There was a man lying on the street, it was Hu Ji, the steward who Su Ren had left to boil salt in the woods.
Hu Ji was originally a private salt dealer. After Hou Jian gave up the private salt business, Hu Ji followed Su Ren. Seeing that Hu Ji was quite honest, Su Ren asked him to manage those who cooked coarse salt in the forest.
.This Hu Ji is very dedicated. He can always cook tens of thousands of kilograms of coarse salt every month, and it is getting purer and purer. He takes it back and filters it before cooking it, and the production of refined salt is also constantly increasing.
In order to commend Hu Ji and set an example for those who worked for him, Su Ren took advantage of his official position as county magistrate and went to the county to ask the general manager to allocate ten acres of official land to Hu Ji. He also changed Hu Ji's tenants to
He became a farmer. The family was grateful to Su Ren, and Hu Ji became more attentive to his work. The output of coarse salt from the brine spring increased.
Hu Ji was dying and had stab wounds on his body. Su Ren hugged Hu Ji and immediately sent for a medical officer.
"Brother Hu, Brother Hu?" Su Ren shouted twice. Hu Ji slowly opened his eyes and saw that it was Su Ren. He fainted again before he could speak.
Hu Ji was a burly man, and it was very difficult for Su Ren to hold him. He shouted and staggered into Laojun Temple. The people who were busy in the yard saw Su Ren coming back with a man covered in blood, and they were all shocked.
Startled.
"Second brother, go get the medicine for the knife wound!" He shouted Leng Jun loudly as he ran inside, and rushed directly into the side room with Hu Ji in his arms.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked into the side room one by one.
Huo Jin was in the yard. He followed Su Ren in. When he saw the dying man lying on the couch, he immediately became furious: "Who made my Uncle Hu look like this? I'm going to kill him now!"
Su Ren kicked Hawking angrily: "What are you yelling about? Go get some water and a clean cloth!"
Huo Jin hurriedly ran out. Leng Jun came in with knife wound medicine. He thought Su Ren was injured and wanted to come in to see Su Ren's joke. However, he saw Hu Ji lying on the couch with a foot-long knife wound on his chest.
, the opened flesh was bleeding continuously, his face was pale, and one arm was hanging crookedly outside the bed.
"What's wrong? How did it happen?"
"Stop talking nonsense and hurry up and save people!"
A bottle of knife wound medicine was sprinkled, but it was quickly washed away by blood and water, and it had no therapeutic effect at all. The two people looked at each other, sweating profusely, but there was nothing they could do.
Huo Laosi was holding the water, Huo Jin was holding the cloth, and the father and son came in through the door, followed by Huo Qian, Leng Yue and Huo Zhilan. When the three women saw this posture, they quickly took half a step back.
"Where is the medical officer? Why haven't you come yet?" Su Ren became anxious and shouted outside.
After all, Huo Laosi is older and calmer in times of trouble: "Maybe it's too late to call a medical officer? We don't have one here, so we have to go to the county seat!"
Su Ren then remembered that the Han Dynasty did not have an advanced medical system. There was only one medical officer in each county, and they basically treated the scholar-officials. Ordinary people could not afford it. Even if you have money, you can come and go.
After all this trouble, people who were about to die would have died long ago. Medical officers usually stayed in the county town and never came to the countryside. That's why the cold master had the opportunity to draw talismans and cure diseases on the nearby people.
"What should we do? What should we do?" Su Ren paced and muttered.
Several people looked at each other, no one could do anything.
After turning twice, Su Ren suddenly stopped. When he was in junior high school, he performed an "amputation operation" on a frog in biology class. He cut off one of the frog's legs and then sewed it on with a thin thread. The frog was still alive and kicking. At that time, he thought
For fun, use this three-legged frog to scare those timid girls. It seems that you have to use it today.
"Sister, go find a needle and a thin thread!" Su Ren made up his mind. At this time, he could only act as a doctor: "Little brother, go and prepare some clean cloths. The more the better, just
The wound can be sutured!"
"What?" When Leng Jun heard this, his eyes were as wide as bells: "Can this person still sew?"
"Stop talking nonsense, it's important to save people! Wash Lao Hu clean with water, quickly!"
A group of people were moved around under the command of Su Ren. Leng Yue quickly found a needle and thread, and Huo Jin got a lot of linen. Su Ren washed his hands in warm water without doing any disinfection steps. Of course, the conditions were limited, and he could
It depends on luck whether you can survive the inflammation.
Su Ren gestured back and forth on Hu Ji's wound with a needle and thread, but did not dare to start. After all, this was a human being, not a frog. Everyone looked at Su Ren, and coldly stretched out his hand to squeeze the skin on Hu Ji's chest.
So that Su Ren could suture. Su Ren raised his head and glanced at Leng Jun, who nodded heavily.
None of the women dared to look at this method of sewing people, and they all covered their eyes. The salt sellers outside the door were dumbfounded. No one had ever seen this kind of treatment method, and several of them could not bear it.
, fainted on the spot.
It took a lot of effort to sew up the wound on Hu Ji's chest. As expected, the blood was much less. He wiped the sweat from his head and looked at his masterpiece. He couldn't even sew clothes before, but now he can
I sewed it directly, but I didn't dare to look at the stitches, which were wide and thin, and there were even bow ties in several places, but they were finally sewn together.
