Chapter 197

Xu Yi and Yan Quyue had just discussed the matter, and before they discussed it with anyone else, the Xing family’s head butler came to visit them first.

During the cold winter season, the Xing family and several other large households would set up tents to provide porridge, and this year is no exception.

The head butler of the Xing family came to the door and wanted to invite Xu Yi to be a doctor at the free clinic.

"In the past few years, I have been holding free clinics. This year, Dr. Xu is in Yanting, so I will invite Dr. Xu." Butler Xing smiled warmly.

Xu Yi drank tea calmly and asked unhurriedly: "Is it the same as next year?"

Butler Xing said: "Of course."

Then he followed the topic Xu Yi just talked about and continued, "Doctor Wu this year Doctor Wu also asked me, Doctor Xu, if you can come."

Xu Yi was a little moved when he heard that Wu Guanshan would be attending.

He was still worried about Madam Liang's incident in his heart, and always wanted to find an opportunity to ask her questions.

Xu Yi quickly agreed to this, but before that, he needed to finish applying pesticides to the tent. Then, he told Butler Xing about the application of medicine in the cloth tent, and asked him to take the message back and ask Mr. Xing if he wanted to participate.

Applying medicine to the tent is not a trivial matter, and Butler Xing has no right to make the decision, but it is a good thing to do and accumulate merit. Given the current situation of the Xing family, it is the icing on the cake. In the coming year, Xing Yuesen will become a member of the imperial court, which will be a good news.

Butler Xing recovered his mind and wrote down what Xu Yi said before bowing and leaving.

After bidding farewell to Butler Xing, Xu Yi called A Xu: "Go and give a gift to the Tao family and the Xin family." After saying that, he paused and added, "Send one to Brother Qiu and Brother Zhang as well. "

This kind of thing requires more people and more strength."

There are only a few people like him and A Xu A Jin, so I'm afraid they will be too busy.

Half an hour.

After receiving the news, Tao Qinghao, Xin Shengyuan, Yu Qiulin and others came to visit one after another.

"What a good thing, why do you want A Xu to run away?" Zhang Tiegou sat down with his legs spread carelessly, holding the teapot skillfully, and poured himself a cup of hot tea.

While drinking, he complained: "It's really cold today. I wanted to go to the mountains today to find some mountain products, but I almost got buried in the snow."

Xu Yi said: "The snow on the mountains is more than a foot high. Why are you still going?"

Zhang Tiegou said hehely: "It's the New Year's Eve soon, so I want to hunt some good things and give you some meat to try."

"There is no shortage of meat in the family now. You should be more at ease. Don't worry Sister-in-law Li all the time." Yu Qiulin came over and couldn't help but persuade her when she heard what he said.

Zhang Tiegou patted his chest and said happily: "Isn't I safe enough? I haven't been to the mountains for several months."

Yu Qiulin stopped talking about him, turned to Xu Yi, and asked him with a smile: "Brother Yi called us "Come here, what are you discussing?"

Xu Yi said to them calmly: "My wife and I want to spread medicine in the tents and make ginger tea to distribute to the poor people, but I am a quiet person and I am the only one. I'm afraid it won't be easy."

Xin Shengyuan narrowed his eyes after hearing what he said: "Xu Yi wants us to participate."

"Yes." Xu Yi smiled.

Tao Qinghao paused for a moment. He was quite interested in applying medicine in the tent. After all, he had wanted to invite Xu Yi to be a free clinic doctor at home, just like the Xing family.

It's just that he had no real power in the family back then, so he couldn't make the final decision on this matter.

Tao Qinghao asked: "What do you need me to do?"

Xu Yi glanced at them and saw that they were all very interested, so he simply expressed his thoughts: "The matter of preparing the pills is all between me and Ah. Xu Ajin can be made in less than ten days. To spread the matter of applying medicine and ginger tea to the countryside, Brother Zhang and Brother Qiu will be needed. As for the manpower and money, Qing Hao and Xin Yao. You two can contribute."

"You only need our contribution?" Tao Qinghao pursed his lips. The rouge shop he and Xu Yi worked with earned a lot of money every month. How much money can be spent on this medicine.

Xu Yi nodded: "I still have some cold-repelling medicinal herbs in hand. As for ginger, Chen Liu planted a lot in Zhuangzi." When

Xu Yi came back this time, he sent the medicinal seeds collected along the way to Zhuangzi.

Chen Liu did not disappoint him. Not only did he manage the previous medicinal fields in an orderly manner, but the newly cultivated fields were also filled with many crops.

