Zhou Ping has been going north for a month at this time, and according to the distance marked on the map, he will have to travel for more than half a month to reach the Beihai Sea, but fortunately, there is still plenty of time in a year, and Zhou Ping happened to use this month and a half to perfect his perception in the chess game.

The farther you go north, the more barren the land here becomes, and the people's lives are more difficult than in the south, this geographical environment makes it difficult for the north to appear economically prosperous cities, so most of the immortal cultivators in the north are more willing to go south to find opportunities, the more there is no talent, the more difficult it is to drive development, and the worse the development, the more unable to retain talents, which has become a vicious circle in the northern land.

Zhou Ping followed the map to a city with the most luxuriant city within a radius of thousands of miles, this place is called Yinbei City, although the scale of the city is not as large as that of Kyoto in the south, but it is already a big commercial city in this barren north.

"Xiao Er, serve me a few side dishes and make a pot of tea. Zhou Ping came to the small shop and lazy himself, and chose a corner to sit down, he has always been not very fond of hustle and bustle.

The dishes were quickly ready, and when Zhou Ping was feasting, he accidentally saw a man in tattered clothes at the door casually taking down a drinker's money bag.

His technique is not very clever, he may be able to hide it from others, but he can't escape Zhou Ping's eyes, if you talk about this hand, the Buddha who slept with Zhou Ping for four years is his ancestor.

Zhou Ping saw that the man was about to escape, so he threw the teacup in his hand and smashed it on the back of the man who came.

"Put the money bag down, or I'll report to the official." ”

Zhou Ping poured a cup of tea in the new cup and nodded at the thief.

The ragged man held the money bag in his hand and sighed, he had been in the streets for I don't know how many years, and he knew best who could mess with him and who couldn't.

The two made a lot of noise, and the drinker who had been stolen the money bag just now immediately noticed the abnormality, and immediately turned around to find the thief with the money bag in his hand, grabbed his hair and slapped his face on the door frame.

"You thief, you even dare to steal your master's money bag, don't you want to live?"

When the thief's head was raised again, his face was already covered with blood, and Zhou Ping on the side only shook his head helplessly when he saw this, the thief was already annoying, not to mention that he was caught now, I am afraid that this beating is inevitable.

The drinker who was stolen from the money bag was obviously not an ordinary person, and he made a move with a true yuan fluctuation and gave the thief two punches fiercely.

The drinkers and shopkeepers on the side didn't say much, and everyone felt that people like him were lazy and lazy, and they deserved to be beaten up every day.

But Zhou Ping, who was closest to the two, found that this thief was a little strange, it stands to reason that an adult man like him shouldn't have been beaten like this after two punches, why did the whole person's breath wither after two punches, and even his breath was a little difficult to maintain?

"Stop!" Zhou Ping immediately stopped the beater, and said in a deep voice, "Brother, I helped you recover the money bag, give me face and spare him once." ”

The beater was obviously still a little unsatisfied, but behind him came a clear female voice.

"Forget it, since this young man has said so, then spare this kid. ”

Zhou Ping hugged his fists and thanked him, and then immediately hit Zhenyuan in the beggar's lungs.

From this person's breathing, Zhou Ping judged that he was very likely to have lung disease, and the dirty blood in his nasal cavity just now flowed backwards into his lungs under the blow, which had immediately suffocated him.

The woman who spoke just now looked at the movements of Zhou Ping's hand and was a little puzzled, why did he expose this thief and now intercede for him to save him?

With full curiosity, the woman moved closer to Zhou Ping, and was a little surprised when she saw the earthy yellow true yuan in his hand. is already a strong person in the injured realm at such a young age, I'm afraid the origin is not simple.

Although she was wearing a black veil, she was so close that Zhou Ping could clearly ask that there was a faint fragrance on her body.

But before the two could react, the thief squirted out a mouthful of dirty blood from his nose, dyeing the woman's originally white dress bright red.

"This ......" Zhou Ping looked at the blood stains on the skirt of the woman next to him, and said apologetically, "I'm really sorry to stain your clothes." ”

The woman was a little angry at first, but as soon as she saw Zhou Ping's sincere smiling face, all her resentment disappeared.

