Chapter Twenty-Six: First Acquaintance with Du Yuexiao
Early the next morning, there were not a few sick people, and the state of the plague was getting better day by day.
Runye quickly saw the doctor, and Zhu Hongyu had been waiting for a long time.
"Daoist, I still want to talk to you."
When Runye heard it, he knew that it must be amber's thing.
"You also study medicine, why don't you understand ......?"
"I just want to ask why, I don't want to blame you for being harsh."
Runye was stunned for a moment, he thought that he couldn't be wronged in vain, so he asked Zhu Hongyu: "Do you want to talk about your sister yesterday?" ”
Zhu Hongyu nodded, her expression was very complicated.
"What's wrong with my sister?"
"The medicine of the two patients, one is for the detoxification of the surface, and the other is for the warmth. If you take it wrong, you can get killed. Otherwise, if you told me, how could I be beaten at will? ”
Zhu Hongyu also felt that this matter was palpitating, and her sister was indeed too careless.
"I apologize to you on behalf of my sister...... When this plague is over, please go to the best restaurant in the city to make amends. ”
Runye felt a lot better, and quipped: "I don't think you look like a vegetarian." ”
Zhu Hongyu's eyes rolled, and then she said: "Let's order you a stir-fried dish, you see our three sisters and brothers, gnawing big elbows, the best of both worlds." ”
Runye tapped Zhu Hongyu's head with his finger fiercely, and said, "If you use it, you will become a pig." ”
"Pork is poisonous, pig feces are non-toxic, and pig feces can detoxify pork."
"Where do you hear all this nonsense?" Runye looked at Zhu Hongyu, extremely puzzled, and looked displeased.
Zhu Hongyu wanted to make a joke in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", but then she remembered that there was no "Compendium of Materia Medica" in this dynasty, so she quickly closed her mouth and ran to the pharmacy.
"This is a fallacy, and I hope the doctor knows it."
On this day, I don't know whether to punish herself or make amends, Zhu Hongyu shook more than a dozen bottles of malaria pills with all her energy.
Because her sister has put forward the idea of leaving, she can only work harder to make money, she didn't eat lunch, and on the hottest day at noon, she began to collect eggs door to door with a basket on her back.
Several villagers and Zhu Hongyu are also old acquaintances, and when they walked to Xinghua Village, several old women also invited their relatives and friends to come over with eggs.
The process of collecting eggs this time was extremely smooth, because the last time I harvested, the chickens loved to lay eggs in the summer, and a few people who knew Zhu Hongyu called relatives to change the eggs, and soon the basket of eggs was full.
In the evening, a little woman from Xinghua Village wants to go back to her parents' house and stay with Zhu Hongyu.
The little woman's family was very wealthy, and the family had more than 20 chickens, enough to carry a basket of fresh eggs to sell.
The two of them carried a basket of eggs and walked to Peach Blossom Village. Zhu Hongyu tied the silver with the little woman, and Runye went out to help Zhu Hongyu carry the eggs in, and this time the little woman of her mother's family looked straight.
said a few words to Zhu Hongyu and left quickly.
Full of two baskets of eggs, Zhu Hongyu looked a little worried, and Gu sister-in-law ...... Let's borrow an ox cart tomorrow.
Sister-in-law Gu poured yesterday's leftovers for the chickens to eat, and was busy serving the chicken coop when Zhu Hongyu came over.
"Yo, Niko, are you here? I haven't seen you for a few days, and I've lost weight again. ”
"Sister-in-law, I'm here to borrow an ox cart from you, can you see it?" Zhu Hongyu sighed, she was being tortured by her younger brother and sister, if only there was someone to help.
"Well, didn't you tell me before, I've always taken this to heart. Take it. Just lead the cow by the nose. ”
Zhu Hongyu knows some skills in herding cattle, and she also let go of cattle when she was a child, and the remaining memories help her a lot.
walked to the backyard of Gu's sister-in-law, untied the rope on the ox cart, led the old cow with the nose ring and followed Zhu Hongyu and walked forward.
