Chapter 101: The Book of Medicine (Part II)
Li Weizhu has not spoken since he asked what was going on, Shen Yifeng also stood aside and listened quietly to the conversation between the bookstore shopkeeper and the little girl, and there were some eyebrows at this time, it turned out that it was not the bookstore shopkeeper who forced him to buy this book, but the little girl had to sell the book because of the family's compulsion, and there was a one-year agreement between the bookshop and the bookstore when she bought the book, if the little girl's family saved enough thirty-one taels of silver within a year, she could come to redeem the book, if she didn't save enough, the bookstore shopkeeper had the right to dispose of the book in any way。
When he sold it, he gave the Guan family thirty taels of silver, and a year later it was agreed that it was only thirty-one taels.
But looking at the little girl's timid but still argumentative appearance, Li Weizhu also understood in her heart that this book was probably very important to this little girl's family. Or maybe there is something difficult to solve in the family that will let such a young child run out to do such a dangerous thing.
It is indeed dangerous to say that it is dangerous, after all, if it is not for Li Weizhu and Shen Yifeng today, but if you have a rude personality, when you encounter this incident, I am afraid that the first thing that comes to mind is that this little beggar disturbs his interest in buying books, so he will drag it down and beat him first.
Li Weizhu walked in front of the little girl, picked up the little girl who was still kneeling on the ground, took out a handkerchief and gently wiped the tears on the little girl's face, just wanted to say something. But carefully found that the little girl standing with her legs trembling slightly, her face was pale, and there was a layer of fine and dense beads of sweat on her forehead.
This is obviously not a temporary wound today, I am afraid that I don't know how many times I knelt before I have the current appearance, plus I knelt so violently today, and now I am becoming more and more strict. This pain in the bones, which even ordinary adults can't bear, has now happened to a child.
Seeing this, Li Weizhu hurriedly stopped her waist and hugged the little girl, Shen Yifeng saw the redness and swelling on the little girl's knees, and a trace of surprise appeared on her face, seeing Li Weizhu's movements, she hurriedly took the child from Li Weizhu's hands.
The dirty rags on the little girl's body just set off Shen Yifeng's crescent-white brocade robe, but Shen Yifeng's face did not show the slightest disgust, always with a faint smile, and comforted softly: "Little girl, this sister is a doctor, and it won't hurt for a while." ”
The shopkeeper of the bookstore next to him didn't expect that the injury on the leg of this little girl who came every day was so strict, although he had some love for money, but his heart was not bad, otherwise he would not have bought this little girl's medical book for thirty taels of silver, and he would not have agreed to this one-year deadline. At this time, his mouth also became anxious: "Childe, give me the little girl, I'll carry the person over." After speaking, he hurriedly ran towards the soft collapse with the little girl in his arms, and muttered: "What is this, this little girl has become a wicked person." ”
Li Weizhu gently lifted the clothes and pants on the little girl's legs, and the skin and flesh in some places were even stuck together, and when she moved, the little girl shrank back, biting her lip vigorously, trying not to make a sound.
When the bookstore shopkeeper saw Li Weizhu starting to diagnose and treat, he silently walked out and continued to look at the store.
Shen Yifeng has been standing on the side and watching, only to see Li Weizhu's cold flash, and the silver needles in his hand have been all over the little girl's knees, Shen Yifeng saw this, and quietly walked out of the bookstore.
Here, Li Weizhu was still carefully removing the fabric sticking to the little girl's knees, and Shen Yifeng had already gone out to buy a piece of clothing for a seven or eight-year-old girl, and took some clean cloth, probably to bandage the little girl's wounds.
When Li Weizhu completely removed the carrion, and applied the gold sore medicine that she had been carrying in her arms all over the two knees of the little girl, she was worried about where to find some clean cloth to bandage it, and saw that Shen Yifeng also came back with these things.
After Li Weizhu bandaged the little girl, she gently helped the little girl change into clean clothes, and asked softly, "Does it still hurt?"
