Ah Chou withdrew his hand to diagnose the pulse, glanced at Jiang Yongjian, who was lying on the couch and described his withered eyes, and sighed: "There is still salvation." ”

Old Madam Jiang was on crutches, and her wrinkled face showed a glimmer of hope from gloomy sadness: "Still saved?" Ugly girl, if you can save him, we, we."

Ah Chou waved his hand to interrupt Mrs. Jiang's words that had not been finished for a long time: "It is natural that I try my best to heal, but if he continues to drink heavily, his heart is depressed, and the gods will not be able to save him!" ”

Jiang Yongjian's pulse, the number of floating strings on the left side is strong, and the symptoms of colic in the left abdomen are obviously the spring fever of yin deficiency and dryness. Wine is a warm thing, and alcoholism can be said to add fuel to his illness, and it is also depressed and depressed, so that several symptoms are combined, which leads to today's terminal illness.

"I gave him a prescription, the medicine itself is useful, but he doesn't quit drinking and doesn't cheer up, and he will sink into the sea if he pours a few sea tanks. Persuade him more. If you don't think about yourself, you have to think about your children. If you have a good father, who wants to stay in their mother's house for the rest of their lives and be looked down upon? Ah Chou turned to Jiang Yongjian and said thoughtfully.

Ah Chou is aware of Jiang Yongjian's knot: Lianxiang's betrayal; Jiang San's sister-in-law's suicide; The two children are still at Jiang San's sister-in-law's house. His absurdity and misbelief, which led to the fragmentation of the whole family, the poverty and loneliness, all made him disheartened, so he indulged in the illusion of alcohol, and passed the time that he had long since lost his expectations. But if you know today, why bother in the first place!

"It's too late to say anything now, if you have regrets, then try your best to make amends, and lie here all day long, in addition to giving birth to more regrets. And what can it bring to the living? Your family will have to take the time to take care of you and worry about you. Ah Chou said with some emotion. Prepare the prescription.

The Jiang family did not have pen and paper, so Ding Juwen brought pen and ink. Let the ugly write the recipe.

Pulsatilla three money. Black gardenia bark three money. Wine fried Sichuan even a penny. Wine fried withered two money. Honeysuckle costs one or two or five cents. Grass cassia three money. Mung bean skin five money. More square to even the qin gardenia. Add bubbles and light Chen Hai to fry four taels first. Citrus aurantium pestle first eight money. [1]

This recipe treats the symptoms with bitter cold and diarrhoea, and treats the root cause with salty cold and nourishing yin. It's just that the real root lies in the heart.

Blowing dry the ink on the paper, Ah Chou picked up the recipe and handed it to Mrs. Jiang: "This medicine is quite troublesome to decoction, if you don't dislike it, Ah Chou is willing to do it for you, I will personally decoct the medicine and send it back." ”

Mrs. Jiang was mixed with joy and sorrow at this time: sadly, her son was not angry. Now, I don't know how much time I have left; The joy is that Ah Chou prescribed a prescription and helped decoction medicine, such kindness is afraid that it will not be found again with a lantern, how can I repay it if I owe so much kindness? Thinking like this, sadness comes from it. She stepped forward to hold Ah Ugly's hand, and choked with tears: "Ah Ugly girl, as long as the third child is saved, everything will be done!" The fourth child also went early that year, leaving only one person from the fourth family. Now the third child has to have three long and two short. Our family, but it's going to collapse! ”

Speaking of sadness, the fourth sister-in-law Jiang at the door inevitably recalled the past, don't look over. Cover your lips and hold back tears.

I heard that Jiang Yongqiang, the fourth elder of the Jiang family, is not outstanding, but he is the most down-to-earth and diligent of the Jiang family. It's a pity that I went early. It's also embarrassing. In today's Jiang family, the boss is away all the year round. The second child is weak and can't support the family, and the youngest generation hasn't grown up yet. It can be described as a decadence. It was precisely because he knew the situation of the Jiang family that Ah Chou was moved by compassion again, so he offered to decoct medicine for them, but in fact, he also exempted them from the money to buy medicine.

"Ugly girl, your great kindness, we have to pay it back what we say in this life, I'm afraid we won't be able to pay it back!" Old Madam Jiang is not a fool, she understands that Da En does not say thank you, she holds Ah Ugly's hand tightly, and her tone is sincere and melancholy. I'm afraid, I can't pay it back!

Ah Chou shook his head: "Okay, don't say more, the patient should recuperate, I'll go back to decoction first." Don't worry too much, remember to enlighten him more. ”

Walking to the door, Ah Chou turned his head to look at Jiang Yongjian on the couch: "The living should work hard, and the dead will be gone." He didn't care whether he understood it or not, and walked away.

Jiang Yongjian was lying there, his limbs stiff, his sloppy eyes finally had a flash of focus, and a tear slowly slipped from the corner of his eye.

Walking on the country road, Ding Juwen spoke gently: "You are always in a place I didn't expect, standing up and being kind." ”

Ugly raised his eyebrows under the veil: "Why do you say that?" ”

"For example, this time, Third Brother Jiang also arrested you to go to the yamen before." Ding Juwen brought a little inquiry, which was quite meaningful.

"Brother Ding, there are not only black and white in the world, and many times the distinction between good and evil is not so clear. Between black and white, isn't there still gray? Gray is also divided into countless shades of gray. There are no eternal enemies, and there will be no permanent allies. What's more, he was deceived by the abortion pill at the beginning, and he was also a victim," Ah Chou paused, "Actually, the starting point for me to help him was the two children left by Jiang San's sister-in-law." ”

Ding Juwen was still thinking about black and white, good and evil, enemies and allies, when he was distracted by the words of the ugly gang children: "Child? "He was clearly in a state of confusion.

