When Zhao Chuan returned, the two children did not run away, but lay on top of the old man, still crying. The old man looked pale and had vomited a lot of blood, his eyes were closed tightly, and he did not look like he had much life.
Zhao Chuan pushed the two children away, raised his hand to check the old man's pulse, and then with a wave of his hand, five silver needles were inserted.
Zhao Chuan called the boy over, and together they lifted the old man into the carriage and said to the two children: "Don't cry, it's nothing serious. Let's take you home."
The girl cried: "I can't go back home. I'm going to my uncle's house to escape. My uncle is in Mengcheng, which is more than a hundred miles away from here. Unfortunately, first we were robbed from the hotel where we were staying, and now we were attacked by murderous robbers on the road. …”
Seeing that the two children were only thirteen or fourteen years old, Zhao Chuan frowned.
"How about I send you to an inn to stay first, so that the old man can recover from his injuries?" Zhao Chuan asked.
The girl hurriedly said: "Brother, Yu He kowtowed to my brother." After saying that, she knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly.
Zhao Chuan hurriedly said "Don't, don't, don't!". It was the first time in his life that someone kowtowed to him. He was at a loss and a little confused.
Zhao Chuan looked at the old man on the carriage, gave him the needle, and drove back to the inn.
Zhao Chuan asked the waiter to open another room and asked the waiter to feed the horse some fodder. He went to the counter to ask for pen and ink paper and went back to the room to write a prescription. He called the waiter to his guest room, gave him ten taels of silver notes, and arranged for people to arrive. Get some medicine for the old man, and some food for the two children. The rest is considered as reward, and the waiter naturally agreed wholeheartedly.
The old man's injuries were not life-threatening, but he was old and frail. He couldn't bear the beating of the big man, which resulted in internal injuries and coma. After taking the medicine, he regained consciousness. He will be fine after a few days of rest.
After everything was done, it was already midnight. Zhao Chuan asked his sister and brother to close the doors and windows before going back to their room to rest alone.
Lying on the bed, Zhao Chuan had new worries.
Alas, we were already short of money, and now we have spent a lot of money to save people. The four of us ate, drank, and slept since dawn. It seems that if you want to do good things, you must have a certain financial strength.
Zhao Chuan made up his mind to go out to find some business tomorrow and see where there were patients who needed treatment.
Thinking of this, in order to get more skills, Zhao Chuan called up the "Massage" from the ghost master in his mind and practiced it for a while. He didn't go through it until almost dawn, and he felt that he was doing well. Haha, no wonder Ghost Master Xiaotian said that his understanding is not bad. It seems that if people want to learn something, they will learn it quickly as long as they recognize the truth.
Ghost Master Xiaotian's set of medical skills consists of five parts: "Acupuncture", "Decoctions", "Elixir Pills", "Tuina Massage" and "Essential Medical Skills and Miscellaneous Matters". There is no way to learn except "Elixir Pills" because Xiaotian The alchemy cauldron that was given was placed in the Qiankun bag and could not be taken out, so I left "Essential Medical Skills and Miscellaneous Matters" unread.
Zhao Chuan went out early after dawn, planning to see if there was any work in the town.
But Xintang Town is too small. You can’t see any houses after turning two streets. Each street is not much longer than a dog’s tail.
Zhao Chuan found a stall for breakfast and asked the stall owner. It turned out that the reason why there is this small town at the foot of the mountain is because people often climb Lingyin Mountain to visit Qingfeng Temple, and Qingfeng Temple has a rule of never staying overnight for pilgrims. Therefore, for the convenience of guests, many taverns, inns and other temporary service shops were built at the foot of the mountain. Over time, it spontaneously turned into a small town.
But for this reason, the town should be very prosperous, Zhao Chuan said.
"The town cannot prosper because it is too close to the main city of Jiangzhou. It is less than 20 miles from here to the south gate of the city!" said the stall owner. "The rich people who come to the city either ride horses or carriages. Basically, I didn’t stop here on my way back and forth the previous day, only those who came from afar stayed here temporarily.”
No wonder Zhao Chuan walked back and forth and counted more than a dozen taverns and inns in the town.
So there is only one drugstore, and the doctor at the front desk is so busy that he dozes off, and he has no business himself. How can there be any work for the wandering doctors from outside?
Forget it, let's go hiking. If a pilgrim falls down and gets injured on the mountain road, he can also make money by providing emergency treatment to the injured person.
Zhao Chuan went to the drug store to buy some trauma medicine, and wandered up and down the several mountain roads leading to Qingfengguan in Lingyin Mountain.
After wandering around for a whole day, Zhao Chuan went down the mountain with a helpless sigh.
