People are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will starve yourself to death with a heartless master. Xiao Fengwu may not be so cruel, not to mention that he exerted a lot of strength on Qin Mingyue last night. It's a little empty in the morning.
There are a total of thirty-two pharmacies and hospitals in Yancheng. In the past, they all lived on the breath of the Xiao family. Now that the Xiao family tree has fallen and scattered, the Min family has lifted it up. It’s just that the Min family did not behave kindly, and put all the The medicinal herbs trade road should be in his hand, low in and high out, hindering his family's power, others dare not speak out, so they can only swallow their breath.
Xiao Fengwu dressed neatly in the early morning and went to a medical clinic on East Street. In this Yancheng, in terms of strength, financial resources, and reputation, there is the Qianjintang of the Min family in front, the Xinglin Pavilion of the Tang family in the back, not to mention the first line of ancestral inheritance of the Xiao family. There are countless doctors who need acupuncture, and this shabby hospital in front of me, which can't even be named, is really shabby.
The sign on the top is old, with the words Huichuntang written on it. The paint is almost gone. On the pillars on both sides are a pair of couplets. The smell of medicinal herbs, brows furrowed, obviously a little disgusted, but I don't know why I still walked in.
"Is anyone there?"
The guy who was dozing on the cabinet was woken up, seeing a guest, his round face smiled instantly, he hurriedly lifted the baffle and rushed over, leaned beside Xiao Fengwu and said diligently: "Master, why are you uncomfortable, come and come. Please sit down, and I'll call Master right now."
After speaking, he used a rag to dust off the dust on the table and chairs, and shouted eagerly into the inner door: "Master! The patient is here! Come out! Come out quickly!"
Looking at this excitement, and I don't know how many years of no business, Xiao Fengwu has regretted coming here, and he wants to leave.
The gray curtain in the interior was lifted by an old hand, and a grizzled old man with a shaggy beard came out, holding a wine gourd in his hand, his voice was hoarse and drunk: "Well, why not? comfortable?"
Unexpectedly, Xiao Fengwu got up from the chair and bowed respectfully to him: "Elder Qian, Fengwu is polite."
Qian Langzhong raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, raised his cloudy eyes and looked at him carefully: "It turns out to be a boy from the Xiao family, why, what is the disease that you can't cure yourself?"
"Qian Lao is joking. Now I'm in an embarrassing situation. I really can't do anything. If I want to come to you to beg for food, I hope I don't dislike it."
This Qian Langzhong had been favored by the Xiao family before, and lost the medicine fight with Mrs. Xiao. Since then, he has avoided his family and lived in a dilapidated hospital. Been there.
Qian Langzhong took a sip of wine. Seeing Xiao Fengwu smiling, he was very humble. He lifted his eyelids and said, "I am a broken Langzhong. I have no business.
Xiao Fengwu said: "If you can manage three meals a day, you should hire a cheap apprentice. You can do anything by grinding medicine and running errands. You can pay the wages if you have them. It doesn't matter if you don't have them."
Qian Langzhong crossed Erlang's legs, didn't speak for a long time, and finally patted the empty wine gourd and said: "In the past, your grandfather taught you to practice medicine. I drank so much good wine from your family, and now it's time to pay it back, just be an apprentice, if there are patients, you will get paid, if there are no patients, you will not get paid, but three meals and lodging are in charge."
Xiao Fengwu was satisfied: "Thank you, Master."
Qian Langzhong shook his head, didn't recognize it, and then nodded with a dry and rotten finger to the round-faced apprentice who was bewildered: "This is Degui, the old man's apprentice.
After speaking, hands behind his back, cloth shoes dragged on the ground, and went back to the back room.
Degui was stunned, and didn't understand why Master had accepted another apprentice in an instant, but Xiao Fengwu was quite familiar with it. He rolled up his sleeves and went to the back to fetch water and clean his hands. Then he picked up two multigrain steamed buns from the kitchen and went to sleep on the rocking chair. Qian Langzhong said, "You can take care of the meals of the younger generation today."
Qian Langzhong snored and slept soundly.
Xiao Fengwu walked to the main hall, and saw Degui grinding the medicine with medicine, while eating steamed buns, he asked, "Are there any patients these days?"
Degui was still a little unfamiliar with him, so he shook his head and said, "Young Master, where are there any guests, they are all from poor families, and Master pays a premium to treat illnesses. "
Xiao Fengwu didn't care, ordered some medicine and said, "Silver aconite is no better than Jiang Wu. After being ground, it will lose its effect within three days. If there are no patients, grind less, it's a waste."