I sprinkled some knife wound medicine on the wound, but it was no longer washed away by the blood. I took the linen cloth and pressed it on Hu Ji's wound, then tore off a few foot-wide strips of cloth and wrapped the entire wound in circles.
Su Ren sat down on the ground.
Huo Laosi and Hu Ji have known each other for a long time. They usually call each other brothers. Seeing Su Ren finish his work, he quickly asked: "Brother Ren, how are you?"
Su Ren took a breath: "It's hard to say, the bleeding has stopped. It depends on Brother Hu whether he can carry it through." Then he said to Leng Yue: "Sister, go get some light salt water and drink it for Brother Hu.
You will definitely have a fever tonight, so please stay and take care of me, Fourth Brother!"
Huo Laosi quickly nodded in agreement.
Su Ren took a breath and asked Leng Jun to fix Hu Ji's broken arm before he came outside the door. Needless to say, the onlookers' salt traders looked at Su Ren with admiration and admiration on their faces.
Su Ren cupped his hands and said to everyone: "Everyone, something happened today. Let's stop here. Come back in a few days. I hope you can forgive me!"
Everyone saw Hu Ji's condition, and they couldn't say anything else. After a few words of comfort, they all left. Su Ren asked Huo Jin to close the door and returned to the wing again.
Looking at Hu Ji, who was lying motionless on the couch, he frowned coldly: "How did it happen? Brother Hu has always been a kind man, who could do this to him?"
Su Ren shook his head: "This matter is not that simple. I'm afraid it's not against Brother Hu, but against us!"
"We? Why?"
"Why else, salt!"
Su Ren frowned. He didn't like fighting and killing. It would be best if everyone was safe and sound. In the morning, he heard that Chang Shi had to consider Liu Wen's son's promotion of Xiaolian. He was very happy. If he could do more for Chang Shi
Money, it's not impossible to ask Chang Shi to recommend him. Who would have thought that such a big thing would happen in less than a day. What is meant by extreme happiness brings sorrow, and now it is.
"Salt? Aren't we doing a good job now? The county magistrate is happy, and the salt merchants are also happy. The prefect of Shu County who came yesterday didn't say anything. Even people like Hou Jian look at Brother Ren with admiration. Is there anyone else?
We hate it so much? We actually do such a cruel thing?" Huo Laosi couldn't understand.
Su Ren sighed: "Let's not speculate now, everything will be clear when Brother Hu wakes up." Suddenly he seemed to think of something, turned to Leng Jun and said: "Please pay attention these days, we Laojun watch people alone.
We are weak, so be careful of someone causing damage."
Leng Jun nodded, and several people sighed and became silent again.
During dinner, I lost my appetite. Su Ren asked Hawking to pick up Hu Ji’s wife. Since she came to Laojun Temple, the woman’s tears have not stopped, although she has not said a word of complaint. Su Ren still
I feel sorry for this woman. Hu Ji is the backbone of the family. He has an old mother above him and two children below him, who are younger than Hawking. Once something happens to Hu Ji, the whole family will collapse. What if Hu Ji has something to do?
Three are long and two are short, and the remaining people have no other choice but to die.
Huo Qian kept comforting Hu Ji's wife, but the woman never said a word, only cried.
When Huo Jin came back from outside, Su Ren quickly stopped him: "How is it? Have the people from Bittern Spring come back? Is there any news?"
Hawking shook his head: "I asked several people, but they said they haven't come back, and there is no news."
Su Ren was completely desperate. The thing he was most worried about was that there was a problem at the brine spring. Now it seemed that there was indeed a problem. As a steward, Hu Ji was almost killed, and there was no news from the others. This was enough to prove that it was true.
It's a big deal.
In the middle of the night, Hu Ji indeed developed a high fever. Su Ren directed Huo Laosi to constantly wipe Hu Ji's body with cold water. There was no strong liquor, let alone alcohol. Cold well water was the only way. Laojun watched the atmosphere
It was so depressing that one could hardly breathe. Hu Ji was talking nonsense, and Su Ren listened for a long time without understanding a single word.
Fortunately, when daylight was about to break, Hu Ji's fever finally subsided. Although Hu Ji was not awake yet, his breathing became steady, and Su Ren let out a long breath. The ancients' bodies were still good, and there were not so many strange germs.
This is considered a rescue. Once Hu Ji wakes up, everything will become clear.
Leng Jun peeked his head furtively at the door. Su Ren knew that something must be wrong with Leng Jun. He comforted Hu Ji's wife for a few words and then came out.
"What's wrong?"
Leng Jun took out a dart from his sleeve and returned it with a piece of linen: "I just found it at the door. It was nailed to the door. No one was seen."
Su Ren snatched it over. There was a line of words written on the linen cloth. In the past six months, Su Ren still had some difficulty in writing under Leng Yue's guidance, but he no longer had much problem in reading. There was a sentence written on the cloth: three days limit.
Hand over the method of making salt, otherwise blood will flow into the river! There is no signature, only a crooked scorpion is drawn on the bottom of the cloth.
He said coldly: "This is the sign of Wu Tuzi in Shuangzuishan. Wu Tuzi is cruel and ruthless. No one in Wenshui County dares to provoke him. Why can't he get along with us?" (To be continued)