After Mu Ziru sat down on the chair placed in front of the wall on the right side of the entrance door and poured Mu Ziru a cup of tea, the young man picked up the green cloth curtain hanging from the door hole on the wall behind Mu Ziru and went to the backyard of the pharmacy to find the crepe doctor.

After the boy left, Mu Ziru took the tea that the boy poured for him, sat on a chair, and began to look around at the pharmacy.

The area of this pharmacy is not very large, only six or seven meters long and four or five meters wide, and in the pharmacy, in addition to the wall behind Mu Ziru, there are medicine cabinets as high and wide as the wall under the two walls opposite him and directly facing the door.

In front of the medicine cabinet facing the door, there is a counter about two meters long and half a meter wide, on which is placed a small copper rod made of delicate zuò specially used to weigh medicinal materials, as well as the four treasures of the study used to write prescriptions and some gray paper used to wrap medicinal materials.

There is a strong smell of Chinese herbs in the whole pharmacy, which does not smell very good, but it does not stimulate people's sense of smell.

Sniffing deeply at the smell of Chinese herbs in the pharmacy, Mu Ziru sighed contentedly: "It's still the same taste as before, it's good!" ”

At this moment, the green cloth curtain behind Mu Ziru was lifted, and a clear voice sounded from behind Mu Ziru: "Is that the son, are you looking for the old man?" But what kind of illness do you need to see? ”

Hearing that voice, Mu Ziru's hand holding the teacup couldn't help but tremble, but the teacup in his hand was not held steady, and the teacup slipped from Mu Ziru's hand to the light gray ground, making a crisp sound of porcelain breaking, and the tea in the cup splashed all over the ground, and also splashed a lot on the hem of Mu Ziru's clothes, but Mu Ziru didn't realize it.

"What's wrong with you, Childe?" The crepe doctor asked suspiciously, and walked around the table and chair to Mu Ziru.

Lowering his head, looking at the gray mille-feuille old cloth shoes standing on the edge of the teacup fragments and tea leaves and tea mixtures, Mu Ziru never had the courage to raise his head to look at the crepe doctor.

Suddenly, a soft sigh drifted from the top of Mu Ziru's head into Mu Ziru's ears, and then, Mu Ziru heard a voice that couldn't be softer: "Yu'er, you're back!" ”

Hearing this, Mu Ziru was shocked, raised his head with a bang, and looked at the crepe doctor who was standing in front of him and pursed his lips and lowered his head to look at him, Mu Ziru's brain instantly emptied, not knowing how to react, let alone what to say.

Showing a kind smile, the crepe doctor raised his hand and touched the top of Mu Ziru's hair like Mu Ziru did when he was a child, and his tone seemed to be a little emotional: "It's good to be back, it's good to be back." ”

Without waiting for Mu Ziru to say anything, the crepe doctor called the young man over: "Ah Ming, clean up here." Then he said to Mu Ziru: "Let's go to the back!" ”

didn't make a sound, Mu Ziru just nodded obediently, then got up and followed the crepe doctor into the green cloth curtain, and went to the backyard of the crepe pharmacy together.

Entering the backyard, Mu Ziru, who was following behind the crepe doctor, couldn't help but stop and look around, there were five or six wooden frames in the not spacious courtyard, and the bamboo cattails with a diameter of about half a meter were placed layer after layer on the wooden frames, on which different varieties of Chinese herbal medicines were dried.

In the center of the courtyard is a boxy black coffee table, on which are placed a mud-colored teapot and several mud-colored teacups upside down in the tea tray, and two black low stools are placed opposite each other on both sides of the coffee table. Maybe it's been used for a long time, and the colors are a little mottled.

Mu Ziru silently: It's still the same arrangement as before......

The crepe doctor walked to a low stool on the side of the coffee table and sat down, picked up the teapot and teacup on the coffee table and poured two cups of tea, one in front of him, and one on the edge opposite the coffee table, turned his head, and smiled at Mu Ziru, who was still standing not far behind him and looking around: "Yu'er, come and sit and taste the tea made by my father." ”

Hearing this, Mu Ziru silently walked to the opposite of the crepe doctor and sat down, hesitated for a long time before picking up the teacup in front of him and taking a sip of the tea in the cup, and a cool and sweet meaning instantly filled Mu Ziru's chest.

Still holding the teacup, Mu Ziru couldn't help but sigh: "It's still licorice tea!" The taste is still the same as before. ”

Looking at Mu Ziru's nostalgic but slightly frowning appearance, Doctor Crepe smiled half-truthfully: "Dad knows that you like to drink snow rock tea and don't like other teas, but Dad can't afford such expensive tea, and it's actually good to drink tea made with licorice." ”

Pursing his lips, Mu Ziru lowered his head and looked at the teacup in his hand and was silent.

"Knowing the son Mo Ruo's father, what are you thinking in your heart, how can your father not know? I'm afraid, Dad is the first person to recognize you at a glance so far! The crepe doctor said as if talking to himself, and sighed faintly.

