(8,000-word chapter, the person who said I was short stood up !!!)

(Well, since it's a big chapter, you know, there's only one more.) ）

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Today's sun is shining, and the late autumn in Ningzhou is a rare weather.

The business of the tea stall in Gutong City is particularly prosperous today, and the people sit in groups on the tea stall and chat, chatting about whose family has taken a daughter-in-law, whose family has added a son, what is strange about Gu Tonglin, or how the eldest son of the Yu family is extraordinary.

The children didn't care about the gossip of the adults, they got together in twos and threes, the small ones squatted on the ground and pouted their buttocks and played with the mud, the big ones chased and played, and sang the ballad that has been passed down in the ancient Tongcheng for many years: "I am not afraid of cutting the waist, I am afraid of the copper nail planting, once the dragon meets the water, a hundred miles of the ocean comes." ”

"Ahh

"You can't die! Our brothers have to fight together!"

But a thick voice broke the peace of this ancient Tong City for thousands of years, and the people sitting at the gate of the city drinking tea looked sideways.

I saw a sturdy young man carrying a companion with a pale face and closed eyes, rushing all the way into the gate of Gutong City. Behind him, there was also a girl in white with a sword leading a girl in green, and ran all the way into the city with the young man in front.

Lu Wu, who is Chinese New Year's Eve seven years old today, has been single for thirty-seven years.

Last night he had a dream, in which he died for four or five years, and his father held a pestle and shouted at his nose: "Little rabbit cub, if you can't marry me a daughter-in-law this year, you just wait for Lao Tzu to bring you down to give you a marriage!"

Lu Wu was very helpless, he didn't want a mother-in-law to warm his bed, so that he could hold it in the winter to keep warm, but he was born lazy to eat, and his family's three acres of land had already been bought by him.

Lu Wu thought about yesterday's appearance of his father blowing his beard and staring, and always felt panicked, so he didn't go to the gambling house to spend time today, and the ghost sent him to the tea stall to kill time.

Then, two very pleasant girls, one older and one younger, came into his field of vision, and in the dark, he felt the guidance of his father's spirit in heaven......

And then ......

"Lang Zhong! where is Lang Zhong?" Sun Daren rushed in front of him and shouted loudly at him or at the entire tea stall.

Looking at the other party's sweaty and red-eyed posture, it seems that the guy in front of him will overturn the entire tea stall a moment later.

Lu Wu took less than a breath to measure the gap between himself and the burly young man in front of him, and then he stood up decisively and said, "I know!"

......

"Old man Wang!" Lu Wu led everyone through the streets and alleys of Gutong City, and entered the courtyard with a low door.

Lu Wu shouted loudly towards the courtyard, walking with a light car, obviously a frequent visitor here.

Long Xiu, who led Liu Qingyan into the courtyard, frowned - there was a strange smell in the courtyard, which was indescribable, but it was extremely uncomfortable. The two sides of the courtyard are filled with all kinds of cages, which are locked up with cats and dogs, and there is a gray donkey and a fat-headed, big-eared wild boar in a simple wooden shed on the side. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a medical center. Even if it is, the doctor in this medical hall should not be human......

Long Xiu had the heart to remind, but Sun Daren, who was in a hurry, had already rushed into the inner courtyard with Wei Lai.

"What about people?" Sun Daren put Wei Lai on the "bed" that Lu Wu had put together with two wooden tables, and then he looked around, but there was no one in sight, and he asked loudly.

"Here it is. Lu Wu saw that this Sun Daren was born with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and his face was full of meat, and he looked ruthless, so he naturally didn't dare to provoke him. He reassured him again and again, and then he lifted the curtain of the inner room and rushed into the inner room.

