Chapter 85
Qingren Pharmacy was originally supposed to be called Qingrentang, but it was changed to Pharmacy after the movement began. Meng Wanqiu didn't understand how a store name could be associated with feudal superstition.
Listening to the words of passers-by, Meng Wanqiu entered the store.
The interior remains much the same as before. The counter sits to the side of the door, and within it are neat rows of dark brown medicine cabinets, some of which are already stained. The small drawers containing Chinese medicine are secured with flaking bronze zippers, giving off a sense of antiquity.
The tip of her nose was filled with the aroma of medicine. Dealing with medicinal herbs all day long, Meng Wanqiu also had this smell on her body, mixed with a faint bitterness.
"Hello, what do you want to get?" There was a girl of about seventeen or eighteen in the pharmacy. She was dressed simply and holding a small fan in her hand. A gurgling sound came from the purple clay pot in front of her, and she was decocting medicine.
"One liang of Bupleurum, four liang of Astragalus, two qian of Radix Angelicae Sinensis, one and a half qian of Red Peony Root, one qian of Earth Dragon..."
Meng Wanqiu looked at the nameplate on the medicine cabinet and said some of the things she needed.
The girl was still taking notes at first, but then she stopped, glanced at Meng Wanqiu, and asked tentatively, "Do you have any prescriptions with you? Would you like to show them to me?"
She has been prescribing medicine for more than ten years and has never seen such a prescription.
She was afraid that the other party didn't know and might take the wrong medicine and cause problems, so she wanted to see the prescription.
Meng Wanqiu looked at the girl's notes and said, "Is that too fast? I'll slow down a bit."
"No, no, I just haven't seen such a recipe before..." The girl waved her hands embarrassedly.
oh!
Meng Wanqiu now understood that the other party had concerns.
She smiled and said, "I don't have a prescription, but I've memorized it all. Just follow my instructions. Don't worry, I understand Chinese medicine myself, and I won't implicate your pharmacy if anything goes wrong."
The girl was stunned for a few seconds and said, "Okay, it's a deal. If something happens, it has nothing to do with our pharmacy." Since they said that, it was none of her business.
After getting the medicine, Meng Wanqiu also bought a casserole in the store.
The municipal hospital has a special small kitchen specially prepared for patients whose homes are not local. You only need to pay a little rent to use it. It has pots, pans, and other utensils. You just need to wash them and put them back after use.
However, when making medicinal food, it is better to use a clay pot, which can better preserve the ingredients of the medicinal materials.
After buying the medicine, Meng Wanqiu went to the supply and marketing cooperative again to buy some spare clothes for Meng Mingxia.
Before, in the ward, she only saw a military uniform and no other toiletries, so she bought him two sets of clothes.
I bought some small things here and there, and then it was time for the appointment with the vendor. When I got near the hospital, I saw the man wandering around the place where it was at noon.
Seeing Meng Wanqiu, he waved to her and walked into the alley.
Meng Wanqiu followed him, and when they reached the corner, the man stopped and said, "Go inside, my companion is inside."
Meng Wanqiu nodded.
The man said again: "The things are a bit heavy, let me take care of them first.
Meng Wanqiu raised her eyebrows and glanced at the man with a half-smile.
The man spread out his hands. "I have no ill intentions. If you're worried, you can carry it yourself. The things inside are really heavy."
"No need, I can carry it, thank you." Meng Wanqiu smiled, without showing any emotion, and walked straight over.
Even though she had so many things in her hands, it didn't affect her at all.
After turning a corner, Meng Wanqiu saw two people, one holding a cigarette in his hand, and the other wearing a blue hat with a bamboo basket covered with palm leaves at his feet.
Seeing Meng Wanqiu coming over, the man smoking flicked the ash and said, "The things are all here." He kicked the bamboo basket at his feet.
"Have you brought enough money?"
Meng Wanqiu said: "As long as the things are in place, the money will naturally be in place."
"Alright, I'll give you the money and the goods." The man who wasn't smoking brought the basket over. "Check it out."
Meng Wanqiu half-knelt, lifted the palm leaves, and counted the items inside. In her hands, she was holding the casserole and other things she had bought earlier, still steady and stable.
"Okay." Meng Wanqiu nodded. The things were very fresh and the other party did not sell inferior products as good ones.
After saying that, Meng Wanqiu took out his wallet from his pocket with one hand.
When Meng Wanqiu lowered her head to sort the money, the two people opposite her looked at each other, and the man who was smoking walked behind Meng Wanqiu calmly.
Meng Wanqiu, who was carefully sorting money with her eyes downcast, slowly raised the corners of her lips.
"Here, these are what we agreed on at the beginning."
Meng Wanqiu handed the counted amount to the other party.
But the other party didn't take the money. The man in the blue hat grinned and said, "Sorry, the amount is wrong."
Meng Wanqiu frowned, her tone unhappy: "What's wrong? Didn't that person say 1:1.3?"
The smoker puffed out white smoke from his nose and shouted impatiently, "What the hell are you yelling about? You already talked to that guy, but you didn't talk to us. You took the things from us, not from him."
Meng Wanqiu seemed frightened by the sudden change of expression. She took a step back and cautiously asked, "How much do you want?"
The man in the blue hat chuckled and extended a slap.
"Five times?!"
Blue Hat nodded.
Meng Wanqiu glared at him and sternly refused, "No, five times the price would normally buy me enough for a month's worth of supplies. I don't want the stuff anymore, you guys can take it away!"