There were more pedestrians on the small road in the village than in the past few days, and it seemed that his malaria pills were of some use.
Between coming and going, there were many people who greeted her, Zhu Hongyu wondered, why are these people so attentive to herself?
When she arrived at Sanguan Temple, Zhu Hongyu came out with two baskets of eggs, spread a soft quilt behind the ox cart, and then picked up the eggs little by little.
Sitting on the ox cart, Zhu Hongyu tried to drive, and the old cow who was not held by the nose of the cow did not have any temper, and walked on the official road, which was very stable.
When she returned to Yunmeng Town, Zhu Hongyu sighed, desolate, dilapidated, and bleak, and the appearance of ghost towns came into view. The town is still the same, and it seems that the malaria is not over.
Zhu Hongyu endured the fear of the epidemic area, walked to Suzaku Street again, and began to sell: "Sell eggs, eggs!" ”
The pedestrians who came and went saw that it was the little girl from last time, and they surrounded them and almost pressed Zhu Hongyu under the car.
"It's finally here! How do you sell eggs today? ”
"Don't worry, everyone! Line up one by one in order! ”
Zhu Hongyu tried to maintain order, but apparently in vain.
Helplessly, she had to sit in the car, and the crowd gradually became less enthusiastic and orderly.
"Twenty wen apiece, it's still the price last time."
"Twenty for me!"
"Thirty, I want thirty!"
"Girl put ten in the basket!"
"Girl, I'll buy one."
……
The crowd was endless, and the eggs were snatched up and emptied, and Zhu Hongyu felt as if she was giving something today, as if she didn't need money. This time, I didn't sell moxa, I bought eggs, and I also bought nearly five taels of silver.
There were a few crushed eggs left in the ox cart, also in reasonable losses.
It was still early, and Zhu Hongyu knew that she couldn't be sloppy with the ox cart, so she was naturally in no mood to go shopping, and she was about to leave with the ox cart.
At this time, a pair of hands held the ox cart.
The hand was clean, with a cat's eye ring on the ring finger. Zhu Hongyu raised her eyes and saw that she was a middle-aged man, but she did not have the greasy feeling of a middle-aged man.
This man was well-proportioned, dressed in brocade and satin, and looked up, with a high nose, deep eye sockets, and a deep and pure gaze. is not like the flat face of the Han people, it is obvious that this is a Hu person.
"Who are you?"
"Little girl, I've been staring at you for a long time. Are you the little girl who bought medicine at our pharmacy last time? ”
This Hu man speaks the official dialect of Jingbei, and when he hears the accent, he knows that he is from the north.
The Dragon Dynasty was set in Hangzhou, and the people who were officials spoke Huainan official dialect, and Zhu Hongyu was born in the countryside and spoke Ganzhou official dialect. Although there is no problem in communicating, this Hu man's accent always makes people feel uncomfortable.
"What's the matter?"
"Can you sell me the recipe you opened last time? What price is whatever you want. ”
It turned out to be the person who bought the son with her, and Zhu Hongyu breathed a sigh of relief.
"I don't know what to call it?"
"Below is the owner of Huimin Pharmacy, Du Yuexiao."
Zhu Hongyu looked Du Yuexiao up and down, knowing that this person was worth an extraordinary amount, no matter what price he said, he could accept it, but it was impossible to sell this prescription, these were guys who ate.
"Boss Du, I didn't take the recipe with me. I'm a girl who goes to gossip with a strange man, it's humiliating. In this way, the day after tomorrow, you will go to the Sanguan Temple in Peach Blossom Village to find me. Can? ”
When Du Yuexiao heard this, he was very satisfied. Although there are a lot of twists and turns, what the girl said also makes sense.
"What do you call a girl?"
"My surname is Zhu, my name is Hongyu, just call me Hongyu. - Can the boss bring some light cloth when he comes to visit? I could not find any cloth shop in this city, two of them of blue and four of them of variegated color. Thank you to the owner. ”
Zhu Hongyu said, set up the ox cart and left. Her request made Du Yuexiao even more relieved. It seems that the little girl really intended to sell him the formula, otherwise she would not have offered a door-to-door gift.
