The Taoist priest took care of him for two days before he woke up, Chen Tao not only had a cold disease, his throat was swollen, and he lost a little strength all over his body, only a trace of slow breathing remained.

The Taoist priest knew how to treat medicine, grabbed the medicine, boiled it, put out a bowl, and brought it to Chen Tao to drink. This prescription is obviously much better than the old doctor's cold medicine, Chen Tao remembered that it should be Ding jujube, vermilion, licorice, noon, ginger to stew, but this medicinal soup is not Wufu and vermilion agarwood, into the stomach, the abdomen is full of warmth.

"Wake up, wake up and see this place more, and when you're completely well, we'll go. The old Taoist priest put the empty bowl on the side, walked to the stove, and poured the medicinal soup and dry medicine into the mud outside the back room.

"This is the last stove, this recipe is the fastest to drive away the cold, but it contains fire poison, this last soup doesn't need to be drunk, anyway, you're almost well." The Taoist priest said and took out a wine gourd he was carrying, sniffed the aroma of wine wafting from the mouth of the gourd, and swallowed the saliva of Shengjin.

Chen Tao didn't reply, lying on the bed, he didn't move, the bell in his ear didn't move, it was quiet, and there was no more jingle and jingle without stopping.

Chen Tao is not pretending to be dead, but it is not him who wants to die, many people in this world want to die, but he doesn't want to, he doesn't want to die like this, he wants to inherit the old doctor's dilapidated medical hall, and wants to treat diseases and save people like the old doctor.

"I'm not leaving. "The thief's voice is better, and she can speak.

"You're not leaving, so what are you staying here for?" the Taoist priest put away the flask and asked him curiously.

Chen Tao thought for a while and said, "I want to give people medicine, save people's lives, and treat the good people in the county." ”

"I heard that it was the rich and noble family in the county who made you such a deaf person who can hear your voice, and you said that such a person asked you to seek medical advice, would you save him?" asked the Taoist priest.

"I don't know. ”

"Maybe it will be saved, that lady is very beautiful, I look like this, maybe I don't mean it. Chen Tao said, "Besides, I stole her things, and it is only natural that she seeks revenge from me." ”

"And what about the butler who made you what you are now?" the Taoist priest asked again.

"I don't want to save it. Chen Tao said, answering quickly, he even breathed slowly, not letting the tinnitus ring, "But when my old doctor was alive, he said that doctors are benevolent, no matter who is sick, they must treat everyone equally and treat the disease carefully." ”

"Maybe the old doctor is wrong?"

"Wrong?" Chen Tao was stunned, but reacted quickly, and said with a smile: "I don't care about him, if it's wrong, it's wrong, even if it's wrong, that's what my benefactor said to me, I do what he says, whoever is good to me, I will listen to whom." ”

"The world is ruthless and unrighteous to you, but you are full of sincerity to the world. The Taoist priest showed a hint of a smile, faintly, almost invisible, "After tomorrow, it will be difficult for you and me to meet again, and we will meet in the future." ”

The Taoist priest smiled and went out, and after going out, he didn't appear again for many days.

The old medical hall was reopened, and the old neighbors knew that the old doctor had taken in this former little beggar and passed on his mantle to him, and had saved many people and cured many diseases.

There is one more doctor like this in the county, and the medical skills of the thief are getting better and better with the passage of time.

The Taoist priest came back a year later, still the same, with one hand always behind his back, carrying a sword on his back, and he didn't see him pull it out, and when he came back, he would call him by his nickname: "Thief, thief." ”

Chen Tao turned his head and smiled: "Daoist, come back, sit, I'll pour you tea." He asked the Taoist priest to come in, set the cup, and fetch tea.

The Taoist priest looked at him strangely, he was still the thief, but it had become different, he had a smile on his face, he still looked immature, but he spoke happily but made the Taoist priest feel different.

"Don't call me a Taoist, I have a surname, my surname is Wei. Daoist Wei sat down in the room, the old medical hall and his time have not changed at all, the place has not changed, the furnishings have not changed, but the people have changed, and they have become very happy.

"This is a good tea that the vendor in Dongting Lake gave me when he sought medical treatment, and it is this spring tea, there are many of them, you can drink it with confidence. ”

There was indeed a large ball of tea cakes, Wei Daoshi laughed, patted the wine gourd on his waist, and said, "You forgot? I don't like to drink tea, I love to eat wine." ”

"This tea takes a quarter of an hour to brew, and when the tea leaves float, you can taste the sweetness inside, and I remember that the tea leaves can be chewed and are very fragrant. ”

Chen Tao looked very happy, picked up his bowl, and also broke off a piece and threw it in, the small piece of tea cake will start to bubble after a while.

The Taoist priest didn't speak for a long time, and it was useless for him to say anything more, and he wouldn't hear the voices of people, rain, and ox carts outside.

He was deaf.

The ringing of the bells in the ears may not be audible, and the two copper bells are embedded in the ears, and the outside has long been wrapped in thick blood scabs, and both have green and red nutmeg.

"Thief, thief. Daoist Wei's eyes drooped, his fingers dipped the water in the cup, and landed on the clean table.

Chen Tao saw it, his hand did not move, and he quietly watched him finish writing.

The water stain on the table reads: Thief sound, I'll ask, do you want to learn martial arts, peerless swordsmanship and elegant light skills, choose one, I will teach you.

Chen Tao suddenly laughed, smiling like a naughty boy, Taoist priest he knows martial arts.

Naturally, he chose a light skill, he was a physician and did not kill people.

"Don't kill people, then someone else wants to kill you, you flee to the ends of the earth, he catches up, cornered, you don't kill him, he will kill you, ask you, what should I do?" Wei Daoshi chuckled, wrote it down on the table, slowly, and said it on his lips.

