"Big brother, come over and drink porridge!" Zhang Fan and the old man walked in the crowd, and suddenly the girl's immature voice came from the front. Zhang Fan looked up and saw dozens of women sitting around a pot of rice porridge, the girl was holding a small bowl of white rice porridge, looking at herself with excitement on her face, so she came to her side and said with a smile: "Little sister, you drink it quickly, big brother, I'm not hungry." ”

The little girl is the innocent child that Zhang Fan first met, and now several women around her are nearby to help serve porridge, among which the girl's mother and the girl named Jia'er are also there, when the girl and Zhang Fan talked, everyone turned their eyes to him.

When the girl heard this, her little eyes were full of tears, and she cried and said: "Big brother, there is diced meat in the porridge, why don't you want it?" Zhang Fan smiled bitterly: "Little sister, thank you, big brother, I'm really not hungry, you eat first." ”

"Hong'er, don't be mischievous, come to Mom. Then the girl's mother spoke up. When the girl heard this, she had no choice but to slowly walk towards the thin woman with a small wooden bowl. Zhang Fan looked at everyone's faces with a faint look of disappointment, and said with a smile: "Don't worry about me, I just ate in the morning, and I'm still full." ”

"Big brother, you are busy from morning to noon, and you haven't eaten a grain of rice, how can you do it? This pot of porridge is specially prepared for you by our sisters, although it is a little poor, but the big brother should drink some to cushion his stomach first. At this time, Jia'er stood up and said to Zhang Fan. At the same time, the girl's mother also said loudly: "Benefactor, you can drink a little." It's just that the concubines and others are clumsy and can't make exquisite meals. But you're tired all day, how can you do without eating?" The old man beside Zhang Fan looked at Zhang Fan's somewhat embarrassed expression, and said in a low voice: "Hero, this meat porridge has been boiled well, you can drink some." Zhang Fan smiled: "Okay, since everyone is kind, then I will have lunch with everyone." As he spoke, he sat down with the old man.

After a while, Jia'er brought two bowls of rice porridge and handed them to Zhang Fan and the old man respectively. Zhang Fan drank the rice porridge and asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, have you drunk the medicinal soup, are you feeling better now?" The girl's mother also said, "Thank you, benefactor, thanks to your precious elixir, the concubine is also healed." Then several women around him also said that their condition was completely cured.

The old man looked at Zhang Fan and found that his face was full of doubts, and said with a smile: "Hero, what you used for us is the eight-grade antidote pill, even the royal family may not have it." Almost all of the villagers have not practiced martial arts, and when the disease hit, they were driven to Xicheng by those careerists, lacking food, less clothing, and some of them could not survive for a few days and passed away. Now that we have nearly 100 elixirs, illness is no longer a problem. Now that everyone has eaten enough, they are naturally refreshed. Zhang Fan nodded and said, "I know all this, but I don't know why everyone was driven here, which is incredible." When the old man heard this, he let out a long sigh and said, "Hero, in fact, we are also forced to be unable to do it." Most of us are some lowly laborers who help people run errands and raise horses in the city, and when the disease comes, the shopkeepers run away, and we have no place to live, and we have to face the invasion of the disease, which is really impossible. Those people of the family were worried that we would pass on the disease to them, so they tempted all of us, who had no livelihood and no cultivation, to gather in Xicheng and give us a little ration every month, otherwise they would secretly harm us. Therefore, there are almost no pedestrians in the east city, the south city and the north city, but the west city is densely packed with disaster victims. Zhang Fan's face was full of anger, and he said hatefully: "These people who are greedy for life and afraid of death will only bully the weak, they really damn it!" The old man heard the words and persuaded: "Hero, you don't have to be angry, this is also a helpless thing, who told us to just run errands for people." Now that you have healed us, we can return to our old lives. Zhang Fan asked puzzledly: "Do you still want to be abandoned by those black-hearted shopkeepers again? The old man smiled bitterly and said, "Hero, what can ordinary people do except for cheap servants? The reason why everyone is displaced this time is mainly because of the disease." Now that everyone is recovered, the shopkeepers will come back in the evening, recruit guys, and continue to operate. Zhang Fan said with a strange smile: "Uncle, didn't those shopkeepers take refuge? How could they come back so soon?" The old man smiled bitterly: "How could those black-hearted greedy people give up the cornucopia of Shuoyue City, they were just scared by tens of thousands of dead people and hid, and they didn't leave Shuoyue City at all." When Zhang Fan heard this, he was speechless. The old man then said: "Besides, although everyone was a little bitter before, it was more than enough to eat enough, although this time they suffered, but almost everyone was unwilling to leave the previous life, which may be the cowardice of human nature, but life is full of helplessness, and those who are really willing to fight to the death are often those who have no way out." Zhang Fan sighed, stood up, and said: "I understand, ordinary people only need to be able to eat and dress warmly, and rarely go for fame and fortune." When the old man heard this, he sighed: "Yes, I would rather be a peace dog than a chaotic person, so why am I not like this? Zhang Fan put down the bowl, stood up and said to everyone: "You all eat slowly, I'll go elsewhere first to see how everyone is doing." They said, "Go away, benefactor, and ignore us." Immediately, the old man also stood up and followed Zhang Fan away.

