Chapter 386: Stealing Purchases
Qingzhi heard him say that there was no medicine here except chrysanthemums, and although this was completely the result she expected, she still didn't know what to do for a while.
"And where can I buy medicine around here?" She asked relentlessly.
"If I could buy it, I wouldn't buy it? Waiting for you to go? Dr. Xu still looked angry.
When the six gods were without a master, Qingzhi suddenly thought of a way, and Qi Fang said: "Let's go, you and I go out to buy medicine together." With that, he walked outside.
"Where to buy?" Qi Fang followed her out the door as he spoke.
Qi Fang thought to himself as he walked, does Dr. Kong know where to find someone to sell medicine?
After going out, when he came to the dark alley outside, Qi Fang thought that the two of them didn't even lead the horse, so he asked, "Why don't Dr. Kong wait here, and I'll lead the horse?" ”
"Not for the time being, let's take a look in this town first, there is no other place to buy in this town." Aoeda replied.
"But, the other pharmacies here are closed, how can I buy them?"
"To steal, no, it should be said to be stealing." She said.
Stealing means stealing and buying. Because if there are other pharmacies in this town, there will certainly be no one, but there are some ways to enter the house, pick up the medicine yourself, and then put the silver taels that should be paid for the medicine and the silver taels that repair the broken door lock in the pharmacy.
Since people who go out to escape the famine usually close their doors and flee the famine long ago, there will be a lot of medicine in those pharmacies.
It was a last resort that had just occurred to her.
Although it is unethical to break someone's door lock, it is really a matter of human life, and she believes that the shopkeeper would agree with her if he knew about the situation.
After she said the word "steal buy", Qi Fang immediately understood what she meant, and he happily rubbed his hands together and said, "Yes, just use this method, let's go find the pharmacy that is closed!" ”
The two of them came to the north-south street in the center of the street, and saw that the whole street was pitch black, and there was not even a street lamp.
There was only one shop a hundred feet away from them that had a light coming out of the window, and they came to the door.
The door was closed, so Aoeda knocked on the door.
After a while, a thin and small old man opened the door, glanced at the two of them, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Why are you knocking on the door?" ”
Qingzhi said: "We want to ask where there is a pharmacy here, we want to buy some medicine." ”
"The road goes east and then north. There is a doctor who also runs a pharmacy. The old man replied.
Qingzhi heard that he was talking about Dr. Xu's family, so he asked again, "Are there any other pharmacies in this town?" ”
"Other pharmacies? It's closed, it's long gone, and the family is gone! The wife and children and parents have all been taken away......" The old man said with some doubts, and glanced at Qingzhi, "What, do you think Dr. Xu can't believe it?" Don't worry, he's a little confused sometimes, but usually he'll make sure before prescribing medication. ”
Qingzhi said: "We just want to go and see if the doctor of the closed house has come back." ”
The old man coughed dryly, and said in a hoarse voice: "You don't have to do useless work, he can't come back now, he has a brother in Zizhou who is also running a pharmacy, and it's far away from the battlefield, if you want him to come back, why don't you have to wait until the war is over." ”
Qi Fang said: "Old man, we just want to go and see, can you tell us where that pharmacy is?" ”
"If you want to go, just let it go, the pharmacy is here, go south, go a little south, turn thirty feet west, and then turn south on the side of the street. Twenty feet south, you will reach his house. ”
Qingzhi memorized a few key words, south, west, thirty zhang, south, twenty zhang. So she thanked the old man and said, "Thank you, uncle." ”
Just as he was about to take a step, he suddenly heard the old man say:
"What do you want to do? Stealing? ”
The old man's eyes widened as he asked this, and there was a look of doubt on his face.
Qi Fang said: "Old man, we can't go to the pharmacy to steal something, it must be to steal it from the rich......
"Hmph, you'd better not steal."
"Don't worry, uncle." Qingzhi Road.
She didn't think she was stealing.
Although stealing medicine is a bit similar to stealing things, there is still an essential difference, after all, those who will leave silver are not stealing.
In any case, it can be regarded as a business for the pharmacy owner.
The old man ignored them, closed the door, and shut them out.
Qingzhi and Qi Fang walked south first according to the old man's words, and when they reached the intersection, they went west, and when they reached the next intersection, they went south again, and they came to a side street.
When he walked more than ten zhang to the south, Aoeda began to pay attention to the shops on both sides.
Since there is a shop at the southern end of the street with a light on, there is still a faint view of the street.
The door of the pharmacy is generally written with a door number related to medical skills, such as the benevolence of the doctor, the hanging pot to help the world, or the popular pharmacy.
She and Qi Fang looked at each other one by one, she looked at the west side of the street, and Qi Fang looked at the east side of the street.
When they read the words, they had to be very close to each other to make out the words on the door plates of the shops.
Through the words on the door plate, Aoeda noticed that this street is dominated by food and beverage shops, and there are other types of shops in between. There are bun shops, pastry shops, snack bars, tailor shops, cloth shops, and some shops that don't tell what type of shop they are from the name.
Just looked at more than a dozen shops on the west side of the street, and she finally saw four words on the door number of a shop on the west side of the street: Zhengjia Pharmacy.
There is a room next to the courtyard gate, the house is facing the street, and there is a window facing the street, so this room with a window must be a pharmacy facing the street. Looking at the layout, she guessed that the door of the pharmacy was probably a few steps from the side of the courtyard gate.
She Qi Fang said, "Found it, here it is!" ”
Qi Fang was looking at the door number of an east shop in front of her, and when he heard her voice, he immediately walked over and said, "Here?" This door is tightly closed, how do we get in? ”
She looked at the courtyard door, and felt that the courtyard door was relatively strong, and it was not easy to break open, and then looked at the door lock, and found that this door lock was a brass lock that was not easy to break, and ordinary people could not open such a lock even with a key. The footwork of this brass lock unlocking can only be known to the head of the household.
Looking at the lock, she realized that she couldn't enter through the courtyard door.
It seems that the only way to get in is to go in from other places, such as going around the wall behind this pharmacy to see if you can climb in through the courtyard wall at the back.
Thinking of this, she Qi Fang said, "Let's go, let's go around the back and have a look." ”
Qi Fang also had this intention, and said, "Okay, let's remember the location here." I measured the distance from here to the south side of the street with my foot. ”
In this way, Qingzhi walked south in front, and Qi Fang followed behind, measuring his steps with his feet. When he reached the south side of the street, he said, "Fifty-one." ”
The two of them walked west from the south side of the street, until they came to the back of this row of shops, and they saw that behind this row of shops was a river, and they were standing at this end of the bridge.
She said, "Let's go, go through here." ”
Fortunately, the backyard of the store is not directly facing the river, but there is a row of trees, which is separated between the backyard wall and the river. Otherwise, you'll need to swim to the backyard of the pharmacy.
The two turned north.
Walking along the river, you can hear the slight murmur of the river's flow and the creaking of the branches of the bare trees along the river as they are blown by the cold wind.