After returning home, I always remembered the miserable appearance of Dou Niang, a woman who lost her child and was abandoned by her husband, but sadly Zhao Si could not be called his husband. I suddenly remembered that when I first met Zhao Si in Baihuafang not long ago, he was easily knocked to the ground by the snow without the strength of the chicken, and fainted because he chopped off his little thumb. At that time, the girls around me gossiped that although Zhao Si had a wife and concubine, he did not have a son, and even Zhao Si himself did not know the existence of Xiaodouzi.

Maybe as Dou Niang said, so many people and so many children in Chang'an City only stoned Xiaodouzi to death, maybe it was because Zhao Si did a lot of evil, and God took his only child back in order to punish him.

I propped my head in my hands and stared at the chrysanthemum cake on the desk with wide eyes.

When the cold dew came, the rice ears were yellow, and the climate suddenly became cold after a hail rain.

Locked in the house, I could hear Erniang shouting my name at the top of her voice, so I quickly stuffed a piece of chrysanthemum cake into my mouth, and immediately got up and rushed to the source of Erniang's voice.

I replied while trotting: It's coming, it's coming~

From a distance, I saw Erniang holding a spatula and her face was bare and white.

Erniang said: Your father's condition is not good, go and ask the imperial doctor to take a look.

I didn't dare to stop, and rushed straight out.

Erniang hurriedly shouted behind her: Oh, go on horseback, ride fast!

I quickly turned around and rushed to the stable, rode Madara all the way to the "Komatsu Sake Shop", because I knew the owner well, I tied the horse directly to the doorpost of the sake brewery, and then ran to a remote place very close to the palace wall and jumped up. In fact, this is a very dangerous thing, at least so far, no one dares to fly around on the eaves of the palace in broad daylight.

The buildings in the palace are lined up, I stood on a high place like an eagle to observe the terrain, touched the thatched house of the Tai Hospital according to the residual impression before, and then squatted in it and waited quietly for the second master.

During this period, three doctors urinated and two doctors stooled.

By the time the second master came to the toilet, my nose had temporarily lost my sense of smell.

I said: Big brother, your kidney is too good, you can hold it for so long.

The second master said: Holding urine has nothing to do with the kidneys.

I said, "It has nothing to do with the kidneys?" What does that have to do with it?

The second master said: cough, bladder.

I touched my abdomen, not knowing where my bladder was placed.

I said, "Then your bladder is so good, how do you maintain it?"

The second master said: This question is out of line, I can't answer it.

It is very important for a killer to be able to hold his urine, when you lurk in a corner and wait for an opportunity, and suddenly want to go to the toilet, then the urine is easy to expose yourself, and if you don't urinate, it will explode on the spot. In this way, I will only repeatedly struggle with whether to go to the toilet or not, and I can no longer perform the task calmly.

The second master covered his nose and asked: Are you sure you want to stay here?

I shrugged my shoulders and calmly walked out of the hut.

The second master asked: By the way, how did you get in?

I patted the second master's chest and said, "Tsk, Feibei."

The second master suddenly realized.

The second master asked: What are you looking for me?

I said, "Ah, come back with me, my father won't be able to."

The second master said: You, why are you only saying it now. The old rule, go quickly.

I am wronged, and the palace is not a place where I can come and go freely.

We met in front of Komatsu Liquor Store and drove back on a small zebra.

I saw my father lying on the bed weakly, and the futon was splashed with blood stains.

I stood aside with Erniang and was in a hurry.

The second master sighed.

Erniang asked: How is it?

The second master shook his head and was silent.

Dad said, "Shan'er, come here."

I knelt beside the bed, my head buried in the heavy bedding and sobbing.

Daddy trembled and stroked my hair, over and over again.

Dad said, "My child, Daddy is sorry for you...... Ahem, ahem

I said, "Dad, don't talk about it, you're not in good health."

Dad said: There are some things that you will never have a chance to say again if you don't say them.

I said, "You say, I will listen to you whatever you say."

Dad said: She has done a lot of things wrong, but she is your sister after all, don't hate her, hate your father if you want to hate, all this is Daddy's fault. Ahem, ahem.

I said, "You can't do it."

Dad said: Listen to Dad, let her go is also let go of yourself. Your mother has been waiting for me for too long, I should go and accompany her.

I said, "Why, didn't you say you could hold on for a while?"

Dad said: Silly boy, it's Dad who can't hold on, Dad is tired.

At that moment, I was strongly aware of my own incompetence, what is the use of learning so many martial arts secrets, in this life, I am destined to only do evil but not good, and I can only kill people but not save people. If I had known earlier, I would have devoted all my strength to learning medicine from an early age, and even if I could not heal the flesh and bones of the dead, at least I would not have watched my loved ones become terminally ill and I could do nothing about them.

Dad said: I am relieved to see my son grow up.

I think my father may have been too relieved of me, and he didn't say a word more and then closed his eyes and left. I thought my father was asleep, but the second master sniffed and said that he was out of breath.

I wailed: Daddy, Daddy, Daddy-

Erniang wailed: Old man, old man!

......

A month later.

I held a pot of turbid wine and sat in front of my father's grave.

There was a light snow in the sky, piled up on the grave layer by layer. I sat in the snow while drinking, the pure white snow wrapped tightly around the brown mound, as if trying to hide it in my bosom from anyone else.

