Chapter Twenty-Eight: White Birch Town

It was noon when a few people came to the town, Min'er sold a few buns, Zhao Cui was very embarrassed about this, she didn't bring money with her in a hurry just now. If you are not allergic, Ling'er will not care, anyway, the buns are not expensive, except for the meat buns that my father eats, the few of them eat all vegetable buns, two pennies a penny.

"Let's go to the Wang Family Hospital? That's not where we can go. Zhao Cui shook her head when she heard this, she knew that these two children were filial, but she couldn't be out of proportion.

"It's okay, I've been there before." Ling'er wanted to laugh when she saw Zhao Cui's appearance, I don't know what is terrible about this Wang Family Medical Hall?

"What have you been?" This time, Zhao Cui couldn't bother to lower her voice.

"Yes, I have been there, that is, my mother was injured when she was there." Ling'er said as if unintentionally, and carefully observed her sister-in-law's expression, only to see that her expression suddenly became very unnatural, and finally bowed her head and was silent. Min'er glanced at her sister-in-law and squinted at Ling'er.

"Grandpa Wang, this is my father and sister-in-law, I came this time to ask you to show my father." My sister-in-law saw that the two of them knew that they were so familiar with Dr. Wang, and knew that they were not lying, although she had many doubts in her heart, it was not good to ask anything more.

"Okay, I'll take a look." Doctor Wang checked Zhao He's pulse, looked at his eyelids again, and finally said in a deep voice:

"Xiao Ling'er, your father is suffering from a heart disease, as the saying goes, heart disease requires heart medicine. I can only prescribe some auxiliary medicine for him, and it depends on God's will when he will get better. "Actually, Zhao He didn't use taking medicine at all, but he said this in order to comfort the Ling'er sisters.

"Well, we know, Grandpa Wang, you don't need to prescribe any medicine." Min'er understood as soon as she saw Dr. Wang's expression, so she refused to prescribe medicine, anyway, it was useless, why spend that unjust money?

"That's okay, this disease, I can't say when I'll get better. It's mainly up to him, and it's good to wait until he figures it out. "For a disease like this, some people will be cured in three or two years, and some people will not be cured until they die, so they can only resign themselves to fate, and the medicine is useless.

"We know it, and we will take good care of him so that he can get well sooner." Min'er is still very uncomfortable in her heart, she didn't report hope, but in fact, she still hopes that there is something to be done.

"Grandpa Wang, can you lend me a few books that are easy to understand?" Ling'er came here to see her father, and then to study, the village chief will be very busy in the future, and there is no way to teach her every day. So she thought about reading and learning by herself, and if she didn't know it, she would ask the village chief.

"Are you literate?" Doctor Wang couldn't help but be taken aback, if you want to say that there are very few scholars in this Xing'an Mansion, it is almost rare. Now that this little girl is actually borrowing books, how can he not be surprised?

"I don't know a few, but the village chief's grandfather taught me for a few days. I want to borrow a few simple books and go back, and if I don't know it, I'll ask the village chief and grandfather. "In fact, Ling'er has not been exposed to traditional Chinese characters before, but after these few days of study, I found that the simplified Chinese characters I learned are basically derived from traditional Chinese characters. It's not that hard to learn, and now if you have a book, you should be able to guess it, right?

"Okay, I didn't expect Ling'er to be a studious child, you wait, I'll go get it." Dr. Wang ran out like a child, leaving the others speechless and just chuckling.

After saying goodbye to Dr. Wang, a few people began to walk around the town, and the previous few times they were in a hurry and didn't take a good look at what the town was like.

The town of Shirakaba was originally a birch forest, and it is said that the town was built hundreds of years ago in order to fight the kingdom of Lin, and the birch trees were made into weapons. A few primitive birch forests can now only be seen outside the town, and the various trees that exist in the town were transplanted after the town was established. The whole town is rectangular in shape, with an east gate due east, and so on divided into four gates. Ling'er and the others walked through the north gate, and there were two straight main roads in the town, one from the east gate to the west gate, and the other from the south gate to the north gate. Both main roads are paved with bluestone slabs and are six meters wide. In the middle of the town, the two main roads intersect to form a small square, and the yamen is located in the southeast of this square. Because these two main roads divide the whole Baihua Town into four rectangular sections, in order to facilitate people to call the northwest section: the north of the town, the northeast section is called: the east of the town, the southwest section is called: the west of the town, and the southeast section is called: the south of the town. From the small square it is called: the town, and the main road from the town to the east gate is called: East Street. By analogy, the other three streets are: South Street, West Street, and North Street.

These four streets are all commercial streets, and the North Street is mainly for the common people, such as restaurants and cloth villages, which are mainly for civilian things. South Street is the Rich Street, in the current word, it is a tall consumption area, and the Wangjia Medical Center is above South Street. As for the West Street, most of them are flower buildings, wine shops, gambling houses, etc., and the East Street is much more depressed than the other three streets, with only one coffin shop, a bookstore, a school, a rice grain shop, a dart board, and a martial arts hall. In the past, it also opened a business, but then it slowly closed down, mainly because the purchasing power of the town is limited, and the other three streets have their own customer base, so it has become what it is today.

