Chapter XXVIII
When I woke up, I only felt that my head was so swollen, my eyes were painful, and my hands and feet seemed to be unable to exert my strength.
There were no windows on all sides, it seemed to be a basement or something, with candles lit but no one, and I was hanging upside down from the beams, and about a meter in front of me was a huge cupboard with about a few hundred drawers densely packed, each with words written next to it like a couplet.
These words are probably some kind of ancient seal inscriptions and the like, I didn't recognize it originally, but now when I look at it upside down, it looks even more like a ghost drawing. But even if I don't know the words on it, just by smelling the smell, I know that it is a medicine cabinet, and each drawer is generally divided into two or three compartments, each containing medicinal herbs.
The words on the drawer are the names of medicines, generally the drugs with similar functions or often used together will be put together, the light ones are placed on the top, the heavy ones are placed below, and the commonly used ones are placed in the middle to find a good place to take. This seemingly dotted pattern also has a professional name called "Doupu".
Although the general rules are like this, everyone has their own habits of making fighting scores, and people like me who take other people's prescriptions need to follow the doctor's preferences and put the most commonly used and most common ones in a position that they are familiar with. And if the person who catches the medicine prescribes the medicine at the same time, the bucket spectrum can show the characteristics of the person's prescription. So even if you are a good pharmacist, you need to get used to it for a while when you go to someone else's pharmacy.
Looking at the number of drawers, this person's collection is quite rich, and sure enough, the phrase "everything" is not bragging, but really hiding a lot of good things!
Seeing this familiar object, I was in a good mood, and I immediately felt that it was worth the ticket price to be caught and hung upside down!
Curiously guessing the contents of the medicine cabinet, a person walked in outside. When I saw it, it was the owner of the pharmacy.
"Hey," I said very actively, "don't you have the goods!" What does it mean to arrest customers without doing business? ”
He looked a little surprised when he saw that I was not afraid at all, and said with a sneer: "Stinky boy, I still have the heart to ridicule when I have come to this step." ”
I flickered and said, "What's the field?" Isn't it good to hang like this, health hey, I heard that it can grow a child! ”
His eyes widened, his brows furrowed, and he threatened: "If you are still poor, you are not afraid that I will kill you with a knife!" ”
"If I could, wouldn't I have killed it a long time ago!" I said, "If it hadn't been for your mercy last night, I probably wouldn't have been able to talk to you here right now!" Since I killed it unintentionally, there must be something to ask me, I'll wait, you just ask. ”
This time he was not talking nonsense, I already sensed that he didn't want to hurt me, he just wanted to subdue me during the fight last night.
But he didn't answer me, and asked, "How do you know that I was going for you last night?" ”
"It's very simple," I said frankly, "if you are going for my young lady, you should leave if you see that she is not at home, and I don't see your face, it is not a problem to escape with your skills, and in this case you stay and fight me, which means that it is not her but me." I'll tell you the truth, there probably aren't a single or two people in town who know me, but it's unfortunate that there's only one like you in terms of smell and smell. ”
When he heard this, he laughed and said, "Stinky boy, your head is quite good!" ”
"What a stinky boy, a stinky boy!" I shouted indignantly, "Lao Tzu Xing doesn't change his name, he doesn't change his surname, and his surname Tao Mingyong is also!" ”
"What? Your surname is Tao? He was taken aback.
"yes, what's wrong?"
"Nonsense, when you fought last night, you didn't use the Tao family's kung fu path!" He shouted.
Oh? It turns out that my ancestors will still work! It's the first time I've heard of it, and I can't help but have some surprises on my face.
Of course, this couldn't escape the man's poisonous eyes, and he snorted coldly and said, "Since you are the Tao family, let's talk about the Tao family?" ”
"I ...... Why should I tell you about my family? Hearing this, you seem to be very familiar with the Tao family, do you have any holiday with my family? I tell you, they all know about my visit, and if something happens to me, they won't let you go! "I was deliberately bluffing.
"You ......" his face turned angry, and he was about to say something, when a bell suddenly rang next to the door.
"Stinky boy, I'll interrogate you when I get back!" He dropped that sentence and hurried away.
I waited for a while, but I didn't hear any movement, and after hanging upside down for a long time, my ears began to roar, and I don't know if I didn't hear clearly.
No matter what, you can't sit still like this, you have to find a way to go down to the ground first and then make plans.
I pulled my clothes with my hands, and desperately raised my upper body to take a look, and my feet were tied with hemp rope, which was very thick, and I couldn't see the knots clearly, and it was not easy to untie for a while.
Looking around, it was so far from the ground that even if there was a sharp blade or something on the ground, it seemed that it would not be able to reach it.
Just when he was a little at a loss, his eyes suddenly fell on the medicine cabinet opposite.
By the way, isn't it...... I quickly scanned a few places with my eyes and was immediately overjoyed!
