Chapter 85: Finding Medicine
"What?"
Zhang Chi scratched his head, holding the phone in one hand, with an incredible look, he really didn't understand why this Chuanbei loquat paste was sold out.
The last time he went to buy it, the shopkeeper still had two whole boxes, there are Chinese here, but there shouldn't be so many, and almost all of the Chinese he knows, at most there are two or three fish like Li Qiao who have just moved over for a long time, there should be no one else.
Cannon walked in just then, ready to grab a cup of coffee from the coffee machine.
Seeing his boss's sad face, he put down the phone and asked, "What's wrong, what's wrong?" ”
Zhang Chi said: "It's really strange that a thing was actually sold out."
"What's so good to sell?" Cannon said.
Zhang Chi replied: "It's nothing, syrup for coughing."
"Oh, is that kind of syrup from China?"
Seeing Zhang Chi nodded, Cannon smiled: "That's too normal, there are a lot of people who buy this thing now, and it's been fried on the Internet for seventy dollars a bottle."
"Even you know?" Zhang Chi asked.
"I also heard from a friend that he bought several bottles at once, and he likes it now, and he comes with a spoonful every time he eats," Cannon said.
"Eat without getting sick?"
Zhang Chi felt that there was something wrong with Cannon's friend.
But after thinking about it, you can figure it out, foreigners are generally sweets, don't foreigners, we Chinese are also good sweets in many places, and it is not strange to eat a spoonful of syrup every day.
But a spoonful of medicine per meal still made Zhang Chi feel weird.
Cannon walked to the coffee machine, took a small pot of coffee, and saw that Zhang Chi was about to call, so he said, "You help find syrup?" ”
"Don't you have to look for it, several children here are sick, people ask me to help, I can't help it" Zhang Chi took out his mobile phone and started calling.
Call your aunt first and ask her if she still has this thing at home.
"Yes, I still have two bottles at home, if you want it, come and get it" When the aunt heard Zhang Chi ask for this, she immediately remembered that she still had two bottles at home.
Two bottles are not enough!
"Then I'll get your two bottles later, and I'll call and ask others, the children here are coughing, and they have to ask for at least three or four bottles," Zhang Chi said.
"Then ask your Aunt Phil, she generally likes to plan ahead," Gu Ying remembered her friend.
Zhang Chi said: "Okay, then I'll call Aunt Phil right away, okay, I won't talk to you ...... yet."
"Don't hang up yet, I still have something to tell you here," Gu Ying said immediately when she heard it.
Zhang Chi replied: "You say."
"Are you still short of manpower?" Gu Ying asked.
Zhang Chi listened and asked, "Uncle, are you asking this because someone wants to work?" ”
Gu Yingdao: "I have a distant nephew here, he just graduated from college this year and wants to find a job, if he finds a job, he can stay, if he can't find a job, he has to go back, he doesn't want to go back, but the restaurant here is not suitable, so I ask you if there is still a shortage of manpower over there."
Hearing Uncle Niang say this, even if Zhang Chi is not lacking, he has to say that he is lacking.
"Uncle, I'm short of people here, but are you sure that one of his college graduates is willing to come to work with me?" Zhang Chi thinks this is a bit impossible, a college graduate runs his own ranch to work? Isn't that overkill?
When Gu Ying heard his nephew say this, the stone in his heart finally fell: "Aren't you a ranch company, and he didn't study in a serious university...... Also, the children are a little stupid, but they work diligently."
"Uncle, don't say it, I want this person" Zhang Chi said for a while and said: "But my salary here is not high." I can't afford a high salary, I can only have seven or eight hundred yuan a month, and any more is not suitable."
Seven or eight hundred a month is not a low salary for a cowboy, and it is impossible for Zhang Chi to give a novice more than Cannon's salary, even if he is related to him.
Gu Ying listened and said: "Enough, he can't find a job, stay first."
"Okay, you let him come directly," Zhang Chi said.
After a few more words with the uncle, Zhang Chi called Aunt Phil.
On the phone, Aunt Phil was feeding her pigs.
Aunt Phil is really diligent, she is busy all day long, and when she is not free for a moment, she is busy from getting up together until dark, although she has gained some weight, she is not too good-looking, but such a woman is the standard for Zhang Chi to find a daughter-in-law in the future.
In Zhang Chi's opinion, it doesn't matter whether you look good or not, the important thing is to be able to run a family, marry a good daughter-in-law for three generations, and marry a daughter-in-law for three generations!
"I really don't have one here, I used to give a few bottles to the people around me, why do you want this over there?" Aunt Phil thought it was strange.
Zhang Chi said: "The children nearby, if it weren't for the children, I wouldn't have helped ask." The medicine prescribed by the doctor did not work, and the child coughed for several days."
"The doctors here are all waste snacks, what's the matter" Aunt Phil began to vomit at the doctor.
The doctors and hospitals here, everyone knows what's going on, as long as it's an immortal disease, you have to queue up, and how many patients a doctor sees every day is fixed, don't think that like in our country, dozens of people can be lined up in one morning, and each doctor here has only a dozen patients a day, which is quite a lot.
