Uncle Guo

This year the bandits came down to open up wasteland and cultivate land, and the harvest of herbs was more than last year.

Liang Xuanchen also helped lure those who went back to the mountain to become bandits after they were recruited to go down the mountain, killed a group, and locked up a group. Even without Liang Xuanchen, he could still be alone.

After the medicinal materials are dried, a batch is offered as a tribute, and the rest can be found for buyers and sold at a high price.Liang Xuanchen asked Yu Anyi to prepare it carefully, refining a large amount of medicinal materials directly into a plaster, which is convenient to carry when going out.

This time, Liang Xuanchen took Master Bai and Di Kong Shui Kong out to sell medicines, and they walked a little further, until they reached the Chengdu Mansion in the middle of Sichuan, where there are many medicine merchants, and the medicinal materials in the market are also varied and strange.Apart from ginseng and deer antler and musk, there are not many other medicinal materials in the Beidi market, and the medicinal material market in Chengdu is not good. Just a big drug store like Tangmen in the middle of Sichuan sells hundreds of kinds of herbs and refined ointments, Pills, lotions, powders, fats, medicines, poisons, and fragrances for various purposes, and there are naturally many self-created signature schools. It is nothing to cure headaches and brain fever. , what clears the meridians, what nourishes yin and strengthens yang, what strengthens the body and bones, and what cures all diseases, and even what is called immortality.Someone like Liang Xuanchen who only brought a few hundred catties of herbal medicine, and only one kind of herbal medicine, is simply a medicine farmer from the countryside. He can't even get a stall in the market, so he can only sell it casually outside the market.

Of course, because the black jade staccato grass is extremely famous, it has miraculous effects in healing the wounds of swords, spears and halberds, so before going to the market, the inn proprietress came to matchmaking as soon as she smelled it, and dragged Liang Xuanchen to meet a big merchant. And guarantee a good price.

Liang Xuanchen flipped his palm lightly, avoiding the proprietress's entanglement, and said with a smile: "There is no such thing as black jade intermittent grass, this is a forbidden drug, and the imperial court does not allow it to be sold."

Dikong and Shuikong went upstairs with a small amount of luggage. In the cloth bag of Master Bai, there were twenty boxes of refined plasters, the price of which was gold. A few catties of herbs are more conspicuous.While Liang Xuanchen was chatting with the proprietress, the three of them went around and went up the stairs of the inn.

Shuikong waited at the stairs, afraid that Liang Xuanchen would have trouble moving in the unfamiliar environment.Unexpectedly, the proprietress saw that Liang Xuanchen looked good, but he was blind, so she molested him on the spot.

Shuikong was about to step forward to make a rescue, but Master Bai urged in front of him: "Your third master can't suffer, come up and pack up quickly."

Sure enough, when the proprietress wanted to go forward again, Liang Xuanchen pinched the opponent's fingers with a grasping hand, and gently broke the knuckles, but the knuckles were not broken, but it hurt, and it was as if the whole person was being grabbed by the pigtails.

The proprietress begged for mercy, and said with a smile: "This young man is so handsome, so he is a practitioner."

Liang Xuanchen didn't care about her, he followed Master Bai upstairs and into the room with his white jade and purple bamboo stick.

After some tidying up, Mr. Bai said: "It's a pity that Dr. Xiao Yu didn't come to the medicinal material market here, otherwise he would have to buy a lot of medicinal materials back home, and he is a man of knowledge."

Liang Xuanchen said: "I should have taken him with me, but the daughter-in-law of Fengqi's family is about to give birth. I am afraid that I won't be able to find a good stable wife for a while. Fengqi came to ask me personally, so I naturally let him stay. At worst, next year Next, I will also go to Chengdu Mansion to see the situation."

Master Bai said: "You also came to Chengdu to sell medicinal materials last year, didn't you?"

Shui Kong made tea for Liang Xuanchen, and said to Master Bai: "The banditry was serious last year. The third master said that Master Bai is a responsible person, so you can rest assured if you stay in Lingshan. In fact, we only stayed in Chengdu for one night and sold the medicine directly to to the Tang Sect in the middle of Shu."

