Throughout the morning, Wu Chengsi asked Su Dingfang for help in the Su Mansion. The two discussed it until noon. After lunch at the Su Mansion, Wu Chengsi took his leave.
After leaving the Su Mansion, Wu Chengsi left the city and headed for Li Ji's residence outside the city. Li Ji hadn't returned to Beijing yet, so naturally the person Wu Chengsi was looking for was Li Zhiying.
"Go back to Mr. Wu, my lady is in the hospital at Changshoufang in the city. You can go there to find her." After Wu Chengsi asked, a Li Mansion guard replied.
Wu Chengsi immediately went to the longevity house. The medical clinic opened by Li Zhiying was called "Little Medical Clinic" and was located in a relatively remote corner of the building.
When I arrived at the hospital, I saw a long line of poor people in ragged clothes lined up outside the gate.
Wu Chengsi also ran to the queue and lined up, and immediately received unkind looks from others. These people seemed to be saying: "You wear such nice clothes, you look like a rich man, why do you come here to see a doctor?" "
Wu Chengsi turned a blind eye to everyone's attention and smiled at the person in front of him: "Friend, what is the grass you are holding? Why is everyone holding this thing in their hands?"
The man was a scholar, wearing a patched cloth robe. After hearing this, he said: "We people have no money, so we can only go outside the city to dig these things for the medical center. You can't laugh at me."
Wu Chengsi said: "This is my first time here. I really don't know. I don't mean to laugh at you."
The scholar looked at him and said: "These are medicinal herbs. Although Miss Li's kindness is to treat us for free, it costs money to open a medical clinic, so we dug some herbs from outside the city and paid for the medical treatment."
Wu Chengsi was surprised. Although this method was a good one, it also had a difficulty. He immediately asked: "How can you tell which herbs are the ones?"
"You'll find out later when you get in." After the scholar finished speaking, he turned his head back.
Just as the scholar said, after Wu Chengsi queued for a long time and entered the medical clinic, he finally understood why those people could distinguish herbs.
I saw more than a dozen paintings hanging on the walls of the medical center, each with a pattern of a herbal medicine, with its name and related habits marked next to it.
Wu Chengsi secretly praised Li Zhiying's brains. Using this method, he could not only provide medical treatment to the poor, but also allow the small medical clinic to be self-sufficient and operate in the long term.
After a while, Wu Chengsi was finally in line. The pulse diagnosis table was similar to the pawn table in a pawn shop, but it was lower and there was a chair for the patient to sit on.
There was a curtain hanging on the semicircular window. Just when Wu Chengsi was expecting Li Zhiying's voice to be heard from behind the curtain, a dry old voice said: "What's wrong with you?"
Wu Chengsi lifted the curtain and saw a wrinkled old man sitting behind him, asking: "Who are you? Isn't this medical center treated by Miss Zhiying?"
The old man's gray eyebrows knitted together and shouted: "Tiehu, throw this man out."
A strong man responded and walked out from behind a door. After seeing several personal guards behind Wu Chengsi, the strong man hesitated and stood still.
At this moment, a female voice hurriedly shouted: "Tiehu, come back quickly."
As soon as he finished speaking, a petite woman ran out from the ear door, came to Wu Chengsi, smiled and said: "Master Wu, you have returned to Chang'an, are you here to see the young lady?"
Hearing the woman's address, the old man was stunned for a moment, then quietly covered the curtain back, and Tiehu also quietly retreated to the backyard.
"...Who are you?" Wu Chengsi frowned.
The woman's little face puffed up, and she said sweetly: "My name is Hong Ming, and she is my lady's personal maid. I have seen you in the mansion and the military camp."
Wu Chengsi smiled and said: "I remembered, you are the timid maid next to Miss Zhiying."
Seeing his gentle expression, Hong Ming lowered her head and pouted: "How can I be so timid?"
Wu Chengsi asked: "What happened just now? Who is that old man? Where is your young lady?"
Hong Ming hurriedly said: "Master Wu, don't be angry with Mr. Wang, because there are always some people who come here not to see a doctor, but just to see the lady. So now Mr. Wang is the one who sees the doctor, and when he encounters more serious cases
If the patient is ill, the lady will take action."
Wu Chengsi nodded and said, "What about your young lady? Can you take me to see her?"
Seeing that Wu Chengsi did not pursue Mr. Wang, Hong Ming breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Miss went to Shande Hall to exchange for medicinal materials."
