The carriage finally arrived at the post station before the sun went down, there was no trace of rain here, the coachman said that he was resting on the car, Chen Yin entered the post station alone, the post station is divided into two courtyards, the outer courtyard is the lobby, the inner courtyard is full of rooms, there are not many people in the post station today, the lobby sits 78 people, Chen Yin asked for a room according to the coachman's previous teaching, did not stay long after paying, took the license number and key and went straight to the inner courtyard.

Chen Yin stopped at the door of a room, and confirmed back and forth several times whether the number in his hand was consistent with the door, he felt that there was already someone inside, he knocked on the door, there was no response inside, hesitated for a moment or opened the lock with his own hands, the room was very small, the furnishings were shabby, and there was no one else after reading it at a glance, Chen Yin closed his eyes and carefully captured the breath, in the big box next to the bed.

"Is there anyone?" Chen Yin approached the box, there was no response, the breath in the box was very stable, did not float, and there was no killing intent, Chen Yin gently opened the box, only to see that there was an old man lying in thin clothes sleeping soundly, and he had not yet woken up, Chen Yin touched his shoulder with his hand, the old man suddenly opened his eyes, and looked at Chen Yin directly, Chen Yin took a step back and said, "I have no malice." ”

"What are you doing here?" said the old man, who did not get up, yawned, and looked very calm.

"The shopkeeper made a mistake and gave me the key to this room, sorry. With that, Chen Yin prepared to exit the door.

"Uh, wait," the old man got up from the box and hurriedly stopped Chen Yin, "Don't go to the shopkeeper...... The old man was a little tired, so he found a room where no one came in to rest, and I went to another place. ”

Chen Yin looked at the old man in front of him, fully understood, and felt a trace of pity in his heart: "You just stay here, it's about to rain outside, I'll only sleep one night anyway, and I'll leave tomorrow morning." ”

"Oh?" the old man seemed to have no idea of this, "and then he has received the little brother's warm-heartedness." ”

"Do the best I can. ”

At dinner time, Chen Yin ordered three meals, one for Xiao'er to send to the coachman, and two for the old man to take back to the room, and the old man also unceremoniously feasted.

"What's wrong?" Chen Yin asked.

"Little brother, you are the first person to invite me to live and dinner, you are a good person, what is your name?" The old man looked at Chen Yin with curiosity.

"The surname Chen is a single name. ”

"Hidden but not revealed, Taoguang is obscure, it is a good name. ”

"Uncle, what do you call it?"

"You can call it whatever you want, 'old man' is good. ”

The rain fell as soon as it was said, unequivocally, and the lotus leaves in the center of the backyard crackled.

"It's raining heavily, how do you know?" the old man leaned leisurely against the edge of the box.

"I smell it," Chen Yin replied very seriously, "the air before the rain is different from usual." ”

"Oh, what's the difference?" said the old man.

"Well, it's hard to say, it's more light. ”

"Is it usually thick?"

"Ah, almost. ”

"Hahaha, it's a bit interesting, who is your master?"

"Without a master, these are all things that I slowly figured out when I was hunting on weekdays. ”

"Your understanding is quite high, what else will you do?"

"Use red snail grass root for abrasions, use light easy stamen and heartless grass for burns, and use Luo green for bites and scratches. ”

"You know the herbs, too?"

"My mother understands these things, she taught me when I was a child. ”

"Then I'll test you, there is a kind of tree that is full of treasures, what kind of tree?"

"The silver bell tree blooms in spring and bears fruit in winter, the fruit can be soaked in water to clear the throat and dispel lung heat, the petals can be mashed to repel mosquitoes, and the branches and leaves can be used to dispel heat. ”

"Not bad," the old man nodded, and laughed with satisfaction, "but not quite, after the bark is dried, the smell can help regulate the confusion of the derivation, how is your derivation?"

"No, but I've seen it, it's the kind of people who can't move, their feet feel like they're stuck in the mud, but there's nothing in reality. ”

"Oh," said the old man with a smile, "you're quite interesting, someone you just met asked you to deliver something for him, and you went to deliver it?"

"My mother always said that if she met someone in need, she would do her best, and besides, I saw that the person was dying, at least she begged me to go back and inform his family. ”

"You're not afraid he's a liar?"

"I don't have anything to fool me, and besides, I really felt the weakness of his breath at that time. ”

"Can you feel the breath?"

"Ah, it's especially useful when you're out hunting in foggy weather. ”

The old man was about to speak, when there was a noisy noise in the direction of the front hall, followed by a few screams, and several chaotic footsteps outside the house, Chen Yin and the old man also followed one after another to the front hall.

