Xiaoman's stitches were removed after ten days of rest. With the Tian family taking care of her, the wound healed very well.
He went from being covered in blood to being lively and energetic again, and now we just have to wait for him to slowly return to normal.
He no longer wanted to lie down and be waited on, especially being forced to drink milk.
Although I only drank it twice.
As soon as the line was cut, Xiaoman immediately ran back to Qingquan Bay and refused to stay at the Tian family's house no matter what.
Peach's mother never expected that her overflowing maternal love would scare Xiaoman away.
Xiaoman returned to the pharmacy not only to avoid the human milk, but also because Qingquan Bay needed to start construction.
However, before that, the pharmacy that lost two lives will be dealt with.
This matter was handled by Song Tingzhang. He found a Taoist priest to set up an altar and perform rituals at Qingquan Bay, offering up the Three Pure Ones Bell and a peach wood sword. The ritual lasted for three days before the actual work began.
After the incident, the pharmacy was shut down, and the two puppies were brought back to the village. They played wildly with the other puppies, Little Flower and Big Yellow, for ten days, and are now back on duty.
Baicaotang delivered the medicinal herbs, and Xu Genqing and Wu Yang returned to the pharmacy, loaded the pots with the herbs, and lit the seven-star stoves on both sides again.
Xiaoman was injured and unable to work, so she helped Tiantao watch the pot every day. When it was time to pour out the medicine, Xu Genqing and Wu Yang had to come.
Everything was going smoothly until just two days later, Li Ersaozi, who was in charge of tending the fire, wanted to quit her job.
She said she was afraid of ghosts and didn't want to come to the pharmacy anymore.
Jiang Zhi knew that the wages at the pharmacy were fixed, only a dozen or so coins a day, which was less than what she earned making mosquito coils.
In the mosquito coil workshop, as long as you are quick and efficient, you can earn dozens of coins a day.
The once highly sought-after job at the pharmacy suddenly lost its appeal.
People always want the best, and Li Ersaozi wanted to earn a lot of money, which Jiang Zhi didn't object to.
The pharmacy has low pay and offers year-round working hours, plus employee benefits.
Mosquito coil workshops are seasonal jobs, and the work is all about speed; both have their advantages and disadvantages.
However, we need to select a new person to work as a fireman in the pharmacy.
This task doesn't require much thought; you just need to add firewood as instructed.
Another thing is that you need to be patient and stay by the stove door, no matter how hot it is, you can't leave.
Before Jiang Zhi could decide who to choose, the stone monkey led someone to her.
Jiang Zhi had always been sympathetic and tolerant towards Shi Jia's clever child. It was so rare that he was only eleven years old and already wanted to drag these brainless people through life.
Shi Houzi brought his eldest cousin, Wu Yang's fiancée, Shi Dachun, who was only fourteen years old.
Shi Dachun's parents were cousins who got married.
In the secular world, this kind of "marriage between relatives" is very normal, and the child will inevitably have intellectual disabilities.
Simple-minded people have simple-minded luck; they gain weight even from drinking cold water.
Despite the lack of food and clothing at home, he was good-looking and physically strong, but his expression was dull and his eyes were lifeless.
The fourteen-year-old girl stood in front of Jiang Zhi, led by her younger brother. Perhaps because she had never seen many strangers before, she seemed very uneasy.
With her head bowed, she kept touching her face and scratching her hair, making her neatly combed hair messy.
"Smack!"
Stone Monkey slapped her hand away as she tried to pull at his clothes again, and said to Jiang Zhi, "Village Chief Jiang, my eldest sister can start a fire. She's obedient, capable, and never slacks off!"
Jiang Zhi was a little worried.
She wasn't discriminating against people with disabilities; she was just worried that someone with such a senile appearance wouldn't be able to manage the fires in more than a dozen stoves.
What if you're preoccupied with your own world and ruin all that medicine by brewing it up?
However, Jiang Zhi was still willing to give Sister Shi a chance: "Da Chun, do you know how to light a fire and cook?"
