Chapter 308: How can you tell that I have ulterior motives?
Ran Qingxuan avoided the situation for a while and waited for Qiao Zhixu to change her clothes before coming back. But before she could say anything, sixty taels of silver came into her hands inexplicably.
"Thank you for your help just now. It saved me from being embarrassed in front of so many people. I didn't deserve this money in the first place, so I'll return it to you two."
"But you should need this money more than us now!"
Ran Qingxuan carefully observed his expression to avoid causing the other party to realize that they had ulterior motives.
How could Qiao Zhixu not know that with this money, his mother could get better treatment, but...
"I have hands, I can help people copy books and letters, I believe I will soon be able to save enough money to buy medicine for my mother."
Ran Qingxuan looked at the extra ten taels of silver in his hand and began to think.
"I know you gave us all the extra money as a token of your gratitude, but we don't want to receive these ten taels of silver for nothing."
"If you feel comfortable with this, this money will be your reward for your hard work. We will help you take the medicine to your mother!"
Qiao Zhixu did not answer immediately, and a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes.
"Why are you helping me?"
"Because we are all sons, and as a son myself, I can understand your concern for your mother.
If you weren't here for your mother today, we might not have helped you. ”
Gu Yanchen dispelled Qiao Zhixu's suspicion with just a few words, and no one would be suspicious of his sincerity.
Ran Qingxuan pursed his lips and lowered his eyes, secretly giving Gu Yanchen a thumbs up in his heart.
Sure enough, Qiao Zhixu seemed to have some feelings. Thinking of his mother who was bedridden and still worried about him, and how he was bullied by his classmates despite his good academic performance, the emotions that he had suppressed for a long time were almost revealed in front of outsiders.
"Mr. Qiao?"
Qiao Zhixu took a few deep breaths to calm down and said, "In that case, I'll trouble you two to make the trip."
"We are going to Zixi County this time. I wonder where Mr. Qiao's home is?" The place Gu Yanchen was talking about was the final destination of exile.
According to modern maps, the location is in Qinghai, but it is relatively close to Tibet.
According to ancient maps, it is located in the northwest near the border between Yi and Gui, nearly a thousand miles away from Lan Yu. It is considered a relatively chaotic and barren place.
Qiao Zhixu probably didn't expect that the two of them would go to such a place. After a moment of stunned silence, he immediately said, "That should be on the way. My home is in Heishuihe Village."
Ran Qingxuan had never heard of this village. Gu Yanchen frowned slightly and explained to her: "Heishuihe Village is in Cangzhou..."
When he heard that it was in Cangzhou, Ran Qingxuan almost bit his tongue. He opened his mouth again and again but didn't dare to speak.
After a long time.
"Mr. Qiao, Cangzhou is a good place. Why did you travel so far to Sitong City to study, and even go to a far place to get medicine and send it back to your mother?"
Qiao Zhixu smiled bitterly and shook her head: "Miss, you don't know, Cangzhou is indeed a good place, but our village is a day and a half away from Cuishan Town.
If you want to go to the nearest Silvermoon City, you may have to hire a carriage and spend four or five days to get there, let alone walking. ”
Having said that, Qiao Zhixu reached to his waist and took out three packets of damaged herbs.
“There are many opportunities in Sitong City, and I can make money while studying, but the meager income I make in Yinyue City is not enough to pay for my mother’s medicine.
And because I often missed classes, the teacher kicked me out of the academy without listening to my explanation, so I..."
Ran Qingxuan and Gu Yanchen looked at each other and knew clearly that if he had not been tied down by these things, he would have passed the imperial examination and escaped from the predicament long ago, so there would be no need to worry about the money for medicine.
But what Ran Qingxuan didn't understand was that since he said there were many opportunities to make money, why did he still owe Wang Fu fifty taels.
His eyes fell on the broken medicine bag in his hand, and Ran Qingxuan frowned and asked, "Mr. Qiao, can you let me see the medicine you gave your mother?"
Qiao Zhixu wiped his face roughly and handed the medicine bag to her.
"Young lady, do you know medical skills?"
"Well, I'm a doctor." After saying that, Ran Qingxuan opened one of the packages, but after just a quick glance at it, she frowned and looked at Qiao Zhixu.
Perhaps her expression was too solemn, Qiao Zhixu asked tentatively.
"Girl, is there something wrong with this medicine?"
"Putting aside the question of medicine, can you tell me what symptoms your mother is experiencing?"
"It's just a cough, and it's especially severe when the weather gets cold."
"Coughing up blood?" Without seeing the person, Ran Qingxuan couldn't judge, but to determine how serious the condition was, the most important thing was whether he was coughing up blood.
Qiao Zhixu shook his head affirmatively: "She didn't cough up blood. My mother couldn't stop coughing, but she never coughed up blood. I can be sure of that."
When she heard him mention that he couldn't stop coughing, she began to think.
“Did the cough come on suddenly, or has it been going on since you were sick?”
"Yes... it suddenly appeared. That year, after I passed the imperial examination, my mother hammered some rice and sent it to the teacher. For some reason, I started coughing after I came back, and I took medicine for more than three years but it didn't get better..."
After his description, Ran Qingxuan immediately found the key to the problem.
"Your mother's chronic cough is probably not caused by illness, but by hammer rice!"
"Chimi?" Qiao Zhixu didn't understand how coughing was related to Chimi, but Ran Qingxuan quickly gave an answer.
"Yes, and Yang Dafeng must have been the one pounding the millet to remove the husk, right?"
"How did the girl know?" Qiao Zhixu stood there in shock, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Ran Qingxuan was strange.
After asking, Ran Qingxuan already had the answer in his mind.
"Your mother doesn't have tuberculosis at all. She keeps coughing because it was very windy that day, so she inhaled husks or grass fluff into her lungs. That's why no medicine can cure her."
Qiao Zhixu took two steps back in disbelief, but then his expression became happy again.
"My mother is not sick, she is not sick..." Then he said excitedly to Ran Qingxuan.
"Girl, can you cure this disease?"
Ran Qingxuan watched him walk step by step into the path he had set up in advance, but frowned and shook his head when he heard the words.
"I can cure it."
"Then..." Qiao Zhixu didn't understand what she meant.
"I can cure it, but we are only passing through Yinyue City in Cangzhou. Heishuihe Village is too far away, and we can't leave the team at all."
What a joke! If she wants to go, she can go there in minutes. There is no place she can't go.
But in order to prevent Qiao Zhixu from thinking that they came with a purpose, they could only temporarily indicate that they were not on their way.
Sure enough, when Qiao Zhixu heard that she could save the person but couldn't go, worry and sadness flashed in his eyes.
“But you don’t have to worry, a fellow disciple of mine is in Sitong City, and she and her father are going back to Cuishan Town soon.
I'll write a letter and you can give it to her. She will help prescribe some new medicine for your mother. "Ran Qingxuan saw that the time was right and spoke decisively.
The reason why Qu Feng specifically asked Chang Fang to join his team was because she was a walking Compendium of Materia Medica. It was no exaggeration to say that she was a congenital saint of traditional Chinese medicine.
After all, for her, treating any disease that requires Chinese herbal medicine is as easy as eating.
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