After the guests finished their meal, the restaurant was full of bowls and bowls.
The empty wine jars and hot handkerchiefs for wiping hands were scattered everywhere. There were also many chopsticks dropped on the floor, broken open and used as toothpicks, thrown into the rice bowl and thrown on the floor, everywhere.
Immediately afterwards, his family ate two more bites and left, making the room even more desolate.
The whole table was being cleaned while thinking about her elder sister.
No matter what, they are a good deal.
But she didn't know if her elder sister, Tian Xin and Youliang had eaten the hot meal.
The table was full of people blaming themselves. Just now they just hurriedly picked up the quilts, took the few tattered quilts they had made at home, and dug some dried cow dung to burn on the road, fearing that the drivers would get cold.
Why did you forget to decorate it with food? Let Youliang bring it to my sister. You can also decorate it with ready-made sugar-fried chestnuts and dried sweet potatoes.
Tian Xin can't do anything without snacks.
My sister’s Chihuahua always chews something in her mouth whenever she stays up late.
People only eat a few bites when they are hungry, but Tian Xin likes to eat a few bites even if she is not hungry.
Yu Qinniang suddenly entered the house carrying a large empty wooden basin.
Meizhuang was even more ruthless, she just brought two buckets of water in.
The two of them rolled up their sleeves and wanted to wash the dishes on the spot.
Washing the dishes in the Xu family restaurant has always been like this.
There is not much free space in the kitchen, and the kitchen also needs to be tidied up, so I simply paint it in the house and put it directly on the table to dry after brushing.
The whole table hurriedly took over and said: "Both of you are twins, especially you, Xiaoqin. The baby hasn't sat firmly yet. Why didn't you listen when I said you couldn't carry heavy objects? You two helped pick it up. Just pick up the table and sweep the floor."
When the table was full of people washing pots, they asked Yu Qinniang: "How much money did you bring to Youcang and the others? I must have been sick. As soon as I heard your uncle Guan talking about gastrodia, uncaria, salvia, musk and so on, I Heart pounding."
"Today, I brought all the money from selling food on both sides, totaling forty-six taels. By the way, auntie, how much money did your brother and I spend at that time?"
Yu Qinniang and the others have changed their tune. From now on, they no longer call the whole table aunt, but old aunt.
The whole table did not answer first, but sighed first:
"Alas, brain diseases are really not something that ordinary people like us can afford.
No wonder some people give up at the beginning.
I don’t know if your husband’s uncle will give you the money for the medicine. Now I am afraid that they will cheat and think that my daughter is not worthy. "
Then the table was filled with chatter, and they told Yu Qiniang and Meizhuang in detail:
"When the eldest son of my family was in trouble, he spent thirty-three taels for half a month. Well, the sky was about to fall at first. But later on, he was forced to do nothing. He didn't have enough food, so he had to sell two acres of high-quality farmland to save money. "
The whole table felt heartbroken when they thought of the two acres of land that had been sold for five or six taels less. They were so anxious to sell it that they didn't sell it at a high price.
Yu Qinniang asked: "How much will the family pay if the accident occurs?"
"Now that I think it's kind of righteous to come to that family, we will be embarrassed to come and make trouble later.
Because we all worked together, his family only spent seven and a half taels to build his son's new house, and after the accident, we were compensated sixty taels.
To put it bluntly, if we go all out to sue others, we will only get this, and that’s the end of it.
But we understand others, but who understands this natural and man-made disaster in our family.
When your eldest brother hit the back of his head, he was sent to the town hospital for emergency treatment.
Counting the 40 taels for the doctor's consultation fee, sixteen taels were spent in just two days. "
The whole table regretted to death that at that time, I had only believed in the rumor that Guan Ertu was going to kill people.
I'm always afraid that if I treat my butt, I'll be put to death, and if my brain is even more stupid, I don't believe in Guan Erbald.
Otherwise, Guan Ertu would only receive one or two taels. I heard that a few years ago, when I was treating a man who fell into a ditch in a foreign village, he walked ten miles every day from dawn to dusk, and it took more than a month to collect two taels.
She continued:
"Otherwise, I suspect that for a complete cure, the forty-six taels you give would be enough.
Like that musk, it seems to be horse musk. A small pinch (one gram) costs more than one or two silver coins.
Think about it, what is enough for a little bit?
There are also a few other notoginseng and other things that are valuable, and I have four decoctions a day.
