Chapter 4: Scholars make a living (Part 1)(《》)

"This is the chicken soup my lady specially ordered to stew in the kitchen," Hua Ping put the soup into an exquisite blue and white porcelain bowl, and showed off as if he was offering treasures: "I put ginseng, angelica, astragalus, and more than a dozen medicinal herbs, which are very nourishing." He took out two strings of medicinal bags wrapped in oil paper and put them aside and said: "These two are used to replenish qi and blood, and one is used to cure medicine... One is used, and the other is used to make the same. Don't mess it up."

Silent smiled slightly and said softly: "Miss Huaping, can I ask a question?"

His tired smile, like fragile blue and white porcelain, made the girl Huaping's heart tremble, her cheeks suddenly turned red, she gently put the bowl down, and the mosquito hummed, "You ask, you can't tell you if it's too private."

"I won't be so abrupt." Chen Jing smiled bitterly and said, "What I want to ask is yesterday... I fainted after being bitten by a snake. As for how my father met your lady and how he came here, I don't know." He looked at her sincerely and said, "Can you tell me?"

"That's it," Huaping said slightly disappointed: "Okay..." He put a ropa on the bench, sat down opposite Chen Si, and recalled softly: "At noon yesterday, I accompanied the lady to check the accounts at my Jirentang. When I heard the noise in the front hall, the lady asked me to check it in front. When I went to the front to ask, I realized that Mr. Chen was holding you into my Jirentang and asked the doctor to save you. But the rule of Jirentang is that patients would charge fifty cents of consultation fees first, and then the doctor would treat it..."

As he said that, Huaping looked at him with concern and looked silent. Sure enough, he saw that he looked bad and defended in a low voice: "Miss Ji Rentang, who took over last month, didn't know that there was such a rule at first, and now they have been asked to abolish it."

He nodded silently and whispered: "Miss Yin is kind."

"That's right, my lady is the best." Huaping smiled proudly and continued: "Mr. Chen can't afford to pay, so the doctor will not treat you. The two sides are in a hurry to argue, so they push and make noise, which alarms the lady."

Chen Shu knew that things were not as simple as the screen painting. After all, the shop belongs to someone else's house, and you can't turn your elbows out, right? If you are unreasonable, you must help your own people. But he could almost conclude that the scratches and bruises on his father's face were probably caused by the beating of the guy from Luo Shizi's "Jirentang"...

It’s not that he is dark and speculating on himself, but that he understands people’s hearts too much... If both parties meet by chance, then Miss Yin waives his medical expenses and gives him some free medicine, he will be so kind. There is really no need to send a personal maid to visit the next day. He boils chicken soup and delivers medicine... or is it a trash, but he is not guilty?

When he thought of the old man whispering to him, he had to look at the face of some villain, and even was beaten up, he felt his blood pouring on his head and his hands tightly clenched.

Fortunately, he was mature and did not show his emotions. In addition, this little girl and her lady have nothing to do to him, so he should not take his anger. He let out a long sigh, and smiled silently at the screen with a nervous look on his face, "Continue to talk."

"Don't you blame us, are you?" After all, Huaping is still young, so the next sentence reveals the filling.

"How can it be?" Chen Si smiled gently and said, "The girl and the lady are both saviors. I am grateful and I can't even have time to distinguish them?"

"That's good, that's good." Hua Ping held his hands in front of his chest and said embarrassedly: "My lady said that no matter what, people belong to our family, and you have to be responsible for this matter." If Chen Si is a ignorant person, he will definitely not understand what this sentence means.

Chen Si didn't want to talk about this anymore, and frowned slightly and said, "Aren't I bitten by a snake? Why did I prescribe so many nourishing medicines?"

"The doctor said you have been malnutrition all year round and have severe deficiency of both qi and blood." Huaping Ping looked at him with a face and said seriously: "After being venomed by snake venom, it will cause severe yang deficiency. If you do not recuperate and treat it in time, the consequences will be unimaginable."

"It's not that serious." Chen Ji himself also understood some medicine, shook his head slightly and said, "I am the time when I grow up. I have strong firepower and sufficient qi and blood. As long as I pay attention to nutrition and strengthen exercise, avoid cold and cold, I will recover soon."

"My grandmaster said the same thing last night, and even asked the quack doctor who was in the hall yesterday to immediately roll the bed." Huaping said with admiration: "You are so awesome!"

Chen Si laughed and said, "Thank you for your praise, but why did you want to scare me?"

"I just spoke so seriously." Huaping waved his hands, smiled and looked like a crescent moon and said, "Let's relax."

"Okay." Chen Si was amused by her appearance and nodded, "Stay on."

"Yes." Huaping nodded and then said, "After seeing you, your father will carry you away. My lady asked the carriage to take you away for a ride, and let others take care of you."

Chen Si said softly: "Ms. Yin is a kind person." He added in his heart: 'It is indeed the reason for big business.'

"That's it," Hua Ping pursed her lips and whispered: "But your father firmly disagrees and insists on going back by himself." Chen Mo knew that his father was a very shameful person, so he would not want to be seen living in a straw hut.

"The lady had to agree, but let the coachman carry me and follow me secretly behind you so that you can remember your residence." The screen showed his helplessness and said, "Since your father wandered around in an alley, he finally turned around and came back. We hurriedly avoided it, but fortunately he was in a hurry and didn't notice it."

"I saw him return the same way, and then return to Yongchangfang. I stopped in front of the Shenjiatai gate. After hesitating for a while, I went forward and called the door."

Although the story of the painting screen is not very detailed, he is silent but can clearly feel the entanglement and pain in his father's heart at that moment... The doctor said that he must not be affected by the dampness, so he was unwilling to carry himself back to the small thatched hut by the river; but the world is so big, the house is like clouds, and the penniless father and son have no place to stand.

In desperation, Chen He had to bite the bullet and ask for help from his family. He was really helpless... With Chen He's scholarly anger, the word "seeking" could never be said whenever there was a glimmer of hope. Silence can be imagined, how ashamed the old man felt when he knocked on the door of the Shen family. However, in the end, the old man gave up on all faces in order to save him.
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