Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 167 Do You Know Me?

Huang Yihai's words reminded his son, who immediately replied, "60 cents a dose. Last year, due to the terrible weather, my father took several doses of medicine and spent a lot of money."

"What? You think it's too expensive?" Huang Yihai hit his son with his pipe, eyes wide open, "I'm sick, but you don't want to treat it, right?"

Huang Yihai's son cried out "Ouch!" and said quickly: "No, no! Why would I think that? You are my father!"

He pointed at Aunt Meihua and the others, indicating that outsiders were still there, and said, "I just came to the point and complained a little. The medicine was really expensive last winter!"

Huang Yihai snorted heavily, let him go for the time being, and said to Aunt Meihua and others: "I got several prescriptions from the clinic last winter, and the one with ephedra is indeed more expensive."

"You buy medicine from the clinic, how can it be the same as us selling it to the clinic!" Luo Yanxing couldn't stand it anymore. While dodging Wang's beating, he shouted, "If you don't believe me, go to the clinic and ask!"

Xiao Xiang also joined in weakly: "There are many kinds of medicine in a prescription. In your prescription, there might be more expensive medicines such as ephedra."

Wang whipped harder with the mulberry stick in her hand, "Shut up, I don't want to hear you say that you are doing well every day, but you are learning Song Ying's trouble-making behavior!"

The commotion here was so loud that people came to watch and asked what was going on. Er Ni's mother also took out a grass knot from her backpack and said, "Uncle Huang, do you think this is ephedra?"

Huang Yihai glanced at it and nodded, "Yes."

Luo Yanxing stopped howling, Xiaoxiang stared in surprise, and Zhao Xiaocui also looked surprised.

Er Ni's mother licked her lips, suppressed her joy, and continued to ask: "How much did you pay per pound of ephedra when you bought it from the clinic?

We can take this as a reference and have a good discussion with the clinic. When doing business, we can’t be too shady. It’s enough to make some money.”

The others all nodded in agreement, and felt that they had been led astray by their own daughter. They had to bargain even when buying things, let alone selling things. How could the clinic have the final say on the pricing?

Luo Yanxing grabbed the mulberry branch her mother swung at her and looked at Huang Yihai with a fake smile: "Grandpa Huang, do you really know ephedra?"

"You still want to talk nonsense!" Wang was furious. She tried hard to pull out the mulberry branch and continued to beat Luo Yanxing.

Luo Yanxing held on tightly, not even looking at her, staring at Huang Yihai: "Grandpa Huang, you can't say anything. This is medicine. If you get it wrong, people will die! If the government investigates, you will be sent to jail!"

The grass node that Er Ni Niang took out had roots attached to it, and was wet and covered in mud. It was obviously pulled out from the riverside. How could it be ephedra!

Zhao Xiaocui also said, "Grandpa Huang, we respect you as our elder and call you grandpa. Please don't say nonsense and cause us to get beaten."

Xiaoxiang thought for a moment and said quietly, "Cousin, two years ago, all your ducks got sick and died. Could it be that Grandpa Huang mistook the knotweed for ephedra?"

Aunt Meihua was stunned and instantly recalled the situation. More than ten ducks died overnight. It was summer and she couldn't keep too much meat. She could only share some with relatives and neighbors.

Those ducks were originally prepared for the eldest daughter-in-law, Xu. She calculated the time accurately. By the time the eldest daughter-in-law gave birth, the ducks at home would have started laying eggs, which would be enough for her to eat during the confinement period. When her grandson grew up a little, she could also have a duck egg every day to supplement his nutrition.

Unexpectedly, Duck fell ill before her eldest daughter-in-law gave birth. She was extremely anxious and immediately asked Uncle Huang to see it, but the duck still died.

Recalling the past, Aunt Meihua looked at Huang Yihai suspiciously: "Uncle Huang, how did my duck die?"

Huang Yihai held the pipe in his hand and said, "How else could he die? He had been ill for too long and you discovered it too late."

Huang Yihai said the same thing at the beginning, and Aunt Meihua believed it. But now, she is a little unconvinced. She watches those ducks every day, and she should be able to discover if they are sick soon.

Luo Yanxing rolled his eyes and said, "It's not necessarily that you mistook the knotweed for ephedra. Sister Xiao Cui, do you still remember what Brother Lin told us about the origin of the name ephedra?"

Zhao Xiaocui nodded, suddenly realizing: "You mean, Grandpa Huang might have confused the stems with the roots!"

She looked at Huang Yihai and asked uncertainly, "Grandpa Huang, do you know that the medicinal effects of the root and stem of ephedra are opposite?"

Huang Yihai's hand holding the pipe froze there, not moving for a long time.

"You really don't know!" Zhao Xiaocui was so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth. Then she became very angry. "No, I don't know that you can't treat it carelessly! Those ducks in our family are all raised for my sister-in-law to take care of her after she is pregnant!"

Luo Yanxing also didn't expect that the Grandpa Huang, whom they always respected, couldn't even distinguish the medicinal effects of ephedra. Then how did he treat the livestock in various villages over the years?

She thought about it carefully, but she had never paid much attention to these things before and didn't know much.

The adults' faces turned ugly, especially Aunt Meihua. She looked at her daughter and asked, "The same herb really has opposite effects?"

Zhao Xiaocui nodded heavily: "At the beginning, Song Ying asked Xiaoxiang to use ephedra to boil water and cured Second Aunt. When Brother Lin found out, he scolded them for being too bold, as human lives were at stake.

Then he told us the origin of the name Ephedra. I remember it very clearly. The root and stem have opposite effects, one induces sweating, the other stops sweating. "

At this time, Huang Yihai's son said sternly: "What nonsense are you talking about? Ephedra was not needed at all to treat your duck's illness."

"You said we can't use it, so we can't use it?" The angry Zhao Xiaocui retorted without thinking, "We didn't know anything at the beginning, and we relied on you to speak. Whatever you say is the truth!"

Seeing that the topic was about to be dragged away, Xiaoxiang had no choice but to bite the bullet and speak again: "No matter what, it is certain that Grandpa Huang can't tell the difference between ephedra and knotweed."

When Luo Yanxing heard this, he quickly agreed, "That's right, Grandpa Huang, how can you say that if you don't know ephedra? Everyone listened to you and sold knotweed as ephedra to the clinic, angering Doctor Ma. What should we do if he refuses to treat our villagers when they have a headache or fever in the future?"

When the villagers heard this, they realized that this was the truth. As the saying goes, you can offend no one but the doctor. Although Doctor Ma is not the only doctor in Qingshui County, he is the cheapest one.

If you make him angry, you will have to go to more expensive clinics for medical treatment in the future. Wouldn't that be a waste of money?

Wang was anxious and asked Huang Yihai immediately: "Uncle Huang, do you know Ephedra?"

"What a joke! My father has been treating livestock in various villages for so many years, how could he not know ephedra! The area on Dongsheng Mountain is no different from the one we grow. We weed it whenever we have time!" Huang Yihai's son's eyes were fierce, as if he would fight with anyone who doubted his father again.