Chapter VII: Medicine Boys
After running for an hour, the two of them saw a tea shed at the foot of a roadside mountain, and the sky was bright, the two got off the horse and sat on the table outside, and after a while the guy ran out of the tea shed: "It's really early for the two of you, our stall hasn't been set up yet, what do you want, do you want to try the buns that have just come out of the cage", "Okay, let's have ten buns first, and then bring a pot of tea" Hongyu said, the guy didn't say much, wiped the table and left, after a while, the buns and tea were all on the table, Hongyu picked up a bun and handed it to Wu Xiao: "Eat, you're hungry too, you haven't eaten well in the past few days, when you get to the town in the evening, let's have a good meal", Wu Xiao took the bun and ate it, and ate five in one go, feeling so dry, the red fish poured a bowl of tea for him and said: "Don't eat so quickly, it's all yours".
After eating, the red fish asked for ten white flour steamed buns wrapped in a clean cloth, stuffed into the hanging bag on the horse's back, and then filled a bag of water, the two of them went on the road again, in the evening the two came to a town called Wutou City, the town is relatively large, the red fish is familiar with the left and right turn in front of a medical hall and stopped, before getting off the horse, a middle-aged man ran out, it seems to be a doctor sitting in the museum.
"Redfish Girl is here, you haven't been here in a few days, how about you have been running this way lately".
"Doctor Hao, I haven't seen you for a long time" Hongyu seemed to know him and exchanged pleasantries with him.
"How about it, tomorrow is still the old rule?" asked Dr. Hao
"Yes, tomorrow will be the same, but only one day, I don't know if it's too late"
"It's so urgent, it should be no problem, I'll arrange it, call a few more guys to run overnight"
"Thank you," Redfish thanked
"Old friends, thank you, you haven't come for a while, the business of our museum is very light, Boss Du still reads you every day"
"Okay, I'll go live early tomorrow first"
"You rest early, I guess you're tired from the road, it's not easy for a young girl"
After leaving the hospital, the two of them found an inn on South Street to stay, the innkeeper knew Hongyu, and arranged a larger room after a while, the boss also asked who Wu Xiao was, Hongyu thought about it and said: "My new medicine boy is a little stupid", the boss laughed and told the guy to wait for a good life.
After the two of them finished a sumptuous dinner, the two men carried in a bath bucket, poured hot water, and after a while, they brought in a brazier that burned very strongly, and set up soaphorns, mugwort leaves, etc., at this time it was the winter moon, the weather was cold, and the room immediately became ambiguous when a brazier was burned.
Hongyu looked at Wu Xiao, who was still sitting on the chair in a daze, and said: "What are you doing, come on, I'll brush you clean first, see how dirty you are, like a little flower cat", Wu Xiao walked to the edge of the bathtub, and said while undressing: "I can wash myself", Hongyu smiled: "Why are you still ashamed, how old are you, you don't remember that there are two wounds on your back that are not good", Wu Xiao stopped talking and stripped naked and soaked in the bucket, Hongyu snickered behind and didn't dare to make a sound, he rolled up his sleeves and picked up the loofah pulp and touched some soap corners for Wu Xiao to brush up, Wu Xiao has been on the run for this time, his body is dirty, the red fish brushed him back and forth, a bucket of water turned into black soup after a while, after wiping it dry, the red fish patted his ass and said: "Go on the bed and lie down with the quilt", Wu Xiao obediently did so.
Hongyu called the guy to change the water once, scattered his hair, and the hair fell to the waist, black and bright, he turned around and saw Wu Xiao looking at it on the bed, and hurriedly took a piece of clothing and threw it over and said: "Get into the quilt, don't peek", the charcoal fire and the water vapor in the bath bucket steamed the room very ambiguously, Wu Xiao lay on his back on the bed, listening to the sound of the water when the red fish took a bath, and felt surprisingly quiet.
"Help me find a blue-purple bottle in the bag and come out" Hongyu shouted, and Wu Xiao came out of the quilt for a long time: "You call me".
