"There are assassins, there are assassins!"

"Hit, beat him!"

The shopkeeper told everyone not to step into the backyard, after all, the shopkeeper didn't want his subordinates to see his embarrassed appearance.

These guys didn't know that Chen Xuan was curing a disease, and at this moment, they thought that something had happened to the shopkeeper, so they aimed their weapons at Chen Xuan.

"You, you..."

Chen Xuan was anxious, but everyone didn't listen to his explanation, and rushed up one after another.

Chen Xuan slipped away, fortunately, the bowl of noodles just now was very large, even if the treatment consumed too much physical strength, Chen Xuan could still escape at the moment.

He ran left and right and walked around the crowd, but after all, he couldn't resist the large number of people on the other side, and was soon surrounded.

"You bastard dare to rob money and kill your life!"

A strong man picked up a stick and aimed it at Chen Xuan's head and was about to smash it down!

"Stop!"

At this moment, the sharp voice of the fat man of the shopkeeper sounded, and everyone stopped.

"You don't do anything all day long, and you don't do anything about it, so that you can do what you can. Get back to my work! ”

The shopkeeper shouted angrily, and everyone immediately scattered.

"You kid can't even eat, but he really has some ability."

The shopkeeper touched his right cheek and said, "There is still some residual pain, but it is not as sore as the worm teeth, it seems that you have really cured my toothache." ”

Chen Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, it was done, otherwise he would not be able to eat and walk around if he had a little basket.

"Good boy, I have time to play in the future, I have to do business."

After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he was about to leave, Chen Xuan hurriedly rubbed his hands and reminded: "We cured your toothache, isn't it... You have to pay for the consultation. ”

"Harm, diagnosis gold, then naturally have to give."

The shopkeeper touched his trouser pocket, and in Chen Xuan's extremely expectant gaze, he gave Chen Xuan a string of copper coins, about twenty or thirty yuan.

"Shopkeeper, you also said that another family took seven or eight taels from you, and I didn't get better for half a month. We cured you in two strokes, and you will give twenty wen? It's just to call Hanako, and it's not so picky! ”

Chen Xuan was dumbfounded, he didn't expect a person to be so shameless!

"Too little, huh? Okay, I'll give you some more. ”

The shopkeeper touched his trouser pocket for a while, and then put a piece of broken silver in Chen Xuan's hand very heroically.

One tael of silver can also be exchanged for a thousand wen, and the value of this broken silver will not exceed one hundred, but the shopkeeper just gave a hundred taels......

"Shopkeeper, just now I saw that you had a toothache and treated you without consulting you for a consultation, your current move is simply crossing the river and demolishing the bridge!"

Chen Xuan hurriedly said: "You still have a few teeth that are also wormed, and they will hurt sooner or later in the future." If you don't give me a reasonable consultation fee today, you will die of pain in the future, and I won't care about you! ”

The two went to each other-for-tat, you went back and forth, bargained for half an hour, and finally the shopkeeper gave Chen Xuan the usual money as a consultation fee with a painful face.

Holding the money in his hand, Chen Xuan almost didn't shed tears of emotion.

It's not easy!

Chen Xuan immediately spent 200 yuan to buy a lot of grain, rice, noodles, chicken, and fish.

He divided the things he bought into two parts, and gave one to the Zhou family first.

Father Zhou didn't expect Chen Xuan to really earn a lot of money today, and his expression was very surprised.

Then Chen Xuan returned home and began to cook vegetables.

The old mother lay in bed and slept, and hunger left her with no energy to do anything.

After the meal was ready, Chen Xuan woke up his mother.

Looking at the fragrant rice, as well as the three dishes and one soup on the table, the old mother rubbed her eyes and exclaimed, "Huh? Big fish and big meat, is this to the underworld..."

"Mother, what are you talking about, I earned it myself. Now, sit down and eat a piece. ”

Braised fish, braised chicken with potatoes, roast duck, mutton soup......

A delicacy that the Chen family can't eat on Chinese New Year's Eve.

"Mother, come, eat more."

Chen Xuan picked up a piece of chicken leg and put it in the old mother's bowl.

"Sister, dog, are you at home?"

Half full, an old woman hunched over and a dark-skinned man walked in.

"Auntie, Iron Pillar?"

Chen Xuan put down the bowl and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

"Dog, your eldest brother Tie Dan is leaving for the north to join the army today, you are the only man in your family, you should go in a few days."

Auntie sighed, "Auntie came to see you today, this is a home-grown dish, you take it and cook it." ”

Chen Xuan's heart was moved, his aunt was not having a good time, but she would still save something from between her teeth from time to time to help Chen Xuan's mother and son.

"Auntie, my mother and I are eating, let's sit down and eat together."

Chen Xuan added two pairs of chopsticks, and the aunt said with a stunned face: "This has vegetables and meat, dog, have you made a fortune?" ”

"No, I'm going to the city today to earn some money and improve my food."

Auntie had never seen such good dishes, she cowered and didn't dare to eat them, Chen Xuan hurriedly served her vegetables: "Auntie, you're welcome, eat quickly." ”

When Tie Zhu was growing his body, the amount of food was amazing, and he ate two bowls of rice in two strokes.

"Auntie, Tiezhu will follow me in the future, I don't have much ability, but it's no problem to give him a bowl of rice to eat."

Chen Xuan looked at Tie Zhu's appetite and knew that his aunt must have a lot of pressure to raise him.

"Okay, okay,, I'm sorry for you."

The aunt left, leaving Tiezhu to stay in the Chen family.

"Brother Dog, it's so refreshing to eat at your house!"

Although his cousin Tiezhu is young and vigorous, he also understands the truth of eating people's soft mouths, and he washed the dishes very sensibly.

Chen Xuan drank tea, and his mind kept thinking about the way to make money.

As a Western doctor, he didn't know much about Chinese medicine and couldn't open a clinic.

For tooth decay treatment, even if you can receive a patient every day to earn the same money, you will not be able to earn ten times after seven days.

"It seems that in ancient times, it was far from easy to make a fortune as imagined."

Thinking like this, Chen Xuan saw that his mother was full of food and drink and had the strength to deal with the vegetables sent by his aunt.

The roots of this vegetable are oval in shape, the whole is red, and the leaves are fat and green.

"Mother, what kind of dish is this?"

Chen Xuan couldn't help but ask.

"Flame dish, son, you didn't eat this thing, why did you forget it?"

The old mother's bland words made Chen Xuan's whole person stunned in place, and his brain was buzzing.

It's beets!

In the fifth century A.D., sugar beet was introduced to China from the Middle East, and because the shape of the leaves resembled a flame, people called it flame vegetable at that time.

In ancient times, the main use of sugar beets was for food and medicine.

In modern times, beets do not have any advantage over other vegetables, and their main use is in sugar, which is second only to sugar cane.

"In 1747, a German scientist discovered that sugar beets contained sucrose, and since then people have gradually tried to make sugar from sugar beets. And at this time, Daning, not to mention beet sugar, even white sugar was not born! ”