You are unlucky and I am tough

Cheng Shuang looked at them in confusion, "Grandma Xu, why are you here?"

"The village just had a meeting, and the headman told us that you had to treat our headaches." Aunt Xu was still upset. "The headman said you wouldn't charge us for the consultation, so I felt bad and sent you something."

The other women behind also responded.

Cheng Shuang thought, so that's how it is, and opened the door to let everyone into the yard to talk.

Li Zheng held a meeting in the ancestral hall for an hour. Now the whole village knew that Cheng Shuang had received medical treatment from the divine doctor. The first thing he did was to cure the headaches of the whole village. They also knew that Cheng Li Zheng's headache had been cured. Cheng Shuang had previously followed a group of men into the mountains to find medicine for the villagers.

Although headaches are not fatal, the elderly people in the village have been suffering for decades and are already miserable. Anyone who can cure them is like a savior to them.

After a while, many villagers were still too excited to calm down and wanted to bring something to express their gratitude.

After entering the yard, Aunt Xu San saw a lot of medicinal herbs drying in the yard. She put them on the table and said, "Cheng Shuang, you have so many medicinal herbs at home. They are all used to treat the villagers. If you need help, you can always come to me next door. I still have some strength."

Cheng Shuang nodded, "Okay, I won't be polite if you need me."

Seven or eight women put down their things, including vegetables, radishes, eggs, corn and rice.

Cheng Shuang looked at the things and said to everyone, "Aunts, please take these things back. Shuang'er has already sensed your kindness."

A woman said, "It's not a valuable thing, we just want to thank you."

"I understand what you mean, aunts, but we don't lack these things now. No one in the village is rich, so you should take them back."

"It's your business if you don't need it, and our gift to you is our token of our appreciation." Grandma Xu was firm in her attitude.

She looked at Cheng Shuang with tears in her eyes, "You are a weak woman, but you went into the mountains for so many days to find medicinal herbs for us. You have suffered so much. How can I sleep at night if I don't thank you?

Before, the villagers said you were lucky to have collected Ganoderma lucidum, but I don't think you were lucky at all. You are a good person and have good rewards. God knows your kindness and is helping us to repay you. You have treated all 700 or 800 people in the village, so you deserve as much Ganoderma lucidum and ginseng as you can get."

"Yes, the village head told us that you worked hard to learn medicine in order to treat our illnesses. Good people will be rewarded and good people should become rich."

The other women also expressed their gratitude, and Cheng Shuang was a little moved by what they said.

The seven or eight days in the mountains were very hard. Her feet still hurt when she walks now, and the subsequent treatment will also be very difficult, but she doesn't think she is that great.

She has been learning medicine since she was a child. Her grandfather taught her that a doctor should have a kind heart. The reason why she is willing to treat the villagers is simply because she can and knows how to treat them.

However, it is also a happy thing to be appreciated by others.

Cheng Shuang had no choice but to accept the things as he could not refuse. Then more people came one after another, all of them came to express their gratitude, and none of them came empty-handed. It was estimated that there were about forty or fifty people.

Hu Chunhua also came with several other people. She seemed to be unable to believe that Cheng Shuang had really learned medical skills. She came here eagerly with an egg in her pocket. Others left after staying for a while, but she was shameless and refused to leave.

In the end, Cheng Shuang kicked the person out and returned the egg to her.

The yard was littered with things, including rice, flour, vegetables, eggs, three bundles of firewood and a chicken.

Wei Qinglang came out of the room to help with the tidying up. He poured the corn, rice and flour into separate large bags, took the dry firewood into the kitchen, and put the chickens in the chicken coop outside. There were more than twenty eggs, enough for their family to eat for a while.

Before the two of them had finished packing their things, Lu Yinyin's personal maid Xi Que knocked on the door and asked Cheng Shuang to help persuade her young lady to go home.

Cheng Shuang went out to look for people. Whenever she met villagers along the way, they would take the initiative to greet her. In one afternoon, she became a celebrity in the village.

Soon they found the brother and sister who were watching the village children fishing by the river. Lu Yinyin was reluctant to leave, but she also knew that if she didn't go back, she would have to travel in the dark. After getting on the carriage, she stuck her head out and said that she would come back in a few days.

Cheng Shuang waved towards the carriage and said that he could come anytime;

But she doesn't have time to play with them. She has to concentrate on treating the villagers for the next two months, and every day will not be easy.

The next morning, the village head's house was surrounded by people, and Cheng Shuang walked to the door under countless gazes.

There was a wooden box at the door of the village head's house with a hole in the middle. Inside were notes with the names of the heads of each household and how many people in the family needed medical treatment.

