The sky is bright and it is already early morning.
Most of the people in Longtai, Kyoto, are still sleeping. Only some travelers who are busy with their livelihood or worry have woken up. What they are thinking about is nothing more than daily necessities, rice, oil and salt, or the distant horizon.
Not good at court.
There was a strong wind last night, and the entire backyard was covered with yellow leaves that drifted in the wind. The ground was covered with a thick layer. Maybe it was too humid. There seemed to be a light layer of water mist on the dead leaves.
A door in the left side room creaked open, and a strong, dark-skinned boy clutched his stomach and wore a thin shirt with a sleepy look on his face. It was Du Heng.
He seemed to be blown by the biting autumn wind outside the hospital, and suddenly grinned. His sleepiness had also disappeared by seven or eight points. One side of his body was shivering uncontrollably, and the other hand was covering his stomach, groaning.
After a while, he muttered: "I must have eaten too much last night..."
As he said this, he held his stomach and plunged into the hut.
Not even a moment later, Du Heng hurriedly jumped out of the hut, covering his stomach with one hand and his butt with the other, and shouted at the door of the wing: "Su Ling, I'm not the one who wants to use the toilet."
I casually put it on the table of the latrine, but it was gone. Fortunately, I took a look. If I had taken off my pants..."
Su Ling's lazy voice came from that room: "Um... you guys use toilet chips when you go to the toilet? Just those bamboo pieces or stick-like things? Don't you think it's too disturbing? Don't
I found it and burned it as firewood while cooking..."
Du Heng's stomach hurt and he cried sadly: "Then what should I use?"
Su Ling's voice sounded again: "On the table in the back hall, there are pieces of paper I left behind when I splashed ink. Go get some. Isn't that one more comfortable than your broken bamboo?"
Du Heng endured the pain in his stomach, walked to the back hall, and opened the door tremblingly.
At a glance, he saw a few pieces of messy paper on the desk in the back hall. He didn't care, grabbed all the papers and rushed towards the latrine.
............
At midnight in the morning, the restaurant officially opened for business.
There are still many customers coming to the restaurant. The 500 queue numbers have been distributed early that day, and there is a long queue in front of the door.
There are now ten people in the bad hall, and nine came today. But Hao Zao is missing.
These nine people all wore the unique "Mercedes-Benz" identity badge of Haotang. On their faces were the professional smiles that Su Ling had trained for many days.
Su Ling inspected it back and forth and felt very satisfied, so he returned to the inner hall to grind the medicine. In fact, he had stopped doing the grinding of medicine for many days and left the matter to Hao Zao.
But Hao Zao also got started very quickly. Whether it was the speed of grinding the medicine or the mixing ratio of the medicine, he was very good at it.
But all this time, Su Ling just handed him the medicine packets used for Lengxiang Pills and told him how much of each medicine in the medicine packet needed to be put into the powder. As for what medicines were in these medicine packets, Su Ling still didn't know.
What I told him was that I just wanted to test him more. If Hao Zao is really reliable and serious in his work, and he knows some pharmacology, then I will put some effort into training him. If I open a branch in the future, I can leave it to him to take care of it.
However, after closing the business two days ago, Hao Zao stayed alone and told Su Ling very sincerely that he hoped to see the formula of medicinal materials needed to make Lengxiang Pills. He had no other purpose than to continue his journey of pharmacology and medicine.
I am somewhat knowledgeable and want to take a look at the formula and see if I can improve it to make the effect of Lengxiang Pills more obvious.
Hao Zao was afraid that Su Ling might misunderstand, so he quickly said that he had no other intentions and was only interested in bad business. If Su Ling misunderstood, then it would be treated as if he had never said these words.
As he turned to leave, Su Ling stopped him, thought for a while, nodded, wrote a recipe and gave it to Hao Zao.
Hao Zao was also excited, and then he thanked Su Ling for his trust and left.
Su Ling thought about what happened last night and felt a little depressed because of the poor ventilation in the inner room. Then she put down her work and went to the front hall to look around again, but she still didn't see Hao Zao.
