We took the same route as when we came here, stopping and starting several times, and finally arrived in the city in the morning after lying down for two nights and one day.
Qiu Yuling put Wanjin back into the backpack, supported her grandmother, and went to the bus station. The sun was not too hot at this time, so Qiu Yuling settled her grandmother and went to the bus station to buy a ticket.
The clock in the hall showed only a quarter past ten, and the bus wasn't due to leave until two in the afternoon. It took so long that the grandparents and grandchildren didn't know where to go.
Qiu Yuling thought about taking her grandmother to the Chinese medicine hospital. However, the bus station was not close to the hospital, and it would be a bit difficult for the old lady's bound feet to walk such a long distance.
Grandma took out her handkerchief without being seen, peeled off the layers one by one, took out a five-yuan bill, and handed it to Qiu Yuling, intending to let her go by herself while she saved seats for the two of them on the bus.
"Grandma, take it. I have money. Really. I put all my belongings with me when I go out. I have it."
Yuling's grandmother refused to accept the money. She had just paid for the ticket, and she was just a child, so how much money could she have? The price for an adult ticket from the city to the county was 80 cents, and for children, half price, 40 cents. She insisted on giving it to her no matter what.
Qiu Yuling had no choice but to take it over, but she didn't agree to let her grandma sit on the bus for four hours.
There happened to be a mule cart across the street. Qiu Yuling ran over first, negotiated the price, and gave the old man ten cents to take them from the station to the Chinese medicine hospital, a round trip.
The old man tapped his pipe and readily agreed since it wouldn't delay him from picking up the person and it was free.
Qiu Yuling went back to explain everything to her grandmother, picked up the backpack and called Shang Wanjin and the old lady to get on the mule cart.
"Why are we going to the Chinese medicine hospital for no reason?" Grandma asked quietly in Qiu Yuling's ear.
Qiu Yuling patted the backpack and signaled with her eyes to go down and talk later.
They were in a prefecture-level city, which wasn't very big, so it only took twenty minutes for the mule cart to get there.
After getting off the car, Qiu Yuling gave the old man five cents first, and would give him the rest after she took them back.
The structure of today's hospital is different from that of later hospitals. It looks like a slightly more dignified farmyard, but it has a sign of Weiwu City Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.
Grandma walked slowly, and Qiu Yuling was not in a hurry. She hung the backpack on her chest while walking, and opened a corner. Inside was a Cistanche deserticola as thick as her arm. Qiu Yuling lied that she noticed it when she was playing in the Gobi Desert with those boys.
Later I went back to dig it up myself. It was inconvenient to walk from the city, so I saved it and didn't sell it. I originally planned to sell it in the county, but now I don't have much spare time, so I thought of trying it at the Chinese medicine hospital.
Grandma nodded and said nothing more. This thing grows near the Haloxylon ammodendron trees, where few people mess with it, so it's more plentiful, so it's not that rare.
The two of them went to the pharmacy and saw the old doctor there. He was marking out medicinal herbs when he heard someone shouting. He looked up and saw an old man and a young girl who said they were there to sell medicinal herbs.
The old doctor asked Qiu Yuling to bring some of the medicinal herbs she was selling up through the glass window so that he could take a look at their quality first.
Qiu Yuling pulled a 60-centimeter-long Cistanche deserticola from her backpack and handed it over. Even the worst-quality ones looked like this after they were fully grown. Even the best ones wouldn't fit in her small backpack, so she'd try this one out first.
She was fed up with the feeling of having money but not being able to spend it, and she had to find a reasonable and legal way to make money so that she could have relative financial freedom both inside and outside the system.
"Your appearance is not the best. It is probably not very old, no more than three years old. Judging from its thickness, it will be more than two meters long when it grows up." The old doctor cut a little and tasted it, but it was considered average.
"How much is it?" The old doctor was ready to accept it. When selling medicine in a traditional Chinese medicine hospital, one cannot raise the price arbitrarily, and two cannot bargain, but the key is to be fair.
Qiu Yuling poured out five sticks from the backpack and didn't dare to put more. Although grandma didn't carry the backpack all the way, she could see with her eyes how much things could be put in it, and there were also food and other things in it, so this was enough.
After weighing it, it was 1.7 cents per pound, a total of 9.6 pound, which came to about 1.63 yuan. The old doctor quickly wrote her a receipt and asked her to go to the finance department to collect the money.
Before leaving, Qiu Yuling stopped her and told her to come to the hospital to change it next time.
Qiu Yuling said "hmm", but she was thinking that if she didn't come, she wouldn't have enough money for the trip.
However, it also gave her some new ideas. Although the selling price was not as high as that offered by the system mall, she could use this action to gradually increase her financial resources.
After collecting the money with the pharmacy receipt, Qiu Yuling used her eloquent persuasion to persuade the old lady to get a check-up.
She had clearly given the old lady the [Strengthening Body Pills], which cost 200,000 points, but the old lady still felt that she was about to die every day, always citing her age as an excuse and saying that her time had come.
I couldn't reassure her, fearing that she would keep having these wild thoughts.
The two waited at the door for a while, and the person who came in to see the doctor was the old man who had just collected the medicine.
I took his pulse and asked about his daily life, such as his sleep and appetite. Finally, I concluded that he was in good health and far from death. He should go home and continue to improve his nutrition. He would have no problem living another ten or eight years.
Isn't Traditional Chinese Medicine the most reassuring? Why are you saying it's so conservative?
However, the old lady was visibly happy. Although she kept complaining about Qiu Yuling wasting extra money after she left the house, her expression was much more relaxed.
"Oh, little girl, you said you'd be in and out in a moment, why did it take so long? I have to rush back to pick someone up. If I hadn't promised you something, I would have left long ago."
The window where the money was collected just now was too time-consuming, but no matter what, it was her fault. She almost delayed the old man's business. Qiu Yuling was very sorry, so she gave him five cents more. As usual, her grandmother didn't say anything.
"Grandpa, when we first arrived, we passed by the state-owned restaurant. My grandma and I are in a hurry to catch the bus and don't have time to go in for a meal. We want to go in and buy some buns. Can I keep you for a while?"
Qiu Yuling could bear it, and there were dried bags prepared by her aunt in her bag. However, the old lady's teeth and stomach had been making do with it all the way. If she didn't have the conditions, it wouldn't matter. Now that she had the conditions, she still didn't want to let the old lady down.
"It's OK." After receiving the extra five cents, the old man's anger disappeared.
In Qiu Yuling's small bag were food coupons and meat coupons, some of which were given to her by her grandmother, some of which were stuffed in by Li Qingjue when she came, and some of which she had exchanged at a high price from the mall.
She went in and made a quick decision, asking for ten meat buns and ten steamed buns. She took out a cloth bag that she had prepared in advance from her small shoulder bag, unfolded it and put the bag in. Then she came out in a flash like a dog.
"Grandma, here, have some for yourself first. We can eat something hot when we get back to the county." As she said that, she took out two steamed buns and handed them to the old man driving the cart. The old man refused to take them. He didn't give them for free. He had already received 15 cents from the other person. How could he take advantage of him?
"Brother, take it. This is a little gift from my child. I'm sorry to have delayed you for a while." Seeing that her parents had said so, the old man did not refuse. He took it happily and put it in his arms, not wanting to eat it. He thought that he would give it to his son when he got him.
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