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The crowd, who had been away from the dusty and noisy place for a few days, hurried towards Yanzi Town in the dark night. Although the crowd gradually became quieter at night, it was still more lively than the Qingxiu Place on the mountain.
Under the guidance of the two Yangs, several people sent Mengdie, the Miao girl, to the door of the pharmacy that Xuan Qing mentioned. The seemingly simple facade exuded bursts of fragrance. Mengdie first bowed deeply to everyone and thanked everyone, then turned around and stepped onto the ladder leading to the medicine shop, gently knocking on the door curtain.
"Miss Mengdie is so pitiful..." Mei Niang looked at the woman knocking on the wooden door and said with emotion.
Nowadays, Meng Dieye no longer deliberately blocks the strange spot, but looking from a distance, she actually feels that she is even more beautiful. Especially her pair of resentful and passionate eyes. If the person hidden behind the wooden door of the pharmacy is the one she thinks of, those eyes will definitely shed tears. But things will never always go your way.
After a little leaning, the wooden door opened in response. What jumped out was a short, thin boy with pockmarks on his cheeks. He was wearing simple and regular gray and white clothes, with a flat black hat on his head. He raised his eyebrows and glanced at Mengdie in front of the door, and was immediately startled. After a while, he used the lantern in his hand to illuminate the person in front of him clearly, and after confirming that it was not a monster, but a young woman, he breathed a sigh of relief and asked: "Girl, why are you coming to our 'Ji Ren Pharmacy' so late?" What are you doing?"
"Master Xuanqing asked me to come here. He said that this medicine shop is short of a doctor recently, so..." Mengdie politely finished telling the whole story. After getting the little medicine boy's approval, she bowed to everyone behind her and then followed the little medicine boy into the house to start her new life as a doctor in Yanzi Town.
In front of the pharmacy, Bai Feng, Murong Yan, Qian Xi, Meiniang, Mengdie and Yang said goodbye one after another, and then returned to the inn where they were originally staying, eager to meet the gangster who Yang Deqing said that day. Zhao Kuo and the others met after being tortured by the gangsters.
When we arrived at the inn, the atmosphere was even more crowded. After all, it was just after dark, and there were still many diners and tea drinkers. The waiter who was delivering food and making tea was moving freely among the tables and chairs. Suddenly he saw four "new guests" coming to the door, so he stepped forward and said, "Dear guests, do you want to eat or stay overnight?"
The leading heroic young man waved his hands and denied: "We stayed here for one night before, and now we are back to find friends."
The waiter frowned and thought for a while, and then said: "Oh! I remember, you are the distinguished guests who came in that carriage, right? The carriage and horses have been provided in the shop, and you can set off at any time! As for the few of you, Friends, when I was passing by the second floor just now, I seemed to have encountered..."
After the waiter said this, the young man quickly bowed his hands and bowed in thanks, then walked quickly past the waiter and walked to the stairs leading to the second floor. The waiter was startled by his momentum and almost knocked over the teacup and wine glass in his hand. When the following people saw this, they all nodded and apologized for the young man's impoliteness, and then followed his footsteps and stepped onto the ladder.
Bai Feng, who was the first to reach the second floor of the inn, looked left and right, fearing that he might miss a certain corner. After giving courtesy to a diner who was leaving after finishing the meal, a familiar face came into his eyes: the girl was holding her chin in her hands, her eyes were slightly drooped, listlessly, the silkworms under her eyes were slightly blackened, and she was sobbing from time to time. That little nose. Bai Feng recognized that this person was the young lady who ran away willfully, so she walked forward, sat opposite her, and asked: "Miss Zhao, why are you here alone?"
"Mr. Bai?" Zhao Xiaomei rubbed her dull eyes, very surprised, and replied: "You are finally back, and I am finally saved! Woohoo..." After that, she raised her eyes with her hands, Poor Chuchu began to sob.
"What's going on? Where are Mr. Zhao and the others?" Bai Feng asked, not knowing what to do.
"They are over there, I don't want to sit with that Zhao Kuo!"
Bai Feng looked in the direction her little sister said, and indeed saw the figures of Zhao Kuo and Ajuan, and asked again, "Are you brothers and sisters having any trouble again?" As soon as he finished speaking, Murong Yan and others also came over. When Zhao Xiaomei saw Murong Yan, she rushed towards her as if she were her mother, acting coquettishly.
