The owner of the bamboo shop reacted quickly and immediately chased him out, shouting: "Don't go away, let's talk about it later."
Ying Bao turned around and said, "Then let me agree on a price first. If it's suitable, we can discuss it later."
The shopkeeper gritted his teeth and said, "Twenty cents, twenty cents with a cover is fine. Any less will not work. I can visit any house."
"That's good." Yingbao was satisfied and returned to the bamboo shop with the shop owner to discuss the details of the customized bamboo box.
After coming out of the bamboo shop, Ying Bao and Jiang Quan Erni went to the paper shop and bought a pile of colored paper and the Four Treasures of the Study.
Then I went to a porcelain store and ordered a batch of small porcelain bottles of different colors and shapes.
Paper is used to write product introductions, and small porcelain bottles are used to hold medicinal powder and pills.
Back at the shop, Yingbao cut the colored papers into pieces and wrote some introductions to the items by color.
In the book: Golden fungus, a specialty of Qinchuan County, is produced in Dongchen Village, Chuanhe Town. It is a rare treasure that can prolong life and make people beautiful.
I also wrote about snow fungus and preserved fruit, etc. I sorted the written papers and put them aside for later use, and then framed them when the bamboo box arrived.
Jiang Cheng and Jiang Quan, who only understood the intentions of their little cousin, also came over to help write.
Jiang Quan had an idea and wrote some auspicious words for his gourds.
After writing it, put one on each gourd.
I saw the paper written separately: The nine-turn fortune gourd brings wealth and treasures, all your wishes come true, the carp jumps over the dragon's gate, all diseases are eliminated, and the five poisons are not invaded.
Then put the gourd toward the door and walk aside to admire it.
Needless to say, it soon attracted a lot of people to watch.
Among them are many students from Tongmian County School.
Because the Double Ninth Festival had just passed, the students were on vacation. Many of them did not go home, but went out to play together. Some of them had just returned from participating in a poetry recital.
I wanted to see if the specialty store sold fresh fruits, but I saw a room full of big gourds.
"Twelve pieces each, it's too expensive." Some people shook their heads because they thought it was expensive.
One of them laughed loudly: "That means a good thing. Please buy one if you don't want me to, and it will be a good omen for next autumn."
The young student who was called Huai Ming looked embarrassed and waved his legs repeatedly. "It's too big, and the school building can't fit in it."
Another person said: "If I buy it, I can make it into a bathtub."
Everyone laughed.
Several people laughed and laughed for a while, and then returned to the school building one after another, but one person stopped and did not leave.
The man was about forty years old in the east, with a thin and pale face. He kept staring at the gourd, seemingly hesitant.
"Brother, that gourd is really effective?" he asked.
Jiang Quan smiled and said, "Isn't that natural?"
"Then he bought it." The thin man gritted his teeth and said, "Hey, brother, can it be cheaper? He, he only has seven dollars left."
Jiang Quan shook his head when he heard this: "No, no! How can there be a price as good as mine? The lowest price is nine taels, and you won't sell it for a penny less."
The thin man hesitated for a long time and sighed: "Then he will come again in the bright moon."
Watching the thin man leave, Ying Bao frowned and glared at her second cousin. "How can I fool people at will? What if this person takes my words seriously or blackmails me?"
Jiang Quan scratched his head and glanced at his little cousin, "They all know that those are not auspicious words. No one is stupid enough to believe that..."
"What if something really happens to his family and he uses that gourd as a life-saving straw? Do I know how it will end?"
Yingbao scolded her second cousin with a straight face: "Am I prepared to go to court or am I prepared to pay compensation to others?"
"He..." Jiang Quan was speechless.
Jiang Cheng also came over and said, "Even the fortune tellers outside don't dare to tell the truth, but it's better for me to dare to speak loudly."
Jiang Quan lowered his head.
After a while, the man hurried over, unpacked the baggage he was carrying, and poured out a pile of copper coins. "That's nine coins..."
When Jiang Quanyuanji saw this man coming, he retreated into the backyard to hide. Erni also went to the kitchen to cook chestnuts, so Jiang Cheng and Yingbao were left outside the shop.
Yingbao pretended to be stupid and asked, "What do I want to buy?"
When the man saw the five- or six-year-old kid shut up, he was stunned. He pointed at the gourd and said, "He wants to buy that one that will eliminate all diseases."
Ying Bao's eyes flashed and she said, "Our gourd is just a mascot, and it can't really eliminate all diseases."
"Isn't it possible..." The man looked desperate and his shoulders slumped.
Yingbao asked calmly: "Are there any patients at home?"
The man was stunned for a while before nodding.
Ying Bao observed this person carefully and saw that he was wearing a yellowing plain cloth robe with several patches of the same color on the corners of the robe, but there was no color difference and he looked extremely miserable.
"I wonder if there is any disease? He has studied medicine and can help me take a look." Ying Bao said.
The thin man looked at Dongying Bao seriously and shook his head feebly: "It's useless."
Yingbao knew that he didn't believe her, so she said seriously: "I don't want to underestimate people, please tell me about the patient's condition quickly."
The thin man hesitated for a while and then said: "His child is ill and has not recovered. He...he has no choice..."
As he spoke, he turned around and quietly tested his eyes with his sleeves.
"Can you take him to have a look?"
The reason why Yingbao helped him was because this person took her in during her lifetime and allowed her to pretend to be his daughter and settle in the county.
The man didn't really believe it, but when he saw the little doll taking out a medicine box from the house, he agreed to take her back.
However, Ying Bao and Jiang Quan Erni followed Gao Lifan to a shabby alley.
There were several families in the alley. When they saw Gao Lifan, they greeted him: "Mr. Gao is back, huh? Who are those people?"
Gao Lifan: "He invited... doctor."
Everyone was stunned and waiting to say anything, Gao Lifan had already led others into the house.
It was dark outside, just like a litigator's house.
A woman in a coarse cloth dress came out and saw her husband bringing a group of people home and asked, "Alang, who are they?"
"He's here to treat Sister Dong."
Gao Lifan brought Yingbao into his daughter's room and said, "His daughter Dongmei has a strange disease that won't be cured for a long time. I'll take a look at her if she wants."
Ying Bao walked in front and saw a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl lying motionless on the bed, as if she was dead.
There was a faint rancid smell in the room.
Erni pinched her nose and stood beside her little cousin, murmuring in a low voice: "Yingbao, what does that smell like? It smells so bad." She didn't even dare to breathe.
Ying Bao had smelled that smell before, but the stench of a human body might smell like a rotten wound.
"Am I fine?" she asked the girl lying on the bed, "Are you injured somewhere?"
The girl slowly opened her eyes and looked at Ying Bao. She was a little embarrassed to say anything, but her desire to survive made her answer: "He has been bleeding since the miscarriage."
"Miscarriage?" Yingbao frowned: "Can he check something for me?"
"Yeah." The girl nodded lightly.
She doesn't want to die, she wants to live well and live longer and better than that person.
