"The store, is the store there?" x

After a while, the door opened, and a middle-aged woman came out of it. She glanced at us quickly, then bowed to me: "A few female guests are unlucky, my husband has gone out to see a doctor." ”

"Sister-in-law, we don't see a doctor, we just want to buy a few herbs." Before I could finish my sentence, I heard a "bang" sound, and the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground came from the room behind the woman.

"Sister-in-law, are you hiding someone in the house?" The fishwoman smiled and leaned behind her.

The woman's face changed and she hurriedly waved her hand: "Don't talk nonsense, the female guest is just a child who came to seek medical treatment, and she has to wait in the house for my husband to come back for a visit." ”

"A child seeking medical treatment? Oh, that's a coincidence. Si'er glanced at me, took a few steps, and pushed open the door. At this moment, a thin figure from behind the door rushed out.

"Hmph, look where you're going this time!" As soon as Si'er turned around, he grabbed Mayyang's collar.

"Don't arrest me back, please let me go!" After Mayyang was caught by Si'er, he immediately sat on the ground crying.

"Guest, what are you doing here?" The woman in the pharmacy was also panicked at this time, she pulled my sleeve and said hurriedly, "This child is the maid of Duanmu Xian's family, and she is well-behaved and polite on weekdays, I don't know how she offended the female guest?" ”

"She just bit me at the market, but I think there was some misunderstanding." I bowed to the woman, walked up the steps and walked in front of Mayyang: "Maysun, tell me honestly, why don't you want to go back to Ganyuan?" If you tell me, I won't send you back. ”

Mayyang looked up at me, then at the woman in the pharmacy, and snorted violently: "I have the mark of the sun god on my hand, and grandma said that grandma promised the patriarch to use me to sacrifice to the god on the summer solstice of my twelve-year-old." ”

"Sacrifice to the gods with you? How to sacrifice? "The little girl's words surprised me.

"Tied to the beach, not given food or drink, and if you die in the sun, you will be picked up by the sun god." After Mayyang finished speaking, he took my hand and begged, "Noble girl, no matter how much money Grandma gave you, my master will double it for you, you can let me go!" ”

A grandmother who even strangers take care of will take her granddaughter to sacrifice to the gods, no wonder her aunt will bring her to Qufu I raised my hand and touched Wuyueyang's hair: "Don't be afraid, I have confiscated your grandma's money, and I promise not to send you back to Ganyuan." But now you have to take me to meet your master. ”

"What does the noble lady want to see my master?" Mayyang's little face was full of vigilance.

"I saw your master in the Qin Kingdom a few years ago, and it can be regarded as an old acquaintance, you are so anxious to find a witch doctor today, but he is sick?"

Mayyang looked at me and shook his head and said, "It's Master Yan who is sick, and the master asked me to come to the doctor." ”

"Master Yan?" Hearing these three words, a person's name immediately appeared in my mind - Yan Hui, Kongqiu's favorite disciple, a person who is said to be above Duanmu Ci in virtue and talent.

"Sister-in-law, where did your husband go to the clinic today? When will I be back? I turned to the woman and asked.

"I went to Ao Village, thirty miles outside the city, and I should be able to come back before sunset."

"Then it's going to be a few hours! Mayyang, I'm also a healer, why don't you take me to see Master Yan first? I reached out and pulled Mayyang, who was sitting on the ground, up.

"Did the lady try to trick me into going out and then arrest me?" Mayyang was still scared.

"You've got a lot of caution. Don't worry, since you are the servant of Duanmu Xian's family, how dare I arrest you to offend him! I smiled and wiped the tears on May Yang's face with my sleeve, "I originally planned to visit your master tomorrow, but now that Master Yan is sick, let's go see Master Yan first!" ”

"You're a woman, do you see a doctor?" Mayyang glanced at me, and her two hazel eyebrows were raised.

"Women can't see a doctor?" I smiled and patted Mayyang's head, turned to the woman and said, "Sister-in-law, can I borrow your room to change clothes?" ”

"Of course, please, lady."

"Thank you, sister-in-law!" I changed into a man's Confucian dress in the pharmacy, made a square scarf out of a silk handkerchief, and combed a man's hair in a bun.

Before going out, in order to prove to Mayyang that I really knew how to heal, I almost told her the names of the herbs that were drying in the yard. In the end, Mayyang, who is a big ghost, agreed to take me to see Yan Hui.

Because I was afraid that I would be worried, I asked the fish woman to go home first to report, and I took Si'er to follow Mayyang towards the northwest of the city.

Yan Hui and his father Yan Lu were both disciples of Confucius, and when the master was alive, he laughed with me and said that when he was listening to Confucius's lectures in Lu State, the sage Yan Lu sat next to him. For this, he was happy for more than a month. Later, he left the country of Lu, and time flew by, and the yellow-haired boy who was sitting in the corner to make paint for the disciples actually became the most virtuous disciple of Confucius. When the master said this, he shook his head and sighed, as if he regretted that he had not been able to have a good chat with Yan Hui, who was still a child.

"Noble girl, Master Yan lives inside." Mayyang took me and Si'er into a dark and narrow alley.

This alley is no more than two feet wide, not to mention the passage of cars and horses, even if two people meet each other in the alley, one of them must turn his shoulder and turn sideways before the two can pass.

