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Zuo Shaoyang didn't want to go to the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, where the people did not lack medical treatment, what he wanted to go to was a place where there was a shortage of medical treatment and medicine, and while traveling, he would send medical treatment and medicine to those people. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zuo Shaoyang and Wu Meiniang rode two donkeys, with a carriage behind them, which was filled with Zuo Shaoyang's new medicinal materials. The horse was tied behind Zuo Shaoyang's donkey, and he just followed.

His travel route is to prepare to go north and then south, taking advantage of the warm season of summer and autumn, to travel to the north to practice medicine, and then to the south when winter comes. In the spring and summer of the next year, I will return to the capital.

So they went all the way to the north, and along the way they practiced medicine, and in late autumn, they arrived at Lingzhou Mansion at the foot of Helan Mountain.

This is already a northern scenery, because the Tang Dynasty has destroyed the Eastern Turks, so it is already a peaceful and prosperous era, along the way to see a lot of camel caravans, wearing fur clothes.

For safety on the road, Wu Meiniang has changed into men's clothes, wearing a thick jacket, covering her slender figure, and like the people in northern Xinjiang, she is covered with a scarf, and outsiders don't know her daughter's body.

However, the two rode donkeys to northern Xinjiang, which is still relatively rare, so passers-by are somewhat sideways.

The two rode donkeys and pulled the carriage loaded with medicinal herbs, and entered Lingzhou City in the heavy snow.

When you enter the city, there are a lot of people, bustling, and when you enter the city, the streets are full of people, and it is very lively.

Wu Meiniang looked east and west, wanting to see everything, but Zuo Shaoyang was very strange, she had passed through many towns along the way, and she had never seen so many people, which was not less than the capital. And most of them seem to be outsiders, so what kind of activities can't be done?

When they came to an inn in the city, the shopkeeper greeted them with a smile and a smile, and invited them into the lobby as if they were staying at the hotel, as if they were staying in the hotel.

The shopkeeper smiled and looked at the two of them, although Zuo Shaoyang's divine doctor is famous all over the world, but there are not many people who have seen him in person, and he is deliberately dressed very sloppily, with a bald head covered with a leather hat on his head, and his beard is unkempt, so no one recognizes him. Said: "Who are the two guest officers, ......?" ”

Zuo Shaoyang said: "We live in the hotel!" ”

"Naturally, those who come to Lingzhou now must live in a hotel."

"By the way, shopkeeper," Wu Meiniang asked curiously, "Why are there so many people in this Lingzhou City?" Has there always been so many people? ”

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and looked at the two of them again: "The two of you should have come from afar, right?" ”

"Yes, we're from the South." Zuo Shaoyang said with a smile.

"No wonder," said the shopkeeper with a smile, "it's about to come to the Fire Festival, and people from all over the world come to worship, so the city is full of people." The old man thought that the two of them were also here to worship the fire, but it turned out that they were not. ”

Zuo Shaoyang said with a smile: "We are traveling doctors, and we go around to see people. By the way, the shopkeeper, what's going on with this fire worship festival? He had only heard of the Torch Festival, not of the Fire Worship Festival.

The shopkeeper said, "The Fire Festival is the practice of the mage, worshipping the god of fire." ”

Zuo Shaoyang somewhat understood, the ancients had a lot of worship, among which the worship of fire was very common, he had been in the Western Regions for many years, and the Bon religion in the Western Regions also had the worship of the god of fire, presumably the same is the case here. He is still the identity of the Dharma King, but he has not revealed it, and he does not want to use this identity to participate in this fire worship festival, he only comes to visit, and he is not interested in watching this kind of religious ceremony. Then he said: "The shopkeeper, open two upper rooms!" ”

The shopkeeper said, "Are the two brothers?" ”

"No, it's father and son, it's my son." Zuo Shaoyang pointed at Wu Meiniang and said.

The shopkeeper smiled: "I see, then I'm sorry, I can only give two of you a room!" ”

Why is that? Are you still afraid that we will not be able to pay for it? ”

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "It's not like this, if you say that you want to have as many rooms, but now the city is full of worshipping guests, and the festival has already ordered that in order to allow more people to live and participate in the pilgrimage, the inn should accommodate guests as much as possible, brothers, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, sisters, etc., should live together as much as possible, leaving rooms for others." That's the way you go to any inn in town. You see, there are more than two people living in each of our rooms, and some of them are still crammed into one room as a family! It is said that the two of you are father and son, and even if you are father and daughter, you can only live in one room. It is not possible to stay in two rooms. ”

Zuo Shaoyang was dumbfounded, and looked back at Wu Meiniang. Wu Meiniang smiled, infinitely charming, it seemed that the shopkeeper had already heard her identity as a daughter from what she said just now. That's why I say that.

