Rebirth of the pastoral landlady

Chapter 346

Jin Rou lowered her eyes, her mouth was slightly pursed, and her toes lightly rubbed against the ground, looking quite aggrieved.

Jin Xi sighed lightly, patted Jin Rou on the shoulder, and said softly, "My mother and I will go to the town with father, and we can't say when we will come home. The family is controlled by Uncle Cai and Ma Dong , you have to be obedient, act like an adult, and wait for our news."

Jinrou nodded, glanced at Jinxi reluctantly, and at the east wing behind Jinxi, suddenly ran back to her room, fetched her own thick duck down cloak and handed it to Jinxi, "Sister, my duck down is warmer and thicker than your rabbit fur one, you wear it!"

Jin Xi smiled again, took the drape around her body, raised her hand to fasten the strap around her neck.The door creaked open behind him, revealing Sun's haggard and gray face.

Cai Qingyang hurried into the house to carry Liang Yuzhong, Cai Jinshan and Dong Ma stretched out a mattress to cover Liang Yuzhong from behind, Jian Shi supported Sun Shi and stumbled behind.Jin Xi went back to the house and took out the purse containing the silver, which contained five taels of silver.After thinking for a while, he opened the drawer again, took out a bank note from HSBC bank with a face value of 50 taels and put it on his body, then hurried out of the room and ran after them.

The carriage is not the spacious carriage of the luxury version of the big family, but the most common one in the market outside.Liang Yuzhong was tall and had long legs, so he couldn't lie flat at all.

Sun had no choice but to sit down and half hugged Liang Yuzhong. There were bedding and other clothes inside, so there was not much room left.In this way, there is no place for Jin Xi anymore.

But at this moment, who cares so much?Just want to get to town as soon as possible!

After seeing the carriage on the official road and gradually going away, Uncle Cai, Mama Dong and the others returned to the courtyard with trepidation.

"Father Qingyang, where are you going?" Mama Dong asked when she saw Cai Jinshan go to the West Wing.

"Missy told me before she left that I should tell Brother Wen who lives in Westinghouse about their going to the town." Cai Jinshan replied from a distance.

……

The usual way to go back and forth every day takes only half an hour to think about things a little bit, and it will come to an end.

But today, the same road, how can it be so long?
Sitting side by side in front of Jin Xi and Cai Qingyang, she could hear the rattling sound of wooden wheels, which was the north wind blowing close to her ears.The style of the evening is cold, like a knife that has been frozen.Blowing on the face, the cut is painful.Even though Jin Xi is huddled in Jin Rou's thick duck down cloak, with her hands tucked into the hand coverings, she still can't straighten her waist, her back feels cool.

The sky gradually darkened, and there were few pedestrians on the road. Even if one or two people passed by in a hurry, they were all fully armed, wrapped in thick clothes and hats, only their eyes were exposed, and it was impossible to tell who they were.

There are clumps of dead grass on the side of the road, the small ditches have dried up to the bottom, and the rapeseed has just sprouted in the black frozen soil field, which is the only green embellishment in this vast land.

"Xi'er, put this on." Sun's voice came from the rear compartment, and then the curtain was raised by a corner, and she stuffed her cloak out.

"Mother, I'm not cold. You sit down and hold Dad tight so that he doesn't knock you over." Jin Xi turned sideways, pushed back the cloak that still had Sun's body temperature, and urged, pulling down the curtain again , in case the wind gets in.

No one spoke all the way, the carriage wiped the last touch of blue on the horizon, and finally arrived at the gate of Wangji Medical Center in Changqiao Town...

"What? Old doctor Wang went to the county seat? Maybe he can make it back today?" Mrs. Sun was still in the carriage with Liang Yuzhong in her arms. Xiao Shunzi learned the bad news.

"Young master caught the cold and couldn't get out of bed. It's been almost three days since the master went away, and he didn't send any message back. The affairs in the medical center are now left to Dr. Zheng who is in the clinic. On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, Dr. Zheng also takes a leave of absence from home. It's New Year's Eve." Xiao Shunzi recognized Jin Xi and said to Jin Xi.

Doctor Zheng, Jin Xi also met him twice. He is a middle-aged man with fair skin and a mustache. He looks a bit serious. I heard that he also started as a drug apprentice under Old Doctor Wang.After graduation, he went out to work as a bell doctor for several years, and then returned to Changqiao Town, where he was stationed at Wangji Medical Center and never left again.

