Tan Xi used to work for an escort agency. As people working for an escort agency were away from home all year round, it was inevitable that they would get sick. So he became a doctor after years of illness and was able to diagnose some diseases, and his knowledge was quite good.
This time, when he spoke, he said something very similar to what the barefoot doctors had said before. The woman, who had been unable to cry all this time, burst into tears, hugged the child in her arms tighter, and looked up at him with hope: "Is there still hope? Can it be cured?!"
She was still young, but her pair of clear eyes were now dark. If they had not suddenly become brighter just now, she would have looked no different from an elderly person.
Wei An nodded to Tan Xi.
Tan Xi agreed straightforwardly: "Cure it! Why can't it be cured?!" He paused, then touched his chin and said: "It's just that this is a life of wealth and prosperity. It requires long-term maintenance with bird's nest and ginseng."
As he spoke, he looked at Wei An and Shen Chen, raised his voice and asked: "Master, we brought some old ginseng with us when we went out, and it can be used now. This child is thin and has caught a severe cold, and I'm afraid his lungs are not in good condition. If we use old ginseng as medicine, it can nourish the blood and replenish qi, and it will be very good..."
Everyone was stunned.
It was the fat woman who reacted first, and she was excited and excited: "How can this be done?" She said and then became discouraged: "I can't afford the money..."
Ginseng is so expensive, how can she afford it
"No need for money." Shen Chen laughed and looked at Xuesong. Seeing Xuesong quickly take out a small box from the bag on the horse's back, he handed it to the fat woman: "There are five ginsengs about fifteen years old in it. You can use them first. If it's not enough, we will send someone to deliver it later."
The scholar and his wife's eyes widened in surprise. They never expected that this group of people were not only good at fighting, but also so generous. Recalling the curiosity that Shen Chen and Wei An had shown about the compensation silver from the thousand households, they became more vigilant.
Especially the scholar's wife, she spat on the ground sarcastically: "I was wondering why he suddenly became so tough, it turns out that he has climbed up the ladder and wants to eat the ginseng and bird's nest..."
She glanced at the fat woman and the young woman who shrank her neck, and sneered, "Did you do something shameful?"
Ignorance is bliss. She guessed that Shen Chen and his men were not ordinary people, but she was not overly afraid. She just warned the fat woman: "You have to understand that everyone can live a good life for a day or two. It takes skill to live for a long time... Tsk tsk tsk, don't let the disease be cured but the life is gone. Who can you go to for justice then?"
Her words were harsh and sarcastic, but the scholar next to her nodded in agreement: "That's right, you must have colluded with outsiders. You ignored the words of the captain! Even so, you still want silver?! Not a penny!"
Collude with outsiders
This finally made some sense. Shen Chen kicked the scholar again, causing him to stagger and fly far away. Then he stepped on his back again and asked him coldly, "Colluding with outsiders? Who is the outsider that your captain is referring to?"
He no longer paid attention to the scholar. Seeing that the fat woman hesitated and did not dare to take the ginseng, he said, "Since I give it to you, it is given with sincerity. Take it. The child may need it."
The fat woman hesitated for a long time, looked at her husband beside her, then hesitantly reached out to take it, and hurriedly thanked Shen Chen and Wei An.
Wei An shook his head. Seeing how embarrassed she was, he asked, "Aren't you brothers?"
After accepting the money and ginseng, the fat woman was very embarrassed. Seeing Wei An asking, she nodded hurriedly, "My master is his brother. He was a soldier back then, and all the money was used for his studies. It is so difficult to support a scholar, and my parents-in-law have no ability and can't help. The burden of the family fell on our family. Later, my third uncle passed the examination to become a scholar, but he failed again. He took the examination for seven or eight years, but it seemed that he would not pass. We then arranged to find him a wife, but who knew that they would turn a small amount of kindness into a big amount of resentment. They didn't remember our kindness, but instead thought that we were bad in every way. They thought we didn't care about them after we had children, and they thought we were different from before."
"We have to compete in everything and give in everywhere." The fat woman's eyes were red. She rubbed her eyes and felt very sad: "But who knew that even so, they were still not satisfied. We supported our parents-in-law, but they said we took advantage of them. Later, when they had a child, they also asked us to pay for the banquet..."
"That's all fine. We're all family, so we didn't say anything." The fat woman frowned. "But later, his elder brother broke his leg, and he took advantage of his elder brother's broken leg to get the position of Qianhu Suo's clerk, but he didn't say a word of thanks either. He didn't visit us during the New Year holidays, and he didn't contact us at all. He thought we were poor and stopped communicating with us. Just recently, because we were about to get our military pay, they came to make trouble again. We also said that the child was sick, and there were places in the house where money was needed, and we really couldn't move it out, and we couldn't give any bribes. But he wouldn't listen, and he brought people to make trouble every day."
Han Bo crossed his arms and glanced at the scholar and his wife with a cold face, and said coldly: "Aren't they afraid?"
The fat woman laughed helplessly, "What are you afraid of? They are from the Qianhu Office. Lord Dong would treat his own dog with more respect than other people. What's more, they are his subordinates who work for him. If we dare to report to the officials, I'm afraid not only the children will die, but all of us will die."
Everyone knows that the guard posts below are not clean now.
But it's still hard to believe that it's this dirty.
Especially since Baoding Prefecture was under the jurisdiction of Hebei Guard, and the Xiao family was in charge of Hebei Guard...
The dogs below are barking so loudly, it is not difficult to imagine the faces of those other superiors.
No wonder they had the guts to frame the Prince of Zhennan. It turned out that they were so arrogant that they didn't even take these people seriously. Even framing the Prince of Zhennan was probably not a big deal in their eyes.
Shen Chen was silent for a moment, and then asked: "When you were levied land rent before, was it really the Zhennan Palace that sent people to collect it directly?"
The fat woman hesitated for a moment, obviously not daring to answer.
But her husband, who had been silent all this time, suddenly asked, "Who are you guys?"
He stood up with his broken leg and looked at them: "I see you guys are not traveling merchants, but you are here specifically for this matter, right?"