Chapter 53 The Price is Too Black [VIP]
Maizi was placed in Baohe Hall and treated by doctors.
Chen Yao paid the money, took the medicine prescribed by Doctor Li for her uncle and Yang Jizong, and then gave it to her father, asking him to take it back to the two of them.
Several doctors and the owner of Baohetang were so kind-hearted that they let her and Maizi stay in the side room in the backyard of the pharmacy temporarily without asking for any money.
She couldn't take advantage of this for nothing, so she decided to do what she could. Every day, she helped the medicine boy to look after the medicine stove and boil some hot water for the doctors in the clinic and the patients to drink.
After arriving home, Shen Qingshan had dinner at the persuasion of his wife, and slept for two hours. Then he took medicine and a rabbit to the quarry to replace his brother-in-law.
Two days of wind and snow had buried the bodies of the suffering laborers. Due to a shortage of manpower, the laborers in the quarry were divided into two teams, who dug stones and built the city wall day and night.
Everyone was suffering.
Inside the earthen house.
Yang Jizong was helped out of bed by Tanaka Zheng. He was now sitting at the table, writing a memorial for Xing Fang with his left hand.
Xing Fang sat astride the bench and only asked Yang Jizong to write two points.
First, he had to explain to his superiors that the accident was a natural disaster and not a man-made one. Second, he had to ask his superiors to give him some time. He could accept the punishment, but he could not implicate the soldiers under his command.
Yang Jizong polished the two points he had mentioned slightly and wrote them down in a memorial. After he finished writing, he gave it to Xing Fang who was sitting next to him to read.
Xing Fang reviewed the memorial word by word under the oil lamp, snorted softly, and left the hut with the memorial in his pocket, feeling satisfied.
As soon as the man left, Tanaka in the house was just letting out a long sigh. Before he could say anything, he heard the sound of footsteps on the snow outside the door again.
The straw mat was lifted by the visitor, Shen Qingshan stomped his feet at the door, went into the house and greeted his brother-in-law.
Seeing Yang Jizong sitting on the chair, he couldn't help but frown: "Coach Xing came to give you a hard time and asked you to chisel the stone. Didn't you tell him that we can do it for you?"
Yang Jizong hugged his right arm and explained to him.
Not only did Xing Fang not make things difficult for him, he also let him rest in peace and not have to work for a few days.
Shen Qingshan didn't think this was a good thing, as it would not make Yang Jizong jealous, but he couldn't say it out loud. He just put a few prescriptions on the table and said, "This is for internal use, one prescription per day."
Then he took out a bottle of medicine from his pocket and handed it over: "This is for external application."
"Thank you, Uncle Shen." Yang Jizong could only stretch out his left hand to take it with a smile on his face.
Shen Qingshan looked at his thin body and slow movements, which made him look very pitiful.
So he stuffed the bottle of medicine into his hand, and then went straight over to him to hang the medicine bag for internal use on the wooden nail on the wall.
Tanaka was watching the two interacting, and he was wondering, "This isn't right. Zi'an calls me uncle, but why is he calling me Uncle Aoyama? Isn't this confusing?"
"Why is there nothing in your room?" Shen Qingshan searched for a while with the rabbit in his hand, but all he found was a broken clay pot and bowl in the room. Even the decent chopsticks were made of wooden sticks.
Don't even think about oil or salt.
How could life be so difficult? Fortunately, he came to take care of me. If Wenying and my daughter knew, I wonder how much they would feel sorry for him.
But the guy in front of me said that this was already the best condition in the quarry.
Shen Qingshan couldn't argue with him and was too lazy to look at his face, so he carried the rabbit out of the house, killed and skinned the rabbit outside, and roasted the rabbit using local ingredients.
There was not much meat on a rabbit and it had no taste, so Tanaka ate little and the rest went into Yang Jizong's stomach.
Before leaving, Tanaka Masaru promised the two that he would bring them some dry goods, oil, salt and other items from home next time he came.
