Wen San woke up in his sleep and sat up from the bed suddenly.

The sound of crying came faintly from the window, which was the culprit who made him sleep badly.

With a sigh, Wen San put on his coat and got out of the empty bed, and the Hun family slept in another room with their children.

It was still dark outside, but listening to the drums outside, it was almost time for the house shop to open.

The wee hours of winter were damp and cold, and the fire in the hearth was almost extinguished. Wen Sanse shrank back to the bed, raised his voice and shouted, and after a while, the little adoptive lady who was sleeping outside came up to serve with a yawn.

There is a shop on Wensandang Street, and there is a two-entry yard at the back, which can afford to support two little adoptive mothers, a child, together with the Hun family and biological children, a family of seven, and the food and clothing are not bad. It can be regarded as a solid family, but it is still far from the word wealth.

After Wen San washed up under the service of his adoptive mother, he took the boy sleeping in the shop to open the door of the shop and put incense on the ancestral tablet. Turn around and walk through the back door, and then into the back alley.

The next neighbor's Li Xiuxian family had a funeral today, and the surrounding neighbors listened to the mourning all night. Early in the morning, seven or eight monks and Taoists were invited. The front street is a shop, and funeral prisoners are taboo. The Li family opened the back door, and the relatives and friends who came to pay tribute, as well as the monks who did the work, were all crowded in the back alley and shouted.

Wen San didn't complain about anything, weddings and funerals are inevitable in any family, and it is not a common thing, maybe it will be his turn one day, and it is not good to offend the neighbors for this.

After watching the excitement for a while, Wen San was about to go home. I saw a strong man in his thirties, five years old and three thick, with an old man and two companions carrying burdens, striding from the alley.

As soon as Wen San saw the visitor, he was full of surprise, and shouted at the family: "Sanniang, uncle is here!" ”

The Hun family's maiden home is in Qingyuan Village under Fulong Mountain, which is separated from Xiangzhou City by dozens of miles, and it is not easy to enter the city. If there is nothing to do on weekdays, that is, it is almost a festival, and when you go to the city to procure, you will stop by.

The man came to Wen San with his head held high, and saluted with Wen San, "Uncle, I haven't seen you for a long time, it's always been good." ”

"It's been good. It's just that your sister and nephew have been thinking about your uncle, and they all said that it was almost midwinter, why didn't they come. …… How is it so late than in previous years. ”

"There is a delay in some things in the township."

Wen San greeted his brother-in-law into the house and asked, "How is my mother-in-law?" ”

"It's very tough, and I took your sister-in-law to make rice cakes yesterday."

"This year, the rice cakes are really early enough." Wen San said with a smile, and then asked, "Are your sister-in-law and nephew okay?" ”

"It's all good, it's all good."

The two talked about the cold and warmth, and Wen San's Hun family brought out a pair of children from the Wen family. led the children to salute, and repeated Fang Cai Wensan's greetings, from the old mother to the two nephews, turned around and let the children go back to the room.

Dahan frowned when he saw it, didn't say anything, and smiled at Wen San and his wife: "Two pairs of smoked chicken, two pairs of smoked rabbits, a pair of smoked legs, two catties of persimmons, Sanniang, your favorite dates born on the tree in the backyard, my mother also specially asked me to bring ten catties over, and this year's new rice is placed in the courtyard outside." ”

"Uncle is so polite, he brings so many things every time he comes." Wen San politely. The adoptive mother of the family brought up the hot tea soup, and took out several plates of good Shixin fruits to entertain the brother-in-law.

"They all grow in the fields and run in the fields, and they are not worth anything in the country." Dahan sat down, took a sip of tea, and asked, "Which family in the street is dead?" I hung a white tent and came out, turned the corner, and a bunch of paper money almost splashed on my head, and I didn't hit it. Even Wengong has been in a good temper recently, but in the past, I smashed the door of his house a long time ago. ”

"The eldest brother doesn't know, the Li family, who opened an embroidery shop at the corner of the street, the eldest brother in his family finally raised him to the age of thirteen, and the family has said everything, but the child had acne sores before, and suddenly fell ill, and it didn't drag on for seven days, and there was no one yesterday."

"Acne?" Even Wen Gong raised his eyebrows, and there was a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Wen San didn't care about his brother-in-law's expression, and nodded, "It's just a pox, and it's a big trouble." Now the two sons of the Liu family next door to the Li family are also getting sick before and after, and your sister is afraid that something will happen to your nephew and nephew's daughter, so she is not allowed to go out at home, nor is she allowed to see guests, and lives together in the West Chamber. That is, uncle, you came today, so they came out to meet them. Wen San glanced at the pale Hun family and sighed, "Since the eldest brother of the Li family became ill, she has been frightened all day long, and she can't sleep well night after night. ”

"Yo, what a coincidence!" Even Wen Gong slapped his hand, and the words he said made his sister and brother-in-law unthinkable.

