This decision made by the three visitors in April of the 28th year of the Republic of China brought the calm Qingshiling into a whirlpool. In the following years, the Shuijia compound, which made a living from herding, fell into a protracted battle for traditional Chinese medicine.

8

If it weren't for the sudden change, the fourteen-year-old daughter of the Xigou Lai Lu family would have to marry the wealthy Shui family of Qingshiling with a red hijab and dignity. The days have been said, and the second master of Shui even sent the housekeeper to buy everything that had been done for the happy event. However, at this juncture, Kong Jiexi, the county magistrate of Gulang County, came to the Shui family with two people.

Kong Jiexi, the magistrate of Gulang County, is a somewhat mysterious person, before, he was also a little involved with the Shui family, because of the relationship between the enemy family, he also called each other his relatives on face. The second master of the water is not close to this person, he can't say that he is far away, he came, he was treated as a distinguished guest, and when he left, he was not worried about the emperor's relatives. It's just that in the past two years, because of the relationship between Shui Erye and the enemy, there has been a layer of frost on the felt, and Shui Erye and County Magistrate Kong have not been so diligent.

The county magistrate Kong Jiexi's trip to Qingshiling obviously has important affairs. As soon as he walked into the courtyard, before Shui Erye could greet him affectionately, he waved his hand and said in a low voice, "Talk in the house." ”

Entering the house, Kong Jiexi introduced to Shui Erye: "This is President Bai of the Liangzhou Chamber of Commerce, and this is Adjutant Qiu, a subordinate of the army commander of Xi'an City. ”

Second Master Shui was a little dazzled this day, it is said that he should be able to recognize the young man in military uniform behind the county magistrate Kong Jiexi. On this day, he didn't recognize it. When the county magistrate Kong Jiexi finished introducing him and wanted to greet the young officer, he suddenly recognized that this was not a ......

"You bastard, you dare to come to my water house!" Shui Erye jumped over and pointed at Qiu Jiayuan's nose: "Qiu's baby, you are so vicious, stealing my silver, deceiving my daughter, you have no conscience, I ......" The fire in Shui Erye's chest was burning, and an old face had long been deformed, he looked around for objects, wanting to smash Qiu Jiayuan's head hidden in the military hat.

The enemy is surprisingly calm. Qiu Jiayuan on this day is like Qiu Jiayuan a month ago, if he was a child in the eyes of others a month ago, on this day, his majesty and his composure made everyone stunned, and they didn't dare to underestimate him at all. When Shui Er Ye scolded him, he smiled slightly, as if Shui Er Ye's anger had nothing to do with him, and when Shui Er Ye finished scolding, he jumped out of the courtyard and picked up a shovel and slashed at him, he gently raised his right hand, and only one block blocked Shui Er Ye's murderous aura back. In the surprise of the people in the first courtyard, the county magistrate Kong Jiexi spoke: "Second master, it's no wonder that incident, I'll explain to you later." ”

"No wonder he? This Wang Ba Lamb, he almost took the life of my family Yingying! The second master picked up the shovel again, but he lacked the courage to split it, foaming at the mouth and just scolding. Qiu Jiayuan did not return the favor, maintaining the demeanor of a soldier. His good demeanor and his sleek military uniform attracted the attention of everyone in the courtyard, and people sighed at him, and even the food pickers, who had never liked to join in the fun, quietly came over and stood outside the crowd, casting admiring glances at him.

Just when the second master of Shui was about to scold enough, a whip flew in, and in everyone's surprise, the voice of the third lady Shui Yingying arrived: "Where is the beast, blast it out for me!" Everyone was still stunned, and saw that the whip hit the adjutant of Qiu Jiayuan impartially, and after the crisp and sharp whip, Qiu Jiayuan's military hat that symbolized majesty and power fell to the ground, and then looked at his face, the young and handsome face that was still glowing with heroic brilliance just now instantly turned purple, and a red silk quickly rose in the imprint of the whip, and expanded to all sides, and soon turned that face ugly. Qiu Jiayuan had to raise his hand to cover the burning place, and looked at Shui Yingying, who had just come back from the grass beach with trembling eyes, his lips squirmed, and he wanted to say something, but he didn't dare. The body took a small step back, took another small step, and hid behind the county magistrate Kong Jiexi.

The county magistrate Kong Jiexi was also afraid of Shui Yingying, knowing that her level was the most difficult, just when he tried to persuade Shui Yingying with the same words, Shui Yingying's second whip arrived, and this time it was more accurate, and people clearly saw that Qiu Jiayuan's mouth and two faces bloomed with a bloody mouth, and the blood flowed out of the mouth first, then the left face, and then, the right face also bloomed. Someone shouted, and the county magistrate Kong Jiexi followed the prestige and saw that it was the long-term workers who made the call. Immediately after, the five sons also laughed, and there was a mischievous pleasure in their laughter. The county magistrate Kong Jiexi felt that the scene was a little out of control, and coughed: "I said everyone, we have important things to do today, can you avoid it first, and let us finish the business?" ”

Shui Yingying pulled everyone away, and stared at Qiu Jiayuan: "Silver, where is my family's silver?" ”

Qiu Jiayuan has long lost the prestige he had when he first came, although he was still wearing a military uniform, the heroism and domineering of the soldiers had already made Shui Yingying beat off more than half of the two whips. He also wanted to try to shake off a little of the prestige of an adjutant and save a little face for himself, after all, he was now the commissioner of the dignified army chief of Xi'an City, and his identity was very different from before, but as soon as he touched Shui Yingying's gaze, his neck immediately retracted, and his legs were still disobedient. This is a very disappointing thing, and for a long time after that, Qiu Jiayuan was obsessed with this, thinking that he didn't shine when he should be the most beautiful and brilliant in his life, so that the domineering and brutal Shui Yingying was disturbed.

Shui Yingying questioned Qiu Jiayuan a few more words, Qiu Jiayuan didn't know whether he disdained to answer or didn't dare to answer, anyway, when Shui Yingying asked, his eyes were cast into the distance, and he took it back once in the middle, and he just swept it on his face in a hurry, and then threw it into the distance again.

With his clever mouth, the county magistrate Kong Jiexi finally suppressed the anger of the Shui family's father and daughter for the time being. The second master promised him that he would let it go in advance, not mention it, and settle the account in the future. Shui Yingying has also played enough majesty, and thinks that if she continues to play, it will make people laugh. Besides, Qiu Jiayuan's appearance today was also a very unexpected thing for her, at first she couldn't control herself, and felt that she had to vent her grievances and grievances, but then she calmed down and felt that she was a little too much. Later, there was water and light in her eyes, this water, this light, all because of Qiu Jiayuan's special identity and the military uniform.

He looks quite good in a military uniform, and compared to the soldiers he has seen before, he doesn't know that he is dozens of times more heroic. This was the thought that suddenly popped into Shui Yingying's mind when she went to the South Courtyard. As soon as the idea came out, Shui Yingying's face suddenly turned red.

After the people in the courtyard were drunk, a few people in the house finally got down to business.

The conversation was first opened by President Bai, President Bai didn't know what had happened to the Shui family before, let alone what Adjutant Qiu had with them, he thought that today's Shui family was a bit of a bully, not only bullying Adjutant Qiu, but even he and the county magistrate Kong Jiexi's face was also peeled off together. After all, Chairman Bai is Chairman Bai, and he can still deal with this kind of scene calmly. After the room was quiet again, he coughed, cleared his throat, and said, "Brother came this time, and I didn't hide it from the second master, I have something to ask for." ”

"Oh?" Second Master Shui raised his eyes and stared at President Bai suspiciously.

"That's right, Second Master-" President Bai has a capable style, and he will talk about things quickly.

