Chapter 28: The White-Haired Enchantress (1)
Ah Nian had never been out of Pinglin Town before, and he was basically alone, but now he was in such a crowded place like the capital of a country, where people looked up and bowed, and he was inevitably a little nervous for a while, and he couldn't help but grab Hehuan's arm with one hand and pull Zixu's sleeve with the other.
Zixu looked back at her with a smile, "Ah Nian girl?"
"I'm afraid we're going to break up. Ah Nian's words are also somewhat true, so she is not weak-hearted.
Zixu nodded, with a look of I know, but I am kind not to poke you.
Ah Nian glanced at him, threw away his sleeves and pulled Hehuan forward......
Zixu sighed, strode up and stared at Ah Nian and Hehuan. He was really worried about getting separated......
"So many people early in the morning?
It was impossible for Hehuan to know, so of course Zixu knew that he was asking him, and immediately replied, "Yes! As the saying goes, the plan of the day lies in the morning, and as soon as the city gate is opened, people from all over the world rush in, doing errands and doing small business...... Everyone wants to take advantage of the fact that it is naturally crowded. ”
"Oh!"
Zixu grabbed Ah Nian's sleeve and pulled it, stretched out his finger and pointed to the left, "Go over there, there is a breakfast seller in that alley." ”
"Okay!" Ah Nian also saw a number of high-hanging shop signs swaggering in the wind, and many people came and went in and out of the alley......
The three of them entered the alley, and the crowd in the alley was not much less than outside, and every store was overcrowded, and the shopkeepers were so busy that they couldn't touch the ground......
Zixu quickly picked a camellia shop, and took Ah Nian and Hehuan to find an empty seat to sit down.
"Five bowls of oil tea, ten buns. Zixu shouted loudly.
"Okay!"
The shopkeeper was quick with his hands and feet, and soon gave Zixu a complete finish, and said, "The guest officer uses it slowly!" and didn't dare to delay for a while before turning around and going back to work.
Ah Nian and Hehuan ate a bowl of oil tea, and the two of them shared one to eat, but they couldn't hold it out, and the rest belonged to Zixu. Seeing Zixu sweep away all the three bowls of oil tea and nine steamed buns like a storm, Hehuan was dumbfounded, and Ah Nian was also surprised.
"There aren't a few taels of meat on the Dao Chief, but it's quite edible!" Ah Nian said with emotion.
"It's okay, it's okay!" Zi exhaled humbly and satisfied, "It's been a long time since I've eaten so full!"
"It seems that Dao Chang's life is quite hard!" Ah Nian thought to himself, how much he had to eat...... It's normal to not be full, and if you eat enough and lose weight like this, you'll be too sorry for the food he eats.
Zixu smiled at Ah Nian, "Check out!"
The shopkeeper clearly wrote the price on the wall, Ah Nian took out the money bag, calculated the account, took out twenty copper coins and put them on the table.
Coming out of the store, Ah Nian immediately began to think about the quilts, rice, and noodles that he needed to buy...... She looked around, and the street was full of restaurants.
"Where are you going to buy rice and grain?" asked Ah Nian.
"It's also my first time in Yong'an City, so I'm not familiar with it. But it doesn't look like it's on this street......" Zi looked at it in vain, "There is a fork in the road ahead, take a look around, it's still early anyway." ”
Ah Nian did not object, the three of them went forward, turned out from the fork in the road, and arrived at another street and alley, and found that there was no food for sale here, but it was not for selling rice and grain, but a place for fun and leisure, with people playing chess in the chess hall and birds walking on the street......
Ah Nian was about to turn back, but Zixu suddenly said happily, "There is a bath hall in front, just so I will go to take a bath." ”
"Bathing?" Ah Nian thought incredible, "Why aren't you at home?" She never knew that there was a place outside for people to bathe and bathe. She glanced at the shop called the bath hall, and there were indeed people coming and going, and there were both men and women.
"Have I had a chance to bathe lately?" said Zixu.
"What is bathing?" asked Hehuan.
"It's just taking a bath," Ah Nian explained simply.
"It's okay to stand in the yard and get drenched for a while on a rainy day, why go out of your way to take a shower?"
Hehuan can be described as amazing, but it makes people think about it and make sense.
Zixu didn't say much, pushed Ah Nian and Hehuan to the tea shed next to the bath soup house, ordered a pot of tea and two plates of melon seeds, and asked them to wait on the spot.
Hehuan angrily broke the melon seeds with his fingers and complained, "It's so troublesome to be a person!"
Ah Nian kept looking at Zixu and entered the store and couldn't see it before he retracted his gaze, lowered his head and drank tea and sipped melon seeds, and was silent......
Ah Nian didn't speak, and Hehuan didn't know what to say, so the two could only be bored.
Five strong men suddenly came to the next table, and their voices were particularly loud, and Ah Nian and Hehuan had to listen to their high talk-
As soon as one of them touched the table and stool, he said, "I just heard someone on the way here that the three thousand gold of Prime Minister Yan's family is sick, and it seems that he is very sick, and he is looking for a doctor with a lot of money!"
"Since it's the prime minister's family, you can find the imperial doctor!
"At this point, the imperial doctor must have been invited, and it was useless to post a notice to seek a doctor!" said another person calmly.
"The prime minister's family has three thousand gold...... Shouldn't you be old?"
"I just turned 16 years old, and I only did it a few days ago! I have a relative who went to help. I heard my relative say that these 3,000 gold are the most loved by the prime minister, and they are the pearls in their palms, and they look like fairies. A few days after this birthday banquet, I suddenly said that I was sick, isn't that what ...... That's called ...... Shameless?"