As it got dark, I shook off the snow off my body, folded a plum blossom and offered it to the grave, and walked away in the snow.

As soon as she entered the house, Erniang asked: Come back early on a snowy day, how cold it is to sit in the snow.

I said, "Snow is cold, wine is hot."

As he spoke, he shook off the snow off his body.

Erniang said: Come, eat.

When I picked up the dishes and chopsticks, I saw the letter resting on the corner of the table and asked, "What is this?"

Erniang said: Look at my memory, this letter was personally sent by the prince of Nanping early in the morning, and I didn't let him wait for you when you went out early and returned late these days.

I asked: Is there anything else to say besides faith?

Erniang said: Yes, he said that he would go to Saibei with his father to experience the experience, and the journey was far away, at least one year, at most two or three years. There were two letters, one for you, and the other for you to pass on.

I unfolded the letter I wrote to me, and read it word by word, from beginning to end. The letter said that Saibei was invaded by the Hu people, the battle situation was critical, the army stationed in Saibei suffered heavy casualties, and the generals were dead, and he, as the prince of Nanping, was to do what a prince should do and fulfill his responsibilities. It's just that not being able to say goodbye in person is the biggest regret in the hearts of both of us.

Putting away the letter, he picked up the rice in the bowl without any appetite.

Erniang asked: I heard that you sold your family's salt shop?

I said, "Well, it's sold." Some time ago, Little Persimmon reminded me that the imperial court planned to collect the salt and sell it by itself, and the people were not allowed to sell salt privately. If we wait until the official document is posted, our salt shop will not be able to sell it for money.

The salt shop sold two hundred taels of gold, and the first time to repay the ten taels of gold in Changgui, Changgui wanted to collect a little bit of silver, but I thought that it would not be difficult to borrow well and borrow again, and I might not be able to afford to pay back the money after missing this time. Then I bought a shop around Baihuafang and started a new business, in order to take care of Erniang and support the Jiang family, I want to create as much wealth as possible.

The name of the new store "Chasing the Wind" is a business of reselling information. The customer can buy the information he needs from me for money, or he can exchange the information in his stomach for money. Whether you buy or sell, the price is based on the value of the information.

The second master said that this business was too straightforward, and the court would definitely not like it. I thought about it, and it was, so I changed the name of the store to "Catching the Wind Liquor Shop", and there was a wine flag waving in the wind at the entrance of the store. However, the craftsman Wang who carved the signboard drank too much wine on the day of work, and mistakenly carved the liquor store into a bar.

I asked Wang what a bar is.

Craftsman Wang said: Ahem, as the name suggests, it is to invite you to drink a bar together, so it is referred to as a bar.

I sounded and felt reasonable, thinking that it didn't matter if the wine shop or bar didn't matter, the main thing was to chase the wind, so I just made do with it. In my opinion, this is a high-level mistake, and ordinary people can't do it, and it's usually a low-level mistake of carving "wine" into "sprinkling". I'm glad the sign is a bar instead of a sloppy one, otherwise it would have looked silly.

As for why I don't re-engrave a signboard, I mainly consider the following reasons: First, this Wang craftsman has an excellent reputation in Chang'an City, but the hard flaw is that he is not literate and has a low cultural level. If it weren't for the fact that his family was too poor to read when he was a child, in my opinion, he would have been a master calligrapher by now. Second, Craftsman Wang is a well-known God of Wealth, as long as he carved the signboard, none of them went out of business at a loss, especially those signboards carved by mistake because of Craftsman Wang's drunkenness, all of them became famous, without exception. Third: Craftsman Wang has a hobby, as soon as he works, he will drink, and when he drinks, he will faint, and when he makes a dizziness, he will make a mistake. Besides, one person rarely makes a mistake twice in the same place, and I am afraid that it will not be as simple as a bar to revisit, and if it is mistaken for "bee hunting" or "phoenix hunting", then I will have to change my career. Fourth: Waste of money. In the early stage of entrepreneurship, you must be able to save and be able to pick.

On the first day of opening, Uncle Big Golden Tooth led a group of good-looking girls from Baihuafang to cheer, making everyone mistakenly think that the Wind Catcher Bar was a tavern where you could watch girls drink, touch girls and drink with girls, and the next day they came again to find that there was only wine and no girls.

Ignorant guests will ask: What about the girl?

The sensible guest replied for me: If you are looking for a girl, you can go to Baihuafang to find it, and spend a few taels of silver in this place to drink a glass of wine and want a girl in vain.

On the seventh day of business, the drinkers in the store gathered together in Kanda Mountain.

I took the osmanthus wine ordered by the guests from the underground wine cellar, and when I raised my eyes, I saw a young man in a dark blue robe standing at the door, and his eyes were constantly rolling. The young man seemed to have come from a far, far away, covered with a thick layer of frost and snow, and even his eyelashes were covered with a layer of white snow.

I took the osmanthus wine to a table around the corner and took a clean towel from the counter and handed it to him.

The young man said: No.

I said, "When the snow melts, you'll be soaking wet."

He was still standing straight.

The rest of the guests saw that he was strange and advised me to leave him alone. No matter how I can, my aim is to serve every customer well.

I immediately put on a professional smile and said: Guest officer, please inside~

The young man said: I am different from them, I want to chase the wind.

I said, "Ah, then come with me, this guest officer."

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