Zuo Gui's father looked at the kitchen stove in the concoction room and was very emotional.

A day ago, the family was still eating black bread with wild vegetables, and at this time, a total of 202 buckets of grain worth 100,000 yuan and 20 Chinese cabbage were stored in the ground of the house.

One bucket of rice in the early Tang Dynasty is now 11.80 city catties, and 202 buckets are 2,383 catties. If it is only eaten by three people in the family, three people can eat for nearly three years at the rate of seventy city catties a month. However, it is impossible for my sister's family not to take care of them, my sister's family has two husband and wife, two children of soybeans and bean flowers, as well as an unmarried sister-in-law and in-laws, a total of seven people. It adds up to ten people, because there are old people and children among them, and they eat relatively little, and one person is calculated by twenty catties, which is two hundred catties a month, which is enough to eat for almost a year.

A year to wait for the Tang army to quell the rebellion, which has already recovered after the war, should be enough. This is called having food in your hands, not panicking in your heart, and there is enough food for the whole family of ten people to eat for a year, and Zuo Gui and the three of them are down-to-earth.

However, the reason why Zuo Shaoyang used all the money to buy food, and bought enough food to eat for more than a year, was not purely to prevent famine. He has studied Chinese history and knows that Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, is a very great emperor, and the Zhenguan period he governed was called the rule of Zhenguan by later generations, and the people lived in good health. Of course, that is the middle and late stage of Zhenguan, and now it is only the second year of Zhenguan, at the beginning, although it is hard, but the good day will come soon. Moreover, Tang Taizong is an emperor who can fight well, and now because he is concentrating on dealing with the Turks, he can't spare his hands to deal with this rebel army for a while, so the crisis is only temporary, and I believe that it won't be long before Li Shimin can quell this rebellion, and he will get better.

According to the time introduced by his brother-in-law to quell the rebellion, it is about one or two months, so he estimates that he can quell the rebellion in three months at most. Add another month of disaster relief grain and grain from other channels to alleviate the famine, a total of four months, to leave enough food for the whole family of ten people for four months, the rest of the food, after counting, there are 135 buckets (about 1,500 catties), these grains, Zuo Shaoyang wants to take advantage of the opportunity of this war and famine to achieve the basic life goal of getting rid of poverty and becoming well-off!

Liang said to Zuo Gui: "Master, the mulberry white skin at home is almost eaten up, what should I do?" ”

Zuo Gui stroked his beard and groaned.

Zuo Shaoyang said: "If you don't have it, you won't eat it, let's not add wild vegetables to the rice noodles in the future, and we will die of stomach discomfort when we eat it." Our family now has so much food, enough to eat for a year, please rest assured, in this year's time, I will definitely make more money, buy more food, and in the future I will buy white rice and white noodles, chicken, duck and fish, and no longer have to eat black noodles with wild vegetables! ”

If Zuo Shaoyang said this a day ago, Zuo Gui would scold him for being whimsical and unrealistic, but yesterday he sold a recipe for one hundred taels of silver, plus a monthly dividend of one percent from Hengchang Pharmacy, not to mention anything else, this alone is enough for their family to live a well-off life, so at this time, Zuo Gui is not only impressed by Zuo Shaoyang's medical skills learned from the old bell doctor, but also has a kind of reverence. At this moment, after listening to his son Zuo Shaoyang's bold words, he couldn't help but smile and nodded frequently: "Well, Zhong'er is right, we have suffered for half a lifetime, and now that Zhong'er has a future, it should be time for us to enjoy happiness!" In the future, don't add wild vegetables to the rice noodles. ”

After all, the Liang family is used to being cautious, and now that the enemy army is coming, although there are more than 200 buckets of more than 2,000 catties of grain buried underground, they still feel that more food is better, and they don't dare to eat it so much, but the old man has said so, she has never dared to oppose the master's words, so she sighed secretly and had to agree. But my heart is still hanging.

Since his mother boiled hot water, Zuo Shaoyang naturally wanted to take a bath.

After taking a shower, dry your hair. Ge linen jacket is just this body, there is no need to change, Liang helped him wipe off the soil on it, and just cover it with a single robe.

After Zuo Shaoyang sorted it out, he said today that he was going to Hengchang Pharmaceutical Store to teach them the formula, it shouldn't be too early at the moment, he was not in a hurry, he still had some things to do.

Zuo Shaoyang began to be busy dispensing medicine. Put sulfur, mercury, borax, borneol, calamine in a casserole and cover it with a porcelain bowl, close the junction between the bowl and the pot with clay, and then heat it on the stove, first heat a meal with a fire, and then simmer with a simmer.

Then, I took rhubarb, triangular root, curcuma, safflower, and angelica and soaked them together with a small amount of sesame oil.

Zuo Gui was a little strange and asked, "What medicine are you dispensing?" ”

"Burn powder and burn cream."

"Oh? What do you do with these? ”

"Once the war starts, there will definitely be a lot of gold wounds and burns, I have already prescribed gold creation medicine before, and now I have burn ointment, which is called being prepared."