Zhang Fan and the two walked among the crowd to ask about everyone's recovery, and before they knew it, it was afternoon.

Suddenly, a commotion came from the alleyway to the east. Zhang Fan turned around and saw that many people were hurrying eastward. The old man smiled: "Don't be surprised, the heroes are now cured from their illnesses and are going to do their own business." The old man smiled: "I used to tell fortunes in this Shuoyue City, and I used to make a small profit, but unfortunately after the plague came, no one came to me again." Now that the hero has saved my Jiang Shang's life, I will naturally follow the hero in the future, sweep the eight wildernesses, unify the five continents, and set the world. Zhang Fan was shocked when he heard this: "Old man, you want to joke nonsense, I have no intention of rebelling." Don't instigate me to do that, I just want to practice martial arts well, and by the way, marry a few ** beautiful concubines for the rest of my life. The old man smiled: "Hero, you don't have a chance, hehe." If you don't practice martial arts and don't come to save the people of Shuoyue City, you may be able to be rich for a lifetime. But you have cultivated the dragon qi of the human emperor, you are the emperor of the heavens, and you have also saved nearly one million people in Shuoyue City, and the hearts of the people have gathered, and now this Qi country and even the Tianyuan Continent have already had an undercurrent, and at this time and place are favorable, you will inevitably become a hegemon. You are young and you are refining the internal organs in the late stage of cultivation, and you can even leapfrog and kill innate masters, and there is no mountain and stone in this world that can stop your steps. Zhang Fan was shocked: "Jiang Lao, how do you know so much, do you have any purpose, to secretly investigate me?" Jiang Lao smiled: "The hero seems to have forgotten that I am a fortune teller." Zhang Fan shouted: "Shit, don't you want to lie to me! Only those idiot businessmen and three-year-old children will be fooled by you, you want to fool the uncle, no way!" The old man smiled bitterly and said: "I still can't hide anything from the son! Old man, my real name is Situ Shang, I was originally a remnant of the Jin Dynasty, and later was sent by the patriarch to the world to travel the world, waiting for this century-old opportunity to help the emperor restore the Jin Dynasty, unify Tianyuan, and reign the world." Zhang Fan was slightly shocked when he heard this, he had just heard the old man brag about what Jiang Shang was, and laughed at him for joking in his heart, and recalled his strange behavior before and after, only to know that his identity was different, it must be unusual, so he questioned his words, but he didn't expect the old man to have such a background, so he smiled: "I see!" The old man's face was slightly red, and he said: "Old man, I also received a message from the patriarch, and I heard about the epidemic here, so I waited for Gongzi here, but I didn't expect Gongzi to come so soon, hehe." Hearing this, Zhang Fan nodded slightly and didn't say anything.

"Zhang Sanju, why do you want to go back to that broken study, even the boss is gone, what's the use of you going?" Suddenly, a somewhat rude roar came from the front. Then a male voice replied helplessly: "Wang Lao Wu, although I am just a book copyist, but before the old man died, I told me to take good care of Miss, how can I not believe my words?"

Zhang Fan was very surprised when he heard this, and thought: "Why don't these people want to hurry back to the city to do their own business, but they are arguing here, it's really strange." He looked up and saw two men tugging not far away. One was a middle-aged man, wearing a gray and white robe, with a gray and white cloth towel tied in a bun on his head, looking a little thin and elegant, as if he was a scholar. The other was a bearded man, dressed in a shabby gray shirt, with some messy hair, and his arms, which could not be covered by clothes, were a little tanned, but he was tall and burly, somewhat like a butcher. Zhang Fanjun showed a playful smile on his face, and smiled at Situ Shang: "Old man, those two boys are interesting, others are busy earning some silver taels to support their families, but they are arguing here. Let's take a look. The old man smiled slightly, and followed Zhang Fan towards the two.

Zhang Fan came to the two of them and said with a smile: "Hey, you two big men are pulling and pulling, it's insulting Sven!"

