2.1 First encounter

In the middle of the night, it rained a little, and when I got up in the morning, Qiandao had a fresh look after a rain.

Doctor Qu had just put on the medicine bag on his back and was about to go out to collect medicine, when someone came in a hurry outside, and when he saw Dr. Qu, he pulled him and asked him to go to the house for a visit. Doctor Qu hurriedly unloaded the medicine bag, instructed Meijuan to go to the back mountain to collect medicine, and left with the people who came.

The scenery of Houshan is picturesque, seven or eight years ago, a painter came here to sketch and gave Mei Juan a gouache painting, since then, every time she goes to Houshan to collect medicine, there is a fluttering flutter in the painting. This time, the master handed over the task to her to complete alone, and Mei Juan felt comfortable and light. Mei Juan's dog, whose real name is "David", has recently earned an unpleasant nickname: "The Big Thief". The reason is that it always goes to the little sailor next door to Aneng's house to steal sausages, and is caught red-handed by Aneng, in order to punish it, Ah Neng angrily wrote the word "thief" on its white dog hair with blue paint. Out of retaliatory action, Mei Juan has since called Ah Neng "Ertunzi", which means "stunned". No matter how Ah Neng begged for mercy, Meijuan called him "Erjingzi" regardless of the occasion, so the titles of "big thief" and "Ertunzi" became familiar to more and more people.

Master usually goes out and doesn't let him bring the dog, but this time she was alone, and the master told her to bring the dog as a companion, and the dog went into the back mountain and flew happily.

The spring flowers after the rain are charming, the whole hillside is glorious, the aesthetics of the "big thief" lies in the strong color, seeing the colorful flowers, it is happy and can not restrain itself, jumping in, rolling, instantly, collapsed a piece of purple and red.

"You're really a thief!" Mei Juan called the thief back, knocking it on its round head and criticizing it.

The dog lowered his head as if he had made a mistake.

"Hey, who trampled on this flower?" exclaimed someone behind him.

It's too coincidental, isn't it? Is there still a master of the flowers on this wild hillside? Could it be that he just saw my dog stepping on the flowers and came to find fault?

A series of questions popped up one after another the moment Mei Juan turned her head to look.

A young man was walking towards this side, far away, tall and straight, like a spruce, the breeze blew his brown hair slightly, Mei Juan glanced at him, the questions just now were fading with the wind, only to feel that the spring sun was particularly warm on his face, and the fragrance of butterfly flowers that he smelled when he was a child playing in the forest penetrated his memory.

When the man approached and saw Mei Juan and the "big thief", his cold face stretched out and he smiled faintly, and said, "It must be your guy who made a mess!"

"Isn't this a wildflower?" asked Mei Juan.

"Am I a savage?" he replied, surprisingly,

Mei Juan pursed her lips and said, "Who knows if you are or not!"

Ying Cheng listened, and didn't explain, but said: "This flower is not a wild flower, a lady entrusted me with this." ”

Mei Juan listened and set her eyes on the flowers that had been trampled by the thieves.

The man saw her apology and said, "It's okay, anyway, few people come here, it's enough for me to pick some back, you can pick a little too, this flower is moved from the side of Zhenglin Mountain, it can bring you good luck!"

"Really?" Mei Juan was suspicious when she heard the letter, and picked a few casually, then thanked the man and took David to a high place to collect medicine.

It had just rained, and the air in the mountains was mixed with the fragrance of flowers, which was exceptionally fresh, and the purple grass also grew exceptionally luxuriant because of the moisture of the rain.

Mountain springs gurgle down from a high place, and there are large and small waterfalls everywhere, and it is very lively. When she arrived at the foot of the mountain, Mei Juan found that the wooden bridge back to Zhuangzi had been washed away at some point, she was dumbfounded, and hurriedly called David, and the dog quickly followed, holding a large piece of wood in his mouth, this smart guy had already had a conditioned reflex to such terrain. In the past, Meijuan had crossed the river with it with a log.

"Do you remember?" Mei Juan took down the wood, patted its head, and said, "But I can't go into the water this time......" Mei Juan pointed to the basket of purple shirt grass behind her, but David is a dog after all, and it has already jumped into the water first because it can't understand human speech.

