A heavy snowfall has whitewashed the ground with silver, crops have been lost in the ridges, and misty green smoke rises from distant villages.

The cold wind is bleak, and the cries are bursting.

Fan Yu carried the bamboo basket on his back, his cheeks were red from the cold, his hands were under his armpits, and he walked forward with his body bent.

More than an hour later, they arrived outside Lushan County.

When I entered the city, the street vendors did not give up their business because of the heavy snow, and the men standing outside the shops did not forget to solicit business because of the cold.

"Man, where is your shopkeeper?"

Looking for a pharmacy, the guy looked him up and down, looked at the herbs in the bamboo basket, nodded, and said coldly: "You want to sell medicinal materials, please here." ”

took it into the inner room and pointed to the ground: "Pour out the medicinal herbs, the shopkeeper is behind, so there is no need to alarm him." ”

"Then there's work. ”

Fan Yu was not angry, put down the bamboo basket, and the herbs in the dumping place, including Panax notoginseng, Baiji, curly cypress, etc., to name a few, although the amount was small, but there were many types.

The guy kicked with his foot, looked at it casually, nodded and said: "The collection method is sophisticated, it has not hurt the quality, and it has damaged the medicinal properties, but these are ordinary medicinal materials, which are worth seven taels or three dollars of silver, but this winter, it is difficult to enter the mountain, and then add five dollars to you, you can stay if you see it, and you can take it if you can." ”

Fan Yu thought about it, the price was fair, and he arched his hand and said: "The price given by the little brother is reasonable, then thank you." ”

The guy sneered: "Our Lushan medicine store has always been undeceiving, and it is about credibility, and you don't go to inquire about it, have you ever treated a medicine picker badly?"

After that, he didn't bother to argue anymore, went into the backyard, and after a while, he took out more than seven taels of broken silver: "You take it, and there are medicinal materials, just send it here." ”

Fan Yu thanked him, went out of the pharmacy, not far from the ready-to-wear shop, and went inside, the shopkeeper did not come out of the closet, and let the guy receive him.

A set of cotton wool long jackets, plus two pairs of shoes, is three or two lines of silver out, and I chose a single coat, and the silver taels that have not yet been covered with heat in my hands are gone.

When it was over, he used two coins to break silver, bought a piece of white cloth, borrowed pen and ink, and after groaning, he wrote: Seven points ask the sky, three points ask me.

The shopkeeper stretched his neck and sneered: "You can still tell fortunes? ”

Fan Yu blew the ink, but he was not angry, and asked rhetorically: "The shopkeeper doesn't believe it? ”

"A tael of silver?"

The shopkeeper's eyes widened, and he shook his head again and again: "No, no, I'm fine, what kind of hexagram is it?"

Fan Yu's eyes glanced up and chuckled: "Well, since the shopkeeper is too expensive, then Fan will give you a hexagram, as short as half an hour, and as long as an hour, the shopkeeper will have a bloody disaster." ”

The ink is dry, and it comes out.

Leaving the shopkeeper and the guy to look at each other, after half a ring, the shopkeeper was angry: "This charlatan, dare to curse me for the disaster of blood and light, see that I don't break his legs." ”

Fang was about to get up, but a piece of cloth fell on the wooden frame, and the horn of the wooden board hit his head right on, and with an 'ouch' sound, his head broke and bled out.

......

After Fan Yu went out, he couldn't help laughing, not because he was clever and unpredictable, but because the cloth was crumbling, and there happened to be the shopkeeper below.

Who told him to look down on people with dog eyes and speak coldly and mockingly?

When the body is warm, it is time to fill the stomach, find an inn, lift the curtain, and a wave of heat fills the room, which is full of customers eating.

The shopkeeper was draped in a rag and came up and asked, "Sir, do you want to be sharpened or stay in the hotel?"

"Stay. ”

"Come on, please ...... One person in the first class. ”

Fan Yu hurriedly waved his hand: "You don't need a first-class room, it's just normal." ”

The shopkeeper didn't shout anymore, but he also cared about Fan Yu's face, only led the way in front, passed through the store, and when he arrived at the backyard, he asked: "Sir, there is a four-color room in A, B, C and D, you see?"

"How much does it cost?"

"A number of one or two dollars a night, a separate courtyard, three meals a lot of fish and meat, and supper at night, B number eight dollars a night, including no fish and meat, C number three dollars a night, not including three meals, as for the T-number......"

The shopkeeper glanced at Fan Yu and coughed: "The T-shaped is in the corner, the quilt is warm, and the hot water is supplied." ”

Fan Yu said in his heart, he still has less than four taels of silver left, and he still has to eat, the number A is unaffordable, and the number B is also expensive, but the number C does not include food, and the cost of three meals is calculated, and he still thinks that the number B is cost-effective.

As for the T-number, looking at the look of the shopkeeper, you know that it is not much better.

After living in the mountains for these days, I couldn't eat enough and didn't have enough to stay, and I couldn't treat myself badly when I got to the bottom of the mountain.

Booking a room, the shopkeeper smiled slightly, and led to a side room, which is a situation where three side rooms stand on one side, although the courtyard is small but complete, it is also clean.

"You rest, and then the little one will bring the food, and if you have any command, go to the front and shout it." ”

"Don't be in a hurry to leave, get me a bucket of hot water, I'm going to bathe. ”

After the shopkeeper left, he looked at the room, which was divided into two rooms, inside and outside.

The inside room is a living, the bed quilt is plain, simple but very clean, the outside room is a place to receive tea and rest, there is a lacquered table, a bench, and a teacup and kettle on it.

Eight dollars a night is worth it.

After a while, the shopkeeper and a few guys came in with a meal and a bucket.

"After you finish eating, if you have any orders, just shout, Shui Ming'er will come and throw out the small ones in the morning. ”

"Don't be in a hurry to leave, hang this on a bamboo pole and send it to me later. ”

Fan Yu threw the white cloth over, Xiao Er took it, didn't open it to see, nodded and went out.

One meat and two vegetables, not much oil and water, but the taste is OK, I ate three bowls of corn, and then patted my stomach.

After the meal, he poured hot water into a large wooden barrel, steamed hot, mixed it with cold water, and immediately removed his clothes and jumped inside.

"Comfortable. ”

I don't know how long, I haven't taken a hot bath, and I have a clear spring in the mountains, so how can I use any hot water.

In the evening, the shopkeeper came over with a bamboo pole hanging with a white cloth, and said with a strange face: "Sir, are you satisfied with this?"

Fan Yu took it, nodded, and said with a smile: "Thank you, little second brother." ”

"Don't tight, don't tight. ”

After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he said goodbye and left.

Now that the signboard is there, you can start work on the street tomorrow, and you have to earn back the money for food and accommodation.

A penny is hard to beat a good man.

In the past, I used to drill into the mountains and forests, drink mountain springs, eat mountain fruits, and basically spent time in the mountains and wilderness, but now I plan to walk the rivers and lakes, and the money is indispensable.

Practicing medicine and curing diseases is not a bad way, but who in a big family would believe in a wandering Langzhong? The poor man does not have much money.

Without this fortune telling, you can catch rich people.

You don't see, the temple Taoist temple, how much incense did the landlord donate, and the big monk and the little Taoist priest were fed with fat heads and oily noodles, and big bellies and waists.

As the saying goes, the poor tell fortunes and ask about the future, and the rich burn incense to keep the rich.