Chapter 310： Zaoshu Village

"Why are you asking so many questions? Master is not taboo outside."

Zhang Min carried some salt down and carried it to a thatched hut.

Yingbao followed behind and looked around here.

Several children looked at her and Zhang Min curiously, and one of them even talked to Zhang Min: "You are Zhang Min, right?"

Zhang Min grinned and said, "Yeah, don't you recognize me? Xiaodouzi."

The boy known as Xiaodouzi chuckled, "I almost didn't recognize you, you've gained a lot of weight."

Zhang Min: "I haven't gained weight, I've just grown taller. Huh? You seem to be still so short." Still thin.

Xiaodouzi’s face turned dark and he defended himself: “I’m short because you’ve gained weight yourself.”

The two of them entered the hut while talking.

The house is narrow, with dark walls. There are earthen kangs built inside and outside, and reed mats with torn edges are spread on the kangs.

Zhou Wuchang and the two old men had already sat on the kang and started chatting.

Zhang Min placed a large bag of salt and icing sugar on the kang and said, "Master, I will take my junior sister out for a walk."

“Go.” Zhou Wuchang nodded in agreement and warned, “Don’t go too far.”

“I won’t go far, so I’ll go to Stone Mountain to have a look.”

Zhang Min lived in this village for half a year two years ago and became very familiar with the children in the village. Then he went to Qinchuan County with his master and brother.

Later, the master was hired as the instructor of the Yin and Yang Department of the Medical Department, and he has been studying in the Medical Department to this day.

“Yingbao, let me take you to see the cave here. It’s very beautiful.”

Zhang Min: “It’s warm in winter and cool in summer, and there’s an underground river. The villagers here get their water from holes.”

Yingbao is also curious.

She has never seen a cave with water.

Xiaodouzi and two girls aged seven or eight also followed, each carrying a small wooden bucket in their hands.

There were guests at his house, and his father asked him and his sister to get water to make tea.

Several children came to a hillside two miles away from the village, climbed up a path, and came to the entrance of a cave.

The cave was pitch black, but streams of clear spring water flowed out of it and gathered in a puddle.

The two girls squatted down and scooped water into the bucket with gourds and gourds. Xiaodouzi poured the bucket directly into the water and filled it up before carrying it up.

Zhang Min poked his head into the cave and said to his junior sister, "Yingbao, do you want to go in and take a look?"

"I don't want to." The cave here is narrow, and there is water flowing out under the feet. Although I am curious about what is inside, I don't want to enter the cave at all.

Zhang Min felt a little regretful and kicked a stone into the water. He turned to Xiaodouzi and asked: "Xiaodouzi, do you have any fire breakers?"

He wanted to get a torch and go into the cave by himself, because he had hidden something in the cave and now he wanted to see if it was still there.

Xiaodouzi shook his head, "I didn't bring it."

Who has a fire stick with him for nothing? That thing can set his clothes on fire if he is not careful.

Ying Bao knelt down and stirred up the water with his hand, curious in his heart.

This is halfway up the mountain, and it’s incredible that water can come out of the cave.

The little **** the side stared at her, smiled, and asked, "What's your name?"

“Jiang Yingbao.” Yingbao also smiled at her.

“My name is Cuihua, her name is Cuilan, and my father is the village chief of Zaoshu Village.”

As Cuihua spoke, she put a bamboo stick through the eye of the handle of the bucket, lifted the bucket with her sister, and said, "Let's go back. When the sun goes down, there will be wild wolves here."

Xiaodouzi also picked up a bucket of water and walked back slowly.

Zhang Min saw that he was struggling to carry it, so he took the initiative to carry water with him.

Ying Bao had nothing to do, looking around while walking. There are very few fertile fields here, and there are no big trees on the mountains. There are even very few shrubs and weeds. It is a gray area with almost no vegetation.

Such a barren place is not as good as the southern **** of Dongchen Village. Perhaps this is the reason why their village is poor.

The pair of sisters in front were dressed in patches. In such a cold weather, they were even wearing straw sandals.

That little Douzi is not much better. His clothes are smeared on the sleeves. This way, he can go to the market to beg for food without having to dress up deliberately.

His three brothers and sisters are actually the children of Muramasa of Zaoshu Village. It is simply unbelievable.

The children carried the water to the kitchen, and then Yingbao saw that there was water in the water tank at Cuihua's house, but the quality of the water was not very good, it was a bit turbid, not like the water in the cave.

Cuihua saw her doubts and said, "We usually drink water from the village's wells. Today, the general is here, so my father asked us to go to the cave to get water."

Yingbao: That’s it.

She dug out her bag and took out a few pieces of candy and handed them to Cuihua and her sister Cuilan.

Cuilan happily took it and quickly stuffed a piece into her mouth with a smile on her face. "So sweet!"

 Cuihua took the candy and thanked her, then carefully put it into her pocket.

Then she washed her hands and started making noodles and cooking.

Ying Baocheng Cuihua is only about nine years old, and her sister Cuilan is only six or seven years old. The two of them are very clumsy in doing housework.

Yingbao has never seen the hostess of the house, so she couldn't help but wonder: "Where is your mother?"

Cuihua said to Mian, "Mother is gone."

The absence in her words meant death, and Yingbao understood it instantly.

Just when she didn't know what to say, she suddenly heard someone outside calling her: "Yingbao, Yingbao, come here."

It was the voice of senior brother, and Ying Bao quickly ran out of the kitchen.

“What’s the matter?”

Elder brother would not call her if nothing happened. The master must have asked him to get some pills again, or to see someone.

Sure enough, Zhou Hao said: "Master asked you to see a patient."

Yingbao had to go to the carriage to get the medicine box.

Master once said that practicing medicine is also a kind of spiritual practice. Everywhere he went, he would visit a free clinic there if possible.

So along the way, Yingbao also saw several seriously ill patients and gave them some medicine.

Because the master said that he will pay for the medicine, but it must wait until he returns.

What Yingbao can do is agree.

But isn’t Master a master of forbidden spells? Why do you still need me, an apprentice, to check people's pulses?

When I came to the main room, under the light of the lamp, I saw a man lying on the kang. His face was thin and pale, and he seemed to be dying.

Zhou Wuchang waved to his young apprentice: "Disciple, come here and see if he can be saved?"

Yingbao walked over and took this person’s pulse.

He also said to the people standing aside: "Tell me about his situation."

The man next to him was tall and thick-set with a beard. He spoke seriously about his condition.

“…His arrow wound has never healed, and now it is pus-filled and rotten. Please ask the young man to save his life.”

The bearded man said, almost choking.

Ying Bao took off the blanket on this person and saw that this person was shirtless and had a wound as big as a bowl on his shoulder, which had festered and gave off a strong stench.

After checking, it was found that this person was only injured on his shoulder.

She glanced at the master and said, "In his case, we must ask a doctor to remove the carrion, and then he can get better with medicine."

Zhou Wuchang said calmly: "There is no doctor, so it's up to you to do it. If it doesn't work, let your senior brother help you."