The winter in Tanzhou is cold and humid, the temperature is not as low as in the north, the light snow falls to the ground and melts quickly, and the medium snow and heavy snow melt as soon as the sun comes out.

The most prosperous streets, with dense shops and busy traffic, are very lively.

The snow in the sky did not affect the Li family's good mood for shopping.

Qu had already thought about what he wanted to buy on the way here. He does not have a mother's family, so he does not need to visit relatives or buy gifts during the New Year's holidays. The main force of the Li family's purchase is only Qu's, and the rest of the people are hanging out with her, buying some favorite gadgets by the way.

Li Jingjing was average about clothes, jewelry, and food, and entrusted the He family to help buy a few sets of four treasures in the study, a few silk flowers, and a dozen purses of brocade fabrics, and went with Li Yunqing, Wanglian, and Wangyue to see the time-honored doctors and pharmacies that had gone through two dynasties.

The medical hall and the pharmacy are separated by 20 meters, one on the street and the other in the middle of the street.

The name of the medical hall is Heikangtang, and there are six doctors who sit in the hall for a long time, and two great doctors who only sit for three days a month.

Each physician is assigned to two medical apprentices, and the chief physician is assigned to four medical apprentices. The doctor goes to the clinic, and the doctor and apprentice have to accompany him to help take the prescription and get the medicine and make a start. If the patient needs to be treated in the hospital, the doctor will take care of it, and the decoction will also be decocted by the doctor.

At this time, it is the lunar month of winter, and patients want to spend the New Year in a hurry.

The hospital was overcrowded, with patients coughing, spitting, vomiting, and moaning, and in order to keep the air flowing, the door was left open and the thick cotton curtain was raised.

Li Jingjing can see the whole picture of the outer hall of Pingkang Hall when she stands on the street, which is more than ten times larger than the medical halls opened by Qulangzhong and Honglang in Taihe Town, and has more than ten times more patients.

Only the physicians who promulgated documents in the imperial court, Buddhism, and Taoism of the previous dynasty could open a medical hall and sit in the medical hall.

The physician document level is divided into upper, middle, and lower levels. The upper class is a great doctor, the middle is a doctor, and the lower class is Langzhong.

Qu Langzhong and Hong Langzhong were admitted to the doctor's document in Tanzhou Mansion, and the grade on the document was inferior, so they were called Langzhong.

Doctors and apprentices follow the physician for a few years to pass the physician qualification examination, obtain the physician paperwork and become Langzhong, and can open a small clinic in the town.

Pingkangtang is a very famous medical center in Tanzhou Mansion, with less than 40 doctors and apprentices combined, which is much less than the medical workers in the provincial tertiary hospitals in the previous life.

A woman with tears on her face ran out of the Pingkang Hall with the prescription and hurried to the pharmacy in the street to get the medicine.

Li Jingjing followed, and saw the woman running into a small three-story building.

There is a gold plaque hanging above the gate of this building, which reads "Baiyaotang", and the pillars on both sides have a golden couplet: licorice, comfrey, lamp, grass, and grass are all cured; Yam, black medicine, peony, myrrh, and myrrh do not cure diseases. (Excerpt from Baidu)

One after another, people came out of the Hundred Medicine Hall with medicine bags and medicine boxes. As soon as Li Jingjing entered, she saw a middle-aged man in a gray shirt pointing at the wrestling tear-faced woman, and said loudly to the thirty or so people queuing up to get medicine: "She is waiting to get medicine to save her son's life." First she gives the pharmaceutical! ”

Everyone had no objections, and the tear-faced woman quickly followed the middle-aged man up to the second floor.

Li Jingjing looked around the medicine hall on the first floor, with an area of about 120 square meters, and the medicine cabinet occupied 80 square meters.

The medicine cabinets are all wooden, similar in shape to the filing cabinets of the previous life, with four rows, the innermost row sticking to the wall, and each row has more than a hundred drawers, and the names of medicines are pasted on the outside of the drawers.

Li Jingjing asked suspiciously: "Brother, the outermost row of medicine cabinets, more than a dozen medicine drawers, why do you want to engrave the Yin and Yang Diagram and the Guanyin Hand Lotus Diagram?" ”

Li Yunqing explained: "The medicine drawer with the yin and yang diagram is filled with the medicine made by the Taoist pharmacist, and the medicine drawer with the picture of the Guanyin hand lotus flower is filled with the medicine made by the Buddhist pharmacist. ”

Wanglian said proudly: "The same medicine, the one made by our Taoist pharmacist is the most expensive. ”

The middle-aged man came down from the second floor alone and asked if there was any emergency, and everyone shook their heads sincerely. So he went into the medicine cabinet and took medicine from them with two young men.

