The next day, Lu Xingping's condition improved. Except that he was still a little weak, the other symptoms were gone.
Lu Dagui and Tie Dan came home early in the morning. In addition to his own patched cotton coat, Tie Dan was also covered with a tattered cotton coat of Lu Dagui's. The large cotton coat was put on him, like a clothes rack, and he almost couldn't see it. Someone has arrived.
"Why are you wearing such a big outfit?" Yun Cuihe asked immediately when she saw Tiedan.
Lu Dagui scratched his head in embarrassment.
"Tiedan's cotton-padded coat is made of loose cotton and is too thin to wear. I don't know how to make clothes, and the weather is really cold, so I can only make do with my old clothes for him to wear outside."
"You are the father..." Yun Cuihe shook her head, "Otherwise, there must be a woman in the family. A child without a mother is pitiful."
Lu Dagui lowered his head slightly.
"I was too badass in the past, otherwise Tiedan wouldn't have left."
"You've already left. After all, you have changed your ways and your life will get better and better in the future." Yun Cuihe sighed, roughly measured Tiedan's length with his hand, stood up and said, "I happen to have some cotton at home. , I will make him a new coat later, and regard it as a New Year’s gift to Tiedan.”
After hearing this, Lu Dagui hurriedly bowed and said, "Thank you very much, Auntie."
Yun Cuihe waved her hand and said, "No need to thank me. You have done your best in my house during this period. A cotton coat is nothing."
During this period, Lu Dagui was asked to go to town to supervise the work, and he was paid thirty cents a day. With his help at home, Chu Yue felt much more relaxed.
After eating, Chu Yue gave Lu Dagui twenty taels of silver and a list of medicinal materials.
"Brother Dagui, you will go there today to see how the market is there. If the price is reasonable, I will ask my fourth uncle to accompany you on another trip tomorrow."
Lu Dagui didn't say anything, he just nodded and said yes.
Hitching up the mule cart, he set out.
After a while, people came to the house one after another with their children in their arms. This time, not only the children in their arms, but also several adults began to cough and wheeze.
Seeing this, Chu Yue hurriedly smoked mugwort in the main room.
Because Lu Yufang wanted to study medicine with Chu Yue, she came up right after dinner. She put a face towel next to her and watched how she analyzed the symptoms, while helping to get medicine. She also had to go to the kitchen to bring medicine to others, and was so busy that she didn't even have time to rest. No.
"Yufang, please take a rest first. I'll take my time. It'll be okay." Chu Yue said from the side.
Lu Yufang shook her head.
"Don't look at me running in and out. In fact, I'm not as tired as you. You worked hard and took a lot of time."
He also persuaded the villagers while grabbing medicine.
"I tell you, don't be reluctant to spend money. You have to drink the preventive decoction when you need it. On weekdays, a dose of medicine costs dozens of yuan and you only need to boil three bowls of medicine at most. A bowl of decoction that costs two cents is already a loss. The deal is done. Yueyue came up with this method because she was afraid that everyone would be infected with the disease and could not be cured by medicine. Most of the people who drank the decoction yesterday were fine. Today, everyone drank a bowl as a precaution and spent two pence. It’s better to drink a bowl of soup than to spend more money on medicine and suffer the consequences yourself, what do you think?”
Everyone was surprised when they heard this.
"Disease?!"
"The infection spreads so fast, what else is it if it's not an epidemic?" Lu Yufang looked at the big guys, "You guys need to pay more attention to it. Try not to run around at home if you have nothing to do. If there is any wormwood, smoke it in the house every day. That is to say, we still have Yueyue and Doctor Zhang in our village, while the rest of the villages are dragging their illnesses to the town."
After saying this, the villagers suddenly reacted.
"Then you really need to drink this medicine. I will go back and call all my family members to drink the medicine."
"I have to go quickly too."
"Oh my god, it's actually an epidemic. No wonder so many people have been sick in the village recently."
