novelaction Chapter 106 Buying Medicine
Chapter 106 Buying Medicine
Zhou Guo's face suddenly turned bitter. Last time he was injured in the arm but it did not affect his legs. This time he was injured under the ribs and even his legs could not move. It would take another half a month before he could run again.
Seeing that he didn't prescribe any medicine, Mrs. Li hesitated and asked, "Doctor, don't we need to prescribe medicine for our child? I see that other people have boiled and applied medicine, but our child doesn't need it?"
The doctor took a look at her and said, "There's no need to prescribe any extra medicine for her condition. She will recover in ten days or half a month. Besides, my medicine is not cheap. It can only help her recover faster and suffer less."
"Then please prescribe the medicine. You don't know that this child is a person who cannot sit still. Let her lie still for so long, it will cost her life. How much is this medicine per bottle? We will buy it." When Li heard that she would get better quickly and suffer less, she immediately took out the money. Anyway, she still had the five taels of silver given by her daughter last time. The money was given to her by the child, so it was right for her to spend it on her.
The doctor didn't show any extra expression when he heard it. "Okay, five hundred coins a bottle."
When Zhou Guo heard this, he immediately asked, "Doctor, can you sell me a few more bottles?"
If I get injured again in the future, I can use it directly. Ready-made medicine is much better than herbal medicine.
The doctor nodded expressionlessly, "There are three more bottles, one ounce and five cents."
Li's mouth twitched with pain. She had to buy three bottles of such expensive medicine?
It’s really expensive! Zhou Guo was also thinking in her mind, and she rolled her eyes and decided to try it first.
She asked her mother to take the medicine given by the doctor and sprinkle it on her wound. It hurt so much that she shivered. But after a while, she felt a little cool at the wound. After a while, it didn't hurt anymore, and the original burning feeling was gone too! !
This medicine is so good!
Without any hesitation, she immediately rummaged through the bag in front of her and took out two pieces of silver, about two taels, and handed them over. She looked at his medicine box and said, "No need to change. Sell me some of the other medicines in your box. Just give me what you think is right."
The doctor looked at her in surprise, without saying much, and took the money neatly, gave her the other two bottles of medicine, and then gave her two porcelain bottles.
"This one promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis, while this one replenishes qi and blood." Concise and to the point.
Zhou Guo nodded, happily took the two bottles of medicine and handed them to her mother. She wanted to take them herself, but her bag was full of silver bars and she was afraid of breaking the bottles.
Li took it as if in a dream, looked at the bag in front of her daughter, and was about to say something. Where did this child get so much money?
Zhou Guo lay on the cart, holding his bag. The wound didn't hurt anymore. He also bought a few bottles of good medicine and felt that the two taels of silver were really worth it!
Li looked at it for a while and then didn't care. Her daughter was very capable and had good ideas. She was also capable of earning money, so she had to have some money on hand and couldn't ask her family for everything she wanted to buy.
For medicine like this, my daughter is happy to buy it, but it hurts to pay for it from her, and I guess she won’t be able to pay for it if it comes to her grandmother.
"What is this? Why did the doctor prescribe so many medicines for Miss Guo? Wasn't her wound shallow? Others with more serious wounds than hers were not given so many medicines." Huang was a little confused as she looked at the many bottles of medicine in her hands.
Li said hurriedly, "Oh, no, I bought these. I felt that the journey was not going to be safe, so I bought some more medicine so that I would not be at a loss when the time comes."
Huang frowned. Why buy medicine? Do you have too much money and don’t know where to spend it?
But then she remembered that the money was given to her by someone else's daughter as a gift, so it was someone else's money and she could use it however she wanted. Her open mouth closed again.
Li also breathed a sigh of relief and changed the subject, "Mom, it's almost time. Can we eat now? The children are hungry."
Huang said, "Wait a little longer. Wait until the head of the village says it's time to eat. It should be almost time now. Heat up the food."
It was already late at night when I finished seeing the last patient.
The headman smiled and brought the prepared meal to the doctor and the other man. There was rice, vegetables and large slices of fat meat in the meal, which made the children cry with greed.
The doctor took one look and shook his head, "Give the meat to the children. We can just eat the same as everyone else."
There was a glimmer of disdain in the eyes of the little boy next to him.
The village head said hurriedly, "This is specially made for you. You have been busy all night. Thank you for your hard work. We don't have anything good to treat you. This little bit of meat is our token of appreciation."
"Really, that's not necessary. We are not used to eating this meat. You should just give us a bowl of porridge." He said firmly.
The village head tried to persuade the doctor again and again, but when he saw that the doctor was becoming more and more impatient, he realized that the doctor really didn't want it and was not just being polite. He had no choice but to take the bowl back and serve two bowls of porridge and wild vegetables.
The bowl of meat was brought back, and everyone watched, swallowing their saliva eagerly.
The headman's wife looked at the two bowls of neatly arranged large pieces of fat meat with great delight, and reached out her chopsticks to pick up a piece for each of the children in the family. When she was about to reach out her chopsticks again, the headman stopped her and sighed, "Share this meat with the sick children to nourish them. We still have some oil from refining at home, which is enough."
It was already a form of partiality for him to allow each of his children to have a piece.
The whole family could only watch him take away the bowl of meat.
It’s a pity that the children with fever have not woken up yet, and even those who have woken up don’t want to eat anything.
Then the meat was quickly distributed to each family. Even if it was cut thinly, it was not enough to share, so everyone simply took out a knife and cut a piece of meat in the middle, making it two pieces, which was enough to share.
Some families can even be divided into two such pieces.
The Zhou family was divided into two parts.
Because they have many patients, several of whom are children, and Zhou Dacang is also considered a child even though he is not married.
Zhou Tao was still unconscious and the weather was too hot to stay, so there was no place for her.
Zhou Dacang felt that he was too old to compete with children for food, so he refused.
So the meat was divided among the youngest two, Zhou Guo and Zhou Su.
The two looked down at the small fatty slices of meat in the bowl.
"Gulp..." A loud swallowing sound was heard. Zhou Su looked at everyone embarrassedly, holding the bowl and looking at Huang, and said reluctantly: "Grandma, you eat it."
Huang couldn't help laughing, "You can eat it. Grandma is old and it's not suitable for her to eat such fatty meat."
He looked at Li again, who touched his head and told him to eat by himself.
He then held the bowl and asked around, but everyone in the family told him to eat by himself.
The little guy then happily held the bowl and ate, pressing the meat into the bowl, intending to savor it slowly after finishing his meal.
Zhou Guo: “…”
She looked at the meat in the bowl in confusion, then looked at the people around her family. Did she have to ask everyone the same question as him?
Zhou Dacang almost laughed out loud.