Chapter 9 Selling Yams
The next day, before dawn, the summer solstice groped for dressing and got up. Yesterday afternoon, after digging the yams, Grandpa took the summer solstice and they washed and dried in the yard, and in the evening Grandpa and the uncles discussed, and finally decided that Daddy and Uncle would go to the town to buy yams. Xia Zhi wanted to follow, but he was afraid that Grandma would not allow them, so he had to cut first and then play, and got up early, and Daddy would definitely have nothing to do with himself.
Xia Zhi got up and dressed lightly, tied a bag for himself in the dark, lifted the quilt for the eighth sister, and walked through his parents' house along the wall in the dark. When passing by his parents' room, Xia Zhi found that his parents had already gotten up, leaving only Tian Jiumei, who had just been born for a month, where Bai Lu slept soundly. Seeing this, Xia Solstice instantly ran out of the gang, and when he went out, he found that the yam had been neatly stacked in four round gong sieves, and the gong sieves were carried in mud pockets, fixed on both sides of the two flat poles, and Daddy and Uncle were preparing to pick up the burden and set off.
Xia Zhi didn't care about washing, so he ran to Tian Laosi's side like a gust of wind, tugged at the front of his clothes, and said softly:
"Daddy, take me there, I promise not to hold back, okay." Tian Laosi was startled when he saw her suddenly appear, and heard her say that he was going to go to the town with her, so he had to coax: "Xia Zhi is good, Daddy went to sell it for money and bought you candy to eat!" You follow your aunt at home and help your aunt take care of your sister. ”
Xia Zhi pouted, and secretly said If I was really five years old, I would probably be fooled by you, but unfortunately my sister is in her thirties in her previous life and this life combined, and the sugar has long lost its attractiveness. Xia Zhi shook his head, unwilling to let go.
"Daddy, my sister is taken care of by Grandma, I don't eat sugar!"
Boss Tian next to him saw that Xia Zhi was dragging his father's clothes and was unwilling to let go, and seeing that the sky was faintly bright, he had to speak: "Xia Solstice is going, just take her there, it's a big deal to let her sit on the burden, and we will take turns to carry it." It's not too early, let's go quickly, we have to go down to the ground when we come back! ”
Tian Laosi saw that Xia Zhi was unwilling to let go, and listened to his eldest brother's words, and no longer persuaded Xia Zhi, while picking up the burden, he pulled Xia Zhi out of the door.
The people of Tianjia Village generally catch a small set every half a month, and a big set every half a month. It's just that this episode is not in the town, but in Xujiaji, which is more than ten miles away from Tianjia Village. It is said that it is a market, but each family takes out the things that cannot be used up and exchanges them for some useful things, and some people use money to buy them, but there are very few cases like that.
The market in the town is generally not visited, not to mention the long distance, and the things there are also expensive, so how can the villagers have the spare money to squander. Except after the autumn harvest, the old men in the village pulled grain to pay taxes, and generally no one went.
It is estimated that at about ten o'clock on the summer solstice, they entered the east gate of the town. This town was named Niangniang Town because of a Niangniang Temple. There are about tens of thousands of people in the town, and almost all the residents in the area of the East Gate are rich people.
Xia Zhi looked at the father and uncle beside him who had been silent and bowed their heads since they entered the east gate, and shook their heads helplessly, this is the ancient hierarchy, the poor see the rich and bow their heads, and the rich see the officials bow their heads.
There were three clinics in this town, two in the east of the town and one in the west of the town, and they decided to sell the yam to the one who had healed them before. The reason is that the old doctor is a good person, even if she is cheated, she admits it.
When the summer solstice was still a soul body, watching the uncle and they came to the town with the little summer solstice on their backs, the two medical clinics in the east of the town were afraid of taking responsibility, and they were stunned not to accept the little summer solstice, so they had no choice but to travel more and send the summer solstice to the west of the town.
Doctor Xu saw Xiao Xia Zhi's pale face, and he had more breath than intake, but he didn't drive the Tian family out, not only took Xia Zhi's pulse, prescribed medicine, but also waived the consultation fee.
