Jiao Niang's Medical Sutra

Although they spoke confidently, as the Yudai Bridge approached step by step, the pace of several people slowed down significantly.

There are people coming and going on the street, people bargaining for rental cars and horses at Qiaotou, and everything remains the same.

But is everything really the same?

"It's Mr. Lang who is back!"

A familiar shout sounded, passing through the noisy crowd and rushing into the ears of Xu Maoxiu and others.

Xu Maoxiu obviously heard the relief of the brothers behind him, and he couldn't help smiling.

Jin Geer and Banqin have happily taken over.

"...Why so slow? We've been waiting for a long time..."

"I said go pick it up, but no one is watching the door..."

"...Hurry up, Brother Jin, set up the brazier, and burn the incense from Puxiu Temple..."

Surrounded by two people chattering non-stop, the seven people felt that they couldn't hear or answer, so they just smirked, let Banqin and Jin Geer manipulate them, beat themselves with branches, stepped over the brazier, and then entered the room. the door.

The mountains, rocks and flowing water, the bamboo trees in autumn are more and more green. When the hall door is opened, you can see the screens and a book on them.

Everything is the same as before, but... there is no such figure.

Xu Maoxiu breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt a little sad.

In fact, he was also a little scared to see her...

"The lady has gone out, she will be back in a while." Banqin said.

Xu Maoxiu looked back and nodded.

"The water is ready, gentlemen, go wash and wash first, and the clothes are ready." Brother Jin shouted.

After a lively shower, shampoo, shaved face, and new clothes, there were two more people in the yard.

"Master."

Li Dashao stood up excitedly.

Shopkeeper Wu smiled easily as usual.

"Why do you look fatter?" He also said.

"I am served with delicious food and drink every day. I'm either lying down or sitting. It's no wonder I'm not fat." Xu Bangchui rubbed his stomach and shouted, "It can't be done. If you don't exercise for a few days, your muscles and bones will become stiff."

As he spoke, he greeted the people around him.

"Go, go, practice, practice."

Sure enough, the brothers laughed and went to the backyard, and after a while there were shouts.

"It's still crowded with people." Shopkeeper Wu said with a smile.

"It's troublesome too." Fan Jianglin couldn't help but whispered.

"Trouble? Human life is a mess. There is no time not to be annoying." Shopkeeper Wu said with a smile, "Okay, the bosses have a day off and go to the store as soon as possible, as if they are busy."

Fan Jianglin and Xu Maoxiu were slightly taken aback.

"Yes, yes." Li Dashao also said, "Now that it's cold today, the business of Shenxianju is getting better and better. It's too busy. If the bosses don't come, the shopkeeper will restrict people to eat. "

Shopkeeper Wu laughed.

"This restricting people to eat has nothing to do with being too busy." He said, with a bit of high spirits on the side, "This is also a means. Rare things are more expensive..."

"Then you can still make money, why not? We only make fifty tables a day. What a pity." Li Dashao said, "If it comes to winter, I'm afraid it won't be enough."

"If you don't have enough, you can locate the place in advance." Shopkeeper Wu said with a smile.

Seeing the two discussing the restaurant business, Fan Jianglin and Xu Maoxiu both laughed and listened.

"Boss, what do you say?"

Shopkeeper Wu looked at them and asked.

"Shopkeeper, you can just say yes." Fan Jianglin said.

"My boss, you are so leisurely, your restaurant." Shopkeeper Wu joked.

Fan Jianglin and Xu Maoxiu looked at each other.

"Shopkeeper Wu...we..." Xu Maoxiu said.

Halfway through his words, Brother Jin at the door yelled that the lady had come back.Everyone got up and looked towards the door.

The door opened and got out of the car.Cheng Jiaoniang, who was being removed by the maidservant, appeared in front of her.

Plain flower skirt, cyan satin jacket, face as white as jade.

"Brothers are back," she said, bowing her head in a bow.

Although they wished they could hide, the brothers were still called from the backyard, and stepped into the door eagerly.

Cheng Jiaoniang, Xu Maoxiu, shopkeeper Wu and the others have already sat down.

"...Do you eat at home or go to the store?" Shopkeeper Wu was discussing with them, "Even if you are at home, don't do anything, let the store deliver..."