Long Xiu walked into the inner courtyard at this time, she looked at the messy furnishings in the inner courtyard, and the dust that had not had time to clean up the ground, and the suspicion in her heart was even worse, and she said beside Sun Daren: "This is not like a medical hall. ”

Sun Daren was stunned for a moment, then he turned his head to look around, and also found all kinds of strangeness in this so-called "medical hall", he also frowned, the fist in his hand was even more clenched, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Let's see first, if that guy lies to me, I will break his bones." ”

When Long Xiu heard this, he could only nod, and then looked at the young man lying on the wooden table with a worried expression-

With Cao Tongyun as proof, Long Yunzang finally believed in his father's "nonsense" back then, coupled with Wei Lai's entourage as a "fast son-in-law who rides the dragon" in his eyes, the stubborn Long Yunzang finally agreed to Long Xiu's trip to Ning Xiaocheng. Starting from Huanglong City, there are also three or four days, Long Xiu's temperament is lively, and soon he is familiar with Wei Lai and others, and it is not boring to play and play along the way.

I thought that this trip to Ningxiao City would continue like this, but I didn't want it to be close this morning, after everyone woke up, they found Wei Lai lying on the ground with a pale face......

......

There was a rustling sound in the room covered with curtains, and I only heard Lu Wu's urging: "There is business, get up quickly." ”

Then there was another noise in the room, and then an old man in a gray robe followed behind Lu Wu, slowly lifted the curtain, and walked out.

Long Xiu's brows wrinkled even deeper at that time, the old man looked very old, he walked tremblingly, the vertical and horizontal furrows on his face squeezed his eyes into a slit, Long Xiu was really worried that with this old man's age, he would not be able to see things, let alone the way of the healer.

"The little old man is old, and he is sleepy, so you have been waiting for a long time. But the old man seemed to be very particular, and after walking out of the room slowly, he bowed to the crowd, but because of his age, he bowed slowly, and delayed for a long time.

"Alright, alright, show him quickly. Sun Daren has never been a patient person, not to mention that at this juncture, he waved his hand again and again, and said in his mouth.

"Alas. The old man had a very good temper, nodded again and again, and then slowly walked to Wei Lai's side, looking at his trembling posture, Sun Daren was really worried that the old man's body would fall apart halfway. He also secretly thought in his heart that if this old man was unreliable, he would have to quickly change his number one junior brother to Langzhong.

The old man finally walked up to Wei Lai's side, and he stretched out his wrinkled hand and held it on Wei Lai's wrist.

Then he closed his eyes and sank his mind, seeing that the posture was taking the pulse, everyone had different pharmacology, and they didn't dare to disturb, so they all held their breath and stared at the old man nervously.

After a while, the old man opened his eyes, let go of the hand that was holding Wei Lai's wrist, and then did not speak, lowered his head and thought about it, Sun Daren stared at the old man for a long time and waited for him to speak, but the old man stood in place as if he was asleep. Lu Wu on the side was also anxious, and he glanced at the old man vigorously, but the old man didn't give everyone a response for some reason.

"Alas, what the hell do I say? If it doesn't work, we'll change to the next one!" Long Xiu was also angry, she was full of suspicion about this old man from the moment she entered the door, and at this moment, seeing that the other party was silent for a long time, she secretly thought that Wei Lai's symptoms were too complicated, and the other party was helpless.

It's just that Long Xiu's words came out, and there was a burst of pain in Qingyan's hand, but it was Liu Qingyan who shook her hand tightly. She glanced down at the girl suspiciously, only to see that the girl shook her head softly at her.

On the other side, the old man also came back to his senses in Long Xiu's unkind questioning, he raised his head as if he woke up, just in time to meet Lu Wu's eager gaze, the old man nodded imperceptibly, and said, "It can be cured." ”

Everyone was stunned at first, and then happy, and Sun Daren even leaned forward and asked eagerly, "Really, how much?"

The old man hesitated a little, then turned his head to look at Lu Wu, who whispered to him in a low lip language, "Eight taels, eight taels." ”

The old man understood, nodded his head, looked at Sun Daren and the others, and said, "The condition is a little complicated, at least ......"

The old man hesitated a little when he said this, and then turned his head to look at Lu Wu on the side, and saw that the other party was gesturing towards him with a gesture of "eight", so the old man mustered up the courage to say: "At least eight......"

