The village chief's house.

Although the old village chief was anxious, he had experienced strong winds and waves in the end, and he could still calm down.

At least he still had the heart to tell Liu Kongqing about the remote villages around here, what medicinal herbs he knew about the mountains, and what beasts were in the deep mountains and old forests......

Naturally, he also talked about the huge amount of rain and flood hazards this year.

The old village chief had three sons, all of whom had married and had children, and gave him five grandsons and three granddaughters, the youngest of whom was 14 years old this year.

During this time, the three sons and five grandsons took turns to bring the strong laborers of the rest of the village to repair the embankment.

It's just that the recent heavy rain is really evil, and the embankment in the nearby area was overhauled five years ago, and after several times the impact of rising water levels, it is not too safe.

As a result, the able-bodied labourers and women of several nearby villages began to work, weaving sacks, sewing and loading stones to strengthen the embankments.

After a rainstorm today, the big guy is worried again, but even so, for the sake of the home behind, he has to bite the bullet.

The rest of the village was naturally worried, and the fact that the people who had gone to the embankment did not return for a long time also indicated that the situation was critical.

As time went on, the heavy rain did not want to stop at all, and everyone's hearts became more and more uneasy.

But no matter how anxious you are, you still have to do what you have to do, especially when it's time for dinner.

When the old woman and daughter-in-law at home cooked the meal, the old village chief beckoned Liu Kongqing to eat.

Because there were still three granddaughters who were in their teens and had not finished their products, the old village chief and Liu Kongqing sat alone at a table in the back room.

"It's not a good meal, please take care of Doctor Liu, and when the weather is clear, the sons and daughters will come back and ask a few of my grandsons to go up the mountain to hunt a few of our local fragrant tea ducks for Doctor Liu to taste."

That thing has a lot of temperament, and if it can't break its neck immediately after being caught, it will die of anger on its own, and the meat will become very astringent at that time.

It is also because of this that most people only know about Jinhe carp, but they don't smell the rare bird of fragrant tea duck. ”

Hearing this, Changsheng, who was nesting on the child's lap as a good baby, immediately opened his eyes.

Liu Kongqing took the chopsticks and followed it, glanced at her funny, and then smiled at the old village chief: "In this way, it seems that it is for the sake of the fragrant tea duck promised by the old village chief, and the younger generation will stay for a few more days." ”

The old village chief also smiled: "That's a good feeling, we haven't been to the bell doctor for three or four years, and the people in the village don't like to go to the town's medical center, and the minor illness has become a major illness."

The bell doctor who passed by on the last circuit was an old gentleman, and he prescribed a health care medicine prescription for my wife and son, and I still eat it.

It should have been changed a long time ago, and I also went to the town clinic to see it, and the price of a prescription can buy three pairs of medicinal food materials for a pair of medicines, which is really unaffordable. ”

Liu Kongqing sighed secretly, it is difficult to see a doctor and the medicine is expensive, isn't this a common problem in most poor villages!

This was also one of his grandfather's original intentions when he wanted to rewrite a medical codex.

The master of his family's ancestor was born as a bell doctor, and the Liu family was also a country doctor before. Although it later inherited the medical center, the Liu family tradition was not lost.

The biggest difference between the bell doctor and the doctor in the hall is that the prescriptions they prescribe, and few precious medicinal materials are used in several books.

Although it is certainly not as effective as a prescription with precious herbs, at least it can be eaten by ordinary people.

There are even some bell doctors who can take local materials and go around the nearby mountains to have medicinal materials.

Therefore, even if Old Man Liu was recruited into the Xia Palace, he did not give up the habit of the Liu family's Ling Doctor because he had seen palace medicine.

In court medicine, although there are not as many incurable diseases as there are among the people, the prescriptions are carefully elaborated by many medical experts, and the effect is amazing.

During the period when Old Man Liu became the Imperial Physician, he had been experimenting with the palace prescriptions recorded in the Xia Palace, trying to find a recipe that replaced precious medicinal materials with ordinary medicinal materials but had the same effect.

