Get up in the morning, a thin layer of ice began to form on the edge of the well in the courtyard, the water was raised from the well and emitted white smoke, the cold wind had risen, Lou Shide took Xiao Changning to school when his forehead was a little sweaty, but the little face was frozen red, Xiao's mother felt distressed, and made a hat for the two babies with the leftover material from the tiger skin mat made by Mr. Who wants to go from village to village to see a doctor?

The first snow since the beginning of winter fell on the ninth day of October, and Mr. said to Xiao Zheng in the evening: "Tomorrow is the largest market in Yushan County on the tenth day of October, and where is the largest medicine store within a radius of dozens of miles, you and I will go and take a look, and by the way, buy some medicinal materials and come back, you also talk to your mother, and the four of us will go together." ”

Jin'er jumped up happily when she heard Mr. say this, it seems that the temptation of this market for Jin'er is not ordinary, think about it, it is a woman's nature to love shopping. Early in the morning, Xiao Zheng went to the backyard to put Rhubarb in the car, and Ah Hua saw Rhubarb walking out and kicked restlessly in the cowshed. Just together, so they put on rhubarb, tied Ah Hua to the back of the car to spread a mattress on the car, and shouted out of the village and walked in the direction of Yushan County. When passing by Li Zhuang, I called Lou Shide's mother and son by the way, and along the way, Jin'er and Lou Shide chattered like two happy birds.

When I arrived at Yushan County when it was almost noon, I saw a large open space outside the city gate, only to see the crowd bustling, selling food, livestock, cloth and jewelry, a pile of east and west piles together, Lou Shide saw that the saliva of selling osmanthus cake was flowing out. Xiao's mother, Lou's mother and Jin'er jumped out of the car, and before Mr. could speak, they turned around and disappeared into the crowd, and the gentleman who saw it shook his head vigorously, and saw a few people coming over from the master and apprentice, and a few tooth shops ran over to ask Mr. what he needed, and Mr. refused one by one with a smile. gave the person who took care of the livestock two copper coins, and Xiao Zheng bought osmanthus cakes and persimmons for Lou Shide, and the little guy's mouth couldn't stop.

Mr. took Xiao Zheng into the medicine market, the Tang Dynasty in this era people's understanding of medicinal properties is far less than that of later generations, people sell some varieties of traditional Chinese medicine are obviously a lot less than later generations, a little grade of a few tables put the medicinal materials on the cloth, piles of stacks of good, some valuable fine materials put in the box to write the name of the medicine and place it, some do not pay attention to take a piece of cloth to the ground to spread, put the medicine on the ground to sell, although the quality of various drugs is good and bad, but no one sells fake drugs, the heart is simple! There are also hunters who often hunt in the mountains, hanging bear skins and bear bile together and selling them.

Xiao Zheng took Lou Shide to follow Mr. in the crowd to squeeze around, Mr. bought some common medicines for the treatment of typhoid fever, after buying Xiao Zheng and the two of them carried them on their backs, and when the purchase was almost over, the three of them walked to the edge of the medicine market, and suddenly saw a medicine dealer from the north in a piece of cloth with angelica, safflower, borneol and other traditional Chinese medicines, Xiao Zheng thought that the weather was getting colder and colder now with some chilblain cream, so he asked Mr. to buy some of these medicines, and when the drug dealer took a pocket and prepared to fill him with medicine, Xiao Zheng was overjoyed when he found four or five small finger-thick mountain ginseng randomly thrown under the bag, so he asked the boss: "Uncle, how do you sell this ginseng?" The boss was stunned for what Xiao Zheng pointed out before he understood, and replied with a smile: "Little brother, we call this thing a goblin, not ginseng. This is a medicine farmer in the north who sold me tiger bones and tiger whip and deer antler velvet by the way, the other medicines I brought today have been sold, and now there is this thing left, use it to soak in water and drink, it can only give people a boost, and the others are useless, now I will throw it here to see if it can be sold, what, is it interesting for the little brother, if you want it, I will sell it to you cheaply", "It's useless?" Xiao Zheng smiled secretly in his heart, "That's because you don't know how to use it." He looked at the gentleman, who said to him, "If you want to buy it, you can buy it, you don't have to ask me". Xiao Zheng spent more than 30 yuan to buy these ginseng branches, and Xiao Zheng, who was the owner of the medicine selling place, looked at Xiao Zheng like a fool, he really couldn't understand how this young man looked very shrewd and did all the stupid things, Xiao Zheng was secretly happy like picking up a treasure, everyone took what they needed, each had its own value, and everyone was happy.

