Chapter 159: Kowtow to make amends
Dr. Zhang had previously supported the prefect because of the prefect's criticism of Yang Xianmao's father and son in the Huichun Hall, and after receiving the prefect's commendation, he has always been proud, feeling that he was a late bloomer and was about to rise to the top. And this time the father-in-law Huang came to Xuanzhou, just now he frequently raised a toast in order to show his loyalty, and at this time he was already seven or eight points drunk, so the subtle changes in the situation just now, he did not keenly capture it, he has always been drunk and drooping his head, and suddenly heard Yang Xianmao, I don't know which tendon in his head worked, and when he came to his senses, he shouted and said those words.
When Wei Wende heard this, he was furious, slammed the table heavily, and shouted: "Nonsense!"
At this moment, the dishes and chopsticks on the table were shocked and jumped, and they fell to the ground and shattered, and everyone looked at the angry prefect in surprise.
Wei Wende shouted angrily: "Bastard who doesn't understand the rules! You are still a gentleman who teaches and educates people, and the old minister is talking, how can you be allowed to intervene and contradict you? Come on, drag this old bastard out of this mansion!"
Several guards agreed, stepped forward and grabbed Dr. Zhang's two arms, and dragged him out of the restaurant like a dead dog, from the third floor to the first floor, and collided on the stairs, making a tooth-sore sound.
Dr. Zhang was so frightened by Wei Wende's angry shout that he was stunned by his old bastard, and he didn't know what he had done, which provoked the Lord of the Mansion to be so angry.
He was dragged to the first floor and thrown into the bluestone street outside the street, his shoes fell off, his hat was gone, his robe was torn, his head hit the stone slab, and he was dizzy for a long time, and then he came back to his senses, got up, and hissed and shouted: "Lord Prefect......!
After that, he got up and wanted to go to the restaurant, but he was slapped several times on the head and in the face by the guards, and kicked to the ground with a few kicks.
The guard pointed at him and scolded: "You old bastard, if you dare to come in again, Lao Tzu will arrest you to the yamen and lock you up, let you wake up Huang Tang well, and don't go home!"
Only then did Dr. Zhang realize that he had caused a big disaster, and slapped the horse's leg on the horse's leg, which was really shocking, and he sat on the ground, stunned and didn't know how to move.
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On the morning of the second day when Huang Gonggong came, Yang Xianmao went to the small hill to practice as usual, and returned to the pharmacy at dawn.
Yang Xianmao did not bring Hongsheng'er to practice, and Hongsheng'er also got up after he got up, boiled hot water in the kitchen, and prepared Yang Mingde and his wife to wash up after they got up. Because it was not yet dawn, it was not convenient to clean, and the movement was too big to disturb the sleep of Yang Xianmao and his wife, so they sat in the kitchen and waited for Yang Xianmao to come back.
When Yang Xianmao came back, the sky was gradually getting brighter, and Hongsheng'er served Yang Xianmao to wash, and then cleaned the pharmacy, and after Yang Mingde and his wife got up, they served the two to wash, and followed Zhang to busy breakfast in the kitchen.
At this time, Yang Xianmao was responsible for removing the door panel of the pharmacy door piece by piece and opening the door of the pharmacy.
As soon as Yang Xianmao removed a piece of the door panel, he was startled, because he saw more than a dozen people kneeling on the bluestone slabs of his own pharmacy outside the door, looking at him with a bitter face. The leader was an old man with a gray beard, kneeling on the stone steps of their drugstore, his wrinkled old face full of smiles.
There were already pedestrians on the street, and many of them stopped to look over here to see what was going on.
Yang Xianmao fixed his eyes and saw that these people kneeling on the stone steps still knew each other, but they were the apprentices of those medical institutes who had been guarding their doors for the past month to prevent patients from coming to their homes to see a doctor and buy medicine. And the gray-haired and bearded old man Yang Xianmao didn't know him. He said coldly, "What are you doing here? Do you want to use this way to prevent us from going out?"
The white-bearded old man who was kneeling on the ground trembled and said, "Young Master Yang, the old man is Assistant Teacher Yao of the Medical Bureau, we listened to the nonsense of people with ulterior motives before, and let more than a dozen students come to your door to block the patients who come to seek medical advice. We only know now that your medical skills are miraculous and exquisite, and it is not at all those people who talk nonsense and pretend to be ghosts, but they are really capable, we are blinded by lard for a while, please forgive your old man. ”
Assistant Teacher Yao said that he would kowtow, and more than a dozen other students also kowtowed, all begging Yang Xianmao with tears and begging him for forgiveness.
Yang Xianmao couldn't help laughing: "You beg my old man for forgiveness, then you have to let my old man understand what's going on, right?"
At this time, hearing the shouting outside, Yang Mingde and his wife and the maid Hongsheng'er all came to the door, looking at this scene in surprise, not knowing what was going on.
However, they soon understood that it was related to the matter of blocking the door in the past month to prevent patients from seeking medical advice, and what they couldn't understand was what caused their current sudden and subversive change, from being arrogant and domineering in the past to forcibly prevent patients from buying medicine and seeing a doctor at the Yang Family Hospital, to now kneeling outside the door and begging for mercy and admitting their mistakes.
Yang Xianmao asked, "Who asked you to come?"
"We came by ourselves, we know that we are wrong, so we are here to ask Yang Gongzi for your old man's forgiveness, we will never dare to do it again in the future, we must go from house to house all over the city to preach that Gongzi's medical skills are true, not pretending to be a ghost, we are talking nonsense, we must clear the grievances of Gongzi, and please forgive your old man." ”
Yang Mingde saw many people on the other side of the street pointing and looking at him in surprise, this Assistant Teacher Yao was a handful of old people, although he was angry at the bad things they had done to his family before, but seeing that they were so pitiful, he relented in the end, and stepped forward to help Assistant Teacher Yao and said: "Get up! We can't afford it, there may be some misunderstandings, just say it, don't be so, everyone please get up!"
