Chapter 20: Saving Three Lives
When Zhao Chuan went back, the two children did not run away, but lay on the old man's body, still crying, the old man's face was pale and vomited a lot of blood, his eyes were closed, and he didn't look like he was alive.
Zhao Chuan pushed the two children away, raised his hand to test the old man, and then waved five silver needles with his hand.
Zhao Chuan called the boy over, carried the old man into the carriage together, and said to the two children: "Don't cry, it's no big deal, let's send you home." ”
The girl cried: "I can't go back home, I went to my uncle's house to flee, my uncle is in Mengcheng, more than 100 miles away from here." It's a pity that we were first stolen from our hotel, and now we are being robbed by murderous robbers on the road......"
Seeing that the two children were only thirteen or fourteen years old, Zhao Chuan frowned.
"Why don't I send you to the inn first, so that it is convenient for the old man to recuperate?" Zhao Chuan asked.
The girl hurriedly said, "Brother, Yuhe kowtowed to my brother." Then he knelt down and kowtowed.
Zhao Chuan hurriedly pulled up, "Don't, don't, don't!" The first time someone kowtowed to him when he was so old, he was at a loss and a little in a hurry.
Zhao Chuan looked at the old man in the carriage, gave the needle, and hurried back to the inn.
Zhao Chuan asked Xiao Er to open another room, told Xiao Er to feed the horse some forage, and went to the counter to ask for pen, ink and paper to go back to the room to prescribe medicine, called Xiao Er to his guest room, gave him ten taels of silver tickets, arranged for someone to grab a few pairs of medicine for the old man, and then got some food for the two children, and the rest was a reward, Xiao Er naturally agreed.
The old man's injuries were not life-threatening, but he was old and frail, and he couldn't stand the beating of the big man and caused internal injuries and coma.
When everything was done, Zhao Chuan took care of the sisters and brothers to close the doors and windows before going back to the room to rest alone.
Lying on the bed, Zhao Chuan had new worries.
Alas, it was originally shy in the pocket, and now it costs a lot of money to save people, and at dawn this day, the four of them eat, drink, and sleep, and it seems that if you want to do good things, you must have a certain economic strength.
Zhao Chuan made up his mind to go out tomorrow to find some business to do and see where there were patients who needed to be treated.
Thinking of this, in order to have more skills, Zhao Chuan called up the "Tuina Massage" from the ghost master in his mind and practiced it first, and only went through it roughly until almost dawn, and felt that he could learn it okay. Haha, no wonder the ghost master Xiaotian said that his understanding is okay, it seems that if people want to learn something, as long as they recognize the truth, they will learn quickly.
This set of medical skills of the ghost master Xiaotian, "Acupuncture", "Decoction Medicine", "Dan Pill", "Tuina Massage" and "Medical Essentials and Miscellaneous" are a total of five parts, except for "Dan Pill", there is no study, because the Danding sent by Xiaotian cannot be taken out in the Qiankun bag, so I have not read "Practicing Medical Techniques and Miscellaneous".
After dawn, Zhao Chuan went out early, planning to see if there was work to be done in this town.
But this Xintang town is so small that after turning two streets, there are no houses to be seen, and each street is not much longer than a dog's tail.
Zhao Chuan found a stall to eat breakfast, and asked the stall owner, it turned out that there was only this town under this mountain, because people often climbed Lingyin Mountain to Qingfeng Temple to ask, and Qingfeng Temple has a rule of never staying at the pilgrims, so in order to facilitate the guests, many taverns and inns and other temporary service shops were built, and it spontaneously became a small town after a long time.
But for this reason, the town should be very prosperous, Zhao Chuan said.
"The town can't prosper, because it's too close to the main city of Jiangzhou, and it's less than 20 miles from here to the south gate of the city!" The stall owner said, "The rich people from the city either ride horses or take carriages, and basically do not stay here for a day, and only those who come from afar temporarily stay here for a while." ”
No wonder Zhao Chuan walked back and forth, and counted more than a dozen taverns and inns in the town.
Therefore, there is only one pharmacy, and the doctor at the front desk is too idle to doze off, and he has no business, so how can there be any work among the foreign travelers?
Forget it, let's go climbing the mountain to see, in case a pilgrim falls and is injured on the mountain road, and those who are injured can also be treated urgently to make money.
Zhao Chuan went to the pharmacy to buy some bruise and trauma medicine, and walked back and forth on several mountain roads in Lingyin Mountain.
After a day of turning, until Shen Shi was unsuccessful, Zhao Chuan sighed helplessly and went down the mountain.
But the hard work paid off, and when he was halfway down the mountain, Zhao Chuan encountered business, and Zhao Chuan couldn't help but secretly admire his brain.