"Master Yan lives here?" I looked at the moss-covered door panel in front of me, and asked Maysun suspiciously. Although the Yan clan of Lu Guoyan is not a famous family, and the sage Yan Hui also has no official position because he concentrates on serving Kong Qiu, but his father Yan Lu is said to be a doctor, how can a family of scholars live in such a simple and dilapidated place.

"Yes, this is it." May Yang said and poked Si'er beside me with his hand: "This sister, my master and Master Yan are both courteous, you should quickly straighten your skirt!" It's all crooked. The little one bowed his head and straightened up his clothes. Si'er was infected by Mayyang's serious appearance, and quickly lowered his head and tidied up his dress.

"Later, go in and talk quietly, Master Yan will have a headache when he hears the sound." May Yang spat in the palm of his hand, rubbed it open, and stroked the messy hair on his forehead.

"Now are you alright?" Si'er tied the straps of the skirt and looked at Mayyangdao.

"Alright, let's go!" The little girl, who was less than four years old, nodded solemnly, pushed the door and walked in.

In the small courtyard, there is a wooden house and a round well, which is unexpectedly simple and clean.

May Yang took off her shoes and walked up the steps, she turned around and put the two shoes in a proper position and knocked on the door: "Master, the doctor has arrived." ”

The door was soon opened, and a foot in a white leather robe stepped out first, and then I saw a cyan hem embroidered with dark golden cloud and thunder patterns.

Although I have long known Duanmu Ci's weird dressing preferences, the combination of Burrow costumes still makes me stunned for a moment.

"Jin Renzi has seen Duanmu Xian." I cleared my throat and walked down the steps and bowed.

Duanmu Ci hesitated for a moment, and Mayyang, who was kneeling beside him, hurriedly replied, "Master, this is the doctor newly found by Ayang." The doctor went out of the city to see a doctor today, and he will not be able to return until sunset. ”

"Oh, I see. No need to be polite, the patient is in the house, please follow me into the house for treatment! Duanmu Ci walked down the steps in a few steps and helped me up.

I looked up in response, just in time for a pair of inquiring eyes.

"Little brother, why are you?" Duanmu Ci looked at me, his eyes flashing with surprise.

"Duanmu still remembers the little brother?" Duanmuci's reaction surprised me a little. It had been more than a year since I sheltered him from the wind and snow in the dense forest of Qindi, and I didn't expect him to recognize me so quickly.

"Naturally, I remember." Duanmu Ci patted me on the shoulder and looked at me with a smile, "This spring, Brother Yu also asked someone to inquire about the news of the virtuous brother in Qindi, but unfortunately he couldn't do it, who would have thought that he would meet here today." ”

Duanmu Ci looked for me? I was frightened for a while, and hurriedly bowed and said, "How can the little brother He De actually call the first remember." ”

"Brother Xian, do you still remember that you made a judgment about the foolish brother's purchase of slaves and gold?" Duanmu Ci smiled and took my hand and walked up the steps.

I hurriedly kicked off my shoes and followed him up the steps in front of the wooden house: "Of course my little brother remembers. ”

"The virtuous brother said that if I bought a slave from the Lu country, if I don't go to the government to receive the ransom, I will lose the morality of the Lu people, at that time I still don't understand the deep meaning, and later after returning to Lu, the master's reproach is the same as the virtuous brother, and the foolish brother knows that he is very wrong. This spring, I asked someone to look for a virtuous brother in the Qin Kingdom, just to invite the virtuous brother to come to the Lu Kingdom to gather with the master. ”

"Duanmu Xian, the younger brother is going to Lu this time, just because he wants to visit Confucius!"

"Oh, that's great!" Duanmu Ci said with a smile, "The virtuous brother is talented and intelligent, if he can worship under the master's door this time, how do you know that he will not be the second Ziyuan in the future!" ”

Ziyuan is Yan Hui's cousin. Duanmu Ci and I were reminiscing outside the door and almost forgot about business.

"It's too good first, how dare the little brother compare with Master Yan. First of all, I don't know what disease Master Yan is suffering from? Have you ever asked a doctor before? ”

Speaking of Yan Hui, the joy on Duanmu Ci's face was instantly replaced by sadness: "Ziyuan has been editing the Book of Changes for his master for the past few months, he is weak, he fainted when he went out this morning, and now he hasn't woken up yet." Duanmu gave his right hand and led me into the room.

I stooped down the low door and saw a room five steps square.

In the room, there is a low collapse, a long case, and the rest is only a roll of countless bamboo slips.

On the reed mat beside the couch knelt a woman and a child, and on the couch lay a gray-haired man.

The woman and the child greeted me, and I turned my head to look at Duanmu Ci in confusion, didn't I say that Yan was sick? Why is it Yan Hui's father Yan Lu who is lying down?

"Ziyuan had a serious illness when he traveled to other countries with his master, and he was already white at the age of twenty-nine. Over the years, he has been helping his master collect and compile scriptures, and this has become the case after exhausting his heart and energy. Duanmu Ci looked at the weak and old Yan Hui on the couch and lamented.

This person is Yan Hui? He is the hairy child in the master's mouth who is talented and unmatched?

I have heard that Yan Hui is less than Duanmu Ci, but Duanmu Ci, who has a jade crown and tied his hair, is still personable, but Yan Hui is already old like a septuagenarian.

Author's Words: () Human animals, killing living people as sacrifices when sacrificing gods and ghosts. This situation was relatively common in primitive societies in the early Spring and Autumn Period, but in the middle and late Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were very few cases of living sacrifices in the Central Plains.