Farmers accumulate wealth, cruelly abusing leftovers 018 sees patients
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"Mrs. Tien, I've been picking these herbs in the mountains for days. My family is very poor and we have no food to eat. Can you please help me find a pharmacy or a doctor's office where I can sell these?" Tang Mai put down the large bundle on his back and opened it up.
She wasn't in a hurry to get to the point, as merchants detest being hasty, and everything needs to be done gradually. Especially since she was now just a five-year-old child in other people's eyes, she brought these herbs here for two reasons: one was to make money, and secondly, Li Lan being a doctor would certainly not fail to see the value of these relatively ordinary herbs.
The herbs she collected here, many of them are rare and precious medicines. If Li Lan couldn't recognize these rare herbs, it didn't matter, just consider them as her gift to Li Lan.
Li Lan felt uncomfortable after hearing Tang Mai's words, especially when she saw Tang Mai's bright eyes and thin body, and the large bundle of herbs in front of her. It was clear that collecting these things would require a lot of time and effort.
She was a doctor, and upon hearing Tang Mai's words, she didn't care whether he had picked medicinal herbs or wild grasses. She hastily walked forward, bringing Tang Mai into her own home. "Mai'er, you must be tired. Come in and have something to eat first. And don't call me Tian Shao Nainai anymore. Since you're Xing Ge's playmate, then just like Xing Ge, call me Sister. Conveniently, my uncle's family runs a pharmacy, so I can take those herbs of yours there to sell them for you. The silver will be paid to you first, how about that?"
Li Lan thought of taking care of Tang Mai, and didn't carefully examine the herbs in Tang Mai's bundle. Although Tang Mai looked more mature and sensible than ordinary children, she still didn't believe that a five-year-old child could recognize herbs and collect so many from the mountain. She just treated those herbs as wild grass now, and said to buy them down, only to help Tang Mai reduce her family burden.
Li Lan is not a delicate and refined girl in the classical sense, on the contrary, she has been dressing as a boy since childhood and following Li Zhanggui's travels south and north. In terms of getting along with people and handling things, she also inherited Li Zhanggui's caution, cleverness, kindness, and good heart. After Tang Mai came last time, Li Lan had already inquired about Tang Mai's family background. She didn't just look at the surface like others did, thinking that Tang Mai was a wild child. On the contrary, she felt sorry for this sensible kid, especially after getting along with Tang Mai and seeing how grand and elegant her behavior was, which made Li Lan like her even more.
Tang Mai didn't expect things to go so smoothly, his eyes lit up and he hastily expressed his gratitude, "Thank you, sister."
"You're such a little girl, you've already called me sister, why be polite? " Li Lan patted Tang Mai's head and took out a few silver coins from her dowry, putting them in Tang Mai's hand. "This is money to buy herbs, go back early and have dinner."
Tang Mei gazed at the silver in her hand, a sigh of relief in her heart. After five days of hard work, she had finally gotten a reward, and it wasn't small either. One or two silver coins were equivalent to 500 copper coins, which could buy quite a few things.
Tang Mai took the silver given by Li Lan and did not leave, but instead asked Li Lan to take her to see the patient that even Li Lan could not cure.
Li Lan was indeed curious, and in the end couldn't resist Tang Mai's earnest requests. Under her doting and loving care for Tang Mai, she took some things and brought Tang Mai along with her.
The patient's home was a distance from the landlord's house, and they had only walked for about half an hour when it was almost noon. The patient still recognized Li Lan, and seeing Li Lan bringing Tang Mai to knock on the door, he immediately warmly invited them in.
The patient's wife was even more enthusiastic about having them stay for dinner at their home.
Tang Mai could see that Li Lan's interpersonal relationships were indeed very good, she was a great doctor in her past life, but she had never had patients so enthusiastic about inviting her to stay for meals, even if it was just plain food.
She was really a failure as a human being in her past life, always thinking only of herself. She had the medical skills to save lives, but she would only treat those with money; no matter if you were a thief or a murderer, she would cure you as long as you had money; but if you didn't have money, then even if you begged until death, don't think about seeing her face.
Those whom she saved, on the surface are grateful to her, but behind her back how they stabbed her in the spine, who knows?
It feels great to be treated with kindness and liked by others. From now on, she will no longer be obsessed with money, nor will she be deceived by Long Jiyuan again, nor will she collect money everywhere to help Long Jiyuan ascend to the throne and bribe others.
Since it's no longer needed, why is she still so fond of money?
When she has money, she will work hard to help those in need and be a kind-hearted person like Li Lan.
Li Lan couldn't leave and had to stay with Tang Mai for dinner, not only helping the patient's wife cook in the kitchen but also leaving all the things she brought.
Tang Mai saw Li Lan and the patient's wife enter the kitchen, knowing that his chance had come, carrying his own small bundle, he found the patient.
"This uncle, Sister Li said that she has thought of a way to cure your illness on the head. She asked me to bring you this medicine. Take three doses after each meal every day for ten days and your illness on the head will be cured."
"Ah!" The patient, who was chopping firewood, stopped his movements as soon as he heard Tang Mai's words. He hastily walked to Tang Mai's side, took the medicine from her hand and said excitedly, "Miss Li, you're really a kind person!"
"Yes, sister is a good person." Tang Mai smiled and said, "Also, uncle, the prescription that sister used to treat your illness was just developed, it's not sure if it's effective yet. You shouldn't rush to thank her in person, or else if your illness doesn't get better after ten days, sister will be sad. So, uncle, wait until you're cured and then go thank sister, okay?"
"Alright, alright, you've thought this through thoroughly." The patient heard Tang Mai say that the medicine may or may not be effective, but he didn't show much disappointment. After all, his illness had been going on for so long, and doctors were at a loss for what to do, he had already given up hope. He hadn't expected Li Lan to still be thinking of him, and even sent him medicine. Just this alone made him very grateful.
At mealtime, the patient kept looking at Li Lan with a grateful expression. At noon, he even killed an old hen for Li Lan to eat, making Li Lan feel puzzled and embarrassed at the same time.
Tang Mai just sat quietly on the side eating, the patient happily gave her a big chicken leg. Tang Mai looked at the chicken leg in her bowl, feeling warm and fuzzy inside, smiled sweetly at the patient and said "Thank you, uncle."
After dinner, the two of them left the patient's home. Tang Mai and Li Lan said their goodbyes and each returned to their own homes.
The landlord's family, at this time Li Lan's husband was arranging the medicinal herbs brought by Tang Mai in the courtyard. Tian Di Zhu's son Tian Feng fell in love with Li Lan after seeing her treating someone's illness and proposed to her. He returned to see the packages in the house, opened them and saw they were herbal medicines, thinking they were brought back by Li Lan, so he thought of helping Li Lan take them out to dry. Just as he had dried one package, he saw Li Lan coming back.
"Daughter, you're back. You've gone to treat someone's illness again, haven't you?" Tian Feng put down the winnowing basket in his hand and walked to Li Lan's front, smiling at her with affection.