The injuries occurred by several people who went up the mountain to carry a sedan chair, which was an eight-carrying sedan chair. The mountain road is actually not too wide, and it is okay to barely walk a four-person sedan chair, but it is not easy to walk on the eight-lift sedan chair.
However, there is a hierarchy of official travel, and officials above the third grade must use eight sedan chairs to go out, even if the mountain road is not easy to walk, unless they do not go up the mountain.
Probably there was a place on the mountain road that was too steep, and the steps behind me could not be seen clearly, so I fell and injured the two of them, and fell to the side of the road holding my arms and legs and screaming.
When Zhao Chuan arrived, the housekeeper was whipping the sedan chair man with a leather whip, and scolded fiercely: "Get up and carry it quickly!" The old man is already shocked, and if he doesn't rush to the Taoist temple on time, he will delay the old man to listen to the scriptures, and he will kill you! ”
Zhao Chuan looked at the two people on the ground one by one, then smiled, and asked what happened.
The housekeeper looked sideways, stopped beating the sedan chair man, and glanced at Zhao Chuan, "It's none of your business, go away!" ”
Zhao Chuan secretly scolded, "His grandmother has a leg, if he didn't want to earn your money, I wouldn't care about you officials!" But he smiled on his face: "Is the sedan chair man injured?" I'm a doctor, I'm very good at treating bruises, nicknamed 'Ghost Hand Langzhong', do you want to take a look? ”
After speaking, even Zhao Chuan himself felt funny, and he couldn't imagine that in order to make money, he would learn to be flamboyant all the way with Huang Jin's guy.
"Ghost Hand Langzhong? Can you get these people up and carry the sedan car right away? The housekeeper glanced at Zhao Chuan.
"Yes! However, the consultation fee is high, this is an urgent treatment, and it consumes the essence of Dr. Ben's medical skills! Zhao Chuan secretly laughed at the more he learned, the more he looked like Huang Jin.
"What a medical skill! Let him rule, give as much as he wants! A young woman's voice came from inside the sedan chair, the noise was very brittle, and it seemed to have a playful and angry ridicule.
"Cure it, if you can't cure it, the housekeeper will let you carry the sedan chair away!" The butler pouted.
"Well said!" Zhao Chuan stepped forward, lay the two wounded people side by side on the ground, gave a few stitches to his hands, and then stood up straight, kicked and kicked the injured with his hands and feet.
This operation shocked the housekeeper with wide eyes, but before he could react, Zhao Chuan stopped kicking, his fingers flew up and down, and finally kicked the injured person again, saying "Okay!" ”
The two sedan chair drivers got up in disbelief, tried their arms and legs, and picked up the sedan pole with joy.
"Give the money!" Zhao Chuan patted his sleeve.
"How much?" The housekeeper asked.
"Two ingots!" Zhao Chuan replied.
"Say what?" The butler's eyes widened in an instant.
"Oh, I'm not done yet, ingots want gold!" Zhao Chuan smiled, a bright smile that was harmless to humans and animals.
"Are you robbing money?" The butler retracted the surprise on his face and replaced it with anger, "Do you really think you want to give as much as you want?" ”
"What's wrong? I said that the cost of urgent treatment is high, and you agreed and said that you should pay as much as you want. Zhao Chuan said disapprovingly, he was not afraid of this eight-lift sedan chair.
Because he has seen the sedan guard, although his cultivation is higher than him, but after he repairs the water layer, he runs faster than a rabbit, and the lark can't catch up with him, so he can't run if he can't beat him.
"Alright then, since your words don't count, then I'll restore these two to their original state, and I'll kick them a few more times and lie on the ground and shout!" Saying that, Zhao Chuan made a gesture to kick the two sedan chair men, and the two of them were so frightened that they hid back.
"Presumptuous!" The curtain of the sedan chair was lifted from the inside, and a handsome girl's face was revealed.
Zhao Chuan peeked and saw three people sitting inside, an old man in civilian clothes sitting in the middle, with a majestic expression, looking ahead, although there was a sedan door curtain in front, but Zhao Chuan knew that the door curtain and the curtain were hollow out, and the outside could see the outside from the inside, and the inside could not be seen from the outside.
One of the old men sat a fair-faced boy, about fourteen or fifteen years old, and the other was this handsome girl, who looked sixteen or seventeen years old, but her cheekbones were too prominent, and although she looked handsome, she felt too cold.
"How can I ever say that it doesn't count?" The girl stared, her expression a little angry.
"Sister, stop kidding, let's go, I'm afraid it's going to be late!" The boy on one side urged.
