The medicine of rebirth

Chapter 266 Distributing ginger tea and asking for money

Cleaned a proper amount of round-grained rice and put it in the pot. The schisandra was ready and poured in when the round-grained rice in the pot became sticky. Su Banxi asked, "Where did my father go early in the morning?" Normally, at this time, their family Everyone would have breakfast together, and then go to work on their own after eating. Why did everyone disappear this morning?

Mrs. Zhao took the small pickles out of the jar and put them on a plate with green borders on the side. "It seems that the village chief came to help the village rebuild the house. They went out after breakfast. They are probably on the mountain now." Let’s chop wood.” After the disaster, the houses can be rebuilt, but the crops destroyed by the hail can’t be supported, and it’s unknown how much damage has been done to Tunjiawan this time.

Su Banxi was stirring the schisandra porridge, and said, "Mother, how much ginger and roasted tea leaves do we have at home?" After a day and night of hailstorms, the cold has already invaded the body. If it is not controlled in time, it will suddenly explode The wind and cold will definitely make everyone worse, so it is better to defend in advance.

Mrs. Zhao thought for a while before shaking her head and said: "It seems that there is no more. I used up all the ginger yesterday, and only a little fried tea was sealed in the jar. Why do you use it? How much do you want? Do you want to go to your Aunt Zhu's house to get it?" point."

Su Banxi pursed the corners of her lips: "Maybe it's not enough, and I don't want to use it. I'm going to brew a lot of ginger tea and distribute it to the villagers in Tunjiawan to prevent the outbreak of wind and cold. After breakfast, mother, you go to each house. Anyone who has ginger will buy it back, and Uncle Jin and I will stay at home to make tea."

"Sure, mother won't eat. Mother has eaten with your father and brother before. Now mother will go to your Aunt Zhu's house to see. Your Aunt Zhang has brought the girl back. Qiuming also brought the child back early in the morning. You Be careful when frying tea with Xiao Zhou, don't burn it." A trace of complexity flashed across Zhao's eyebrows, and then he took off the apron around his waist and put it on the chair next to him, looking at Su Banxi and said.

Su Banxi tasted the schisandra porridge and nodded vaguely, "I understand mother, you can go quickly." You have to finish the meal early and stir-fry the tea.

It was said that when Mrs. Zhao needed to buy ginger, every family took out the ginger stored in their homes and exchanged it for some silver taels. Mrs. Zhao did not charge the big guys a high price because of the hailstorm, because she knew that although her family was in the town There is a medicated food shop that is enough to support their family's life, but there are many places to spend money, so they buy ginger at the price given by the town.

This move made many families get a lot of money, but there were also many people who sat on the ground and raised prices, which made Mrs. Zhao feel a little dissatisfied, so she turned around and left. Anyway, the ginger she bought was almost enough, and Liu Song carried her back on her back. Su Banxi and Jin Zhou had already roasted the tea leaves, exuding a strong tea fragrance.

Su Banxi wiped off the sweat from the fire on her forehead, and when she saw Zhao Shi and Liu Song coming back together, she started to increase the heat and started to boil ginger tea. Seeing Su Banxi so busy, Zhao Shi didn't move her mouth. He told Su Banxi about the unhappiness, but he just gave his hand silently, and Liu Song understood why Zhao shi bought so much ginger after seeing this posture, and it was because Su Banxi wanted to use it!

When the strong and pungent smell of ginger tea permeated the air, Su Banxi and the others were so smoked that they could only cough. Jin Zhou hid outside early, his eyes were tearing all the time, Liu Song hurriedly poured well water on him to wash his eyes and he felt better. "Mother, it's almost there," Su Banxi said out of breath, "Brother Liu Song, Uncle Jin troubles you to come in and move the pot outside, mother, go to the cupboard and take out that set of unused bowls, wait a minute Next time I will bring you a bowl with many beautiful patterns from the town."

