Medicine Girl Jingjing

Chapter 60 Qin Xiucai Comes to Thank You

Pingkangtang is a well-known medical clinic in Tanzhou Prefecture. There are less than 40 doctors and medical apprentices, which is much less than the medical workers in the provincial tertiary hospitals in the previous life.

A tearful woman ran out of Pingkang Hall with a prescription, and hurried to the pharmacy in the middle of the street to get the medicine. There was snow on the road and it was slippery. The snow continued to run.

Li Jingjing followed and saw the woman running into a small three-story building.

There is a golden plaque above the gate of this building, which reads "Hundred Medicine Hall", and the pillars on both sides have a pair of golden couplets: licorice, comfrey, lampgrass, and common herbs can cure diseases; (Excerpt from Baidu)

One after another, people came out of Baiyaotang carrying medicine bags and boxes.As soon as Li Jingjing entered, she saw a middle-aged man in a gray shirt pointing at the wrestling woman with a teary face, and shouted to the thirty or so people who lined up to get the medicine: "She is waiting to get the medicine to save her son's life. Let her give medicine first!"

Everyone had no objection, and the teary-faced woman quickly followed the middle-aged man up to the second floor.

Li Jingjing looked around the medicine hall on the first floor, the area was about 120 square meters, and the medicine cabinet occupied [-] square meters.

The medicine cabinets are all made of wood, similar in shape to filing cabinets from previous lives. There are four rows in total, the innermost row is attached to the wall, each row has more than 100 drawers, and the names of medicines are pasted on the outside of the drawers.

Li Jingjing asked puzzledly: "Brother, why are the pictures of Yin and Yang and Guanyin's hands and lotuses engraved on the more than a dozen medicine drawers in the outermost row of medicine cabinets?"

Li Yunqing explained: "The medicine drawer with the yin and yang picture contains proprietary medicines prepared by Taoist pharmacists, and the medicine drawer with the picture of Avalokitesvara holding lotus flowers contains proprietary medicines made by Buddhist pharmacists."

Wang Lian said proudly: "For the same patented medicine, the one made by our Taoist pharmacists is the most expensive."

The middle-aged man came down from the second floor alone and asked if there was any emergency room, and everyone shook their heads sincerely.He went into the medicine cabinet, and together with two young men, he took medicine for everyone.

Li Yunqing said in a low voice: "Sister Jing, this middle-aged uncle and the two young uncles are both pharmacists. The pharmacist from Baiyaotang is upstairs."

Li Jingjing said softly: "Brother, I found that the number of pharmacists and apprentices in the pharmacy is much smaller than the number of doctors and apprentices in the medical hall."

Li Yunqing smiled and said: "The Taiqing Temple is also like this, there are three practitioners of medicine and Taoism, and one practitioner of medicine and Taoism."

Mochizuki followed and said, "We have two Taoist nuns in Taiming Guanyi, five Taoist nuns in Langzhong, and only two Taoist nuns in medicine."

Li Yunqing held the little sister's hand tightly, and said: "Doctors and pharmacists are all talented. Some people have spent their entire lives in the medical center, but they can't pass the exam for a pharmacist. Sister, you became a pharmacist at a young age." , very talented."

At this time, it was the turn of two [-]- and [-]-year-old girls who were dressed in identical Tsing Yi and Tsingpants and combed a single hairdo to get the medicine.

The middle-aged pharmacist obviously recognized them. After reading the prescription, he went directly to take out two three-inch high porcelain bottles and a small round box with a diameter of one decimeter from the drawer engraved with yin and yang patterns.

One of the two little girls took the medicine, the other took out a small silver ingot and handed it to the middle-aged man, nodded slightly and left.

Li Jingjing recognized the small silver ingot as Erliang.

Li Yunqing said in a low voice: "Sister Jing, just now the two sisters are servants of wealthy families, they must often come here to fetch medicine for the master, they don't want outsiders to know what disease the master has, so they kept silent."