Ling'er and the others didn't stay on South Street for long, after all, they didn't have the ability to spend on this street now. Zhao Cui didn't bring any money because she came out in a hurry, and there was no way to treat her brother's illness, which made her mood sink down all of a sudden. Min'er saw that her face was not good, so she said:

"Sister-in-law, what are you doing? Under the weather? Ling'er saw that her sister-in-law's face was not very good, and she also spoke:

"Yes, sister-in-law, your face is not good, or go back first, anyway, we have to go to my grandfather's house to send medicine to my grandfather."

"Okay, then I'll go back first." Zhao Cui was really not in the mood to go shopping, but she was embarrassed to bring it up.

"Then sister-in-law, let's find you a car, I really don't worry about you walking back alone." Ling'er opened her mouth, and although Min'er was unhappy in her heart, she didn't say anything.

"No, no, what's the point, it's not that you can't go, it's okay, I'll go first." Seeing her sister-in-law running all the way as if she were fleeing, Ling'er could only shake her head helplessly.

"In the past, you were not allowed to make such assertions." Min'er just said lightly and pulled her father in the direction of East Street.

"Sister, aren't I afraid that something will happen to my sister-in-law? Don't dare next time. Ling'er was really speechless and asked the sky, and she also blamed herself for having nothing to do, what kind of ghost psychological counseling did she give Min'er? Isn't it himself who leads her to suffer like this now? It's really forgivable for sin, and you can't live for your own sin!

"Dad, you are obedient, I will sell meat buns to eat in a while." Zhao He was held by Min'er's hand, and after a while, he was annoyed and wanted to go by himself.

"Sister, let my father follow you, and I'll be behind my father, so I won't be afraid that he will go around." Ling'er saw Zhao He and Min'er seeming on the street, and hurriedly came up with an idea.

"That's fine, Dad, you're following me, or I'll throw all your blocks into the river." Min'er is really afraid that her father will accidentally get lost, and that will be fatal. Seeing that Zhao He obediently followed behind him all of a sudden, Min'er gave Ling'er a cautious look and walked straight to the bookstore. Ling'er stared at Zhao He closely, for fear that something would go wrong, you must know that although Zhao He's intelligence is a two- or three-year-old child, his body is an adult. If one of them doesn't get it right, he will run away, in which case they won't be able to catch up at all, and even if they do, they won't be able to pull him.

The Lin family bookstore is the only bookstore in Baihua Town, and it is actually a stationery store, with only a small number of books. The shops on this East Street are all one-storey, unlike the other three streets, which occasionally have two floors. This has to say about the buildings of the Dafeng Dynasty, there are more buildings in the southern region, but the highest is only three floors, which is the tallest building. In the north, because of the climate, most of them are one-storey, and occasionally there are not many two-storey. Because there was no cement in this era, most of the buildings were mainly wooden like the Bulai Inn. Such a house is okay in the south, but it is not very practical in the north, and it is even more impractical in this birch town, the reason is naturally heating and fire prevention.

"What do you want to sell?" The shopkeeper at the counter saw a few people coming in and was busy entertaining first.

"I'd like to choose some paper, pen and ink." Min'er replied. Ling'er looked at this small shop of about fifty or sixty square meters, and saw that as soon as she entered the door, she was facing the counter, and there was a simple bookshelf behind the counter, with many books on it, but she couldn't tell what kind of books they were, they were all bound books. There is a counter on the left and right sides, and the counter is double-layered, similar to a modern counter, except that there is no glass, and the front and back are empty, so that it is convenient for people who buy to see, and it is convenient for people in the counter to take it. Behind the counter is a shelf, and on the left is a variety of pen and ink; On the right is paper, and there are some paperweights or something. In general, it is quite a rule, and it is cleaned up very neatly.

"Come over here, this counter is full of paper." Min'er and the others followed the shopkeeper to the counter on the right.

"I have a total of eight kinds of paper here, the top four are better, and the bottom four are more average." The shopkeeper motioned for them to look.

"Dad, what are you going to do? You can't take this. Ling'er, who was reading the paper, heard the voice and looked back and found that Zhao He had taken a stone for carving seals on the counter on the left. No matter how Min'er asked for it, Zhao He didn't give it, and held the stone tightly in his hand and held it high above his head.

"Sister, don't rob it, Dad will buy it for him if he likes it." Ling'er saw that Zhao He and Min'er didn't give in to each other, and then looked at the stone, which didn't look like a precious object, so he spoke.

"You're right." Min'er and his father fought for a long time, and their little faces turned red, and they glanced at her fiercely after listening to Ling'er's words. Seeing Ling'er's appearance of shrinking her neck and begging for mercy, most of her anger disappeared, and she turned her head and asked the shopkeeper:

"How much does this stone cost? Let's start with it, I don't want it if the price is high. As she spoke, she glared at her father angrily, but unfortunately Zhao He ignored her at all and played happily with the stones.