"Come back—" Mei Juan hurriedly called out to the anxious dog.

"It's useless for it to come back!" I don't know when, the man I saw just now appeared next to him again, and said to Mei Juan with a smile.

"Why are you again? You haven't left yet?"

"I can't go!" the man pointed to his side and said, "You have baskets full of herbs, and I have bunches of flowers, both of which you can't lose!"

Mei Juan saw that he had made a bamboo raft after a while.

"For the sake of such a few flowers, you actually spent so much effort to make a bamboo raft here?"

"Of course, don't underestimate these flowers, they can really bring good luck to people, better than thousands of gold and silver, just like the herbs in a girl's basket, which can save people and suffering, they are all excellent things. Besides, it's not difficult to make a bamboo raft. ”

"Isn't it difficult?

"It's better to be quiet and pleasant here, than to go back and face a bunch of vulgar trivia. ”

"What do you do?"

"I'm just working as an errand in the public mansion, and I usually run errands for adults, young ladies and ladies......"

A bird with golden feathers flew past the two of them, and the man hurriedly said, "Look! ”

"Why have I never heard of it?" Mei Juan scoffed.

"Du Ying's "History of Qiandao" said, have you read it?"

"I haven't heard of books, but people have heard of them, and he is the greatest historian and geographer in the history of Mishima. ”

This is the second line of page 133 in his book. ”

Mei Juan looked at his affirmative eyes and said in surprise: "Do you remember so accurately? ”

Listening to her skeptical tone, the man smiled slightly and said, "If you don't believe it, go back and take a look, that book is quite interesting." ”

"But those books are too thick, it seems that you are a scholar, dare to ask Mr. Xuejiu's name?"

"In Xia Yin Yingcheng, however, it is by no means the kind of pedantic dove you despise, just reading a few books in your spare time. When Yin Yingcheng said this, he asked, "You pick so many herbs, are you Langzhong's apprentice?"

Well, Mei Juan nodded, "Doctor Qu is my master, and I have been studying with him since I was a child. ”

"Doctor Qu Shiyi?" Ying Cheng said in surprise, "You are Mei Juan?"

"Do you know my master?"

"Dr. Qu's medical skills and Mei Juan's beauty are both first-class in Qiandao, especially Mei Juan's beauty has been heard more about. Speaking of this, Yin Yingcheng lowered his voice and said in a mysterious manner: "Miss Meijuan, do you know, I have always wanted to ask you a question-"

"What?" asked Mei Juan curiously.

Ying Cheng said seriously: "When are you going to the song party?"

In Qiandao, there will be a cicada song meeting and a song competition, both of which are held once a year, the cicada song meeting is a special event for the aristocracy, and the song competition is available to the public, they are all good places for young men and women to meet each other.

"Let me ask you, when are you going?" Mei Juan was generous by nature, and asked Ying Cheng.

"I'll go when you want!"

Ying Cheng's answer made the two of them smile.

Mei Juan jokingly said, "Do you think I want to go to the song club because of my beauty? I don't know how many people are waiting in line at my door to sing to me!"

Ying Cheng also said half-jokingly: "So many people, can you let me cut into a queue and line up to the front for the sake of me helping you cross the river?"

The bamboo raft floats on the water, and several waterfowl skim over the water, which is very quiet.

David suddenly jumped on the bamboo raft, Mei Juan stumbled, almost fell into the water, and was blocked by Ying Cheng's solid arms, Ying Cheng looked down at her, Mei Juan's face was slightly red, her eyes were facing each other, and there were flowing clouds condensing from each other's eyes, Ying Cheng looked away and asked, "Are you okay?"

Mei Juan shook her head and gently scolded the dog. After a while, the bamboo raft docked, Mei Juan thanked Ying Cheng and turned to leave.

Ying Cheng was behind, hesitantly asking, "You haven't answered yet, can I skip the line?"

Mei Juan didn't say whether it was or not, but turned to him and smiled, Ying Cheng felt that the sun was falling.