word 'Dang'." Ah, very dear."

"The 'party' of our Dangxian is not the 'party' of the Communist Party. Ours is the 'party' of the Dangshen who saved Lao Hanwang." Hou Zhang looked at the little Dangxian and said.

"Whether it is a 'party' or not, as long as it treats us well, helps us in times of crisis, and is your backbone, then it is a good party!"

At this time, someone knocked on the door, and then a person came in. The people at the table looked back and saw that it was Bao Yixian.

Bao Yixian looked at Hou Mingli's family eating on the kang table, and was suddenly stunned.

She remembered the picture of the group of monkeys that the Four Emperors had told him about when they passed through the shadows.

Why is the scene in her imagination so similar to the scene of Hou Mingli's family having dinner?
Not only did it look like, but Bao Yixian quickly discovered something was wrong.

"Oh, brother and sister, why is your face so yellow?" Bao Yixian looked at Yang Cuizhi again, "Cuizhi, your face is so yellow too!"

Both Hou Zhangshi and Yang Cuizhi looked in the mirror: "Huang? I don't feel it!"

"It must be yellow, the same yellow as Mingli's. Before Mingli's face and skin were yellow, I didn't pay attention to it for a while, but why are you two also yellow?"

"What's the matter? This, is it still passed from person to person?"

"Ah, alas! This gentleman is not at home, what is the disease? Why do I feel quite scared." Bao Yixian said, "You guys wait at home. I will ask Hongdao. I heard that he Yunyou is back."

"Oh, then, I'll go with you!" Hou Zhangshiqiang got off the ground as he spoke energetically, but he sat down on the ground, "It's okay, it's okay, I've been sore all over the past two days, maybe it's because I'm tired. of."

"It's okay, big sister! Just listen to me and wait at home." Bao Yixian went out and went straight to the temple.

Miaocha, Saihan Temple, in Hongdao's meditation room.

"What you said, about Hou Mingli's family, I feel a bit similar to what I saw during my travels." Hongdao said to Bao Yixian.

"Oh? People in other places also suffer from this disease? What's the matter?"

"Oh, this winter, I went around the Northeast and found that there is a disease prevalent in many places. The common people call it yellow disease, and some call it the sun disease. The reason why it is called the sun disease is an allusion to the disease. It was passed on from the Japanese. The common people call the Japanese flag the Sun Flag, and they also call this disease Taiyang Disease. This kind of disease is rare, and once you get it, it will be passed from person to person. Sometimes, it is a family. The son died of illness. When it was severe, there were not many people left in a camp. When I returned to Chilechuan, I also discovered this disease. In Xiaotaiping, there are two families of the old Li family and the old Liang family. He got yellow disease, and as a result, no one in the two families survived."

"Oh? Then, what should we do? The real person, you mean, understand that his disease is hopeless? Pass it on to others?" Bao Yixian was dumbfounded when he heard that.

"It's just this kind of illness. When I went to the Liangchuang Mansion a few days ago, I entrusted a friend and met Mr. Cong who was in the fence."

"Oh? Did you see Mr.? What did Mr. say?"

"Oh, he said, this yellow disease is a bit like typhoid fever mentioned in ancient books. Typhoid fever has a symptom, that is, the face is like orange peel, fever, thirst, upset, and yellow thick tongue coating. Sometimes the stomach is distended, and it is difficult to urinate. He is so As soon as he described it, the symptoms were similar to those of the patients I had seen. The symptoms matched, and he thought about it, then wrote a prescription by hand. He said he could try it.”

"Ang, where is Fang Zi? Can you show me?"

Hongdao took out a folded piece of paper from his arms, unfolded it and showed it to Bao Yixian, and there it read:

"Yinchen Artemisia Soup

Yin Chen: 20 coins;
Rhubarb: 7 qian;
Gardenia: 7 money. "

"Ang, can you give me this prescription?"

"Uh—you can make a copy." Hong Dao handed over the pen and said, "I still have to take it around, go to the homes of those who are sick, and let the patients try this prescription."

After Bao Yixian finished copying the prescription, he rushed back. Just as he was about to go out, Hongdao called out: "Oh, wait. You go back and ask someone to buy some quicklime. Inside and outside Hou Mingli's house, there is also a hut. Spread it out. Also, don’t let him come into contact with other people, and don’t let children and wives eat together. Once you get sick, you can’t have contact with people who don’t get sick. The sick should bury their urine and feces , don't throw it around."

"Oh, ok, remember, real man."

Hou Mingli's yellow disease was passed on to Hou Zhang and Yang Cuizhi, but the children did not pass it on.

Surprisingly, Xiao Dangxian, who ate Hou Zhang's milk all day long, was safe and sound.

Bao Yixian hurried back to the small pharmacy in the courtyard of Cong's family, and when he dispensed the medicine according to the prescription, he was dumbfounded.

She found that among the three medicines, only one was rhubarb, which was picked from the mountain by the Fourth Emperor, and the other two medicines were gone.

Bao Yixian stared at the prescription for a long time, called Leleli in, and asked him to take a car to Liangzhufu to buy medicine.

Leleli said with a mournful face: "Ang, Master, since Mr. was at home, we stopped going to Liangchafu to get medicine. All the medicines are controlled by the Japanese devils. Without their approval slips, we can't buy a single medicine." .”

"Oh? If you can't buy it, you have to buy it!" Bao Yixian threw the medicine box on the ground violently, making Leleli tremble with fright.

Bao Yixian stood up from the chair, limped back and forth on the ground, and suddenly stopped: "Ang, where are Tian Diange and Ji Fengxuan? It's been a few days since I found them both, and they still haven't come back!"

"Oh, Master, you know, they are members of the Volunteer Army. No, they are now renamed the Eighth Route Army Guerrillas! Communist Party members, like Xian'er, come and go invisible, and we have nowhere to look for them." ah!"

Bao Yixian sat down on the chair again, waved his hands, and signaled Leleli to leave: "An, go, go."

After Leleli left, Bao Yixian lay down on the table and began to cry.

(End of this chapter)