It turned out that Qiu Jiayuan went to Liangzhou this time to be ordered by the commander of the army of Xi'an to find medicinal materials for the soldiers at the front. Chairman Bai said: "At present, the Japanese are making waves in our Chinese land, and we are fighting bloodily in the front, vowing to protect the country's homeland. Everywhere the sun goes, the people are not happy, the lives are miserable, although the northwest land of my country is safe, but the rise and fall of the country, the husband is responsible. Before President Bai finished speaking, Second Master Shui asked nervously, "Didn't you come here this time to ask me for silver again?" ”

President Bai smiled: "It's not necessary, our Chamber of Commerce still has a way to deal with the silver, but this time, it is indeed necessary to trouble the second master." ”

"What's the matter?"

"The Chamber of Commerce wants to borrow your water family compound and the big grass beach for use."

"Oh?" Second Master Shui looked puzzled and stared at President Bai in confusion. What is the use of borrowing this deep mountain and old ditch? His mind quickly turned a few times, and he couldn't guess the mystery, so he simply asked: "This poor mountain and bad water is not as good as Liangzhou City, I'm afraid the president is laughing, right?" ”

President Bai exchanged glances with County Magistrate Kong, and County Magistrate Kong Jiexi answered: "The Chamber of Commerce has purchased a batch of Chinese medicinal materials in the Gulang area, but these are raw medicinal materials, which are inconvenient to transport, and I want to dry and process them in your Shuijia compound." Moreover, the Chamber of Commerce also wants to borrow the feng shui treasure land of Qingshiling to grow some medicine by yourself. ”

"Herbs?" Second Master Shui became more and more suspicious, and he put more than a dozen question marks in his heart one after another, and said: "It's the first time I've heard of this, this Qingshi Ridge, can you grow medicine?" ”

"I can plant." President Bai nodded heavily, seeing that Second Master Shui still didn't believe it, he said with a smile: "Second Master, don't forget that you have planted poppies, in the Liangzhou area, but anyone who smokes big cigarettes knows the name of your Second Master Shui." ”

As soon as he heard the poppy, Shui Erye immediately became embarrassed. President Bai is right, in the entire Liangzhou, including along the desert, everyone who has made a fortune knows the name of his Shui family. This bluestone ridge is indeed a treasure land given to him by God, planting poppies, I don't even say it. Second Master Shui is so embarrassed, or on the word big smoke, after all, this thing has hurt a large number of people, including his son Bao'er!

The three of them were talking, Qiu Jiayuan floated in like a gust of wind, and no one noticed that he went out, thinking that he was by his side, and when they saw him come in, there was a layer of doubt in their eyes. Qiu Jiayuan didn't care, he said to Chairman Bai: "I have carefully checked before and after, this yard, this grass beach, can be used!" ”

Second Master Shui was secretly happy for a while, and seemed to have forgotten that the enemy family had stolen his silver and abandoned his precious daughter. Shui Erye is a person who is very sensitive to new things, this is his specialty, and it is precisely because of this sensitivity that Qingshiling is what it is today. However, Shui Er Ye never dreamed that Qingshiling could still grow medicine. Medicine is the most valuable thing right now. Second Master Shui suppressed the joy in his heart, pretended to be dazed on his face, pretended to be contemplative, lowered his head and stopped talking.

Seeing this, the county magistrate Kong Jiexi took a small step forward: "Don't worry, second master, the Chamber of Commerce and the War Chief are not using your land in vain, how to collect the money, you just have to bring it up." ”

A more embarrassing smile rippled on Shui Erye's face, which seemed embarrassing, but it was really moisturizing. Like a shrewd businessman, he quickly calculated an account in his head, processing and drying Chinese medicinal materials is a trivial matter, and aside from it for the time being, planting Chinese medicine is a big deal. Now that there are wars and chaos, medicine is more precious than gold, this truth, he Shui Second Master will not understand. Moreover, this medicine is not something that can be harvested by planting it today, if it can be planted for ten or eight years, this Qingshiling will really become a golden nest. Thinking of this, Second Master Shui had an idea. At that moment, he said: "Since the three of them have opened their mouths, if my second water brother doesn't agree, it will seem that I am stingy, right?" In this way, the rent will be halved, and it will be up to you to harvest what you plant, but if you use the people and cattle in my ditch, the wages will be calculated separately. After speaking, he stared at the three of them calmly, waiting for their answers.

The faces of the three darkened one after another. Originally, this kind of traditional Chinese medicine was also led by President Bai, and several large households within the Chamber of Commerce automatically donated silver to do a good thing. According to the army commander, it is impossible for the war to stop in three to five years, and no one can say where the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders will trample on. If you don't prepare in advance, I'm afraid that the medicinal materials will become tighter and tighter, and it will become more and more difficult to find. However, the three of them couldn't imagine that as soon as the second master of Shui opened his mouth, a lion opened his mouth. The rent is halved, it sounds very generous, if you calculate it carefully, this land rent alone is enough for a headache for the Chamber of Commerce, plus the artificial money and livestock money, I am afraid that the medicine will be planted, and half of it will go into the pocket of the second master of Shui.

"This ......" Chairman Bai hung his head depressedly and said nothing. The county magistrate, Kong Jiexi, coughed twice to show his dissatisfaction. Only Qiu Jiayuan didn't have any expression, and in his heart, he was afraid that he was thinking about something else.

Second Master Shui is not in a hurry, although he is a rancher, he has always wanted to swallow the business that he took the initiative to find his door. In this regard, he is more calculating than his in-law Qiu Dacheng.

The air in the room was dull for a long time, and Chairman Bai asked tentatively, "Second Master, can this land rent be less?" ”

"Yo hehe-hey-" Second Master Shui exclaimed and jumped up on the chair, "My Bai Da Chief, I've halved it, and you still let me have less." Think about it, if this land is all used by you to grow medicine, how much less grass will my cattle, my horses, and my sheep eat, and how much less will I have to harvest in a year? If it weren't for the face of the county magistrate's in-laws, I wouldn't be able to reduce this half! ”

"Second master, this medicine is for the soldiers in front." Chairman Bai said with a heavy heart.

"yes, who's to say that's not the case? If it is planted for corrupt officials and corrupt officials, I will have to raise the rent! After saying that, Yuan sat down in a chair again.

At this moment, I saw the young and heroic Adjutant Qiu staring out of the window, his eyes were distracted. The county magistrate Kong Jiexi glanced out, and saw Shui Yingying, the third lady in the Shui family compound, carrying a horsewhip and pacing back and forth in the courtyard. She was about to stay unsteady in the south courtyard, anxious to see what was going on in front of her, but she lost her temper just now, and she was embarrassed to come in.

The county magistrate Kong Jiexi retracted his gaze and said: "In-laws, I don't think it should be halved, and you will receive a little less if you read the points of the soldiers in front of you who sacrificed their lives to serve the country." If I lose you, with me as the county magistrate, I will find you a little more money elsewhere to make up for your debt, do you think this will work? ”

Second Master Shui lowered his head, hesitating in his heart. Although Qingshiling is said to be high and the emperor is far away, after all, it is under the control of the county magistrate, and the tax on this pasture for a year, as well as the tax on cattle and sheep, are all decided by the county government. Also, in the early years, the mountain bandits in the Qingshiling area were infested, which disturbed the courtyard without any peace, and it was also the in-laws Kong Jiexi and the Liangzhou Mansion who joined forces to arrest the mountain bandit leader Hong Lao Wu, and Qingshiling was able to be stable. He can't help but read this love. After thinking about it for a long time, he gritted his teeth and said: "Since the county magistrate has spoken, I can't hold my mouth hard, forty percent, no less." ”

This decision made by the three visitors in April of the 28th year of the Republic of China brought the calm Qingshiling into a whirlpool. In the following years, the Shuijia compound, which made a living from herding, fell into a protracted battle for traditional Chinese medicine. The blessings and misfortunes of the Shui family compound have become as invisible as the fog rising from the grassland because of the traditional Chinese medicine that fills the mountains and mountains. It's just April of this year, and the shrewd and sophisticated second master of Shui couldn't have imagined this layer.

