Heaven and earth are a big cellar, and the sun charcoal cooks in June.

At noon in the middle of summer, when the sun is at its hottest, the sun is baking wantonly, and the small puddles on the ground are evaporated in a short time, and all the pedestrians hide in the shade, and even the trees are nowhere to be seen. On the quiet street, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves, and a young man with a sword at his waist galloped on his horse, his face was flushed with the sun, and large beads of sweat hung on his forehead, but at this moment he did not care to wipe it off, jumped off his horse and knocked heavily on the door of a large mansion in the city.

The young man thanked the housekeeper who opened the door, and went straight to the backyard, where two women in light gauze skirts were sitting in the small pavilion by the lotus pond to enjoy the coolness, and the young man saluted the two women and said, "Sister Xin'er, I have found Miss Baiqin!" ”

"Really?" The two women who were enjoying the cool spoke in unison and stood up excitedly, it was Yang Xin and Teacher Liang.

This young man is Liang Fang, the "bodyguard captain" recruited by Yang Xin with a lot of money. At this moment, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "Miss Bai is following the caravan to come, it is too hot and should still be on the road at the moment, I am afraid that you are in a hurry, so I rushed to report first!" ”

"Reward, reward! Reward! Chamberlain! Yang Xin shouted at the top of her voice, the little old man who opened the door for the young man just now had come running quickly, Yang Xin said excitedly: "Hurry up and get ten golden cakes for Liang Ye!" ”

Yang Xin has spent nearly a year building a business kingdom, and today she finally waited for the news of Teacher Bai, and tears oozed from the corners of her eyes with excitement at this moment.

A year ago, she and Teacher Liang came up with a way to compete in the ring and recruited five bodyguards with strong martial arts, and Liang Fang was the one who won the championship. Later, she asked the coachman to find craftsmen to imitate modern horse-drawn carriages, and built a "passenger car" that can accommodate 12 people on all sides and a "wagon" with a load of one ton. Fortunately, the craftsmen are highly skilled, and looking at the simple drawings drawn by Mr. Liang, the transformation was easily completed. She took Liang Fang and the store manager, with a car full of clothes and pants produced by the four small offices, and took the people who tried to take the car for the first time, opened the round-trip route from Jinan City County to Zhangwu County, and opened the first chain store.

Since then, it has been out of control, with Jinan City and County as the center, Yuyang County, Jiujiang County, Shanggu County, in one year, Yang Xin personally opened up the territory, ran all over the four counties and eighteen counties, personally negotiated with the rich businessmen to join, and successively opened 22 small cloth shops, bodyguards have also expanded from the beginning of five to 30 people, trucks and buses from one to 30 cars every month, thinking of the ancient dart business, Mr. Liang directly named "Xin!" With the expansion of business and the increasing number of workers on the production line, Yang Xin had to spend a lot of money to buy a "rich" house and live a "rich woman" life ever since. Of course, the so-called heavy money is not money at all for them who are now making money every day. With the increasing popularity of the four small cloth shops and the formation of the business model, Yang Xin was relieved to hand over the development of the business to the first batch of clerks to do, and the three bodyguards were organized into a team to be responsible for the freight dispatch in various places.

At this moment, there is finally news of Teacher Bai, the efforts of nearly a year have finally paid off, the housekeeper brought the golden cake to Liang Fang, Liang Fang not only did not accept it, but bowed lower, his face was embarrassed, and he wanted to say something, but swallowed it.

Yang Xinqi said: "Liang Fang, is there something wrong?" ”

Liang Fang swallowed and said, "Sister Xin'er, please prepare in your heart." Miss Bai she ...... She ......"

Yang Xin was shocked and said hurriedly: "What's wrong!" Say it quickly! ”

Liang Fang swallowed his saliva before saying, "She's deaf!" ”

"What!" Teacher Liang and Yang Xin were struck by lightning and exclaimed.

