time stop

The rain has not stopped for several days in a row, the faint rain and fog enveloped the small town in the south of the Yangtze River, and the blue and black mountains in the distance only showed a hazy outline. Small lumps of stagnant water formed, leaving specks of muddy water on the rider's cloak.

The continuous rain hindered the footsteps of many pedestrians, and the number of people staying in this small inn with nowhere to go was pitifully small. The young man leaned on the table with a snow-white cloth towel on his shoulders. The shopkeeper spoke with a strong sense of sleepiness in his tone.

The little guy yawned: "Shopkeeper, when do you think it will rain?"

Probably because the location of the inn is not good, and the business is not very good. The shopkeeper looks dry and thin, but he is not small, so it looks more like he will fall down when the wind blows.

The shopkeeper was flicking the abacus at the counter behind him, trying to settle the accounts in his spare time. He raised his eyes and glanced at the unsettled guy: "I think you are itchy, and there are customers on weekdays who are yelling that you are tired." , Now that you still dislike this in leisure, give me your cheap bones."

Hearing this, the guy immediately sat up straight and said, "Don't bother you, I'll go and have a look at the back."

As he said that, the buddy walked slowly into the back kitchen, and the shopkeeper gave a soft "um" without lifting his eyelids.

The night was getting dark, the shopkeeper was planning to close the shop earlier if there were no customers for a while, but unexpectedly there was a sound of hurried footsteps, the shopkeeper raised his head to look at the gate, and a half-grown young man in green clothes rushed into the inn from the rain , he stood at the door with a medicine basket on his back, patting the rainwater on his clothes.

The shopkeeper stood at the counter and stretched his neck, and asked, "Is it objectively a tip or a store?"

The young man in Tsing Yi turned around and smiled, "Stay in the hotel."

The shopkeeper said pleasantly: "Guest officer, why are you still going out in this heavy rain?"

The young man in Tsing Yi replied: "Hurry home, there are people waiting at home, it's not good if the umbrella is broken halfway."

The shopkeeper smiled ambiguously: "I think there must be a beautiful girl in the guest official's house, otherwise why are you in such a hurry to go back."

The young man in Tsing Yi was still smiling, he thought he had a very good temper, he shook his head and said: "It's just my younger brother, I don't feel relieved to leave him alone at home, there is no such thing as a beautiful lady."

The shopkeeper made a joke, and there was nothing embarrassing about it. He called the clerk by his name loudly, and called the clerk out of the back kitchen. The clerk asked, "What's the matter, the shopkeeper?"

The shopkeeper glanced at the young man in Tsing Yi, and said, "Take this guest officer upstairs to find a room, and then boil some bath water and send it over. It's raining, hurry up and take a hot bath, or you'll get a cold."

The young man said "thank you" and followed the waiter upstairs.

The shopkeeper was still muttering about the young man, and another group of men in black dismounted at the door, and came in with a chill. They were all tall and armed with swords. Going forward to meet him, he asked, "Are you a master or a hotel?"

A hulking man didn't even look at the shopkeeper, and said, "Tip, bring some food up."

The shopkeeper responded with a low eyebrow, and walked towards the back kitchen. He didn't dare to look at the faces of those men until he turned around, but just lowered his head and stared at the small puddle that dripped from their cloaks on the ground. water stains.

The man in the lead unbuttoned his drenched cloak, and someone stretched out his hand to hold it immediately behind him. He had just taken a step, and before he sat down, he saw his body shaking. Fortunately, the burly man next to him immediately Reached out to hold his arm.The man in the head shook his head towards his subordinates, indicating that he was fine, but before the subordinates let go of his arm, he fell down in front of his eyes. If the subordinates did not hold him, he would definitely fall Knock your head on the cheap tables and chairs in the inn.

"Master!" Several shouts all revealed the panic of several people under him.

At this time, a young man in Tsing Yi rushed out, and while pushing aside layers of subordinates surrounding the wounded, he shouted, "Get out of the way, I'm a doctor."

A few people didn't notice, but he really pushed them away. The young man half-kneeled on the ground to take the pulse of the unconscious man. He had a serious expression on his face, and the more he took the pulse carefully, his brows became tighter.

He said to the person who was supporting him solemnly, "Send him to my room, and I can help him suppress the toxicity temporarily." As he spoke, he lifted his feet and walked upstairs regardless of how other people reacted.

"Brother Geng, what should we do?" The rest of the people turned to the hulking man and asked.

Sun Geng also had a troubled expression on his face. He hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth, picked up the leader and followed the young man in Tsing Yi, and several subordinates behind him also followed Sun Geng.

The leader was placed on a small bed in the inn, and several people behind him stood around the bed and looked at the lying leader, for fear that he would be harmed by thieves.

The young man in Tsing Yi sat by the bed and untied the man's belt. The people behind him looked at him and shouted, "What are you doing!"

