"Doctor, you must save him! It's all for saving us, otherwise Shunping wouldn't be injured like this, sob sob..." Zhao Guizhi knelt down on the ground with a thud and kowtowed to the doctor repeatedly.
"No need for that, get up quickly, I will do my best," the old doctor helped Zhao Guizhi up. "If we had brought him here two days later, he would have been beyond saving. It's not too late now. I will prescribe some medicine for the patient, and then let him rest well and eat more nourishing foods. In a year or two, he will be able to recover his health."
Then the old doctor performed acupuncture on Chen Shunping and prescribed ten days' worth of medicine. "After you finish these medicines, bring him back for a follow-up visit. If he is cured by then, there's nothing to worry about. He just needs to rest at home."
So the two taels of silver I earned today were all gone, plus the three hundred coins left over from the quintuplets, and I still owed the old doctor one tael of silver. The consultation fees and medicine costs at this largest pharmacy were really expensive.
The old doctor was only willing to lend money to Zhao Guihua and her husband because they were familiar with each other. They had come to sell herbs a few days ago, and the doctor knew that they had money saved up. Besides, the old doctor prided himself on his ability to judge people.
Old Zhou and Zhao Guihua seemed like honest people, not the cunning and treacherous type, otherwise he wouldn't have accepted their medicinal herbs.
"Thank you, doctor. We'll bring the money we owe over in a couple of days when we have some free time. Thank you so much for today." Zhao Guihua and Zhou Laoda were very grateful to the old doctor and thanked him profusely before leaving with their entourage.
Because Chen Shunping was seriously ill, Zhou Laoda wanted to rent an oxcart, but he was in a dilemma because he had no money. He was fine with carrying the person all the way back, but he was afraid that Chen Shunping would not be able to carry it.
Zhao Guihua pursed her lips, looked towards the city gate, and said, "Let's go to the city gate first, then borrow some money from the villagers, and pay them back when we get back."
"I'm afraid everyone in the village will have gone home by now." When villagers come to town, they always make sure to return home early, so going home at this hour is obviously too late. The rest of the villagers have probably already left.
"How about we go back to the dilapidated temple and stay another night, then figure out how to get back tomorrow?" Zhao Guizhi suggested.
Xingxing walked over, looked up at Zhao Guihua, and said, "Mother, is it because you've run out of money that we can't go back? Don't worry, Xingxing has some here."
The chubby little hand was outstretched, and there was indeed a silver ingot lying in the pink palm. It was quite big, a five-tael silver ingot.
"Girl, where did you get the money?" Zhao Guihua and Zhou Laoda were both taken aback.
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