lure way

"Master Snake Fairy and Snake, I don't intend to offend you. I just took a few herbs and went home to save my brother. When my brother recovers from illness, I will definitely carry a bamboo basket of incense to pray for you!" Wu Qinglan bent down, clasped his hands together, He bowed and respected in a dignified manner, that appearance was very funny, it was a waste of that originally elegant face.

The man in black robe shook his head and left.

On the second day, Wu Qinglan came again with a long bamboo pole and a big bamboo basket on his back.

The black-robed man from that day pretended to be a mortal and walked out of the lush grass and leaves, reaching out to hold the long bamboo pole that Wu Qinglan stretched out, and looked at the stunned person opposite with a half-smile.

Wu Qinglan stared at the man for a long time, but did not let go, saying:

"May I ask who is Xiongtai? How dare you cross the line? Are you not afraid of snakes?"

The man laughed, "Didn't you cross the line too?"

Wu Qinglan shook her head again and again, "I'm not crossing the line, I'm still standing on the other side of the river! It's you, come here quickly! If the rumor is true, you will die!"

The man lowered his head and looked around. All the places where Wu Qinglan's iron hook could touch had been cut all over. Where were there any precious herbs, so he said:

"I have lived in this mountain for a long time, and I have never seen a snake. It is just a rumor for hundreds of years, do you believe it?"

Wu Qinglan was dubious, "Really?"

"Do you think I'm alright?"

"That's right! You're fine!" Wu Qinglan stepped forward boldly, "Brother, can you take me into the mountains to collect herbs? After collecting the herbs, I'll treat you to Manxiang Street to eat roast duck!"

The man readily agreed.

On this day, under the leadership of the mysterious man, Wu Qinglan picked a bamboo basket full of precious herbs and went back. The rumored Snake Mountain did not let him find a trace of a snake.When going down the mountain, Wu Qinglan and the man agreed to go to Manxiang Street to eat roast duck together in two days.

When parting, the man gave Wu Qinglan a jade pendant with the word "旒yuan" written on it. Wu Qinglan didn't have a long body, so he couldn't accept this big gift. The man smiled, took off his old hair crown and left gracefully.

Wu Qinglan put away the jade pendant carefully, and returned with a bamboo basket full of spoils, thinking: this time my brother is saved!I'm glad I didn't listen to Ling Mochen's words at the beginning, "Be kind to yourself, don't work too hard, otherwise there will be disasters", isn't he good?

After jumping over the mountain in front of him, he was home. Wu Qinglan rolled up his sleeves and wiped the sweat off his face. Looking back for a while, Junfeng Mountain was far away.

"You are Wu Qinglan? Let us find it easy!" A rough male voice suddenly appeared behind him, which startled Wu Qinglan, and then turned around, and saw two tall and thick men standing in front of him, both with beards on their faces. Thick eyebrows and round eyes, his face is very vicious.

Wu Qinglan tightened the bamboo basket on her body, wondering if these two people came to grab his medicinal materials? !He smiled and said:

"Yeah, I'm Wu Qinglan, and I'm collecting herbs here. In this barren mountain, I can only collect some common medicinal materials." After speaking, he sighed, "I'm afraid I can't sell it for a lot of money."

The strong man in the lead was overjoyed when he heard this, and said with a sinister smile:

"Collecting herbs? I'm afraid you won't need to collect herbs in the future."

Another burly man agreed:

"That's right, look at this thin skin and tender meat, maybe it can be the top brand of Nanfeng Pavilion."

The two of them approached Wu Qinglan while talking, gesturing to catch him, Wu Qinglan retreated step by step, his face terrified, "What are you going to do?"

"What are you doing? Of course I'm arresting you to be a young lady in the Nanfeng Pavilion! To be honest, Nanfengguan's mother Yu has already taken a fancy to your son."

The Nanfeng Pavilion is not far from the medical center, and even poor young men who have been bullied and seriously injured are sent for medical treatment, so Wu Qinglan naturally knows where the Nanfeng Pavilion is. He raised a bamboo pole to block the two of them, "I warn you, Arresting someone without permission is against the law!"

"You don't need to tell us that." The two strong men looked at each other and smiled, and one of them took out a piece of paper from his pocket, "See clearly, this is the contract of sale signed by your parents, and you have been sold I exchanged 500 taels of silver for the Nanfeng Pavilion, and I am going to take your younger brother to Kyoto to see a doctor!"

"This...I...I don't believe it!" Wu Qinglan took the contract of sale, which had his father's name on it, and it was also his father's handwriting, and there were two fingerprints, "No! This must be You forced it! I want to see my parents! You must have forced it!" Wu Qinglan rushed home like crazy, and two strong men followed him all the way to the house.

In the lonely small courtyard, there was only one old man sitting alone in front of the door. Seeing Wu Qinglan rushing towards him with disheveled hair, his old face was full of shame.

"Father, where's mother? Where's Xiaoyan?" Wu Qinglan searched inside and outside the house, and the two strong men stood in the courtyard with their arms folded.

"Your mother... has already set off with Xiaoyan, and father will leave soon." Old man Wu lowered his head and patted Wu Qinglan's shoulder, "Son, we are the ones who are sorry you!"

My heart turned cold in an instant, and even my cheeks, which were flushed with heat from the rush, turned pale.

"Father..." Wu Qinglan tightly grasped Old Man Wu's clothes, "This... what's going on here!"

"Qinglan," the old man Wu raised his head, looked at Wu Qinglan's red eyes, and said seriously, "I can only blame my father for not being able to get out of this mountain to treat Xiaoyan."

"But! But I'm here! I'm thinking of a way! Dad, look! We have the medicine! This time we will definitely save Xiaoyan!" Wu Qinglan poured out a bamboo basket full of herbs with trembling fingers, Old man Wu showed them one by one.

"It's useless!" The old man Wu suddenly stood up and kicked away the pile of precious herbs, "The medicines you have boiled all these years are useless except bitterness! The wages you earn are not enough to treat Xiaoyan's illness. We also have no choice, you can't earn 500 taels of silver in your life, so we can only sell you!"

"...Father..." Qinglan looked at the father in front of him in disbelief, who had given him warm affection, carried him across the single-plank bridge when he was a child, and led him through Manxiang Street , would give up a pot of wine money to buy him candied haws, would rather freeze and cover him with a quilt in the winter...

He didn't believe that such a close relative would personally push him into hell!He was stunned, his lips trembling, and said sadly: "Father, I am also your son!"

Old man Wu shook his head, "...No. We took you in because we had no children.... Later... we finally had Xiaoyan..."

I see......

Wu Qinglan's legs felt weak.Indeed, his father and mother are very old.

"My child, we don't want to do this either! When you were abandoned back then, if it wasn't for me, you would have died a long time ago, so you should... just repay us, don't hate us... hope Can you understand... When you become a parent one day, you will understand us..." Old man Wu shook Wu Qinglan's hand and coaxed.

"Being a parent..." Qinglan suddenly smiled sadly, can he still have such a day?

"Okay, this is annoying! Are you going with us by yourself, or are we going to tie you up?" A strong man shouted at Wu Qinglan impatiently.

Wu Qinglan clenched her fists and calmed down, "I will go by myself."