Not only did he not expect it, but he was afraid that his two in-laws, He Dayan in Donggou and Qiu Dacheng in Pingyangchuan, could not expect that the Shui family would go to one disaster after another because of this.

In fact, the three visitors were by no means rash in entering Bluestone Ridge. As early as half a year ago, Qiu Jiayuan, who had taken the secret instructions of the army commander, had infiltrated Liangzhou City, he was nominally teaching, but in fact, he was secretly acting for the army commander. The purpose of the army commander is twofold: one is to find a suitable place for the growth of traditional Chinese medicine. The army commander of Xi'an City was born in a family of traditional Chinese medicine, has a special hobby of traditional Chinese medicine, and now the national disaster is at the head, the word medicine is the first, the army commander wants to establish a Chinese herbal medicine base under his own control in the northwest, this place can not only grow a large number of Chinese herbal medicines, the important thing is that it must also be hidden, not let the outside world know. The specific reason, the army commander did not say, and Qiu Jiayuan did not dare to ask more, he could only act as ordered. On the other hand, the army commander also gave Qiu Jiayuan an even more important matter, and the army commander asked him to find out within six months the communist organizations in the northwest interior, including Liangzhou, especially those that had contacts with the communist organizations in Xi'an. As for what to do after the investigation, the army commander did not explain, but this did not affect Qiu Jiayuan's work. At present, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are united in the outside world, and since the Xi'an incident, Xi'an has always been the focus of national attention and the world's attention. As a subordinate adjutant Qiu Jiayuan, he never dared to speculate, and the only thing he could do was to do his best to do things well.

Chairman Bai, who had a personal acquaintance with the army commander, was a bloody man, his ancestral home was in northeastern Liaoning, and at the age of five he followed his father to the northwest to do business, and finally settled in Liangzhou City. After the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders trampled on the three eastern provinces, Chairman Bai wanted to return to his hometown in the northeast, join the army to serve the country, and eliminate hatred with blood. It happened that the army commander sent Qiu Jiayuan to find him secretly and entrusted him with the establishment of a Chinese medicine base. President Bai patted his chest and said, "If I don't do a good job in this traditional Chinese medicine, I am not worthy of being a Northeasterner!" The two of them once deliberately chose the place in Donggou of Qingfeng Gorge, where the land is lush and the climate is cool, which is very suitable for growing medicine. The matter was about to be decided, and Qiu Jiayuan suddenly proposed to change it to Qingshiling. Qiu Jiayuan's reason is that although the land of Qingshiling is not wide, it is next to Maya Snow Mountain, there are precious medicinal materials such as snow lotus on the snow mountain, and there are natural medicinal materials such as Cordyceps and ginseng under the ridge. Moreover, the terrain of Qingshiling is dangerous, the population is sparse, and the use of pastures as a cover is more in line with the intention of the army commander. Of course, it is inconvenient for Chairman Bai to object, how can Qiu Jiayuan decide how he will carry it out. However, faintly, he felt that Qiu Jiayuan's temporary change of location seemed to have little to do with the reasons he said, I was afraid that there was still an important reason in Qiu Jiayuan's heart that had not been said.

The matter was quickly settled, and Second Master Shui reached an agreement with Kong Jiexi and others. On the third day, a four-trailer carriage entered Qingshi Ridge under the cover of night, and in addition to a few large bags of seeds and herbal roots, there were two very important people. They were pharmacists specially invited by the army commander from his hometown, and two old men who looked no different from peasants. When the two got out of the carriage, they first sniffed it, and one said: "This place, the air is humid, fresh, and can be planted." One picked off a handful of grass from the grass beach, rubbed it with his hand, and said, "The earth is full of air and the rain is wide, so I'm afraid that the sun will not be enough." While the two were talking, Second Master Shui had already come out of the courtyard, carrying a lantern, and greeted him with a happy face.

Adjutant Qiu Jiayuan hurriedly introduced the second master of Shui to the two, and when they were polite to each other, someone came out of the courtyard and unloaded the things on the carriage one by one to the courtyard according to the instructions of the housekeeper Lao Dingtou. The fifteen-year-old was at the end of the scavenging process, and he glanced gloomily at the starry sky with a preoccupied stomach, then walked to the carriage, took the whip from the handlebar, and called the carriage into the backyard. Just as he was shouting for food, a flash of lightning streaked across the sky, followed by a thunderclap. It was a rainy day in April, and God would sound a few thunders every three or five days, and the downpour would rain down. The lightning and thunder frightened the horses and mules, who were already tired after the long journey, and they heard a long neighing of the horses, and they were about to run away. Picking up food, a spirit, woke up from a daz, and was just about to stretch out his hand to pull the horse, when he heard another thunder explode in the sky. This thunder exploded so terrifyingly that even Second Master Shui was so shocked that he covered his ears. How could the horse, which had already raised its four hooves, stand it, and at that moment, raised its front hooves and roared. The people were still not awake in the terror of the thunder, and they saw that the carriage was like a rock rolling down from a cliff, and it was like a rock rolling down from a cliff. Collecting grain allowed the horse to take out a piece and throw it heavily on the grassy beach. The second grandmother of the water screamed, and was just about to shout badly, when she saw that Yingying had already flown out, only in a moment, Yingying, who was as fast as a rabbit, had already flown in front of the carriage, and before everyone could see anything clearly in the dark night, Yingying had already jumped up in the air, jumped into the carriage after taking a taxi. Everyone was surprised, Yingying jumped a few times in succession, and her body was firmly on the horse. Taming fierce horses is Yingying's unique skill, and over the years, she doesn't know how many fierce horses she has tamed. Even the wild and unruly white yak, she made it obedient. While everyone held their breath, they saw that the horse jumped a few times in succession, and finally let out a cry helplessly, and accepted Yingying's guidance with a little frustration. Second Master Shui was still screaming "ah, ah", and the runaway carriage was in Yingying's hands. It didn't take much effort, the carriage that ran out returned along the original road, and the moment the heavy rain fell, Shui Yingying jumped off the horse, and didn't look at the Qiu family, but only scolded the ** grain who was lying on the ground: "Useless things." Then he walked into the courtyard with his toes high.

Qiu Jiayuan blushed for a while, he knew that the anger with Yingying could not be dissolved for the time being.

The scene of Yingying taming the horse really stunned the two outsiders, and also stunned the long-term worker lying on the ground to collect grain.

9

The Shui family compound was in a state of chaos.

At this time, it was the middle of April, and according to the season, Qingshiling had missed the best sowing season. But the two pharmacists said that it didn't matter, Chinese medicine was not as good as crops, and it was not so picky about the season. Moreover, Qingshiling is a rare two-yin climate, the heat is slow, the cold is fast, the ground is black soil, fat and oily, planting in April should be better. According to the solar terms, the second master of the water who is used to planting does not dare to be relaxed at all, for fear that the third delay and the fourth delay will smash such a good deal in hand. Therefore, before the two pharmacists set the right date, they sent the old man to the east and west ditches early to pick up labor.

