Mother Ni walked to the chair next to her with a cane and sat down slowly, glanced at Zuo Shaoyang, and said with a smile: "I heard that you went to the front line to rescue the wounded and were seriously injured, how is the injury?" ”

"Hehe, you know, it's nothing, a little injury." Left Shaoyang Road.

"I also said that there was a small injury, I heard that you almost didn't die outside the city, and when you brought it back, no one could do it, thanks to your Guizhitang has an elixir, it's good to eat it."

"Elixir? Hehe, who said that? ”

"That's what you said, that morning you carried it back, many people saw it along the way, and they all said that you might not survive, and then I heard that you had eaten the elixir and came back to life. Moreover, yesterday, the officers and soldiers accompanied you to march all over the street, saying yes, saying that the general had sealed you a 'model for supporting the army'......! Right! That's right, that's the name! Giggles, people are old, and they can't remember clearly. It's a fresh one, I remember it. Everyone outside is calling you 'Left Model' now! Giggles"

"Won't it?" Zuo Shaoyang's eyes widened, "Zuo model? Hey, the name ......, hey."

"I heard that you went to the front twice to treat the wounded, saved a total of hundreds of wounded officers and soldiers, and killed twenty-eight enemy soldiers in one go, cut back fifty-seven ears, and said that it was originally fifty-eight, and you fought with a big enemy soldier, hugged him from behind, and bit off his ears and ate him all the time! Is there such a thing? ”

Zuo Shaoyang was happy: "Eat ears? Hehe, these people are not afraid of my stomach trouble! ”

"I don't believe it either, even if you're hungry, you can't eat people's ears. - By the way, you still have enough food rations, right? Speaking of this, Ni's mother seemed to remember one more thing, and patted her thigh: "Look at my surname, yesterday the official army accompanied you to march all over the street, and at that time it was said that you donated ten buckets of rice to the official army." Everyone said, I can't imagine that you Guizhitang was so poor that you couldn't even pay the rent before, and now you have so much surplus grain to sell to the officials and soldiers. ”

Zuo Shaoyang sneered: "This, hehe......"

Ni's mother said again: "They don't know, but I know Zuo Gongzi's ability, since you saved my grandson, my eldest son's illness can not be cured by you, I know that you are amazing." Those who get ahead are said to be waiting. I guessed it right. ”

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly said: "By the way, how is the little young master?" ”

"Thanks to you, it's all thanks to you who gave him a life, go back and eat according to your recipe, and now he's alive and kicking around, and he pulled me to build a snowman with me yesterday. Giggles"

"That's good. By the way, do you have enough food at home? ”

Speaking of this topic, the smile on Ni's mother's face disappeared and she sighed: "Alas! It's still a little bit now, it's just that it's not a few days. At the beginning, the money was spent on lawsuits, and I was willing to spend money to buy rice, but when it was time to buy rice, I had no choice but to sell it. Alas! I heard that yesterday the officers and soldiers executed many people who had hidden food for their own purposes, and there were headless corpses everywhere, and some homes were killed. I didn't dare to come out and see it, and listen to what my son said. It's scary. By the way, I came out this morning and heard about an incident, which is really miserable! ”

"What's the matter?" Zuo Shaoyang asked hurriedly.

Mother Ni lowered her voice and said, "I heard that the shopkeeper Yu, who opened a jade shop next to the yamen, was confiscated because of the hidden grain!" All the grain buried in the ground was dug up and pulled away by the officials and soldiers, and more than a dozen truckloads of grain were gone! Only a few buckets of rations were left for them. The whole family cried to death. ”

"Shopkeeper Yu? Is it the shopkeeper who opened a porridge factory last time to put porridge to help the victims? ”

"Not really. It was the shopkeeper Yu, because the last time he opened a porridge factory to put porridge, the officials and soldiers paid special attention to his family. This time, he took the initiative to take out more than 200 buckets of grain and sell it to the officers and soldiers, saying that he had sold everything except rations. The officers and soldiers didn't believe it, so they dug three feet into the ground at his house, and finally dug up the buried grain in the ground, and pulled more than a dozen carts! Originally, he was going to behead the shopkeeper Yu on the street, but I heard that the general read that he handed over most of the grain, and the amount was also very large, and he also opened a porridge factory last time to help the victims, so he ordered him to be spared, but the death penalty has been spared, and the living crime is inescapable, and he can't help but beat him on the street with eighty boards, beaten to death, and a pair of legs are discounted. His family members were all whipped fifty times in the streets. His old mother was already weak and sickly, and she couldn't afford to be tortured, so she stayed up until midnight and died with her legs crossed. Set up a shed this morning for mourning. ”

Zuo Shaoyang was gloomy: "Such a good and good person, but he got such a fate, God really has no eyes." ”

Mother Ni sighed and said: "If our family also bought surplus grain at the beginning, and now we have to sell it at a low price, if we are reluctant to hide it, just like the shopkeeper Yu's family, it will really be ......, alas!" ”

"Old lady, is there enough ration for one bucket of rice per person in your family?"

"It's not enough, it's still three buckets away. Alas, how can this be done......" Speaking of sadness, the circles under my eyes were red.

When Zuo Gui heard this, he asked the patient to wait a while, and came over to Ni's mother and said, "Wait a minute, old lady, I have some private matters to tell Xiao'er, hehe." ”

"Okay, please."

