Chapter 118 Grilled Oyster Shells
For several days, many villagers from the surrounding villages came to Lianjiagou to seek medical treatment from Yin Huaixi.
However, when they heard that the consultation fee would be between ten and fifty cents, most people left in disappointment.
A minor illness or pain will pass if you endure it. It is not worth spending a few dozen cents on a doctor. And these few dozen cents do not include the cost of medicine. Just thinking about it makes me feel bad.
Most people left, but a few stayed.
Most of them are families that are not so tight on money and have children to take to the doctor.
From ancient times to the present, many parents are reluctant to spend money on themselves but are willing to give everything for their children.
Yin Huaixi was good at pediatrics, and she was very confident in treating the illnesses of several children. Some of them were given injections, while others took pills, and within three days, all the children's illnesses were cured.
Now she can’t get rid of the reputation of a miracle doctor.
Jiang Wan watched as her mother received more and more patients every day, so she simply recruited a few villagers to help build the wall.
If the pharmacy is completed sooner, my mother will have a more comfortable environment for seeing patients.
The two rooms in the yard were much larger than the small stone house where she and her mother slept. However, there was a small room partitioned off inside, so the room was not that big when separated.
Jiang Wan would go into the house from time to time to check on the progress.
Looking at this large expanse of blue brick wall, she couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
well……
In the past, the decoration of A-niang’s own clinic was not luxurious, but it was white and bright, giving people a feeling of purification as soon as they entered the room. Now, when you enter the room, it is gray and gloomy...
Huh?
It seems that the wall can be painted whiter!
Jiang Wan seldom recalls her modern memories, but when she recalled them now, it took her a while to recall the memories of her grandmother talking to her when she was a child.
When my grandmother was young, everyone in the fishing village was very poor, and you needed various tickets to buy things, so everyone made many things by themselves if they could.
I won't talk about food, most of the food on the table is seafood. Most of the fishing boats are built by the village together. Some houses are made of adobe and some are made of wood, and they are built by themselves.
After the wall is built, if conditions permit, it will be painted with lime. After painting the wall, the house will be brighter and it can also prevent moisture and kill insects.
The lime sold on the market is made by burning limestone mined from limestone mines.
The paint used by the fishermen is similar to lime, but it is not made from limestone. Instead, they use oyster shells that have been calcined and ground into powder, which they then mix with water to paint the walls.
In those days, you needed a ticket to buy lime, so the fishermen roasted their own oyster shells to paint their houses.
It can dehumidify, sterilize, and resist corrosion, and has many benefits.
Jiang Wan couldn't sit still when she thought of this.
Recently, because she collected a lot of oyster meat, the villagers pried open a lot of oysters. Those oyster shells are usually dumped on the seaside after the meat is pried out, and the sea will sweep them away when the tide rises and then recedes.
No, she had to hurry and notify them, because she had to collect the oyster shells together today.
How can we throw away such good wall painting materials?
The first place Jiang Wan went to was Xiaoman's house, only to find that no one was there.
The tide is rising at this hour, so shouldn't we be at home digging oysters?
Just as she was wondering, she saw the auntie from next door coming out.
"Xiao Wan, Xiao Man and her mother left early this morning. She gave me the job of prying oysters for the day. Can I deliver the oyster meat to you later?"
"Sure, my mother is at home, auntie, you can just pry it open and send it to me."
As long as you don’t delay making oyster sauce at home, I’ll buy it from anyone.
Jiang Wan told Yinzhu that she still needed to collect oyster shells and then went to her house again. She did not notify everyone, but only a few families with whom she had a good relationship.
Although no one understood why she wanted those heavy oyster shells, as long as they paid, they could have as many as they wanted.
Oyster shells are very heavy, so Jiang Wan offered a penny for every ten catties. Based on the standard of prying thirty catties of meat every day, the shells would weigh about five hundred catties.
The income is about fifty cents.
This is not a long-term transaction, and Jiang Wan feels that the price she offered is reasonable.
First burn a few dozen pounds to test the effect. It doesn’t matter if you make more. This thing has many uses and can dehumidify even if you just put it at home.
Jiang Wan couldn't roast hundreds or even thousands of kilograms of oyster shells by herself, so she turned directly to the bricklaying uncles and introduced people from the village to help her.
Just build a small kiln in the yard to roast the oyster shells, and then grind them into powder with a large mill.
Unfortunately, there is nothing here that can pass through the sieve. If it were sieved a few times, the wall surface would be smoother and more delicate.
Oh, it's good enough to just plaster the walls with lime, why bother with all that nonsense?
Jiang Wan happily watched as the pharmacy was built bit by bit, and her oyster shell dust accumulated more and more.
The oyster shell ash is not as white as the real lime, but is white with a hint of blue-gray. Even so, Jiang Wan is very satisfied.
As soon as the pharmacy was built, she prepared a large bucket and asked Hu Tou Die and the others to help her clean it.
After painting, wait until it is completely dry and then paint the wall again. A total of three to four times.
Tiger Head Dad and his friends were more shocked each time they brushed their brushes than the last.
The houses they lived in year after year were all gray. They had never seen a house so clean and white.
After the new brick house was painted three times, the whole house was much brighter than the small stone house and the stove room.
The white has a hint of blue-gray, which feels better than white.
Jiang Wan did not hide the fact that she was roasting oyster shells from them. After asking Jiang Wan, the group of people prepared to go back and roast some oyster shells at home when they had free time.
Anyway, oyster shells are free and there are plenty of them in the sea.
After Hutou's father and his friends finished painting the walls, they also helped move the medicine cabinet, clinic table and other furniture into the house one by one, and cleaned the house very cleanly.
When Jiang Wan paid the workers, he generously gave each person an extra fifty coins.
After seeing off Hu Tou's father and the others, Jiang Wan returned to the pharmacy but didn't see A Niang. She called out and found that A Niang had gone to the inner room and was lying on the bed, smiling happily.
"Wanwan, the wall you painted looks really nice and is also practical. Brick houses are more moisture-proof, and with this layer of oyster ash on the wall, it will be much safer to put the herbs inside. I want to live here."
"This room is too small. You should live in the small stone house. We will move your medicine box and herbs here later, and the stone house will be more spacious. Mother, if you really like this wall, we can paint it in the stone house."
It just won’t look good when applied.
Plastering the wall requires that the wall surface is smooth and clean. A stone house looks smooth from the outside, but when you get closer you will see that the wall surface is uneven.
Yin Huaixi shook her head.
"Forget it. The stone walls in the little stone house are also very beautiful. But you can sprinkle some oyster ash in the corners to remove moisture and disinfect. Come on, let's go pack up now."
She was so excited that she finally had her own 'small clinic'!