After breakfast, Qin Shu finished feeding the chickens, cleaned the yard, and took two small ones to play in the yard.

saw Wang come out of the house with a burden, and his face was even worse than a few days ago.

"Mother-in-law, are you going to the town infirmary? I'll go with you. ”

Wang looked at his daughter-in-law with satisfaction, and then at the grandchildren who depended on her, and smiled: "Don't worry, just take a medicine, and don't have to run errands by yourself to make an ox cart." ”

"I'm going to go shopping, it's getting warmer, I need to make new clothes to wear, and bring the kids along."

"That's fine, it's time to make new clothes." Wang nodded thoughtfully, as if she hadn't worn new clothes in a long time.

"Then you wait, I'll clean up and leave." Qin Shu changed into a decent coat, recombed her hair in a bun, and found a few silver coins from the dowry box.

"Why is there so much dowry left...... Qin Shu was a little speechless, so she could leave some for her.

But with this money, just shopping is enough.

Qin Shu took the two children and followed the Wang family all the way to the head of the village, the stone road was overgrown with weeds, wild flowers were in full bloom, and it was about to enter summer.

In the distance, an ox cart was parked on the side of the road, with three or four women and four or five children on board.

The bullock cart is very spacious, and it will not be crowded with a few more people.

Wang took out two iron coins from his cuffs and handed them to the cattle driver. The coachman is the son of Wang's father's family, and now he is more than Chinese New Year's Eve, and his son works as a man in the teahouse in the town, and the family is very industrious and simple, and everyone in the village praises him.

There was a woman on the ox cart who saw that an official lady like Qin Shu was actually riding an ox cart, and it was the first time she saw it, and she was surprised: "Ouch, you are a young lady from the official family, why are you still on the ox cart?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at Qin Shu. In fact, everyone was very surprised when they saw Qin Shu, but they didn't show it, and after saying this, everyone's curiosity was also aroused.

"What else can there be, isn't my family's ox cart more fragrant than the official's carriage!"

The women laughed and laughed at the coachman for blowing the cattle into the sky.

Qin Shu smiled and didn't speak, just listened to them.

The road from Linhe Village to the town is not far, less than five miles, but the road is still a little difficult to walk, especially on rainy days, such dirt roads are bound to be muddy.

However, today is a clear sky, the sun is not dry, the breeze is warm, and everything is just right. The mountains are lush with vegetation and dense foliage that casts a reflection on the roadside.

The coachman swayed all the way to the town, and it was past six o'clock, the sun was shining on the brick walls of the town, and the air exuded warmth and warmth for everyone.

The town is not yet crowded with people, and there are many people selling food around the streets, and they usually have to set up their stalls in front of their shops almost every day in order to attract more customers, so the streets are full of the enticing aroma of food.

Qin Shu followed the Wang family, and along the way, she only felt a little boring and boring. Seeing that she was not very interested, Wang said: "When the market opens, it will be lively here, and there will be more people buying things, and there are jugglers." ”

"It's quite lively." Qin Shu smiled.

After turning several streets, several people came to the Jimin Medical Center.

The guy at the door saw Wang come in, and hurriedly greeted: "Old lady, your medicine has been fried and is being heated on the stove, I will bring it to you." ”

"I'm sorry for you." Wang said politely.

The guy led Wang, Qin Shu and the others to sit next to them and wait, and then went to the place next to them to decoct the medicine, took out a bowl of medicine, and put it on the tea table next to Wang.

The medicine money was settled in advance, but Wang didn't take it home, but came to the hospital regularly.

There is an old doctor in the medical hall, two middle-aged doctors, and the other four medicine boys and three guys are not very old.

Qin Shu took advantage of the old doctor's free time and walked over and asked, "Doctor, do you collect medicinal materials here?" ”

The old doctor looked up from the medical book, glanced at Qin Shu, and saw that it was a young woman, a little impatient, pointed to the other side, and said, "You go to find the medicine boy over there, they collect medicinal herbs." ”

Qin Shu was despised, and she was not discouraged, so she went over to ask the medicine boy.

The medicine boy was busy, one was grabbing herbs, one was decocting medicines, another was checking, and the other was taking care of the sick.

Qin Shu asked the decoction of medicine: "Can you accept medicinal herbs?" What is the price? ”

The medicine boy looked about the same age as Qin Shu, and said, "Accept it." As he spoke, he took out a booklet from a pile of books in the corner of the table, which read 'Medicinal Herb Acquisition'.

"Can the little lady be literate? If you can't read, I'll read it to you. ”

"I know a little bit about it."

Qin Shu took the booklet in his hand, flipped through it, and browsed all the way, and found that ordinary medicinal materials were not cheap, but ginseng and lingzhi were many times over.

"There are generally medicine pickers in our town, although they work hard, but they earn a lot of silver, usually our medical hall also accepts some medicinal materials that ordinary people occasionally collect, and they can also make some money, I don't know what medicinal materials the little lady wants to sell?"

Seeing that Qin Shu looked carefully, the medicine boy explained a lot.

Qin Shu raised his head and asked, "If the medicinal herbs I sell are ...... Will the price of the processed ones go up a bit? ”

"That's natural, processed herbs are better, and the price will go up."

"Then I understand, thank you."

Qin Shu put the booklet back and was not ready to stay longer.

On the other side, Wang waited for the heat of the decoction to dissipate, so he picked up the bowl and closed his eyes and grunted.

Seeing that Qin Shu finished asking the medicine boy and brought Xinxin over, he grabbed Ze'er, who was looking curiously at the medical hall, and said, "There is still a lot of time, why don't I go shopping with you?" ”

"Okay, let's take the children to learn a lot."

Out of the medical hall, Qin Shu heard the way, so he went straight to the East Market, where there were many grocery stores and grain and oil stores.

Because of the two small dots, the two adults deliberately slowed down their pace and walked slowly on the street.

It's pretty laid-back.

When they were about to walk to the East Market, the two little ones couldn't walk, so they simply stopped to rest.

There happened to be a tea shed next to it, so the four of them sat in the tea shed.

Qin Shu also asked for some boiled water.

The tea shed was relatively small, and the four of them took up a lot of space, and they didn't dare to rest for too long, so after a quarter of an hour, they continued to walk forward.

The East Market is not very lively, only the grocery store is full of people.

Qin Shu first went to the grain and oil store to sell a pound of rice and five pounds of flour, and stored them here directly, and then went to the grocery store to buy some salt and spices.

The salt here is still coarse salt, and the seasoning is very simple, with only a variety of sauces made from dried ginger and beans.

Qin Shu looked and looked, but didn't see the red pepper.

So he asked the guy, "Do you sell dried chili peppers with star anise?" ”