Chapter 117 The Origin of the Name of Liujia Village
Su Nuan smiled and said, "I'm a sworn brother now, so you can keep it. I don't know the current market conditions, so if I lose money, there won't be another deal. I need the village chief to help negotiate a price."
The village chief hesitated for a moment and nodded, "Okay."
He took the meat and fish and held them in his hands, "Come on, see what you want."
Seeing that he accepted it, Su Nuan nodded.
There are almost no food items for sale here, only daily necessities such as baskets, winnowing baskets, brooms, etc.
Su Nuan looked over and saw that some people were taking out half-new jewelry to exchange for food, which showed that the people here were short of food.
In the end, Su Nuan took a fancy to a basket from a family. It was not woven with bamboo, but with wood and vines. It was a little heavy to hold, but very sturdy.
Su Nuan nodded, "Yes, can this be customized?"
The old man selling the baskets nodded immediately and said, "Sure, sure. I wonder what kind you want."
Su Nuan thought for a moment and said, "I want to raise chickens. You know pheasants can fly very high, so I need to weave a cage that's more than one person tall and very spacious and breathable."
The old man pondered for a moment and said, "Then use thin branches and vines to make a structure about the height of a person. How much space will that take up?"
Su Nuan pointed to the snow pile in the middle of the village and said, "It's that big."
The old man frowned again, "This is not something that can be completed in a day or two. Do you have any requirements? I definitely can't do it before the New Year."
Su Nuan smiled and said, "How about this, I'll give you ten kilograms of meat and ten kilograms of fish, and you bring people to build it for me, and I'll provide the materials."
The old man almost jumped up, "Really?"
Su Nuan nodded, "Of course it's true."
"Okay... okay... I do." The old man was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling.
The village chief said, "That's too much."
Su Nuan sighed deliberately, "It's not easy for everyone. I think he's in a difficult situation, and he's a really skilled person. I'm willing to exchange."
The village chief was touched. Su Nuan was such a kind person.
With this deal, the rest of the people watched eagerly, hoping that Su Nuan would like their things.
Su Nuan came to an old lady with a cloth wrapped around her eyes. When she heard someone coming, she immediately said, "Young lady, I don't have anything good. I only have these medicinal herbs I brought from my hometown. Take a look."
Su Nuan squatted down to check the medicinal herbs, including several kinds such as Polygonatum sibiricum, Astragalus membranaceus, and Angelica dahurica.
The preparation technique was very good. She asked curiously, "Did you prepare these herbs?"
The old lady shook her head. "My old man made this. He's been sick and hasn't gotten better, so I wanted to see if I could try some cold medicine instead."
Su Nuan picked up the oilcloth on the ground and said, "Take me to see a doctor. I am also a doctor."
In the capital, she didn't dare call herself a doctor because practicing medicine required paperwork, but in the north, nothing was needed.
The old lady immediately removed the cloth from her eyes. She had cataracts and her eyes were white and cloudy.
"Come with me, girl."
As she said this, she turned and jogged around the houses facing the street to the small house at the back.
Su Nuan followed and it turned out that medical practitioners would protect themselves. The old lady had poor eyesight and looking at Bai Xue frequently would make it worse, so she usually covered her eyes with a cloth.
The village chief said: "Our village is a gathering of people from several places, not a single village, so I don't know what their situation is."
Su Nuan asked, "Then why is it named Liujia Village? Is your last name Liu?"
The village chief laughed and said, "There was a controversy over the naming at the time, so we ended up naming it according to the most common surname. There are 230 households in the village, 180 of which are named Liu. The rest of the surnames combined are not as common as ours."
Su Nuan nodded, this was reasonable.
The old lady opened the door and said awkwardly, "Girl, the smell in the room is not good."
Su Nuan smiled slightly and walked in first. The smell of medicine in the room was strong, but not unpleasant.
The village chief didn't go in, but stood at the door.
The room was simple, with a bed, a table and two chairs.
The old man lying on the bed was humming.
Su Nuan went forward to check and found that the patient had a high fever and was about to have a convulsion.
Without medicine, the old man will not live beyond tomorrow.
She took out a silver needle to prick the acupuncture points to reduce the fever, and then took out a few wind-cold pills that she had prepared on the way, dissolved them in water and poured them into the old man's mouth.
The old man still had the consciousness to swallow, so he wouldn't die.
Su Nuan left a few pills and said, "Please keep these pills. If you have a fever at night, take one. If you wake up tomorrow, you'll be fine. If you don't wake up after noon, go to Sifang Village and call Su Nuan."
"My house is in the center of the village. It has a snow wall and a horse in the yard."
The old lady nodded immediately. "Okay, okay...how much is the consultation fee?"
Su Nuan pointed to the oilcloth bag on the ground and said, "That's the consultation fee, but I won't take it now. I'll come back to get it after I'm cured."
The old lady nodded and said, "Okay, we'll thank you again after you cure us."
Su Nuan felt that the old lady was not an ordinary villager, but a person with insight.
She said, "Your eye can be cured, but it requires surgery. If you're not afraid, come to me. If you're afraid, forget it."
The old lady looked at Su Nuan blankly, then smiled after a moment and said, "I don't have any money."
Su Nuan touched his chin and asked, "Are you willing to work to pay off the debt?"
The old lady quickly asked, "What kind of work?"
Su Nuan smiled and said, "You know I'm also a doctor. I go hunting in the mountains to collect medicinal herbs, but I don't have time to prepare them."
"I see that your medicinal materials are prepared very well, so I want you to prepare some for me."
The old lady fell silent again. She didn't agree to such a good thing at the first time.
The old village chief was anxious, stamped his feet and said, "Grandma Sun, just agree to it. She saved your man."
"Now we have to treat your eyes. If they are really cured, wouldn't it be better if you could do some work for them to pay off the debt?"
Granny Sun pursed her lips and said, "We'll discuss this after my old man wakes up."
Su Nuan knew that she had misunderstood that she wanted to secretly learn the cooking techniques, but she was not in a hurry and did not explain. She took out a piece of meat and a fish and said, "This is for you. I'm going back first."
Granny Sun nodded and said, "Thank you. I'll use this as collateral."
Without giving Su Nuan any time to explain, she took off the bracelet on her hand and handed it to Su Nuan.
Su Nuan took the bracelet. It looked inconspicuous and had a lot of cotton wool on it, but the cry of the space spirit came from her mind.
"Hurry, give it to me, there is energy."
Su Nuan's mind moved, and she asked, "If the bracelet is given to you and you absorb the energy, will the bracelet still be there?"
The space spirit replied, "Yes, it's just draining the energy. Isn't that the case with the gems? Don't you remember?"
Su Nuan breathed a sigh of relief. She was really afraid that she would lose the other person’s collateral.
She smiled and said, "I'm going back first. I'll see how things go tomorrow."
Granny Sun nodded, "Okay."
Her attitude has always been neither humble nor arrogant. Their identities aroused Su Nuan's curiosity, but Su Nuan did not ask any further questions.
After leaving the hut, the village chief said, "Come home with me. I have some good stuff you can exchange for, similar to what Grandma Sun has."
Su Nuan had an idea, maybe the village chief also had something that could increase energy.
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