Chapter 138: Three Cottages in Wangliangang
The cracked jadeite produced in Pingxi City is transparent in color, and the cracks are neat and tidy, as if it is the general pattern that is carved up, and it is extremely pleasing to the eye. It's just that Mu Ya doesn't understand, what does the ghost doctor Yin De want this jade to do, does he have a hobby of collecting jade?
Mu Ya forcibly suppressed a question, and went to the city to search for jade shops, only to find a cracked jade that was the size of half a fist, to Mu Ya's surprise, it was just such an ordinary jade, and he was willing to sell it only after asking him for four hundred taels of silver, if it weren't for Mu Ya's earlier exchange of the one or two yuan of gold that Jiang Ming gave him into a few taels of silver and a number of silver tickets, today I am afraid that I will be embarrassed by the shyness in my pocket, after all, not every shop knows the yuan and can exchange it.
Walking up to Wangliangang with the cracked jade, the road around the area is quite flat, and it is estimated that people have walked a lot, making this road seem to have been opened up very early, and the wide road can be easily galloped through even by a horse-drawn carriage. Mu Ya's eyes were like torches, and when he approached the side of the road to take a closer look, he found some white powder, he specially touched his fingertips and sniffed it, and then continued to walk forward.
Although Wanglian Gang is called a gang, it is actually only a few dozen meters higher than the surrounding scenery, and it is not even a hill from a distance. Mu Ya walked up the road, it seemed to be a newly built stone step, but it always felt that it didn't look like a new masonry, he found that there was also some white powder under the stone steps, he sniffed it, frowned, and continued to walk forward.
After walking on the mountain road for a few minutes, Mu Ya saw two acres of paddy fields, a pond, and a few smoked grass huts from a distance.
Mu Ya looked around as he walked all the way, it was already July, but the height of the rice grass in the paddy field was still less than his knees, there were several swimming fish in the pond, but the pond was very small, and the route of the swimming fish was just turning back and forth, and the action was very mechanical, not at all like the spiritual state that a creature should have.
I saw a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy in the grass hut, and when he saw Mu Ya coming from a distance, he shouted angrily: "Hey, where did the villagers come from? Our husband is not in the grass house today, don't wander around here and disturb my rest!"
Hearing such an arrogant voice, Mu Ya continued to walk forward, looking straight at the grass hut. The young steward picked up the wooden stick placed on the side of the house, blocked Mu Ya's path, and scolded: "Are you deaf, I told you not to go here, didn't you hear?"
Mu Ya glanced at the young man, deliberately put on a contemptuous look, and said indifferently: "I heard, what's the matter? I'm not here to look for you, if you tell me to stop, I'll stop, you don't have such a big face." ”
The young man said: "You villager is so rude, since you have asked our husband and still don't abide by the rules here, I am the steward brought by my husband, but you humiliate me like this, I really don't know what to do." If you don't know how to apologize, I'll get you out now. ”
Mu Ya smiled playfully, and said: "You are also a funny person in charge, I came to beg your husband to do something, and I didn't come to look for you, but you want to beat me out, I want to ask you, what right do you have to get rid of me? If I am a friend of your husband, do you still want to take me? I don't know the so-called steward, and the ghost doctor Yin De also has no eyesight, and he actually asked an impetuous person like you to take care of things, I really want to laugh to death!"
When the young man heard these words, he was immediately furious, and said, "Okay, then I'll let you see what I'm capable of as a steward!" As soon as the words fell, the young man waved the wooden stick and hit Mu Ya, although it was a beating, but this kind of attack that didn't hurt or itch was useless, Mu Ya raised his hand and carried it a few times, then grabbed the wooden stick, pulled it hard, and knocked the young man to the ground.
Mu Ya pretended to have a fierce look and said, "It seems that you don't have the ability to drive me away, call your husband out, I have something important!"
At this moment, in the thatched hut, a Confucian man in a cotton robe slowly walked out, his eyes looked at Mu Ya carefully, and he was not annoyed because Mu Ya provoked his steward, and said indifferently: "Since you have something to look for me, come in, it's not interesting to make noise outside." ”
The young man who originally wanted to complain saw his husband like this, so he dodged aside boringly, and when he left, he didn't forget to glare at Mu Ya viciously, Mu Ya just smiled, didn't care what the young man thought, and followed the cloth-robed Confucian into the thatched house.