Among them, there is an acre of ginger, which can produce dozens of stones of fresh ginger. Before the first frost arrives, the fresh ginger in the village can be harvested. Xu Yi asked Chen Liu to collect a third of it and keep the rest for more than half a month until he became old ginger.

Old ginger is durable and can be stored in a cellar for several months.

These old gingers are perfect for making ginger tea, and they are also enough for charity.

"You have everything ready and then you call us, aren't you letting us take advantage?" Tao Qinghao couldn't laugh or cry.

Xin Shengyuan nodded and said, "We are not short of the money."

Tao Qinghao and Xin Shengyuan looked at each other, and they understood each other's meaning in each other's eyes.

Tao Qinghao said, "Leave the rest of the medicinal materials to us so that we can take advantage of them in a reasonable manner."

The two hit it off immediately, and Xu Yitong didn't need to disagree.

Xu Yi smiled and left the matter to them. He, A Xu and the others only focused on the preparation of the pills.

There was also news from the Xing family that Dao, like the Tao and Xin families, contributed some money to support. On the same day, he sent Butler Xing to deliver fifty ounces of silver.

So, after everyone discussed the specific matters, they got busy on this matter.

...

Not long after, Yu Qiulin and Zhang Tiegou hitched an ox cart, wore thick cotton robes, carried dry food and water bags, and set off in different directions after leaving the city.

They passed the village along the way and when they met people, they spread the word about Dr. Xu's plan to spread medicine and give ginger tea.

During this period, Tao Qinghao and Xin Shengyuan returned home, opened the warehouse to get money, and asked the honest housekeeper in hand to go to Zitong County to buy a large amount of cold-repelling medicinal materials.

Xu Yi gave them a prescription. There were no less than twenty kinds of medicinal materials to buy, and each medicinal material required a large amount.

They spent hundreds of dollars, but were still worried that the medicinal materials they bought were not enough.

Tao Qinghao came to Xin Shengyuan to discuss: "If it's not enough, then we have to buy more, for fear that we will run out of time."

After hearing this, Xin Shengyuan felt that what he said was reasonable, and immediately ordered the housekeeper: "Take another twenty guan, I would rather buy more. Don’t be short of it.”

Tao Qinghao nodded: "I'll add twenty strings, too."

In the past few days, the Xu family was also very busy with this matter, and even the Lin family came to help. Those who grind the medicinal materials, those who cut the ginger, everyone divides the work and cooperates, and the efficiency is not low. Within a few days, Xu Yi and the others concocted the first batch of cold-repelling pills.

After the pills are made, it’s time to build the shed.

Yan Quyue saw that Xu Yi and the others had something to do, and she also wanted to contribute to this matter and took the initiative to take over the shed.

She had no experience, but she was not blind either. She went to consult Mrs. He and Mrs. Chen first.

The two of them gave Yan Quyue an idea and asked her to hire a carpenter to build a shed and find two idle men to help her.

Yan Quyue thought this was a good idea and asked Xu Yi if there was any carpenter he was familiar with.

Xu Yi immediately thought of Master Ji. Master Ji's craftsmanship was very good and the price was fair. It was just right for him to build the shed.

As for finding idle men, Xu Yi felt that there was no need to do so and just asked Chen Liu and Xiaodouzi to come over.

With the help of the two of them, Master Ji only had to cut wooden boards and then instruct them to build it. In three days, he built a shed that could accommodate more than ten people at the same time.

At this time, Yu Qiulin and Zhang Tiegou also came back.

"We went to all the villages within a radius of thirty miles outside Yanting City and informed us of the time and place for the pesticide application. I think those villagers who got the news will come soon."

After Yu Qiulin said this, he also told Xu Yi He collected a batch of medicinal materials for making Xiaoshi pills.

"Don't be in a hurry to collect the medicinal materials used in Xiaoshi Pills. If you encounter medicinal materials that can dispel cold, collect them first," Xu Yi said.

Yu Qiulin nodded and said: "The teams of the Tao family and the Xin family have set off and should be back in five days."

At this point, Yu Qiulin patted his head and said, "By the way, I forgot about this."

Xu Yi raised his eyebrows . : "What's the matter?"

Yu Qiulin took out a package from his pocket and handed it to Xu Yi: "This is the letter I received at the inn this morning. It was from Zhaohua."

"A letter from the Yan family?" Xu Yi was slightly happy, took the bag and opened it immediately.