"Eighty taels, right!" Sun Daren was forced to grow by the old man's grinding and chirping style of doing things and speaking style, and he was full of worries about Wei Lai's situation, how could he have the patience to listen to the old man continue to speak slowly, and then slapped the table, took out a stack of silver tickets from his arms, threw them on the table, and said: "As long as my brother is cured, this hundred taels will be yours!"

The old man was stunned for a moment, and looked at Lu Wu a little sluggishly, Lu Wu was also in a trance, he remembered yesterday's dream again, and felt that there was a ...... in the dark Daddy......

"Okay, good!" he nodded again and again, stretched out his hand to take the stack of silver tickets, and glanced at the old man again, patting his chest and reassuring: "Don't worry, I will definitely save this guy from you intact!"

......

The old man's surname is Wang, and his name is Dao'an.

In Lu Wu's words, he was the best doctor in the entire Gutong City.

Although everyone was quite skeptical of Lu Wu's words, since the old man had promised that in line with the principle that the monk could not run the temple, everyone still believed Lu Wu's words for the time being.

Lu Wu, who accepted the silver ticket here, pulled the old man and said that he was going to prepare medicinal materials, and then the two walked into the back room.

As soon as he entered the house, Lu Wu eagerly pulled the old man and asked, "Lao Wang, don't lie to me, can you really cure that kid?"

The old man named Wang Daoan nodded, but said with some hesitation: "It's just a momentary anger, grab some calming prescriptions to recover, these things are worth a dozen dollars, eighty taels will not ......"

"They have money, don't you look at that kid, how generous he is, it's good to be able to accompany him, it's too late for him to be grateful!" Lu Wu said as a matter of course.

"However, his illness will be cured if it is not cured...... old man is still a little worried.

This made Lu Wu a little anxious, he hurriedly put his hand on the old man's shoulder, and said: "Lao Wang, you can't drop the chain for me at this time! Let me tell you, my father dragged my dream for me last night, saying that I should marry a daughter-in-law, otherwise he will take me to the bottom to give me Zhang Luo." You see, someone sent money and people today, which is what my father and his old man meant. ”

Hearing this, the old man turned his head and glanced at Lu Wu: "Those two girls, you'd better not provoke ......"

Lu Wu shrugged his shoulders: "I know, people are so rich, how can they take a fancy to me, but with this hundred taels of silver, I can marry a daughter-in-law, right?"

As he said that, he seemed to think of something, licked his face and leaned over to the old man, took out five of the silver tickets, and handed them to the old man: "Lao Wang, what we said, I will pull people for you, and we will give you five or five points if you make money, and I Lu Lao Wu has always been true to his word, you take this." ”

Obviously, these five silver tickets were extremely attractive to the old man, and after the old man who had hesitated a little took the stack of silver tickets, he sighed and finally said nothing.

Seeing this, Lu Wu immediately smiled, and he continued: "That's right, it's a fool not to make money, you said that you, a veterinarian, don't have me to help you pull people, where did you get the business, and where did you get the money to make it?"

The old man nodded tremblingly, but said no more.

......

Wei Lai regretted it.

He shouldn't be in such a hurry, especially if he already has a lesson from the past.

Cao Tongyun gave Wei Lai the magic bead is really magical, he secretly tried a few times, and found that he could absorb the power in this demon bead, and then use the dove snake to swallow the dragon, the power into the thin golden thing in his body, in just four days, the golden power in his body the size of a grain of rice has doubled, plus when he was in Huanglong City, he rescued Sun Daren to urge the golden power, he began to try to pour this power into his divine gate, coupled with the aura sucked by the whale swallowing the sea, the shackles of the second realm that had no movement were faintly loosened, Wei Lai was delighted, so he tried to increase the strength, but he didn't want this golden power to be extremely domineering, Wei Lai was a little anxious, and the golden power injected into the Divine Gate at one time was much more, which made his internal organs shake and he fainted.

But when he woke up again, he was greeted by the faces of many people, both familiar and unfamiliar.

"Ah, are you awake?" Wei Lai's head was still dizzy, and he didn't figure out what was going on, so Sun Daren hugged Wei Lai and said excitedly, it seemed that the posture of his hands was strong, as if he had just experienced life and death.

