beg for chivalry

In front of Jiulong Mountain, there is a mountain step paved with bluestone slabs, which looks like fighting and snakes.On each step sits cross-legged herbal pickers in coir raincoats, with ramie sacks spread out in front of them.There is a basket on the bag, and there are some ordinary grass leaves such as tamarisk needles and fenugreek, as well as side dishes such as perilla and scallions.

Someone was holding a knotted bamboo pole, and a dangling medicine gourd hung on the top of the pole, indicating that they were going to do a herbal medicine business.The bloodshot eyes of the herbal picker were hidden under the crumpled turban, the exposed skin was tanned by the sun, and his body was full of tiredness like wine.

Ah Yao was also sitting among these herbalists.She nervously held the small pannier and squeezed on the half-broken bluestone steps.She was so shy that when someone came to ask about the price of herbs, she only dared to answer vaguely a few times, and the rest of the time she cowered and lowered her head, playing with the cow ear grass in the cracks between the bricks between her straw sandals.

She is timid and dare not compete with others for business.Naturally, I can only shrink in the corner, watching other people's money and goods intersect, and they are very busy.Ah Yao couldn't help but miss her mother, she was a kind and cheerful woman who could get along with others quickly, unlike her who was shy about everything.

The sun was getting brighter, and the bright white light peeked out from behind the boulders and tallow leaves, caressing her flushed face.The coir raincoat that had been soaked in cold rain and muddy water before was no longer cold. Ah Yao tugged at the soaked sleeves, closed her eyes and soaked in the warm sun.

Just when she was drowsy, a gentle voice suddenly floated above her head: "Girl, is there a herb called 'Snake Heaven Tea' here?"

Ah Yao shrank her neck, and said timidly: "No..." Out of the corner of her eyes, she caught a glimpse of the man's white clothes, and suddenly she was afraid that the rare guest would leave in vain, so she hurriedly added, "Young master, I need some more." Other herbs? They were all just found from Jiulong Mountain, and they still have morning dew."

The man said with a smile: "If there are other herbal medicines called 'Snake Heaven Tea', that would be just right."

Ah Yao pursed her lips and shook her head.She was beating a small drum in her heart. Ordinary people would not come to look for this herb. Shetian tea is extremely difficult to harvest. Not only does it grow in the cliffs, but the herb collectors must always beware of the invasion of man-eating white birds of prey.It is said that medicine saves people, but this Shetian tea is not only highly poisonous, but also harms the herb pickers.

What's more, her mother's hand was cut by the poisonous ivy on the edge of the cliff, and she was poisoned by the intractable poison.The abbot of the Arhat Temple told her to take Snake Heaven Tea to suppress the poison. If she found this herbal medicine, she would like to keep it for herself, so why would she sell it?

The girl raised her head to look at the person coming, but her cheeks blushed involuntarily, and she said softly, "You, you are the brother who is very good at making knives..."

The man standing in front of her was wearing a plain white jacket, his hair was half tied up with white cloth strips, and he was plainly dressed, he seemed to be a servant of an unknown family.He looks quite young, and when he smiles, there is always a slight dimple on one cheek, which makes him appear gentle, kind and approachable.

More than ten years ago, Ah Yao climbed to the roof of Qianjiazhuang to pick pear flowers. At that time, she happened to see a man wielding a knife among the flowers.The man was dressed in plain white clothes, and his saber skills were exquisite and exquisite, to the point of perfection, it could be said that the sharpness of the blade was shocking, and the blade was shocking, as if it could teach Feihua to lose color and spring breeze to see sorrow.

At that time, Ah Yao saw her heart swaying, and couldn't help but be fascinated by it.And she never thought that this person was standing in front of her right now, smiling kindly at herself.

Wang Xiaoyuan didn't know what the herbal girl holding the basket in front of him was thinking, he was secretly worried at the bottom of his heart.Just now he asked a few herb collectors, and learned that this herb is hard to find, and the place where it grows is dangerous, even the veteran herb collectors who have been around for decades can't guarantee that they can escape from the cliff unscathed.So he wandered here for a long time with the idea of ​​trying his luck, but he got nothing.

