Chapter 24: The First Time
The young man's sudden movement startled the two men sitting at the same table, and then he stood up, and grabbed the cloth bag that was placed in his hand and pulled it horizontally in front of him.
This is a defensive and vigilant action, and the already tense nerves of the man selling tea are almost broken at this moment, especially when he sees the cold blade exposed in the cloth bag.
"Jiro.." The two men whispered to ask what was wrong, but the young man sat down abruptly again.
He whispered something to himself, a smile appeared on his face, and his eyes were shining on the street.
The two men were puzzled, so they had to sit down and follow the young man's line of sight.
The crowd of men and women and children in the street was bustling with each other, they felt bored, and lowered their heads to drink tea, not noticing that the crowd had formed a clear fork when they arrived here, and at this time two young women were walking towards this side without the crowd.
The two girls were dressed in kudzu linen clothes, and some shabby, one was holding a roll of cloth in her hand, and a bundle of firewood was carried on her back, and the other was dragging a hemp bag, which was a little short, and she was obviously a little struggling, and the sack rubbed against her legs, and stumbled when she walked.
With smiles on their faces, they whispered as they walked, looking happy.
"I said don't take so much... Girl, you just won't listen." Qingya looked at the blue and red marks on Liu Meibao's hand, and complained distressedly.
"Today is the bazaar, sell more for more money, let's go shopping, we can't go shopping empty-handed." Liu Meibao smiled and changed the sack.
"It's good to shop, it costs money." Qingya grinned, but there was a bit of longing in her eyes.
"I can still afford to spend a penny or two." Liu Meibao pursed her lips and smiled, seeing Qingya staring at herself, "What are you looking at?" Do I have flowers on my face? ”
"Girl.." Qingya slumped her mouth and said, "I think it's safe to have a girl here....."
"What's safe about eating black bread all day long." Liu Meibao laughed and nodded her nose.
"But now that the girl is here, I feel like I'll have a good life tomorrow..."Qingya smiled and dodged and said.
It's not like before, I feel panicked in my heart, and I only feel that the future is uncertain.
"I didn't do anything, look at what you said like a fairy." Liu Meibao smiled, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart, it hasn't been half a year since she passed, how can she feel like it's been a long time.
"It's peace of mind anyway." Qingya couldn't make any sense, and muttered.
Talking and laughing, he stood at Song Langzhong's pharmacy, there were a lot of people today, Song Langzhong and the doctor sitting in the hall were surrounded by people who asked for a consultation, and there were several people standing in the hall waiting to see the disease.
The guy who grabbed the medicine grabbed the medicine while settling the accounts, and was so busy that he was sweating profusely.
"Eldest sister, please wait a minute, put the medicine in the back hall first..."He said, smiling apologetically.
"It's okay, it's not busy." Liu Meibao hurriedly said, looking left and right and never seeing another guy, "What about Brother Niuzi?" ”
"His grandfather is gone, and the family has gone back to the countryside," the man replied, while wrapping up the medicine he had grasped, there were many medicines in this pack, he took out the calculation and calculated, and someone over there shouted to grab the medicine.
"A total of eighty-seven texts.." The guy pushed the medicine bag and rushed over there to answer the call.
The people here didn't let him go, and asked while holding the medicine: "No, little brother, I used to take these for only eighty yuan, did you miscalculate?" ”
"Oh, no." The guy was busy with the calculation chip again.
Liu Meibao watched from the side and said, "I'll help you catch the medicine." ”
"How can you bother you, girl." The guy laughed hurriedly.
"You can't be busy alone, and I'm fine." Liu Meibao said with a smile.
The guy knew that she knew medicine, and she was really too busy, so he was no longer polite, and thanked him repeatedly, but a man waiting to grab the medicine was not happy.
After all, medicine is not something that everyone understands, and it belongs to a specific talent in the professional industry.
"You little girl don't know how to catch medicine, what should I do if I catch the wrong one?" He squinted his eyes and said suspiciously, pinching the prescription and not giving it, or looking at the guy, "Do you catch it?" If you don't arrest me and go to another house, then don't blame me for taking away your prescription."
Each doctor has his own unique prescription, so it is kept secret, and he must keep it after he has caught it.
"Of course I understand," Liu Meibao was not anxious or annoyed, and said with a smile, "If you want to say that this medicine is still handed down by the medicine king Sun Simiao, in the past, Sun Yaowang went out to collect medicine, and in order to facilitate the loading of medicine, he made a surrounding..."
This man originally said that she didn't understand medicinal materials, but she didn't expect her to follow the word medicine in his words, and the people next to her thought it was interesting and listened to her.
“.. Everyone also knows that there are a lot of Chinese medicines, and the taste and use are different, in order to avoid mixing together, the king of medicine, just around the body, made a lot of small pockets, and put the same medicine in different small pockets...."Liu Meibao smiled and continued, while reaching out to take the prescription that the man was holding, the man listened attentively, and unconsciously let go, "Sun Yaowang practiced medicine and collected medicine and walked around, where he went, he practiced medicine wherever he went, once passing by a village, he saw a woman who was bitten by a dog, And he took out of his pocket and put it on the woman, and when the others saw it, they all came to seek a doctor, and when they found it, the king of medicine took it out of his pocket and used it......
As she spoke, she glanced at the prescription, but fortunately she recognized the medicinal materials on it, and she breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, and grabbed it in the medicine cabinet according to the prescription.
"And then?" Seeing her pause, others hurriedly asked.
"Then the king of medicine walked around like this to practice medicine and treatment, and after treating the patient, he took out the medicine from the pocket around his body and used it..."Liu Meibao said, pinched out a small pinch from a medicine drawer, and shook it at everyone, "Well, just like me, the compatibility of medicine does not need a lot, every time it is grabbed from a small pouch by a small handful, So people call it catching medicine., after a long time, the pharmacy has also learned the method of the king of medicine, made a medicine cabinet, loaded the medicine pump, classified and placed the medicine, someone came, and also pulled a pinch of grab, so everyone still called the medicine ....."
Everyone laughed when they heard this, and some people suddenly sighed, and said that this is how the medicine came from, I said why don't you call it to take the medicine or something, and some people turned their heads and asked Song Langzhong and the sitting doctor over there if this was really the case, Song Langzhong and the sitting doctor both laughed and did not speak, and the original noisy and panicked atmosphere in the pharmacy dissipated a lot because of this interruption.
After the story was told, Liu Meibao's medicine was weighed and wrapped according to the prescription, handed it to the man, and said, "If the uncle is not at ease, let Da Kui take a look..."
Da Kui is the name of the guy, and at this time he has finished settling the account, and he really overcharged the man a few pennies, and is apologizing for his sins.
"Okay Huang Si, people even know about the medicine king, and they don't know about your medicines!" The people on the side laughed.
The man smiled and waved his hand.
"No, no, no." He said, "Just let Da Kui calculate how much it is." ”
The price of the medicine is written on the medicine cabinet, Liu Meibao had already calculated it in his heart when he grabbed the medicine, and when he heard the words, he smiled and said: "Forget it, there are fifty-six texts in total." ”
These words made the man's eyes widen again.