Half blood

Chapter 31

Seeing Li Xuan rushing in with a big knife on his back, the owner of the Ren Medicine Shop smiled flatteringly and asked, "What kind of medicine does this guest officer want to buy? Do you want a tiger penis, for aphrodisiac... "

Li Xuan lifted the shopkeeper from behind the counter, and shouted sharply: "I don't need to eat this kind of food! I came today to ask you why I bought banzhilian for ten yuan yesterday. Two, did it rise like this today?"

When the shopkeeper heard this, he smiled slightly with two mouse eyes, and said: "Then you can go to another house to have a look. The price of medicine in my house is always fair, and there is no deception."

"You fart!" Li Xuan roared.

"Then you go to another house to have a look." After speaking, the shopkeeper broke Li Xuan's fist with his hands, but he couldn't break it for a long time, so he had to give up.

Li Xuan let go of his hand and said: "Okay, then I'll go to another house and ask to see how dark your heart is!" After saying that, he strode out.

Li Xuan went to all the medicine shops in the town, and asked every one, but found that none of them had the medicine of barbata. This medicine.

The shopkeeper replied: "Banzhilian? It's just a small medicine, and it doesn't make much money. Yesterday, one day, he said that he was willing to pay fifteen yuan to buy all the shops, so I sold them all."

"Do you know who bought the medicine?"

The shopkeeper shook his head and said, "I don't know. He has mung bean eyes and a wide mouth. I haven't seen it before."

"Okay, very good!" Li Xuan laughed self-deprecatingly, returned to Ren Medicine Shop, slapped the shopkeeper's counter with his big hand, and said, "The shopkeeper's work is really beautiful."

The shopkeeper smiled slightly, and said: "This guest officer believes it now, the price of my shop is fair, and children and old people don't cheat."

Li Xuan sneered and said: "That's cruel enough, I'm just a little surprised, how did you know that the medicine I bought yesterday is so popular?"

Of course, the shopkeeper would not tell the truth, but only replied vaguely: "Look at six directions with your eyes, and listen to all directions. Listen to the gossip in the streets and alleys here and there, and then put them together, and you can deduce one or two things. The so-called rare goods can live in."

Li Xuan clapped his hands, and said: "Your business is not like the plaque you hung up, the doctor is benevolent, your heart is too vicious."

The shopkeeper smiled and said: "I'm just working for others, so please don't make things difficult for this guest officer."

"Who do you work for?"

The shopkeeper replied: "Guest officer, don't make things difficult for me."

Li Xuan smiled and said: "Okay, anyway, I just wanted what you said, I went to the streets and alleys to inquire about it, and I will know it once I add it up."

After speaking, he slammed the big knife on the ebony counter, knocked a big hole in the high-quality ebony table, and said, "Oh, I accidentally touched it."

It was already late in the camp, and the white-haired old man took care of the patients one by one. Because there was really no house for them to stay, he had to let the patients go back to their own homes first, but they could not come out at will.

The white-haired old man sat in the yard and took the remaining medicine one by one, and said to Li Xuan: "There is only such a little left, it is not a solution..."

Li Xuan frowned slightly, and asked, "Can we get it by ourselves now?"

The white-haired old man thought for a while, and replied: "Scutellaria barbata should be dug in summer and autumn when the stems and leaves are luxuriant. It is already the middle of June, and vendors who collect herbs for a living should receive a lot at this time. You can ask one time."

Li Xuan was overjoyed when he heard this, and thought to himself, that stupid shopkeeper must be stupid now, he has hoarded so much at a high price, and now he can't sell it at all.However, if he cheated with one of his daggers, he should still have made a profit.

Li Xuan thought so, walked along the path, covered with moonlight, and slowly walked back to his room, he thought while walking, this matter is settled, he will return to the capital.As for the capital, his home, but what is more in his heart is the sadness of parting.When he fled the capital that day, he only thought about running away, but he didn't feel the feeling of hurting and parting. Now he has realized it, and this feeling is not good at all.

Thinking like this, Li Xuan suddenly saw a white figure standing in front of his door. He had seen this figure countless times, but every time he looked at him, his heart palpitated, even after so many quarrels.Li Xuan snorted and said, "Why are you here again?"

Li Xiuqi walked a little towards him, saluted, and called softly: "Your Highness." Then he took out something from his sleeve and handed it to him.

Li Xuan took a look, was startled, and asked, "How did you get it?"

He held the dagger in his hand, and the light yellow jade on the dagger still carried Li Xiuqi's warm body temperature.

"This dagger saved His Highness's life, so His Highness should keep it safe. As for the medicinal materials, let me figure out a way."

Li Xuan clenched his hands tightly and then loosened them. He lingered, and then murmured: "I've already figured out a way to deal with the medicinal materials." After speaking, he walked to his room, passing by Li Xiuqi Said: "I have nothing else to do, I'm going to sleep." After passing by, I didn't even look back.

