Seeing that another wild dog was dying, the remaining two saw that the situation was not good and ran away with their tails between their legs.
Zhao Chuan was overjoyed. Although he couldn't figure out why his martial arts suddenly recovered, he didn't have time to think about it now. He had to deal with the matter at hand.
The waiter was extremely surprised that this young man had such abilities. He was really a Kung Fu master. However, he also wondered how could such a Kung Fu master be easily killed by those little miscellaneous fishes last night?
After killing the wild dog, both of them were very excited, but they did not stay too long because there were already scattered pedestrians on the street. If they delayed for a while, there would be more and more people, and it would be very inconvenient to carry the body.
The two quickly picked up the body and walked quickly.
After walking a few steps, I saw a half-broken door on the street. The waiter went over to pick it up, put the body on it and carried it away. It was much easier to walk than before.
The town was not big and the streets were not long. The two quickly arrived at the coffin shop.
But the coffin shop was empty.
How could the owner of the coffin shop open the door this early in the morning? It's not like we shop early.
But it doesn't matter if the coffin shop doesn't open, because there are several coffins placed at the door of the shop.
Zhao Chuan stepped forward to take a look and found that the materials used in these coffins were good and bad.
Zhao Chuan is only over sixteen years old, and apart from being able to see some good and bad qualities, he can't see anything else. He asked the waiter what was the difference between these coffins and what their prices were.
The waiter said there was nothing to say about the workmanship, but there was a difference in the materials used. The better the wood used, the thicker it was and the more expensive it was. For example, there are 66 coffins, 56 coffins, 46 coffins, etc. The materials are pine, cypress, nanmu, locust wood...
Zhao Chuan said stop talking about these and talk about the price.
The waiter said that for ordinary people, the good ones cost more than a hundred taels, the bad ones cost dozens of taels, and the rich officials, aristocrats, etc. all had thousands of taels of silver.
Zhao Chuan said, "Hey, a coffin for a dead person costs so much?" Isn't it just buried in the ground? Isn't it so wasteful?
The waiter said, you don’t understand this. The coffin is said to be the house where people live in the underworld after death, just like the residence of people in the upper world. What kind of people live in what kind of house. The poor can only live in mud houses, while the rich live in brick houses.
Zhao Chuan agreed not to talk about it and just buy a mud house. We don’t know the deceased, so a coffin would be good.
The waiter was right, otherwise he would be like homeless people sleeping in the open air, which is the case with those who bury in mass graves.
The waiter looked at it, picked out a pair of thin-skinned coffins, patted them, and said that’s it.
"Young Master, just looking like this is worth thirty taels of silver. Do you think it's okay?" the waiter asked.
Zhao Chuan nodded and said okay.
The waiter opened the lid of the coffin, stretched his head to take a look, and then smiled and said, why is there a letter inside?
Zhao Chuan came over to take a look. There was a letter thrown at one end of the coffin. It was crumpled, as if it had been on him for a long time.
"Does the owner of the coffin shop need to write a letter to the Lord of Hell to tell the dead person?" Zhao Chuan said with a smile.
The waiter said he had never heard of such a thing.
Zhao Chuan took a closer look inside the coffin and found that there were traces of people climbing on both sides, and there was still some mud and black ash at the bottom of the coffin.
"It seems that someone has been inside recently." Zhao Chuan said.
The waiter leaned over and took out the letter, looked at the cover, and then pulled out the letter paper.
The waiter looked at it and said that he didn't know many words and couldn't understand it, so he handed the letter to Zhao Chuan.
Zhao Chuan laughed after reading the letter and said what a coincidence, what a good thing!
The waiter asked what happened?
Zhao Chuan said it was nothing, just an ordinary letter from home to report that he was safe.
The two men carried the body into the coffin and closed the lid.
Did the waiter say that he should wait for the coffin shop owner to come?
Zhao Chuan said no, if people come and see what's going on, shouldn't they scold us?
The waiter smiled and said that's not the case, they must be unhappy. The victim bought the coffin and took it away. How could anyone bring the body to their store?
Zhao Chuan took out ten taels of silver and said, "Go and find four people to carry this and bury it. Remember to bury it deeper so that the wild dogs don't come out again. Also, buy some incense and paper money from any store you pass by." Whatever, the rest of the money is yours."
The waiter took the money and said happily: "Okay! I promise to make things right for you, young master, don't worry."
Zhao Chuan then told the waiter that the shopkeeper of the coffin shop would just go to him to settle the bill later.
Zhao Chuan raised his feet to leave, but the waiter stopped him again and said, young master, please don't blame me for talking too much: If shopkeeper Wang hadn't taken action, young master, you would have been destroyed. The body was already cold at that time. You have to thank them properly afterwards. , after all, saving a life is like recreating a parent.
Zhao Chuan said that he would definitely go. Being ungrateful is not our style.
The waiter said that I was not talking nonsense. If the shopkeeper Wang from the drug store had come later, the county government officer would have disemboweled you and performed an autopsy.
My darling, what else is going on? This action is cruel enough. Okay, let’s meet with the drugstore shopkeeper to verify this matter, and settle the score with those birdies together.