The little girl's frowning brows slowly relaxed, and she whispered, "If my sister doesn't buy that book, I won't be in pain." ”
Li Weizhu was stunned for a moment, then laughed, raised her hand and gently touched the little girl's hair, and said softly: "Really good, you wait here for my sister for a while." ”
After that, he walked in front of the bookstore shopkeeper, took out thirty-one taels and handed it to the shopkeeper, and said, "I bought this book." ”
Although the voice was not loud, but the room was already very small, but the little girl on the soft collapse heard it, the little girl ignored the injury on her leg, anxiously climbed out of bed, Shen Yifeng saw this and pressed on the little girl's shoulder, not letting her move, "Sister, didn't you promise me not to buy this book?"
Li Weizhu saw that the little girl was struggling, and said sharply: "Don't you want your legs?" The little girl was stunned by Li Weizhu's voice, "But... But you promised me..."
"Okay, are you okay with me?" Li Weizhu slowed down slightly after watching the little girl stand still.
"How many taels of silver do you have left to redeem this book?"
"Ten taels. ”
"I'm just helping you redeem this book first, and then you give me your twenty taels of silver, and I'll use ten taels of silver in exchange for copying this medical book, what do you think?" In fact, Li Weizhu really wanted to buy this medical book, but since the little girl attached so much importance to this book, she retreated to the second, and it was better to copy it and read it again.
"Good. The little girl replied crisply, "Lend it to my sister to copy, and if you don't need money, ten taels of silver, and later, my brother will find a way to return it to my sister." ”
After giving the silver, Li Weizhu found out that this was divided into three volumes, and she only took the first volume at first.
Twenty taels of silver were not on the little girl's body, according to the instructions of the little girl of the Guan family, Shen Yifeng hugged the little girl, and went side by side with Li Weizhu in the direction of the Guan family.
The little girl chattered non-stop along the way, and it turned out that the little girl's surname was Guan and her name was Guan Ke. The ancestor is Guan Ruoshui, Guan Ke's family has only one ten-year-old brother Guan Lang and a seriously ill mother Zhang. Guan Ke and Guan Lang brother and sister take care of their seriously ill mother, Guan Lang is an apprentice in the pharmacy, and comes back at night to cook for his mother and himself, Guan Ke is young, he takes care of his mother at home, his mother's illness suddenly became strict years ago, and there is no money left at home for his mother to take medicine to eat, Guan Lang has no choice but to take out the ancestral medical books at home and sell them, hoping that after his mother recovers from his illness, the family will make money together and then redeem the books, who would have thought that his mother could not afford to be ill, and all the burden of the family was pressed on his brother Guan Lang, who was worried all day long, and after something went wrong in the pharmacy, he was finally driven out。
"My brother is amazing. ”
"When I take this book back today, my brother will be very happy, after my brother sold this book, he kept crying in the room, I saw it, but I didn't tell anyone. ”
"My brother..."
Guan Ke said the most about her brother Guan Lang, and Li Weizhu also knew, because Guan could see that her brother was annoyed after selling books, so she would find a way to run to the door of the bookstore, if she saw someone wanting to buy medical books, she would beg others not to buy them.
Listening to the little girl's chirping along the way, I didn't even think that the journey was long, and after walking for nearly half an hour, Li Weizhu and his party walked to a remote alley in the suburbs.
Most of the alleys are adobe houses with broken walls, and some of the roofs have fallen off half. Many thatched huts are built crookedly in one place, and people worry about whether a gust of wind will blow them away. There is a big tree at the head of the alley, this big tree seems to be some years old, but the growth is not optimistic, and it makes people worry about whether they can survive this winter.
