Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Which one are you riding? Please explain clearly...
ghost?
No way so many people would believe this!
Obviously, Wang Suihua didn't believe it: "Even if ghosts want money, they should ask for paper money. If they take people's money, they can't spend it. Tell me, why would they bother with this?"
She doesn't believe in ghosts, but it's not that she doesn't believe there are ghosts in the world. Rather, she doesn't believe that ghosts will steal people's money.
Wang Suihua was not at the construction site at the time and had no idea what was going on. She also heard it from Xu Zhicheng and Kong Xiangming.
It is said that if Xu Zhicheng had not been scared by the ghost that night, the next day would have been the day to pay wages. As a result, his fellow workers rushed him to the hospital that night, and when he came back, they found that the money they had kept in the finance office was missing.
At the place where Xu Zhicheng fell, several blood-stained hundred-dollar bills were found.
Xu Zhicheng was well-known for being an honest man on the construction site. He would never steal his coworkers' hard-earned money. They searched all the other dormitories on the construction site but couldn't find him.
The only explanation is that Xu Zhicheng really encountered a ghost while patrolling at night, and the ghost took their money in revenge.
Otherwise, how could Xu Zhicheng lose that memory but still remember the ghost's screams?
Nearly 100,000 yuan was stolen by a "ghost" and lost on a construction site. No one believed this story and reported it to the police, who thought it was someone who had stolen the money. After a round of investigation, nothing was found and the matter was dropped.
After working for several months in vain and not getting a penny, the workers took out their resentment on Xu Zhicheng.
After all, if he hadn't run into a ghost, this wouldn't have happened.
Even though he was also an innocent victim, someone had to take the blame, and that person could only be him.
No salary, no compensation, and so much foreign debt owed for medical treatment... They have really reached the end of their rope.
"Sister-in-law, are you really going to..."
"I know this is unfair to Zhicheng, but if I don't obey him, Zhicheng will have to die." Speaking of Xu Zhicheng, Wang Suihua's tears, which she had managed to hold back, flowed out from the corners of her eyes again.
Even when faced with such a humiliating request from Kong Xiangming, her first reaction was not to defend her own innocence, but to save her husband's life and such a broken home.
Seeing the wrinkles on the back of Wang Suihua's hands, Shen Miao's inner guilt made her unable to raise her head.
Especially when he thought about how he had just compared her to the shameless and unfaithful Pan Jinlian, he wanted to bend his waist 180 degrees to beg for her forgiveness.
"Five thousand dollars, can he really lend you that much?"
Shen Miao did not believe Kong Xiangming's words, she felt that it was just Kong Xiangming's words to deceive her.
She had heard too many stories like this from the aunts and uncles in the village!
He paints a big pie for you at the beginning, but when you really eat it, what happens next is up to him.
"What if he doesn't admit it? What if he asks for it again? What if he wants to tell everyone about this and forces you to kill or burn something? What will you do?"
Holding Wang Suihua's hand, Shen Miao reminded her earnestly, "Sister-in-law, this matter is not glorious to begin with. If we really fall for this bastard's trick, where can we go to seek justice!"
"We are really desperate. We have to pay back the money next week. This time, let alone 300 yuan, we can't even come up with 30 yuan."
Shen Wanshan had waived the consultation fee and medicine fee when he came to treat Xu Zhicheng. They were running a clinic, not a bank. Grandpa repeatedly reminded her that the most important thing to avoid when practicing medicine was excessive sympathy and using her own money to fill other people's holes, so Shen Miao could not make the decision to borrow the money.
At the moment, it seems that only Kong Xiangming can save them from their emergency.
However, Wang Suihua is not the only one who has to sell herself to get this life-saving money.
Looking at the chicken soup bubbling on the stove, Shen Miao's eyes rolled and he thought of a brilliant idea.
"Sister-in-law, do you believe me?"
Wang Suihua nodded.
Shen Miao used her hands to wipe away the tears on her face, and said with a sly smile in her cunning eyes: “I will go back this afternoon and bring you something, and then I will teach you how to use it!”
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The next morning, after seeing the patients, Shen Wanshan and Shen Miao prepared various pain-relieving ointments.
Most of the patients who come to their clinic are farmers from nearby villages who deal with fields all year round, and almost all of them come to see a doctor for pain in their limbs.
It is not possible for them to stay in bed for a long time, so they can only use plasters for temporary relief. Therefore, different pain-relieving plasters have to be prepared from time to time, one pot after another, and they are busy all day long.
The radio in the yard was playing Shen Wanshan's favorite "Mu Guiying Takes Command". The medicinal materials in those Chinese medicine jars looked black and no different, but in fact, each puff of white mist had a different smell.
Shen Miao was in charge of guarding the medicine in the jar. While Shen Wanshan was going back to the house to get the medicine, she used a wooden spoon to scoop out the dark black medicinal materials in the jar.
Seven-leaf lotus, Panax notoginseng, leeches, raw aconite, angelica... This jar contains Luofu Mountain rheumatism ointment. Even though some of the herbs have been stewed into a mushy paste, Chen Miao can still recognize all of them.
