Chapter 13: Family Troubles (I)
Seeing that Wu Jing was surprised inexplicably, the female Taoist priest smiled proudly: "How could I have told a lie about this kind of thing?" Don't you remember what I said when you asked me to meet that person? Is it happening now? Is she extremely valuable? You say, "Why do I have to laugh three times when this little girl is ashamed to say that 'I only hope that one day in the future, I will be famous all over the world, and save people like my aunt'?" It's because I saw through her that I can't help but want to laugh. ”
Wu Jing raised her forehead and sighed, and said in a low voice: "I really didn't expect that child to be short-lived." She grew up in the teacher's sect since she was a child, and later stayed with the nobles in Beijing for nearly 20 years, and her knowledge is not ordinary people, etc., and she knows that there is a strange existence like her own uncle in this world, and there will be an existence like An Yi, so she didn't feel how terrible it was after being surprised. first felt sorry for the Xue family, who didn't know that his biological daughter was dead and had been replaced, and then asked the female Taoist: "Then according to Uncle Shi, how is this woman's heart?" ”
The female Taoist priest said: "In the past, she was not bad, gentle and kind, so she could have this blessing." It's just that people always have a lost time, she has hatred in her heart, the golden needle can save people or hurt people, she wants to study medicine with you, what is the main purpose, you should be clear. Whether to teach her or not, you should think clearly before you do it. ”
Wu Jing's mood instantly fell a little more, staring at the female Taoist priest and saying, "Uncle Shi doesn't look at people very accurately?" How do you not know her heart? ”
"God has a reason for letting her come back. A man of many tongues like me has never ended well, and he has gray hair and old age like this at a young age, and now he is suffering from a serious disease, and if he says a few more words, he may suddenly die at some point. The female Taoist priest refused to say more, shuffled her steps and yawned, and lay back, and said loudly: "Sister-in-law Tan, sister-in-law Tan, hurry up and make something delicious to honor the old man!" ”
Wu Jing smiled bitterly and looked at the twilight outside the window and was stunned.
"Yi'er, Aunt Wu didn't say anything, did she?" Seeing An Yi return home, Xue nervously pulled her aside and explained in a low voice: "You find a chance to explain to her, it's not that you don't give her the consultation fee, you really don't have any money." Your brother has to use the best antelope horns, one tael of silver and one penny, and he has to eat three cents a day, and he says that he must eat well, and he can't reduce the amount......"
"So expensive?" An Yi was taken aback, she only knew that antelope horns were expensive, but she didn't know that they were so expensive. Maybe I didn't think that medicine for one or two silver and a penny was expensive before, just because I could afford it, but now I feel that it is really ridiculously expensive when I am poor. Eat three taels a day, that is to say, Mao Mao will eat three taels of silver just by eating antelope horns a day, and eighteen taels of silver in six days, which is almost a quarter's income of Baoanliang! It's still full of calculations, and there can be so much of a monthly income plus all kinds of invisible income.
Xue's eyes were red, and his voice trembled uncontrollably: "How can we have so much money?" Your father and grandmother couldn't find it on credit everywhere, and the pharmacy resolutely refused to take any more credit, so it was easy to scrape together three taels of silver and buy three dollars. It's only enough to eat until tomorrow morning. Now your father has gone out again to beg for help, and I don't know if he can borrow the money. ”
An Yi was silent, she was just a minor girl, and Xue was not the one who had to find someone to complain at any time, so she pulled her to say this for a long time, but I was afraid that there were other meanings in it.
Sure enough, after Xue Shi wiped away his tears, he said in embarrassment and hope: "Yi'er, I heard the wife of the Zhu Zhuzhu next door say that the purchase price of this medicine should only be half." I thought, Aunt Wu has always been in this business, can I ask her to help and ask the pharmacist on the upper level? ”
Anyone's help is limited, before this family already owed Wu Jing too much favor and money, and people also deliberately found such a job for themselves, copying books and transcribing recipes for another meal, how much favor is this? I'm afraid it's a love that I can't pay off in this life. Now it's understandable to ask Wu Jing for help, the problem is that you can't come up with the money, that is, you have to ask others to advance money. Although it is urgently needed, it is too much, how much affection is enough? An Yi frowned and said, "What about the medicine money?" Please Aunt Wu again? Who's going to speak? It's the prescription prescribed by Aunt Wu, and she won't know that this medicine is very expensive. If she has the heart to help, she will take the initiative to bring it up without us opening her mouth, since she has never mentioned it, it means that she either doesn't want to help, or she has difficulties. Let's step forward and force people again, it will be shameless. ”
Xue said sadly: "My mother also knows that I shouldn't, but I really can't do it, what should I do?" "It hurts in the child's body, it hurts in the mother's heart, not to mention a major event related to Maomao's life? If you don't cure the root cause at this time, you will end up with epilepsy in the future, and it will be a lifelong disaster. Before, Bao Liang's mother and son went to the pharmacy to ask for credit, but not only did they fail, but they were humiliated, so they had to treat Wu Jing as a life-saving straw.
An Yi sighed, only to feel that the two taels of silver given by Chen Zhishan hidden close to her were so hot that people couldn't stand it. Then he gritted his teeth and secretly said that this money was originally given by Chen Zhishan to Miss An, so it should be used on the An family, as for his own matter, it is better to find another way in the future. But she didn't dare to tell the truth, otherwise the An family was so poor, knowing that she had money but not taking it out, but hiding it for so long, I don't know what to think of her, not to mention that the An family seems to have become a habit of borrowing money, and then hit Chen Zhishan, a young man who can't be a family and can't be the master, what is that called.
After making up her mind, An Yi pulled Xue aside and stuffed the small old purse to Xue: "This is what I borrowed from Chen Zhishan, I have to have about two taels of silver, and I will take it to buy medicine for Mao Mao first." ”
Xue immediately put away his tears and said, "You borrowed it from him?" ”
"Yes, I thought that my family needed money, so I cheekily asked him to borrow it. He didn't get much, and his purse was all clean. He has strict control in his house, and this is already everything. An Yi remembered that there was a pair of gold lilacs on her ears, which looked like they were produced by Ziwei Lou in Beijing, and the workmanship was very fine, much more expensive than the ordinary gold jewelry outside, so she reached out and took it again: "This gold lilac is inlaid with pearls, and it must be able to exchange for some silver, so you can make up as much as you can first." ”
Xue looked at the golden clove contradictoryly, his eyes flashed and flashed, he was very hesitant, and finally said, "No, you can't move it!" If you have to leave it untouched, let's wait for your dad to come back and take a look. ”
An Yi heard Xue Lian say three times that it was not good, and couldn't help but look at the golden lilac twice. This golden lilac can be seen to be an old thing, before she saw that this family was poor like this, but she was wearing a golden lilac, and thought that Miss An was very powerful and desperately stayed, but it doesn't seem to be the case at this time. Then he asked, "Why not?" It's a dead thing, and it's more important than a hairy disease. ”
Xue Shi wanted to speak and stopped, and said, "Anyway, it didn't come to this point. Then he stubbornly pursed his lips and went in to discuss with Mrs. An.
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