bookrebus Chapter 712 Shen Hechi is back
Chapter 712 Shen Hechi is back
Lianshan Town, surrounded by mountains, has become increasingly famous because of Sanshan School and Jiang Fubao's clinic. Since the New Year, the dentists in the dental clinic have been busy all day long. Either outsiders want to buy houses and shops, or they want to rent houses and shops.
All the houses and shops in the city that had been vacant for a long time now have new owners.
House prices have increased a lot.
It is comparable to the old houses in Jiangnan City.
There are even people who, in order to make money, deliberately sell all their houses and shops, and then move their families back to their ancestral hometown. The money they earn from the sales is enough for them to eat and drink for two lifetimes, so why would they need to open a shop?
Therefore, the residents of Lianshan Town had to change their water supply.
Jiang Fubao found that there were many more unfamiliar faces.
With the influx of new people, Lianshan Town is particularly lively. Not to mention during the day, even after dark, shops that should have closed long ago are still open. No one is willing to close their shops because the streets are full of people. Closing the shops would mean blocking the God of Wealth.
It has a bit of the feeling of Jiangnan nightlife.
In addition, Lianshan Town itself is quite large. If you don’t know, you might think it is a county, it is so lively.
On the contrary, Chang'an Town, the main town, is rarely visited.
The closing time of Jiang Fubao's clinic was also delayed by half an hour, and the same was true for Jiang's snack shop.
The whole family had to wait until it was completely dark before they could go home and have dinner together.
The final location of the Common People Hall was outside the town of Lianshan. There was a small hill there, which was bought by Jiang Huanyu, who spent three months leveling it.
The people who were responsible for moving the hills were beggars and poor people.
For more than half of the people, all their family members have died.
They have no houses, no villages willing to accept them, and no money. They are like dandelions, floating wherever the wind blows but unable to take root.
When they learned that the Common People Hall was willing to take them in, they all came from far away.
The construction of the Common People's Hall had not started yet, so Jiang Huanyu simply gave them a house in the city for them to live in temporarily. This house was bought by Zhang Jinlan and was given to her temporarily. Those who lived in the house only had to pay one penny per person per day.
The provision of bedding and unlimited hot water helped these poor people survive the winter.
With the arrival of summer, the scorching sun shines all over the earth, making the bluestone brick floors on the streets steaming and burning your feet.
The charcoal stove in Jiang Fubao's clinic also turned into half-person-high ice cubes. These ice cubes were placed in ceramic jars and placed in the east and west corners.
One is close to the box and the other is close to the waiting area.
After a morning, only half of the ice had melted.
Although it was still quite hot in the room, it was barely bearable. Unlike outside, the sun was piercing. If you stood in the sun for a quarter of an hour, you could fry an egg on your head.
Pedestrians on the street walked close to the wall and never exposed themselves to the sun.
"Er Ya, stop fanning me. Your hands are tired. Go to the backyard and bring a pot of herbal tea. Pour a cup for each person in line."
The clinic was very busy when the weather was hottest and coldest, one because of typhoid fever and the other because of heatstroke.
Seeing that these people's faces were covered with sweat, Jiang Fubao turned his head and spoke to Pan Erya who was fanning her.
"Okay, I'll go right away." Pan Erya put down the silk fan in her hand, got up and went to the backyard.
The backyard at that time was as busy as yesterday.
The cook who was in charge of making the herbal tea was exhausted.
Starting from the morning, I cooked one pot after another, and I have cooked four pots in total.
I stood by the stove, stirring the herbs in the casserole all the time, for fear that the bottom would become burnt. Otherwise, the herbal tea would taste bitter and burnt, and would be simply unpalatable.
The other cooks were not much better.
The second floor was full of people. Some were picking vegetables, some were cutting vegetables, and some were helping Jiang Ruyi cook.
So when Pan Erya came to the backyard, no one looked up at her.
Everyone is busy with their own things.
"Sister Xiaoyu, when will this pot of herbal tea be ready? The young lady asked me to pour a pot." Pan Erya asked, holding the white porcelain pot.
"It's almost done. The last pot didn't even have time to cool down before it was gone. Oh, it looks like we'll have to make ten pots today. Let's just use a big pot tomorrow. This small clay pot can't hold enough water. Oh, the sour grass is gone. Can you help me get some from the front?"
Yuer answered while wiping the beads of sweat off her face with the sweat towel around her neck.
"Okay, then I'll put the pot here first." Pan Erya went back to the front, found the sour grass in the medicine cabinet, took a handful and went back.
Jiang Fubao was also very busy. She had been sitting in the lobby taking the pulse of a patient, and now she was fumigating a woman with moxa in a private room.
The woman had her period when she was only five months pregnant. She was pushed here from outside the city on a cart by her family. Seeing that her face was pale from the pain, Jiang Fubao let her jump the queue. That's why she asked Pan Erya to go to the backyard to make herbal tea just now to make up for these patients who were jumped in line.
You should know that the price of a cup of herbal tea in her clinic is three cents, which is not cheap. You can buy a bowl of noodles with shredded pork on the street for that much.
This year's herbal tea has been revised. It is made with eighteen kinds of herbs. Three cents is really not expensive. She only makes a few coppers from a pot. If she wasn't afraid that these people would get heatstroke, she wouldn't bother to sell it at all.
"Miss, it's time to eat. There are seven or eight people waiting behind you. If you don't eat now, you may not be able to eat in the afternoon and you will starve." At the end of noon, Pan Erya brought a tray and placed it in front of Jiang Fubao.
The aroma of the food went straight into her nose, and her stomach, which was not hungry at first, suddenly growled.
Jiang Fubao nodded and said, "Okay, I'll eat first. Siyou, come and help me." Eating is one thing, but one can't let the patient wait.
Jiang Fubao called Shao Siyou over.
The two changed positions.
She carried the tray to the large table in front of the medicine cabinet and ate.
On the tray was a bowl of white rice, which was neither too hard nor too soft, and exuded the smell of firewood and rice.
There were also three dishes and a bowl of soup.
The dishes include fried dried chili peppers, minced meat and egg custard, stir-fried wild vegetables, and kelp and winter melon soup made from kelp shipped from Canghai Province. When the soup was cooking, a whole piece of pork ribs was put in for seasoning. There were only bones but no meat, so only kelp and winter melon could be seen in the soup. It looked like plain soup, but it tasted incredibly fresh and sweet.
There were both meat and vegetarian dishes, and Jiang Fubao ate up the entire plate of food.
Not a single grain of rice was wasted. After eating, she took a sip of tea, rinsed her mouth, and then spit it out. In this way, when she spoke to the patient, there was no bad smell in her mouth, but the fragrance of tea.
After eating and drinking, Jiang Fubao went to change Shao Siyou, and then Shao Siyou went to the backyard to eat.
After a busy day, when the sun set, Jiang Fubao, his second sister and the servants walked out of the clinic and prepared to go home.
But at the door of my house, I saw a familiar figure.
"Fubao, you're back? I wanted to go to the clinic to find you, but I was afraid of delaying you, so I'm waiting here. I've already visited grandma, and she asked me to stay for dinner. I wanted to wait for you to come back and eat together, so I'm waiting for you here." Shen Hechi turned around and looked at her with a smile.