As I walked into the alley, I heard footsteps behind me, and I turned back suddenly.

I saw the flow of people at the mouth of the alley facing the street.

A tall young man with a hat was walking toward me.

I was stunned for a moment, and stood still.

The outfit on his body is quite familiar.

The alley where I'm standing is extremely narrow.

If two people pass by in the alley at the same time, one of them will have to turn slightly sideways to make way for the other to pass through.

My eyes were focused on the person who was walking in.

Seeing each other's footsteps approaching, I immediately reacted!

He's walking faster than me, so I'm still going to have to get home first.

So, I leaned over to the side, close to the base of the wall.

The man passed me, the distance was so narrow, that he even took the hem of his clothes with him.

He didn't look back at me, as if I was like air, and ordinary people rarely saw someone in such a narrow alley, and they would always sweep their eyes.

His behavior really made me feel a little weird.

I looked at the figure suspiciously, but I saw that he didn't look back and kept walking, and he didn't mean to stop at all.

My eyes were fixed on him until he came out of the narrow alley, then turned a corner and disappeared without a trace.

It seems that the other party is just passing by, and I was nervous just now.

I lifted the brim of my hat and stood by the wall and sighed, still apprehensive because it wasn't the first time!

Looking back on my journey from Suzhou to Nanhua Town, I didn't mention the twists and turns on the road for the time being, and when I entered the town, I caught up with the announcement posted at the entrance of the town.

After settling down, I entered the inn, and I heard the man and the shopkeeper mention to me about the thieves and thefts inside.

The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings. It's not peaceful!

To this is the strange-behaving man who appeared in the inn.

According to the young man, he said that he was an old friend of the innkeeper. The one who planted tea near Beilang Mountain helped escort the tea leaves.

The statement can stand up to scrutiny, but no matter how you look at it, there is an indescribable taste for that person.

I can't explain it. The doubts in my heart could not be completely solved by the young man's words.

All these things have made me anxious for no reason, and the most important point is that I can't avoid the fact that I am acting alone!

Even if there are multiple guards around me, even if there is one more flexible and cheerful girl like Wu Yu by my side.

As long as the two of them act in a good manner, it won't make me so nervous.

When I was in the house of Yuwen's family in the east of Suzhou City, I complained in my heart about the person sent to me by the tsundere boy.

Those people have to follow everywhere they go, and on the surface, they say they are guards, but in fact, half of them are similar to monitors, so they will inevitably be constrained.

Fortunately, Yuanbao and Alai have the right temper. I know how to read words and colors, so that I will not be disgusted.

When I was in the capital city, I complained in my heart that my senior brother followed him personally in everything.

Wherever I go, I can't do without his sight, and I also feel uncomfortable with my brother staring at me and following me.

But when I really got rid of all the shackles and moved freely and got the freedom I wanted, it didn't take long for me to realize the new drawbacks.

What a fickle animal you are!

It's best that the other party always appears at the most suitable time, and can stay away from you when you feel that it is not suitable.

That's too much to ask!

Thinking about it, I blame myself for being kidnapped on the river by mistake, which led to the failure to find my black brother in Suzhou City in the future.

To know before coming. I made a deal with my brother, and he promised me that my trip to the Northland would give me enough freedom, just as I had fought for someone before.

In other words, with the means of the senior brother. It's not like there's no trace left in Suzhou City.

I thought about this question many times in the dead of night.

I guessed that something had happened to him that caused him to delay the meeting with me.

Maybe someone else had already left when I arrived in Suzhou!

There are both possibilities, and the truth is known only to the person concerned. Thoughts flashed back and I blinked. I looked back at the entrance of the alley I entered.

After the strange man passed, no one else followed. I was the only one in the alley.

Of course, from the angle from which I stood, I could see the people who walked through the market in a flash at the entrance of the alley, always passing by like beads connected to each other.

Standing still, I walked slowly down the narrow alley.

The bluestone mottled pavement looks like it's a long time.

