Just after the Spring Festival, the city of Xiangzhou is still full of strong New Year's flavor.

The doors of every house are sprinkled and cleaned, and there are red Spring Festival couplets on both sides. Wealthy people hang peach charms engraved with gods and gloom under the lintel, and those who are worse will also ask the portraits of the two gods to be pasted on the door to pray for blessings and disasters.

Early in the morning, the shops on the street had just opened, and the guys were busy cleaning. The children were running and playing in groups, wearing tiger head hats on their heads, tiger head shoes on their feet, and colorful colorful colors sewn on their bodies. From time to time, there was a thud, and it was a naughty man who carried an adult on his back and threw the bamboo into the fire at the base of the wall. There was an explosion, and a group of children gathered together to cover their ears and laugh.

For the New Year, no matter how noisy the sound is, it is full of excitement.

At the gate of the city came a young man, dressed as a hunter, carrying a stick, with a longbow with a string removed from his back, and a quiver hanging from his waist with a short blade, looking joyful.

No matter which time he came, the bustling smell of the city always made Fang Tai, who was used to staying in the mountains, feel fresh and abnormal.

Not long after, Fang Tai came to a temple in the east of the city, and wrote three words - "Spring God Temple".

This temple is not a Buddha or a Taoist, and there is no stone lion guarding the door in front of the door, but there is a square. A platform was erected in the middle of the square, and a thing was wrapped in a bright red silk cloth on the platform, and it was very easy to see what it was.

Stepping into the temple, the hall is enshrined with a statue of a god, the human body is a bird's face, the back has wings, the green robe is fluttering, and the feet are two white dragons flying with claws.

It is the legendary King of Mude, the god of Si Chun - Jumang.

There are a lot of pedestrians coming and going in the shrine, most of them are the nearby farmers silkworm mothers, wearing all kinds of spring sheng, on the day of the beginning of spring to the spring shrine to worship, praying for the smooth and safe farming of mulberry silkworms this year.

In addition to lighting a few incense sticks, the men and women who come to worship will also place freshly picked spring vegetables such as green leeks and mustard as offerings on the offering table.

Fang Tai didn't stop, went straight into the backyard, and shouted: "Brother Li, Brother Li!" ”

A man walked out of the room, dressed in a linen robe, with a wooden mask shaped like a delphinium on his face, holding a book in his hand, and said aloud: "It's Brother Atai here!" This time, the elixir has not yet been opened, so I'm afraid you'll have to wait a while. ”

Fang Tai stepped forward in a few steps: "Brother Li, you don't need to take medicine this time!" ”

"Oh?" Li Yan had some differences, and then said happily: "Mo is not the injury of the seniors......

"That's right, thanks to the elixir refined by Brother Li, Master's skill has been restored, and there is no need to take medicine from now on! Master asked me to come over and say that we are clear! Atai intercepted Li Yan's words and said happily.

"That's really congratulations to the seniors! Li can do his best to do something, and it is also an honor, not to mention that the treasure medicine is also very beneficial to the injuries below. That Atai brothers' trip down the mountain is ......"

"Hehe, Master said that I am a teacher, and I am allowed to go down the mountain to practice!" The young man couldn't stop wanting to talk to Brother Li in front of him about the excitement in his heart.

"So, Brother Atay, your archery ......"

"It's been done a long time ago, this time the master allowed me to go down the mountain because the spear skills were also successful!"

"It's a double blessing! I don't know where my brother wants to go down the mountain? Do the old-timers have any other advice? I'm a good helper. ”

"In the morning, Master didn't say anything, only said that I should follow my heart and go anywhere. There are also some vague things that I don't understand too well. Oh, by the way, this is the medicinal herb you said you wanted to pick last time, Brother Li, and I'll go to the medicine store to change some coils for the rest. ”

Li Yan took the package and looked at the young man in front of him, he couldn't help but be infected by his pure joy, and his mood became happy: "It's okay, Brother Atai might as well go around with me for a few days, think of a place to go and then set off." Today's spring, three o'clock is the time to hit spring, my spring shrine to do spring sacrifice, very lively. Brothers just came to play, and let's make spring cakes to eat in the evening. ”

"Thank you, big brother, then it's decided, I'll go to the medicine store first!"

The young man came in a hurry, and left in a hurry, leaving Li Yan behind looking at the distant figure and couldn't help but sigh: "It's good to be young!" ”

The Rui family is known to everyone in Xiangzhou City.

The Rui family controls nearly sixty percent of the medicinal material business in Shannan East Road, and holds hundreds of acres of fine medicine fields in their hands, and raises hundreds of medicines, medicines, and pharmaceutical men under their command, and the industry can be called the first in Xiangzhou City.

The ancestor of the Rui family was born as a physician and always had a kind heart, and the Rui family was extremely generous in dealing with others. In addition to the usual generous money, all the medicines used by the Rui family are free. During the New Year's holidays, the Rui family also often gives porridge and opens free clinics outside the city, and every year they will give some commonly used medicinal materials to the residents.

Although the medicinal materials sent are all stale in the warehouse and are not easy to sell, the medicinal properties have not been exhausted, only slightly reduced.

Although there are still idle beggars in the city, because of the good deeds of the Rui family, most of the residents are in good health and rarely have diseases.

In Rui's Pharmacy, the largest pharmacy in the west of the city, a hunchbacked old man is standing in front of the counter with a bag on his back and a piece of paper in his hand.