Mrs. Zhao smiled and wanted to hit Su Banxi, who was teasing her, but Su Banxi smiled and avoided her, "You know how to talk poorly, so hurry up and help." After Su Banxi went out, the smile on Mrs. Zhao's face gradually subsided. , this girl in her family seems to be more indifferent than anyone else, but her heart is always thinking about everyone around her.

Mrs. Zhao dares to say that even if Sun Huai is here, he might not be able to imagine that the hailstorm will prevent the wind and cold after a day and a night, let alone buy ginger and cook ginger tea to send out. Those who want to sell ginger at a low price I really don't know what kind of expression they will have when they know that those gingers are bought to make ginger tea for them, thinking about the faint contempt on the corners of their mouths, man, sometimes I really can't sympathize, although she can also I understand their mood, but I understand that Mrs. Zhao still doesn't like such an approach.

"Xizi, what are you doing here? What's the matter with making such a big pot?" Aunt Zhu walked over leading Da Zhuang and Xiao Zhuang in the distance, her loud voice penetrated the air and reached Su Banxi and Jin Zhou's ears, Jin Zhou and Liu Song, who were struggling to put the cauldron of ginger tea on the table, let out a breath, and Su Banxi found some stones that were about the same size to support the cauldron, preventing it from falling over, and then freed up space Answer Aunt Zhu's words.

"Aunt Zhu, you are here, and you just came to help. At this time, everyone should be resting and eating, so I will trouble you, Aunt Zhu, and let everyone in the village come over and drink ginger tea to go to the body. cold air." Su Banxi said to Aunt Zhu while panting heavily with pale face.

Aunt Zhu looked at the ginger tea boiling in the pot with a pungent and pungent smell, and suddenly realized that no wonder Mrs. Zhao would go to her house to buy ginger. A piece of ginger money but couldn't stand Zhao's insistence, so he had to accept it.

Looking at all that the Su family has done now, Aunt Zhu felt that the money in her arms was scalding hot, and her face was hot with embarrassment. Just show me how big and small you are, don’t let them two bastards run around, they don’t worry me at all when they’re so big.”

Big and small were given to Su Banxi, Su Banxi shrugged and asked the two children to play in the yard, where it would be bad if they hit the table and knocked over the hot ginger tea in the pot, it doesn’t matter if it spilled all over the floor , the most important thing is not to burn them.

Big Zhuang and Xiao Zhuang obediently ran to the yard to play, but they didn't dare to go to the well, because last time they just swayed by the well and almost didn't fall, and Su Banxi and Aunt Zhu joined forces and said harshly After a meal, Da Zhuang was hit by the buttocks several times, so he didn't like the well, so he took Xiao Zhuang and sat under the locust tree to play hopscotch. Mrs. Zhao came out with the bowl still worried and told Tell the two of them not to go to the well to play. Seeing the two little ones nodded and agreed, they went out holding the bowl.

Maybe no one believed this, so very few people came to Su's house, just a few people came to check their pulse and drank hot ginger tea when they went back and said casually, many people came here, including those who sat on the ground and raised prices Ginger sellers, holding ginger tea with a spicy and pungent smell in their hands, feel ashamed in their hearts. People buy ginger to add some income to their families, and secondly, for the sake of their health. Ginger tea doesn't charge a penny, but they do that...

Su Banxi couldn't take it anymore after taking her pulse for more than two hours in a row. Her eyes were darkened, and her eyes were full of exhaustion. She was dragged back by Jin Zhou to rest, and everyone who hadn't checked her pulse didn't continue after seeing this. Staying longer, Mrs. Zhao asked them to come back tomorrow, so she and Aunt Liu Song Zhu and Mrs. Zhang who came to help cleaned up the tables, chairs and benches outside and cleaned them up. The bowls where those people drank ginger tea were boiled in a pot of hot water. Place the bowl in and boil to sterilize.

Zhang's Aunt Zhu also helped to wash out all the bowls, while Su Banxi was in the room looking after the girl who was slapping her fingers on the kang, while flipping through medical books. Although she had read it several times, but Every time you read it again, you will always find some new knowledge and usage of traditional Chinese medicine.