"It's not just our village. When I went to the town to collect relief food yesterday afternoon, there were a lot of coughing and wheezing people rushing to the town."
Upon hearing this, those who were originally reluctant to spend the two cents on the medicine no longer cared about the money. They all brought their families to Lu Xinghe's house to queue up to receive the medicine.
Seeing that Yun Cuihe and Lu Xing'an were too busy making medicine, Lu Yufang went down the mountain and called her mother to help.
After boiling four pots of medicine, almost everyone in the village drank it.
On the second day, significantly fewer people came to see a doctor at home, and most of them came to ask for preventive medicine.
Lu Dagui bought medicinal materials from the county town yesterday, and brought some with him when he came back. The medicine materials at home are enough for the time being, so he called his fourth uncle and Lu Dagui to go to the county town again today.
At times like this, it is particularly important to have sufficient medicinal materials.
Seeing that there were not many patients in the room and Zhang Zheng and Lu Yufang were there, Chu Yue finally got some free time, so she went to the old house with the money she got from selling Polygonum multiflorum last time.
It was Wang Xuelan who opened the door, "Yue Yatou, are you not busy today?"
Chu Yue rubbed her arms and said with a smile, "As soon as I had some free time, I came over to grandma's side."
Wang Xuelan hurriedly pulled her into the room.
"Come in quickly, it's getting cold."
Chu Yue entered the house, said hello to Lu Tiesheng, and then took out the eighty-two taels of silver.
"Milk, this is the money from selling Polygonum multiflorum, a total of eighty-two taels, you count."
Hearing the amount of silver, Lu Tiesheng couldn't help but glance at Chu Yue's hand.
"Sold for so much money."
Chu Yue smiled and said, "Polygonum multiflorum is valuable. Next time I dig it, I have to be careful."
Lu Tiesheng sighed.
"Well, God opened his eyes to this kind of good luck once, and I never dare to think about it happening again."
Wang Xuelan took Chu Yue's hand and said, "There's no need to count. How can I not believe you? But where did you borrow the money to buy the shop? Are they not in a hurry for you to pay it back?"
Chu Yue didn't hide it.
"Master gave it to him. He is alone and has nowhere to spend money. He is not in a hurry for me to pay it back. He said he would give it to him when he has the money."
When the two elders heard that it was from Zhang Zheng, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"I didn't expect that brother Zhang to be quite rich."
Wang Xuelan rolled her eyes at him, "Doctor Zhang hides his secrets, do you think he is the same as you? There are some good things in the house, and I can't wait to show them off in every household."
Chu Yue covered her mouth and smiled.
"Now that the money has been handed over to the nurse, I will go back first. I'm afraid there are still things at home."
"Hey, there are a lot of people sick these days. You should go back quickly." Wang Xuelan said before sending Chu Yue out.
Chu Yue hurriedly pushed her back into the room.
"It's cold outside, so I'll stay indoors. I'll close the door behind me when I go out."
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When I got home, there was already a long queue of people outside the door to receive soup and medicine.
"Doctor Chu is back."
Most people who usually call Chu Yue "Xinghe's Wife" changed their name to Dr. Chu in the past two days.
People who didn't believe in Chu Yue's medical skills before, but as the condition of the villagers improved, they also looked at her with admiration. The original attitude of inquiry was now more of affirmation and respect.
Chu Yue looked at one of the women with a smile.
"Sister-in-law Li, is your Damao feeling better today?"
Mrs. Li hurriedly smiled and said, "Thanks to you, I am much better today. I still have a fever, but it is not as severe as yesterday. I can run around and eat."
"That's good. You continue to line up. There are still patients in the room. I'll go inside first."
Chu Yue said and walked towards the main room.
Everyone hurriedly said, "Hey, you are busy with your own business, don't worry about us."
When Chu Yue came to the main room, she saw Lu Yufang fetching water and wiping the body of a child with fever.
"Yueyue, you're here."
Chu Yue hummed and approached her, "What's wrong with this child?"