"Shopkeeper, the doctor said that only this medicine can save my child's life, you must help find it......" The old man's face was dark, and his eyes seemed to be cloudy, pointing to a medicinal herb drawn on the paper and pleading.

The shopkeeper's face was embarrassed: "I also said just now, Rui's Medicinal Store handles nearly ninety percent of the types of medicinal materials in the world, except for the treasure medicine that has been extinct in the ancient books, it is true that I have never seen the strain you mentioned." With all due respect, the doctor you see is not ...... cough, if you are really in trouble, my Rui family also has a wise doctor, why don't you bring Ling Gongzi to Xiangzhou City for diagnosis and treatment? ”

The old man didn't give up, and stepped forward to grab the shopkeeper: "Everyone says that the Rui family is the number one pharmaceutical merchant in the world, and the head of the Rui family is kind-hearted, it seems that they are all rumors, and they don't even give life-saving medicine!" Poor my son is just waiting for this medicine to save his life, you are not saving you in death! ”

The old man is talking nonsense, and the shopkeeper is also helpless. The lord's family is benevolent, and he uses medicine to save people all the year round, but there are always scoundrels who come to disturb him, just to ask for some money. This person shouted so loudly, reversing right and wrong, and the old shopkeeper was also seeing it for the first time.

The old shopkeeper dodged the old man's pressing eyes left and right, and said while breaking free: "You are a person! If you haven't seen it, you haven't seen it, so find somewhere else to save your son......"

"Holy damn it! Rui's medicine store is beating people! What a deception! ”

In the middle of the argument, a teenager generally entered the door.

"Is the shopkeeper here? Hey? It's not a ......."

Fang Tai hurried to Rui's Pharmacy, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw the old man entangled in front of the shopkeeper. When they heard someone enter the door, they both turned their heads to look.

Fang Tai saw at a glance the paper in the old man's hand, on which was painted a strange grass with nine branches, nine leaves and nine flowers, with a knotted shape, like a nine-clawed dragon dancing in the air.

When the old man heard Fang Tai's words, he let go of the shopkeeper, stepped forward and grabbed his wrist, and stared at the young man's eyes with half-clouded eyes: "Young man, have you seen the herbs in this painting?" ”

Fang Tai recognized this strange grass, which he found when he first met Li Yan in the mountains three years ago. Later, the master and Li Yan discussed in the house for a long time, and gave the grass to Li Yan to refine the elixir for the two of them, and at the same time asked Fang Tai to regularly collect the medicine in the mountains for Li Yan's needs. When Brother Li was leaving, he also told him that he must not tell any outsiders about seeing this grass, otherwise it would cause trouble.

What is the effect of the dragon grass, Fang Tai doesn't know, but it can heal his master's internal injuries for more than ten years, and it must be a miracle medicine for healing. However, in the past few years, I have traveled all over Funiu Mountain, wanting to pick another plant for my master, but I have never been able to do so.

Fang Tai was pulled by someone, looking at the old man's gradually revealing eyes, he was inexplicably a little flustered, and the subsequent words made him muttered in his heart.

The person in front of him was so anxious, he must have found an urgent need. said that he had seen it, but he was used by himself, which made people happy.

If people pester themselves to go to the mountains to find another plant, but they really can't find it.

No is no, anyway, Brother Li won't let me say it.

Fang Tai seemed to shake his head, and then shook his head and said: "What kind of herb is this, it looks very strange, I haven't seen it, I haven't seen it......"

It's also strange to say, the old man who was pestering the shopkeeper just now heard this, stared at Fang Tai for a while, then let go of his hand, turned his head and pulled the shopkeeper again.

Fang Tai stood at the door and listened to the two arguing.

The shopkeeper Xu was impatient, and looked at the old man and just said over and over: "I haven't seen it, I haven't seen it, I haven't seen it in the whole of Xiangzhou City." ”

The old man gave up, and when he left, he turned around and said, "I can't go in vain, you didn't say it earlier, you delayed me in finding life-saving medicine for my son, you have to compensate me!"

Fang Tai was dumbfounded.

He heard it clearly, it was clear that this old man was messing around, and now he was brazenly asking for silver.

The old shopkeeper sighed helplessly, as if he had seen too much of this kind of thing, and under Fang Tai's shocked gaze, he really returned to the counter and took out a few dimes of silver and gave it to the old man.

Fang Tai has never seen such a thing, and he has been arguing in other people's stores for a long time, but he can ask for silver, which is really outrageous.

The shopkeeper sent the person away, let out a sigh of relief, as if he was a little dizzy, he helped his forehead, and turned to Fang Tai: "Alas, it can be regarded as leaving...... This young man, what are you doing? ”

The young man said crisply: "Well, for the silver! ”

The old shopkeeper was so shocked that he almost fell.

The old man who went out looked back at the young man in the medicine store, lowered his head and walked away, and after a while, he saw no one on the left and right, straightened his back, ripped off his clothes, took off his hood, and the whole person became a sturdy middle-aged man. He wiped his eyes again, and there were two more translucent fish scales in his hands, revealing a pair of shining eyes.

The middle-aged man wrapped the disguised object he had changed into a baggage, walked out of the dark alley again, and returned to the street to look around. Soon, he saw beggars begging for food on the side of the street, and there were a few idlers not far away, squatting with their hands folded.

The man sneered and walked towards the idlers.