Chapter 3 [The Prodigal Son (3)]

Outside the bustling crowd, a panting young woman suddenly squeezed in, and this person was none other than Hui'er.

"Childe, these people are ......"

Halfway through the words, he suddenly saw the woman in front of the man in white, most of her face was printed with more than a dozen shocking scars, and her face was hideous, three points like a human and seven points like a ghost, very mad. He was dressed only in ochre-colored coarse cloth, which was covered with dust and sloppy.

Hui'er was so frightened that she unconsciously covered her mouth with her hands, and was stunned and silent.

The man in white followed the sound and looked at Hui'er and asked, "Hui'er, have you packed up your things?"

Seeing that she did not answer, he called her name twice.

"Hui'er!"

"Ah...... Huh?"

Hui'er reacted and responded twice blankly.

"Are you all packed?"

"Both...... It's all packed up......"

"Come on, then. ”

Hui'er slowly moved towards the man in white, her eyes still staring at the bewildered woman in front of her.

"This girl, it must have been some years since I looked at the wound on your face, should I have come for someone else this time?" asked the woman in front of him.

She turned around slowly, her eyes were filled with a layer of mist, and she sobbed and said, "The slave family came to intercede with Lord Chen for my brother. ”

"Oh, dare to ask Brother Ling why he was injured and what the injury was?" asked the man in white.

The woman pursed her lips twice, rubbing the corners of her clothes with the fingers of both hands.

"Brother, he...... Brother He...... He was working in the field when he accidentally fell and hit his hoe in the abdomen......"

The previous softness in the eyes of the man in white disappeared instantly, replaced by a trace of hesitation, and the corners of his mouth returned to banter:

"Hoe?"

"Yes......" The woman's voice gradually became flustered, and the voice behind her gradually became softer, as thin as a mosquito and a fly.

The man in white sighed shortly: "Okay." What about the injury, and is there any fear for your life?"

The woman was silent for a while, and then tears welled up in her eyes, and the sobbing voice was even worse: "It has hurt the internal organs, if you don't heal it, I'm afraid it will ......."

The man in white looked at Hui'er, shook his shoulders, turned to the woman again, and said, "Girl, don't cry anymore, let me ask later, and I'll be back later." ”

With that, the man in white rushed past several officials and got into the noisy crowd.

Hui'er shouted at him twice, but he didn't answer, so he immediately gave up his previous fear, and asked the woman in front of him softly: "Sister, my name is Hui'er, what is your name?"

The woman slowly stopped sobbing and replied, "You can call me Xiao Ye." ”

"Okay, Sister Xiaoye. Hui'er showed a spiritual smile, "Don't worry, my son-in-law has a lot of ability, there is no one in the world who doesn't understand things, and there must be a way for your brother to hurt him." ”

Xiao Ye smiled back at her, and then looked carefully into the crowd, trying to find the figure of the child.

"There. ”

Hui'er pointed to the crowd, Xiao Ye followed the direction of her finger and saw that the man in white was shuttling back and forth, as if asking people something.

After half a moment, he walked back with a few fine sweats on his forehead.

"As I expected. It is like the corner of the mouth on the face of the crown jade, and the tone of his faith and sign makes Xiaoye have a kind of relief like the nectar of the withered autumn flowers, and gives birth to a late night lost in the ancient temple-like comfort, although he still doesn't know what he can do, but he is still excited, and falls two lines of tears.

"Haha, girl, hurry up and stop the pear blossoms on your face with rain, let's go out and talk. As he spoke, he walked out with the two of them.

"Childe, say it quickly, don't be in a hurry Sister Xiaoye. Hui'er looked anxious, as if she was the one who had had an accident.

"It turns out that your name is Xiaoye. The man in white tidied up his messy clothes that were pushed by the crowd, and said with a smile: "The white wall is flawless, and there must be a hundred secrets." As soon as the ban on drugs is ordered, the incident is hasty, and if all the medicinal materials for the treatment of external injuries are banned at all, regardless of the severity, it will surely cause the people's resentment to boil, and in the end it will only cause trouble out of control......"

"Childe, don't sell it anymore, let's talk about it quickly!" said Jiao'er.

