Chapter 49: age fifteen

　　 Gu Shiba Niang quickly finished speaking, and she couldn't help laughing as she watched the "mountain ginseng", "stiff silkworm" and "Hopu" scattered on the car.
　　 She originally thought it was strange, but these were all displayed in the lobby of Shunhetang, the most common fake medicine in the drug market, she had looked at it a few more curiously.
　　 It’s just such a coincidence. She may not be able to tell the grade of the real wild ginseng, but she can tell at a glance, and of course she can’t recognize some...
　　 "Lao Zhang, you are a fake scorpion? But this is a scorpion..." She squeezed a scorpion and looked left and right, so big...
　　 If it hadn't been preconceived, she wouldn't take this as a fake, thinking about it, taking out her scorpion for comparison, looking at it, and just biting it down.
"Ah..." she spit out a few mouthfuls, "It's all sand...no wonder it's enough! But how is this medicine? Where did you catch the scorpions, and you only eat sand... "
　　 "I can feed it!" The old man looked back and glared at her. His wrinkled face was red and he seemed very excited.
　　 Chinese medicines are all wild, and there are all over the sky. No one wants to raise them. Gu Shiba-niang said.
　　 "How to let it eat?" She looked at Scorpion curiously and asked.
　　 "Little girl, this book is for you," the old man ignored her words at all, grabbed the book and threw it to Gu Shiba Niang, and looked at the little girl thoughtfully.
　　 Gu Shiba Niang took the book carefully, like the treasure opened, yellow paper, not neat handwriting, and her hands trembled with excitement.
　　 The car shook, and the old man jumped out of the car.
　　 "Lao Zhang, are you here?" Gu Shiba Niang closed the book and looked at him and asked.
　　 The car at this time has arrived in Xianren County and is about to enter the city.
　　 The old man smiled, waved his hand, and left quickly while pulling the sack without saying a word, and disappeared into the crowd.
　　 This old man... Gu Shiba Niang looked at the direction he was leaving, and then looked at the book in his hand. What is the origin of this old man? Maybe not simple.
　　 "Big sister?" The young man asked her for instructions.
　　 "Let's go." Gu Shiba Niang glanced at the direction the old man was going away, and put the book away.
　　 A layer of autumn rain and a layer of coolness, it seems that people change into jackets in the blink of an eye.
Standing in the kitchen, Gu Shiba Niang slowly drank the hot tea, while watching Cao compare Gu Hai with an old clip robe, and open her hands to let her mother measure Gu Hai. , Eyes never leave the book in his hand.
　　 It is the end of September, and their family still lives in this small yard, although the food is still sloppy and the clothes are still shabby.
　　 is at least the way to avoid the arrangements of fate....
　　 At this time in that life, their family was already living in Jiankang. At this time, the mother had been taken home by the wanderers of the clan to do pulp washing...
　　 At this time, my brother is no longer studying, let alone preparing for the exam...
　　 At this time, like a fool, I was drunk by the sisters of the clan...
　　 And now, none of that has happened, and it will never happen again.
　　 Gu Shiba Niang closed her eyes.
　　 I don't know what Gu Hai said, Cao hit him on the head once, and laughter of mother and son sounded in the yard.
　　 Gu Shiba Niang closed her eyes, she felt warm in her heart, and her mouth could not help but curled up. Maybe this kind of life would be good. Without those people and things like that, she had a mother and a brother to have a livelihood guarantee. This was actually enough.
　　 "Eighteenth mother, go ahead and let me clean up." The Cao finally measured it, let Gu Hai go to the house to read, turned around and saw Gu Shiba-niang standing in a daze in the kitchen, and smiled.
　　 "Let me come. Mother, don't touch your hands." Gu Shiba Niang said, putting the tableware into the water neatly, touching the cold water with her hands, and subconsciously retracting, taking a breath.
　　 "What's wrong?" Cao, who had already approached the kitchen hurriedly asked, grabbing her hand.
　　 "It's okay..." Gu Shiba Niang smiled, trying to withdraw her hand.
　　 The slender fingers are slightly red and swollen, with whitish blisters.
　　 Cao’s tears immediately rolled in his eyes. These days, his daughter has worked harder than before. She reads at night and sees it in the middle of the night. She stays in the medicine store during the day and can hardly even eat.