Under the big tree, a group of people sat noisily talking,
"I said that the mother-in-law of the Guan family will not survive this winter. ”
"Alas, I can't say, it's a burden to live, it's really a sin, leaving this orphan and widow behind. ”
"That little girl in their family is a beautiful billet, but she gave birth to the wrong person. ”
When Li Weizhu and a few people walked over, they heard such a conversation, Li Weizhu looked at Guan Ke with some concern, who would have thought that Guan Ke didn't seem to hear these people talking about her family, and looked up at Shen Yifeng: "Brother, can I go down and go by myself?" If my brother sees me being carried back, I should be worried, I don't want him to know that I am injured." ”
Shen Yifeng didn't speak when he heard this, and looked at Li Weizhu, as if asking for an answer. Li Weizhu hesitated, although the injury on Guan Ke's knee was not suitable for exercise now, but looking at Guan Ke's pleading gaze, Li Weizhu couldn't say anything to refuse, it's just a big deal, it's a big deal to take care of it himself, but it's better to be slower and leave no sequelae. Li Weizhu nodded lightly, and Shen Yifeng gently put Guan Ke on the ground, and instructed him: "Be careful, go slowly." ”
"Yes, I know. Xiao Guan Ke smiled sweetly, and then slowly walked to the mouth of the alley, Li Weizhu and Shen Yifeng followed behind, watching Guan Ke skillfully greet these men and women at the entrance of the alley: "Uncle Zhang is good, Aunt Li is good, Sun Erniang is good..."
The fiery people who were discussing here heard Guan Ke's voice, but they didn't expect that the object of their discussion was behind them, and their faces were a little embarrassed, "The little girl is back." ”
"I went home to take care of my mother. Guan Ke said.
After greeting, Shen Yifeng and Li Weizhu followed behind Guan Ke and continued to walk forward.
At this time, everyone chatting noticed that the little girl was followed by two young ladies with extraordinary temperament, and whispered, "Is there still such a magnificent relative in this Guan family?
"Can't it, look at those two people's extraordinary temperament, you can't do this lack of morality, right?"
"Who knows?"
Li Weizhu was deaf and clear-sighted, listening to the discussion behind him, and glanced sideways at Shen Yifeng, he still needs to buy a child daughter-in-law with such a good look?
Walking forward five households, Guan Ke stood in front of a small house with a half-broken gate, turned back to Li Weizhu and said, "This is my house, my family has not had guests for a long time." But it's very simple inside, don't mind my brothers and sisters. ”
Li Weizhu and Shen Yifeng glanced at the house casually. This house is better than the others, at least there is a small courtyard, and there are two houses in the yard, one large and one small, the big one is the bedroom, and the small one is the kitchen.
At this time, a fat woman in a hurry came out of the house, and the mother-in-law saw Guan Ke and said urgently: "Guan Ke, where did you die, but you are back, come into the house and take a look, your mother seems to be dying." Your mother is like this, and you still go out into the wilderness, alas, what kind of evil has this family created? When the mother-in-law said these words, the flesh on her face shook, and her eyes became smaller, and her mouth was foaming everywhere, although the words in her mouth were anxious, but there was some schadenfreude in her eyes, "Guan Ke, go in quickly, your mother asked me to help invite Mrs. Zhao, I also invited it, and now I don't have anything to do, so I'll leave first." ”
Guan Ke heard the mother-in-law say that the mother-in-law seemed to be going to die, so he was confused, and he didn't care about the mother-in-law's next words, and rushed into the yard, "Mother, mother." ”
The mother-in-law saw that Guan Ke didn't even say hello to her, so she ran away, the corners of her mouth twitched, and she spat to the side, "Hmph, after all, there is no education." After speaking, he hurriedly walked out, as if to avoid the bad luck here, and halfway through, he saw Li Weizhu and Shen Yifeng also walking towards the small courtyard. When I saw Shen Yifeng, my eyes lit up, such a handsome son, in this dilapidated alley, it is a once-in-a-thousand encounter, thinking of the daughter of my own family who lost money, maybe I can be a concubine for this son, and it is better than marrying the simple son of the old Li family in this alley to farm for the rest of his life.
Thinking of this, the fat mother-in-law stopped and walked in the direction of Shen Yifeng. Shen Yifeng and the others just saw Guan Ke running into the house regardless of it, guessing that something might have happened, and they were anxious to go in to see, but they didn't expect to be blocked by this fat woman.