The furnishings in the room are very simple, a bamboo couch, a square table, a straw and rattan recliner, the Confucian is very casual and half-lying on the recliner, his eyes are slightly narrowed, and he said, "Did you bring the money?"
Mu Ya said: "I don't have any money, but there is a cracked jade from Pingxi City, I don't know if Mr. wants it?"
"Oh?" the Confucian man slowly stood up, took the jade in his hand and looked at it for a long time, and said: "It's of good quality, for the sake of today's good mood, I'll make an exception and tell me who is poisoned in your family, right?"
Mu Ya said: "The person is not here, it is a hundred miles away, and the doctor there has preserved the poisonous blood by secret means, please diagnose it, is it true that he has this poison?"
Mu Ya handed over a paper packet, which was mixed with some powder of medicinal materials that would not change the nature of the poisonous blood, this method of preserving the poisonous blood was also extremely special, although Doctor Zhou could not cure the poison, but he used this method to make Mu Ya bring the poison to the ghost doctor Yin De, which can also be said to be extremely meritorious.
The Confucian stood up, dipped the powder from the paper packet in front of his nose and sniffed
Sniffing, he took out a clean jade vessel, dissolved a little powder in the vessel with water, and took out the unknown medicine powder from the box and dissolved it in the vessel, and after observing for a long time, the plain eyes finally came out, and he came over eagerly, and said, "How can you get this poison?"
When Mu Ya saw the ghost doctor's expression, he knew that he might have recognized the poison in it, and he didn't intend to hide it, so he said: "He was wounded by a dark arrow, and now he is lying unconscious on the couch, and this poison is brought by the arrow." ”
The Confucian said, "Who is the poisoner?"
Mu Ya said: "The general of Wohua Mountain." ”
"Wohua Mountain, isn't that a mountain bandit?" The Confucian looked at Mu Ya again, Mu Ya also looked at the Confucian with interest, the two looked at each other for a long time, and the Confucian said: "This poison is very rare, in the Qin Dynasty, there are no more than a few people who know this poison, and there are only a few people who can cure this poison. ”
Mu Ya said: "I don't know if Mr. can solve it?"
The Confucian said: "Of course it can be solved, although it takes a little effort, but it is relatively easy to solve." ”
Mu Ya said: "Mr. doesn't care about our identity in Wohua Mountain?"
Confucianism said: "Doctors treat diseases and save people, regardless of identity, not to mention the grievances between Wohua Mountain and the Qin Dynasty have nothing to do with me." ”
Mu Ya said: "Then Mr. Lao will make a move, several commanders have already said that if Mr. can cure this poison, Wohua Mountain will have a heavy reward." ”
The Confucian laughed strangely, suddenly looked at Mu Ya with a smile, and said: "It seems that it is not an ordinary general who has been poisoned, no wonder it can be so generous, it seems that Wohua Mountain has accumulated a lot of ill-gotten wealth over the years." ”
Mu Ya smiled: "Mr. is serious, there is no money for ill-gotten gains, most of them are the money paid by the people in the Wohua Mountain area who are willing to help Wohua Mountain, although Wohua Mountain bears the name of mountain bandits, but it is much better than some corrupt officials and corrupt officials of the Qin Dynasty, if Mr. is interested, you can ask Mr. to go to Wohua Mountain to live for a period of time." ”
The Confucian man's eyes were slightly cold, and he said: "Let's live without it, I may be forced to stay there by you if I go, I am a mountain doctor, and I don't want to cause this kind of trouble." ”
Mu Ya didn't speak, followed the Confucian out of this thatched house, and then entered another thatched house, the house is an elevated shelf with various wooden boxes, and there are many medicinal materials in the shelves, the Confucian straight open more than a dozen boxes, grabbed a handful of medicinal materials next to each other, and then handed them to Mu Ya in a bag, and said: "Grind all these medicinal materials into powder, the finer the better, originally these things are usually handled by my steward, you provoked him, so you can only come by yourself." ”
Mu Ya didn't say anything because of this, took the medicine bag and smiled, and said, "I can grind it myself and rest assured, I don't have to work for others." ”
The Confucian glanced at Mu Ya and snorted lightly: "He is also an interesting person." I'll go squint for a while, and call me when I'm done. By the way, the mortar is in the third grass hut, so I won't show you the way. With that, the Confucian yawned and walked away.
