Chapter 20 Huiyuan Hall
After that, Li Hou spent a lot of effort, and finally fooled two living treasures, one big and one small, and asked Huang Dashuang not to care more about Lin Lan's title, and then said to Lin Lan Let him try to sense the earth's qi first, test whether he has the talent to learn the method of grounding, and then teach him according to his aptitude after he comes back from the town.
"Okay." Lin Lan reluctantly agreed to Li Hou, pouting and teasing the green-headed finch that Li Hou tamed for him.
And because Li Hou also wanted to go to the town, Huang Dashuang took out the long-sealed saddle from a corner of the courtyard and placed it on the body of the unicorn, and then borrowed a plate cart from a family in the village to connect it to the saddle to carry Li Hou.
After all, it is still impossible to let two big men ride on one mount.
"It's shaking so much......" Li Hou, who was sitting on the cart, couldn't help but complain, which made his idea of eating some dry food carried by Huang Dashuang on the way to the town frustrated.
You must know that this ordinary board car has no cushioning measures, the roads in the countryside are not very stable, and the unicorn has a rare opportunity to gallop wantonly, which makes Li Hou feel bumpy along the way, if he dares to eat something, it won't take long to vomit it again.
The village where Li Hou and the others are located is the most remote and close to the forest, and it is naturally far from the town, even if the unicorn is a riding horse equipped by the Great Liang Kingdom, the endurance and explosiveness are very good, but all the way down is also resting twice on the way, and it is only at noon in the sky of the day that it arrives at the town where the nearby countryside belongs.
When they arrived in the town, naturally no one was allowed to ride horses in it, so Li Hou and Huang Dashuang both walked on their own, leading unicorns through the streets.
Different from the thatched villages, the town called Lengxi is mostly brick buildings, and the style is quite ancient in Li Hou's impression, and from time to time there will be a few large signboards hanging outside the faΓ§ade, and the doors are open so that passers-by can know what kind of business is doing inside.
In addition to the houses and storefronts, the most important thing on both sides of the road is the small merchants and vendors that can be seen everywhere, silk cloth, mountain delicacies, rouge gouache, jade ornaments...... The stalls selling different goods are lined up on both sides of the street in an orderly manner, and it is a pity that there are no urban management troops here who "have three thousand iron horsemen to level the world", otherwise these vendors will definitely be in trouble.
"Here it is." After walking with the unicorn for a while, Huang Dashuang took Li Hou to a very neat and tidy store without any vendors around.
A large plaque with gold paint on a red background is hanging above the gate, meticulously, not biased to the left or to the right, standing in the center.
The three big characters "Huiyuantang" clearly explain what kind of business this store is running in this store, which is also the brightest and largest among the many housing stores.
Parking the unicorn and the cart at the entrance of Huiyuan Hall, Huang Dashuang and Li Hou entered Huiyuan Hall. Just the moment I stepped into the store, the strong but refreshing smell of Chinese herbs suddenly came to my face, completely enveloping everyone who came in.
The decoration of Huiyuan Hall is very simple, with a plaque hanging on the wall of the store to help the world and several tables and chairs on the right, providing the owners who are proficient in medical skills to diagnose the pulse of the patients who come to the store. On the left side is a simple wooden counter, behind which there is a wall-sized medicine cabinet, and there are nearly hundreds of medicine cabinets with a variety of completely different herbs for various diseases.
It seems that because there have been no sick or injured people in the recent period, there is no one else in the Huiyuan Hall, and there is only a middle-aged man with a mustache and a simple gray robe in the huge hall who is using the abacus on the counter to calculate something, and only the "crackling" sound made when he knocks on the plate in the Huiyuan Hall at this time continues to echo.
Li Hou looked curiously at this medical hall called Huiyuantang, although there will be no shortage of traditional Chinese medicine on the earth, and there are also many time-honored Chinese medicine shops that are still in business, but under the changes of the times, even if it is a traditional Chinese medicine hall, it still can't help but reveal a trace of modern atmosphere, unlike here to maintain the original taste, revealing the simplicity of history.
"Yo, shopkeeper Fang, he's busy."
Huang Dashuang seemed to be very familiar with the middle-aged man in Huiyuan Hall, and without the slightest concern, he suddenly slapped his palm on the counter without care, making a loud noise that echoed throughout the medical hall, startling the middle-aged man known as the shopkeeper Fang, and even the string of numbers that he had just said in his mouth disappeared with an exclamation.
"Six...... Sixty ......" Shopkeeper Fang tried to recall the number that had disappeared, but it was clear that he was still hanging on his mouth just now, but now he couldn't think of any number no matter how hard he tried, and in his heart was depressed, Shopkeeper Fang cast his angry eyes on Huang Dashuang, who deliberately frightened him, "Huang Dashuang!" You old bastard, what are you doing here to make trouble?! β
"Hey, hey." Huang Dashuang didn't seem to hear the anger of the shopkeeper Fang, and laughed indifferently: "What else can I do here with your shopkeeper Fang, my body doesn't need to waste money to let your shopkeeper Fang see a doctor." β
"Nonsense, how can it be said that it is a waste of money to let the doctor see a doctor?!" Shopkeeper Fang reprimanded again, obviously dissatisfied with Huang Dashuang's statement: "Who is this?" Shopkeeper Fang turned his gaze to Li Hou, who had lived here for many years, and it was the first time he had seen Li Hou.
