Chapter 283 I'm in love with you
Fang Miao supported Xu Guixi and invited Xu Qingye and Song Yuntang into the yard.
It was already dark and there was no light at home, so Song Yuntang asked Xu Qingye to go home and get an oil lamp.
He examined Xu Guixi's legs by the light of the oil lamp.
His whole body was very thin, but his legs were swollen and red.
"After Brother Guixi broke his leg, did the doctor reconnect your tendons?" she asked.
Xu Guixi shook his head. "I don't know. It was so painful at the time. When the doctor was treating my leg, I didn't have time to look at my leg."
"Will it hurt?" Song Yuntang asked again.
Xu Guixi nodded and said, "Yes, sometimes there is swelling and numbness, just like no feeling, and I can't use any strength."
Song Yuntang understood in his heart.
"From what I can see so far, there should be fluid accumulation in your knee area. When the previous doctor treated your leg, he did not properly connect the tendons in your leg. In addition, due to long-term malnutrition, the wound on your leg did not heal properly, which led to the infection."
"What should we do then?" Fang Miao asked.
Song Yuntang looked at the two of them and said, "We need to cut open the injured part, find the broken tendons and sew them up, clean up the fluid in the knee area, and use Chinese medicine to prevent the wound from getting infected. If we want his injury to heal faster, he also needs to eat better."
Fang Miao looked embarrassed.
Xu Guixi is an orphan who grew up in Lushan Village eating at many families' homes. He has no relatives to rely on in the village.
She did have a mother's family, and when her family was in financial difficulty, she had borrowed a few taels of silver from them over the years. But her mother's family was not doing well now, and they hadn't paid back the money they had borrowed before, so she couldn't afford to ask her parents for more money.
Nowadays, food prices are high. If she doesn't treat her illness, she will not be able to get enough food. If she needs to increase her food intake, she really doesn't know what to do.
Fang Miao knelt down towards Song Yuntang.
"I heard that you have servants. If you can cure my husband's leg, I am willing to sign a contract with you and be your slave for the rest of my life to repay you."
Seeing that his wife was willing to do this for him, Xu Guixi felt guilty and touched, and his eyes were red.
"Wife, why are you doing this? If it's really difficult, I'd rather not have my leg cured."
Fang Miao cried and shook her head.
"Your leg must be cured. You are the backbone of the family. Without you, Xiaohua and I will have a hard time."
Life has been so difficult these past two years with a child.
Song Yuntang sighed in his heart and went forward to help her up.
"I have a few stones of grain left on the farm. If your family needs grain, you can go there to buy some. I will ask them to sell it to you at the price before the price increase. As for the medicine money, I will pay it for you first. When Brother Guixi's leg is healed, you can come to work for me to pay back the medicine money. As for selling your body contract, forget it. We are from the same village, there is no need to do this."
Fang Miao took two steps back, knelt down again, and kowtowed three times to Song Yuntang.
"Thank you, sister. If it weren't for you, I don't know what I would do. When my husband can go out to work, I will go to work and pay back the money. From now on, I will let you do whatever you want."
Song Yuntang helped her up again.
"Before I treat Brother Guixi's leg injury, I still have to prepare some medicinal herbs in advance. It may be tomorrow morning. Sister Su Miao, please go to my house and get some rice to cook. The child is still hungry."
Su Miao simply gave all five Codonopsis pilosula to Song Yuntang.
"I don't know much about medicinal herbs, and I'm too lazy to take the other two Codonopsis pilosula to the town to sell them. Can I just exchange them for some food from you?"
Song Yuntang nodded.
"Okay, you can first take two liters of rice from my house to deal with today and tomorrow. According to the price of five codonopsis pilosula at one tael and two qian of silver, two codonopsis pilosula can be sold for about 480 wen. Before the price increase, brown rice was 80 wen a dou, and 480 wen can be exchanged for exactly six dou. Wencheng will borrow my mule cart to go to the county town to sell lotus roots tomorrow. I asked him to bring back six dou of brown rice from the farm when he comes back, but it may be late."
Six dou of rice weighs seventy-five pounds.
It’s enough for a family of three to cope with for a while.
"It's okay if it's late." Fang Miao said embarrassedly, "It's just that two liters of rice..."
"Consider those two liters of rice as a gift from me to you," said Song Yuntang.
Fang Miao thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll go to the mountains again tomorrow afternoon. If I find more herbs, I'll pay the girl back for the two liters of rice."
Seeing Fang Miao insisted, Song Yuntang did not object.
After saying yes, he took Fang Miao home and scooped two liters of rice for her.
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Xu Qingye didn't read tonight.
He lay beside Song Yuntang and looked at the girl beside him in the moonlight.
"You really won't go to the county town with me tomorrow?"
Song Yuntang shook his head. "You go first tomorrow. I'll come a few days later. Madam Zhu said that there are a few ladies over there who want to invest money for me to open a clinic in the county. I'm hesitating whether to agree or not."
"What are you worried about?" Xu Qingye asked in a calm voice.
"There are too many people involved, and my freedom will be restricted." Song Yuntang looked at him, "I don't want to be restricted too much."
Xu Qingye looked at her and asked, "Do you have enough money to open a clinic?"
"It should be enough."
"If someone else prescribes the medicine for you, you must share the profits. It's okay if there are many doctors in the clinic, but if you are the only one, you will be tired, have no freedom, and earn little. But if you open the clinic yourself, you must be able to take risks. You have to take all these into consideration." Xu Qingye analyzed for her.
Song Yuntang lay on his side facing him.
"This problem has troubled me for a long time. Now that you have sorted it out for me, I don't think I am so entangled anymore."
Xu Qingye curled his lips.
"Have you figured out what to do?"
Song Yuntang nodded, his face filled with confidence, "I've figured it out. When we get to the county, we'll reject the good intentions of those ladies first, but we can get them to do other business. We'll open our own clinic. I think with those ladies backing us up, at least no one in the county will dare to cause trouble."
"clever."
Xu Qingye also turned sideways to face her, his deep eyes were particularly clear under the moonlight.
"I'm leaving tomorrow. When I'm not around, take good care of yourself and be careful when you go out. Before you go to the county town, don't let Wencheng and the others go far away."
Song Yuntang nodded, "Okay."
Thinking that he was leaving tomorrow, she suddenly felt a little reluctant.
Gather up the courage to snuggle into his arms.
"Xu Qingye." Her voice was muffled.
"Yeah." The man replied in a low voice.
"I think I am..."
Song Yuntang buried his face in his chest, the words "I like you" lingering on his lips but he couldn't say them out.
The air exhaled by the girl made the man's chest itchy. Only when he got closer could he vaguely smell her light and refreshing fragrance.
There was a hint of confusion in the man's tone.
"What seems to be wrong?"
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