After leaving the teahouse, he did not go far. It was getting dark, and he, who had planned to return before dark, decided not to go back yet.

"First of all, I will report my mother's safety. ”

Thinking like this, he went into a small alley where no one was around, took out a yellow paper talisman from his coat, pinched and chanted a mantra, and injected spiritual energy, and the rune paper changed in response to the sound, transforming into a palm-sized paper crane, and staggered towards the southeast.

With that done, he returned to Main Street. It was already the time to hold the lamp, and there were few pedestrians on the street, so they wrapped themselves in a mink and walked into a blacksmith shop.

It's freezing outside, but inside it's sparks splashing and it's hot. After greeting a young apprentice near the door, he went inside on his own, to the backyard, and found the owner of the shop.

The sweaty man turned around, frowned, and asked, "Little baby, who sent you?"

He took out a silver arrow from his coat and handed it over.

"Boss Shi, do you know this?"

The middle-aged man surnamed Shi wiped the sweat from his forehead, took the arrow, approached the firelight, his expression changed slightly, and then led him to his bedroom.

After motioning for you to sit down, the man surnamed Shi asked, "Where did this arrow come from?"

Remembering his mother's words, he replied, "This is what my father picked up when he was hunting in the mountains. ”

When Shi Songhan heard this, he couldn't help nodding and said with a smile: "Sure enough, it's the son of Brother You's family, and they have grown so big." Back then, thanks to your father for saving me from the tiger's mouth, this kindness is really to be remembered for a lifetime. Your mom and dad have always been okay, and they haven't been here for almost a year. ”

You said: "Daddy is fine." I came this time to be entrusted by my father to ask Uncle Shi for some news. ”

When Shi Songhan heard this, he squinted and smiled: "What's the matter with Brother You? It's also a shame that he can rest assured that you can walk so far over the mountain road alone." What do you want to know? Uncle must know everything. ”

You said in a childish voice: "My father picked a precious medicinal herb in the mountains a while ago and wanted to make a move. ”

Shi Songhan was puzzled: "This is a good thing! Why didn't he go and talk to Yang Yuan in person?"

Silent and silent.

Seeing this, Shi Songhan lowered his voice and asked, "Is something wrong with your father?"

You Li raised his head, looked at Shi Songhan for a long time, and said, "My father broke his leg when he was collecting medicine." But the bone-setting medicine sold by Yang Ji Pharmacy is too expensive, so let me come to Uncle Shi, you are familiar with the Yang family, maybe you can help talk about it. ”

Shi Songhan took a spiritual grass with a golden shimmer handed over by Youli, and said with a sad face: "That's it, I'll let the back kitchen prepare some meals for you, you wait while eating, I'll go to the pharmacy and ask first, how about it?"

Wandering nodded in thanks, and then went to the backyard.

Shi Songhan looked at the back of the wandering away, pondered for a moment, put on his coat, and rushed straight to Yang Ji Pharmacy.

After wandering to the backyard, in the name of going to the toilet to relieve himself, he quietly left the blacksmith shop and hung far behind Shi Songhan.

Seeing him enter the medicine shop, he wandered into the alley next to it, and spotted a cedar that he had noticed when he was watching the teahouse before, and jumped up the tree and hid in the middle.

Beyond the fence, Youli finally saw the situation inside the courtyard. There are several families in the courtyard, and they put a listening charm prepared in advance behind their ears and begin to listen attentively.

It turned out that he had quietly punched a condensed note like a cicada's wings into Shi Songhan's body before. This charm can be used in conjunction with the listening charm, which can not only hear the sound of falling pins from a mile away, but can even ignore ordinary soundproofing prohibitions, which is very practical.

This is the secret talisman of Xuanzhen Gate, which is not easy to draw, and the failure rate is extremely high, so Master Xuan Yuzi only gave him two pairs.

"Brother Shi, what kind of wind blew you here at night?"

"Brother Yang, don't come unharmed. ”

"You have always been 'going to the Sanqing Palace for nothing', come to my small medicinal herb shop at this time, do you have money to make together?"

Shi Songhan hugged his fists and said: "Brother Yang is really like a god, you said it, I came this time, and I did send a fortune - a friend of mine recently picked a fifty-year-old Yin Soul Grass, are you interested in buying it?"