Because he heard that the girl was only sixteen years old, the same age as her, and her birth was also close, Ah Nian unconsciously paid more attention to it-
"If a man is still alive and not dead, you will curse him to die!" said one of them.
"I'll just say that!"
In the end, the people at the table unanimously took pity on the Yan family for three thousand gold, and then it was some complete gossip, and Ah Nian didn't listen carefully......
Not long after, Zixu came out of the bath hall, rushed straight towards Ah Nian and Hehuan's table, and quickly sat down in front of Ah Nian-
Ah Nian raised his eyes and saw that his hair was slightly wet, and his face was still wet, and he inexplicably felt that it was still a little good-looking......
Zixu poured himself a cup of tea, drank it all in one go, and then said seriously, "Ah Nian girl, I ask you something." ”
"What's the matter?" Ah Nian lowered his head and looked at the teacup.
"Why can't you wash away the spell you drew on me?"
Ah Nian said indifferently, "I can't wash it off, when the time comes, it will naturally be gone." ”
"How long will that take?"
"It depends on your own condition. When the Gu poison was cleared, the spell would naturally disappear. ”
"Am I not already well?"
Ah Nian curled her lips and smiled, "You really think you're completely well?"
Zixu looked at her smile and was a little timid: "Could it be ...... Not already?"
"Sickness comes like a mountain, and illness goes like a thread. There are some things that cannot be rushed. ”
"I'm not sick, I'm poisoned by you. ”
Ah Nian nodded, "Yes, it's my poison, the Gu poison that has been raised in my body for sixteen years!" Ah Nian leaned forward slightly, approaching Zi Falsehood......
Zixu unconsciously wanted to lean back to avoid Ah Nian's approach, but suddenly his eyes went dark, and he fell on the table, so frightened that Hehuan screamed, and the surroundings cast their eyes......
But soon Zixu raised his head again, he touched his head and asked Ah Nian, "What's the matter?"
"Do you still think you're done with the poison?" asked Ah Nian coldly.
Zixu could only shake his head and said miserably, "Ah Nian girl, you don't have to be like this!"
"Isn't it because you don't believe me, that's the only way I can make you believe?"
Zi is speechless.
Ah Nian took a sip of tea, and suddenly said, "Have you heard of it*?"
Zixu's face turned pale, "You won't say that I hit your *, right?"
Ah Nian smiled slightly, silent.
The more Zixu looked at Ah Nian, the more timid he felt, he struggled for a long time, and was about to speak, but Ah Nian took the lead-
"You're done bathing, so we can go, right?"
Zixu glanced down at it, his eyes lit up, "The melon seeds haven't been eaten yet, don't waste them!" He grabbed the melon seeds quickly, and quickly forgot about the * thing.
It wasn't until they finished eating two plates of melon seeds that the three of them paid and left.
After eating and drinking, and taking a bath, Zixu was very comfortable, leading the way in front of Ah Nian and Hehuan, walking all the way through the streets and alleys, and the fewer people walked, and finally stopped......
Ah Nian looked up and saw that the three of them had arrived in front of a mansion with a high gate, and there were guards standing on the left and right outside the door, and there were two stone lions in front of the door, two of which were as tall as Ah Nian......
"May I ask where this is?" Ah Nian looked at Zixu, "Is it a place to sell rice or grain?"
"Prime Minister's Mansion!" Zixu said with a look of eagerness, "I heard that this Prime Minister is sick with three thousand gold, and he posted a notice and spent a lot of money to seek medical treatment, so I decided to try!"
Ah Nian was very strange, he was not in the tea shed at the time, how did he know that the prime minister was sick? But compared to this, she was more concerned about other questions, "Will you see a doctor?" Ah Nian asked.
"No!" Zi Xuan whispered to Ah Nian, "but I've heard about it...... It is very likely that the prime minister's daughter is not sick. ”
Hehuan also leaned over to listen, and immediately asked, "What is it that is not sick?"
Ah Nian glanced at Zixu coldly, "Have you ever seen someone, how do you know if you're not sick?"
"I heard it in the bathhouse. ”
"Do you know the people in the bathhouse?" Just like in Hirabayashi, the gossip between the so-called ordinary people is not necessarily true.
Hehuan agreed with Ah Nian and nodded again and again.
Zixu also nodded, "I believe it! I believe that everyone is honest with each other!"
This honesty obviously has two meanings! Ah Nian deliberately stared at Zixu up and down with both eyes, Zixu immediately dodged to the side, and asked, "Ah Nian girl, what are you looking at?"
Ah Nian looked away and stared at the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion instead, "What if the Prime Minister's daughter is sick?"
Zi Xuan smiled and said, "Isn't there Miss Ah Nian, you?
"How do you know I'm going to heal?" Nian glanced at him.
"Miss Ah Nian claims to be a witch, and I often hear that witch doctors are not separated, and witches can certainly heal!"
Ah Nian stared at him coldly, "So you are all calculated?" Just like when he confronted the fox demon, he actually prepared all his hole cards.
"Miss Ah Nian is a kind girl, I don't think I will not save a girl who is seriously ill and dies, right?"
"Heh......" Ah Nian tugged at the corners of his lips.
Zixu smiled flatteringly, "Miss Ah Nian, I know you are kind, you will definitely not turn a blind eye to this matter." And if we can cure the prime minister's daughter, we can get a lot of money. ”
"You're short of money?" Ah Nian couldn't help but ask.
"Miss Ah Nian, we live here with Mrs. Yu, eat their houses, and spend their money, and so on...... It's not always good!"
Ah Nian thinks this makes sense.
Zixu continued to say, "And we will travel together in the future...... Outside, money is still very important!"
Ah Nian nodded, thinking that his consideration was right, "Okay, then let's try!"
"Okay!"
Zixu immediately went to talk to the guards and asked them to report it......