Mountain People

    The Zhao family wanted to stay, but there was no shortage of women in the family, and Gu Shuixiu was already here to take care of her, so she would be a burden to keep, so she might as well go back and do what she could.

    Therefore, Zhao shi pondered for a moment before agreeing.

    The four of them went to a clean inn first. One private room cost five cents a day, and Gu Shuixiu booked two rooms.

    Zhao thought it was a waste, so Gu Shuixiu explained it again, and it took a lot of words to keep Zhao from continuing to struggle.

    Finally let Dong Chenghu send Zhao away, Gu Shuixiu began to decoction Gu Mingde.

    After the doctor's acupuncture, Gu Mingde's complexion was a little better, no longer as gray as at home, faintly bloody.

    Gu Shuixiu was overjoyed. After she prepared the medicine and poured it into Gu Mingde, she went out to find a grain store and asked, but the price of rice in Panlong Town was cheaper than that in Linhai County. Some.

    A pound of rice is 6 cents, broken rice is only 3 cents, white flour is 4 cents, Gu Shuixiu bought 100 catties of rice in one go, 100 catties of broken rice, and pounds of white noodles. At that time, part of it will be given to the Gu family, and part of it will be carried back by Dong Chenghu.

    After finishing all this work, Gu Shuixiu went to the cloth village again. The Gu family has nothing now, and even the quilts covered are hard and damp, and have a musty smell, so they don't keep warm at all.

    Gu Shuixiu thought that the weather was about to get warm, and the quilts were no longer needed at this time, so she bought four mattresses, spent six hundred dollars, and then bought two pieces of fine cotton cloth and four pieces of coarse cloth. It cost sixty cents. With these things, the Zhao family can also make new clothes for everyone.

    Gu Shuixiu made a calculation in her heart, and then slowly returned to the inn. Gu Mingde drank the medicine and slept soundly, and she didn't need Gu Shuixiu to serve her, so she went to the bed beside her Lying down and sleeping, I fell asleep unknowingly.

    When she woke up, it was already dark, Dong Chenghu and Gu Erniu had already arrived.

    "When did you arrive, why didn't you wake me up?" Gu Shuixiu quickly got up, looked at the sky outside the window, and then asked, "Is there something to eat? Bring me something to eat?"

    Gu Erniu was still an eleven or twelve year old child, and when he heard that he had something to eat, he swallowed unconsciously.

    Dong Chenghu immediately asked Xiao Er to send a plate of fried vegetables, a plate of roast chicken, a pot of broth, a pot of rice and four steamed buns. Gu Erniu was almost drooling.

    Gu Shuixiu felt a little distressed, and said with a smile: "Come over to eat, you should rest early after eating, and tomorrow I will take my father for acupuncture. Tonight, we will be on duty three times, so we won't have anything to do with it. The situation. You two go to bed after eating, I just slept in good spirits, I'll come first."

    Dong Chenghu felt sorry for Gu Shuixiu and wanted to say that he would come, but Gu Shuixiu did not give him a chance to speak, and directly stopped him: "Chenghu, don't argue with me, you are driving back and forth today, and again I took Er Niu from Caozi Village to Panlong Town, and I have been running around all day. Tonight, I will be watching Er Niu and I will be on duty tonight, or I will change you when it’s almost dawn.

    Gu Erniu also patted his chest and assured: "Brother-in-law, I can work at night, you have worked hard today, you don't need to come tonight."

    Gu's siblings said so, Dong Chenghu no longer insisted, and quickly ate and went to rest, he was really tired that day.

    Just as Gu Erniu was taking a nap, Dong Chenghu gently woke him up and asked, "How is father-in-law?"

    Gu Erniu was startled, looked at Gu Mingde, who was still sleeping, and whispered, "It's nothing, is my sister awake?"

    "Not yet? Why didn't you call me on duty last night?"

    Gu Erniu murmured for a while before saying, "It was the eldest sister who said you were too tired, she didn't wake me up until the middle of the night, she was almost always on watch, so I stayed for an hour, I accidentally fell asleep."

    Gu Erniu patted his head embarrassedly, but Dong Chenghu didn't say anything. A boy of this age is growing up, and he was already sleepless.

    The two packed up, and when Gu Shuixiu woke up and had breakfast, the group carried Gu Mingde to the hospital.

      You don't need to come over after two stitches."

    "Doctor, when will my father wake up?" Gu Shuixiu was a little worried, although Gu Mingde's face improved a lot, but there was no sign of waking up.

    The doctor pondered for a moment, his eyes thoughtful.

    "This situation should be caused by the accumulation of blood in his brain that has not been completely evacuated. Wait until tomorrow after the acupuncture. The medicine must continue to be taken and cannot be broken. It is estimated that it will take another four weeks. You can wake up in five days."

    The three of them breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the doctor's words. They were really afraid of any accident.

    At the end of the last day of acupuncture, the doctor changed Gu Mingde's prescription again.

    When the three of them were about to return to Caozi Village, they realized that it was unrealistic for them to take a patient with them.

    When Gu Shuixiu was in trouble, Dong Chenghu offered to buy a donkey cart for the Gu family.

    Gu Erniu was too frightened to speak. The donkey cart was an extremely expensive thing, and the entire Caozi Village was owned by Gu Laifu. Pick up the donkey cart, and this is what Dong Chenghu said.

    Gu Erniu shook his head like a rattle and refused again and again, "Brother-in-law, it's already very good for you to pay for your father's medical treatment, but you can't let you spend more money, if your mother finds out, It will definitely kill me!"

    Gu Shuixiu was naturally very moved by Dong Chenghu's proposal, but she couldn't say that. After all, the nine taels they earned from selling wild boars have now all been spent, and the remaining thirty taels are all Dong Chenghu saved food and clothing, and used the money to buy a donkey cart for the Gu family. Gu Shuixiu couldn't get over this psychological hurdle.

    Just as Dong Chenghu and Gu Erniu were arguing, Gu Shuixiu spoke up.

    "The donkey cart is definitely going to be bought, but not now, Chenghu, we don't have that much money, and next time we make money and buy a donkey cart for our parents, that's it. ."

    Dong Chenghu didn't understand why Gu Shuixiu said that when they were obviously rich, but seeing Gu Shuixiu's firm eyes, Dong Chenghu was helpless and could only do as she wanted.

    However, the donkey cart was not bought, but a wooden cart was bought. A donkey cart cost seven or eight taels of silver, and there was less than one wooden cart, which was not a star and a half, but this Things are also valuables in Caozi Village, only three or four households have them.