Lin Xiaojin hurriedly arched his hand and said with a smile: "May I ask what the uncle is called?"

"My name is Iron Pillar. The middle-aged man replied very refreshingly.

Lin Xiaojin said: "Oh, it's Uncle Tiezhu. I'm sorry, what kind of 'fairy grass' is this, it's too pungent. After smelling this smell, the child will have difficulty breathing, and the condition will worsen. ”

"Yes, this method was taught to me by He Xiangu here. It is said that the child has a strange disease, and he should smoke this grass every day, and the disease will be cured. Tie Zhu didn't quite believe Lin Xiaojin's words.

Without waiting for Lin Xiaojin to argue, Tie Zhu said again: "You are dressed like this...... I've never seen one before. Are you from Anthy? Anthy I have been there once, and it seems that the rich people over there are dressed a little like you. ”

Lin Xiaojin immediately asked, "Then may I ask, where is this place?"

"This is Shihezi Village. Iron Pillar replied.

"Shihezi Village, which province does Shihezi Village belong to?" Lin Xiaojin was confused.

"We're in northern Shaanxi. You're such a weird boy, you don't know where it is when you get here, so how did you get here?" said Iron Pillar.

Of course, Lin Xiaojin can't answer where he came from, and no one will believe him if he says it. So he didn't answer Tiezhu's question, but continued to ask: "Then may I ask, how many years is this now?"

Tie Zhu is even stranger, but he is naturally simple and hospitable, and he doesn't think Lin Xiaojin is a bad person. So, he shook his head, indicating that he didn't understand Lin Xiaojin's question. However, he suddenly said again: "You wait a minute, sit down first." I'll go find Mr. Chen for you, Mr. Chen is back from Anxi, he is old and knowledgeable, he knows everything!"

As he spoke, Tie Zhu pulled a bench for Lin Xiaojin and asked Lin Xiaojin to sit down. Then he walked out, and within a few minutes, he was back with an old man in his 60s.

The old man wore a melon skin hat, a half-new robe, and a pair of reading glasses with a gold chain around his neck.

When Lin Xiaojin saw the old man come in, in order to save time, he immediately stood up, stepped forward and said to the old man, "You are Mr. Chen, right? I want to ask, what age is this now? What is the 19th century?"

Old man Chen put on an old pedantic look, obviously sneering at Lin Xiaojin's words. He shook his head and said, "What is 19 or more years, this is all the saying of foreigners." How can we, a big country, follow the calendar of foreigners? It is now July of the 38th year of the Republic of China. ”

"What? The Republic of China?" Lin Xiaojin, with a little historical knowledge of his own, immediately understood that no matter whether the 38th year of the Republic of China was 190 or more years, one thing was certain: the Huaxia Kingdom had not yet been established, and the common people here had not yet been liberated.

Sure enough, Old Man Chen's self-introduction later also proved this. He said that two years ago, he worked as a bookkeeper for a large family in Anxi City, the largest city in Western Shaanxi Province. Finally, Huaxia's army beat away today's devils, and as a result, Lao Jiang and Lao Mao fought again. And the battle is fierce, even more fierce than when fighting devils. Old man Chen ran back to his hometown.

In other words, in this era that Lin Xiaojin has traveled over, the Liberation War has not yet ended.

Old man Chen felt very strange when he saw Lin Xiaojin's dress. He was about to ask where Lin Xiaojin was from, when the little boy who was asleep on the bed suddenly coughed violently.

Tie Zhu hurriedly went over and stroked the child's forehead, and shook his head with a sigh.

Lin Xiaojin immediately asked with concern: "The child is sick, have you shown it to him?"

Tie Zhu shook his head, and his mood became even lower. He sighed and said: "We are all poor farmers, and we can't earn three melons and two dates a year, where can we find Langzhong." When you are sick, you carry it. If you can't carry it, it's gone. That's how the you go. Now it's the dog's turn again. Alas, this is the fate of the poor, cheap!" he said, looking at the boy with a gloomy expression.

The boy was still shivering and his breathing was getting shorter.

"No," Lin Xiaojin said: "This child has malaria, and he is very sick, and if he doesn't give injections and medicine, his life will be in danger!"

"Injections and medicines?" Old man Chen immediately laughed, "The old man is also considered to have a small amount of wealth, but the old man's little grandson got sick last time, and the old man was not willing to invite foreigners to come to see the doctor." Inviting foreigners to come to see a doctor is calculated on a per-trip basis, and the cost of the carriage and horses alone costs at least two yuan heads per trip, not counting the money for injections and medicines.

If we people are sick, the most we can do is ask someone to go to Fanglang's medium number pulse, prescribe a prescription, and go to the town to grab a few pairs of medicines. In recent years, there are a few people who can afford to 'take injections and medicines'. ”

Lin Xiaojin hurriedly said: "Then go and ask Fang Langzhong to come to treat the disease, the dog is not lightly ill, it must be cured quickly!"

Tie Zhu shook his head lightly and said, "Alas, it's not that I don't want to treat the dog. But as soon as he came, Lang Zhong who walked in the square would treat people wherever he went, and he usually didn't have a fixed place, so it was difficult to find it.

Second, our family is so poor that we can't get any money. Two months ago, I held a funeral for my mother, and I still owe a lot of debts that haven't been paid off, where can I still have the money to invite Langzhong?"

Lin Xiaojin thought of one more thing: since the dog's mother just died two months ago, it is very likely that he has the same malaria as the dog. Could it be that malaria is circulating in this place?

So, he asked Tie Zhu, "Uncle Tie Zhu, are there many of you here who have been suffering from this disease recently?"

Tie Zhu nodded and said, "But isn't it, the dog has this disease." The youngest son of Wang's second family next door also got this illness and died. Anyway, this Shihezi Village, as well as Qinglongshan Village, Laoyangshu Village, and Qilitun on the other side of the river...... Many people in this area have this disease. Everyone said it was a pendulum. We don't have a good way to do it.

Some say that eating a dog can cure the disease; some say that they can take a rope and tie the sick under the old locust tree in the east of the village, and tie it for three days and three nights, and the disease will be cured; some say that they should use a broom to pump the sick person, and they must exert all their strength to draw 7,749 strokes, and the disease will be cured.

I was reluctant to use this method for dogs, I used He Xiangu's method - she asked me to burn the wattle grass, saying that once the wattle grass was smoked, the disease would be cured. But I've been smoking for three days and three nights, and he hasn't improved at all, and he's getting sicker. ”

When Lin Xiaojin heard this, he was even more sure that it was malaria. So he said to Tiezhu: "Uncle, since you don't have the money to hire a doctor, why don't you let me try." ”

"You, are you Langzhong?" said Tie Zhu and Old Man Chen in unison.

"Yes, I see a doctor too. After speaking, before Lin Xiaojin could agree with Tiezhu, he was already sitting on the edge of the pit, his fingers clasped the veins of the dog, and he diagnosed the pulse decently.