On the fourth day of the first month of March, in the middle of Binh Duong.

In the early morning, there are people carrying burdens, walking the streets and alleys, selling hot water and steamed buns.

Although the city is barren, some of them are the descendants of the exiled prisoners, and they are still willing to allocate one or two from their hard-earned copper coins in exchange for some early morning enjoyment.

When the water seller passed by the door, the door of the medical hall was also opened, and he bought three packs of steamed buns and two pots of hot water.

"Second brother, didn't there be any outsiders in the city yesterday?"

Su Hanshan sat behind the counter, and when he took the steamed bun, he asked.

The man who sells water is called Shui Erlang, and the younger people in the city call him the second brother, and when he heard this, he hurriedly said, "No." Don't worry, we have a lot of nothing to do in the city, morning and evening, if there is, according to what you said, early in the morning and at night, someone will come to tell you. ”

Su Hanshan took the steamed bun and nodded, "Thank you." ”

"Ouch, we've all taken it too...... Hehe, Brother Su, you are too generous. ”

Shui Erlang went out to pick up the burden and said, "At noon, let's let the old Wang's tavern send a few meals?" ”

Su Hanshan snorted and waved goodbye to Shui Erlang.

When Dora came over from the backyard, she saw Su Hanshan frowning and munching on steamed buns there.

The steamed buns made by Shui Erlang are not soft and a little yellow, but they can taste a sweet taste after chewing two bites.

After eating two more bites, pour a bowl of hot water and simmer, and the whole person is comfortable.

If you only eat this meal in the morning every day, even if it is like this for ten days in a row, you will not get tired.

Of course, Su Hanshan didn't dislike the bad taste of steamed buns, but he was too anxious in his heart.

He had only been here for ten days, and now more than three days, almost four days, and there was still no progress in healing his legs.

After trying his best to interrogate the fourth-gear head, he asked all the questions he could, and in the end, he could only preliminarily determine that there was no person or thing in the East Factory, which could cure a person whose legs had been paralyzed for five years.

Su Hanshan didn't dare to be careless, and carefully inquired about all kinds of local news, anecdotes, and legends in Pingyang City, and sure enough, there were no clues in the local area.

Then most of the hope falls on those people in the old department.

But why hasn't Yu Qian's old ministry come yet?

"When you were in a hurry, how much ahead of the children of the Yu family?"

Su Hanshan said in a deep voice, "It's ridiculous to come here to set up an ambush several days in advance, are you really sure that those people won't run to other routes?" ”

Dora became more and more sure that Su Hanshan had a close relationship with the Yu family.

"It's you who are in a hurry."

Dora took a bite of steamed buns, "From Pingyang City to the west, there is a desert, if they directly bypass Pingyang City from the eastern town and break into the desert, there is not enough water, and the night is cold, and they will die in the desert in the end." ”

"And in the east, there are people and horses from Dongchang, plus the soldiers from the county offices and health centers they mobilized, and they are patrolling and investigating, forcing Yu Qian's old department to come west."

"So they definitely have to rest in Pingyang City, replenish food, water, medicine, clothing, and maybe buy some local mules and camels, so that they can continue to travel west and use the desert to get rid of the pursuers."

Su Hanshan had already heard similar explanations from the mouth of the fourth gear head two days ago, and he also knew these truths, but time was pressing, and his patience was about to run out.

"It's useless to be anxious."

Dora poured him another bowl of water and persuaded, "It's just you and me here, even if we take the initiative to look east, how much can we see?" I'm afraid that it will be self-defeating and pass by them. ”

"If you want to hire the people to help, you can't. It's no more difficult to go out of the city to search, but it's no better than just spreading the news in the city, and trying to get them out of the city is such a big move, no matter how much it will make the locals feel strange, and your money is not enough. ”

Su Hanshan really laughed out loud.

After five years in the martial arts hall, I was lucky to trigger the golden finger, travel through the world, and the hope of healing my legs seems to have reached the present, but now I still have to continue to boil, passively waiting.

From the time he first crossed, he held back his emotions and tried to calm himself down, not daring to be too surprised, for fear that he would fall short afterwards and the gap would be too big.

Now that I think about it, I was really wise enough at that time.

It's a pity that the mood is not something that can be suppressed if you want to, and in the past few days, his gains and losses have become more and more serious.

Su Hanshan calmed his face, opened his mouth to the maximum, bit off a big steamed bun in two bites, silently poured a bowl of water, closed his eyes, and began to practice.

It is a good habit he has developed in the past five years to vent all the ups and downs of his mood to the operation of internal forces and maintain the calm on the surface.

Although the effect of this habit has been greatly reduced in the past few days, it still makes him feel a little less anxious.

He practiced for a while, slowed down, ate a meal at noon, went to the thatched house, and came back to continue practicing.

The sun outside the door was slanting westward, and in the afternoon, Su Hanshan's ears moved, and he suddenly opened his eyes, staring at a certain direction, and his eyes moved slowly.