Zhao Chuan then walked around the streets of the town and found nothing else. The lives of the people were still the same.
Zhao Chuan walked around and wondered: Does the shop owner of this drug store still have such skills? Can the dead be revived? I got the true secret book from the ghost master. Among the medical techniques he gave me, there are no techniques to save people?
The waiter shouldn't lie to himself. After all, there are many people who know about this. Well, if he repays his kindness, the medicine shop owner will go find him soon. Revenge for those who have a grudge, those county government officials, those dog officials, those little princes, those accomplices...
The sun rises quickly and there are more and more people on the streets.
Zhao Chuan found a breakfast stall and ordered a bowl of porridge, two pieces of sesame seed cakes, and a plate of pickles for rice. He ate slowly while thinking about how to spend his day.
Thinking of the letter he found in the coffin just now, Zhao Chuan took out the letter and read it again.
In fact, this letter was not a letter from home. He just deliberately tried to offend the waiter in order to save the need for explanation.
The content of the letter was not much. The general idea was that an old man who had resigned and returned to his hometown was entrusted by someone to introduce the letter holder to a certain place in Xichuan County to garrison and find a certain general to ask for a job.
Zhao Chuan didn't know where Xichuan County was, but seeing that the signature date was a month ago, and the envelope was so worn, it seemed that Xichuan County was not close to the original address of the letter holder.
After eating breakfast, Zhao Chuan wandered aimlessly again and saw a teahouse, where an old storyteller was about to start his story.
Zhao Chuan has liked listening to books since he was a child. He had just experienced great sorrow and joy, and was looking for a place to stabilize his mood and comfort himself, so he walked in to find a seat to sit down and listen to a book.
After hearing the noon hour, many guests directly ordered food to eat and continued to listen. Zhao Chuan had not listened to books for many years and was addicted, so he also ordered food to eat and continued to listen.
It wasn't until after the incident that Zhao Chuan remembered that he had to go back to the inn. Because he told the waiter at the inn to let the coffin shop pay for the coffin, he got up and left.
After leaving the teahouse, Zhao Chuan wandered around again.
In fact, Zhao Chuan was not just hanging out, but was thinking about something. In fact, he was not at peace today. .
This time I came to Xintang Town to restore my cultivation. I originally wanted to go to Jiangzhou City to find Master Xiaoyaozi to find a solution, but he ran away due to an accident during the treatment of Master Hou.
Then Qi Yatou suggested that he use some medicinal materials to make an elixir and use the elixir to open the sealed acupuncture points to see if he could succeed. That's why he spent more than a thousand taels of silver at the small town drugstore and ordered many valuable medicinal materials.
Now his cultivation suddenly recovered again in a daze.
To be precise, I didn't eat anything, I didn't practice anything, well, to be more precise, I restored my cultivation after being resurrected from death.
Is it related to resurrection after death? Well, who knows...
Although I can’t figure out the exact reason, it’s always a great thing to recover. But with the recovery of cultivation, there is now trouble.
Because my martial arts skills suddenly recovered, I no longer have to think of ways to open up my acupuncture points. Do I still want the medicinal materials I ordered at a high price in the drug store?
Zhao Chuan was thinking as he walked, and inadvertently walked to Wang Decai's pharmacy.
Zhao Chuan hesitated whether to go in, then stopped.
But what do you say when you go in? Are you saying that you don’t need those medicinal materials anymore?
It seems inappropriate to say this. Even if the three hundred taels deposit is waived, people may not agree.
If so, what should we do if we take back those precious medicinal materials?
Besides, if he didn’t want to, he was saved by the medicine shop owner. How could he not repay the favor but break the contract? He had saved his own life. How could he do such a thing just because of a thousand taels of silver? How low-end he was.
Then go in and don’t break the contract, just go in and have a chat and say something to thank them?
But if you don't say thank you for a big favor, just a few words, doesn't it seem too weightless and fake? Thanking someone requires reciprocal sincerity. Just saying a few words doesn't seem to be enough. You have to come up with something substantial to express gratitude. How can you come to the door with empty hands to thank someone?
Then don't say thank you, don't mention the matter of saving lives, just come and chat?
We just talked yesterday and agreed that it would be three days, and today is the first day. The delivery date is only tomorrow, what's there to talk about? Wouldn't it be embarrassing if people mistakenly thought that they were here to rush delivery?
Not going in?
Go in?
Zhao Chuan stood on the street in front of the drug store and hesitated, not knowing whether to go in or not.
In the end, Zhao Chuan decided to forget it and think about how to get the one thousand taels of silver first. Let's trade the medicinal materials first.
One thousand taels of silver is not a small amount, it is a huge amount of money. The payment has to be made the day after tomorrow. I only have two days today and tomorrow to find a way to get the money.
When you get the money and pay for the goods the day after tomorrow, it won't be too late to say some words of thanks. Maybe you can give more money, which is more practical than just saying words of thanks now.
How to get this money? Use Han Qiaosheng's jade token to withdraw money from the bank? But the jade token was placed in the Qiankun Bag, and the Qiankun Bag was asked to be kept by Qi Yatou. Qi Yatou's whereabouts were unknown last night in order to avoid being captured by Mr. Jinyi...
