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Chapter 623: Medicine but No Treatment

Aunt Tao let Zhou Chang in, then stood up and wanted to go out with her daughter.

"Auntie, I'll trouble you to boil a kettle of water." Zhou Chang handed the kettle to Auntie Tao and asked casually, "Where did Mr. Tao go?"

Aunt Tao happily took the kettle and replied, "He went to the village to wait for Tao Da and Da Zhu to come back. Judging from the weather, if they are fast, they should be back."

Just as he said this, Mr. Tao came back from outside with his men.

Zhou Chang hurriedly went out with Aunt Tao to greet them, but they only saw Tao Da, Tao Zhu and Tao Lao, but no doctor followed them in.

After welcoming the three people into the house, without waiting for Zhou Chang to ask, Tao Da, the middle-aged man and neighbor of Mr. Tao, sighed heavily: "Alas... Mr. Zhou, I'm sorry that the doctor didn't come. We looked for several doctors, but none of them were willing to come in the first month of the year. Finally, we found a pharmacy and told the doctor on duty about the situation. He sold us a lot of medicine."

Then, Tao Lao's son Dazhu put a large cloth bag on the table and opened it. Inside were several packets of medicinal materials and a few jars of unknown things.

Tao Da pointed at the things and began to explain: "There are plasters for treating knife wounds, decoctions for reducing fever, and tonics that are said to replenish blood. Finally, I took the initiative to buy a large bag of dried ginger. Ginger soup can dispel coldness, so you should drink more of it."

Zhou Chang was dumbfounded by the large and small packages of medicinal herbs. How could this work without a doctor?

Tao Lao frowned as he looked at the packets of medicine on the table: "Did you get cheated? How much did this little medicine cost?"

His son Dazhu took out a silver ingot from his bosom and spread it in front of the people: "This is the jade crown of Mr. Zhou that was pawned. It was originally pawned for twenty taels, ten taels of which were exchanged for these medicines, and the remaining ten taels are this silver ingot."

Old Master Tao widened his eyes and scolded his son: "These things cost ten taels of silver? That's enough for the medicine money of our entire village for a whole year. I was afraid that you would be cheated because of your inexperience, so I asked your uncle Tao to go with you. Are you being too smart again, so you..."

"No, no, uncle, don't blame the kids..." Tao Da hurriedly explained, "You don't know, at this time, it's already good enough to have a pharmacy willing to serve you. If we hadn't hurriedly hired a donkey cart, we wouldn't be able to get back today. We didn't even have a bite to eat."

"This..." Mr. Tao originally asked Mr. Tao for help, but he felt bad about it.

Zhou Chang felt even worse, and quickly said, "During this festival, the pharmacy might take advantage of the situation to rob. It's not easy for you two to take the trouble to make this trip. I don't have anything else on me now, but you can keep this silver ingot as a small token of your appreciation. When we return, I will definitely reward you handsomely."

Tao Da refused to accept it: "What did Master Zhou say? You are people in trouble. We depend on nature for our livelihood. If we see someone drowning in the sea, we will rescue him if we can. How dare we accept money?"

Tao Lao refused, took it from his son, and stuffed it into Zhou Chang's hand: "Mr. Zhou, no one would stand by and watch someone die in the situation the day before yesterday. We country people are not good at talking, but we definitely won't take this money, otherwise the heavens and the Dragon King will not bless us. We can't accept this."

"You must accept it, otherwise how can I feel at ease?" Zhou Chang really had nothing to thank him with, but he insisted just to show his gratitude.

The two of them pushed and refused for several times, but in the end Mr. Tao still refused to accept it.

Zhou Chang had no other choice but to give the silver to Aunt Tao: "Auntie, I'm asking you to use this silver to buy some brown sugar and hens for my wife to make chicken soup for her to replenish her body."

"This... the soup is fine, but there's too much..." Aunt Tao also refused to accept it.

Zhou Chang added, "As for the rest, since the New Year is not over yet, please buy some delicious food to thank Uncle Tao, Brother Tao, and the two elders for their hard work these days."

"This..." Aunt Tao went to see her husband.

It was hard for Mr. Tao to refuse, so he agreed: "Okay, since Master Zhou said so, use the money to make some good food. It doesn't matter to us poor people, but I'm afraid that Master Zhou's family may not be used to it."

"No, no..." Zhou Chang felt really sorry.

Afterwards, Aunt Tao took her daughter to prepare dinner for Tao Da and his son. While Tao Da and his son were eating, she took the medicine bag to boil some medicine.

Zhou Chang took the ointment for treating knife wounds, returned to the skinny monkey's room, and replaced the ointment on the skinny monkey's wound.

In this situation, we can only try our best.

The skinny monkey’s wound has not had the dressing changed since the “surgery” yesterday, but there are no signs of inflammation or rot.

After another rough operation, the skinny monkey's wound was just re-bandaged when suddenly his hand moved and he opened his eyes.

"Monkey, are you awake?" Zhou Chang was surprised and moved the oil lamp to the head of the kang.

The skinny monkey could even raise his head, but his voice was hoarse when he opened his mouth: "Thirsty..."

"Thirsty? Okay, okay..." Zhou Chang quickly poured water for the skinny monkey.

When it comes to taking care of people, she actually hasn't done enough in the past two days.

The skinny monkey drank the water, raised his neck with great effort, and asked with hazy eyes: "Where is this?"

Zhou Chang quickly raised his head and said, "You just woke up, don't talk too much. It's safe here, don't worry."

"Your Majesty?" The thin monkey calmed down and recognized Zhou Chang. He still looked around in disbelief, "Is your servant still alive?"

"Of course you are still alive." Zhou Chang was almost crying with joy.

The skinny monkey was about to sit up and look at the wound on his stomach: "Did the prince pull out the knife from me and sew it up?"

"Don't move. The wound has just been patched up, but it hasn't healed yet." Zhou Chang stopped the skinny monkey from moving and checked his forehead again. "Your fever seems to have subsided a lot. Now that you have medicine, you should be fine as long as you continue to take care of yourself."

The skinny monkey was about to cry: "My Lord...you saved my life..."

"You saved my life first. Don't cry. Crying will hurt the wound." Zhou Chang hurriedly comforted Shou Hou. Shou Hou's high fever had subsided, but it seemed to be still a low fever. "Wait a minute. I'll go get you a cool towel."

Just as he was about to leave, he remembered something and turned back to remind her: "Monkey, here I am Mr. Zhou, and I am married to Miss Yuan. I am a businessman, and you are my follower. If someone comes to see you later, don't let anything slip."

The skinny monkey blinked on the pillow as a nod.

Afterwards, Zhou Chang went out and told Yuan Qi that the skinny monkey had woken up.

Then he went to report the good news to Mr. Tao and others.

Everyone was naturally very happy to hear this, and came over to congratulate him.

It made the skinny monkey dizzy.

Zhou Chang was delighted watching from the side, and his mood gradually relaxed. Most of the tension and worry he had felt in the past two days disappeared in an instant.