Zuo Shaoyang glanced upstairs again, and sure enough, there were people coming in and out, and the store would not push away the opportunity to make money unless it was absolutely necessary. I had to nod and say, "In that case, let's open an upper room, a cleaner one and a larger one." ”

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "I am not satisfied with you to say, there are two more days to the fire festival, the shop has already been full, there are only two rooms in the upper room, the window is very small, but it is quite warm, but it is a little dark, and relatively small, other rooms are not yet." ”

"Oh? Then take us to see it. Zuo Shaoyang said.

The shopkeeper took the key himself and led the two upstairs. Squeeze past piles of people and walk into a walkway with walls on both sides. The shopkeeper pointed to the opposite wall and said: "This is the wall of the house next door, it has been repaired to this side, I told them, they ignored it, and told the yamen, and the yamen didn't care, so angry that I couldn't do anything." ”

Zuo Shaoyang stretched out his hand and touched the brick wall next to the corridor, it was cool, it was already full of frost, there were four rooms against this wall, the outer two were already full of people, and the two rooms in the back were still empty.

They went to the door, and the shopkeeper took out the key and opened the two doors, the outer one, which was closer to the patio and was brighter, was smaller, and the innermost one, which was larger but darker.

After entering the house, I found that the outside window was closed, and the black hole was hollow, and I walked over to see that the window had been nailed shut, Zuo Shaoyang said: "Can't this window be opened?" ”

"If you can open it, you don't have to close it and nail it. -- Outside the window is the back wall of another house, which is blocked, and the window cannot be opened. ”

Zuo Shaoyang looked out from the gap in the window, and sure enough, it was a blue brick high wall, and he exhaled angrily: "What's the matter with these people, why are they all sticking to other people's windows to repair houses?" How do people get light like this? ”

The shopkeeper smiled embarrassedly: "This is a house that will be repaired first, and we will repair it later." ”

Wu Meiniang snorted and laughed: "It turns out that this time you blocked other people's windows?" ”

"No, they don't have windows on their side."

"Outside your window is someone's wall, what are you doing with the window?"

"When I opened the window, it was more than a foot away from the opposite wall, and I could open the window halfway, so I could let in the wind in the summer, so I opened it."

"I see." Wu Meiniang asked Zuo Shaoyang, "Dad, which one do we live in?" ”

"What do you say?"

"Let's stay in the innermost room, and we can open the window on this side of the aisle so that no one else can pass by the window."

"That makes sense, that's it. - Shopkeeper, please get another bed! ”

The shopkeeper agreed, and quickly ordered the man to make another bed and put it on the other side, and there was a square table in the middle window, which was similar to a modern standard room.

The man brought in the coverings, and they were all clean, and boiled a large basin of hot water to wash them.

Zuo Shaoyang wanted to order a few dishes and send them to the room, but after listening to the names of the dishes reported by the guys, they were all boiled beef and mutton and the like, and he really had no appetite.

The street is bustling with people, and the shops here are not limited to the east and west markets like Chang'an, but are set up everywhere, and there are shops on both sides of the street, so people walk in the street, looking left and right are all shops, and the goods are dazzling, which is still very good.

Everywhere they went, they had to carry a banner and practice medicine for several days, and they had walked around the town before moving on to the next.

At that time, it was common for bell doctors to walk the rivers and lakes with banners on their shoulders, so no one was surprised. The only strange thing is the words on Zuo Shaoyang's medical practice banner, which read, "Treat incurable diseases that others can't cure!" ”

This tone is very big, it's just that Ling Doctor practices medicine, most of them rely on one mouth, and they slip away when they cheat money, and they are much bigger than this tone, such as "Saihuatuo", "Living Immortals" and so on, but they all boast that their medical skills are like gods, and it is rare for Zuo Shaoyang to dare to say bluntly that he specializes in treating diseases that others can't cure. So it still caused some passers-by to look sideways, but the bell doctor boasted too much, for such a banner, most people thought it was a gimmick, so no one looked for him to see a doctor.

Zuo Shaoyang is not in a hurry, he doesn't need to worry about money at all now, seeing a doctor is just a hobby. didn't take the initiative to find someone to see a doctor, holding a banner, and taking Wu Meiniang to walk slowly along the way.

Wu Meiniang likes to be lively the most, especially likes to visit shops, almost one by one, she has to see everything, fortunately, she only looks at it and doesn't buy it, she also knows that the two of them have to travel around the entire Tang Dynasty, if they see everything they like, they can't take away so many things.

Zuo Shaoyang finally saw a restaurant, which was very magnificent, so he walked in with a banner.

Doctor Suzu usually doesn't have much money, so the shopkeeper only glanced at him and went to greet someone else. Zuo Shaoyang was not surprised, and went straight to a table and chair by the window to sit down.

It is already late autumn, it is already icy and snowy in Mobei, this restaurant is relatively large, there is a big charcoal fire in it, some diners are sitting around the stove munching beef and mutton and drinking, but no one sits by the window, because although the window is closed, the cold wind can still blow in through the gap.

(To be continued)