"Ten dollars a pound, love to sell or not."

In front of the counter of the pharmacy, the middle-aged boss with a slightly chubby face was crackling and reconciling the accounts, without even raising his head.

"Shopkeeper Xia, take a look again, I have ginseng, snow lotus, and Ganoderma lucidum here, and they are all in very good condition......

Under the counter stood a young man of eighteen or nineteen, holding a small basket in both hands, and placing the medicinal herbs carefully wrapped in black cloth on the counter like several family treasures.

"I said ten yuan a catty, whether I like to sell it or not!"

The shopkeeper of the pharmacy put down the account book with a "snap", raised his head, looked at the sweaty young man in front of him with an indifferent face, and said viciously: "Li Changjing, do you really not understand or falsely do not understand, you have offended the Su family in the town, it is good if someone is willing to accept your medicine, you still dare to mess around here?" ”

The young man named Li Changjing did not give up, and still begged bitterly: "Shopkeeper Xia, it's good, my family is in urgent need of money, my sister is birthday today, and she is still waiting for me to buy her a cake with money......

"Get out of here!"

The owner of the pharmacy was furious, raised his right hand and swept it hard, sweeping all the medicinal materials on the counter to the ground, and for a while, the cloth was scattered, and seven or eight medicinal herbs that were crystal clear, round and jade, and exuded a strong medicinal fragrance were exposed to the air.

Even if he is over forty years old and has been dealing with medicinal materials all his life, when he sees these superlative medicinal materials, he still can't help but twitch the corners of his eyes and feel a pain in his flesh.

Li Changjing's expression was gloomy, he didn't force it anymore, squatted down hard, and silently wrapped the medicinal herbs scattered all over the ground in cloth and put them back in his back basket.

After he had packed everything, he stood up on his knees and hugged his fist at the boss, wanting to turn around.

"Li Changjing, wait a minute!"

Just as he was about to leave, a girl in a blue school uniform suddenly ran out of the inner room, I saw that she was about eighteen years old, very tall, her skin was as white as snow, and she had short black and silky hair that reached her ears.

The girl's name is Xia Keke, the daughter of the pharmacy owner, and she is just in her third year of high school this year.

Xia Keke walked out, came to Li Changjing, and said to him: "I want all your medicinal materials, a hundred yuan a plant, are you willing to sell them?" ”

Li Changjing was overjoyed and was about to agree, but the shopkeeper on the other side of the counter had already slapped the table and shouted: "Xia Keke, if you dare to buy his medicinal materials, I will treat you as if I have never given birth to your daughter, and you will not be allowed to step into the pharmacy for half a step in the future!" ”

Xia Keke, who was about to take out money from his trouser pocket, was startled, and looked back at her father, who had never been scolded like this when she was so big, her eyes turned red instantly, and she also shouted loudly: "What are you fierce, this money is earned by me doing odd jobs outside, I want to buy medicinal herbs, what does it matter to you!" ”

Shopkeeper Xia sneered: "Although the money is not my money, but you Xia Keke are not my daughter?" How much do you know about the things in town that you study outside all year round? When you grow up, I can't control you too much, but if you want our shop to be unable to open, or even be able to gain a foothold in the town in the future, you can just buy his medicine! ”

Xia Keke's face turned pale, as his father said, she has been studying in the city all these years and rarely comes back, only knowing that the residents of the town have been rejecting this boy named Li Changjing, but they didn't expect it to be so serious.

For a moment, Xia Keke's hand in his pocket froze, looking at Li Changjing and then at her father, in a dilemma, and she wanted to cry.

"Xia Keke, thank you." Li Changjing glanced at the girl gratefully, and said softly, "I still don't sell medicinal herbs." ”

After saying this, he put the basket on his shoulder and tossed it gently, and then he held his right leg and limped out of the door.

Only then did the girl find out that the boy who punched the annoying Su Bowen for her back then was seriously injured, and his right leg was already lame.

When Li Changjing left the pharmacy, Xia Keke suddenly remembered something, and chased after the back, and after a few minutes, he came back again, with a little smile on his beautiful face.

Shopkeeper Xia Qianshan sighed slightly in his heart, and asked softly: "You just caught up with him, you didn't buy his medicinal materials, you just lent him money, right?" ”

Xia Keke snorted coldly, put on a straight face, and found a stool in the corner next to him to sit down, still sulking.

