The cool night breeze blows the horizontal and sparse shadows of the Qin Garden, and the faint fragrance of herbs floats between the jagged trees in the garden. The room was as light as a bean, glowing with yellow candlelight, and there was a slender figure lurking next to the candlestick, lazy as a cat, and seemed to be a little unhappy.

Jingmo was lying on the table, holding a small apple, slightly frowning a pair of light eyebrows, nibbling in small bites, as if every bite was chewing on something that was lost. Reflecting the goose-yellow light, the heavy makeup on her face had been washed away at the moment, revealing the pure beauty of the original clear water hibiscus, and the fluttering clothes on her body and the beautiful and beautiful clothes of the dancing girl were also changed back into clean, fresh and lovely pharmacist clothes.

She remembered that before leaving from Chunmanlou tonight, she heard Man Man say that the man's white shirt in her room was given by an amorous man who was eccentric and shabby, but who cherished the fragrance and cherished the jade. This eccentric boy passed by Chunmanlou early in the morning and didn't enter the building, but he still took pity on Manman, who was standing on the tuyere and was frozen, and took off the robe on his body without saying a word.

Jingmo thought that when she first met thirteen in the restaurant, he was dressed in white and shengxue, and he was different from the others, and he was wearing the white shirt in Manman's room, and he was depressed in his heart. What kind of jewelry has Man Man never received in Chunmanlou? But such a garment with a man's warm body temperature was the first to be recovered. And what about him? Will this be the first time he'd undressed and give it to the girl? Or as long as you see the girl standing on the tuyere and being cold and blowing, even if you meet in Pingshui, you are busy undressing and sending each other away? This eccentric boy with half of the birthmark painted by himself on his face is probably just a master who can't stand loneliness and can't help but show mercy everywhere.

Thinking of this, Jingmo put aside the half-eaten apple and snorted lightly, as if he was angry with the half of the apple. After a moment's pause, she tried to get up from her chair, but her ankles went limp, and she fell back into the chair. She lifted the hem of her skirt slightly, and a large area of redness and swelling on the snow muscle of the exposed ankle was conspicuous.

Jing Mo frowned slightly, took a bottle of medicinal wine casually, took a long wrist, and gently kneaded the medicinal wine around the red and swollen part of his ankle. In order to win Zhou Rong's attention in the preliminary examination of Chun Manlou, she told Man Man that she had to dance amazingly on the white jade platform the size of a fruit plate in the incense pool.

Man Man knows better than anyone that Jing Mo's temper will not be able to pull back the nine horses once he is stubborn. But if you want to dance out of the palm dance in a short time, the slender body and light as a swallow are the first requirements, fortunately, this just fits Jingmo's curvy body, and furthermore, if you want to dance on a platform that is no more than a disc, the most important thing is to be able to maintain balance.

Fortunately, Manman's choreography of the dance is already tactile and flexible, and she has choreographed the Flying Ancient Dance for Jingmo on the basis of the palm dance, and Jingmo can dance lightly with the help of the power of the ribbon hanging from the ceiling. In this way, Jingmo practiced all night without sleep before he danced the whole dance without fail, but it hurt these slender ankles.

After Jingmo finished applying the medicine and wine, he looked out the window, the night was already dark, and he remembered that he had only been busy working in Chunmanlou for such a big time today, and he didn't have time to see how Shang Lu's physical condition was, and the medicine he prepared for Shang Lu last time should be almost exhausted, and she had to go to the street tomorrow morning to buy some things to develop new medicines, so she went to rest early.

The next day, the morning sun shines brightly on the bustling and bustling street market, the hot sweet potato stalls are fragrant for ten miles, and the shouts and shouts of small traders and vendors shake several streets.

Jingmo stood in front of a stall selling all kinds of small utensils for a long time, her eyes wandered on a stall of gold, silver, jade, enamel, and glass of all kinds of dazzling cups, staring deeply about what size and what material she would need when researching new medicines, and suddenly, a thunderous shout from behind her interrupted her thoughts.

"My dear mother! How can anyone raise prices like you? Do you want to leave a way for the little people who don't have money and power like us? ”

As soon as Jing Mo heard this rough voice shouting and arguing at the top of her voice, she immediately recognized who it was, and she had heard the scolding of this voice in her ears before the restaurant was opened. She looked back and saw that the crowd was getting bigger and bigger, all flocking to a shop across the street.

"We don't have the final say on this price, you foreign hillbilly went all over the city to inquire, who is not this price? If you like to buy, you can buy it, if you can't afford it, go back early, don't delay others here! ”

The shopkeeper replied proudly with his toes crossed on the threshold, and a few sturdy men sprang out of the shop, making a fierce bombardment.

