069 Pulsatilla and the Red Lady
"Okay, Fan Tian, if you can take the entrance disciple exam. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoI'll take you as my disciple. In the future, I will often eat such delicious roast duck. A smile rose at the corner of Zheng Yu's mouth, and then said softly.
Fan Tian suddenly glanced at Zheng Yu, and said secretly in his heart: "Pull it, you want to accept me as your apprentice, I don't want to be the apprentice back then, I know how to drink all day long, and if you want me to be your apprentice, you don't want me to help you cook snacks." ”
Zheng Yu glanced at Fan Tian again, then pressed on Fan Tian's shoulder, raised his voice and asked slowly: "By the way, Fan Tian, you haven't said it yet, why did you go down the mountain?"
Fan Tian turned his head and glanced back at Zheng Yu, and said respectfully: "I came down the mountain to buy medicine." ”
Zheng Yu laughed, he put down the wine glass, patted his chest, and then said very heroically: "Oh! The shopkeeper who bought the medicine is familiar with me, and I will take you there later, and let him give you a cheap price." ”
As soon as Fan Tian heard this, he didn't make much money, and if he could buy more medicinal materials, it would naturally be a good thing.
After eating, Fan Tian and An Xueruo followed the drunken Zheng Yu to the Tianhetang Pharmacy in Lingwu Town. A small pharmacy is a two-story cabin with a pharmacy on the first floor and a living room on the second floor. There are also two pots of flowers next to the pharmacy.
Fan Tian stopped when he walked to the side of the pharmacy, and carefully looked at a couplet on both sides of the door of the pharmacy.
The red lady, Chonglou, Forsythia, Baibu, Pulsatilla, Changshan, and Duhuo in this couplet are all Chinese herbal medicines, and the name of this medicine is used to make a couplet, which can not only show that this is a pharmacy, but also show that the owner of this pharmacy has a high taste.
Fan Tian looked at Zheng Yu, who was full of alcohol, and walked to the store leisurely, then sat down casually on the chair for the guests to rest, and then said to the white-headed old man in front of the counter: "Xiaolinzi." Today I brought you a guest. He is the child of my fourth junior brother, you must give him a cheaper price. ”
"Okay, I'll give him a 10% discount. This old man surnamed Lin smiled and nodded, and he didn't care that Zheng Yu called him Xiao Linzi.
Fan Tian and An Xue couldn't help but be a little surprised, and a hint of strange color flashed in their eyes. Zheng Yu had already seen the clue in their eyes.
Zheng Yu was not in a hurry to explain, he picked up the Zijin wine jug, and then took a sip of soju, and then said slowly: "Don't look at me with such eyes." "Zheng Yu has a very high status in the Donglin faction, so there is nothing wrong with him calling him so.
After that, Zheng Yu drank by himself.
Fan Tian nodded, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, and at the same time, a sense of crisis also rose in his heart, if he failed the exam after three years, he was afraid that he would not be able to continue to practice, and at that time, he would only be able to find a place to settle down and live an ordinary life in this world.
Fan Tian was not afraid of dying of old age, but he thought that if there was such a day, he would be old, and An Xueruo would still look the same.
The two of them walked together, looking like an old grandfather with his granddaughter. Suddenly, Fan Tian's heart was shocked, and he couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva, and then secretly made up his mind in his heart that no matter how hard and tiring the next cultivation was, he would have to support it.
Relying on Zheng Yu's face, Fan Tian could only buy ten packets of medicinal herbs, but he bought twelve packs of medicines.
Lin Laoweng was very polite from beginning to end, but he didn't greet Fan Tian, Fan Tian didn't know the reason, and he didn't understand until he was about to leave. Just as Zheng Yu got up, Lin Laoweng said respectfully: "Uncle Zheng, you go slowly." ”
Fan Tian and An Xueruo almost fainted, one was a white-headed old man, and the other was Zheng Yu, who looked only twenty-seven or eighteen years old.
But there is so much difference in seniority between them.
If according to the seniority, Fan Tian and An Xueruo both call Zheng Yu their uncle, then they are Lin Laoweng's uncles.
This old man was always unwilling to call at a young man of fourteen or fifteen years old, with a long uncle and a short aunt.
After Fan Tian and An Xueruo walked out of the pharmacy, they said goodbye to Zheng Yu: "Second uncle, thank you for your help." ”
Zheng Yu waved his hand lightly, and said with a nonchalant look: "You're welcome, eating your roast duck is considered to be the money for your meal." I, Zheng Yu, don't want to be said to take advantage of juniors. ”
With that, he turned and walked away, opening his purple gourd as he went, and drank his wine with a grunt.
Fan Tian watched him take several sips, and he had already drunk a lot since Aoba Xiaozhu, if it was an ordinary wine jug, I am afraid that he would have been drunk dry by him like this.
At this moment, Fan Tian remembered something, the couplet at the door of the pharmacy, in which the pulsatilla naturally refers to this Lin Laoweng, who does the red lady refer to?
Fan Tian couldn't help but feel curious, turned around and glanced at the pharmacy again, only to see that Lin Weng was busy planning the plate.
"Brother Fan Tian, let's go back!" An Xueruo said
patted the imperial bag full of medicinal herbs, and accompanied by An Xueruo, he walked back to Donglin Mountain.
The two returned along the same road, and when Fan Tian and An Xueruo walked to the White Bridge, An Xueruo couldn't help but stop on the bridge corridor of the White Bridge and looked down.
I saw that in the Liuhua Creek, the clear stream water, with bright falling flowers, slowly floated into the distance. Although it is very beautiful, it always gives people a touch of sadness.
A hint of sadness flashed in An Xueruo's eyes, and the breeze brushed the bangs on her forehead, making her little face look worried: "Brother Fan Tian, do you know? I was really scared, and after ten years, I would come here alone to see these falling flowers. ”
Fan Tian couldn't help but want to look from a distance, gently patted An Xueruo's shoulder, and then said softly: "Xueruo, I understand what you mean." ”
An Xueruo's eyes rippled with autumn water, rippling layer by layer, revealing a kind of beauty with sadness, she silently looked at the petals that flowed with the waves, and said softly: "Brother Fan Tian, I don't know much about your cultivation during this time, but the past three years are really important to us. Therefore, Brother Fan Tian, promise me that you must spend more time cultivating, as long as your cultivation is reached, and you can be qualified to participate in the selection of disciples who are entering the room. Only then will we be able to practice together every day. Brother Fan Tian, you gave you Liang Muyi your skills, I was really moved. However, the rules of the Donglin faction are very strict, and Mr. Wei Chi will not be a little favoritism. I'm afraid three years from now. Brother Fan Tian is like this peach blossom, he can't decide his own fate, he can only be blown down by the wind and flow into the distance with the stream. ”
Fan Tian's hand propped up on the railing of the white bridge, his eyes were full of confidence, and he looked at An Xueruo with a determined look and said in a deep voice: "Helplessly, the flowers have fallen, and the familiar Yan has returned." ”
An Xueruo blinked, the corners of her mouth rose to reveal a sweet smile, and a fine light flashed in those beautiful amber eyes, she already understood the meaning of Fan Tian's words.
But this was still too subtle, she wanted Fan Tian to tell her clearly in more straightforward language, so she pretended not to understand, and said softly in a delicate voice: "What do these two sentences mean?"