"If I hadn't put a cigarette pill on the watchtower, you might not have been flogged today."

"That...... Thanks, I didn't expect it to be so serious......" I glanced at him with my head down.

He said after a long time: "In short, it's very dangerous, even if it's curfew time, you are not allowed to go out casually, we still have a little friendship, I can protect you for a while, but I can't save a lifetime." In the past few days, Jing Zhaoyin will send officers and soldiers to check the household registration, you walked too fast last time and I didn't have time to ask, you came from the border, do you still have relatives in Shangdu? ”

I shook my head.

Li Yi frowned and said, "Where do you live now?" ”

"I'm at Jiangnan Pharmacy, it's very close to here."

"Then Captain Qin asked you, why did you say that you were lost."

I was speechless for a moment, not just to look at you.

"Forget it, I'll send you away, lest anyone think you're an assassin."

"You...... Is this worrying about me? I bit my lip, craned my neck, and said in a voice that mosquitoes could hear.

He suddenly said, "Don't get me wrong, I see you as pitiful, you have lost your parents, you have been separated from your brother, and you have no relatives here," he paused, "I used to have a sister ...... too"

I didn't expect him to remember what I said in the barracks, but at that time, the brother I said was just a casual mess I said.

We walked like this, no one spoke, so quiet that we could only hear our own heartbeats.

Walking to the gate of Jiangnan Pharmacy, he slowly stuffed me with a thin bamboo slip with some words written on it, and said, "I have already found someone to do it for you, and I didn't know where you lived before, so I filled in Jinwu Courtyard." When an officer or soldier comes, hide in your quarters, and no one should find you. ”

My heart was like a happy flower, Li Yi was about to get on the horse and turn away, I quickly asked him, "When can we meet again?" ”

"Not necessarily." He said crisply.

The lantern in front of the door illuminated his tall and long figure, and I could clearly see his red cheeks and his eyes with nowhere to place.

As he rode away, I shouted at his back, "I'll go to the foot of the watchtower every day to see you—"

I don't know if he heard it, so I carefully took the bamboo slip and entered the pharmacy. I saw Tao San anxiously come over and ask me: "Why did the girl come back so late, the curfew has started, I thought you were captured by the soldiers as an assassin." Who was the person who was talking to the girl? ”

I showed him the bamboo slips: "Sweetheart! ”

"Huh?" Tao San scratched his head, "I didn't expect that the girl still had a relationship with the official......"

I glanced at him, and I knew that he was still a young man.

I gently pushed the door open to prevent the noise from disturbing Xiao Nuan. After lifting half of the futon and lying in, Xiao Nuan still hadn't fallen asleep: "Why did my sister come back so late tonight?" ”

"My sister is going to see my sweetheart."

"Sweetheart?"

"Yes. My sweetheart is so good-looking, he can ride a horse and kick a bow, he can do a lot of things, but he is amazing! Eh, doesn't Xiao Nuan also have someone she likes, tell me, what is your sweetheart? ”

She held back for a long time and whispered embarrassedly: "Sister can see him in the future......"

I smiled heartily: "Well, I know, sleep, sleep." ”

I put the bamboo slips in my heart, thinking that if one day I take revenge, I will tell Li Yi everything about me. Daddy and Auntie, have you seen it, this is the sweetheart who makes Xingyue's heart miss him. The moonlight fell heavily in front of the window, and the light dust rippled in the air, constantly rising and sinking. At this time, I was dreaming about all kinds of things while falling asleep in sweetness.

In the days that followed, I would get up early in the morning and sneak around the outside with the medicine box on my back without waiting for Tao San, and each time I would pass by the foot of the watchtower in the center of the city, which was a cut higher than the other houses, but I could still see the soldiers holding the handle inside. Li Yi was really there, I would jump up and wave at him to say hello, and sometimes he would just nod indifferently when he saw it, which was enough to make me happy all day.

Over time, it has become a habit, in addition, the life in the pharmacy is either forced by the master to memorize the scriptures, or copy the scriptures, and let us learn to watch how the old man himself boils medicinal materials, and every step must be memorized. He would also give us a roll of paper full of his own list of questions, and he would come and toss us several times every seven days. Since Master Nian Zai left me in the pharmacy, I didn't dare to play any tricks, and in the end, I would use a Hu man who couldn't use a brush.

Tao San studied the most seriously, took out a book of medicine and asked him, he could even be accurate to which page, but he is such a master who says what is the elm head, if he wants to be successful in this area and be known to the people, it is not enough to just read books. So I decided to set an example for him.

That afternoon, I made a few pills after a combination of considerations.

