When the two returned to the store after eating, the last batch of goods had just arrived, and Qin Shujin chatted with the eldest brother who delivered the goods for a few more words and settled the remaining wages. called Rong Zhao, and the two of them put the remaining medicinal materials into the small drawer of the medicine cabinet one by one according to the cooperation mode in the morning.

After cleaning up, Qin Shujin happily went to the street to buy firecrackers.

In the next day, Qin Shujin and Rong Zhao both got up early in the morning, the little girl changed into men's clothes again and stood side by side with Rong Zhao, and as soon as the sound of firecrackers sounded, the pharmacy was officially opened, but it was obvious that only Rong Zhao and Qin Shujin were excited.

The two of them were happy for a while, but they were exhausted by boredom, and no one walked into the shop all morning. Forget if you don't see a doctor, no one even comes to grab medicine?

Rong Zhao patted Qin Shujin on the shoulder and comforted: "It may be that the location of the pharmacy is not advantageous, and no one knows." ”

Qin Shujin glanced at him: "Did my morning firecrackers go in vain?" I think I can hear it on the next street. ”

“...”

Rong Zhao said again: "Then you write something propaganda or something, post it outside, maybe someone will see it and come in." ”

"It sounds like a workable solution."

So Qin Shujin waved his neat brush and wrote on the paper that the first three days of consultation were free and the medicine was discounted. Rong Zhao took it and dried the ink, then hid in the kitchen and boiled the paste and pasted the paper on the outside of the shop. Then the two fell into a long silence.

"Could it be that they don't know how to read?" Qin Shujin asked.

"Then I can't go out into the street and shout at your throat, can I?"

Rong Zhao felt that Qin Shujin's eyes were showing that she was thinking carefully about the feasibility of this matter, and vaguely wanted to try it.

Rong Zhao simulated in his mind the scene where he shouted at people on the street to come to see a doctor and grab medicine, and instantly struck a spirit, he was afraid that he would be caught and beaten.

So he immediately said to Qin Shujin: "Ahem, I'll go out and buy something, and I'll be back in a while." ”

Qin Shujin looked at his figure of running away, and shouted crisply: "Rong Zhao! You won't run away from the wilderness, it's too unrighteous. ”

Qin Shujin counted all kinds of things Rong Zhao in her heart, and it didn't take long for Qin Shujin to usher in her first patient.

Qin Shujin hurriedly sat upright when he heard the voice, ready to see a doctor, but when the old man sat in front of him, he was startled.

"Uncle, why are you here?"

This person is the old man who has been relieved by Qin Shujin in the beggar cave, and there are still a few beggars standing scattered behind him, and the beggars gather more and more, and after a while, a long line will form.

"You are."

The old man looked at Qin Shujin kindly and said, "It was Rong Zhao's kid who called us over, ahem... Said that you opened a new pharmacy, let us give you a cheer, and said that it doesn't cost money to see a doctor, so we will all come and take a look. Your eldest daughter is too, there are such good things, don't say let us know. ”

Qin Shujin smiled as if apologizing: "It's Shu Jin's, you put your hand here, Shu Jin will give you a pulse." ”

The old man handed his hand over as he said.

"Uncle, did you get this cough recently?"

The old man nodded and complained: "This year's winter is especially cold, I thought it would be over, but I started coughing without thinking about it, cough cough, my old bones, I'm afraid it's over." ”

Qin Shujin's expression was a little dark, and he hurriedly pulled the topic back from life and death to a simple medical treatment: "You are just an ordinary wind chill, 4 yuan for banlan root, 2 money for skullcap, 2 money for Zhejiang fritillary, 2 money for orange red, 3 money for Tianzhu yellow, 2 money for yuan ginseng, 2 money for fried almonds, 2 money for Bai Qian, 3 money for Houttuynia cordata, 4 money for reed root, 2 and a half yuan for burnt aster, 2 yuan for licorice, decoction water to drink, one pair a day, and you can be cured at the beginning of spring." ”

"Eh, okay, thank you, big girl."

As he spoke, the old man took the prescription from Qin Shujin with trembling hands, got up and wanted to leave. In fact, he had no money to see a doctor, let alone medicine, and was so poor that he spent the last two of his children on the street to buy the leftover overnight steamed buns from the stall on the street.

The steamed bun was cold and hard, and there was a faint sour taste, it was not eaten by people at all, and the boss was also worried about mixing some vegetable soup and paste to feed the pigs. He also wants to have a little dignity, so he won't eat it, but the days of eating the last meal and not the next meal are repeated every day, and when he is hungry, he feels that the straw mats under his body can be used to gnaw on them, compared to life, dignity is not bullshit.