Ah Chou stopped and took a deep breath: "Why do you think Jiang San's sister-in-law chose to commit suicide by hitting the wall in the first place?" If she is really guilty, she will be involved in her children in the future, which is not what she wants to see. Moreover, she committed suicide without proof, and it will be even more difficult to convict her allies. In the final analysis, she didn't spit out herself at all, which can be regarded as righteous anger.

Brushing away the last wave of flying flakes in front of him, Ah Chou continued to explain: "Pity a pair of children, they are still young and have no mother, if they lose their father again...... Of course, if Dad is still as confused and ridiculous as before, it won't be useful. I don't want the earth-shaking changes in nature, I hope everything can be slightly improved! Only then did he live up to the hard work of Jiang's third sister-in-law that day.

Ding Juwen looked at the woman in front of him, his veil concealed his face, but he could sense a kind of hope in her expression. I was never afraid, I didn't expect too much, but I never gave up.

The path she took was so different, but it always attracted him who was decent.

In fact, she didn't know how to say, whenever she saw Tong Ningxin accompany her to experience earth-shattering or unique things, how envious he was, and even a little jealous. But at the same time, he was regretting, regretting that Tong Ningxin didn't understand her deep meaning many times, and he couldn't help her well. At that time, he would think, if the person next to her was him, would he do better than Tong Ningxin?

Yes, he always wanted to be the one who stood by her side.

In a flash of light, he suddenly realized something, and also untied his long-standing knot: maybe the unjustified "jealousy" was not unfounded, and he had been entangled in whether she really preferred to spend 10,000 yuan a month - he didn't feel sorry for her money, but he didn't want the incident that made her spend money.

He finally determined his thoughts, the thoughts that were hidden in his heart, with some trepidation; At the same time, I also understood her.

He came to ask her about the contradiction between diligence and people's hearts in "Qiming", the drunkard didn't mean to drink, 10,000 yuan was what he really wanted to ask. Interrupted by the Jiang family's affairs, he didn't get an answer. I wanted to ask again, but now, it doesn't seem necessary-

The matter of 10,000 dollars is not her concern at all, she has greater ambitions and ambitions. Similar to the people's hearts discussed by Renzong, her heart has no intention of this at all, so why should he be diligent and vain here?

Her ambitions are in this wider world. Well, he is willing to work hard for this, to uproot thorns for her, to provide her with shelter. He stopped just watching, he wanted to be the one who could help her.

Seeing that the person next to him was silent, Ah Chou couldn't help but turn his head to look, only to see that Ding Juwen had already lost his mind, his eyes were far away and bright, and the corners of his lips were smiling, and he couldn't help but stretch out his hand and wave it in front of his eyes: "What good things do you want to settle down?" ”

Ding Juwen came back to his senses, with a clear smile, and his expression was a little bright: "It's nothing, are you going to decoct the medicine?" Do you want me to help? He looked at her with a change in his expression that he hadn't even noticed.

Ah Chou only felt that this person was really strange, but after saying a few words, why didn't even his eyes go wrong, and he didn't dare to ask him to help - just like your mother, Zhilu said I asked you to decoct medicine to disturb your study, and you didn't fry me together?

"No need, I'll just come by myself, it's not too early, you can go back first." She said and turned to leave.

Ding Juwen said goodbye to her, looked at her distant back, and had a new fighting spirit: studying and taking the imperial examination, in addition to repaying her mother's hard work, has another meaning. If you don't get ahead as an official, how can you really help her?

As the sun sets, the golden light on the horizon disperses.

On March 24, Ah Chou went to the county to catch the market.

Five hundred catties of honeysuckle, she sold two hundred catties before, and she didn't plan to sell the remaining three hundred catties for the time being. Honeysuckle clears away heat and detoxifies, reduces inflammation and swelling, and is the main medicinal material used to treat Jiang Yongjian's warm disease. Jiang Yongjian's medicine, honeysuckle, came from her harvest this spring, and the rest were medicinal herbs in the space. Therefore, before Jiang Yongjian recovered, she stored the honeysuckle first.

And in terms of business, she also has her own considerations. Now that the honeysuckle is about to go on the market, it will be a few days, or more than ten days, and the vendors will not spend any more price for these days, so she might as well save it and move the camera.

I walked around the bazaar and bought some trivial things such as firewood, rice, oil, and salt. Standing in front of the rice stall, he listened to the talk.

"Alas, what happened to the son of the old Guo family?" The young man who bought the rice asked.

"Don't mention it, I can't afford to be sick!" An old man waved his hand.

"Did you call the doctor of the Xue family?" The young man was concerned.

"I've seen it, what is it, warm malaria, it seems to be these two words. But after a few pairs of medicines, I didn't see much better! The old man sighed.

The young man was surprised: "So heavy? The doctor of the Xue family is the best in the county. However, I heard that the weather is not good this spring, and there are many sick people! ”

"No, my daughter-in-law is also sick, and she has been for several days." The old man shook his head.

The handful of rice that Ah Chou grabbed in his hand slowly dispersed: Warm malaria?

Concentrate:

[1] From "Commentary on the Case of Wang Mengying's Medicine", Qing? Written by Wang Shixiong. (To be continued......)