At noon that day, Shui Erye accompanied the two pharmacists to turn around the ridge, and as soon as he entered the courtyard, he listened to Shui Yingying teaching people in the backyard. When I looked over, I saw that it was the grain that was reprimanded by Yingying and didn't dare to look up. When she was about to lead the horse with a whip, she saw that her own mount, Jujube Red Horse, was still grazing in the stable, and her lazy posture could not tell that she was going to go far away. Shui Yingying was angry at the moment and scolded for picking up grain. As soon as he argued, Shui Yingying snapped the whip and threw it over the neck of the grain. Shui Yingying's kung fu on the whip is very good, and the adjutant Qiu Jiayuan still has scars on his face, and his mouth is still sore when he speaks. With this whip, there was an extra blood red in his neck, and the pain made him want to howl, but he didn't dare to open his mouth. Shui Yingying scolded angrily: "You pig-like thing, call you a sharp mouth!" ”

Shui Yingying scolded and asked the grain to prepare the horse quickly, the grain fell to the ground and couldn't get up, Shui Yingying thought he was resisting, the more angry he became, and kicked the grain out of the stable, scolding louder than a whip. The people knew that the third lady had a bad temper recently, and she was annoyed when she saw everyone, and if she was not careful, the whip would be on her body, so they all stayed aside and did not dare to help collect food. When Shui Erye rushed into the backyard, he had already received five or six beats on his body. Yo hehe, this girl is crazy, her whip, the horse can't stand it, just such a fifteen or sixteen-year-old baby, actually gave five or six strokes! Shui Er Ye shouted in his heart, rushed over, and snatched the whip from Yingying's hand: "You are more ruthless than a wolf, this is a human mile, not an animal that lets you be angry!" Shui Yingying tilted her nose and said: "Who called him to have a strong mouth, something that doesn't have a long memory, he owes a beating!" ”

When the second master left his daughter, he had to pick up the grain in distress. Picking up grain, he broke the hand of the second master of Shui, wiped his bloody face, got up without saying a word, and entered the stable.

There is a reason why there is no horse for collecting grain. During these days, Shui Yingying was capricious, and for a while, like a nobody, she went to the backyard of the courtyard, running around, happier than anyone else, as if she had forgotten the sad thing that the second son of the enemy family had done. The second master of Shui was just about to be happy, but suddenly saw that she was depressed, either she went into her own southern courtyard and didn't come out, or she drove chickens and dogs up the wall, causing unrest in the first courtyard. The second master of the water thought, this baby has not eased up, so he privately told to pick up food, if the young lady settles down and prepares the horse, she must think of ways to stop her, and it is best to make her unable to get out. Second Master Shui was worried that the crazy Yingying would cause him more trouble, and he didn't have time to worry about her anymore at the moment. Picking up food is done with all his heart, but who knows that he will attract a whip.

The father and daughter were arguing in the backyard when they saw the adjutant Qiu Jiayuan walk in. Qiu Jiayuan did not accompany the two pharmacists to Lingshang to choose a place this day, but went to the sister river alone. In April, the weather is warm and the ground is hot, the snow in the Maya Snow Mountain begins to melt, and the sky has rained several times in succession, and the water of the sister river has swelled, and the water of a river is surging down, which is spectacular.

Seeing the father and daughter arguing, the adjutant Qiu Jiayuan joined in and said: "You two really don't look like father and daughter, but like a pair of enemies." ”

"Shut your mouth! Where the wild dogs come out, if they dare to bite their mouths, I will fight the same! Shui Yingying viciously threw a word to Qiu Jiayuan.

Qiu Jiayuan smiled and froze on his face, unable to slow down his expression for a long time. It has been half a month since he went to Qingshiling this time, and he has made a lot of efforts in half a month, including the silver he took at that time, and he also returned it to the Shui family. I thought that Shui Yingying would forgive him and reconcile with him, but I don't know......

Forget it, I can't be as knowledgeable as her, Qiu Jiayuan comforted himself and left the backyard stupidly.

Labor said that it is here, and now it is the slack season when all the seeds are in the field and waiting for the seedlings to flourish and the grass is growing, and there are idlers in the east and west ditches. The butler was carefully selected, and he picked twenty strong laborers, and took one with him. The moment he saw the way the cave slasher came, Shui Erye's eyes moved complicatedly, thinking that he wouldn't also come to plant medicine, and he would be able to run out if he threw a fool and his daughter who was about to die? When I was surprised, I heard the second master scream in surprise when the cave slasher came to Lu Zhan, and said, "I also want to plant medicine for a few days, I don't know if it will work?" ”

"You-"

Second Master Shui looked at the two people on the face of the coming road with a puzzled expression: "You grow medicine, come to the road, you grow medicine?" After asking, Second Master Shui smiled again, he should have thought that he would not let go of this opportunity to make money.

"Second master, don't worry, I have settled down at home, let the second aunt under the slope take care of me for a few days, and I will rush back after planting medicine to earn some spare money, it won't hurt."

"You-" Second Master Shui sighed, retracted the mean words he was about to say, didn't nod, didn't shake his head, and was full of thoughts about going out. After not walking a few steps, he turned back to the old man and said, "After a while, take him to the upper house." ”

When the cave cutter followed the old peg to the upper house, the second master of Shui was talking to the adjutant Qiu Jiayuan.

In a short period of time, Second Master Shui has resolved the conflict with Qiu Jiayuan, not that he doesn't hold grudges, the key is that he knows current affairs. Who is Qiu Jiayuan? He is the adjutant of the army chief of Xi'an City, the guest of the county magistrate Kong Jiexi and the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, and the commander-in-chief and chief leader of the medicine plant. Of course, Second Master Shui couldn't treat him with the same attitude he had towards the second son of the Pingyang Chuan Qiu family. In his eyes, the Qiu family, the second son of the Qiu family in Pingyang Chuan, has long since ceased to exist, and what is active in his family now is the adjutant Qiu who wears a military uniform and hangs a box gun and speaks and shouts. Such a character, of course, he can't be slow, let alone get too entangled with him about the rotten sesame seeds in the past. "It's all over, the silver has been returned, and the interest has been raised, and the people have said a lot of compensation, if you have a straight face, won't it seem that you are a little angry?" This is what he persuaded his daughter Yingying, but unfortunately Yingying was very stubborn and couldn't listen.

It doesn't matter if he doesn't listen to it, as long as he listens to it. This family is still in charge of his second son.

Second Master Shui smiled thiefly, not feeling that it was almost a shame to have a long-term enemy with the enemy's lieutenant.

Adjutant Qiu Jiayuan is even more temperamental, you can't see at all what he has to do with the Shui family, let alone what relationship he has with the Shui family. Speaking and doing things is completely the tone of the public family, where the order should be ordered, where it should be discussed, put down the shelf and take the initiative to discuss with the second master Shui. It makes people feel that as soon as he wears a military uniform, he wears away the Qiu Jiayuan who taught before.

In this formation, Qiu Jiayuan discussed with Second Master Shui.

Qiu Jiayuan said: "The land has been chosen, the people have been decided, and the medicinal materials must be planted within half a month." ”

Second Master Shui said: "The matter of planting medicine is only handed over to the pharmacist and the housekeeper, and you, an adjutant, don't worry about these things." ”

Qiu Jiayuan was satisfied with what he heard, but he said again: "Rush Ming'er to recruit the people who are drying the medicine, the sun is good in the past two days, I think the medicine is just right." ”

Second Master Shui said: "I will explain this matter to the housekeeper." ”

The matter was almost explained, and Qiu Jiayuan said: "I will go to County Magistrate Kong tomorrow and ask him to send the medicinal materials collected from all over the country." Next, we're going to be busy for a while. ”

The second master of the water said with a smile: "I'm not afraid of being busy, how can I not be busy if I am a cropper?" In this life, people are afraid that they will not be busy. This is philosophical, Qiu Jiayuan doesn't seem to be very interested, he is afraid that there is nothing else in his mind now except Chinese medicine.

When Qiu Jiayuan was talking to Shui Erye, the housekeeper Lao Qitou was waiting outside the upper room with him, and as soon as Qiu Jiayuan went out, Lao Qitou walked in and said: "Dongjia, is this person eating food, why do I see that he is not authentic?" ”

"Huh?" Second Master Shui's gaze was on the housekeeper.

The old man glanced out, and saw that the enemy family had entered the backyard, so he stood on tiptoe and said to the second master of the water: "Dongjia, how did I hear that he met with a lot of people by the river?" ”

The old peg's words are like a basin of cold water, splashing the second master with water.