Yang Jizong thanked him and stood at the door to watch him leave. When he turned around, he found that Shen Qingshan's face was extremely ugly.
"Who told you to call him uncle? You should call him uncle." After saying this, without caring about Yang Jizong's reaction, he picked up a hot clod of earth, wrapped it with sackcloth, and urged Yang Jizong to lie down.
In the dark night, Yang Jizong listened to the snoring coming from the end of the bed and smiled helplessly.
at the same time.
After Huang Songbai returned home, he was taken care of by his wife and children. He was not allowed to do any heavy work, especially when his second brother-in-law brought him medicine in the afternoon, he felt even more guilty when he took it.
So I woke up early in the morning and sat in the kitchen, sighing as I looked at the baskets of soybeans and tofu.
"Dad, when you recover, you can escort your cousin to Baihe Town with your uncle to sell silk. Everything will be fine."
Huang Dongsheng stuffed a handful of dead leaves into the stove hole to ignite the dry firewood inside, then scooped half a bowl of brown rice from the rice jar and put it into the pot to boil.
The father and son gathered around the stove to keep warm.
The firelight made Huang Songbai's sunken cheeks even deeper. After only a few months of chiseling stones, his fingers could no longer be straightened, and they were trembling slightly as he stuffed firewood into the stove.
Huang Dongsheng held his father's hand and told him everything that had happened at home.
When talking about the fact that Miao was slow in learning math, both father and son laughed when they counted the numbers one by one while doing their daily accounts.
Miao stood outside the door and listened for a long time. Finally, she couldn't help but push the door open and walked in. She laughed and scolded the father and son for whispering about her behind her back. The family sat in the kitchen and had breakfast.
Huang Songbai and his wife watched
Shen Qingshan was not at home, so Yang Wenying made an appointment with the students last night to soak in the river for a hundred days this morning.
So when Huang Dong was born, he saw Shitou, the boy from the Zhou family, and the two boys from the Zheng family coming out of the yard carrying bundles of chopped bamboo.
"Aunt, please put down your burden and come forward to help.
Huang Xing came out carrying a basket of edamame, looking up at the gloomy sky with a worried look on her face, "Dongsheng, if we can't sell them, forget it, we can just eat them ourselves. The roads are slippery on snowy days, so don't leave the city too late, come back early."
Huang Dongsheng nodded in agreement, tied the hemp rope to the basket, and lifted it up with a shoulder pole. The heavy loads at both ends made the load tremble.
When he walked out of the yard with his load on his shoulder, he was stopped by Yang Wenying before he had taken two steps.
A cloth bag was stuffed into Huang Dongsheng's shoulder pole, which contained steamed buns and dumplings made by Huang Xing and Yang Wenying.
"Take it to A Yao, and you can eat it with them." After saying this, Yang Wenying dragged a bundle of bamboo on her back and left with the students.
Only a series of children's footprints were left in the snow.
Huang Xing cleared the snow from her house and waited for Huang Mei and her daughter.
Tian Baozhu picked a handful of green cabbage leaves from the vegetable garden, shook off the snow on them, and took them to the kitchen to feed the four chickens that were keeping each other warm.
Huang Mei saw how much her daughter cherished the chicken and laughed at her: "You feed the chicken with your cousin's vegetables, be careful or she will get angry with you when she gets home."
Tian Baozhu was not worried about this. She affectionately held her mother and aunt's arms, and after her aunt locked the door, the three of them walked towards the school.
In the school, Luo Dunzi was waiting at the door early in the morning. He waited for a long time but the teachers didn't show up, so he looked up and asked Tian Baozhu.
"Will Sister Ayao come back today?" I haven't seen her for several days and I miss her very much.
Tian Baozhu pinched his little face and said, "Why, do you miss her?"
Luo Dunzi reached out and slapped the mischievous hand away, his little mouth frozen stiff. "I'm not missing her, I'm just worried that if she doesn't come back, how can we study mathematics?"