"Ahh The two of them suddenly blushed, and when they saw that the benefactor suddenly came to their side, they asked in unison: "In the next Zhang Sanju (Wang Lao Wu) to meet Engong, I don't know what important things Engong is looking for us?" Zhang Fan smiled: "I was originally fine with you, but I saw that the two of you didn't go to Dongcheng and Nancheng to find an errand to make a living with the public, but they were arguing here, and I felt strange in my heart, so I came to take a look." When Wang Lao Wu heard this, he immediately said: "Engong, you don't know anything. Zhang Sanju and I met in this Xicheng. Today, everyone is rushing to the city, and we are also planning to find a way to make a living. I originally wanted to continue to be a butcher and open a butcher shop as before, so I invited this scholar to make a living together. Who knew that he insisted on going back to the broken study to copy the book, and what to say about taking care of Miss Yunyun, it was really unreasonable. When the thin middle-aged scholar Zhang Sanju heard this, his face was full of shame, and he said angrily: "You barbarian, a few months ago, was favored by the boss, and copied books in the Jingyue study, and now he died of illness, and his wife and children have no place to live. How can you abandon their orphans and widows because of the desperation of their benefactors?" Wang Lao Wu said angrily: "Zhang Sanju, how much money can you earn by copying books? Our Shuoyue City is not Luojing City, I am afraid that it will be a problem to feed the three of you just by copying books, I asked you to open a butcher shop with me, not only will you not starve, but you can also eat meat and vegetables, why can't you figure it out?" Zhang San said angrily: "Wang Lao Wu, the scriptures say: 'The rich and the rich cannot be lewd, and the poor and the lowly cannot be moved. 'How can you tell me to be a butcher instead of reading the books of the sages? Wang Lao Wu said angrily: "What, you dead scholar"

"Okay, stop arguing!" Zhang Fan frowned, and opened his mouth to stop, "You two are really unreasonable, one wants to continue studying, the other wants to continue to open a butcher shop, now you have nothing, it's too early to talk about this, you should think about how to survive first." You have to have food and clothing to study, and you need to have money and a shop to be a butcher, so it's useless for you to talk about this here. When the two of them heard this, they both sighed and said: "Engong is right, we can't even support ourselves, but it's a bit absurd to talk about other things." But we can't help it. Zhang Fan smiled: "Since you have met me, then of course I will not let you continue to be down." This is 10,000 taels of silver, and each of you has 5,000 taels, and you can use it as capital to open a study and a butcher's shop. As he spoke, he took out a dozen silver tickets and handed them to Zhang Sanju and the two.

Seeing this, the two of them said in fear: "Engong, how can this make us, we were treated by Engong before, and we were only cured, how can we let Engong give alms now? Engong can't help it!" Zhang Fan smiled: "It's okay, this money is nothing to me, as long as I can help you." When the two of them heard this, their hearts became even more frightened, and they said in a trembling voice: "Engong, how can we make this happen? We are wandering around in the Moon City, how can we teach Engong to break the bank? If we accept Engong's money, we will feel uneasy." Zhang Fan said helplessly: "Then how will you accept the money?" Wang Lao Wu heard this, and immediately replied: "Engong, anyway, you travel alone, no one takes care of miscellaneous affairs, and we used to be unemployed people in this Shuoyue City, we are willing to follow Engong for the rest of our lives, only Engong is the first to look forward, we don't want Engong any money, as long as we can eat enough." Zhang Sanju also said: "Engong is very gracious, Xiaosheng has nothing to repay, and he is willing to follow Engong for the rest of his life, go to the soup and go to the fire, and he will not give up." Zhang Fan smiled: "Okay, since you are willing to follow me, I, Zhang Fan, will not treat you badly." You shall take these taels for the time being, and use them for our living expenses in the future. When the two heard this, they said, "Yes, Engong." Seeing this, Zhang Fan smiled and said, "I heard that you still have something to do, so let's go and do it first." When Zhang Sanju heard this, his face turned red, and he said: "Thank you for your understanding, my subordinates still have something to do in the Jingyue study, but they have to deal with it first, and they can't follow Engong for the time being." Zhang Fan waved his hand and motioned for him to leave. Seeing this, Zhang Sanju said gratefully: "Thank you!" and then he left in a hurry. Seeing this, Wang Lao Wu's black face was slightly red, and he looked a little twisted. Zhang Fan said with a smile: "Wang Lao Wu, if you have anything to do, you can go, don't hesitate." When Wang Lao Wu heard this, he was a little frightened and said: "Engong, my subordinates were originally homeless people in the market, and they didn't have anything to worry about, but there were some friends in the city who were just as mixed in the market as their subordinates. I saw that Engong only had two of our subordinates, so I wanted to recruit them too, do you think it's okay?" Zhang Fan looked at Wang Laowu's cowardly appearance, which was completely contrary to his rough face, and said with a smile: "Okay, it's not a good thing for them to mess around all day long, so you can go and call them." When Wang Lao Wu heard this, his face turned even redder, and he said with great joy: "Engong, my friends are all good players, and they know a little bit of everything, and they promise to satisfy you." The subordinates are gone. Zhang Fan smiled slightly, waved him to go, and then Wang Lao Wu also ran towards the alley.