Chapter 203

After the thunderstorm, the courtyard felt cool and cool, with a slanting wind blowing on his face. Xu Yi looked sideways and saw a mulberry tree in the courtyard that was full of fruits.

No one picked the mulberries, and many mulberry fruits fell scattered on the ground. After the rain, the land was dyed reddish.

The wind blows and I smell the faint fruity fragrance.

Bai Xiujun saw that his eyes fell on the mulberry tree, and was afraid that he would not like it, so he explained: "Every household in Zizhou City has a mulberry tree. It is rare for this household to only plant one." "

There are more to be planted . ?" Xu Yi asked him.

Bai Xiujun nodded: "Mulberry fruit makes delicious wine. Even if you don't use it to make wine, the fresh fruit is rare, so it's good to sell it."

Hearing that it can be made into wine, A Xu, who was silently paying attention to the surroundings behind him, couldn't help but look at the fruit tree. Mulberry trees full of fruit.

He raised his eyebrows and happily came over to ask Xu Yi: "Lang Jun, if we live here, how about turning the mulberries into wine?"

"Axu wants to drink mulberry wine?" Xu Yi said with a smile.

A Xu scratched his head in embarrassment: "Lang Jun talked about the many benefits of mulberry fruit, so I thought that if it is turned into wine, it can be stored for a long time. When we leave Zizhou, we can still have mulberry wine to drink."

Xu Yi He laughed dumbly and said: "You have thought a lot."

So, he made a decision and settled on this courtyard.

Next, they took a donkey cart back to Yahang and signed a lease agreement with the original owner. After all the procedures were ready, they could arrange for the rough lady to clean the house.

Bai Xiujun wanted to make a good relationship with Xu Yi, and when the other party wanted to hire a rough lady, he enthusiastically accepted her without saying a word.

"Doctor Xu, why do you have to run away again? Just leave this matter to me." Bai Xiujun asked Xu Yi to get on the donkey cart with a warm smile, patting his chest and saying that he would clean the house cleanly.

Xu Yi saw that he was asking for something, thought for a moment, and then agreed.

He cupped his hands and thanked him, "I'll bother Manager Bai."

Bai Xiuyun said, "It's just a trivial matter. I'll go to the inn to inform Dr. Xu tomorrow at this time."

"Thank you." Xu Yi nodded and turned around to enter the carriage.

A Xu nodded politely towards Bai Xiuyun, said goodbye, and drove away in a donkey cart.

Outside the gate of Yaxing, Bai Xiujun saw the donkey cart disappearing at the entrance of the street. After thinking about it, he got on the only ox cart at home and went home.

When he came home, he first went to the servants' courtyard and ordered three rough ladies to clean the courtyard. After the explanation, he came to the eldest brother's room to say hello.

His brother has been taking medicine for the past two years, and the whole house is filled with the lingering smell of medicine.

Bai Xiujun came outside the main house and stood still and shouted: "Sister-in-law, are you here?"

After a while, the woman who was waiting in the house came out with the curtain open and invited him to come in to talk.

Madam Qi was sitting on the couch embroidering. When she saw him coming in, she put down her embroidery shed and smiled: "Brother Jun, why are you here at this hour? Didn't you go to the dental shop today?"

"I just came from the dental shop. I haven't changed my clothes yet." Bai Xiuyun smiled and sat across from her sister-in-law. Her eyes fell on her hands and reminded her sadly, "The room is dark, sister-in-law, please pay attention to your eyes."

"I know," Mrs. Qi said with a smile. , asked the mother-in-law to bring tea, "Your brother has gone to bed. If you come here at this time, I'm afraid you won't be able to talk to him."

Bai Xiuyun said: "I came to see my sister-in-law. I haven't eaten the elbows made by her in a few days. Meat, I miss you so much."

When his mother gave birth to him, Mrs. Qi entered the Bai family. Now she has spent thirty years watching Bai Xiuyun grow up.

She treated Bai Xiuyun like a son, and Bai Xiuyun had been clinging to her since he was a child. Even if he later got married and had children, he was still like a child in front of Mrs. Qi.

Madam Qi laughed and said, "How old are you now? You are still saying this. I am not afraid that Sister Wan and Brother Yi will laugh at you."

Sister Wan and Brother Yi are Bai Xiujun's children. They are only eight and six years old. It is the age when you are spoiled and gluttonous.

But compared with them, Bai Xiuyun sometimes acts as if he has never grown up. He always gets involved with the children at home and follows them to grab meat.

When Bai Xiujun heard this, he said indifferently: "I am an elder, how dare they laugh at me? If they dare to laugh at me, I will give them a salary next time and I won't buy candies for them."

