Chapter 198： see a doctor

“Hey! Don’t go!”

The owner of the bamboo shop reacted quickly and immediately chased him out, shouting: "Don't leave in such a hurry, let's talk later."

Ying Bao turned around and said, "Then you decide on a price first. If it's suitable, we can discuss it later."

The shopkeeper gritted his teeth and said, "Twenty cents, twenty cents with a cover will do. Any less will not work. You can visit any house you want."

"That's good." Yingbao was satisfied and returned to the bamboo shop with the shop owner to discuss the details of the customized bamboo box.

After leaving the bamboo shop, Ying Bao and Jiang Quan Erni went to the paper shop to buy a pile of colored paper and the Four Treasures of the Study.

Then he went to a porcelain shop and ordered a batch of small porcelain bottles of different colors and shapes.

Paper is used to write product introductions, and small porcelain bottles are used to hold medicinal powder and pills.

Back at the shop, Yingbao cut the colored papers into pieces and wrote some introductions to the items by color.

Letter: Golden ear, a specialty product of Qinchuan County, is produced in Dongchen Village, Chuanhe Town. It is a rare treasure that can prolong life and make people beautiful.

I also wrote about snow fungus and preserved fruit, etc. I sorted the written papers and put them aside for later use. I just waited for the bamboo box to be delivered and framed them.

Only then did Jiang Cheng and Jiang Quan understand their cousin's intention and came over to help write.

Jiang Quan had an idea and wrote some auspicious words for his gourds.

After writing, put a sticker on each gourd.

On the paper, there were written respectively: The treasure gourd of nine turns of fortune brings wealth and treasures, all wishes come true, the carp jumps over the dragon gate, all diseases are eliminated, and the five poisons are not invaded.

Then he put the gourd toward the door and sat next to it to admire it.

Not to mention, it soon attracted a lot of people to watch.

There are many students from the opposite county school.

Since the Double Ninth Festival has just passed, students are still on vacation. Many of them did not go home, but went out together to play. Some of them had just returned from participating in a poetry competition.

I wanted to see if this specialty shop still sold fresh fruits, but I saw a room full of big gourds.

“Twelve pieces each is too expensive.” Some people shook their heads and thought it was too expensive.

One of them laughed loudly: "This has a good meaning. If you don't like Brother Huai Ming, just buy one. It will also be a good omen for next autumn."

The young student who was called Huai Ming looked embarrassed and waved his hands repeatedly. "It's too big to fit in the school building."

Another person said: "It doesn't matter, just buy it and make it into a bathtub."

Everyone laughed.

A few people laughed and laughed for a while, and then returned to the school building one after another, but one person stopped and did not leave.

This man was about forty years old, with a thin and pale face. He kept staring at the gourd, seemingly hesitant.

“Brother, is this gourd really effective?” he asked.

Jiang Quan smiled and said: "That's natural."

"Then I'll buy it." The thin man gritted his teeth and said, "But, brother, can you make it cheaper? I, I only have seven dollars left."

Jiang Quan shook his head when he heard this: "No, no! How can anyone bargain like you? The lowest price is nine taels, and we won't sell it for a penny less."

The thin man hesitated for a long time and sighed: "Then I'll come back tomorrow."

Watching the thin man leave, Ying Bao frowned and glared at her second cousin. "How can you fool people at will? What if this person takes your words seriously or blackmails you?"

Jiang Quan scratched his head and glanced at his little cousin, "Everyone else knows these are just auspicious words, how can anyone be stupid enough to believe this..."

“What if his family is really in trouble and he uses this gourd as a life-saving straw? Do you know how it will end?”

Yingbao scolded her second cousin with a straight face: "Are you going to be sued or are you going to pay compensation to others?"

“I…” Jiang Quan was speechless.

Jiang Cheng also came over and said, "Even the fortune tellers outside don't dare to tell the truth, but it's better for you to dare to speak boldly." Jiang Quan lowered his head.

After a while, the man hurried over, took off the baggage he was carrying, and poured out a pile of copper coins. "This is Jiu Guan Qian..."

Jiang Quan saw this man running from a distance, so he retreated into the backyard to hide. Erni also went to the kitchen to cook chestnuts, so only Jiang Cheng and Ying Bao were left in the shop.

Yingbao pretended to be dumbfounded and asked, "What do you want to buy?"

The man was stunned when he saw that the speaker was a five- or six-year-old baby. He pointed at the gourd and said, "I want to buy this...it will cure all diseases."

Yingbao's eyes flashed and he said, "Our gourd is just a mascot, and it can't really eliminate all diseases."

"Can't you..." The man looked desperate and his shoulders suddenly slumped.

Yingbao asked calmly: "Is there any patient at home?"

The man was stunned for a while, then nodded.

 Yingbao observed this person carefully and saw that he was wearing a yellowing plain cloth robe. The corners of the robe were patched with several patches of the same color, but there was still a color difference and he looked very poor.

"I don't know what the disease is? I have studied medicine and can help you find out." Ying Bao said.

The thin man looked at Ying Bao carefully and shook his head feebly: "It's useless."

Yingbao knew that he didn't believe her, so she said seriously: "Don't look down on people, please tell me about the patient's condition."

The thin man hesitated for a while and then said: "My child is ill and has never recovered. I...I have no choice..."

Speaking, he turned around and quietly tested his eyes with his sleeve.

“Can you take me to have a look?”

The reason why Yingbao helped him was because this man took her in in his previous life and allowed her to pretend to be his daughter and settle in the county town.

The man still didn’t quite believe it, but when he saw the little doll taking out a medicine box from the house, he agreed to take her back.

So, Ying Bao and Jiang Quan Erni followed Gao Lifan to a shabby alley.

There were several families in the alley. When they saw Gao Lifan, they greeted him: "Mr. Gao is back, eh? Who are these?"

Gao Lifan: "I invited... the doctor."

Everyone was stunned. Before they could say anything, Gao Lifan had already led others into the house.

The room was dark, as dark as a litigator's house.

A woman in a coarse cloth dress came out and saw her husband bringing a group of people home and asked, "Alang, who are they?"

“He who treats Dongmei’s illness.”

Gao Lifan brought Yingbao into his daughter's room and said, "My daughter Dongmei has a strange disease that won't be cured for a long time. You can take a look at her if you want."

Ying Bao walked forward and saw a sixteen or seventeen year old girl lying motionless on the bed, as if she was dead.

There was also a faint rancid smell in the room.

Erni pinched her nose and stood beside her little cousin, muttering in a low voice: "Yingbao, what does this smell like? It smells so bad." She didn't even dare to breathe.

Ying Bao has smelled this smell before. It is the stench of human body, and maybe the smell of rotting wounds.

"Are you okay?" she asked the girl lying on the bed: "Where are you injured?"

The girl slowly opened her eyes and looked at Ying Bao. She was a little embarrassed to say anything, but her instinctive desire to survive still made her answer: "I have been bleeding since my miscarriage."

"Miscarriage?" Yingbao frowned: "Can I check it for you?"

“Yes.” The girl nodded slightly.

She doesn’t want to die, she wants to live well and live longer and better than that person.