The sun is setting and the wind is blowing. Although it is the late autumn season in Xingling, I don't feel a trace of coolness at all.

On the path leading from Weishan to Xingling Town, a young man with a bamboo basket on his back was hurrying on the road. She is Luo Jianchen, a girl who has just crossed out of the Thousand Days Forest.

Luo Jianchen's family lives in Xingling Town. Her ancestors practiced medicine in Xingling Town for a living, and her maternal grandfather Lu Zhen was a very famous Langzhong within a radius of 100 miles, and Lu Zhen only had a daughter under his knees, nicknamed Wanyue. Wanyue is smart and beautiful, she has practiced medicine with her father since she was a child, and she has a true heritage, and as her daughter grows older, he wants to find a solid family for her daughter to live a good life. It's just that the daughter has a very high heart, and people who don't have the same temperament would rather never marry,

Until Lu Zhen was seriously ill, he discussed with Wan Yue, set up a medical bureau in the Lu family's medical hall, and promised that if someone could break the medical bureau, he would marry his daughter to him. This was a great temptation, and so there was an endless stream of visitors, but no one could unlock his medical situation.

Until one day, Wanyue rescued a young man from the mountains, and she didn't want this young man to easily break Lu Zhen's medical bureau. This young man is Luo Jianchen's father, Luo Yi.

After Lu Zhen's death, Luo Yi and Wan Yue took over the Lu family medical hall, at the beginning, due to Luo Yi's superb medical skills, the business of the medical hall was not lost when Lu Zhen was alive, but since the husband and wife returned from traveling in a foreign country, Luo Yi's temperament suddenly changed, and he became obsessed with alchemy. After coming and going, everyone Dao Luoyi was crazy, and no one dared to see him again. The Lu Family Medical Center also declined because of this. Later, Wan Yue simply sold the medical hall, and then migrated with Luo Yi to a remote courtyard in the west of the town.

Not long after Luo Jianchen was born, Wanyue died of illness, and the people in the town felt that Luo Yi was a disaster, so no one had anything to do with him. The Luo family's life has also become more and more difficult.

Alchemy needs herbs, life needs money, Luo Yi with his young daughter, and there is no other way to make money, so he has to go to the mountains to make medicine. Luo Jianchen and Luo Yi have traveled between the mountains and forests since they were children, and the father and daughter have relied on the sale of some herbs to make a living. The young Luo Jianchen had already learned many herbs. Luo Yi has a special interest in refining pills, and often studies the methods of refining endlessly, and over time, the intelligent Luo Jianchen has also learned a lot of alchemy methods, and Luo Yi teaches his daughter some medical skills when he is free. In this way, for ten years, Luo Jianchen's medical skills are actually not inferior to ordinary Langzhong, just because she is still young, and because Luo Yi has no intention of practicing medicine, the father and daughter of the Luo family are still living a life of medicine.

Less than half a mile from the city gate, you can already see the smoky gray city wall and the dark red city gate in the distance. Luo Jianchen stopped and took a breath, fortunately, the city gate was still not closed, and he couldn't help but rejoice in his heart.

"Jian Chen, it's too late to return today. "The one guarding the west gate is a fat man forty miles away, called Chen Chunlai, with a fiery temper, but he always has a smiling face towards Luo Jianchen, his family has some distant relatives with the ancestors of the Lu family, after Lu Zhen died, he also took care of Wanyue, but after Wanyue died, Luo Yi didn't like to interact with people, so he was estranged. Luo Jianchen had to pass through Xicheng every time he entered the mountain to take medicine, and after a long time, he became familiar with Chen Chunlai. Chen Chunlai took pity on Luo Jianchen for losing his mother at a young age, and he had to run around for his livelihood, so he took special care of him. Although it was past the time to close the city gate today, seeing that Luo Jianchen had not returned, he deliberately stayed at the door and waited.

"Uncle Chen, I've delayed your return home again. Luo Jianchen was a little reluctant to go to the tunnel.

Chen Chunlai said with a smile: "Child, uncle is idle and idle, it's cool here, just to take advantage of the cool."

