Medicine Girl Jingjing

Chapter 34 Guang Mingzi scolds the two officials

As soon as Deng's eyes saw the black ointment, she opened her mouth and retched. Seeing Qu Kuaishou, she said in embarrassment: "My sister saw that my daughter-in-law and I were sick and couldn't cook, so I specially brought food. I want to hurry up So Ming can do the job, so I asked her for some ointment. She gave it, that is to say, I don’t know what to do.”

"You really don't know the goods." Qu Kuaishou used to be an executioner in the county government, so he knew a little about the law, and he stayed up all night last night.

He was afraid that Deng would be worried, so he hadn't told her the consequences of the accident.

Deng was sick and unable to go out, thinking that the canopy collapsed and injured 67 people, and the old patriarch's family was responsible. He didn't know that his children and grandchildren were also implicated and would be dismissed.
Qu Kuaishou asked Xiao Deng to go out, applied the ointment on Deng himself, and said in a low voice: "The old patriarch's family thought that the ointment was made by the chief of medicine, and said that a small bottle of ointment the size of a thumb can be sold for a hundred copper coins!"

Deng Shi said: "Then let's tell my sister to ask sister Jing to make more ointment and sell it at the pharmacy."

Qu Kuai shook his head and said, "No. Miss Jing doesn't have a pharmacist certificate issued by the imperial court, Taoism, or Buddhism, and the ointment she makes cannot be sold for money."

Mrs. Deng sighed softly, and asked, "Will the accident last night deprive our sons and grandchildren of their academic achievements?"

The medicine bowl in Qu Kuaishou's hand almost fell to the ground.

Sensitively looking at Qu Kuaishou, Deng looked at Qu Kuaishou, and seeing him bow his head in silence, he cried out in panic and panic, and asked, "I said why you couldn't sleep all night. Why didn't you tell me?"

Qu Kuai put down the medicine bowl, put his arms around Deng's shoulders and comforted him: "Don't cry, sister Yi has already given the old patriarch a very good idea, as long as you don't hide it from the officials from Tanzhou Prefecture, the seven scholars of the family It'll be all right."

Mrs. Deng knew that Mrs. He was not simple, but she did not expect such a strategy. Thinking about it, only someone as intelligent as her could give birth to a daughter like Li Jingjing.

At dusk, the setting sun gave Qujia Village a faint golden layer. There were four old men and women sitting under the old locust tree at the head of the village.

Two men with unfamiliar faces walked over among the people in Xiaoju Village, wearing nearly new cotton blue robes.

The middle-aged man with a square face asked: "Hello, uncle and aunt. I heard that four days ago, the old patriarch Qu Lizheng's family set up a stage to sing in the name of celebrating the birth of seven talents in the clan. It rained heavily at night, and the stage It collapsed, killing two people and injuring one hundred and seven people?"

Lizheng in Qujia Village is the old patriarch.People in a radius of tens of miles are used to calling him the old patriarch, and few people call him Qu Lizheng.

The four old men and women are the smartest of the Qu clan, and they were specially arranged here by the old patriarch these days.

They looked at the two men's attire, and when they heard the square-faced man say that the old patriarch's name was Qu Lizheng, they immediately knew that he was an official from Tanzhou in disguise.

The old woman said angrily: "Nonsense! Which shameless person did you listen to?"

The young man was not angry, but with a strange smile on his face, he said slowly: "I heard what people on the road said."

An old man coughed a few times and said, "It wasn't four days ago, it was five days ago. I went to the theater that day. The stage didn't collapse, it was a corner of the canopy, which was only as big as a tub for washing your face. At that time, there was a thunderstorm in the sky." , shocked the few people below, they are all from other villages. I don’t know them.”

The long-faced young man said solemnly: "We were on the road, but we heard that the canopy collapsed that night, injuring a total of 63 people from the Qu clan, and five of them couldn't even walk."

The old woman said anxiously: "You are cursing our Qu family with nonsense, are you here to come to see a play, or are you here to find trouble?"

Another old man looked at the two men and shook his head, "Why do you only listen to rumors and don't believe what you see with your own eyes?"

The old woman shouted, "Don't talk to them, I hate them."

The two men followed the people from Xiaoju Village into Qujia Village, and asked the two little boys. After a while, they squeezed into the crowd and watched the play for a quarter of an hour. They felt that the village was peaceful and the people lived normally. Then he quietly left and went to Taiqing Temple to seek evidence from the Taoist priest.

At the critical moment when Guang Mingzi was making medicine, the temple master sent little Taoist priests to invite him three times in a row, and then he was invited to the reception hall of Taiqing Temple.

The long-faced man asked, "Are you Guang Mingzi?"

Guang Mingzi nodded and asked suspiciously, "What do you guys do?"

The square-faced man said: "We are officials from Tanzhou Prefecture. Lord Changshi sent us to thoroughly investigate the mass injury incident in Qujia Village."

They went to the Taoist Temple more than once to investigate cases, today is the first time to visit the Taiqing Temple, the Taoist temple is medium-sized, the master is easy to talk to, this pharmacist is only middle-aged, he must not be a great pharmacist at this age.

The long-faced man asked: "Some people say that you made four cans of hemostatic powder and pain-relieving and activating blood ointment for the Qu clan, which made dozens of people in the Qu clan recover from their foot injuries overnight. Is there such a thing?"

The key witness in this case, Physician Qu Langzhong, was not in Taihe Town to visit friends in other places, so they could only come to ask another key witness—Guang Mingzi, who gave the Qu people plasters and powders.

They have already asked the temple master just now, and the answer is that there is no such thing.Now it is necessary to seek evidence from the person concerned in person.

Guang Mingzi thought that some important person from Taoism had come, but he didn't expect it to be an official post from two Tanzhou prefectures.

He is a Taoist priest who has a dish book of national religion and Taoism. He is a foreigner, let alone Tanzhou Prefecture, and even Kyoto Prefecture is not qualified to ask about his personal affairs.

He had dealt with the government a few times before, if his momentum was weak, he would be harassed endlessly.

Just in order to see that these two people made a pot of precious medicinal herbs just now, he held back his stomach and gasped, gritted his teeth and stared, "What do you think?"

The long-faced man said: "Do you just want to answer yes or no?"

"There's a fart!" Guang Mingzi turned his head and pointed at the nose of the temple master and shouted: "You can return the prescription of the governor of Hunan Province to me. I can't make four cans of medicine powder and ointment per catty. Let him find it in the Tanzhou government office." The official sent the system to go!"

Governor Shi of Tanzhou only sent two officials to Taiqing Temple to ask questions about the great pharmacist Guang Mingzi, who was respectfully called "Senior Brother" by the founding queen, who did not pay much attention to the national religion and Taoism.

"Uncle, isn't this very good?" The temple master originally thought that Guang Mingzi would be so angry that he would beat up the two officials, but he didn't expect Guang Mingzi to be smarter, and directly beat the governor of Tanzhou with the Governor of Hunan Province.

"Just say what I said!" Guang Mingzi walked away in a huff.

The square-faced man turned blue and white.

The long-faced man asked: "Please ask the master to explain why Guangmingzi can't make four cans of medicinal powder and ointment per catty?"

The two little Taoist priests standing next to the temple master couldn't help muttering: "Have you ever been to a pharmacy? The hemostatic powder comes in a small bottle the size of your thumb. A bottle of 120 copper coins, a hundred bottles of hemostatic powder is not worth two taels." Pain-relieving and blood-activating ointment is packed in copper boxes the size of two copper coins, a box of [-] copper coins, and fifty boxes only weigh two taels."

(End of this chapter)