Chapter 25: Elation
When Xiao Ding and Zhao Laixi moved everything on the horse and the donkey cart into the house in the same way. The Tian family didn't seem to have woken up from their surprise......
How much does it cost to spend so many things! Tian Dabao has lived for half his life, and he doesn't seem to have bought so many things.
"I said I'm happy, these things are all from our family?" Tian Dabao asked on crutches, he suspected that he had brought it for someone else.
"Yes, they were all bought today." Zhao Laixi said.
"Buy, buy? Where did you get the money? Tian Dabao also knew in his heart that if the wolf carried it to the town, it would be able to sell it for five or six taels of silver. How can five or six taels of silver buy back so many things?
"Ah, that's the case......" Zhao Laixi told Hetian Dabao in detail about his entry into the city this time.
After listening to Zhao Laixi's story, Tian Dabao paused again and again, and said in his mouth: "This fool, this fool!" Alas, what a loser! ”
At this moment, Xiao Ding was carrying the girl in red to the fire with the quilt spread under her, thinking about where she should sleep tonight.
The girl in red hasn't woken up yet. Erniu, Xiaozhu and Xiaofu all followed Xiaoding.
"Who is she?" Erniu asked
"I don't know either, I met on the road, I was injured by a bandit, so I rescued her along the way." Xiao Ding said.
At this time, Li's, Xiaoya, and Xiao'e also saw the red-clothed girl lying next to the fire, so they all came around. Tian Dabao was on the other side and looking at this side on crutches.
"Let's go and invite Wu Langzhong from the village to help her take care of her leg injury." Li said. When she saw that the girl was about the same age as her second daughter, she felt compassion.
Xiao Ding thought for a while and said, "It's okay, let's let Laixi go for a run." "He doesn't have any medicine for injuries now, and although Lang Zhong in the village can't restore the leg bone of the girl's injured leg, he can prescribe some medicine to treat bone injuries.
At this time, the donkey cart had been emptied, and Zhao Laixi had unloaded the donkey, and together with the little red horse, they were all tied to the backyard, and the two animals were given water and some dry straw with wooden buckets.
After listening to Li's instructions, Zhao Laixi lit a torch and went out of the courtyard to invite Langzhong in the village.
Xiao Ding saw that his family was all around him, staring at him with wide eyes, as if he was waiting for him to explain something. Especially Xiao Zhu'er and Xiao Fu, both of them looked at themselves with blank eyes.
Xiao Ding understood that he had been busy since he came back, and although the two children were young, they were very sensible and did not bother him.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Xiao Ding remembered that he had bought a lot of things for everyone today, and it was time to get a point.
Xiao Ding took everyone back to the house, lit the oil lamp, and briefly talked about today's entry into the city. Then he pointed to the things piled up on the bed and said, "These bedding pillows are one for each person, and the straw mats on the bed can be removed, or they can be spread under the mattress." ”
As he spoke, he pointed to the pile of clothes: "Everyone has a share of these clothes, shoes and socks, two sets per person, underwear and outer clothes." I just bought it according to the approximate size, it may not fit well, you pick it, if it doesn't fit, let Erniu and Xiao'e change it. I also bought a lot of needlework and thread, as well as cloth and cotton. Two sisters and two girls, when you have time, you can make a few clothes for everyone that fit, as well as cotton clothes, which are also made in advance and left for winter wear. ”
Xiaoding looked at Xiaoya, Xiao'e and Erniu, and the third girl nodded.
Then, Xiao Ding pointed to the rice noodles and refined meat again, and continued: "These polished rice and refined noodles, each bag is 100 catties, in the future, our family can cook and eat as much as you want, and those meats, you don't need to save them, let's buy them after eating." I'll find a way to make more money in the future. ”
Everyone was shocked, and they didn't know whether they were happy or couldn't believe it, anyway, their eyes widened one by one, and Li's eyes were still red.
