I thought about it, it's my first time in the Central Plains, how can I have friends in the Central Plains and still take such care of me? Li Mo is categorically impossible, Li Mo and Chen Mo are so busy and don't think about it, and Ling Niang, but how can Ling Niang become friends with an old man? I'm afraid this old man is old and confused.

He talked to himself all the way until he led me into a large room with three walls filled with medicine chests, and he stepped on a wooden ladder to pull out the medicine box drawers and tinker with something.

I couldn't help but ask him, "Uncle, who is that friend of yours?" ”

He said to himself again: "Alas, if you really do good deeds, you can't be a good person......

Just when I was confused, the old man suddenly came down and hunched his back and said to me: "You Ah Weng is the most prestigious dancing god of the shamanism in the Western Regions?" I nodded in surprise, and he continued, "Your mother is rumored to be a miracle doctor who is rare in a hundred years by the Hu people?" ”

I nodded again and said, "You...... How do you know so much about my background?! ”

The old man pointed me in the direction with his chin and said, "Bring that to me." ”

I turned my head and saw a beautifully carved cane leaning against the wall, so I handed it to the old man. The old man breathed a sigh of relief after getting the crutches, he knocked the ground with the crutches and said, "The old man will test you first, what is the cure for the sunflower?" ”

"Cure the woman's milk knots, redness, swelling and pain." I said it smoothly

"The leaves are like hemp, the shape of the child is like a tick, and its son has pitting, what is this?"

"This is castor, specifically for the treatment of water disease, take it with 20 pieces of water, spit out evil foam, add it to 30, take it once every three days, and stop."

......

"The old man has been thin and short lately, and he is very angry, according to your opinion, what should the old man take."

"You can take it all winter, or ice table."

The old man knocked on the ground angrily, and his voice trembled: "Bingtai is making up for the fact that Zhongmu is smart and not old, you are simply mocking the old man for being stupid and stupid." No matter what, the old man will reluctantly accept you as an apprentice. Within three days, you take a look at the medicinal materials in this house for the old man who are less than half of the index finger, find out clearly, and then go to the mountain behind Xiangguo Temple to collect them according to the medicine spectrum, clean, dry and then store them, and there must be no omissions. Old man, I'm going to find you a helper......"

I jumped up for joy and said, "I even have a master!" Thank you, uncle! No, it's the master! He was about to cross the threshold when I stopped him, "Master, who is that friend of yours!" ”

He said leisurely: "Zhang Jiaerlang." Then he staggered away, humming something in his mouth.

I was thinking about what kind of person Zhang Jiaerlang was, a young man wearing a hat and leading a bouncing female Jiao'e in a goose yellow shirt. The boy was about the same age as me, and the little girl was eleven or twelve years old.

The two of them stood in front of me in a daze, the girl looked at me with a pair of big watery eyes, and the young man was stunned, and asked blankly, "You...... Are you the master's new apprentice? ”

"That's right, my name is Xingyue. Are you Zhang Jiaerlang? "I can't believe it.

The young man came back to his senses and said gently and politely: "No, you can call me Tao San, this is my sister Xiao Nuan." Xiao Nuan, this is Senior Sister Xingyue, our master's new apprentice. ”

The girl named Xiao Nuan smiled and said, "Hello senior sister", and I nodded happily.

The three of them quickly got busy. Sometimes I turn my head and see Xiao Nuan sitting on Tao San's shoulder and turning over the drawer, and the two of them are talking and laughing. An indescribable sourness welled up in my heart, and when I was a child, my brothers used to let me sit on their shoulders like this, but it was fun.

Later, I learned that Xiao Nuan was picked up by the master when he went up the mountain to collect medicine, and it was a baby abandoned by his father, and Tao San was originally an orphan begging on the street, so the master couldn't bear to take them in.

"Master, his old man is the most famous Langzhong in the whole Shang, and many princes and nobles want to hire him as a royal doctor. Although the master teaches people a little harshly on weekdays, he is actually a very caring person. Tao San said while flipping through the drawer.

After we sorted out a list full of medicinal materials, Tao San instructed Xiao Nuan: "My brother and sister went out to the mountain to collect medicine, and the pharmacy was handed over to Xiao Nuan." She nodded obediently.

Tao San led me to a small warehouse, and he carried a basket on his back, and I followed his example.

Along the way, he told me some things about the pharmacy, such as the backyard of the pharmacy also planted many precious herbs, such as the master was still a bell doctor when he was young, for example, the patients who usually come are all rich families, such as the Jiangnan Pharmacy's medicine recipes are written by the master himself after 50 years......

"Then do you know that the master has a friend named Zhang Erlang?"

"I know that the master does have a New Year's friend, but I have only seen that person two or three times, and every time he comes, he only wears a green coat and a veil and hat, and he can't see clearly. I don't know if it's Zhang Erlang in your mouth. However, anyone who can become friends with the master should be a very powerful character. ”

I don't know if he's powerful or not, but I know he must be a kind person.