The reason why she was so careful as a thief was because she was looking for those medicinal ingredients that were not on the prescription.
The Shen family's plasters do not all use the formulas in the pharmacopoeia. Sometimes Shen Wanshan will make slight adjustments and add a few "secret recipes", sometimes two-sided needles, sometimes motherwort, because not everyone is suitable for the same prescription, so he will prepare a milder prescription.
Shen Wanshan had not yet started teaching her how to prepare new ointment recipes, but her strong curiosity had already prevented her from finding seven or eight improved pain-relieving ointment recipes under Shen Wanshan's guidance.
This brown thing looks a bit like...
“Miaomiao!”
Shen Miao came closer and watched in fascination, and was frightened by Shen Wanshan so much that she almost pressed her nose on the pile of medicine.
"Ah? What's wrong?" Shen Miao raised her head quickly and replied.
Standing at the door, Shen Wanshan’s face looked very bad: “Come in!”
Shen Miao put down the wooden spoon in her hand and obediently went into the house.
Shen Wanshan pulled out the entire trough box that stored the medicinal herbs and slammed it heavily on the table, "Tell me, where did you use the missing Datura flowers?"
Shen Miao: ???
Datura is the dried white petals of Datura, which are mostly used for pain relief, cough relief, rheumatism and paralysis, and external anesthesia. Because the drug is toxic, Shen Wanshan usually uses other drugs with similar effects instead, so he rarely uses it.
Shen Miao only took three or four flowers, which was just a drop in the bucket for this half-full box.
Can it be discovered if it's even a little bit missing?!
“Ah? No,” Shen Miao casually used the weight used to weigh the herbs to poke it twice, trying to get away with it by playing dumb, “I haven’t used it, there have always been this much.”
Bang!
As soon as she finished speaking, the ruler hit her hard on the head.
"Still quibbling! Do you really think I'm old and blind? Originally there were 137 flowers here, but now there are only 133. There are obviously four less!" Shen Wanshan's voice rose an octave, and his tone left no room for doubt.
Shen Miao: …
Seeing that Shen Miao didn't say anything, Shen Wanshan took out two more boxes, which contained the leaves and roots of Datura. On the surface, it looked no different from usual, but Shen Wanshan could find that the amount inside was a little less than usual.
"Tell me the truth, what did you do with the missing things?"
Shen Miao didn’t dare to lie anymore.
Although grandpa looks old, his insight is actually sharper than an eagle. If you are discovered by him, you will only be punished with a ruler.
However, Shen Miao did not confess to him honestly, but chose to remain silent.
"Miao Miao, this thing is poisonous. You can't just play with it. If you poison someone or cause a death, your life will be ruined!"
"I don't."
Shen Miao refused to say what it was used for, and only explained, “Master, I know the severity of the situation, and I didn’t use it to harm anyone.”
“Then what did you use it for?” Shen Wanshan asked again.
Shen Miao said nothing, still answering with silence.
Seeing that she was stubborn and refused to confess, Shen Wanshan once again raised the ruler in his hand high, but this time, he did not hit her, but threw it heavily on the table next to her, "Okay, if you don't want to talk, then you don't have to eat from today, not a single bite!"
"If you don't want to eat, then don't eat."
Isn’t it just skipping meals? There is nothing big about skipping one or two meals, just think of it as fasting.
However, reality is always much more bleak than ideal.
At night, when Shen Miao, who was so hungry that she felt dizzy and dazed, saw the braised pork and fried eggs with garlic sprouts on the table, tears of regret still flowed down her mouth.
Smells good...
Wang Dongmei and Shen Shansheng felt heartbroken when they saw their own daughter's eyes sparkling with hunger and drinking cup after cup of water to fill her stomach.
They didn't know what had happened, but they knew that if the old man didn't give in, none of them could give her a bite of steamed bun.
There was no other choice but to pour a little sugar and vinegar into her water cup, relying on the sweet and sour taste to fill her stomach.
After not eating for the entire day, when she woke up the next day, Shen Miao felt that her hands and feet were light and fluttery, and even her breathing felt tired.
Shen Wanshan didn’t let her treat the patient, but asked her to apply the plaster prepared yesterday on the gauze and spread it evenly.
With an empty stomach and having been basking in the sun for the whole morning, Shen Miao was busy until noon when she was ready to go home. She felt that her mind was not clear at all and she just wanted to fall on the bed and have a sweet dream of eating delicacies from the mountains and the sea.
"Did you hear? Someone rode the village pig yesterday."
"Riding a pig? You're old enough, aren't you afraid of getting rotten?"
Listening to the aunt walking towards him while carrying a hoe and gossiping, Shen Miao’s confused vision suddenly became much clearer, and his weak ears also perked up.
Any melon to eat?!
The aunt patted the arm of the person next to her and reminded her, "Oh, it's not that ride, it's that ride."
Huh? Which one?
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