"Whoa!" The girl immediately stretched out a hand to the window of the sedan chair and held the two gold ingots in her hand.
Zhao Chuan was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect people to really give two gold ingots, so he hesitated whether to take it.
But at this moment of hesitation, the girl's hand flipped over, and the two gold ingots fell on the side of the mountain road, and the housekeeper said, "Get up the sedan chair!" A group of people immediately walked over.
"Hahahaha......" As the car window was lowered, there was a burst of unscrupulous female laughter in the car.
"Daddy, Daddy! You see my sister is crazy again, you don't care! ”
In the mountain wind, there was a complaint from the boy in the sedan chair. A small group of figures, speed disappeared at the bend in the mountain road.
Zhao Chuan was stunned for a moment, and then he also looked up to the sky and laughed twice, his grandmother has legs, who has a grudge against Jinzi? I want as much as I want, and besides, I deserve it!
Zhao Chuan picked up two gold ingots and flew down the mountain.
"His grandmother has a leg, and the gold ingots are so small!" He was a little excited.
Not long after the eight sedan chairs crossed the bend of the mountain road, the old man's order came from the sedan chair: "Send someone to follow the young man to find out where the road is." ”
"Okay, Master Hou!" The butler bent over and bent over the car window.
Seeing that it was late and there was no one around, Zhao Chuan lifted his breath and took a step, and then threw off the cloud step on the mountain road, one step three or four feet away, and soon came to the bottom of the mountain.
When he returned to the main road down the mountain, seeing that there were still pedestrians, Zhao Chuan retracted his steps and walked normally.
When he returned to the inn, it was already dark, and the shopkeeper was waiting for Zhao Chuan to come back.
The shopkeeper told Zhao Chuan that the old man woke up this morning, felt better, and wanted to say goodbye to you and was ready to check out in a hurry, but you went out too early in the morning, and you only came back now.
Soon after returning to the room, the grandfather and grandson came to visit, and the old man came in and shouted, "Thank you!" ”
The sister and brother knelt down and kowtowed, Zhao Chuan hurriedly pulled up and said that he couldn't do it, the old man sat down and said a lot of words of thanks, the girl said that the brother was very powerful, and the bad guy couldn't beat him at all.
Zhao Chuan does good deeds not for fame and fortune, and he never knows what people's surnames are. After some detailed talk by the old man, I learned that the old man's name was Jin Changgeng, his granddaughter Jin Yuhe, and his grandson Jin Xiaojian.
The old man said that there was a big powerful family in their town, and someone in the family was an official in the house, and the old man of his family was over seventy years old to ask Yuhe to be small, and forced Yuhe's parents to go to his house to discuss the matter of marrying the next day, but the old man Jin took his granddaughter and grandson overnight to take refuge in Mengcheng Yuhe's uncle's house.
said that the sadness couldn't help but burst into tears, and Zhao Chuan was also extremely sad when he heard it.
Then the two chatted again, Zhao Chuan said that you should be in a hurry to check out this morning, but the old man, your injuries are not healed, why are you in a hurry to leave? Don't worry about accommodation and food, just rest assured that you'll be able to heal before you leave.
Old Man Jin sighed and said that he was in a predicament and bad luck at the moment, and he was embarrassed to trouble his benefactor too much.
Zhao Chuan said that it was not in the way, they were all people who had fallen into trouble at the end of the world, and he also talked about the situation of his unsuccessful search for relatives and being here.
When the old man Jin heard this, he couldn't help it, and immediately said that it was not easy for him to help us, since it was like this, it was better for us to leave early, so as not to drag down the benefactor.
Wherever Zhao Chuan said, it is not easy to go out, and if you can help, you can pull it, it's really not a big deal.
But no matter how Zhao Chuan relieved the old man, Old Man Jin thought about it, and still felt that it was not suitable to live any longer.
In the end, the old man Jin begged Zhao Chuan, saying that since he couldn't find his relatives and lived in the hotel, it was better to escort Yuhe Xiaojian to Mengcheng, fortunately, there was a carriage, and the slower walk on the road should also be recuperate, and the whole family would never look forward to the kindness of the little friends!
Zhao Chuan thought about it for a while, and thought to himself that a good person should do it to the end, send the Buddha to the sky, and he would have nowhere to go anyway.
Mengcheng is more than 300 miles southwest of Lingyin Mountain, located on the border of the mixed territory of Han and ethnic minorities, and belongs to the jurisdiction of another county.
Although Zhao Chuan agreed, he said that he was not in a hurry, he still had something to do tomorrow, and it was not too late to leave after everything was done, you should wait for me in the inn safely.
Old Man Jin said okay.