Su Ling felt that there might be something going on here, so she waved to Wang Jun. When he came, Su Ling lowered her voice and said, "Go to Hao Zao's house alone later to see if he is home. Why is he doing this?"
It's been a while, but he hasn't come yet. Is he sick? You must move alone, and when walking on the road, carefully look behind you to see if there are tails on the left and right."
Su Ling said it calmly, but Wang Jun frowned and said, "Brother Su, do you suspect that there will be something wrong with Hao Zao? I'm also surprised, he usually comes earlier than me, but today
But he didn’t come for no reason.”
Su Ling wrote lightly: "Last night I gave him the prescription and proportion of Lengxiang Pills..."
Wang Jun's face changed several times when he heard this, and he said: "Brother, you really trust people too much. Hao Zao has no family, and he didn't have much to do before he came to our bad hall. Brother just mixed the prescription.
If you leave it to him, you should examine it carefully and wait for some time before talking!"
Su Ling didn't seem to care and said: "Although it is necessary to be on guard against others, it is still good for me to treat others sincerely."
Wang Jun could only nodded and cupped his fists towards Su Ling.
Wang Jun walked around the Bad Hall a few more times and saw that no one was paying attention to him. There were people everywhere in the Bad Hall. Taking advantage of the crowd, he quietly left the Bad Hall alone and headed towards Hao Zao's house.
Went to Baini Alley.
Along the way, Wang Jun quietly observed the people around him as he walked. When he first walked, he didn't notice anyone following him secretly. But as soon as he crossed Zhuque Street, he vaguely felt that there seemed to be someone behind him, as if he was deliberately following him.
was hanging far behind him. Wang Jun was afraid that he was too careful, so he changed his pace faster or slower, but suddenly found that the person behind him was also secretly changing his pace according to his pace.
The speed of travel.
Wang Jun was secretly convinced that the person behind him must be the tail that Su Ling mentioned.
Wang Jun took his time, slowly slowing down his pace, and stopped in front of a small vendor, pretending to look at the goods sold by the vendor while looking back with his peripheral vision.
But he felt that the person behind him seemed to be very alert. The moment he stopped, the person also hurriedly dodged into an alley. Wang Jun had no time to see whether the person was male or female and what he looked like.
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Wang Jun saw him ducking into the alley, and taking advantage of the gap, he suddenly quickened his pace and plunged into the crowd in front of him.
He walked for a while, and when he looked behind him, he felt that the tail had been shaken off. Then he calmed down and headed towards Hao Zao's residence.
But what he never expected was that a man in a black shirt, about ten feet away behind him, looked in the direction of his back, with a bit of fierce ridicule in his expression.
............
Su Ling was pacing back and forth in the backyard at this time, thinking constantly in his mind, and his face looked worried.
After waiting for a while, Wang Jun came back. As soon as he entered the backyard, he saw Su Ling and wanted to come over to talk.
Su Ling made a silent gesture, waved for him to follow her into the back hall, and then asked: "How?"
Wang Jun said: "Brother Su's guess is indeed right. Not long after we left, someone followed us."
Su Ling nodded, secretly thinking that something was wrong today, and asked again: "Can I get rid of it..."
Wang Jun nodded and said, "I think I got rid of him."
After hearing this, Su Ling breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "How is the situation at Hao Zao's home?"
Wang Jun said solemnly: "The door was closed. I jumped over the wall and found that there was no one inside. There was no figure of Hao Zao at all. However, there were some bottles and jars of trivial medicinal powder."
When Su Ling heard this, his expression became very solemn, and he said after a while: "In other words, Hao Zao is not at home, and this person has not come to the hall, so where can he be? Could it be that he disappeared out of thin air?"
Su Ling was confused, and Wang Jun asked: "However, when I came back on the way, I met a man who insisted on seeing you and said he was your apprentice. I saw that he didn't want to lie, so I brought him here.
"
When Su Ling heard this, he frowned and said, "When have I ever accepted a disciple... At this juncture, it may be a troubled time for the bad boy. If he wants Lengxiang Pills, give him two packs and send him away."
Just go."
Wang Jun's face turned red and he hurriedly raised his hands to go.
A thought flashed in Su Ling's mind and she said to Wang Jun: "Wait a minute, how old is the person you want to see me? What's his name?"
