"Rejuvenation Hall!" I read the words on the plaque and ran in with the old man in my arms: "Doctor, hurry, someone has fainted!"
"What's wrong?" Li Huichun came up to her quickly, instructing me to put the old man on the platform, with my hand on her wrist. Then he took the hair off the old man's face and looked at her face.
"Doctor Li, what's wrong with grandma? Is it serious?" I asked nervously.
"Grandma?" Li Huichun smiled slightly and stretched out his hand towards me: "Pay the five cents first for the consultation fee."
"Diagnostic fee?" I couldn't help but cover the money bag around my waist: "You save people first? Why are you collecting money when you haven't saved anyone?"
Li Huichun smiled coldly: "I don't have free clinics today, so of course I have to collect money. I also have a wife and daughter to support, and the clerks in this medical clinic have to pay wages. Do you want to see it or not? I still have to deal with medicinal materials. I'm busy.
It’s here.”
"You..." I was so disappointed. Last time I saw him, I thought he had great medical ethics, but I didn't expect that this time he refused to save him. I glanced at the poor old man beside me, gritted my teeth, took out five cents and threw it away.
On the counter: "Can I diagnose you now?"
Li Huichun unhurriedly picked up the coins one by one into the drawer, and then took his pulse again: "It's not a big deal, I probably fainted from hunger."
"Are you hungry?" I was stunned: "No, she just ate a bowl of tofu pudding at my stall."
"Oh, that means she ate too quickly and is tired. Take her back and lie down. She will wake up after a while." Li Huichun changed his words again.
"Tired? Are you still tired after eating some bean curd?" I became suspicious of this so-called miraculous doctor who was a close disciple.
"Okay, let's get rid of it. It's all dirty here. Someone will come over for massage soon." Li Huichun picked up the feather duster and waited for me to get rid of the person so that he could clean up the dust on the table.
"You...how could you do this! Isn't she a patient? As a doctor, shouldn't you be saving lives and healing the wounded?"
Li Huichun smiled contemptuously: "Healing the dying? Haha, I'm not a Bodhisattva. Besides, where was she injured? She won't die for a while."
"Ahem." The old man finally responded.
"Grandma, are you awake? Are you okay?"
The old man opened his eyes slightly, looked around, and waved his hand: "It's okay, I want to sleep for a while."
"Oh." I helped her up. It seemed that Li Huichun was right. She was really tired. But where should I find a place for her to sleep?
"Everyone is awake, let's go!" Li Huichun used a feather duster to clean up the dust on the table, with a look of disgust on his face.
I glared at him with contempt and helped my grandma out of the hospital. The sun was blazing outside and there were very few passers-by.
"Grandma, where is your home? I'll take you back."
"Home?" Grandma held the crutch with both hands and looked ahead with squinted eyes: "It's gone, it's gone."
"Then...then where do you usually live?"
Grandma didn't say anything, she walked a few steps forward unsteadily, sat down against a tree on the street, put her crutch beside her, curled up and fell asleep on the ground.
My heart trembled. At such an age, it should be the time when I am having a grandchild, but I don’t even have a place to stay. Looking at her like this, I am afraid she will just eat my bowl of tofu pudding today and sleep here.
It’s hot and there are so many mosquitoes, how can this be done?
"Come on, grandma, I'll take you to a place to rest." I said and helped her up.
Where should we find a place for her? Xiangzhou City is so big, who would be so kind as to take in a helpless old man?
Finally, I suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of a place.
In the Jianghu Inn, Ah Wu looked surprised after hearing what I said: "Sir, if you want to stay in the hotel, I will warmly welcome you, but if you ask me to take her in, I can't make the decision. This is an inn, not a Buddhist temple.
, there are so many poor people in this world, and you have picked them up and sent them to me, then should I still do business? Shopkeeper, shopkeeper, come here quickly."
"What's wrong?" Fu Bo also came over.
"Shopkeeper, she is so pitiful and helpless, can you find a place for her to settle down?" I begged again.
"Okay, there are a lot of vacancies in our inn today. The Tian-shaped room on the third floor is five hundred cents per day, the Herringbone room on the second floor is three hundred cents per day, and the Di-shaped room on the first floor is one hundred cents per day. I don't know which room the guest would like to live in.
ah?"
"I..." I touched my money bag: "I have no money. Can the shopkeeper please help me find her a... um... free place to live? As long as it can protect her from wind and rain, a hut or a firewood shed can be used."
OK."
"Free accommodation?" Uncle Fu said with a confused look on his face, "Then let her live in your house."
"I..." I gritted my teeth. It's not that I haven't thought about taking her home, but my house only has two rooms, so there's no room for her. Besides, I didn't explain it clearly to my mother, so I brought her an "ancestor" inexplicably.
When you go back, are you going to have your ass spread open by my mother?
"What? Is there nothing wrong with me?"
"Hey, Uncle Fu," I saw that he was about to leave, so I stopped him quickly: "Haha, Uncle Fu, look, didn't you just take in that old man Fang who was selling herbal tea on the street? Brother Five also said last time,
There are many other clerks in this shop who were taken in by the boss, so there are not many grandmas."