But hard work paid off. Halfway down the mountain, Zhao Chuan encountered a business, and Zhao Chuan couldn't help but secretly admire his own brains.
The injured were a few people who were carrying a sedan chair up the mountain. This was a large sedan chair with eight carriages. The mountain road is actually not very wide, so it is okay to walk on a four-person sedan, but it is difficult to walk on an eight-carriage sedan.
However, there are levels for officials to travel. Officials of third rank or above must use an eight-carat sedan when going out, even if the mountain road is not easy to walk, unless they do not go up the mountain.
Maybe the mountain road was too steep somewhere, and the people behind them couldn't see the steps under their feet. They fell and injured two people. They fell to the roadside, holding their arms and legs and screaming.
When Zhao Chuan arrived, the steward was beating the sedan bearer with a whip and scolding him fiercely: "Get up and carry it! I'm already in shock. If you don't get to the Taoist temple on time and delay my listening to the scriptures, you will kill you!" "
Zhao Chuan looked at the two people on the ground one by one, then laughed and walked closer to ask what happened.
The butler had a cruel look on his face, stopped beating the sedan bearer, and glanced at Zhao Chuan, "It's none of your business, go away!"
Zhao Chuan secretly cursed, "His grandma has a bad leg. If I didn't want to make money from you, I wouldn't care about you officials!", but he smiled and said: "Is the bearer injured? I am a doctor, and I can treat you." He's very good at dealing with bruises and injuries, and he's nicknamed the 'Ghost Hand Doctor', do you want to take a look?"
After saying this, even Zhao Chuan himself felt funny. He didn't expect that in order to make money, he followed that guy Huang Jin and learned to speak glibly.
"Mr. Ghost Hands? Can you get these guys to get up and carry the sedan immediately?" The housekeeper glanced sideways at Zhao Chuan.
"Yes! But the consultation fee is high. This is an urgent treatment, which consumes my doctor's medical skills!" Zhao Chuan secretly laughed that the more he studied, the more he looked like Huang Jin.
"What a doctor with great skills! Let him treat you and give him as much as you want!" A young woman's voice came from the sedan. The noise was very crisp and seemed to be ridiculed with laughter and curses.
"Treat it. If you can't cure it, the butler will let you carry the sedan away!" The butler curled his lips.
"That's easy to say!" Zhao Chuan stepped forward, laid the two injured people side by side on the ground, casually administered a few injections, then stood up straight and kicked the injured person with his hands and feet.
The butler's eyes were wide open in shock at this saucy move, but before he could react, Zhao Chuan stopped kicking, his fingers flew up and down and needles were raised, and finally he kicked the injured again and said "Okay!"
The two bearers climbed up half-convincedly, tried their arms and legs, and happily picked up the pole.
"Give me money!" Zhao Chuan patted his sleeves.
"How much?" asked the steward.
"Two ingots!" Zhao Chuan replied.
"What are you talking about?" The housekeeper's eyes suddenly widened again.
"Oh, I haven't finished speaking yet. The ingot wants gold!" Zhao Chuan chuckled, with a bright smile that was harmless to humans and animals.
"Are you trying to steal money?" The butler withdrew the surprise on his face and replaced it with anger, "Do you really think you're giving me as much as I want?"
"What's wrong? I told you that the emergency treatment fee is high, and you also agreed and said you would pay as much as you want." Zhao Chuan said disapprovingly, he was not afraid of this eight-carriage sedan.
Because he had seen the guards accompanying the sedan chair. Although his cultivation level was higher than his own, he had finished cultivating the water layer and could run faster than a rabbit. Even a skylark couldn't catch up with him, so he just ran away if he couldn't beat him.
"Well, since your words don't count, then I will restore these two people to their original state. I'll kick them a few more times and lie down on the ground and scream!" As he said this, Zhao Chuan pretended to kick the two bearers, frightening them both. Hide straight back.
"Presumptuous!" The curtains of the sedan were lifted from the inside, revealing a handsome girl's face.
Zhao Chuan took a peek and saw three people sitting inside. An old man in casual clothes sat in the middle with a majestic expression and looked ahead. Although there was a sedan door curtain in front of him, Zhao Chuan knew that the door curtain and curtains were hollow. From inside You can see the outside, but you can't see the inside from the outside.
On one side of the old man sat a fair-faced boy, about fourteen or fifteen years old, and on the other side was this handsome girl, who looked to be sixteen or seventeen years old, but her cheekbones were too prominent, and although she looked pretty as a whole, she felt too Leng Yan.
"How have I ever failed to keep my word?" The girl glared, her expression a little angry.
"Sister, stop joking and leave quickly, I'm afraid it'll be late!" the boy on the side urged.
