Chapter Twenty-Six: No Money
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Ancient scholars are most concerned about fame, if this matter is spread today, how will her father meet his peers in the future?
Gu Juan snatched a knife from the counter to cut oiled paper, and then said to the doctor: "If the old doctor doesn't believe my father, I will press my fingers to you! When you have money, you will definitely come back to get it!"
Gu Juan gritted his teeth, raised the knife in his right hand, and slashed at the little finger of his left hand. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Don't be impulsive, lady!"
The old doctor was quick and grabbed Gu Juan's hand, but this Gu Juan's strength was very great, the old doctor was old and frail, Gu Zhi was scared stupid, so he reacted at this time and hurriedly took Gu Juan's hand, but the three of them were still in a stalemate.
Gu Juan's little finger was already bleeding, and the little medicine boy hurriedly came over to help when he saw this.
The three of them worked together to snatch the knife from Gu Juan's hand.
Gu Juan's little fingers were already blurred with flesh and blood, the flesh was turned up, and the old doctor sighed.
"What is this going to do, lady? Your parents are so uncherished, but what is it good to call your father?"
The little medicine boy brought gauze to bandage Gu Juan, looked at Gu Juan's wounds, and said: "The lady is really, we are treating others, if this matter spreads today, what should the neighbors say about us?"
Gu Juan was afraid for a while, if the old doctor was slowing down, I am afraid that her little finger would not be there at this time.
"When I saw my father like this, I felt uncomfortable, so I had to do this, and the doctor knew that my brother and father were the only ones left in my family, both of whom were scholars, and if my brother knew that my father had mortgaged all his Maocai documents for his illness, he would definitely be grieved, and his body was already weak. ”
After listening to Gu Juan's words, the old doctor sighed and said: "You little lady, you are obviously threatening the old man, just believe you once, Master Xiucai's documents should be taken away, it is useless to put them here." ”
Gu Zhi's face was extremely complicated, he looked at Gu Juan, trying to suppress the sadness in his heart, he bowed to the old doctor, and said softly: "Don't thank you for your kindness, you will definitely repay it in the future." ”
The little medicine boy filled him with good medicine, and just as Gu Juan and the others were about to go out, a group of coolies dressed as coolies walked in carrying a stretcher, and on the stretcher lay a man in the prime of life covered in blood.
The old doctor hurriedly walked over, looked at it, shook his head and said, "It's all like this, why did you send it over?"
One of them said: "We are on the dock of Babao Town, and we are carried all the way from Babao Town to Taicang, and every doctor is willing to heal."
The old doctor sighed secretly in his heart, not that this person could not be treated, but that those doctors saw that these people could not afford to pay for the medicine at all, and the amount of money needed for such a serious trauma was not a few.
"You go to Huimin Pharmacy, it's not that it can't be treated, it's just that the medicine is too expensive, and it will be cheaper there. ”
After some discussion, they prepared to leave on a stretcher.
It's just that when he went out, he happened to meet Gu Juan and Gu Zhi, Gu Juan glanced at the person on the stretcher, and suddenly felt a shock.
The terrible wound on the stomach, and even the internal organs can be faintly seen.
"Juan?"
The leading person looked at Gu Juan and said, Gu Juan was stunned, took a closer look, and found that this person was aquatic.
It's just that at this time, Shui Sheng is much darker than before, and he is short in a short body, and Gu Juan didn't recognize it for a while.
"Why are you here?" Gu Juan said.
"I'm working at the docks in Babao Town, and one of my brothers was injured, so I went to the city to see a doctor. ”
"I see, then I won't delay you, and my father and I have to rush home. ”
Shui Sheng was a little reluctant, but it was really not the time to think about these things at this time, so he opened his mouth and said, "I'll go see Wei Jun another day." ”
"Well, Brother Shui Sheng will go and get busy first. ”
"Good. ”
Shui Sheng turned around, but he was a little lost in his heart, and compared with the two, he was inevitably lost.
"Brother Shuisheng!"
Shui Sheng turned his head, and there was a burst of excitement in his heart, Gu Juan said with some hesitation: "There is a doctor who treats my brother who said that it is more useful to use sheep intestines to suture wounds than other sutures. ”
"I see, thank you. ”
Shui Sheng turned around and walked out with a few people carrying a stretcher.
At this time, Gu Zhi looked at Gu Juan and said, "Let's go." ”
Gu Juan noticed that Gu Zhi was a little absent-minded, and this road was not the way home, Gu Juan hurriedly said: "Daddy, where are you going, if you don't leave, we will be late, and the ox cart should go." ”
But Gu Zhi still didn't speak, just kept moving forward.
Walking through an alley, they came to a very elegant house with two entrances and two exits.
Gu Zhi pointed to the courtyard and said with a little choked up: "Ah Xuanke still remembers that your mother likes to embroider under the elm tree in the yard the most, Wei Jun and I are studying, you are talking to your mother, how good our family is in this yard." ”
Although Gu Juan didn't have those memories in her mind, she could imagine it, because that kind of life, whether it was in this life or the previous life, she had never experienced it, and she was extremely longing for it.
"But I didn't keep this home well, and even asked you to use self-harm to buy medicine for Wu'er. ”
Gu Zhi stood in the shadow of the house, his head bowed, extremely lonely.
"Daddy, don't cry. Gu Juan said, because she had already seen the tears on Gu Zhi's face.
"Everything will be fine, as long as my brother's illness is cured, everything will be fine. ”
"Awan is right. Gu Zhi wiped the tears on his face, he took Gu Juan's hand, and said again: "But you have to promise your father, don't do these stupid things in the future, what is the reputation of a scholar, if my Ah Juan is injured like this again, what face will my father have to see your mother." ”
"I see. ”
Gu Juan sat on the ox cart, thinking about everything she had experienced in Taicang, she admitted that Fang Cai's so-called self-harm was not a decision she made under excitement, but only by doing so could they bring the medicine back, and Gu Weijun would not be treated without medicine.
The city of Taicang, which was gradually moving away, disappeared in front of him, and Gu Juan saw the luxurious carriages of the rich people in the city, and also saw the plight of the proletarians in the city.
Most of the people in Qinghe Lane work in the factory in Taicang City, and their monthly salary is barely enough for the family to eat and drink.
At this time, there was already an extremely prosperous commodity economy in the south of the Yangtze River, but under the prosperity there were the most serious problems of the Ming Dynasty.
Increasing land annexation caused yeoman farmers to lose their land and force them to work manually in the cities, while the Ming Dynasty's tax revenue was mainly concentrated on the field tax of small and medium-sized yeoman farmers.
And the reduction of tax sources is tantamount to chronic suicide.
Gu Juan shook her head and secretly said that she was a woman who wanted to do these things.