Our family just wanted to save their lives, but we also found that your eldest brother was stupid, and we stopped taking the medicine completely after he was safe. We can't save him. We starve to death and only spend thirty-three taels in half a month.
Half a month, then if you want to be cured, this little money is just the beginning. "
People live a miserable life and their lives are worthless.
That's why the whole table cherished Mrs. Xu as her own mother.
Because despite the fact that their family’s working wages are the same as those of outsiders.
But her elder sister gave her eldest son some medicine, and he spent three to five taels a month on it. Guan Ertuo also gave me acupuncture and substituted cheap medicine with the same effect. How many months does it accumulate? This is all a favor, a favor that her grandson can't stop working for the Xu family.
So she was also very worried that Dafang would not give her elder sister money.
After all, if you calculate the money for the medicine, it is much more than the bride price from the girl's family.
If you want to cure Zhaodi quickly and completely, you can buy three oxcarts, or buy two half-dead maids, and kill her, no matter what.
The whole table glanced at Yu Qiniang and thought:
Even if you are lucky, you can buy three good daughters-in-law at such a cheap price.
Otherwise, if you have food, you are still a capable young man.
I heard that in those days, my elder sister scolded me, "It's time for you to find a wife." When people had enough food, they went out to find wives, and even matchmakers like her were of no use.
It only took a few days to row, and when he came home, he said that Yu Qinniang in the straw mat village was very good. And then the Yu family is not a family that sells girls, so the elder sister just comes to talk to her.
Yu Qiniang, a good daughter-in-law who is not as expensive as a scalper, and not as expensive as a maid under a death contract, how could she not feel sorry for money after hearing this. No one’s money comes from strong winds.
But that side is a life.
Like in the past, when the family didn’t have any extra money, they would feel helpless. Now that they do, it’s important to save lives first. Besides, my mother-in-law has to worry about these things, so she doesn't care about that much.
Mei Zhuang usually doesn't talk much, but this time even she couldn't hold back and said: "That guy in my house, I just spent so much money to buy him. I also bought him with his surname, and the child will take my surname. It depends on your thinking. Illness is really expensive.”
Not only is it expensive, but it also requires traveling around.
In the two bullock carts going to the town, the boys were too cold but too lazy to light the cow dung. They saved what they could, and even encountered a big tiger in the middle of the night.
Xu Youyin and Liu Jingdong immediately waved torches and shouted: "Brother, we are locals, don't be impulsive, we are all fellow villagers, please give way!"
The big tiger couldn't help but wonder: What are you calling? It startled me.
Leave it to you, Siberian tigers will not eat Northeasterners.
While speeding up the cattle cart, Youyin curiously asked Liu Jingdong: "Did it run away?" His niece missed seeing the tiger.
"No, Hou Yun'er was lying there and looking at us. She really gave way to us."
Houyun'er means the back.
Liu Jingdong's stomach growled with hunger, and he did not forget to look at the tiger and laugh.
Compared to that car, Xu Youcang was much calmer than Youyin and Liu Jingdong.
If the tiger dares to get in, the four of them will get in. There are hoes in the car.
Dali was holding up a torch and looking through the names of the medicines, and said, "It seems that I can't do it if I don't know how to read."
Xu Youcang is the one who is most impatient about literacy in his family. What happened this time about Zhao Di also made him feel that he must be patient and learn two words in the future, otherwise he will not be able to understand the prescriptions and will not know how to give him medicine. He also wanted Liu Jingdong to follow him.
In fact, every time he went out, he already felt that it was imminent to learn how to read. At this time, when he heard Dali say this again, he made up his mind and said: "Yeah."
The four "young men" in Erdaohe drove very fast. In the middle of the night, the oxen's hooves picked up snowflakes and ran.
At the same time, another car also entered Xujiazhuang.
Guan Ertuo held warm sleeves in his hands and looked at the lights in each house. He could tell that something had happened in the village tonight, and many people were still awake at such a late hour.
Xu Laoer carried the medicine box on his shoulder and held Guan Ertuo's exclusive medicine basin in both hands, leading the way.
Walking: "Uncle Guan?"
"You go in first while I pee."
Xu Laoer took two more steps and continued to urge with frowning: "Uncle Guan?"
"Ah, you're the one ahead, I'll blow my nose." Guan Ertu pinched his nose and shook it hard, coughing and spitting in the courtyard.
Mrs. Xu knew that Guan Tuzi was coming as early as the oxcart stop, and she also heard the conversation in the courtyard.
Normally, she would have stood at the door and glanced up and down at Guan Ertu.
