Ying Bao glanced at the senior brother behind the master again, "That's okay, I have a thin knife here, let the senior brother cut it carefully, don't hurt the big meridians." ”

Zhou Hao walked over with an expressionless face and asked, "When will you cut?" ”

"You go wash your hands first." Sakura said to a room of people: "Please avoid all of you." ”

There are such a pair of eyes staring in the room, and it is really difficult for me to reach things.

Because her medicines and knives are all in the cave, although there are some in the small medicine box, they are not complete.

Zhou Wuchang took everyone out of the house, and asked the old man surnamed Wu to send an extra oil lamp into the house for lighting.

Later, Zhou Hao washed his hands and entered the house, and saw that the little junior sister was holding two thin knives and a pair of scissors roasting on the candle.

After baking the knives and scissors, Sakura placed all the items on a clean cotton cloth for later use.

He took a jug of spirits and poured it into the patient's shoulder for a few large sips, after which he poured it over the wound on the man's shoulder.

The wounded man convulsed and did not move again.

Sakura Bao then asked the senior brother to do it, scraping and cutting to remove the rotten flesh.

This person was also resolute, just roared a few times, and didn't struggle much.

After Zhou Hao cleaned his wound, he saw that the little junior sister poured another porcelain bottle of liquor on his shoulder.

"Ah~" The man screamed, and some liquid was poured into his mouth.

This time, however, the liquid was not sake, but fruit juice with a sweet taste.

Sakura then handed a packet of wound medicine powder to the elder brother and asked him to give medicine to the man, and wrapped the patient's entire shoulder in a cotton cloth.

The wound is taken care of, and the patient sleeps peacefully.

Zhou Hao was already sweating profusely, and his tired hands were trembling.

It was the first time he had dealt with such a wound, and there seemed to be a string in his head.

Finally, he almost collapsed to the ground from exhaustion.

No wonder the little sister asked him to scrape the carrion, this is really not a human job.

Sakura cleaned up the knives and scissors, threw a large ball of cotton cloth in the basin, and asked the second senior brother to take it out and throw it away.

The cloth was stained with pus and blood, and it stinked so much that I really didn't want to clean it.

Zhang Min went out with the basin and asked where Cuihua was going to fall.

Cuihua glanced at the cotton cloth in the basin and took it: "Let me come." ”

Zhang Min saw Cuihua take things over, and he was happy to be idle, and ran back to the house with joy.

The next day, the patient woke up and was much better.

This made the beard very happy, and thanked Sakura again and again. "Thank you for saving your life."

Then he thanked Zhou Wuchang and talked about their military tun.

It turned out that both of them were from the military camp ten miles away.

After learning that Zhou Wuchang had returned with a little divine doctor, he immediately sent the lieutenant in a carriage for treatment.

"General, we are about to lose our lives in the military camp, we are being exploited layer by layer, and the military salary is falling again and again, and we don't even have medicine for our injuries." The bearded man sobbed as he spoke, "I—If I'm not a military household, I don't want to do it." ”

Zhou Wuchang was silent.

Since the first emperor, he has begun to emphasize literature over military force, and military generals have been abandoned by the entire imperial court, and there is no real power at all, even if it is a border guard.

Even if the foreign enemy attacks, if the defender wants to gather troops to meet the enemy, he must also supervise the army and give an order to the saint himself, so that the border commander can dispatch a little force.

As a result, the border was often harassed by foreign invaders, and the surrounding people and soldiers were miserable.

Not to mention that the imperial court often defaulted on military salaries, grain and grass, etc., which made the entire military camp disheartened.

As a result, the officers, who had no one to supervise and restrain them, bullied their subordinates and tried their best to make money.

And the only ones who bear the final consequences are those low-level soldiers.

Many soldiers don't get a penny a year, and the food in the army is worse than pig food.

Under such circumstances, many soldiers went out to loot the people's money, food, and property, and murdered people and goods frequently.

Once things got out of control, the imperial court would send troops to suppress and kill a group of generals and soldiers, which made many people resentful of the imperial court, and even colluded with foreign countries to bloody villages and border markets.

