The Little Lucky Girl

"Wait, where are we talking about your grandfather? Why are we off topic?" Mrs. Tao couldn't help but want to get back to the topic.

"It's almost there, almost there," Ming Youyou poured himself a glass of water, moistened his throat and said, "There is a big port in Yangzhou City, and there are many big ships coming there every day, and some come from far away foreign countries."

Madam Tao nodded, "Indeed, many rare treasures were brought here by them."

"And the Kunlun slaves. They were piled into the cabin like cargo, and they were short of food and water. When they came out of the ship, they were all skinny and emaciated, and they even trembled when they walked. They looked extremely pitiful."

"The sellers didn't care about their lives and were only willing to pay a very low price for treatment, so many doctors refused. Only my grandfather took pity on them and accepted the task of seeing the doctor."

"But he encountered a big problem when diagnosing," Ming Youyou said cheerfully, picking up the cup and taking a sip, "Guess what it is?"

Mrs. Tao laughed. "You learned this problem from the storyteller. You need someone to cheer you on before you can continue. Well, let me ask you, what is the problem?"

Seeing her drinking water happily, Mrs. Tao also felt thirsty, so she picked up the cup.

"My grandfather found that many of his methods were useless, especially face-to-face diagnosis, because those people were too. Dark. "Ming Youyou shook his head, "Nothing like flushed face, sallow complexion, etc. can be seen at all, only various dark colors are left."

Phew! The more Mrs. Tao thought about it, the funnier it became. Finally, she couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of water. She covered her mouth and coughed violently. Ming Youyou hurried over to help her calm down.

Mrs. Tao pointed at her and said slowly, "Child, you said you were going to help me sleep, but you made me excited."

"Then I won't say anything?"

"Come on, do you know when storytellers are most annoying?"

"When?"

"I won't talk about the climax, it's so frustrating, I really want to beat him to death."

Hiss, Ming Youyou took a breath, "No wonder Uncle Liu always looks for the back door every time he goes to the new teahouse to tell stories."

"You can't get out of my back door even if you know about it, so hurry up."

"Okay, where was I?"

The maid who was also listening intently whispered, "It's too dark, all kinds of dark."

"Oh, right, so of the four things, 'look' is no longer enough; 'ask' is no longer enough because we don't speak the same language; it's said that people are shaped by the local environment, and the pulse of this Kunlun slave is not exactly the same as ours. It really put grandpa in a difficult position at the time."

"He later used meridians and acupuncture points to diagnose and treat their illnesses. Considering that the owner might not necessarily pay for the medicine, he also taught them how to massage several important acupuncture points so that they could feel better by massaging each other..."

A sigh came from the outer room, "What a compassionate doctor." It startled everyone in the room.

Ming Youyou ran over and said with a look of condemnation, "Okay, sir, you eavesdropped."

Magistrate Tao reached out and knocked on her head, "Look, this is my own room, this is not eavesdropping."

"I came here to see you," he handed her a package, "The academy sent it to me. Inside are Zheng Huan and his classmates' student uniforms and a list of books to buy. You can go back and give them to them later."

Ming Youyou took the package, blinked at him, and wanted to ask if there was any way to get her into the academy.

Magistrate Tao was puzzled and said, "Hurry up, someone from the county government wants to go to Xiaguan Village. I'll ask them to give you a ride."

She had no choice but to stop talking and left reluctantly.

Zheng Huan and his companions were busy in the fields with the villagers. Feng Xu was still worried about the leeches and refused to go into the fields. Together with Lu Tai, who couldn't go into the fields anyway, they stood on the embankment to cheer Zheng Huan on.

When Ming Youyou walked over, she saw two people holding large palm-leaf fans in one hand, fanning Zheng Huan desperately; and holding long branches in the other hand, stirring the field.

"What are you doing?" she asked puzzledly.

Feng Xu chuckled, "Chase the leeches away. If you can't, just scare them."

Ming Youyou thought it was fun and said, "Let me try it." She lifted the branch high up and hit the water surface hard.

"Don't move, be careful not to scare away the eels." Zheng Huan's voice came from the front.

Ming Youyou stuck out her tongue, quickly stuffed the branch back into Feng Xu's hand, and greeted Zheng Huan innocently.

Feng Xu:......

Zheng Huan walked over carefully from the field, stepping on the mud, and handed them a bamboo basket.

Feng Xu rushed to take it. He loved yellow eels very much. He counted them and said, "There are five in total. They are all quite fat. This is good. We can use them to exchange for food at the village chief's house."

"Who made this bamboo basket?" Ming Youyou knew at a glance that it was not the work of the villagers, because it was really ugly.

"My uncle and I learned this. We made several of them. In addition to the ones in our field, we also planted two in the small bay. It is said that we can catch shrimps there." Zheng Huan grinned, and his teeth looked particularly white.

Ming Youyou looked at him, then at the two people next to him, and felt that they were becoming more and more like the teenagers in the village.

Thinking of their moon-white student uniforms, she reminded them, "You are going to the academy, so stay out of the sun recently and make yourself whiter."

After counting, she felt it was too late, so she sighed and said, "I'll bring back a few bottles of facial cream tomorrow, you guys use them first." It's really expensive to support the three of them.

Zheng Huan frowned and said, "We are going to school, what about the fields?"

Ming Youyou thought it was nothing. "Please ask the village chief and his family to look after it. We will give them more food when the time comes. This is how villagers help each other."

"And you also have days off and farm leave, which is almost enough."

The three were surprised and asked, "Why is there still Tian Jia?"

"Didn't you have a field day off when you were studying in Beijing?" Ming Youyou was also surprised. "It's a lot of days in total. It's such a pity for you."

Feng Xu rarely felt that it was a pity not to have a vacation, because they didn't have to suffer the pain of farming in the capital.

"It seems that at the beginning, some students' families had to harvest crops, so they asked for leave to go home and help," Ming Youyou recalled, "and then the academy made these regulations."

"What about those students whose families don't have land, or whose homes are too far to go back? They're in a good situation, as they get a lot more vacation time for free." Feng Xu said enviously.

Ming Youyou chuckled, "What are you dreaming about? Principal Pei will send someone to investigate. If you don't have any land at home, you have to go to the land behind the academy to help."

"In short, as long as you are a student of the academy, no one can escape. I heard that you have to write a farming report. If anyone dares to fool around, the academy will send people to the county to report it with drums and gongs. I have heard of several such incidents. Tsk tsk, that's really embarrassing."