"Qiao?!" Wen Lian's face turned white at once, "The acne in the village has also spread?!" ”

"No, no! Where did I think of it? Lian Wengong smiled and waved his hand. The laughter rang out for a while, and then he leaned forward and lowered his voice very mysteriously, "Do you know that in the six villages around Fulong Mountain, none of them are worried about acne now, and neither are our families." I came over today and wanted to mention it to my uncle and third sister. ”

Wen San blinked his eyes and asked tentatively, "Isn't there a famous doctor here?" ”

Wen Lian's took the case and asked Lian Wengong anxiously: "How much is the doctor's diagnosis fee, and we can afford to smash the pot and sell iron." ”

"There is no need to smash pots and sell iron, Doctor Li only charges ten cents for each person treated, and the total consultation fee from several villages has not yet collected 20 yuan." Lian Wengong sighed, "It's really a miracle doctor, and he doesn't take money in his eyes." It's a pity that people came and went. ”

"Gone?" Wen Lian's face turned white, isn't this funny?

"Don't worry." Lian Wengong immediately said, "Listen to me." If the whole thing doesn't have an eyebrow, how can I, who is an elder brother, have the face to see the third sister? ”

Wen Lianshi sat down patiently, and Wen San said: "Uncle, don't sell Guanzi, my sister and I are anxious." The Liu family and my family are only separated by two families, and maybe your nephew will be infected today or tomorrow. ”

Wen San, Wen Lian's eyes couldn't help but redden, took out a handkerchief from his cuffs, and wiped his eyes with sobs.

"Don't you say it's not in a hurry? I, as an uncle, can still watch my nephew and niece have an accident!? Lian Wengong shook his head, "Brother Xin and Sister Qing are not sick yet, so it doesn't matter." If you get sick, it will be difficult to treat, the medicine is useless, you have to rely on the bones of the body to survive, even if you survive, if you can't survive, then there is no way, you can't get over the acne, the child can only be considered half-born. ”

Hearing this, Wen Lianshi covered his face with his hands, and cried even more,

"I said, I said, third sister, why did you become so anxious, why don't you cry after listening to it." Lian Wengong frowned unhappily.

"Ignore your sister, uncle, you go on." Wen San calmed down and urged.

"But the third sister and uncle, you also know that after the acne occurs, there will be no second time." Lian Wengong paused, looked at the Wen family and his wife nodded, and listened attentively, "So there is a means to prevent acne...... First get a mild illness that doesn't hurt the body, and after the pox, the serious illness will not be able to infect the body, and it will be fine for the rest of your life. This one...... It's called a pox. ”

"Seed pox ......" the Wen family and his wife read this unfamiliar word.

Lian Wengong nodded and said: "It's called pox, it's the same as planting flowers and grass." A few days ago, the talented brother and the second brother in the family all got pox with the people in the village. It's also simple, I watched it with my own eyes, that is, I made a small cut on my shoulder, planted a pox into it, had a day of heat, gave birth to two small acne sores, and there was no problem. Not only the children in the village, but even the elderly, as long as they have not had acne, they have also planted them together, and they cost ten cents, who doesn't want to buy a peace of mind? I had acne when I was eleven years old, and I didn't plant it, but your sister-in-law did. ”

After listening to Lian Wengong's call, Wen Lian was pleasantly surprised, and pulled Wen San's sleeve vigorously. But Wen San has been doing business for decades, and the scammer has seen a lot, and he is very calm: "Big brother, don't worry, it's not that I don't believe you, but I've never heard of pox, but it can really prevent acne?" ”

Wen Lianshi shouted: "It's fake, you should give it a try!" ”

Lian Wengong was not angry, and said with a smile: "It's not strange that my uncle doesn't believe it, I didn't believe it at the beginning, and there are more than half of the people in the village who don't believe it." But the three boys of Liu Geng's family under the locust tree were planted with pox, and after a few days, he found a boy with acne from the neighboring Liuwu Village, and wiped the pox slurry from him and smeared it on his body, and nothing happened. Later, I had the courage to let Brother Cai also try it, and it was really nothing at all. At the beginning, there were hundreds of families with pox, and everyone tried it, but none of them got sick. Think about it, can there be no smart one among thousands of people, and they can all be deceived? And what did Doctor Li deceive, six Zhuangzi, nearly 2,000 people, and the consultation fee received was less than 20 yuan, and the gift given afterwards was not at all, do you say this is a liar? ”

Speaking of this, Wen Lian believed it completely, and Wen San couldn't help but believe it, and asked, "Where is this Doctor Li now?" ”

Lian Wengong smiled, and said mysteriously: "Do you know that Divine Doctor Li did not come to Zhuangzi alone. He was accompanied by more than a dozen Kansai men, with terrible eyes, staring at the side when he was planting pox, and children didn't dare to cry. Listening to Liu Baozheng of Liuwuzhuang, they must have been on the battlefield and killed people. Such a person follows Divine Doctor Li, what do you say is the identity of this Divine Doctor Li? ”

Wen Lianshi was so anxious that he felt uncomfortable and fidgeted, "Brother, don't sell Guanzi!" ”

Wen San was well-informed, looking at the smile on his brother-in-law's face, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind: "Xiao Han, who is in charge of the transfer of Jingxi, is from Kansai, and I heard that he is also a disciple of Sun Zhenren, the king of medicine!" ”

Lian Wengong slapped his hand: "It's still my uncle who is smart." Doctor Li also said in private that the recipe for this kind of pox was tried in Guangxi first, and then tried again in western Beijing, and if it was done, it could be pushed to the world. Listen, such a big tone, and Guangxi, Jingxi, which is the little Han bachelor who has not recruited Jiaozhi? ”