And at this moment, in the Juxian Building by Yunlong Lake, there are a group of people sitting and standing, just as there is an old man over fifty years old standing on the stage of the middle stage is talking eloquently, he is thin, coarse cloth robe, although his appearance is not good, but his eyes are like electricity, and his bearing is extraordinary.

This Juxian Building was originally an ordinary teahouse, just because it is located on the shore of this Yunlong Lake, the scenery is pleasant, and it has attracted many literati and scholars. In the peaceful years, they sang and sang here, and now the world is turbulent, and it has become a place for readers to express their feelings and refute the world, and occasionally there are storytellers who have traveled all over the world to come here to talk about the last paragraph.

Today is the case, the old man is talking about the end, the bamboo board in his hand to the table "snap" a pat, said loudly: "Wang Mang usurped Khan and finally died, but the people died in successive battles, as the so-called: fifteen from the army, eighty to return, the road to the villagers, who is in the family, from a distance is the Jun family, pine and cypress mounds!" ”

"Good, good! Well taught! The people around him cheered in unison and dispersed.

Only two or three took out a few copper plates from their sleeves and threw them in the straw hats in front of the stage, fighting for many years, the people were not able to make a living, and they could get a few coppers, at least they would not die of hunger, and the old man hugged his fists and swept the ground.

At this time, a man in his forties put at least twenty or thirty copper plates into his straw hat, and the old storyteller was startled, looked up at the man in front of him, with narrow forehead and high eyebrows, coarse cloth and short clothes, and wondered in his heart, this appearance does not look like a rich person, why is it so generous?

Without waiting for the old man to speak, the man took the lead in holding his fists and said: "Mr. Fan, I am Zhang Jing of Wuyuan County, I am a rough man who strikes iron, I just listened to Mr. explain, and I suddenly felt heroic, my brother and I want to invite Mr. to eat two bowls of wine and talk about it, I don't know if Mr. can be convenient?" ”

Mr. Fan, who told the story, was also an old man, and he smiled: "Mr. Zhang is high-minded, how can Fan postpone it?" ”

After that, he sorted out the money he had received, and followed Zhang Jing to the table in the southeast corner of the tavern, where another man in his forties hurriedly stood up and said, "In Xia Lejin, please take a seat." ”

When Mr. Fan heard this, he hurriedly said politely: "It turned out to be the great benevolent person Le pharmacist in Pengcheng, I heard Mr. Daming's name early, I heard that there was a plague a few years ago, if it wasn't for Mr. Dade, he gave medicine to the people, I am afraid that there will be countless deaths and injuries, and the consequences are unpredictable. "Talking again.

Before Le Jin could speak, Zhang Jing rushed to say: "Exactly, I met my righteous brother at that time, if it wasn't for my righteous brother's medicine, I'm afraid I would have gone to Huangquan earlier." ”

The three of them sat down politely, and Na Le Jin asked: "Mr. Fan has traveled around and has a wide range of knowledge, if today's turmoil and people's hearts are panicking, I don't know what Mr. thinks?" ”

Mr. Fan took a big sip of wine, looked around, and said angrily: "Don't hide it from the two, a few years ago, the Zhang Jiaoyi Army rose up in the name of proposing to the government to reduce taxes, and there were many followers for a while, and it had just been wiped out for a long time, and now Li Dao and Guo Yan have raised troops to make a rebellion, and the rest of the counties are too guarded to save the country and save the people, but recruit troops, support the army, and try to divide one side, so if it goes on, the country will not be a country, and my Han is in danger!" ”

Le Jin slapped his thigh and said, "Exactly!" With a long sigh, he looked up blankly out of the window.

It doesn't matter if I look at it, it just looks at me, and I am scared into a cold sweat, what a fucking enemy is a narrow road to the back word, afraid that I will bump into anyone when I see it, I quickly shrank my head and turned around, and got into the crowd.

This Mr. Le Jinle is my father, Le Bazhi is my Ah Weng, when it comes to our Le family, the ancestors are the old clan of Qi State, although now it is not close to the word "noble", but first Ah Weng paid tribute to the imperial court Jiuxuan Zihe Che made a trace, and then my father was shrewd and cautious, and the family's medicinal material business was popular, and now my Le family is also one of the richest in Pengcheng.

But the rich family is not a big family, the reason is that our family is not prosperous, three generations are single, but because of this, I have been extremely favored since I was a child, at that time Ah Weng was still alive, he handed over the family business to my father early, he hid and idle, spoiled me all day long, Ah Weng often said to me: small bet self-cultivation, big bet Qi family, big bet on the world, so he old man serious skills I did not learn at all, the only thing that can be done is to learn to use the compass to determine the direction and some of the shallow techniques of the nine palace gossip, Even so, only scratching the surface.

If you want to say why I want to learn this compass, because I inherited Ah Weng's gambling temperament, plus the "family history", just over the age of fifteen or sixteen years old, I have mixed up the gambling houses of all sizes in Pengcheng, and every time I go to gamble, I have to use the compass to determine the direction, play a hexagram calculation, and see how the luck is, but the effect is indeed a little unsatisfactory.

As for my name, I am known as "Dice Little Tai Sui", Le Yang, the eldest son of Lejia, is also nineteen years old this year.

In the first month of last year, Ah Weng Xianyou was in a hurry that day, and a good living person said that it was gone, but he just explained a few words to his father alone, and he swallowed his breath before the family affairs were clear.

