Early the next morning, the thieves did not appear, and the soldiers who were in ambush retreated.

Zhong Sheng got up relatively early. I went to the restaurant where I ate noodles last night, and I still sat in the same place as yesterday.

The noodle shop is separated from the 'Jiu Li Xiang' by seven or eight stores, and you can still vaguely see the drunks sleeping on the 'Jiu Li Xiang' railing.

The owner of the noodle restaurant looks like an honest man, and yesterday he told Zhong Sheng not to be too ostentatious, and when he served Zhong Sheng noodles today, he deliberately wiped the table and whispered: "Son, don't show your wealth, this world is unpredictable, it's better to be careful." ”

Zhong Sheng knew that the store was kind, but the news of selling ginseng in the poor scholar's market had already spread, and it was difficult not to show off, so he took out a piece of silver, stuffed it to the noodle shop owner and said, "Thank you for the store's kind words." ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "Childe, you misunderstood, the old man has opened a noodle restaurant and operated it for generations, and life is still passable, Childe doesn't have to be like this." As he spoke, he returned the silver to Zhong Sheng.

Zhong Sheng said with a smile: "Xiaosheng still has to live here for some time, this is the face money for you first, I don't have a good memory, and I often forget to bring silver taels when I come out." These words were very quiet.

The shopkeeper stopped refusing to shirk, picked up the silver and went to work himself.

Suddenly, the shopkeeper came over with a bowl of noodles and stood in front of Zhong Sheng: "Childe, can you sit on the other side, or I will change you to the back room......

Zhong Sheng was puzzled and asked, "Why is this store? I don't think you have many customers!"

The shopkeeper's face was not accompanied: "Li Yatou will come to the small shop to eat noodles every morning, and when he comes back, he will sit in this position, he didn't say that he must sit in this position, he has been used to it for so many years, and the old man often keeps this position for Li Yatou......"

Zhong Sheng got up and sat on the other side, and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, it's almost finished......

The shopkeeper picked up the rag and wiped the position where Li Yatou often sits, and then moved the face over.

Zhong Sheng took the noodles and drank the soup, and looked at the place where Li Yatou often sits, the color of the corner of the table over there was indeed smoother than that of the other three sides.

Zhong Sheng finished eating and was about to leave, when he saw Li Ya walking over with dark circles on his head and took a look. Li Yatou said: "If the money is put away, the brothers will keep you all night in vain......

Zhong Sheng was about to answer, but the shopkeeper ran over and nodded at Li Yatou: "Xiao Laoyuan saw Lord Yatou coming, the noodles have been prepared, please use it slowly...... Hey, hey, hey. Saying that, let Li Yatou over, and went to work again.

Zhong Sheng bowed his hand to Li Yatou and said: "With the protection of all the poor masters, Xiaosheng has already paid for the yatou." ”

Li Yatou sat down, picked up his chopsticks and said to Zhong Sheng: "You better leave this Muyu Town as soon as possible, so as not to lose the money you got in exchange for your life!" After speaking, he took a pair of chopsticks and instigated them into his mouth.

Zhong Sheng said with a sad face: "Xiaosheng also wants to leave as soon as possible, but this leg and foot are not good, Xiaosheng can't ride a horse, and it costs a lot of silver taels to buy a carriage...... It seems that it will take a little more time for the poor men to work hard. ”

Zhong Sheng saw that Li Yatou was eating noodles and didn't pay attention to him anymore, so he respectfully bowed his hand and said: "Let's go to the medical hall to change the medicine first, don't bother Yatou to have breakfast......" After speaking, he walked towards the medical hall.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather has turned cold, there are many people in the hospital to catch the wind and cold medicine, the town originally only the drunken father opened a medical center, operating for four or five generations, it can be regarded as a generation of medicine, and later after the hospital was burned, there was no medical center in the town for nearly two years, maybe in order to avoid suspicion, the people were sick or dragged or went to grab some herbs by themselves, and they were really seriously ill and had to go to the next town to find Lang Chinese medicine for treatment.

It was about three years ago, that is, after the drunken ghost returned to the town, and more than a year later, a Lang Zhong from a neighboring town came here to open this medical center.

Zhong Sheng dragged the lame leg to the medical hall and sat down, seeing many people coughing, holding prescriptions to grab the medicine, the doctor boy shouted to the son to wait, so he ran to call Lang Zhong to come and help him change the medicine.

Zhong Sheng asked Lang Zhong: "Sir, this medical skill is like Hua Tuo in the world, my leg doesn't hurt so much." As he spoke, he took out a piece of silver and stuffed it directly into Lang Zhong's arms.

Lang Zhong was very focused on changing the medicine, and sighed quietly without looking up: "If there is a disease in the body, it can be cured, and if there is a disease in the heart, there is no medicine to cure......" After changing the herbs, he took out the silver from his arms and put it on Zhong Sheng's lap and left.

Zhong Sheng thought to himself that the people in this town were not greedy for money, so why were the thieves so rampant? Aren't they all afraid that they will make too much money and the thieves will not be able to remember?

After changing the medicine, I left the hospital and came to the 'Xiangxiyuan' teahouse to drink tea again, only the old tea guest from yesterday sat there and tasted tea, probably because the storyteller had not yet arrived......

Zhong Sheng walked to the old tea guest with a teapot and a bowl: "Xiaosheng has nothing to do, it's very boring, seeing that the old gentleman is also alone, I don't know if I can enjoy my face and fight a table." ”

The old tea guest politely asked Zhong Sheng to sit down: "The son is now full of money, and the old man is honored!"

Zhong Sheng lifted the tea bowl and took a sip: "Don't dare, don't dare, the old gentleman can play chess?

The old tea guest gasped and said slowly: "In my life, in addition to knowing a little about tea, I am also very fascinated by this chess game!"

Zhong Sheng called out to the runner, took out a piece of silver and put it on the table: "I'm tired of the second brother to buy a pair of chess." ”

Ran Tang smiled: "There is no need for the son to break the bank, this teahouse already has a chessboard chess piece for tea guests to play chess, and the small one is to bring it to the two of you." ”

After a while, the chessboard was brought to the table, and it was still an elegant sandalwood chessboard, and the chessboard emitted a faint woody fragrance.

The old tea guest sighed: "No one has played chess with me for four or five years......!"

The two played chess, at first they were equal, Zhong Sheng first came to a trick of 'throwing stones to ask for directions', and then the old tea guest slowly walked the chess pieces into a 'fire' shape extending in all directions, which seemed to have the upper hand, Zhong Sheng kept chasing and intercepting, and had a slight advantage.