Chapter 14: The Frozen Fisherwoman
Yang Xianmao took the remaining silk cotton robe to his parents as a quilt cover, because he found that the quilt at home was too thin to keep out the cold, and the silk cotton robe he wore himself could be put on the quilt to keep warm after taking it off.
It was the first time he had drunk so much that he soon fell asleep drunk.
In the middle of the night, he woke up thirsty, so he wanted to get up and look for water to drink, only to find that there was a teapot on the bedside table at some point, full of water, and a teacup, presumably after he fell asleep, his mother knew that he would be thirsty at night, so she sent it to him. Quickly poured a big bowl, drank it with a bang, and got into the quilt and fell asleep.
And so it was the next day.
He works as a scholar in the Tai Hospital, and he has to get up before dawn to clean, and he is used to getting up early, but he was a little drunk last night and didn't wake up on time. When I woke up, it was already dark, so I quickly got up, got dressed and came out, and saw that the door of the pharmacy had been opened, and my father Yang Mingde was already sitting behind a wooden table with paint off, holding a medical book and reading, but no patients came to see a doctor to buy medicine.
When Zhang saw her come out, he hurriedly beckoned her to the kitchen to wash, and he found that breakfast was not prepared, so he knew that there were no three meals a day at home, of course, because of the difficult situation.
After washing, Yang Xianmao walked to the door and stretched out.
The snow on the street at the entrance of the pharmacy has been swept to both sides of the street by Zhang's family, but the place where the carriage and horses walked through the ice has been frozen, and there is no way to clean it, but the snow on the bluestone steps at the door has been cleared, so as not to slip and fall when the patient comes to seek medical advice.
He was a little embarrassed and said to his mother, "I overslept today, I used to do all this work in the hospital, and I will get up early tomorrow." ”
As he was talking, he saw a middle-aged man walking over quickly, and when he saw Yang Xianmao at the door, he happily arched his hand and said, "Xiao Langzhong, it's early!"
Yang Xianmao recognized that it was the middle-aged man who took his wife to see the edema yesterday, so he bowed his hand and said, "You are early." - How's your lady's illness?"
"That's what I'm here for. You deserve to be from the Beijing Tai Hospital, medical skills as a master, after I went back to the Hun's house, I took a dose of medicine, and took another dose before going to bed, I slept soundly last night, and the edema receded significantly when I got up this morning, and my eyes were no longer swollen into a slit. Your decoction really worked, so I came to tell you. Will you continue to take medicine later?"
"It doesn't work better, of course continue to eat. You grab three more pairs and eat them, and then you bring your lady to me and I will give it to you, and adjust the recipe according to the situation. ”
The conversation between the two of them at the door, Yang Mingde and Zhang in the lobby had already heard it, and they couldn't help but be even more happy when they knew that the prescription that the child opened yesterday had obvious results.
The middle-aged man immediately grabbed three more pairs of medicines and said to Yang Mingde: "Yang Langzhong, although your child is young, his medical skills are really good, and I will come to see him when I am sick in the future." ”
The middle-aged man grabbed the medicine and left happily.
Not long after, Tie Dan came to the pharmacy, and Xing Chong called Yang Xianmao to the house and closed the door to whisper. Tie Dan said, "When I returned to Master's house last night, I told Master what you requested. My master said that this is a trivial matter, no problem, as long as you encounter an unclaimed corpse, let me tell you. Especially now that the army is in chaos, there are many robbers who rob houses and houses, and these robbers can be killed on the spot if they are caught, so the yamen has to execute some robbers from time to time. I'll tell you when the time comes, and I'll bury it after you dissect it. ”
Yang Xianmao was very happy and thanked him repeatedly.
Only two people came this morning, and they came to get medicine, but no one came to see the doctor.
At noon, a patient finally came to see Yang Mingde, who had a cold, and prescribed a dose of Guizhi soup to sweat, and there was no incurable disease.
At noon, Zhang's cooking, of course, was wheat bran rice, and Yang Xianmao helped the people crush the wheat with a stone mill and steam it out in a steamer. However, this meal still has the night before Yang Xianmao bought the unfinished cooked beef to make a meal, and the food is of course much more fragrant than before.
Yang Mingde did not drink alcohol at noon, and he had to stay awake to see patients, so he quickly finished lunch.
After eating and cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, Yang Mingde continued to sit at the table reading medical books and waiting for the patient to come to the door, while Yang Xianmao and his mother sat at the counter and talked.
Zhang told him the purchase and selling price of each medicine. These drugs are not expensive drugs, and the difference between the purchase price and the selling price is not large, so it can only be a small profit but quick turnover.
At this time, Yang Xianmao Lake heard a woman's shouting on the street outside: "The fish in Qingjiang River are fat and big, thirty wen a catty, come and buy it!"
Hearing the sound a little familiar, Yang Xianmao curiously came out of the counter to the door of the medicine hall, raised his eyes, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was the fisherman girl who crossed the river the day before. I saw that she was wearing a hat on her head to protect her from the wind and snow. He wears a dark green jacket with narrow sleeves, and a fat black bloomer with a trouser leg tied up. Wearing a pair of black-faced cloth shoes, the upper of the shoes is stuck with wet gray slush, and it looks like a long walk into the city from the wilderness.
Yang Xianmao couldn't help but be overjoyed, strode out of the door, and greeted: "Girl, is it you, come to the city to sell fish?"