The road is so narrow that it can almost accommodate one person to pass through, and the doorway that I occasionally pass by is also old and mottled and the gate is closed, and I can't hear the sound inside.

If it weren't for the flowers and branches that can be seen at the corner of the eaves, there would still be a bit of vitality when you look at it, and at first glance you would think that it was an abandoned house.

Look at the bustling bazaar outside and the cold alleys here, the contrast is too stark.

When I got out of the alley, my vision suddenly widened, and I saw a smooth and spacious street in front of me.

After a rough remark, I took a slight detour through the streets, made my way through the crowd, and found the right route in the direction of the inn where I had temporarily settled.

It's more than half a day!

I wore the hat that my aunt had given me temporarily, a dark hat, a little bigger on my head.

As I walked, I thought about it, and felt that the hat I was wearing on my head was too much of a hindrance.

The hat was too big, and it looked cumbersome.

I thought I'd wait until I got back to the inn and think about it in the long run, and use what I'm good at.

When I get out of Nanhua Town and on the way to the Northland, I plan to dress up safer again.

You can think about what you want to look like in advance, and there is no doubt about men's clothing.

When I went to the Northland, I still went deep into the foreign settlements, and walked outside in women's clothes, I was not so bold.

I'm alone! It's impossible to take that much risk, and the disguise is my umbrella. Men's identity is also indispensable protection.

One thought after another came to my mind.

I thought about whether I should just pick myself up and dress up as an old gentleman this time?

No way. It's a little more difficult to ask yourself, but it's not difficult to look. It's the demeanor that's hard.

If you forget to jump a few steps one day, you'll have to break the gong!

I want to still dress up as a young man, but my appearance still needs to be changed, for example

Gearing up, I had a new plan in mind, and as I walked along the road, I remembered the shops I had been paying attention to.

There's a new plan, and there's a new goal!

Not surprisingly, at the bend of the second street, I saw the small pharmacy I had seen on the way here.

In the streets I walked through in Nanhua Town, there were several pharmacies.

This one is the smallest I've ever seen. The location is the most partial.

Generally speaking, such a small pharmacy only has some commonly used medicinal herbs, and the scale is small, and there are few things in the warehouse.

I can't see such a small pharmacy in Suzhou City, not even the few I have been to.

However, what I want to buy is not a rare herb in the first place, so I just want to visit here.

I walked in, the shop was small, and I took a quick look around. No one else was in the store.

As far as the eye could see, there was not even a young man who greeted him, only the shopkeeper behind the account who felt that he was about to nap walked to the door to greet him.

I sighed in my heart. Business is very cold!

"What medicine do you want to buy?" He looked at me and asked politely.

The shopkeeper of the pharmacy was surprised that I was wearing a hat to hide my true face.

Because Nanhua Town, like Suzhou, anyone will pass by. So he didn't feel abrupt when he saw a lot. "Shopkeeper, I'll write it to you!"

I thought about it. I walked to the counter and grabbed the pen that was resting on it. The names of the two herbs were written on the paper.

The shopkeeper looked at me and quickly said, "We have the first kind here, you guess you have to go to the bigger pharmacy on the street to find it." "If you're going to buy it all together, you'd better go straight over there," the shopkeeper said earnestly, "so you don't have to run to one more store and waste time." “

When he said this, it increased my favorability. "It's okay," I said quietly, "shopkeeper, you can grab the second one for me, and grind it into powder." “

The shopkeeper listened to my tone lightly, knowing that I was a person with ideas.

He turned around and went to the medicine cabinet to take out the herbs, then walked to the side and began grinding the powder according to my request.

I waited in the lobby of the pharmacy and glanced out into the street, retracting my gaze to focus on the shopkeeper's hands.

He has a pair of dexterous hands, and his movements are very neat, and it seems that he often does these things, and he should have been on duty at the medicine store all the time, not the little guy in the shop who just walked away.

Actually, I wrote two kinds of them, and I didn't expect such a small pharmacy to have them at the same time.