Madam Qi: "..."

"You come here , Are you really just here to see me?" Madam Qi asked.

Bai Xiujun was stunned. He didn't expect that his thoughts would be so easy to guess. He subconsciously lowered his gaze to the back room, considered it for a moment, and then asked, "Sister-in-law, have you ever thought about changing your doctor to see your elder brother?"

"Doctor Shen said it. "Your brother is injured by five kinds of labor and needs to be nursed back to health." Mrs. Qi paused, with hope in her eyes, "I have taken the pills prescribed by Dr. Shen in the past two years, and it has not gotten worse. I think I will take it for a few more years." , this body can be well taken care of."

Hearing this, Bai Xiuyun fell silent.

When Mrs. Qi saw that he was silent, she knew what he was worried about and comforted him: "Brother Jun, don't worry, we still have money at home. When the shop's account is collected, I will ask the kitchen owner to buy more meat in a few days. "

Sister-in-law, I'm not greedy for meat anymore." Bai Xiuyun couldn't laugh or cry.

His sister-in-law really treated him as a child.

But after all, he was only in his thirties, so he was not really innocent and romantic. He was just trying to appease his brother and sister-in-law.

Madam Qi covered her mouth and smiled: "Well, you're not greedy for meat. It's Sister Wan and Brother Yi who want to eat meat. They are growing and can't live without it."

Bai Xiujun sighed slowly and did not mention changing doctors. , and said he wanted to go into the house to see his brother before leaving.

After hearing this, Mrs. Qi let him go and silently picked up the embroidery shed.

After a while, Bai Xiujun was seen leaving. Madam Qi called her mother-in-law in and asked how much money was left at home.

The mother-in-law whispered: "To tell you what to say to the eldest madam, we don't have much money left, only three guan of money left."

Madam Qi rubbed her painful temples and sighed softly: "The account in the shop needs to be paid." It will take half a month to get it back. I have to go to Jishi Hall to get the medicine in two days. The money for the medicine is not enough."

The old woman lowered her eyebrows and put on some clothes for Madam Qi.

Madam Qi waved her hand and said, "Ask the housekeeper to hurry up and see if you can get it back in these two days."

The mother-in-law said "Hey" and exited the room softly.

...

It was early the next morning.

Bai Xiujun sent someone to tell them that the house had been cleaned and that Xu Yi and the others could move in at any time.

So, Xu Yi and the others checked out of the inn, loaded up their luggage, and came to the small courtyard they rented.

Yan Quyue and the others entered the courtyard, and their attention was attracted by the mulberry trees in the courtyard.

Xu Yi saw that they really wanted to pick fruits, so he asked Ah Jin to carry two baskets and let her and Yan Quyue pick mulberries.

As for the luggage, with him, A Xu and Er Qing here, it can be packed quickly.

So, while they were busy...

Xu Yi heard the happy voices of Yan Quyue and A Jin in the courtyard from time to time.

"Quick, quick, there's a big mulberry fruit here."

"Ajin, on your left hand side, go up, there are several big ones, pick them off quickly."

"Madam, I can't hold it in my basket anymore."

"More Go get one. Today we have picked all the ripe fruits."

Yan Quyue pinched a mulberry fruit and ate it in her mouth. She narrowed her eyes with satisfaction and continued, "Axu said he would make some for us. Mulberry wine."

Xu Yi looked over and saw her stepping on the mulberry branch, holding the branch with one hand and picking the fruit with the other, and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly.

"Get down quickly." He walked to the tree and shouted.

Yan Quyue heard his voice, looked down at him, clapped her hands, and jumped down from the branch more than two meters high.

"Why did you ask me to come down?" Yan Quyue was a little dissatisfied, "I haven't finished picking it yet."

Xu Yi took her hand holding the branch and looked at it over and over, while saying: "Did you know that there are ants in mulberry trees? The bite hurts a lot."

"Ant?" Yan Quyue was surprised.

She withdrew her hand and waved her arms in the air, shaking out her sleeves, wondering if she could shake off the ants on them.

Xu Yi reluctantly flicked her forehead and reminded her not to climb the tree next time she picked mulberries.

Yan Quyue blinked and said nothing.

"And you, don't think that you'll be fine if you hide behind." Xu Yi's eyes sank slightly and he looked at A Jin who was idle beside him.

Ah Jin's back froze: "..." He didn't dare to laugh.

But soon, Yan Quyue and A Jin went to A Xu's side happily.

Yan Quyue asked with a smile: "Axu, are these mulberries enough?"

