Go back to ancient times to engage in sideline business

This is the first time I met a doctor who owed an IOU!

Dr. Chu pushed Tang Zhong up from the bench, and patted the little drug boy on the head: "You've done a good job, you won't take medicine without paying, especially those paid officials, remember?"

"Yes, master, this disciple has remembered."

Little Yaotong nodded obediently, and the two little tuggers followed suit and swayed back and forth.

The foolish child was caught on the spot, and Tang Zhong's face turned red and white.But a roomful of beggars are still waiting for him to bring the medicine back, and it's not an option to waste it.

"that……"

Tang Zhong coughed twice, breaking the embarrassing situation: "Doctor Chu, can I have a consultation? I also see the injustice. Seeing the two beggars are pitiful, I help them ask the doctor to see a doctor. They say that doctors are parents, so can you make it easier for me? cheaper?"

Doctor Chu didn't bother to pay attention to him, took the little drug boy's hand, and hung a rest sign on the door.

"I'm tired today, so I won't make a diagnosis. Let's go, the master will take you to the back to identify herbs."

"Don't, Doctor Chu! You should think about it again!"

Tang Zhong shamelessly chased after him, and followed the master and apprentice through the back door.

Behind the door is the courtyard where the master and the apprentice lived, and the courtyard was originally quite large.But it is full of medicinal materials inside and out, and there is almost no extra space.The sun was in the west, and the medicine in the yard was fragrant and moist, and a row of medicine pots was placed under the corner, which was shining brightly.

Tang Zhong was smoked by the medicine, and a shock flashed in his mind.

He quickly walked up to the two masters and cupped his hands.

"I have a way, which can reduce Dr. Chu's daily working hours, reduce the workload of the drug boy, and not delay Benxintang's medical treatment and earn money. I don't know if Dr. Chu is interested in listening."

Dr. Chu didn't have a good impression of Tang Zhong's status as an official, but when he saw him trying to coax his apprentice, he wished he could immediately drive him away with a stick.

However, due to his status as a famous doctor in Qingjiang County, he is also considered a respectable person, and it is not easy to do such a rough behavior, so he reluctantly suppressed his temper and let Tang Zhong stick it on like a dog's skin plaster.

Now, he turned a deaf ear to Tang Zhong's words, turned around and squatted on the ground, teaching the little medicine boy to identify the two kinds of herbs in his hand.

Tang Zhong was annoyed, it was not getting too early, if he dragged on, Ah Shui would come to catch him again with a sack.Forget it, even if it's a hot face and a cold butt, just post it!

Tang Zhongqing cleared his throat and started talking on his own.

"I stayed in the pharmacy for a long time today, and I accidentally discovered that most of the patients who came to get the medicine were suffering from typhoid fever. In fact, it is not surprising that in my hometown, every time the season changes or the temperature changes sharply, many people will suffer from typhoid fever , there are rules to be found.”

Tang Zhong paused for a moment, seeing that Dr. Chu's hands stopped moving, he calmed down a bit.

"I noticed that each dose of typhoid medicine taken by the drug boy is actually similar, and it is nothing more than considering the individual medicinal materials according to the differences in each patient's physique."

"Doctor Chu, in my humble opinion, why not choose all mild herbs and prescribe a common typhoid prescription? For mild symptoms, one dose will be effective, and for severe symptoms, a few more doses will also improve seven or seven times." Eighty-eight."

Dr. Chu put down the herbs, and glanced back with disdain.

"It's not that I don't understand... Cough cough, why doesn't this old man understand these things? It's nothing more than playing tricks and picking up ready-made laziness when asking doctors and prescribing prescriptions. It's ridiculous for you to say that this can reduce the hard work of our master and apprentice!"

"Doctor Chu, I haven't finished yet! In this way, whenever typhoid fever occurs, such as these days, the medicinal materials can be prepared in advance and the medicine can be prepared. When typhoid patients come, they don't have to queue up for consultation. There is no need for the little drug boy to pick up the medicine according to each prescription, just take the pre-made pills."

"Pills?" The little drug boy frowned, then turned to look at Dr. Chu: "Master, what are the pills?"

Dr. Chu obviously hadn't heard of it, he twirled his long beard, got up and replied vaguely: "It's just a child's trick."

The little drug boy listened seriously, wanting to try the new method Tang Zhong said, he tugged at the hem of his master's clothes, and murmured: "What he said seems to make sense, master, why don't we try it! "

"Nonsense!" Dr. Chu flicked his beard and turned his back.

Little Yaotong was afraid that the master would be angry, so he hurriedly turned to him to comfort him: "Don't be angry, what the master said is right! Disciple, don't try!"

It was the first time Tang Zhong met an adult who needed a child to coax him. The inexplicable dialogue between the master and the apprentice made him unable to intervene.

After all, Dr. Chu is a medical student, how can he not be interested in new medical methods, it's just out of face.

Seeing that his little apprentice gave a step by mistake, he stopped holding it, and went down the donkey when he saw the right time.

"After all, you are still young, so it is easy to trust some people's rhetoric. Anyway, since you want to do it, the master will let you do it, just play like a little doll."

Not sure about Dr. Chu's weird temper, Tang Zhong also couldn't figure out whether these words were addressed to Xiao Yaotong or to him.

But it looks like you agree?

"But, we still need a prescription." Tang Zhong raised his cheek cheekily.

Doctor Chu didn't even bother to give him a look, he snorted, and led the little drug boy into the house without looking back.

This arrogant style is really difficult to serve!

Tang Zhong looked up at the sky, and shook his head weakly, there was no way, who made him unable to take out two taels of silver!

Less than a minute later, the little Yaotong happily ran out of the house and showed Tang Zhong the stack of papers in his hand.