Li Yunqing said in a low voice: "Sister Jing, this middle-aged uncle and the two young uncles are both medicine apprentices. The pharmacist of the Hundred Medicine Hall is upstairs. ”

Li Jingjing said softly: "Brother, I found that the number of pharmacists and medicine apprentices in the pharmacy is much smaller than that of the doctors and apprentices in the medical hall. ”

Li Yunqing smiled and said: "Taiqingguan is the same, three medical Taoists, one medicine Taoist. ”

Mochizuki followed: "We have two Taiming Guan Doctor Dao Gu, five Lang Zhong Dao Gu, and only two Medicine Dao Gu. ”

Li Yunqing held her little sister's hand tightly and said, "Doctors and pharmacists are talented, and some people have stayed in the medicine hall all their lives and can't get the medicine doctor's paperwork. Sister, you became a pharmacist at a young age, and your talent is excellent. ”

At this time, it was the turn of two twelve or thirteen-year-old girls who were dressed in identical green clothes and green pants and had a single mustache and a delicate appearance to take medicine.

The middle-aged medicine apprentice obviously recognized them, read the prescription, and went directly to take out two three-inch-high porcelain bottles and a small round box with a diameter of one decimeter from the drawer engraved with the yin and yang pattern.

One of the two little girls took the medicine, and the other took out a small silver ingot and handed it to the middle-aged man, nodded slightly and left.

Li Jingjing recognized that the small silver ingot was two taels.

Li Yunqing said in a low voice: "Sister Jing, the two sisters just now are the slaves of the rich and noble, and they must often come here to get medicine for the master, and they don't want outsiders to know what kind of illness the master has had, so they haven't spoken." ”

Time flies, and soon it is noon, and Li Jingjing's brothers and sisters go to the cloth shop to meet their families.

Li Quai's illness saw that Li Jingjing didn't hold toys in her hand and didn't take food, and then heard Li Yunqing say that she had been watching the medicine hall for a long time, and asked with a smile: "Sister Jing is thinking about opening a pharmacy when she grows up?" ”

Li Jingjing's eyes flashed with a sly light, and she shook her head and said, "It's so tiring to open a pharmacy, I have to guard it every day and can't play." I won't open it. ”

In her previous life, two classmates opened private hospitals and pharmacies, and at the class reunion, she said frankly that this is more risky than doing business, and if you don't get it right, you will die, and if you don't have a certain background, don't open it at home.

In this life, the feudal society in which she lives is strictly hierarchical, and men are inferior to women. The Li family has no background, she is a woman, rather than opening a pharmacy to take high risks, and if she doesn't get it right, she will provoke officials to go to prison and die, it is better to only cooperate with Taoism, sell medicines with no low risk, earn money to share with her family, and live a happy life.

Qu has already bought a lot of things, but he hasn't bought enough yet, and he will buy them again in the afternoon. He chose a time-honored restaurant nearby.

The Li family had a good meal, continued to shop, and rushed back to the accommodation before dusk with large bags and small bags and large and small boxes, so tired that they didn't want to walk, so they had dinner at the inn.

The next morning, Qu Shi woke up and opened the window to see that the snow outside had already stopped, except for a little snow where the sun could not shine, the snow on the ground, trees, and roofs had melted, and the temperature was lower than yesterday, and the cold wind suddenly blew her face cold.

"I don't know if there's ice on the river." Qu muttered, closed the window, got dressed, and called the family up, and must catch the first boat back to Liuyang County this morning.

Li Yunxiao was crazy last year, and he fell asleep very late at night. Seeing that he didn't open his eyes, He Shi exempted him from breakfast. Li Yunqing has been carrying him on the big passenger ship.

When Li Yunxiao woke up, the big passenger boat had already crossed the Xiangjiang River and was about to enter the territory of Liuyang County, and the wide and quiet river replaced the bustling and noisy streets, and he shouted very dissatisfiedly: "I haven't had enough fun in Tanzhou, I don't want to go home!" ”

Li Jingjing said angrily: "Then you go to Tanzhou alone, and we will all go home." ”

In the middle of the month, a few strangers came to Qujia Village, and three brightly dressed men rode a big horse in front, followed by a four-person sedan chair.

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