Five people stood in the center and confronted each other, and the four people seemed to be together, surrounding a girl in the middle, surrounded by disjointed dishes, chopsticks, tables and chairs, and the shopkeeper stood aside and looked left and right anxiously, nervously waiting for someone.

"You have good eyes," the old man whispered behind Chen Yin, "One of those four people is Wanzong, and the girl in the middle is Qianyu." ”

"Four people are surrounding a girl, and no one is going to help?" Chen Yin didn't understand what Wanzong was and what Qianyu was.

"You don't understand, you just have to wait and see. ”

"Xiao Nizi is very good-looking, and her temper is so explosive?"

"I don't have time for you to waste," the girl stretched out her right hand and raised four fingers upward, and in an instant four thick pillars of earth rose from all sides of her, and the voice was deafening, "either the four of them go up together, or get out of the way." The people around couldn't help but take a few steps back, and the other three people all looked at the person talking in a panic when they saw this scene.

The person who spoke also had a slight surprise on his face, but it was fleeting: "There is no need to touch the medium, Xiao Nizi is actually above the Thousand Imperial Realm, but I just don't know how to use it." As soon as the words fell, the person who spoke had put his hand in the wine spilled on the table, a puddle of wine water disintegrated into thousands of wine drops towards the girl, after a string of crackling sounds, the four pillars of soil were already full of holes, and then the remaining wine on the table turned into four transparent pearls, and also galloped out, only to hear four rings, the four pillars of earth instantly collapsed, and the surrounding crowd heard the sound of applause.

The girl frowned, and was about to put on a posture, when a man's voice suddenly came from outside the inn, unaffected by the sound of heavy rain outside the house: "Where did the boy come from, dare to fight at my station?" Everyone looked outside the house, and a man wearing a hat appeared at the door, wet.

"The proprietor!" the shopkeeper greeted him with a happy face as if he had seen the savior, and took the coat and hat.

"Don't mess around here!" The owner of the post station is a middle-aged man, with gray hair, but a strong and sturdy physique, at first glance, it is the kind that can kill a cow with one punch, before the words are finished, the four people next to the girl rose into the air, and the body threw straight to the wall, and the four people directly knocked out, and the people around them were instantly silent.

"It's good that you're a daughter's family, but you still have to have a small punishment, and you have to clean up this mess for me. The middle-aged man walked through them with a blank face, leaving a sentence before leaving the stunned crowd into the back hall.

Chen Yin was already stunned by what had just happened, and the old man patted him on the shoulder, Yue: "Do you want to be like them?"

"Think, that's amazing!"

"Then you'll have to—" Before the old man could speak, he stopped suddenly, and the girl stared straight at the side, her face angry.

"Grandpa!"

"Let's go!" Before Chen Yin could react, he felt that his feet were empty, his eyes were dark, his body first fell down, and then moved upside down, he couldn't tell the direction, and when he saw something again, he had arrived in front of a farmhouse, the air was dry and stuffy, and there was no trace of rain.

"This..."Chen Yin still hadn't slowed down, still dizzy.

"Just wait a moment," said the old man, patting him on the shoulder from behind, and smiling, "come with me first, and leave the problem in your head for a moment." After that, the old man strode to the wooden house in front of him, knocked on the door, and the window gradually revealed a trace of flickering candlelight, a young man opened the door, and was very excited when he saw the old man, the old man spoke to him for a while, turned around and beckoned to Chen Yin, Chen Yin walked forward slowly, and the young man who opened the door hurriedly greeted him, "Engong, please inside, please inside!"

Chen Yin was even more misty and was dragged into the hut.

"Two benefactors, please accept the little one!" As soon as the old man and Chen Yin entered the room, the young man knelt down, his body trembling with excitement.

"Eh, don't worship me," the old man picked him up and pointed at Chen Yin, "He is your father-in-law." ”

"Me?" Chen Yin's heart was a little confused, and he tried to remember the appearance of this peer, but to no avail.

The young man looked at Chen Yin, his eyes were full of gratitude, and he knelt down again: "Thank you for saving my son, Zhou Tong will also be a cow and a horse in this life!"

"Wait, I-"

The old man raised his hand to stop Chen Yin's words, and then helped the young man up: "Don't be so excited, it's not good to wake up your child, take your Engong to see how Xiao Zhou is going first?"

"Good, good!"