Jingmo saw that the two men were blasted out of the crowd by the shop guys, and she looked up to see that the store plaque read: Kangji Pharmacy, and there was a striking signboard hanging in front of these four words, and there was only a large vermilion gilt character written on the signboard:

Qin.

After Jingmo saw this signboard, his heart swelled up and fell, and his eyes gradually lowered.

"You profiteers who hate the poor and love the rich! I fucking wish you all - huh? Coincidentally, it's you! ”

The man who was blasted out was still cursing non-stop, and when he saw Jingmo, his tone changed sharply, and he greeted him with great surprise, and hurriedly pulled the person next to him, and said in a deep voice with a straight face: "Recognize who this is, don't kneel down quickly!" ”

"Huh? On your knees? The man who knelt down was confused, looked at the gentle and beautiful woman in front of him in a daze, and asked with a puzzled face: "Big brother, who is this?" ”

"Brother, why don't you recognize your life-saving benefactor? This is the Kyoto pharmacist who pulled you back from the ghost gate! Get down on your knees and kowtow a few times! Although Xu Da was very grateful to Jingmo for saving his brother, he was even more humble because he cursed in every way to prevent her from rescuing her that day, so he hurriedly shouted Xu Fei to kneel down and thank him, as if this could cover up his nonsense that day.

Jingmo saw that Xu Fei really wanted to kneel and kowtow to thank him, so he hurriedly stopped: "It is Jingmo's business to treat the disease and save people, and it was also at the invitation of the restaurant owner that day, so you don't have to be so polite." ”

Jingmo said as he spoke, feeling that Xu Fei looked very familiar, and in addition to the impression that Xu Fei was unconscious in the restaurant, he always felt as if he had seen him on some other solemn occasion.

"Hey! If it weren't for the benevolence and superb medical skills of the Beijing pharmacist, my brother would have died in a foreign land when he came to Beijing this time, where would he still have the life to go to the art gallery! My two brothers are unforgettable for the life-saving grace of the Kyoto pharmacist! Xu Da saluted Jingmo and bowed his head, and Xu Fei also thanked him deeply, grateful.

Jingmo suddenly remembered that he had seen this little painter named Xu Fei when he was disguised as a dancing girl in Chunmanlou. She trembled in her heart, worried that Xu Fei would not recognize the eye-catching gorgeous dancing girl on the top floor at that time as the plain-clothed pharmacist in front of him, but she saw that Xu Fei didn't seem to have anything unusual in his eyes except gratitude, and he should have never recognized himself before and after.

Jingmo's heart gradually relaxed, but it's right to think about it, I'm afraid that only the amorous son who only knows how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, and is merciful everywhere can be so sharp that she can recognize her with heavy makeup.

Jing Mo smiled and greeted softly: "You two don't have to be polite, Xu Feigongzi's abdominal wound is healing smoothly?" Can you take your medicine on time according to the prescription I left? ”

"Alas!" The smile on Xu Dadu's face suddenly turned sharply, he pouted helplessly, frowned, and replied with a big sigh: "The prescription left by the Beijing pharmacist is indeed a good prescription!" It's just, alas—"

"But what? Could it be that Xu Feigongzi's old illness has relapsed? Or are there any other symptoms that are combined? Jingmo's heart suddenly clenched.

Although the method of opening surgery to treat intestinal carbuncle is recorded in ancient books, her conservative and old-fashioned master always used to come up with a set of rhetoric that harms people's vitality, persuading her not to operate on patients easily, saying that this move is very easy to offend the moldy head of the god of medicine. can be as stubborn as Jingmo, if there is a good prescription that can really cure diseases and save people, she will not give up easily, but will study it with great obsession and three points of boldness. She had been studying the method of surgery for many years, and had tested it many times on pigs, dogs, cows, sheep, and various animals, and saved many dying small animals, so she dared to gradually operate on the patient. Slowly, from shallow to deep, even if it is not said that it is also skillful, it stands to reason that it will not bring any complications to Xu Fei, and she can't help but faintly worry about what other hidden diseases the patient does not know about.

"No, no, no! Jing Yaoshi removed the lesion with a knife, and his younger brother is now disease-free and light. It's just that just now the two of us wanted to follow the prescription to the pharmacy to grab the medicine, but I didn't know if I didn't come, and this scared me three times! ”

Xu Da even made a stirring in Jingmo to echo his exaggerated tone, "There are really one or two gold and one or two medicines in the pharmacy!" My mother-in-law, even if this is the capital, the price of medicine will not be so high, right? Even such a thing as illness has become the monopoly of the rich and noble! ”

When Jingmo heard this, he glanced at the gilded red letters hanging on the door of the Kangji Pharmacy - Qin. Her eyes wiped a trace of gloom, and now the pharmaceutical situation in the capital is not as good as it was back then, only Qin's Pharmaceutical is left to dominate, controlling the entire pharmaceutical market, monopolizing many pharmacies, and wantonly raising drug prices.