Xia Qianshan shook his head, looked at the already dim sunset outside the door, and said softly: "Li Changjing, this child, is simple, kind, and has a good temper and temperament, or I grew up watching him, will I not like him?" It's one thing to just like him, it's another thing not to be able to help him. ”

Xia Keke's fists on his legs clenched violently, and he couldn't bear to say: "Could it be that the Su family is so powerful, everyone in the town has to be afraid of it?" ”

Xia Qianshan glanced at her, "There are a total of 4,000 households in the town, with a population of more than 20,000, of which more than eighty percent of the labor force is all workers of the Su family. There are more than 300 shops in the town, and more than 250 belong to the Su family's property. ”

In other words, almost one in every household in the town is from the Su family. The Su family is the richest man in the town, and all the residents have to eat according to their faces, which is an ironclad fact. And the enmity between Li Changjing and the Su family, I don't say that you also know it, so not only our family, but the people in the entire town almost dare not have anything to do with this young man. ”

"Dad is not a fool, each of the medicinal materials sold by Li Changjing is of the highest grade, and it can easily be sold for thousands at the market price, but every once in a while, someone from the Su family comes to threaten me and forbids me to do business with him, so Dad keeps the price so low, and changes it to other shops, I'm afraid that if Li Changjing doesn't wait for him to enter the door, he will have to drive him away."

Xia Keke lowered his head and wiped his reddened eyes with the back of his white hand, "In the end, we still hurt Li Changjing." ”

Xia Qianshan's face changed, and he said in a low voice: "Don't say this nonsense!" The reason why Li Changjing seriously injured Su Bowen ten years ago was largely because of his nominal child daughter-in-law, and you just happened to be at the scene. ”

Xia Keke was silent, not knowing what to say for a while.

But after a while, she suddenly remembered something, and asked in a low voice: "Dad, I remember that Li Changjing was a famous genius in our town back then, and he was only ten years old and had infinite strength, and the big stone weighing a thousand pounds at the gate of the town, he could easily lift it above his head, but now why is it so difficult to even carry a bamboo basket?" ”

"Who knows." Xia Qianshan sighed: "But don't you know, 18 years ago, on the night Li Changjing was born, a super large ginseng shadow appeared in the sky on the roof of his house, towering into the sky like a high-rise building, and it was impossible to see the end at all, many old people in the town saw it, but no one could explain what the reason was." ”

"And Li Changjing, the child, can walk after only three months of birth, can speak at the age of half a year, is not only sensible, but also has a lot of strength, only three or four years old has grown as tall as a seven or eight-year-old child, often helps his father go up the mountain to chop wood, although the family is poor, but also happy, very happy."

"But when Li Changjing was eight years old, one day a large number of outsiders came to the town, wearing gold and silver, very magnificent, and the luxury cars that drove could be lined up from the streets of the town to three or four kilometers away.

Xia Keke frowned, she was already eight years old at the time, and she still had a deep impression of this. At that time, those Xu people did not come to complete the marriage contract at all, Li Changjing was originally engaged to an eldest lady of their family at the age of 10, and then married when both parties were 20 years old, but those outsiders did not bring the eldest lady, but pushed an ugly little girl to the Li family, I heard that the little girl was an illegitimate daughter born to a side male and the nanny of the family, and her status was very low, plus she had a strange disease, and her body was full of pockmarks, which made people dare not look directly. Li Changjing's family felt that the other party not only broke the contract, but also deliberately replaced them to humiliate them, so the two sides almost clashed, and the final result was that the ugly-looking girl stayed in the Li family, and the baby was decided, of course, this matter is a great shame for anyone, and it makes the Li family unable to raise their heads in the town and become the laughing stock of everyone.

"Li Changjing, this child, is really pitiful." Xia Qianshan sighed and said: "In the second year after the doll was settled, the girl was playing outside because of her ugly appearance, and was blocked in the alley by Su Bowen, the eldest son of the Su family in the town, scolding and beating, saying anything unpleasant, and being urinated on his body, Li Changjing at that time was a hairy child, he didn't understand anything, he was furious, so he punched Sun Bowen in the chest, and the big boy, who was five years older than him and a whole head taller, was actually beaten by him and flew seven or eight meters away, and passed out on the spot. ”

That night, the Su family summoned a large group of people to come to the door, and without saying a word, they beat Li Changjing and his father severely, directly beating the man who was in the prime of life and vomiting blood and seriously injured, and died the next day, and Li Changjing was also broken in his right leg, and since then he has become lame. What's even more sad is that after his father died, his mother was also depressed, didn't think about tea and dinner, and soon fell seriously ill and died, and the Li family was left with only Li Changjing, and the ugly girl who was forced to marry and forced over, and the two children depended on each other until now. ”

"Since then, Li Changjing's genius has disappeared, and he has lost his strength, and the whole person is sick, and he even struggles to walk."

