For Jiang Yue, the current temperature is probably around 28-30°. It's a bit hot wearing single clothes, but it's still bearable.
For the big furnace Jiangnian, it may not be possible.
His clothes were soaked with sweat, so Jiang Yue asked him to take off his shirt and lie still on the kang. All the quilts and mattresses were put away, but fortunately it was still cool on the kang.
Jiang Yue was afraid that he would faint from the heat, so she quickly made two sets of vests and shorts for him to change into.
"Do I have to wear underwear?"
"Cough, cough!" Jiang Yue was drinking water and almost choked to death. "You must wear them! Didn't I make a few new ones for you using the thinnest cotton cloth?"
Jiang Yue: This feels like a conversation between an old couple who have lived together for decades. Da Zai really doesn't know what shame is.
Jiang Nian frowned, no matter how thin he was, it felt uncomfortable.
Jiang Yue looked out the window and saw that the scorching sun in the sky was probably going to be extremely hot.
"You stay at home and rest, I'll go to the hospital to buy some things."
Jiang Nian disagreed and insisted on following, even if it was so hot that it exploded.
He learned the word "explosion" from Jiang Yue, and it describes it to the extreme. The balls are so delicious that they explode, the weather is so hot that they explode, and the underwear feels so uncomfortable that it explodes...
Jiang Yue's head was about to explode.
Zheng's Medical Center is now only half-open. It can diagnose pulses and treat diseases, but cannot prescribe medicine. The warehouse is already empty, and the medicinal material dealers cannot receive the medicinal materials. How can they deliver them?
She just came to try her luck and see if she could exchange for some saltpeter.
Shopkeeper Zheng was a little surprised, few people came to ask this question.
Saltpeter is useful in medical clinics, but it is not a commonly used medicine. There happens to be a small bag in the warehouse.
It’s just that when the medical center is short of medicine, how can it be given out?
"I'll exchange it for medicinal materials."
Shopkeeper Zheng's heart skipped a beat and he quickly invited her into the backyard.
What Jiang Yue has in hand are several types of the most commonly used medicinal materials, which can be used to prepare prescriptions for common diseases such as wind, cold, fever, cough, and diarrhea.
She multiplied very quickly in her space. Although it was a drop in the bucket for the medical clinic, it was the only medicinal material they received.
Sure enough, shopkeeper Zheng was very satisfied. The medicinal materials were good and the preparation method was basically correct, so he accepted them all.
I don’t know if the drug farmer they cooperated with is still alive, and the medicinal material dealer is nowhere to be seen. They almost have to start collecting medicinal materials from scratch.
Jiang Yue also got her wish and received the small bag of saltpeter. Save it for use when the heat is at its peak.
When I went back and passed the cloth store, it was only half open.
The waiter in the store was not there, but the shopkeeper came out to greet the customers in person.
Jiang Yue was startled. When she saw her before the snowstorm, she was still a 30-year-old pretty woman. But now, she has sunken eye sockets, a few horizontal lines that add to her old-fashioned look, and she looks like she has no flesh on her body.
If you had never seen her before, you would have thought she was an old woman.
I don’t know what he has been through, and his voice is hoarse. "You two gentlemen, you can see whatever you want."
There were very few things left on the cabinet, as if it had been looted, and everything could be seen at a glance.
"Shopkeeper, I want a scarf."
The shopkeeper was not as talkative as before and put the green gauze scarf on the counter, "Only these are the ones left."
Jiangyue spreads out, one piece is about 2 feet in size, and there are 6 pieces in total.
"I want them all."
"A total of three taels of silver."
Gauze scarves at this time were quite expensive, and almost only the ladies in the boudoir of wealthy families could use them. But she had to buy it too.
After paying the money and walking out the door, Jiang Yue looked back and saw the shopkeeper sitting behind the counter in a daze. There was no surprise after collecting the money, as if he had lost his energy.
Everyone has his or her own suffering.
As soon as he got home, Jiang Nian couldn't wait to change his clothes, wearing only shorts.
Jiang Yue shook her head. She didn't know how he was going to spend July and August, wandering around in his underwear... It was okay, as long as he was willing to wear underwear.
Move a dozen mint trees out of the space and plant them in the yard, just around the front and back of the house, to prevent some mosquitoes. She picked it up casually when she was in the mountains. At that time, she only wanted to use it for eating and drinking, but she forgot that it had this function.
"Big boy, come and help me sharpen the stick."
Jiang Nian took the knife and, under her instructions, cut the stick as smooth as possible.
His knuckles were thick, but his fingers were also long, and one big hand could easily wrap around both of her hands. The movements of the knife were very clean and neat, and the stick was quickly sharpened.
With sticks, she made an ugly but practical bed curtain. The three sides and top are made of leftover moldy fabric, and the front is made of gauze. This can be enclosed to block mosquitoes but also provide ventilation and light.
At night, the two of them lay on the kang bed, with the bright moonlight shining on the ground through the window, feeling quite comfortable.
But after just one day of relaxation, flies were flying all over the sky.
Jiang Yue wore a mask and wrote more than a dozen anonymous letters, asking Jiang Nian to send them to the prefect, the county magistrate's office, the back house and other places, complaining that the Wang family had disturbed the city's environment, causing people in several streets to almost die from the stink!
Magistrate Zhang thought that the natural disaster had passed and was just about to have a good sleep when he received this letter.
At first he thought it was ridiculous, thinking it was just a joke between neighbors and someone was pretending to be mysterious.
But I received more than a dozen letters in a row, all of them suing Wang Xiucai's family. The county magistrate also came to report the matter. He had the reputation of being a scholar, but Magistrate Zhang did not take him seriously but could not despise him, so he took his official to the Wang family.
He could already smell the stench from the carriage, two houses away.
When we got to the gate, the smell was even worse.
Magistrate Zhang's face was extremely dark, he covered his nose and asked the Yamen to knock on the door.
Seeing such a battle, the neighbors thought that Wang Xiucai was a good scholar and was appreciated by the adults. Everyone came out to join in the fun - after the snowstorm, they were in the mood to care about their neighbors again.
The person who opened the door was Uncle Wang. When he saw the Yamen official, his legs went weak, and he trembled and called his nephew, "Wen'er! An adult is here to see you! You are so powerful!"
Magistrate Zhang: Thank you very much.
Wang Wen came out with his whole family, smiling and sincerely greeting the adults.
Magistrate Zhang looked at this so-called young talent and felt that the rumors were wrong. He shook his head and said disappointedly, "Students should be encouraged to work hard. But now that you are the head of the family, you should also shoulder the important responsibilities of the family. You should not be single-minded. Use it for schoolwork and ignore housekeeping..."
Wang Wen was confused, and then heard, "...the stench in your yard is abnormal, which hinders the lives of neighbors and is not conducive to good neighborly relations..."
The Jiang family didn't go out today, but the neighbor on the right side of the Wang family came. He never understood what Mr. Zhang and Wen Zou said, but when it came to the stench, he stood up and complained.
"Please make the decision for the people! In order to save money for night incense, the Wang family dumped their excrement in the courtyard. It was okay when it was cold, but now it is hot, it really stinks and attracts many mosquitoes. We have to eat it." I can’t eat or sleep well!”
