Chapter Forty-Eight: Opportunity
The star fruit was pulled out like a turnip, and the waist, legs and feet were scratched by the wall, and they didn't dare to squeak.
As soon as she came out, she took the lead in looking at the person who pulled her out, only to see that the other party was an eleven or twelve-year-old boy with a bookish face. Carambola breathed a sigh of relief and flattered her little face with a shy face: "Did the little brother misunderstand?" I'm not a thief, and I don't have the skills to steal things. ”
Xiao Tong glanced at the dog hole disdainfully, and looked at the star fruit with disdain: "It's not a thief or bandit, is it still a student and a maid?" ”
"At a young age, he is full of nonsense, and it is really rotten wood that cannot be carved." He was a little impatient, and he raised his voice to shout.
Carambola was in a hurry, and when he couldn't grab it, he covered his mouth: "Little brother, don't shout, I'm really not a thief!" ”
She turned over the pickles with her free hand, and said succinctly the purpose of coming in this time: "I am a child of a poor family, but I am looking for an opportunity to sell the pickles." Little brother, you are doing well, don't shout people, okay? ”
Although star fruit is young, it has a lot of strength in its perennial work. She covered the child's mouth hard, and the child couldn't break free even if he was a man.
He followed his master at the age of seven, and he had already developed an old-fashioned temperament. Now the soft and tender little hands of star fruit are on his face and mouth, and he is so embarrassed that he is on fire, and he shouts in a vague voice: "Men and women don't kiss, you whore girl will take my hand away." ”
Star fruit really didn't hear what he was shouting, but that didn't matter.
She looked at his eyes cautiously and whispered, "If you don't call people, I'll let you go, you don't lie to people." ”
The little boy glared at her with big eyes and annoyance, and the star fruit was amused by the little bun, and reached out to flick his forehead: "When my brother is not convinced, he can stare at me like this, and he will be honest when he plays two chestnuts." ”
Thinking of Yang Chunxiao, the carambola's eyes were full of pampering and warmth, and the little child's heart was warm.
No matter how warm it is, my forehead hurts!
The child looked at the star fruit helplessly and begged for mercy: "You let go of me, I don't call people." ”
"Really?"
The boy nodded vigorously: "The gentleman is hard to chase after a gentleman!" ”
Carambola vaguely heard a few words clearly, and probably pieced together what he meant, so he tentatively let go of his hand: "If you shout again, I will cover it again." If you insist on opposing me, I will tie you up in this wood. ”
She scared people with a tiger face, and Xiao Tong rolled his eyes countless times: Silly woman, don't look at whose territory this is, if I go missing, the master will not be able to report to the official?
"You go, I just don't see you." The boy pointed to the dog hole, meaning to let her climb out the way she came.
Star fruit took out the pickle jar from his pocket and handed it to the little boy, pouting and pretending to be pitiful: "You taste my pickles first, it's really delicious." I didn't do anything else, so I went around to the kitchen and begged the steward to give me a small plate on each table, and when I was done, I left. ”
"No, the master hates the copper smell of the merchant the most, and if you dare to do business in his lecture hall, he will definitely be angry. If you know that I have indulged you, you will surely skin me. ”
"Can't you just pretend you don't know?"
"But I know I got you. Do you still want to trick me into deceiving my teacher and destroying my ancestors? ”
Star fruit almost choked on saliva: Is it so serious to deceive the teacher and destroy the ancestors?
"You hurry up, if you don't leave, I'm really going to call someone. Don't think it's useful for you to cover my mouth, the master sent me out to run errands, and if I don't go back when the time comes, he will definitely be looking for me. ”
Star fruit moved dejectedly to the edge of the dog hole, thinking that when he was gone in a moment, she would crawl in through the dog hole.
In fact she did the same, but the dead boy seemed to be on the same page with her, and he stayed on the edge of the dog's hole, and as soon as she showed up, he pulled her out.
After repeating this several times, the star fruit was angry: "You have nothing to do, you have to get along with me?" ”
Xiao Tong sat on the stone beside him, rubbing his forehead that was hit by star fruit, he glared at her fiercely, and his tone was full of helplessness: "I'm also for your good, the master originally hated businessmen, and he was in a particularly bad mood today." If you hit him, you'll suffer. If it weren't for the fact that you were born poor, I wouldn't have bothered to care about you. ”
Star fruit sat on the stone opposite him and looked at him with his cheeks: "Look at your broken face, is the master embarrassed you?" It's breakfast time soon, did he ask for a breakfast that embarrassed you? ”
Xiao Tong glanced at her again: "Guess what, the master is very good." ”
With him guarding, star fruit didn't want to go anywhere, so I patiently chatted with him to see if I could listen to some news and come up with some other ways.
"I think your master is an old-fashioned man with no heart, otherwise, how could he look down on merchants?"
Xiao Tong flew a knife directly at the star fruit: "Shinong businessman, businessman is originally at the lowest level. You people, for the sake of a few copper plates, don't even care about dignity and humanity, are you still worth looking at? ”
Carambola glared angrily, and stubbornly looked at the child's weak heart: "My master attaches great importance to ethics and normality, but his lectures are not allowed to be stained with copper stench, what's wrong with this." ”
"That's right!" Carambola sighed and said patiently: "Go and get busy with you, your husband is so good, how can you express your respect if you don't go to serve well?" ”
The little boy looked at the star fruit, drooped his head and said, "Master, if your leg hurts, don't let me make a noise, I want to find him some Qingfeng vines, but I can't find it." ”
"Go to the pharmacy and buy it!"