Degui was just idle and had nothing to do. Hearing this, he quickly stopped and asked with wide eyes, "Young master, do you understand medicinal herbs, oh, my master taught things, and he spent three days fishing and two days drying the net. , I was confused and didn't learn anything."
Xiao Fengwu was full of steamed buns, contented, and sat on the stool with his legs up and said, "I know a little bit, don't call me Young Master, just call me Sixteen."
Degui's mind was pure and unscrupulous. Hearing that, he said in surprise: "Sixteen? Your family is the sixteenth? Then your mother can really give birth."
Xiao Fengwu glanced at him, closed his eyes again, rested his legs on the chair to make up for the sleep, didn't know what he remembered, and called out the system again: "Hey, look, I'm alive now, I can support myself, Ma. Go away and find someone else."
Xiao Fengwu wanted to hurry up and hurry up. The wounds on those patients were either pus or blood, and some of them had to be plucked from the flesh. He didn't even want to see the blood, so he didn't want to treat it. He was raised by Qin Mingyue and lay at home. How comfortable it is, wake up to eat, eat and sleep.
[Ding ~ the time limit is too short, we need to continue to investigate]
"short?"
Xiao Fengwu raised his eyelids: "How long does it take to be long? One day? Two days? One month?"
[It usually starts in a year, dear, there is no ceiling and no upper limit, life is more than endless inspection~]
Xiao Fengwu squinted his eyes slightly when he heard the words, which made people feel a little chilly. He was lazy by nature and had no self-motivation. He hated others for forcing him. Although the Xiao family was gone, there was still a little actor who was willing to support him. It's bad, I just didn't expect to kill Cheng Yaojin halfway, and the teeth of those who really hate it itch.
Xiao Fengwu clenched his fists calmly: "What if I could make money? Earn a lot?"
[Dear, if you legally get money from your own labor, then there is hope to shorten the inspection period. Maybe you will become the fastest self-reliant host in history. Dear, I am optimistic about you~]
There were really no guests in Huichuntang. I didn’t even see any flies in the morning. Qian Langzhong woke up once, grabbed the silver money from the cabinet and went to the next village to make apricot wine. I found half the money left in the drawer.
Xiao Fengwu: "..."
Sometimes if you don't try hard, you don't even know what despair is.
In the end, Degui boiled a pot of cornmeal porridge, and the two made do with the steamed buns left in the morning. Xiao Fengwu sat on a chair with his hands on his forehead, unable to see his expression clearly, Degui took a bite of the steamed buns and said, "Ten Sixth, you are also a smart person, go to other medicine halls to find a job, I heard that the staff of Qianjintang has two and a half silver dollars a month, I have to give Master's old age and death, otherwise I will go too."
Xiao Fengwu didn't lift his eyelids, thinking that the two of you may not know who will die: "It's not that simple, I can't explain it in a few words."
Those large and small pharmacies used to rely on the Xiao family, and they all had wolf ambitions. If he really went there to be a buddy, he would be laughed to death, not to mention that they were thinking about the ancestral prescription of the Xiao family. what means.
In the afternoon, Qian Langzhong came back from a drink and drank half the gourd on the way. Degui stepped forward and said, "Master, there is no money in the cabinet, there are only a few bags of stick noodles and white noodles left in the kitchen, and the rice has been eaten up. Just now, Uncle Zhou, he The little grandson came and said that he had a headache again, and he couldn't get off his legs while lying in bed, so he asked you to get acupuncture."
Qian Langzhong waved his hand irritably: "If you don't go, you won't go, we'll go another day."
Degui said: "It is the season of sowing. Uncle Zhou and his young grandson depend on each other for life. If you miss this time, you will have no money to support your family, and the headache will be fatal."
Huichuntang is the cheapest hospital in Yancheng. Although Qian Langzhong is not very reliable, his medical skills are decent. Some poor people who can't afford to see a doctor love to look for him. Degui is thinking about the empty drawer, carrying the medicine box and stepping onto Qian Langzhong. His shoulders, and even cheated and coaxed people away.
Xiao Fengwu's buttocks hurt while sitting on the bench. Finally, he stretched his waist and got up. He cleaned the medicine cabinet one by one and found that many medicinal materials were empty. , Du Ruo, Yinchen, Cangzhu, Pinellia, Cardamom, Shouwu have to be replenished, and these herbs are all commonly used."
Degui was lying on the counter, weak and weak: "I want to make up for it, but I have to be rich."
Xiao Fengwu didn't want to speak anymore.
