Chapter 7 Making Money
Seeing an old man in white who was in his sixties and bearded, with a hard body, came to the old woman, took the pulse on the old woman's wrist, carefully checked the old woman's complexion, looked clear, touched the beard under his mouth and said: "Yes, fortunately, the treatment alleviated the symptoms in time, although heat stroke is not a major illness, but if you are a little careless, you may faint directly to the ground in the later stage of heat stroke, and even die of cardiac arrest and heat exhaustion. I used cold water to help wipe my body more, and I prescribed a pair of heat-clearing and cooling medicine and boiled it for the elderly to drink. The doctor walked outside with a bunch of people.
"Okay, doctor." Li Yangqing immediately got busy.
"My name is Wu San, a few more people will help in time, I will thank you on behalf of Lin Catcher, I will go to find the catcher now to pick up my aunt back, please help take care of it here for a while." Wu San arched his hand and immediately walked outside the medical hall.
"Who saved this old man just now? The surname is Zheng. Dr. Zheng turned his head to look at the two brothers.
"Hello Doctor Zheng, little Li Yangming, this is my second brother Li Yangwu, and my little sister Li Yangqing in the middle, it was the sister who saved the aunt just now, we just cooperated."
Li Yangwu said proudly: "Yes, it's my little sister." ”
"Brothers, what are you talking about?" Li Yangqing lifted the curtain and walked out.
"We're talking about your heroic rescue! This is Dr. Zheng. Li Yangming looked at the little sister with a smile and said.
"Eh, you little girl is quite smart, you just call me Grandpa Zheng! How do you know these ways to save you? ”
"Grandpa Zheng, I see that this grandmother's face is flushed, sweating profusely, touching it with her hand and feeling the burning skin, plus the sun is scorching today, I guess it should be hot fainting, as for drinking salt water and pinching the limbs to dissipate heat, I met the old man who passed by last summer to ask for water to drink, and also told me a good thing that can be eaten directly or medicated in the summer, Grandpa Zheng wants to see it." Li Yangqing could only prevaricate in the past, after all, who would believe that a ten-year-old baby would do this.
"Well, since you say so, I'm curious about what kind of good thing it is, bring it to me."
Li Yangqing asked Li Yangwu to bring in the basket placed at the door of the medical hall, turned over the covered branches on it, and grabbed a handful of houttuynia for Li Yangqing.
"Grandpa Zheng, you see this white root whiskers, the name Houttuynia cordata, if it is fresh Houttuynia cordata, remove the small whiskers below, break into a section, you can drink it cold or stewed bone broth, its heat and detoxification, anti-inflammatory and cough effect can play a very good role, if it is a medicinal Houttuynia cordata, it is best to soak it with water and pour it into the bones to boil the soup, or soak in water after drying it is good for the lungs, listen to the old man who begs for water to drink said that this grass can clear heat and detoxify, eliminate carbuncle and discharge pus, diuretic and drench."
"This is the first time I've known this, someone has seen it before, maybe it's just a grassroots, maybe the old man you see is a wandering doctor, it's really a person outside the world, and there is no end to learning! The old man has been taught, and you should be ready to find someone to buy it when you get it to the town! Then you can buy it from us! If you have more in the future, you can send it to me again. ”
"Hey, really? Thank you Grandpa Zheng, Grandpa Zheng, we have about five catties here, you can look at it! We also don't know the price of this herb. ”
Doctor Zheng pondered for a while, "What if I think it's twenty wen a catty?" If you send it dry, it will be according to thirty-five wen a catty, honeysuckle also has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, you have other uses for this are more expensive, a total of 100 wen will be given to you, feasible? ”
"Thank you, thank you Grandpa Zheng, you have solved our problem, we were originally going to the town to try our luck."
"Thank you, thank you, Dr. Zheng." Li Yangwu and Li Yangming followed to express their gratitude to Dr. Zheng, handed over the houttuynia in the basket to the medicine boy, and accepted the settlement of the 100 yuan, Li Yangwu excitedly put the copper coins earned today close to his body.
Turning his head and seeing Wu San, who had just gone out to find someone, hurriedly entered the medical hall with an anxious face catcher, and when the two approached, they saw Wu San followed by a man in his Chinese New Year's Eve who was seven feet tall, with a majestic face, a long knife hanging from his waist, and a green catcher suit, probably Lin Catcher.
The man saw everyone in the room, and bowed down to everyone present and said: "Contemptible Lin Zheng, thank you benefactors for your righteous help to your mother, if there is anything you can help in the future, you must repay the peach, you have been busy for so long, noon has passed, please come to the restaurant for a light meal, okay?" ”
"No, no, Lin Zhutou is polite, and we are ready to go home." Li Yangwu waved his hand.
"Let the contemptible show his heart! If my mother knows that she doesn't thank you, she will definitely blame me, so Dr. Zheng and the Li family brothers and sisters will go with me! ”
"Lin Zhutou doesn't have to be polite, Lao Zheng Tou won't go, there are still patients in the hospital who often come to see the doctor and can't get out, so that Gao Tang can rest here for a while, and take it home later, it's hot at noon on weekdays, the old man had better not go out, and then go out when the sun is smaller, the Li brothers and sisters will go with Lin Zhutou!"
"The younger brothers and sisters of the Li family will call me Brother Lin! I'm older than you, so come with me to a meal for my sake! Lin Zheng continued to warmly invite a few people.
