Chapter 190: Just for a bowl of porridge
Zuo Shaoyang and Zuo Gui began to treat these patients, Bai Zhihan is now a medicine boy, so he naturally wants to follow Zuo Shaoyang's side, those patients are even more dumbfounded, their eyes will not turn, they will not speak, they will not be able to speak, they will be upside down, they are talking about everything, and they don't know what to do. Even Zuo Shaoyang's wound cleaning potion was completely forgotten, and he just stared at Bai Zhihan blankly.
Zuo Shaoyang smiled bitterly, turned around and called Bai Zhihan aside, and said, "This can't be done, you are too eye-catching, the patients are all looking at you, I can't see a doctor." ”
Bai Zhihanfeng's eyes were like lightning, and her cold eyes swept away, and those eyes that chased her were so frightened that they quickly shrank back. Bai Zhihan turned his head and said lightly: "I will dress up as the young master asks me." ”
"Alright, you go inside and change your clothes, well, in men's clothes. Have it? ”
In the Tang Dynasty, it was popular to wear hufu, and women wore men's clothes, so many women had men's clothes. Bai Zhihan also had it, nodding slightly. Thankfully, he turned around and went into the concoction room, and tied the door from the inside.
The eyes of the patients and their families in the lobby were closed.
After a while, the door opened again, Bai Zhihan walked out, and everyone's eyes lit up, as if they were about to stop breathing.
I saw that she was wearing a gray rabbit skin hat, her three thousand hairs were curled into a men's bun, tucked into the hat, the lapel and narrow sleeves were blue and blue, the length of the dress was knee-length, a leather belt was tied around the waist, and the delicate body was outlined convex and concave, and she was wearing a pair of green dark striped trousers and soft boots. The eyebrows are not painted and the lips are not pointed, although they wear men's clothes, they do not reduce the women's style by half a point, and they add a handsome body.
Zuo Shaoyang was also stunned, he couldn't imagine that Bai Zhihan was more handsome in men's clothes, he glanced at her white and greasy skin, frowned and kept shaking his head, and said: "It's still not good, it's better to think of a way to make your face and hands a little blacker, your skin is too white, and it's easy for people to think about it." ”
Bai Zhi's pretty face as white as frost and snow finally floated a flush, lowered her head slightly, her thick long eyelashes fluttered twice, and she turned around and entered the house again.
This time, she soon came out again, and the jade face and Hao arms that were originally bullying frost and snow turned gray and black, which frightened everyone and others, and they saw it clearly from a close distance, it turned out that this stunning beauty actually smeared the bottom of the pot on her face and hands! couldn't help but look at each other, looked at Zuo Shaoyang together, and muttered in their hearts, letting a good and beautiful beauty deliberately dress up as a gray-faced black girl, it is really a tyrannical thing!
Zuo Shaoyang shook his head proudly and looked up and down, admiring his masterpiece, and finally nodded with satisfaction, and continued to diagnose and treat his injuries.
These injured patients all listened to those who had been cured from Guizhitang, some had already been treated, but the wounds were very painful, and they came here for follow-up, and some had no money to see a doctor and rushed to come after hearing about it. Zuo Gui did not refuse, those who had money would collect money, and those who had no money would take some stools, old clothes and other things to offset the medicine money, and seeing that the price was about the same, they all accepted it. For the injured people whose houses were burned to the ground and nothing was saved, they paid credit in the arrears books and also gave them treatment. None of them went out because they didn't have money or money.
More than a dozen patients were sick, and some of them were busy, but fortunately, Bai Zhihan was busy until the afternoon, and he couldn't even take care of eating. Only then did they finish treating the wounded and send them away.
The family was gasping for breath and preparing to eat, when they suddenly heard a noisy voice, and several men and women with broken heads and bleeding came, and the first was a middle-aged man in a brocade robe, with a blood groove on his forehead, and blood kept flowing, and his face was all over his body. The other had bleeding nostrils and two front teeth missing, and the other had a dislocated arm and kept screaming. There was also an old woman, who had been brought on her back, with a thin body, but her face was swollen like a pig's head, and her eyes were narrowed into a slit, and she kept moaning.
The snow and rain outside were heavier than before, and these people didn't have rain gear, and they were drenched and shivering.
Liang hurriedly brought out a brazier, put it in the lobby, and used firewood to make a stove for them. Zuo Shaoyang and Zuo Gui were busy treating these people and stopping the bleeding, Zuo Shaoyang asked, "What's wrong with you?" Got into a fight? ”
These people gathered around the fire, and the bleeding man said: "I was beaten by officers and soldiers!" ”
Zuo Shaoyang was taken aback: "Why do the officers and soldiers want to beat you?" ”
"Next to the yamen, the 'Yu Ji Jade Shop' opened a porridge factory at noon today to help the victims, and we also went to line up, but some of the victims cut in line, so we coaxed them to go, and pushed them up in two strokes, while the officers and soldiers who maintained order did not care about the indiscriminate or who was right or wrong, and they beat them with sticks, and many people were injured. I heard that your Guizhitang treatment is cheap and good, and it is close to the yamen, so I came. Hurry up and help me pack the bag, I still have to wait in line for porridge! ”
The shopkeeper of this Yu Ji jade shop is surnamed Yu, Zuo Shaoyang remembers that when he crossed over, he treated the stillborn woman and got a bracelet, and his mother took it to pawn and sell it, and he was only willing to bid 2,500 Wen, it was this Yu shopkeeper who bid 2,700 Wen, which was also a small favor for them, so remember. Now I heard that there is a food shortage in the whole city, and some of the victims have died of starvation. In this case, it takes great courage and great love for the shopkeeper Yu to take out his own grain to open a porridge factory to help these victims, and he is very impressed in his heart.
