The weather has entered the cold winter, the sky is getting late, in this kind of cold night, few people will take the initiative to go out, because going out means to be with the cold. Except for the beggars and the poor who have to do a small business outside, who will go out in such weather.

On the street of Shenwu City, there were several people bustling, and an old man in a wide and thick cotton coat walked out of the city with a cane at the gate of the West City, followed by a graceful girl, this girl was wearing a blue brocade robe, which did not look thick, but the raging winter wind did not seem to make her shiver a little.

"Grandpa, the temperature has been getting lower and lower these days, why are you suddenly going out of the city when you are not at home?"

The old man looked outside the West City Gate and said, "Yunshan, grandpa is already old, I'm afraid time is running out." This time, I'll take you to meet a senior. ”

"Seniors, what kind of seniors, are you that old, and what do you think are seniors? How old do you have to be?" said the girl, chuckling, covering her mouth.

"Let's go, grandpa, this is also the news I just received, this senior is in a village outside Shenwu City at this time, and he will only stay for one day. So we've got to hurry. ”

These two are Jing Zhen and Jing Yunshan of Shenwu Academy.

The two men went out of the city gate and walked all the way west, and after more than an hour, they came to the outside of a dilapidated village.

"Grandpa, your village is so dilapidated, even the houses are in ruins, is it possible that someone will live here?" Jing Yun asked puzzled.

"Yun Shan, you have lived in the Shenwu Academy since you were a child, and you rarely go out. Naturally, I don't know the outside world, some people live at the bottom of this world, they don't know any cultivation, they can only farm, fish, chop wood, and write novels to barely survive, and they don't even have winter clothes to protect them from the cold when winter comes. They can only eat steamed buns that are as hard as stones for every gamble, and they live in dilapidated houses. Jing Zhen sighed and said.

"Isn't that like a beggar?"

"No, they are not beggars. Beggars beg with their own dignity and just want to live each day. And they have their own families, as well as parents and children. Although life is hard, the family is also happy. ”

As he spoke, a man in a long robe with several patches approached, rubbing his hands together as the cold wind blew down his thin clothes and made him shiver.

"What are you doing, two?" the man asked, shuddering over to them.

"Young man, may I ask if Mr. Deng Lijun and Mr. Deng are in your village?" Jing Zhen asked with a kind smile.

The man seemed to have suddenly realized, and said, "Oh, old man, are you here to see Mr. Deng for medical treatment? Mr. Deng and his apprentices and grandchildren are at Mrs. Xu in the north of the village. ”

"Hehe, young man, can you take us there?"

The man's face was embarrassed, then he hesitated for a while, and said, "Originally, I was going out of the village to buy grain, and the family was waiting for the rice to boil." However, if you come here, I will take you there, and I will not delay much time. ”

"Thank you!" give him some silver. ”

When Jing Yunshan heard this, she untied the money bag around her waist and prepared to take out the silver. The man hurriedly waved his hand and said, "You don't have to be so polite, it's just a gesture, since you are here to see Mr. Deng for medical treatment, our village is deeply favored by Mr. Deng, so naturally we can't take your money." ”

Jing Yunshan took out a small silver ingot, about two taels, and was about to hand it over, but the man's head shook like a rattle, and he was unwilling to accept it.

Jing Zhen saw that he insisted on refusing to accept it, so he said to Jing Yunshan: "That's it." ”

Jing Yunshan took the silver back, and a smile appeared on the man's face, and he said, "That's right! Old man, please ...... here."

After walking for a while, the man led them to a slightly better-looking house, and then pointed to this house and said, "Old man, this is Mrs. Xu's home, Mr. Deng has been living here for the past few days, I won't go in, please take care of yourself." ”

Jing Zhen nodded slightly, then said with a smile: "Thank you." ”

"No thanks!" said the man, turning to leave.

"Grandpa, they are all poor like this, why don't I give him silver, but he doesn't want it? Isn't it too little? These two taels of silver can still buy a lot of things!" After the man left, Jing Yunshan asked very puzzled.

Jing Zhen looked at the direction in which the man left and said, "It's not that he dislikes the lack of silver, but this matter is indeed a gesture for him." In their minds, if he brought us here for silver, it would be a bargain, and if he didn't want silver, it would have been what they should have been, friendly and simple. These are some noble qualities that we people in the city don't have. ”

"Yun Shirt doesn't understand very much, where does this quality come from money?"

Jing Zhen smiled and said, "Okay, you'll understand later." Go knock!"

Jing Yunshan nodded incomprehensibly, and then knocked on the door.

"The door is not closed, come in!" heard a knock on the door, and a voice came from inside the room.

So Jing Zhen and Jing Yunshan pushed the door in, and after entering, there was a courtyard, there was a bluestone path in the middle of the yard, this path led directly to the main house from the gate, and on the left and right sides of the bluestone path were several vegetable fields, but it was winter, except for a few large radishes that had already been emptied, there were no fresh vegetables.

"Who are you?" asked a middle-aged man who looked at the grandfather and grandson who walked over.

"Let's look for Mr. Deng. Jing Zhen replied.

The man answered, and then said, "Mr. Deng is in the back hall, treating his mother, if the two of you are looking for Mr. Deng to see a doctor, why don't you go to the living room to rest for a while?"

Jing Zhen said: "We are not here to see a doctor, I met Mr. Deng, and I heard that his old man is in Lotus Village, so I came to visit. ”

When the middle-aged man heard him say that he knew Deng Lijun, he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly made a gesture of please, and then led the two into the back hall.

In Mrs. Xu's room in the back hall, there was a charcoal fire in the room, and the two who had just come in from outside obviously felt that the temperature in the room was much higher than outside. At this time, Xu Lao Taiping was lying on the bed, wearing a white underwear, with dozens of silver needles densely tied on his body, and on the edge of the bed sat an old man with a pure white beard, gently playing part of the silver needles, the silver vibrated and made an inaudible broken sound, and there was also an old man in Tsing Yi with white hair and a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old who were watching this scene intently.

"Grandpa, is this the senior you are talking about?" Jing Yunshan looked at this scene and walked inside, but was pulled by Jing Zhen.

Jing Zhen shook his head slightly and said, "Yunshan, don't go over to disturb Mr. Deng, wait here quietly." ”

Jing Yunshan stopped and looked at her grandfather in surprise, in her impression, grandfather had rarely been so polite to others. Just a few days ago, Grandpa was so respectful to the new one-star student of the Academy, and now he is so polite to this man who seems to be an ordinary doctor.

"Grandpa, this old gentleman looks like an ordinary doctor. The old lady was cold into her body, hurting her heart and lungs, so she should use Yan Wei Zhi and Xing Lingzhi to make a decoction, drink it for a month, and she can be cured. I knew this knowledge when I was ten years old, and he also used silver needles to seal acupuncture points, and the method of clearing the stream had little effect, and the medical skills were really not good!" Jing Yunshan said in a low voice.

"Shut up!" Jing Zhen rebuked in a low voice, looking a little angry.

Unbeknownst to him, although Jing Yunshan's voice was very small, it was heard by the old man who practiced medicine, and he turned his head, looked at her with a smile, and then beckoned and said, "Little girl, you are right, come here." ”