Seeing that the sun was setting in the west, Degui didn't bother to open the door, and just locked it. Xiao Fengwu wanted to eat dinner and go back, but he didn't leave. He was sitting quietly to pass the time, and suddenly he heard the door of the store being slapped twice. The ash on the beam was shaken off.
"Anyone?! Open the door!"
Degui walked over impatiently: "Who, who! It's so noisy, today's master hasn't come back, so he doesn't do business!"
The man didn't stop there: "It's dead! Hurry up and find Qian Langzhong! My mother is almost out of anger!"
Degui had to open the door, and when he saw that it was a strong man knocking on the door, he and an old man lifted an old woman with the door panel and placed it at the door of Huichun Hall. When the man saw Degui, he knelt down with a thud: "Lang Zhong, Please, please save my mother!"
Degui knew him. This man was called Jiang Ping'an. He worked as a prison guard in the county government. He was a gambler by nature.
Degui leaned over and ripped off Jiang's mother's eyelids, then probed his nose and breathed his pulse, and said, "I can't cure this, people are exhausted, my master went to the next village to see a doctor and hasn't come back yet. , hurry up and take it to Qianjintang to have a look, I can't cure it."
When Jiang Ping'an heard the words, the dignified seven-footed man cried out and shoved a handful of pieces of silver into Degui's hands: "I went, they said they would be cured if they didn't give the money, and later they said it couldn't be cured, my mother I used to have anger, but now the anger that was delayed is gone, doctor! Doctor! This is all my possessions. If you can cure my mother, you will kill me. It's all my fault. You shouldn't be gambling, mother, I'm the one who made you mad! Woohoo..."
The neighbors gathered around to watch the excitement, shook their heads and said, "Jiang Ping'an, condolences, hurry up and prepare for your mother's funeral, and don't gamble in the future."
"If I had known today, why was it in the first place?"
Jiang Ping'an was out of breath from crying, his face was red and his ears were red, and he couldn't pull up when he knelt on the ground. Degui didn't know what to do when he was nudged, and a familiar voice came from his ear: " Get out of the way, let me see."
Looking back, it was actually Xiao Fengwu.
I saw that he dug out Qian Langzhong's needle bag from nowhere, and then half-knelt on the ground to check the pulse of Jiang's mother, folded a few layers of a thick handkerchief, opened Jiang's mother's lower jaw, and used a cloth handkerchief to wrap the needle. She pulled her tongue out.
Degui exclaimed: "Sixteen! Don't mess around!"
Xiao Fengwu said nothing, took out a three-edged needle for bloodletting from the needle bag, and then tilted his head to avoid it a little, but when he saw that he had pricked Jiang's mother's tongue, he spurted out a blood in an instant, and the white cloth handkerchief All soaked.
This outburst startled everyone else: "What is this for, everyone is dead, and they are still guilty of this."
Xiao Fengwu also splattered a little blood on his face. After doing all this, he got up and went in the back to wash his face. He walked on his front feet, and Mother Jiang, who was lying on the ground on his back feet, groaned. He woke up faintly, opened his eyes and stared. Staring, looking around, he hasn't recovered yet.
Seeing this, Jiang Ping'an was even more stupid, and jumped up and said in surprise: "Mother! Mother! Look at me, I am Ping An!"
The onlookers were amazed: "Oh! It's amazing, what did he do, he can still be saved when he's out of anger! This is even more powerful than the doctor in Qianjintang!"
"It's called Da Yin hiding in the city. This dilapidated hospital is really hidden."
Degui took the medicine money handed by Jiang Ping'an. He felt like he was dreaming. His face was pale, and he straightened up after a long while.
Degui said: "Why did you vomit up, and you didn't carry the doll."
Xiao Fengwu can't see dirty things, and it's even worse when sprayed on his face, so he doesn't like to be a doctor, so he wiped his face with a clean handkerchief, and then stretched out his hand to Degui: "The money for medicine, half of it belongs to me."
It stands to reason that the money earned by the apprentice belongs to the master, but in this situation, it doesn't matter, Deguile counted half of the money to him: "Hey,
That person is no longer angry, how did you save him? "
Xiao Fengwu washed his face again: "That's because she was angry, and the blood stagnated in her head. Punching the tip of the tongue and letting the blood out can save half of the blood, and the other half is at risk."
After finishing speaking, he straightened his sleeves and said, "I'm going back, and I'll come back tomorrow."
De Gui said, "Hey, are you not eating?"
