Chapter 19: The Beggars and the Beggars
"I'll wipe it, don't die!" Xu Wen hurriedly shouted, shook the beggar's body, and touched his breath.
Luckily, there's still one breath left.
He hurriedly stood up and dragged the beggar into the inn, took a quilt and put it on the beggar, and looked at Zhao Ping, "You help me watch, I'll go to the doctor." ”
"Brother Xu, is it worth it for you to do this?" Zhao Ping asked suspiciously.
"After all, it's also a human life, since I touched it, it means that his life should not be extinguished. How much can I help. With that, Xu Wen was about to leave.
"Well, since Brother Xu said so, I'll do my best, it just so happens that I know a very good doctor, I'm going to invite him over now, it should be too late."
"Okay." Xu Wen nodded.
Zhao Ping ran out of the smoke and walked in a hurry.
Xu Wen walked over and took a look at the girl, fifteen or sixteen years old, a little like his brother, skinny as wood, hungry and without any strength.
"Where's my second brother?" The girl asked.
"He's fine, the doctor will come right over." As he spoke, Xu Wen got up and went to get a bowl of hot porridge and fed it to the girl with a spoon little by little.
Creak...... Creak......
The wooden door, which had just been reinforced some time ago, has become a little unsturdy again.
Ten minutes later, Zhao Ping hurriedly brought an old man, this old man had very small eyes, but he was rich and noble, wearing ordinary people's burlap clothes, but it was clean and refreshing, especially the medicine box he was carrying, which was worth a lot of money at a glance.
This old man is not an ordinary doctor at first glance......
"The patient is here......" Zhao Ping took the old man's hand and pointed to the beggar lying on the ground.
The old man squatted down to check the beggar's pulse, narrowed his eyes slightly, and then sighed, "No, I'm afraid I can't save it." ”
"I said, why can't I be saved! Aren't you amazing? You are a doctor, and doctors must save people, quickly! Zhao Ping urged.
The old man paused, nodded and said, "Then I'll try it......" As he spoke, he opened the medicine box.
Xu Wen didn't understand medical skills, he stood over and asked softly, "Doctor, he was just beaten, there should be nothing wrong." ”
"The external injuries are small, and the internal injuries are large. In the weather outside, even beasts, let alone people, can't stand it. The old man began to give needles to the beggars.
Xu Wen glanced at the fainting girl over there, and looked at the beggar with a solemn face. He is a historian, especially the history of the Qin Dynasty. He knew that the Qin State had slavery, and the people lived in dire straits, and they had to worry about it every day.
He thought that would be cruel enough.
But when he came to the Qin State, he knew what life was like grass mustard, and it was not worth anything!
Ten minutes later, the old man helped the beggar clean the wound on the beggar's body.
The wounds on the beggar's body are shocking, the new plus the old. Covered in chilblains.
This is the beggars of the Qin State, the beggars of this era, some of them don't even have clothes to wear, they are just wrapped in rags casually, but they have to survive in such a cold weather. No one will help them, and perhaps someone will pity them, but no one will lend a hand.
This world is so cruel, if you give him your stuff to eat, then you don't have to eat.
It's not that Xu Wen didn't want to help before, but if you help one, there will be a second beggar coming to you, and if there is a second, there will be a third. It won't be long before beggars from all over Xianyang City will come looking for you. You can't turn the inn into a beggar's nest in the future.
The old man packed up his things, raised his head and said, "His condition has not stabilized yet, he will have a high fever for a while, whether he can survive depends on his creation." ”
Zhao Ping also said.
Xu Wen grabbed him and said to the old man, "Thank you, doctor, please help me take a look at the little girl over there." ”
The doctor nodded, walked over to check the pulse, and said, "She's fine, she's just hungry, suffering from the cold, and she'll be fine after a few days of recuperation." But in the future, you must not catch a cold again, this girl's physique is weak, I am worried that if she catches a cold again, she is very likely to contract a bad disease. ”
"Okay, doctor, you can prescribe two pairs of medicines."
"Myrrh." The doctor shook his head.
"Myrrh?"
The doctor hummed and said, "For her, the best medicine is a place to live and something to eat." As for the other man, wait until something is wrong, and then look for me. ”
"Okay." Xu Wen nodded and asked, "How much?" ”
The doctor paused, waved his hand and said, "No money." ”
The doctor said that he didn't want money, probably because of Zhao Ping's uncle, Xu Wen didn't say much, and sent the doctor out.
Zhao Ping stayed, sat on the edge of the bed and looked at the girl, and said, "How many such people are there in the Qin Kingdom? ”
"I don't know, at least hundreds of thousands, or even millions." What Xu Wen said is not an exaggeration at all, there are many such beggars in the Qin State. It is better to call them beggars than to say that they are refugees, that they are homeless, or that they are no longer alive.
"This, so much." Zhao Ping frowned, his expression was a little amazed, he knew that there were many beggars and poor people in the Qin Kingdom, but he didn't expect that there would be so many! He didn't pity these people, he just didn't expect that the Qin State had actually reached such a point, where so many people were homeless and couldn't eat. In this way, the Qin State is not really a strong country!
Xu Wen sighed, sat on the chair and said, "In my hometown, there are also many beggars. But the beggars on our side are different from here. ”
"Oh, what's the difference?" Zhao Ping asked curiously.
"On our side, eighty percent of the beggars in the past were rich, even richer than the average rich person on our side."
"Huh?" Zhao Ping didn't understand what Xu Wen meant, "If the beggar is rich?" Or a beggar? ”
"You don't understand this, here, begging is an identity, and on our side, begging is a profession, a profession that can make a lot of money as long as you are thick-skinned. It's all other people's conscience money that is earned. Xu Wen sighed and continued: "Now that I think about it, it's actually good that way, at least those people are not really beggars, so they don't have to ...... like them."
Xu Wen fell silent.
"Brother Xu is really kind." Zhao Ping said embarrassedly.
After a long time, Xu Wen continued: "It's not a matter of kindness or not, things are like this, none of the monarchs of several countries are innocent. Beggars are inevitable, but in the Great Qin Kingdom, there are cases of starvation and freezing to death every day, you say, which one of those officials is innocent? But if they can take out a little bit of fur, they can save people who have not starved to death and froze to death. ”