Baozi Xishi's Struggle

Chapter 470: An unexpected gain after hard care

Fortunately, starting from the afternoon of the second day of the Chinese New Year, relatives of these families came one after another after hearing the news.

After some discussion and consolation, it was decided that only those who were not sick or injured could be taken away first, and the rest would be allowed to stay for a few more days.

After two days of care, Shen Yu had already let go of his worries and no longer expected all the relatives to take him away at once.

After all, colds are easily contagious, so it is not surprising that relatives are unwilling to pick us up.

When the time comes, you can report the actual expenses and take the account book to the county magistrate to ask for the money for room, food and medicine.

The yamen runners were getting a little anxious.

Is this still not enough to celebrate the New Year?!

Although the brothers were on duty in shifts, it was their duty to be sent out to work by the county magistrate.

But if these people didn't leave, the yamen runners would have to sleep on the floor with them.

Although the meals served at Miss Shen's house are varied and varied every day, they are much more delicious than those cooked by Chef Jiang.

But no matter how delicious the food is, it’s New Year and I still want to go home to see my wife and children.

I haven’t been home for several days!

But when they asked why the sick and injured people didn't leave, several of them replied: "We're afraid of infecting our relatives with a cold. We're just staying here during the Chinese New Year, and we don't want to cause any more trouble for them."

"Besides, there are doctors here, so I feel more at ease."

The yamen runners looked at the pitiful faces and could not say anything: "Well, then you can cause trouble for us."

"You guys stay here, we'll keep you company."

Fortunately, Doctor Sun is a good doctor and the county pharmacy has a complete stock of herbal medicines.

But within two or three days, these patients who had caught cold showed significant improvement and no longer needed to take medicine.

The three injured people are gradually getting better. After another change of dressing, they can put on splints and go home to rest without having to change the dressing again.

In this way, it was the morning of the seventh day of the first lunar month.

The two yamen runners who had been working hard with him finally handed the last injured patient over to his relative who came to pick him up with tears of joy in their eyes.

They could finally go back to the county government office to report, and then have a good sleep in their own beds.

After cleaning the inn, Shen Yu and his family counted the days and found that the market and shops would open on the eighth day of the first lunar month.

Li was worried that the children would catch a cold if they helped take care of the patients, so she strictly forbade Shen Yu and the others to go to the inn.

Under the guidance of Doctor Sun, the three ladies took turns to deliver medicine and food to these patients. After returning, they washed their hands and changed their clothes carefully.

Shen Yu is responsible for cooking in the restaurant kitchen every day.

Yutao and a few others helped her, helping to boil Chinese medicine and prepare three meals a day.

After doing all this, the few of them still have a lot of free time.

But because there was no adult accompanying them and there were many people at the temple fair during the New Year, Li and the others did not agree to let Yutao and the others go out to play.

I thought that they were still young after all, so I just let them stay in the house when they had nothing to do, play with Xiao Zhuzi, write or read, as long as they didn't go out and run around.

He also promised that once these families were picked up by their relatives, he would take the children out to visit the temple fair, watch plays in Wazili, and eat delicious food.

I originally thought that the relatives had come, but they would only take care of things for two or three days.

But I didn't expect to procrastinate and take care of it for seven days. When I finally had some free time, the restaurant would open for business like the shops on the street the next day.

Li looked at the children looking at her eagerly, thought for a moment and comforted them, "Although we will open tomorrow, there will probably not be many merchants from the north and south coming to the market."

"It's so icy and snowy here, we definitely can't go on the road. We're all still at home celebrating the New Year."

"Without customers, the branches of various stores here are only open for half a day at most."

"Tomorrow we are just pretending to be grand opening. We have only prepared a small amount of food for breakfast."

"After we set off the firecrackers tomorrow morning and receive the morning guests, if everyone closes their doors at noon, we will close our doors as well. That way, we can take you out to play."

Yutao and the others were delighted to hear this and started planning where to go for fun after the shop opened tomorrow morning.

Shen Yu was in a good mood today. He had finally sent the four families away safely, and the patients were all well again.

Everyone praised the restaurant, saying they were kind-hearted and willing to take care of the disaster victims during the New Year, calling them a blessed family.

Moreover, after this incident, the news that the Shen family was going to open an inn had spread throughout the city.

Several people had taken a walk around the inn when having their food delivered to them, and they all said that the layout and location of the inn were good, and that it would surely do prosperous business once it opened.

Everyone was naturally happy to hear this. It was like taking care of these people while also advertising their own inn and restaurant. It was also an unexpected surprise.

Not only the restaurant benefited, but Dr. Sun also benefited even more.

He was originally an unknown doctor in the countryside, but after this time of taking care of the patient, and with the two adults' deliberate and high-profile publicity, almost everyone in half of the county knew that he had good medical skills.

Especially when it comes to treating colds, they prescribe the right medicine for the right symptoms and the patient will recover quickly. They also won’t deliberately use expensive herbs that ordinary people cannot afford.

Catching a cold is the most common thing in winter. As a result, Doctor Sun has been very busy these days. In addition to taking care of the patients on a daily basis, there are always people coming to him to ask him to treat them.

Doctor Sun’s treatment is free, and I thought I’d just go and see him since I have nothing to do and they are our neighbors nearby.

But what he didn't expect was that there were only three or four patients on the first day, but on the second day there were seven or eight patients. Later, some people even came from far away to seek his treatment.

Of course, most of these patients have emergency conditions. Some have stomachaches from accidentally eating too many sweet cakes during the Chinese New Year, some have indigestion from eating too much meat during the Chinese New Year, and some have caught a cold and developed a fever and cough from going out to play.

Among the seven or eight people, five or six were children, who were wrapped in thick cloaks by their family members and held in their arms before coming to the door for help.

Doctor Sun is a good doctor, especially in pediatrics.

But when I was in the countryside, I often only saw one patient every few days.

Sometimes, because the patient's family is poor, he cannot afford the medicine even after he has prescribed the medicine for the illness, so the patient's recovery is always very slow, which makes his medical skills seem very limited.

In my spare time on weekdays, I spend more time picking herbs, which makes me feel like a hero without a place to use his talents.

But at this time, there are at least seven or eight patients visiting the hospital every day, and they are all good patients who follow the doctor's orders.

As long as the prescription is written, the family members accompanying the patient will not ask how much money the medicine costs or how many doses the patient needs to take.

After learning clearly how to decoct the medicine and what foods to avoid, he quickly found a way to break open the small door of the pharmacy and go to get the medicine and boil it.

If the disease is diagnosed and treated in time and the medicine is taken on time as ordered by the doctor, the disease will certainly heal quickly.