Under this chaos, the border soldiers had no intention of guarding it, and the foreigners regarded the Central Plains as something in their pockets.

Zhou Wuchang saw all this, but he couldn't do anything.

At that time, he also encountered this situation, the court withheld the army's salary, the soldiers complained, and several of his generals were ready to move, and he was appeased.

But soon, his father and mother died one after another, and they all died in accidents, which made him grief-stricken, and he had to unload his armor and return to his hometown to find out the truth.

This investigation actually found Taishi Xiao's head, but he couldn't find any evidence.

Without evidence, Dali Temple will not file a case.

Disheartened, Zhou Wuchang converted to Taoism and became a traveling Taoist.

The emperor didn't know what his psychology was, so he gave Zhou Wuchang the purple gold dagger hanging from his waist, and said that he could use this dagger to behead corrupt officials and kill powerful bullies.

Zhou Wuchang stroked the sheathed dagger, the scabbard made of gold was inlaid with five-colored gemstones, and there was a golden dragon hovering upward.

This long dagger is actually a short knife, and when it is unsheathed, the edge of the blade has already been opened by him, and it is extremely sharp.

Last month, he used this bladed short knife to cut off Pei Shixian's right hand.

"Master, it's time to eat!" Zhang Min shouted outside the door.

This morning, Cuihua steamed steamed buns, and boiled three eggs and a large pot of rice porridge, which smelled fragrant.

Remove the eggs from the porridge pot, wash them in cold water, cut each into four pieces, and place them on a plate.

Take out a large handful of sauerkraut, wash it slightly, cut it into shreds, and put it in a clay bowl.

Then she took the meal and rice porridge to the main room and placed them on the big table.

When I looked up, I saw my sister Cuilan staring at the eggs with her eyes, and hurriedly pulled her into the stove room and scolded her in a low voice: "That's the guest eats!" Don't embarrass your father. ”

Cuilan pursed her mouth aggrievedly, sat down at the shabby small table, picked up a thick black bun on the table and nibbled on it.

Sakura Bao walked into the stove room and saw this scene, the two little sisters were eating mixed noodles and steamed buns on the small table in the stove room.

This kind of mixed noodles are made of bran and bean flour with a small amount of flour, and even after fermentation, it is not very soft.

"Why don't you go and eat with us at the big table?" Sakura asked.

Cuihua smiled: "Let's just eat a little, Xiaolangzhong, you go to eat quickly, the porridge will be cold later." ”

Ying Bao put the two big white steamed buns in his hand on the table and said, "Eat with us in the future, if you are reluctant to eat those grains, mix them in white noodles and steam them together." ”

When Cuilan heard this, she immediately grabbed a white-flour steamed bun and took a bite of it, which was soft and sweet, with a smell of wheat noodles.

"It's still delicious white flour steamed buns." Cuilan sighed contentedly.

If only I could eat white flour steamed buns every day.

Cuihua glared at her sister, picked up the other steamed bun, and put it in the cupboard made of bamboo.

Seeing that Cuihua insisted on not eating, Sakura had to turn around and return to the master's side.

At the big table in the main room sat Master Zhou Wuchang, Senior Brother, Second Senior Brother, as well as Wu Laoweng and his son Wu Yi, as well as Wu Yi's son Wu Xiaodou, and the bearded officer was also among them.

While eating, Wu Weng talked to Zhou Wuchang about family cooking:

"The surrounding fertile land has all been occupied by the nearby military camps, but we still have to pay taxes. Alas, there were originally thirty or forty households in our village, but now there are only about twenty left, and those dozen or so families have all fled and fled to the south. ”

"Some of them even went to foreign countries, and they said that they would rather raise horses for foreigners than stay here to be exploited by the government and the surrounding military camps, and live this hopeless life."

Zaoshu Village is located in a hilly area, and there was originally little fertile land, but now there are only some rocky lands left.

Those fields, let alone growing grain, don't even grow weeds.

Zhou Wuchang slowly drank the porridge and quietly listened to the old man's complaints.

The imperial court is rotten and ignores the people on the border, and sooner or later there will be a big mess.