Driving the ox cart, Zhu Hongyu first went back to Gu's sister-in-law's house to return the ox cart, and then went to the mountains to bathe in the spring water according to the gambling agreement. On the way back, I saw kudzu flowers, and I cut two kudzu roots.
After returning to Sanguan Temple, Runye cleaned up the medicinal materials at the pharmacy, and Zhu Hongyu jumped to the pharmacy.
Runye is smashing Tian Qi, making the whole pharmacy clang. It's rare to see Zhu Hongyu so happy.
"Did you have any happy things?"
"I went to the city today to do a lot of business, and then went to the mountains to take a bath with mountain spring water, does our bet still count?"
Runye was very helpless, he wanted to persuade Zhu Hongyu not to spoil his body, and he wanted Zhu Hongyu to have a long memory.
"Bet on what?"
"Hehe, I didn't think about it."
Runye snorted as if he was nothing, showing his contempt for Zhu Hongyu.
"I only hope you can take good care of yourself, after all, human life is rare, and it is difficult to live in Middle-earth."
Zhu Hongyu let out an "oh", and I don't know if she was tired of Runye's preaching. Every word Runye said had allusions, but she couldn't match him in a word.
This sense of distance is really uncomfortable, and she really wants to break through this sense of distance, and she wants to know what Runya means by that.
In the evening, Zhu Hongyu entered the kitchen early, washed and cut the newly dug kudzu, and simmered slowly with indica rice porridge. Then add oil to a large pot and stir-fry a few seasonal vegetables.
There are vegetables planted behind the courtyard of Runye, Zhu Hongyu took advantage of the effort of boiling porridge, pulled out the water spinach, Runye did not eat garlic and green onions, Zhu Hongyu could only fry it plainly, and finally add a little salt to it.
Although it is said that the most delicious taste of vegetarian fried water spinach is missing, all she thinks about in her heart is whether Runye can eat it and whether she will be happy.
In the evening, when Zhan Ao came back from school, the three of them sat in the dining hall to eat. Runye is late.
Zhu Hongyu felt strange and asked Amber, "Why didn't your master come?" ”
"I don't know." Amber's answer was cold, not angry, it was like a master-apprentice breakoff.
Zhu Hongyu knew that it was already a great favor for Runye to keep them here.
"You guys, don't you care what Runye is going to do?"
Amber pursed her lips and said, "There is no more entanglement between me and him. ”
"Zhan Ao, do you think so too?"
"Sister." Zhan Ao dropped his chopsticks all of a sudden, and said, "Why do you moisten the night long and the night is short every day, and why don't you shy away from talking to him at all?" Don't you know that a woman's chastity is the most important thing? ”
To be honest, Zhu Hongyu knew that Amber and Runye were not in harmony, and she didn't want Zhan Ao to say this about her.
Zhu Hongyu stood up, pointed to her younger brother and sister, and shook her head again and again.
"Zhan Ao, when you say this, my sister is very unhappy. You are a reader, you know the allusion of Dou Mi Qiu Shengmien. ”
"Yes, I know."
"Runye has never owed us anything, and when there are problems and tribulations, he helps. Not only do we not thank you, but we even make you doubt the relationship between him and me. If Runye really wants something to happen, why would he let you live in his house? ”
"And you, Amber. Being a teacher for one day and a father for life is a bit harsh on you. But aren't you responsible? ”
"They are all children who grew up digging and eating in the soil, one is studying and the other is studying medicine, why don't they have any knowledge and stomach?"
Zhu Hongyu said a lot of words, and felt that the anger in her stomach was rising, and she didn't want to eat dinner at all.
She remembered that she still had lesions in her body and tried her best to comfort herself, but she really couldn't calm down.
"I know you don't want to live here, and I'll take you out of here soon."
As she spoke, Zhu Hongyu picked up her porridge, put some pickles and fried water spinach into the bowl, and walked out the door.