When Yang Bocai heard this, he was overjoyed in his heart, but he said quietly: "Fifty years of Yin Soul Grass? is indeed a good thing, I have always collected as much as I have for this thing, brother." I don't know where you got this one?"

Shi Songhan said: "I don't bother Brother Yang about this, anyway, I can guarantee that the way is right and the quality is good." ”

Yang Bocai smiled and said, "So, show me first?"

"Naturally, I want to give my brother a palm. Shi Songhan said, handing over the wooden box containing the herbs.

Yang Bocai took the wooden box, opened it carefully, took out the two-foot-long dark golden Yin Soul Grass, tasted it repeatedly in the candlelight, and finally put it on a handful of ebony sticks and weighed it carefully.

"How?"

"Medicine is a good medicine, but it's a pity that the picking method is too unsophisticated, and it is not placed in a cold jade box that can prevent the loss of medicinal properties. ”

Shi Songhan sneered in his heart, as soon as he opened his mouth, he knew that he was an old profiteer, and the rhetoric of lowering the price was really unbelievable. But the old guy is also right, without the cold jade box, the medicinal properties will be lost sooner or later, and he can only pinch his nose and admit it.

"Brother Yang is an expert, since it is identified as second-class, it is second-class. The old rule is to ask the appraiser to make a bid. ”

Yang Bocai's old eyes narrowed into a line, and he said lightly: "Two hundred taels." ”

"Brother Yang Mo is happy with his brother, you and I know the preciousness of the Yin Soul Grass. Even if it is reduced to a second-class product, the price will not be lower than that of ordinary first-class medicinal materials-at this price, is it possible that I will have to pay my friends by myself?"

Yang Bocai said with a smile: "Brother is quick to talk, brother, I won't make it difficult for you, a fixed price, three hundred and eighty taels." ”

"Four hundred and fifty taels. ”

"Four hundred taels, no matter how many brothers I have, I won't be able to take this order. ”

"Deal. ”

......

You Li listened carefully to the back and forth between the two, and laughed in his heart. This Yin Soul Grass was indeed inadvertently picked by his father You Mingda on the mountain two days ago, and his mother said that they originally wanted to give it to Master Xuan Yuzi, but after returning home that night, before they could go up the mountain, something happened. Based on this, the mother speculated that the father was captured by the gangsters, and maybe it was related to this medicinal herb.

At this time, the two parties who had finished negotiating the business had already entered the backyard hand in hand and completed the transaction.

When he found that the effect of the Hearing Talisman was suddenly affected by a breath of qi, he was immediately alert, quickly pasted the Breath Talisman, and turned around and withdrew.

After a few breaths, under the big cedar where he had been, a middle-aged man in a black cloth robe stood looking at the treetops thoughtfully.

You Li returned to the blacksmith shop before Shi Songhan, and had dinner under Zhang Luo, who was an apprentice in the shop. After a while, Shi Songhan came back with a cold air.

Shi Songhan casually took two mouthfuls of food, and when he saw that he had eaten freely, he took him to the bedroom, closed the door, and said with a smile: "I hope I have lived up to your father's trust." ”

As he spoke, he handed over a large heavy package.

"There is no money village in this town, and if you want to exchange money, you need to climb three more mountains to Chaoshan Town, which is adjacent to the county seat. Therefore, the pharmacy originally wanted to give a silver ticket, but I didn't agree, for fear that it would be inconvenient for you to spend it on a daily basis. The package is a little heavier, you put it away. ”

You Li took the heavy package and thanked him. After opening it, he didn't count it, and directly took out twenty taels of silver as a reward to thank Shi Songhan.

Shi Songhan smiled and declined: "You kid is quite sensible, and Brother You teaches well." Uncle is just a gesture, this level of busyness, I am embarrassed to say that it is a gratitude, how can I ask for your money. It's getting late, so you'll stay here tonight. I'll take you home tomorrow. ”

You Li scratched his head, thanked him again, and rested in the guest room.

In the middle of the night, he opened his eyes, held a talisman in his left hand, and a knife in his right hand, and quietly went out of the window and came to the river behind the blacksmith shop.

The moonlight is as clear as water, the river has not yet frozen, and the river is shining with cold sparkling waves under the light of the full moon.

Youli looked at the dark shadow by the river, fully alert.

The black shadow did not move, but the sound was colder than this winter night.

"I said who was bold, but I didn't expect it to be just a little doll. ”