"Suihe, go and invite that old gentleman over." Wei Yunlan instructed.
Cheng Yue'e was feeding little Jiarong goat's milk porridge. The previous sheep was gone, so this time she bought a new one in Suijiang.
After hearing what Wei Yunlan said, I couldn't help but look over there.
The old man over there had messy hair, a scruffy beard, and his clothes were torn into strips. His wrinkled face looked very unfamiliar. "Who is that?"
Wei Yunlan then remembered that her sister-in-law had a fever and was confused that day, and she was asleep when the old man came.
"It turned out to be the doctor who treated me that day." Cheng Yue'e was surprised and said, "I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence that I could meet him here again."
Isn’t it a coincidence?
From Zhuozhou to Suizhou, although the names are similar, the distance between them is more than two or three hundred miles?
Not to mention the Yueheng Mountains, I don't know how this old doctor came to Suizhou...
As he was speaking, Suihe had already invited the old man over.
On the way over, the old man was still mumbling, "You better be busy, otherwise you'll delay me from getting porridge..."
Halfway through his conversation, he saw Wei Yunlan and Cheng Yue'e standing next to the carriage, and his eyes widened in shock as he asked, "Hey, it's you guys?"
Wei Yunlan smiled faintly and nodded, "Old sir, long time no see. I didn't expect to meet you here."
"Not long at all." The old man muttered in a low voice.
As he spoke, his stomach growled, a few degrees louder than his muttering. His face turned red and he covered his stomach in embarrassment.
"Ningshuang, bring a bowl of porridge."
Wei Yunlan didn't show any abnormality on his face. "Old sir, there just happened to be some porridge left at home. If you don't mind, would you like to have a bowl first?"
“Not at all.” Smelling the aroma of rice so close, the old man felt even hungrier. He hurriedly took the bowl of porridge and began to drink it up.
This bowl of rice porridge is real rice porridge, not the rice soup served at the city gate.
After eating a bowl of soup, the feeling of hunger finally got better.
Just as I was about to put the bowl down, a spoonful of hot rice porridge was scooped in.
Without even opening his mouth to speak, the old man continued to gulp down his drink.
After finishing this bowl, he finally felt relaxed all over. He couldn't help but let out a long sigh of satisfaction and said to Wei Yunlan and Cheng Yue'e in front of him gratefully, "Thank you, Miss and this lady."
"A meal is a life-saving favor. Unfortunately, my medicine box and money were robbed, so I have nothing to repay you two. How about I write down the formula of the wound ointment for you two?"
"That's not necessary. You're too polite, old sir." The ointment for external injuries was indeed useful. The one Wei Yunlan used on the scrape on her thigh, and the one on Wei Maolin's neck, were all the ointments given by the old man.
However, Wei Yunlan would not do such a thing as to take advantage of someone's kindness and steal the secret recipe, not to mention that what she wanted was not just a prescription.
"I wonder why the old man is here?"
"Alas!" The old man sighed before he spoke, "I am so unlucky!"
It turned out that a few days ago, after the exile team left, a young man from the village who was working as a bodyguard outside came to him and said that the only son of a wealthy businessman in Hanzhou had a strange disease. The wealthy businessman hired doctors from all over the place to treat him at a high price. No matter whether the disease could be cured or not, as long as the doctor had real skills, not only would his travel expenses be covered, but he would also give an extra 50 taels of silver as a red envelope.
If he could really cure the disease, he would receive a thousand taels of silver as a reward and a deed to a three-courtyard property in Hanzhou Prefecture.
Having said this, the old man tremblingly took out a piece of thin paper from his arms.
Wei Yunlan, Cheng Yue'e, and Gao, who had just gotten off the carriage, all looked surprised, "You cured the rich businessman's only son?"
Otherwise where would the title deed come from?
The old man nodded, but there was no joy on his face. "Alas, I shouldn't have been so greedy."
Why did he have to go to Hanzhou for no reason?
Wouldn't it be good to just stay in the village?
"Don't mention it. I just cured the rich businessman's only son and received a thousand taels of silver as a thank you and this land deed. Then Hanzhou suffered a disaster and the entire city collapsed!"
The old man shook the deed in his hand and said, "This yard is completely buried underground."
"But I still had some money at that time, and I wanted to return to Zhuozhou quickly, but..."
"One thousand taels of silver were stolen?" Little Jiayan blinked his big eyes. He still remembered that the old man said at the beginning that his medicine box and silver were stolen!
"That's not the case." Even worse than being robbed by refugees, "My 1,000 taels of silver were stolen by the young man from the same village who brought me there!"
As for the medicine box and the small change on his body, they were stolen by the refugees he met while fleeing eastward.
With so many people gathered around to listen to him, the old man started to talk.
"That young man's father is the village chief, and his uncle is working in the county government. Even if I go back to denounce him, I'm afraid I won't get any good results. If I had known this, I shouldn't have followed him to Hanzhou."
"No, I shouldn't have stayed in their village to practice medicine!"
From what the old doctor said, he probably doesn't plan to go back to his village in Zhuozhou.
Although it was a bit unkind, Wei Yunlan's eyes lit up when he heard this.
He extended an invitation, "If you have no other plans for the time being, why don't you join us?"
"We will have enough food for the journey, but money is another matter. If you want to leave after we get there, it's up to you."
The old man showed some intention, but he did not forget to ask: "Where are you going?"
"North Gate." Wei Yunlan answered truthfully, but he felt in his heart that his plan would most likely fail.
It is autumn now and the north is cold. Most people are unwilling to go to the north at this time, let alone a place as far as the border.
Just when she thought the old man was about to refuse, she heard the word "simple" in her ears.
"make a deal!"
…
Leave the disaster area and continue north.
The old doctor who joined the team was named Yu. Although he practiced medicine in the countryside, he was more capable than some famous doctors Wei Yunlan had met in Beijing.
Not long after they set out on the journey, Guixiang's vertigo, which had been plaguing her for days, was cured with a single needle.
In just one day, the scar on Wei Maolin's neck faded by three points, Jiayan's cough improved a lot, and even around the temporary camp in the wild, there were fewer mosquitoes!
The guards from Tianshu Pavilion who were following the Wei family north were amazed.
This is a wasteland forest at the junction of Sui, Chong and Lian states, and is a no-man's land. Whether it is to the charcoal kiln or the mine, it is less than a hundred miles away.
As night fell, Yu Qi quietly came to Wei Yunlan's side and said, "This old doctor Yu doesn't look like an ordinary barefoot doctor in the village. Miss Wei, do you want to find someone to check it out?"
Wei Yunlan actually thought of this, but still shook his head, "Forget it, don't employ someone if you doubt him, and don't doubt someone if you employ him."
Just as he finished speaking, in the silent night, the roar of a wild beast suddenly sounded from deep in the forest.
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