After returning to the temple from the top of the mountain, Ah Wei's face was ugly, and he never woke up after drinking a bowl of medicine and falling asleep. Wu Yuan knelt in front of the couch, "Childe...... Childe", my heart suddenly cooled, and infinite fear eroded my body, making me tremble.

Faced with such a situation, although I panicked, I didn't mess up, wiped the tears in my eyes, and asked Wu Yuan to hurry up and find the abbot master.

Wu Yuan hurriedly went, I sat in front of the couch and stroked Ah Wei's thin cheeks, and muttered silently: "Ah Wei, Ah Wei, are you going to break your promise?

I wished he could respond to me, but there was just a dead silence on his face. My tears fell like beads with broken threads, but I could only suppress myself from crying.

After the abbot arrived, he treated Ah Wei, checked his pulse, tongue, and eyes one by one, and then pierced Ah Wei like a hedgehog with a golden needle. After completing all this, the master had beads of sweat on his head, and said with a gloomy expression, "This can only save his life temporarily, but it won't last a few days, so you still have to prepare early." ”

Wu Yuan was in tears, and he was about to collapse in front of Ah Wei's bed. He and I both knew the meaning of the master's words, which was to ask us to prepare for Ah Wei's funeral. But I still had faith in my heart, suppressed my tears, and forced myself to stand up straight. As long as Ah Wei doesn't breathe, I must find the descendants of the medical saint to save him.

After Wang Meng returned from the merchant surnamed Chen, he went out, saying that he was going to pick up the disciples of the Medicine King, and he would not be able to come back until night at the earliest. Time is too short and too precious, I can't wait for him to join me and waste this day.

Fortunately, I know that the merchant surnamed Chen has a shop in Yecheng, and it is not difficult to find him if I want to ask all the way. After making a calculation, he simply packed his bags, told Wu Yuan where he was going, and then set off to find the businessman surnamed Chen.

Wu Yuan stayed in front of Ah Wei's couch, staring at Ah Wei's face, and kept talking about the past in his mouth, as if he was crazy. I was a little skeptical that he had heard what I was saying. I know, he's loyal, so I don't blame him. After saying goodbye to him, I went to the stable to find a horse and went straight to Yecheng.

I have never tried to ride a horse, because although I am an open-minded and fearless person on the surface, I am actually a little timid and inferior on the inside, and I am extremely desperate for my life. However, at this moment, I am almost crazy. Riding a horse and galloping, he soon entered Yecheng, and then asked all the way where Chen Ji's grocery store was.

Chen Kee's signboard is very loud, but it is easy to find. The shop is the size of three rooms, and the scale is not small, and there are really groceries from the north and the south. When I visited, there were still quite a few customers shopping.

I entered the shop in the dust, and a guy greeted me with a smile on his face, and I didn't talk to him, I said to him directly, "Excuse me, I'm looking for you Boss Chen." ”

Seeing that the guy was smiling and suspicious, and secretly looked at me, I urged him again: "Go quickly, 100,000 urgent." ”

That's why he smiled and ran inside. "Okay, okay, wait a minute!"

After he entered, I kept staring at the bamboo curtain hanging in the room. After a while, I saw him come out with Chen Shang. I hurriedly greeted him, and Chen Shang arched his hand with a smile on his face: "Brother Bai, you are here." ”

I replied to him: "Boss Chen!"

When the politeness was over, he let me into the room, sat down at the small table, and made tea before we began to talk.

"Brother Bai is here to ask the medicine picker in Phoenix Mountain?"

Without further ado, I said, "Exactly, my son-in-law is seriously ill and needs medical treatment urgently." So I'm going to find him as soon as possible. ”

Hearing this, Chen Shang's smiling eyes flickered, and he asked, "Your son-in-law doesn't look like a person who is short of money?

Ah Wei had already investigated Chen Shang, and I knew that although he had dealings with people in the government in business, his background was very innocent, so I didn't have too many scruples about him, and explained: "I won't tell you anything, my son-in-law's condition is really serious, and the world's famous doctors have also invited a lot, but there is no improvement. I often hear that there are many strange medicines on Phoenix Mountain, so I want to try it. ”

Chen Shang nodded, and said with an embarrassed face: "You also know about the flash flood in Phoenix Mountain, after I came back, I have asked the people below, although the medicine picker has not encountered anything, but he no longer lives in the mountain, I don't know where he lives now?"

Hearing him say this, I became impatient and asked him, "Then you have no other way to get in touch?"

Chen Shang shook his head and replied, "You also know that I have a business relationship with him, and I don't have much friendship......

How could it be? Why is this clue broken? I couldn't help frowning and thinking about it carefully, but when I looked at Chen Shang again, I saw his eyes flickering, and I felt that he was a little strange today. When he was rescued that day, he was the one who took the initiative to say such a person, and at this time he seemed unwilling to confide more.

My face turned cold, and my words became sharp, "Boss Chen, don't forget that if we hadn't saved you, you wouldn't have been able to sit here drinking tea and talking at this time, and I don't know if there are all corpses! I thought you knew how grateful and wanted to help us come to you, but you were playing tricks on us." Are you really a businessman, you deceived our favor, and when you return home safely, you are going to cross the river and tear down the bridge?"

