Jiang Qu told them along the way about the pleasant scenery of Taihua Mountain, and the liveliness of the small village at the foot of the mountain, which he had passed by several years ago, although the village was not rich, the villagers were extremely hospitable. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Sima Luming only said coldly, "We are here to collect medicine, and we will leave when we get the medicine." Just such a sentence was like cold water poured on his head, extinguishing Jiang Qu's high excitement.

Gu Changsheng was also a little ashamed in his heart, naturally knowing that their trip was to take herbs to relieve the rat poison on her senior sister's body, she herself was not good at it, and she lured the wolf into the house, and the injury of the senior sister could not be said to have nothing to do with her at all. But after living on the mountain for so long, it is rare to have the opportunity to see the lively scene under the mountain after a few years.

said that he was as dedicated to completing the master's entrustment as Sima Luming, and he had no other distractions at all, and what he said about Jiang Qu was also false.

She thought, it's time for her to introspect.

The five of them entered the village, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the scenery was indeed beautiful, but in broad daylight, when it was time to work, the village was frighteningly quiet, if it weren't for the fact that the houses in this room didn't look deserted and dilapidated, but also made people think that the villagers had moved elsewhere.

Qian Ruyue was still wearing a face scarf, not wanting people to see her face damaged. She looked at Jiang Qu and felt that even if he exaggerated, he was really exaggerated. "That's what you call hospitality, lively? Or do they only come out at night. ”

Jiang Qu said strangely, "Impossible, I didn't come like this before." He looked at a room not far away, next to the house a simple table with wooden planks set up, and there was a flag next to the table, on which was crookedly written Liu's baked cakes.

The shop was just as he remembered, he remembered that he used to have a pancake shop when he came here, and he even bought a pancake here to eat.

No matter how the world changes, it won't change dramatically, and the people here don't have to come out to work to support their families.

Qian Ruyue said, "You used to come?" How many years ago did you come? She glanced at the desolation of the village, and fanned her hand in front of her nose, and the musty smell that emanated from the village stinked to death. I don't know if there is an inn to settle into. ”

Gu Changsheng only felt that looking at the situation, let alone the inn, there were tiles...... No, it's nice to have a roof, whether it's tiles or straw, and it's nice to have a roof to cover your head.

Chu Ban shrank to Gu Changsheng's side.

It's been two years, maybe this child is developing more slowly, just like her, how tall she was when she went up the mountain, and it's about the same now. Fu Yan once said that she wasted rice and grain, and did not admit it after eating. Chu Ban didn't grow much, just as tall as her shoulders.

Gu Changsheng smiled and touched Chu Ban's head.

As they walked forward, they found that the doors and windows were closed from house to house, so Jiang Qu simply knocked on the door, knocked on several households, and did not see anyone open the door or answer the sound. "It's impossible to really move the whole village." Jiang Qu read it in his mouth, and he heard a cough not far away.

I saw an old man walking slowly on crutches. The old man was very surprised to see them, the village was not big, and the villagers did not look up and looked down, they knew each other. It's been a long time since a stranger has come to this village. "You ......"

Jiang Qu was overjoyed, and after looking for a long time, he finally saw someone, Sima Luming said steadily, "Old man, we are passing by." Looking for a place to stay. ”

"We don't have a place to entertain outsiders, so let's go while it's still dark." The old man waved his hands to drive people away, and the villagers described by Jiang Qu were very hospitable, which was indeed very different.

Jiang Qu said, "We have something to do to stay here. "Although I know that the snake herb is born on Taihua Mountain, I can't go up unprepared, I always have to ask the locals who are familiar with the situation in the mountains, such a big Taihua Mountain, you can't always be like a headless fly and no direction to go around, if you can find someone to lead the way, it would be better." You see how this is, we are willing to give money, can you borrow a place to facilitate with people? ”

The old man said impatiently, "I said there is no place to lend you, go quickly." ”

When did Qian Ruyue suffer such idleness, her temper also came up, and she said, "Why are you like this, you don't make any money." It's just a night's stay, if you don't borrow, you won't borrow, I'm not rare to live in your dilapidated house, it stinks. ”

