The wood mage and the native brother

"Hey."

Ji Deng took out a few cloth-wrapped bags from his arms, and found a few more from the bottom of the basket, and put them on the counter to untie them. Inside were dried cymbidium.

The clerk took it and turned it over. As always, there were no insects or burns, so he smiled and took a small scale from under the counter to weigh it firmly, and showed Ji Deng the scale hooked by the weight rope.

"Ten catties, Brother Deng, let's see if it's right."

Ji Deng didn't shirk, and leaned over to take a look, the rope was still a little short of the five catty mark.

Although the season lanterns were picked a lot yesterday, the flowers and plants become light and light once they are dried. Ten catties is too much, let alone less than ten catties.

Before Ji Deng could speak, the clerk happily put the sage into a box and waited for the master in the backyard to process it, and said to the accountant,

"Mr. Xu, Brother Deng brought ten catties today."

The accountant is also used to seeing Ji Deng come, so he picked up a pen and wrote a series of small characters on the account book to mark it, and took out another forty coins and handed it to Ji Deng.

"Brother Deng counts, forty wen is right."

Ji Deng took the copper coins, but didn't count them. The buddy and Mr. Xu were enough to take care of him, so he acted as if he didn't believe him.

"Yes, thank you Mr. Xu."

Ji Deng carefully put the money in his arms, thanked the two, and then left with Ji Xiaomei.

There was no one in the store at the moment, so the clerk leaned over the counter and chatted with Mr. Xu.

"I don't know if Brother Deng picked this huicao. If a half-grown brother brings a little girl, it's not easy to worry about it again. I don't know what his parents are doing. , let the two children live so hard."

Mr. Xu raised his head from the ledger and joked,

"You don't even know, why are you angry?"

The guy opened his eyes and said solemnly,

"If his parents sent the child here specially, then what are we doing at such a disadvantage? If brother Deng's life is really difficult, we should take care of it."

Mr. Xu paused for the bookkeeping, and sighed helplessly,

"Okay, okay, let me tell you, don't be so stupid as to bring this up in front of other people's children to expose their scars. Brother Deng has adults in his family, but both father and father have gone. Now it's not easy to make a living under the hands of uncles and aunts, and grandparents don't like it.

The guy's eyes widened,

"Really?! Mr. Xu, how do you know?"

Mr. Xu nodded to the west side,

"In the private school over there, there is Ji Xiucai who has four scholars in his family, don't you know? The one with the remaining three who are dolls belongs to that family."

The guy clapped his hands suddenly,

"It actually belongs to his family. Ji's family is quite famous these days, and usually one or two of them are neatly dressed. How come Brother Deng's brother and sister have such pitiful appearances? I really can't think about it."

Mr. Xu shook his head and refused to agree, only asking,

"How much did you weigh for Brother Deng just now?"

The guy quickly replied,

"Nine catties and eight taels."

Mr. Xu nodded, picked up a pen and wrote down a series of small-character comments on the ledger, then dug in his sleeve, took out two pennies and put it in the drawer.

A catty of huicao costs four cents, and two taels is less than one penny, so it is assumed that he has taken care of Brother Deng's father who often came to the store before, and then took care of Brother Deng's two lonely children.

Ji Deng took the forty Wen that he had just received, and walked out of the spice shop along the road to a medical clinic.In the medical hall sat a benevolent old doctor who was taking the pulse, and there were three or four people in front of the table.

Fortunately, the queue was quick, saving Ji Deng from worrying about not being able to keep up with time.

"Doctor, I want to prepare some medicine for burns."

the old man asked,

"Where is the injury? Let me have a look."

Ji Deng shook his head,

"It's not me, it's my family who accidentally caught fire, and asked me to come and buy some medicine."

"Where is the injury? Is the wound bleeding? How big is the wound? How many days has it been? Is it hot?"

The old doctor asked a series of questions in one breath, but fortunately he didn't speak quickly, so Ji Deng could hear and remember them clearly, so Ji Deng answered them one by one,

"The injury is on the stomach, the size of a fist, but there is no pus."

"No pus at all?"

asked the old doctor.

Ji Deng didn't know what this meant, so he nodded truthfully and said,

"Yes, no pus."

The old doctor frowned and changed the question,

"How long did it hurt?"

Ji Deng was a little hesitant.The man was already injured when he saw him, how could he know how long he was injured.After thinking about it, I still said,

"Seven or eight days."

To put it bluntly, the medicine I took may be more effective and make the man heal faster.

The old doctor suddenly shook his head in disapproval,

"Such a big wound has been hurt for so many days, why did I come to get the medicine today, and I didn't come to the medical center in person."

Ji Deng pursed his lips guiltyly, not daring to answer.

Fortunately, the old doctor didn't ask any more questions, and asked a few more questions, then wrote a list and handed it to Ji Deng.

"Use this medicine first. If you don't get better in a few days, you must bring someone here in person."

Ji Deng took the list with both hands and said yes again and again, and went to the pharmacy.

The old doctor was not in a hurry to see the next patient, looking at Ji Deng's leaving back, he muttered to himself in doubt,

"It has been seven or eight days and there is no pus and new skin, which is a bit strange."