Master Bai said strangely: "In this way, you can sell for 500 taels of silver. It's really good for business."

Liang Xuanchen took the tea, but because he couldn't see, he drank a mouthful of floating leaves, put down the teacup, he smiled faintly, noncommittal.

Master Bai saw that he was in a bad mood, so he didn't say anything, just said a few words, and went to sleep in the next room.The four of them booked three rooms, without Lin Mingcheng by his side, Liang Xuanchen was used to being generous, the inn was selected from the ground, it was almost the same, the rooms were reserved from time to time, and the best room was reserved for Liang Xuanchen.

Putting the piano on the balcony properly, Liang Xuanchen sat there alone playing the piano, his back was slightly lonely.

Master Bai heard the sound of the piano in the next room, and couldn't help sighing. After dinner, the moon was in the sky, the two of them went out to play early, and Liang Xuanchen was still playing the piano alone, so Master Bai brought the wine into the house Find Liang Xuanchen, ready to have a heart-to-heart talk and explain to him.

"Haven't I ever asked, Master Bai is honored this year?" Liang Xuanchen said.

Master Bai said: "I'm very old, in my early forties, and a bachelor."

"Master Bai looks like a crouching dragon. You have put in a lot of effort to control the bandits. Why are you willing to stay in Lingshan?"

Master Bai said: "I'm so honored, I'm really capable. I've assisted the previous county magistrates to deal with the banditry. Why did I watch them go and die."

Liang Xuanchen said: "Master is self-effacing. I don't think you are a leader. You are probably just helping from the side and don't want to mention others. Just being able to survive in Lingshan smoothly and being a master for more than ten years , is a capable one."

Master Bai said again: "You must have wanted to ask these questions a long time ago?"

Liang Xuanchen said: "But it's okay to say, I've had a drink today, and I'll forget about it tomorrow."

Master Bai said: "It's nothing more than committing crimes when I was young, and my background is not good. Although I can read a few words, I can't go to the test for merit, so I have to be a teacher in the yamen, copying and writing."

"Lingshan is so poor, why not change places?"

"Lingshan can be endless. Black jade is more expensive than gold intermittently. It's just that the people in the mountains are simple. They don't know that this herbal medicine can be so expensive to sell in Chengdu. In addition to the language barrier, no one would think of selling the herbal medicine. Besides, the court did not allow private sales a few years ago." Master Bai said here, looking at Liang Xuanchen intently, "I just didn't expect you to be the eldest brother-in-law today. Uncle Guo wants to ask for a reward, but it's just a word and an official document. For Yu Lingshan, it is really a great blessing."

Liang Xuanchen said: "I don't dare to ask for more, why don't I carry the medicine and sell it in the market?"

Master Bai said: "Look, you are an uncle of the country, why don't you go to Lingshan to live in the same way, you are obviously a relative of the emperor, and you still come out to discuss business like a businessman. If the governor didn't come to arrest Mrs. Lin, I don't know You are actually the uncle of the country, and you didn't let everyone make it public after the incident, otherwise, in your capacity, you could have sent more people from above to suppress the bandits, or to make it easier for the Lingshan government office, or even bring Master Lin along with you. Go to a rich place to be an official."

Liang Xuanchen begged for mercy, "Well, it's my own pleasure. I just want to live a quiet life. If you use too much of the uncle's status in this country, you will cause trouble. I understand this truth."

Master Bai nodded, "Third Master is a transparent person."

Liang Xuanchen smiled wryly, "How can I be transparent, I am troubled by trivial matters in the world of mortals all day long."

"Be transparent in terms of fame and fortune, but can't think about the private relationship of children. If you think about it, you will be empty of all four things."

Liang Xuanchen nodded repeatedly.

After drinking for three rounds, Master Bai said: "Don't you ask me what I did when I was young?"

"Appreciate further details."