"It's done. You're not tired of holding on to medical books all day long. My eyes hurt from looking at it. Come and drink this bowl of porridge. I said you shouldn't work so hard until your own cold is fully healed. I don’t think there are many people who accept your kindness, so why bother!” These words are very realistic and cruel, most people in Tunjiawan sincerely thank you and leave after drinking ginger tea, while some people are very sad. Disgusted, he left directly after drinking without even a word of thanks. This action made Jin Zhou grit his teeth so badly, but he didn't say anything outside.

Seeing that Su Banxi was so tired and had to read a book at this time, he finally broke out and said with a cold snort.

Su Banxi lazily raised her eyelids and drank the porridge that was served from behind, then wiped her mouth and said: "We are all from the same village, so please help if you can, not to mention that my parents and my brother are all in need. Those who live on this land, if the wrong thing to prevent the wind and cold is not done well, and the whole village is caught by the wind and cold, wouldn't it mean that my parents and my brother will also suffer together? Besides, Tunjiawan is still Most of them are simple and honest, so don't say that, Uncle Jin."

Jin Zhou was just talking about it, knowing that Su Banxi was also thinking about her family, he didn't say anything more, he was born to worry about these trivial things, "I can't tell you, but you have to take it easy Point, don't be too tired, be careful when Xiaochen comes back and sees distressed, then he won't blame you, I will become a sinner who can't take care of you, I still have something to say to your mother, so go out first Come in later and light the lamp for you."

Su Banxi hummed and waved Jin Zhou to go out. Jin Zhou was angry and funny but still took the bowl lightly and went out.

Propping her chin and throwing down the medical book in her hand, she took off her embroidered shoes and climbed onto the kang, lying on the side of the girl, playing with the little soft ball with her hands, Su Banxi smiled silently and bent a pair of bright and moist apricot eyes. The beautiful and full red lips gently kissed the girl's pink and tender cheeks, and then said almost silently: "It would be nice to have such a cute child."

The girl seemed to understand what Su Banxi said, and the corners of her mouth grinned happily. The small soft sound from her throat made Su Banxi put her hand on the girl's belly and rub it gently. Flying and swaying in the air, from time to time, Su Banxi approached her face, so she smiled even more cheerfully.

The village chief heard about this from other people, and he staggered to Su's house with his hands behind his back holding the pipe, "Cun chief, why are you here at this time, and you are not afraid of falling?" Aunt Zhu said jokingly, but still Hurry up and ask Zhu Jian to go forward and help the village chief to come in and sit down, "Isn't this busy all the time, when I look up at the sky at this time, I will continue to be busy tomorrow, so I just come here now."

Mrs. Zhang was still washing clothes with Mrs. Zhao. Su Banxi didn't know when she fell asleep next to the girl, so everyone didn't wake her up. Seeing Mrs. Zhao washing so many clothes by herself, Mrs. Zhang She also went into battle with her sleeves rolled up. Mrs. Zhao tried to persuade her several times to let her sit and wash by herself, but Mrs. Zhang didn't listen and said something. Su Banxi helped her take the child and saved her a lot of trouble. No matter what, Mrs. Zhao went with her.

"Is there anything the village chief wants to say?" Su Shi asked, today they saw a lot of wood on the mountain, and tomorrow they are going to help those poor families in the village strengthen their straw houses to keep out the cold. They have also heard about what happened. When they saw the idea, they knew it was Su Banxi's idea. They wanted to come back and praise her, but they didn't expect him to take the girl to sleep, which made them dumbfounded and distressed at the same time. Look, Su Banxi has lost a lot of weight recently, and she has no free time all day long. It seems that she needs to make up for her, otherwise she will get seriously ill one day if she continues like this.

The village head coughed and cleared his throat before saying: "Isn't this the one who heard about your family today? Xizi is an authentic child, and he thinks about the people in Tunjiawan in everything. I also came to the door to thank her."