Liang Fang said carefully: "A few days ago, I went to Changyi County with the goods, and the store manager was very excited when he saw me, saying that someone had solved the problem of dividing cakes in the store!" I saw that the solver was an old man about five years old, with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, and a bitter and mean face, not the two young and beautiful women that Sister Xin'er said, so I asked him again and again, and at first he was extremely sure that he had solved it, and he looked like he couldn't help it, until I repeatedly threatened him, and he said that the person who solved the problem was Miss Bai. Store Manager Zhang gave him five gold cakes, and he took me to meet Miss Bai in the backyard of a jade store, but she was already deaf and ...... Still...... Alas...... In short, it is miserable! ”

Yang Xin wanted to ask again, but there was a commotion in the front yard, and Ah Yan had already trotted to report that the caravan was back. Not long after, the bodyguard Liu Si had already walked in through the garden gate, followed by a woman, wearing a somewhat yellowed wide white cloth robe, walking with her head down, completely unable to see her figure and appearance.

When she got closer, the woman stared at the bricks under her feet and did not look up. Yang Xin was a little surprised, and called out tentatively: "Teacher Bai! The woman did not seem to hear, but stood still. Yang Xin couldn't believe that she was really deaf, and raised her voice and shouted loudly: "Teacher Bai! White Qin! ”

The woman still had her head bowed, not moving. She...... She...... Are you really deaf?! Yang Xin really couldn't accept it, her eyes were filled with tears, and she and Teacher Liang strode forward, holding one of her hands.

The woman felt the trembling from her hands, and slowly raised her head, with a goose egg pink face, beautiful eyebrows and nose, a very delicate face, and a palm-sized inky black tattoo on her forehead! Extremely scary!

"Ahh Teacher Liang and Yang Xin were shocked: "Teacher Bai, you ...... You ......" looked at her face, the two of them were extremely sad in their hearts, their throats choked, and tears flowed down uncontrollably.

Teacher Bai looked at the two people in front of him, his big eyes, which were originally godless, slowly brightened, and his long eyelashes trembled with the ups and downs of his heart: "You guys! You're really here! "The voice is unusually jerky.

Teacher Liang couldn't control the sadness in his heart anymore and cried! The three of them hugged each other, their eyes swollen from crying, and their clothes wet from crying......

An ancient river in Changyi County passes through the city, and the handicraft workshops are distributed along the river, because it is in the back street, the water in the river is dirty, and people who pass by on weekdays take a detour. On the side of the stinking river, a woman was paralyzed on the ground, one hand soaked in the river and washed back and forth by the sewage. This woman is Teacher Bai.

The jade carving Zhao craftsman carried the sewage tank to the river to dump it, and coincidentally found her fainting, and she didn't wake up after calling for a long time to see people.

This Zhao craftsman has a Chinese face, a square forehead, although he is not tall, but he is also strong, he dropped the water tank, carried Teacher Bai on his shoulders and brought it back to the jade workshop. This jade workshop is full of big men, afraid of damaging the girl's reputation, so he gave up his bedroom, put Teacher Bai on his bed, and spent two days in the workshop, tired and sleepy, lying on the water bench for making jade to take a nap.

When Teacher Bai woke up, it was the middle of the day, he opened his eyes to see the sunlight pouring into the room through the wooden window, looked at the wooden pillars in the room, touched the sleeping bed, and was at a loss, but heard the conversation of several people outside the dormitory door.

"Hey, Zhao Tou, aren't you going to feed the girl water today?"

"Just fed."

"Hey, Zhao Tou, you are so careful, do you want to keep someone as a daughter-in-law?"

"What nonsense! Don't ruin the reputation of other girls! ”

"Zhao Tou, you have given up your bedroom, you haven't slept for two days and two nights, and you don't plan to order anything?"

The workers laughed at this Zhao craftsman, but this Zhao craftsman had a serious and serious face, which made the workers lose their interest in laughing.

Teacher Bai listened to the conversation outside the house, and he couldn't recall what happened after he went to the kiln in Professor Li's studio that day. Licking his lips, it is very moist, the girl who feeds the water seems to be me, look at the white collared cloth robe in front of the couch, I already feel at the moment, I am afraid that I have come to ancient times.