Wang Jun hurriedly said: "You are not very old, about thirteen years old. I heard from him that his surname seems to be Lin, Lin Bulang."
Su Ling's heart moved, it turned out to be him!
"Let him come in and see me!"
Wang Jun nodded and left. After a while, when he returned again, he was followed by a thin boy of twelve or thirteen years old.
It was the Lin Bulang that Su Ling saw that day, but this time he was alone, without his grandfather following him.
Not only that, his clothes were much cleaner than the day Su Ling met him.
Lin Bulang saw Su Ling at a glance, and just opened his mouth and said loudly: "Mr. Su, I have something to do..."
Su Ling hurriedly walked up to him and held his hand very affectionately. He secretly used some strength on his hand, but Lin Bulang was extremely alert and hurriedly swallowed the second half of his sentence.
Su Ling laughed loudly and said: "It turns out to be you. It's nice not to see you for a few days. Come and follow me inside and tell me where you have been in the past few days!"
As he spoke, he winked at Wang Jun.
Wang Jun knew in his heart that he retaliated with a punch and moved forward.
............
The business in front was still booming, Du Heng was busy, but in the late autumn, he was sweating profusely. Seeing that there were not many cold scented pills left on the counter, he went to the inner hall to look for Su Ling, only to find Su Ling.
Not in the inner hall.
When Wang Jun saw Du Heng looking for Su Ling, he quickly told him that Su Ling was in the backyard hall. Then Du Heng went to the backyard again.
As soon as I stepped into the backyard, I heard someone whispering something in the back hall. It seemed that one of the voices was Su Ling, and the other voice was a little immature, but I couldn't tell who it was. It was just that the voice was too low and it was difficult to hear clearly.
, Du Heng thought and walked closer to see who Su Ling was talking to.
But as soon as he took two steps forward, he saw a man walking out of the back hall and bumped into Du Heng.
The man seemed a little alert. He glanced at Du Heng quickly, then turned towards the backyard gate. When he arrived at the gate, he did not hesitate, took off the door bolt, and left.
Du Heng didn't see clearly who this person was, he just felt that he was rather thin.
Du Heng was a simple and honest man, so he walked into the inner hall without thinking too much. Just when he was about to tell Su Ling that there were not many Lengxiang Pills left, Su Ling quickly walked up to him and said solemnly.
: "Lao Du, how many cold fragrant pills are there on the counter in front?"
Du Heng didn't know why and said: "There are not many left. It will be sold out soon. I don't want you to come here..."
Hearing this, Su Ling seemed to be in disbelief and said: "What? It's almost sold out? It's only been an hour..." He suddenly shook his head and said: "That's it, Du Heng, you go to the counter now, and the remaining
Take back all the cold-flavored pills and bring them here. By the way, there is also a shelf of cold-flavored pills on the left side of the inner room. You call Wang Jun and the others to bring the shelf here."
Du Heng was puzzled and said: "Su Ling, why do you do this?"
Su Ling looked solemnly and said: "There is something wrong with these cold-flavored pills. Go and get them done quickly. Let me deal with the details before I deal with these cold-flavored pills..."
Hearing this, Du Heng felt a little panicked. He hurriedly went out and shouted to the people who were still queuing: "I'm sorry, everyone, the sales of Lengxiang Pills are suspended today, and your license plates will be postponed to tomorrow."
People who were queuing up, especially those who were already waiting in line, were a little reluctant, and some even protested.
Although Wang Jun didn't know why he suddenly made such a decision, he still helped maintain order and persuaded the customers to leave the queue.
After all the guests had dispersed, Wang Jun asked: "Brother Du, why did you suddenly stop selling?"
Du Heng said: "I don't know. Su Ling said there was something wrong with the medicine and asked us to carry all the medicine on the counter and the whole shelf in the inner room to the backyard."
Wang Jun looked stern and said: "But we have sold a lot, what should we do with those?"
Du Heng shook his head and said, "I don't know about this either. I think Su Ling has a solution. Let's move all the medicine to the backyard first."