"It's better for me to do it." Cheng Jiaoniang said, "Brothers come back from suffering, as a younger sister should be like this."

"No, no, it's my sister who is suffering outside, so don't work hard." Fan Jianglin said.

"It's not hard, I just happen to be here today." Cheng Jiaoniang looked at shopkeeper Wu and Li Dashao, and smiled slightly, "Let's have a farewell banquet at that time."

goodbye?

Shopkeeper Wu and Li Dashao looked surprised.

Their release from prison today must be due to this woman's credit, so she naturally knew about their order to return to the barracks, and it was earlier than they knew.

Xu Maoxiu and the others were silent, not knowing what to say.

There was silence in the room.

"Why, why are you leaving?" Li Dashao couldn't help asking.

"We are deserters." Xu Maoxiu said, "Deserters are all beheaded. It is lucky to be killed. We have cleared our grievances and escaped. Only soldiers are left. Since soldiers, we have to go back."

Li Dashao and shopkeeper Wu nodded suddenly, with complicated expressions.

"No, I didn't have to go back." Cheng Jiaoniang said.

As soon as this remark came out, the expressions of the people in the room became astonished again.

"I have prepared three big gifts for my brothers." Cheng Jiaoniang said, "This is the first one."

Is it a great gift to take back to the barracks and become a member again?

"Okay, thank you sister." Xu Maoxiu came back to his senses and was the first to say.

Following his opening, Fan Jianglin and the others hurriedly followed suit to thank him.

Thank you sincerely, without any doubts.

"Don't you ask why?" Cheng Jiaoniang asked.

"What my sister does for us is good, we just need to do what my sister says." Xu Maoxiu said.

"I didn't ask you guys, I just made the decision for you, I don't know if it suits my brothers' wishes." Cheng Jiaoniang said.

Do you like it?

Shopkeeper Wu and Li Dashao couldn't help but look at each other.

The days of relaxation and affluence in the capital are nothing but.And to be the lowest and very dangerous soldier on the border, is it also desirable?

"Miss, someone outside the door came to deliver the goods."

Jin Geer's voice came from the yard.

"The second gift is here." The maid smiled and stood up, "Let me in quickly."

"My lady gave you good things, I'll take a look." Shopkeeper Wu stood up with a smile and said.

Li Dashao hurriedly followed suit.

"Then go and have a look." Xu Maoxiu said with a smile.

Everyone stood in the corridor in a panic, and a man who looked like a shopkeeper outside the door was directing four or five guys to enter the door.

"bow!"

Seeing what they were holding in their hands, several brothers shouted at the same time.

"It's the bow of Gyeongju!"

Another person shouted loudly, with a bit of surprise in his voice.

hear this.The man in charge looked over with a smile.

"Your Majesty has good eyesight." He said with a nod and bowed his head. As he walked a few steps, he pointed at the longbows brought in by the clerk one by one, showing off with a bit of pride, "The bows in our shop are official made in Gyeongju. Bows of two to three stone, respectively..."

His voice did not fall.I saw someone rushing over.

"Three stones are mine!"

Xu Bangchui shouted, rushing towards these bows.

It looked like it was going to eat people, and the guy holding the bow was scared back.

"I use the three-stone bow, the others are for those children to play with."

This remark caused the other brothers to boo, and they also stepped forward one after another.

"...Balmstick, can you draw the three-stone bow? Don't be shy..."

The yard suddenly became lively, and there was a lot of scrambling.Xu Bangchui got the bow he wanted with satisfaction.

"Ha." He put on the brass finger that he always carried with him, and pulled hard on the bowstring.He exclaimed, "Ha, what a good bow, what a good bow, powerful..."

Looking at the bow that was easily stretched, the shopkeepers on the side were also a little surprised.

"Oh man, what a god!" He boasted again and again. "Even military men, not everyone can easily pull these three stone bows."

Xu Bangchui immediately became more proud, and shouted that he was going to shoot arrows in the backyard.

"You're not so proud. It's just that he is rarely seen in the capital, which of our brothers didn't pull away easily." The other brothers said one after another.

The joking and joking in the yard became more and more lively.

"Will the third brother choose one?" Cheng Jiaoniang said.

Xu Maoxiu, who had been watching the brothers from the sidelines, smiled.

