Ye Pei got up early, and when he was washing in the yard, he saw the shopkeeper carrying a burden and throwing it outside the courtyard, and shouted to a thin literati who slowly came out of the wall: "Uncle Lu settled the store money for you yesterday, you should leave quickly, don't stay in my store, our small business really can't afford you to stay any longer!" ”

The man's face was sallow, so thin that the wind could blow him away, and he was obviously very uncomfortable, and he walked slowly out by holding on to the wall, and at the same time said earnestly: "Don't work for you, I'll just carry my own baggage." You thank that Uncle Lu for me, I can't repay him for looking for it, and I will repay him as a cow and a horse in the next life. ”

The shopkeeper said impatiently: "Okay, okay!" Who else can someone like you repay! Just don't cause trouble to others! You grind and wake up the other guests. ”

"Little second brother, don't rush, I'll leave right away." Ye Pei looked at this person who claimed to be Zhou Xun from afar, with tears in his eyes and a sad face.

Ye Pei stepped forward and said to Zhou Xun, "Zhou Xun, why are you here!" ”

Zhou Xun's expression was shocked, and he saw that Ye Pei didn't know him.

"Aren't you Zhou Xun, the son of Uncle Zhou's family, don't know me anymore?"

Zhou Xun carefully identified it again, sighed blankly, and asked, "Does this son know his father?" ”

Ye Pei smiled: "I touched your head when you were a child, and you forgot it!" ”

Zhou Xun saw that Ye Pei was more than half younger than him, obviously to entertain himself, so he lowered his head and ignored it, and only walked outside the courtyard.

Ye Pei said to the shopkeeper: "Little second brother, this Brother Zhou is my nephew, I don't want to meet him here today, he is sick in your store, you take pen and ink to me to diagnose his pulse and write a prescription, please go to the pharmacy to grab medicine and take care of him." As he spoke, he threw twenty taels of silver to the shopkeeper.

When the shopkeeper saw that there was money to take, he naturally said happily: "It turns out that Zhou Lang has met a nobleman, then you can go back to the local number room, and I will come over with a pen and paper immediately." ”

Zhou Xun was also strange, and began to feel that Ye Pei had bad intentions, and when he saw that he was paying for himself, he didn't understand Ye Pei's intentions. But his heart was like ashes, he didn't listen to Ye Pei's words, and still moved slowly outside the courtyard.

Ye Pei said: "Why don't you know what to do? Why do you still have to go out if I want to help you with your diagnosis? ”

Zhou Xun frowned and looked at Ye Pei, and asked, "Didn't this son arrest me and go to prison?" ”

"What did you do to go to jail?" Ye Pei thinks this Zhou Xun is not sick and confused?

Zhou Xun sighed, "Since you didn't come to arrest me, you can cure my disease, but you can't cure the disease in my heart, so why bother doing it?" ”

Ye Pei became more and more sure that this Zhou Xun was sick and confused, so she pulled Zhou Xun, or dragged him, back to the ground room. Ye Pei gave him a pulse, yin and yang are both weak, it is the pulse of Guan Ge, which can be worried about his life, and it cannot be adjusted overnight.

Ye Pei asked him, "What is wrong with you?" Why is he so seriously ill? ”

Zhou Xun replied to the question: "There is nothing more mourning than heart death!" ”

Ye Pei asked again: "Where is your home?" Why did you end up here? ”

Zhou Xun said: "It's just an insult to the ancestors to say it." ”

Ye Pei asked, "What congenital diseases did you have when you were a child?" ”

Zhou Xun looked up at Ye Pei, and said with a dumb smile: "Don't bother with the son, I killed my mother when I was born, it seems that I am the reincarnation of the Mourning Star, and I should not have appeared in the world for a long time." ”

Ye Pei saw that he was indeed suffering from heart disease, so he wrote a pair of conditioning prescriptions and sent them out to the shopkeeper.

After Ye Pei came back, he said to Zhou Xun: "I have limited time, here are twenty taels of silver, you can use it." In life, who will not encounter difficult things? The mountains and rivers are exhausted, and there is no way out, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village, maybe when you will hand in good luck. ”

Zhou Xun was moved for a while, and buried his head deep in the crook of his arm.

Ye Pei turned around to leave, Zhou Xun looked up at Ye Pei and said, "Gongzi's surname?" How can I repay in the afterlife? ”

Ye Pei didn't look back, and said as he walked: "My name is Ye Pei!" ”

"Thank you Ye Gongzi!"

