Chapter 47: Gold and Silver Fall from Heaven
Zhang Fan sat in front of the window and didn't rest for a while, when he saw an old man with a medicine box walking in from outside the door, the female shopkeeper saw this, and asked with a smile: "Doctor Hu, are you back?" The old man heard this, his face was full of sadness, and he said: "Yes, that Miss Gao is very sick, and the old man has to see her once a day." When the female shopkeeper heard this, she said: "I also heard that Miss Gao is quite pitiful, she has been selected as a palace maid, but she has a strange disease at this time, which is really pitiful." The old man smiled helplessly and said: "Blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, although Miss Gao failed to become a ** show girl in the end, but she also avoided the intrigues, for her, isn't it a kind of happiness?" The female shopkeeper smiled: "Doctor Hu, you used to be a person in the palace, you should know that if Miss Gao is well this time, maybe His Royal Highness the Prince will still think about her, when the time comes, she can not only fly on the branches to be a phoenix, but also let you clear your grievances by the way, which is a great thing." ”
Doctor Hu showed a bitter smile on his face and sighed: "Shopkeeper, how easy is this to say! Let's not talk about whether the old man can get rid of the charges imposed on me by those people, and whether Miss Gao can get better now is still another matter." Besides, after so many years of displacement, the old man has already seen through the heat and coldness of the world, and he is no longer the imperial doctor of twenty years ago. The old man just wants to save the people of Li in this Shuoyue City as much as possible, so that those poor people who have no money for treatment can see a hope of life, but unfortunately the old man's medical skills are shallow, although he temporarily alleviates the illness of a few people, hundreds of poor children and old people die in the west of the city every day. The female shopkeeper sighed and said, "Hey, if the city lord Gao and the family in the city can produce some medicinal materials, and now that the epidemic situation has basically stabilized, those children and the elderly should not die." Dr. Hu sighed: "Hey, they are all old and incompetent! I can't think of a suitable way to treat the poor." The medicinal materials that can treat the sick are more than 30 years of medicinal materials, we do not produce medicinal materials here, we must transport them from the border of Changzhou, bandits gather along the way, to us, a good quality of the three medicinal materials has to cost nearly a thousand taels of silver to buy, ordinary people can't afford it, and it is impossible for the family to use the silver of white flowers on the poor. This plague has been stretching for several months in our Liangzhou territory, and hundreds of thousands of ordinary people have been ruthlessly killed by the disease.
The female shopkeeper also showed sadness on her face, and sighed: "Yes, ordinary people, no martial arts, hungry and cold, and have no power to resist the plague." If those ordinary people could also practice martial arts, just a few illnesses would be a piece of cake. When the person sitting in the hall heard this, he said: "The shopkeeper is really a bodhisattva, but it's a pity that even the general martial arts cheats must be cultivated by martial artists with certain qualifications, and at the same time, they need to be assisted by medicinal materials in the cultivation process, ordinary people have never seen any martial arts cheats at all, how can they practice martial arts?" If any immortal family can descend to the mortal land, maybe there won't be so much suffering in this world. The female shopkeeper listened to Old Man Hu's words, burst into tears and smiled: "Doctor Hu, aren't you an immortal? You have saved the lives of nearly a thousand people in our Shuoyue, but you are a real immortal." When Dr. Hu heard the words of the female shopkeeper, he cried and laughed: "I, Hu Zhiyong, let so many people die, what kind of immortal family." As my parents said, I was just a vulgar person. Let's go, don't talk to the female shopkeeper, the old man is still busy. With that, he walked upstairs with the medicine box on his shoulder.
After the guests went upstairs in Old Man Hu, they talked one after another, although there were few people in the store, but they were not as silent as just now, but a little more popular. Zhang Fan listened to the words of Old Man Hu and the female shopkeeper, and thought in his heart: "I originally planned to come out to inquire about the news, but I didn't expect to encounter such a thing in this Shuoyue City, if I don't know how to heal, it's okay, now I have a skill, and it is more than enough to deal with the plague, I really can't sit idly by." As the saying goes: 'Saving a person's life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter.' Since I have encountered this incident, I should help. I don't know much about this world, and now I can save people by the way, make a good start, and find out the news that is useful to me, which is also a good thing to kill two birds with one stone. He had a plan in his heart, and silently looked at the scenery outside the window in a daze.
The female shopkeeper has been secretly observing his actions since Zhang Fan came, even when greeting Dr. Hu, she originally saw that this white-robed boy was a rich man, and wanted to see if she could raise some money from him to save the people living in the west of the city, but the white-robed young man was indifferent from beginning to end, thinking: "These children of the family are really unkind people, and they will not have the slightest sympathy for ordinary people." Ever since the disease struck and my father died, I have been in charge of the inheritance left by my father alone, and I don't want to make good money, but I use all the money to treat the poor, but I don't know whether it is bad or good. She couldn't help but sigh: "Hey!" Suddenly the guests in the hall stopped talking and looked at the female shopkeeper.
