"What's wrong with your mother-in-law?" Jiang Zhen asked with a frown. He has seen this man several times these days, and he has also seen his two children fishing for fish, shrimp or food by the river, but he has never seen his Wife, I didn't expect that it would die.
"Sick." The man touched his face again and wiped the rain mixed with tears from his face.
These fishermen, their lives are actually not very good.
They don't have their own land, and they don't have a place to live. Although they can fish and sell for money, their income is actually very meager, and they can only maintain their daily lives. Once people get sick, they often have to endure it.
His mother-in-law only had stomach pains at first, and he didn't take it seriously. As a result, she threw up, vomited, and burned in the past few days, and she lost weight all of a sudden...
It was sunny yesterday. He took all his savings and took him to see it. The doctor said that it would cost twenty or thirty taels of silver to be cured. There is no guarantee that it will be cured. die.
He came here to make a living from far away by rocking a boat. He has no relatives and no reason here, and if he wants to borrow money, he has nowhere to borrow it. The only valuable thing in his hand is the boat, but everyone here needs a boat No shortage of boats, no need... Who would buy such a broken boat
What's more, this boat is his home. If the boat is sold, their family will have nowhere to go.
This fisherman's name is Wang Haisheng, and the wife in his mouth is actually a twin, named Sun Xiaoshan, who he picked up from the river.
People like them who don't have their own land, don't even have a foothold, and people who are in charge of their boats, it's hard to marry a wife, and people who care a little about their children will not marry their daughters or two children to run around in such a precarious situation. Therefore, Wang Haisheng, like Boss Jiang, was twenty-five or six years old, and he never married a daughter-in-law.
Then one day he was catching fish when he saw someone floating from a distance and picked up a pair.
This Sun Xiaoshan also had a hard life. His mother died early, and his father married his stepmother, and he was treated harshly. Later, when he was only fifteen or sixteen years old, he was sold to an old man in his forties to fill in the house.
After he got married, the old man treated him well, but he lived a good life for a while, but within two years, the old man died of illness.
After the old man dies, he is the son of the old man. It stands to reason that his stepmother can have a meal anyway, otherwise he will be remarried, but the son of the old man has a crooked mind towards him and wants to force him, and The old man's daughter-in-law was upset and shouted, and even brought in his family to beat him.
He couldn't live any longer, so he threw himself into the river, and was picked up by Wang Haisheng. He was very grateful and lived with Wang Haisheng.
They have been together for ten years. They have two children, the older one is Wang Yuer, a twin, who is nine years old this year, and the younger one, Wang Daniu, who is six years old and a man.
In the middle, they actually had a child, but they couldn't keep it.
Although their family was poor, they lived happily ever after, never thinking that Sun Xiaoshan suddenly fell ill.
Wang Haisheng cried again as he spoke, and Jiang Zhen frowned.
In modern times, people have always complained that seeing a doctor is difficult and expensive, but compared with the ancient times, the price of seeing a doctor at that time was actually extremely low, and it was not difficult at all.
In ancient times, it was really difficult and expensive to see a doctor.
There are only a few doctors in Hecheng County, and some of them only know a little bit about the skin, and they also know how difficult it is to see a doctor. As for the expensive...
Zhao Jinge's mother, Zhao Liushi, was not seriously ill at first, but after seeking treatment from a doctor for a period of time, the Zhao family had to sell the land...
Speaking of which, at that time, people in Hexi Village thought that Zhao Jinge's father, Zhao Fugui, didn't know what to do... Which of them country people didn't suffer from illness? Isn't there something wrong with the brain to sell land for treatment? If Zhao Fugui didn't sell the land, even if Zhao Liu died of illness, he would still be able to marry a widow and come back to warm the bed, and maybe he could have another child for him.
In ancient times, ordinary people could not afford to be sick. When they were sick, they could only wait for them to get better. Wang Haisheng's mother-in-law was sick, and it was an emergency. He had no money to treat him, and there was indeed only a dead end.
"Take me to see." Jiang Zhen said.
"You can heal?" Wang Haisheng looked at Jiang Zhen in surprise. Although he had lived in Hexi Village for a while, the villagers were xenophobic and didn't contact him, so he didn't contact the villagers very much. Meet Jiang Zhen.
Seeing that Jiang Zhen is quite tolerant, he also thinks that Jiang Zhen knows how to treat diseases - most of the villages don't have doctors, but occasionally there will be someone who knows a little about herbal medicine.
Jiang Zhen did not speak.
Of course he doesn't know how to treat diseases. Although he has learned first aid, the first aid he learned is how to stop bleeding and sew wounds, but people have stomach pains and fever.
If he knew what was wrong with that Sun Xiaoshan, there was a modern pharmacy beside him, and he might be able to find something for him with antipyretics or something. What's wrong!
