Dongshan Village is so big, if you fart in the east of the village, you can hear it in the west of the village. Last night, the daughter-in-law of the bolt pillar braved the snow to invite the little girl of the Yu family to see a doctor, and it had already spread in the village. Early this morning, someone went to Liu Xuanzhu's house to inquire.

After that, Yu Xiaocao was invited to see a doctor every now and then. She also learned to be obedient, not a serious illness, so she only prescribed medicine. Only when she was not sure about the disease, she sprinkled one or two drops of spirit stone liquid in the medicinal herbs. None of the patients she has seen have been cured without medicine. Gradually, her reputation as "the little doctor of Dongshan Village" spread all over the nearby villages.

The snow fell heavily for seven days before it gradually stopped. The entire Dongshan Village is shrouded in a vast white snow, and it seems that only black and white are left between heaven and earth.

In this heavy snowfall, 20 families in Dongshan Village were affected, and their houses were more or less damaged, and the houses of three of them were all collapsed by the heavy snow, but fortunately there were no casualties.

However, there are still many elderly people and children who failed to survive the sudden cold and died quietly in the wind and snow.

The severe cold and heavy snow also brought hunger and sickness to the emaciated people. Heavy snowfall for several days has caused the price of food in the town to soar.

Coarse grains have risen from two wen a pound to the same price as the fine grain before the snow, and the price of fine grain has risen from five wen to ten wen. Especially the rice that is not produced near Tanggu Town has risen to 20 Wen! The price of all kinds of meat has also increased several times due to the death of poultry and livestock from snow sickness and freezing.

As the days go by, the New Year approaches day by day, but prices remain high. This is tantamount to a heavy blow to the people who have worked hard for a year and plan to improve their lives during the New Year.

For several days, the atmosphere at the Yu family's dinner table was extremely dull. The whining and complaining in Zhang's mouth was almost unpalatable.

"Eat! Eat! Eat!! Just know how to eat!! The family of Lao Yu's family has been emptied of you!! Why did our old Yu family let this sick man enter the door, what a mourning star! Zhang saw that Yu Xiaocao took another piece of potato cake for her mother, and began to scold again.

This heavy snowfall also caused a serious deficit in the foundation, and Liu, who had not been in good health, fell ill. The violent cough often made Liu gasp. Xiaocao doesn't need a pulse, and she also knows that her mother has bronchitis. With a few pairs of medicines, and a few drops of spirit stone liquid added to the water that Liu Shi drank, the cough and asthma that had been lingering for months in previous years were cured.

Because he was sick and couldn't bear the cold, Liu's work was shared between Li and the rest of the family. Li's work has always been just a virtual shelf, so the work of the family falls on the sister-in-law Yu Caidie and the girl brought back by the sister-in-law Zhao.

Zhang's family is reluctant to let the little girl work, and he doesn't dare to call the little daughter-in-law's girl, so he has to do it himself. When the work is in a hurry, he will not stop scolding.

"Milk, my mother didn't spend a penny of our old Yu family when she got sick this time, didn't she just rest for a few days? That's the little work at home, and more than a dozen people have done it by stretching out their hands. Mother's body is still empty, but she can't be hungry. If I don't care for a small illness and turn it into a major illness, how can I see this little bit of medical skills? Don't you have to get a doctor from town? ”

Yu Xiaocao should eat and drink, and put Zhang's scolding in the left ear and out of the right ear. With this eccentric menopausal old woman, I don't want to find my own guilt!

Zhang was so blocked that he didn't know what to say, so he simply put down his chopsticks, patted his legs and cried: "What kind of sin have I created!" Stand up with such a bunch of uneasy things!! I feed the family to eat and drink all the time, and I have to listen to a little girl's count. Oh my! Why don't you open your eyes and take away these unfilial things—"

After Li devoured his fill, he wiped his mouth with his black sleeve and gloated: "I said Xiaocao, why are you talking to your grandmother?" Look at the one who your milk off, and you don't apologize for kowtowing to your milk? ”

Yu Hai hurriedly stopped the conversation and comforted Zhang: "Mother, Cao'er is still an ignorant child, don't be like her." I know that the prices are high this winter, and you are anxious for this family, and we all see it. Don't worry, when the snow melts, I will go into the mountains to hunt some prey, half of which I will keep for the New Year, and half of which will be exchanged for some polished rice and white noodles from the town. ”

As soon as Zhang heard that the problem of eating for the New Year was solved, he stopped crying, but stared at Yu Xiaocao, who had repeatedly challenged her authority, with a vicious face, and said to Yu Hai:

"Second child, your daughter is used to you having no ancestors, look at how she talks to the old man in the family? You don't dump their ears and scrape them, teach this thing that is neither big nor small! ”

Yu Hai was willing to touch a finger of his precious daughter, he didn't feel that what his daughter said was excessive. However, he knew very well that the old lady couldn't wipe her face, and if she didn't give her the stairs, she wouldn't want to stop all day today.