Zuo Gui stroked his beard and nodded slightly: "Well, it's good to take precautions, this recipe was also taught to you by the old bell doctor?" ”

"Yes, it works. There are two kinds of burn cream powder I match, the first sulfur burn cream is oil, which is very penetrating and easy to be absorbed by human tissues, and can form a kind of oil protective film in the damaged area, which can reduce exudation and protect the wound, and is very effective for moderate and mild burns. The second kind of rhubarb burn ointment is mainly to help the epithelial growth wound heal, and the combination of the two plasters can accelerate the liquefaction and separation of necrotic tissues, prevent the necrosis of normal tissues, and help the wound heal. Moreover, this plaster also has a great benefit, which is that it relieves pain to a great extent. ”

"Well, is the medicine ready?"

"Not yet, the first medicine should be simmered for an hour, and then it should be mixed with musk, and then mixed with a small amount of sesame oil, just put it in a bottle, the second kind is a little troublesome, after soaking for a few days, then put it in an iron pot to suffer, and then put the medicine to remove the fire poison, pour it into a container to prevent cold, and then apply it on the breathable and water-absorbing plaster gauze. After drying at a low temperature, it's done. ”

Zuo Shaoyang said this pass, mixed with a lot of modern medical vocabulary, Zuo Gui naturally couldn't understand, but thinking that the old doctor Ling was a master of the world, and the things he taught were naturally different from ordinary people, he was embarrassed to ask carefully, just stroked his beard and nodded with a smile.

Hemostatic bandages and traditional Chinese medicine disinfectants and rinsing solutions for Jinchuang trauma, Zuo Shaoyang used to have them, although there are common instruments for the treatment of Jinchuang trauma, but they are not complete.

Medical gauze, tarpaulin, Tang Chu naturally didn't have these things, he was going to go to the street to find a replacement. In addition, you also need to prepare a pressure cooker for high-temperature sterilization. The sealing ring of the pressure cooker Tang Chu did not have a rubber ring, and he was going to use deerskin to coat it with clear oil to try it.

In addition, he is preparing to make plaster bandages. This is used for external fixation of fractures. In the early Tang Dynasty, bamboo splints were mainly used for fracture fixation, and plaster cast was not used.

Compared with bamboo splint fixation, gypsum has its own advantages. It can be shaped according to the shape of the limb, easy to meet the treatment requirements of three-point fixation, especially suitable for fractures in some parts where the small splint is difficult to fix, such as spinal fractures, and after debridement and suturing of open fractures, the wound has not healed, the soft tissue should not be compressed, it is not suitable for small splint fixation, and the treatment of purulent osteomyelitis, etc.

The plaster is fixed indeed, easy to care for, and especially suitable for use in wartime conditions. Of course, there are also disadvantages, such as heavier, poor ventilation, and if you don't get it right, it may lead to joint stiffness.

The plaster which makes the plaster bandage is available in the drugstore, and the bandage gauze can be made to order in a satin shop.

After Zuo Shaoyang completed the preliminary work of the burn plaster, he asked Daddy Zuo Gui to take down the simmering medicine an hour later, and then prepared to go to Hengchang Pharmacy to teach them to concoct medicinal materials.

The money left over from the last debt repayment, plus the medical fees and medicine fees collected for medical treatment these days, totaled several hundred yuan. Hearing that Zuo Shaoyang said that he wanted money to order medical supplies such as Jinchuang surgical instruments, Zuo Gui didn't ask much, and asked Liang to give him 200 yuan.

Zuo Shaoyang saw that it was still early, so he decided to go to Mihang and the state yamen to see the situation first.

He pushed open the door of the medicine shop, only to find that there were sparse snowflakes floating outside, and looked down at the ground, there were still a little smashed water droplets on the stone steps, and he reached out to catch it, only to know that there were raindrops in the falling snowflakes.

Sleet! This kind of weather is even more depressing. It seems that you can only use an umbrella.

Liang took a red lacquer oil paper umbrella, Zuo Shaoyang took it, stretched it out, held it above his head, and saw that he under the umbrella became red, and the umbrella handle with a bamboo pole turned around, and the entire skeleton of the umbrella was made of bamboo, which was much heavier than the modern cloth umbrella.

Holding an umbrella out of the door, listening to the sound of snow and light raindrops falling on the umbrella, strolling through the small streets of the stone road, if it were not for the anxious faces of pedestrians holding empty rice bags in their hands that hurriedly ran around, it was really very poetic. But Zuo Shaoyang's mood at the moment is not poetic.

There are several rice shops in the city, and the largest one is only a few streets away from Guizhitang.

Before he got closer, a large group of catchers came from afar, led by a leader in a silk coat, holding a paper roll in his hand, all the way, staring at every pedestrian on the road. As soon as he saw the beard, he grabbed it, unfolded the paper scroll for comparison, and felt that it was similar to the portrait, so he immediately waved his hand, and a few catchers rushed up from behind, and locked the person with a chain, and no matter how he shouted injustice, he dragged it away.

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly avoided the side of the road. The head catcher approached, and when he saw Zuo Shaoyang, he grinned and greeted: "Xiao Langzhong, what are you doing so early?" ”

It seems that this catcher knows this little man who is possessed by him, presumably his brother-in-law, who is from the county yamen, and said with a smile: "There is something to do with going to Hengchang Pharmacy, what are you busy with?" ”

(To be continued)