"You take these medicines with you, let him rest for a day, and boil a bowl of medicine for him every two hours, and tomorrow will be fine. Wang Daoan said on the side, Sun Daren, who came back to his senses, suddenly looked at each other with a look of a master, took the medicine bag handed by the old man, and nodded again and again. "Yes, yes, thank you, sir, thank you, sir. ”

At this moment, in Sun Daren's eyes, the old man who he couldn't help but suspect was now a figure comparable to a miracle doctor.

"Brother Alai, are there anything else you feel uncomfortable with?" Sun Daren was busy thanking him, but Xiao Qingyan approached Wei Lai and asked with a worried face.

Wei Lai also reacted at this time, looking at everyone's posture, he probably guessed what happened after he fell into a coma, he smiled bitterly in his heart, he must not be so reckless in the future, otherwise if he encounters another disaster such as in Huanglong City, it really makes everyone have an accident, and he will not regret it for life. Thinking of this, Wei Lai felt guilty and said, "It's okay, I'm worried about you." ”

Wei said, stretched out his hand and touched Qingyan's head, such an intimate action made Liu Qingyan's face red, but surprisingly did not dodge, but it was the dragon embroidery on the side, who looked strange, and stopped talking.

"Come on, thank you, old man, let me tell you, the old man's medical skills are really godly, seeing that you are almost out of breath, he came up to give you a push and a push, and then pinched your nose and gave you some medicine, and you came back to life!" At this time, Sun Daren came over and pulled Wei Lai to say in a loud voice.

Wei Lai heard the strange feeling in his heart, isn't the heart way just an ordinary method of tuinating the meridians with qi and blood? Even with different pharmacology, he also knows a little bit, how can Sun Daren say that he is really terminally ill. But thinking about it, it should have been his sudden coma that frightened everyone, and he didn't bother about it, and thanked the old man.

The old man glanced at Wei Lai deeply, waved his hand again and again, and said in his mouth: "Not enough to worry about, not enough to worry about teeth, little brother should rest more, don't rush for quick success." ”

Wei Lai's heart shook slightly, and he didn't know if it was because he was too careful, or if the old man really meant something, but after the old man said this, he turned around tremblingly, and he didn't seem to have any other intentions.

And Wei Lai really didn't have time to think about it, Sun Daren on the side heard this, and slapped his head: "Yes, yes, you have to rest." ”

Regardless of whether Wei Lai agreed or not, he put Wei Lai's hand on his shoulder, holding the sick number. Wei Lai smiled bitterly and wanted to explain, but looking at Sun Daren's worried and anxious face, he finally swallowed back the words that came to his mouth, his cultivation problems were extremely complicated, and it was not easy to explain them to everyone, so he simply let them go, and then explain to them that he was okay.

And Lu Wu, who was on the side, heard the conversation between everyone, his eyes rolled, and he came up again: "You are strangers, right? I am most familiar with Gutong City, do you want me to take you to a better inn, which is good and cheap, and guarantees your satisfaction." ”

After experiencing Wang Daoan's "wonderful hand rejuvenation", everyone had a good impression of this man who looked thin and sharp-mouthed, and naturally would not refuse the other party's "kindness".

"Okay, good, then I'll have to ask my brother to lead the way. Sun Daren did not doubt him, and nodded again and again.

......

The group said goodbye to Wang Daoan and followed Lu Wu on the road.

Along the way, Lu Wu had a courteous attitude and a warm expression, and he vigorously introduced everything in Gutong City to everyone.