"What should I do? If you can't beat him, let him kill him, wait for someone to report to the official, and wait for someone to find the murderer, and kill to pay for his life, I have no opinion. Chen Tao grinned.

"But there are always some people in the world, he kills you, but he doesn't have to die, he can also find someone else to kill you, he doesn't have to die, and you must know that there are many dignitaries and nobles in the world who kill people without dying. The Taoist priest said lightly.

"So what, aren't you going to teach me light skills? I'm faster than others, wouldn't it be good?"

"You might as well be like this, you let me teach you peerless swordsmanship, if anyone wants to kill you, you will kill him, come and kill one by one, come and kill him with a hundred people. ”

"What about 10,000 people? What about 100,000? What if the whole world wants to kill me? Then I can kill them all?"

The Taoist priest was so shocked by this immature young man's words that he couldn't help but be stunned, and finally reacted that this was just a deaf man, a powerless pharmacist.

He raised his finger and wrote on the table with his tea: What kind of people do you have to offend to provoke ten thousand, a hundred thousand million people to kill you?

After writing, he picked up the cloth on the ground and wiped it clean, and then wrote again: Even if he is the number one swordsman in the world, he will die if he kills tens of thousands of people desperately, so I will teach you swordsmanship and light skills.

Daoist Wei looked at this young man with a smile, Chen Tao thought for a long time, and seemed to hear the sound of rain and bells all over the sky.

Learn light skills first, Daoist Wei's body is very strange, Chen Tao learns very hard, and people like him are very slow to learn.

Ordinary people practice martial arts, and they also have to learn kung fu for a year or two, and Daoist Wei sometimes touches his goatee and nods secretly.

The swordsmanship is also very strange, Chen Tao practiced swordsmanship hard, but Daoist Wei had a headache, such a smart young man, he couldn't even brush a sword, so he had no choice but to find a wooden sword made of iron and wood.

"One day, your name will be on the rivers and lakes. Wei Zhengjue touched his goatee, and suddenly wanted to say something, took out a piece of black charcoal in his arms, pinched it with two fingers, and wrote a line of big characters outside the house, with a long laugh, shaking his head, a short-legged donkey found out of nowhere, like the legendary Li Taibai who looked up to the sky and smiled, but when he looked closely, he was a Taoist priest, "Poor Dao first go to the rivers and lakes to see, whether it is a beauty or a good wine." ”

On the second day, a neighbor who got up in the morning saw that outside the door of the old medical hall, someone carved a line of words on the blue brick wall with tide charcoal:

Thief, thief, learned the sword, and went to the rivers and lakes to see the beauty.

Since then, Chen Tao has never seen the dashing Taoist priest, Taoist Wei taught him light skills, taught him swordsmanship, and finally didn't ask him for anything, he left alone and dashing, leaving no letters, just leaving such a string of words on the blue brick wall.

Stealing, stealing.

Chen Tao is too familiar, that is when Daoist Wei saw him, he called him like this.

Since then, he has practiced swords with peace of mind, and his medical skills are getting higher and higher, the more people he heals, the more famous he is, and the story of the thief has spread, whether it is the beggars in front of the City God Temple, a long street, half of the county, and finally even half of the Jiangnan There are people who know, there is such a doctor in such a small county with no name, deaf and deaf, and superb medical skills.

There was a year of the Jiangnan epidemic, Chen Tao cured the disease and saved people, the rich and noble people will also get sick, a noble person from Bianjing is already incurable, looking for countless famous doctors all over the world, some people say, only Jiangnan Chen Tao should have three points of certainty. Painstakingly, nearly 30 kinds of precious medicinal materials, although the sound of the sound of the medical skills, but also unable to return to the sky, in the end the noble man could not bear the pharmacology, seven orifices bleeding to death, the heirs of the noble mansion were angry, even asked him to take himself to accompany the noble coffin to bury.

When more than a dozen fierce servants surrounded him and beat him, no one on the street came to help him, and Chen Tao drew his sword for the first time that night.

It turned out that he had been practicing for a year or two, even if the swordsmanship was difficult to learn, with his cleverness, he was already familiar with it, that night his swordsmanship was superb, the servants were ordinary people, and he was beaten miserably, but it was the ironwood sword left by Wei Daoshi, and he didn't kill anyone, but he just broke his hands and feet, and he lay on the ground The next day, he called the official to arrest Chen Tao, who had escaped.

No one knows where he went, and after a day's work, the official who arrested him searched for many people who had received medical treatment from Chen Tao, but they did not find him.

On the second day and night, a fire broke out inexplicably in the old medical hall, and it took the neighbors all night to extinguish the fire, and the old medical hall only left half of the burnt blue-black wall, and someone on the wall engraved his name in blood.

Stealing, stealing.

Since then, there is one less kind doctor who has saved countless people, and there is one more carefree young man who is drunk every day and has nutmeg in his ears, and when someone is far away in Hangzhou, he recognized a person who is the doctor who was a superb doctor back then, and stepped forward to ask, he really couldn't hear the slightest murmur at that time, just waiting for the man to reach out and put it on his shoulder, it was indeed him.

The thief still didn't find his sister, and his sister never returned to the unknown small county town, the old doctor and the thief were like many unknown legends, and gradually no one mentioned it, as if there had never been such a thief, the copper bell no longer rang, and there was no longer his sister's ballad in his ears. Maybe even the thief himself feels that the situation of the past few years is just a dream, plain and bland, and there is nothing brilliant about it.

Thinking about it, only the pair of copper bells in his ears and the nameless tomb on the lonely mountain could tell him that there was once such a young man, there was such an old doctor, and he also had such a sister, a Wei Taoist taught him martial arts. A city god temple, an old medical hall, and a nameless grave in a lonely mountain.