"Is there such a thing?" Second Master Shui raised his eyes vigilantly, and regardless of where he came from, he immediately asked who he was listening to. The housekeeper Lao Tou has always had no good impression of the people who eat food and serve as soldiers on the team, and his only son caught the soldiers that year, and he was caught in a daze, and when the second master of the water was looking for someone and the fourth was looking for someone to find out the letter, guess what? The son escaped halfway and let the soldiers on the team be beaten to death! After that, whenever anyone who came as a soldier, whether it was an officer or a soldier, he reciprocated with hatred.

"It's really true, Dongjia, I listened to Leng Chinese Medicine when I went to Donggou to pick people."

"Cold Chinese medicine?" Second Master Shui is becoming more and more vigilant, Leng Chinese Medicine has never been a person who talks nonsense, and his prestige in the ditch is probably second only to Second Master Shui.

I don't know which nerve was wronged by the way who stood silently on the side, and suddenly interjected: "Second master, it's not that I'm talkative, I was chopping wood by the river that day, and I also saw this person, it seems that he is with Pingyang Chuan's pimple five and them." ”

"Pimple Five?" Second Master Shui's face suddenly darkened. This pimple five is none other than the descendants of the famous bandit Liuzi in Pingyangchuan. In the past, the six sons ate the bowl of rice of the bandits, and they did not disturb Qingshiling, and the night before he married Damei, he also brought someone to break in and almost ...... Damei Later, the sixth son of the bastard ate a black gun in Pingyangchuan and lost his life, but his son Pimple Five quickly became red again, and soon became the most bastard thing within a hundred miles.

Second Master Shui thought for a while, this matter is nothing else, if Adjutant Qiu is really mixed up with Pimple Five, he will not be idle in the future. But the matter has come to this, and Second Master Shui doesn't want to be afraid, he can't be afraid. The soldiers will block, the water will block, and there must be a solution to everything. He coughed, trying to cough away the panic that the old peg and the road had brought him. Who knew that he was worried about planting medicine, so he couldn't help but ask first.

Shui Er Ye had no choice but to say: "Come here, it's not my Shui Er Er who is ruthless, this kind of medicine, you really didn't do it, think about your house, can people rest assured?" ”

Lai Lu was most afraid that the second master would say this, and as soon as he heard it, he cried: "Second master, you can do it, give me a way to live." If you can't make some money on the way, your days will really be on the cliff. ”

The second master of the water smiled lightly, he knew that the way the cave cutter came was a master who could speak softly, the days were on the head of the earth cliff, poverty was true, and the bitterness was not fake, but he really wanted to let the road come to put the days on the head of the earth cliff, I was afraid that God would not thunder in the future. This is the way he came, a man who can carry a mountain on his back! In the second master's heart, a layer of sadness suddenly swelled up, sadness for the way he came, and sadness for the girl picking up grass. To say, he doesn't know other people's days, but the way here comes from is clear, very clear. sighed for a while, and said: "Come back, come back, go back to your Xigou, medicine, don't plant it, what's missing, what's missing, just take it." ”

"I can't help it, second master-"

If it weren't for the housekeeper's old peg to block it quickly, he would have knelt down for the second master with a plop. "I can't help it, second master, I can't help it, I've been here all my life, I'm afraid that a few people will give ......"

"Coming!" The second master hated the poison and drank it, and felt that his voice was heavy, and said with a sigh of relief: "Forget it, you are a brainless, for a lifetime, I am afraid that it will be the life of digging in the soil." ”

10

The medicine is planted.

Qingshi Ridge is so lively, not just lively, it's like a different world. The freshness of the medicine and the silver promised by the water family made people full of fascination for Qingshiling. Standing on the top of the mountain, everyone's eyes are glowing, it is the light of silver, the light of mysterious Chinese medicine. According to the instructions of the second master of Shui, the two pharmacists each picked someone and began to get busy according to the pre-planned place. Looking at the suddenly lively scene on the mountain, Shui Erye's hand twisting his beard couldn't help but let out a happy tremble. For the cultivation of medicine, Shui Erye has his own plan, half of which is exposed in the light, and half is firmly hidden in his heart.

"Kong Jiexi, you are planting a cash cow on the door of my Shui family——"

The second master of the water let out a gloomy laugh.

Before she finished laughing, she suddenly heard a sound in the valley, looked up, and saw that it was the girl Yingying chasing the hare, the cunning hare escaped her tracking, and Yingying was so angry that she took the cannon belly to vent at the sheep in the distance.

This girl, when will she have a positive shape!

Second Master Shui complained in his heart and pulled his gaze further. In the valley of the mountains, the frightened sheep are like clouds that suddenly disperse, and the mountains and fields are rich and colorful at once, and a few clouds are floating leisurely, as if they are about to fall, but they dye the mountains and fields with more illusory scenery. This bluestone ridge is really a blessed land! Second Master Shui looked at it a few times, and in his heart, he was so grateful to this land that he was about to shed tears.

After the hustle and bustle of the day, the night came silently. At night, the Shui family compound becomes a different look.

The backyard has long been quiet, and the people who have planted the medicine for a day have already fallen asleep on the grass after drinking the paste, but the people who cut the cave can't sleep when they come to sleep. He had just called his son to collect grain, and his son was collecting grain at night, sleeping in the grass shed next to the stable, adding grass and feeding to take care of the livestock. I wanted to tell my son that I could fall asleep after a conversation, but I didn't think about it, as soon as I lay down on the grass, my heart was active, and my body was also active. I turned over seven or eight times, but I still couldn't sleep, so I simply sat up and listened to the wind. The night wind of Qingshiling is different from that of Xigou, the night wind of Xigou is dumb, empty, and deflated. The wind roared and the heart swayed, the fatigue of the day and the loneliness of the night were all gone, and what was left was the living hope.

Wish.

He got up and walked out of the hut specially built for the medicine planters, and went to the stable. The son didn't sleep when he picked up food, he looked at the sky with his eyes open, and when he heard his father's footsteps, he turned up.

"Why don't you sleep?"

"Can't sleep."

"I can't sleep either."

"Noise."

"Hmm."

The father and son sat cross-legged and noisy. I heard the road and said: "Baby, this opportunity can't be missed, think about it, think about it again, after a few lifetimes, who has heard that medicine can be planted?" can really be planted, yo hehe, the posture of planting medicine in the daytime can be noisy. "There was a layer of fascination on the face of the coming road. Although the night was very dark, the ruddy yearning still illuminated the son's heart.

"Dad, I thought about it, I'll tell the owner tomorrow."

"No, baby, I think about it, I can't tell the owner about it."

"What?"

"Baby, you are young, and you are still tender to the water owner. Dad asked you, what do you see of these twenty people? ”

After thinking for a while, he shook his head.

"Don't you see? Dad told you that these twenty people, looking at each one with strong heads and brains, have strong bodies and bones, and their strength is better than you and me. But think about it, think about it again, what are these twenty people missing? ”

"What's missing?" Picking up food followed and asked.

"Look at you, look at you, it's still this temperament, you can't change it. Don't be in a hurry, think about it, think with your brain, and think where others can't think of it. ”

Just pick up the grain. Thinking about it, he suddenly said: "Dad, I know!" ”

"Be quiet, look at you, I'm making a mistake again." Lai Lu hurriedly covered his son's mouth, let go, and said, "Tell my father, what do you know?" ”

"They, they, don't take their brains to live!" Picking up grain said excitedly.

"That's right, baby, yes, that's right. What are you picking as a water owner, is it really like what the housekeeper said, picking strength? No, he's picking on his brains, these twenty people, combined, don't have half a brain, that's what he wants. ”

"Why?" Although I thought of picking up food, I was confused again when I let my father say it.

