Chapter 22: Into the Town
When you enter the town, there are shops on both sides of the street, and on the street facing the city gate, even if it was originally a private house, it has been converted into a shop, which is similar to the faΓ§ade house in the previous life, of course, it means that the form is almost the same.
Although the town is not big, the road of "Town Gate" is paved with stones, and he deliberately stood at both ends of a stone slab, shaking it from side to side, and the stone slab did not move at all, but it was completely embedded in the road surface. It seems that this is not a slate, but a stone strip, nailed vertically into the pavement like a stake. In this way, there will be no problems such as slate breakage and surface grinding off, but this will be much more time-consuming and labor-intensive.
Big deal, Jia Yi thought silently in his heart, I don't know if the whole town is like this or just this street.
"Teacher, are there all such stone roads in the town?" asked if he didn't understand, and Jiayi inherited this fine tradition.
"How is it possible, this road leads to the Lord's Mansion, only this road is such a stone road. The other roads are good with stones, but the bad ones are just the mud is compacted. β
"Let's go, I'll take you to the pharmacy to sell the herbs first, and then go to eat. β
After saying that, he took Kaichi and walked forward. Most of the houses on both sides of the street are a mixed structure of stone and wood, and most of the foundations and the lower part are made of stone, but some of the stone parts are high and some are low. The main part of the house is covered with wood.
Walking through the intersection of the 3rd intersection in the center of the town, Yao Lao led him into the street on the left, and walked quickly to the end, and walked into a blue-gray house.
Jia Yi stood outside the door and observed, this is not a big house, the side facing the street is only 5 or 6 meters, but this wall is made of stone. On the left side of the door hung a jujube red sign with a piece of grass painted on it.
The grass painting is quite similar, it looks like an old amaranth, with long stalks, round leaves, and a flower spike at the top. Below this picture is a line of large characters, fortunately, Jia Yi knows both.
"Daddy Maca's pharmacy!" Jia Yi read out quietly, the name sounded very masculine, and he was old, and he really needed Maca to make up for it.
Theoretically, this sign should be painted with a medicinal herb, but unfortunately Jiayi doesn't know it.
Although he has been studying with Yao Lao for several months, the two generations have endowed him with a strong learning ability and have been exposed to a lot of medicinal materials. But after all, I have only studied in a relatively closed small mountain village for a period of time, and there are still many things to learn about this world, even as small as medicinal materials, and I can't be complacent.
Always remember that you are not the protagonist.
Reflecting on himself slightly, Jia Yi walked into the pharmacy. Yao Lao was sitting at the table next to him, taking out the medicinal herbs in the basket and handing them to the owner of the pharmacy.
When he saw Jia Yi come in, he said to him, "This is Daddy Maca, the medicinal materials I picked are generally sold to him, and the medicinal materials that are lacking are also purchased here." Maca knew a lot of people from the caravan, and basically ordinary medicinal materials could be purchased, and some precious medicinal materials could also be obtained. β
"Maka, this is my new student, quite smart and a quick learner. β
"Hello Daddy Maca!" said Kaichi and looked at the owner of the pharmacy.
Maca didn't look young, there wasn't much hair on her head anymore, and the only remaining strand of hair was gray. The face is slightly round, with a hooked nose, and the hands are like eagle grasps, thin and powerful, and looks steady.
After listening to Yao Lao's words, Maca raised her head and looked at Jia Yi, and said to Yao Lao: "You have finally accepted an apprentice, or no one will know if you die at home." β
"How good are you, even though you have children, but you are not around, you are not as good as me!"
"Cut, I'll work for a few more years, and when I can't do it anymore, I'll go to the provincial capital to join my son, no better than you as a lonely old man. β
Jia Yi quietly watched the two old men bickering beside him, and he didn't talk, just a small bench and melon seeds.
I can't imagine that Yao Lao, who is usually such a withdrawn person, now has so many words. Sure enough, everyone has their own circle.
When the two old men stopped a little, Jia saw that there was a gap and asked, "Teacher, what is the sign on the one outside the door?"
"Aha~ Jiayi, I painted a portrait, I call it a herb, it is a unique sign of my store. Seeing that Jia Yi was interested in the signboard outside the door, Maca took the initiative to say, "Everyone knows that this is a pharmacy selling medicine as soon as they see it." β
"I guess it's a medicinal herb, but what kind of herb is it?"
"The name of this grass is Herb. The medicine elder next to him looked at Maca in a complicated manner and said to Jiayi.
"Ah, and there's a herb called a herb? What is the effect of a herb? I've never heard of it. "It feels so tongue-twisting, since you dare to call this name, there should be some magical effect, there is a disease to cure the disease, and there is no disease to strengthen the body.
"Hmph, you've only been studying with me for a long time, and there's more things you haven't seen. Yao Lao couldn't help but hit him and said, "Although you learn quickly, you can't be complacent, you know, the land is vast and infinite, and you may not know where there are medicinal materials that you don't understand, with all kinds of magical effects." You must keep learning and not slack off. β
"Do you know, live to be old and learn to be old!"
"Yes, live to be old and learn to be old, this sentence is well said! You must remember. When Yao Lao heard this, his eyes lit up.
"Of course, it's inevitable that you don't know the herbs outside, because there is no such herb called herb. β
"What?" When Jia Yi heard this, he couldn't help but burst out of English, and when he saw the two old men looking at him questioningly, he quickly added, "I mean, what does this mean?"
Although Yao Lao felt that his speech was suddenly reversed, he still explained to him: "This picture was created by him. In order to make it easier for people to know that this is a pharmacy, he thought about hanging the picture outside the door, after all, not everyone is literate. β
"However, I didn't know what to draw, so I made a 'medicinal herb' and painted it. The leaves are imitation of green vanilla, the flower spikes are white amaranth, and the stalks are painted randomly. β
"Old Maca, am I right!"
If it's a comic, now Kaichi's expression must be a petrified expression, and there must be a crow flying over his head... If you draw casually, you can say that you can draw casually, and Bala Bala Bala said such a big deal.
"I wanted to draw a representative herb, such as dragon's blood grass, white feather flower, or something, but I haven't seen it before, and what if I paint too precious herbs, let others think I have them. β
"So I put together a non-existent herb that doesn't exist, but people can recognize it as an herb at a glance. The whole town and the surrounding area knew that buying medicine had to come to my pharmacy. Maca also explained to Kaichi.
"That's because there's only one pharmacy in the whole town!" said the medicine elder couldn't help but interrupt Maca's boasting. "You look at the medicinal herbs here first, I'll take Jiayi out for a walk first, see what to buy, and then eat together at noon." β
Originally, I thought that Yao Lao and Maca were just ordinary customers of the buyer and seller, but now it seems that the relationship between the two parties is not generally good, is there any dirty PY transaction, there is a basis!