"Sister Murong, I miss you so much!" the younger sister cried, attracting the attention of everyone around her, including Zhao Kuo and Zhao Kuo who were sitting far away.
Zhao Kuo and Ajuan came to greet their friends one by one, but Zhao Xiaomei always faced her brother with an angry look. Zhao Kuo disapproved, looked in a certain direction, and said jokingly: "Sister! Brother, I just said it casually at the beginning. How can a deceiver like Su Qing be worthy of my sister?"
"Bah!" the little girl said angrily: "With the way you do things, what does it matter if you sell me to others in order to recruit talents?" After that, a burst of frivolous laughter came from somewhere.
"Hahaha! Oh, this girl from the Zhao family is really strong-willed!" A man in green clothes walked up to Zhao Kuo and bowed: "Mr. Zhao, it seems that the 'gentlemen's agreement' between you and me will not work. There is no hope! Hahaha..."
As the laughter gradually faded away, Zhao Xiaomei angrily yelled at Zhao Kuo several times, and the two sat at separate tables again. In order to understand the details of each case, Murong Yan and Bai Feng decided to act separately, while Qian Xi and Mei Niang did not want to be too public, so they went back to their rooms to rest early.
After a period of time, Bai Feng and Murong Yan finally knew the reason: it was Zhao Kuo who casually proposed a marriage to his little sister when he saw that Su Qing was so devoted to her. The younger sister was extremely dissatisfied with this, and even didn't sleep well for several days because of this, for fear that Su Qing would have the opportunity to take advantage of others.
In order to resolve the conflict, Murong Yan almost forced her younger sister to sit in front of her brother and let the two siblings explain it clearly, which would avoid more misunderstandings.
"Sister, brother is really just talking casually!" After Zhao Kuo said this, the younger sister did not respond. She even refused to look at Zhao Kuo. Zhao Kuo, a seven-foot tall man, had no choice but to drink the wine in his hand.
When Murong Yan saw this, she hurriedly tried to mediate: "What kind of agreement is the 'gentleman's agreement' that Su Qing mentioned?"
"My young master saw that Su Qing seemed to have other desires, so he went to talk to him for a long time." Zhao Kuo replied: "The so-called 'gentleman's agreement' means that I cannot hinder Su Qing's courtship. If I refuse, Then my thirst for talents will not lead to relief, that’s all.”
"That is to say, Mr. Zhao has not agreed to whom the younger sister will be betrothed to?" Murong Yan replied.
Zhao Kuo nodded repeatedly and glanced at his little sister again. The younger sister was seen holding tears and murmuring: "If you dare to let me marry anyone, I will kill that person first, and then commit suicide..."
"Little sister!" Murong Yan said in confusion: "Don't say such nonsense!"
"That's right! It's up to me to let you get married! It's up to our father to have the final say!" Zhao Kuo said.
"Then...you didn't sell me to anyone else?"
Zhao Kuo denied it repeatedly, and then said: "Stop making trouble, now that Brother Bai is back, can I at least let you sleep peacefully?"
Seeing the little girl nodding slightly in acquiescence, the few of them finally relaxed their mood. Ajuan even sighed: "We can finally have dinner together!"
During the meal, Bai Feng told several friends all about his adventures on the mountain, and the next stop of the itinerary - Yuan Fengzi's hiding place, "Lingcheng", a small town in Cangzhou located in the Yellow River Basin. Hearing that she was going to a new place and walking step by step towards her home, a few smiles appeared on the little girl's face, but her haggard expression remained unchanged.
Murong Yan made a suggestion for this: Make an appointment with a few people tomorrow to visit Miss Mengdie, the new doctor in Yanzi Town, and let the little girl recuperate and restore her former health as soon as possible to cope with the difficulties and difficulties on the journey. Since Ajuan was also very interested in this fellow tribesman, he was almost the first to agree. The others had no objections and followed the former in accepting Murong Yan's proposal.
During the meal, there were laughter, cups and glasses, and beautiful women and friends were around. The future seemed bright. This may be the reason why people are nostalgic for the secular world.