"He had a lung disease, and he had just inhaled dirty blood, and he almost suffocated to death. Zhou Ping watched the thief finally open his eyes, slowly stood up and said to him, "This girl has a lot of things that don't care about you, hurry up, and do less stealing chickens and dogs in the future." ”

The thief struggled to get up, looked at Zhou Ping deeply, and opened his mouth, probably wanting to thank him, but he didn't say it after all.

"Do you know a lot, and you can also treat lung diseases?" the woman stood up and asked, "Listening to your accent, you should be a southerner, are you an outstanding son of a big family or a big country in the south?"

"Outstanding son?" Zhou Ping scratched his head a little embarrassedly when he heard this word, "It should be considered, I think I'm still quite powerful, haha." ”

The woman was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then smiled, this guy is also a wonderful person.

"My name is Qu You, looking at your appearance, you should be going to Beihai, and when you get to Beihai, you have something to report my name, and ordinary people don't dare to touch you. The woman's conversation was full of chivalry, which made Zhou Ping suddenly feel good about her.

At this time, Zhou Ping had eaten and drunk enough, so he quickly said goodbye to Qu You and prepared to continue his journey, just as he was about to leave the city gate, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of a familiar figure.

"Lang Zhong, I beg you to save my mother! I will definitely give you the money for medicine tomorrow, cough cough, please give me a few more days! My mother has not taken medicine for three days, please have mercy on me, cough cough. ”

A ragged man knelt down in front of the pharmacy door and kowtowed desperately, but Lang Zhong of the pharmacy could only shake his head helplessly.

"It's not that I won't help you, I've already given you a lot of medicines on credit, those medicines are all precious medicinal materials, if it goes on like this, my pharmacy will also go out of business, and I have to support my family, right?"

The man tried his best to open the door, but he was still kicked out of the pharmacy, and the man on his knees howled like crazy, but the door of the pharmacy was still locked, and he had no pity for him.

Zhou Ping looked at the man he had just saved from afar, and he just let go of all his dignity just to beg for a medicinal herb to treat his mother's illness, and his heart rippled.

Which is more valuable, human life or dignity? Zhou Ping did not know that there are many low-level people like him in the world, who cannot afford medicine if they are sick, and cannot afford to eat if they are not sick.

He is lucky, if he didn't meet the old cigarette pouch, maybe he didn't live as well as this man, and now he can have the opportunity to get ahead and pursue the immortal path, in fact, the bottom line is just from the old cigarette pouch's good thoughts.

But for some people, just surviving requires them to do their best.

Zhou Ping did not walk through the main entrance, but jumped outside the wall not far away and jumped directly into the courtyard of the pharmacy.

"The man outside the door asked for ten doses of medicine, and then add all the money he owed you before, and I will pay for him together. ”

Seeing the gold ingot in Zhou Ping's hand, Pharmacy Lang Zhong's eyes were stupid, how many people in this north could afford to use gold! Lang Zhong immediately prepared the medicinal materials for Zhou Ping, and then handed them over respectfully.

Zhou Ping took the medicinal herbs and was about to turn around and leave, Lang Zhong hurriedly shouted, "I haven't given you the money to find you!"

"No need. Zhou Ping waved his hand and said without looking back: "In the future, this man will come to grab the medicine again, and he will deduct it from this money." ”

With that, Zhou Ping opened the latch and pushed open the door of the pharmacy. The man outside the door recognized Zhou Ping at a glance, and immediately got up from the ground, just about to say something but couldn't stop coughing.

"Benefactor, ahem, thank you at the restaurant just now. ”

As he spoke, the man bowed to Zhou Ping, got up and walked towards the pharmacy, wanting to continue to ask Lang Zhong for medicine on credit.

"Hey!" Zhou Ping grabbed the man's shoulders and pulled him back.

"Is this the medicine you want?"

Looking at the medicinal herbs that Zhou Ping was carrying in his hand, the man leaned over and sniffed them carefully, and said in surprise, "It's these herbs, cough cough, it's just these flavors!"

"Do you want it?" Zhou Ping asked with a smile.

"Yes!" the man's eyes immediately filled with hope, "I dreamed of it." ”

"That's good. Zhou Ping carried the medicinal herbs behind him, raised his head and said a cold word.

"Then how about you kneel down and kowtow to me a few times?"