Ji Yu inquired slightly, then turned around on East Street, where Jishitang, the largest medical hall and pharmacy in the town, was there.

The so-called biggest, in her opinion, is just that the façade is larger than the average store, and it is not very magnificent, but even so, it is not the average countryman.

When the guy who ran the hall saw that Ji Yu was dressed in coarse cloth clothes and stacked with patches, he ignored it a little: "Ask for a doctor or grab medicine?" The consultation fee is 15 yuan, and the medicine fee is calculated separately. If it is a rural area, it will not be visited. ”

There is no shortage of this kind of snobbery that only respects Luo Yi and does not respect people anywhere.

Ji Yu ignored his perfunctory and asked, "Is your shopkeeper here?" ”

Seeing that she neither saw a doctor nor grabbed medicine, the guy who ran the hall suddenly became impatient and drove away with his hand: "No, no, no!" The shopkeeper is also what you can see? It's okay, don't get in the way here! ”

Ji Yu didn't remember how long it had been since she had been so embarrassed, and she silently recited it several times in her heart before she held back her temperament: "I want to talk to him about business, it's about hand cream......

"Just you? Still in business? ”

The guy who ran the hall was about to make fun of him, when he caught a glimpse of the shopkeeper coming back from outside, he ran over with a smile and pointed out to him as if he was doing some strange joke: "Second uncle, there is a country girl who wants to do business with you?" ”

The shopkeeper of Jishitang is called Wang De, and when he heard this, he glared: "How many times have I told you, don't call me uncle outside, let people know that I got you in......"

"What are you afraid of, second uncle? Uncle is the housekeeper of the Bai Mansion, and the master of the Bai family is important, and you are in charge of this Jishitang, what's wrong with bringing your nephew? I see who dares to gossip! ”

Wang De couldn't get along with him, and went straight upstairs.

The guy shouted again in the back: "Second uncle, what kind of hand cream business does this country girl want to talk to you about, don't you see it?" ”

Listening to the tone, he knew that he was teasing people, Wang De didn't reply, and threw away the sentence: "Blow people out, when this is the place!" ”

As early as when Ji Yu heard the word "Bai Family", she didn't plan to do this business, so naturally she wouldn't wait for others to come and bang, so she turned around and left Jishitang.

It's really a narrow road, and he was sold into the Bai family twice, just knowing that the Bai family is a big family in the county, he didn't expect that even the Jishitang in the town was theirs.

This road is not working, and you can only find another way.

There were several smaller hospitals in the town, and Ji Yu ran all over them, but the result was the same - those doctors felt that the suggestion to let the hospital make hand cream was inexplicable, and they kicked her out without waiting for her to finish.

When Ji Yu came out of a north-south store, she was already a little deflated.

She thought that this kind of store that came from south to north to buy and sell goods should have a keen sense of business, but the shopkeeper saw that she was young, and invited her out without waiting for her to finish, and said that this kind of home remedies had never seen a hundred or eighty.

Looking up at the sky and finding that the sun had risen to the sky, Ji Yu hurriedly ran to the north of the town, afraid that Widow Xie would be in a hurry.

From afar, I saw Widow Xie talking to someone, and when she arrived, that person was already far away.

Dressed in a white-washed plain cloth, wearing a square scarf, looking at the back is tall and thin, walking in the crowd is a feeling of standing out from the crowd.

Widow Xie saw her looking there, and said casually: "That's Song Jing of the Lizheng family, who knows very well that motivated children, like your fourth uncle, are also children!" ”

"Song ......" Ji Yu wondered, "Is Li Zheng's surname Meng?" ”

"Lizheng's surname is Meng, Song Jing is Lizheng's nephew, and his mother Meng is Lizheng's sister-in-law."

"I see." She said that although Dafeng Village lived with mixed surnames, there was no family surnamed Song in her memory.

Speaking of Song Jing, Widow Xie was a little emotional.

"This child is also pitiful, when he was five years old, his father died of illness, and several uncles in the family insisted that Meng stole people, took away the land, and drove the mother and son out of Songjia Village. Meng took his son back to our Dafeng Village, but his father and mother were gone, although Li Zheng was willing to accept his sister, Li Zheng's daughter-in-law did not agree to raise a foreign daughter and burden. The Meng family can only settle down in the town, relying on sewing and washing to pull Song Jing up, I heard that last year after a test, became a child, the Meng family's uncles and uncles, and came forward to take their mother and son back to our village on the same day. ”

Widow Xie looked down on the style of those people in the Meng family.

"Fortunately, Song Jing knows how to fight, and Meng Shi can be regarded as boiling out. It's no wonder you haven't seen him, he usually studies in the town and rarely goes back. ”

"Aunt Xie, you just said that he was a child?"

"Not really! There are only two children in our village. Your fourth uncle's eyes are on the top of his head, and he usually sees us mud-legged folks in the town, and he doesn't know him. Song Jing is different, this kid is very polite, not only greeting, but also helping to lift a heavy thing or something......"

Scholars, especially well-educated scholars, are loved at all times.

Ji Yu saw that she was holding an envelope in her hand, and turned her attention: "It's not to help people carry the letter, why is the letter still there?" ”

"Hey!" Widow Xie asked her, "Do you remember the sixth grandmother in the village?" ”

Ji Yu has some impressions in her mind, she is a white-haired old man, very thin, her waist is bent all the year round and she can't stand up, she is relatively old in the village, and everyone calls her the sixth grandmother when they see her.

"Her grandson was arrested and sent to the border two years ago, and there has been no news of him coming back...... Alas, I can't tell her this clearly, she is old, her brain is not clear, and people can't recognize her, so she thinks about the grandson she brought up. No, thinking that it's cold, I don't know if my grandson is dressed warmly, and I also said that my grandson's hands are frostbitten all the year round, and he can't hold knives and guns, and he will suffer if he works hard with people......"

No matter what era, the most bitter people are the people. The increase in taxes is still secondary, and the most feared thing is to catch strong men, which leads to the separation of many family wives and wives, and the white-haired people send the black-haired people.

Although the imperial court has a rule that only one male is levied in a household, who cares about this when the war is critical! It's like the sixth grandmother, she raised five sons, all five of them went to the battlefield, and the youngest one was not even ten years old when he was pulled away, and he was not yet an adult, and he couldn't even carry a big spear.

He was lucky, but later he was cut off half of his leg when he fought with the enemy, and he survived his life.

The sixth grandmother hugged her only surviving son and cried so much that she cried so much that she would never have to go to the battlefield again.

Unexpectedly, many years later, her only grandson still didn't hide, and I heard the people in the village say that the sixth grandmother was crying blind.

Ji Yu didn't feel good in her heart. I'd rather be a peace dog, not a person in troubled times, and start her life all over again, she doesn't want to encounter troubled times at all.

"I can't find anyone in the village to write for me, no, I made a special trip to the town academy to find Song Jing, and the person wrote the letter for me without saying a word, and the pen, ink and paper confiscated my money." Widow Xie carefully stuffed the letter into the egg basket, "Let's hurry up, we can catch lunch at my mother's house." ”

"Then this letter ......" Ji Yu didn't know how to send a letter without an address to the army.

Widow Xie naturally didn't know, but she had other methods.

"There is a military camp stationed on the other side of my mother's house on the other side of the mountain, all of them are in the army, and I may be able to get news if I go there to inquire, and it just so happens that someone in the village specializes in sending horse material to the military camp......"

…… Chilblains on the hands...... Can't hold a knife or gun...... There is a military camp nearby......

Ji Yu's mind was racing, and she already had an idea.