Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

Guo Ye ignored Bai Jingsheng's accusation, but walked up to Guo Laohan and asked earnestly, "Father, why did you come to the county town without knowing me?"

As soon as these words came out, Bai Jingsheng's guess was confirmed, and he thought, mother, it's over, it's over, this time it's offended, this rotten guy with eyes growing up to his dick, why would I be blind and hire him.

Guo Laohan didn't have the leisure to greet Guo Ye and complained about his family's incompetence, but quickly squatted on the ground to help the person lying on the ground, and shouted: "Old Nine, Old Nine, you have to hold on, my baby is here, Hold on."

He said anxiously to Guo Ye: "Boy, what are you dawdling about, quickly find someone to rescue your old ninth uncle, I'm afraid that your old ninth uncle will not be able to hold on any longer."

Uncle Jiu?

Hearing his father's anxious yelling, Guo Ye casually lay on the ground and took a look at the man. Isn't this the old hunter Zheng Jiu who lives at the entrance of Daze Village?

Guo Ye vaguely remembered that this Zheng Jiu and his father grew up in the same village. They lived alone without a wife and children, and lived by hunting in the mountains for many years.

As long as Zheng Jiu got game, there would be a bowl of meat on the Guo family's dining table, such as hare meat, roe deer meat, or roe deer meat. Anyway, the old hunter Zheng Jiu had a deep friendship with the Guo family.

Guo Ye didn't have time to ask Old Ninth Uncle why he was injured so badly. Maybe he fell down the mountain while hunting?

Unable to control so much, Guo Ye said to Guo Laohan: "Father, don't worry, I have everything."

Immediately, Guo Ye stared at Bai Jingsheng, the shopkeeper of Baiji Pharmacy, with a gloomy gaze, and asked in a cold voice: "Dare to ask shopkeeper Bai, why do you refuse to save him? Are you running a medicine shop or a pawn shop? Do you believe me? Are you going to tear down your black-hearted medicine shop that wants nothing to save you?"

In ancient times, there was such a slang saying, the medicine shop that saves people, and the pawn shop that kills people.

The pharmacy treats the disease and grabs the medicine, it is to save the life.

As for the pawn shop, it is usually the common people who are unable to live on, so they will pawn the things at home, and the people in the pawn shop will generally keep the price of the pawned things to the lowest, and often the items worth ten taels will not exceed one tael at most in the pawn shop. .

For example, for a high-quality mink fur coat worth tens of taels, the people in the pawn shop would often read it like this: "A tattered padded jacket that was eaten by insects and rats is worth five taels of silver. Is it worth it or not?"

Even if they are squeezed to the lowest price, the common people will still choose to agree to pawn. Who makes their lives difficult and anxious to spend money?

Therefore, making money in pawnshops seems to people to be taking advantage of others' danger.

It is precisely because of this that there is such a saying as "the medicine shop that saves people, and the pawn shop that kills people".

Hearing Guo Ye's question now, Bai Jingsheng shivered suddenly, his guts were filled with regret, why did he become so weak, making things difficult for an old village man, who was actually the father of a public servant, and was famous in the county for a while? Guo Xiaoge's father.

"Hehe, Brother Guo was joking, just joking, you know this old man is your father, and he wouldn't dare to borrow ten guts from me?" He got stuck at this point, and hurried to the people in the pharmacy. He shouted, "Come here, they are all fucking dead. Didn't you see that there was someone urgently in need of medical treatment at the door of the pharmacy? Hurry up, hurry up and bring Guo Xiaoge's relatives into the shop, so that the doctor can take a good look."

After a while, a few apprentices grabbing and brewing medicine ran out of the shop, and under Bai Jingsheng's scolding and beating, they tiptoedly carried Zheng Jiu, who was lying on the ground, into the medicine shop.

Then, Bai Jingsheng ran into the pharmacy in a hurry, and quickly found a doctor who was in the pharmacy to see Zheng Jiu. He knew that there was no longer any delay. If Zheng Jiu died in his pharmacy, it would be Guo As soon as Ye, the official yamen servant, got angry, he used excuses to make things difficult for Baiji Pharmacy every day, and he couldn't afford to walk around.

Guo Ye supported Guo Laohan and followed him into the pharmacy. While watching the doctor in the pharmacy give Zheng Jiu a detailed diagnosis, he comforted his father and said, "Father, don't worry. Should be fine."

Guo Laohan sighed, and blamed himself: "It's all my fault for being stupid. I was busy carrying Lao Jiu to the city, but forgot to bring money. Alas... If Lao Jiu has something good or bad, I will never feel at ease for the rest of my life."