Not too far from me, there was a drawer, and although it was also written in seal script on the outside, I recognized the word "white stone". If my guess is correct......
I decided to try it out right away. I swung my arms and twisted my body vigorously, repeating it a few times, and began to rock slowly, until I got close to the medicine cabinet, and I reached out to try to pull the drawer, but when I was about to touch it, I swung back again.
When I tried it for the third time, I finally pulled it to the handle of the drawer, and I pulled the drawer out because the swing was too strong.
This drawer was quite heavy, and in order to prevent him from falling, I clung so hard that the rope on my foot suddenly tightened, and my foot and neck hurt!
Without further ado, I looked into the drawer, and as I expected, one of the compartments in this drawer was a traditional Chinese medicine of gold and stone - "white quartz".
This thing is a medicine listed in the upper grade department in the "Shennong's Materia Medica", simply put, it is to tonify the kidney, and it can be used for a long time to lose weight and prolong life.
I took it with great pain, not to use it as a medicine, but to take advantage of its other properties...... I searched the inside with my eyes, and found a suitable one, and immediately grabbed the drawer with one hand desperately, and reached out with the other hand to quickly take it out.
As soon as I finished taking it, the hand holding the drawer could no longer support it, and the drawer quickly fell down and fell to the ground with a "pop".
Fortunately, there was land below, and it didn't sound so loud, so I listened carefully, and it didn't seem to alarm anyone, so I let go of my heart.
Look at the white quartz in your hand, when it was smashed open, it left a long edge, and it was extremely sharp when you touched it with your hand, and it could be used as a knife.
I took a deep breath, rolled up my upper body with all my might, pulled my clothes and hugged my legs, and finally reached the rope at my feet and cut it with the quartz in my hand.
I didn't hold on for a few seconds, and then I had to go down, gasp for breath, and then do the same.
After a lot of effort, the rope finally broke halfway and began to gurgle when it couldn't support my weight.
I climbed up one last time with great effort, cutting the rope while keeping an eye out, and at the moment when the rope was about to break, I grabbed the rope with my other hand and borrowed a little force, so that the whole person did not fall to the ground, and after two leisurely strokes, I jumped off the ground.
After breathing a sigh of relief, my first reaction was that it seemed that it was still useful for the physical education teacher to practice sit-ups when I was in school.
My limbs were numb, and my stomach was aching from overexertion, but out of a natural sense of responsibility, I picked up the medicine scattered on the floor, put the drawer back on the medicine cupboard, and then turned around and limped out.
I walked to the door and listened to it, but there was no sound outside. I glanced at the little bell and felt that it was supposed to be an alarm system, eighty percent connected to somewhere in his store, and it would ring when someone came.
In this case, it means that there is still a certain distance between the store and here, at least the distance that people's shouts can't reach. So at the moment, I opened the door boldly and walked out.
Outside the small door is a winding staircase, and although it feels like it is underground, there are ventilation holes dug in everywhere, and light shines in from the outside, so you can see the road clearly.
After climbing a little way, the stairs came to an end, and it felt like something was blocking the way with a plank or something. I pressed it on my shoulder, but the plank didn't move, so I guess I had to use a mechanism or something near here to open it. I was groping left and right around the wall when suddenly there seemed to be a faint sound coming from outside.
I put my ear to the board and it was clear that it was a human voice, someone talking on it!
First, a person said angrily: "...... The head of the regiment has issued a death order, and the top priority of the various departments now is this matter. ”
There was silence for a few seconds, and another voice said, "However, there is really no clue about this matter. ”
I could hear it, and the latter voice was the owner of the pharmacy who had just captured me, and the other person must have been the guest he had come up to greet after interrupting the interrogation.
I only heard the visitor raise his voice, and said with some annoyance: "How can this be reasonable, the strength of the seventy-two departments of my regiment has not been able to find a woman and a Dan furnace!" ”
The word "Dan furnace" made my heart move.
There was silence for a long time, and then the voice of the pharmacy owner said: "Youzhou is located in a remote area and has inconvenient transportation, so it is naturally not as well-informed as those deployment news in the Central Plains. ”
The visitor snorted and said, "It's because of the remoteness that it's easier for them to hide here, isn't it?" ”
The owner of the pharmacy said: "You don't know that we are active here, and we have to guard against those people, and we are fighting on both sides, and our life is really not very comfortable." I, Yan Tiansheng, have been galloping the rivers and lakes for decades, and I have never lived so aggrieved! ”
"I know," the visitor's tone softened, "that's why we have to step up our search, as long as this task is completed, not to mention glory and wealth, it is not impossible to taste the life of being a god!" ”
"I will." Said the pharmacy owner.
After saying this, the voices of the two people disappeared. I waited a while to react, maybe he would come back to interrogate me after sending the guests away, so I had to plan ahead!