"You don't need to choose, as long as it is a bow, you can use it." He said.

"In other words, as long as the person is strong, he can use any kind of bow or bow." Cheng Jiaoniang said.

Xu Maoxiu laughed.

"I take that as a compliment," he said.

After distributing the bows and verifying that they were correct, the shopkeeper took the money and happily retired.

"This thing is so expensive!" Shopkeeper Wu clicked his tongue.

A bow actually costs twenty sticks!Coupled with a finger made of ox horn, seven bows are enough for a small family to eat and drink for a year.

"This old man." The shopkeeper said hurriedly, "This Qingzhou bow is extremely rare, not everyone can get it."

Shopkeeper Wu didn't know much about this, and the money didn't matter, anyway, this lady never took money seriously, and money was just a plaything to her, so he said it with a haha.

The store owner took his leave with people, and the noise of the brothers in the yard has not dissipated.

"It's too expensive for my sister, and the army will also issue bows and crossbows." Fan Jianglin said.

Before Cheng Jiaoniang could speak, Xu Bangchui spoke when he heard it.

"The bows and crossbows in the army are getting worse and worse every year, and they can't go into battle!" he shouted.

Xu Maoxiu stared.

"That doesn't cost my sister any money," he said.

Xu Bangchui patted his head and laughed.

"I didn't ask my younger sister to buy it, so I just told you, who asked the third brother to say that it was issued in the army." He said.

"It doesn't cost money." Cheng Jiaoniang said, smiling slightly, "Brothers are rich now, let alone a bow with [-] strokes, even [-] strokes, [-] strokes is just a matter of words."

"Yes, yes." Xu Bangchui nodded and smiled.

Fan Jianglin glared at him.

"...It's just that the value of the bow is not the price." Cheng Jiaoniang continued, "Otherwise, why don't the brothers buy this good bow made by the government, but pick up some branches and hemp rope and twist it yourself?"

The noisy courtyard gradually quieted down.

"We're not stingy, it's..." Someone couldn't help saying, but he didn't know what to say when he opened his mouth.

"The brothers themselves don't know why." Cheng Jiaoniang looked at him and said, "But I know, I'll tell the brothers."

She lifted her feet and walked down the steps slowly, looking at the brothers in the yard who were holding bows and arrows, and the joy on their faces had not dissipated.

"Brothers, always carry a finger wrench with you..." she said, looking at the brass wrench on the thumb of a brother in front of her, which had been worn yellow and shiny.

"I... I'm just used to it..." the brother said a little restrained.

"Yeah, you are used to it." Cheng Jiaoniang said, walking in front of them one by one, "You are used to exercising your muscles and bones regardless of the weather, you are used to holding a knife and gun to prepare for battle at any time, and you are used to lying in the land of singing and dancing. It is also the gongs and drums of the attack to listen to with pricked ears..."

Accompanied by her talking, let alone Xu Maoxiu and others stopped talking, even shopkeeper Wu and Li Dashao felt a little short of breath, and couldn't help but clenched their hands.

The blood that flows in the bones is the most indelible...

"...It's just that here, there is no summoning of the barracks, no screaming of comrades fighting against each other, and no roar of iron hooves when the enemy comes at any time..." Cheng Jiaoniang said, standing in front of Xu Bangchui , reached out to caress the longbow in his hand, "...here these bows and arrows are just decorations hanging on the wall, they are just toys to play with my sister and me. What's the use of your hands..."

She let go of her hand, turned around, and walked back slowly.

"Tigers are beasts in the mountains and forests, and dragons are effective when they hide in the deep pools. Brothers' bows and arrows are only on the battlefield, and only when they shoot into the enemy's chest, are bows and arrows worth thousands of gold, so brothers will not buy those valuable A thousand gold bow and arrow, because holding it and hanging it here like this is humiliating it."

"Tiger would rather starve to death in the mountains than to be full in an iron cage. That's why I want to give my brothers a gift. It's not to sit on a golden mountain and be a peacemaker for a lifetime, but to make contributions and wash away the shame. Where did the brothers fall? Get up wherever you go, and pat the mud off your body wherever you go.”

She stood in front of the steps, looking at Xu Maoxiu and the others.

"I don't know if the brothers still like this gift from me?"

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