"Is this really what the old man asked you to prepare for me?" I asked word by word, so surprised, the old man who was slamming the door was reluctant to give me even a single ginseng, and now he was willing to leave such a precious medicine for me.

Yuan Zhao said with a smile on his face: "This is given to me by Master before leaving, Master and his old man expected that you would not be able to endure hardship, and he was afraid that you would be tired, so he let me take the only bottle of our Zhongnan Mountain with me in case of emergency." If you want to thank you, thank Master. By the way, it's good that you know it yourself, Master told me that I don't want you to know. ”

I can't see that the old man who blows his beard and stares at me all day is really fine, and even such a subtle detail is so thoughtful. I couldn't help but regret a little in my heart that I didn't bring anything to him when I went out. The old man won't be disappointed, will he? After thinking about it, forget it, it's a big deal that Miss Ben will go back and make him a few more cups of tea.

Looking at the figure of Yuan Zhao going out with a basin, a warm current suddenly rose in my heart, "Senior brother," I called out to Yuan Zhao, who was about to go out: "Why don't you help me wash my feet every day in the future!"

Yuan Zhao was stunned for a moment, and scolded with a smile: "What you think is beautiful." As he spoke, he was about to go out, and when he went out, Yuan Zhao seemed to remember something, and said to me: "Senior sister, I just ordered Xiao Er to make a few dishes and send them over, you can get up and eat them in a while." "Won't you eat with me?" "We used to eat together at night, is there anything wrong with Yuan Zhao today?" I asked suspiciously.

"I'll go to the blacksmith shop first, I checked just now, and our horse has to be replaced, and I will lead the horse tonight, and we will be on the road early tomorrow morning. "The cake seller, Yuan Zhao is really a genius, he even has to save such a short time to change the horseshoe, he is really convinced.

Early the next morning, I followed Yuan Zhao to the blacksmith shop with sleepy eyes, because it was too early, there were not many pedestrians on the road, and the shops along the street were closed, and the blacksmith shop was the same. After knocking on the door for a long time, a middle-aged man with a rough appearance opened the door for us and asked angrily, "What are you doing?" "Big brother, we're here to fetch horses. Yuan Zhaofu smiled and explained his intentions.

"Oh, it's you, come with me. The other party recognized Yuan Zhao, opened both doors, and let us in. I followed Yuan Zhao through the low wooden door with his head down. I thought it was cramped inside, but when I came in, I realized that it was very spacious, and there was a huge stove in the middle of the shop, and the beating flame added a lot of light to the room. The walls on all sides were covered with finished and semi-finished products, and the tools for striking iron were also densely laid out.

"Your two horses are really good horses!" the man said to us as soon as he entered the door. "That's nature, can't we ride?" I didn't understand the mystery in his words, and followed his words to myself to boast.

"Hmph," the man's words suddenly changed, and he said angrily: "No matter how good a horse is, you can't toss it like this, young man, it's not good for you to spoil a horse like this, and what kind of good horse will be wasted by you." The blacksmith took an object on the table and came to us, and said, "Look at what this horseshoe has become." I went up to take a look, obediently, the horseshoe was actually sharpened into a thin piece of iron, and Yuan Zhao and I blushed.

"It took me a lot of effort to nail the horseshoe for you last night..."Before he could finish speaking, Yuan Zhao hurriedly blocked his mouth with words: "Big brother, you bother, where are our horses? ”

"Come with me, you're chained to the backyard. The blacksmith pointed behind him, turned to show us the way, "I added two baskets of forage to you last night, and I got up in the middle of the night to refill the water." The blacksmith's words were naturally exchanged for Yuan Zhao's thanks.

"Where are you going?" asked the man as he led the way. "We went to Jiangling to do some errands, and we want to rush back to Chang'an. "Oh, that's far away. The blacksmith said to Yuan Zhao, who was following behind: "Remember, take good care of your two horses on the road, feed more food, feed more water..."

The man's words reminded me that we didn't fetch water from the inn because we were in a hurry just now, and now the two bamboo tubes I was carrying were still empty. As soon as I thought of this, I hurriedly called out to Yuan Zhao: "Senior brother, I forgot to fill the water!"

Yuan Zhao hesitated, then turned to the blacksmith and said, "Big brother, we forgot to bring water, can we decorate the waterway from you to drink?" The man pointed to the two water tanks next to me and said, "Fill it from the water tank with the lid, the one without the lid is the water for striking iron." After the order, he beckoned Yuan Zhao to go out.

I was the only one left in the room, and the voices of Yuan Zhao and the blacksmith were getting weaker and weaker, and there was silence all around. I took the bamboo tube out of my bag and went to the two water tanks to get water.

"Crackle-" The sound of a piece of charcoal being burned startled me, and my hand shook with it, and I sprinkled more than half of it with a bamboo tube of water. I suddenly felt a trace of fear in my heart, looked around, looking at the room in front of me full of soldering irons, chains, and iron bars, I suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu, yes, isn't the place where Sister Jiang was tortured back then similar to here!

Thinking of this, I shuddered: No wonder it looks familiar, isn't this the scum cave Bai Mansion! The fear in my heart suddenly increased a lot, I hurriedly filled two bamboo tubes, and ran towards the back door, during which I didn't know how many things I knocked down, and made a jingling sound.

"Senior Brother Qin, I didn't expect to meet again!" As soon as he came to the door, he heard someone outside greeting Yuan Zhao. This voice is so familiar, it seems that I have heard it somewhere, but I can't remember for a while, who is this person?