He was going to have a look, just to see if Sun Xiaoshan could still be saved...
Wang Haisheng secretly looked at Jiang Zhen with his eyes, and when he saw Jiang Zhen's expressionless expression, his heart settled down inexplicably, and he was not as sad and desperate as at the beginning.
Wang Haisheng took Jiang Zhen to his ship.
Jiangnan is already rainy and humid. Although people here are used to this kind of climate, it has been raining recently, which also makes them very uncomfortable. Jiang Zhen just ignited and dehumidified at home because he felt that the humidity was too heavy. The firewood piled up in the thatched hut was used up.
As a result, his mud hut was heavy with moisture, but on this boat, it was even heavier than his mud hut!
If nothing else, first of all, this environment is not suitable for patients to live in.
When Jiang Zhen entered the cabin and saw a moldy fish hanging inside, he was even more speechless.
Wang Haisheng was also a little embarrassed. The fish was not a valuable thing to him. He pulled the fish and threw it into the river: "I haven't even bothered to clean up the house for the past two days..."
Of course, this is also because the weather is too humid recently, and things are so easy to mold.
"Father." The two children came over, their eyes were red, and they were crying before they wanted to come.
"How is your mother?" Wang Haisheng cried a lot before, but he was very calm in front of the two children.
Someone needs to support this family.
"Mother vomited again, and the bitter gall water also spit out." The older Shuang'er with a red mole between his eyebrows choked.
Jiang Zhen frowned, took two steps in, and saw the patient on the bed.
The big family at this time is very particular. He will never let him go to a twin bed as a man, but the poor people don't care. Wang Haisheng also took the initiative to greet Jiang Zhen and let Jiang Zhen show it to his daughter-in-law. Look.
"Is there hot water at home? Is there sugar?" Jiang Zhen asked.
"There is hot water and brown sugar." Wang Haisheng said, they usually want to buy food to eat, so there are only a few taels of silver around him, not enough money for medical treatment.
But the doctor said that he had to wait until he died. He thought that he would always make his wife eat better before she died, so he went to buy some food, and the sugar was bought at that time.
Sun Xiaoshan couldn't eat for the past two days, so they kept drinking hot sugar water for him, so there was also hot water.
"You soak some sugar water, and then put some salt in it for him to drink." Jiang Zhendao, if he vomits like this, once the dehydration is serious, he will not be saved.
"Yu'er, go get it." Wang Haisheng said to his eldest son, then looked at Jiang Zhen: "And then?"
"Do you sell this boat?" Jiang Zhen asked suddenly.
"Twenty taels of silver will be sold, no, no, fifteen taels will be sold." Wang Haisheng said without even thinking about it. He has already gone to find a buyer before, but even if some people have money, they would rather buy land than land. buy his boat.
"Twenty taels of silver, I'll buy your boat." Jiang Zhen said: "I'll go back to get the silver, and then we'll go to the county town to treat your daughter-in-law... I won't cure his disease."
Although Wang Haisheng hoped that Jiang Zhen would be able to cure his daughter-in-law, he did not hold out much hope. He was not surprised that Jiang Zhen said he could not be cured, but the fact that Jiang Zhen was willing to buy his boat made him ecstatic: "You... do you really want to buy my boat?" His boat was actually a bit broken...
"Well." Jiang Zhen nodded, then jumped off the boat and walked to his residence.
He has been thinking about buying a boat since he planned to re-sell the goods to make money, but he can't row a boat...
This time things have been dealt with, he can not only have a boat, but also have a boat to help him... Although the boat is very broken.
When Jiang Zhen came back with the money, he saw Wang Haisheng, who was in his thirties, standing on the bow of the boat, with tears in his eyes.
Wang Haisheng also knew that his boat was definitely not worth 22 taels of silver. If he got some wood and found someone to make a boat, maybe he could get a new boat for 10 taels of silver, so the guy who traded a hedgehog for fish last time. Man, he's actually helping him...
Although he was worried about where he would live after the boat was gone, Wang Haisheng was still full of hope and gratitude at this moment.
Wang Haisheng went boating, Jiang Zhen didn't know how to row and was afraid of causing trouble for him, so he didn't intervene in this matter, but said: "I plan to go out to do some business in the future, you can row the boat for me, and your family will not starve to death. ."
Wang Haisheng was stunned at first, unable to react, but he soon realized that Jiang Zhen was giving him a way to live.
The weather-beaten man who had been living on the boat all the time cried again: "Thank you, thank you..." After crying, he rowed faster.
It didn't take long for them to arrive at the county seat.
The spring rain was supposed to stop for a while, but when they arrived at the county seat, the rain stopped just in time.
Wang Haisheng carried the drowsy Sun Xiaoshan on his back, went ashore with Jiang Zhen, and left his two children to look after the house, so he went to the pharmacy.
