Envy

The next day, he took Yan Zhaohan downstairs for breakfast, and ordered light egg porridge and steamed buns, and the two of them sat in the corner by the window.There are not many guests in the lobby, and it is a bit quiet in the early morning.

Song Jingran came down from upstairs and saw Yan Zhaohan at a glance.He rubbed his eyes, suspecting that he had misread it, but when he got closer, he realized that it was really the blind young man.

He strode over and sat next to the man: "Meng Yan? Why are you here?"

When he raised his eyes, he was surprised to find that Meng Tou was sitting across from him, and asked curiously, "Hey, do you know each other?"

Yan Zhaohan put the chopsticks on the bowl: "This is my third brother, he brought me to Pingyang to seek medical treatment." He said to Meng Tou: "Third brother, this is the little Taoist leader who has been kind to me, named 'Song Jingran' ’, the one I mentioned to you last time.”

Meng Tou nodded, exchanged polite words with Song Jingran, expressed his gratitude, and then said to Yan Zhaohan, "Last night I went to Lixiang Tower to catch Yinling, and I happened to meet him."

Song Jingran said with emotion: "You brothers and I are really destined."

Meng Tou smiled, asked Xiao Er to add a pair of chopsticks, and invited him to have breakfast together.Song Jingran was not too polite, and suddenly thought of something after a feast: "Brother Meng, didn't you say your surname is Yan?"

Yan Zhaohan had already eaten breakfast, and had been sitting quietly, listening to the young man's words, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

Meng Tou recalled the "Meng Yan" that he had teased Yan Zhaohan earlier, and couldn't hold back his face: "You are so young. Who walks the rivers and lakes without an alias?"

Song Jingran bit his chopsticks and thought for a while, but couldn't speak.

At this time, a woman with a big belly came down from upstairs.She covered her face and wept, and walked hastily, followed by a child holding a tiger puppet.Song Jingran saw her anxious appearance, and hurried over to help her down.

The woman thanked her, handed a small piece of silver to Xiao Er who heard the sound, and said to Xiao Er, "Please help me find a doctor, my husband is dying soon."

The man didn't dare to delay, took the money and ran out quickly.Song Jingran said to the woman: "Don't worry, I'll help you up and wait for the doctor."

The woman wiped her tears and thanked her.Her young child ran up to Meng Tou and the others, staring straight at the steamed buns on the plate.I guess he hasn't had breakfast yet.Meng Tou carried the child to the bench and handed him a steamed bun.

The woman was a little worried, and called the child's baby name a few times, but the child hesitated and didn't want to leave.Song Jingran said: "Those two are my brothers, they are kind-hearted, they are with the child, it's fine."

The woman looked at their attire.They are like sons from a famous family.The woman was a little relieved, and said: "Come back to the room after eating."

The child nodded obediently.

Only then did Song Jingran help her go upstairs.

But not long after, Song Jingran hurried downstairs and asked Meng Tou to go up with him.He said: "Brother Meng, that person's face looks more and more strange to me. He is very similar to the people we saw in Lixiang Tower. His face is ashen, without a trace of blood."

After Meng Tou heard about it, he immediately followed up with Yan Zhaohan and the child.At this time, the guy who had gone out also led a doctor upstairs.Several people squeezed into the guest room together.

Meng Tou looked at the earthy-faced man lying on the bed, and made a guess in his heart.

The woman sat on the stool by the bed, her face covered with tears: "He was fine before he went out yesterday. I woke up this morning and saw that he was just like that."

Song Jingran asked cautiously: "Madam, did your husband go to Lixiang Tower last night?"

The woman thought for a while, and said: "Yes. I am pregnant with a child, and it is inconvenient to have intercourse, and I can't stand his pleading, so I let him go to Hualou. Who knows that he will become like this. If there is something wrong with him, What should I do with the child..." She couldn't help crying as she said.

The elderly doctor took her husband's pulse, and stroking his gray beard, said: "The pulse is chaotic, and the energy and blood are insufficient. I will prescribe a prescription. He needs to take care of it."

Song Jingran thought to himself, this treatment will probably take ten days and a half months to get better.Ordinary people have been sucked in essence, and it takes at least half a year to recover.

The doctor always gave people a feeling of being unreliable, but he opened his mouth and asked for two taels of silver for a visit, and another two taels of silver for a prescription.The woman had to pay, and asked the man to go to the pharmacy to get the medicine according to the prescription.

Meng Tou suddenly said, "Madam, do you know how much it costs to have fun in Lixiang Tower for a night?"

There were still tears in the woman's eyes, and she felt a little uneasy when she heard him ask such a question: "I don't know, but my husband has always been very frugal, and this time we came out, he didn't even bring a maid who waits..."

Meng Tou nodded, said "Don't disturb me", and came out with Yan Zhaohan.He said to Yan Zhaohan: "I have to go to Lixiang Tower later. I will tell the guy to prepare lunch and bring it to the room. Eat obediently, okay?"

He smiled and nodded: "I see, you should be careful."

Song Jingran followed closely behind, watched Meng Tou scratch Yan Zhaohan's nose affectionately, and said, "You two brothers have such a good relationship. I really want a brother."

Meng Tou put his arm on Yan Zhaohan's shoulder and smiled heartily.Song Jingran felt that the meaning of this smile was unclear, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

On the way they went to Lixiang Tower, Meng Tou said to him: "It costs 600 taels to spend a night with the girl of an ordinary girl in the building. It costs thousands of taels to spend a night with an oiran girl."

Song Jingran was surprised: "It takes so much! That man doesn't look like a rich man."

"Although his clothes are a bit old, they are made of high-quality silk and satin. Although the lady's dress is simple, the jewelry is very delicate, and it is not affordable for ordinary people. Moreover, she is generous. His family should He is relatively well-off, but probably like what the lady said, he is very frugal, and he may be a miser who regards money as his life."

Song Jingran said angrily: "He is not willing to spend money to hire a woman to take care of his pregnant wife, but he is willing to spend a lot of money fooling around in a flower building. This person is really enough. He deserves to be like this... Why didn't you Tell the lady directly?"

Meng Tou laughed lightly and said, "Why tell the truth and make everyone unhappy. That lady is already pitiful enough. The most urgent thing is to get rid of Meigu."

Lixiang Tower had already appeared not far away, and Meng Tou quickened his pace.Song Jingran followed him blankly: "What is Meigu?"

"A kind of Yin spirit that sucks human blood." Meng Tou asked suspiciously, "Don't you know that it's called 'Beautiful Bone'?"

Song Jingran scratched his head embarrassingly: "I didn't know before, but now I know."