This was a unanimous decision. Treatment was based on the order of drawing lots. Cheng Shuang drew the lot herself on the first day, and then the village head would draw lots and send them to her every day.

Cheng Lizheng's face was full of joy as if it was Chinese New Year, and he even pasted red paper on the lottery box. Cheng Shuang was helpless, and this sense of ceremony made her feel a little embarrassed.

She didn't waste any time and just went over to start drawing. She took out the first slip, opened it, and read aloud, "Feng Dashu."

"It's my home, it's my home." Feng Tiegen raised his hands and shouted excitedly in the crowd.

Feng Tiegen's parents were also very happy as if they had found money, "Oh, we got the first one, that's great."

The villagers also joined in the commotion, "Mother Tiegen, your family's luck is about to change."

"Yes, Tiegen went into the mountains and got a few dozen taels of silver, and also received a 500-wen reward from the village head. Now he's even got the first place in the lottery for treating illnesses."

"Tiegen will definitely be able to get married this year."

Hu Chunhua, who was squeezed in the crowd, rolled her eyes. The Feng family was indeed lucky. Could it be that they were really going to have a great fortune?

Others may not know, but she knew that in addition to the more than 60 taels of silver that the Feng family shared, they also sold a ginseng.

Now in the village, apart from the old scholar and that little bitch Cheng Shuang, the Feng family is probably the richest.

Ignoring the noisy villagers, Cheng Shuang drew a few cards in a row and stopped when he had collected fifteen people. He would deal with these fifteen people first on the first day.

Then the village chief gave an order and those whose names were drawn went home and waited.

A large group of villagers followed Cheng Shuang to the Feng family at the end of the village. Tiegen's parents were the only ones in the Feng family who needed treatment. Cheng Shuang came out after more than half an hour.

She told Feng Tiegen to go to the bamboo house to get medicine in the evening, and then went to the next house where the lottery was drawn.

We went from one family to another like this until it was completely dark, and all the families that were selected were finally treated.

In the evening, several families sent people to the bamboo house with money to get medicine. Each person got ten prescriptions of medicine. In order to prevent them from making mistakes, the three prescriptions of Cheng Shuang for the first three days were wrapped in white oil paper, and they were carefully instructed on the decoction method and dosage.

In this way, Cheng Shuang began the treatment process day after day. Time flew by and it was July in a blink of an eye.

In fifty-two days, Cheng Shuang cured all the people in the village who suffered from headaches. Of course, some things happened in the process.

For example, after being treated by the troublemaker Wei Changgui, he wanted to take the medicine without money when he got it. After being beaten out by Wei Qinglang, he ran to the head of the village to complain. The head of the village scolded him and told him not to take the medicine without money. In the end, he reluctantly gave the money.

Hu Chunhua's family also cried poor and wanted to take the medicine away without enough money. They kept saying that they were all family, so Cheng Shuang naturally would not give them any medicine. After being driven out, they delayed for a day before finally coming back to get the medicine with enough money.

In addition, most families in the village were poor and could not afford the medical expenses of more than 700 coins per person, so the head of the village lent his family's money to the villagers.

At first, he borrowed money from forty or fifty households, lending each household three or five taels of money, and almost lent out all the money in the house.

Later, when the villagers saw that the headman was rich and his family's braised meat business made a lot of money every day, they all went to borrow money from him. However, Cheng, the headman, no longer tolerated them and only lent money to those who were really in financial difficulty.

There were also people who talked about Cheng Shuang behind her back, saying that she clearly had 1,000 taels but still charged them so much for medicine, and that she could probably make a lot of money from it. Every family was poor and couldn't afford so much money. After curing the disease, they would be in debt, and then they would have to worry about how to make money to pay off the debt.

When these words spread, Cheng Lizheng ran to the homes of Cheng Jinshan and Li, who had spoken out the most and had the strongest opinions, and scolded them harshly. He accused them of being greedy and wanting to swallow an elephant. He said that others were treating patients without charging a fee because they were from the same village, but he paid for the medicine and was still slandered. If he heard such words again, he would not treat his family.

Cheng Jinshan's father was so angry that he chased Cheng Jinshan with a stick from one end of the village to the other. Everyone in the village knew about it, and no one dared to talk nonsense anymore.

After a long time, people from nearby villages learned that there was someone who could cure headaches, and they came one after another to inquire and seek medical treatment, but they were all turned away by Cheng Lizheng. Later, he simply hired several men from the village to guard the village entrance every day to prevent people from outside the village from entering.

It was precisely because Cheng Li was diligently clearing the obstacles in front that Cheng Shuang was able to ignore the outside world and concentrate on treating the disease.