Chapter 712 Shen He is back late
Lianshan Town, surrounded by mountains, has become increasingly famous because of Sanshan School and Jiang Fubao's clinic. Since the Chinese New Year, the dentists have been busy all day long, with outsiders either coming to buy houses and shops or to rent houses and shops.
All the houses and shops in the city that had been vacant for a long time now have new owners.
House prices are much higher.
It is comparable to the old houses in Jiangnan City.
Some people even sold their houses and shops just to make money, and then moved their families back to their ancestral hometown. The money they earned from the sales was enough for them to live on for two lifetimes, so why would they open a shop?
Therefore, the residents of Lianshan Town had a complete water replacement.
Jiang Fubao found that there were many new faces.
With the influx of new people, Lianshan Town is particularly lively. Not to mention during the day, even after dark, shops that should have closed long ago are still open. No one is willing to close their shops. Who made the streets so crowded? Closing the shops would just block the God of Wealth.
It feels a bit like Jiangnan nightlife.
Lianshan Town itself is quite large, and those who don’t know would think it is a county, it is so lively.
On the contrary, few people go to Chang'an Town, the main town.
The closing time of Jiang Fubao's clinic was also postponed by half an hour, and the same was true for Jiang's snack shop.
The whole family had to wait until it was completely dark before they could get home and have dinner together.
The final location of the Common People Hall was outside the town of Lianshan. There was a small hill there, which was bought by Jiang Huanyu, who spent three months leveling it.
Those who were responsible for moving hills were beggars and poor people.
For more than half of the people, all their family members died.
They have no houses, no villages willing to accept them, and no money. They are like dandelions, floating wherever the wind blows but unable to take root.
When they learned that the People's Hall was willing to accept them, they all came running from far away.
The construction of the Common People's Hall had not started yet, so Jiang Huanyu simply gave them a house in the city for them to live in temporarily. The house was bought by Zhang Jinlan and was given to her temporarily. Those who lived in the house only had to pay one cent per person per day.
There were bedding and an unlimited supply of hot water, helping these poor people get through the winter.
When summer comes, the scorching sun shines all over the earth, making the bluestone bricks on the streets steaming hot, almost burning your feet.
The charcoal stove in Jiang Fubao's clinic also turned into half-man-high ice blocks, which were placed in ceramic jars in the east and west corners.
One is close to the private room and the other is close to the waiting queue.
After the morning, only half of the ice had melted.
Although it was still quite hot inside, it was bearable. It was not like outside where the sun was so hot that it hurt.
People walking on the street kept close to the wall and never exposed themselves to the sun.
"Erya, stop slapping me. Your hands are tired. Go to the backyard and bring a pot of cold tea. Pour a cup for each person in the queue."
The clinic is very busy during the hottest and coldest times, one due to typhoid fever and the other due to heat stroke.
Seeing that these people's faces were covered with sweat, Jiang Fubao turned his head and spoke to Pan Erya who was fanning her.
"Okay, I'll go right away." Pan Erya put down the silk fan in her hand, got up and went to the backyard.
The backyard was busy just like yesterday. The cook who was in charge of making cold tea was exhausted.
Starting from the morning, I cooked one pot after another, and I have cooked four pots in total.
Standing by the stove, stirring the herbs in the clay pot all the time, for fear that the bottom would get burnt, otherwise the brewed herbal tea would taste bitter and burnt, and would be simply unpalatable.
Other cooks are not much better.
The second floor was full of people. Some were choosing vegetables, some were cutting vegetables, and some were helping Jiang Ruyi cook.
So much so that when Pan Erya came to the backyard, no one looked up at her.
Everyone is busy with their own things.
"Sister Xiaoyu, when will this pot of cold tea be ready? The young lady asked me to pour a pot." Pan Erya asked, holding the white porcelain pot.
"It's almost done. The last pot didn't even have time to cool down before it was gone. Oh, it looks like we'll have to make ten pots today. Let's just use a big pot tomorrow. This small clay pot isn't enough to hold the water. Oh, the sour grass is gone. Go get some for me."
Yuer answered while wiping the beads of sweat from her face with the towel around her neck.
"Okay, then I'll put the pot here first." Pan Erya went back to the front, found the sour grass in the medicine cabinet, took a handful and went back.
Jiang Fubao was also very busy. She used to be sitting in the lobby examining patients, and now she was fumigating a woman with moxa in a private room.
The woman had her period when she was only five months pregnant. She was pushed here from outside the city on a cart by her family. Seeing that her face was pale from the pain, Jiang Fubao let her jump the queue. That's why she asked Pan Erya to go to the backyard to make cooling tea just now to make up for these patients who were jumped in line.
You should know that the cold tea in her clinic costs three cents a cup, which is not cheap. You can buy a bowl of noodles with shredded pork on the street for that much.
This year's cooling tea is a new version. It is made from eighteen kinds of herbs. Three cents is really not expensive. She only makes a few copper coins for a pot. If she wasn't afraid that these people would get heatstroke, she wouldn't even bother to sell it.
"Miss, it's time to eat. There are seven or eight people waiting behind you. If you don't eat now, you may not be able to eat in the afternoon and you will get hungry." At the end of noon, Pan Erya brought a tray and placed it in front of Jiang Fubao.
The aroma of the food went straight into her nose, and her stomach, which was not hungry at first, suddenly growled.
Jiang Fubao nodded and said, "Okay, I'll eat first. Siyou, come and help me." Eating is one thing, but one can't let the patient wait.
Jiang Fubao called Shao Siyou over.
The two switched positions.
She took the tray to the large table in front of the medicine cabinet and ate.
On the tray was a bowl of white rice, which was neither too hard nor too soft, and exuded the smell of firewood and rice.
There are also three dishes and a bowl of soup.
The dishes include fried dried tea with chili peppers, minced pork and chicken egg custard, stir-fried wild vegetables, and kelp and winter melon soup made from kelp shipped from Canghai Province. When the soup is cooked, a whole piece of pork ribs is put in for flavoring. There is only bone but no meat, so only kelp and winter melon can be seen in the soup. It looks like plain soup, but it tastes extremely fresh and sweet when you drink it.
Jiang Fubao ate up the whole plate of food, including both meat and vegetables.
Not a single grain of rice was wasted. After eating, she took a sip of tea, rinsed her mouth, and then spit it out. In this way, when she spoke to the patient, there was no strange taste in her mouth, but the fragrance of tea.
After eating and drinking, Jiang Fubao went to change Shao Siyou, and then Shao Siyou went to the backyard to eat.
After a busy day, when the sun set, Jiang Fubao, his second sister and the servants walked out of the clinic and prepared to go home.
But at the door of my house, I saw a familiar figure.
"Fubao, you're back? I wanted to go to the clinic to look for you, but I was afraid of delaying you, so I waited here. I've already visited grandma, and she asked me to stay for dinner. I wanted to wait for you to come back and eat together, so I'm waiting for you here." Shen Hechi turned around and looked at her with a smile.