"A total of 35 essays."

The drug boy handed Ji Deng a palm-length bamboo tube and a small box.

"So expensive?!"

Ji Deng was taken aback.

"Not expensive at all."

Yaotong explained with a good temper,

"This ointment is thirty yuan. This tube is enough for the patient to use for a month. This box is filled with white cloth. The medicine has been boiled and wrapped with this after the medicine is applied. It is only five yuan. Our doctor The hospital has a conscience, and it won’t cheat you with a penny, if you don’t believe me, go to another hospital to see what the price is.”

Medical centers and pharmacies have always been places where big expenses are spent. It is indeed not expensive to buy these medicines for 35 cash, but it is a big price for Ji Deng.

But Ji Deng still took out 35 Wen from his bosom, and handed the copper plate, which was still warm from body temperature, to Yao Boy, who flipped his hands and put it in the drawer, and went to entertain the next person.

Ji Deng felt a sense of emptiness in his chest, which was covered with copper plates.Ji Deng touched the clothes on his chest, and couldn't help showing a wry smile. It's good, today's private house is almost all built in at one go.

"elder brother?"

Seeing Ji Deng standing there, Ji Xiaomei didn't know what to think, she tilted her head in doubt and called out.

"It's nothing."

Ji Deng took a deep breath, looked at the sun, and hurriedly took Ji Xiaomei to Ji's house.

...

Back at Ji's house, Ji Jiang had already gone to the ground, and Mrs. Fang took the eighty essays handed in by Ji Deng and counted them carefully twice before showing a satisfied smile.

Turning around, he said to Ji Deng indifferently,

"Okay, go down to the ground as soon as you come back, your third uncle has already passed."

Ji Deng, uncharacteristically, did not move, faltering,

"Grandma, the chain my father left me seems to have fallen off the mountain yesterday, I...I want to look for it."

Hearing Mrs. Qi, Mrs. Fang couldn't help squinting her eyes in disgust, and snorted coldly.

"Do you still dare to go to the mountain? Are you afraid that you will not come back if you roll down again? If you are not afraid, go, or outsiders will say that I treated you harshly, and treated my lost second wife harshly."

Ji Deng lowered his head and couldn't see his expression clearly, so he responded with a low voice, turned around and left the courtyard gate.

Granny Fang squinted her eyes and looked at Ji Deng's back, and added,

"Whether you find it or not, you will go to the field for me in the afternoon. You can see if the work is delayed, do you understand?"

Ji Deng answered from afar.

Old lady Fang twitched her lips.

Originally, I thought Brother Deng was a coward, but I didn't expect that his stubborn temper was the same as Qi's Jihe.

Thinking of the old couple she despised the most, Mrs. Fang frowned in disgust, turned around and took the copper plate back to the house to hide it.

Ji Deng arrived at the foot of the mountain with a bamboo tube in his arms, and trotted up the mountain familiarly. After a while, the familiar thatched hut appeared in front of him.

Entering the house, the strange-looking man was still asleep.Ji Deng gasped for breath and calmed down, first looked at the broken bowl with a few gaps next to the man's head, the water in it was not much less, it seemed that he hadn't woken up in the middle.

Ji Deng then took out the bamboo tube and the small box, washed his hands in the trickling spring outside the house, and then lifted the man's cloak, picked up a little ointment with his fingertips and touched it carefully.

After digging three or four times, the wound on the man's abdomen was covered with a layer of brown medicine.As the medicine boy said, this tube of medicine is enough for a month.

Even so, 35 cash a month for medicine is not a small amount of money for a family, let alone for Ji Deng.

Ji Deng sat next to the man's head and propped up the man's upper body, with his hands around the man's waist and abdomen, and wrapped the white cloth in the box around the wound, but he didn't notice the wound that had just been medicated. New pink flesh grew.

After all, Ji Deng is a brother, he is shy to touch the man's body, but at the same time he is afraid that the cloth will fall if he is not wrapped tightly.

When the man was finally laid flat on the wooden board, Ji Deng let out a deep breath.Standing up, I wanted to relax and curl up my numb legs and feet for a long time, but suddenly felt a pulling force from the corner of my clothes.

As soon as Ji Deng turned his head, he bumped into a pair of dark green eyes.

"what--"

Ji Deng was startled, screamed unconsciously, and took two steps back.

Perhaps he just woke up from a coma, and the man's upper body was moved outward by Ji Deng's movements, probably involving the wound that had just been medicated. But it is very clear.

It was only then that Ji Deng realized that the man had woken up, and the green color just now was just his eyes.

While spurning himself for making a fuss, Ji Deng hurriedly picked up the man's upper body and moved him back to his original position, caring,

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, are you okay? Did you hurt the wound? Does it hurt?"

As he said that, he went to check the white cloth around the man's waist, and he was relieved when he saw that it was still tightly wrapped.Before he could breathe out completely, Ji Deng was pulled back to his mind by the warm and smooth skin of the man under him, and quickly withdrew his hand like an electric shock, embarrassingly carrying it behind his back.

"#@$