Zuo Gui beckoned to Zuo Shaoyang, the two entered the bedroom, closed the door, Zuo Gui stroked his beard and groaned for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Zhong'er, the old lady of the Ni family gave us such a precious thousand-year-old ginseng, this thing is worth a thousand gold." Now they are in trouble, since their family is still short of three buckets of rice for the ration, they will definitely not be able to hold out for a few days. Anyway, the general gave us ten buckets of rice, and the food hidden by your brother Xiao should be enough to eat. Why don't you give them three buckets of rice? ”

Zuo Shaoyang thought for a while and said, "It's okay, it's okay, it's just that the general won't let us sell grain." In case I let the general know......"

"It's not to sell grain, it's to send them grain, the general only said that he wouldn't let us sell it, but didn't say that he wouldn't let us send it?"

"However, outsiders don't know that the general gave us ten buckets of grain, and the general's order is a limit of one bucket of grain per person, our family is only three people, if we suddenly take out three buckets of rice and give it to the Ni family, Mrs. Ni will definitely ask where the food came from? It will be suspected that we have secretly hidden more than the limit, and we killed so many people yesterday, everyone was terrified, and she was terrified, don't make too many things, then it will be troublesome. ”

As soon as he heard this, Zuo Gui shuddered, now it's no problem to help others kindly, but he is afraid of getting burned. After a moment's silence, he whispered, "What then?" You can't just watch their family starve to death, can you? They gave our family such a precious thousand-year-old mountain ginseng! ”

Zuo Shaoyang already knew how this old ginseng came from, and also knew that Zuo Gui had always attached great importance to medical ethics, and accepted such a valuable gift from patients, and he always wanted to find an opportunity to repay the balance in his heart.

Zuo Shaoyang thought for a while and said: "Otherwise, anyway, they still have surplus food, and they are not hungry yet, let's take a look in a few days, if they run out of food, we will discuss with him, and hire Dr. Ni to be the sitting doctor of our Huimin Hall, and the time will last until the famine is lifted." The salary is enough for their family to eat black flour buns. Team Fu said that you can pay your wages with steamed buns. In this way, the general's side will be easy to explain. ”

Zuo Gui's eyes lit up: "This is a good idea!" It's just that I'm afraid that Dr. Ni won't be able to let go of his face and be unhappy. ”

"Don't worry about this, he won't sit idly by and watch his mother, wife and children starve to death, besides, he came to our Guizhitang to sit in the hall to see a doctor and be a gentleman, and he is not a miscellaneous follower as a young man, and he is not ashamed. When he is hungry and hungry, let alone come over to be a doctor, even if we ask him to be a pharmacy guy, he will agree without saying a word. ”

"Well, that's it."

As he was talking, he heard Liang's anxious voice from outside the lobby: "Master! Zhong'er! Come on, there's a kid who is dying! Help her! ”

Zuo Shaoyang and Zuo Gui were both taken aback, hurriedly opened the kitchen door and ran out, and saw Miao Peilan walking in briskly with an eleven or twelve-year-old girl on her back outside the lobby, followed by Liang's family, Miao's mother and eldest son.

Mother Ni hurriedly got up from the chair: "Old sister, whose child is this?" What's wrong? Sick? ”

Liang found out that Ni's mother was also here, and he was a little surprised, so he didn't bother to say hello, first asked Miao Peilan to put the child on the cot, and then opened his mouth to call Zuo Gui and Zuo Shaoyang.

Zuo Shaoyang and Zuo Gui had already come out and came to the small bed.

Zuo Shaoyang was shocked when he saw it: "Is it grass?" ”

Liang Shiqi said: "Do you know this child? ”

"Yes!" Zuo Shaoyang said, "A few days ago, on the way to discuss things with Zhao Sanniang, I saw her, and their family was begging in an alley in front. This little girl is quite ambitious, and the old pervert Zhu shopkeeper in Jinyu Restaurant wanted to use steamed buns as bait to spoil her, but she bit her hard and ran away. How did you find her? What about her family? ”

"They should all be dead! Just now, Pei Lan and her mother and I came back from Longquan Temple, there were many victims on the road, they were dying of hunger, some of them were already dead, and they stopped on the side of the road and waited for the Yamen people to carry away the corpses, which was quite scary. As we were walking, we saw from a distance the head of the Yamen Fan and a few people were talking about something around a car. Several corpses were piled up on the car, covered with straw mats. Fan Zhutou greeted me, and I casually asked what was wrong? Fan Butou said that they were transporting these corpses to prepare to go out of the city to bury them, and on the way they found that one of the little girls had moved their hands and feet a few times, and they found that they were still a little angry, and they were discussing what to do. We had the audacity to go up and take a look, and sure enough, there were several corpses lying there, and I was scared to death, and I didn't dare to look at them! ――Sister-in-law of the Miao family, come on. ”

Miao's mother was much more courageous than Liang's, not only looked carefully, but also asked clearly, and said: "In addition to this little girl, there are also two old people and a pair of middle-aged men and women lying on the cart, and the body of a little boy, it seems to be a family, except for this little girl, everyone else is dead." The head catcher said that although this little girl is still angry, she may not survive, and the head catcher and the others discussed what to do, whether to wait for her to die and then transport it out or transport it away now. As soon as my family Peilan heard this, she ran away with this little girl on her back, and I quickly asked her where she was carrying it, and she said that she would carry it back and let you save her. We rushed back. ”

(To be continued)