On the Difficulties of Escape in Ancient Times

Chapter 91 It’s a waste of time

After Xiao Lao Er and the others left, Xiao Lao said simply: "Mom and dad, you drink some chicken soup to replenish your health first. Erlang also needs to recuperate if he is injured. Nephew Xian and San Lang should also drink some to relieve their shock."

Jiang Yu wanted to refuse.

But Mrs. Xiao was very pleased: "The boss is filial and everyone drinks."

Soon, everyone had a bowl of chicken soup.

Not to mention, the home-raised chicken is fragrant. No other seasonings are needed, just a little salt, a piece of ginger, and a little rice wine. As soon as the yellow chicken soup is taken into the mouth, the rich fragrance spreads from the mouth to the stomach.

Jiang Yu, who had refused before, quickly finished the bowl. The fragrance was still lingering on the tip of his tongue, and he almost said: Have another bowl.

Add more water to the pot and continue to cook the chicken soup.

On the other side, the overwhelming aroma of chicken soup floated into the room through the gaps in the doors and windows.

The three members of the family couldn't tell whose stomach was growling.

Xiaoyong was about to cry: "Those are our chickens, and they were eaten by them. They are bad people."

After the man got the money, he didn't feel so distressed anymore and agreed: "Yes, they are bad."

The woman held her stomach and drew cakes for her son to satisfy his hunger: "When it gets up, mother will take you to buy delicious food."

Their home is on the edge of a field, and the nearby families have been awakened by the earliest barking of dogs. They all thought that wild animals had entered the village, and they all wanted to prick up their ears to listen to what was going on outside.

But he didn't hear the screams of people, nor the roars and howls of wild beasts.

But still no one dared to go out.

A few years ago, water bandits came to raid and killed several men who dared to resist.

Last winter, the wolves were as cunning as foxes and would silently wait outside the door to hunt people.

Natural and man-made disasters almost scared the people in this small village out of their wits.

Anyway, it has become a silent rule in the village not to turn on the lights or go out after dark.

Of course, if you hear cries for help or screams, neighbors with good relationships nearby may still go out to help.

But the neighbors listened for nearly two hours and heard no calls for help or screams. Instead, they smelled a fragrant fragrance.

Everyone is guessing which family is so willing to kill chickens in such a reckless way?

Some people also speculated whether the water bandits were coming to harm them again?

But I think this is unlikely. If it were a water bandit, how could it be so quiet?

In the end, everyone thought that someone's chicken was dead, so they had no choice but to stew it.

For a moment, I didn’t know whether I should say that the person whose chicken died was unlucky, or that the person who had the chicken didn’t die, but was deprived of food. Isn’t it also very sad?

When the water for the chicken stew in the kitchen was boiling again, Captain Song and the others came back.

It was already dawn. Jiang Yu first checked their pulses and bandaged their wounds, and then discussed going to Weishan Town to seek medical treatment and going to the Yamen to file a complaint.

However, it was too tiring to carry five wounded people for nearly twenty miles, so Boss Xiao had no choice but to knock on the host's door again and ask who in the village had a mule cart or an ox cart?

It also showed their identities: they were businessmen who fled here only after encountering water bandits.

Give him another couple of silver and ask him to hire a car, saying that he is going to the town's Yamen to complain against the water bandits.

When the man heard this, he was also frightened. He was afraid that the water bandits would come to raid him again in the future, so he hurriedly went to Li Zheng's house to borrow an ox cart.

That's right, in their small village, the capable families moved out of the village and settled in the town after the water bandit incident. Nowadays, the village is full of ordinary poor people who rely on farming to support their families. Li Zheng's family has better conditions and raises cattle.

The five patients were all lying in a row on pallets, being pulled by a slow bullock cart to Weishan Town.

There was no need to pay tolls when entering the town, and the bullock cart took them directly to the medical center.

Jiang Yu was on the side, and when he saw that the medicine prescribed by the doctor was not as good as his own, he simply asked for a pen and paper, wrote a few prescriptions and handed them to the medicine man: "Brother, take this medicine according to my prescription!"

The doctor suspected that he was invited by his colleagues to kick the prescription. He took a look at the prescription with a cold face. After thinking about it again, he instantly changed his attitude: "What a good prescription. This prescription I am really not as good as the one you prescribed."

Jiang Yu saw that the doctor, who was about the same age as his grandfather, had a good attitude and tone, but he felt embarrassed about his behavior, and he clasped his fists in a friendly manner: "I'm sorry, it's the junior who is too anxious."

He put himself in his shoes and felt that if someone went to his own medical clinic and refuted the prescription he prescribed, he might be tempted to kick them out.

This doctor's medical skills are not very good, but he is open-minded.

The old doctor smiled, but asked curiously: "Why are you injured so seriously?"

Boss Xiao hurriedly told the story about the water bandits, and then asked in a low voice: "Excuse me, sir, when did there be water bandits nearby? We are going to go to the Yamen to file a complaint, hoping that Mr. Guan can get rid of the water bandits." Catch all the bandits in one fell swoop.”

He deliberately sold it badly: "Our boss has spent more than ten years of savings to buy medicinal materials. If we can't get it back, are we afraid that the boss will be disheartened?"

When the old doctor heard this, he subconsciously looked around. It happened that there was no one else at the moment, so he said vaguely: "I think you should not go to the Yamen. The adults may not dare to take care of this matter. You should go back as soon as possible, right?"

Then he told them where they could buy a mule cart: "It's better to leave quickly, leaving the green hills behind and not having to worry about having no firewood!"

After saying that, he went to help get the medicine: "A total of thirty medicines, eight taels of silver."

Jiang Yu also asked for some good things such as pills to replenish the body and blood, golden medicine, ginseng, etc., and spent an extra fifty taels of silver.

Boss Xiao next to him felt his heart beat faster when he saw it, and he was so beautiful that he almost laughed.

He also has his own little calculation. Now that Jiang Yu has prepared all the medicines, he doesn't need to spend money to buy medicines.

Hehe, tomorrow he will say that Mrs. Liu is weak and he wants to marry his daughter. Can you not give Mrs. Liu some replenishment?

When they left the medicine shop, they saw that the bullock cart that brought them was still waiting nearby. The simple middle-aged man asked nervously: "Are you going to the Yamen to complain?"

Although he complained that these people were trying to scare him by tearing down all the door panels of his house, leaving only the door to the room where he lived, it was really too much.

But he was even more afraid of the evil-doing water bandits who would harm people, so he kept waiting here, hoping to hear the good news that the government was going to suppress the bandits.

Jiang Yu only had two 100 taels of silver left on him. He had given 100 taels to buy medicine earlier, and Hou Er kept the more than 30 taels of silver he found.

At this moment, seeing the expectations of this honest man, he asked Hou Er to give him five taels of silver, and said gently: "I caused trouble to your family yesterday, please accept this little money, just to calm the uncle's shock. "

"We'll go to the Yamen later. Uncle, please come back, please?"

Although Jiang Yu has a stubborn temper, he is not ignorant of good and evil.

Although the old doctor didn't say it directly before, it was equivalent to telling him that the officials here would protect each other.

Even if you go to the Yamen to file a complaint, it will be a waste of time for a blind man to light his lamp.

A good man doesn't want to suffer the immediate consequences, so he goes back first and explains the matter clearly to his family, and then goes to see Uncle Shi to see if he can seek justice for himself.

(End of this chapter)