"Is Childe a relative of the Guan family? It's a mess here, and Childe still doesn't want to go in, which will damage his identity. After speaking, he looked at this dilapidated small courtyard with disgust, and the disdain on his face was written on his face, and he said with a smile on his face: "It's better to go to my house and sit, the environment is much better than this." The fat woman looked at Shen Yifeng expectantly, waiting for his answer, and didn't take Li Weizhu on the side in her eyes at all.
Shen Yifeng was a little annoyed, stopped, and said in a slightly cold tone: "This lady, please get out of the way, you are blocking our way." ”
His momentum made the fat woman's eyes brighten up more and more, this must be a nobleman, just as he wanted to speak, he heard someone shouting, "Mother." ”
Seeing that it was her daughter, the fat woman wanted to speak, but her daughter's expression was anxious, and she whispered a few words to her, and the two left in a hurry.
As soon as Li Weizhu and Shen Yifeng walked into the courtyard, they heard the sound of a quarrel coming from inside the house, accompanied by the middle-aged woman's unreasonable nonsense, and the childish voice of the little boy arguing with reason. Bang The door of the house was kicked open from the inside, so that the already crumbling door instantly couldn't bear the force and smashed to the ground.
Li Weizhu and Shen Yifeng hurriedly followed the sound and saw a mother-in-law walking out quickly, and there was a ten-year-old boy lying on the ground, this young man thought to be Guan Kekou's brother Guan Lang.
The boy was about ten years old, his dark, thin little face was covered with dust, and his eyes were now full of stubbornness and determination.
The young man grabbed the leg of his mother-in-law's trousers tightly, and shouted: "It's you who made my mother drink the talisman water, and she is only stricter now, you liar, you murderer, you give me back the silver taels." The young man grabbed his mother-in-law's leg with difficulty, and kept repeating a sentence in his mouth,
"You liar, you give me back the money, you give me back my mother's life, you give me back..."
It seems to shout out all the fear that my mother is about to leave, and it seems to shout out all the resentment in my heart.
It's just a teenager, even if he has a lot of strength, how much can he have. The stout mother-in-law heard the young man say that she was a murderer, and she raised her foot and kicked the young man, so strong that the boy drew three feet away along the ground, and said in his mouth: "It's really unlucky, you kid is not small, you even threaten me, and you don't inquire about my identity in this radius of ten miles, don't say that I didn't kill anyone, even if I kill you now, who dares to say anything......" Zhao Shenpo threatened fiercely in her mouth, and after speaking, she walked over again, as if she hadn't scolded him, kicked twice at the boy's body, and vented the hatred in her heart.
When Li Weizhu saw this scene, he hurriedly walked over to help the young man who fell to the ground, and Shen Yifeng stood firmly in front of Li Weizhu and the young man, blocking the sight of Zhao Shenpo in front of him, and reprimanded: "I didn't know that someone killed someone in broad daylight and no one cared about it." ”
Goddess Zhao raised her eyes and saw that Shen Yifeng was already standing in front of her, and she was slightly stunned, as if she was puzzled how this poor clanging family in front of her could know such a rich young master. Although the mother-in-law is reckless, as a goddess, she has naturally been to many large families, and she can see that Shen Yifeng and the two are dressed unusually, and she is not sure what the identities of the two of them are, so she naturally does not dare to offend carelessly. "Who are you?" Although they are afraid of the identities of the two, they have been used to acting as a blessing in the people for many years, and there is naturally a snarky tone in their tone at this time.
"Someone who can call the shots for the Guan family brothers and sisters. Shen Yifeng said lightly. When he looked back and saw Li Weizhu shaking his head with a soothing expression, he knew that although Guan Lang was kicked, he didn't know if Guan Lang deliberately avoided the fatal position, or unintentionally, fortunately, it was fine, just take a rest and recuperate carefully.
Li Weizhu asked in a low voice, "How is your mother now?"
Guan Lang looked at the man and woman who suddenly appeared, his eyes were full of defense, although he knew that these two people had saved him just now, but he still refused to believe it. After so many things, he took care of his young sister and seriously ill mother alone, Guan Lang had already learned not to trust strangers, and not to accept the kindness of others lightly, because he didn't know when it would become a deep trap.