"The pharmacy is right in front. You go over there! There aren't many people there, so just tell your sister-in-law that Gao asked you to go there!" Tiedan pointed to a row of smoking tile-roofed houses in front and said to Zhuqing.
After he finished speaking, he turned around and left, as if the pharmacy was some forbidden place.
"Okay, thank you!" Zhu Qing was a little surprised, but still thanked him, and then walked towards the pharmacy alone.
Zhuqing walked towards the pharmacy, but before she got there, the strong smell of medicine filled her nose.
"Squeak!" As soon as she pushed open the wooden door of the room nearest to her, she heard someone inside asking loudly: "Who is it? How did you get in? Don't you know that you can't just go in and out of the pharmacy?"
The man's voice was a little rough, which made people uncomfortable and instinctively scary.
"My sister-in-law asked me to come here to help light the fire!" Zhu Qing was afraid that he wouldn't be heard, so he raised his voice to answer.
"Come in!" The person inside agreed, and Zhu Qing walked in.
These rooms are a bit short, the windows are not big, and they are in the north, so the light in the room is not good. When Zhu Qing walked inside, he saw a long row of wooden shelves. After turning around the shelves, he saw the ones inside.
situation.
Against the wall of the entrance, there is a long bamboo basket with various medicinal materials placed in it.
On the north side of the house, there is a large stove. At the moment, only the pot is open, and the strong smell of medicine in the house is coming from the pot.
A middle-aged man who was not tall but looked quite stout was adding something to the large iron pot on the stove. He looked back at Zhu Qing and found that it was a little girl. He couldn't help but look disgusted:
"Why is a little girl here? Let's go, girl, you can't do this job."
Of course, Zhuqing could not be scared away by his words: "Uncle, it was Doctor Qian who asked Mrs. Gao to give me the job. Don't look at me as a young person, I can do it!"
When the middle-aged man heard that Dr. Qian asked her to stay, he couldn't help but frowned: "It's so hot today, and I sweat three times a day here. How can a little girl like you endure it? Don't give birth then.
I am sick and have saved my life!"
Although this man's words are not pleasant to listen to, he is very sincere.
Zhuqing smiled and said to him: "Uncle, just let me try! Maybe I can bear it! If you drive me away, I will have nowhere to go!"
She finally had the opportunity to enter the pharmacy, how could she miss it in vain?
"That's okay. You can try it for half a day. If it doesn't work, you can leave in the afternoon. Don't make any mistakes and harm others!" The middle-aged man had great objections to Gao Sao's arrangement, but he accepted it anyway.
Bamboo green.
Zhuqing sat down behind the stove to add firewood and realized that what the middle-aged man said was true.
It was hot, and it was scorching. Coupled with the strong smell of medicine, sitting there felt like I was in a big furnace, and my whole body was burning.
"Little girl, if you add firewood, you can come out and stand for a while, don't sit in there all the time. Even I can't bear to sit in there all the time!
Also, watch carefully, and call me over every time you boil a pot. You also need to add medicinal materials from this basket, from east to west, one by one. These medicinal materials are all weighed. Don't mess up! Today
You learn from me first, and in a few days you will be doing it by yourself! I don’t raise idlers here!” the middle-aged man told Zhu Qing.
"By the way, you will stay in this medicine room from now on, and don't wander around in other places! This place is no better than other places, and you are not allowed to wander around!" He thought for a while and added.
Zhuqing nodded to him, walked away from the fire, and then began to pay attention to the medicinal materials in the baskets.
After taking a closer look, she discovered that indeed, the medicinal materials in the basket seemed to have been prepared in advance. It seemed that Doctor Qian was quite capable.
I just don’t know what kind of pharmaceutical business he has here.
In modern society, pharmaceutical factories have advanced pharmaceutical processes, and these traditional and primitive methods have long been eliminated.
Zhuqing felt that she could regard the preparation methods of medicinal materials here as an opportunity to learn. Since she had to live in this world, she must master the survival skills and methods of this world as much as possible.
Zhuqing looked at all the medicinal materials and basically recognized them all.
Therefore, while she was suffering from the intense heat, she could always promptly remind the middle-aged man named Uncle Zhong to add medicine.
For most of the day, even though she was so hot that her face was covered with sweat, she never complained or complained.
Uncle Zhong couldn't help but take a high look at this thin girl.
Their lunch meals were delivered by someone specially assigned to them.
During the meal, even though she was just a newcomer, Uncle Zhong still gave her a full bowl of white rice, a large chopstick of green vegetables, and a small piece of tofu. This kind of treatment is already considered for a veteran.
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When Zhu Qing was eating with his rice bowl, he often saw the envious and jealous eyes of others. However, except for the envy and protest in their eyes, those people did not dare to say anything.
In addition to Uncle Zhong and her, there are two or three people guarding these pharmacies in the other rooms. Those people are all in their prime, and without exception they are all men. Among these people, Uncle Zhong is obviously the one who has the most authority.
A very important person.
He treated Zhu Qing preferentially, and although the others were puzzled and unconvinced, they did not dare to show it on their faces.
After eating, Uncle Zhong told her to continue watching the fire, and then she lay down alone on the mat spread on the ground nearby.
"I have burned several pots in the morning, and I can feel more comfortable in the afternoon. The sun is now the hottest time. You don't need to add more firewood and rest for a while. But don't fall asleep and delay things!" Uncle Zhong told her,
Then he went to sleep by himself.
Zhuqing nodded in agreement and found a cooler place to sit down.
Although she was just sitting on the floor, she was already very satisfied with her morning work.
This morning was really tiring. She had never done such heavy physical work before. Now all the bones in her body were sore.
"Hey, girl, did you just come here today?" Just as Zhuqing was leaning against the wall, half asleep, a low voice suddenly sounded in her ears.
Obviously, the man was afraid of waking up Uncle Zhong.
"Well, what's wrong?" Zhu Qing opened his eyes and looked at the person. What he saw was a young man about twenty years old. He was thin and his face was a little yellow. Because of his thinness, his eyes looked quite big and bulging.
It's a bit like a goldfish's eyes.
"Are you a relative of Uncle Zhong's family? How did you come to the pharmacy?" Goldfish Eyes was very curious about Zhuqing's origins.
"No. My sister-in-law sent me here!" Zhu Qing told the truth.
"Sister-in-law Gao? You are a little girl, but she doesn't let you wash clothes and cook, so she makes you light the fire and suffer? Did your family offend her?" Goldfish Eyes' words were exactly the same as Tiedan's.