Ajin added next to him: "If it's not enough, I'll pick more."

As he said that, they poured the mulberries in the basket into the wooden basin in front of them. Inside, two baskets of mulberries filled the tub to the brim.

A Xu exclaimed: "Of course it's enough. With so many mulberry fruits, we can brew several cans of wine."

Yan Quyue saw him picking out the mulberry leaves inside, and said with a chuckle: "It's hard for you to make mulberry wine." ? If not, there are still mulberries in the yard, we can pick them again."

This was the point of her question. A Xu hesitated for a moment, but decided to ask Xu Yi first.

At this time, Xu Yi was in the study.

He took out the books in the suitcase and put them on the bookshelf. He was taking out the mulberry paper he bought last time, thinking about giving it to A Xu and A Jin, when he saw A Xu coming to look for him.

"You're just in time. You practice calligraphy on weekdays. Try this mulberry paper. This paper is different from bamboo paper, so the words you write will be different."

Xu Yi said, handing one of the pieces of paper to A Xu.

A Xu took the mulberry paper, nodded, and then said: "Lang Jun, I want to make mulberry wine, but I don't know how to make it."

Xu Yi recalled the fruit wine brewing method he had seen before, and said slowly: " Just like brewing turbid wine, you first wash and dry the mulberries, crush them with a medicinal mill, and seal them in a wine vat together with the koji. After ten days, you can open it and check if it is good. If it is good, you can filter the wine. Then seal the vat for a few days and the mulberry wine will be ready."

A Xu wrote down the method he told and decided to wash the mulberry fruits when he went back.

After he left, Xu Yi sat in front of the case, spread out the mulberry paper, studied the ink and picked up a pen to write something.

It had been four days since he arrived in Zizhou, and Xu Yi hadn't written any letters yet. He thought about it for a moment and then wrote down what was on his mind.

When the pen and ink were dry, he called Erqing over and asked him to go out of the city and go to the inn to mail the letter.

After hearing this, Erqing's eyebrows curled up with joy, and he asked Xu Yi: "Doctor Xu, when I leave the city tomorrow, can I go to the mountains?"

He hadn't hunted for several days, and his hands were itchy recently.

Xu Yi thought that there were bandits in the mountains outside Zizhou, but later the garrison officer in Zizhou sent a soldier over and said that all the remaining bandits in the mountains and forests had been cleared. He also mentioned that the rescued women had arranged Enter the nursing home.

The soldiers came to ask with the officer's words, saying that they wanted to invite Xu Yi to the camp. If they asked for help, they would be rewarded with ten pieces of silver.

Although ten guan of silver was not much, Xu Yi knew that they could not take this money. Taking the reward would be acknowledging their contribution in this matter, but if they did not accept it, then all the credit would belong to the Zizhou garrison.

Xu Yi found an excuse and wrote a letter for the soldiers to take back.

After the soldiers took the letter back, the officer never sent anyone to look for them again.

Thinking that because the words in his letter had an effect, this matter would have nothing to do with them from now on. Xu Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief. When he heard that Er Qing was going to go hunting in the mountains, he thought about it.

Xu Yi said: "If you want to go, take A Xu with you."

Erqing replied in a daze: "Brother A Xu is busy on weekdays, so if you ask Brother A Xu to follow me, what will you do if you want to use someone else, Dr. Xu?" "

I If you have hands and feet, you can take care of it yourself if no one else is around." Xu Yi said and sent him to call A Xu and tell him about the matter.

Erqing was stupid and stood there in a daze.

Seeing Xu Yi return to the case and sit down to do other things, he could only walk out of the study with his legs.

He came to the kitchen to look for A Xu. When A Xu heard this, he said without raising his head: "Since Lang Jun said it, then follow Lang Jun's arrangement."

Erqing scratched his head: "..." Why is it different from what he thought.

"You don't want your brother to follow?" Ah Jin looked at him with a smile and said with interest, "Then you ask me to go. My hunting ability is not as good as my brother."

Erqing said with some disapproval: "The mountains outside Zizhou It's not easy to walk."

"Which mountain is easier to walk on?" A Jin gave him a look and patted his shoulder. "I'll tell you. Lang Jun will definitely agree."

Erqing opened his mouth to stop her, but when he saw the hairpin swaying on her head, he was a little dazzled. When he came to his senses, Ah Jin had already walked away.

It was getting dark outside. Ah Jin went into the house, lit the lamp, came to Xu Yi and called "Mr. Sir", then stood obediently and did not leave.

Xu Yi saw her and asked her to tell her if she had anything to say in a funny way.