At worst, the next trip to the cliff is to help that sick ghost gather herbs!He rolled his eyes and thought helplessly.Seeing Jin Wu chasing after him in high spirits, how can you tell what's wrong with this person?Wang Xiaoyuan even felt that his young master and Sanniang had made an agreement to play tricks on him, and insisted on watching him make a fool of himself and cause scandal.

As soon as the girl made a sound, Wang Xiaoyuan came back from his contemplation and asked in surprise, "Do you recognize me?"

Ah Yao buried her head even lower. "I know...I know you. I saw you used a knife before. You look good. Where are you from?"

Wang Xiaoyuan was a little shy after being praised by her, so he quickly looked away. "He's from Jiading. It's not a young man, but a servant who does some errands..."

Ah Yao suddenly raised her face when she heard the words, and said with blinking eyes, "I... I haven't been out of Jiulong Town yet, are the people in Jiading so powerful? Everyone can use a knife? You will also be in the Jianghu Do you want to wander around?"

She asked a lot like a cannonball, but her cheeks flushed quickly, her eyes dodged, and she shrank, "I... I asked so many questions, I'm really rude..."

Wang Xiaoyuan thought of the tyrannical Aunt Mu in the Jin Mansion, and Wu Litian, the son of the leader of the martial arts alliance, who should also stay in Jiading at this time, and the old man Zhu who kept a secret, so he said with a smile: "Although not everyone uses swords, But they are much better than me."

The girl was fascinated by what she heard, and unconsciously felt a little yearning for the appearance outside the town.

At this time, Wang Xiaoyuan asked: "Girl, do you know how to get this 'Snake Heaven Tea'?"

Ah Yao nervously said: "Are you...going to pick? This is a life-threatening job."

She also wanted to take snake sky tea to treat her mother's illness, but she was young and weak, and had never gone down a cliff. To her, picking herbs was no different from death.So she could only think about selling some herbs here to make money, and after saving enough coins, she tried to beg the old herbal picker to pick her up.

Wang Xiaoyuan smiled helplessly: "If I can't pick it, my young master may beat me to death, and the woman I like will also mock me to the point of embarrassment. It's dead anyway, so it's better to take a risk."

Whenever he decides on one thing, he must do it.On the surface, this little servant is very talkative, but in his heart there is a tenacity that can't be pulled back by nine cows.

Ah Yao asked: "Young hero gathers herbs...isn't it for healing?"

Wang Xiaoyuan sighed and said: "It's true that the doctor is treating a sick person, but it's a disgusting disease. And that person was jumping up and down this morning chasing me and beating me. I don't think he's sick anywhere. It's just a matter of asking me to pick medicine." For fun."

The girl exclaimed a little: "...then he must hate you very much."

Wang Xiaoyuan was also surprised.He thought to himself that at most the Golden Crow just loathes him and dislikes him, so why is it "hate"?

He hurriedly asked, "Why do you see that?"

Ah Yao stammered, "It's hard to pick this Snake Heaven tea, and the young man is an amateur... If you want you to collect herbs, don't you just want you to be pecked by fierce birds and fall off the cliff? This... This is too vicious, if It’s not that I hate you so much, how could I teach you to do such things.”

Wang Xiaoyuan frowned slightly, and he thought seriously: Maybe Jinwu really hates him.Seeing how this noble young master yelled at him on weekdays, he proudly dumped all the dirty work to him, wishing that he would vomit blood.Thinking about it carefully, Young Master Jin loves to find fault with him everywhere, and it is reasonable to say that he is "hate".

Wang Xiaoyuan put his hands behind his head and said with a smile: "That's right, he loves to bully me, and I hate him too. We have always disliked each other. It's right to say 'hate', but you can't say that he likes me."

Ah Yao was anxious for a while, then gritted her teeth suddenly and took out the basket, took out a yellow flower and leaf vine and stuffed it into his hand.

Wang Xiaoyuan was startled, holding the flower vine and asked blankly: "This is..."

Ah Yao turned her head and couldn't help blinking, "It's Shetian tea, you can take this back and have a business with your...young master."

She twisted her hair and said intermittently: "I picked it earlier and put it in the basket, but it was useless. You took this medicine... so you won't be beaten?"