Tang Zhong looked back and forth, almost howling with excitement.

The paper was full of prescriptions prescribed by Dr. Chu, not only for typhoid fever, but also for common diseases such as insomnia, flatulence, and diarrhea.

The little old man surnamed Chu was not forgiving, but his movements were quite quick.

After a while, the little drug boy had picked up the medicinal materials according to the prescription, packed them one by one and sent them to the yard.

The two of them went ahead and cleaned the seven medicine jars in the corner, filled them with medicinal materials and boiled them on the stove.Tang Zhong and Xiao Yaotong each took a cattail leaf fan and took turns palming the fire.

According to Tang Zhong, the medicinal materials should be boiled in a pot first, and then the medicinal residues should be filtered out after the medicinal properties are almost completely boiled, and then the medicinal residues should be filtered out, and the water vapor in the medicinal soup should be evaporated on a low heat until it becomes a paste. ointment.

Finally, the ointment was scraped out, pressed and cut into square pieces, and then slowly dried, it became what he called a tablet.

The steps of making medicine are not difficult, but the whole process needs to be watched carefully, especially the step of simmering and concentrating the medicine soup, one must keep an eye on it all the time, so as not to boil the medicine.

Hearing the ding-ding-dong-dong battle in the yard outside, Dr. Chu couldn't sit still anymore, and sat down under the eaves with a medical book.

"Master, are you out?"

Dr. Chu quickly put aside the relationship: "It's just that the light in the room is not good."

The further back, the more Tang Zhong and Xiao Yaotong dare not be sloppy.They inserted a chopstick into each medicine jar and stirred it from left to right, so busy that they could not use their hands and feet at the same time.

"It's really a child's trick." Dr. Chu raised his eyes and sniffed, but he had already lost his mind on reading the medical book in his hand. With the book cover covering his face, his eyes would glance at the medicine jars in the yard from time to time.

After working for half an afternoon, until the setting sun was completely blocked by the courtyard wall, the first batch of wind-cold medicine was finally produced.

Tang Zhong carefully put the ointment on the wooden board, rolled it flat, cut it into tablets, put it in a dustpan and took it to dry under the eaves.

After a small test, the results were good, and the two were greatly encouraged. Taking advantage of the twilight of the sky, they were busy making the next batch of pills.

The dustpan containing the pills was just a few steps away. Sitting on the stool, Dr. Chu felt as unbearable as if being scratched by a cat.

He casually closed the medical book and stood up as if nothing had happened.

I walked up and down under the eaves for a few steps, and changed the position of the medicine bowl at hand. Seeing that no one was paying attention, I quickly picked up a pill from the dustpan, and went back to the house on my own.

After lighting the oil lamp, Dr. Chu carefully twisted the pills with his fingertips. The moisture was still wet and a little sticky to his hands. He put the pills under his nose and sniffed carefully, but the properties of the medicine were quite intact.

Doctor Chu's mouth was slightly curved, but his eyebrows were slightly raised.

As expected of an official job, he really knows how to opportunistically!

It's past the time when the city gates are locked, and both Baima Street and Qingniu Street are under curfew, and people are prohibited from moving around.

In the Town God's Temple, the beggars were sitting around the fire, and Lao Yu pulled the roasted chestnuts out of the ashes with a stick.

"The kid hasn't returned with the medicine yet, so he shouldn't have run away?"

Ah Shui picked up a mountain chestnut, bit off half of it whole, and spit out the shell far away with a "bah".

"He dares! If he can run away, the monk can't run away from the temple! If you don't come back today, tomorrow we will block him at the east gate!"

"What if he calls the officials to deal with us?" Among the beggars, a younger beggar was a little worried.

Before Ah Shui made a statement, Lao Yu regained his energy, stood up and patted his chest and said, "Don't worry at all! You just came here, and you know our situation."

"To tell you the truth, even the magistrate of Qingjiang County's yamen government will go back home when he sees us. If nothing else, in terms of manpower, those shrimp soldiers and crab generals in Qingjiang County don't have as many people as us! ,A water!"

Tang Zhong behind the door shivered, hurried into the Temple of the City God, and greeted the beggars with a smile.

"Oh, the big guys are here! It's hard to walk on the street after the curfew, and I took a small road all the way here, and I wasted a lot of time by detours, so I'm late! Hehe, I'm late!"

"Where's the medicine?" Lao Yu stood up and walked to the door, spreading his hand towards him.

Tang Zhong took out a paper bag from his sleeve and handed it over, not forgetting to claim credit by the way: "That's the thing, it took me an entire afternoon of hard work, let's serve it to their grandparents!"

Lao Yu opened it and saw that there were only some black square bumps inside, and his face immediately changed.

"What about your medicine? Show me what Niwanzi does!"

After finishing speaking, Lao Yu threw the paper bag on the ground viciously, as if he was about to step on one foot.

"You prodigal bastard! You really don't know the goods!"

Tang Zhong hurriedly picked it up first, and gave Old Yu a blank look.

"Listen up! These are different from the mud balls you rub out on your body when you are basking in the sun! This is a Chinese patent medicine, just made half an hour ago!"

He went straight to the fire and handed the medicine bag to Ah Shui himself.

"Knowing that the Town God's Temple is simple and inconvenient to boil medicine, I specially made the medicine soup into tablets in Benxintang. It was not too dry just after making it, so pay attention to ventilation and dark storage. I don't worry about others. You can keep it and take it later. Feed their grandparents."

Tang Zhong raised his voice and emphasized emphatically: "Be sure to deliver the medicine with warm water, take it a stick of incense before meals, three times a day, two tablets at a time."

As soon as the words fell to the ground, there was no sound in the Town God's Temple, only the crackling of firewood was heard.

Ah Shui belatedly opened his mouth: What did he just say?