Jiang Qu tugged at Qian Ruyue's sleeve, asked her to say a few words, and reminded in a low voice, "Now we have people who ask for help, do we have people like you." You don't really want to sleep on the streets tonight. ”

"Now people don't want us to stay, and they don't want to take the money. If you ask for it, I won't ask for it. "It's impossible for her to keep her in a low voice. She didn't believe that he had the ability to make the old man change his mind, Qian Ruyue complained to Jiang Qudao, "It's all your fault, what do you say that the villagers here are enthusiastic, there is no ghost in the daytime, I think this village is full of weirdos." ”

Qian Ruyue chattered and complained, and it wasn't until Sima Luming looked over that she accepted her voice. Sima Luming waved at the old man and said politely, "If it is inconvenient for the old man, can you tell us which place here we can spend the night?" ”

"Let's go, let's go, I said that there is no place for you outsiders to live."

Chu Ban looked at the medicine box on the old man's shoulder, and pulled Gu Changsheng's hand, Gu Changsheng lowered his head and saw him wink at her. Then he frowned, clutched his chest, and looked in pain. Gu Changsheng was honest and didn't react, but when he was suddenly uncomfortable, he said hurriedly, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Jiang Qu turned his head and saw that Chu Ban seemed to be unable to stand even on his feet, and the whole person fell backwards, but fortunately, Gu Changsheng, who was closest to him, had great strength and could still support him. Before he could be surprised, he saw Chu Ban glaring at him. Jiang Qu snickered, this kid looks like a stuffy gourd on weekdays, but it turns out that he is also a cunning horn.

Sima Luming also probably saw the hint as well, and said, "I'm afraid it's an old illness." ”

The old man's movement was a little inconvenient, he approached with a cane, slowly squatted down, and pulled Chu Ban's hand to diagnose the pulse, as if he also knew Huang Qi's technique.

I don't know what Chu Ban moved, anyway, after a while, the old man said in an urgent tone, "Quickly carry this child to my house, you have to apply an injection." ”

Gu Changsheng was stupidly grateful, just thinking that this illness came suddenly, no matter how good Chu Ban's medical skills were, he could not treat himself.

Jiang Qu made a anxious appearance, immediately put Chu Ban on his back, and whispered, "You kid really don't dare to underestimate you in the future." "It turns out that the least talkative person is better at deceiving people than being able to speak.

Chu Ban buried his head in Jiang Qu's back, touched his hand in his pocket, put his back behind him, and as soon as his fist loosened, he saw two pieces of herbs falling down, and there was a trace of destruction of the corpse......

The old man took them back to the hospital, which was made of straw and made of a simple house. Qian Ruyue looked at it with disgust, although the accommodation of the Jade Void Sect was not magnificent, it was also clean, and to be honest, she had never been in such a dilapidated house.

But at least the smell of herbs in the courtyard is better than the musty smell I just smelled.

There were several small stoves in the courtyard, and a gray-haired woman was watching the fire with a fan, decocting medicine. When the woman saw that the old man had returned, she stopped her movements, first looked at them curiously, and then called out to the old man for her father.

Gu Changsheng was surprised, she knew that it was not very polite to look at people with her eyes straight, but she still couldn't stand looking at the woman twice, not to mention the woman's white hair. Although she is shallow, she has also heard Fu Yan say that some people are young and white-headed, which is not surprising.

But the woman not only had long white hair, her face was full of wrinkles, and her skin was loose because of the loss of elasticity, looking like an old woman in her seventies and eighties.

The old man instructed Jiang Qu to carry Fu Yan into the house, and when he opened the door, he found that the room was full of people, but without exception, they were all old women.

The old man commanded Jiang Qu to put Fu Yan on an empty **, and he couldn't find half a young and strong person in the house, and the old man looked at Sima Luming and Jiang Qu on the side of the **, and saw that they were tall. said, "You two can read, go to the next room to help me get a few medicines, the names are posted on the medicine cabinet, you look for them according to the name, and give them to my daughter when you find them." ”

The old man said the names of a few medicines, which directly aroused people. I looked at it again and couldn't help, so I kept Qian Ruyue and Gu Changsheng, who would only get in the way, and let them go out and wait. Qian Ruyue didn't want to stay in the house, and it was just what she wanted to let her out, in her opinion, the whole village was yin and yang.