The man in white smiled: "I just interrogated these people who came to plead their ways, and none of them were sick except for themselves or their family members. Nowadays, the yamen allows the sale of medicines for the treatment of other diseases, and forbids the sale of medicines for the treatment of wounds, and there must be many common medicinal materials in the two medicines, but there are no people here who come here because of the lack of individual medicinal materials in the purchased medicines. ”

Hui'er listened to him quietly after saying this, her bright eyes rolled twice, and she suddenly reacted, jumping up three feet high excitedly: "So, let's go and buy the medicinal materials we need separately, okay?"

Xiao Ye next to him shook his head lightly when he heard it, and said with a depressed face: "No, the slave family has already asked, and now the major pharmacies not only do not sell finished medicines, but even all the medicinal materials needed to heal wounds are not allowed to be sold." Even not only pharmacies, even the medicinal materials in private collections have been checked and counted by the yamen, and the people and chariots and horses entering the city will be severely searched, and there will be no medicinal materials to buy at all. ”

The joy on Hui'er's face gradually faded, and she bit her thin lips and fell silent.

But the smile on the face of the man in white did not decrease, and he called to Xiao Ye lightly: "Hahaha, Miss Xiao Ye, don't worry, there are many people here, you come with your ears, I will tell you ...... in detail."

Lu Zhichen, who was only nineteen years old, was selected as one of the "Five Swords" of the Northern Sect of Qingya Bailu Pavilion, and his high talent not only made it difficult for other disciples of the same generation of cultivators, Qi, Zhi, and Ping to enter at the same time, even if he was his senior brother, Lu Xiuyan, the descendant disciple of the head of the contemporary Northern Sect, was also envious of his young age for achieving such an achievement, and his envy was more than that.

Last year, that is, the first year of Xuanhe, eighteen-year-old Lu Zhichen went down the mountain for the first time after entering the mountain. The task of going down the mountain was to accompany more than 30 fellow brothers to the west, and join the army of the breeders led by the old Xianggong Seed Master Dao to send troops to Western Xia. In the battle to conquer the land of Hengshan in Western Xia, he killed a Western Xia general and became famous. As a result of this battle, Western Xia lost its southern barrier with the Song Dynasty and surrendered to the Song courtiers. The seed master Dao originally wanted to write to Song Huizong to reward the people of Qingya Bailu Pavilion, and even personally invited Lu Zhichen to stay in the seed army many times, but only on the third day after the surrender of Western Xia, Lu Zhichen and the remaining eight people drove back to Qingya Bailu Pavilion.

However, although Lu Zhichen is already quite prestigious, he still acts like a child and is as frivolous as Meng Lang, which makes his senior brother Lou Qidun, who walked with him all the way, distressed.

"A gentleman has nothing to eat, and he has nothing to live in. This time we went down the mountain, we should focus on achieving the master's life, and should not be too greedy for appetite......"

In a humble inn in Qiantang County, Lou Qidun sat at a wooden table in the lobby, rubbing his forehead with his right hand.

Opposite him was Lu Zhichen. He was dressed in a green cloth shirt, surrounded by a black box sword, and the young man was heroic with a bowl of turbid yellow carved wine in his hand. At this time, he was sitting on the table with his feet folded, and the wooden stool sitting under his buttocks only had two wooden legs on the ground, and he was swaying back and forth, like a light boat in the wind and waves, shaking endlessly, but not falling.

"I haven't tasted meat for several days, I can only eat this clear soup noodle all day long, so we have to look for that carp and bird this time, how can we have the strength to find it if we don't give some delicious food? Senior brother, how can you be inhuman......

"Mr. Guiya's two disciples, 'Touching the Mountain Falcon' and 'Pond Carp', both came down the mountain half a month ago, and all forces wanted to win them over. If even one of them can serve my Northern Sect, then my Northern Sect can not only use this to suppress the Southern Sect, but even carve out a world in this troubled world. ”

Although Lou Qidun had a headache about Lu Zhichen's stubborn temperament, after all, he had been with him for more than ten years, and knew that although he was usually a little casual, he would not be lazy in dealing with big things.

Lu Zhichen drank all the rice wine in the cup, exhaled a long breath, put his feet off the table, and a cruel and disdainful smile appeared on his face: "Who is this Mr. Guigu, who is sacred, can teach such a powerful character, isn't it a famous and reputation-fishing man from a ravine and ravine, who wants to sell the two apprentices for a good price......?"