"Here!" The girl immediately stretched out a hand to the sedan window and held two gold ingots in her hands.
Zhao Chuan was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that he would actually be given two gold ingots. He hesitated for a moment whether to take them.
But at this moment of hesitation, the girl turned her hand and two gold ingots fell on the mountain road. The steward shouted "Get up the sedan!" and a group of people walked over immediately.
"Hahahaha..." As the sedan window was lowered, a wave of unbridled female laughter came from the sedan.
"Dad, Dad! Look, my sister is crazy again, and you don't care!"
In the mountain breeze, the boy in the sedan heard the complaints. A small group of figures quickly disappeared around the bend of the mountain road.
Zhao Chuan was stunned for a moment, and then he looked up to the sky and laughed loudly. His grandma is a jerk, who has a grudge against Jin Zi? I want as much as you want, and besides, I deserve it!
Zhao Chuan picked up two gold ingots and flew down the mountain.
"His grandma has big legs, Jin Yuanbao turns out to be so small!" He was a little excited.
Not long after the eight-carriage sedan passed the corner of the mountain road, the old man's order came from inside the sedan: "Send someone to follow the young man and find out where he came from."
"Okay, Lord Marquis!" the butler said hurriedly, bending over the sedan window.
Seeing that it was already getting late and there was no one around, Zhao Chuan took a step forward with confidence, and then stepped on the mountain road, walking three or four feet away, and soon arrived at the foot of the mountain.
When he returned to the road at the foot of the mountain and saw that there were still pedestrians, Zhao Chuan took back his steps and walked normally.
When we returned to the inn, it was already dark, and the waiter was waiting hard for Zhao Chuan to come back.
The waiter told Zhao Chuan that the old man woke up this morning and felt better. He wanted to say goodbye to you and was about to check out and hurry up, but he didn't know that you left too early in the morning and you just came back now.
Not long after I returned to my room, my grandfather and grandson came to visit me. The old man came in and shouted, "Hurry up and thank your benefactor!"
The brother and sister knelt down and kowtowed. Zhao Chuan hurriedly pulled him up and said he couldn't help it. The old man sat down and said many words of thanks. The girl said that her brother was very powerful and that the bad guys couldn't hit him. The old man said that because he was fleeing, he did not dare to take the main road and took a detour. Only on the trail do you meet bad people.
Zhao Chuan does good deeds not for fame and fortune, and he never knows what other people's last names are. After some detailed explanation by the old man, I found out that the old man’s name was Jin Changgeng, his granddaughter Jin Yuhe, and his grandson Jin Xiaojian.
The old man said that there was a powerful family in their town, and someone in the family was an official in the government. The old man in his family was over seventy years old and wanted to ask Yu He to make him a child. He forced Yu He's parents to go to his house to discuss getting married the next day. But Mr. Jin stayed up all night. I took my granddaughter and grandson to take refuge at Uncle Yuhe's house in Mengcheng.
Hearing this, Zhao Chuan felt extremely sad.
Afterwards, the two chatted for a while. Zhao Chuan said that the waiter said that you had to rush out of the hotel this morning, but your injury has not healed yet, so why are you in such a hurry? Don't worry about accommodation and food, just rest assured and recover from your injuries before leaving.
Mr. Jin sighed and said that he was in a difficult situation and had bad luck at the moment, and he was too embarrassed to trouble his benefactor too much.
Zhao Chuan said it didn't matter, they were all people in trouble at the end of the world, and Shunzui also told the story of how he ended up here after failing to find his relatives.
When Mr. Jin heard this, he felt even more sorry, and immediately said that it was difficult for him to help us. In this case, we had better leave as soon as possible to avoid dragging down our benefactors.
Whatever Zhao Chuan said, it's not easy to go out, so just help if you can. It's really no big deal.
But no matter how Zhao Chuan comforted the old man, Mr. Jin thought about it and still felt that it was not suitable to live there anymore.
In the end, Mr. Jin begged Zhao Chuan, saying that since he couldn't find his wife, and it would cost money to stay in a hotel, it would be better to escort Yu He Xiaojian to Mengcheng. Fortunately, there was a carriage, and walking slower on the road was just a way to recuperate, and the whole family would never be together again. I wish you kindness!
Zhao Chuan thought about it and thought that he should be a good person and do it to the end, sending the Buddha to heaven. Anyway, he had nowhere to go.
Mengcheng is more than 300 miles southwest of Lingyin Mountain. It is located on the boundary between Han and ethnic minorities and is under the jurisdiction of another county.
Although Zhao Chuan agreed, he said there was no rush, he still had some things to do tomorrow, and it would not be too late to leave after everything was done. You can wait for me in the inn safely.
Mr. Jin agreed.