The young man looked at the crowd innocently, and said as a matter of course, "Shi needles!"

"Cough!" The standing people coughed twice, trying to pretend that they didn't ask or say anything.

The young man didn't care about those who prevented him from saving people, he directly peeled off the man's clothes, revealing his fair and strong chest, but there was a big scar on the chest, thinking that his life was hanging by a thread and was pulled back.

The young man in Tsing Yi took out a roll of golden needles from his pocket, brushed the cold golden needles with his white and slender fingers, selected one and stuck it on the man's chest.He pricked several needles in the man's chest one after another, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, and said to the big men surrounding them: "He's poisoned, and I can't detoxify him for the time being. I had no choice but to protect his heart veins with gold needles, if there is no accident, he will wake up in an hour, and I will decoct the medicine first."

Sun Geng also had no choice but to place his hopes on this young man whom he had just met, and asked, "Maybe the little doctor can suppress the poison for my master, so we can go to Medicine King Valley to seek medicine."

The young man stopped his hands when he heard this, and looked sideways at Sun Geng: "I can suppress the toxicity, but can you find the Medicine King Valley?"

Hearing this, Sun Geng also had a gloomy expression, and said, "I don't know, but I heard it's not far from here. We'll have to try our luck."

The young man in Tsing Yi smiled and said, "You guys are lucky, I know where it is."

Hearing that the young man in front of him actually knew the location of the Valley of the Medicine King, Sun Geng knew that the identity of this young man was not simple. Fortunately, he did not offend him. Fortunately, they seized this chance to survive.

Sun Geng bowed his hands to the young man who was about to walk out of the room and said: "Thank you, little doctor, I don't know the name of the little doctor yet."

Seeing Sun Geng salute, the rest of the people also bowed their hands to the young man to thank him.

The boy lifted his foot and left, leaving behind a sentence of "Xuan Qing".

When the leader woke up again, it was already dark, and the room was lit with oil lamps. Fortunately, the room was not big, otherwise there would be only one dim oil lamp in a room, and I am afraid that I would not be able to see anything.

He sat up, and the small old wooden bed made an overwhelmed "squeak" sound, which was a little ear-piercing for a while in the quiet room. Sun Geng and his subordinates were sitting at a table in the room, watching the leader and waiting for him to wake up. Come on, all of them swarmed to the bed and stared at him.

It was Xuan Qing who broke the weird atmosphere, holding a bowl of medicine in his hand, and the strong smell of medicine filled the slightly musty room at once.Seeing Xuan Qing's arrival, everyone made room for him. He walked unimpeded all the way to the leader and handed him the bowl in his hand: "Since you're awake, drink the medicine."

The leader held the medicine in his hand and didn't move for a while. He didn't trust the person who appeared in front of him: "Who are you?"

"Xuan Qing, a person from Medicine King Valley."

The leader said, "Lu Yuan." After that, he raised his head and drank the medicine juice in the bowl, as if he drank not a bitter medicine but a bowl of good wine.

Xuan Qing felt a little interesting: "Aren't you afraid that I am your enemy and come to poison you?"

Lu Yuan handed the medicine bowl to one of his subordinates beside him, and said, "No need, I am a dying person, why should you come and kill me with poison. This is close to Yaowang Valley, so it's not surprising that you are in it, anyway. I have no other choice."

After hearing this, Xuan Qing took his pulse again to confirm that his toxicity had been temporarily suppressed, and he instructed: "Rest early, and leave for Medicine King Valley tomorrow morning. Oh, by the way, only patients are accepted in Medicine King Valley." , You friends, the valley can't hold it."

After finishing speaking, Xuan Qing left and found another room to sleep.

On the contrary, Sun Geng and his party were caught in a dilemma. They didn't want the leader to follow Xuanqing alone, but insisted on escorting him all the way to the valley.

Lu Yuan leaned against the head of the bed, his face pale, and said, "Why do you think no one knows the exact location of Yaowang Valley for so many years?"

Several subordinates headed by Sun Geng half knelt on the ground and remained silent.

Lu Yuan went on to say: "If I want to cure my illness, I naturally have to listen to him. You go back to the church first and help protect the left and right. I'm afraid they won't be able to handle it. When I recover from illness, I will naturally go back."

"Master..."

Lu Yuan: "Needless to say, you will return to Islam tomorrow morning!"

Seeing Lu Yuan's resolute attitude, everyone had no choice but to agree: "Yes!"

After dismissing everyone and leaving, Lu Yuan lay on the bed and recalled what happened today. When he opened his eyes and saw Xuan Qing, he always had a familiar feeling. It was hard to describe, as if it came from a very distant memory.However, this sense of familiarity could not make Lu Yuan trust this young man, so he did not dare to drink the medicine immediately.

Lu Yuan closed his eyes, sketched Xuan Qing's appearance in his mind, and thought: Xuan Qing, who are you?