Medicine Girl Jingjing

Chapter 28

The letter truthfully described Li Jingjing's age, personality, and medicine skills, and attached the new medicines she made to remove freckle ointment and chilblain ointment. Qiuli ointment asked Chi Lingzi to identify her medicine skills.

Qiuli ointment has been around for hundreds of years. Pharmacists from Taoism, Buddhism, and major medicine halls can make this ointment, but the medicinal skills vary, and the ointment produced by boiling has the same effect.

When Chi Lingzi was young, his family was poor, and his baby sister suffered from whooping cough. The family had no money and was patriarchal, so he didn't hire a doctor for his sister.

Five-year-old Chi Lingzi tasted three spoonfuls of autumn pear paste at a relative's house, and went back to beg his parents to spend five renminbi to buy a broken medicine jar. He boiled the autumn pear paste with his own pears and orange peels and gave it to his younger sister. After ten days, the cough was cured.

Guang Mingzi specially attaches Qiuli ointment, intending to bring back memories of Chi Lingzi, and accepts Li Jingjing as his disciple.

Li Laoshi and his wife thought that Guang Mingzi was going to take Li Jingjing as his apprentice, but they underestimated his character and vision.

Let’s say that that morning Qu Kuaishou borrowed a donkey cart from his tribe, and Mrs. Deng asked Mrs. Deng to pack up and salute Mrs. Lin who refused to leave. Too bright.

Qujia Village has never had a girl or guest sent to live in Taiming Temple for a long time.

When the villagers heard that Mrs. Lin went to Taiming Temple to recuperate, they didn't take it seriously at first. Later, they found out that Mrs. Lin had abused Mrs. Deng so that Mrs. Deng could not conceive a child for two years.

The Lin family was placed in the most remote fragrant house by the Taoist nun in charge of Taiming Temple. The environment is elegant, and she eats three meals a day.

She ate the lowest food in the fragrant room, and felt very neglected. She was jealous of those women who lived in three meals a day and sulked every day.

Living in a courtyard, there are two old women who are lay Buddhists, and three young women who are unmarried and elope with men. Their reputations are ruined and they are abandoned by their families.

The two old women looked down on Mrs. Lin, and Mrs. Lin looked down on the three young women.

She couldn't make friends, and couldn't sit still in the house, so she wandered around in the temple, even when it was snowing, she didn't use an umbrella to wander around. She caught typhoid fever from the cold a year ago.

She was sick on purpose, thinking that at this time Qu Jiujiu and his son had returned to Qujia Village, if Qu Jiujiu would not come, Qu Duo would definitely come to see her, and then she would force Qu Duo to take her home for the Spring Festival.

Guanli sent a letter to the Qu family, but no one came to visit until New Year's Eve. She was so angry that she scolded the Qu family and passed a year full of resentment.

Just after the lively Shangyuan Festival in the first lunar month, on a sunny morning, the Qu Clan Ancestral Hall in Qujia Village held a family meeting.

The old patriarch announced the establishment of a school in the Dragon Head Clan on February [-], the first spring.

Children of this ethnic group, regardless of gender, can go to school free of charge if they are over five years old.Children with foreign surnames who are related to the family by marriage are only accepted for children over six years old, and the annual repair fee is six cents.

The old and the young of the Qu Clan cheered, grateful for the old patriarch's decision.

Three days after the news spread, 37 children from the family signed up, and 32 children from families with other surnames who were not related to the family signed up.

The old patriarch quickly discussed with several elders in the clan, and went to Liuyang County to invite Li Sen, an old scholar, to build a large brick house outside the ancestral hall.

By the day before the school started, the number of registered children had reached 120. The oldest child was 13 years old, and the youngest child had just turned five.

There are 37 people of this family, and 90 people with foreign surnames.The repair fee was 54 taels of silver, and after deducting the cost of 48 taels and two gentlemen who built the brick and tile house, there were still [-] taels of silver.

The reputation of the Qu clan spread far and wide, even to Liuyang County.

The county magistrate sent a teacher to send a gold plaque to the school on February [-], and reported the matter to the Tanzhou government as a political achievement.

In the old dynasty, the Qu clan, who had a humble status in the old dynasty, used the ancestral hall as a school openly in the new dynasty, and free tuition for the children of the clan, and charged a meager amount of tuition for children with foreign surnames.

The first scientific examination was about to take place in the new dynasty. In order to commend the Qu family, the Tanzhou government specially granted seven places for Liuyang county to test the Qu family.

In mid-March, on the white wall outside the gate of the county government office in Liuyang County, the county examination list was posted on the bulletin board, and the names of all the reference students of the Qu family were listed.

The old patriarch's second grandson, Qu Dinglin, ranked first, the eldest grandson, Qu Dingshan, ranked third, and three students from the Qu family ranked in the top thirty, Qu Duo ranked No. 40, and Qu Jiujiu's name ranked last.

The spring is brilliant, the mountains and fields are full of purples and reds, the birds are singing, and the clear stream is gurgling.

The sound of firecrackers in Qujia Village was deafening, and the fireworks team from Taihe Town beat gongs and drums to encourage dragons and lions.

Old Patriarch Qu's white goat's beard fluttered in the wind, tears poured down his face, he was so excited and joyful that he couldn't speak.

"Grandpa, grandson kowtows to you." Qu Dingshan led the six newly-produced talents to kneel and kowtow to the old patriarch.

Old Patriarch Qu lifted the seven of them up one by one with his hands shaking, and said vigorously: "You are already talented masters who have lost their humble household registrations. You don't have to kneel down when you see officials. How can you kneel down to me? Get up quickly."

Qu Dingshan said in the ear of old patriarch Qu: "Grandpa, the county magistrate deliberately left seven of us after the banquet yesterday. He said that you have a long-term vision to run ethnology, so Tanzhou government will give seven more scholars to the county. Quota."

Elder Patriarch Qu had heard about this matter, but he did not expect it to be true. It seems that he did the right thing.

Qu Dinglin said: "Grandpa, the county magistrate personally sent me and my elder brother ten taels of silver, and asked if we were married."

Old Patriarch Qu burst into tears, grabbed his second grandson's wrist, and asked anxiously, "What did you say?"

He spent a lot of money to train several grandsons to study in academies in Tanzhou and Liuyang counties. Apart from wanting his grandsons to go to high school, he also wanted to marry a wife of good background.

The eldest grandson Qu Dingshan married Liu Shi, the daughter of the county policeman.Liu's elder brother and Qu Dingshan are classmates of Tanzhou Academy, and this time they are also high school scholars, ranking fifth.

The marriage of the second grandson Qu Dinglin is still uncertain, just waiting to be selected as a scholar.

Qu Dinglin shyly said: "I answered truthfully that there is no engagement. The county magistrate said that the Ching Ming Festival will be over, please come to the house to explain."

The old patriarch Qu went out excitedly and said: "Lin Yazi, you are very lucky. The county magistrate is going to match you."

Qu Kuaishou and Li's family greeted Qu Jiujiu and Qu Duo, and returned to Qu's house in a mighty way from the entrance of the village.

Qu Kuai smiled from ear to ear, his eyebrows were beaming, he was happier than he was selected as a scholar.

With tears in her eyes, Deng looked at her husband and exclaimed: "Thanks to your wisdom, you sent Chang Jiu and many children to school."

She, a girl from an extremely poor peasant family in a remote mountain village, became the mother of a scholar, or the grandmother of a scholar.

(End of this chapter)