Du Heng and Wang Jun greeted the soldiers and the remaining waiters, and carried the cold scented pills on the counter and the entire rack of cold scented pills in the inner room to the backyard.
Su Ling stood in the courtyard with a calm expression and couldn't see anything wrong.
After they finished doing this, Su Ling just said calmly: "Everyone has worked hard. We will have an early shift today. Go back early. Wang Jun stays..."
After those people left, Su Ling's expression changed suddenly and she said to Wang Jun: "Go to the kitchen, find two thick pieces of wood, light them and bring them!"
Then he said to Du Heng: "Go and see if there is an oil shop nearby, and come back with a big bucket of oil!"
Du Heng and Wang Jun didn't know what Su Ling wanted these two things to do, so they looked at Su Ling in confusion.
However, Su Ling said as if facing a formidable enemy: "These Lengxiang Pills are filled with medicine that does not belong to Lengxiang Pills. Now this thing is no longer called Lengxiang Pills, but has become a poison that names people..."
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"What?!" Du Heng and Wang Jun were both shocked. Wang Jun's expression changed several times, and he finally realized: "Isn't it that Hao Zao's hands and feet... he has a vicious heart!"
Su Ling sighed and said, "It's useless to say this now. Let's quickly destroy all the so-called cold fragrance pills in our hands while no one is paying attention. When they turn into ashes, everything will be safe."
Wang Jun and Du Heng nodded. Wang Jun suddenly said: "What about those people who have already bought the medicine?"
Su Ling sighed and said: "I can't protect myself now, and I don't have to worry about much anymore!"
Wang Jun and Du Heng looked at each other, sighed, and took action.
After a while, Wang Jun lit two thick logs and carried them back. Du Heng also bought a large bucket of oil from the oil shop outside and brought them back.
Su Ling looked at the packs of Lengxiang pills stacked on the shelf with concern, the expression in her eyes was quite complicated, a bit regretful and a bit helpless.
No matter what he expected, there was nothing he could do, so he sighed, turned his head, turned his body slowly, turned his back to the medicine, and said in a deep voice: "Just burn it..."
Du Heng shook his head. He had no choice but to stamp his feet and said bitterly: "When I find that Hao Zao bastard, I will definitely not be able to spare him!"
With both hands, he raised the bucket of oil and poured it on the medicine on the medicine shelf.
Su Ling suddenly remembered something, turned around quickly, stared at the packs of cold scented pills on the medicine shelf in front of him, looked over them quickly, and then seemed to mutter to himself: "Four hundred and eighteen packs.
....."
Suddenly he raised his head and asked Du Heng: "Old Du, how many packets of medicine were sold in the hall today?"
Du Heng scratched his head and muttered: "I sold so many, how can I remember the number..."
Wang Jun hurriedly said: "I remember it. If I remember correctly, including those pre-ordered, there are a total of 581 packages..."
Su Ling lowered his head and thought and counted: "Five hundred and eighty-one packs, four hundred and eighteen packs. I remember that the total number of cold scented pills on this medicine shelf and sold in the hall today is one thousand packs.
But according to the number we just mentioned, how come there is one pack missing?"
Su Ling frowned and was speechless for a long time.
Du Heng thought for a while and then said: "Could it be that the wrong number was checked?"
Su Ling waved his hand and said, "Let's check it a few more times."
The three of them checked several more times and found that there were still 999 packages, which was one package less than the total.
Lidya Su's expression became more solemn.
Suddenly he waved his hand in boredom and said: "Forget it, it's just one pack, let's burn it!"
Du Heng responded and poured a large bucket of oil down the medicine shelf. All the cold-flavored pills were instantly wet by the falling oil.
Su Ling was cruel and snatched the burning piece of wood from Wang Jun's hand. Without further delay, he shook his hand and the piece of wood rolled with flames and flew towards the medicine shelf.
There was a sound of "Teng——", and in an instant, flames rolled, and the fire engulfed the entire medicine shelf.
Su Ling's eyes were filled with rolling flames, and for a moment, Su Ling's cheeks felt a faint burning pain.
The fire gradually burned and the intensity of the fire gradually became smaller.
