39: Chapter 39 Buy a Dog and Send Soup_1 39: Chapter 39 Buy a Dog and Send Soup_1 “Where’s Old Master He?
I want to buy dicine!”
Early in the morning, as soon as Xiaohe, the shop assistant of the Chinese dicine Store, opened the door, Yan Fei arrived.
“Yan Fei is here, co and sit.
What can I do for you?” Mr.
He was wiping his many-year-old wooden table and greeted Yan Fei with a smile when he saw him.
“Old Master He, I’m wondering if you have any tonics.
I think I need to take so!” Yan Fei walked into the store, expressing his request eagerly.
“You?” Mr.
He looked at Yan Fei, up and down, left and right, until Yan Fei started to feel uncomfortable.
Then he continued, “Put your hand here, let check you out!”
After taking his pulse, Mr.
He seed a bit surprised, and then let go, “Change to the other arm!”
After checking the other arm, he laughed, “Are you ssing around?
You’re as robust as a calf.
There’s nothing wrong with you, why do you need to tonic?”
“I eat a lot and get hungry easily.
I need to eat sothing especially nourishing!”
“If you eat less, that would be a problem.
It’s been years since I’ve seen a sturdy young man like you.
With your physique, you’re stronger than most laborers.
It’s totally normal for you to eat the als of two or three people if you increase your physical activities.”
Yan Fei knew there was nothing wrong with him, but he was too embarrassed to share how much he actually ate.
He just insisted, “Anyway, I feel like I can’t stop eating.
I’m hungry soon after a al.
I just need you to give so tonics.
I also practice Kung Fu, if I don’t replenish my energy after eating, I get hungry really quickly!”
Mr.
He spent a long ti explaining that he shouldn’t just randomly take tonics, but seeing him insist, Mr.
He reluctantly said, “I’ll start you off with a diet supplent prescription.
Try it out.
If you feel hot when you sleep at night, stop taking it.”
Prescribing dicine to a perfectly healthy person who’s just being pesky is obviously more difficult than prescribing to sick people.
After a long thought, Mr.
He eventually included so wolfberries in the prescription and suggested adding them to soup when cooking at.
When he prepared the dicine, he only bagged a few small packs.
Looking at the tiny bags, Yan Fei felt it was far too little, “Old Master He, are you kidding ?
What’s this little amount supposed to do?”
Mr.
He laughed, “What a way to talk, you brat!
Pay up, five dis.”
“Only five dis?
No good dicine then, right?” Yan Fei was shocked.
He didn’t know much about tonics but he had heard of Ginseng, knew that it was very expensive, and assud it would cost a lot.
When he heard it would only cost five dis, he knew he wasn’t wrong.
Mr.
He had been ssing with him.
“This is for you to eat over a long period.
This is to nourish your body slowly through a diet.
If it was too expensive, who could afford it?” Mr.
He’s words did not convince Yan Fei.
“Oh, do you have any postpartum recovery recipes?
My aunt just gave birth.
I was thinking of making her so at soup.” Yan Fei couldn’t do anything about Mr.
He not giving him any dicine, having so was still better than having none at all.
Also, he rembered Uncle Baoguo who helped him keep the matter about fighting off the thieves a secret.
It was an important matter, so it would be good to kill two birds with one stone and give him so benefits for saying good things for him when his parents found out.
“You’re quite considerate.
Yes, I have sothing like that.
I’ll write so for you.
It’s nourishing and useful for lactation.
You can use it to make bone soup or stew pig’s feet.” Old Master He chuckled, quickly writing the prescription.
He wrote so quickly that Yan Fei was even more convinced that he was just ssing with him.
After paying for the dicine, he was again confird.
The sa small bags of dicine, his a few bags just cost five dis, but their package cost over a dollar.
Taking the dicine and sulked for a while, he left in a gloomy mood.
After returning, he went straight to the island, lifted the pot lid and put the different dicines into the pots.
Two pots containing five Compsognathi each, he added firewood and started cooking.
Once the fire was big enough, he stopped minding it and started cleaning up.
There was a large tub of soup with fats and another tub of stew in the cave.
The stew could be used again but he didn’t want the fatty soup, which was left over from cooking at.
Sotis he didn’t want to eat stewed food, so he cooked clear soup.
He didn’t want to use this soup to cook at again because he felt it would be too greasy.
Since he couldn’t finish the at and soup regularly, he could only pour it out into the sea.
Just as he was about to return to the small house and enter the island again, he suddenly realized he could make use of the waste and feed it to the chickens!
As a result, a few chickens’ small feeding dishes were not enough for so much soup.
He did not feel sorry when he used to pour a full pot of soup into the sea every two days.
But now, the half pot of soup made him feel wasteful.
After thinking about it, he moved it into the cave.
