Chapter 163 settled

   Seeing that he stopped crying, Jiaojiao hurriedly held up the candied haws and said, "Brother Song Dong won't cry, just eat a sweet candied haws and you will be happy."

  Song Dong's heart warmed when he heard the words, seeing them in his heart was not only grateful but also grateful, saving him from fire and water again and again, the great kindness is hard to repay in this life.

   "Come on, let's eat a candied haws delicately." Wang Zhuangzhi smiled and stuffed the bunch of candied haws into Song Dong's hands.

  Song Dong looked at the bright red candied haws, pursed his lips and paused, then carefully bit one.

  The taste is sweet and astringent, and it is slightly sour when you bite carefully, it doesn't seem so sweet.

   "Brother Song Dong, is it delicious?" Jiaojiao also had one in her mouth, her cheeks were bulging and she tilted her head and asked with a smile.

  Song Dong had a faint smile on his face, nodded and said, "Sweet, very sweet."

  Wang Zhuangzhi saw that he was fine, so he raised his hand to block the sun and said, "The sun is too hot today, and you will suffer from heatstroke if you stay too long. Let's go back to the house."

  Song Dong hurriedly got up when he heard that, "I'm sorry, Uncle Wang, for delaying you basking in the sun with me."

   "You child, don't think wildly, and you don't have to be so polite with us..."

  When the three of them returned to the pharmacy, Song Dong's uncle had already left, and the old doctor who was attending the consultation was off today, and the shelves in Nuo Da's pharmacy were empty.

   "Uncle Wang, my cousin secretly sold some herbs to the pharmacy in the back last night. I checked this morning and found out that they are all worthless herbs. I forgot to mention them just now."

   After Song Dong finished speaking, he blamed himself. He was thinking about something just now, but he didn't think of this matter.

Wang Zhuangzhi shook his head and smiled, waved his hands and said, "It's okay, we'll rest today and tomorrow, while it's still early, we'll take stock of what's missing and make a list, I'll take advantage of these two days to start preparations. "

  Song Dong hurriedly responded: "Okay, Uncle Wang, I'll do the statistics."

  Wang Zhuangzhi knelt down and told his daughter, "Jiaojiao, follow Brother Song Dong to identify the medicinal materials."

  Jiaojiao nodded softly, "Okay."

   Song Dong was still a little puzzled when he heard that, but he didn't ask too much. Since Uncle Wang said so, he naturally has his reasons.

  Although it was afternoon, the sun outside was scorching, and Wang Zhuangzhi was not in a hurry.

  Song Dong was recording the medicinal materials with a brush and a notebook, and he would read out every taste. Jiaojiao stood on the medicine table, listening to Song Dong say the names of the medicinal materials while staring at the medicinal materials and memorizing them carefully.

  She knew most of the medicinal materials, so it was not difficult to remember them.

  Wang Zhuangzhi went to the backyard to clean up the house because he didn't know the medicinal materials.

   There is a small courtyard behind the pharmacy. Although it is not big, there are three rooms neatly.

  Since I have bought them all, I will definitely come and walk around in the future. After all, it is a resting place, and I still need to tidy up after others have lived there.

  Wang Zhuangzhi looked at each of them one by one. Except for the hut where Song Dong lived, the other two rooms were full of stench, and Wang Zhuangzhi was so choked that he covered his nose.

  Boss Song looked like a clean person, but he didn't realize that the back room was smelly, the place where he lived was filthy, the bedding on the bed was so dirty that it was oily, and the leftovers that fell on the table were scabbed.

Wang Zhuangzhi immediately threw out the smelly bedding and other unnecessary things, found two rags, fetched a bucket of water from the well outside, and carried it to the house with an iron basin. clean up.

  He is a big man and works quickly, and there is no furniture in the house, but it didn't take much effort to tidy it up.

   After Wang Zhuangzhi cleaned up the house, he opened the window to let the humidity out while the sun was shining outside.

  The yard was full of debris that had been picked up, so he found a few dry vines and roughly tied them up, carried them on his back and threw them outside.

  Outside shop,

   "Brother Song Dong, what is this dry white thing called? Why does it look the same as the one above?"

   Jiaojiao asked, pointing to the medicinal materials in a box.

  The dried medicinal materials were too similar, Jiaojiao looked dazzled and couldn't tell the difference.

Song Dong was memorizing the medicinal ingredients, looked up, and explained with a smile: "This is Baizhu. There are many medicines similar to it. If you are not careful, you will get confused. The texture of Baizhu is hard, and the outer skin is a little light yellow or grayish brown. , the part near the core is a little yellow and white, the taste is spicy, and it is a little sticky when you bite it in your mouth."

   "Wow, Brother Song Dong, you have only learned it not long ago, how can you be so good." Jiaojiao said in admiration.

  Song Dong's smile faded a little, and he pursed his lips and said, "My parents also opened a pharmacy before, and they can recognize some herbal medicines from childhood."

  If life could be restarted, he would definitely not allow his parents to treat the guest who caused trouble to their family.

  If it wasn’t because his medical clinic would not be closed, and their family didn’t have to move the whole family, nothing would happen to their parents…

   "Father, why do you carry so many things on your back?"

  Jiaojiao's voice interrupted Song Dong's memories.

  Song Dong raised his eyes and saw Wang Zhuangzhi coming out, he saw a lot of things on his back,

  He immediately put down the pen and paper, and hurried forward to help, "Uncle Wang, these things are dirty, let me do it."

  Wang Zhuangzhi raised his hand to stop them, supported the things on his body, and said to them with a smile: "No, you are busy with your work. These things look like a lot, but they don't really matter. I can do it alone."

   After finishing speaking, Wang Zhuangzhi went straight out of the gate.

  Song Dong watched Uncle Wang walk out briskly, and asked Jiaojiao beside him in surprise: "Uncle Wang, has he always been so strong?"

   "Well, Dad has always been very strong." Jiaojiao nodded.

  Hearing this, Song Dong felt inexplicably more secure. Thinking of Uncle Wang asking Jiaojiao to follow him to look at herbal medicine, he asked curiously, "Jiaojiao, does Uncle Wang want you to learn medical skills?"

   "No, there are a lot of herbs in the mountains behind our house. I need to write them down first, so I can find them when I go back." Jiaojiao was playing while looking at the medicine boxes containing herbs.

   "I see, Jiaojiao must have a good memory." Song Dong praised.

  Jiaojiao rubbed her cheeks in embarrassment, "Well, it's okay."

  …

  After counting all the medicinal materials, the sun was about to set, and Wang Zhuangzhi almost cleaned up the backyard.

  He patted the ashes off his body, walked to the front shop and said, "Jiaojiao, let's go home quickly, or your mother and the others should be worried."

  Jiaojiao was lying on the stool watching Song Dong grind the gypsum powder, when she heard her father's voice she hurriedly turned her head, "Oh, here we come,"

  Song Dong also stopped what he was doing, clapped his hands and hurriedly got up, and said, "Uncle Wang, I'll see you off."

Wang Zhuangzhi didn't refuse when he heard about it, he walked towards the door with Bao Jiaojiao, and said to Song Dong as he walked, "Your cousin is gone, this shop will leave you alone, if you are afraid of living alone, you can go to the front inn to stay at night." Now, the pharmacy is no different than others, let’s hire a strong man as the gatekeeper during these two days, and then you will be able to live there without fear.”

  (end of this chapter)