Xia Zhi and Uncle and Daddy walked through the lively street market, rushed to the west of the town, and came to the door of the Xu Family Medical Center.
I saw a few people in front of the medical hall, Dr. Xu was checking the herbs in the medicine cabinet, and the little medicine boy was grabbing and weighing the medicine in one go, which was very numb.
Looking at such a scene, Xia Zhi couldn't help but sigh in his heart, in this era when colds can kill people, there are a few people who see the onset of illness, and in this Dawu Dynasty, medical halls are very rare, not to mention expensive medicine.
When Xia Zhi entered the door, he shouted to Dr. Xu: "Grandpa Xu, I'm here......!" Her voice was crisp and loud, and for a while, the entire medical hall looked at her, and Xia Zhi was embarrassed for a while.
Doctor Xu heard the voice, smiled, turned his head to Xia Zhi and said, "Xia Solstice girl is here, how is your health lately, okay!" ”
Hearing Dr. Xu's question, Xia Zhi muttered to himself, worthy of being a doctor, three sentences are inseparable from the bank, even if you say hello, you have to ask others how they are doing. The mouth returned: "Alright, alright!" Grandpa Xu, today I have something to talk to you about Uncle Daddy! After Xia Zhi finished speaking, he pretended to be a little adult, and put his hands behind his back.
Dr. Xu looked at her cute appearance, gently scraped her nose, and said funny: "Yo, there is something to talk to me about the summer solstice, so let's talk in the room!" Although Xia Zhi was happy, she was very dissatisfied with Dr. Xu's teasing of her, and secretly said in her heart, adults have bad tastes, so I don't care about adults.
Doctor Xu took Xia Zhi and Uncle Daddy into the courtyard, beckoned Tian Laosi and Tian Laosi to put down the flat burden on their bodies, and then entered the house and sat down. Xia Zhi also took the opportunity to sit in Tian Laosi's arms.
"Doctor Xu, don't hide it, after returning from your medical hall that day, the next day Xia went to the mountain, not to say that this tree lump is a yam, we have to pick it up and sell it, I vaguely seem to remember that there is such a thing in your medical hall, so I picked it for you to see, it doesn't matter, I'm jumping back!" After Tian Laosi sat down, he didn't drink tea, but talked to Dr. Xu frankly and unfairly.
"Really!" After listening to Tian Laosi's words, Dr. Xu became excited, and after taking care of a few people, he ran to Tian Laosi's pick in the courtyard. When they arrived on the summer solstice, Dr. Xu had already lifted the lid on the gong sieve, looking at the yam full of four gong sieves and was excited, Dr. Xu really couldn't help but be excited, there was a shortage of yams in the hospital these days, and the caravan entrusted to him didn't know when he would be able to come back, this was really sleepy and sent pillows.
Seeing his happy appearance, Tian Laosi and Tian Laoda were also overjoyed in their hearts, it seems that it is really a yam!
Doctor Xu was overjoyed, looked at Tian Lao Da and Tian Lao Si, and sighed: "Big nephew, you have helped me a lot, I am short of this yam these days!" Let's go, say in the house. ”
"Then we have helped you a lot, you have helped us a lot," Tian Lao saw that Dr. Xu thanked them, and returned embarrassedly.
"Okay, okay, we are helping each other, eldest nephew, I won't lie to you, we collected this yam from the caravan for twenty yuan a catty, and now I will also give you this price, you are satisfied" Doctor Xu was happy, and did not entangle with Tian Laosi who would help whom, but really told them the price of the yam.
Tian Laosi and Tian Laosi were shocked when they heard twenty yuan a catty, how could it be worth so much money. Hearing Dr. Xu ask him if he was satisfied, the two hurriedly said "satisfied" in unison.
In the rest of the matter, Tian Lao Da and Tian Lao Si seemed to be dreaming, until they left the medical hall, holding a bag of copper plates in their hands, and they hadn't come back to their senses. Seeing their stunned appearance, Xia Zhi couldn't help covering his mouth and snickering.