Ye Pei came to the courtyard, and Lu Chang, Lou Zijin and the others were already ready to go. Seeing that Ye Pei had also arrived, everyone got on the horse, drove the car, and went straight to Zhending Mansion along the main road.

After walking for more than ten miles, the more Ye Pei thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong, and she said to Lu Chang: "Senior brother, I still have to go back, there is one thing I always don't worry about." ”

Lu Chang asked strangely, "What's wrong?" ”

Ye Pei said anxiously: "This matter is troublesome, and I will explain it to you in detail when I come back." ”

Lu Chang said: "Well, go down the road to Zhending Mansion in front, and let's meet at the Laifu Inn on Baobao Street." ”

Ye Pei replied, "Okay." With that, he whipped his horse and returned to Peach Blossom Village.

After entering the peach car shop, Ye Pei walked straight to the ground number room. The shopkeeper who was standing in the courtyard saw Ye Pei go and came back, and asked, "Did the master forget something?" ”

Ye Pei asked, "I told you that your recipe can be fried for Uncle Zhou?" ”

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "How dare you disobey your orders, it's fried, and I'm about to serve it to him." ”

Ye Pei said, "Then you go and serve the medicine first." ”

"Okay, you do." Saying that, the shopkeeper ran to the back kitchen to serve the medicine.

Ye Pei came to Zhou Xun's room and knocked on the door, but no one answered. When she pushed the door with her hand, she couldn't open it, and the door was obviously locked from the inside, which further confirmed her judgment. Ye Pei didn't care much, took two steps back, and kicked the door of the room open.

I saw that in the middle of the room, Zhou Xun was standing on a chair in a daze, with a belt hanging on the beam, and he suddenly saw Ye Pei come in, shook it and almost fell off.

"Zhou Xun!" Ye Pei caught Zhou Xun with a "horizontal lying on the bridge", "I guessed right, a dignified man, what are you looking for?" ”

Zhou Xun saw Ye Pei leave and return, and he felt like he had met his relatives again, and two lines of hot tears flowed down.

At this time, the shopkeeper came in with a medicine bowl, saw the belt hanging on the beam, and then looked at Zhou Xun's expression, he was shocked and angry, and scolded angrily: "You have no conscience, our host kindly let you stay for a few more days, and I met a person like Uncle Lu who helped you pay the house money and prescribed medicine, you don't want to repay, you want to hang yourself in my store." You who have suffered a thousand cuts, if you die in my shop, how will we do business in the future? If we are caught by the government for the crime of murder, we all have to be assigned to the army! ”

Ye Pei saw that the shopkeeper was noisy, and stopped him and said, "Okay! I'm his relative, and I'm in charge here, so I won't implicate you. ”

The shopkeeper said: "This young master, that's not what you said, if you come one step late today, we won't be able to wash it even if we jump into the Yellow River." Besides, if you leave today, how about him killing himself tomorrow? I see that I will refund you the money for this room now, and we dare not keep him in the house anymore! ”

Ye Pei heard what the shopkeeper said, frowned and said, "Leave the silver to you, I'll take him away later." ”

"Okay, good, that's not what you want. I'll bring the medicine I caught for this Uncle Zhou right away and bring it to you. ”

Ye Pei nodded, and the shopkeeper withdrew from the room.

Zhou Xunjian caused Ye Pei a lot of trouble, he was embarrassed to cry again, wiped his tears and said: "Ye Gongzi, I am bent on death, I don't want to cause you trouble." ”

Ye Pei nodded and said: "It's good that you know, then, now when you are dead, your life is saved by me, you will obey my orders in the future, I order you not to die, do you know?" ”

Zhou Xun was stunned.

Ye Pei said again: "Okay, now you pack up, I'll take you away." ”

Zhou Xun asked, "Where to take me?" ”

"You don't care about this, you will follow me wherever I go in the future, and you will do whatever I tell you to do!"

Zhou Xun met Ye Pei this morning, and saw that she was a child's temper, and he didn't stubbornly follow her, so he carried his burden and prepared to come out with Ye Pei.

Ye Pei ordered: "You drink the medicine first!" ”

Zhou Xun obediently drank the medicine, and the two of them came out of the house one after the other. happened to meet the shopkeeper who came out with a medicine bag and tied Zhou Xun's burden and medicine to the back of the jujube red saddle that Ye Pei was riding.