"yes, tell you to help me bring me a blue and purple bottle in the bag"
Wu Xiao got out of bed to rummage through the skin bag of the red fish, there were too many bottles and cans, and he didn't find it for a long time, only to find that he was lying in the bottom corner when he heard the reminder of the red fish, he took it and handed it to the red fish, the red fish soaked in the water, the skin was flushed by the hot water, the wet hair was on the straight chest, and he took the bottle casually and said: "Okay, get into the quilt". Blowing out the lamp, getting into bed, and falling asleep with Wu Xiao in his arms.
Early the next morning, Hongyu took Wu Xiao to the medical center, but there was a long queue in front of the medical hall, and there were people who kept coming to join the queue, and there were two guys from the medical hall who were maintaining order.
She walked to the table prepared for her in the medical hall, began to prepare a set of tools, hand pillows, pen and ink inkstones, tweezers and knives, etc., opened the needle bag, put all the needles into the copper basin that had been prepared long ago, lit the charcoal fire under the copper basin and began to cook, Wu Xiao could only help just sit at the table and help her grind the ink.
It was a pregnant woman who came in, her mother-in-law accompanied her, Hongyu let the pregnant woman turn around in a circle, motioned for her to sit down, the pregnant woman put her hand on the pillow, Hongyu put three fingers on her wrist and began to take the pulse, the index finger is the ruler, the middle finger is wide, the ring finger is the inch, the ruler is the inch in turn, the body taste, and then looked at the tongue coating and asked: "Is there red in the lower body", the pregnant woman replied no, the red fish asked how the appetite was, her mother-in-law was busy on the side, she ate okay, and asked for two bowls of chicken noodle soup at night, the red fish nodded and said: "The fetus is normal, The pulse image is also normal, the tongue coating is a little heavy, the fire is heavier, eat less at night, eat more at night is not necessarily good for children, I will prescribe you some tocolytic medicine, drink one dose a day, no big problem", after writing the prescription on the paper, the mother-in-law hurriedly asked: "Redfish girl, is it a boy or a girl", the redfish looked at the mother-in-law and smiled: "Old man, I have never said men and women", the mother-in-law heard and said: "Look at me, I am all confused, hehe", the mother-in-law took the prescription to find a guy to grab the medicine.
Most of the patients have cold and flu, and the redfish who are particularly poor and have no money to take medicine will write a red note and ask him to grab the medicine first
The man saw such a red note and did not ask the patient for medicine money.Hongyu saw the doctor quickly, but the outside line still looked so long, constantly people walking, constantly coming, Hongyu is still so focused, the attitude is still the same, when she encounters a patient who asks a lot of questions, she also patiently explains the condition to others, some patients who need needles, she lets others sit on the side to prick the needle first, let the patient sit quietly with the needle, he continues to see other patients in the interval, and when he sees a few, she will pull out the needle for some patients who have administered needles, Everything is arranged reasonably and efficiently.Dr. Hao also helped, but he didn't sit on the rash today, this is the rule, the little girl of the red fish can not care, but he can't not care.
Wu Xiao watched Hongyu busy like this, and the more questions in his eyes, the bigger the questions in his eyes, and some good people asked him who he was, how to come with Hongyu, and Hongyu joked that it was a newly acquired medicine boy, but his brain was stupid, and he hadn't learned any skills, so he could only grind ink.
Just about to sit down, suddenly heard a shout outside, I saw a few bloodstained capable men with a door panel carrying a person covered in blood ran in, the process of running, which person's blood continued to flow from the door panel to the ground, the entrance of the medical hall was immediately blocked by onlookers, a man on the left put down the injured person and hugged his fist to Hongyu, anxiously said: "Redfish girl, save our eldest brother", Hongyu had already gotten up to take medicine from his skin, and said to Wu Xiao: "Put this in the fire tray to burn red", After saying that, he threw something to Wu Xiao, and Wu Xiao saw that it was an iron ruler with a wooden handle, and he immediately put the iron ruler in a charcoal basin and burned it.
