Chu Yue smiled with crooked eyebrows.
"I rely on my master for cultivation."
"Miss Chu, why are you here today?" Shopkeeper Chen asked.
Chu Yue hurriedly took out the Polygonum multiflorum root behind her, "I have Polygonum multiflorum root here, can shopkeeper Chen accept it?"
"Collect it!" Shopkeeper Chen carefully took the Polygonum multiflorum from Chu Yue's hand, spread it on the counter, and said with excitement, "It's hard to find the Polygonum multiflorum. If you don't accept it today, I don't know if it will be available next time." See you again."
After a while...
"It's right Polygonum multiflorum, but the year is a little off." Shopkeeper Chen said, looking at Dr. Zhu aside, "Doctor Zhu also came to take a look."
After reading it, Dr. Zhu nodded and said, "What shopkeeper Chen said is true. If it takes another ten years, the price will probably quadruple."
Chu Yue nodded. She had carefully looked at the Polygonum multiflorum, and naturally knew that its shortcoming was its lack of age.
"Shopkeeper Chen, give me a real price. If it works, I'll sell it."
Shopkeeper Chen stretched out his thumb and index finger, "Eighty taels."
"Eighty-two taels." Chu Yue counter-offered directly.
Looking at her confident smile, shopkeeper Chen nodded in agreement, "Sure, you are such a clever girl, I can't deceive you about medicinal materials."
Chu Yue smiled.
"I know that Shopkeeper Chen is a good person and the price he offers is reasonable, but I feel that an extra two taels of silver won't have much impact on Shopkeeper Chen."
After a while, shopkeeper Chen settled the eighty-two taels of silver to Chu Yue.
"Shopkeeper Chen, could you please help me get some more prescriptions for Yinqiao Powder, Yupingfeng Powder and Guizhi Decoction? In addition, get me some more medicinal herbs such as Isatis root, Fangfeng, Astragalus and Atractylodes."
Doctor Zhu on the side looked at Chu Yue with surprise.
"Why did you grab so much medicine?"
"Senior brother, haven't you noticed that there have been particularly many people sick in recent days?"
"More is too much..." He suddenly realized something and quickly looked at Chu Yue, "Girl, do you think this situation is caused by the plague?"
Chu Yue said seriously, "I don't rule out this possibility, so I bought some medicinal materials to keep at home. Senior brother should also be careful in the town. It's best to cover your mouth and nose with cotton cloth on weekdays. It can play a preventive role to some extent. .”
Doctor Zhu nodded in agreement.
In a short moment, Chu Yue carried a large bag of medicinal materials and left Chen Ji Pharmacy.
Seeing this, Lu Dagui hurriedly jumped out of the mule cart, took the medicinal materials from her hand and put them into the mule cart.
Later, when passing by the grocery store, Chu Yue bought another large bag of ginger. Because the grocery store owner kept coughing, she covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief. Before getting on the mule cart, she threw away the handkerchief. of.
"Xinghe Wife, why did you buy so many medicinal materials?" Lu Shoucheng looked at the pile of things and expressed confusion.
Chu Yue just smiled.
"Buy some and keep them in case you need them."
After Lu Shoucheng heard this, he didn't ask any more questions, mainly because he suddenly realized that Chu Yue was a doctor after all, and there seemed to be nothing wrong with buying medicinal materials.
On the way home, Chu Yue saw several waves of people going to the town through the car window. Some with mild symptoms were just pale, while others with severe symptoms almost coughed up their lungs.
Seeing her look, Lu Xinghe put down the book in his hand.
"Is Yueyue worried about the plague?"
Chu Yue hummed.
"If a plague suddenly breaks out and the imperial court is not supplied with supplies in time, I am afraid many people will die."
What she fears most is that the plague will spread to her family.
Lu Shoucheng didn't know much about medicine, but he also knew how terrible the plague was.
"Is there a plague here?"
Chu Yue hurriedly comforted her, "Don't worry, fourth uncle. It's not a serious illness. It's just that if you don't get timely treatment, you will die. Master and I are still at home, so everything will be fine for the time being."
Thinking of Chu Yue and Zhang Zheng, Lu Shoucheng breathed a sigh of relief, but the look on his face became a little more solemn.
After returning home, Chu Yue and Lu Xinghe unloaded the medicinal materials they bought into the mule cart.
"Ah! Did you buy so many medicinal materials?" Seeing this, Yun Cuihe hurriedly ran over to help, "Several families came to you this morning with their children in their arms. I saw that each of them was similar to Xingping Tiedan. When they heard you weren't here, they left and said they would come back in the afternoon."
Chu Yue raised her eyebrows and said, "Where's the master?"
Yun Cuihe whispered, "Maybe they didn't know that Dr. Zhang was at home. I didn't tell him either. It was a cold day, so those people just asked at the door and hurried back with the child in their arms."
Chu Yue understood that she was not in a hurry after all. If the children in those families were seriously ill, they would come back again.
After eating, Chu Yue began to boil medicine in a large pot, and put the boiled medicine into a can for Lu Dagui to take to the town for the people to drink.
Everyone in the family also got a bowl. Although Xiaotao and Tiedan were afraid of the hardship, they both held their noses and downed the bowl.
After drinking the medicine, Chu Yue let several children go into the house. The main room was arranged to see patients and get medicine. After a while, people came to the house one after another with children in their arms.
Because of the cold weather, these people brought their children wrapped in thick quilts for fear of catching cold again on the road.
"Daughter-in-law Xinghe, could you please take a look at it? My grandson started having fever last night. His father bought him a pot of wine and wiped it with him, but it didn't feel better. What's going on?" The woman was worried.
Chu Yue's face was covered with a piece of cotton cloth. She smelled the strong smell of alcohol on the child and said with a frown, "If the child has a fever, you can wipe the body with warm water. Do not apply alcohol. It will not only harm the child's delicate skin, but may also cause Poisoned."
The woman looked surprised.
"Huh? Still like this? This has been passed down from generation to generation, and I thought it was just for drinking wine."
While checking the child's body, Chu Yue replied quietly, "Sometimes what is passed down from generation to generation may not be the most useful. Adults need to be careful when wiping alcohol when they have a fever, let alone a child?"
The woman heard it and took it to heart.
"What about my grandson?"
"After returning home, let him drink more warm water and wipe his body with warm water. Take one dose of Yinqiao Powder three times a day. Take it for three days to see the situation. If there is moxa at home, smoke it in the house every day to avoid The rest are infected."
As she spoke, she took out three sets of medicine from the medicine bag wrapped on the side and handed them to the woman.
The woman took the medicine and hurriedly thanked her, "Thank you, wife Xinghe. I wonder how much this medicine costs?"
"They are not very expensive medicinal materials. Three medicines cost sixty cents in total. I made a decoction to prevent colds in the kitchen. It cost two cents a bowl. Everyone in my family drank it. If you are afraid of infection, you can also spend two cents. You can have a drink for free."
Two pennies was not enough to make any money at all. The main reason was that the cold would spread to more people. When the time came, there would be insufficient medicinal materials and more people would die, and a more serious plague would break out.
The woman counted them on her fingers.
"There are a total of thirteen people in my family, old and young. A bowl of soup for each person will cost twenty-six cents."