Gu Changsheng looked at the woman who decocted the medicine outside the house, and took care of several stoves alone, and took the initiative to say, "I will decoct the medicine." "Her father-in-law's medicine is all fried by her, and she can be regarded as experienced.

The woman who decocted the medicine took out a broken fan and handed it to her, Gu Changsheng took the broken fan and fanned the fire, and then reported his name, "My name is Changsheng." ”

The woman was a little shy, grabbed her hair, and deliberately covered the wrinkles on her face, "My name is Juxiang." ”

When the medicine was ready, Ju Xiang picked up the cloth on the ground and wrapped the handle of the medicine stove, poured a few bowls of soup and medicine, and put the medicine on a board, as if it was about to be sent into the house.

It's just that the board can only hold five bowls of decoction, so there is no place to put it anymore, Gu Changsheng said, "I'll help you." She is not afraid of hot hands, she is used to doing rough work all year round, and her hands have already grown calluses, so she picked up a bowl of medicine in one hand and followed Ju Xiang into the house.

Ju Xiang began to divide the medicine, one bowl per person. It wasn't until almost sunset that the women in the house were picked up one by one, and the men who came to pick them up were all men, the oldest of whom was only in his forties, but he called the lady.

Chu Ban pretended to be sick like this, and the old man was a doctor who treated the disease and saved people, and it was not easy to drive them away with a benevolent heart. He said, "It's getting late, and you can't leave with that child." My place is so big, the women live with Juxiang, and the men sleep here. ”

It seems that this medical house is only inhabited by the father and daughter, and there are two empty rooms. Elsewhere, there are either herbs or piles of debris. There is an empty ** in the hall, but it is convenient for patients to lie down, and now there are Chu spots lying on it.

Jiang Qu glanced at it, thinking that it was going to be laid out tonight.

Jiang Qu said with a hippie smile, "The doctor saved my junior brother, and I don't know what to call it?" ”

The old man said, "My surname is Zhong." ”

Qian Ruyue said strangely, "Why are the husbands of those women I saw today younger than them?" "Could it be that the custom in this village is that you must marry a wife when you get married?

Dr. Zhong obviously didn't want to say more, so he answered the question, "Although I am taking you in, I will keep you for a day or two at most." When the child's condition is stable, let me go immediately. ”

Sima Lu said, "It's not a secret, a few of us came to your place because a relative in the family is seriously ill and needs snake herbs for medicine. I heard that the snake herb is only available in Taihua Mountain, so I came to collect medicine. ”

Doctor Zhong was originally packing up the bottles and cans of the charge, but when he heard their intentions, he stopped his actions and said, "There are no snake herbs on the mountain anymore, let's look elsewhere." ”

Qian Ruyue didn't believe it, "How is it possible, Master told me that snake herbs grow on Taihua Mountain." ”

Doctor Zhong said, "I went up to the mountain to collect medicine, isn't it as good as you who come from other places to understand?" In the past, the snake herbs were indeed all over the mountains, but now they can't be seen. ”

Jiang Qu didn't believe it either, "I once came to this village, and at that time, there were still medicine merchants who picked snake herbs to sell, because this kind of herb can be found everywhere on Taihua Mountain, and the price is very cheap. It's only been a few years, and if it's gone, it's gone, but it's all burned in a wildfire? ”

Dr. Zhong continued to pack up the medicine jar, hearing that they were also collecting medicine to treat their families, and he was willing to tell them about the situation, so as not to let them go in vain and delay time.

"There is a big family at the end of the village, surnamed Fang. That old man used to be an official in the court, and when he was old, he returned to his hometown. At the age of seventy, he had a son, which was very precious. It's a pity that his son has been sick since his mother's womb. I was also invited to see it, but I was not good at medicine and could not be cured. I thought that the son of the Fang family would not live long. Who knows which master came from Yunyou, and gave the old man a prescription, saying that as long as he takes it every day, he can prolong his life. And that prescription also requires a lot of snake herbs to make a medicinal induction. ”

Needless to say, he didn't have to say the rest, except for one of the children who didn't look amazing, the others should all be shrewd.

