Chapter 3 Soup kitchen

After a few days, the business of the inn slowly flourished, and the inn was also full of merchants and gentlemen from all over the world, Liu Gouwa took advantage of the good mood of the shopkeeper Lin, and wanted to help Zhang San and Li Si who were good to themselves, so he said to the shopkeeper Lin: "Shopkeeper, our wine inn is gradually improving, it will definitely get better and better, but the reputation in this city is still not as good as other houses, if you want to be famous, customers are like clouds, and the wealth is wide, you have to come up with an idea." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info" Liu Gouwa stopped when she said this, and hung up the appetite of the shopkeeper Lin.

Shopkeeper Lin stretched out his hand and slapped Liu Gouwa, and said, "If you have anything to say, don't be upset, swallow half and spit half." ”

"Shopkeeper, now that the war has just passed, and the refugees are in distress, as long as the shopkeeper is charitable and charity in the city, he will definitely have a good reputation for being kind and charitable, and by the way, he will also put up the signboard of the Lin Family Inn."

"Died once, your kid's flowery intestines turned upside down, don't you know that little bit of thought? If you want to help Zhang San and Li Si, those rabbit cubs, although you give them those leftovers, when you kid gave them meat, oil and water before, not only gave them the leftovers, but also gave them the buns in the wine inn, don't think that the old man doesn't know. Shopkeeper Lin squinted his eyes and stroked his beard, paused, and said: "However, these rabbit cubs have no father or mother, and it's pitiful, your idea is not bad, let's give porridge in the city for three days from tomorrow." ”

Although the shopkeeper Lin has a shrewd rich man, he is not as stingy as the rich landlord and landlord said in later generations.

Early the next morning, Liu Gouwa boiled a pot of porridge in a cauldron and pushed it to the gate of Nancheng with an ancient wheelbarrow. Liu Gouwa asked them to line up, and they were also standing around in a chaotic manner, but it was still Zhang San in front, Li Si was tall and thin, his eyes flashed, looking around, and he was behind Zhang San, these beggars should take them as the head. Because it was the first day of soup kitchen, the news in ancient times was not well-informed, and only about 20 other refugees came one after another, all with vegetable faces, loose hair, and unkempt edges.

After the Lin shopkeeper symbolically gave more than a dozen porridges, he went back to the Lin family wine inn to settle the accounts, and then Liu Gouwa came to give porridge, during which Li Si received the porridge again, and Liu Gouwa still gave him a full bowl, this kid is ghostly. I thought that there would not be too many refugees today, but after more than an hour of continuous application, there were more and more refugees, and there was a long queue, so I had to set up a pot at the city gate to continue to boil porridge. After working for a long time, Liu Gouwa's thin body seemed to fall apart, but fortunately, Zhang San and Li Si helped beside them, picking up firewood, carrying water, and starting a fire, they have always been self-reliant, and these are not difficult for them.

After two days of porridge in a row, on the third day, it rained in the afternoon, and there was no way to set up a pot to boil porridge, so the porridge was finished early, and some refugees did not receive the porridge, so they had no choice but to take shelter from the rain. Liu Gouwa braved the rain to clean up the pot and spoon, and was about to go back, but saw a little girl with tears, crying nose, holding a half-old porcelain bowl, silently watching Liu Gouwa busy, the rain wet her messy hair, down the tips of her hair drop by drop to the ground, the porcelain bowl in her hand was filled with rainwater, half obliquely in her hand. Seeing that she was pitiful, Liu Gouwa couldn't help but walk over, bent down, gently dusted off the droplets from her hair, and said softly: "Little sister, there is no porridge, why don't you go home yet?" ”

"Eminem is dying, Eminem hasn't eaten for two days." The little girl rubbed her snot with the back of her hand and said with tears in her eyes.

"Little sister, don't cry, tell my brother first, what's wrong with Eminem, okay?" Liu Gouwa helped her smooth the hair on her forehead and asked softly.

"Eminem slept for two days, refused to get up, didn't eat, and fell asleep again."

"Little sister, where is your home, take my brother to see your Eminem first, okay?" Liu Gouwa guessed that the little girl's mother might be sick.

The little girl took Liu Gouwa to a ruined temple on the edge of the southern city, the broken temple collapsed half of the earthen wall, leaving only three earthen walls to support the half-collapsed roof, the roof was full of translucent holes, drop by drop of water seeped down, drop by drop fell to the woman lying on the side of the land temple platform, the woman was wearing a green dress and linen pants, already half wet, showing a delicate figure. When the little girl returned to the Land Temple, she had already pounced on the woman, crying and shaking her mother's body, but the woman still did not wake up. Liu Gouwa walked over, reached out and probed the woman's forehead, and found that her forehead was very hot, this is a typical high fever, this is a serious illness in ancient times, that is, in the era of the Republic, some people don't pay attention, and there are many people who burn their brains. Liu Gouwa was born in the mountains, when he was a child, he also had a lot of this disease, and his family was far and rugged to the county hospital, so when he was sick, he used the earthwork in the village, which was economical, convenient and effective, and there were medicinal herbs everywhere in front of and behind the house, but now it was raining, and he couldn't do anything for a while, so he had to say to the little girl: "Little sister, your Eminem is sick, don't worry, but you must ask Langzhong, it's raining now, and you can't invite Langzhong for a while, and this disease can't be delayed, you and I will send your Eminem to the city hospital to see a doctor." ”