The package contained a letter, and the envelope was written "Ms. Yan personally opens it", and then there was a tips bag inside.

The kit didn't look heavy, so Xu Yi thanked Yu Qiulin and came to Yan Quyue with the envelope and the kit.

Yan Quyue was not working as a female celebrity in the house. She was helping to grind medicinal materials in the pharmacy. When she saw him coming, she kept moving her hands and called him: "Come on, I'm too busy."

Xu Yi said. Walking towards her, he told her about receiving the letter: "Go and see what I wrote to you. I'll be here."

"No rush." ​​Yan Quyue shook his head.

Xu Yi put on his collar and asked her doubtfully: "Don't you want to know what was written?"

Yan Quyue knew better and said with a smile: "If my brother wrote it, he must be asking you if you bullied me. If If my sister-in-law writes it, she will ask me if I am happy."

After hearing this, Xu Yi put a smile on his face, put the envelope and the tips aside, and followed Yan Quyue.

Yan Quyue was busy for a while, and then read the letter when her hands were tired.

When she saw the handwriting on the envelope, she knew it was her brother Yan Jingming, so she opened it immediately. The content on it was exactly as she expected. The first sentence she asked was whether Xu Yi had bullied her.

Then, nothing happened.

Yan Quyue: "..."

She turned over the paper helplessly, and at the back was a letter written by her sister-in-law Wen Shujin, asking her how her life was in Yanting and whether she missed them. She also told her that Wen Wei had already decided to get married. They're getting married in just one month.

Yan Quyue looked at it, and suddenly her face turned shy. She moved the letter in her hand forward and looked at Xu Yi out of the corner of her eye. Seeing that he didn't notice it, she breathed a sigh of relief.

In the letter, Wen Shujin asked when she and Xu Yi were going to have children. If she didn't have any experience, she would send her mother over to take care of Yan Quyue.

She blushed and folded the letter, intending to hide it.

Seeing that her face was unnaturally red, Xu Yi thought it was because the fire in the pharmacy was too bright. He took her hand and said, "It's too hot here. Go to the room and rest."

"Yeah." Qu Yue lowered her eyes and answered, following his words without further explanation.

When she walked out of the pharmacy, her heart was still pounding.

...

On this day, it was just dawn, and many people were crowded noisily outside the city wall. They all came to receive anti-cold medicine and ginger tea.

Before dawn, A Xu and the others pulled the bullock cart over to the shed, loaded the prepared ginger tea on the stove, boiled it, and distributed it to the people waiting in line.

The people who came to line up all knew that the doctor Xu Yi, who was famous in Yanting County, was administering the medicine. No one dared to make mistakes for fear that Xu Yi would see them and Xu Yi would not treat them next time they got sick.

To survive the winter, food for the winter is the most important thing for the people, but medicines are also indispensable. Once you get sick in such severe cold weather, the probability of death is much higher than usual.

When Xu Yi arrived with Yan Quyue, there were already more than a hundred people lined up in front of the shed.

He sat down in front of the clinic and asked Ah Jin to put up a sign for a free clinic. Anyone with colds could come to him to check their pulse and get medicine.

As soon as he said this, several people in line came out of the crowd and rushed to him.

"Doctor Xu, please check on my baby quickly. He's dizzy with fever."

"Ahem, Doctor Xu, my cold has not gone away for several days..."

"Doctor Xu..."

Soon, Xu Yi was next to him. Several patients gathered around him.

Both his and Ah Jin's faces were covered with masks made of cotton. They separated the men and women and diagnosed their pulses in turn.

The medicinal materials they brought were limited, and most of them were medicines for treating wind-cold. However, if they encountered a patient other than wind-cold, if they were not acutely ill, they would be asked to leave a message and go to Xu's house to find him on another day; if they were acutely ill, Xu Yi would just He can first give him acupuncture and first aid, and then write a prescription for him, and let A Xu go get the medicine and come back.

Fortunately, most of the people who come to see a doctor today are patients with colds.

In severe cases, Xu Yi asked Yu Qiulin to boil medicinal decoction for the patients and wait for the symptoms to subside before letting them receive anti-cold medicine and ginger tea and leave.

If it is not serious, you only need to take basic anti-cold medicine.

After a half-hour break at noon, a new round of queuing began in front of the shed.

Xu Yi didn't want them to wait too long in the cold weather, so he returned to the clinic with a frown and continued to treat people in line.

"Doctor Xu, let's see, does he have a cold?" At this time, a woman came over holding a child.