Sister Shi remained silent, which made Shi Houzi anxious. He pushed her hard, saying, "Speak up! You usually cook at home, so tell Village Chief Jiang that you can start a fire. Then you can go to work with Brother Wuyang!"
Upon hearing Wu Yang's name, Sister Shi became even more hesitant, saying in a voice barely above a mosquito's buzz, "I can cook! Dad wants the crispy rice crust, and Mom and my sister will eat porridge."
She had to cook for the whole family since she was a child. If she was slow-witted and couldn't cook well, she would be beaten. Although she learned slowly, she could still cook simple dishes. She even knew how each person in the family ate and how to divide the food.
Jiang Zhi nodded, "As long as it can cook rice, that's fine."
You don't need to be very smart in the pharmacy, as long as you know how to carry out tasks as required: "Alright, Stone Monkey, take Da Chun to Tian Tao's place, clean up his clothes and hair first, and then teach him how to manage the fire."
The first rule of working in a pharmacy is to pay attention to personal hygiene. Although you have to wear a hat and work clothes when you enter the pharmacy, employees also have to follow the rules when washing their hair, taking a bath, and changing clothes.
Even though Wu Yang and Xu Genqing did dirty and tiring work at the pharmacy, such as chopping wood and grinding herbs, they still had to wash themselves thoroughly from head to toe every day, making them noticeably different from the farmers in the village.
Sister Shi is a girl, so it's most suitable for Tian Tao to manage things.
Stone Monkey was overjoyed to see that his elder sister would accept it: "Yes, let's go to Sister Peach's place now."
After saying that, he turned around and ran towards the Tian family's house, not even caring about his cousin.
This time it worked out again.
I should have told Koizumi; thankfully, Koizumi told me.
Behind the stone monkey, Sister Stone also ran along with a happy expression.
She didn't know what her brother was happy about; as long as he was happy, she was happy.
The stone monkey grew up carrying his younger brother on his back, and he would be beaten whenever his younger brother cried.
But my cousin is also the closest to me, and he would secretly give me any good food he had.
After seeing off the stone monkey siblings, Jiang Zhi hadn't even had a chance to sit down and have a drink of water when Wang Xiaoju and Xu Genbao approached her again.
"Auntie, we want to stay in the village!" Wang Xiaoju said quickly; she couldn't wait any longer.
Jiang Zhi asked in surprise, "You're not going out to earn money anymore? Your cotton-ginning equipment is still in the city!"
She actually had this plan in mind: to keep all the young people in the village.
Few people in farming families are literate, and the older generation is not quick-witted enough, so only young people can teach them.
However, such things still require people to be willing, and Jiang Zhi doesn't have the habit of actively trying to keep people.
Actually, ever since the women went to the city to beat up Xu Xiaogu before the wheat harvest, Wang Xiaoju and her companion hadn't gone to the city to fluff cotton again, and this delay lasted for a month.
Now that there are workshops in the village, the two of them want to stay even more.
Wang Xiaoju said, "I won't hide it from you, Auntie. Working in the workshop is almost the same as working outside, and I can keep an eye on the children every day."
"Working outside means constantly having to watch your step and living in fear, and sometimes you don't even get paid after you finish the job."
Jiang Zhi was well aware of how hard it was to earn money outside. When Wang Xiaoju came to say this, she nodded and said, "Anyway, the work in the workshop is paid by piece. If you think it's okay, you can stay. When it's time to collect your money, go find Xu Gensheng and Li Laoshi."
As she spoke, she walked toward the mosquito coil workshop.
The work in the mosquito coil workshop is a free-for-all; some people do a lot, some do a little.
The first few days were fine, but as time went on, some people stayed in one spot all day without moving, and the others got upset and started fighting.
Although it's just minor tug-of-war, it happens frequently, disrupting our work. These past two days, Li Laoshi has been getting into tug-of-war with people, and she needs to go check on him.
Wang Xiaoju's real purpose in coming to see Aunt Jiang was not to go to work. Seeing that Aunt Jiang was going to the mosquito coil workshop, she quickly pulled Xu Genbao along and went with her.
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