"Gutong City is different from other places in Ningzhou, this is the fief of Yu Hou, in the early years, the grandfather of the little marquis followed Emperor Taizu to conquer the east and west, and that was the founding minister who had the merit of supporting the dragon. After Emperor Taizu established the country, he gave Gutong City to the old marquis, and the glory of his wife and shadow was not found in the entire Great Yan Dynasty except for Yu Hou. ”

"Legend has it, our ancient Tong City was not called Gu Tong City before, it was hundreds of years ago, when the magistrate planted a Tong forest outside the city, which was renamed Gu Tong City. ”

"I'll tell you, that piece of tung forest is very evil, the largest ancient tung tree in it is hundreds of years old, that guy, grow tall and thick, all say that the tree has been cultivated, where to pass by at night can often hear the sound of the tree demon walking, I heard that a few days ago, the children of the Hu family in the north of the city went to the ancient tung forest at night and never came back. These days, the adults of his family are making a fuss in the little marquis's mansion, saying that they want to cut down the paulownia forest to avenge the child. ”

"Speaking of our little marquis, that's an amazing character. Do you know Ningzhou's Han Star List? Our little marquis is on the Han star list, I heard that the ranking is reliable! I don't know how much, but it seems that many big sects are rushing to accept our little marquis as a disciple!"

Lu Wu didn't stop saying a word, Sun Daren, who was walking in front, nodded again and again, already regarded Lu Wu as a warm-hearted big brother, Wei Lai on the side didn't know what to do, he just felt that this person's words were too much, but it was not good to say anything, so he could only let his mouth hang.

However, Long Xiu behind him saw that the three people walking in front were very speculative, so he felt that the time was ripe, looked at Liu Qingyan beside him and asked, "Qingyan, how did you see that the old man had the ability?"

Liu Qingyan blinked his eyes and stared at Long Xiu in confusion.

"I didn't want Wei Lai to be treated there just now, didn't you stop me?" Long Xiu said strangely.

Liu Qingyan shook his head again, and said truthfully: "I just think that old man is not a bad person......

"How do you know he's not a bad guy?"

"I can't tell. The little girl's face showed a look of distress, "But that's just how I feel." ”

......

Lu Wu, who got more than ten "guide money" from the innkeeper, weighed the copper plate in his hand with satisfaction, and secretly said that his father is really in the sky, he thinks that he has to bring some paper money to worship tomorrow, and it is best to have such a fat sheep to give him a good meal every day in the future, so that he can marry back if he has a daughter-in-law in one room, that is, a daughter-in-law in ten rooms, and he can also marry back.

Thinking of this, Lu Wu was in a good mood, he hummed a little song, thinking that the matter of marrying a daughter-in-law would be put aside first, he had to go to Yulutai first to double the silver he lost yesterday and win it back, he walked out of the inn, and faintly heard an exclamation from the wing room of the inn behind him-"What! You spent a hundred taels !! on this medicine"

......

Wang Daoan fed the cat in the yard and changed the medicine on the old dog's wound. Erecting the stairs, tremblingly filled the wooden shed with some thatch to protect him from the wind and rain, and filled the feed in the trough, and then he looked at the sky, thinking that the time was not early, and estimated that there should be no other guests today, the old man went to the back room, and carefully put the five stacks of silver tickets into his arms, and then walked out of the small courtyard gate, and did not forget to check a few times before leaving, whether the courtyard door was locked- When he is old, he is always easy to forget, a few days ago he was found by those habitual criminals in the city because he did not lock the door, and he found an opportunity to enter the house and rummage for a while, but there were no valuable objects in his house, just a messy yard, and it was not easy for him to clean up his bones.

Out of the dilapidated alley where the courtyard is located, pedestrians on the main street come and go, most of them are people who are ready to return home with their families after enjoying the noon sun. Catching a glimpse of the old man, most of the pedestrians' faces showed disgust, and the pedestrians with children subconsciously hid the children behind them, as if they were afraid that their children would have contact with the old man.

I don't know if he is too old to feel the vigilance of the people around him, or if he has long been accustomed to such a "special encounter", the old man didn't realize that he had him, but just walked slowly on the street by himself.

On the way, he passed through Nanyang Street, the real owner of Gutong City, Yu Hou's Hou Mansion is located here, the door of Hou Mansion is full of people wearing white cloth at this moment, at that time the big family in Gu Tong City, the Hu family's clansmen. They were begging the little marquis to allow them to cut down the ancient Tong forest outside the city to avenge the dead children in their clan, and this group of Hu family members was also mixed with some faces that the old man didn't know, it didn't seem to be the Hu family, and certainly not the people of Gu Tong City.