Wang Xiaoyuan was taken aback, he never thought that he could obtain this rumored extremely hard-to-harvest herbal medicine without much effort.He was overjoyed and didn't realize that the girl didn't match the words. He only thought that she didn't want to help him lie before, and now she kindly gave up the snake tea she picked.

So he hurriedly clasped his fists in thanks and said, "Thank you for your kind help, Miss." Then he groped into his waist pocket, poured the rest of the broken silver into his hand and handed it over.

Ah Yao's face turned pale with shock.Although Snake Sky Tea is expensive, it does not need so much money.She had never even seen silver coins a few times, she did not expect this man dressed as a servant to take out several coins at once.

Seeing her hesitating, Wang Xiaoyuan rubbed his head and asked stupidly: "Isn't that enough? I don't have much monthly money, so this is all I have left..."

In fact, he has been with Jinwu for a long time, so he really has no concept of using money.Because the young master of his family never seems to be short of money, he gives a monthly salary according to his mood, and Wang Xiaoyuan himself lives extremely frugally, with copper coins in his pocket, he doesn't know where to spend them.

"Enough, that's enough." Ah Yao hurriedly picked up the pieces of silver with her hands.

He was worried, and warned again: "If there is less, tell me, and I will go back and find some money."

"How can there be less? It's better to say that you gave too much, young hero, I... I was scared." Ah Yao's voice trembled.No matter how expensive a medicinal herb is, it is not worth so much money. She just felt that she met a rich man today, but she didn't know that Wang Xiaoyuan was just a fool who took advantage of her.

She carefully wrapped the broken silver in a piece of linen, hid it in her bosom, and wondered: "Young Xia, you are so strange."

"What's so strange?" Wang Xiaoyuan looked at the yellow flower vine and smiled happily, the corners of his mouth almost reaching his ears.

Ah Yao said cautiously. "Judging from your tone just now, you should hate your young master very much, but after finding the medicine, you are very happy."

Wang Xiaoyuan simply said: "I hate him."

"Then why..."

"But if I can't even do what he tells me to do, I'll hate myself even more."

He said seriously, put away the flower vines and swayed on the stone steps with his hands behind his back, a shy smile appeared on his face again. "And the woman I like will definitely scold me, but I can't lose face in front of her."

Ah Yao thought in a daze: Is that really the case?

After the person walked away with brisk steps, the herbal picker sitting on the stone steps laughed and came over and patted her on the shoulder, winking and winking.

All the herb collectors were chattering.

"Ah Yao, you met a fool today!"

"Using morning grass to mix Snake Heaven Tea, it's a good thing he doesn't know medicine, so he was tricked by you!"

It turned out that what Ah Yao gave him back then was not real Snake Sky Tea, but another kind of herb that looked very similar, with light yellow flowers, but one less petal than Snake Sky Tea.Wang Xiaoyuan didn't understand medicine, and he didn't expect the girl to lie to him, so he believed her words so stupidly.

Ah Yao was a little apprehensive.If she hadn't urgently needed to save money to beg the old herb picker, she wouldn't have told such lies to the young man.

She frowned and said in a soft voice: "But... he wanted to use snake tea to save people, but I gave him morning grass..."

The herb collectors roared with laughter.Someone laughed and said: "What are you afraid of! Snake Sky Tea is highly poisonous, who knows if this kid is going to save people or harm people? You give him the Intestine Grass - not only is it not poisonous, this medicine can also nourish kidney yang, activate blood and benefit essence. Last time, Old Li Xun came to serve him, and spent the night with his daughter-in-law, very happy..."

Although Ah Yao is the year of cardamom, she spends her days among these vulgar people who love to talk dirty, and has already heard a little about men and women.At this time, she couldn't help blushing when she heard it, and finally knew that this morningweed is mostly used for infatuation/love, because it grows very much like snake tea, so it is a secret recipe that is only popular in the world of herbs.

"Then I've caused trouble!" Ah Yao thought inwardly, but when she turned her head to look at the entrance of the town, she could no longer see the figure of the young hero in white.

She blinked uneasily, stood on the stone steps for a long time, and finally sat down cross-legged anxiously.