"Change the medicinal ingredients?"
"Yes, just replace the medicinal materials brought by the patients with other types of medicinal materials."
Wu Chengsi immediately understood that the medicinal materials brought by these patients were all pictures, and the types were relatively single. He needed to go to other pharmacies to exchange for various types of medicinal materials in order to maintain the operation of the medical center.
"knew."
Wu Chengsi turned around and left the medical clinic, heading towards Shandetang.
Deshan Hall is different from the small medical clinic. It is located in the center of Changshou Square. As soon as Wu Chengsi stepped into the medical clinic, suddenly, a white shadow rushed over quickly.
Wei Heng and other personal guards were startled and hurriedly stopped in front of Wu Chengsi. The figure stopped a few feet away from Wu Chengsi. It was a short, fat man wearing white clothes.
The man was in his forties, had a kind face, and smiled with teeth missing. He was Tang Anshi, the manager of Shandetang.
"The Duke of Zhou is here, the shop is really shining!" Tang Anshi clasped his hands together, with a fat face full of smiles.
Wu Chengsi looked around and saw that the hall of Shandetang was several times larger than that of the small medical clinic, but it was still crowded with people. He smiled and said, "It seems that the business of Shopkeeper Tang's medical clinic is very prosperous."
Tang Anshi said with a smile on his face: "Thanks to Mr. Cheng, the business is pretty good. I wonder if Mr. Wu is not feeling well? Or is he here to get medicine for others? In fact, you can just send someone to give instructions for this kind of thing. How dare you bother me?
Are you coming here in person?"
"I'm here to see Miss Zhiying."
"Miss Li is exchanging medicinal materials in the backyard. Mr. Wu, please come with me." Tang Anshi said with a smile.
After passing through several doors, Wu Chengsi followed Tang Anshi to a medicine warehouse in the backyard.
The two were about to go in when they suddenly heard a gentle voice coming from the warehouse: "Is it really not possible?"
Another rough voice followed: "Miss Li, the exchange of 'Longsha' for 'Guimu' has always been three pounds for one pound. You only have two pounds and seven taels. It's really against the rules."
"It's only three taels. You are really stingy. I heard that stingy people will be unlucky."
"This...sigh...well, I can change it for you." The rough voice quickly gave up.
"Thank you so much. Dr. Tang is such a good person. I will come to you when I need to change medicines in the future!" A gentle female voice thanked her.
Rough male voice: "..."
Wu Chengsi was secretly surprised. There was no doubt that this voice was made by Li Zhiying. Wu Chengsi had been in contact with her quite a lot, but he didn't expect that she had such a playful side.
Stepping into the warehouse, she saw Li Zhiying wearing apricot-yellow palace clothes, with her back towards the door. Standing in front of her was a tall man, Tang Ji, the first doctor of Shandetang.
After Li Zhiying heard the footsteps, she turned around and immediately met Wu Chengsi's eyes.
She showed a bit of joy at first, then her face turned red and she said, "You... how long have you been at the door?"
Wu Chengsi smiled and said: "We just arrived, don't worry, we didn't even hear the conversation between you and Doctor Tang."
"Really, really?"
"That's natural. But having said that, Miss Zhiying, you are quite good at bargaining. We won't be able to suffer any losses when we go shopping in the future!"
Li Zhiying's face turned even redder, as if she had been steamed in a steamer, and she whispered: "Who wants to go shopping with you?"
"Didn't you ask me to ask your grandpa last time? He has already..."
Li Zhiying said angrily: "Don't say it here!" After saying that, she picked up the skirt and ran out of the warehouse quickly.
When Wu Chengsi chased him out, he saw Li Zhiying standing behind the ear door curtain, looking toward the hall.
"What are you looking at?" Wu Chengsi approached and asked.
"There...are a lot of weirdos in the hall." Li Zhiying replied in a low voice.
Wu Chengsi looked towards the hall and saw many foreign men in the hall.
Those big men had strange grimace designs painted on their faces and many feathers on their heads, just like the Indians of later generations.
There were more than a dozen of these big men, and they surrounded several men who were as short as winter melons.
A grimace-faced man with the most feathers in his head said in an off-key Tang dialect: "Quickly give up your seat, or I'll beat you up!"
Among the short winter melons, standing in the middle was a particularly short man. He had a large pearl tied with a lace on his head and shouted: "Barbarian, this is Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty. How dare you attack me?"