Chapter 544: Ice Rain

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The old man is also a frequent visitor to this tea shop, of course he knows Xia Yinhua, he smiled wryly, and then touched the sore tooth, quickly covered it with his hand, and said: "Sister-in-law of the Xia family, you don't know, this Xiaolang's medicine really works, I have taken so many toothache medicines, they all say that it can relieve pain, fart! However, it only lasted a few days, and after a few days, it hurt again, so I came to him. ”

"People Xiaolang said that if you want not to hurt, you can only pull it out. Isn't it just a penny, look at your distressed appearance, and you don't want to spend money, and you want to be able to pull out your teeth without pain, how can there be such a cheap thing in the world? ”

"If I had that ability, I'd still find someone to pull out my teeth?"

The old man smiled wryly, turned his head to look at Yang Xianmao again, and saw that Yang Xianmao did not interject, nor did he look at the two of them, it seemed that all he was interested in was the surging river in his eyes.

The old man asked: "I said Xiao Langzhong, did you hear what I just said?

Yang Xianmao ignored him, as if he hadn't heard him speak at all.

The old man was so angry that he slapped his thigh hard, stood up and said: "You set up a stall to do business like this, and ignore people like an uncle, who will come to you to see a doctor, and there is no Lang Zhong in the world." You deserve to be poor as a herb doctor for the rest of your life!" However, when he took a few steps, his teeth hurt more and more, causing him to clutch his cheeks and gasp desperately.

Thinking about it, in the end, it is still a toothache that is unbearable, as for the anger in that little man, just endure it, who called other people's medicine to have an effect, maybe the tooth extraction is really not so painful and unknown.

So, the old man turned his head back, walked in front of him, and put the small packet of medicinal powder on Yang Xianmao's stall angrily, gritted his teeth and said: "One article is one article, since I want to extract my β€”β€”teeth, then I don't want this medicinal powder, I just bought the medicinal powder and gave you a penny, you can extract my teeth." Whether it hurts or not, I admit it. ”

Xia Yinhua said angrily: "How do you know that tooth extraction only charges one penny? People don't want to charge five or ten cents?"

"I've heard that he only charges a penny for prescribing medical treatments, selling painkiller powder, or clearing sores and treating external injuries. Of course, this toothache is only charged for a penny. - Right? ”

Yang Xianmao nodded expressionlessly and put a packet of medicinal powder into the wooden box.

The old man glanced at Xia Yinhua proudly. Xia Yinhua was very helpless, glared at Xiao Langzhong and muttered: "It's really an elm pimple!"

The old man patted his thigh and said, "Since the sister-in-law of the Xia family said so, Xiao Langzhong, if you really don't have pain in extracting your teeth, I will really talk and count, and I will give you another copper coin!"

Yang Xianmao didn't speak, took out a small ball of silk cotton from the big wooden box with broken corners next to him, poured some potion on it with a small porcelain bottle, called the old man over and squatted beside him, and then put the potion in with chopsticks and put it on his sore tooth, and said, "Bite it." ”

The old man hurriedly bit the small ball of silk cotton tightly, and soon he felt that the place where the tooth hurt was not painful at all, and he couldn't help but brow, nodded again and again, and said vaguely: "You are a little man, but you really have some ability." ”

Yang Xianmao didn't have any expression on his face, took out a curved pliers from the box, reached in, grabbed his rotten tooth, and pumped it out hard, with a soft snap, the tooth was easily removed from his gum, and then thrown onto a piece of straw paper, which was still stained with blood.

Yang Xianmao then put down the tongs, took out a cotton wool from the medicine box, poured a bottle of potion on it, and then put it into the gum where the tooth was extracted with chopsticks, so that he could hold it to stop the bleeding. After saying "okay", he continued to hold his knees and look at the surging river without speaking.

The old man was overjoyed, admired again and again, and said vaguely: "It really doesn't hurt, I can't see that you really don't count when you talk in this little man, it really doesn't hurt at all, it's just that my cheeks are numb, and I don't feel anything, what can I do?"

"Half an hour will be fine. Yang Xianmao didn't look at him and said a word.

"Okay, then I'll understand, thank you, then I'll go. So, the old man stood up and was about to leave happily, but was stopped by Xia Yinhua, "What about the penny you said?"

The old man smiled wryly, took out a penny, and put it on the white cloth stall next to Yang Xianmao. Yang Xianmao said, "I don't want it!"

The old man happily grabbed it back and said to Xia Yinhua: "You heard it, he didn't want it himself." As I said, he only charges a penny for each visit. I heard that in the past, in order to thank him for his illness, he gave him a few more pennies, but he ignored them when he closed the stall, and still let the extra pennies be thrown on the bluestone slab, and the little beggar took it. ”

Xia Yinhua glanced at him, she also knew that the old man was not wrong, it was like this, she had also seen it. Some curiosity asked the old man: "Is it really not possible for him to extract his teeth?"