"At that time, I liked someone, but I was from a bad background. I was just a young man who sold himself into slavery. He was not good enough for him, and he already had someone he liked and was waiting to get married. At that time, his father was involved in a conspiracy He was decapitated in a major case, and he was dispatched to the frontier to serve as an army. On the way, the escort officials saw that he was good-looking and wanted to treat him lightly. I killed those officials and took him to escape to Lingshan. In those years, I I had a good time, but I didn't expect him to be unhappy, after all, he lives in a remote area, and he doesn't like me." Having said that, Master Bai's voice softened.

"and after?"

"Later he left, he said he was going to find the person he liked, I let him go, and I stayed."

Liang Xuanchen nodded, "Do you know where he is now?"

"I don't know, I told him that I will wait for him to come back at Lingshan."

Liang Xuanchen didn't ask who he was talking about, whether it was him or her, and he waited foolishly for more than ten years without any results. He didn't know that Master Bai would not regret it later.Thinking about myself again, I thought I was an idiot when I separated and reunited with others all these years, but as a result, my good friends changed after another, and I became a romantic.

"I want to leave Lingshan, but I don't know where the road ahead is."

Master Bai was surprised, "Are you leaving now? Have you told him?"

Liang Xuanchen shook his head, "When I was young, I had a falling out with my family. I became an unworthy person and made my parents sad and disappointed. It's fine if this happened to me. But I can't force him to follow my example. My parents and him My parents are different. I have a concubine brother in my family. Although his parents are old, they are successful and successful, and they don’t depend on me to live. His mother is different..."

Master Bai knew why he was suffering recently, he lived his life like that, so naturally he couldn't persuade Liang Xuanchen, the two of them drank some more, and later said that they couldn't remember anything clearly.Master Bai helped Liang Xuanchen back to his room, and slept until the sun was high. When Liang Xuanchen asked the time, he secretly cried out.

He originally made an appointment with the shopkeeper of the Tang Sect's medical center to sell some of the medicinal materials to others. The quantity of medicinal materials is not as good as last year, and the price is only higher than last year.As for the refined ointment, he also wanted to find a higher bidder at the rally.

After simply washing up and changing his clothes, he hurried out with the ground, water and water, and when he arrived at the medical center, the clerk had been waiting for a long time, and welcomed him into the reception hall in the back hall.As soon as he entered the door, he realized that someone had already gone there first, and was looking up at the calligraphy and painting on the wall.

The visitor nodded and smiled, dressed in brocade clothes, he also looked like a drug dealer. "My surname is Li."

Liang Xuanchen cupped his hands and said, "My surname is Mu." When he was out, he often took off the top of the beam, and used it as a rotten tree without a beam to laugh at himself.

"Brother Mu came to the Tang Sect to seek medical advice. There seems to be something wrong with your eyes?" the man asked.

This straight-forward inquiry was indeed a little impolite, but Liang Xuanchen didn't take it seriously, and said politely: "Indeed, I am blind. I also came to ask the famous doctor of the Tang Sect last year, but the famous doctor also said that it can't be cured."

"It's a pity, with Brother Mu's personality and appearance, he is blind. However, Brother Mu looks like ordinary people. It's just that when you talk, you always look at the ground, but not at me, so I'm curious." .”

Liang Xuanchen just smiled, not wanting to answer his words.

The young master surnamed Li looked at the cloth pockets brought by Dikong and Shuikong, and said: "The black jade intermittent grass in there?"

"That's right, Brother Li is also a smart guy."

"Do you want to sell all these medicinal materials to Tangmen? But there are more?"

"Yes, there are, but they have been made into plasters, and the price is relatively expensive."

"Black jade staccato grass is a magic medicine. Now that it has been made into ointment, I am afraid that the effect of the medicine is even more peculiar. Can you open my eyes? If it is really as good as the legend, I want to buy some spares. The price is not a problem."

Liang Xuanchen said: "Isn't it appropriate for us to discuss business on other people's land?"

Mr. Li laughed loudly, "That's right, I'll wait by the side, you hand over the herbs on your body to the shopkeeper, and I'll go outside with you to talk."