Old Doctor Wang's son died early, and the only grandson in the family was studying in the county school. Old Doctor Wang was determined to train his only grandson to study and become an official.

As for the cheap work of a craftsman like practicing medicine, he will definitely not pass it on to his grandson.The people in the town privately speculated that this Dr. Zheng was very likely to inherit the mantle of Old Dr. Wang and become the next owner of the Wangji Medical Center.

In the carriage at the door, Mrs. Sun hugged Liang Yuzhong, waited for a while but didn't see Jinxi, so she urged Cai Qingyang to come in and see the situation.

Cai Qingyang was also surprised when he heard that Old Doctor Wang was not there. He came to the town this morning to get medicine. He just followed Dr. Li's prescription, took the medicine in a hurry, and then turned back to the village. Why did he pay attention to whether Old Doctor Wang was there!

"Miss, it's all my fault. I didn't ask clearly in the morning, which caused the master to follow Bai this time..." Cai Qingyang was very annoyed to himself.

Xiao Shunzi was surprised when he saw Cai Qingyang, and immediately realized that he and Jinxi belonged to the same family.

"Miss Liang, I remember that this little brother came to me in the morning to take the medicine according to the prescription. Who took the medicine in your family? What, it doesn't work after taking it?" Xiao Shunzi said.

Jin Xi said: "My father, it doesn't work!"

"My family's medicines are all imported from the time-honored medicine shop in Qing'an Fucheng. Master Gao, who concocts the medicinal materials, is one of the top five herbalists in the industry. The medicinal materials processed by him have no doubts about their efficacy. "Xiao Shunzi said immediately.

Jin Xi had heard about the channels for getting medicine in the Wang Family Medical Center from Dr. Wang, and she had no doubts about it.There must be no problem with the medicine, and it must be because of the prescription. Doctor Li in the village may have made a mistake in his diagnosis.

"It was because the medicine didn't work that my lady brought the master here in a carriage. She just wanted to ask Mr. Wang for a diagnosis. But she didn't make it in time. What should I do?" Cai Qingyang said anxiously.

"Master Liang is here too?" Xiao Shunzi asked in surprise.

Jin Xi nodded, and then asked Xiao Shunzi, the pharmacist, "You just said that Dr. Zheng, who is in the clinic, has gone home for the New Year, so where does Dr. Zheng live?"

"Doctor Zheng's house is not far away. It's in the alley diagonally across from the old rice and grain shop in the north of the town. The one with the word Zheng hanging outside the yard is that."

Jin Xi nodded, grabbed a handful of copper coins from her cuff and stuffed them to Xiao Shunzi, saying: "It's getting dark outside, please Brother Xiao Shun to make room for my parents to stay temporarily?"

Xiao Shunzi looked at the handful of copper coins in his hand, how could he not agree?Nodding repeatedly, he put the copper money into his pocket and headed towards the backyard to prepare the house.

Jin Xi and Cai Qingyang left the door together, and Sun couldn't wait to poke her head out of the carriage. Seeing Jin Xi coming this way, she hurriedly asked: "Xi'er, how is it? Your father just had another convulsion. It's like being bitten by something, the pain is so painful that the veins on my body are bursting out, I'm so anxious..."

Jin Xi squeezed a relieved smile at Sun, stepped aside to help Cai Qingyang get Liang Yuzhong onto his back, and Cai Qingyang strode into the shop.From behind, Jin Xi helped Mrs. Sun to go in, while saying: "Mother, Old Doctor Wang is not at home..."

"What? What should we do then?" Sun was stunned.

"Mom, don't worry, I asked Xiao Shunzi for a room, and you will rest in the room with Dad later, and I will go to Doctor Zheng in the medical clinic, he is not far away, just in the town, I'll be here in a while, ah..."

"Then Doctor Zheng, how are your medical skills? We are here for Old Doctor Wang, will it work?" Sun was flustered, worried and at a loss, and said what was in her heart. Fortunately, Doctor Zheng is not here at the moment. Otherwise, Jin Xi smiled wryly.