As long as the illness does not immediately endanger your life, most of you will go home and wait, and at most prescribe you a small medicine.
This is a public hospital, of course, if you have the money, then the United States has the best medical conditions in the world, and the doctor can carry the hospital bed to your home to treat you.
Zhang Chi knows all this, but it's useless to complain, it's better to make money in a down-to-earth way.
hung up Aunt Phil's phone, and Zhang Chi's last hope was placed on Li Qiao.
I really let Zhang Chi find it.
"We have this thing at home, wait a while, I'll ask your sister-in-law to see how much there is at home" Li Qiao was a little surprised when he heard Zhang Chi call him to ask for Chuanbei loquat ointment, but when Zhang Chi said the reason, he understood.
For this little ailment, the doctors here usually prescribe small medicines for you, and if they can't cure it, they don't seem to care too much about it, so Chinese families generally have some standing medicines.
"If you want, drive to my house now, your sister-in-law has stocked up a lot, and I will give you four or five bottles."
"Hey, Brother Qiao, you're really busy, I'm so busy," Zhang Chi smiled when he heard it.
Hearing this, Zhang Chi got into the car and drove to the city.
I went to my aunt and got two bottles, and then I gave my aunt fifty dollars.
"You kid, what are you doing with me?" The aunt looked a little angry.
"If I want it, I won't give you any money you want to take from me, but now that someone else wants it, this money still has to be given, and there is not much money, and a bottle of twenty-five is counted as your capital."
A bottle of twenty-five and Zhang Chi asked Li Qiao, and he gave it to his aunt at this price.
"It's expensive, this thing is not so expensive, it was only a few yuan when I bought it" Gu Ying said that he would not charge this money.
The few yuan Gu Ying said is US dollars, and this thing is not expensive in China, and a bottle is only about 30 yuan.
But what does it mean that things are expensive to leave their hometowns, and people are cheap to leave their hometowns?
That's it.
There are more than 30 yuan in China, and now there is no channel to buy it online, which is 70 US dollars a bottle.
"A few dollars for a few dollars. I'm going to collect money from people here," Zhang Chi said.
When dealing with Americans, don't engage in our domestic set, it's best to mark the price of things that involve money, and don't take into account face, favors, etc., there are no such things here, if you tell the Americans this, the average American may think that you want to pit him more money in the future, but they may not dare to ask for it.
In short, it's very simple, don't be embarrassed to talk about money with Americans, don't worry about talking boldly, this is people's habits.
Stuffed the money to the uncle, carried two bottles and got into the car, but it didn't start, the uncle chased it out again, opened the car door, and put a bag of things in the car.
"I forgot, I prepared it for you, the braised fat sausage, pig's trotters and some stomachs."
"Okay, thank you, auntie, I'll go first."
"Be careful when driving on the road!"
The aunt instructed again.
"Got it"
After Zhang Chi finished speaking, the car stepped on the accelerator and got on the road.
When he arrived at Li Qiao's house, Zhang Chi found that Li Qiao's family was not small.
Zhang Chi is the first big Li Qiao's family, Li Qiao's family is located in the east of the small city, the city is small, there is no rich area slum or something, the rich here generally have farms and pastures, will not live in the city, pay attention to quiet, unlike us Chinese like to get together.
Li Qiao's house has two floors, and the area is not small, at least there must be a standard middle-class residence of more than 200 square meters, and you can see his lawn on the side of the road, and the lawn of more than 200 square meters leads to the door.
A row of small white fences encloses the home.
The house is white-roofed and has a two-car garage.
The houses here are all about the same, living together or the houses in a small community are generally not too different, Zhang Chi knew at a glance that this house has at least five rooms, and there is a swimming pool behind the house.
Zhang Chi parked the car on the side of the road.
Li Qiao's wife, Li Qin, saw Zhang Chi's car, so she walked out of the house and stood at the door.
"Zhang Chi".
"Sister-in-law, I'm here to trouble you" Zhang Chi got out of the car, stretched out his hand to open the fence, walked into the yard, and said with a smile at Li Qin at the door.
"Li Qiao told me, come in, things are ready for you" Li Qin smiled and welcomed Zhang Chi into the door.
As soon as he entered the door, Zhang Chi found that the living room of Li Qiao's house was quite large, this living room alone was almost seventy or eighty square meters, and the opposite side of the living room was an open kitchen, and in the middle was the operating table, which was several square meters larger.
The floor is not covered with solid wood floors, but with parquet tiles. The parquet tiles are not European-style, but refreshing and concise limestone-colored bricks, with decoration, you can see at a glance that the family's aesthetic taste is not low.
"Sister-in-law, your home is so beautiful."
It is not wrong to praise a woman, in addition to praising her for being good-looking, to praise her for her beautiful dress.
Besides, praising my sister-in-law for being good-looking is always strange for us Chinese.
Sure enough, Li Qin happily laughed: "I picked these up, Li Qiao doesn't understand anything."
"This has to be done by a lady, a big man knows the aesthetics of a fart" Zhang Chi was a little shameless, and sold the man easily.
Li Qin was even happier when he heard it, and how did he feel that the little fat man in front of him was a little more pleasing to the eye.