Chapter 41 Treatment
"How can this be a waste of money? This is a matter of great importance to your whole life."
Jiang Tangtang pushed him straight to the clinic. "Don't worry! We're not short of money right now. I still have plenty of pearls like those! We're not short of money."
Jiang Tangtang was not very strong, and Lu Shiyan could easily break free, but he did not move for some reason and followed her force into the clinic.
"Doctor, please take a look at his legs." After entering the clinic, Jiang Tangtang hurriedly looked for the doctor.
The doctor in the clinic was about fifty years old. He asked Lu Shiyan to sit down beside him. After examining him, he said, "Your injury has been delayed for too long. If you want your leg to heal, you need to break the leg bones and reconnect them."
They still had to hurry on their way, so they definitely couldn't re-set the bone right now. Jiang Tangtang was a little disappointed. "Then can you prescribe some medicine first?"
"Besides breaking the bones and resetting them, nothing else will work," the old doctor said impatiently. "Do you want treatment? If not, then get out of here. But I have to be frank. Your injury has dragged on long enough. If you delay any longer, it will never heal!"
"Let's go!" Jiang Tangtang wanted to ask a few more questions, but Lu Shiyan pulled her out of the clinic.
"No need for treatment, it's fine now!" Lu Shiyan looked calm and composed, and it seemed that he really didn't care about his lameness.
But the strength in his hands betrayed his current mood.
Jiang Tangtang felt inexplicably sad. She pretended to be relaxed and said, "It's okay. We can get treatment after we get to Yazhou. It won't be for a few days anyway."
And she has the spiritual spring in the space, so she will definitely get better.
"Let's go buy an ox cart!" Lu Shiyan didn't mention the leg treatment anymore. He let go of her hand and took the lead to walk towards the livestock market.
He was never talkative to begin with, and today he was even more silent.
Jiang Tangtang couldn't stand the atmosphere a bit. She was just about to say something to comfort him and liven up the atmosphere when she suddenly noticed someone selling beef.
She immediately stopped caring about Lu Shiyan and took out half of the money in her purse and gave it to him. "You go buy the ox cart, I'll go buy some beef, come find me later."
You should know that in the Great Zhou Dynasty, cattle were under control and could not be killed at will. Only old, sick and disabled oxen could be killed after being registered with the government and with permission.
Of course, the powerful and wealthy are not subject to this law.
But she is no longer powerful, so if she wants to eat fresh beef in the future, she can only rely on luck.
Now that she was not so short of money, she immediately wanted to buy the whole cow. After all, she had already eaten up most of the frozen beef in the farmhouse refrigerator.
Jiang Tangtang rushed in and asked, "Boss, how much do you want for this cow?"
The beef seller looked up at Jiang Tangtang with a hint of surprise and said, "You mean the whole one?"
Jiang Tangtang asked, "Yes, how much is this whole cow for?"
Seeing that Jiang Tangtang looked lucky despite her ordinary attire, the man thought she was the housekeeper of some wealthy family. He happily raised two fingers and said, "Twenty taels."
As he spoke, he pieced together the beef on the counter to show her, "This cow is huge. I only sold about ten pounds today. It's really worth every penny to buy such a big cow for twenty taels of silver."
Jiang Tangtang raised an eyebrow and said, "A living cow is only worth twenty or thirty taels of silver. You're asking for twenty taels of silver for a dead cow and you're saying I got a great bargain. You're taking me for a ride!"
"My cow didn't die of illness!" The man found the cow's broken leg bone and showed it to Jiang Tangtang. "Look, I killed my cow because its leg was broken. It wasn't sick. If you don't believe me, go check with the government. They have records."
"It's just ten taels of silver. I'll take all of them if you sell them. If you don't want to sell them, forget it!" Jiang Tangtang acted as if she didn't really want to buy them.
The man said, "You little girl, your mouth is as sharp as a knife. Ten taels of silver can't buy a cow. Even if you go to the next door to buy a pig, it will cost ten taels of silver! If you really want it, I'll give you a discount of eighteen taels of silver."
"Fifteen taels of silver. If you don't sell it, I'll follow your advice and buy a big fat pig next door."
The man said with a look of heartache, "Forget it, forget it. You are such a talker, young lady. I will sell it to you for fifteen taels of silver. Next time, you must remember to support my business again! I have lost a lot today."
Jiang Tangtang pointed at the cowhide and offal lying nearby and said, "We agreed on fifteen taels of silver for the whole cow, and the offal and hide are included in that. Sell me the bucket that you put the offal in, and I'll give you twenty wen as an extra."
"Okay, okay, it's all yours." Fifteen taels of silver was higher than the retail price of the man at the stall, and it was also more convenient. Of course, he would not argue with her about the cheap beef offal.
At that moment, a ragged old man came running over, breathless, holding a few black copper coins in his hand. "Didn't you agree to keep this beef offal for me? Why are you selling it back?"
The man said, "That means if I don't sell it when I close the stall, I'll sell it to you for ten cents. But I've already sold it. If you want to buy it, go find this young lady."
The old man immediately turned to Jiang Tangtang and said, "Little girl, can you sell me that beef offal?"
Jiang Tangtang felt a little soft-hearted when she saw his pity, but thinking of the various delicacies such as spicy beef offal pot, Maoxuewang, hot pot, etc., she shook her head resolutely, "No, I want to eat."
"You little girl, such a big cow is not enough for you to eat!" the old man said angrily.
Jiang Tangtang laughed and said, "There are so many of us, this cow is not enough to eat!"
As they were talking, Lu Shiyan bought an ox cart and came over. Jiang Tangtang asked him to help and they loaded the newly bought beef onto the cart.
Lu Shiyan didn't want Jiang Tangtang to do anything and directly moved the beef into the car.
The old man looked at Lu Shiyan for a while and then asked Jiang Tangtang, "Girl, is that your man?"
Jiang Tangtang looked at the old man in confusion. Although she didn't understand why he asked this, she nodded anyway.
"He didn't get treatment for his leg injury, did he? Give me the beef offal and I'll heal his leg."
"Are you a doctor?" Jiang Tangtang suspected that he had overheard their conversation with the doctor in the clinic.
"I don't treat people easily!" the old man said arrogantly, "There's no one else in the world who can treat his leg except me."
Jiang Tangtang became even more unconvinced by his words. "Just now, the doctor at Renxin Clinic said he could re-set the bone and that no one else in the world could do it. You're just bragging!"
"What kind of illness can that old man at the Renxin Clinic treat?" The old man said disdainfully, "It's a good thing you didn't get treatment from him. Otherwise, your husband's leg would be gone."
"But we have to go to Yazhou and then we have to hurry. I'm afraid we can't treat the disease for the time being."
Jiang Tangtang still didn't quite believe that this old man was a doctor, but she didn't voice her doubts. "If you want to treat my husband, you have to come with us to Yazhou. Are you willing?"
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