Mu Ya looked at the back of the Confucian scholar, and then looked at the grass huts around him, his eyes couldn't help blinking, and he didn't say anything more.
Mu Ya was grinding medicinal herbs in the third grass hut, and he grinded for about half an hour, and suddenly felt very drowsy, and he slowly fell asleep unconsciously. After a few more minutes, the Confucian scholar and the previous boy approached the thatched hut, and the young man even kicked the sleeping Mu Ya, like a wronged child seeking revenge.
The Confucian stopped the young man's actions and said, "Okay, hurry up and pour the end of this medicine, I'm about to be fainted." The young man smiled and said: "Master's magic prescription is powerful, this person still thinks that you are a ghost doctor, senior brother, and even handed over the cracked jade to you, which is really cheap for us." ”
The Confucian man smiled and said: "Isn't it that senior brother I am clever? These can you also beat him out of anger, he was so rude before, I guess he is not a weak martial artist, who would have thought that he was a mountain bandit from Wohua Mountain, we can take advantage of this to send him to the Taoist Mansion, and by the way, earn some bounties, and my senior brother will be able to have a good time this month." ”
The young man laughed and arched his hand to the Confucian scholar, and said: "Thank you senior brother for taking care of mesmerizing the fragrance, I am afraid that I will forget everything when I wake up in a few days, and he should not remember coming to Wangliangang, so that we can pretend that we don't know anything in front of the master, it seems that the senior brother still has a lot of abilities waiting for me to learn." ”
The Confucian also began to laugh, just as the two were self-absorbed, two hands slapped on the shoulders of the two, the two looked back, it was Mu Ya who was looking at them with a smile, the two screamed, and ran outside the grass hut, but Mu Ya grabbed the robe, and threw it back, and the two fell behind.
The two looked at Mu Ya incredulously, and the young man was even more frightened, and said, "You, you, you...... How can it be...... Obviously I have already fallen into the ...... of the gods."
Mu Ya said: "Do you want to say that I should have fallen asleep, but in fact, your plan was not so thorough, and I even discovered your tricks from the beginning, so it is understandable that I did not fall into the trick." ”
"Calm down, calm down!" The Confucian forcibly suppressed the surprise in his heart, raised his hand and said: "Sir is really not an ordinary person, we just tested Mr. before, I didn't expect Mr. to be so transparent, follow the instructions of the family teacher, Mr. has completed the test left by the ghost doctor, Mr. only needs to wait here, and the family teacher will complete Mr.'s request." ”
Mu Ya said indifferently: "It's interesting to say this,
I can wait here after I have completed the test, and if I can't complete the test, I will be sent to the government, although I am a little more tolerant, but I am not a fool, but the two of you, a perverse doorman, and an unfilial apprentice who disguises his elders privately, you have not completed my test, are you ready to accept punishment. ”
The Confucian and the young man were both shocked, the latter was frightened by Mu Ya's appearance, while the former looked furious, and said: "You rude, you have asked my master, you dare to face us in such a posture, although you are proficient in martial arts, but I am not an idle person, if you want to use force to deal with us, you are delusional!"
"Bang!"
Mu Ya didn't say anything, his fist had already smashed into the face of the Confucian, and the Confucian didn't even have time to prepare, so he was smashed by Mu Ya and flew a few meters, and the young man on the side was shocked, and immediately knelt in front of Mu Ya, crying: "Hero, spare your life, for the sake of my master is a ghost doctor Yinde, just spare my life, I still have a few hundred taels of silver in the grass house, I will give it all to you, I just hope that the hero will not kill me!"
Mu Ya saw the virtue of these two people, sighed lightly, and scolded: "Where is the ghost doctor Yinde?"
The young man said, "Master has gone." We don't know where I went, but Master went out three days ago, and he should have to come back at noon tomorrow at the earliest. I'm not lying. It is precisely because we know the time of Master's return that we dare to do this kind of thing to earn some money and expenses, and we do not have the idea of killing people......"
