In the hinterland of the Central Plains, in the south of Kaifeng, there is a small city, called Su, but if people are called today, they prefer to replace it with "medical city", so there is a big family in the city, called Gongsun.

It is rumored that during the Three Kingdoms period, there was a doctor in Wu State, named Dong Feng, who never charged for treating people, but asked the patient to plant an apricot tree, and more than ten years later, left an apricot forest, which was passed down as a good story by later generations.

The world often praises the doctor with the apricot forest, and on the outskirts of the medical city, there is also an apricot forest, which is owned by the Gongsun family.

Unlike the allusions, this apricot grove was planted by themselves, and the Gongsun family did not take nothing to treat people, but there is still an endless stream of people seeking medical treatment here over the years, just because their medical skills are indeed superb.

In the past, the four great families of the rivers and lakes, in terms of fame and prestige, the Gongsun family dominated the list, and no one could beat it.

On the outskirts of the medical city, an apricot forest is lush and green, like rows of straight wrestlers, defending the eternal name of the Gongsun family.

On the first day of April, the flowers were thin and the leaves were thin, and after the light rain, the air was filled with the smell of earth, and a girl dressed in coarse cloth walked briskly on the way back to the city with a bamboo basket in her hand.

The streets of the medical city are bustling with traffic, hawkers sweating like rain, and pedestrians coming and going.

At the corner of the street in the east of the city, there is a liquor shop, and at ten o'clock in the morning, the business here is inevitably a little deserted, and occasionally three or five idlers pass by, look into the store, and then let out some impolite giggles.

At this time, the young men in the shop would glare at them with a warning eye, but unfortunately it had little effect, and sometimes even backfired, making them even more angry.

After a while, the girl with the bamboo basket returned to the store, and the fellow breathed a sigh of relief, and stepped forward to take the bamboo basket, which was filled with bright peach blossoms.

"Sister Yan'er, you have worked hard, let me do this kind of drudgery next time." That guy is just a teenager, looking at the fourteen or fifteen years old, it is not wrong to call the girl in her twenties in front of her sister.

The girl named Yan'er glanced at the young man, crossed her waist with one hand, and said a little pungently: "Just your clumsy appearance, don't spoil my flowers, go and send all the things to the back, Miss today still needs my help, and I'll talk about the work here later." ”

"Hey, I see." The boy smiled wryly and hurried to the backyard with his things.

Yan'er went to pick flowers outside the city early in the morning, and was so busy that her feet did not touch the ground, and her mouth was already dry at this time, she wiped the sweat on her forehead, turned over a bowl from the table and poured tea for herself, and only after drinking it did she feel alive.

At this time, she caught a glimpse of a few short-clothed men on the opposite street looking this way, and there was still some obscene light in their eyes, and Yan'er immediately put the bowl on the table, and shouted at the group: "Look at what you see! ”

Those people seemed to be commonplace, and they didn't feel ashamed to be discovered, but laughed out loud, and from time to time someone whistled, and saw Yan'er's fists tighten.

"Hmph!"

But she finally endured it, glanced at the idlers, she turned around and went to the backyard, where she saw that the beauty was gone, so she lost interest, and walked away again with a smile.

The layout of this wine shop is simple, there is only a blue curtain between the backyard and the front, and the smoke lifts the curtain and comes to the courtyard, and the burning gaze behind her finally subsides, and she is angry at the same time, but also can't help but feel sad.

Women sell alcohol, rarely have to be teased by those playful idle men, even if Yan'er makes a spicy posture on her face, but after all, she is still miserable in her heart, but she has no choice, if she doesn't come forward, is it difficult for Miss to come in person.

Speaking of which, this Yan'er is still the maid of the largest family in the medical city, and she shouldn't have come out to do business, but the master she serves is the eldest lady of the Gongsun family, named Gongsun Yao.

If it is an ordinary family, as the personal maid of the eldest lady, even if she can't wear gold and silver to eat and drink spicy, at least she will not be reduced to the point where she needs to sell wine for a living, but unfortunately, Gongsun Yao's situation is really special.

The story of the Gongsun family has long been a household name in this medical city, and the jokes made by Gongsun Huan back then are still secretly discussed behind his back.

After all, from ancient times to the present, the story of this man with a green head and raising children for others has always attracted the attention of the big guys.

Gongsun Huan was once seriously injured in his lower body, and begged to go to the side of the hundred poisoners, but he didn't expect the other party to put him together, he seemed to be healed, but in fact, he was deeply injured, but his wife gave birth to a pair of children for him under such circumstances, this is the story that the big guy knows.

Although the elders of the Gongsun family have been identifying the bloodlines of the two children for many years, and they have come to the conclusion that the bloodlines are pure, Gongsun Huan didn't believe it, and he decided that his wife must have stolen people behind his back.

In the end, Gongsun Huan's wife died depressed, and his two children were treated by him as enemies, and they were regarded as mustard in the Gongsun family, and their lives were worse than those of their subordinates.

From Gongsun Huan's point of view, he now has a green head on his head, and he raises a pair of evil seeds for adulterers, and his chest is as wide as the sea if he doesn't kill them, so it is absolutely impossible to provide them with rich living conditions or something.

However, the elders of the Gongsun family generally believe that these two children are the species of Gongsun Huan, even if there is really a case, then they have been named Gongsun, among which Gongsun Cheng is still the young master, and he has to get by on face.

So under the trade-off between the two parties, Gongsun Huan took a step back, he didn't deliberately look for trouble, but he also turned a blind eye to the two children, and the family side ensured that the two children could at least live, but under Gongsun Huan's strong protest, they couldn't interfere too much.

So, under such circumstances, Gongsun Cheng and Gongsun Yao moved out of the main courtyard and lived in a remote and cold corner, where there was a firewood room, and after a little tidying up, it was the new home of the brothers and sisters.

Don't think about the monthly example, the family provides the two children with three meals a day of coarse tea and light rice to ensure that they do not starve to death, and Gongsun Cheng can win the most, that is, like the children of other families, can learn medical skills, that's all.

As a father, Gongsun Huan has already let out his words and doesn't want to care, and the mother of the two children who passed away left them some wealth, which is actually a few shops and a guard with some martial arts.

It is said that they can marry the Gongsun family, and the mother family of Gongsun Cheng should not be a small family, so why leave this little thing to them.

In fact, Gongsun Cheng's mother family is also a well-known family in the rivers and lakes, but because the fact that Gongsun Huan made a fuss was too out of line, his mother's family did not dare to interfere.

The importance of a woman's reputation in this era is self-evident, and red apricots will be spurned everywhere.

Besides, there is no wind and no waves, Gongsun Huan will not joke with his own face, the so-called groundless wind is not for no reason, even if his wife did not steal people, I am afraid that there is a problem with the style - the world generally sees it this way.

Among Gongsun Cheng's maternal family, there are still many unmarried girls in Yunying, even for their reputation, they have to get rid of Gongsun Cheng's mother, so over the years, the maternal family has almost helped them.

Therefore, Gongsun Cheng and Gongsun Yao, the brothers and sisters, could not rely on either of them, so they had Gongsun Yao's personal maid Yan'er personally showed up to sell wine.

After all, no matter how down-and-out Gongsun Cheng is, he also bears the name of the young master, not to mention anything else, it is always necessary to dress himself decently, and in order to be able to really turn over, he not only needs to learn medical skills and martial arts, but also needs to go out to socialize with people and develop contacts.

And all of this requires money.