Li Xiuqi looked sideways at Li Xuanyuan's walking back, sighed softly, turned and walked back.At this time, a soldier came over, saluted first, and then said to Li Xiuqi in a low voice: "It has been found out that the traitor is Bai Er who pretended to be sick. Doctor Bai asked who ate the fish in the river that day, and he lied. He ate it and went into Doctor Bai's courtyard, overheard the prescription, and sold it to the shopkeeper of the Ren Medicine Shop."

Li Xiuqi's face darkened, and he asked, "Can you find out who is behind the Benevolent Medicine Shop?"

The soldier shook his head, and replied: "I don't know about this now, but the shops in Anchuan Town that can stand out are always supported by prominent people. Generally, they will be local officials..."

Li Xiuqi smiled slightly after hearing this, and said: "As expected, let's go drink tea tomorrow."

Holding the dagger, Li Xuan entered his room, fell on the bed, and played with the dagger in one hand.He took off the sheath of the dagger, and the blade, as thin as a willow leaf, shone with a silver light in the moonlight.

"Your Highness, this dagger saved your life, so keep it safe." Li Xuanxue said in Li Xiuqi's voice, then snorted again, and said to himself: "How did this guy get the dagger back... ..."

Then he sighed softly again, and said: "Ask what is love in the world, what is love..." After a pause, he said again: "If life and death can be promised, what else can't be promised... Sigh, I promise, I promise..."

On the second day, Li Xuan went to Xingchuan Mountain, and asked several retail investors if there were people selling medicine for a living nearby.Those families hurriedly replied that they were.Li Xuan asked how to sell the half-branched lotus.

The person who was asked heard this, and gave a huff, and said, "Banzhilian? Why is this medicine selling so well this year?"

As soon as Li Xuan felt that there was something in the words, he asked, "Why is this medicine selling so well?"

The family said: "The day before yesterday, someone came to my place to collect medicine, and they charged ten Wen for one or two of this flavored Banzhilian. You must know that Banzhilian used to cost five Wen and it ended. This year it has risen to Ten Wen, ten Wen. Wen, doubled! Earned doubled!"

"Yes... I made a lot of money..." Li Xuan felt dizzy. He thought that the mung bean eyes moved too fast. The prescription was only released in such a short day. Scutellaria barbata has been monopolized.Such a small medicine, which could be bought for a few copper coins in the past, is now going to be copied into gold.

It suddenly occurred to Li Xuan that if Mung Douyan's thoughts were any worse, he might have to release the news and stir up the half-branched lotus. At that time, it would not be a matter of buying and selling medicinal materials, but a matter of disturbing the hearts of the people in the south.

Thinking of this, Li Xuan felt that he should go back quickly and tell General Wei about this matter. He is the most ruthless man against rumors. He has never believed any rumors.

When Li Xuan hurried back to the camp, he heard that Wei Zhong and Li Xiuqi had gone to the town, and they didn't say what they were there for. The only one left in the camp to take charge of the family was his elder brother Wei Yuan.

Wei Yuan was writing a booklet in the room. As soon as Li Xuan went in, he saw the paper and pens on the table, and the topmost one was a letter with very familiar handwriting. Li Xuan turned his head to look, and saw the small letters on the brown cover, which read : "Brother Wei Yuan kisses me personally"

"Did Li Fei write a letter to Brother Wei?" Li Xuan asked.

Wei Yuan nodded, and Li Xuan said, "That girl hasn't written a single word to my real brother for so many days."

"She mentioned you in the letter." Wei Yuan said.

"is it?"

"Well, Xiaofei said that the sage has picked dozens of girls for you, and told you not to play too much in the south, and then I wrote back and said..." Later, Wei Yuan said something else and Li Xuan didn't pay attention. , he thought about what Li Xiuqi said to him that night, it was exactly the same, once he returned to Beijing, he would be forcibly stuffed into the eight-carried sedan chair, he was really different from Li Xiuqi, so he was suffering It was Li Xiuqi who was suffering the most. After thinking about it, he felt that the person he loved the most should be the one who suffered the most, and he loved Li Xiuqi to death.

Wei Yuan went on to say, "Did you come to tell me something just now? Aren't you in a hurry?"

"Oh, yes, it's very urgent..." Li Xuan came back to his senses, and hurriedly told about the strange goods available in the Mung Bean Yanren Medicine Store.When Wei Yuan heard this, his face darkened, and he said: "Governor Li and my father are going to solve this matter today, but they really forgot that this pharmacy can spread some rumors, for example, if you drink banzhilian, you can get sick. It’s something like plague. You’ve been asking around about Banzhilian in the past few days, which will only make this rumor more credible.”

Li Xuan nodded, sighed and said: "This Mung Douyan thinks too deeply, I just went to buy some medicine, and he took the remaining hundreds of steps away."

"That's because he planted an insider at Doctor Bai's place. Governor Li has already found out the person a few days ago, and he is Bai Er." Wei Yuan put down what he was doing and stood up, then said: "But he is also very unlucky." Yes, it seems that I have really contracted the disease."