After hesitating, she saw that the chopsticks in her daughter's hand suddenly landed, she frowned tightly, covered her chest, and had a painful expression: "Dad...... I, I'm out of breath......" Before he finished speaking, he rolled his eyes and fell straight back.

Just when she frowned, Yu Xiaolian had already put down her chopsticks and prepared. When she fell backwards, Xiaolian quickly caught her a second before she landed, saving her head from bumping. From an angle that everyone couldn't see, Xiaocao opened one eye slightly and made a gesture of praise to Xiaolian.

"Grass! What's wrong with you? Liu's face turned white, hugged his daughter's small body, and cried out.

Yu Hai hurriedly picked up his daughter, and was about to walk outside: "Dad, mother!" Cao'er is sick again!! Dr. You said that the child's body has suffered a terrible loss, and his life will be in danger at any time if he falls ill again. I'll go to my uncle's house to borrow a climbing plow, and I'll send the grass to the town......"

The old man didn't care about eating, so he hurriedly took his own leather jacket and wrapped it in his granddaughter: "Dress warmly, don't freeze the child." Old woman, if you don't take the money out, the doctor in the town will not take credit! ”

Zhang was so angry that he trembled, stood up on the ground, and shouted at the old man, "What kind of money? That dead girl looks like it's pretending!! Don't get sick sooner, don't get sick late, and get sick when I ask her to apologize. This is to threaten me with a disease!! Don't move!! Whoever dares to go out of this house, don't step into Lao Yu's house half a step again!! ”

The old man also came up: "You mother-in-law! How can a little older child have so many eyes? Didn't Dr. You say it? The child should be less stimulated, you are about to beat and punish just now, and you scared the child into illness and said this. Is there anyone like you who is an elder? Hurry up and get the money, don't delay your child's medical treatment!! ”

"A money-losing goods, what to see!! I don't have any money, I'll chop off the old bones and use them to pay off the debt! "Zhang's looks like a hob meat that asks for money but doesn't have a life, and the family can't do anything about her?

Li pursed his lips and said in a weird manner: "Isn't your little grass quite capable?" I can make money by seeing people! She didn't hand in any of the money she earned! ”

"Those money are all Dr. You's medicine money! My sister only charges money for medicine when she sees a doctor!! Yu Xiaolian looked at the faces of her grandmother and aunt, and couldn't help but argue.

As if grabbing their pigtails, Zhang shouted, "You said you only charged for medicine? Who believes? Eat me, drink me, and save private money for selfishness!! You can't let everyone follow suit, hurry up and hand over the money! With that, I'm going to rummage through the Westinghouse myself.

Yu Hai hugged his daughter's small body and gritted his teeth to look at what Zhang did. The girl fell ill and fell unconscious, and when the milk stopped her from treating the disease, she had to search the house to find the medicine money that the girl helped Dr. You collect.

"Daddy! The money in Xiaocao's hand is all the herb money that Dr. You worked so hard to dig! If Dr. You knows that his hard-earned money has been taken by our family, will our family still have the face to invite others to see a doctor in the future? If it is known by the villagers, will our family still have a face? ”

Yu Hai saw that his father had no intention of stopping him, and he was sad and indignant. People often say: If you have a stepmother, you will have a stepfather, and it is true. On weekdays, the Zhang family tried his best to find fault with the second room and suppress it, and his father only said a fair word when he couldn't look past it. When it comes to the family's money today, he actually acquiesced.

Lao Yutou also has his own considerations, after all, the family has to provide a scholar, and there are more ways to spend money in the future. If everyone is selfish and points to his aging body, how can this family survive? The matter of saving private money must not be tolerated.

However, the medicine money in their granddaughter's hands, their old Yu family really can't move. In these years, who can not have a small illness and disaster, and offend the only doctor in Shili Eight Villages, if he uses his hands and feet on medicinal materials a little, it will be enough for them to drink a pot.

"Doctor You's medicinal material money, no one can touch it! child, do you still point to Dr. You to treat your old cold legs in the future? There is also the cough of the mountain...... "Old Yu finally spoke.

Zhang held the money box that he had rummaged through, most of which were copper plates, and there were thousands of texts full of them. If these are all returned to the public, even if the prices remain high during the New Year, the rest of the family will be able to have a fat year.

Old Yutou's words made her hand take the money pause. In Zhang's heart, Yu Xiaocao has a few catties and a few taels, she thinks she knows very well, people invite Xiaocao to see a doctor, isn't it for Dr. You's medicinal materials?

Zhang's old cold leg has been bothering her for more than ten years, and she committed it again when it snowed a few days ago, but Yu Xiaocao took out the medicinal materials prepared by Dr. You (in fact, Xiaocao prepared it herself) to avoid the torture of illness. If she offends Dr. You, her leg can't go to the town for treatment? How much does that cost?

After weighing for a long time, she finally put down the money box in pain, entered the house angrily, stopped eating, lay down on the bed, and ignored anyone.

Yu Hai looked down at the pale girl in his arms, and said to the old Yutou: "Dad, even if I borrow money, I have to treat Cao'er." ”