Get up and put on a robe, a little wide, but if it was in ancient times, you would definitely not be able to see people in your cool shorts and shorts in summer. Walking out of the house, in the bright courtyard, six men heard the movement and looked up at her in unison. It was the first time that Mr. Bai was looked at directly by so many men, and he was immediately shy, and his face turned red. I saw that the Zhao craftsman who was not tall among them stretched out his hand to block the gaze of the other five people and said, "Don't look at it!" Go to work, don't freak out the girls! ”

The five of them laughed and dispersed. Craftsman Zhao carefully explained to Teacher Bai how to save her and where this is. Knowing that this person actually gave up the dormitory for himself and didn't have a good rest for two days, Mr. Bai was really moved. At the moment, he made no secret of it, and directly asked the question in his heart: "What dynasty is this?" When he learned that it was the Han Dynasty, Mr. Bai felt "sure enough" in his heart, and immediately asked this Zhao craftsman to take him in.

But there is still a boss in this jade workshop, and this craftsman Zhao is just a foreman, how can he have the right to take in others. But you can't let this teacher Bai who lost his memory destroy himself, Craftsman Zhao still took Teacher Bai to see Boss Xu, that Boss Xu's round figure, full of meat, at first glance is not good at stubble, seeing that this Teacher Bai is beautiful, I want to accept him as a concubine, but Teacher Bai is not obedient, and Craftsman Zhao is also forced to die, so I gave up.

In order to settle down temporarily, Mr. Bai recommended himself, and he was very good at calculating this account, but Boss Xu didn't believe it, so he found Mr. Bai, the bookkeeper in the store, and tried it out. The bookkeeper was fifty or sixty years old, very lean, and seemed to be extremely experienced, and Craftsman Zhao had already retreated, but Mr. Bai was indeed confident. I only heard the bookkeeper mutter: "Sell white jade, twenty grams, 1,000 yuan per gram, buy three cui beads, 200 yuan each, two brocade boxes, 300 yuan each......" The bookkeeper said, the abacus in his hand played quickly, but when he finished speaking, Mr. Bai had already reported the results! After waiting for a while, Mr. Bai calculated the number, and saw that Mr. Bai did not use any tools, so the result was out, Mr. Basan felt incredible, and tried a few more questions, but the question was still just finished, and Mr. Bai's answer was out! Mr. Ledger almost wants to bow down, if there is really someone outside the world, there is a sky outside the sky, and he can't accept it! Boss Xu saw that Teacher Bai was so good, so he reluctantly agreed to keep her. But he arranged for her to live with the maidservants, and asked her to get up every morning, clean the courtyard with the maidservants, prepare meals, wash and dry the sundries, go to the jade workshop at noon to cut, drill, and polish with the workers, and help the bookkeeper to calculate the accounts of the day. Although there are many things and harsh conditions, and it may be possible to live a stable life temporarily, Mr. Bai is also hard-working, and he is very satisfied.

The days went on as usual, and on this day, Boss Xu got a piece of transparent mutton fat white jade out of nowhere, and asked Craftsman Zhao to carve a phoenix-shaped jade pendant within a month. It is said that this mutton fat white jade is the thing of Ping Enhou, and it is carved to be used for the canonization of Queen Xu.

This Zhao craftsman is also really good, leading workers to draw, modify, carve, and polish...... Sleepless, he really completed this phoenix-shaped jade pendant in one month. The jade pendant is fifteen centimeters long, about six centimeters wide, and two centimeters thick, and the carving is actually completed on this whole piece of mutton fat white jade, the phoenix crown is convex, the long crown hooks the beak, and the beak is hooked inside, lifelike; The long phoenix spreads its wings, the wing tail is high, solemn and generous.

Boss Xu was also very satisfied with this exquisite carving, and happily sent it to Ping Enhou, but who knew that two months later, disaster came. Queen Xu was furious when she got the jade pendant!