"It's all said and don't make a noise!" The little boy looked at the star fruit like a fool: "I'm going to give a lecture in a while, where is the time to buy medicine and boil medicine now?" But his face turned white with pain, and he lectured all morning, and occasionally had to stand and walk......"
Qingfeng vine is a medicine for rheumatism, could it be that the master has more serious rheumatic pain?
Combined with Zhao Langzhong's words that day, the star fruit knew in his heart that it was eight or nine points white: Bailu Academy is located in Jiangxi, where the climate is relatively humid, and the master is estimated to be a little rheumatism when he is old. In addition, in the past few days, Shuzhou has changed, and the master's old cold legs are only afraid of attack.
"I have a way to relieve the pain of my old cold legs, why don't you let me try."
The boy looked at her with a very distrustful look, and the contempt in it was so strong that it pierced the heart.
Carambola took out the silver needle and moxa sticks from his bosom and showed him: "Don't take the opportunity to approach the master, you just take me over, the master can't see me or not, it's all up to him." ”
The little boy looked at the silver needle in her hand, frowned and did not speak.
"You just have to tell me where I came from, and I will admit how the Master wants to send me down. That's all right. ”
Thinking that the master was in a cold sweat, Xiao Tong still brought the star fruit over: "I can tell you, there are more than a dozen servants guarding here, if you dare to play bad eyes, you have to explain your life here." ”
Star fruit also rolled her eyes as he did: Just see a doctor, as for it?
When they arrived at the door, the boy went in to report, and it didn't take long for someone to come and bring the star fruit in.
"You just climbed the dog hole to sell pickles, and then said that star fruit can cure the old man's leg pain?" The master held the book in his hand and glanced at her lazily with his eyelids lifted.
This look is not as sharp as star fruit thinks, but the quiet and deep unique to scholars.
Carambola nodded frankly and said frankly: "I know that the master doesn't like merchants, so we won't talk about pickles now." I'll show you your legs first, and when your legs are loose, whether you want me to go to the kitchen or take me away is up to you, Master. ”
The master raised his head from the book, and the star fruit realized that the master was not old, and he was about twenty years old.
She was a little surprised, how could such a young master have old cold legs?
The master saw the change in her expression, and said with a light smile: "Men and women don't kiss, even if you wear men's clothes, you are still a daughter's family." How are you going to show me my legs? ”
Star fruit put away her shock, looked into his eyes and said, "In the face of illness and life, there has never been a man or a woman who has given or received. The Master's leg hurts, and I only see the leg, and it has nothing to do with men or women. ”
The master shook his head and began to read anew.
"What about the maid?" Carambola was unconvinced, and stubbornly looked at the master: "Those women who are maids have to serve the male master to clean their faces and hands, and they have to wait for bathing and changing clothes." They are men and women, and they can't kiss each other, right? ”
"How can that be the same? The maid herself is a servant. ”
Carambola chuckled and looked at him, with a victorious cunning in his eyes: "The doctor himself is a doctor, why is it different?" ”
The master was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "In this way, I am still obsessed." ”
The star fruit laid out the needle bag and motioned for the master to come and look at the leg.
I don't know if I was really persuaded by the star fruit, but the master really did it, and stretched out his wrist very cooperatively to let the star fruit take the pulse.
"Since you are a doctor who helps the world, why are you so focused on business?"
Carambola concentrated on taking the pulse and did not answer his questions. After confirming the condition, the star fruit instructed the child to put hot water on the master's joints. After the leg was dressed, she began to prepare for moxibustion again.
"Time is pressing, it's too late to decoction, let's only moxibustion and acupuncture, although we can't break the root, but you can still do it if you don't suffer today."
The master was in a bit of pain, and nodded with half-closed eyes: "I still have half an hour to go, you move quickly." ”
"That's enough."
Star fruit's grandfather is also an old cold leg, as soon as she gets home, she has to take time to show her grandfather's legs, moxibustion and acupuncture have long been very good.
It only took half an hour for Master's treatment to end. The star fruit pulled out the silver needle and wiped it, and asked him, "Can the pain be reduced a bit?" ”
The master moved his legs and feet, and although he still felt pain, it had been reduced a lot, and he didn't feel it very painful if he didn't deliberately feel it.
He nodded at the star fruit and asked her, "How much is the consultation fee?" ”
He thought that star fruit would take advantage of this favor and ask the cook to add her pickles to the menu. In fact, star fruit really wanted to do this, but she was too unkind with Ensoli.
"Fifty copper plates is not expensive."
"Fair." There was obvious appreciation in the master's eyes, and he asked the child to pay for the consultation, and asked him to personally send the star fruit out: "This is a place of learning, not a place where the girl's family should come." ”
Still doesn't work? Carambola turned her head to look at her master, and there was a faint pleading in her eyes.
"Don't ask yourself to steal, it's already a villain for you to break into the house, I'll send you out of the house, it's already broad-minded and courteous."
Star fruit had nothing to say and followed the boy away.
When he was about to walk out of the door, the master's voice sounded behind him: "In today's lecture, I lack a maid who grinds and transmits books. If you will come, you will change your clothes in a moment, and come in in dignity. ”
The starthorn's low heart suddenly rejoiced, and there was really no endless road to heaven.
But when she followed Xiao Tong to the auditorium, when she saw An Zhiyuan sitting in the front row, when her body was shrouded in his gloomy and sharp gaze, she knew what it was to make people!
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