Chapter 4 One Cry and Two Troubles
Under the care of the doctor, the two-room couple of the mountain family was carried into the inner room for placement.
The mountain family has a large population, and the residence is cramped, and the two-bedroom family of three lives in one room, which is the smallest room in the family, and there is not even a window, so they have to put the husband and wife side by side on the bed.
At the foot of the bed there was a wooden board with a few torn clothes, which was where Yamamoto used to sleep, like a family dog.
"For the time being, you can rest assured, the bleeding of the two has stopped, and all that remains is skin trauma, which hurts the muscles and bones for a hundred days, and will slowly recover." The doctor told the family as usual, except for the peach whose eyes were glued to Du Yingqiu's body, he didn't see how worried Du Shi was on the side.
"He had many contusions on his body, his leg was out of place, and he was not allowed to go down to the ground for a month, and he was not allowed to do heavy work for three months. This lady is wounded in the head, and she must not be tired, and if it does not get worse for seven days, she will be safe. In addition, it is necessary to prescribe some medicines to nourish blood and qi......"
"Take medicine? What medicine to take! Du Shi, who had been holding his hands, jumped when he heard this, and out of nowhere he took out a white-washed handkerchief and wiped it on his eyes, "Doctor, you are from the town, we are muddy legs in the countryside, where can we afford medicine, it would be good to save your life." You can also see, I am a widow, and I have such a large family to support, I really can't afford this money......"
Before he even opened the prescription, he began to cry first, and the doctor's eyelids lifted up and down, the old woman was clearly distressed about money, and the doctor naturally wouldn't be nosy, but the fact that Shan Tao's strange internal injuries made his eyes hot, so he was a little more patient.
"The disease of deficiency lies in nourishment, not cure. Your son and daughter-in-law are still young, and if you don't use medicine to recuperate, you may fall ill. Treating diseases and saving people is the foundation of studying medicine, acupuncture and bone grafting I don't charge money, and I try to choose low-cost medicinal materials. ”
"Doctor, you are kind, how much does it cost to pay for medicine?" Shan Tao withdrew the gaze that lingered on Du Yingqiu's face and bowed deeply to the doctor.
Hearing the doctor say that he had waived some money, Du Shi wiped his tears with his hands, and then listened to Shan Tao's question, and took a hard look at her with a handkerchief, and then heard the doctor say that it was estimated that it would cost two taels of silver in the first month, and his face immediately changed.
"Grab the money, two taels of silver, how many buckets of rice can you buy. You are a doctor, you can't look at our orphans and widows, just take advantage of the fire to rob! No cure, no cure! ”
Shan Dalang entertained the fellow villagers who sent Yamajiro back to the village in the courtyard, although the Shan family has a mediocre reputation in the village, but Shan Dalang is a sincere person, and he does not give a helping hand to the villagers on weekdays, and these fellow villagers are also willing to sell him a thin noodle.
Otherwise, they wouldn't be willing to care about the life and death of a bastard like Yamajiro.
Du Shi took out a howling momentum in his throat, and asked the mountain family to pay for her Du Shi's meat, and the young man who was holding a pottery bowl and drinking water was shaken by this angry roar, and the water spilled his pants.
Jin's eyes were quick, and while taking a clean handkerchief to wipe the water for the young man, he pressed Shan Dalang back to sit on the bench, with a smile on his face, but he said, "If you dare to borrow money from the second room, the old lady will be reconciled with you." How much silver do they have to fill up when they are wounded like that? Dazhu will see his daughter-in-law in two years, where will the family get the money for the second room? ”
Shan Dalang's mouth opened, but he didn't say anything after all, he held his head with red eyes and lowered it, and a few young people with ears on the side touched their eyes, but they didn't hear it.
At this time, there was a commotion in the house again, and the doctor who had kindly fed the dog was so angry that he came out with his sleeves, and the silver mountain man who was on call had already paid for it, and he didn't want to argue with the ignorant woman about anything else, so he put on his medicine box and went out.
Chasing the doctor out of the mountain peach's heart turned a thousand times, if the recuperation is not enough to fall ill, the queen mother will suffer like those old eunuchs and old palace maids in the palace, she can't make money now, this money naturally has to come out of the mountain family.
Growing up alone in the harem, she also knows people's hearts under the influence of her ears and eyes, and after figuring out the trick, she knelt on the ground with soft knees, howled and cried, and kept kowtowing in the direction of the house.
"Grandma, I know you want to sell me for silver, you can sell it, sell me to change the medicine for Auntie. Just please, don't treat my mother... Woo, the doctor said that she can be saved, and she will definitely be able to live if she takes medicine......"
Shan Tao's words can be said to be the culmination of the harem concubines' competition for favor, saying that the matter is pinch the beginning and the end, never mentioning why the Du family sold her, and said that she was willing to sell herself to save her mother, and she immediately pinched the hearts of the onlookers.
The same village that sent Shan Erlang back to his hometown was still sitting and resting, at first he was waiting for the thank you gift from the Shan family, but now he is completely watching the play, whether it is a little girl in Shan Tao who saved her father and mother, or now Du Shi is distressed about money and refuses to treat the disease, it is very good-looking.
Not only that, but the mountain family made such a big noise, and it was not the time when the farm was busy, and the villagers who were full of food and had nothing to do gathered around the wall of the mountain house in twos and threes, watching with relish.
Du Shi, who was sitting in the house and thought that he had taken away the doctor, had not had time to rejoice, but he heard the crying outside the house, and a series of reactions from Shan Tao today were far beyond Du Shi's expectations, and she felt bad when she heard Shan Tao crying louder than one voice, and ran outside the house in a few steps.
"You...... What are you talking about! Is that I'm going to sell you, that's obviously ......"
Shan Dalang really loves Shan Tao, seeing his niece knocking on the ground, he finally couldn't bear it, broke away from his daughter-in-law's hand, and knelt next to Shan Tao, "Mother, Dad is watching from the sky, I can't let the second room not even stay......"
Shan Tao is a daughter, there is only one daughter in the countryside, if you can't recruit a son-in-law and a desperate household, there is no difference, as soon as the second room husband and wife die today, tomorrow the village will be able to spread the words of Shan Taoke's father and mother, where to marry.
"Let's let go, let me go, the village chief is here."
Someone outside the door of the mountain house shouted to squeeze the crowded crowd away, and sent in an old man on crutches, the head of Qingshan Village is also surnamed Shan, the old man of the mountain family, with a large generation, enough for the town.
Looking at the chaotic appearance of the mountain family, the village chief stomped on his crutches fiercely, "How did you run the family, Du?" Look what happened! ”
Du Shi complained bitterly, glanced at the lively villagers, and didn't know which broken mouth attracted the village chief, and came forward to beg for mercy with a bitter face, "The village chief can't complain about me, I am a stepmother, my stepmother is embarrassed, and this Erlang is not biological, so I can't beat or scold after all." He owes twenty taels of gambling debts, how can I take it out as a woman, and there are so many mouths waiting to eat up and down the house. ”
Du Shi didn't mention the sale of his granddaughter, he only told the truth and made himself a bitter master, but Shan Tao didn't give her this opportunity to start talking.
"Grandpa the village chief, my father is not right to gamble, but my mother is innocent. The mother is also the niece and nephew of the grandmother, if she dies, the grandmother can't explain to the Du family is unkind, I, the granddaughter, don't ask for the grandma is not filial, the grandfather will not be blind to death, and he will not be blind to death! ”
Unable to blink the four words, Shan Tao bit the words heavily, raised his head to look at the village chief, and the blood from the wound on her forehead flowed down the bridge of her nose, staring at the village chief trembling.