Xiao Fengwu was splattered with blood, and had no appetite. He waved his hand and walked out: "Don't eat."
It was dusk when he went back. Uncle Zhong was cooking in the kitchen. Qin Mingyue was wearing a costume and practicing sleeves in the courtyard. Dramatic, the water sleeves are soft and soft, but in his hands it seems like there is a soul.
Xiao Fengwu pushed the door open and was slapped in the face by Shui Xiu. Qin Mingyue saw that it was him, and pulled back his sleeve, snorted softly, turned around and entered the room, took off his costume and put it on the screen shelf next to him.
Xiao Fengwu's face was a little painful, but there seemed to be a scent between his nose. He raised his eyebrows slightly and followed in. Seeing Qin Mingyue sitting in front of the mirror without speaking, he crossed his legs and said, "I didn't see you when I came back. good face."
Qin Mingyue looked in the mirror and found that she really had no good face. She looked at Xiao Fengwu from the mirror and said, "You are using me as a kiln. Come here if you want, and leave if you want. I have to accompany Smiley."
Xiao Fengwu said, "This is a kiln, what are you?"
When the words came out, he felt that these words should not be said, waiting for Qin Mingyue to get angry, no one thought that the other party would not respond at all, but he just walked over and grabbed his clothes and sniffed it up and down, and sat back again after making sure that there was no grease smell.
Qin Mingyue said: "A smell of medicine, what did you do at the pharmacy today?"
Xiao Fengwu really wanted to praise him: "The nose is smarter than a dog."
Qin Mingyue ignored it and said, "Your family has been in the business of medicinal materials for generations. I guessed that you can only do this if you want to."
Hearing this, Xiao Fengwu sat up straight and pointed to himself: "Who said that, I can still go to Cuiyun Pavilion. This beauty is also a top card."
Qin Mingyue slammed from the stool and stood up: "You are really promising!"
"No prospects, no prospects in this life." Xiao Fengwu kicked on his shoes and lay in bed, "You won't eat it at night, you can eat it yourself."
The emperor is not in a hurry, the eunuch is in a hurry, Qin Mingyue doesn't know what he is angry about, Xiao Fengwu never liked to read, and he played with cats and dogs all day, but at least such a big family business is placed there, starvation will not kill you, now It's different, it's different!
Seeing Xiao Fengwu sleeping wrapped in a quilt, Qin Mingyue sat on the edge of the bed, frowning, and rarely slowed down her voice: "Do what you like, I won't stop you when you are an apprentice, don't make trouble with yourself, get up quickly. Have a meal."
Xiao Fengwu really had no appetite, couldn't eat a single bite, closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep, not wanting to answer.
Qin Mingyue looked at his profile, leaned against the bedpost, and suddenly muttered in a low voice: "If you are like this, what will you do in the future..."
In the end, he is just a little actor. He has no power or power, and he can't help much. Qin Mingyue is still better than Xiao Fengwu. He only knows that he can sing two more plays when he is young and earn more money. What is not clear, the latter half of his life has not yet been settled, and he is annoying for others.
Qin Mingyue leaned on Xiao Fengwu quietly and said softly, "Master Sixteen, you say, can we still be together when we get old?"
It depends on whether Xiao Fengwu is willing or not. His heart has never been tied by anyone, and he likes to be free when he is alone. He is drunk now and never thinks about what will happen in the future.
Xiao Fengwu didn't fall asleep, but he didn't make a sound. Obviously, he didn't want to.
Qin Mingyue loves to sing, but she is not a sentimental temperament. She has always dared to love and hate, but she fell down on Xiao Fengwu, pulling her heart up and down, which was really uncomfortable.
Qin Mingyue said, "Will Master Sixteen get married and start a family in the future?"
Xiao Fengwu felt that the more he asked, the more ridiculous it became.
Qin Mingyue said again: "It should be able to start a family. After all, I have to stay for a while. I didn't expect anything when I was in the mansion, and I don't expect anything now."
Xiao Fengwu was too lazy to answer.
Qin Mingyue finally said quietly: "Master Sixteen, if you plan to get married in the future, just let me know. You don't need to face-to-face, just leave a letter, and I'll leave by myself without disturbing you."
"You know, I'm a jealous person, and I can't see you being in love with others. When you're alone, I'll accompany you. If you're not alone, I'll pack up and don't get involved..."
Xiao Fengwu closed his eyes, his face remained calm.
He never knew that Qin Mingyue thought this way. Xiao Fengwu always felt that Qin Mingyue was indecisive and indecisive. It is broken, much stronger than many people.