Chapter 32: The Mysterious Visitor
It's another morning, the sun is still rising, and the county town is still calm. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Huo Xiaoshan was still helping in the pharmacy, and Shopkeeper Rong was still sitting at the counter as before.
Although the two of them seemed to have nothing to do on the surface, they actually had their own thoughts, the shopkeeper Rong was thinking about how to deal with Yu Deshui to protect his own property, Huo Xiaoshan was naturally thinking about cleaning up Yu Deshui yesterday, yes, it was he who killed Yu Deshui.
He is in the pharmacy every day, this is the gossip center of the county, so he naturally knows that Yu Deshui has just fallen in love with the little widow, and yesterday he learned that Yu Deshui knows about his father Huo Yuan, how can he not do it?
When the two guards checked the night last night, he was already lying on the other side of the roof of the woman's house.
Is there an impermeable wall in the world? Yu Deshui thought that it was safe not to stay outside, but he didn't know that this was fulfilling Huo Xiaoshan.
Because Huo Xiaoshan no longer has the psychological burden to kill a traitor, but he doesn't know how to deal with that woman, he can't bear to kill him, and if he doesn't kill him, he is afraid of leaking the news, and Yu Deshui walks alone, and this problem is naturally solved.
It's a long story, but it's short, Huo Xiaoshan knocked out Yu Deshui and asked for a confession, so he gave this innocent traitor a break, and finally threw him into a dry well.
And so far there has been no movement, and the body of Yu Bad Water has not been found by others.
Huo Xiaoshan confirmed from the confession asked yesterday that it was Daddy Huo Yuan and Liu Erpole who broke into the devil's military camp a few years ago, Liu Erpole was killed by the devil, but Daddy Huo Yuan successfully escaped without a trace, it seems that he is bound to go to the south to find his father and mother as originally planned.
In this way, the apparent calm of the pharmacy lasted until nearly noon, and the two silent people did not wait for their expected misfortune, but unexpectedly waited for another group of uninvited guests.
This group of uninvited guests is a group of old customers selling medicinal herbs.
Shopkeeper Rong not only sat in the hall to see a doctor, but also bought all kinds of medicinal materials from all over the country, and then sold them to those medicinal herb dealers who came from the south to traffick, and this kind of medicinal herb dealer was called a regular customer by the locals.
Since the Japanese devil occupied the three eastern provinces, there are fewer and fewer old customers who come here to sell medicinal materials, and the Rong shopkeeper is often worried about the backlog of inventory, but I didn't expect that today's old customers actually came to the door!
There are six people in this group of old customers, the first one is a man in his forties, and the rest are in their twenties and thirties.
The strangest thing is that there is a young man among them, whose facial features are quite upright, but his face is coated with a layer of yellow medicinal powder, which makes people annoyed to look at it.
The old guest led by Xiang Rong introduced himself as Zhou Liebao, and the rest of the people were the guys he brought out this time.
Can the shopkeeper Rong see the God of Wealth coming to the door? But on the surface, he still coped with it decently, and after greeting with the self-proclaimed Zhou Liebao, he saw that the group of guys was very respectful to the young man with a scorched face, so he asked Zhou Liebao: "Brother, who is this?" ”
"This is my young master, the first time I came back to the north, I was not accustomed to the water and soil, and I had a rash on my face, so I applied medicine." Zhou Liebao explained.
"Oh, I see. Brother Zhou, I am quite a good doctor, if you can trust me, do you want me to take a look at this young master? "It's a guest from afar, this Rong shopkeeper has dealt with people for most of his life, how can he not be a man? said to Zhou Liebao in an inquiring tone.
"Thank you for the kindness of the shopkeeper, we have already used the medicine we brought with us, so I won't bother you." Zhou Liebao smiled faintly, but he politely rejected the kindness of the shopkeeper Rong, "Let's talk about the medicinal materials first." ”
"What's the urgency to talk about medicinal materials, it's noon soon, a few people who have come from afar to work hard, so let's have lunch and rest in our store before talking about this business." Shopkeeper Rong suggested with a smile on his face.
"There's no rush to eat." Zhou Liebao waved his hand, "We have an urgent matter, we have to leave immediately after loading the medicinal materials here, let's look at the medicinal materials first." ”
The shopkeeper Rong's face was stunned, but he immediately recovered as before, "good, good, good" kept responding in his mouth. "It's best if this soldier can be faster in a hurry."
"The shopkeeper leads the way in front, and you can rest assured about the price." Zhou Liebao was very polite in his words, but he could not refuse in his tone.
When Shopkeeper Rong saw that Zhou Liebao had already said this, he stopped being verbose, said "Brother Zhou, come with me", and led everyone through the small door of the counter to the backyard.
Huo Xiaoshan has been paying attention to this group of old guests on the side, because it is a matter of going to his father and mother.
