Ten minutes later, Lin Dongfang had already led Shi Chen and a few people to a small courtyard in the village.

In the quiet courtyard, Shang Jiangyu, who had returned from the courtyard, was grabbing the medicine according to the prescription in his hand, and then successively put the weighed medicinal materials into the crockpot in front of him.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Shang Jiangyu hurriedly stood up and shouted, "Master." ”

"How's it going?" Lin Dongfang nodded, stepped forward to open the crockpot, and smelled the familiar smell of the decoction, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

Shang Jiangyu's face was very guilty, "It's being boiled, but it still takes ten hours, I'm afraid the master is there-"

If it was really because of his recklessness, there was any danger that Shi Niang did not drink the decoction in time, then he would be unhappy for the rest of his life.

"I'll leave it to me, and you can arrange a few rooms for the three of them. Lin Dongfang sighed and sat down by the fire.

He used the fan in his hand to fan the wind, trying to make the fire burn as vigorously as possible, so that the soup could be boiled faster.

Shang Jiangyu nodded, walked up to Lin Baicao and the three of them, and made a gesture of invitation, "Three, come with me." ”

"Don't be in a hurry to rest first, you take me to see your master first. Lin Baicao waved his hand and interrupted.

Although he and Lin Dongfang have only met in the past twenty or thirty years, and they usually only contact each other by phone, he knows that his younger brother's medical skills are at the top level in the entire Huaxia.

Even some overseas people will come here and ask Lin Dongfang to come out and treat some incurable diseases that cannot be solved by modern medical technology.

But even such a person with high medical skills would have such a panicked look now......

This made Lin Baicao keenly capture some news, that is, Xue Lanfang's condition, which must be very troublesome.

"But—" Shang Jiangyu looked embarrassed.

Next to the stove, Lin Dongfang sighed and said lightly, "Take them to meet Lan Fang." ”

"Come with me, and I'll take you to meet my wife. Seeing Lin Dongfang nodding in agreement, Shang Jiangyu dared to speak.

Several people followed Shang Jiangyu from the entrance of the village to the end of the village, and then stopped in front of a gate.

Along the way, they found that the houses in the village were almost the same, and they looked very old, as if they were left over from the last century.

Shang Jiangyu opened the iron door that had already been corroded by rust and stood at the door.

Su Cheng bent down and walked in from the gate, looking at the fruits and vegetables planted all over the yard, and said to himself suspiciously, "Strange, how could Uncle Xiaolin live in such a place?"

After the three of them entered, Shang Jiangyu closed the rusty iron door, and then explained, "Master and Master originally lived in the house distributed by the association, and the village here is where our disciples and ordinary members of the association live. In order to be close to the association, it is also possible to take care of the medicine fields on the mountain and the fish pond next to the village. ”

"Then how did you live here?" Su Cheng was a little puzzled.

Shang Jiangyu walked a few steps quickly and pushed open the door of the main house, "Because Shi Niang is seriously ill, Master is worried that living in the city will make a noise to Shi Niang, so he moved to the village to live. ”

The door was pushed open, and the table was filled with leftovers from lunch.

A plate of light stir-fried cabbage, a plate of pickled radish, and half a bowl of rice.

If it weren't for knowing that Shang Jiangyu was not lying, I'm afraid no one would believe that Lin Dongfang, the vice president of the Chinese Medicine Association and who enjoys a certain reputation in China and even the world, would live in such a place and even eat such a simple meal.

Lin Baicao glanced at the table and sighed distressedly, "This radish is hairy." ”

"It stands to reason that the vice president should be paid quite well. Could it be that Vice President Lin is only less than sixty years old, and he has already started to maintain his health?"

After hearing Lin Baicao's words, Shi Chen also looked over, and sure enough, he saw that white fluff had grown on the radish strips.

"That's not right, no matter how healthy Vice President Lin is, he won't eat anything with long hair, right?"

Su Cheng didn't agree with Shi Chen's words, no matter how he maintained his health, it was impossible to eat these moldy things, right?

Shang Jiangyu sighed, "What are you talking about, Master's salary is indeed very high, but there is basically not much left over these years. Last month, in order to buy medicinal herbs, I personally advanced this month's salary to the association. ”

"Advance salary?" Su Cheng couldn't believe what he heard, how depressed this was, and he needed to advance his salary.

"It's an advance," Shang Jiangyu explained in a sour tone, "President Zhou knows Master's situation, and has said several times that the medicinal materials in the association don't need to be paid for by Master, and you can use as much as you want." But Master disagreed, and told the president that if he refused to accept the money, he would buy it from somewhere else. ”

Lin Baicao turned around and reasoned firmly, "To cure your master's illness?"

"That's right, Shi Niang's situation has not improved. Master works in the association during the day, and when he comes back at night to eat a few bites, he stays next to his wife and takes care of him all the time, and he only rests for less than four hours a day. If this continues, I am worried that Master's body will collapse. ”

Shang Jiangyu said and walked a few steps, lifting the curtain of the door of the room on the left.

Lin Baicao hurriedly walked to the door of the room and looked at the middle-aged woman lying on the bed.

The room was dimly lit, and a woman could be seen lying down, seemingly resting with her eyes closed.

Lin Baicao walked into the room, his cloudy eyes froze, and he said with some difficulty, "Lan-Lanfang-"

The middle-aged woman lay on the bed with her eyes closed, and did not react at all, still lying quietly with her eyes closed.

Although her complexion was a little pale and yellow due to the torture of illness, she could still see that when she was young, she was definitely a great beauty in a hundred miles, or even one in a thousand.

Su Cheng glanced at Shang Jiangyu, "Hey, come over for a moment." ”

Shang Jiangyu didn't understand, but he still walked next to Su Cheng, "What's wrong?"

"What kind of illness is your master, why can't even your master be cured?" Su Cheng lowered his voice to avoid being heard by Lin Baicao.

"Soul sickness, an incurable disease. ”

Before Shang Jiangyu could speak, a familiar voice came from behind him, and Lin Dongfang, who was not at ease to follow him.

He was worried that the three of them would affect Xue Lanfang's rest, so he asked another apprentice to take care of the crockpot, and he followed behind.

"What kind of illness is this?" Lin Baicao leaned out of the room and asked with a frown, "Xiao Chen, have you heard of this soul disorder?"

"Nope. Shi Chen shook his head, he really hadn't heard of this kind of disease.

"It's the first time I've heard of it, let alone you. ”

Lin Dongfang smiled bitterly, put the dishes and chopsticks on the dining table into the wooden cabinet, and took out a rag to wipe the tabletop clean, and then brought out the teapot and the teacup that had already been used to some yellowing.

Lin Dongfang set up the teacups, and poured a handful of tea leaves into each teacup, "Jiang Yu, go and bring the pot of hot water that I boiled." ”

"Yes, Master. Shang Jiangyu saw the tea leaves that Lin Dongfang poured into the bowl, and was just about to speak, but after hesitating for a moment, he still responded and ran outside.