Neither Teacher Yang nor Teacher Zhao knows Arabic numerals.
Tian Baozhu took his hand and walked into the classroom, telling everyone that Teacher Shen would ask Huang Dongsheng to bring back the numbers to be learned every day, and she would check everyone's academic performance when she came back.
Don't think that you won't study hard just because she is not around.
There will be a baseline test at the end of the month. Whoever gets first place will not only get a brush but also paper.
The children were so happy with these words that they immediately sat in the classroom and recited aloud the words they had learned yesterday.
Huang Dongsheng sneezed and finally entered the city in the howling cold wind.
He stood outside the door of Baohe Hall, rubbed his frozen ears, shook off the snow on his feet, and then greeted the medicine boy inside with a smile.
He also took two handfuls of fresh edamame from the basket and gave them to him and the doctor on duty.
"These edamame are grown in my sister's fields. You two can take them home, boil them in salt water, and eat them to taste."
The emerald green edamame made the doctor and the medicine boy so happy that they were grinning with joy. In winter, it was impossible to eat any cheap fresh vegetables.
The Chinese New Year is just around the corner, and even the prices of cabbages and radishes are rising in the market.
Because of the snow, there are fewer and fewer people selling vegetables.
"Madam Shen is in the back, please go in quickly. We will buy next time. It is not easy for you to do business in the East Market." The medicine boy came out from the counter, personally opened the curtain for Huang Dongsheng, watched him go into the backyard, and then went back to the counter to continue picking herbs.
Huang Dongsheng thanked him, and when he saw his cousin decocting medicine in the corridor, he immediately carried his load and walked over.
"Sister, are you hungry? Aunt and Wenying asked me to bring you some food." Huang Dongsheng took out a cloth bag from his shoulder pole and took out half a bag of brown rice from another basket.
Chen Yao looked at Huang Dongsheng, who was becoming more and more considerate in his dealings with others. She felt both relieved and distressed. "How about you? Are you cold after all this journey into the city? Come in and have some hot water to warm yourself up."
Huang Dongsheng waved his hand to refuse, then stood in the corridor and drank the hot water. He pointed at the edamame in the basket and said, "Sister, I have to hurry and get a good spot to sell these edamame."
Chen Yao put the cloth bag and brown rice into the house and grabbed Huang Dongsheng who was about to leave. "Why are you in such a hurry? Come with me to the kitchen. You should let people taste the edamame you are selling."
"I forgot about it because I was in a hurry to go out this morning." Huang Dongsheng made excuses to his aunt.
How could Chen Yao not know? She could even imagine what her mother had told Huang Dongsheng at home. She must have thought that the edamame could not be sold, so how could she have thought of cooking it and letting people taste it.
When Chen Yao was staying here, the owner of the pharmacy had already allowed the two of them to borrow the pots and pans in the kitchen, but they had to pay two cents for firewood.
One of the siblings added firewood to the stove, while the other added water to the pot to boil beans. Chen Yao placed the steamed buns and dumplings on the curtain to heat them together.
Huang Dongsheng had already had breakfast, but his cousin insisted on giving him one, so he had to eat a steamed bun.
Chen Yao first tasted a steamed bun, then a steamed bun with bean filling, and left the rest for Maizi to eat when she woke up.
"Cousin, how much do we charge for these edamame?"
Chen Yao swallowed the last bite of the bun in her mouth and stretched out her finger to gesture in front of Huang Dongsheng.
Huang Dongsheng stood up from the bench and couldn't help swallowing his saliva, "Sister, this, this is not good, aren't we being too ruthless?"
Chen Yao raised her foot and kicked him. How dare you talk like that? These edamame must be worth this price right now. This is already a fair price given by her conscience.
He has been doing business for so long, but he never bothered to ask around. The New Year is approaching, and the price of pork is twice as expensive as usual. Even so, don't people in the city still buy it?
Huang Dongsheng sat back on the bench and muttered softly, "But this isn't meat, is it?"
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