"Is Uncle Chen's illness better? Luo Jianchen put down the bamboo basket on his shoulder, took out a handful of asters from the basket, and said with a smile: "Uncle, this is a freshly made aster, you can bring some back, it is very effective in curing my aunt's cough." ＂

Chen Chunlai waved his hand again and again: "Last time, when you diagnosed your aunt, you sent a lot of medicines, and those medicines worked very well, and your aunt's cough has improved much after taking a few doses." It's not easy for you to get these medicines, so it's better to keep them for your own money and sell them. ＂

Luo Jianchen said: "I'll go and see my aunt again tomorrow, this disease has to be cured." ＂

Chen Chunlai said with a smile: "Good boy, your aunt is also very worried about you, by the way, today I met the shopkeeper of Xiangfu Pharmacy, and he said that if he sees you, let you go to the pharmacy today." It looks like something your dad wanted has arrived. ＂

Luo Jianchen said happily: "It arrived so quickly this time." Then I'll go in a moment, thank you Uncle Chen. Then I'll go first. Seeing that Chen Chunlai insisted on refusing to accept the herbs, she put the aster back into the bamboo basket, thanked Chen Chunlai, picked up the bamboo basket, and walked towards the city with brisk steps.

Looking at Luo Jianchen's thin back, Chen Chunlai sighed lightly and said, "Poor child, if Sister Wanyue is still suffering from this, why is she such a father?" What a sin. Alas, when would my baby be as sensible as this child. He muttered to himself and turned back to close the city gates.

Just turned around like this, and scared him into a rage. Behind him, at some point, a man dressed in black was standing.

When he and Luo Jianchen were talking here, they didn't see that there were still pedestrians on the official road, and there were not many people entering and leaving the city every day in this town, not to mention that this west city was not closer to Xingshui than the southeast second gate, and it was a gate that foreigners must pass through. How could he stand silently behind him? Is this a man or a ghost?

The afterglow of the setting sun cast the man's long shadow on the bluestone floor tiles, Chen Chun looked at the shadows on the ground and swallowed, laughing at the absurd idea that came to him in an instant, where would there be ghosts in this broad daylight, and where would ghosts have shadows.

"How do I get to the county office? The man in black's voice sounded extremely cold, but there was a hint of a smile on his face.

Chen Chunlai was a little annoyed in his heart, and he settled down and carefully looked at the man in front of him, twenty-seven or eighteen years old, his face was like powder, his picturesque eyebrows and eyes were very demonic, wearing a black dark pattern robe, covered with a black cloak, Chen Chunlai muttered to himself: How can men look more handsome than women, it's really amazing. But how can a very beautiful man feel that there is an eerie aura all over his body, which makes people shudder at the sight, and for some reason, Chen Chunlai has a chill on his back.

He suppressed the fear rising in his heart and said impatiently: "The county government is six miles away from here, and after passing through the front three streets, there is a pair of stone lions in front of the door. But now there was no one in the yamen at this hour. ＂

The man squinted and smiled, a pair of slender eyes glowing with a strange flattering light, Chen Chunlai trembled in his heart, stunned for a moment, the man's hand was empty, Chen Chunlai only felt that his neck was tight, as if a hand was tightly choking his throat, before he could struggle, he heard a "click", his neck had hung down softly, and his body fell to the ground.

"Impolite mortals. The man looked at the corpse on the ground with disdain, and a flame of fire popped out of his hand and fell on the corpse, and then he walked straight towards the city without looking back.

A cold wind blew behind him, and the corpse on the ground turned into a string of bubbles and dissipated with the wind.

Luo Jianchen was thinking in his heart as he walked, should he go to Xiangfu Pharmacy first or go home first? In the end, I decided to go to the pharmacy first, so that I could sell the herbs I found today. If the shopkeeper is here today, maybe he can negotiate a good price.

From the West City Gate to Xiangfu Pharmacy, there were three streets to cross, and as soon as Luo Jianchen turned the second street, he heard a commotion in the direction of De'an Private School in front of him, and then a crimson figure rushed towards him.