The fisherman girl also recognized him, so she stopped, smiled slightly, and said, "It's you, yes, this is the fish I caught, do you want to buy it today?"
Yang Xianmao went up and opened the lid to look inside, only to see that there was a small half bucket of water inside, swimming two fish, and opened the lid of the bucket on the other side, but there was only one, so he asked: "You didn't catch as many fish today as yesterday." ”
The fisherman girl smiled astringently: "It was windy and snowy last night, and when I got up in the morning, I saw that the Qingshui River was all frozen, and the whole river was frozen, so I had no choice but to dig an ice hole and jump into the river to catch fish." ”
"Wow, jump into the glacier and catch fish? Moreover, you can catch fish in the river, you have a good ability!"
"It's cold, the fish in the river rarely swim, it's easier to catch, it's not difficult, but it's too cold, and you can hold on to a cup of tea at most for a dive. You need to rest and warm up for a while before diving to catch fish. I couldn't go into the water again a few times in a row, otherwise I would have cramps, and it would be over, so I only caught these three fish. ”
Hearing her say this, Yang Xianmao glanced at her head and found that she was wearing the unique double bun of a girl who had not yet come out of the pavilion, and her hair was wet and frozen. After thinking about it, he said, "I know that there is a medicine that can enhance the body's ability to withstand the cold after taking it internally, and there is also an ointment that can be applied to the skin to enhance the skin's ability to resist the cold and will not be frostbitten." Otherwise, I will dispense medicine for you, and you will take it internally and wipe it externally before you go to catch fish, at least you can last more than twice as long in the water, and you will definitely be able to catch a few more. ”
The fisherwoman shook her head and said, "This medicine must be very expensive, right? ”
"It's not expensive, two kinds of medicine sell you 20 wen for a hand - you spend 20 wen a day, but you can double the time you spend in the water, and I'm afraid that the fish you catch will be more than 20 wen, don't you say?"
The fisherman's daughter was a little moved, nodded and said, "If this is the case, if it is really doubled, twenty wen is not expensive, but I don't know what the effect is?"
As soon as she heard that she was tempted, Yang Xianmao said happily: "That's it, I'll immediately prepare a pair for you to eat, and then dispense ointment to wipe your hands, you try it, if you think it's good, you can buy it, if you don't think it's good, you don't need to buy it, how about it?"
The fisherwoman nodded gratefully and said, "Okay!"
Yang Xianmao said: "It takes some time to dispense the medicine, you go to sell the fish first, and after you finish selling, you can come to my pharmacy to pick up the medicine, and it will take about half an hour for my medicine to be prepared." ”
The fisherwoman agreed, and continued to sell along the street with a bucket.
Yang Xianmao immediately began to dispense medicine. His mother Zhang heard what he said outside just now, so she asked, "She didn't pay the deposit, you just dispensed medicine for her, in case she doesn't want to lose money?"
"Try before you buy to rest assured, she is also a poor family, every penny is eager to be split in half to spend, you have to let her pay first, I'm afraid that this business will not be done. ”
Yang Mingde smiled and said: "You have some business minds, that's right, but you really have such a recipe?"
"Yes, every year, our Tai Hospital has to prepare some anti-frostbite medicine for the palace maids and eunuchs, and the effect is very good. This recipe is based on cimicifuga and gas drink, removing the rhubarb, adding some peia, and the external antifreeze paste is wood, betel nut, sulfur, turmeric, musk, and Wu Yu, which is ground into powder and then mixed with sesame oil. ”
Yang Mingde nodded frequently and said, "This recipe still sounds very good, and it should have an effect." ”
Half an hour later.
The fisherwoman came back with an empty bucket of water, and sold all three fish, and only sold for more than 40 wen in total, which was less than half of the fish she had cast her net for the first day.
The fisherwoman came to the door, and greeted Yang Mingde and Zhang a little shyly, Yang Xianmao's decoction had been fried, brought it out, and let the fisherman girl drink a bowl, and then applied a thin layer of antifreeze cream on her left hand, and then said: "Now you put both hands into the snow at the same time, compare them, and you will know whether my ointment and medicine have any effect." ”
The contrast was interesting, with the fisherwoman crouching down in front of a snowdrift on the side of the street and putting her hands in the snowdrift.
Because of the cold protection medicine, she obviously felt that her cold tolerance was enhanced, her hands could last longer in the snow, and the cold resistance of her hands was obviously stronger than that of those who did not rub the medicine. Because when the left hand that rubbed the medicine was not too cold, the right hand that did not rub the medicine was already frozen, and it was really hard to hold on, so he quickly pulled it out, and the left hand stayed for more than two teas, so he felt so cold that he couldn't hold on and pulled it out, and it really lasted more than twice as long as he didn't wipe the medicine.
The fisherman's girl was overjoyed and said, "Your medicine really works, it really only costs twenty wen?"
"I'm selling you at the price, so it's cheap, if it's someone else, it's more than that. Yang Xianmao was telling the truth, he used his capital to sell to the fisherman's girl, wanting to help this hard-working girl.
The fisherman girl said: "You can't do business, so let's exchange fish for you, and a pound of fish for a day's medicine, okay?"
A pound of fish was sold to Yang Xianmao for 25 wen before, which was 5 wen less than the normal price, which was equivalent to giving Yang Xianmao 5 wen to make money.
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