"Mother, since Old Doctor Wang can let Doctor Zheng sit in the classroom, his medical skills can naturally be his own, at least not inferior to that of Doctor Li in our village. Well, you go into the house quickly, and I will ask Brother Qingyang to drive me there for a while." Come on, be back soon."

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When Jin Xi and Cai Qingyang surrounded a fair-skinned, serious middle-aged man with two beards, he entered the room.Sun quickly stood up from the bed, with a cautious and expectant expression on his face.

"Mother, this is Dr. Zheng." Jin Xi introduced her to Mrs. Sun, and Mrs. Sun hurriedly bowed down to salute Dr. Zheng, her eyes were red again.

Dr. Zheng gave him a little help, and said expressionlessly, "Madam, you don't have to be polite."

After finishing speaking, Dr. Zheng walked around to the bed, and Liang Yuzhong lay under the quilt, his eyes closed, his face was livid, and sweat oozed from his forehead from time to time.

He first opened Liang Yuzhong's eyelids, observed for a while, and then put his fingers on Liang Yuzhong's wrist, and began to listen to his pulse.No one in the room dared to breathe loudly, Jin Xi and Sun watched the expression changes on Doctor Zheng's face with bated breath, paying attention to every detail.

Doctor Zheng looked at it for a while, then continued to look at Liang Yuzhong's face, and asked about the symptoms and the time of the onset.

Sun's tears came down again, and she wiped away those tears. Naturally, it was Jin Xi who came to tell Dr. Zheng these words, enunciating clearly and clearly.Just in case I missed the point, after she finished speaking, Jin Xi asked Sun Shi for confirmation, and Sun Shi nodded repeatedly.

Dr. Zheng twirled one side of his mustache, thinking about it.Jin Xi helped Sun to stand aside, Cai Qingyang moved the stool behind the mother and daughter, neither of them was sitting, their eyes turned back and forth on Liang Yuzhong who was lying down, and Doctor Zheng who was sitting .

Seeing that Dr. Zheng remained silent for a long time and his expression was unpredictable, Mrs. Sun's body trembled slightly.

"...Before at home, it was still hot and cold, like a fever. Now I'm sweating, is it the fever?" Sun asked in a hoarse voice from the side.

"This sweat is not that sweat, it's cold sweat." Dr. Zheng mused.

Sun's feet were weak, Jin Xi hurriedly helped her to sit on the stool behind, and asked Dr. Zheng, "Doctor Zheng, what's wrong with my father?"

"The preliminary diagnosis seems to be stomach disease, but it seems a bit incomplete." Doctor Zheng thought about it for a while, and then said: "Where is the prescription prescribed by your village doctor?"

"Here, please have a look." Jin Xi took out the prescription prescribed by Dr. Li from the bottom of her sleeve, and handed it to Dr. Zheng with both hands.

Dr. Zheng took it and took a closer look, twirling his beard and saying, "It's the right medicine. However, this stomach disease is actually a general term. There are more than a dozen categories of it. The prescription prescribed by your village doctor is for It is not an exaggeration to say that the mediocre prescription is usually given to people with stomach ailments.”

Xiao Shunzi nodded repeatedly, Sun and Cai Qingyang were confused.Jin Xi could probably understand what Dr. Zheng meant.

To use an analogy, it’s like in modern times, stomach pain, stomach acid, bloating and indigestion, as well as ulcers, cramps, etc., there are several types that Jinxi can name.But for these things that are common in daily life, in modern times, a few sticks of Huoxiang Oral Liquid can do the job.

For Liang Yuzhong's situation, Dr. Li prescribed a moderate and safe medicine similar to Huoxiang Oral Liquid.

"Obviously, my father's condition has gone beyond the golden mean. Please ask Dr. Zheng to re-prescribe the right medicine." Jin Xi said, bending over to give a big gift to Dr. Zheng, Sun quickly got up from the stool, and did the same.

Dr. Zheng stood up and said: "It is the duty of a doctor to save the dying and heal the wounded. You two don't need to be so generous."

"How about this, I'll write the second prescription first, and the medicine in the previous prescription will be stopped first. Take the medicine in my prescription for a couple of meals to see the aftereffect, what do you two think?" Doctor Zheng said .