I slapped the table, got up angrily, and said sharply like with ice ballast: "Okay, I won't bother you Boss Chen, don't bother you today, I wish you good health and prosperous business." In the future, if you encounter a moment of life and death, it is best that someone will save you. ”

Chen Shang, who was sitting opposite, trembled, a trace of panic flashed in his eyes, and he hurriedly got up and pressed me to sit down, "Brother Bai, don't be angry. I'm also a little embarrassed about this, you listen to me tell you......"

It turned out that he had agreed with the herb collector not to reveal his whereabouts, and when we rescued him, he said that he was hot-headed, but he didn't expect that we would really come to the door for such a person. Last night, after Wang Meng sent him home, he discussed with him about finding a medicine picker, and his seventy-year-old lady heard about it, reprimanded him, and ordered him not to tell the medicine picker in the future.

But his wife did this, but it was benevolent. A few years ago, his wife was seriously ill, and she was also treated by a famous doctor and a famous medicine, and her life was hanging by a thread, and even the coffin of the shroud was ready at home. The ancients paid attention to filial piety, and merchants were no exception. During that time, Chen Shang was busy serving the old lady, and he was tired. The medicine picker often came to the shop to sell mountain goods and herbs, so he naturally understood the situation of Chen Shang's wife.

Chen Shang said that the medicine picker also had an old lady in his family, perhaps it was this that moved the medicine picker. Later, he took the initiative to tell Chen Shang to let him try to cure the old man's disease, and gave him a few packets of herbal noodles and asked him to soak the old man in water to drink. Famous doctors and famous medicines are not good, and his wife is about to hang up every minute, how dare Chen Shang believe a mountain villager. But in the case of the old man, it doesn't matter if he takes more medicine or less medicine, Chen Shang can only be a dead horse and the horse doctor gives the medicine to the old man to drink.

At first, it was nothing, but after drinking for four or five days, the old man's condition gradually improved. Chen Shang was overjoyed, and the herb picker proposed to take the old man to the mountain for recuperation, and he readily agreed and sent the old man to the mountain where the herb picker lived. Unexpectedly, half a year later, the old man came home, his body was extremely tough, his face was ruddy, his ears and eyes were clear, and he looked like he was more than ten years younger.

The old lady's illness was cured, Chen Shang was happy, and the medicine picker didn't ask for much silver, but agreed with Chen Shang not to expose his affairs, and it was just an ordinary business relationship with him in the future.

I think Chen Shang is not a treacherous person, he is a businessman, and he understands the truth of interest exchange and money and goods are clear. However, we saved his life, and he wanted to repay our kindness, and the simplest thing was to give us back our lives, so he revealed the matter of the medicine picker to us.

"Last night, I listened to my mother's reprimand and felt ashamed. Brother Bai, you say, if you don't let me reveal your whereabouts, should I keep it a secret?"

I understood, nodded and said, "Naturally!", and then changed the conversation, and said with a sincere look in his eyes, "But along the way, you should also understand our conduct, since we can save you, we will not harm a medicine picker." Your wife has also been hovering between life and death, and she should understand the feeling of watching her relatives die slowly. As long as I can save Childe, no matter what, I'm going to try, so you must help me. ”

Chen Shang's face faded, his eyes fell on the ground, his eyes were full of struggle, and then he finally made a decision and said to me: "This person is a little mysterious, I only know his surname is You, and I really don't know where he lives." However, every once in a while, he would come to the shop to sell me some mountain goods, and sometimes buy some groceries. I asked the dude, and he hasn't been here in a while. I guess it will come in a few days. But whether it will come or not, I can't give you a definite answer. ”

Chen Shang's eyes were sincere, this may be the limit of what he can say. I quickly calculated everything, and then said to him: "Okay, then I will help you sell things in your shop for a few days, and the salary will not be needed, just let me eat, drink, and stay." ”

Wait, I have no other way, I just hope Ah Wei can hold on.

Chen Shang was stunned for a moment, and then said to me in a serious tone: "Brother Bai, I don't know if he will come or not, even if he comes, it is difficult to say whether he can cure your son-in-law's illness, I think you should make another plan." ”

What else can I do? After listening to him, I knew that the person I was looking for must be the medicine picker he said, and that finding this person was already my best and only plan.

I was stunned for a moment, then replied, "I know. Thank you, please arrange it for me, let me familiarize myself with the environment first. Also, if he comes, you must tell me. ”

Boss Chen said hello, and then said to me, "I can only help you with this." Originally, I shouldn't have revealed his whereabouts, but if he goes to the shop in the future, you can only rely on yourself if you want to ask him for help, and whether you succeed or not is your own business, and I will never get involved again. ”

Come to think of it, he regretted that he was not strict in his mouth. I said yes, but he didn't say anything more, and took me outside to explain to an old fellow in the shop, Ali, and let him take me. I followed Ali to sell goods during the day, and I followed him to work on the floor in the shop at night. He is honest and down-to-earth, and takes care of me a lot. Chen Shang didn't take me with him, he brought me a good meal of wine and food, and even Ali said happily to me that he was wiped out! I could only smile perfunctorily.

One day, two days, three days, there was still no shadow of the herb picker, and my patience was about to be worn out. What worries me the most is that Ah Wei's people have never come to me, and I think that his illness must not have improved.

As I watched the sunlight streaming through the door frame stretch longer and longer, and the day was about to pass again, I couldn't help but wonder if my decision to wait was wrong.

Just when I thought I had found nothing again, a cool medicinal fragrance suddenly floated in the air, which made my mind clear from the irritability and stuffiness.