Seeing that the sun was almost west, Mr. asked Xiao Zheng to find Xiao's mother and the three of them back, only to see that the three women were also bulging in their burdens, and they also brought two newly bought hairpins on their heads, Jin'er was excited, and after the six people gathered, they found a noodle stall, each of them asked for a pot helmet and a big bowl of mutton soup, poured the garlic foam into the soup, several people were sweating profusely, and Lou Shide patted his little belly and burped.

After eating, Xiao Zheng got up and was about to pay, but saw the stall owner smile and said that someone had already paid the bill, the master and apprentice were stunned, and looked at the stall owner's gaze, but saw Xiao Changning and Dong Ershun from Xiao Hai on the side happily watching the master and apprentice eat. Xiao Hai said to Mr. "A few of our brothers have sold the farm tools they have beaten in winter here, and the stall selling the goods is not far from this food stall. Mr. smiled: "Then I'm welcome, since you have sold out of goods, should we go back together?" ”

Xiao Hai glanced at Dong Ershun next to him and said, "Shunzi, if you have something, hurry up and tell Mr." Dong Ershun was relatively wooden, and he didn't say a word when he looked at Mr. for a long time, so angry that Xiao Hai kicked him in the leg before he said to Mr. with a smile: "Sir, that's the case, Ershunzi's stupid mouth, he came to ask Mr. to help his cousin go to see a doctor, his cousin lives in this Yushan County, and he usually has a good relationship with his cousin, and the two families have a lot of contact." At the beginning of last spring, his cousin broke his waist and became disabled, and he never got up again, and has been paralyzed in bed. After the two of you cured the villain's father last time, Ershunzi has been thinking about inviting the two of you to come to the county seat to see his cousin, and this time it happened to be not far from his cousin's house.

The gentleman looked at the sky and said, "Then let's go as soon as possible, it's a little late now, if we don't hurry up, I guess we'll have to go home in the dark." Dong Ershun happily agreed, turned around and called a few other people to clean up the stall, and after a while, he also rushed over with a few people. Dong Ershun led the way, Xiao Hai and a few others followed Mr. into the city gate to the east, and after two streets, they stopped in front of a shop selling cloth. Ershunzi pushed the door and walked in, and after a while, a woman in her thirties came out of the shop, this woman looked very shrewd, and she saw the status of Mr. at a glance, and walked over with a smile and said: "The little woman has seen you, just now Ershun's cousin said that you came to treat your husband's family, please go in as soon as possible."

Entering the courtyard, Xiao Zheng saw a pile of medicinal residue poured into the courtyard, he sniffed it and looked at it, it was just some common Chinese medicine that relieved the muscles, invigorated the blood and removed blood stasis. The woman was also thoughtful, and politely let Mr. and Xiao Zheng into the back room, only to see a middle-aged man about forty years old sitting on the bed in the back room, looking good, the woman smiled and said to the scene: "This is my man Zhou Bingrui." Mr. was not polite, after saying a few words to the patient, he directly pulled his hand over and began to diagnose the pulse, when the pulse was diagnosed, the woman did not stop, and said to the gentleman: "My man was last spring, when he cleaned the counter, he also wanted to sweep the beam, but the person fell from the ladder, and the leg could not move, and the doctor saw that he broke his waist, and he may be paralyzed in bed for the rest of his life, and later he also found a few doctors in the county and was not cured. So I took him to Daxing City to find two doctors who were said to be imperial doctors, but they were helpless, I don't know what happened to your husband and two after they came? Although the woman's words were polite, her doubts about the medical skills of the master and apprentice were self-evident.