Poor like this, bitter like this, people who huddle up on street corners every day and sleep in the open are everywhere, and those who enter Qin Shujin's eyes can line up from the place where they see the doctor to the outside of the shop. If it weren't for Qin Shujin, this group of people might not have survived the first winter of coming to Beijing.

But what about Qin Shujin, she can occasionally send them food, and she can also give them a look at the disease for free, at most she is giving them a few pairs of medicines. But after all, she can't support them for a lifetime, people don't have that obligation, and they don't have that need.

Although they are beggars, they can be trampled on in order to survive, but the slightest bit of shame left in their hearts makes them stay away from Qin Shujin, they can see that Qin Shujin and them are not all the way, maybe they are just using them, so if it weren't for Rong Zhao today, they wouldn't come to provoke.

Come here, you have to go.

Qin Shujin looked at the back of the old man staggering away, and felt as if the position of his heart had been pricked by a needle. When she was six years old, she was taken back by the barbarian army as a plaything, and every day was a day when life was worse than death, in order to live, she could only whisper and beg for perfection, when she was seven years old, she met Gu Yanhuo, she also knew that she should not be provoked, but she still reached out and held it.

At first, she vaguely guessed that Gu Yanhuo's revenge might be a high-ranking person, but when she knew that it was the current emperor, she was still taken aback. Gu Yanhuo said to her, Shu Jin, look at what this windy world has become in his hands, the surface is bright and beautiful, but the back is dirty and dirty.

She didn't hate the official family at first, but the more she came into contact with this group of people, she realized that she still hated, if he could govern the country better, this group of people would not wander outside, and they would have to hide secretly, for fear of being driven away by the patrolling soldiers. If he can govern the country better, the barbarian army will not dare to attack, he will not be taken captive, and Daddy and Auntie will not die.

Qin Shujin finally stretched out his hand, swallowed his saliva fiercely, and said, "Uncle, you can leave later, wait for Rong Zhao to come back and arrest the medicine for you, don't need money." ”

The old man rubbed his messy chicken nest-like hair and said with a smile: "Thank you, eldest girl, I still don't take medicine, we were originally here to give you a show, cough cough... There is no reason to let you take free credit again, a handful of old bones, cough cough, the winter of anti-primary antibodies will pass. ”

Qin Shujin still wanted to call him, but the words on his lips were turned around three times but he still didn't say anything, some things didn't happen to him, and whatever comforting words he said seemed to be fake compassion, which was very redundant.

Qin Shujin suppressed her mood, and after reading the rest of the patients as if she were going through the process, she closed the shop and nested herself.

Rong Zhao came back in the evening, carrying a can of small wine bought, and passed by the little girl who buried her whole body in the futon with her legs and feet, sighed, and resigned herself to cooking.

Rong Zhao casually copied two dishes, one meat and one vegetable, then brought them to the table, dragged Qin Shujin out of the quilt and pressed them on the stool, poured a bowl full of wine for her, and said, "Eat, you have to sit for a consultation tomorrow." ”

Qin Shujin retorted: "There is no one, look at which sub-diagnosis." ”

"Haven't you seen quite a few today?"

Qin Shujin pursed her lips, knowing that it was all Rong Zhao begging her to put on a façade, and she couldn't count, but Rong Zhao didn't seem to want to say it, and she was happy not to mention it.

Picking up the chopsticks and tasting a few bites of food, Qin Shujin raised his hand and drank most of the wine in the bowl.

Rong Zhao hurriedly stopped: "You will get drunk if you drink so violently, you are simply wasting other people's good wine." ”

"What kind of good wine are you, drink it quickly, grind to death!"

Rong Zhao had no choice but to drink with her.

After three rounds of drinking, Qin Shujin's alcohol strength also came up, she seemed to be drunk and unconscious, nesting in Rong Zhao's arms like an octopus, babbling from her six years old to her thirteen years old, from her father and aunt to Gu Yanhuo, speaking of Gu Yanhuo, she never stopped, it seemed that she couldn't stop admiring it.

Rong Zhao slapped Qin Shujin on his shoulder, Qin Shujin smacked his lips on his bones, and closed his mouth as he wished.

Rong Zhao sighed and hugged the person, and Qin Shujin's drooping arm immediately wrapped it up again.

"Rong Zhao... Rong Zhao... Rong Zhao... Rong Zhao..."

"Uh-huh, uh-huh."

"Ah Zhao..."

Rong Zhao was stunned for a moment, she leaned on his shoulder and said, "Ah Zhao, please, don't go." ”

"Hmm."