It stands to reason that a profession like medicine, which is related to the livelihood of the people, dares to come like this, and the court will not sit idly by. It's strange that even though the people have long complained about medicine, they have never seen any action by the imperial court to control it in recent years. Seeing the growing and prosperous development of Qin's Pharmaceutical, people with discerning eyes have speculated that what kind of backer Qin's Pharmaceutical is behind it, and it can sit so firmly and openly at the feet of the Son of Heaven to expand its own power.

"Don't worry, the two of you, this is the case in the capital right now, and other places may not be much better. If you come, you might as well go to Qinyuan with me, first, I will revisit the pulse of Xu Feigongzi, and second, although Qinyuan is small, it also grows a lot of medicinal materials, so you can take some back to boil medicine. Jingmo said to Xu Da, who was so anxious that his eyebrows and mouth were almost squeezed into one place.

"How embarrassing is that! Jing Yaoshi, you have already saved my life in the restaurant, how can I go to Qinyuan Bai again to ask for some medicinal herbs? Although Xu Fei is a shabby literati with a lot of fame and fortune, he is not a master who blindly takes advantage.

Jingmo knew that the two brothers were worried about money, and she smiled warmly: "Young Master Xu Fei doesn't have to be restrained, the restaurant owner who operated on Zhong Dingxuan for treatment has ended." I'm not giving away medicine for nothing, one or two pills and three pennies, it's not negotiable, and you don't have to be embarrassed about anything. ”

Sanpenny?

The Xu brothers couldn't help but be dumbfounded, this money couldn't even buy a single pill of medicine residue in the Beijing pharmacy, Xu Dacai didn't care about the polite or unceremonious courtesy, and hurriedly happily pulled Xu Fei to follow Jingmo to Qinyuan.

After arriving at Qinyuan, the Xu brothers couldn't help but be amazed by the variety of herbs and trees planted in the garden, if these medicinal materials are sold to the medicinal herb shop, they can make a lot of money, in their eyes, where are the medicinal materials planted in this garden, it is clearly better than one cash cow after another.

"Beijing pharmacist, I'm a rough person who has never seen the world, and I can't help but ask, why don't you see a doctor and sell medicine at a high price like other pharmacists in the capital? I'm sure I'll make a lot of money! Xu Da asked with a glenning eye.

Jing Mo raised her eyes, silently glanced at the herbs in the garden, here was filled with the cold herb fragrance that she was most familiar with, although it was not as good as the medicinal herbs that she had been taking care of all over the mountains and fields in the past, but after all, some things were not what they used to be, and there were immediate considerations at the moment.

"Get used to it."

Jingmo led the Xu brothers across the stone steps in front of the house in front of him, and replied lightly.

Over the years, although she had to stay in the capital, which seemed to be a prosperous but cold place, she was never willing to change her principles as a pharmacist. If, like those pharmacists outside, they regard the treatment of diseases and saving people as a profit-making business, wouldn't it become a raccoon dog of Qin's Pharmaceutical? For Jingmo, she is not willing to live up to her life's aspirations, let alone live up to her master's wishes.

Xu Daben also had nothing to say, seeing that Jingmo didn't seem to care about these and didn't care about them, he was happy to be so kind and charitable to Jingmo, saving a lot of money. The two followed Jingmo to the house, and Jingmo asked them to sit down and wait for a while, and then go into the inner room to get some medicinal herbs for them to take back.

After Jingmo walked in, only the two brothers were left to sit here and wait. Xu Fei looked at it and saw that although this Qinyuan Garden was simple and small, it was quiet and elegant, making people forget to be in the downtown of the capital. The tables and chairs in the room are all made of rattan wood, and there are several delicate and exquisite small bottles and jars by the window, which are inserted with elegant flower branches, and there is a landscape painting with beautiful mountains and rivers hanging on the wall.

Landscape painting?

Xu Fei's leisurely glance was immediately caught by this painting. He couldn't help but jump up from his chair and hurried towards the painting. He walked over to the painting and found that it had fallen a thick layer of dust from the time it had been hanging on the wall.

When he saw the mottled and blurred ink in the lower right corner of the drawing paper, his eyes "rubbed" a fine light, he stretched his neck, eager to stick into the wall, carefully studied the words on the letter, and then his tense face suddenly seemed to be swept with an inexplicable smile, and then, it became a burst of ecstasy that could not be concealed, and he pointed to the inscription of the painting in amazement and disbelief:

The second day of the winter month of the tenth year of filial piety.

Zhou Rongzuo.