"Medicine! Baby, the truth lies in this medicine! Think about it, what kind of fortune did the Shui family make? Pot! Why can he make a fortune? The second master is fine! In the whole Gulang County, as long as he can get the big tobacco seeds, he can think of planting big tobacco in Qingshiling, but if he doesn't send it, he can't help it. Now you should understand why he picked these twenty people. ”

After being silent for a long time, he finally said, "Dad, I understand." ”

"There is another reason you don't understand, why didn't the water owner let me grow medicine, why would they rather take money to send me away than let me plant medicine? Baby, look at your father's poverty, poor is life, not brains, the water owner, is guarding against me-"

"Oh-" groaned as he picked up the grain.

In an instant, a layer of respect for his father and admiration for his father surged in his heart. Dad is living a poor life, but can this be blamed on Dad? If it is spread to other people's houses, I am afraid that it will be early in the morning and there will be smoke on the head of the cliff. A family of four can survive to this day, all thanks to my father's brains-

This night, the father and son sat opposite each other like this, and the night was as silent as stagnant water.

The next day, there was an accident on the platform of the wolf crow who was grabbing medicinal herbs.

Wolf Lao Crow Terrace is the largest and fattest piece of land in Qingshi Ridge, and it has not been planted yet, because the second master of Shui suddenly had a whim to plant barley in this field. Shui Erye went to Liangzhou City a year ago, and drank the barley wine there, which was delicious and mellow, and I couldn't forget it. I want to open a roasting workshop in Qingshiling and make my own wine. Barley is planted late, and it will not be planted until the end of April. Without thinking about it, the two pharmacists saw this land at a glance, and they had to plant it here first. Shui Erye had no choice but to put the plan of opening a burning workshop on hold, after all, the temptation of traditional Chinese medicine was much greater than that of the burning workshop.

In the past two days, Shui Erye pushed away all the things on his body and followed the two pharmacists inch by inch, saying that he was taking care of him wholeheartedly, but in fact, only he knew his tricks. Five pairs of oxen with five plows, five mules pulling five rakes, under the guidance of the two pharmacists, one word is laid out, and the wolf and crow platform is hot at once. The second master of the water was dressed in coarse cloth clothes, a pair of round-mouthed cloth shoes, and on his head, he was wrapped in a sheep's belly handkerchief. He personally held a plow, pulled the rope sleeve, shouted at the strength of the ox, and got rid of a bull handle. A pair of eyes, but staring at the pharmacist's hands, to see how he plugged in and buried him. In the air, I had to stop and ask: "Why don't you plant this medicine in the sun?" The pharmacist smiled: "What is not sunny or not sunny, such a fat land, such a sufficient amount of water, no matter how you plant it, you will live." Shui Erye stared at the pharmacist suspiciously, knowing that he was telling a lie, he silently wrote it down in his heart, but he said very indifferently: "He is a god, this kind of medicine is more than planting grass and hemp." Then, he shouted at the sky: "Every year, there is a March 3, March 3, send the sisters to embroider peonies, peonies are easy to embroider and it is difficult to see flowers, and it is difficult to see flowers." Flowers, embroidered in a water......"

At noon that day, the pharmacist named Liu Xicai was bending down to carefully play with an astragalus, and suddenly felt a stomachache, which seemed to be ambushed in advance, waiting for this moment to come out. Liu Xicai didn't care at first, just put his hand on his stomach, and then buried his head again, wanting to bury the astragalus. As a result, the pain exploded in his stomach, and Liu Xicai planted a fight, and his father and mother kept screaming.

Shui Er Ye was lying to another pharmacist, and he was changing his method to ask why the cultivation method of astragalus was different from that of angelica? The pharmacist was hesitant and refused to tell the truth, and the second master of Shui was dissatisfied, so he heard a shout here, saying that Pharmacist Liu was no longer good.

When he came in shock, he saw that Liu Yaoshi had fallen into the furrow, his body curled up together, his mouth grinning painfully, and his head was already covered with a layer of sweat.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Second Master Shui asked in surprise.

"Second master, I'm ...... I...... I ......" Pharmacist Liu struggled and wanted to say something, but he couldn't say it. The pain had distorted his face, and his hands were clutching at the flesh of his stomach, tearing it into the rot.

There was a loud bang in the head of the second master of Shui, and he yelled at the person who planted the medicine: "Hurry up and carry it to the courtyard!" ”

Before the words fell, I saw that the cave slasher had already carried Pharmacist Liu and ran down the mountain. The way from which he came was a short man, so that the tall Pharmacist Liu pressed it, and he was almost invisible. But he did run fast, and his short legs, stepping on the soft and wet soil, were as dexterous as stepping on the grassy beach, and I really couldn't think of him practicing such kung fu at any time.

When Shui Er Ye unloaded the rake and rode a sweaty mule to the courtyard, Liu Yaoshi's house had been surrounded by the people in the courtyard. From a long distance, Second Master Shui heard the sharp cry of Liu Yaoshi's clay pot being broken.

"What's wrong with the people, are you better?" The second master of the water rushed over and asked through the door.

The voice of the cave cutter sounded inside: "Second master, he is so painful that he wants to tear out his intestines, I can't hold him." ”

"Hold the top fart! Tie five sons, tie five sons, quickly ride a fast horse, go to Donggou to ask for cold Chinese medicine! ”

A fast horse rushed out of the yard with his five sons on a leash, and soon disappeared on the grassy beach. In the house, Lai Lu and his son picked up grain, grabbed one of Liu Yaoshi's arms, and pressed it on the kang with all his strength. Pharmacist Liu was in a heart-rending pain, and in a hurry, he suddenly tore the hair of the grain and pulled it down hard. The grain picker was about to twist his head, and the way came to secretly kick him. When Second Master Shui squeezed in front of the kang, a strand of hair that was picking up grain had been dragged down by Pharmacist Liu.

It seems that Pharmacist Liu must have eaten something that he shouldn't have eaten. Second Master Shui looked at it carefully for a while, and his heart darkened. The two pharmacists and the adjutant Qiu Jiayuan's meal, but the courtyard made it separately, and Wu's niece Dog was in charge of it. Second Master Shui came to the kitchen, the dog was so frightened that his face was bloodless, Second Master Shui looked around for a while, and asked, "What did you give the pharmacist to eat in the morning?" ”

"Egg buns." The dog was a teenage girl who had only been in the yard for a short time. But her tea and rice are really well cooked. Second Master Shui took a fancy to her tea and rice, so he kept her in the courtyard.

"That's it?"

"And ...... Mushroom dishes. ”

"Mushrooms?" This is exactly what Second Master Shui is worried about. On the first day of eating in the courtyard, Pharmacist Liu found that this person likes to eat mushrooms, and he praised them while eating, saying that the mushrooms in the mountains are different, with fresh taste, thick meat, and strong chewing. It seems that it is this mushroom that is the disease. Shui Erye hurriedly returned to the backyard, and the acupuncture man had just poured a bowl of vinegar on Pharmacist Liu, and the illness was not alleviated at all, on the contrary, the pharmacist's face became more and more sallow, and half of his body had begun to numb.

This disease is going deeper.

Second Master Shui remembered the explanation that President Bai had given him before leaving, the two pharmacists were distinguished guests, and they had to take care of it. The heart suddenly tightened. A few years ago, there was also a case of poisoning and death by eating dog moss mushrooms by mistake, and if Pharmacist Liu had three long and two short, he would say that he would not be able to explain it to others, and just this rumor would be enough for him to bear.

This afternoon, Shui Erye's footsteps were anxiously pacing around the courtyard gate, his eyes looking at the depths of the grassy beach. He was in a hurry to tie up his five sons. The five sons of the dog's day should be here. The situation in the courtyard changed one by one, and suddenly said that Pharmacist Liu was no longer in pain, and stopped screaming, and suddenly ran out again, saying that Pharmacist Liu was in pain to death, out of breath, and grabbed the neck of the grain with both hands, and wanted to pinch the grain to death.

