Although the fake braid and the old cotton clothes looked very dirty and smelly, and the clothes were just as disgusting, unless Li Zhigao was willing to stay here for twenty-four hours, or just risked being caught, he really had no choice.

After all, he came through by accident this time, and he really has no long body, and he has not encountered danger so far, so he is already very good, and he is even more lucky to meet this merchant, if he lets go casually, he may not have such good luck to meet such a person next time.

The unknown world is always dangerous, and a person here will become lonely and lonely, and at this time, having someone with you will always feel a lot more at ease, not to mention a local who is familiar with the local situation.

In the end, Li Zhigao still bought a fake braid to wear on his head, and put on the old cotton jacket and cotton pants on his body, and then put on an old melon skin hat, smeared some dirt on his face, and put on a pair of cotton shoes.

Of course, all this was not given for nothing, and the price was a plastic ballpoint pen that Li Zhigao carried with him, pretending to be Citigroup's latest product, called the tap pen.

It was with this ballpoint pen that the merchant who called himself Liu Runsheng agreed to give him fake braids and old clothes, and gave Li Zhigao two oceans, plus agreed to take Li Zhigao out of here and go to the nearest inn to stay.

As a result, Li Zhigao secretly sighed in his heart, fortunately, he forgot to take it out in his pocket, otherwise, it would be really difficult.

"Do you think I'm still dressed up?" Li Zhigao, who was wearing fake braids and changing into a robe, smiled and arched his hand at Liu Runsheng.

"Your waist." Liu Runsheng shook his head, "You have to bend a little, don't raise your head so highly, otherwise it will be easy to attract the eye if you go out like this." ”

"Oh?" After listening to Liu Runsheng's words, Li Zhigao immediately bent down slightly, and put his hands in his sleeves, and then asked, "What now?" ”

"Make do with it." Liu Runsheng shook his head, "As long as you don't go into the city, you won't be fine." ”

"Why? Don't I have fake braids anymore? ”

"Well, because you are a living person, if you want to enter the city, you must first pass the city gate police, in addition to coming to ask you and collect the city tax with you, they will also come up to pull your braids, and when the time comes, you will know if it is true or false."

"So ruthless? Those police officers are idle, do they hurt? It's okay to come up and pull other people's braids to play? ”

"That's not it, but those city gate policemen are also poor, I heard that the court has no money, and they have been in arrears for a long time, so why not make money? This tugging braid is one of them. If you have real braids, it will be fine, and if you find out that it is fake braids, either you will give money immediately, or you will be arrested and sent back to jail, and your family will use the money to ransom people. If you can't come up with the money at that time, just say that you are a revolutionary party and go to receive a reward from the imperial court, after all, the imperial court is still quite generous in terms of arresting the revolutionary party. ”

"I see." Li Zhigao nodded, "It seems that if this grassroots civil servant doesn't pay money, he is indeed more ferocious than the flood beast...... Well, let's go, then? ”

"Okay." Liu Runsheng frowned, "But let's talk about it first, I still have something at home, I have to rush back, at most, I can only take you to the nearest inn to stay first, can you see it?" ”

"No problem." Li Zhigao nodded, "As long as there is a place to rest, I will make my own arrangements later." ”

Next, Li Zhigao followed Liu Runsheng forward, of course, he was not idle during the period, Li Zhigao kept asking questions, although Liu Runsheng's mood was not high, but people seemed to be good, and he basically answered Li Zhigao's questions, and if he really didn't know, he shook his head honestly.

In this question-and-answer process, the journey was not lonely, and it also allowed Li Zhigao to know more about the world, but limited by Liu Runsheng's level, don't think about any national events, at most some nearby market chatter, and some of his personal private affairs.

For example, in the Q&A, Li Zhigao knew that Liu Runsheng's family used to be very generous, and his father and grandfather's generations were all famous businessmen in the neighborhood, but later the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom made a lot of trouble, and the family fell into the middle of the road.

However, that's all a matter of old age, and the reason why he is not in a good mood now is not because his family is in the middle of the road, but because the old lady of the family has tuberculosis.

In the past, it was okay, and the cough was not bad, but recently his wife's health has become worse and worse, the cough has become more and more frequent, and the hemoptysis has become more and more every time. I have invited a lot of doctors, and they all said that there is nothing they can do but take care of it, and it would be good to live this year, and he is the most filial, so he has been depressed.

If he didn't have to support his family, he really wanted to serve his mother at home all day and accompany her to the end of her last days, but because of this, he no longer went to distant places, and only went to nearby villages and towns to buy goods.

"Don't worry too much, it's not like it's incurable." Li Zhigao, who heard this, immediately comforted, "Jiren has his own natural appearance, your mother will be fine." ”

The reason why Li Zhigao said this was because he didn't see what his wife's current situation was, whether it was tuberculosis or not, or to what extent tuberculosis had progressed, so he didn't say enough.

"Thank you for your good words." Liu Runsheng shook his head, "But I know that this disease is not cured at all, I ...... Hey, forget it, it's all fate. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Runsheng didn't talk much, and at this time, he happened to walk to a fork in the road, and sure enough, Li Zhigao saw a building called "Anping Inn" on the side of the road not far ahead.

"Alright, I'll send you here." Then Liu Runsheng said to Li Zhigao at the fork in the road, "I'm going to go to the right, and I'm really not going along the way with you." Well, although the inn in front of you is not the best inn in this neighborhood, it is the nearest inn, and the price is also fair, as long as you have a big ocean, you can ask for a single room for three days. Not only can you eat and live, but you can also run mules and horses to transport goods on behalf of people, and if you are too tired to walk, you can hire their carts. ”

"Thank you so much." Li Zhigao bowed his hand to him again, and then said, "Since you are in a hurry to go back, I will no longer bother." In addition, to tell you the truth, I am actually a doctor, a doctor who returned from abroad, if you want to cure your mother's tuberculosis, Ming, no, the day after tomorrow, you will go to the inn to find me at this time the day after tomorrow, when the time comes, I will prepare the equipment and medicinal materials, and go to your house with you to see your mother. ”

"What?" Hearing this, Liu Runsheng was immediately taken aback, "You, you said that you are a doctor in Liuyang?" You, why didn't you tell me before? ”

"You didn't ask me before." Li Zhigao said with a smile.

"Then you, since you are a doctor in Liuyang, why are you there alone?"

"I said I was robbed, do you believe it or not?"

"Faith." Liu Runsheng nodded, "This neighborhood belongs to the territory of the little white dragon, didn't you run into him?" ”

"Little, little white dragon?" Li Zhigao opened his mouth, "Are there really bandits?" ”

"It's so fresh, haven't you just been robbed?"

"Ahem, I mean, I'm not sure who robbed me, it's just a couple of strong men...... Hey, is the security here so bad? ”

"It's not bad, it's bad, it's terrible. In recent years, everyone has said that they are not at peace, which mountain is not a bandit, let alone the mountain, the villages in many places, usually farming, farming are idle, so they go to be bandits, and they have long been surprised. We're good here, if you cross the Jiangbei, then there will be bandits everywhere. ”

"Since there are so many bandits, how dare you go around by yourself like this?"

"The bandits are all robbing the rich, I am so bitter haha, I will not be embarrassed. Besides, bandits also need food and clothing, right? I also have to rely on a merchant like me to sell things to them, and by the way, sell their things for money, so not only will they not embarrass a merchant like me, but they also have to beg me. ”

"Oh, I see." Li Zhigao nodded, feeling like a merchant in this era, and he also sells stolen goods part-time.