The Zhang family also helped everyone to get up, but Assistant Teacher Yao looked at Yang Xianmao pitifully, obviously without Yang Xianmao, they didn't dare to get up, because the most critical thing in this matter was him.
Yang Xianmao didn't have such a good temper as his father, after all, the other party forced their pharmacy to almost want to move to other prefectures and counties, and made his reputation stink, and said that he was a charlatan, and the anger in his heart was so easy to dissipate, he wanted to know what happened, and said coldly at the moment: "Why did you go before and after, you forced our family to death before, and now you come to kneel and kowtow to apologize, what is the reason? If you don't say it, then you can kneel here for a day." ”
As he spoke, he looked at the sky with his hands behind his back, and ignored the white-bearded Assistant Teacher Yao and the others who were kneeling on the ground.
Seeing that there were more and more people around, Assistant Teacher Yao pointed and pointed, and couldn't help but be even more embarrassed, gritted his teeth, and finally said in a low voice: "Lord Lu Duanlu of Hubu Langzhong entrusted Huang Gonggong, who came to relieve the disaster, to send a gift to Yang Gongzi, maybe he will come at noon today." ”
It's just that this sentence is enough, this sentence just tells a fact, in the ears of people who don't know, they just told Yang Xianmao such a thing, but Yang Xianmao immediately heard the reason for the problem, it turned out to be the Hubu Langzhong Lu Duan Lu Lord who inadvertently saved his life, he just rushed to ask the eunuch to send things to himself at this time, so that the prefect and others understood that Lu Duan, an important minister of the court, was the big backer of his Xiaolang, so Yao Assistant Teacher and others who saw the wind and the rudder came to make amends, so as not to find them to settle accounts when Yang Xianmao came to settle accounts.
Yang Xianmao nodded and said, "I know, since you have sincerely apologized, I forgive you." ”
These people couldn't help but be overjoyed after hearing this, what they were most worried about was that Yang Xianmao would wear small shoes for them, because the Huang Gong Guild would come to send something to Yang Xianmao, and as long as Yang Xianmao said these two words in Huang Gonggong's ear, they would not be able to eat and leave.
The miserable end of Dr. Zhang on the first night made the people who participated in the banquet finally guess the major changes in the situation, especially the assistant teacher Yao, one of the pioneers, thought about it all night, and finally decided to apologize to Yang Xianmao in the head and strive for the initiative, so before dawn, he called the dozen or so apprentices who had been sent to block the door of the Yang family's pharmacy, knelt outside the gate of the Yang family, and waited to apologize to Yang Xianmao.
Assistant Teacher Yao was very excited, and said to Yang Xianmao with a salivating face: "Last night, the prefect invited Gonggong Huang, who came to deliver the message for disaster relief, and also talked about Yang Gongzi. The father-in-law and the prefect praised you for your daring. Dr. Zhang's old bastard was disrespectful to Yang Gongzi at the banquet, and was ordered by the prefect to drag him directly from the third floor to the first floor and throw him down the street. It's really an eye-opening thing. I heard that Dr. Zhang is already demented, and he doesn't even know that and urine are pulled in the crotch of his pants. Hey, hey, hey, hey"
Yang Xianmao squinted at him, seeing that he was straight, and the smile on his face froze.
Yang Xianmao didn't bother to pay attention to this kind of person who saw the wind and rudder, and turned around and walked into the pharmacy. Yang Mingde felt a little reluctant in the end, and hurriedly said to Assistant Teacher Yao and the others who were standing there awkwardly: "Okay, since the matter has been explained, please go back." ”
Assistant Teacher Yao took a dozen apprentices and bowed his hands to leave.
After walking out of the distance, Assistant Teacher Yao stopped, called the dozen or so apprentices in front of him, and pointed his fingers and said: "I can tell you, it is you who caused this catastrophe, although Yang Gongzi has forgiven you verbally, but it depends on your actions later, you should know what to do later, right?"
The dozen or so apprentices had a bit of a wooden head, let them mess with them, but how to let them wipe their butts, they were really a little at a loss.
Assistant Teacher Yao was not angry, and pointed at them one by one with his hand and said: "You used to go around in the city to say bad things about the Rejuvenation Hall, and now you must correct this, and go to tell you the people who have spoken bad things one by one, so that they know that the Yang family's medical skills are excellent, and the prefect has praised them. Got it?"
A group of apprentices hurriedly nodded their heads and agreed.
Assistant Teacher Yao lowered his voice again and said, "Remember, the father-in-law who delivered the decree around noon is going to come to deliver things to Yang Gongzi and them, and he wants to make the Yang family's pharmacy lively before this." Therefore, it is too late to go to the whole city to publicize, so I will go home first and call your parents, brothers and sisters, as well as those relatives who can't beat the seven aunts, eight aunts, and eight poles, and give them tasks to come to Yang's house to buy medicine and see a doctor. -- Everyone should find at least 10 relatives and friends, and I don't care what method you use. The more you come, the better, buy at least fifty wen per person, ah no, one hundred wen medicine, one less wen Lao Tzu also called him good-looking!
When these people heard this, they couldn't help but have a bitter face and hurriedly agreed. One by one, they trotted home to mobilize relatives and friends, and hurried to Huichun Hall to see a doctor and buy medicine, and at the same time, they also began to go around the city to refute the rumors of the Yang family and restore their reputation.