Chapter 62: Going into the City to Shop
"Yes." Du Wanwan told Du Jiang confidently, "It's just that the process is a bit painful, you have to endure it."
Yao Meixian answered for him: "No matter how painful it is, you have to grit your teeth and bear it. Once you are cured, you will be able to walk more comfortably in the future."
Du Jiang sat there in a daze, touching his injured leg, and didn't say anything for a long time. His daughter's words really shocked him. He didn't expect that a leg that had been broken for more than ten years could be healed.
My daughter’s medical skills are incredible.
What Du Wanwan was thinking was that after she had fed her father the spiritual spring water for so long, his physical condition had finally reached the standard to allow him to have his broken leg reattached.
Since he will be riding in a car all the time on the road anyway, it would be better to get his leg treated. When he arrives in Liang County, he will be as healthy as new and people will not look down on him.
Du Jiang and Yao Meixian always listened to their daughter's words, and they were very happy to know that she had earned money.
From now on, their family will have to rely on their daughter for support. The three sons in the family are still young and incompetent, so their daughter is their backbone.
We set out on the journey at dawn and arrived at a town in the afternoon.
There were two words engraved on the gate tower, which were too blurry to be clearly seen. I asked someone and found out that it was "Jing County".
There were soldiers guarding the city gate. The main gate was closed, but a small gate was open. Many people who had fled famine gathered outside, and they had arrived earlier than the people from Huojia Village and Dujia Village.
There were a few soldiers sitting behind a table near the small door. After asking around, I found out that was the place where new soldiers were recruited into the army.
This is different from military service. Military service is conscription by the imperial court, but they recruited privately. Some people have asked, and those who are willing to go will be given two taels of silver per month.
The first month was a little more, five taels of silver.
Some people in the refugee group went ahead, some were struggling, and most people were just watching silently.
There were also people in Jing County driving horse-drawn carriages out, loaded with boxes, bedding, pots and pans, and it seemed they were also fleeing from the famine.
Du Wanwan discussed with the members of the Huojia Village Protection Team and decided to rest for one night not far from the city gate and leave tomorrow morning. She wanted to go into the city to buy some supplies.
The village guard captain thought it was right. He didn't know if he would encounter a city if he went further. He could buy something here. He was prepared early and not panic.
Huo Si'en asked every household that wanted to buy something to register and then let the village protection team go in to buy it.
When the old patriarch of the Du family saw that the people from the Huo family village were going to the city, he also asked the people from the Du family village to register and sent two people in to buy things.
The cost of entering the city is really too expensive, one or two taels of silver per person. At this price, it is impossible for every household to afford to enter.
It would be best to send two representatives, one to buy things and one to stay in the car.
Du Wanwan went in alone and was not counted as one of the people in Huojia Village. She paid for her capitation out of her own pocket. Huo Qingxiang also wanted to go into the city to have a look, but her grandfather would not let her.
She was very angry, but she didn't dare to go against her grandfather's wishes.
After being teased by the Prince of Pingyang that night, Grandpa no longer had a good face towards her. If she were at home, he would definitely lock her up.
Her parents also scolded her, saying that she had brought shame to the Huo family.
Her father angrily told her: "The son of the Marquis of Pingyang is not something a family like ours can dream of. From now on, you should be obedient and find someone to marry as your principal wife. If you dare to be someone's concubine, I will break your legs."
The younger sisters in the family laughed at her, saying that she was a toad wanting to eat swan flesh.
She was so angry! She wanted to scold Du Dalang. If she hadn't refused to give the prince water, how could she have volunteered to help?
How could she be immobilized by the acupuncture points pressed by the prince if she didn't run over? The people in Dujia Village were right to call her a disaster star. She was a disaster star.
When Huo Qingxiang heard that she was going to the city, she felt sour inside. Why could she come up with one or two taels of silver as a head fee, but she couldn't?
Watching Du Wanwan follow the village protection team into the city, Huo Qing's nose was crooked by the fragrance.
Huo Sien glanced at his granddaughter, ignored her, shook his head and walked away. He used to think his granddaughter was smart, but since she met Du Dalang, he felt that he was just looking at the world from a well.
That girl is a capable person. Not only does she know medicine, she is also extremely smart.
Even though he saved the son of Marquis Pingyang, he never showed off. He was calmer than the average man. Compared with his granddaughter, he was many times stronger.
There is no harm without comparison.
Look at the girl raised by others, and then look at the one in my own family. The more I look at her, the more I dislike her.
When he saw the son of Marquis Pingyang, he was like a fly seeing a rotten egg, and kept circling around him, making him lose all his face.
From then on, he didn't know where to put his face when he saw people. Because of her, the prince said that his family education was not very good.
How embarrassing?
He is the head of the clan and a scholar after all. He is accused of having no family education and raising a granddaughter who is unruly. Isn't this a slap in his face?
Look at Du Dalang, he is sitting on equal footing with the prince, chatting and laughing happily, and he doesn't need to flatter or fawn at all.
Alas! It is so frustrating to compare yourself with others.
Du Wanwan didn't know that Huo Sien was so optimistic about her. She was thinking about going to the city to buy some things she needed. She didn't push the cart, but carried a backpack.
She didn't know if there was anything for sale in the city. If not, she would find a place to get something out of the space. She couldn't just leave the things there while everyone in the family was starving and freezing.
I also need to buy some medicine for my dad's injury, especially the splint, which needs to be prepared in advance. His leg was crooked because he didn't have a proper bone setting when he was injured.
If you interrupt it and reconnect it, it will return to its original state.
After taking care of my body for so long, I should be able to withstand the pain of a broken leg. It's time for treatment.
After paying one or two taels of silver, Du Wanwan followed the captain of the village protection team of Huojia Village and another person into the city. Although the people from Dujia Village followed them, she ignored them.
At this time in Jing County, the streets were deserted and few people were around. Many shops were closed. It seemed that everyone had fled to avoid famine and war.
There were a lot of people from Huojia Village buying things, and Du Wanwan told them to go shopping by themselves and not wait for her.
If she buys what she wants, she will go back.
The people in Huojia Village had seen how powerful she was, and since she was dressed as a man, they had nothing to worry about. If she wanted to go alone, she could go alone, it didn't matter.
With her skills, two or three men might not be able to beat her.
Xiao Qi followed Du Wanwan and flew in front.
Sometimes it landed under the eaves, sometimes it stood on the roof, and sometimes it landed on a tree. It was very happy and chirped.
Du Wanwan went to the cloth shop first. Among all the shops, only one was open; the rest were all closed.
The shopkeeper leaned on the counter with lifeless eyes, watching over the deserted shop and sighing constantly.
The damned Qiezi came calling without warning, and before he had even sold half of the goods he had bought, he threatened to flee. He had no choice but to send all the family members away, leaving him alone to run the store, selling whatever he could.
Most of the people in Jing County had already left, and fewer and fewer people were buying cloth. For three days, there had been no customers. The shopkeeper was very worried and didn't know what to do.
The more I looked at the cloth in the store, the more I wanted to cry.
(End of this chapter)
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