But at that time I was still fighting in the gambling house, and when I rushed home sweating, his old man was no longer there, I almost fainted from crying, every time I thought about it, I slapped myself twice, but after that, the family changed, my father disciplined me very strictly, in addition to reading and writing on weekdays, I followed him to learn some about herbal medicine, and I was restricted from even going out.

Fortunately, in the first two years, my father saved Uncle Zhang Jing with medicine, and the two of them inserted incense, and one head knocked on the ground and worshipped the handle, although Uncle Zhang Jing was a blacksmith, but he really had a little kung fu in his hands, and my father asked me to learn some martial arts from him to strengthen my body, Uncle Zhang Jing repaid my father's life-saving grace, and taught me all my best, and I have not been less responsible for these years.

Today I lied and said that I went to Uncle Zhang Jing to practice martial arts, but for a while my hands were itchy, and the ghost sent the god to enter the gambling house in the south of the city, and I lost a bottom, and on the way back, I happened to meet my father and Uncle Zhang Jing in Juxian Building to eat wine and listen to books.

It's no wonder that today's hexagram is not accurate, a little back, I ran back home like a smoke, didn't dare to go out of the door, from the backyard over the wall into the road, this trip I am familiar with the way, after entering the house, I hid in my own room in advance to apply some bruises and damaged herbs.

But it wasn't until the sun went down that I heard that my father was not angry after he came back, and seemed to be quite festive, and he was summoning everyone to the front hall to discuss the matter.

When I rushed over, I saw that the door of the front hall was wide open, and the stone lamps on both sides were lit, and the wind blew them bright and dark, which made people feel worried, and then looked at the hall was brightly lit.

I went up to see that there was a one-foot-square sandalwood box on the tea table, and there were two brown fur balls, one large and one small. To say that this thing is not unusual, it is musk, which is a kind of secretion of male musk deer, taken from the glandular sac of mature males, warm, can open the body and channels, dispel filth and disperse stasis, I heard that it can also ward off evil spirits, repel insects and mice, although it is a precious medicinal material, but it is also common. It's just that I have never seen or heard such a big musk, and I was taken aback, the small one was the size of a fist, and the whole body was shiny and fragrant.

Everyone pointed and discussed for a long time, but Dad was on the side but never opened his mouth, and only after satisfying everyone's appetite did he mysteriously speak: "You don't know, this is the musk of the Himalayan giant musk, ordinary musk can still survive after being taken from musk, and can grow musk again." But this giant musk deer is not, its number is extremely rare, it is said that the face is like a dragon's head, there are huge horns, the body is as big as a yak, more fierce than the tiger and leopard, it is extremely difficult to be arrested, and this giant musk deer has a strong temperament, it will fall off the cliff and die after being taken alive musk, it is tragic and abnormal, of course, the effect of this musk is not comparable to ordinary musk, it is extremely precious. ”

Everyone heard it in a fog, and they didn't know whether it was true or not, but they were amazed.

I was fascinated by it, and I saw my mother smile at me: "Yang'er, come and open your eyes, this is what your father spent a lot of money to get, the best musk from Tibet, I discussed it with your father, the big one will be hung on the beam of the front hall, and the small one will be placed in your room, this treasure will repel insects and mice, ward off evil spirits, and can cure all diseases......"

"Hey, hey! Mother, let's put it in your and father's room, I'm in good health, and I can't stand the fragrance. As I spoke, I pinched my nose with my hands, lowered my head and hid myself in the crowd, not daring to look up at my father, but fortunately my father didn't attack me, so I quickly smeared oil on the soles of my feet.

I heard that that night, the butler led someone to hang the large musk on the ridge of the front hall.

It was only said that this artifact was really good, and after a while, the whole house was filled with a strange fragrance. A few days later, it was the end of summer, which was supposed to be the most active time for mosquitoes, snakes and rats, but half of the whole house could not be found.

And every morning I wake up feeling more energetic, even if it's cloudy and rainy, I don't have the slightest idea of lying in bed.

In a blink of an eye, half a year has passed, it is the middle of winter, just after noon this day, my father rushed back after taking care of the accounts in the shop early, and led a Lang Zhong behind him, saying that my mother has been unwell in recent days, and I am afraid that I am sick in winter, and Lang Zhong is here to see my mother's illness.

At first, I wondered, in the past six months, no one in the family has ever been sick, and even the arthritis that my father has to commit every year has not recurred.

Who knows, this man came out and congratulated, saying that his mother was happy!

As soon as my father heard this, he was originally serious and cautious, and he was happy like a child, showing off: "This, thanks to the aphrodisiac effect of that baby musk, we have added a new Ding to our Lejia!" Hahaha! ”

However, Na Langzhong frowned when he heard this, "Master Le, taking musk the size of millet grains every day can indeed be aphrodisiac, but remember not to take it for more than seven days, long-term use of musk can not only not aphrodisiac but will lead to yang failure, and even, can even make Mrs. miscarriage!" Seeing that my father was puzzled, he hugged his fists to the side, rolled his eyes, and whispered: "Master Le, you know, do you know why Emperor Cheng of the previous dynasty has no heirs?" ”

I was even more surprised when he asked, Niang Youxi has anything to do with the emperor of the previous dynasty whether he has children and birds? This Lang Zhong is also bold, vainly talking about the emperor of the previous dynasty, although now this Han emperor is not worth a few dollars, but if he is so presumptuous, it is also a crime to punish the nine clans.