There are two main temples on it, one is Shenyuan Temple and the other is Xiangguo Temple. I followed Tao San along the tree-lined path on the side of Xiangguo Temple, and then walked a little further into the stone steps. The stone steps are covered with moss, and it is easy to slip if you are not careful. I've always hated the large foliage that sticks out of the black press, because I've always been afraid of a snake falling out of the blue, and an unknown object making a sound in the dark bushes next to it.

Tao San was holding a book full of herbs in his hand, and he was studying it carefully, and I was embarrassed to disturb him.

When we finally reached the flat land of the mountains and forests, we began the difficult journey of searching for medicinal herbs. Fortunately, the herbs I was looking for were relatively easy to find, and Tao San specially left the herbs with high growth habits to himself. I have done this kind of thing with A-Niang before, every time we come back, both hands are small scars, Daddy was distressed at that time, but A-Niang just refused to let others do these things, afraid that they would not find it fine enough.

The growth habits of each medicinal herb are different, some are in the mountain, some are in the valley, some like light, some like yin, so it takes a lot of time and effort to find it, and if you find it, you must uproot it, and you can't break the root. It's dark in the woods, and it has to be found before the sun goes down.

After collecting a basket full of baskets, I walked to the intersection of the mountain with my waist on my back. I just waited for Tao San at the intersection, and when I was tired, I sat on the steps to rest. It's hateful that there are too many mosquitoes, and the wind hasn't blown yet.

After a long, long time, just when I thought something had happened to Tao San, he ran over panting with a backpack that was fuller than me. Fortunately, the sun hasn't completely set, otherwise I wouldn't even be able to see the road clearly.

He slowed down, bowed to me, apologized, and then said to me as he walked, "I went too far and saw a group of people hunting and almost shot me." At first, I thought they were just here to hunt, but I didn't expect them to be a gang of bandits. It's better to be careful in the future. ”

"Is the thief the king of the mountain?"

He bowed his head and said: "They often rob the women of good families who come up to the mountain, and arrest them back to be the ladies of the village, and the women should be careful when they are alone." ”

I can't help but sigh that although there is prosperity in Shangdu, there are also sinister villains, and the same is true in Lanzhou City, as well as in large and small counties and townships, anything can happen. And I've always been so well protected by my father and brothers, and now I'm finally able to appreciate something, and that's what it's like to grow up.

Back on the street, Tao San asked me to wait for him, he was going to buy a rock sugar gourd for Xiao Nuan.

I stood on the bustling streets of a foreign land, watching groups of unfamiliar faces pass by in front of me. Suddenly, I missed the words that Li Mo whispered in my ear in the past, in fact, it is also a very happy thing to have a good friend by my side. Although the journey back to the DPRK was very difficult, I also survived and experienced many interesting things, and I will never forget these memories.

Suddenly, I saw an attic with a sign of "Yunxiang Dance Workshop", and a familiar red figure first appeared. Isn't that the Lingniang? I looked at it in surprise, and then four women came out of it, it was Xie Niang, Chuan Niang, Wan Niang, and Bai Niang, they dressed up and entered a luxury soft sedan chair parked outside the building, and the horse was driven by a soldier, and the uniform was clearly from the Li family.

Before I could react, I was called away by Tao San.

I didn't have time to think about it on the way, and as soon as I entered the pharmacy, I smelled the smell of food.

"Your sister can cook?" I asked.

"Yes, don't look at Xiao Nuan's young age, she is good at cooking." I, who am also a woman, am ashamed that I am not even as good as a little girl.

We sat on the stone bench, and after Xiao Nuan put the last dish on the table, he said, "The master just went out to listen to the opera with Uncle Gao, who sells antiques, and said that he would come back later, so let's leave him alone." ”

"What is opera?" I asked curiously.

Seeing the two of them looking at me incredulously, Tao San first said, "Haven't you heard the opera?" I shook my head, "Then how about we go to the Xicheng Hall together another day?" ”

Xiao Nuan clapped her hands happily: "Okay, good!" I'm going! I want to see Sister Saiko! ”

I tapped the edge of the bowl with my chopsticks: "Then it's decided!" ”

At night, Tao San said that there was still a room that had not been sorted out, so he asked me to sleep with Xiao Nuan first. There is a person sleeping next to you and you can also chat together.

The location of the pharmacy is already very quiet, except for the sound of cicadas at night, there are some very small wind and grass.

"Xiao Nuan, have you slept ......" I asked cautiously.

"Not yet."

"Let me ask you, have you ever liked someone?" I turned to face her, and she happened to face me. The night was quiet and I could only hear the two of us breathing and the dull sound for no reason.

"I ...... Yes......" Her voice was as low as a mosquito.

"Hee-hee, I have ...... too"