Chapter 1087 Respect for the Elderly
The four people, except Bai Erlang, all had their whereabouts found.
Bai Erlang just looked at them silently.
Bai Shan and Man Bao also turned to look at him, and Man Bao suggested, "Do you want to go play with Brother Bai?"
Bai Erlang picked up the bowl and chopsticks and fiercely picked up a piece of meat. "No, my eldest brother is either going to a literary gathering or a poetry gathering. It's not fun at all."
Bai Shan smiled and said, "Then you and Manbao go together and help her."
"No," Bai Erlang refused, "I don't know any medical skills, why would I join in the fun?"
Manbao and Baishan also took the food and said, "Can you help distribute some red dates, brown sugar, etc."
Although Bai Erlang was very reluctant, on the seventh day, he still went to the Chang'an County Government Office with Manbao Baishan early in the morning.
Many stools had been placed there, and some people had brought their elderly family members here. There were also elderly people from villages outside the capital who had arrived in the capital last night and were staying at the post station.
It's free!
Manbao also saw an old man being carried in while lying on a bed.
Not to mention her, even Bai Shan and Bai Erlang were stunned.
Manager Zheng also came in person, while Doctor Ding and Doctor Gu were left in the pharmacy. Doctor Tao also came with his medicine boy carrying a medicine box.
Seeing Manbao standing there in a daze, he quickly called out, "What are you doing? Come and hand out the signs to the elderly. We'll follow the signs in a while."
Manbao walked forward in a daze.
Bai Shan also came forward. He checked the time and found that none of his classmates had arrived, so he took the Jishitang sign and said with a smile, "I'll help you distribute it."
Manager Zheng bowed quickly and expressed his gratitude, "Thank you very much, Mr. Bai."
The three of them handed out the signs one by one, and occasionally squatted down to talk to the elderly, asking about this year's harvest and family situation.
Yin Huo also arrived early. As soon as he got off the carriage, he saw three people moving among a group of old people and hurried forward.
He had only taken two steps when a carriage stopped in front of him. Liu Huan jumped out, looked him up and down and said, "Didn't you say you were sick? You don't look like it."
Yin Huo stopped, nodded to him, and then went to find Bai Shan and the others.
"Hey, I said, we're going to the county government office to pick up something..." Liu Huan saw that he didn't stop, so he hurried to catch up, "Hey, Bai Shan, what are you doing here?"
Bai Shan respectfully handed a sign to an old man, stood up and saluted Liu Huanyin, and said with a smile: "The other students haven't arrived yet, so I will help Jishitang distribute some signs first."
Liu Huan took the sign and looked at it, saying with disdain, "This sign is so old. How many years has it been since it was changed?"
Manbao happened to pass by behind him and took the time to reply, "It costs money to change the brand."
Liu Huan turned around to look at her. Yin Huo held out his hand and smiled faintly, saying, "I'll help you distribute some too."
Bai Shan gave him all the signs in his hand, and then went to ask the storekeeper Zheng for some more.
After distributing the signs, several teenagers sat on some empty stools and talked with Manbao. At this time, the doctors from Baohe Clinic had just arrived. They greeted Manbao familiarly, and after a few words, they went to distribute signs to the remaining elderly people.
Chang'an County is the outer county of the capital, but there is also a Wannian County on the other side of the capital, so Baicaotang and several other medical clinics were located there.
Seeing that the Baohe Clinic hadn't distributed all its plaques yet, Liu Huan was curious, "What are these plaques for?"
"They're used to get things when seeing a doctor," Man Bao said. "We only have three doctors at Jishidiang today, and we can only see a limited number of patients, so we have a fixed number of plaques. We get one plaque back for each patient we see, along with some herbs. After seeing a patient, we go home. We'll do the same thing tomorrow."
"What if there are a lot of elderly people tomorrow and some don't get their turn?"
"Impossible," Manbao said, "The number of people reported to us by the county government was only 10% of the number reported, and we also prepared extra signs. How could it be possible that it's not our turn?"
There are a number of people over the age of 70 near the capital. The county government notified Jishiditang on the first day of the new year to prepare, and it was not the first time that Jishiditang had done such a thing, so it was impossible for such a situation to happen.
But Manbao didn't expect that some families would even carry their elderly relatives who were sick in bed to get these things.
The students from the Imperial College who were assigned here gradually arrived. Bai Shan and Man Bao greeted them and led everyone over to meet up.
The chief clerk of the county government came out and bowed to invite them in.
In the past, those who came to do this were all princes and royal family members. This year, they are students of the Imperial College. Although their status seems to be lower, they are still not to be trifled with by anyone in the county government.
The students who came here either had a father who was a duke or a grandfather who was a prime minister or a provincial governor. They couldn't afford to offend any of them.
So we respectfully welcomed the person out, but no one came out for a long time.
Zheng Da, the shopkeeper, and his men had already set up the Jishiditang stall. Seeing Manbao still sitting there in a daze, he patted her head and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Manbao came back to his senses, stood up and said, "Nothing, big boss, are we going to start seeing the doctor?"
"We can start now, come on."
Manbao sat behind a table with a stool in front of it. The gong of Jishidiang sounded, marking the official start of the party.
An elderly person who had been there several times had experience and immediately took the Jishidiang sign and walked over. Seeing that many of his companions had gone there, he simply dragged a stool over.
Everyone sat in two rows and waited in line to see the doctor.
The reason there are two rows is because there is no one in front of Manbao.
It was obvious that the old people didn't know her very well, the new little miracle doctor in Beijing.
Manbao: ...
When Manager Zheng saw this, he immediately asked the medicine boys to help promote the doctor. However, the old people insisted that the older the Chinese doctor, the better, and they were determined not to see Manbao, who was younger than their great-grandson.
Manbao was silent for a while, but without any hesitation, he rolled up his sleeves and went to help Manager Zheng and Doctor Tao.
If the old lady has a bad back, she would reach out to help press it. If the old man has shaking hands and feet, she would help give him a few acupuncture needles.
After half a day's work, she didn't feel a single pulse, nor did she write out a single prescription, but she gave a lot of acupuncture and massaged the waist. With her smiling round face, she successfully became one of the most popular children on the spot.
The reason why it was one of them was that the handsome young men from the Imperial College also came out of the county government office one after another, each holding a small bag of wheat and a basket of rice cakes. They took notebooks and handed them out one by one, then wrote down their identity information and asked about the situation in the village or at home.
Among them, there are several who are particularly fair and good-looking, and speak gently, and are very popular among the elderly.
Bai Shan was one of them. A well-dressed old man took his hand and said, "Young Master, you are so handsome. What official positions did your father and grandfather hold?"
Bai Shan said: "My father and grandfather are not officials in the court now."
"So you were admitted to the Imperial College?"
Bai Shan said, "I was promoted by grace. My father was a loyal and brave man in the court, and Your Majesty graciously summoned me to the palace."
"Your father is gone. Oh, it must be so difficult. Are you engaged? Do you want me to arrange a marriage for you?"
Manbao, who had finished seeing the patient and was passing by with a bunch of red dates and brown sugar in her arms, stopped. She walked over to Bai Shan and looked at the old man. Seeing his nameplate on the side, she stuffed a bag of red dates and brown sugar into his hand and said with a smile, "Grandpa, this is from Jishiditang. I wish you good health and a long life."
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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