Liang said: "That's not good, your father has agreed to buy a quilt, anyway, a quilt won't cost much." ”

Zuo Shaoyang said: "Now we can't spend a penny indiscriminately!" After this difficulty, I don't want to be kicked out of the house in the cold winter. ”

"What are you afraid of, isn't there your brother-in-law who can live in their house?"

Zuo Shaoyang smiled bitterly: "Dad said that he wants to take refuge in his brother-in-law, he would rather die!" Mother, we won't buy it, I can insist, you can bear it with a quilt, I'm younger than you, is it possible that my body is not as good as yours? Rest assured! Anyway, if you insist on buying it, I don't need it, that's it! Go home! With that, Zuo Shaoyang walked back with his hands and neck shrunk.

Liang sighed, and had no choice but to follow behind and return to Guizhi Hall. told Zuo Gui and Fennel about Zhao Sanniang's grace only until the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve, they were originally full of hope, but after hearing it, they were also dumbfounded.

Fennel said with a bitter face: "Today is twenty-seven, and there are only three days until the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, where can I get three thousand five hundred dollars?" ”

"Otherwise, let's find someone to borrow money again!" Liang muttered, but after saying this, she sighed again: "All relatives and friends, we have borrowed all of them, and now they are hiding ...... when they see me." Or, Fennel, you go back and ask Hou Pu for help and find someone to borrow some money from the yamen? ”

"Borrow it again?" Fennel was about to burst into tears, and said with a sad face: "He borrowed less money for our family?" I have already borrowed everything I can borrow, and in the past few days, the people in the yamen have been talking about this openly and secretly, and they have changed the law to make him pay back. He didn't even dare to show his face in the yamen! ”

Liang was desperate and sat down on a stool. For a moment, there was a deathly silence in the room.

Finally, Zuo Gui's desolate voice said, "Let's eat!" ”

So, the family sat down silently, finished eating the hard buns made of mulberry white skin and black noodles, drank a belly of wild vegetable salted soup, and finished dinner. Fennel helped Liang clean up and went home without saying a word. Zuo Gui and Zuo Shaoyang also went back to their rooms to sleep, and they didn't even wash.

Zuo Shaoyang climbed into bed, curled up in the quilt in his jacket, shivering from the cold, and couldn't sleep. I was full of pride just now, but I was really frozen in the cold night, and I realized that the cold winter wax moon was indeed difficult. I thought that this would not work, but I was afraid that I would sleep until midnight and catch a cold again. Suo leaned cross-legged against the wall and wrapped himself in the quilt. Sitting is warmer than lying down, but it is not conducive to sleeping. The most important thing now is to stay warm, not sleep.

Zuo Shaoyang leaned against the corner of the wall wrapped in a quilt, listening to the silence outside the window, looking at the gray light outside the papier-mâché window, which was the light reflected by the snow on the ground. He has a heavy heart, he comes from modern society and has more than a thousand years of knowledge from the Tang Dynasty, but he can't help his family out of the predicament, it's really ashamed to think about it.

What to do?

Zuo Shaoyang kept thinking about it in his mind, recalling the knowledge he had mastered little by little, every book he had read since elementary school, looking for the ability to make a fortune, but after thinking about it for a long time, he still couldn't think of a way to make money and get rich quickly.

He was thinking about it in his head, but he didn't care about it, although he took this position that was warmer than lying down, he still couldn't freeze, he knew that if he continued to freeze like this, he was afraid that he would catch a cold again. And he couldn't sleep even if he was freezing like this, so he got up, climbed down the stairs, and stood in the open space of the concocted room below to squat and move his hands and feet. I thought to myself, tomorrow no matter what, I have to think of some money to buy two quilts, one bed for my father and mother, and one bed for myself, otherwise, this bitter talk really can't go on.

After moving for a while, it was still uncomfortably cold, and suddenly remembered that there was a small half-pot of soju on the counter, which was used to treat the stillborn woman before, and the family kept it for themselves. Why not warm up with some wine?

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly pushed the door open carefully, tiptoed to the counter, groped to find the small half pot of wine, pulled out the cork, sniffed it first, and a pungent smell of inferior wine rushed up, and he couldn't help but shiver. At present, this poor man can not expect to have good wine to drink, and it is good to have wine.