At this time, Bai Jingsheng probably didn't dare to face Guo Ye, for fear that Brother Guo would beat him up, so he didn't know where the cat went.

Guo Ye also had no time to pay attention to this profiteer, and asked Guo Laohan, "Father, what happened to Old Ninth Uncle? Could it be that he met a blind man while hunting in the deep mountains and old forests?"

Guo Laohan still shook his head sadly and sighed: "Where will you meet any Xiong Xiazi? With your old ninth uncle's hunting skills for so many years, even if you can't kill Xiong Xiazi when you meet him, you can get away safely." I don’t want to talk about it anymore. When I was chopping firewood in the mountains early this morning, I passed by a cliff and found him. When I saw him, he was covered in blood, probably because he fell off the cliff.”

After finishing speaking, he looked anxiously at the room specially set up for serious patients in the pharmacy, and sighed anxiously: "The cliff is tens of feet high. Lao Jiu has been hunting for so many years, so it stands to reason that he wouldn't be so careless."

As soon as Guo Ye heard about this, his occupational disease of reasoning began to occur again, and he thought to himself, is there something else hidden in it?Someone is going to harm my Old Ninth Uncle?

Then he asked suspiciously, "Father, did Uncle Jiu say anything on the way you came to the city with your back on your back?"

Guo Laohan said: "What can he say? He was so sleepy all the way, what can he remember?"

Guo Ye let out a groan, and thought, only when my old ninth uncle wakes up will he know what happened.

Guo Laohan suddenly screamed, and said: "Yes, yes, he keeps chanting a word."

Guo Ye was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "What did Old Ninth Uncle say?"

Guo Laohan said: "He kept saying 'I didn't see anything' and 'Grandpa, please forgive me'."

see nothing?Sir, please forgive me?

Guo Ye guessed even more in his mind, could it be that Old Ninth Uncle saw something he shouldn't have seen while hunting, and the other party wanted to kill him to silence him?

squeak...

The treatment room opened accordingly, and the doctor came out with sweat on his face, and said to Guo Ye with some joy: "Brother Guo, your relative is really hard-fated. After suffering such a serious injury, you still have to die. He was able to hang in one breath until now. Fortunately, he was finally rescued. However, he is still in a coma, and it is estimated that he will wake up tomorrow morning."

After hearing this, Guo Ye and Guo Laohan breathed a sigh of relief, and they were finally rescued.

Guo Laohan muttered unsteadily: "The old nine is the old nine, good luck and great fortune."

Guo Ye asked: "This doctor, besides the wound from falling from a high place, does my Old Ninth Uncle have any other wounds?"

The doctor was stunned, and he gave a thumbs up and praised: "Brother Guo is amazing. Apart from falling injuries, your relative has suffered a lot of hard objects on his chest and back. Judging from the bruises on the surface, it should be something like a stick. By the way. , There is still a small knife wound on his lower abdomen, but fortunately, it only scratched the skin and did not cause much damage."

When the doctor said this, Guo Ye further confirmed his guess. Someone must be harming Zheng Jiu. It seems that the mystery inside can only be solved when the old Jiu Shu wakes up.

And Guo Laohan choked up on the ground, feeling sorry for his old brother.

Guo Ye comforted his father and said: "Father, let's not cry. The matter of Old Ninth Uncle is our family's business. I will definitely not let him suffer this crime for nothing. Let's go home first and wait for Old Ninth Uncle Wake up, point out the real culprit, and I will definitely bring that bastard to justice."

After speaking, after explaining to the doctor and the clerk in the pharmacy to take good care of Old Ninth Uncle, he helped Guo Laohan out of the Baiji pharmacy and walked to his home in Yau Ma Hutong.

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At nightfall, after Guo Ye settled his father and slept in the guest room, after a while, he also washed up and returned to his bedroom to prepare for bed.

Sudden--

Bang bang bang!

There was a rush of knocking on the door of the small courtyard, and Guo Ye immediately put on his coat and hurried to open the door when he heard the sound.

As soon as the courtyard door opened, it turned out that it was Cheng Erniu, who was in a hurry in the middle of the night.

Guo Ye was just about to reprimand, but Cheng Erniu snatched it up and said, "Brother, something happened, ho... ho..."

Cheng Erniu leaned on the pillar of the courtyard gate with one hand and gasped for breath while shouting, "Bai, Baiji Pharmacy, it's on fire!"

Chapter 38 Murder, Tucun

hum!

Guo Ye's head seemed to be hit hard by a huge copper hammer, and there was a buzzing sound all of a sudden.

Baiji Pharmacy is on fire?