Xu Yi's eyes fell on this child. He was only twelve or thirteen years old. He was thin and small, and looked very black, like a piece of black coal.

But when he walked up to him, the child shrugged his shoulders and made a hissing sound in his nose while breathing.

Xu Yi narrowed his eyes, as if there was something wrong with his lungs.

He said: "Child, give me your hand."

The child timidly stretched out his hand, and Xu Yi raised his hand to hold his wrist and inspect it carefully.

Xu Yi was a little surprised when he took his pulse and asked, "Is this child born prematurely?"

The woman was stunned and a little surprised how Xu Yi knew. She nodded quickly: "This child was born more than a month early."

At that time, her husband suspected that the child was born early, or Wen Po said that the child was too thin in her mother's belly and was smaller than other children. The child was born prematurely.

Xu Yi asked again: "Does this child have trouble breathing every winter?"

The woman's eyes showed a bitter look and nodded: "It's been a few years. I used to think that I had a cold and that it would be cured by taking medicine. But it didn't heal after the doctor saw it, and he recovered on his own until spring came."

After a few times, the woman and her husband didn't take it to heart.

However, in the past few years, the child's asthma has become more and more severe. This year, he became ill and found it difficult to run. He was out of breath when he ran.

This time when she heard that Dr. Xu was conducting free medical consultations for the people, she thought about it and brought her children to see what was going on.

Xu Yi confirmed the disease syndrome and said: "This is a congenital deficiency of kidney qi, because the kidneys cannot accept qi."

This disease is often referred to as asthma in modern times. Children suffer from asthma of the kidney inability to accept qi. This kind of asthma sometimes attacks in winter, and there will be insufficient breathing during the attack.

After hearing this, the woman asked worriedly: "Then how to cure this disease?"

Xu Yi said: "I will give you a dietary prescription. When you go back, use three ounces of yam and one ounce of walnuts and grind them into powder. , add two bowls of water and cook it into a paste. "

This walnut is a walnut. Walnuts can replenish kidney qi, and yam can replenish lung qi. Making the two into a paste and eating them for a period of time can improve the symptoms of asthma."

Seeing that the woman was worried about the child's condition, Xu Yi said again: "I will prescribe another Shenqi pill for you. You can come to Xu's house to pick up this pill in a few days."

"Okay, okay, thank you Doctor Xu." The woman said. She burst into tears, bowed to Xu Yi while sobbing, and shouted for her children to also bow to Xu Yi.

Xu Yi helped them get up and asked them to go to the side to get another cold medicine and ginger tea.

The pills he concocted this time have the effect of repelling cold and warming the stomach. People who have experienced cold can take one pill to prevent it, which can reduce the chance of getting cold. Therefore, those who are not sick are also very happy when they get the pills.

For them, this is a life-saving pill.

In the past, if I didn't have this pill and got caught in the wind or cold outside, I would worry about getting sick. If I got sick, I wouldn't be able to work and would have to spend money on treatment.

It was like the sky was falling, cutting off their way through the winter.

Xu Yi looked at the low-class people with their heads lowered and their chests hunched over, and a vent slowly opened in his heart.

For Xin Shengyuan and others, applying medicine in a cloth tent is just a simple task, but for these people, it is the existence of the savior.

The common people who received the medicine and ginger tea would bow to them before leaving.

Such behavior made Tao Qinghao and Xin Shengyuan, who came to see the situation, very uncomfortable.

"We are not government officials, why do they still worship us?" Tao Qinghao couldn't bear it and muttered to himself.

Xin Shengyuan stood next to him, and the turbid breath from his breath turned into a cloud of mist. When he heard this, he sighed: "This winter is getting colder. After the frost, the snow keeps falling. Xing Wu wrote that Kyoto is even colder, thanks to Xu Yi I sent you some furs."

Tao Qinghao stared at Xu Yi in surprise.

His eyes were intense, and Xu Yi looked up as if he was scratching his head. He saw Tao Qinghao and smiled gently at him.

Tao Qinghao chuckled at Xin Shengyuan and said, "We are still not as thoughtful as Xu Yi thought."

"What else did you think of?" Xin Shengyuan asked him.

Tao Qinghao shook his head: "Our two families have some money in Yanting. We can't do anything with it outside."

After saying that, he told Xin Shengyuan what he had learned.

It stands to reason that the Xing family is more powerful than the other two in Yanting, but Xing Yuesen is constrained as an official in Kyoto. Not only does he speak softly, but he can only watch many things and cannot do anything. So what can they do if they have no fame?