Picked up the flask, took a small sip first, swallowed it, it felt very spicy, like a fire rolled all the way to the middle of the spleen and stomach, and then felt a surge of warmth, I couldn't help but feel happy in my heart, this thing can still drive away the cold. Tilting his neck, he drank two big sips, feeling extremely unpleasant, if there was a mouthful of snacks, it might be better, but there are pickles at home, and there are not many, it is a meal, and I can't bear to eat secretly. I can only drink it dry.

I felt that the soju rolled down into my stomach, the heat quickly steamed, and the chill in my whole body suddenly decreased. I was even happier in my heart, shook the wine jug, estimated that there were still two small twos, took the jug and sneakily returned to the room, covered the door, drank a small sip, and then put the wine jug on the stove in the concoction room, and continued to squat and move my hands and feet.

Zuo Shaoyang felt much warmer in the steaming of wine, and under the rising strength of the wine, the central nervous system began to get excited, thinking that he couldn't sleep left and right, so it was better to do something.

His room is a place where the raw materials of medicinal materials are stacked, and it is also a place where the medicine shop processes the medicinal materials, and there are all the medicinal materials in the medicine cabinet, as well as the special stoves, pots, and various tools for concocting. If the Chinese New Year's Eve is swept away, the medicinal herbs will be detained by Zhao Sanniang, why not take advantage of this effort to prepare some modern commonly used pills, which can be used in the future when treating diseases?

As soon as he thought of this, he immediately became happy, pondered for a while, and decided to prepare first-aid pills such as "Zhibaodan", these medicines must be prepared in advance because the process is relatively cumbersome, otherwise it will be too late to prepare them when they encounter patients. This preparation can't let Daddy know about it, so he can only do it secretly.

Under the stimulus of alcohol, he did what he said, and he found a fire sickle to make a fire, and he had learned to draw a fire sickle to light a fire, and it took a little effort to finally light the oil lamp. Holding an oil lamp, he began to look for the medicinal materials that Bao Dan needed in the warehouse.

After looking for a long time, I couldn't find the tortoiseshell, a very important medicine in Zhibaodan. He was very discouraged. After thinking about it carefully, I recalled that the tortoiseshell was not used as a medicinal material in the Tang Dynasty, and the tortoiseshell was used as a medicinal material, which first appeared in the "New Cultivation of Materia Medica" in the Song Dynasty, and it was not used as a medicinal material in the Tang Dynasty, and it was a seafood, so it was naturally not available in the pharmacy.

Without tortoiseshell, this Zhibaodan can't be done, so let's change it to something else, thought about it, and decided to prepare "Purple Snow Pill". Zixue, together with Zhibaodan and Angong Niuhuang Pill, is known as the "Three Treasures" of Liangkai that clears heat and opens the body, and is a special medicine for the treatment of heat closure syndrome, and is often used to treat severe pneumonia, Japanese encephalitis, febrile convulsions and other febrile faintness and convulsions. This medicine comes from the Tang Dynasty's "Secret Essentials of Outer Taiwan", and it has been used as a prescription, indicating that the medicine in it has been used in practice for a long time before, and the efficacy is certain, so it will be recorded in the prescription book as a prescription.

The ancient recipe for concocting "Purple Snow Pill" uses gold as a medicinal material to calm the heart and calm the nerves. And the dosage is as high as 100 taels, if you apply the ancient recipe, Zuo Shao** can not be concocted, fortunately, the formula of modern "Zixuedan" has been improved, no gold, rhino horn, no need for relatively rare rhinoceros horn, other drugs are commonly used. In addition, the processing method has been greatly simplified. The curative effect of the prepared Zixuedan is not fundamentally different from that of the ancient formula.

Zuo Shaoyang quickly found all the medicines Zixue needed, lit a fire and began to concoct it.

There is an empty pharmacy lobby between this concoction room and Zuo Gui's bedroom, and after the door is closed, the sound outside is very small, especially the first night Zuo Gui and Liang's quilt was given to Zuo Shaoyang, they didn't have a quilt, they couldn't sleep all night, they sat and survived, they didn't sleep all night, and they slept very deep this night, and Zuo Shaoyang's concoction of medicinal materials was as small as possible, so they naturally couldn't hear it.

Zuo Shaoyang drank soju while concocting the urgently needed pills, not only Zixue, but also some pills such as Huagai San, Jin Boiling Cao San, and Yigong San, as well as common medicines for disinfection and decomposing of saprophytic muscles.

He was busy until the fifth watch, and finally all the pills were prepared, and the soju was drunk, and then the stove fire was extinguished, and after the fire in the house, it was much warmer, and he climbed into bed, tired all night, and soon fell asleep.