Cui Boyao is really amazing and this trip was very rewarding.
They caught several rabbits, wild pheasants, a few eggs, and a deer. Everyone says sika deer are very beautiful. This is not a sika deer, but its eyes are really beautiful.
Xiaoshuang also picked up a basket of chestnuts and some wild fruits that she couldn't name.
There are many people and animals in the Taoist temple now, and it is very lively.
Aunt Pei took a look at the animals and said, "Raise the chickens and save a few of their eggs. They can hatch chicks next spring. That way, you won't have to catch chickens anymore and you'll have chicken to eat."
Just keep one rooster among three or five pheasants. You can kill two roosters and leave two hens to sit on the nest and lay eggs.
The same is true with wild goats; the old ones are killed and the young and small ones are kept.
The roe deer were slaughtered, and the deer were left for the children to play with. Now there was enough meat.
The noodles were still not enough, so the next day, on the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, Liu Qiaoer thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to the market and trade the meat for some noodles so we can have dumplings tonight."
If you eat meat every day, the meat will be digested slowly, and your stomach will be full of oil, which is not good for your liver.
Aunt Pei led the elderly aunts and grandmothers to dig wild vegetables around the mountains and fields, but noodles and rice did grow faster.
The little bit of millet we found last time was gone after we ground it into flour in three or five days.
Wild boar meat is quite tasty. In addition to being used to make bacon and sausage, the fat is also used to make oil. There is no shortage of oil for cooking, but now there is a shortage of flour.
Uncle Pei said, "Okay, I'll go with you tomorrow. I still want to call one of our sons back."
Both sons were drafted into the army, so one had to be kept to take care of him in his old age.
The next day, in order to get back in the afternoon, Liu Qiaoer, Cui Boxiao and Uncle Pei went down the mountain at midnight.
The mountain road is slippery and it is easy to get lost in the dark. It is better if three people hold torches.
The trip back and forth went smoothly and the journey was quick. We arrived at the city gate at dawn, and coincidentally, the gate was open.
Liu Qiaoer was originally planning to change into a soldier's clothes and sneak into the city, but she saw that the city gate was open and people could come in and out freely. The soldiers at the city gate seemed to have no business doing anything.
Cui Boxiao and Liu Qiaoer also walked in arrogance, and no one stopped them.
There were three people, each carrying something on his back. Cui Boxiao and Uncle Pei carried pig hind legs, and Liu Qiaoer carried a few rabbits.
After entering the county town, Uncle Pei went straight to the market as if he was familiar with the place. He gathered things together and sold them there. Liu Qiaoer and Cui Boyao went to inquire about the situation.
Sure enough, things changed. There were not many soldiers in the city, only some garrisons left. The main force went to Prince Xiang's fiefdom. However, Prince Xiang still did not rebel, but responded to the emperor's edict and returned to the capital to celebrate the New Year.
As for whether there would be any action once they arrived in the capital, Liu Qiaoer and the others had no control over it.
The army in the border town was still guarding the north of Beiyuan, and there was no chaos. With three cities connected, it seemed particularly peaceful, and the people were all out and about.
It's Chinese New Year and there are quite a lot of people buying New Year's goods, meat, and grain.
Liu Qiaoer had plenty of money in her space, but she couldn't spend it. After holding it in for a long time, she came up with an idea. She found out that Mr. Wang from Xicheng had a serious illness and could not be cured. Mr. Wang's wife paid a large sum of money for medical treatment.
She decided to give it a try and transform herself into a traveling doctor.
I didn't go anywhere else, just wandered around West City.
"Difficult and complicated diseases, headaches and fevers, all can be cured with this medicine."
Nowadays, who doesn’t have a headache or fever? Liu Qiaoer has the most medicine in her space and she can use it.
Sure enough, she was called over: "Our master has been ill for several days. Several doctors have seen him but none of them could cure him. Can you take a look?"
It was indeed Mr. Wang’s house. Liu Qiaoer was invited to Mr. Wang’s bedroom. After taking a closer look, she found that this was a typical case of tetanus.
It is difficult to see because the wound has not been found.
For a long time, tetanus was indeed a difficult disease to treat, but in her time, it was just a matter of a shot of anti-inflammatory medicine.
Liu Qiao'er thought for a moment and said, "It's indeed troublesome. How about this, you take off Mr. Wang's clothes and I'll examine him carefully."
Liu Qiao'er was dressed as a man and deliberately lowered her voice when speaking, so no one knew she was a woman. The servant and the maid took off Mr. Wang's clothes.
Liu Qiaoer began to check from head to toe and found no external injuries. Everything was fine. Just when Liu Qiaoer was wondering, she suddenly discovered that Mr. Wang was not taking off his socks.
The servant took off his socks, and Liu Qiaoer found a pus-oozing wound on the sole of Mr. Wang's foot.
"Half a month ago, your husband was injured by a branch. Take a look at this. Fortunately, he met a careful doctor like me, otherwise, I'm afraid he would not live past the first day of the new year."
The wound on the foot was inflamed and full of pus. Liu Qiaoer dug out the dead flesh, cleaned it, applied medicine, and then gave Wang Yuanwai acupuncture, taking the opportunity to give him an anti-inflammatory injection.
The medicine really worked. After one injection, within less than a cup of tea, Mr. Wang woke up, saying he was thirsty and hungry. His wife was so happy that she immediately gave Liu Qiaoer one hundred taels of silver as the consultation fee.
Liu Qiaoer prescribed another seven days of external application medicine and half a month of oral medicine. Chinese medicine emphasizes slow recovery, and abstaining from alcohol and spicy food should be enough.
With the one hundred taels, Liu Qiaoer immediately went to buy a cow for sixty taels.
He bought another flatbed cart and put it on his head. He used the remaining silver to buy 50 kilograms of flour, 50 kilograms of rice, some cheap miscellaneous noodles, soybeans, and so on.
The cart was full of things, so we drove to the market to look for Uncle Pei.
Coincidentally, Uncle Pei had just sold all his meat. He sold more than ten taels of the forty kilograms of pork, and together with the rabbit, the total was twenty taels.
Uncle Pei simply asked Liu Qiaoer to buy all twenty taels of silver into flour.
The price of flour has increased to almost the same level as meat, so I bought another 60 kilograms of it.
Liu Qiaoer still had some silver left, and they were waiting for Cui Boyiao at the market.
After entering the city, they split into three groups. Liu Qiaoer went to look for silver, Uncle Pei sold game, and Cui Boxiao went to inquire about things and try to find out the whereabouts of Uncle Pei's son.
Liu Qiaoer and Uncle Pei Qishu have completed their tasks and are now waiting for Cui Boyiao.
Just after noon, Cui Boyao came back with a thin young man on his back.
"Who is this?" Liu Qiaoer asked.
Cui Boxiao shook his head: "I don't know. I originally wanted to go to the military camp to inquire about the situation, but as soon as I arrived at the door, he hugged my legs."
Uncle Pei used his sleeve to wipe the man's face clean. Suddenly, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak: "This is my son."
Huh? Liu Qiaoer was also surprised and quickly asked Cui Boxiao to put the man down. Liu Qiaoer felt his pulse and found that his leg was broken and his body was extremely thin.
Liu Qiaoer took out a health pill from the space and stuffed it into his mouth.
After a cup of tea, Er Laizi finally woke up. As soon as he saw Uncle Pei, he hugged him and started crying.
"Dad, I knew you would come to find me. I finally waited for you."
It turned out that after Er Laizi was captured by the soldiers, he was thrown into a training camp. There were many newcomers in the training camp and the soldiers trained him very harshly. Er Laizi was very thin and weak, so his leg was broken.