The shopkeeper recognized Zhang Tude as a guest in the store, and he was quite generous, so he hesitated for a moment and said

"Okay, guest officer, you said so, then I'll let them in, I don't know what you want to give them something to eat."

"Just the few dishes I ate yesterday, give them a portion, and give me a portion, and the rest of the money will be yours."

"Holo." There was still some money left after the price of the silver taels, and the shopkeeper happily went to report the dishes.

"Okay, you two come in and sit down, I've got your meal." Zhang Tude said to the man

"Thank you." The man kowtowed to Zhang Tude a few times, and then helped up his father who was lying on the ground, Zhang Tude wanted to take a hand but smelled that the person on the ground seemed to smell blood.

"Is your dad hurt?" Zhang Tude asked

"Well, the day before yesterday, my dad just took off the cloth on his face in the corner and drank water, and the janitor of the big house next to him came to beat us for some reason, plus I didn't eat for a few days, and my dad fainted."

"That's it." When Zhang Tude heard this, he couldn't help but feel compassion, and simply helped others to the end, so he said to the man

"You eat something with your father first, and after eating, I will send your father to see the doctor, I can't help worrying, I will pay for the silver." After speaking, Zhang Tude asked the shopkeeper to bring another bowl of porridge, so that the man's father could swallow it.

"Let your father drink some water first, and then feed him porridge, slow down, don't rush." Zhang Tude instructed the man to feed his father, and he noticed that the man's father had several scars on his face, and he could also see the wounds on his hands, he thought that he had been beaten the day before yesterday, but found that it was an old injury.

"Thank you, you're such a nice person, I only have this thing on me that I can give you now." After the man fed his father the porridge, he took out the black stones from his body and put them in front of Zhang Tude

"This thing can still be deducted from a year's tax in our place, it is for the emperor's cultivation, and it should be very valuable, but I don't know why people outside don't want this." Zhang Tude picked up one of the black stones, this black stone felt very rough, it felt like the stones on the side of the road were painted black, nothing special, and when the man took out the black stone, Zhang Tude found that his hands were very white.

"It can't be a girl, right?" Zhang Tude thought in his heart, but quickly denied this idea, because the voice was not like it, but this person should be very young, and it is very likely that someone deceived him What is the value of this black stone.

"Cultivation? Is this what your people there say? ”

"Well, the adults in the village said that this is a spirit stone, and when I saw it, it was white, and when the adults made it black again, they would hand it over to the officials who came to the village to collect taxes."

"If it's black, is it black?"

"I don't know, my dad never let me see how he blackened the stones."

Although he was wearing black gauze, Zhang Tude guessed that this person should still be a child, Zhang Tude put away the black stones, and then said with a smile

"Okay, I'll take these black stones, and I will take them as a thank you gift to me, what is your name?"

"My name is Chen Lezhen."

"Chen Lezhen, you and your father shouldn't be locals, right?"

"Well, Daddy and I are from Houjin."

"Hou Jin?" Zhang Tude thought for a while before remembering that this was a small country adjacent to Houshu, and then continued to ask

"It's far from here and Houjin, why did you come here?"

"Because one day, a few people came to the village and killed everyone else, only me and Daddy were left, and there was a woman among them, she said that she wanted the skin on my body, let my Daddy take care of me, and she came to skin me again a year later, and after those people left, Daddy took me to the town to report to the official, but the adults in the town said that the emperor who collected the stones was dead, and the current emperor wanted human skin, so I waited obediently, so Daddy escaped with me and came here all the time." Chen Lezhen said something terrifying.

Zhang Tude was just about to say something, when Chen Lezhen's father next to him suddenly coughed a few times.

"Daddy, you're awake." Chen Lezhen hurriedly came to his father's side

"Where am I?" Father Chen said weakly, listening to the voice, he should be a middle-aged man.

"Uncle, you are at the inn, I saw that you were hungry and fainted on the road just now, so I asked your child to bring you in to eat something." Zhang Tude said that he didn't plan to tell Chen Lezhen kneeling and begging the shopkeeper.

"Yes, this kind big brother invited me to dinner and took you to see the doctor." Chen Lezhen said to his father

"Thank you so much, Childe." Father Chen struggled to sit up and feel Zhang Tude, but accidentally touched the wound on his body and couldn't help but scream.

"Uncle, lie down, it's nothing, I'll take you to see the doctor later, you can just call me Zhang Tude." Zhang Tude hurriedly stepped forward to help Chen's father lie down.

When Chen Lezhen, who hadn't eaten for a few days, ate a little, Zhang Tude helped Chen's father to the county doctor with him.

When they came to the door of the medical hall, Chen Lezhen hid behind Zhang Tude

"What's wrong, Lezhen?"

"Brother Zhang, it's my father who was beaten by those few people." Zhang Tude slashed in the direction pointed by Chen Lezhen, and found that someone was giving porridge to the refugees next to the medical hall, and Chen Lezhen was referring to a few people guarding the porridge shop with sticks, and they seemed to be dressed as members of large families.

"It's okay, with me, they don't dare to beat you, go in first and let the doctor see your father." Zhang Tude took the two into the hospital, and after explaining the situation to the doctor, the doctor asked Chen's father to take off his clothes to check the injury, but Chen's father hesitated for a while before saying

"That doctor, I look a little scary, I'm afraid of scaring you and Zhang Gongzi."

"I've been practicing medicine for so many years, and I'm not even afraid of the dead, and I'm afraid that you, a living person, won't make it? Take it off, it's okay. ”

"Okay then, Lezhen, you go out first." After Chen Lezhen went out, Chen's father finally took off his clothes, but after seeing his body, the doctor and Zhang Tude both gasped.

I saw that there was nothing on Chen's father's face except for a scar on what should have been his nose, obviously Chen's father's nose was cut off, and in addition to the injuries on his body that were beaten by those family members the day before, there were all kinds of old injuries, as if he had suffered many kinds of torture.

After a while, the doctor reacted, although he was scared, but he still stepped forward to apply medicine to Chen's father, but he couldn't do anything about those old injuries, and after seeing the disease, Zhang Tude paid the money, and after thanking the doctor, he took the medicine in one hand and helped Chen's father out with the other.

"Zhang Gongzi, thank you so much, from Houshu to here, it is the first time I have met a kind person like you, and I have nothing to repay you."

"It's okay, Brother Chen, Lezhen gave me this." Zhang Tude jokingly took out a black stone

Father Chen's face changed when he saw the black stone, and he hurriedly said

"This is what Lezhen gave you? This kid is really ignorant, Zhang Gongzi hurry up and throw away this stone, this stone is unlucky. ”