Xin Shengyuan: "..."

"Why are you getting more and more sad? Our days are better than those of thousands of people, why aren't we happy?"

Tao Qinghao sighed: "I don't want to, but I'm afraid that someone will Think about it."

Xin Shengyuan sneered: "How many years older is Xing Wu? If you worry about him, it's better to worry about yourself."

Tao Qinghao: "..."

...

The cloth sheds run by the Xu family and several other organizations apply medicine. It was carried out outside the city for ten consecutive days.

As soon as this happened, everyone lost weight from exhaustion. Even Xu Yi felt physically tired, let alone Tao Qinghao, Xin Shengyuan and Yu Qiulin.

He smiled helplessly when he saw several people slumped on the couch with exhausted faces.

In order to thank them for their hard work these days, Xu Yi asked them to stay tonight.

He said: "Axu made fish."

"Cooked fish?" Zhang Tiegou swallowed, the fish made by Axu was fragrant even the fish bones.

Yu Qiulin said with a smile: "Since A Xu cooked the fish, we must stay and eat it."

Zhang Tiegou scratched his head and said with some embarrassment: "I want to bring Meng Niang here, but Meng Niang hasn't tasted it for a long time." Xu's craftsmanship."

Xin Shengyuan was also moved and quickly said that he would bring his wife over.

"Okay, come all." Xu Yi smiled unconsciously after hearing this.

Tao Qinghao looked at them and felt sour in his heart. He pretended to be relaxed and said with a smile: "I won't bring my wife here. She doesn't like to go out."

Good things come to pass, and soon, the elder who became good friends with Xu Yi We also heard that A Xu wanted to make fish.

"The fish made by A Xu is comparable to the fish soup made by Chef Lu." Uncle Tang stroked his beard and said with a smile, "I have to try this fish today."

Pang Boyi glanced at him and sighed slowly . , said calmly: "Well, it's time to try it. Uncle Pang, go and tell Xu Yi, and we will go too."

Uncle Pang said "Oh" and was about to leave, but Pang Boyi stopped him, chuckled and added One sentence: "Ask Xu Yi to prepare an extra one and send it to Pan's house."

Uncle Pang: "..."

Uncle Tang hesitated and said, "Isn't this appropriate?"

Pang Boyi said, "What's inappropriate about this? Brother Pan loves it." Xu Yi has also been favored by him in private, so he should have a share of this fish."

Uncle Tang paused for a moment. He was not familiar with Pan County Lieutenant. Pan County Lieutenant was an official and he was a citizen, but Pan County Lieutenant was unexpected. He helped Xu Yi, but he didn't know about it.

Pang Boyi didn't say much. He looked at the wall of the courtyard and sighed softly: "Brother Pan will go to Fuzhou to be the magistrate after the Chinese New Year. It won't be as easy as now to meet him in the future."

He should let Xu Yi, people often go to Pan Mansion.

He didn't say this to others, but if he had the chance, he would still think more about it.

On the other side, the He family and the Zhang family arrived at the Xu family in a donkey cart before it got dark.

"I heard that A Xu wanted to make fish, so I asked Brother Qiu to go to the market and buy a few more fish." Mrs. He said with a smile when she saw Xu Yi.

Mrs. Chen uttered an ouch, covered her mouth and said with a smile, "What a coincidence, I also asked Iron Dog to buy fish."

"How much did you buy?" Mrs. He asked her.

Mrs. Chen said: "No less than twenty."

Mrs. He: "..." What a coincidence, they also bought so many.

It seems that there is not enough fish to eat today.

Yu Qiulin and Zhang Tiegou went to the kitchen to find A Xu with their fish baskets. A Xu looked at the lively and plump mandarin fish in the basket, each weighing more than a pound, and suddenly had the idea to show off his skills.

"Do you want to kill the fish?" Zhang Tiegou asked him, holding up a kitchen knife.

A Xu said: "Kill, kill a few more."

There were a lot of people coming to eat fish today, and he was afraid that there wouldn't be enough to eat.

Ah Jin and Lin came to help him wearing collars, but he used the cold weather as an excuse to rush to the stove to light a fire.

"Why do we need so many people to light the fire?" Mrs. Lin glared at him and said unhappily, "I haven't done these jobs before. I want you to be considerate of me and walk around. I will kill the fish, and you and Ajin will cut it." Here are the seasonings."

A Xu blushed in embarrassment and ran to pick up dogwood leaves.