If you want Guan's house to explode, the bald man can still do it and stand outside mumbling about it. He didn't do anything, so you can imagine his nagging temper.
But today, all the men, women and children in the clan are watching, a widower and a widow, scolding Guan Ertuo with her eyes for good words and bad words.
Mrs. Xu endured it.
Ren finally entered the room, and everyone said it was troublesome for Dr. Guan to come to see him in the middle of the night, but Guan Ertu was still there and didn't bother to return the favor.
Fortunately, her granddaughter came out and said, "Grandpa Guan."
"Hey, here it comes." Guan Ertu hurriedly ran into the house with the medicine box on his back. After a while, he asked about the needles he had received, and then threw out a few paper bags to greet Xu Youliang: "Follow what I taught you on the road. Take these medicines first."
Old Mrs. Xu breathed a sigh of relief as she sat beside the kang.
But what the old lady didn't know was that her granddaughter in the room was also a little helpless towards Grandpa Guan.
Grandpa uncle looked at Guan Ertuo and Xu Tianxin as if they were performing a mime.
Guan Ertu took out a cotton bag from his arms and inserted the needle inside.
He found a needle and took it in his mouth.
In fact, this needle had just pricked a pustule on a customer not long ago.
Xu Tianxin quickly took it over, took out the filtered wine she had left with Grandpa Guan from the medicine box, wiped it with cotton and handed it over. I also wiped Grandpa's hands by the way.
Guan Er flicked his bald needle and went straight to Yintang.
Xu Tianxin asked if there would be any scars?
"Of course... I will stay."
Guan Ertu changed the needle, took out the horn needle again and saw that the eye was deformed. The needle was bent. He threw it on the ground and polished it with his feet, then picked it up and put it in his mouth to sip.
When Xu Tianxin was about to put the needle in his mouth, he quickly grabbed the needle and wiped it with wine before passing it over.
It's time to show your true abilities.
Guan Ertu commanded his eldest disciple: "Tian Xin, open her mouth, then lift the tip of her tongue and press it hard." He looked at his uncle and grandpa: "You come and fix her head."
Guan Ertu aimed at the dark and superficial parts of Jinjin and Yuye points, and quickly pricked and bled the two acupuncture points in Zhaodi's mouth.
The fingertips of Xu Tianxin's hand placed in Zhaodi's mouth were covered in blood.
This was not the end, Guan Ertuo also attacked the pharynx, and he never forgot to look for cases to teach his disciples: "The brain is the Sui Sea, where the essence is transformed, and it is the house of the original god, commanding the whole body. Remember to pierce from the head to the whole body. The Sanyinjiao acupoints on the feet. Baihui, Shenting and Yintang should be repeatedly rotated to flatten and relieve diarrhea. Fengchi acupoint should also be slowly lifted and rotated, so as to completely slow down the brain and calm the wind and refresh the brain."
The uncle and grandfather next to him said excitedly: "I have learned a lesson." I learned a lot from it.
As Guan Ertuo spoke, he took out the moxibustion again and inserted it directly into the needle for moxibustion.
At this time, the needle was left on the acupuncture point: "This may prevent her from waking up and talking nonsense, and stop being like the eldest son of your desk nurse's family."
Guan Ertuo never dared to tell the whole table, he felt that the boy was still too late to be cured.
At the beginning, the doctors in the town were only asked to take pulses and make decoctions, but not to prick acupuncture points.
It is not easy for him to question other people's medical skills, and each person treats the disease one by one. Anyway, if it were him, he would definitely use all the methods available.
As for whether it is useful, it depends on the efficacy. How can we know?
Guan Ertuo was stabbed from head to inner ankle by Zhaodi, and Xu Tianxin asked him to take off his clothes, but he said no.
It's a joke, if he didn't have the skills to tie up one piece of clothing accurately, he would have starved to death long ago.
It only took a stick of incense to finish them all, and Zhaodi had more than a dozen needles inserted all over her body.
Guan Ertu then sat down and closed his eyes to feel his pulse. After a while, he stood up and asked Xu Tianxin to take the medicine.
"Did you find anything?"
"A little weak."
"Yes, the Chi pulse on both sides is weak, the two inches are stringy and stringy, and the heart meridian is stagnant. If you take a closer look at the pulse, you will find that this is a pulse condition that means you don't want to live. In this case, it will be useless even if the Great Luo God comes. Please give me some advice first. She, I think she can hear it. Only if you want to survive can you wake up from a serious illness. If you don't think so, even a minor illness will suffocate you to death."
