Chapter 15 Investigation
Although they were driven out by the herbalist, it was not as if Garris and his party could not find a place to stay.
After hearing that a group of monks were coming to the village for pilgrimage, the landlord of Cardoso took the initiative to send an invitation, hoping that Garris and his party could stay at their home. After all, these pilgrims who travel all over the country can always bring truly distant news, which can make people more knowledgeable and fill up the boring daily life.
To be honest, although this Cardoso was called a landlord by the middle-aged man before, his family actually only had a few mud houses and an enclosed yard. Although it is better than the previous herbalist's house, the improvement is limited.
After meeting face to face, Garris also noticed that the so-called landowner's hands were covered with calluses and small scars. From Garris's experience, these calluses or scars were obviously caused by harvesting wheat for a long time. He is not the kind of pure rentier class who is truly free from labor,
Cardoso arranged guest rooms for Garris and the others, and then prepared dinner.
By the standards of medieval peasants, this meal was already quite sumptuous, at least much better than what Garris and the others had in Skaar Village. Not only some serious food or vegetables, but also some barbecue and yogurt.
“Lord, our God, thank you for this rich meal. We are grateful for your generosity and love. Please bless us with joy during our meals and bless our families and friends. May we always be grateful in your presence. heart, and glorify your name in all things, in the name of Jesus Christ.”
After a brief pre-meal prayer, dinner begins.
During the meal, Cardoso said: "I've heard about what happened during the day. I don't like that guy Thomas very much, but that old guy in the village knows a little bit about how to handle herbs, everyone. No one can believe it but him.”
Thomas was the herbalist's real name. After Garris was driven out, he heard it from the guy who led the way.
After hearing what Cardoso said, Garris nodded slightly. He also understood why witches and liars could run rampant in the village. To put it bluntly, they were bullying. There was poor information exchange in the countryside, and the farmers were short-sighted, so they understood a little bit. With these things, you can blow one into ten, and ten into hundreds. While you are cheating, it is not easy to be exposed because of the asymmetry of the information you know.
"You actually know some medical skills, right?" Cardoso asked again.
Garris originally wanted to shake his head, but when he thought that, let alone Thomas, the liar, even a serious doctor's medical level and ability had unlimited potential, and there was endless room for improvement, he nodded.
At any rate, Garris himself had basic modern medical common sense in his mind, and he was also familiar with books like "The Barefoot Doctor's Manual." He said that he was a doctor, so he wouldn't be accused of being uneducated and incompetent.
After the meal, due to Cardoso's request, Garris checked the body of the family. In general, everyone was indeed sick, either due to malnutrition, parasitic infection, or long-term labor. Some skin diseases.
But by medieval standards, these diseases were common to everyone and therefore insignificant.
Only the youngest daughter of the Cardoso family had a slight cold and a runny nose. After thinking about it for a long time, Garris persuaded the Cardoso family to let her daughter drink more boiled water.
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Late at night, Garris tried to find a way to record what he had seen and heard during the day on the little paper left, whether it was the farmer's desire for cattle, or the performance of Thomas's magic stick, or even the small landowner family of Cardoso. Diseases that cannot be avoided.
These experiences showed a real medieval countryside, which also made Gellis fall into boredom.
This dullness is a kind of helplessness and an expectation of a bumpy road ahead.
Take disease prevention as an example. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the most effective ways to prevent diseases were to drink boiled water, eliminate the four evils, wipe your buttocks with paper when going to the toilet, and take cheap vitamin tablets. But these methods are all impractical in the current rural area of Galis.
Why does the Quran ask believers not to eat pork? Putting aside the various theological arguments, one possibility is that due to the lack of fuel in the Middle East, it is relatively difficult to cook food thoroughly, and pork with many parasites is naturally not suitable for cooking as food.
Drinking boiled water is actually the same thing. Even the fuel for food processing is easily lacking, let alone such a luxury as requiring the family to drink boiled water every day.
To solve these problems, we need many, many, many changes, and we need truly infinite power that can change nature.
Just as Garris was recording what he saw throughout the day, there were footsteps outside the door, followed by the door being pushed open and Isabella walking in.
In order to make it easier for her to travel with Gareth and avoid extra trouble, Isabella cut her hair and wore a short haircut to dress up as a man. In addition, because a girl’s sexual characteristics have not yet matured, Isabella now looks more like a A very androgynous boy who calls himself Isabel.
Of course, if you distinguish carefully, it is not difficult to determine the gender.
"Garys, someone is looking for you outside."
"Looking for me?" Garris was a little surprised. After all, it was already midnight. He was new here, so how could someone come looking for him?
But no matter what the reason is, since someone is looking for him, it's not a bad thing. It can help him understand this village better and more deeply.
When Garris, accompanied by Cardoso, pushed open the courtyard door, he saw a young man standing outside the door. When he saw Garris, he immediately knelt down and tried to kiss Garris's boots.
This sudden scene surprised everyone around them, as they had never thought that such a thing would happen.
After Cardoso saw the young man's appearance clearly through the moonlight, he said with a hint of surprise: "Jason, why are you here?"
"Please, my mother is dying! I know that you monks all know some medical skills and are real doctors. Please save my mother." The young man said his intention intermittently with a cry in his voice. .
At this time, Cardoso added to Garris: "The herbalist who treated Thomas during the day was Jason's mother."
As soon as he mentioned what happened during the day, Garris recalled it. However, Garris didn't have much time to care about the patients at that time. He was frightened by the old man Thomas's behavior of catching belladonna. Therefore, he was concerned about the condition of the patients in the yard at that time. Not familiar.
Please join the group and tell me what you think of this book and its shortcomings. Otherwise, I am really afraid that my writing will be too rubbish and no one will read it. Nowadays, with the growth of this collection, I feel as if there are no readers at all.
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