After the little girl nodded in agreement, Liu Gouwa picked up the woman with his small body, braved the rain, and staggered into the city to see a doctor. When he arrived at the infirmary in the city, the healer saw that it was two half-grown children, one older and one younger, who had brought the woman in, and simply asked about the relationship between them, and helped the woman to look sick. After the doctor heard about it, he was about to prescribe medicine, and Liu Gouwa couldn't help asking, "Doctor, I don't know what disease this Eminem is guilty of?" ”

The doctor glanced back at Liu Gouwa and said, "This lady has the internal invasion of wind and evil, the inside is cold and the outside is hot, the main wind and cold disease, it is advisable to dispel the wind and clear the heat, and disperse the surface to drive away the cold." ”

Fever was too common in the era of the Republic, and Liu Gouwa knew that fever would basically be complicated by pneumonia and other symptoms, which were manifested in the throat, and fever only indicated that the body was invaded by the virus and became hot, which was a kind of self-protection consciousness of the body, so just now I saw that he just looked at the woman's tongue, and did not look at the woman's throat, and was diagnosed with typhoid fever, which is what we call a cold, and couldn't help but say: "The kid has also suffered from this disease before, and a doctor said that this disease not only has typhoid fever, but also inflammation and other symptoms. The symptoms are manifested in the Adam's apple, redness and swelling, it is the body invaded by the wind evil and other pathogens, and the body will protect itself from high fever. ”

When the healer heard this, he turned back to the woman, re-examined the woman's Adam's apple, and then turned to Liu Gouwa and bowed, and said sincerely: "I have been taught, I don't know where this healer is, I hope the little brother will tell me." ”

These doctors are all in the future republic, how can I tell you that Liu Gouwa said that the doctor was a Jianghu Langzhong, wandering, but also said that the earthwork that has been tested for thousands of years in later generations is nothing more than some common medicines such as banlan root, big green leaves, bupleurum, rhubarb, raw gypsum, etc. Unable to find the You Fanglang, the doctor shouted that it was a pity, but it seemed to be a treasure to Liu Gouwa's earthwork. The doctor didn't take a penny from the few pairs of Chinese medicine prescribed by the woman, and personally delivered Liu Gouwa and them to the gate.

When Liu Gouwa and the woman came out of the hospital, the rain was lighter, but it was still dripping, the woman was having a high fever, the broken earth temple had no shelter from the wind and rain, and they definitely couldn't live anymore, and they had nowhere to go, Liu Gouwa had to take them back to the Lin family wine inn, although the Lin shopkeeper had a slight word, but still opened a poor guest room for the woman's mother and daughter, and had a place to live for the time being.

The next day, after taking a few pairs of Chinese medicine, the fever slowly subsided, and she was about to leave. It turned out that they came all the way from Chang'an, to find a husband in the Tang Kingdom, the ancient traffic was unimaginable, unlike the highway in later generations, there were bridges in the river, and there were holes in the mountains. The road of a thousand miles begins at the foot and walks the whole way, which shows the hardships. Liu Gouwa kept it a few times, but the woman insisted on leaving, so Liu Gouwa had to send them away and take out two taels of silver and give them as a trip to their feet. These two taels of silver are a large amount at this time, can be exchanged for 2,000 coins, 150 yuan can be exchanged for one stone of rice grain, one stone of rice grain 120 catties, ancient gold and silver are scarce, not as later generations say, buy a thing and throw down how many taels of silver, as if silver is like a stone, can be picked up everywhere, that is just the imagination of the literati.

The woman and the little girl thanked them for their kindness and then looked southeast. Liu Gouwa turned back to the Lin Family Inn, but saw that Lin Kun had returned from the state city, when Liu Gouwa met Lin Kun at the city gate, he was on a business trip to the state city, and he was not able to meet until today. But at this time, Lin Kun's face was black, and he was angry, and the shopkeeper Lin was beside him to advise. After the inquiry of the shopkeeper Lin, I learned that Du Chongwei, the master of the imperial court, wrote to Lin Kun's boss, General Shi Weiyi, to embezzle the rebels' salt, withhold the spoils of war, and kill innocents indiscriminately. General Shi Weiyi's almost arrived position was lost due to slander, and the whole army was useless in quelling the rebellion, how could he not make Lin Kun and other soldiers angry.

"Do you want to collect all the salt of the traitors? Do you think they're all stupid?" l Lin Kun said angrily, "Withhold the spoils of war, isn't the gold, silver and grain handed over by the general the spoils of war?" It's too little, Songcheng is so big, the rebels don't need to eat, don't the rebels want military expenses? I'll leave it all to you. The more Lin Kun spoke, the more angry he became.

"Rabbit cub, can't you say a few words, aren't you afraid of incurring crimes?" Shopkeeper Lin saw that the more he talked, the more excited he became, and he couldn't help but scold.

"What are you afraid of, Lao Tzu is not afraid of the shadow, speak according to the facts, it's not that he is the master of the horse who is hot in Songzhou Jiedu to make this position, so that he can insert his own people in." Lin Kun still said loudly.

"Rabbit cub, the more you talk, the more you get scared." Seeing this, Shopkeeper Lin slapped Lin Kun's head and said, "Why is it your turn to put your beak in the affairs of the people's festival envoys, and you don't care about anything." ”

"Dad, why did you beat someone? Why is it none of my business? Tomorrow morning, I will send the prisoners in the city to the state city, I am not satisfied with the military establishment of the capital, not even half of it, General Shi promised me to select soldiers from the prisoners of war, but he Hao Dongqing came to the soup as soon as he came, all the prisoners of war were sent to the state city to be organized, and he did not want to tighten the military power. Lin Kun stroked the head that was hit by the shopkeeper Lin and said, his anger subsided a lot.