Jiang Zhen threw him twenty taels of silver: "You go first, I'll call someone."
Wang Haisheng didn't know who Jiang Zhen was going to call, and after taking the money, he quickly walked towards the pharmacy, and he ran as he walked.
Jiang Zhen glanced at him, but went to find Yang Jiang.
It was raining today, so Yang Jiang didn't go out to patrol, but stayed at home instead.
In front of their yamen, they received a filial piety from a businessman. The people above them got the big heads, and the people below them could also share some soup, so he took three taels of silver to the house, and just now paid for his own. The mother-in-law went to buy meat.
He didn't like to stay at home before, but it rained these days, and he stayed at home every day, and suddenly found that the day was quite comfortable.
Probably because he stayed at home all day, his mother-in-law stopped talking in front of him all day, and his two children became closer and closer to him.
Although her mother-in-law is fat, it is actually quite comfortable to hold her fleshy, and she is soft and fluffy when she sleeps at night, and it is not worse than his.
In the past few days, the two children brought him foot-washing water and knocked on his back. They were very well-behaved. Yang Jiang looked at them and thought about the scene where Jiang Zhen stabbed Butcher Jiang's thigh with a bamboo pole, and he felt that he was complete.
Yang Jiang was talking to the two children about his heroic appearance in handling the case with Erlang's legs crossed. There was a knock on the door of his house, and he immediately said, "Da Mao, go open the door."
Yang Damao quickly opened the door, and Yang Jiang glanced out and saw Boss Jiang.
Yang Jiang, who was originally laid-back, quickly got up from the reclining chair and looked at Jiang Zhen with a smile: "Boss, you are here!"
"Well, go out with me." Jiang Zhen said.
Jiang Zhen was a little rude. If someone else did this, Yang Jiang might get hit, but he didn't dare to hit Jiang Zhen, so he quickly cleaned up and followed Jiang Zhen out.
Jiang Zhen took Yang Jiang to the pharmacy first.
Wang Haisheng was a fisherman who lived without a fixed place. The people in the drugstore didn't take him seriously at all, and he might be slaughtered, but when Yang Jiang went for a walk, it was different.
Even if the people in the drugstore were not afraid of the yamen, they knew that Wang Haisheng knew the yamen, so he would always be more careful when treating Sun Xiaoshan.
Jiang Zhen thought well.
The people in the pharmacy are not afraid of Yang Jiang, Yang Jiang is also polite to the doctor in the shop, but with Yang Jiang there, the people in the shop are much more polite to Wang Haisheng. Originally they did not allow Sun Xiaoshan to stay in the shop, but later After a bit of accommodation, Sun Xiaoshan was allowed to live in the room behind the pharmacy where patients rested.
Jiang Zhen is not a doctor, so it's boring to stay here. Seeing that things have been arranged, he didn't stay, but went outside with Yang Jiang: "Let's go for a walk in the market."
The two just went shopping in the market. At this time, Jiang Zhen could be considered to have discovered that the market today is different from that of later generations.
Rich people these days, they spend money casually and don't feel bad, but the common people are different.
People who have no money are very reluctant to spend money. When buying things, they are looking for cheap prices, not beauty or good taste. For example, two people selling meat buns, the same size and the same amount of meat, one family is delicious but expensive. , the other is not delicious but the price is cheap, everyone must go to the latter to buy the cheap one.
They don't pursue the quality of life very much. As long as they can eat enough, they basically don't have much requirements. It is because of this that even if Wang Haisheng has a fishing boat and can fish, his life is still ordinary.
Fish can't be sold at a price in the county town. Even if it has been raining recently, and there are fewer people selling fish, the big guys don't accept the price increase of fish. If they find that the price of fish is expensive, they will simply choose not to buy it or not. eat.
Even if it is pork, people in the county also buy it cheap, and people who come all the way to the county during the festivals will buy pork that is two or three cents more expensive than usual from the butcher shop.
Of course, it is different for the rich. They are even willing to spend the money that Zhao Jinge can't earn for a year... It's just that with Jiang Zhen's current capital, it is basically impossible to do business with the rich. However, the needs of these poor people are too low, just like the villagers, they can basically be self-sufficient.
If he is willing to go a long way to get the cheap silk or something to the north, he can definitely make money, but...
How is he going? If there is trouble on the road, how will he solve it? What to eat and where to live
He can't understand nothing, just bring the goods and leave
What's more, he didn't talk about a few months... What about Zhao Jinge
After looking around, Jiang Zhen suddenly looked at Yang Jiang: "How much do you know about that private salt?"
The last time he bought salt, he spent thirty-five cents a pound of salt. In modern times, it was thirty-five dollars a pound of salt.
How much profit is this? It's very close to the sea...