Ye Pei thought about how to settle Zhou Xun, led the horse and asked as he walked, "Do you know how to ride a horse?" ”

Zhou Xun replied: "I can ride a donkey, but I have never ridden a tall horse." ”

"Can you write?"

"The villain is a down-and-out talent who can write a few words."

"Where are you from? What did you do for a living before? Ye Pei asked again.

"Engong didn't dare not answer his questions, the villain is from Qinghe, Enzhou, alas, it's a long story, I was originally a clerk under the county and did some copying work." Zhou Xun answered one by one.

Ye Pei was even more curious, "Then why did you end up in such a remote place as Peach Blossom Village?" ”

"Don't dare to hide Engong, I fled here after some changes in my family, but I fell ill and ran out of entanglements on my body, alas!"

"You don't need to be gracious and gracious, so are you willing to send you home?" Ye Pei said generously.

Zhou Xun shook his head sadly and said, "It's already a broken family, and there is no home." ”

"I see." Ye Pei was silent.

Ye Pei saw that Zhou Xun was having a hard time walking, so he helped him onto the horse and rode slowly with him to Zhending Mansion.

When the sun was in the west, the two of them went into the city, asked twice, and found the Rifle Inn on Baobao Street. At this time, Lu Chang, Lou Zijin and others had already rested here for half a day.

Ye Pei asked Zhou Xun to wait in the courtyard, came to Lu Chang and Lou Zijin's room, knocked on the door, and waited for the door to come in, saying, "Senior brother, fifth senior brother." ”

Lou Zijin saw Ye Pei coming back, and asked with concern: "Senior sister, you are back, if you don't come back, we will all have to worry about it." Later, we will call the shopkeeper to eat. ”

Lu Chang also said: "This is a big store, the conditions are better, you can arrange bathing and the like, let's rest for a day tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow we will go to Dingzhou, and then we will enter the territory of Liao." ”

Ye Pei said, "I want to tell you two something. It's ......"

Lou Zijin saw that Ye Pei hesitated, not as bold as usual, and said with a smile: "Senior sister has caused some trouble again, right?" ”

Ye Pei also smiled: "Fifth Senior Brother really understands me. Senior brother, I just went back to save a person, it was Zhou Xun who you advanced to pay him for the store yesterday, and I went back because I was afraid that he would find a short-sightedness, but I really guessed it. I rescued him, and now the man is standing in the yard, do you think what if you deal with it? ”

Lou Zijin looked at Lu Chang, and Lu Chang said with a smile: "Senior sister is also a bold person, save people to the end, send Buddha to the west, since it is to save people, we naturally have to save it to the end." Sister, how do you want to arrange him? I will definitely support it. ”

Ye Pei clenched his fists and said, "Thank you for your support." I asked him, he was originally a showman, he could copy, but now he is homeless, can you see if this person can stay in the dart board and be a bookkeeper? ”

Lu Chang said with a smile: "Since the junior sister said it, dare not comply?" I still lack a shopkeeper in the silk shop in Nanjing, Liao, and if this person becomes a talent, I will arrange for him to go. ”

Lou Zijin said: "This person has just met, can you trust it?" ”

Lu Chang said: "My junior brother doesn't know, I can open a dart game by making friends, many friends have many roads, and many enemies have many walls." If there is no way out, everything will be forward. I heard that this person was ruined and killed, and he was saved by his sister, how could he be insincere? ”

Lou Zijin said: "What Senior Brother said is that there are still a lot of places to learn!" ”

Lu Chang said to Ye Pei: "You let him in, I'll talk to him for a few words." ”

Ye Pei called Zhou Xun in.

Lu Chang said to Zhou Xun: "I heard that Brother Zhou is also a hard-working person, I am a businessman, and I opened a silk shop in Nanjing, Liao Kingdom, is my brother willing to work with us?" ”

Zhou Xun knelt down and said: "The villain understands many truths once he dies, fortunately Meng Ye Peien Gong saved my life and showed me a way to live, how dare I not obey it?" ”

Lu Chang helped Zhou Xun up, comforted him and said: "Brother Zhou is serious, life is just a few decades in a hurry, except for life and death, everything else is a trivial matter, since even the big things have been seen, what else can't be put down, what can't be thought of?" ”

Zhou Xun nodded and sighed, "That's true." ”

Lu Chang said to Lou Zijin again: "You can take Ye Pei and Brother Zhou to arrange accommodation." ”

Lou Zijin nodded yes, and took Ye Pei and Zhou Xun to the shop to arrange a room for rest.