"I know you have a lot of questions you want to ask, but hold back for now, I'll talk to you later. The old man whispered in Chen Yin's ear.

Chen Yin followed Zhou Tong into the inner room, by the faint candlelight he saw a two-year-old child lying on the bamboo mat, breathing was different from ordinary people, so rapid that it made people panic, Chen Yin approached and reached out and touched the child's forehead, cold as ice, but sweaty.

"The inner man died of dystocia two years ago, my son was saved, but I don't know what disease he suffered, his body is always hot and cold, his heartbeat is fast, and it has been very serious recently, and the doctors in the village are reluctant to come because of the lack of money at home, but fortunately, there is Uncle Zeng. ”

"Uncle Zeng?"

"Ah, he came to see the child, said that the child's disease can be cured, today he brought you, thank you very much, the family is poor and there is nothing to repay, as long as the father is willing to try, no matter whether the child can be saved or not, the little one is a cow and a horse!"

I don't know when the old man who also came in with him, coughed lightly, and said to Chen Yin, "Come out with me." ”

"If you have anything to ask, you can ask now. The old man took Chen Yin to a place a little farther away from the hut and said slowly.

Chen Yin thought about it, there were too many questions, and he didn't know which one to mention first for a while: "Where is this?"

"Fifty miles south of the capital, at the foot of Dinghua Mountain, behind it is the Dinghua faction. ”

"It's so close to the capital," Chen Yin never expected, "Why did you get us here?"

"The old man makes good use of the power of the soil, which is called the escape technique, which can be moved to the place where the old man wants to go, didn't you say that you want to send things to the capital, so the old man will take you for a ride, and save you the trouble of finding a dart game. ”

"Then why don't you go directly to the capital?"

"This trip is not free, you have to do the old man a favor in exchange and save the child. ”

"I don't know how to do medicine. ”

"But you know medicinal herbs, Qingjian Yiqi spider silk grass, do you recognize it?"

"I know it, but I've only seen it in my mother's book, and my mother said that they are all extremely valuable medicinal materials, and they are hard to find. ”

"Just recognize it, this child suffers from a congenital disease, his mother is a disciple of the Dinghua faction, his father is just an ordinary hunter like you, the two of them love each other, and the son who gave birth to continued the derivative power in his mother's body but can't bear it, so in the past two years, the power is like a beast in a cage, rushing east and west, the three flavors of medicinal materials can turn its derivative power, you just need to bring them back, I can make medicine, are you willing?"

"But I don't know where to find these three herbs. ”

"There is a valley in the mountain behind the Dinghua faction, which is the Baicao Valley, and there is a medicinal stream at the bottom of the valley, and there are these three flavors of medicinal materials in it. ”

"I've never heard of the Dinghua faction, let alone friendship, how can I ask for it..."Chen Yin was a little helpless.

"It's not to ask for it, but to get it," the old man said seriously, "The medicine stream is at the bottom of the valley, and all kinds of wild beasts are rampant in the valley, because of this, there are only two disciples in the sect to guard it, with your insight into the breath, it is easy to avoid the beast and the disciple, and get the medicinal materials." ”

Chen Yin sighed: "You are so powerful, why don't you go yourself?"

"I can't go," the old man smiled, "because I am the person in charge of raising the medicine stream, and the other one who keeps the medicine is my apprentice, if I go to get it and be seen, the Dinghua faction will not spare the Zhou family, so I need a 'thief', and you are just right, you can not only recognize herbs, but also be a child who has not been involved in the world, and will not be afraid of the name of the sect." ”

"My mother taught me not to steal from others. Chen Yin felt that he was a little powerless to make the last effort to shirk.

"That's what I planted, and I let you take it, and it's not stealing," said the old man, "and besides, do your best, don't you?"

"When am I going, and how am I going? I can't find my way. ”

"Go right away, I'll send you to the mouth of the valley, but only there, because there is a lot of vegetation in the valley that can absorb the power of the recorder, and I can't let people know that I came back when I lost the herbs. ”

"Got it," Chen Yin was a little helpless, but still nodded, "I still have a question, what should I do with the luggage in my post station?"

"I'll go get it for you, stand up when you're ready, remember it's Qingjian Yiqi Spider Silk Grass, three flavors. The old man said let's start exercising.

"By the way, when I was at the station, I heard that girl call you grandpa. Chen Yin stood up straight, ready to feel the feeling of being upside down again.

"She's my granddaughter. ”

"Then you didn't save her at that time—" Before Chen Yin could finish speaking, that feeling came to his face again.