At this time, Hongyu had already taken a pair of scissors and ordered everyone to carry the injured to the table, she took scissors and quickly cut off all the clothes of the injured, leaving only underwear and shorts, only to see more than a dozen wounds on the body, large and small, were bleeding outward, the most serious one was a two-foot-long deep mouth in the abdomen, and the intestines were squeezed out of the wound, and the blood kept gushing out, only to see the red fish take out a black bottle from the skin, pour out a handful of black ash from it, stuff it into the huge wound, stuff the intestines back, and stretch into the two hands from the wound, Rotated around the inner wall of the abdomen, tidied up the internal organs around the wound, did not let the internal organs stick to the flesh around the wound, and then took cotton gauze to suck the blood inside, turned around and turned out a thick needle and fishing line from the skin bag, and dressed it neatly against the sun, and then quickly threaded the needle and thread to the wound on the wounded abdomen, and after a while, the two-foot-long wound was densely sutured, and the main bleeding point immediately stopped bleeding, everyone seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, but the red fish did not stop, she found a bottle of white powder, Sprinkled on large and small wounds, and then said to Wu Xiao that it was burned red, Wu Xiao hurriedly looked at the charcoal basin, and found that the front end of the iron ruler had been burned red, and hurriedly picked it up and handed it to the red fish, the red fish took the crimson iron ruler, and scorched all the wounds of some large wounds that were still bleeding, and the smell of burnt meat immediately floated in the room, and some of the audience outside the door couldn't stand it anymore and found a place to vomit.
It took some time for the wound to be stitched up, and the red fish asked people to hold the head of the wounded, and then slapped him on the back and neck, only to see the injured cough coughed out of the mouth Many blood clots, so far the injured no longer bleed, and his breathing was stable, the red fish ordered the injured person to turn over, checked some eyes and slapped the injured person's face hard, the injured person seemed to have a reaction, opened his eyes slightly, his lips opened and closed, as if to say something, seeing that the injured person reacted, the red fish smiled and said: "Okay, he can't die, You carry him to the side, talk to him constantly, and if you find him asleep, pat him on the face to keep him awake, and feed him some brown sugar water from time to time".
The men were obviously relieved when they heard Hongyu's words, and they all bowed to the ground and said: "The grace of the Redfish girl to save my life will never be forgotten by my Cao Gang brothers" After saying three bows, Hongyu was frightened, and hurriedly jumped to the side, helped them up, and said: "What are you doing here, get up, where can I stand a few of you big men kneeling", after speaking, he helped up a few Cao Gang men one by one, which young man pointed to the injured and said: "He is our Nanfeng Hall master, tens of thousands of brothers follow him to eat, if he dies." After these people left, there was a round of applause outside, Hongyu was a little embarrassed, bowed his head and sat down in front of the consultation table, Dr. Hao sighed: "The redfish girl is really a god, I have been a doctor for more than 20 years", Hongyu said shyly: "I also have no place, Dr. Hao does not have to apologize, Your decades of clinical experience cannot be overlooked".
At this time, Boss Du came over and brought a list to report to Hongyu: "One penny of silver per person, one percent of the drug cost bonus, a total of twenty-three taels of silver, and eight free medicine red slips, you eight and I two, deduct nine taels and three dollars, the balance is fourteen and twenty-five dollars, and the redfish girl looks at it or not", Hongyu smiled: "Hard work Boss Du, don't look closely, we are all old friends", after saying that, she signed the list, Boss Du immediately ordered: "Quick, give the redfish girl cash silver", After a while, the guy brought a money bag, and the red fish chatted with Boss Du and Dr. Hao while packing up his belongings, and before leaving, Boss Du repeatedly advised: "The red fish girl must come long when she is free, you come to the top / our revenue for a month or two, we are willing to open more red lists, hehe", said goodbye to Boss Du and Dr. Hao, Hongyu took Wu Xiao's hand and left, isn't it too cumbersome for her to bring such a little brother, and which little brother obviously doesn't understand medicine".
After the two of them finished eating in the evening, they went to bed after washing, the red fish was very tired, and fell asleep with their heads upside down, the next day the two set off early, sitting on the horse Wu Xiao suddenly said without a head: "You are very experienced", the red fish was at the beginning, and immediately understood, the smile on his face was like a newly blooming flower, and his eyes were like two crescents, as if everyone's praise was not as good as Wu Xiao's sentence "You are very harmful", she turned Wu Xiao's face over, and kissed him twice on the forehead, Wu Xiao turned his head very unaccustomed to it.