Mu Ya thought for a moment, he could feel the fear in the emotions of this untrained young man, in this case, what he said should be true, but he will come back at noon tomorrow, he can wait, but Jiang Ming may not be able to wait.
Mu Ya took out the dagger from his waist for self-defense, pointed at the young man, pretended to be a wicked person, and said: "I'll give you another chance, quickly tell me how to find the ghost doctor Yin De, if you don't explain honestly, I will cut off your tongue, and then cut you into pieces of meat to feed the fish." ”
The young man was even more exclaimed, the Confucian who fell on the edge of the grass hut actually moved his head and looked inside, pretending not to see what happened to his junior brother, Mu Ya saw all these in his eyes, and when he felt that it was useless to ask, quiet footsteps came from behind him, and when he turned around, he saw the two of them walking towards him.
Among the two, one was a middle-aged man who looked like a Confucian in a cloth robe, although he was tall, but he did not give people a sense of ferocity; the other was full of white hair, his hair hung down to his chest, he was a fairy wind and bones, and his delicate white robe was extraordinarily flat, although his appearance was ordinary, but it made Mu Ya's calm heart tremble.
"Xiaoyou, can you look at my thin face and let go of my two apprentices, although they have done foolish things, but after all, they are still young, I hope Xiaoyou can be tolerant and forgiving. The white-haired old man smiled, and at the same time, with a wave of his robe, a gentle wind lifted the Confucian man in the corner of the house, and the Confucian man and the young man glanced at each other, and they both knelt down in front of the two, and said: "Welcome the master and master back, the disciple is late, please surrender!"
Seeing this scene, Mu Ya quietly put away the dagger and arched his hand to the comer: "Junior Mu Ya, meet the two gentlemen, I didn't know my identity before, I was offended, please forgive me." ”
But seeing that the middle-aged man raised his eyebrows slightly, he said to Mu Ya: "The master is here, I don't dare to use the word sir, please change the title to show respect for the master!"
According to the previous words of the Confucian and the young man, Mu Ya could deduce that among the two people, the middle-aged man was the ghost doctor Yin De, and the white-haired old man was the master of Yin De, but Yin De's behavior made Mu Ya extremely surprised, the famous ghost doctor could do this kind of ceremony, which was also admirable, just when Mu Ya was about to do it again, the white-haired old man spoke: "Since the person who came is a guest, you don't have to care about these false courtesies." ”
"Yes, Master!" the ghost doctor Yin De pushed his head behind the white-haired old man.
Mu Ya said: "The old-timers are immortal and bone-inspired, and their bearing is even more Borong Tiandi, the younger generation originally wanted to visit Mr. Ghost Doctor today, but I didn't expect Sansheng to be lucky enough to meet the seniors, I admire it in my heart, please accept the worship of the younger generation." ”
The white-haired old man smiled kindly, and said: "You use this empty word very well, compared to my two apprentices, it is much more worry-free, just look at your etiquette, your request to come to Wangliangang, I will help you for the apprentice." ”
"Thank you, senior!" Mu Ya bowed again, but he was happy in his heart.
The ghost doctor Yin De stepped forward and said, "What poison do you need me to treat, as long as I can solve it, I will naturally help you with all my heart and not charge a penny." ”
Before Mu Ya could speak, the Confucian on the side bowed down to Yin De, handed the paper bag of poison to Yin De, and at the same time handed out the cracked jade. Ghost Doctor Yin De glanced at his disciple and said, "Return this cracked jade to the guest, the teacher has already said it, and he won't accept a penny." The Confucian sweated heavily on his back and returned the jade to Mu Ya.
The white-haired old man smiled and said, "Little Si, your taste is getting more and more tricky, and now you have started to collect this kind of thing, could it be that you have heard some rumors and want to find out the high-grade metal from the jadeite?"
The ghost doctor Yin De's face tightened, and he said: "The master is too worried, the disciple is just playing casually, and he doesn't want to develop this habit, the master teaches us the idea of indifference to fame and fortune, and the fourth should keep it in mind." ”
The white-haired old man glanced at Yin De, patted him on the back meaningfully, and said softly: "It's good if you don't have it, it's good if you don't have it, don't learn from your senior brother's virtue!"
"Yes, yes, yes!" the ghost doctor Yin De only promised.