It was as if his gaze could penetrate the walls of the infirmary and see the people gradually approaching on the street.

Entering the door was a stocky short-bearded man wrapped in a brown scarf, and a young man wearing a hat and slightly round cheeks.

In each hand, the man held a long bag sewn of grey and blue coarse cloth, apparently containing a weapon, while the young man held a prescription in his hand and pushed it on the counter.

"Please see if there are any of these medicines, and if there are any, give us all the medicines."

Su Hanshan glanced at Dora, and Dora shook her head slightly.

This means that he does not know.

Yu Qian's old department has gone more, and Dora only served as a soldier under Yu Qian's account in her early years, so it's normal not to know her.

On the side of the East Factory, a large number of people died during the initial change of seizing the door, and later people were transferred from all sides to supplement it, and Dora entered the East Factory.

In addition to the people who also belonged to the fourth stall head, Dora could only recognize the faces of Cao Wubo, Bai Qi and several stall heads.

"Wait a minute, I'll see."

Dora took the prescription and turned to look at the nameplates on the herb cabinet.

Su Hanshan accosted the two of them: "The two of you look a little tired, are you from afar?" ”

The short-bearded man said: "I buy medicine, you sell medicine, anyway, I can afford to pay for it, don't ask anything else." ”

The young man in the hat looked at the medical hall, all the items were very old, but the two people in the medical hall were not very old.

The ground should have been paved with gravel and an extra layer of loess, but some mottled traces could still be faintly seen, not like it was caused by water splashing.

Patient's blood? Ordinary patients don't bleed so much, and they are divided into several places.

The young man in the hat was vigilant and said with a smile: "We came from afar, to visit relatives, and we will come every three years. ”

"Really?"

Su Hanshan finally waited for outsiders, and was a little impatient with this temptation, and was about to mention a few important terms to cut to the chase, but there were different footsteps outside the door.

A pedant who looked in his forties, with a square scarf and a black beard, walked in with a servant carrying a book basket.

The pedant looked at the guests and hosts in the medical hall, his eyes swept from the ground, and he took out a prescription from his arms with a smile: "Please help me follow this prescription and catch three pairs of medicines." ”

Dora turned, turned away again.

Yes, I don't know.

Either he didn't come, but he came and went, but he succeeded in making Su Hanshan suppress the impatience in his heart and show a little smile.

"Please wait a while, you have to help the guests over there get the medicine first."

The pedant looked at Dora's action of opening the drawer to take the medicinal herbs, and saw that he was a little rusty, and said with a smile on his face: "My family has some urgent matters, I don't know if I can catch it first." ”

The servant behind him understood, took out a piece of broken silver from his bosom, handed it to the counter, and pushed it towards the other two guests.

The short-bearded man turned his head to look at him: "What, it's great to be rich?" I also have an urgent matter at home, don't you understand if you come first and then come? ”

The young man in the hat pulled the big man and said apologetically: "My family's affairs are indeed quite urgent, and we can't accept this money." ”

The pedant groaned slightly, then took out a piece of broken silver from his bosom and pinched it between his thumb and forefinger along with the one on the counter.

The two pieces of broken silver stacked together were pinched by his two fingers, and they were suddenly flattened and pressed into a whole, and the finger marks were like finger marks.

The short-bearded man's face changed, and he was shocked by the power of this pedant's fingers.

Although silver is softer than iron, most people have to bite it with their teeth to leave tooth marks on the surface.

Like this, with only two fingers, two pieces of broken silver are directly pinched and flattened, and the strength on the fingers is really extraordinary.

"Double the amount, can you change to my house first?"

The pedant smiled and handed over the silver.

The young man took the piece of silver, folded his palms, held it in the palm of his hand, and after a few breaths, rubbed his palm, and threw it on the counter, it was already a round silver bead.

As the silver bead bounced, the young man in the hat pressed it down with one finger and embedded it in the counter.

"Hehe, good ability, but it's a pity that I hurt the counter of the master's house."

The pedant's eyes lit up, and his left palm slapped on the counter, and the silver beads suddenly burst out.

The young man in the hat suddenly moved his left hand and grabbed the silver bead.

The pedant's right hand turned his palm out, formed a claw with five fingers, and the palm turned outward, grabbing the inside of the left elbow of the young man in the hat.

He had already seen from the reaction of the young man in the hat just now that the other party was a left-hander, and if he grabbed it with this hand, if he grasped it solidly, he would definitely be able to break a big tendon on the opponent's elbow and damage the bones, and this arm would be considered useless.

The people on both sides have different backgrounds, and they are both wary, but they are also afraid.

In the past, the verbal confrontation and the ability to show in the hands were all superficial, which can be regarded as demonstrations and temptations with their own reservations.

Unexpectedly, this pedant suddenly used his spicy hand and turned his face so quickly that even if the young man with a hat had already taken precautions, he could not completely avoid it.

At that moment, a fist suddenly struck the pedant's palm.