Finally, the sound of horses' hooves sounded from the depths of the grassy beach, and after a gust of wind, the five sons rode to him, and it was a person! When I asked, I said that Leng Chinese Medicine had gone to Pingyangchuan and couldn't come back today.

The pharmacist Liu Xicai almost let the poisonous mushroom die, causing a big chaos in the Shui family compound. When all the herbalists finished their work and another pharmacist rushed to see his companions, Liu Xicai's illness was too bad, he was foaming at the mouth, his limbs were twitching, and his eyes were turning outward. That scene, people feel that it is not good at a glance, and they will not live until midnight. The water family fed all the medicines that could be fed, but the symptoms were not any better, and at this moment, I heard someone shouting: "Hurry up and feed the big smoke!" When Second Master Shui heard this, his hair stood on end. Who doesn't eat people shouts? In a word, the courtyard was so frightened that the whole courtyard fell silent. The medicine growers may not know that since Da Bao'er died, the word big smoke is rarely mentioned in the hospital, let alone feeding. The pharmacist surnamed Cao looked at it and shouted for Shui Er Ye to send people out. Shui Er Ye said with an angry face: "This dark night, where to send it, there is a cold Chinese medicine doctor in the ditch, he is not there, who will he give it to?" ”

"Then send it to Pingyang River——"

"You also ate the wrong grains, how far is Pingyang River from here, can you send it or not?!"

Shouting and shouting, the people in the first courtyard still didn't have an idea, and at this moment, they saw the people who cut the cave and came out of the hospital in the dark, mysteriously, and went to Mao'er Mountain in the east of Qingshi Ridge.

"Come, come, you dog, where are you going?" Second Master Shui was dizzy for a while, and he saw who scolded whom. Ignoring the second master of the water when he came, he left on his own.

This night, pharmacist Liu Xicai was so painful that he was angry several times, people, it looked really bad. The second master of Shui, who had not slept all night, prostrated under the ancestral tablet, burning incense and praying for Pharmacist Liu. The pharmacist surnamed Cao was so frightened that his face was bloodless, and he kept screaming all night.

When the cave cutter hurriedly walked into the courtyard, no one cared, and when the people smelled the strange fragrance of flowers in the house, they had already put the pharmacist Liu Xicai underground with his son to collect grain. Sister-in-law Wu, who had been waiting for the second master of Dongjia Shui in the courtyard, suddenly shouted: "Xigou, what are you holding in your hand?" ”

The cave cutter didn't say anything when he came, and motioned to his son to pick up grain and break open the mouth of the pharmacist Liu Xicai, just when he crushed the unnamed wildflower in his hand and fed it to Liu Xicai's mouth, Sister-in-law Wu had already called Shui Erye over. As soon as the second master saw the road and wanted to feed the pharmacist again, he was so angry that he kicked his ass. "You're short-lived, you don't want to live!" He still didn't say anything when he came to the road, and took advantage of the time when the second master of Shui was angry, pinched Liu Xicai's nose hard, asked for a bowl of water from the hand of picking up grain, and poured it down without saying anything.

The miracle happened half an hour later, when the pharmacist Liu Xicai opened his eyes in a flash, people found that the two trouser legs of the cave cutter were rotten, which were cut by thorns, and blood seeped out of the trouser leg and seeped into a shoe. Second Master Shui only cared about Liu Xicai, but threw the way he came to the back of his mind.

On the way, he kept saying to the five sons: "It's late, it's been half a year late, even if the horse is killed, it's idle, people can't be saved, at most, I can help collect the corpse." As a result, as soon as I entered the hospital, I suddenly heard that the pharmacist had woken up, vomited two large basins of green water, and was desperately eating grains. Leng Zhongyi exclaimed: "There is such a thing? I'll see, let me see—"

Leng Chinese Medicine resolutely refused to admit that the pharmacist had eaten dog urine moss at first, if this thing was really eaten, would it last for two days? After he tossed in two basins of green water for a long time, he denied himself. "Providence, poisonous mushrooms poison immortal medicine people, it's really providence." He sneered. When the second master of the water told him about feeding the wild flowers on the way, he stared at the road with a surprised face: "Where did you pick the flowers?" ”

"Valley of Broken Souls." The road replied shyly.

"God, you dare to go to the Valley of Broken Souls!"

The cave slasher came to the Broken Soul Valley to collect medicine and save the pharmacist Liu Xicai, which moved the second master of the water so much that he couldn't speak. At that moment, he asked the housekeeper to take out some broken silver, and he had to come to accept it. I stammered on the way and said I wouldn't take anything. During the stalemate, Pharmacist Liu, who was already able to go to the ground, came over and said: "Second master, you will give him silver, a person who can give away his life, I am afraid that your broken silver is not rare." ”

"So, what do you want me to give him? Can't you give him a walking horse? Second Master Shui was a little unhappy, and said with ridicule in his words.

Pharmacist Liu Xicai didn't say anything, glanced at the way he came, and turned around to go to the courtyard. After walking a few steps, he stopped again, swept his eyes back and forth on the face of the coming road, and said, "That baby, is it yours?" ”

The way he came knew that he was asking to collect food, and said "um".

Pharmacist Liu Xicai thought about it, and his eyes moved to the second master's face: "Among this baby, Ming'er is one, let him follow me." ”

As soon as Second Master Shui was about to say no, he heard a plop from the road, and the pharmacist knelt down. Pharmacist Liu Xicai didn't see the way to come, and said to the second master of Shui: "I have accepted this baby, Ming'er, let him follow me." ”

Pharmacist Liu Xicai said it twice, and Second Master Shui knew that this matter was irreversible. Let the grain be picked up to grow medicine, this is the idea that the second master of Shui has never had at all, these days he is still pondering, how to send the way back, now it's good, the old one has not been driven away, and the small one has been taken by the pharmacist again. Second Master Shui angrily withdrew his gaze from the pharmacist Liu Xicai, and when he saw that he was still kneeling when he came from, he suddenly felt a little more angry in his heart: "You cheap ghost, see who is also your father, kneel, kneel, kneel to death." ”

Scolding and scolding, the next day, the long-term worker was still taken out of the stable by the housekeeper Lao Qitou and handed it over to the pharmacist Liu Xicai with his own hands.

Pharmacist Liu Xicai leads the grain collection every day, and the two of them are like a pair of calves, inseparable. If Second Master Shui wants to get close to Liu Xicai again, it will be a little difficult. Every time he saw Liu Xicai teaching to collect grain and grow medicine, his heart hurt and angry, but there was no way, even if he had great ability, he didn't dare to lose his temper at the pharmacist, so he could only endure his temperament and follow the pharmacist surnamed Cao. But Pharmacist Liu's closeness to picking up grain disturbed his heart from time to time, and when he went down to plant medicine, he didn't learn a few things that he should have learned, and he forgot to write them down!

Adjutant Qiu Jiayuan's steps frequently appeared on the banks of the sister river, which attracted the attention of the third lady, Shui Yingying. Ying Ying had made up her mind not to pay attention to Qiu Jiayuan, but the incident in Black Wind Valley was still in her heart, and she couldn't forget it. Qiu Jiayuan, who came back in a military uniform, still has no explanation for her, which makes her even more unhappy. It turned out that she still wanted to take the time to ask him, what happened to Black Wind Valley leaving her, what happened if he didn't hear from her for more than half a month, and when did he become the lieutenant of the Xi'an Army? All of this is a mystery in her mind, and it is necessary for her to solve it. Later, when I saw that Qiu Jiayuan was always avoiding her, the smile on her face was gone, the intimacy between her words was gone, and sometimes, she deliberately put on an adjutant's shelf with her, and the third lady Shui Yingying's heart couldn't stand it. has grown so big, she has not been lightly underestimated in anyone's eyes, and the second son of Qiu from Pingyangchuan dares to sneer at her, which really makes her angry.