Su Ling sighed and shook his head as if he was quite tired and said, "I'm tired. Let's go to the room to rest for a while. You two will stay here until the fire is out, and then you can disperse."
Wang Jun wanted to say something, but when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say them out.
Su Ling closed her eyes slightly, turned around slowly, and was about to leave when suddenly, there was a burst of rapid and chaotic footsteps from the back door.
Su Ling frowned and was about to go to see what was going on, but unexpectedly, the door was kicked open by someone.
A group of people rushed in fiercely, shouting at Su Ling and the other three: "Which one of you is Su Ling? Get out!"
Su Ling secretly thought, what is supposed to come has come.
Now that things had happened, Su Ling no longer felt depressed just now, and actually smiled lightly and walked towards them.
Wang Jun and Du Heng were worried about Su Ling's safety and took a step forward to stand in front of Su Ling.
Su Ling smiled lightly, shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter if they are a mob. Even if they all come at me, they probably won't be enough for me to fight."
Du Heng then thought that Su Ling had learned Kung Fu from Uncle Bai and was now much better than him, and then he felt a little calmer.
Su Ling walked slowly to a place five feet away from these people and stopped. He glanced at the group of people who were chirping/pretending to be menacing and domineering, and sneered: "It's just you guys who are collecting chicken feathers to collect dust.
Are you going to come to me? Are you worthy of it? It’s better not to be so vulgar and just let your boss come forward. Why should you imitate the rogue behavior of those in the market, aren’t you afraid of lowering your status? "
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a squeaking sound. The crowd split to the left and right, and saw a two-wheeled vehicle pushed out from the middle by two middle-aged people. On the wheelbarrow sat a man with white hair and beard.
The old man looks about seventy years old.
Although he was dressed in luxurious crimson satin clothes, he also wore a thick jade ring on the index finger of his left hand. The whole body was green and shiny, and it looked valuable.
However, looking at his face, he doesn't look very good-looking.
But I saw that his face was full of wrinkles, he had small eyes with swollen eyelids at the corners, a ginger complexion, and a thin mouth that seemed a bit mean.
Sitting on the wheelbarrow, the old man looked as steady as a mountain.
The old man glanced at Su Ling and seemed to feel that he had a chance to win. He said calmly: "Su Ling, you didn't want to meet the person in charge. Now that you have met me, do you have anything to say?"
Su Ling glanced at him and said with a deliberately joking smile: "I thought that a powerful person must be a hero who could stand up to the sky and sit down to crush the earth, but he didn't want to be a disabled person who couldn't even walk? In other words,
Do you lack social care? Why don't you come here to make your presence felt?"
The old man snorted, stood up from the two-wheeled vehicle, and started walking towards Su Ling.
The people on the left and right just wanted to come over to help him, but he waved his hand slightly and said: "Although I, Mr. Feng, are old, I am not so old that I can't walk anymore."
He took a few steps forward, looked at Su Ling and sneered: "Are you Su Ling?"
Su Ling nodded and asked, "Who are you?"
The old man said loudly: "The old man Fang Xi, whose name is Ping Tai, is the review of the medical clinic guild in Longtai City, Kyoto. In other words, whether the medical clinic and pharmacy in Kyoto can establish a firm foothold in Kyoto in the long run, that is what the old man said.
That’s the last word!”
Hearing this, Su Ling seemed unmoved. He just cupped his hands towards Fang Xi and said calmly: "It turns out that you are a master of Ping Tai. You have such a noble status and are the leader of Kyoto's medicine. How could you condescend to come to my little place?"
Where is Haotang? Didn't you come to me to buy Lengxiang Pills? I'm really sorry, the Lengxiang Pills have been sold out today. If you really want to buy them, please come back tomorrow! Du Heng, Wang Jun see you off!"
When Du Heng and Wang Jun heard this, they both made a greeting to Fang Xi.
Fang Xi was not in a hurry, smiled faintly, and suddenly pointed at the medicine shelf and lengxiang pill packets that were still not extinguished behind them and said: "Su Ling, you said that the lengxiang pills have been sold out today, then
I want to ask you, what is that burning thing behind you? What is it if it’s not a cold scented pill?"
After saying that, he stared at Su Ling with burning eyes.