Chapter 475: Surprise and Fear
The old doctor withdrew his hand, glanced at Old Zhou, who was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, pretending to be unconscious, and smiled at Qian: "It's okay, I'll just prescribe him two doses of medicine. As people get older, they tend to have more problems, so avoid extreme sadness, joy, shock, or fear."
The old doctor smiled and said, "Even young people may not be able to withstand sadness, joy, fear, let alone the elderly."
Old Zhou, who doesn't feel that old: ...
Seeing that the old doctor was about to continue talking, Old Zhou couldn't help but open his eyes.
Zhou Dalang saw it with his sharp eyes and said happily, "Mom, Dad is awake."
Manbao immediately stuck his head out from behind, but was pushed back by Zhou Dalang. He thought that his father might not want to see Manbao's round head at this moment.
Manbao couldn't help pouting. She had clearly woken her father up. His eyelids moved slightly, and it was obvious that he had been awake all the time.
Humph, Dad is pretending to be unconscious.
Old Zhou "woke up" and was about to sit up. Zhou Dalang quickly supported him and put a pillow behind his back.
Old Zhou's eyes swept around the room and he asked vaguely, "Where's the stuff?"
As soon as Old Zhou's family heard what he was asking, they knew what he was asking. Zhou Dalang looked at Zhou Erlang, who immediately said, "Dad, it's in the room, behind the screen. Do you want to see it?"
Old Zhou heaved a sigh of relief and said to the old doctor, "Thank you for the trip. I'm fine."
The old doctor nodded in agreement, but he was also a little curious, "What did you see that made you so surprised, happy, and afraid?"
He understood surprise and joy together, and he also understood surprise and fear together, but the combination of surprise, joy, and fear made him a little confused.
The old doctor thought that he was not well trained and had taken the pulse and misjudged the complexion, but when he observed the expressions of Old Zhou and his family, he knew that he was right.
I couldn't help but become more curious.
Old Zhou coughed lightly, then held his head and cried out in pain.
The old doctor knew that this was not gossip to be taken seriously. He smiled and shook his head, then put his hands behind his back and went out with Zhou Dalang to get the prescription.
It just so happened that the old doctor had asked carefully before coming, and Zhou Dalang said that his father might have fainted from anger or happiness, so he brought some appropriate medicine with him.
After writing the prescription, he grabbed two sets of medicine from the medicine box and gave them to them. Then he said, "If he still doesn't feel better after taking two sets of medicine, let him come to see me at the market."
Zhou Dalang felt that one dose of medicine was enough. Didn’t he see that his father had asked for things just now?
So he agreed with a smile and took the cart to take the old doctor home.
Who knew that the old doctor waved his hand and said, "No, no, since I'm here, I'll go see the old lady of the Bai family in a while, and they will take me back."
"Old Mrs. Bai can't eat again?"
The old doctor smiled and nodded, then shook his head and said, "The old lady just ate too much meat and couldn't digest it. It's so hot and it's a bit bitter, so she can't eat."
Zhou Dalang was shocked. He couldn't imagine eating too much meat, but... "It's almost Mid-Autumn Festival, and we're still suffering from summer?"
"Do you think it's hot now?"
Zhou Dalang nodded.
"That's right. It's common to have poor appetite in hot weather."
Although the old doctor said there was no need to send him, Zhou Dalang still carried the medicine box and sent the old doctor to the Bai family on the other side of the river before returning home.
Xiao Qian has already boiled the medicine. One dose of medicine is boiled twice, and two doses of medicine can be used for two days.
Old Zhou pretended to have a headache for a while. When he heard that the old doctor had left, he immediately said to Zhou Erlang, "Go and bring me the silver."
Qian glanced at him and said, "Let's go to the main room. It's dark in there, where is there anything to see?"
Two boxes of silver were placed in front of Old Zhou. He first glanced at the five ingots in the bookcase, then at the forty-nine neatly arranged in the bamboo box. He reached out and touched them, feeling refreshed. He waved his hand and said, "Carry them into the house and put them away. Let your mother keep them."
Manbao immediately refused and said, "Dad, this is what I earned. Forty percent of it is mine."
Old Zhou glanced at her and said, "You are so young, what are you going to do with so much money? Ask your mother to keep it for you and use it as a dowry."
Manbao: "I want to spend money!"
Old Zhou immediately said generously, "I'll ask your mother to give you ten cents, spend it as you please!"
Manbao's eyes almost popped out of his head as he shouted, "No, ten cents, how can ten cents be enough?"
"Why is it not enough? You are so young. When I was your age, I didn't even have ten cents to spend."
"When you were her age, you didn't see yourself earning dozens of silver ingots." Qian said, "Don't worry about Manbao. Their farm also needs money."
Old Zhou remembered, "You knew all along that Manbao was harvesting wheat seeds, but you kept it from me. I wouldn't believe you."
Qian just looked at him without saying anything.
Old Zhou's momentum waned, and he muttered, "Fine, if you don't want to tell me, then I won't tell me. Well, that kid shouldn't have so much money on him..."
"Alright," Qian softened her voice and said, "How can Manbao be treated like any other child? If you break the rules and don't give her any money today, she'll make money outside without telling you next time."
Old Zhou felt upset.
Qian said quietly, "This is free money. Manbao, calculate how much the 60% of the silver is."
Manbao had already calculated, "It's three hundred and twenty-four taels."
Old Zhou opened his eyes wide and touched the silver ingot in his hand for a long time without saying a word.
When Zhou Dalang came back from outside, he saw everyone gathered around his father. He looked around, not knowing what had happened, and could only comfort his father again, "Dad, don't be angry with Manbao. She didn't cause any trouble and she even earned so much money for the family, didn't she?"
He looked honest and said cheerfully: "With so much silver, 60% of it is not too old or too young."
Old Zhou then rolled his eyes and said, "You guys really know how to enjoy life, but you've grown up in vain. The seven of you combined don't earn as much as your sister. Shame on you!"
Zhou Dalang and his brothers and sisters were silent, but they were not convinced in their hearts, because Dad, you don’t earn as much as Manbao.
But Old Zhou finally relented. He sighed and said, "Alright, let's split it up."
He took the initiative and said, "Three hundred and twenty-four taels, right? I'll take the pick."
He also took out the five silver ingots from Manbao's bookcase, put them in a pile and slowly compared and selected them. Manbao looked helpless and said, "Dad, they all look the same."
Seeing him hesitating, Manbao took direct action, selected twenty-one silver ingots and threw them towards himself.
Old Zhou quickly shouted, "More, more."
Manbao fought with him and shouted, "It's not much. My forty percent is twenty-one. You have to give me another six taels."
When it comes to settling accounts, ten old Zhoutou are no match for one Manbao. Soon he was confused by Manbao's calculations.
Manbao stuffed the twenty-one silver ingots into the bookcase, turned around and stretched out his hand to Old Zhou, "There are still six taels!"
(End of this chapter)
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