Zhang Fan was tired of the noise of everyone, and was silently looking at the scenery outside the window, but when he saw that the hall was quiet all of a sudden, he could only hear the long sigh, and couldn't help but look up at the female shopkeeper, but found that she had already walked into the back hall, thinking: "What's going on? Why did the female shopkeeper who was still smiling suddenly sigh and leave?" He quickly stood up, looked at the crowd, and saw that the crowd was noisy again, and at the same time a smell of flesh and strong wine came to his nose, only to feel nausea in his chest, he frowned, and hurriedly walked upstairs.
"Alas, there is such a beautiful husband in this world!" As soon as Zhang Fan walked upstairs, he heard a disgusting ruffian, and then a drunken man ran towards him. He didn't think about it, he raised his hand and hit the big man with a palm, and with the sound of "spray", the big man flew a few meters away in the blink of an eye, drawing a regular wet mark on the wooden building, and then a smell of feces and urine came.
"Whew, that grandson beats the uncle!" the big man snorted bitterly. Zhang Fan shouted: "You slut, you really don't have long eyes!"
"Knock knock!" With the sound of footsteps going upstairs, a coquettish voice came out: "What's the matter!"
"yes, yes, what happened to the boy who went up just now?"
Zhang Fan heard the female shopkeeper's coquettish shouting, and then turned around to look, and saw the shopkeeper hurriedly coming upstairs. "Shopkeeper, he bullied me!" Before Zhang Fan could speak, the barbarian's painful voice came from behind. As soon as the female shopkeeper came upstairs, she smelled a foul smell, and then saw a rude barbarian lying on the floor, Xiu Mei frowned, and then asked: "What's the matter with the two of you?" Zhang Fan covered his nose, sneered, and said: "Shopkeeper, as soon as I came upstairs, this pseudo-lady actually attacked me, but I gave him a ride, which deserved his bad luck." ”
"I'm just trying to go downstairs to find a woman, and you're beating me!" the brute replied loudly. After he finished speaking, he exclaimed bitterly: "Alas, alas, alas!" The female shopkeeper saw that the two of them were holding their own words, recalled slightly, glanced at the barbarian with disgust, and said: "Boss Mondo, although you are an old customer of our store, but you don't have a long memory of misdeeds, and now you have offended people you can't afford to offend, you can watch it." After she finished speaking, she glanced at Zhang Fan slightly, saw that his face was expressionless, and there was anger in his eyes, and he turned around to leave.
"Shopkeeper, what's the matter?" the sound came from the top of the stairs, and several guests rushed upstairs. When Zhang Fan heard this, he thought: "I am really unlucky today, I actually met a pseudo-mother, but I can't let people see the joke." Seeing that the female shopkeeper was leaving, he said loudly: "The shopkeeper, slowly." When the female shopkeeper heard this, she secretly rejoiced in her heart, turned her head and said, "This son, are you going to let go of that barbarian?" Zhang Fan's eyes disappeared, and he glanced at the barbarian who was still lying on the ground and whispered, smiled slightly, and said: "Haha, as long as the conditions are right, it's not impossible." ”
"This son, did you really let me go?" Hearing this, the barbarian immediately stopped screaming and hurriedly asked, "What a misunderstanding before, hero." The little one hit you, and as long as you're not hitting me, you can do as much as you want. Hearing this, Zhang Fan smiled gloomily: "Boss Mondo, you almost tore my white brocade robe just now, I'm afraid money can't solve the problem." ”
"Ahh As soon as the onlookers smelled the stench, they all said, "Hey, stay away, stay away!" and then retreated. The female shopkeeper frowned, and said in her heart: "I can't let them continue to make trouble, otherwise who will come to my store in the future." So he said out loud: "Childe, what do you want to let him go?" Zhang Fan smiled slightly and said, "It depends on the sincerity of Boss Mondo." ”
"As long as you let me go, I am willing to give 100,000 taels of gold, horses, weapons, anything. Mondo said quickly. Zhang Fan said with a smile: "Boss Mengdo, I'm afraid these things are not enough." Hearing this, Mondo's face twitched a few times, and asked: "I will give you 200,000 taels of gold, no, 300,000 taels of gold, as well as horses of more than four grades and weapons of more than five grades of 1,000, can you let me go?" Everyone was also amazed, they never thought that the barbarian was so rich, and they didn't dare to despise the barbarian anymore.
When Zhang Fan heard the barbarian's words, there was no surprise on his face, but he showed a little playful smile, and thought: "This barbarian acts mischief as soon as he gets drunk, and when he sees the female shopkeeper, he wants to take advantage of the situation to oppress people, and now he sees that he can't open his mouth again and wants to take money to eliminate disasters, obviously it is not a simple commodity, maybe we will meet again, but now I just need gold and silver, and I do have a landing." He certainly didn't have all the money with him now, and when he came to trouble me again, I'd kill him. Then he said loudly: "Okay, since Boss Mondo is happy, I will no longer embarrass you, so you can quickly fulfill your promise." Hearing this, Mondo was overjoyed, and a sinister smile flashed on his face, and then he immediately stood up and said, "Thank you for the mercy of the heroes, the little one will go and prepare gold and silver for you." With that, he ran down the stairs at the other end. Zhang Fan turned around and glanced at the female shopkeeper with a shocked face, and said, "Shopkeeper, I'm sorry." The female shopkeeper reluctantly smiled: "It's okay." Immediately Zhang Fan entered the room, and the female shopkeeper and everyone also went downstairs.