Jin Xi and Sun Shi looked at each other, that's all they could do.Therefore, Jin Xi sent Dr. Zheng to write medicine in the front lobby, and asked Cai Qingyang to send him back home.Jin Xi inquired with Xiao Shunzi in advance about the amount of doctor Zheng's consultation fees for each visit, and doubled his usual amount, and put it on Cai Qingyang, asking him to send the patient later.

Here, Xiao Shunzi, who received a generous reward from Jinxi, also gave up the small kitchen in the back so that Jinxi could cook medicine and boil water for Liang Yuzhong.They also sent a brazier for heating to Liang Yuzhong and Mrs. Sun's house, and then went back to sleep.

With all the calculations, there are still five days until the new year.In the Wang Family Medical Center, Old Doctor Wang took two of his family's servants to the county town in a hurry, and several medicine apprentices also asked for leave to go home for the New Year.In the past few days, Dr. Zheng came to sit in the hall for half a day during the day, and Xiao Shunzi was the gatekeeper during the rest of the time, taking prescriptions and taking medicines for people.

Xiao Shunzi told Jinxi that after 27, he and Dr. Zheng would both take annual leave, so Liang Yuzhong could only stay here for one more day tomorrow, and he would have to go home the next day?
Jin Xi squatted beside the small stove where the medicinal juice was boiled in the kitchen, watching the flames bursting out from under the small red clay pot, her mind was spinning rapidly.If father drank the medicine prescribed by Dr. Zheng and his condition improved significantly, then he would feel relieved to go back to the village. If not, he would have to go to the county town!

Jin Xi brought the boiled concoction back to the hut over there, asked Mrs. Sun to feed it to Liang Yuzhong, then turned around and went to the kitchen without touching the floor.

When she took a pot of hot water to the hut over there, Cai Qingyang had already returned, sitting on the edge of the bed, supporting Liang Yuzhong from behind, and Mrs. Sun in front, taking small spoonfuls of water from the bowl. The concoction was fed into Liang Yuzhong's mouth little by little.

Every time Liang Yuzhong drank a spoonful, he heard a slight swallowing sound, and Sun's face showed a gleam of joy.Jin Xi stood at the foot of the bed with a hot water basin in her hand, and only let out a long breath when the medicine juice in the bowl drained.

It can be regarded as fed!
Cai Qingyang went outside to feed the horses fodder and water. Inside the house, Jinxi filled a large basin of hot water and poured half of it into another wooden basin they brought.Take out a few clean handkerchiefs from the furoki.

Mrs. Sun picked up one of the pots and went to wipe Liang Yuzhong's face and hands. I don't know if it was because the medicine prescribed by Dr. Zheng was right for the disease, or because of something else. All the way to be gentler.

Seeing that they were lying there with their eyes closed and lethargic, the number of convulsions and convulsions had decreased significantly, Sun and Jinxi here were slightly relieved.

After Jin Xi washed her face, she came over and pushed Mrs. Sun on the stool. "What are you doing, girl?" Sun asked in surprise as she looked at the girl who was squatting down in front of her.

"I'm going to iron my mother's feet!" Jin Xi said carelessly, lifted Sun's feet, and was about to take off her shoes and socks.

Ever since my father fell ill last night, my mother has never closed her eyes.After tossing and tossing all day, I nestled in this hut at night, although there was a charcoal fire basin, but the weather was freezing, and the doors and windows could not be compared with those at home.

Dad is a little better, at least lying on the bed, covered with a quilt.And mother, from morning to night, wore the same clothes, didn't eat lunch, didn't take a sip of hot tea, and was anxious and frightened.

Jin Xi is worried that if she freezes here for another night, she will collapse tomorrow.If you scald your feet properly, there are many acupuncture points on the soles of your feet, which can drive away some cold air and make your mother warmer.

Sun was startled, she retracted her feet, and said: "Mother is not cold, but you, this pair of shoes are under your feet when you go in and out this day, you should burn your feet well, don't freeze!" When you are done, you have to get up and give in.

Jin Xi had expected that she would do this a long time ago, so she held her still, giggled, and said, "Mother, burn her first, and then I'll go to the stove to scoop up water to burn her feet again!"

"How much hot water did you burn?" Sun asked.

"It's a lot, there's still half a pot in the big pot, mother, don't wait, I'll hurry to iron it later!" Jin Xi said, taking off Sun's shoes and socks quickly.