"You ignore me, I'm too lazy to pay attention to you, see who is cruel to whom?!"

The third lady, Shui Yingying, overheard that Qiu Jiayuan had a private relationship with Pimple Wu, and suddenly she had an extra heart, she wanted to embarrass Qiu Jiayuan a little more in this matter.

This happened very coincidentally, that day she went to her father and wanted to ask her father publicly for some silver taels to go to Pingyang River. She misses her second sister. When it comes to the intimacy between sisters, Yingying and the second sister are a little closer than the eldest sister, she can say a lot of things to the second sister, but she can't open her mouth with the eldest sister. The eldest sister married into the He family, it seems that her personality also follows the He family, she is not discouraged, she is always not happy to talk and do things, and she has to teach Yingying a lesson in the air, Yingying doesn't like her old-fashioned energy, but she feels that it is easy to talk to the second sister. Qiu Jiayuan returned to the Shui family in a military uniform, thinking that Pingyangchuan would have someone to come and explain the matter clearly, but when he waited and waited, he just didn't see the shadow of the second sister. Yingying was angry in her heart, and she also had a knot that she couldn't understand, and she always felt that this thing was a little awkward, or rather, there was something strange about it. Yingying decided to go to Pingyang River in person to solve the mystery of Qiu Jiayuan.

As soon as she arrived at the door that day, she heard her father say to the old man, "Keep an eye on the thief for me, and see if he has any movement." Shui Yingying's heart fluttered, thinking that her father was talking about her. After listening carefully, I realized that it was Adjutant Qiu who was talking about. Dad said, "Why don't I look left and right that he doesn't look like a good person, you look at him like that, he is idle all day long, how can he be like a man who comes to grow medicine." The housekeeper answered: "You still said mile, I saw him going towards Nanling a few steps ago, what do you think he said?" He said that if he dared to follow him, he would take me to Xi'an City to be the chief spy. Hmph, he thinks I don't know what the chief spy does? This kind of person is unreliable at first glance. ”

"Who is relying on him? I'm asking you to worry about him and Pimple Five, if I really have something to do with Pimple Five, I have to find Kong Jiexi. This kind of person does not dare to stay. ”

"yes, I can't stay."

Dad's words suddenly reminded Shui Yingying of that abandoned afternoon, and remembered in a trance that when Qiu Jiayuan took her to the Black Wind Valley, he seemed to have mentioned this pimple five. Yes, I mentioned it. At that time, both of them were on the horse, and Yingying also talked to the Qiu family about the female students in Xi'an City, who knew that the Qiu family was far from finishing: "In the future, don't you dare to mention any more female students, if you let them hear this, it will be amazing." ”

Yingying didn't ask her father for silver taels that day, and walked away lightly with her steps. About Adjutant Qiu and Pimple Five, but it firmly drilled into her heart.

Yingying decided to follow Qiu Jiayuan, this person became more and more like a mystery, disturbing her originally undisturbed heart. The opportunity finally appeared on this day, Yingying touched the sister river on the other road of Caotan not long after Qiu Jiayuan went out, and in order to prevent Qiu Jiayuan from finding out, she didn't even ride a horse. Yingying thought a lot along the way, including her kindness to him and her thoughts about him. After thinking about it, I found out that she was hot with a shaved head, and her surname Qiu had never been in her heart. This incident made her chagrined, and it only added a little sadness, feeling that the sky that had been sunny all the time suddenly made Qiu Jiayuan smear.

Hum! Ying Ying stomped her foot a few times in anger.

That day, as soon as she reached behind the big eagle's beak, she saw three people reflected in the valley, and the three of them exchanged their heads and ears, and said something mysteriously.

The Sister River made several turns in succession at the Great Eagle's Beak, and turned out a few terrible places that resembled caves. The place where Qiu Jiayuan and the five pimples are standing, there are few people who come on weekdays, even if the bandits kill people, they will not choose such a troublesome place. Riding a horse from the grassy beach cannot directly reach the river valley, you have to tie the horse to the ditch cliff a few zhang high, and then people climb the shrubs and hit the bluestone cliff step by step. Fei Fei went to the river valley with so much effort, it can be seen that what they are talking about is by no means a good thing, although Shui Yingying can't listen to it, but from the mysterious strength of the three people, she still feels that this matter is not trivial.

Shui Yingying was shocked a few times, and some things in Black Wind Valley flashed in her mind again. According to the loud voice later, the man Hei San and the enemy must have let the bandits take it away, and it may not have been plotted by the enemy. "Enemy?" Shui Yingying asked so stupidly at that time, and she was very unhappy when she asked loudly, and shouted in her voice: "You are stupid in Qingshiling, you are like a sparrow in the ravine, you don't know what is going on outside the ditch!" ”

What's going on inside and outside the ditch? Shui Yingying had to have a little more mind, quietly touched it, and halfway through it, she was afraid, the way down was too dangerous, Shui Yingying almost fell down several times, she was afraid that she would be discovered by the enemy, so she had to climb the stone cliff and climb up again.

Standing on the stone cliff, Shui Yingying's eyes were more confused. This is the first time in her life that she began to think about some things outside the Shui family compound.

When the sun shone warmly on the entire Qingshi Ridge, Yingying got up and left the big eagle's beak and walked back along the same road. At this time, Yingying looked a little dull, this arrogant girl on the bluestone ridge rarely had such a face, and it was difficult to see her calm down before something that suddenly came. It can be seen that these days, she still has something in her heart.

Shui Yingying decided to hide this scene in her heart for the time being and never mention it to anyone. She is not covering up for Qiu Jiayuan, there is no need, if Qiu Jiayuan really colludes with Pimple Wu and fights her Shui family's idea, she will not let him go. But she was also afraid that she had wronged him. When she thought so, she suddenly found that in her heart, she still couldn't give up on him.

Damn it! She scolded herself and walked quickly in the direction of home.

The enthusiasm for planting medicine burned in Qingshi Ridge, and the wolf and crow platform were quickly planted, and the medicine planter changed to the land of the water family.

This is also a piece of fertile land, just planted peas before the Qingming Festival, the seedlings are green, Cao Yaoshi said that this land planted beans to be wasted, beans can make a few dollars, in addition to livestock to eat, I am afraid that it will not be able to sell for money, if you plant medicine, it will be different. Shui Erye couldn't resist the temptation, hesitated, but nodded and asked people to plow the beans, and plant medicine according to the instructions of Pharmacist Cao.

On this day, the county magistrate Kong Jiexi quietly sent someone to bring a letter to Shui Erye, which said that at present, the war is chaotic, and people from all walks of life have poured into the northwest, wanting to find their own foothold in the northwest, that is, the way to retreat after the war. Kong Jiexi reminded the second master of the water that although Qingshiling is far away from Gulang County, it is a treasure of feng shui, and someone will definitely fight its idea.

This letter disturbed the heart of the second master of Shui, and the enthusiasm of the second master of the water suddenly faded by half, he was not afraid of someone attacking the idea of the Shui family compound and Qingshiling, he was afraid of war.

Second Master Shui has experienced war in his life, and all kinds of panic and anxiety during the war years are still lurking in his mind like a nightmare. It was also on this day that the cave cutter suddenly proposed to go back to Xigou. The second master of Shui persuaded for a while, but he couldn't persuade him, and scolded: "You are short-lived, you said that you won't let you plant, you are partial to planting, and this is only half of the planting, and you have to run again, I really can't help you." After scolding, I still asked the housekeeper to give me some money, as well as enough food for a month, and sent away. Second Master Shui wanted to mention a few words about picking up grass, but after thinking about it, he was busy planting medicine for a while, so he couldn't take care of it, so he simply waited for the medicine to be planted, and picked a day to marry.