Time flies, and soon it was noon, and Li Jingjing's brother and sister went to the cloth shop to meet their family members.

Li Qubing saw that Li Jingjing didn't have any toys or food in his hand, and then heard Li Yunqing say that she had been looking at the pharmacy for a long time, so he asked with a smile, "Is Miss Jing thinking of opening a pharmacy when she grows up?"

A sly light flashed in Li Jingjing's eyes, she shook her head and said, "Opening a pharmacy is so tiring, I have to watch every day so I can't play. I won't open it."

In her previous life, two classmates opened a private hospital and pharmacy. During the class reunion, they frankly said that this is more risky than doing business. If it fails, people will die. Don't open it if you don't have a certain family background.

In this life, the feudal society she lives in is strictly hierarchical, with men superior to women.The Li family has no background. She is a woman. Instead of opening a pharmacy and taking high risks, and if it fails, officials will go to prison and her family will be ruined. Why not just cooperate with Taoism and sell non-risky and low-risk proprietary medicines, and earn money to share with her family? , live a happy life.

Qu's has already bought a lot of things, but he hasn't bought enough, and he still has to buy in the afternoon.He Shi chose a time-honored restaurant nearby.

The Li family had a good meal and continued shopping. Before dusk, they rushed back to their lodging place with big and small bags and boxes. They were too tired to walk, so they had dinner at the inn.

In the early morning of the next day, Qu woke up and opened the window to have a look. The snow outside had stopped long ago. Except for a little snow in places where the sun could not shine, the snow on the ground, trees, and roofs had all melted. The temperature was lower than yesterday, and the cold wind All of a sudden, it blew her face cold.

"I don't know if the riverside is frozen." Qu muttered, closed the window, got dressed and woke up her family. She must catch the first boat back to Liuyang County this morning.

Li Yunxiao played like crazy last night, and fell asleep very late at night.Seeing that he didn't open his eyes, He Shi skipped his breakfast.Li Yunqing carried him all the way onto the big passenger ship.

When Li Yunxiao woke up, the passenger ship had already passed the Xiangjiang River and was about to enter Liuyang County. The wide and quiet river replaced the bustling and noisy streets, and he shouted dissatisfiedly: "I haven't played enough in Tanzhou, I don't want to go back. Home!"

Li Jingjing said unhappily: "Then you go to Tanzhou alone, and we all go home."

In the middle of the twelfth lunar month, a few strangers came to Qujia Village. Three well-dressed men rode in front on big horses, followed by a four-person sedan chair.

A group of people asked from the beginning of the village to the end of the village, and finally found the Li family.

A beautiful young woman and a five or six-year-old thin child came out of the sedan chair.

The middle-aged man in the lead had a loud voice, and towards the peaceful small courtyard planted with herbs and vegetables, he said loudly, "Pharmacist Li, are you at home? We came to thank you."

The door of the main room opened, and just as He Shi took one foot, Li Yunxiao ran out, and saw the bride's family on the passenger ship, and the little girl who fell into the water and almost died, also came, and excitedly greeted her.

Xi Yazi didn't expect Li Yunxiao to be so enthusiastic, and immediately giggled happily.

The two little guys were holding hands, like good friends who have known each other for many years.

Qu's took Li Jingjing to sit at the old patriarch's house, and was chatting happily with Tian's, when the family members kindly came to report that Li's family had a visitor.

Mrs. Qu called Li Jingjing who was used to eating snacks by Mrs. Liu in the side hall, and hurried home, and saw that the Eight Immortals table in the main room was full of things.

Two bamboo baskets pasted with snacks written on red paper of the time-honored brand of Tanzhou Prefecture, two pieces of cloth wrapped in oiled paper, a round rattan basket with a cover half a person's height, and a black red one two inches wide and high Exquisite lacquer boxes, two pairs of shoe boxes from a time-honored brand in Tanzhou Prefecture.

(End of this chapter)