And he did.

He found a total of sixty-five prescriptions that had successfully replaced the medicinal herbs but still had the same effect, and they were mainly used to treat twenty-eight diseases, and each pair of medicines could save several taels of silver.

It's just that the gun shot the first bird, Old Man Liu was framed, and the Liu family's medical hall was remembered, but there was no reason for this.

When Liu Kong was young, he didn't understand why his grandfather had obviously done a good thing for the people, but why he ended up like this.

It wasn't until he grew up and experienced some ups and downs that he realized that although his grandfather did good things, he also moved other people's cakes.

The enmity of seizing wealth is probably not shared.

People with interests cannot understand the concept of "the great virtue of medicine is in the people and benevolence".

Liu Kongqing touched Changsheng's ears, gathered his thoughts, and said: "I will diagnose Grandma Zhao's pulse in a while, I also have some research on medicinal diets, if the situation is not urgent, natural food therapy is better, after all, as the saying goes, medicine is poisonous." ”

The smile on the old village chief's face became a little more real, and he hurriedly added vegetables to Liu Kongqing, "Eat vegetables, eat vegetables, and try the craftsmanship of your grandmother in my family." ”

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Normally, at this time, someone will come back from the embankment to explain the situation, which is also reassuring to the family.

But after dinner, no one came back, and even the old village chief couldn't sit still and wanted to find someone to go over and have a look.

Before he left the house, he saw the kitten lying on Dr. Liu's lap "rubbing" and jumping up, the two little ears were straight, and the hair on the tail inadvertently exploded.

And in the next second, Doctor Liu actually jumped off the kang, and then saw him say with a blue face: "Old village chief, the embankment has burst." ”

The old village chief's eyes widened, "What?"

Before he could say anything more, he heard the dull sound of a bell.

For a moment, the old village chief couldn't react a little, until the next second, the village chief's daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter, who were cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks in the kitchen, ran in with bloodless faces.

"Old man (dad/grandpa), the bell of Zhenhong is ringing!"

The bell rang as expected, but it also seemed to be caught off guard.

Fortunately, because of this sudden rainstorm, the flood control buildings within a radius of 100 miles did not dare to stop for a minute, staring at the embankments everywhere.

When it was discovered that the embankment of the Jinhe section had been washed away by the flood, five or six flood control towers rang the bell of the town, and the bells rang in unison so that they could pass through the rain curtain and be heard by everyone.

The old village chief of Zhao Tian didn't care about it, and he couldn't think about the situation of the more than 80 people in the village, including his three sons, five grandsons, and two daughters-in-law, who went out to repair the embankment.

Ten seconds after hearing the old woman rush into the house, he immediately rang the gong at home and organized the remaining villagers to go to the mountain behind the village to escape the impending flood.

The carriage pulled by Liu Ran naturally also made a contribution, and three paralyzed old men, two pot-bellied women who were eight or nine months pregnant, and five children under the age of two were squeezed out of the carriage.

Changsheng was stuffed into Liu Kongqing's arms, carrying a village elder who was a few years older than the old village chief on his back, following behind the old village chief, one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Because the rain was so strong, there was no way to light the torches.

The old village chief led the way with the angry wind lamp that Liu Kongqing had untied from the carriage in his hand.

The few men and boys left in the village rang gongs to guard the sides of the procession.

Because the big guys have experience, the luggage is very light, and the road behind the mountain is also used to walking.

Although the roads were muddy and slippery due to heavy rains, everyone reached the top of the mountain before the flood came.

And just a quarter of an hour after the group reached the top of the mountain, a raging flood rolled in with a monstrous force, flooding the village.

At this moment, the children who had not experienced the ravages of the flood hugged their respective mothers and cried, and the sensitive girls wept silently;

The younger women, with red eyes, patted the children in their arms, while the more sensible boys clenched their fists in hatred, as if the flood had taken shape, they would have fought a duel with it.

Only the old man, who had experienced flood after flood, looked at all this numbly.