Xia Qianshan sighed, stood up, and told Xia Keke: "Daughter, it's okay for you to lend money to Li Changjing, but you must not have anything to do with him, although he helped you back then, but our family has not fallen into trouble with him over the years, and it can be regarded as repaying his favor." ”

Xia Keke didn't answer this question, thought about it, and asked rhetorically: "Dad, the medicinal materials that Li Changjing sold just now are in such good condition, are they all grown by himself?" ”

Xia Qianshan nodded, and exclaimed: "Li Changjing, this kid is indeed a genius, I don't know how he did it, after his father and mother died ten years ago, he himself planted herbs on a piece of land in the west of the town, and everyone was not optimistic about him at first, herbs are so demanding on the environment, how can they be so easy to plant?" It is strange to say that under the hard work of this kid, the scale of the medicinal field is not only getting bigger and bigger, but over the years, it has expanded to more than one acre, and there are also a lot of high-quality medicinal materials planted in it, such as Ganoderma lucidum, ginseng, snow lotus, etc., these precious medicinal materials that will only appear in the deep mountains and old forests, he has everything there, and all of them are of the highest quality, which can be found anywhere. ”

Just speaking of this, Xia Qianshan sighed again: "It's a pity that the Su family targets everywhere and forbids the people in the town to buy Li Changjing's medicinal materials, and even cuts off all sales channels in this regard, so that those precious medicinal materials can only wither and rot by themselves, which is really a pity." ”

When the Xia family's father and daughter said these words.

On the other side of the town, under the orange sunset, Li Changjing limped down the long street with the small bamboo basket on his shoulder. The thin body dragged a long shadow behind him, thin and weak, like the way he walked, sickly.

He first went to the butcher's shop and bought a pound of pork, and as expected, he needed 36 yuan to buy the original 12 yuan a pound of pork, which was three times more expensive. Now it was summer and the weather was hot, so he bought a big watermelon, more than three catties, and paid 60 yuan. Finally, I went to the cake shop and bought a two-pound cake for 200 pieces.

In this way, the three hundred yuan that Xia Keke lent him was spent.

Li Changjing felt that he had never been so generous when he was so old, but he was not heartbroken at all, because today was her sister Cheng Ruoshui's 18th birthday.

These years have been very difficult, but in fact, they have survived, and that's it.

At least he didn't live up to his mother's advice when he died, and he has been trying to live.

Li Changjing's home is a mud house on the south side of the town, although it is simple and dilapidated, but when he is outside to take care of the medicine field during the day, Cheng Ruoshui will always carefully clean everything at home, so the home has always been very tidy and clean.

Cheng Ruoshui is nominally his child daughter-in-law, but he has always regarded her as his sister, and although the relationship between the two is deep, it has not yet reached the level of child-daughter affection.

At this time, a thunderclap suddenly sounded in the sky overhead, and after a while, dark clouds began to converge from all directions, and there was a faint tendency to rain.

Li Changjing remembered an important matter, so he quickened his pace, planning to go home early.

But when he passed by the corner of a street, five or six people appeared in front of him, all young men in their early twenties, the first one was about 23 or 4 years old, wearing a light blue brand-name suit, with a big back, and a somewhat delicate appearance, but his lips were very thin, his eyes were triangular, and his face was a little sickly white, which made him look a lot of shadows.

Seeing this young man, Li Changjing paused, and his heart sank.

Su Bowen, the son of the Su family, the world is really small, and it is not that enemies do not get together.

Over the years, Su Bowen has not made trouble with him, every time he is beaten badly, Li Changjing has long been used to it, so this time he behaved calmly and said softly: "Something? ”

Su Bowen narrowed his triangular eyes, pulled the corners of his mouth, and said with a smile: "Can't I look for you if it's okay?" The eldest son of the Li family, when did you become so big? ”

Li Changjing's face was expressionless and silent.

Su Bowen didn't talk nonsense with him, and said indifferently: "Make a price, I want to buy your piece of medicine field." ”

Li Changjing shook his head, "Don't sell it." ”

Su Bowen was not surprised, and said with a smile: "Li Changjing, why bother." There is indeed enmity between us, but as long as you promise to sell the medicine field to me, my Su family will definitely not make any trouble with you in the future. ”

Li Changjing smiled and said, "When you say this, do you believe it yourself?" ”

Su Bowen restrained his smile and said expressionlessly: "Then there is nothing to talk about?" ”