In my opinion, just choose one that you can buy.

The medicine is very cheap, and it doesn't add up much, but the shopkeeper grinds it into powder and wraps it in paper for me.

When he handed it to me, he told me to be careful not to spill the powder.

After the handover, I hadn't left, and his eyes glanced over the counter at the paper I had just written.

Then, the shopkeeper of the pharmacy said to me, "I wanted to tell you before, your words are very similar to a doctor in our town. "He's a lot older, though."

I was stunned for a moment, holding the paper bag in my hand, and then looked up at the shopkeeper.

I was wearing the hood that my aunt gave me, and he couldn't see my true face, but I didn't know why, but I just heard him mention it, and I thought of the name. "What do you mean," I asked the shopkeeper hesitantly.

He smiled apologetically at me and said, "It's just a bit like, there used to be a doctor in our town surnamed Wu, and sometimes patients would come to me to grab medicine." "I've seen a lot of Dr. Wu's handwriting, and I felt quite similar to your handwriting at a glance."

This is rare, I frowned, I thought it was a little incredible! "Won't they go to other pharmacies?" I asked casually.

The shopkeeper smiled at me and continued, "My shop is run by myself, it's not big, you can see, but the price of medicine here is the cheapest in town. “

"When Dr. Wu was in the town, there were a lot of people here." "Why is that?" I couldn't help but ask, looking at the shopkeeper's tone seriously, "A large-scale pharmacy has a large number of types of medicinal materials coming in, and the price can be suppressed." "How can you make it cheaper than theirs?"

It may be that the business is too cold, and it is rare that there will be customers who will care about these details.

The shopkeeper stood at the counter and chatted with me.

"I've been in business for a long time," he paused and said in a changed tone, "but I've always run it alone, and I've never hired anyone to do things for me." "That's the cost savings alone."

It's true that labor money has to be counted in it, I know.

"Another thing, I close this pharmacy for a few days at the end of every month."

Speaking of this, the shopkeeper's expression made a little waves, which made me feel strange for a second.

I groaned for a moment, looked up at him puzzled, met his gaze and asked, "Shopkeeper, isn't there no one here to buy medicine after you close the shop?" ”

No matter how cold the business is, you have to open a store!

"A few days after the closure of the store, I went to the village near Nanhua Town to collect some medicinal materials dried by the mountain people, and came back to process them."

The shopkeeper explained to me: "Most of the people who come to buy medicine in Nanhua Town are regular customers, and the big guys know my rules here." "Of the several pharmacies in Nanhua Town, only one of them did this, and almost all of the other two went to Suzhou to purchase."

I glanced at the shopkeeper unexpectedly, I didn't expect that he would mention the matter of entering medicinal materials to strange customers, but after thinking about it, it was probably because of the reasons he said earlier.

He said that my handwriting was a bit similar to Wu Yu's father, so he unconsciously let down some of his guard and said more.

"A lot of medicinal materials from Xilanan were transported to Suzhou, and then sold to Nanhua Town at a higher price."

I suddenly said, "I see, it's rare!" ”

I found the shopkeeper of this pharmacy quite interesting, as if it was the second interesting person I met in Nanhua Town.

The purchase channels are different, and some of the medicinal materials he commonly sees here are directly purchased from the nearby mountain people, which is naturally much cheaper than the purchase price of those big pharmacies.

"So, for the convenience that the mountain people gave me, I also gave back to the people here, they came to my shop to get medicine, and the price was lower than others."

The shopkeeper said on the phone, and his eyes were a little apologetic: "It's so much nonsense, it's delaying your time." ”

The corners of my mouth tugged slightly, and I said to him lightly in a somewhat casual tone: "No, I want to hear it." "You're welcome, shopkeeper."

I arched my hand at him, and was about to exit the door with the medicine bag in my hand, when I walked to the door and almost bumped into a man who had followed him.

When the shopkeeper saw this scene at the door, his face instantly sank and his tone changed. "Why are you here?" (To be continued.) )