Li Yangwu scratched his head and looked at his younger siblings, "Since Brother Lin insists on inviting, then we will go and let Brother Lin break the bank." ”
"There, there, this is how it should be, when I go in to see my mother, I will go to the Cantonese restaurant in front." Lin Zheng turned around and went into the inner room to look at his mother, and came out after being instructed by his mother to treat his benefactor well, "The younger brothers and sisters of the Li family and the third brother of Wu are also together." The group waved goodbye to Dr. Zheng and went out to the Cantonese restaurant in front.
Li Yangqing is the first time to go to Jinguo's restaurant, I can't help but be curious, look at this Cantonese restaurant is very magnificent, facing the three-level stone steps, above the two wooden gates, the black signboard is written "Cantonese Restaurant" three words, enter the restaurant, you will see that the restaurant space is very large, there are about 30 square tables set up in the lobby, there are a few small rooms with partitions on the left, it should be a private room, I heard that the Cantonese restaurant is one of the best restaurants in the town.
With a smile on his face, Xiao Er came to everyone's side early and sniped his waist and said, "Guest officer, please, what seat do you want to sit?" All kinds of food and wine are available in this museum, do you need a small recommendation? ”
"Well, find us a window spot and serve some of your signature dishes and a good pot of wine." Lin Zheng said to Xiao Er as he walked, and sat down around the table with the Li brothers and sisters by the window.
"Don't be polite to the younger brothers and sisters of the Li family, I heard my mother say that Sister Li thought of a way to save her mother's danger, Sister Li is really clever and smart! The calm and calm at a young age is admirable. ”
Li Yangqing blinked his eyes wide, and said with a smile: "Brother Lin is polite, I just heard others say that the method is to try when you see an emergency, I haven't been to the restaurant yet, and today I am stained with Brother Lin's light." ”
"Yes, Brother Lin is polite, saving people is deserved, it's not worth spending so much."
"Brother Yang Ming, don't be polite anymore, I heard Wu San say that no one dared to come forward to rescue people in a circle, thanks to you!"
"Yes, yes, at that time, I watched the Li family's sister wake people up, and I admired it very much." Wu San followed and praised.
"Guest officer, your dishes are ready, soybean and pig's trotter soup, steamed peach blossom fish, fragrant dried pork breast, duck slices in the water town, radish and cranberry shreds, pork cakes, millet wine, please use it slowly, if you need to order the small ones, you can do it." Xiao Er finished serving the food neatly, poured a full wine for the male guests present, and then retreated with a smile.
Lin Zheng picked up the wine glass, "Brother Li, Third Brother Wu, please drink this cup, thank you for your help with the wine in the cup, Sister Li, please try it and see how the food tastes." Everyone at the table immediately raised their glasses and began to drink.
Li Yangqing held the chopsticks and tried these dishes, and found that the dishes were added with garlic, ginger, orange, white plum, salt, wine, vinegar (vinegar), these seasonings are all lard and vegetable oil, and the seasonings of chili, pepper, soy sauce, cumin in later generations are not yet, and ordinary people generally only have salt, white plum, garlic, and ginger at home, and there are no stir-fried vegetables, basically stewed vegetables and steamed vegetables.
After a group of people were full of wine and food, they stood at the door and said goodbye to each other, "Brother and sister of the Li family, my family lives at No. 25 North Lane, you can come here to find me if you have something." ”
"Brother Lin, thank you for your hospitality, Brother Lin and Angkor have taken their leave." Li Yangwu and Li Yangming bowed goodbye to Lin Zheng and Wu San, and after Li Yangqing waved his hand, several people parted ways, and the three brothers and sisters are now ready to go home.
The three brothers and sisters turned around and walked in the direction of the big locust tree that had just treated the old lady, preparing to return the wooden basins, fans, cloth towels and bowls they had just borrowed to the store, and when they arrived at the grocery store, they first thanked the store for their righteousness and politely returned the things, Li Yangqing looked at the things in the shop, and thought that the main thing that the family lacked now was oil, salt and grain.
"Second brother, let's buy some salt and Shu millet (sorghum rice) and go back."
Li Yangwu also knew that his family was about to run out of food, so he nodded and agreed: "Since we have made money today, let's listen to my little sister and let's buy some food and go back." ”
"Shopkeeper, how much is a pound of corn and salt?" Li Yangwu looked at the various grains in the store, and still chose the cheapest Shu millet.
"Guest officer, Shu millet is four wen a catty, salt is twenty wen a catty, how much does the guest officer want?"
Li Yangwu thought that the money given by his mother and the money he earned today combined with the money he earned today still had three hundred and ninety-one yuan, which was enough to buy a lot of grain, "The store has four buckets (fifty catties) of Shu millet and two catties of salt." ”
After a crackling abacus sound, "Guest officer, a total of two hundred and forty texts." ”
After Li Yangwu took out the cloth bag in the basket and filled it with grain and salt, he took his younger siblings to Li Dadao's meat stall in North Lane, ready to buy some meat to eat.
The north lane is indeed very simple, except for a few bungalows where people live, it is an open market, along the street is full of all kinds of stalls, and the people who come and go are basically the villagers.
Seeing that there was a shop selling steamed buns and steamed buns in the distance, Li Yangqing smelled the long-lost aroma of meat, and the people who were hooked by the aroma directly drooled, Li Yangqing thought: "Fortunately, I ate a good meal at noon, and the taste of meat has passed in my mouth, so I must work hard to make money in the future and eat meat every day. "I thought of a good thing in my heart, and before I knew it, I arrived at Uncle Dao's meat stall.