After hearing this, Lou Qidun secretly shook his head, thinking angrily in his heart: "I don't know how many talents I have cultivated for the imperial court in the past few decades, and I have given birth to a muddy boy like him. If he is a wild child with no name and no surname, it would be fine, and he would be blasted out of the division directly, so as not to ruin the reputation of my family, but ......'

"The name of Mr. Guigu has been around for a long time, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the founder of Taoism, Lao Tzu, had a disciple, surnamed Wang Mingxu, through the heavens and the earth, outstanding wisdom, proficient in hundreds of schools, Sun Bin, Pang Juan, Su Qin, Zhang Yi, Shang Ying, etc. are all his disciples, and then lived in seclusion in Guigu, he is the first generation of Mr. Guigu. From then to the present, the descendants of Mr. Guigu have been passing on his wisdom and strategy, and all of them are in the prime of life. Legend has it that Wang Mang, the new Han Dynasty, Liu Xuan, the first emperor, Gao Changgong, the king of Lanling in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and Li Chunfeng, the Taishi Ling of the Tang Dynasty, are all his descendants. And this generation of 'Touching Mountain Falcon' and 'Pond Carp', although they have just come out of the school and are not deeply involved in the world, they must not be ordinary people. ”

Facing Lou Qidun's solemn face, Lu Zhichen still didn't care, and played with the sword in his hand while listening to him.

"It's a bluff, but I haven't seen it with my own eyes, and I don't believe they have it. Besides, if these two people are really as powerful as the rumors say, why don't they do things for the imperial court?"

Lou Qidun sighed, looked out the window with his eyes, and said: "The descendants of the Guigu Valley have always behaved strangely, and this time the two of them went down the mountain to enter the WTO at the same time, I am afraid that not only do they not want to be used by the imperial court, but they will even cause a bloody storm in my Great Song Dynasty." It is also for this reason that although all parties do not know the depth of the two of them, they still dare not take it lightly. Some time ago, it was rumored that the carp in the pond of the two sons of Guigu was coming to Hangzhou, which is also one of the purposes of our visit. ”

Lu Zhichen leaned over to him and hurriedly asked, "What? We have other things to do? Are we going to kill people? I have long wanted to move my muscles and bones......

Lou Qidun glanced at him: "Kill, kill, kill, play or kill all day long, according to your temperament, you should really go to the Southern Sect, fool around with that group of pickled talents, I was born in my Northern Sect and really wronged you." ”

Lu Zhichen laughed and said, "Hahaha, yes to pole, no one who knows me is you, senior brother, hahaha......"

Lu Zhichen pulled out his sword and made a few strokes in the air, and several blue lights flashed on his face.

"I just admire Nanzong's freedom, admire their happiness and hatred, life is in the world, when it is so, hahaha......"

Lou Qidun withdrew his gaze from the window and looked at him carefully, his eyes were full of hatred, and he kept shaking his head. He said angrily in a low voice: "This kind of bastard is not allowed to be said again in the future, insulting my Northern Sect." ”

"Anyway, I don't care about the wind, if the senior brother cares, plug my ears and don't listen, I just want a good one. ”

Lu Zhichen danced his sword to himself. The sword danced faster and faster, and the strong thin sword and the smell of wine on his body suddenly showed a little poetry, which was like falling into the sky for a while, and like the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, and the guests in the hall were dizzying, and they clapped their hands and applauded.

I don't know how long it was silent, but the wine glass in front of Lou Qidun had been filled three or five times before Lu Zhichen spoke again.

"Senior brother, do you know what happened to the carp in the pond coming to Hangzhou?"

Lou Qidun's anger had not faded at this time, but when he saw him talking about business, his indignant face revealed a little joy. However, after a moment, the joy disappeared, and was replaced by a trace of shame. He said a few words in a hurry, but the vague words made Lu Zhichen not hear clearly.

"Why did you drink a few glasses of light wine, and my senior brother didn't see the neatness of Fang Cai? This amount of wine is not even as good as Mr. Li's, hahahaha......"

Seeing him teasing himself, Lou Qidun cleared his throat and said quickly, "Come and see the Oiran Competition." ”