He replenished the firewood in the stove and, after locking up, went out again.
He planned to buy a dog to make use of the soup,
In the village, there wasn’t anywhere to buy dogs.
Usually, people who wanted a dog would just ask soone they knew.
In the rural areas, there were many native dogs, and each litter would have several pups, which were usually given away.
The Yan Fei family lived next to the veterinary station, which sotis had dogs for sale.
People would not sell their native dogs as they were not valuable.
Those who dared to sell were usually mixed breeds with wolves.
Those mixed breeds were the best you could find in the Sancha River town.
Generally, people could not afford them, so the mixed breeds were considered decent.
These dogs, when grown, resembled wolf dogs.
Their ears were standing, their colors were attractive, and so were bigger than native dogs.
In reality, they weren’t worth much.
Dogs were mostly kept for guarding the house.
Those who truly wanted to raise a good dog and had money would buy a purebred wolf dog from other places.
Fancy breeds, like Pekingese, weren’t popular yet; they were considered a nuisance at ho, and even after being killed, didn’t provide much at.
Plus, they couldn’t guard the house.
Even the dium-sized native dogs wouldn’t work; they were too small and nobody wanted them.
Those who raised such dogs would feel embarrassed.
However, Yan Fei did not care and just wanted to look around since he thought of it.
The veterinary station had one distinctive feature – it stank!
Despite the gate being cleaned thoroughly, an odor of animal manure still wafted from the ditch next to it.
There were two-story new houses on either side of the gate, which served as dormitories for the veterinary station staff, and dogs were sold on the steps there.
Yan Fei was lucky enough to see an old man sitting on the steps with a broken carton in front of him.
Inside the carton were two puppies squirming under the sun.
“Are there only two left?” Yan Fei asked the dog seller sowhat disappointedly.
“They’re all gone.
Are you buying for your family?” Many children wanted to raise dogs, but the decision usually lay in the hands of the adults at ho.
The old man asked him, fearing that if he bought the dog and then got rid of it, it would be a waste of a small life.
“I’ll take both of them, how much?
I can make the decision.
If you don’t trust , you can co to see next ti when the market is on.” Most animals are cute when they are little, with plump bodies and fluffy hair, regardless of breed.
The sa was true for these two mixed-breed wolf dogs.
Yan Fei liked them as soon as he saw them.
“Give five dollars for the two!
These are the last two, and the good-looking ones have been picked by others.
These two are slightly inferior, but honestly, it’s hard to tell what they’ll look like when they grow up.
The good-looking ones now might not be as good-looking later.” The old man was afraid he would be disappointed, so he comforted him.
“After you get ho, prepare a nest for them.
Use so rotten cloth for padding so they don’t catch a cold.
They are already a month old and starting to eat at ho.
You can just feed them leftovers.
Dogs are hot-tempered animals.
Prepare so clean water for them.
They will be fine when they grow up, but for now, as they are still young, don’t let them drink dirty water.
They will do well when they grow up, but they won’t disappoint you.
Their mother is a mixed breed, and they were bred with a good wolf dog, so they won’t be ugly.” As Yan Fei pulled out his money to take the dogs away, the old man went into town with him, sharing his experiences along the way.
Yan Fei, who didn’t know anything about this, didn’t care what breed the dog was, as long as it could guard the house when it grew up.
He didn’t know that the seller had given him a good deal by only asking for five dollars.
When they got back, the old man saw him go into the house before leaving, probably planning on coming back later.
Yan Fei didn’t care about these things.
As soon as he returned, he hurriedly brought so soup to the island.
He found a small bowl, poured the oily soup into it, and the two little puppies wagging their tails wobbled up to it, lick, lick and began to eat.
After the two puppies were full, he took them out of the island, put them back into the broken carton he had brought them ho in, found an old piece of clothing to put inside it, and left the carton beside the firewood pile in the kitchen.
Then he went back to the island, loaded a pot with the “chicken soup” he had simred for two or three hours, and left the house.
Only when he arrived at Lin Baoguo’s house and opened the door did Yan Fei suddenly realize a problem – his “chicken soup” didn’t have a single piece of at in it.
Aside from so soybeans and peanuts, it was entirely water.
Fortunately, he had a thick skin and unashadly said to Lin Baoguo’s mother who opened the door: “Auntie, this is chicken soup I’ve cooked for my sister-in-law.
It contains dicinal herbs from Old Master He.
It’s great for confinent month.”
The old lady was imdiately moved, “Co in quickly, such a thoughtful child at a young age, co in imdiately…”
Despite having thick skin, Yan Fei couldn’t handle the old lady’s enthusiasm.
After pouring the watery soup into the pot the old lady had brought out, he quickly left, feeling a little embarrassed.
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