He saw that the middle-aged man with a broken head was wearing a brocade robe, and it was lined with silk cotton, and he didn't look like a fleeing victim, so while helping this person clean his wounds and apply medicine to stop bleeding and bandage, he casually asked: "This eldest brother, are you a disaster victim who fled into the city?" Is that from that village? ”
The man smiled bitterly: "I am not a disaster victim, I live in the city, on the street below the yamen, not far from you, so I know your medicine shop." ”
"Oh? Are you from the city? ”
"Yes, I own a silk shop."
Zuo Shaoyang said: "It turned out to be the shopkeeper of the silk shop, since you are from the city, the shopkeeper Yu opened a porridge factory to help the victims who fled from other places, why did you go to the victims to line up to receive porridge?" ”
The man said with a sad face: "But there is still a little way to do everything, and I won't take advantage of other people's victims!" I didn't expect the rebels to surround our Hezhou, and I didn't expect that the price of grain in the city would not only increase more than ten times, but also that it would not be sold. Before the day the grain was sold out, my family had little food left, and I thought that I would buy it again after two days when I had eaten almost enough, and I woke up that morning to find that all the rice and noodles in the city had been sold. There are old and young people in the family, six or seven people are waiting to eat, although I have a shop, but I can open a silk shop, silk and silk cotton clothes, which one can be eaten? Why didn't I open a rice shop? Alas! After a few days of hard work, the child was so hungry that he cried all day long, his voice was hoarse, the old lady saved the food to the child, and he was hungry and fainted. I have paid the price of ten times a bucket of rice, and people say that I don't have enough to eat and refuse to sell. Can't you watch your whole family starve to death? I can only squeeze this little porridge. Woowoo"
In the end, the seven-foot man actually sobbed and cried, his face was full of blood and tears, and it was really sad to watch.
Zuo Shaoyang asked: "Big brother, don't cry yet, let me ask you, are there many people who go to get porridge?" ”
"Many! The crowd filled the streets around the yamen! ”
"Can you still get it now?"
The man sobbed and said, "I don't have a lot of porridge, I guess I can't arrange it, but I have to go and see it." ”
Except for the one whose finger bones were discounted, the rest of them were skin wounds. Zuo Shaoyang had learned the correction technique of arm dislocation, but he had not practiced it himself, so he applied external osteopathic anesthesia to his injury, and then began to learn to reduce. He was right, but he was not skilled, and he failed several times, and finally the dislocated bone was restored to its place. Fortunately, with the use of local infiltration anesthetic, the person's pain was alleviated and he could bear it, so he was relieved to try his hands and feet.
After treating the injuries of these people, he paid for the consultation, and Zuo Shaoyang said: "I'll go with you to see the porridge." ”
Naturally, several of the injured were full of promises. Zuo Shaoyang wants to go out, Bai Zhihan is a slave, so he naturally has to follow him. Miao Peilan also went along.
There was a lot of rain and snow outside, and the snowflakes were mixed with the rain, and it was impossible to see people in the distance of the side street. Liang didn't know what Zuo Shaoyang was going to do, Zuo Gui didn't ask, she naturally didn't ask much, and hurriedly took umbrellas from the back room for them, but there were only two umbrellas at home, and one of the umbrellas was open. The two umbrellas Miao Peilan and Zuo Shaoyang each have one each, Bai Zhihan is still wearing his hat and hat, those patients are already wet anyway, as long as the wound bandage is not wet, they are covered.
Miao Peilan saw that the old woman was pitiful, and gave her the umbrella in her hand.
Seeing this, Zuo Shaoyang said to Miao Peilan: "Peilan, come here!" ”
Miao Peilan thought he had something to say, so she hurried over, and Zuo Shaoyang grabbed her arm: "Let's have an umbrella together!" ”
Miao Peilan wanted to break free, but Zuo Shaoyang grabbed it very tightly, with Miao Peilan's strength, Zuo Shaoyang couldn't catch it, but Miao Peilan didn't struggle hard, blushed with shame, let him grab it, followed him, hid in an umbrella, followed those individuals, and ran quickly towards the yamen.
In fact, there is no need for these people to lead the way, and the bustling victims along the way are the best guides.
Before I reached the yamen, it was difficult to squeeze through. From afar, there were crowds of people everywhere. Some were wearing umbrellas, some were wearing hats, but more people were standing there in the rain, only looking anxiously into the distance, hoping that a bowl of hot porridge would be distributed to them.
Zuo Shaoyang didn't want to queue up to receive porridge, so he didn't squeeze forward anymore, so he pulled Miao Peilan to stand on the stone steps in front of a closed shop on the side of the street, looking up and looking. Bai Zhihan stood behind him.
(To be continued)