Listening to Mrs. Cheng's story, Liu Chen's heart gradually began to clear.

It turned out that the ice grass picked yesterday plus some other medicinal materials, early this morning, Cheng Qi rushed to the market and sold it to a passing Qizhou pharmacist at a relatively fair price.

Over the years, almost all of the medicinal herb business in Zailai Town has been monopolized by Huang Yuanwai, the richest man in the town, saying that this Huang Yuanwai, since Liu Chen arrived in Zailai Town, I have not heard anyone mention that this person is the younger brother of the sect master of Ling Xue Sect, and on weekdays, Ling Xue Sect's cultivation resources are basically supplied externally by this Huang Yuan.

Huang Yuanwai relied on the support of Ling Xuezong to open a medicine hall in Zailai Town, specially collecting herbs from medicine farmers at low prices, and then selling them to pharmacists from Qizhou at a price several times higher.

Forced by Huang Yuanwai's strength, no one in the town dared to disobey his will, even the town chief, seeing Huang Yuanwai, he had to nod his head, since the establishment of the medicine hall, the income of the medicine farmers has decreased, and the medicine merchants in other places are even more miserable.

Gradually, the medicinal materials business in Zailai Town is not as good as before, even if some precious medicinal materials will only be produced in the barren mountains of Zailai Town, but every time those Qizhou pharmacists come to buy, they basically have to bleed once, and the profits are too much less.

Cheng Qi is the best medicine farmer in Zailai Town, no matter how Huang Yuanwai raises the price of medicine, but as long as it is the medicinal materials picked back by Cheng Qi and sold to those pharmaceutical dealers, they are all according to the previous price, such a transaction is also very fair, gradually, Qizhou pharmacists are admiring and directly trading with Cheng Qi, although Cheng Qi picks very little medicine alone, but every few months, there will always be some very precious natural treasures that he discovers, and sell them to Qizhou pharmacists at a price several times or even more than ten times lower than that of Huang Yuanwai.

Let's just say that the ice grass can be regarded as a treasure, Cheng Qi ignored Huang Yuanwai's obstruction and sold it directly to others, which led to the scene that Liu Chen saw in front of him.

"Smack!" The obscene-looking housekeeper was about to slap Cheng Qi in the face, but Liu Chen blocked Cheng Qi in front of him with a dodge, raised his hand and slapped the housekeeper's hand away.

"Yo, the nosy man is here?" The housekeeper saw that Liu Chen's face was alive, and he looked like a teenager again, and suddenly became arrogant, glared at Liu Chen with pity, and he took a few steps back and gave way to a few big men behind him.

"Brother Chen, what are you doing?" Cheng Qi saw that those fierce men were about to surround Liu Chen, and suddenly felt anxious, and hurriedly pulled Liu Chen's arm, reflexively blocked Liu Chen, and put on a flattering smile and arched his hand at the housekeeper: "Steward Huang, don't take it to heart, the child is not sensible, you say, how much should I pay?"

"Hmph, finally squeaked?" Steward Huang coughed lightly and motioned to the black-clothed thugs to wait a little, he walked to Cheng Qi's side with Wang Ba steps, spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on the ground hatefully, and then laughed strangely: "Okay, you pay, I won't clean up this little Wang Ba, you got a total of one hundred and thirty-seven taels of silver from selling medicine today, in this way, since you broke the rules, take out five hundred taels of silver, let's settle it today!"

"You!" Liu Chen was furious, leaned forward and was about to crash into Cheng Qi, and he didn't know where Cheng Qi's strength came from, so he blocked Liu Chen, and said with a smile on his face: "Okay, okay, I'll compensate you!"

"Mother-in-law, go get the money!" Cheng Qi turned his head to look at Mrs. Cheng, who was full of tears, and quickly urged: "Hurry up." ”

After a long time, Mrs. Cheng appeared in the courtyard again, took out a cloth bag from her cuffs, opened several layers of embroidered cloth, and a few crumpled silver tickets lay quietly in the middle of her trembling palms.

Steward Huang glanced at the crumpled silver ticket with disgust, waved his hand here, signaled the big man around him to put it away, and a group of people put down their cruel words and disappeared at the door of the Cheng family's courtyard.

The onlookers all sighed and shook their heads, and went back to their homes.

Liu Chen stood in the middle of the small courtyard with a cold face, trembling with anger, and after a long time, the little girl Cheng Die came to Liu Chen's side with teary eyes, gently took his hand and said: "Brother Chen, don't be angry, they are very fierce and will kill!"

"Why?" Liu Chen clenched Cheng Die's little hand, turned to look at Cheng Qi, yesterday he also heard the Cheng family's aunt say that he had saved more than five hundred taels of silver for Xiao Fluttershy, and when he had collected enough one thousand taels, the couple would take Xiao Fluttershy to the main city of Qizhou, where there was the best doctor in the world, these five hundred taels, Liu Chen didn't know how long they would have to save, the only thing he knew was that the five hundred taels were gone, and the hope of the Cheng family was gone.

"You little couples are hiding here, further north, there is nowhere to hide, Brother Chen, you can make more money when the money is gone, your life is gone, but there is really nothing!"

Cheng Qi squatted on the dilapidated threshold, with an inexplicable wry smile on his weather-beaten face, he picked up the dry smoke in his hand, and looked at Liu Chen's gaze, which was already full of helplessness of survival.

"I'll stay for three months and leave!" Liu Chen's expression was gloomy, and he slowly hugged Cheng Die, who was brought by pear blossoms and rain, and murmured softly: "Three months later, I will take Xiaodie to Zhongzhou and Chang'an, I will definitely hire the best doctor for her, no matter how much money it spends and how much effort it takes, even if I turn Daxia upside down, I will find her Snow Lotus!"

"Thank you, Brother Chen, Fluttershy hasn't been to Chang'an yet, and I've heard that Chang'an's walls are miles higher than Lonely Mountain. The little girl looked up, and there was a smile of satisfaction on her bloodless face, which may have made her very painful, and occasionally drew her heartbeat, so that her eyebrows and eyes trembled, and in an instant sweat rained down.

But she was still smiling, looking at Liu Chen with a smile, looking at her parents and brothers, it was that moment of satisfaction that filled her heart with happiness.

After this day, Cheng Qi no longer entered the mountain, and the task of following Liu Chen to collect medicine was handed over to Cheng Qi's son Cheng Feng.

A few days later, when Liu Chen came back from collecting medicine in the mountains, he found that on the other side of his small courtyard, a family had also moved in, an old woman with a silver head that could not see her age, and a simple and old yarn car.

The old lady who spun yarn is called Granny Hua, every day she sits alone on the edge of the fence, gently shaking the old yarn cart, the sound of squeaking Yo Yo spread far away, since the arrival of Granny Hua, Beigong Fu has changed places every day to read, she no longer stays in her own courtyard, but likes to sit on the side of Granny Hua's yarn cart, while listening to the sound of the yarn cart, while immersed in the sea of books, from beginning to end, an old and a young never said a word.

Every time Liu Chen came back from the mountain, he stood outside the fence and looked at the flower mother-in-law, the thin figure and the slightly rickety back always made him feel inexplicable in his heart, and occasionally felt Liu Chen's gaze, the flower mother raised her head and smiled warmly, the laughter was hoarse, as if telling some story that Liu Chen couldn't understand.