"It really doesn't hurt at all? If you don't believe it, you can try to pull one out. ”

"Bah, why do I have to pull out my teeth? I'm strange, it really doesn't hurt to pull teeth? I can't see that this little guy really has some ability. ”

"Yes, yes, I'm leaving, it's getting dark, and I have to rush home to eat. The old man waved his hand, walked briskly forward, and soon disappeared at the end of the stone alley.

Xia Yinhua glanced back at Xiao Langzhong, who was still sitting there, and was hesitating to step forward to say a few words to him, when she suddenly felt that there were raindrops on her face, and it was cold, and she screamed "It's raining!"

The rain crackled on the bluestone slabs, splashing one after another, and soon the bluestone streets were full of puddles. The rain that falls from the eaves grows larger and larger as the eaves rise and fall, connecting into a line, and a series of water curtains that twist and turn.

Yang Xianmao unhurriedly packed up his things, he put the herbs on the white cloth back into the box, folded the cloth and put it back in the box. His movements were not flustered at all, as if nothing could make him anxious.

He finally put everything back in the box, lifted it over his shoulder, lowered his head, and walked slowly along the inside of the eaves. walked past Xia Yinhua and didn't even look at her.

The eaves were relatively short, and half of his body was drenched in the eaves water, and he was soon soaked, but he didn't realize it. Xia Yinhua said: "Hey, it's raining on your shoulder, do you want an umbrella?" I'll lend you one." ”

Yang Xianmao didn't seem to hear it, and continued to step on the bluestone slab and walked forward, half of his body drenched in rain.

"What a weirdo!" Xia Yinhua muttered, and after Yang Xianmao walked past her, she turned around and was about to enter the house, when she suddenly stood up again, turned her head over, and looked at Yang Xianmao's back. β€”β€”At that moment just now, she clearly saw Xiao Langzhong's face flushed, his lips were chapped, his eyes were blank, his body was trembling, his steps were a little shaky, and he was busy beckoning behind: "Hey, are you sick?"

Xiao Langzhong still ignored it and continued to walk forward.

Looking at his back, there was an indescribable loneliness, Xia Yinhua's heart softened, and she hesitated whether to step forward and ask him, suddenly, the young man's body shook, and then he held on to the wall with his hand. Then, he continued to walk a few steps forward, stood still, shook his body again, and then slowly collapsed and sat down on the bluestone street.

It was a place just between two houses, without eaves, and the rain poured down on him mercilessly, and soon drenched his hair and clothes, but he just sat down in the rain, holding his hands on the ground, and bowing his head, like a stone carving.

"You fool, why are you drenched in the rain there? Are you crazy? It's just spring, and it's raining with snow. Xia Yinhua hurriedly trotted over, ignoring the rain, reached out to support his armpit, and dragged him back to the stone slab under the eaves.

"Oh, you're so hot, you must be sick!" Xia Yinhua felt that the hands under the armpits of the young man Langzhong were holding a fire, and the burning hands were hot, so she quickly reached out and touched Xiaolangzhong's wet forehead, feeling as if she was touching a soldering iron, and quickly withdrew her hand and said, "Your forehead is so hot, you have a fever! Do you have any friends and relatives? Do you want me to call them?"

Yang Xianmao only felt weakness all over his body, his body was chilled for a while, and he knew that he had severe typhoid fever. β€”β€”He left his homeland, along the way as a boatman to pull the fiber, along the river upstream, in the cold winter, in the cold river wind hard rowing, with other boatmen barefoot in the biting water, stepping on large and small river beach pebbles, hands and feet and with his stomach to climb through the narrow and steep cliff path, all the way against the wind and snow against the current to pull fiber.

His body tempered by the Yin and Yang True Fire originally had a very strong self-protection ability, and when he was fully exercising the territory, he could even block the attacks of ordinary martial artists' ordinary blades, and of course he could also resist the severe cold, but under the domination of the psychology of self-abandonment, he did not use his skills to resist the severe cold. Therefore, during the cold winter journey of one or two months, the wind and cold invaded his body and buried the root of the disease.

For a month after arriving in Yuzhou, he sat on the bluestone slab at the entrance of the alley at the top of the wharf every day, blowing the river breeze, and only wore a thin shirt to set up a grass doctor stall to survive. As a result, these days, his wind and cold illness is getting worse day by day. He could have grabbed a pair of medicines to cure his illness, but he had no interest in curing them. In this way, he allowed his body to survive in the wind and cold for nearly two months.

In the past few days, the wind and cold he suffered have become more and more severe, his whole body is cold, but his body is hot, but he doesn't bother to pay attention to it, until this moment finally can't hold on anymore, and falls ill in the freezing rain.

When Xia Yinhua dragged him under the eaves, he was groggy and a little sober, shook his head, said thank you, and then slowly stood up against the wall next to him, hung the heavy box on his shoulders with difficulty, and staggered along the bluestone street again.