Xiao Ding then pointed to the bath barrels and said, "Of the four bath buckets, Daddy and Xiaofu use one; Mother, Xiao'e, and Xiaozhu use one; Me and the second girl use one; Xiaoya and Laixi use one. Today's donkey cart can't hold too much, otherwise I'd buy one for each person. When I have time in the future, I will build a special bathing room, so that everyone does not have to take a bath in the open air in the backyard. ”
"Great, foolish brother, I didn't expect you to be so thoughtful!" Xiao'e, who usually doesn't like to talk much, actually praised Xiaoding for the first time.
Their family, when did they use a bath bucket for bathing, they all used a bucket of cold water in the backyard after dark, scooped the water with a scoop of water to flush it casually, or wiped their bodies casually.
Xiao Ding then introduced other groceries, such as pots and pans, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and so on. Finally, the cloth covering a wooden barrel was lifted, revealing a bucket full of meat buns, estimated to be forty or fifty.
"These buns are already cold, let's warm them up for a while and eat them again, let's treat them as today's dinner." Xiao Ding knew that even if the family had already eaten dinner, it was estimated that it would only be a few mouthfuls of porridge, and they would not be full at all.
Xiao Ding couldn't help but smile when he saw Xiao Zhu'er's eyes staring at the meat buns and didn't want to leave, and he hugged Xiao Zhu'er in his arms and said, "Zhu'er, let's eat meat buns again in a while, what else did your brother buy for you?" ”
As he spoke, Xiao Ding pulled out a cloth bag from a wooden basin, which was full of sugar people.
"Ah, Sugar Man! Thank you, brother fool! Xiao Zhu'er took the candy man handed over by Xiao Ding and said happily. She had been waiting for an afternoon, and the foolish brother didn't pay attention to her when he came back, and she thought that the foolish brother had forgotten to buy it for her.
Xiao Ding also gave Xiaofu, Xiao'e, Xiaoya, and Li all gave one to the sugar man. When he gave it to Tian Dabao, Tian Dabao said he didn't want anything.
"I don't want anything for children to eat!" Tian Dabao twisted his head to the side and said. Although they were all happy to see the people in the room, Tian Dabao was not happy in his heart. How much does it cost to buy these things! I heard that I got a total of seventy taels of silver, and in the end there were only seventeen taels left, and my heart hurt a lot when I thought about it.
Everyone happily sorted out these things in the house, and they were happier than during the New Year.
At this time, Zhao Laixi came back with Wu Langzhong, and Xiao Ding hurriedly walked out of the thatched house and came to the bonfire. Li and Er Niu also followed.
People in this era call doctors Langzhong.
Wu Langzhong was about fifty or sixty years old, with a goatee and a dry body, but his complexion was ruddy. He checked the pulse of the girl in red, checked the injury on her leg again, and then said, "The girl's coma is fine, but this leg injury is probably difficult to recover." The bones in her calf should have shattered, and there was no way to get them back to place. In the future, this girl may have to walk with a limp. Alas, it's a pity for such a handsome girl! After speaking, Wu Langzhong sighed.
"Wu Langzhong, can you still think of a way?" Li said on the side, and then sighed.
"She has such a serious bone injury, the old man really can't do anything! Not only the old man, it is estimated that no one in the world can restore the broken bones to their original positions. Wu Langzhong said and shook his head.
"Then ask Wu Langzhong to prescribe some medicine for bone injuries." Xiao Ding didn't expect this Langzhong to heal the girl's injury, he just wanted to buy some medicine from him.
Wu Langzhong prescribed some internal and external drugs for the girl, totaling 25 yuan. Xiao Ding took out all the twenty or thirty copper plates that he had scavenged from the bandits in the afternoon and gave them to Wu Langzhong. Wu Langzhong is very grateful. These medicines are all common herbs that invigorate blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis, all of which he picked in the mountains himself, and they are not worth a few dollars at all.
After sending Wu Langzhong away, Xiao Ding asked Erniu to help fry the medicine taken internally. Then he squatted next to the girl in red, thinking about how to help her heal her leg injury.
Just thinking about it, the girl in red woke up, she opened her eyes, and saw Xiao Ding squatting on the side, and immediately raised her vigilance and shouted: "Stinky rascal!" What do you want? ”