Su Wen and Ning Chen looked at each other, and frowned at the same time. The village chief said something very meaningful. As for the reason, everyone present probably knew it, so the scene fell silent instantly, and Aunt Zhu even more It was Daji who frowned to express her extreme dissatisfaction, and before Su Shi could speak, she yelled loudly.

"I said village chief, what do you mean by that? Today, Xizi was thinking about fearing that the people in Tunjiawan would catch a cold, so he made ginger tea for them for free, and gave them a pulse number to see a doctor without paying any money. There is nothing dissatisfied with the treatment, do you have to wait for Xizi to take out all the family property and rebuild the house for them to be happy!"

Aunt Zhu's words were extremely blunt, and even the village head blushed quietly under the night. In fact, those people came to him and said something to him. Although it was not what Aunt Zhu said, it was not different. How far away, they are a little greedy, but we are all from the same village, and we should help each other when we have difficulties. I thought the Su family would agree, but I didn't expect that there were so many people in the Su family tonight, let alone Zhu Auntie speaks so directly, which makes him unable to step down for a while.

Su Shi also frowned, trying to suppress the impatience and irritability in his heart, and said, "Village Chief, if you have anything to say, you can just open it up and say it directly, but I have to explain that my Xiaoxi is indeed driving in the town. shop, but she opened it all by herself. We have no right to ask, and we will not force her or anything. My Su family is not as rich as you make it out to be. Don't just look at us Despite the brilliance of the family on the surface, we forget that opening a store is risky and requires a lot of money. Our Su family has not troubled the villagers or owed them anything for this store, even if it is needed. When people help with something, they pay money and settle both sides.”

The village chief also showed a look of embarrassment, but he didn't say too much. He also knew that the Su family and the people in the village had no interests or relationships, but they had nothing to do with the Zhu family, Zhang family, Ming Qiuming and Liu family. The brothers and their families got close, and some people said that they saw Su Banxi and others holding an umbrella to visit this house when the hailstorm was falling. It doesn’t matter whether it’s true or not. down.

He also knew that it was very dishonest, but for the sake of everyone in the village, he had come to Su's house today without shame.

"Dalang, you know all the uncles you mentioned, but we are all from the same village after all. Now that everyone is in trouble, we should help to some extent. Uncle also knows that this is embarrassing you, but uncle has nothing to do. The autumn harvest cannot be harvested. Everyone has to go hungry for any food in winter, adults are better, but what about children? They are still so young, if they can’t survive the winter without food, they will have to die.” The village decided to understand it with reason. Love, let's not talk about adults, let's say that children should be a little bit loose.

"This..." Su Shi was a little embarrassed. Most of the children in the village are still between seven and eight years old. If they can't make it through, they will all become cold corpses buried under the severe winter snow. But if you can help one family, you can't help so many families, not to mention that their family also needs to eat!

"It's too much for me to say that the village head is too much. Xizi and his family earn every penny by themselves. You can't just give the money if you say it. What do the adults in the family do? Sitting at home and waiting Helping others, right? Who didn’t eat tree roots and grass roots in the hard times? Is the money from their family a treasure and they don’t want to use it? .”

Aunt Zhu is angry, who is talking about this!
Listening to it is really infuriating.

The village chief wriggled his dry lips and finally answered Aunt Zhu's words in silence, which made the people sitting in the courtyard of the Su's family who heard these words secretly angry, and their faces instantly turned ugly. If it wasn't for Aunt Zhu They have already opened their mouths, maybe they can't help but start talking.

It's true that they are all from the same village, but there is no one from the same village to count against the same village. The Su family has newly built a house, yes, and has their own shop in the town, but there is no rule that rich people must help Those families in the village who were hit by the disaster and had no harvest, they bought ginger with their own money and provided fried tea and other things for the villagers to drink, and they also saw the doctor’s pulse for free, which is not enough.

"Village Chief, what about those landlords in Tunjiawan?" Suddenly, Ning Chen asked in a hoarse voice.

(End of this chapter)