"The phoenix elephant is five, the five-colored and red phoenix; Yellow Eagle; Purple, cormorant; Qingzhiluan; The white is the bird. "This phoenix has five colors, which are red, yellow, cyan, purple, and white. Among the five colors of the phoenix, the most noble is the red phoenix, and the white phoenix is just a wild goose and other mortal birds. Queen Xu was furious, and smashed the jade pendant on the spot, this Ping Enhou is the elder brother of Queen Xu, where is this He Xu Queen canonized, this is clearly a mockery of Queen Xu is just a mortal, and immediately sent someone to severely reprimand Ping Enhou, and ordered all the craftsmen to be punished.

is obviously a good intention, but there are branches, how can this Ping Enhou stand this kind of anger! Boss Xu is his own uncle, so it's fine, but including Craftsman Zhao, all the twenty-three workers in the workshop were sentenced to death! And Teacher Bai is a woman, although she only arrived at the workshop at noon, she also participated in the production, although she was exempted from the death penalty, she was still slapped forty times, and she was also sentenced! This good woman was tattooed on her face, isn't it worse than death? When the punishment was completed and Mr. Bai knew that the workers who got along with him day and night, as well as the Zhao craftsman who rescued him and took good care of him, also died, he was discouraged, and he had a high fever, which did not go away for days, and when he was cured, he could no longer hear the sound in his ears. From now on, keep your head down all day long, never say a word again, and live like a walking corpse!

And Boss Xu handed over the jade shop to the old man who came to solve the problem, and he didn't appear again. Seeing that the jade shop had no business, and the old man couldn't get oil and water, after he knew the puzzle, he did everything possible to let Mr. Bai solve it, and Mr. Bai was immersed in his own world, so he couldn't bear to be bothered, so he had to write the answer to him, but he didn't think much about why there was such a question, until Liang Fang found it.

Knowing what happened to Teacher Bai, Teacher Liang and Yang Xin were sad and indignant! Teacher Liang scolded: "Just because of a rotten jade pendant, so many people were killed, and the words were tattooed!" What a shame! Don't treat people as human beings at all! A vicious witch will never end well! ”

Yang Xin also shed tears and gritted her teeth and said hatefully: "What Queen Xu!" Break the Queen! It's too much of a deception! I'm going to make you a queen!!"

Although Liang Fang and Liu Si had already understood the situation in advance, they were listening to Teacher Bai's hoarse voice at the moment, trying to distinguish the shape of their mouths and communicate, and they didn't feel good in their hearts, and they also hated Queen Xu together.

The housekeeper was already crying out of shape, and said while sniffing, "Miss Bai is so pitiful!" Woowoo...... If only I could find Zhao Shenxian! ”

Yang Xin exclaimed: "What Zhao Immortal? ”

The housekeeper whimpered: "It's Doctor Zhao who can cure any disease!" Everyone calls him Zhao Shenxian! ”

As soon as these words came out, it was like a rain in a long drought, a light in the darkness, and everyone who was already desperate for Teacher Bai's miserable situation suddenly gave birth to hope. Yang Xin hurriedly said: "Wipe your nose quickly, where is this Doctor Zhao?" ”

The housekeeper raised his sleeve to wipe away his nose and tears, and then said: "In the early years, Doctor Zhao lived in this county town, he was very skilled in medicine, no matter what incurable diseases can be cured, if it is a poor person, he will not accept a penny." But one year, Li Junshou's wife and son were seriously ill at the same time, and asked Zhao Shenyi to see, he said that the disease could only be saved by drinking Li Junshou's blood for three months. Li Junshou was very angry and killed all the wives and children of Doctor Zhao, and Doctor Zhao went crazy, singing ballads in the city every day, what the world is ignorant! Then it was gone! ”

Yang Xin's heart trembled and said, "You say it again, what kind of ballad does he sing?" ”。

The housekeeper scratched his head and thought for a while before he said: "It seems to be some kind of dragon head and pig head, the world is ignorant and ignorant!" ”

Yang Xin jumped up and said with joy: "I know where he is!" ”