He just listened to the conversation between the shopkeeper Rong and the old customer surnamed Zhou, and looked at Zhou Liebao's men, he saw that the young man was half a head shorter than himself, but he was the same age, so he felt a sense of kindness in his heart, and couldn't help but take a look at it.
The young man also noticed Huo Xiaoshan at the same time, and glared at him when he saw Huo Xiaoshan looking at him.
Huo Xiaoshan was not angry, thinking that the other party was impolite to stare at him like this because he was sick, but he was surprised by the beauty of the young man's eyes when he stared, giving him a feeling as clear as water, which was like looking at the purity and slight coolness that the cold spring in the old forest could bring to himself.
Zhou Liebao was very anxious, here the shopkeeper Rong introduced the medicinal materials, and over there asked his men to move the medicinal materials to the car, it turned out that he had already asked his subordinates to park a carriage in the backyard of the shopkeeper Rong's house.
Zhou Liebao really said in terms of price just now, the shopkeeper Rong said as much as he wanted, and he didn't bargain at all.
At this time, how could Shopkeeper Rong not see that there was something strange about these old customers? But he naturally won't say it explicitly, anyway, as long as the ocean he went out of is genuine, he doesn't care what the other party comes from, he thinks that he will collect the money and send them away.
In just half an hour, the carriage was more than half loaded.
Zhou Liebao waved his hand and said, "That's all, our carriage also needs to be loaded with other mountain goods." ”
When the buyer said this, the seller naturally had no opinion, because the shopkeeper Rong only estimated a little, and the other party could already buy a large cart of medicinal materials with the money he spent on this half car.
What's more, although Shopkeeper Rong has only been in contact with Zhou Liebao for a short time, he has realized that this person's personality is the same.
At this time, it was already past dinner time, and the shopkeeper Rong hurriedly instructed Liu Gui to put the dining table directly in the backyard, and brought up the prepared meal, there was only one dish, pork stewed vermicelli, but there was a large pot on it, and the staple food was potstickers bought from the street.
Huo Xiaoshan noticed that when he was loading the medicinal herbs, the young man showed a curious look, and put his nose on the Chinese medicine to smell, and at this time he saw a pot of dishes, although his face was coated with yellow powder, but there was still a faint smile in his expression, but he actually noticed Huo Xiaoshan looking at him again, so he glared at him again.
His glance made Huo Xiaoshan pat his thigh, "I patronized the excitement, but I almost missed the big event!" He hurriedly stepped forward and called the shopkeeper Rong aside.
Zhou Liebao and his men ate like a storm, and it didn't take much effort to finish eating, but the pot had already seen the bottom.
At this time, the shopkeeper Rong stepped forward and said to Zhou Liebao: "Brother Zhou, I want to trouble you with something, okay?" ”
Zhou Liebao looked up at the shopkeeper Rong, but he didn't speak, but he made an expression of listening to what was going on.
"My little brother." Shopkeeper Rong pointed at Huo Xiaoshan and said, "Because this Japanese is here, he is separated from his parents, your parents should have gone back to the south, he wants to find his parents, I wonder if Brother Zhou can let him take a companion with you and go south together?" ”
"How can this work?" Before Zhou Liebao could answer, one of his thick-eyed men spoke up.
Zhou Liebao glanced at the guy, and the guy hurriedly shut his mouth.
Zhou Liebao turned his head and was about to speak to Shopkeeper Rong, but Huo Xiaoshan, who was standing next to him, knew that he was about to refuse when he saw his expression.
At this moment, a person broke in from outside the courtyard, and the shopkeeper Rong was about to ask, but the person had already trotted to Zhou Liebao and whispered a few words.
Zhou Liebao stood up, his face changed slightly, and said, "Qiangzi, settle the account, let's leave now!" ”
The guys under Zhou Liebao didn't ask anything, they took the money to settle the bill, and the horse led the horse, and they were about to be discharged from the hospital.
Huo Xiaoshan was in a hurry, so he shouted, "Brother Zhou, can you take me with you?!" ”
The guy who spoke just now was about to speak up, but Zhou Liebao said first: "If you are not afraid, come with us." ”
Huo Xiaoshan was overjoyed, and ran to his room to carry a bag out, at this time, the carriage that pulled the medicinal herbs had already left the courtyard gate, and Huo Xiaoshan hurriedly strode up.
These things are slow to say, but they are actually extremely fast, as if they had all happened in the blink of an eye.
Shopkeeper Rong only had time to grab a few potstickers and stuff them into Huo Xiaoshan's arms and say "eat on the road", and then turned around and took out a few oceans from the medicine money given by Zhou Liebao and prepared to give them to Huo Xiaoshan, Huo Xiaoshan had already followed Zhou Liebao and a group of people to dozens of meters away.