Ah Jin didn't mince words, and said she wanted to go hunting in the mountains with Er Qing: "Er Qing can go, and I want to go too. My husband won't let me go."

Xu Yi: "..."

"Since you want to go, , Why bother to ask me?"

A Jin smiled sweetly and said, "I listen to Lang Jun. If Lang Jun doesn't let me go, I won't go."

Xu Yi knew that the two of them had intentions and didn't want to really break them up. Besides, Er Qing seems to be a good boy. Although he is a little clumsy, he usually listens to A Jin's words.

Ah Jin is getting older every year now. In ordinary people's eyes, at the age of eighteen or nineteen, he would have already had a baby.

However, Erqing was not yet eighteen years old, so Xu Yi was not in a hurry for them to get married.

"That's all, you can go instead of A Xu." Xu Yi warned, "Ask Xiao Huang to follow. I'll feel more at ease when he's with you."

A Jin agreed with a smile.

Xu Yi smiled helplessly and shook his head, but he was thinking deeply, and no one knew that he was still worrying about these things.

...

Two days passed in the blink of an eye. Xu Yi and A Xu went to the carpenter's place to build a large foldable stool. The remaining stools, flags and cloth were all prepared when they went out.

Through Bai Xiuyun, Xu Yi chose a good place to set up a stall and conduct medical consultations. The place was right next to the tea shop at the end of Furen Lane. The owner of the tea shop was missing half of his arm. His wife was in charge of the tea shop. The couple had a mild temper and only charged Xu Yi five cents a day to set up the stall.

According to the agreed date, Xu Yi came to the tea shop with the things used to set up the stall. A Xu unloaded the stools and other items from the vehicle. Seeing this, the tea shop owner enthusiastically brought them crude tea.

Xu Yi took it with a smile and asked, "Are there many people coming here to drink tea?"

"Quite a few." The owner of the tea shop smiled happily, "After a while, there will be a few people studying. When we pass by each other, they will come to ask for a pot of tea every time. Porters, merchants, washing ladies and maids from high families will also come to buy tea. Sometimes, when they get monthly money, they will also come to buy some crude tea as a gift. People."

Like coarse tea, it is the most popular among the people.

Not only is it cheap, it also has a delicious taste. The bitter tea sweetness lingers on the tip of the tongue for a long time, making people feel refreshed after drinking it.

When Xu Yi started drinking coarse tea, he found it bitter. Now that he is used to drinking it, he feels that it is not so hard to swallow.

He slowly drank the coarse tea in the cup. When he put down the cup, he took out a copper coin and put it on the table.

The tea shop owner was a little stunned, but then he kept the copper coin.

For them, every copper coin was hard to earn. He gave the money to his wife and asked her to refill a pot of tea and deliver it to Xu Yi's stall.

Xu Yi's eyebrows moved.

He has no intention of taking advantage of others. He rarely touches crude tea like this. But seeing how enthusiastic the other party was, he understood that this was the good intention of the tea shop couple and accepted it with a smile.

The tea shop owner was very happy to see him accept it. There were not many doctors who could make such a big donkey cart and be pleasant-looking.

Thinking of this, he turned around and wiped the table, waiting for the guests to come over.

...

Xu Yi's name in Zizhou was not obvious. He suddenly set up a stall to see a doctor. For half a day, no one stopped.

He was not in a hurry. No one came to him for medical treatment, so he just took out the medical book and read it calmly.

A Xu, who was waiting by his side, saw this and knew that he could not be impatient. He remembered what Xu Yi said, took out the mulberry paper, and silently copied the prescription written by Xu Yi.

As soon as May comes, there will be more summer rains. When you go out, you need to prepare more things to block the rain, otherwise you will be soaked in the rain very soon.

"Boom, boom--"

A burst of thunder suddenly sounded, and the sky suddenly surged with wind and clouds, dark clouds gathered together, and the darkness was pressing towards the top of the head.

Xu Yi raised his eyebrows and shouted: "Shelter."

A Xu turned around and put away his pen, ink, paper and inkstone, quickly ran to the carriage, took the cowhide shed and some bamboo poles and ran back.

Fortunately, when the raindrops fell, Xu Yi and A Xu worked together to prop up the awning.

Seeing the raindrops splashing on the cowhide shed, A Xu raised his face and sighed in frustration.

Xu Yi also changed his previous laziness and asked the lady at the tea shop next to him for a pot of freshly boiled hot water, using it to brew his Longjing chrysanthemum tea.

Naturally, the Longjing tea he used was not real Longjing tea.