Sun believed it was true, bent down, and refused to let Jinxi take off the other shoe and sock for her, but said: "Mother is not seven years old, 80 years old, how can you serve me?"

Jin Xi knew that she was reluctant to do these things by herself, so she smiled and said: "When my mother is 80 years old, I will still serve you like this, let me practice my skills right now!" Saying this, she froze Sun's pair feet into the hot water.

Sun looked at the girl who was squatting in front of her, she was lowering her head, washing her feet gently.The corners of Sun's mouth were tightly pursed, and the sockets of her eyes were red again.

After soaking in the basin for a while, Mrs. Sun wiped her feet quickly, urging Jin Xi to burn her feet quickly.

Cai Qingyang returned to the house, and washed his feet hastily with the water left over from Liang Yuzhong's washing.

Jin Xi promised Sun, picked up the water basin and left the house.The pot in the kitchen was empty.There is still some water left in the water tank, which is reserved for cooking medicine and washing for everyone tomorrow morning, so it cannot be squandered.

Sitting at the door of the stove, Jinxi took off Sun's leftover water from the heater, took off her shoes and socks, and put her feet, which were so cold that their fingers were about to break off, into the water.

After a while, the feeling of the feet gradually recovered, and the fingers could be straightened slowly. Jin Xi hugged her knees and sat at the door of the stove, with her feet in the water that was about to cool down, and sighed comfortably...

After tossing and tossing for a long time, at this time, all the residents of the town lay down in warm quilts and met with Duke Zhou.

It was quiet all around, except for the occasional sound of clappers in the watchman's hands, which could be heard from far and near.

Suddenly, there was a light knock on the door of the kitchen, which seemed out of place and abrupt in this silent environment.

When she came here earlier, Mrs. Sun had been forced by her to take off her shoes and sat on the empty bed beside her.And Cai Qingyang also took off his shoes, put on his clothes and sat at the foot of Liang Yuzhong's bed.

Xiao Shunzi had already gone to sleep in the front yard. If Cai Qingyang had been ordered by Mrs. Sun to urge him to sleep, he would have stood outside the door and yelled, instead of knocking on the door like this, as if he was afraid of disturbing others.

So who is this person?

Jin Xi didn't make a sound, she had already put her feet back from the basin, and picked up the iron tongs that were used to hold firewood, and grabbed a handful of ashes from the bottom of the stove in her hand.

There was another slight knock on the door outside the house, and Jin Xi's heart was instantly lifted up, and the hands holding the iron tongs increased the strength, and her mind was thinking of countermeasures rapidly.

Suddenly, a very low voice came in.

"Miss, are you in there? I'm Ah Cai."

Ah Cai?It really was Ah Cai's voice!
Jin Xi let out a sigh of relief and said, "Come in."

As the door opened and closed, Ah Cai's familiar figure entered the room, with a bundle under his arm.

Jin Xi spotted Ah Cai and the bundle roll under his arm at a glance, presumably he must be the one who sent Liang Lihui back and heard the news from Cai Jinshan, so he was ordered by Cai Jinshan and Dong Ma to deliver things overnight, right?

I didn't ask much at the moment, the most urgent thing is to wipe my feet clean and put on shoes and socks. If I don't wear them again, the only trace of heat will slip away again.

As soon as he entered the door, he happened to see the young lady sitting there wiping her feet carelessly.Ah Cai blushed, turned his back like lightning, and closed his eyes.

"It's late at night, why come here?" Jin Xi asked without raising her head. After waiting for a while, she found that there was no response. She looked up and saw a lamp burning on the stove, bringing Ah Cai who was standing by the door His silhouette hit the wall beside him.

The young man's figure was stiff, his hands were clenched uncomfortably at his sides, his back was turned to this side, and he seemed to be avoiding something.

"Ah Cai, what's the matter with you? Come and talk!" she said.

"It's good here, I'm here to bring something to Miss." He said in a deep voice, pointing to the bundle under his arm without looking back.

Jin Xi was stunned for a moment, what happened to this man?Immediately after seeing his bare feet, he suddenly realized.

She pursed her lips and smiled, thanks to the two or three years of integration in this world, some details inevitably still carried the habits of her previous life.

I have forgotten that in this era, although the folk customs are open, lonely men and widows can also live in the same room and ride horses together for fun.

(End of this chapter)