In the hinterland of the Central Plains, a hundred miles south of Kaifeng, there is a small city named Su, but now people in the world prefer to call it "Medical City" instead. That's why there is a large clan in the city named Gongsun.
Rumor has it that during the Three Kingdoms period, there was a doctor named Dong Feng in the State of Wu. He never received payment for his treatment. Instead, he asked the patient to plant an apricot tree. More than ten years later, he left an apricot grove, which was passed down as Good story.
The world often praises doctors with apricot groves, and there is also an apricot grove on the outskirts of the medical city, which is owned by the Gongsun family.
Different from the allusion, they planted this apricot forest themselves, and the Gongsun family did not receive any money for treating people. However, there is still an endless stream of people coming here to seek medical treatment, just because their medical skills are indeed superb.
Among the four great aristocratic families in the world, in terms of fame and power, the Gongsun family took the lead, with no one able to rival them.
There is a lush apricot forest on the outskirts of the medical city, like rows of erect warriors, guarding the name of the Gongsun family for eternity.
On April 1st, the flowers were sparse and the leaves were dark. After a light rain, the air was filled with the smell of earth. A girl in coarse cloth walked quickly back to the city with a bamboo basket in her hand.
The streets of the medical city are busy with traffic, the vendors are sweating like rain, and pedestrians are coming and going, making it very lively.
In the corner of the street in the east of the city, there is a wine shop. At ten o'clock in the morning, the business here is somewhat deserted. Occasionally, a few idlers will pass by, look into the shop, and then make some impolite laughter.
Every time at this time, the shop assistants would glare at them with warning eyes, but unfortunately it had little effect, and sometimes it even had the opposite effect, making them even more troublesome.
After a while, the girl carrying the bamboo basket returned to the store. The waiter breathed a sigh of relief and came forward to take the bamboo basket, which was filled with bright peach blossoms.
"Sister Yan'er, thank you for your hard work. Let me do this kind of hard work next time." The boy was only a teenager. Looking at the age of fourteen or fifteen, he called the girl in front of him who was twenty years old as his sister. Nothing wrong with that.
The girl named Yan'er rolled her eyes at the young man, put one hand on her waist, and said a little fiercely: "You are so clumsy, stop ruining my flowers, go and send everything to the back, today Miss, you still need my help, I’ll talk about the work here when I get back later.”
"Hehe, I know." The young man smiled and hurriedly took the things to the backyard.
Yan'er went to pick flowers outside the city early in the morning. She was so busy that her feet did not touch the ground. By this time, her mouth was already dry. She wiped the sweat from her forehead, picked up a bowl from the table and poured herself tea. After taking a long sip, I felt alive.
At this time, she caught a glimpse of a few men in short clothes across the street looking hard at her, with some obscene glints in their eyes. Yan'er immediately put the bowl heavily on the table and yelled at the group of people: " What are you looking at!”
Those people seemed to be used to it, and they didn't feel embarrassed when they were discovered. Instead, they laughed loudly. From time to time, someone whistled, which made Yan'er's fist tighten.
".snort!"
But she finally endured it and gave the idle men a hard look. She turned around and went to the backyard. When she saw that the beauty didn't show up, she lost interest and walked away talking and laughing.
The layout of this wine shop is simple, with only a blue curtain separating the backyard from the front. Yan'er opened the curtain and came into the courtyard, and the scorching gaze behind her finally subsided. While she was angry, she couldn't help but feel sad.
A woman who sells liquor will inevitably be teased by those naughty idle men. Even though Yan'er pretends to be aggressive and not to be trifled with, she is still miserable in her heart after all. But she has no choice. If she doesn't come forward, what will happen? Do you want the lady to come in person?
Speaking of which, this Yan'er is a maid from the Gongsun family, the largest family in the medical city. She shouldn't be out in public doing business, but the master she serves is the eldest lady of the Gongsun family, named Gongsun Yao.
If it were an ordinary family, as the eldest lady's personal maid, even if she couldn't wear gold and silver and live in luxury, at least she wouldn't be reduced to selling wine to make a living. Unfortunately, Gongsun Yao's situation was really special.
The story of the Gongsun family has long been a household name in this medical city. The jokes Gongsun Huan made back then are still being discussed secretly behind his back to this day.
After all, from ancient times to the present, the story of this man with green hair and raising children for others has always attracted the most attention.
Gongsun Huan once suffered a serious injury to his lower body and sought help from the Poisonous Man. Unexpectedly, the other party sided with him. He seemed to have recovered, but in fact he was deeply injured. However, his wife took care of him under such circumstances. A pair of children were born. This is the story everyone knows.
Although the elders of the Gongsun family had been identifying the bloodlines of the two children for many years and concluded that they were pure bloodlines, Gongsun Huan did not believe it. He determined that his wife must have stolen the child behind his back.
In the end, Gongsun Huan's first wife died in depression, and his two children were treated as enemies by him. They were treated as trivial things in the Gongsun family, and their lives were worse than those of the servants.
From Gongsun Huan's point of view, he now has green hair on his head and is raising a pair of scoundrels for his adulterers. If he doesn't kill them, he is already as broad as the sea, so it is absolutely impossible to provide them with affluent living conditions and so on. .
However, the elders of the Gongsun family generally believe that these two children are Gongsun Huan's children. Even if there is an emergency, they will already be named Gongsun. Among them, Gongsun Cheng is still the young master, and he has to pay attention to his face no matter what. Just get by.
Therefore, after weighing the two parties, Gongsun Huan took a step back. He did not deliberately seek trouble, but he also turned a blind eye to the two children. The family side ensured that the two children would at least survive. However, under Gongsun Huan's strong protest, they You can't interfere too much.
So, under such circumstances, Gongsun Cheng and Gongsun Yao moved out of the main courtyard and lived in a remote and cold corner. There was a woodshed there. After a little tidying up, it became the new home of the brothers and sisters.
Forget about the monthly rules, the family provided the two children with three simple meals a day to ensure that they would not starve to death. The most Gongsun Cheng could win was that he could learn medical skills like other family members, and that was all.
As a father, Gongsun Huan had already said that he wanted nothing to do with it, and the mother of the two children who passed away left them some wealth, which was actually a few shops and a bodyguard with some martial arts skills.
It is said that he can marry into the Gongsun family. Gongsun Cheng's mother's family should not be a small family, so why should they have only this little thing left to them.
In fact, Gongsun Cheng's mother's family is also a well-known family in the world, but because what Gongsun Huan caused was too outrageous, the family did not dare to intervene.
The importance of a woman's reputation in this era is self-evident. Hongxing will be scorned wherever she goes out.
Besides, if there is no smoke without fire, Gongsun Huan would not make fun of himself. The so-called rumors are not unfounded. Even if his wife did not cheat, I am afraid there is something wrong with his style - this is generally the world's view.
Among Gongsun Cheng's mother clan, there are many unmarried girls from Yunying. Even for their reputation, they have to cut off their relationship with Gongsun Cheng's mother. Therefore, over the years, the mother clan has provided almost no help to them. It's equal to none.
Therefore, the brother and sister Gongsun Cheng and Gongsun Yao could not rely on anyone but themselves. Only then did Gongsun Yao's personal maid Yan'er show up in person to sell wine.
After all, no matter how depressed Gongsun Cheng is, he still bears the title of young master. Apart from other things, it is always necessary to dress up decently. Moreover, in order to truly turn over, he not only needs to learn medical skills and martial arts, but also needs to go out and fight with others. Network with people and develop connections.
And these all require money.
