There is a little cute baby in the family, fleeing famine is not enough to get rich and busy

Chapter 14

"Brown sugar is eighty yuan a catty. Do you want to buy it? If you want to buy it, hurry up!"

The shopkeeper of the grocery store saw that there were many people in the store at the moment, so his attitude was not to mention how bad it was.

Although Qi Ercai was quick-witted, he couldn't think of anything else to buy when he was in a hurry, so he said, "As I said just now, one catty of salt, twenty feet of oil paper, and two catties of brown sugar."

"A total of one tael and 560 coins."

The two taels of silver given by my mother just now turned into 440 Wen in a blink of an eye.

The proprietress tore off twenty feet of oiled paper, rolled it up and handed it to Qi Ercai.

The two brothers left the grocery store with a few pitiful things. Qi Sangui, who was guarding the wooden cart at the door, quickly asked, "What did you buy?"

"I just bought some oil paper."

Qi Ercai said before his eldest brother could speak: "The others are too expensive, I can't afford them."

Qi Sangui couldn't help but sighed after hearing this.

He just saw someone coming out of it, and he was cursing about making some black-hearted money. It seems that the price has been raised.

Qi Dafu asked Qi Ercai: "Second brother, what should we do now? Are we going to find our mother?"

"Don't go!"

Qi Ercai took a deep breath: "Come on, let's go to the pharmacy!"

"Why do you go to the pharmacy? No one in our family is sick."

Qi Sangui muttered something.

Qi Ercai ignored him and walked quickly towards the medicine shop.

When the three brothers came to the medicine shop, they found that there was no one there, but they didn't even see the usual medicine boy. They only saw one of the old doctors at the counter, and they didn't know what they were busy with.

"Old man, how do you sell typhoid medicine now?"

Qi Ercai tried his best to sound as kind as possible.

The old doctor raised his head, squinted at Qi Ercai, and then said, "What are the symptoms of your patient?"

"There are no symptoms yet, but we are going to go to relatives in Fucheng. There are children and elderly people at home. I am afraid that I will catch the cold on the way, so I thought about preparing in advance."

Qi Ercai didn't know what the family would do next, so he could only tell such a lie.

Fortunately, the old man didn't really care about these things, he just said: "If there is no specific disease, this medicine can't be taken too heavily. How about this, I will buy some common typhoid medicine for you, and I don't want you to pay too much. It’s enough to give ten pennies.”

"Sure, then please grab ten sets for me first!"

I still have 440 Wen in my hand, plus the 540 Wen my daughter-in-law secretly gave me last night, the total is [-] Wen.

Ten packages of typhoid medicine cost one hundred wen, leaving 440 wen.

Qi Ercai thought for a while, and then asked: "Old man, what are some of the common medicines for children, please can you help me think about it? I am in a hurry to come out, my head is in a mess, I really can't think of it gone."

The old doctor is one of the best kind people in the city.

Not to mention the extremely low fee for seeing a doctor, even medicinal materials are not expensive.

The same disease can be cured with medicine worth five cents, but he would never prescribe a prescription for twenty cents.

It was precisely because of this that Qi Ercai found this place directly.

After hearing this, the old doctor thought for a while, and then said: "If you can trust me, then tell me how much you can spend! I will prepare as much medicine as possible for you."

What is the situation in the city now, Lao Lang's center is also very clear.

So seeing what Qi Ercai said, he understood what the other party wanted.

Qi Ercai didn't hide it, and quickly took out all the copper coins in his arms: "There are still 540 coins in total, and after deducting the typhoid medicine just now, there are still 440 coins. Old man, just look at it! My family There are children, who are only four years old, and there are old people, and my parents are not young."

"Well, let it go!"

The old man waved his hand, but instead of collecting the copper coins, he turned around and started grabbing medicine from the medicine cabinet.

Not long after, the packaged medicine packages filled the counter one by one.

"Okay, I've written the names on these medicine bags. Does anyone in your family know how to read? If not, then you can only memorize them by rote. I'll color them for you."

The old man rubbed his waist.

He was getting old, and he raised his arms and squatted down again, which really made his back ache from exhaustion.

Qi Ercai hurriedly said: "Yes, there are people in the family who can read."

After finishing speaking, Qi Ercai called Qi Dafu to come in and help get the medicine.

These medicines can't be placed on the face so brightly, they have to be put into a basket.

The two brothers were about to leave when they saw Qi Dafu asking Qi Ercai: "Second brother, why is the old man alone in this pharmacy?"

Qi Ercai paused, turned to look at the old doctor: "Old man, don't you plan to leave here?"

"Where did you go after you left?"

The old doctor smiled a little sadly: "My wife died early, and I didn't leave a son and a half daughter under my knees. I also let the medicine boy go home. Now, all I have left of my old bones is this... A pharmacy! Don’t go, don’t go!”

The old man smiled and waved his hands.

A lonely old man chose this way to wait for the last moment of his life.

Seeing his appearance, Qi Dafu and Qi Ercai looked at each other, and they could see the intolerance in each other's eyes.

"Brother, let's go!"

Qi Ercai finally greeted his elder brother and left the pharmacy.

It's just that the three brothers hadn't gone far, and Qi Dafu suddenly stopped: "Second brother, I don't think we can just leave that old gentleman there like that. Didn't you say that those people in the south are all murderers?" Blink? If they do come to the city, will the old man still be alive?"

"Brother, if he doesn't want to leave, how can we forcefully carry him away?"

Qi Ercai didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Besides, what can we do if we carry him away? How can we still give him a pension?"

"If you don't care for the elderly, we'll talk about it later, anyway, you can't leave the old man alone! If you want to go, go, I'll go back and pick him up!"

After Qi Dafu finished speaking, he turned around and walked back.

Qi Sangui stared blankly: "Second brother, what are you talking about with eldest brother?"

"I didn't say anything!"

Looking at Qi Dafu's figure, Qi Ercai was also very angry, but when he thought that if such a respected old man really died under the sword of those rebels, or if he passed away alone, there would be no one to collect his body. No one was there, and he didn't feel sorry for it.

"I really owe him!"

Qi Ercai muttered something, greeted Qi Sangui, and walked quickly towards the pharmacy.

The old doctor in the pharmacy is sitting on the wooden bench next to the counter to rest.

Originally, when Yaotong was around, someone took care of his old bones.

But yesterday morning he let the drug boy go, and from yesterday morning until now, his old bones only drank some cold water.

Alas, let alone cooking, he doesn't even know how to boil water.

If it goes on like this, he has a hunch that he will only last three to five days at most, and then he will have to go to keep company with his wife.

For a while, I really felt a little uncomfortable.

"Ah... hey?"

Before he could finish his sigh, the old Langzhong was so frightened that he lifted it up again.

(End of this chapter)