Dunchuan City is not big, and there are only a few streets where you can go shopping. The rest are also residential areas, and there is nothing to go shopping. So Ye Chuqiu and Lin Sihu didn’t go shopping for long when they saw Lin Erhu and Wan
Two children.
The two of them had already chosen a horse and hitched the carriage. Looking at their direction, they seemed to be going to the Yamen.
"Wantong."
Ye Chuqiu called her and waved to the two of them.
"Mother/Auntie." Lin Erhu soon discovered them. Lin Erhu pulled the carriage towards Ye Chuqiu with some excitement, "Mother, we have bought things and are about to go find you."
"Didn't you buy anything for Wantong?" Ye Chuqiu asked when seeing Wantong's empty hands.
"I bought it and put it all in the carriage." Lin Erhu replied quickly and glanced at Wantong, "Let me tell you, if I don't buy you something, my mother will definitely teach me a lesson."
"That's right." Ye Chuqiu nodded and asked, "What did you buy? How come you even bought the carriage so quickly?"
"We didn't even have much choice, we just bought it and left," Lin Erhu said.
"Can I buy some clothes and jewelry?" Ye Chuqiu asked.
"I bought it." Wantong replied quickly, and Ye Chuqiu next to her wanted to drag her to buy something again.
"Have you bought any snacks?" Ye Chuqiu asked again.
"That's not true." Lin Erhu shook his head.
"Then let's go buy some snacks and take them back to eat. It just so happens that my mother has to go to the grocery store to buy some jelly seeds and saltpeter." Ye Chuqiu said.
"Bean jelly seeds?" Lin Erhu was a little curious. He had never heard of such a thing.
"It's something that can be used to make jelly." Lin Sihu said from the side: "The jelly is delicious and ice cold. If you encounter someone selling jelly again later, you must buy a bowl."
"I have eaten jelly before." Wantong said: "There is a forest not far from Laodao River, and there are many Xue Li vines growing in it. In summer, its fruits will mature one after another. When the time comes, go to the woods.
Just pick it inside."
"Wow, you have eaten it before. We have never eaten it before."
Lin Sihu looked at Wantong as if she was so powerful that she had even eaten jelly, but he looked at her a little embarrassed and said: "I have followed my father everywhere to collect medicine since I was a child. It's okay to eat jelly."
It’s strange.”
"But we have never eaten it. We have never heard of it before." Lin Sihu said.
"That's right." Lin Erhu also nodded, "I've never eaten it."
"Then when we get back, I'll go look for it in the mountains and pick some Xue Li fruits for you. You can use the seeds inside to make jelly," Wantong said.
"Okay, okay, I'm going to eat it for my mother today. A bowl costs fifteen cents. Sister, if you can make it, you can save us a lot of money." Lin Sihu said happily.
"Okay, then I will pick fruits for you tomorrow." Wantong was very happy when he heard this.
"Can you make ice?" Lin Sihu asked again.
"Yes." Wantong said, "You can make ice with saltpeter."
"Wow, how did you know?" Lin Sihu was curious.
"It's not a secret. My father is a doctor, and sometimes he needs a small amount of saltpeter for medicine." Wantong replied.
"Wow, Sister Wantong, you are so amazing, just like my mother, you know everything."
Lin Sihu looked at her with an expression of admiration again. After finishing speaking, he looked at Lin Erhu again, and then sighed like a little adult.
"Why are you sighing at me?" Lin Erhu couldn't help but ask.
"Second brother, you have to work hard. Sister Wantong knows medical skills, has a lot of experience, and is also literate. You don't know anything." Lin Erhu sighed as he spoke, looking old-fashioned.
"Sihu, what are you talking about?" Lin Erhu said to him, but his face turned red and he lowered his head.
"You little guy."
Ye Chuqiu knew that Lin Erhu couldn't hide anything at home. Obviously, this guy also knew about his own plans.
"Actually, your second brother still has many outstanding qualities." Ye Chuqiu said from the side: "Your second brother is filial and knows how to farm, drive a cart, and ride a horse. These can be regarded as advantages. Moreover, he is not dating you now.
Can he write? I think after a while, he will be able to write and do calculations."
"Well, that's true, but second brother still has to work harder." Lin Sihu nodded arrogantly.
While talking, several people came to a grocery store. Ye Chuqiu went to buy saltpeter, and then bought some candied fruits on the street.
On the way back, he happened to pass by a drug store. Ye Chuqiu called Wantong and went to the drug store with her to ask about the prices of various medicinal materials.
"Wantong, you often go to the mountains to collect herbs. Have the prices of these herbs increased a lot?" Ye Chuqiu asked Wantong after coming out of the medicine shop.
"Yeah." Wantong nodded and added, "But I went to the drugstore to sell medicine before, and the price they paid for it hasn't changed much."
"Alas~"
Ye Chuqiu sighed. Although they didn't seem to see many infected people, most of those who were sick were at home or staying in residential areas. They were unlikely to come to these main streets, so at first glance
At first glance, it doesn't seem to be a big problem.
However, from the prices of these medicinal materials, we can know whether the problem is big or not.
On the way back, perhaps paying extra attention to these patients, Ye Chuqiu found that many people were coughing. On the way out of the city, he even saw several people wearing sackcloth and mourning.
It seems that many people have died again, and those who can be sent away by filial sons and grandsons wearing sackcloth and filial piety, and playing trumpets and erhu music are those from relatively good families. Many more people are rolled up in straw mats and sent out of the city.