While everyone was talking, two boys, one older and one younger, came out of the back room.

Xu He recognized that these were the two sons of his uncle's family, the eldest was called Xie Xiu, one year younger than Xu He, and was fourteen this year; The youngest one is named Xie Lan and is only 8 years old.

Maybe it's because Xu He doesn't come often, and the two of them are a little afraid of life when they see him.

Xu He also introduced Xie Liangcai and the others here, then left the things he bought and went into the back room alone to visit his aunt.

In Xu He's impression, his aunt is a very gentle and polite Jiangnan woman, and when she stands with Kong Wu's powerful uncle Xie Bin, the two are simply incompatible.

But the woman who had always had a smile on her lips was lying on the bed at the moment, her cheeks were deeply sunken, and she was dying.

Xu He leaned close to the bed and whispered, "Uncle, He'er has come to see you!" ”

But after a while, the person on the bed did not move at all except breathing.

Xie Bin stood aside and said in a deep voice: "I was coughing two days ago, and I can't speak for the past two days, I can't even drink rice soup!" ”

Seeing this, Xu He sighed and retreated.

As soon as he arrived at the outhouse, he took out five taels of silver from his arms and handed it to Xie Bin: "Uncle, this is what my mother asked me to give you, you take this money and go to the doctor again, it's really not good, let's go to Hailing to find it, go to Yangzhou to find it!" ”

Xie Bin looked at the silver handed over by his nephew in surprise: "Why do you have so much silver in your family?" ”

Xu He had no choice but to simply tell Xie Bin what had happened in the past few days.

After hearing this, Xie Bin sighed: "My brother-in-law left early, he didn't see anyone alive, he couldn't see his body dead, and now your ancestral grave is still buried in a well-dressed grave." However, even if your brother-in-law is buried in a foreign country, when he sees the situation of your family now, he will smile at Jiuquan! ”

At this moment, suddenly a young man dressed as a soldier of the inspection department hurriedly walked outside, and as soon as he came in, he said loudly: "Lord Xie, hurry up and go to the water village to have a look, Deputy Inspector Wang said that there is a situation." ”

Hearing this, Xie Bin hurriedly got up and said to Xu He and the others: "You guys take a break at home first, and I'll come when I go and see!" ”

After saying that, he left in a hurry.

After Xie Bin left, no one spoke in the hall all of a sudden.

Xie Liangcai coughed lightly, and found a topic to ask the two brothers of the Xie family: "Your mother is sick, which doctors do you invite?" ”

What kind of famous doctors can be invited in rural towns? On the left is just some Lang Zhong who treats the villagers nearby.

However, according to Xie Xiu, two days ago, Xie Bin also specially invited Hou Desheng, a famous doctor in Rugao, to come for diagnosis and treatment.

Hou Langzhong said that Xu He's aunt's illness was the lungs of the wind evil, and in addition to the symptoms of external sensations, the lungs may have caused tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis was a disease that could not be cured in ancient times, and Lin Daiyu in "Dream of Red Mansions" had this disease.

Before, Xu He heard that his aunt was coughing up blood, which was indeed one of the symptoms of tuberculosis.

"Isn't there anything Hou Langzhong can do?" Xu He asked.

Xie Xiu said with a gloomy expression: "Hou Langzhong said that he should first take medicine to stop the development of the disease, and then rest and rest, and eat more ginseng and deer antler velvet!" However, it is ...... at home There is no money left for my mother's treatment. My dad searched all the people who could borrow money, but he couldn't make up the money for the medicine. ”

Xu He really couldn't believe Xie Xiu's words.

Xie Bin still has an official body, and even he can't afford the money for treatment, so wouldn't the people have to wait for death?

But it's right to think about it, even a family like Lin Daiyu can only hang on to his illness, and Xie Bin is just a petty official of a township police station in the final analysis.

Thinking of this, Xu He hurriedly said: "You don't have to worry about money, hurry up and ask Lang Zhong to come and help your aunt again!" ”

As soon as his words fell, Xie Liangcai said on the side: "That's right, as long as you can save your life, money is not a problem." ”

After speaking, he took out a silver ingot from his arms, which was more than ten taels, and handed the silver to Xie Xiu.

Xie Xiu couldn't believe it, so he had to turn his head to look at Xu He.

Xu He nodded at him: "Can't delay any longer, you take the money first, Brother Defu here, wait for me to go back and return the silver to him." ”

Xie Xiu didn't dare to hesitate anymore when he heard this, and hurriedly ran out of the door to ask the old man in the porter to go to Rugao to invite Hou Desheng to come.

Tuberculosis is actually tuberculosis in later generations, Xu He suddenly thought that the doors and windows in his uncle's room were closed, so he hurriedly asked Xie Lan to take a rag head to cover his mouth and nose, and then went in to push the window for ventilation.

Seeing this, Xie Liangcai asked, "Xiaohe, who are you?" ”

Xu He said: "Tuberculosis can be transmitted to people, and the patient's room should also be ventilated. ”

Speaking of this, he said to Xie Lan: "In the future, all those who enter and leave your mother's room must cover their mouths and noses like me!" ”

Xie Lan is still young, but he is a clever child, and when he heard this, he said, "I'll go and prepare the cloth head!" ”

After everything was arranged, the few people went to the pharmacy in the town and looked for some ginseng and came back.

Xu He wanted to buy the whole ginseng, first, there was no such thing in this small place, and second, he didn't have enough money.

If Xie Liang hadn't come along, it would have been really difficult this time.

After going back, Xie Xiu gave birth to the stove and fried some ginseng water, and Xu He personally brought it to his aunt's bed, pressed her lips with a small spoon and poured it in.

At first, she couldn't pour it in after two mouthfuls, but later Xu He saw that this was not going to work, so she directly asked Xie Xiu to help her mother to lie half-lying, and then pinched her aunt's mouth and poured ginseng water into it.

It took a while to finish feeding the water.

Xu He didn't know what the effect was, but now he had a try.

After all this, it was already noon, Xu Peng and the others had prepared all the meals, but Xie Bin, who went out, never came back.

Xie Xiu ran out to ask someone, and after a while, he rushed back with a pale face.

"What's wrong?" Xu He asked.

Xie Xiu said: "In the entire water village, only the deputy inspector and the two soldiers remained, and the rest were all taken away by my father!" ”

"What's going on?" Xu He frowned slightly, feeling as if something big was about to happen.

It turned out that in the morning, the salt farmers of the Dongtai Salt Farm took the salt they secretly dried to the town to exchange for food.

Although the imperial court repeatedly ordered the salt workers not to sell the surplus private salt, the salt workers were too hard, and every month they secretly took some private salt out in exchange for some food.

It happened that a salt worker from the Dongtai Salt Works came to sell salt and saw the salt ship loaded with salt.

He hurriedly ran to the inspection department and found the deputy inspector on duty and said that in the past few days, there have been no salt boats going out at the nearby salt works, and none of those ships were salt ships from the salt works just now.

As soon as these words came out, the deputy inspector was taken aback, and the patrol department was responsible for arresting thieves, and generally did not check the ships of the salt department, because it was not within their scope of business.

But if these ships are clearly not ships of the salt works, but they are pretending to be salt carriers, what are they loaded on?

If it's good, but what about people?

Since the Taixing incident, the county has repeatedly ordered strict inspections of passers-by.

But who would have thought that the salt ship in the salt field would be boring?

If there are thieves in that boat, then the matter is a big deal.

So Xie Bin hurriedly ordered twenty soldiers to follow behind.