"I'm Li Hou, I'm glad to meet you." Li Hou is not as familiar with Shopkeeper Fang as Huang Dashuang, so naturally he will not be as unscrupulous as Huang Dashuang when he speaks.
"In the following text, it is the shopkeeper and doctor of this Huiyuan Hall." Shopkeeper Fang replied quite politely, and then stared at the package that Huang Dashuang had been carrying on his shoulder: "Say, you person who has nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, what good goods have you brought me today, if it is worse than the tiger bones and tiger whips last time, don't blame me for not accepting it, you can hollow out my old bottom last time." β
The tiger whip and tiger bone in the mouth of the shopkeeper Fang should have been obtained by Huang Dashuang when he rescued Lin Lan a few days ago, and it seems that Huang Dashuang also came to Huiyuan Hall and sold them to the shopkeeper Fang......
This Huiyuantang seems to be just a medical hall in a small town, and there should be no need to collect precious medicinal materials such as tiger bones and tiger whips, but in fact, this Huiyuantang is a medical hall branch that can be seen everywhere in this Daliang country.
Even if it's just a square inch, there will be a branch of Huiyuantang, and it can withdraw money from the bank at any time to buy medicines. Moreover, all the precious medicinal materials collected by the branch will not be kept, and all of them will be transferred to the head office, so there is no need to worry about whether Huiyuantang has enough digestive power to acquire precious medicinal materials.
Huang Dashuang was not ambiguous, since the shopkeeper Fang had already opened his mouth to ask questions, he would not deliberately hang people's appetites, took off the package on his back, placed it on the counter smoothly, and then untied the knot that bound the things in the package, revealing the old clay porcelain wine jar inside.
With a clever hook of the index finger of his right hand, he easily opened the lid of the wine jar, and a wonderful smell of wine with a fishy smell suddenly dominated the guests, covering the smell of herbs in the medical hall.
"What is this smell......" Before looking at the inside of the wine jar, the shopkeeper Fang, whose nose twitched slightly, seemed to have distinguished something in the wine jar from the smell, "Sure enough, it's bear bile...... But this size is really rare. β
Shopkeeper Fang's face was incredible, you must know that he is not a lonely person, how can there be ten bear bile medicinal materials he has personally handled, but the size of the bear bile in the wine jar brought by Huang Dashuang is definitely second to none among the bear biles he has ever seen.
"How? Make a bid. Huang Dashuang smiled quite complacently, it is not for nothing that bear bile of this size is extremely rare, and the black bear of its original owner is already close to opening up its spiritual intelligence and becoming a demon beast awakening talent, and at that time it is not easy for ordinary people to take it.
But even if he hasn't opened his mind yet, he is just one foot away, the black bear's sense of crisis and instinct have been greatly improved, and he knows how to protect himself, which is why Huang Dashuang, who has been wandering in the woods for many years, has never found the black bear, but it is really too good at self-protection, so that people have the ability to hunt it but cannot find its traces.
If it weren't for the fact that he happened to find the black bear's nest under the guidance of the mallard this time, and after a while, when the black bear opened his mind, it might have become a big problem for the villagers in the village.
Shopkeeper Fang frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "Your bear bile is preserved in the liquor, although it has not been lost in medicinal properties, it has been kept fresh. But how can it be contaminated with the smell of alcohol, which limits its usefulness...... That's all I can do. The shopkeeper stretched out his right hand, and his five fingers were all open.
However, Huang Dashuang was very dissatisfied with this number, his mouth shook, and his fingers compared a number of eight: "Don't tell me that you have these and don't, you are definitely the top doctor, but unfortunately you have no talent at all in business, this kind of lame excuse is used to bargain, don't you think I'm stupid, right?" β
Shopkeeper Fang had to sigh slightly, he knew that these little tricks were of no use to Huang Dashuang, they were just symbolic words, maybe one day Huang Dashuang's brain would be uncertain.
Li Hou, who was standing on the side and watching the two of them discuss, looked curious, he didn't know what the numbers in the two hands meant, if it was money, then what unit could be crowned, was it hundred? Or thousands? In just two days after coming to the Yuanhua realm, Li Hou has not even touched coins.
I saw that the shopkeeper Fang glanced at the wine jar twice, stretched out his fingers, and swiped the surface of the wine in the wine jar, and then stretched out his tongue and gently licked the wine stained with the smell of bear bile, and made up his mind after making sure that the bear bile was fresh.
Carefully reaching into his bosom with his right hand, the shopkeeper probed his two fingers into the mouth of his underwear, and with a very light movement, he pulled out a flat cloth bag with the color of loess, and then carefully pulled out eight long yellow and clear strips of paper from it.
It was handed to Huang Dashuang's eyes as if he was holding some priceless treasure.