Lu Yu, the tea sage, said in the "Tea Classic" that "Qiantang gave birth to Tianzhu and Lingyin Temples." The tea produced in Tianzhu and Lingyin is the earliest Longjing tea, known as Tianzhu tea or Lingyin tea. Most of them are West Lake tea, etc. They have different names, but they are undoubtedly good teas.

Later, the name "Longjing" started from the Song Dynasty, but at this time in Shu, it was almost impossible to buy authentic Longjing tea.

Only tea produced in Qiantang, Fuyang, Yuqian, Lin'an and other areas as far away as Yuhang County is included in this tea.

This will be called Longjing tea brought from Yuhang, which is almost all fake. Of course, the taste is not much different. At least in Xu Yi's opinion, the taste of this "fake Longjing" is also excellent.

Especially the freshly roasted spring tea, with its green color, fragrant aroma, sweet taste and beautiful appearance, as long as you don't pursue the best quality, you will be attracted by this kind of good tea.

Xu Yi brewed the tea leaves, and the rich tea fragrance instantly spread out.

This caused the couple in the tea shop next to them to look towards them frequently.

The tea shop owner whispered in a low voice: "What kind of tea is that? Why does it smell so fragrant?"

His wife sniffed intoxicatedly, shook her head in a low voice and said, "If you can't smell it, is this tea not produced here?"

"Let's start. In all these years of running a tea shop, have you ever seen such good tea in Sichuan?" The tea shop owner glanced at her and couldn't move his feet when he smelled the fragrance.

The two of them waited, waiting for the scent to become even more pleasant.

But soon, they saw Doctor Xu take out a jar, put two pieces of yellow stuff in it, and soak it in the tea.

They were all stunned and didn't understand why they did this.

However, the intoxicating fragrance of tea just now did not dissipate, instead, wisps of elegant and light chrysanthemum fragrance floated out.

Only then did they realize that Doctor Xu was making chrysanthemum tea, but they had never seen the tea base and the tea used.

After the Longjing chrysanthemum tea was brewed, Xu Yi called A Xu and brought a pot to the tea shop owner next to him.

The tea shop owner didn't expect that they were also involved. He took the teapot with a smile, couldn't wait to pour it into the tea cup, smelled the rich tea aroma, and tasted it in small sips.

"Good tea!" the tea shop owner exclaimed in surprise.

He had never drunk such good tea, and he couldn't help but drink the tea soup that was still hot to his mouth.

After entering the mouth, the aroma of tea flowed away from your mouth, and the aftertaste was lingering. Compared with the pot of cheap coarse tea they gave away, it was really different.

I'm afraid you can't drink this pot of fine tea without a lot of money.

The tea shop owner came over sheepishly to thank me.

With a soft smile on his face, Xu Yi moved the stool next to him and asked him to take a seat.

"The tea soup of this tea is bright and green, fragrant and refreshing. I wonder where Dr. Xu got the good tea?" the tea shop owner asked in confusion.

Xu Yi said with a smile: "This tea was bought from a tea merchant from Yuhang. It has a long-lasting aroma and can soothe the mood. Drinking it together can relieve dryness and heat."

There is a lot of rain in summer, and the south is a place with heavy humidity . , when it rains, the damp and hot evil energy on the ground enters the human body along with the rain, but the Yang energy in the body cannot get out. The collision between the two can easily cause people to be irritable and angry.

There is nothing better than drinking a cup of Longjing chrysanthemum tea at this time.

Sipping tea and admiring the rain, this half day passed quickly.

When the Golden Crow was about to fall to the west, the rain stopped, and pedestrians began to come and go on the streets that were deserted because of the rain.

Xu Yi stood up, moved his limbs, and planned to close the stall and go home.

At the end of the stall, a few scholars walked towards the tea shop chatting and laughing. They soon saw an extra stall next to the tea shop.

One of the young men dressed as a scholar read out the words on the banner: "Specializes in treating difficult and complicated diseases. He also sells raw and cooked medicines. The consultation fee is five cents." As he spoke, his eyes widened. "It's so cheap, is he a bachelor?"

"Five cents? Such a good thing?" The classmate beside him tutted and pushed his arm.

"How about you ask the doctor if there is such a good thing, wouldn't your family..." He had a smile on his face, but did not finish the sentence.

The scholar pursed his lips, remembering that his mother had borrowed money from the Qi family in the past few days in order to raise money for his father's medicine.

He clenched his fists and left quickly.

The classmates behind him watched him leave without saying a word, and they all froze in confusion.

But soon, they were chatting and laughing and went into the tea shop to drink tea.