Jiang Qu continued, "The people of the Fang family have finished picking all the snake herbs?" "This is too exaggerated, doesn't it mean that it was once all over the mountains and fields, and it was harvested?

"Master Fang is such a son, counting on him to pass the lights. In order to keep him alive, not to mention the snake herbs on the mountain, even the herbs in the medicinal herb shop were collected at a high price. Doctor Zhong said, "I don't know if it's finished, I only know that I didn't see you again when I went up the mountain half a month ago." ”

Sima Lu said, "Since Dr. Zhong often goes up the mountain to collect medicine, he must be familiar with the mountain, can he take us up the mountain?" ”

"If you don't believe me, go find it yourself, I don't have that much time to mess around with you." Master Zhong shouted loudly outside the house, and his daughter came over, pointed at Gu Changsheng and said, "Take the two of them to your room." ”

Ju Xiang nodded, led the Changsheng and them back to the room, Qian Ruyue looked at the hard ** in the room critically, knowing that there were no more than three people, and she was thinking about saying that she didn't want to sleep on the ground. I heard the door shut, followed by the sound of chains.

Gu Changsheng walked a few steps to the window, only to find that there was an isolated wooden strip nailed to the window, and the people outside couldn't climb in, and the people inside couldn't climb out. The bell was locked from the outside. Gu Changsheng said, "Doctor Zhong, what is this for!" ”

Qian Ruyue also walked to the window, and when she saw that she was locked up, she immediately scolded, "Why did you lock us up, open the door quickly, did you hear it!" ”

She slapped the wooden strip on the window as she shouted, the medical hall was already small, and this shout alarmed people. When Sima Luming and the others came out, they saw the big lock in front of the door of the Juxiang room, and snatched the key in the hand of Dr. Zhong.

Jiang Qu said vigilantly, "It's just to prevent thieves, and the lock should also be the gate, Doctor Zhong, are you locking the wrong place." ”

Doctor Zhong glanced at Sima Luming and them, "Are you afraid that I will plot against them?" If I'm really trying to do something wrong, I should have made you all unconscious. This girl was yelling and screaming, and my ears hurt. ”

Sima Luming and Jiang Qu calmed down and thought about it, but they also felt that what they said was reasonable. No matter how you look at this old man, he is an ordinary person, and he is not even very steady in walking, if he wants to make money and kill himself, he should first find a way to defeat the two of them young and strong.

Jiang Qu said, "I haven't seen people stay overnight like this, there is always a reason to lock it if you want to lock it." Jiang Qu joked, "Or are you worried that we are thinking about the things in your medical hall, and that we will lose our precious medicinal materials tomorrow?" ”

Dr. Zhong said, "I locked them up for their own good, so as not to lose people in the middle of the night." ”

Jiang Qu said, "It's not a three-year-old child, you don't know the road when you go far." How can there be a shame for no reason. "What's more, they are going to rest, so they can't stay in the room well, where can they go at night.

Dr. Zhong insisted, "I must put on this lock, since you live with us, you must abide by my rules." Otherwise, they will all leave me, so that I will not get up tomorrow and get into trouble. ”

Sima Luming also refused to back down half a point, "If you don't make it clear, you will lock them up like prisoners, and whoever they are replaced with will not agree." ”

When she went out, the master also told her to take care of Changsheng, saying that she was stupid and clumsy, and sometimes she didn't know when she was bullied. Ask him to be more careful.

Although he also felt that Dr. Zhong didn't seem to have malicious intentions towards them, and they met in Pingshui, they were not to the point of trusting them to the point of locking people up with a word.

Qian Ruyue said loudly, "If you don't unlock it, I'll take a sword and unload this window." See who can stop me. ”

Doctor Zhong couldn't help it, but he was so angry by Qian Ruyue's disrespectful attitude that he blew his beard and glared. "Since you don't know what to do, then you can do it yourself. Don't bother my daughter. He opened the lock and let Qian Ruyue and Gu Changsheng come out, and then locked the lock again.

Ju Xiang walked to the window, grabbed the isolated wooden strip, and looked at Gu Changsheng from the room, the night was as cold as water, and Yuehua infected her hair even whiter.

Gu Changsheng looked at it stupidly for a while, until Sima Luming shouted, "Senior sister." She turned around and followed Sima Luming.