Uncle Fu glanced at the old man who was bowing his head silently: "Ah Wu is very busy in the living room, Shitou, Chen Xian and their mother and son clean the guest room and serve tea and water every day. They are also doing endless work. The kitchen staff
Old Yutou and Sister Fang are still cooking noodles and cooking on such a hot day. Even Old Man Fang will help clean the yard, serve tea and read stories to the guests... As for her, see for yourself, she can't even walk easily.
What can I do if I stay here? Is it possible that I need to find a maid to take care of me?"
"But..." I was speechless for a moment. Uncle Fu was telling the truth. What should I do?
After thinking about it for a while, I left my grandma to stay and settled in room No. 1. Of course, I took out the little more than 20 yuan I had in my wallet and added an IOU. Hey, let’s just start with
I can just stay in the inn for one day, and when I get home, I can talk to my grandma more passionately, and maybe she will agree to take her in if she softens her heart.
I uneasily finished selling the tofu and returned home. My mother-in-law had just finished drying her clothes. When she saw me entering the hospital, she wiped her hands on her apron and said with joy on her face: "Jianghu is back? Have you eaten?"
I took off my burden and scooped up a ladle of water from the bucket by the well. I poured it into my stomach. I picked up the water and wiped my face. Then I replied: "I ate a cake on the street, my mother-in-law."
, is there still food?”
"Yes, I'll keep it for you."
When I entered the room, there was indeed a large bowl of rice on the table, with a fried egg on top, a plate of kimchi and a bowl of tofu. I couldn't help but devour it all, and I felt like I was alive again.
"Look at you kid, you don't know how to eat." Auntie smiled and put away the bowl and chopsticks with satisfaction: "I went to sell tofu alone today. How do you feel? If you can take over this matter, I will only be responsible for doing it at home.
After doing housework, we can also enclose an area in this yard, feed a few chickens, and collect some shoe soles to sell when we have time. In this way, our family's life will be better."
"Well, I have no problem." I replied and handed over the money bag: "This is the money I earned today. The weather was too hot. I was afraid that the weather would change, so I sold it at a reduced price. I bought soybeans and pancakes to eat.
I also drank two bowls of sour plum soup..."
"Okay, not bad, at least I'm still making money." There was a trace of disappointment on A Niang's face. She looked at the dozens of pennies in her hand, paused, and then smiled: "It won't rain in this kind of weather today, so I'll do it later."
Don't be in a hurry to lower the price. You won't be able to sell it for much in the first place. I'll steam some steamed buns for you early tomorrow and eat them when you're hungry at noon. Fill the gourd with water. Don't keep thinking about drinking sour plum soup and herbal tea to earn some money.
I gave all my money to others..."
After being taught a lesson by my mother-in-law, I fortunately hid the more than twenty pennies I spent at Jianghu Inn. I originally wanted to confess to my mother-in-law and beg her to take the poor woman in, but for some reason, I suddenly
I couldn't speak.
"Brother Jianghu, Brother Jianghu is back?" Wang Jiajia's voice rang at the entrance of the hospital.
here we go again!
I snorted softly in my nose, feeling a little bored. This girl is really like a piece of dog-skin plaster. Once you put it on, you can't tear it off.
"Jia Jia is here?" Auntie shouted happily: "Jiang Hu is here. I'm going to wash the dishes, and you can help Jiang Hu wash these boxes and buckets."
"Hey." Wang Jiajia replied excitedly, skillfully throwing the bucket into the well.
"I'll do it." I grabbed the well rope from her hand, pulled up a bucket full of well water, and lifted it under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree.
"Brother Jianghu, I heard from my mother that you went to sell tofu alone today. How was it? How much money did you make?"
"Not much." I poured the water into the big wooden basin, opened the box of tofu and threw it in.
"It's okay, take your time. Do you want me to accompany you tomorrow?" Wang Jiajia picked up the brush and cleaned up the tofu foam in the gaps, as if she was washing her own things.
I think this girl is a bit mean. She is not related to my family, so why should she listen to my mother and help with the work? Does she think she can marry into my family like this? Huh, what a wishful thinking!
I am a principled person, and I have already said that I can compromise on some things, but marriage is a lifelong matter, and I will never feel wronged for the rest of my life with a woman I don't like just based on a few words from my mother-in-law.
"Brother Jianghu, what's wrong?" Wang Jiajia stared at me doubtfully, probably seeing that I was in a daze.
"Oh, it's okay. I was thinking about a grandma. I wonder if she has eaten." I said.
For such a simple girl, if she heard what happened to her grandma, she would probably sympathize with her. What would she think? So, I quietly told everything about helping grandma.
"Brother Jianghu, you are so kind!" Wang Jiajia stopped what she was doing and stared at me with admiration, as if she was the one I was helping.
"What's the use of having a good heart? The intention is powerless. In order to let her find a place to sleep for a day, I delayed my business, and I still owe Jianghu Inn seventy-five cents. Fortunately, Uncle Fu is kind and remembered it for me.
Please let me take some time to help pay off the debt, otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to get the money back in the next few days."
"What will happen tomorrow? She is homeless, you can't keep paying her to stay in an inn!"
"I... I want to take her home, but I'm afraid of grandma... Hey, Jiajia, do you think grandma will take her in?" This chapter has been completed!