The old man was very old, and although he was sometimes dizzy and forgetful, he remembered every person in this city, what they looked like, and what their lives were.

The gate of Yu Hou's Mansion was closed, and it seemed that he didn't intend to respond to the Hu family's request, but the Hu family had recently begun to contact various big families in the city, ready to put pressure on the Hou Ye's Mansion, and they didn't know how long the little Hou Ye could hold out.

The old man sighed, and continued to walk, he came to the west gate near the ancient tung forest, and climbed the tower with difficulty and slowly, and looked into the distance.

The paulownia forest was located on a long and narrow hill, and it was lush, but the trees on the periphery either died or were cut down by some people who had listened to the rumors, and the old man frowned at this situation, and something seemed to flicker in his cloudy eyes. He looked all the way along the mound raised by the hill, but saw that at the end of the mound, only a hundred zhang away, there was a river flowing eastward, which was a tributary of the Wupan River, the largest river in Ningzhou.

The old man's gaze wandered back and forth between the Koma River and the ancient tung forest for a while, as if he was calculating and measuring something, and it was not until the sun was sinking in the west and the sky was completely dark that the old man withdrew his gaze.

He went down the gate as tremblingly as he had come, but instead of rushing home, he went to the north of the city, and after passing through several streets and alleys, he knocked on the door of another courtyard.

The one who opened the door was a middle-aged man who was full of alcohol, and when he saw the old man, the man's brows furrowed, and he said, "What are you doing again?" Didn't you say it, I can't run this dart with your money. ”

Saying that the man was about to close the courtyard door to send off the guests, the old man hurriedly blocked the door that was about to close with his body, and put one hand into his arms, trying to take out something as soon as possible, but he was indeed too old, and he did such a simple action extremely slowly and difficultly.

"Zhou Darttou, I have money, you see ......," the old man said, and sent all the fifty taels of silver in his arms to the man.

The man's face changed suddenly when he saw those silver tickets, and he looked at the old man in disbelief: "So much money?"

He hesitated to take the silver ticket, and when he looked at it carefully, he couldn't help but gasp, it was a full fifty taels of silver.

"Zhou Darttou, look, is this money enough, you can go to Honghe Town and buy me some paulownia saplings back?" the old man asked, not condescending with a huge fortune in his hands, but as polite as ever.

The man changed his previous attitude, patted his chest and said: "Enough, enough, old man, don't worry, I will leave tonight and promise to bring you a hundred, no! Two hundred good paulownia saplings will come back!"

The old man obviously didn't know the market price, so he nodded again and again: "Then thank you for the dart, please work hard for this trip." ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say. The man smiled and impatiently took the stack of silver tickets into his arms. In the end, I didn't forget to boast about Haikou again: "You can wait for my good news at home with peace of mind!"

"Hmm!" the old man nodded again, and finally a rare smile appeared on his face, but he was too old, and the smile touched the folds on his face, like the bark of the paulownia tree outside the city that was hundreds of years old, and it was not good-looking.

After saying this, the old man instructed the man again, and then he said goodbye under the man's impatient remarks.

Out of the alley, the old man walked into the main street again, there were children playing on the street, singing some in their mouths, I don't know what it means, but the song that is widely spread in Gutong Town: "Don't be afraid of cutting the waist, I'm afraid of copper nails planting, once the dragon meets the water, a hundred miles of ocean." ”

The old man was stunned for a moment, looking up and squinting at the long endless street, brightly lit, the vendors shouting and drinking, the drinkers wantonly and the children smiling picturesquely, all of which were full of voices but surprisingly quiet.

The old man could see that he came back to his senses after a while, and continued to walk slowly, facing the lights of thousands of homes, carrying the night outside the city, and walking on the road home.

He continued to sing in a voice that only he could hear.

"Ten miles of hometown soil, a hundred ghosts around the city. ”

"Thousands of ancient trees stand up, and thousands of lights are bright. ”