My uncle and grandpa kept saying: "Yes, yes, it seems that I did not make a mistake in this diagnosis."
Then the two of them sat there as if nothing was wrong, waiting for the time for the needles to be applied to the acupuncture points.
Xu Tianxin turned around and looked at the two old Chinese medicine doctors. Even if she persuaded them, should you two avoid them first?
never mind.
Xu Tianxin sat by the kang and held Zhaodi's hand, not avoiding anyone.
Even the two daughters-in-law of this family came into the house to deliver scrubs and sugar water, and heard the exact words of Xu Tianxin's advice.
"Zhao Di, if you just disappear like this, everyone will just sigh when they mention you.
It's a pity and pitiful thing to say that you died at such a young age.
And within three months, some people in this world will no longer mention you, and some people will even mention you, which will result in many people scolding you.
Because they may have long since lost their initial pity and respect for you, but they will use you to teach others that you are a pure heartless person who doesn’t even take his own life seriously. No wonder her parents don’t take it either. She took it seriously.
Just die, her parents are not living as usual, her brother is also getting married, and the suona sedan chair is noisy with gongs and drums.
Then have you thought about another half year or a year? "
When the two daughters-in-law heard these words, they thought to themselves: Emma, this is not what happened. It’s easy to say this if you can’t help yourself. My face feels a little warm for no reason, but that’s not okay, it’s not good to say that.
Xu Tianxin held Zhaodi's hand tightly and continued to persuade calmly:
“So fight for your breath.
Don’t you have no hope? Zhaodi, when she wakes up, she is no longer my sister-in-law, but a member of my family.
Don't you want to see and be curious about how good your life will be if you follow me in the future?
This is hope. I, Xu Tianxin, never talk empty words.
If you want to find an excellent husband, I will introduce him to you. If you want to become a female householder and have your own house on your own, I will give you the opportunity to make money with you.
Then use how good your life is to resist them and get rid of them.
And the better you live, the more it will prick their eyes, because they will regret it. If they had known that this daughter would have such a fate behind her, it would be better to keep a thin line in life. They will blame each other and complain again and again, and they will no longer be able to take advantage of each other.
Even years later, if they brag about you and say that you are their daughter, you can say to your face that I don’t know you.
Which do you think is more relieving, death or this? "
When the woman heard this, she couldn't help but hurried out to find her man to broadcast live: "Oh my God, I need to introduce someone to her."
That designation was a good match. Tian Xin knew the female general, and his subordinates were all young men.
There was still a woman lingering in the room, and she planned to listen to a few more words.
Guan Ertu glanced at her, what are you doing? Do you have to drink up the sugar water in one gulp?
The woman regretted staying longer because Xu Tianxin's next words brought tears to her eyes.
“Don’t let me go to all this trouble to save you in vain.
Don’t you like the pink dress my uncles gave me? Next spring, I will give you a pink dress.
I don’t want to hear you say thank you, I want to see you wearing it in spring, standing on the green grass picking mushrooms... Zhaodi? ! "
Tears filled the corners of Xu Zhaodi's eyes, and she slowly opened her eyes and looked at Tian Xin.
The woman's tears suddenly rolled down her face. She was so excited that she ran out and shouted, "Emma, Tian Xin told Zhao Di that her heart has warmed up, and she woke up!"
Everyone waiting in the hall stood up in surprise.
Mrs. Xu was surrounded and walked over, wiping the blood from the acupuncture points, which was so scary: "Do you still know who I am?"
Zhaodi whispered: "Second Aunt."
The old lady in the next room couldn't get up, and she was crying thanking God.
After Mrs. Xu saw Zhao Di drink the medicine and come out of the house again, she asked everyone to help her take Tian Xin away without telling her.
It happened that Uncle Xu and Xu Youshu entered the hospital again.
Relatives in the clan thought that Uncle Xu had just settled his daughter-in-law, otherwise he would never have left without returning.
Unexpectedly, another bullock cart arrived at the door right after.
Xu Youyin's news came in: "That's great, it's freezing for us. But uncle, if I don't go to find you, won't you guys come?"
"Also, the medicine has just been taken. It took five days. My third brother even asked the medical clinic to write a receipt for you to see. Don't forget to give the forty taels of silver to my family."
So at this time, the relatives in the clan not only immediately understood why Zhao Di was taken away without telling her, but they also planned not to tell Zhao Di that she was awake. Look what your biological father and brother have to say.
(End of chapter)