The master hunched over and pinched the pill with two fingers, while looking closer and asking about the taste. His gray beard and hair were going to fall to the ground.

He tilted his head and asked me, "What did you add?" ”

I crossed my fingers and said, "As for the three flavors, coriander, flower mustard, and dragon belly, the soup for cooking the medicine is made of Ming Group and Huang Feng, and then mixed with the dew of Mao." These herbs are spicy, sweet and bitter, and can be used to remove peculiar smells. What do you think? ”

The master knocked on the ground with a cane and said: "Chinese medicinal materials, eighteen antis, Ming group halberd, Gansui coriander." Coriander and Ming attacked each other, but why did you mix these two flavors together? ”

"No, no, my aunt said that after the Ming group is fermented, fragrant, and dried, the morning dew sieves the raw ash, which can slow down the medicinal properties of coriander. The Ming group is very useful, master, your medicine recipe doesn't mention this, so I dared to try it myself. ”

"Are you laughing at the old man? Ahem, ahem—" Tao San patted the master lightly on the back.

"No, no, no, I-"

The master waved his hand and said, "Yes, but you have to taste everything yourself before you can really implement it." You know why there are so many pustules on the old man's tongue, and even the body is not getting worse day by day, because every time the old man makes a prescription, he has to taste it for three days......"

The master staggered away, leaving his old and somewhat lonely back.

Tao San said: "You are really powerful, but what kind of disease is your pill curing?" ”

I tossed one in my mouth, swallowed it, and said, "Cure tuberculosis." ”

"You, you just eat like this, if there are bad consequences, it won't be easy to do."

"What are you afraid of, the master and his old man have said it. Would you like to try one too? ”

Tao Sanyu hesitantly took a pill and swallowed it, I patted him on the shoulder and said, "If there is no major problem in three days, we can make a try on the premise of the patient's consent." ”

"Brother, Sister Xingyue, someone has come to seek a doctor-"

Xiao Nuan panted and ran over, we followed her to the lobby, and saw a man sitting on a four-wheeled bicycle, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, but his eyes were blue and black, and his body was thin, like a sick scholar, and a scholar behind him pushed him.

Tao San said: "It turned out to be Yan Gongzi, Tao San will go to dispense medicine for Yan Gongzi." ”

Yan Gongzi thanked me, nodded to me again, and turned to Xiao Nuan and said, "Xiao Nuan told me last time that there are begonias in the backyard of this pharmacy, are you willing to take me to watch it?" ”

"Naturally." Xiao Nuan opened her big eyes and smiled. The scholar consciously got out of the way, and Xiao Nuan went over and pushed Yan Gongzi to the backyard. I looked back closely, and there was a large scar behind Yan Gongzi's right ear.

I thought to myself, it turns out that this is the sweetheart in Xiao Nuan's mouth, such a weak look, and he doesn't look like a good person, what attracted Xiao Nuan? I looked at the scholar who was standing waiting for the prescription and asked, "Let me ask you, who is your son-in-law?" ”

The scholar said: "Our family is not only the great Honglu of the imperial seal, but also the Shangdu Yi'an Sicheng. The girl is a new pharmacist? ”

I nodded. Thinking about what such a big man with such status is doing in our small pharmacy, there are so many precious medicinal materials planted in the backyard, how can an outsider come in casually?

After they came out, Tao San had already wrapped the medicine, and after the scholar took the medicine, he pushed Yan Gongzi away.

Yan Gongzi did not forget to thank Xiao Nuan: "Thank you Xiao Nuan today, the begonia flowers are blooming very beautifully." Xiao Nuan looked at him with a smile, and her eyes were shining with love.

After the scholar pushed him away, I asked Tao San: "What kind of Laoshzi disease does this Yan Gongzi have?" ”

Tao San shook his head: "I don't know, even the master and his old man can't take the pulse." Every time Yan Gongzi came, he just took a prescription and asked us to dispense medicine for him, so the master was anxious for several months and had been groping, but he just didn't understand this disease, and then the master became more and more physically poor and simply gave up, but Yan Gongzi has always been grateful to us. ”

"There is such a miraculous disease. When will he come next? ”

"I don't know, Yan Gongzi is full of business, if he has free time, he will come over."

"I always didn't think he looked like a good guy."

Tao San pouted: "Gongzi Yan is a well-known kind person in Shangdu, not only built workshops and courtyards to take in those homeless children and beggars, but also let them enter some steel-making and iron-making factories to earn money, and the good deeds are simply all over Shangdu, and the people are grateful to him, and they also use him as a god and Buddha to offer." It's good for you to say that people are not good people and will be punished. ”

I snorted.