Qian Duoduo: "My name is Qian Duoduo, what's your name?"
Jupiter: "My name is Adai."
Qian Duoduo: "A-Dai? That's a really unique name!"
Ah-Dai: "Really? My dad says I'm a bit slow-witted."
Qian Duoduo asked, "What do you need?"
Ah-Dai: "My dad is sick. His head and body are very hot. I don't know what to do."
Qian Duoduo: "Take fever-reducing medicine."
Ah-Dai: "What's a fever reducer?"
Qian Duoduo: "It's a medicine that can cure diseases. After taking it for a while, the fever will come down. We also need to check if there is any inflammation."
A-Dai: "What is inflammation?"
Qian Duoduo: "Okay, why does your dad have a fever?"
Ah-Dai: "My father went hunting and was injured by a white-striped boar. He developed a fever the day after he came back, and the witch said that my father was beyond saving."
Qian Duoduo: "Who is Granny Witch?"
Ah-Dai: "She's the witch from our tribe."
Qian Duoduo: ...A tribe? Looks like primitive people, no wonder they go hunting.
Ah-Dai: "Qian Duoduo, do you have any medicine?"
Qian Duoduo: "I don't have it right now. Let me go ask and I'll get back to you in a bit."
Ah-Dai: "Okay."
Qian Duoduo immediately contacted Su Ruanruan, since the medicine from her place was better than that from the future.
Su Ruanruan: "Ha, Xiao Duoduo, you wanted to see me? What's up?"
Qian Duoduo: "Do you have any anti-inflammatory drugs, fever reducers, or wound medicine?"
Su Ruanruan: "Are you injured?" followed by an anxious emoji.
Qian Duoduo: "It wasn't me, it was someone else."
Su Ruanruan: "Yes, I'll put it on your special shelf. Go take a picture." An OK emoji was immediately sent.
Qian Duoduo: "Thank you, Ruanruan." She quickly took the medicine, and then sent it to Adai one by one so he could take it.
Ah-Dai: "I don't have enough gold coins."
Qian Duoduo: "What do you have? Let me see if I need it." Soon, Qian Duoduo saw six ginseng roots that looked like big radishes and two flowers that she didn't recognize on the special shelf that Adai had given her.
Ah-Dai said, "These are all we have at home. These few clubs were dug up by my dad and me a few days ago. Do you want them? And these two are seven-leaf crabapple blossoms. The witch said they can cure diseases, but I don't know what diseases they cure."
Qian Duoduo: "Um, are there a lot of idiots like you guys?"
Ah-Dai: "It's alright, isn't it? My dad knows there are a few places we haven't dug up yet."
Qian Duoduo unconsciously swallowed and said, "If I buy these, there will still be some left over after offsetting the cost of these medicines."
Ah-Dai: "Then I'll keep it for now. I can use it to buy things later. Can I ask you for help again next time?"
Qian Duoduo nodded immediately, eager to agree to such a good deal: "Of course, just tell me what you need. If I don't have it, I'll ask someone else to help you find it."
Ah-Dai: "Thank you, Duo-Duo."
Qian Duoduo took the picture without hesitation. Then, seeing that the medicine bottles in his shelf were gone, he explained the effects and uses of each medicine to Adai. After Adai understood, he left, probably to give the medicine to his father.
Qian Duoduo looked at the ginseng in his warehouse and couldn't help but smile. This was truly a windfall, a pie falling from the sky and hitting him right on the head.
She planted the two seven-leaf begonias in the ground. Wow, that's good! Although she didn't know their effects, planting them was fine. She checked the seven-leaf begonia on the Qianduoduo online store and found that it really existed: Seven-leaf begonia, also known as seven-leaf flower, has the following effects: anti-inflammatory and analgesic. It can be made into medicine to treat acne, smooth the skin, and can also be used to make painkillers.
Qian Duoduo smiled: "This little bit of medicine is really worth it."
After harvesting the ripe vegetables in the field, she sowed seeds again, went to the ranch to collect eggs and milk, and happily left the farm.
After a few happy days, in early December, a heavy snowfall covered Beian Village. No one was out in the village. Qian Sheng's family stayed in the house where Qian Sheng and Jin Jinxiu slept. They had some firewood left, or grass cut after the autumn harvest. The corn stalks and straw they had gathered were definitely not suitable for burning. To save firewood, the family had at least two rooms: one large room for Jin Jinxiu and Qian Duoduo, and the other for Qian Sheng and his two sons.
The weather got cold, and the hens at home stopped laying eggs, which worried Qian Duoduo a lot. This meant that she couldn't take out the eggs from her ranch. Even though she had a lot of gold coins in her shop, they were just numbers, and she didn't dare to spend them!
Qian Sheng went to the cowshed behind the village and came back with a layer of snow on his shoulders. Qian Duoduo immediately went up to him and asked, "Dad, is everything alright at the cowshed?"
Qian Sheng took a broom and swept the snow off his body, sighed and said, "The older folks over there couldn't stand the cold and all fell ill."
Jin Jinxiu asked, "Should we ask Doctor Chen to take a look?"
Qian Sheng paused for a moment, then said, "I'm afraid..."
Jin Jinxiu sighed and said, "You said these people are all intellectuals, and I heard that some of them can even build rockets, but look at them now, sigh!"
Qian Duoduo said, "Dad, I think these people can't get into trouble here. Although the commune has sent them down to our area, it hasn't said they're not going to take care of them. Even if the Revolutionary Committee approves it, they're not going to destroy them. Maybe they have someone protecting them."
Qian Sheng nodded: "I understand what you're saying, but our medicine is all prescribed by the commune clinic, and there's not much of it to begin with. If we give it to them, I'm afraid the villagers will cause trouble."
Qian Duoduo remained silent. She could get medicine from Su Ruanruan, but the people in the cowshed were different from Adai. Adai lived in a primitive tribe where people were uneducated, but the people in the cowshed were all shrewd and could make a lot of connections from the slightest difference.
This is a real headache!
That evening, Qian Duoduo met with Qian Mao and Qian Rao. The three brothers discussed it and decided that Qian Duoduo and Qian Mao would go to the county to buy medicine, while Qian Rao would go to the cowshed to keep an eye on things. Once they were ready to buy the medicine, Qian Mao, who was the most skilled, would deliver it to the cowshed.
Qian Rao looked at Qian Duoduo with confusion: "Duoduo, why do you insist on getting involved with those people?"
Qian Duoduo sighed and said, "Our dad is the brigade leader. If these people get into trouble in our village, the first people to be held accountable will definitely be Dad and the old Party Secretary. Fourth Brother, Dad has already worked very hard as the brigade leader. Let's help him out as much as we can."
Qian Rao nodded; he accepted this reason.
Qian Sheng knew exactly what the three brothers were plotting, but as a democratic father, he didn't interfere too much with their actions. Even when Qian Mao took Qian Duoduo to the county in an oxcart, he knew perfectly well what they were doing. He felt comforted, knowing that there were things he couldn't do himself, but his children could do them and perhaps they could really get things done.
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