After saying that, Meng Wanqiu wanted to turn around and leave.
As a result, the man who was smoking put his hand in front of Meng Wanqiu facing the wall.
Meng Wanqiu leaned against the wall and backed away, "What do you want to do? I said I don't want it anymore."
The man smoking seemed to have heard something funny and smiled, but then his expression suddenly changed and he shouted, "You said you don't want it, so you've been making a fool of us all day. I'm telling you, you have to take it whether you want it or not, otherwise you can't leave here."
Meng Wanqiu was frightened and trembled, still trying to warn them, "You, you guys, this is a crime, it's against the law?"
When they heard Meng Wanqiu's words, they were stunned at first, and then burst into laughter.
"Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter. How old are you, little sister? Your brother makes a living by breaking the law."
"You've forgotten that if you buy things from us, you're also engaging in speculation, so watch your mouth when you get out." The man in the blue hat kindly warned.
"Why waste your time talking to her? Just grab her wallet." The smoker with a crew cut threw the cigarette butt into the snow and said impatiently.
Meng Wanqiu staggered back, lowering her head to carefully protect her wallet. "I'm warning you, don't come over here, otherwise..."
The two men turned a deaf ear. The man with the blue hat took out a handkerchief and was about to stuff it into Meng Wanqiu's mouth, and the man with the crew cut and smoking wanted to grab Meng Wanqiu's wrist.
Meng Wanqiu lowered her head and slowly raised the corners of her mouth.
The moment the other person is about to touch her.
"Ah--ah" I can't make a sound!
Who is "Shit—you um"?
Two minutes later.
Meng Wanqiu straightened her hair and said with a beautiful smile, "You were the ones who started it, old man. I'm not looking for trouble!"
At this moment, the two men who were so arrogant just two minutes ago were already lying on the snow.
The blue hat pressed down the crew cut man who was smoking, and the handkerchief used to block Meng Wanqiu's mouth was stuffed into the blue hat's mouth. The wrist of the smoking man below was twisted unnaturally, and his palm, which was originally facing downwards, was turned 180 degrees to face upwards.
In the middle of winter, the man with a crew cut had sweat on his forehead and a flushed face, obviously in pain.
The guy with the blue hat was not in much better condition, his legs were twisted in strange postures, but he could endure the pain less than the guy with the crew cut, and he had fainted from the pain.
"I warned you not to come near me, why didn't you listen?" Meng Wanqiu said helplessly.
The man with a crew cut was speechless. His pupils suddenly shrank as he looked at Meng Wanqiu, and there was undisguised fear in his eyes. He was a gangster and had always fought with his fists since he was a child. He had never seen these methods before.
I gently poked the person with my hand and he couldn't speak anymore!
With a push and a pull on his wrist, his hand broke, and he felt a sharp pain, but he couldn't even scream. Feeling the blue hat pressing down on him, the man with the crew cut thought with fear, "Is he dead?"
Thinking of this, the man with the crew cut looked at Meng Wanqiu with more and more fear. This woman wouldn't want to kill him to silence him, would she?
My body couldn't help but tremble!
Meng Wanqiu frowned, twitched her nose, and said in disbelief: "No way, you peed your pants?"
The man with the crew cut trembled even more violently.
Meng Wanqiu sneered, "Coward, you're so brave and yet you dare to rob others!"
Looking at his watch, it was getting late. Meng Wanqiu threw the money in front of the crew cut and said, "Here, I won't take advantage of you for nothing. Here are the estimated prices of these vegetables. You want to rob me, but you can't not compensate me for my losses. I am a reasonable person. Okay, stop shaking. He's not dead, and I'm not a murderer. Teaching you a lesson is enough. As a punishment, you can't speak for a month, and your wrists and legs can be healed by finding a traditional Chinese medicine master."
After saying that, Meng Wanqiu left carrying the bamboo basket and humming a little tune.
How should I put it, days like this are so exciting!
At the hospital entrance, the man in the black coat was wandering on the side of the road. Seeing that Meng Wanqiu had gone in and had not come out for a long time, he couldn't help but shook his head.
Another fool. Money is not as important as life. Just pay the money and leave.
The man in the black coat took out a half-smoked and extinguished cigarette from his pocket, flicked a match to light it, held it in his mouth, took two deep puffs, and exhaled a white smoke ring.
He raised his eyes and looked towards the hospital entrance, ready to continue looking for the unlucky guy.
Seeing a familiar figure, the man in the black coat opened his mouth wide, and the cigarette in his mouth fell to the ground and was extinguished by the snow.
He didn't bother to pick it up, but rubbed his eyes and confirmed again.
Meng Wanqiu was holding things in both hands, and the basket in her left hand looked so familiar to the man in the black coat.
Someone looked at her attentively. Meng Wanqiu followed the gaze and found that it was the black coat she had traded with before. She raised the basket in her left hand, smiled, made a mouth shape, and went into the hospital.
The man in the black coat couldn't close his mouth. Seeing Meng Wanqiu leave safely with the bamboo basket in her hand, he realized that something must have happened over there.
Then he saw the woman smile at him and mouth something.
Thanks--
Oh shit!
The car flipped over and ran into a powerful guy!
The man in the black coat gathered his clothes and quickly ran towards the alley he had come from.
Meng Wanqiu's trip was particularly exciting.
The scenes in the ward are equally impressive.
Especially after Meng Mingxia woke up——
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