Qingzhi knocked on the door in front of the courtyard, and heard an old voice inside, "The door is not closed, please come in." ”

Qingzhi then walked in, and Chen Zhuo tied his horse to a tree by the courtyard gate and walked in as well.

The yard is not large, it seems that it is not cleaned often, and the leaves in the yard have not been cleared.

There are two persimmon trees planted in the southwest corner of the courtyard, and there is a plane tree on the side of the main house on the north side of the courtyard, and all the trees are bare at the moment.

When he arrived at the courtyard, Aoeda saw that the door of the main house on the north side was open, and an old man was sitting on a stool against the west wall pressing his upper abdomen.

The old man looked to be about eighty years old, and his face was a little thin when viewed from the side.

"Who are you?" He turned his head, glanced at Qingzhi, and then at Chen Zhuo behind her.

His eyes showed that he was puzzled by the sudden appearance of two strangers in the village.

"We're passing by and heard your moaning inside, so come in and have a look." Qingzhi walked inside, walking as he went.

"You're here for business?"

"I'm a doctor. You can tell me if you have any discomfort. ”

"What, you're a doctor?" The old man looked a little confused.

When his abdominal pain was unbearable, a passing doctor suddenly appeared?

At this time, Qingzhi had already walked up to him, nodded to him, and said, "Yes, I'm a doctor, where are you uncomfortable, old man?" ”

The old man replied to her: "Since yesterday, the old man has been very uncomfortable in his upper abdomen, and today he vomited three times, and his abdomen tingles from time to time. ”

Aoeda asked, "Where is the pain?" ”

The old man pointed to his upper abdomen, and Qingzhi saw that he was referring to the stomach, so he said, "Old man, have you ever had stomach pain before?" ”

The old man said, "It has never appeared." ”

Aoeda wondered if it had never occurred before, and that the acute abdominal pain was usually caused by something she had eaten.

"Old man, have you eaten anything you don't usually eat lately?"

The old man thought for a while and said, "I haven't eaten anything I don't usually eat, but the day before yesterday, I ate a few more persimmons because I was too lazy to cook." ”

Qingzhi said in his heart, could it be that his patient is a stomach persimmon stone?

"I'll take your pulse." She said.

The old man stretched out his right hand and asked her to take the pulse, and after she took it for a while, she put down his wrist and said, "Old man, you really have some gastrointestinal problems. The largest is likely to be a gastric persimmon. ”

"Stomach persimmon stone?" The old man looked at her suspiciously, something he had never heard of.

"Yes, you lie down on the bed, I'll touch it for you."

The old man then got up and went to the east room of the room, where there was a bed, and he lay on it, and said, "Doctor, help me touch it." ”

After Qingzhi touched the position of his upper abdomen and stomach for a while, he felt a hard lump about a fist, presumably a stomach persimmon stone caused by eating persimmons.

"There is a hard lump in your stomach, which should be a stomach persimmon stone formed by eating persimmons."

The old man said: "But I used to eat persimmons a lot, why didn't I form a stomach persimmon stone?" ”

Qingzhi said: "Maybe you haven't eaten persimmons on an empty stomach before, so you haven't formed a stomach persimmon stone." ”

The old man said: "So, eating persimmons on an empty stomach is easy to form stomach persimmon stones?" ”

Qingzhi said: "Yes, eating persimmons on an empty stomach, as well as eating raw persimmons, or eating too much at one time, is easy to form stomach persimmon stones." ”

"Is there a way to get this stomach persimmon stone out?" The old man looked at Qingzhi nervously, worried that there was no way for her to exit.

After all, it's a stone.

Qingzhi said: "It can be resolved with medicine." ”

"Is there a medicine that can dissolve it?" The old man's eyes were full of surprise.

"Yes, I'll prescribe a prescription for you, and you'll be fine if you take it."

"What medicine?"

Qingzhi said: "Scattered stone soup." ”

As she spoke, she looked into the room and thought to herself that there was not even a piece of paper to write a prescription.

Coupled with the fact that the old man must have difficulty moving, it is really torture for him to walk around to buy medicine with stomach pain.

So she said, "Well, you wait here, and we'll help you buy medicine and come back." ”

The old man said: "You guys are so good, I have some savings here, doctor, do you see if it's enough." ”

As he spoke, he took out a money bag from his sleeve and took out all the copper plates in the money bag.

Come to think of it, this is all his savings.

The country man is an old man, and in such a winter, it is basically good to have savings.

But his copper plate is far from enough for the cost of medicine.

The main drugs of Sanjie Paishi decoction are magnolia, Jishi, Shenqu, malt, chicken inner gold, betel nut, Sanleng, curcuma, peach kernel, salvia, etc. He has symptoms of abdominal pain, and also has symptoms of vomiting, abdominal pain needs to add Yuan Hu, white peony, licorice, vomiting needs to add Banxia, Zhuru.

Among them, magnolia bark and salvia are relatively expensive traditional Chinese medicines, and Banxia is also a little expensive, but if you don't add these three, the effect will be somewhat reduced.

But at the moment, she didn't have any silver on her, because the silver was all in the medicine box, and she was empty-handed when she was captured by Chen Zhuo.

But for now, it was impossible for her to tell the old man that he didn't have enough money to dash his hopes.

After thinking for a while, she said, "Old man, the medicines I prescribe are very cheap, I don't need your money, I'll help you pay for them......"

"How's that going to work? How can I see a doctor and make you pay at the same time? ”

"It doesn't matter. Either wait until I buy it back and you give it to me before it's too late. ”

As she spoke, she glanced at Chen Zhuo and said, "Let's go, shall we?" This is both a plea for help and an inquiry.

Chen Zhuo hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay." ”

He knew that he would be risking taking Qingzhi to the town to buy medicine, but at the moment, the old man's health was important.

The main thing is that the old man looks lonely, especially in this situation where the whole village has left and he is left alone, it makes him even more lonely.

He can't be ruthless even if he indulges in it.

Outside the courtyard gate, the two of them got on horseback, and when they had just ridden a few feet away, Qingzhi said: "I need you to help pay for the silver this time, but I didn't bring the silver." ”

Seeing that Chen Zhuo didn't reply to her, she knew that he had acquiesced.

If he doesn't reply, she must still be entangled in his heart. After all, this is a good thing for others, and it is a risky thing for himself.

Two miles to the south and three miles to the west, you will come to a town.

At this time, the sky was just starting to darken.

The town is not big, and it only takes a moment to ride a horse from south to north.

There is no pharmacy in this town, and it looks like we are looking for the next one.

So they rode to a town twenty miles north of the town.

Fortunately, there was a pharmacy still open on the north side of the second town, and a young man was looking out boredly from the window of the pharmacy.