"...It was accidentally burned, it's okay, mother," Gu Shiba Niang withdrew her hand, smiled, busy changing the subject, with a bit of joy on her face, "Mom, do you know? I know there are other things about Baiju How to make it..."
　　 "Really, what's the preparation method?" Cao knew that his daughter didn't want to worry about herself, so she followed her words obediently, and stretched out her hand to help her squeeze her drooping hair.
"In the books I used to read, it was written about cleansing, cutting, boiled yellow, earthen, and crushed. This is a lot, but Liu Gong’s book says that Atractylodes is afraid of its dryness and stirs it with honey. For those who are afraid of its stagnation, I have tried to make it with juice, and someone came to grab the medicine. I also told him that he bought a portion of Atractylodes macrocephala with juice, and he came to tell me yesterday that the effect was very good. She said she was going to tell other people, let them all come to me to grab medicine..." Gu Shiba Niang originally wanted to change the subject, but she was really happy when she said that. What could be more happier than getting recognition .
　　 "Eighteen mothers are really capable." Cao looked at his daughter lovingly and smiled.
　　 "Mother, you don't know, I didn't know how to make this medicinal material before, but now I have learned it, and I think it is very knowledgeable..." Gu Shiba's eyebrows were flying, and her face was beaming.
　　 Cao looked at her with a kindly smile.
　　 "...I will definitely learn well and be a good pharmacist..." Gu Shiba Niang said seriously.
　　 A hint of hesitation flashed across Cao's face, she sighed as she watched her daughter's spirits rise.
　　 "...Eighteen mothers... I have suffered you these days... Waiting for your brother to gain fame..." she said softly.
　　 Gu Shiba Niang looked at Cao and smiled, "Mother, you don't want me to be a pharmacist?"
　　 My daughter is very quick-minded now. In front of her, Cao feels that he can hardly hide any thoughts.
　　 "Eighteen mother, mother didn't look down on you, but you must know that this is true in the world. Girls' craftsmen are always looked down upon..." Cao said with a sigh.
　　 Gu Shiba Niang shook her head, "I don't care, I don't care what others think of me, I know if my life is good or not, I know it, there is no need to show it to others."
　　 Cao clan wanted to speak again, "Eighteen mother, mother knows that you want to be strong...but, my daughter's family is going to marry someone. All we women want in this life is to marry a good person..."
　　 "No..." Gu Shiba Niang suddenly fell silent, and she slowly shook her head.
　　 "What's not?" Cao was taken aback, wouldn't he be strong or married?
　　No, it’s not that you marry a good family and you will be fulfilled in your life...at least not for her, she used to think that, once thought that marrying into the Shen family was the greatest happiness in her life....
　　 Gu Shiba Niang closed her eyes and blocked her tears~EbookFREE.me~ In this life, her happiness can no longer depend on others for charity, only in her own hands. Others are unreliable.
Cao looked at her daughter's expression changed in an instant, and seemed very tired. He couldn't help but stop the topic. At the same time, he blamed himself. Life has been so difficult. It depends on his daughter to survive the difficult times. But he said this. Although I didn't mean it that way, I always dislike my daughter as a craftsman.
　　 "Eighteen Niang, Niang..." Cao held his daughter's hand, full of guilt and determination, "How is the business of the drug store recently?"
　　 "It's okay, much better than before." Gu Shiba Niang was a little puzzled at Cao's sudden change of subject and looked at her.
　　 "Mother is fine at home, I will help you in the past..." Cao said with a smile.
　　 "Mother.." Gu Shiba Niang felt hot in her heart. She stretched out her hand to shake Cao's arm, "No need..."
　　 "Why, I think mother is stupid and can't do it?" Cao raised his hand and scratched her nose, and smiled, "Don't forget, mother has cooked whole scorpion in water!"
　　 Gu Shiba Niang smiled, "Mother, it's not boiled, it's hot..."
　　 "Really? It's all water, isn't it the same?" Cao said as he quickly put the sewing basket away, copied the clothes, and went out with Gu Shiba Niang.
　　 "Of course it's different, one word is quite different..." Gu Shiba Niang smiled, "Come on, let my daughter teach you..."
　　 "Then there will be Master Laogu..."
　　 The mother and daughter’s chuckles sprinkled in the alley, attracting the birds on the wall.