"Back then, I promised your biological mother that she would take care of you and raise you to be a benevolent doctor who heals diseases and saves people...... Later, your mother had an accident and left, and it was inevitable that your father would be in a bad mood, and you didn't listen to your father's words, and always delved into those sideways...... After you left home, Dad also regretted it. For seven years, Dad has been looking forward to you coming home one day, and no matter how prosperous the outside is, it can't match the home. Now, you're finally back, it's good, it's good......" Doctor Crepe thought in pieces, his thoughts drifting a little away.

Putting down the teacup in his hand, Mu Ziru got up and walked to the crepe doctor, knelt at the crepe doctor's feet with a "poof", leaned over and kowtowed heavily, and said, "Dad, the child knows that he is wrong." ”

Looking back at Mu Ziru kneeling in front of him, Dr. Crepe put down the teacup in his hand, smiled and bent over to help Mu Ziru up, and said with a smile: "Yu'er, it's not you who is wrong, my father was also at fault back then." ”

Letting go of the hand holding Mu Ziru's arms, getting up, Doctor Xuan continued to smile: "Yu'er, what do you want to eat tonight, tell your father, you haven't tasted your father's cooking for seven years, and today your father will cook for you personally." ”

Because of Doctor Xuan's words, Mu Ziru's eyes gradually filled with moisture.

Skimming his head and sniffing, Mu Ziru said a little unnaturally: "As long as it's a dish made by my father, children like it." ”

Raising his hand, he originally wanted to touch the top of Mu Ziru's hair, but he paused when he was about to touch the top of Mu Ziru's hair, and then made a turn and fell, and the crepe doctor rested his raised hand on Mu Ziru's shoulder.

Gently patted Mu Ziru's shoulder, and the crepe doctor smiled: "Yu'er went out and came back, but she looks more and more like a woman!" I was about to cry before I said a word. Now that you're an adult, you can't cry like you did when you were a kid! ”

"I didn't!" Looking at the crepe doctor, Mu Ziru retorted unconvinced.

"Okay, okay, if you don't, you won't have it." The crepe doctor smiled more and more comfortably. As soon as the words changed, Doctor Crepe said to Mu Ziru: "Yu'er, Dad will go to the front pharmacy to watch first, if you are tired, go back to the room to rest first, and wait until the evening, our father and son will eat together." With that, the crepe doctor turned and walked towards the pharmacy in front of him.

"Got it, Dad." Mu Ziru promised to watch the crepe doctor leave the backyard and go to the pharmacy in front.

It wasn't until the figure of the crepe doctor disappeared from view that Mu Ziru turned around and walked towards the independent house surrounded by green bamboo in the corner of the courtyard.

Pushed open the door, walked into the room, walked around the furnishings in the room, his fingers seemed to linger over the furnishings, and finally stood by the tea table in the center of the room, Mu Ziru couldn't hold back after all, and still slid down a tear.

The furnishings in the room are still the same as when he left home seven years ago, the location has not changed, and there is not a single object missing, and there is no dust on those furnishings, someone must have come to clean and wipe them often, and those who have this patience, Mu Ziru knows it.

Walking to the wooden bed opposite the tea table, Kazuo lay on the bed on his back, one leg resting on the edge of the bed, one leg hanging on the edge of the bed, looking at the diamond-shaped purple stone hanging in the center of the top of the bed tent, Mu Ziru whispered in his heart: Father, mother, the child is back.

After that, Mu Ziru closed his eyes and took a nap, enjoying the first peace in seven years since he left home.

And in the pharmacy in front, looking at the crepe doctor who couldn't hide his joy, the young man named Ah Ming was also very happy.

"Doctor Crepe, that young man just now is your son who has been away from home for seven years!" Ah Ming, who was inspecting the herbs, asked.

"Yes, his big name is Mu Ziru, and his nickname is the same as your name, and he is also called Ah Wei." The crepe doctor, who was also inspecting the herbs, replied.

"Mu Ziru?? Doctor Crepe, why doesn't your son follow your surname? Young Amin was a little confused. The crepe doctor's surname is crepe, but the crepe doctor's son is surnamed Mu, what's going on??

"Oh, he's his mother's surname, not me. There was no one in the family before Ah Huan's mother married me, and when Ah Huan's mother was pregnant with Ah Huan, I told his mother that the children born would follow his mother's surname, regardless of gender. It's always my child, and the last name is the same. "When Dr. Crepe said this, he was not unnatural, after all, he had been saying such things for more than 20 years, and he had long been used to it.

"I see." Ah Ming nodded, did not continue to ask, and only concentrated on examining the medicinal herbs.

Ah Ming once heard his mother mention that the crepe doctor's wife was also a well-known talented woman in this area, and she was involved in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, medical science and acupuncture, but she learned but not miscellaneous, and sometimes helped the crepe doctor to diagnose and treat patients and prescribe medicine, and even the crepe doctor, who had always been steady, praised his wife for her talent in studying medicine.

Twenty years ago, when the crepe doctor's son was five years old, when their mother and son went up the mountain to collect medicine, the crepe doctor's wife was bitten on the neck by a seven-step snake and died before she could be treated.

Amin had smallpox when he was four years old, and if it weren't for Dr. Crepe, his nickname would have been gone! Doctor Crepe can be described as a great benefactor of their family! Therefore, when his father sent him to study medicine with Dr. Crepe, he told him not to mention Dr. Crepe's deceased wife, so as not to hurt Dr. Crepe's heart.