Chapter 13 Chance Encounter (Two in One)


Chapter 13 Chance Encounter (Two in One)

Ten days passed in the blink of an eye.

In the past ten days, Lin Bai only went out to the morning market stall every day, and spent the rest of his time practicing Wuji Kung Fu.

However, the atmosphere in Huaxi County has become increasingly tense. The county magistrate is strictly investigating anyone who has been to Tianlang Mountain within half a month, whether they are hunters, villagers, or even people who go to the mountain to enjoy the cool weather.

Not only that, they were still searching for missing people in the city, mainly looking for short men in their thirties.

There was even a portrait of Pei Wuyong posted at the city gate, but Pei Wuyong's name was not mentioned, only that he was a gangster.

Beicheng was not at peace either. The Qinglong Gang regained their composure and actually helped the county government investigate the missing people in Beicheng.

Lin Bai finally understood that the backstage of the Qinglong Gang was probably the county government. In other words, at least it is related to the county government.

This morning, Lin Bai opened his eyes.

A surging hot current gushes out from the Dantian, like a rushing river, washing away the limbs and bones, and finally converges at the Dantian.

After two years of practice in the Stone Plate Space, Wuji Kung Fu has broken through to the second level.

This progress is not slow, but Lin Bai knows that the Wuji Kung Fu becomes more and more difficult the further it goes.

Although he has the Stone Plate Space, he cannot change his qualifications, he just has more time.

"My qualifications seem to be good, right?"

"Then what is my current level in martial arts? Third rate? Second rate?"

Lin Bai compared carefully and found that he was far better than Xue Ba and Dong Chao, but far inferior to Pei Wuyou...

Of course, even the three Taoist priests who besieged Pei Wuyou were far superior to him.

"Only when you are at least as strong as Pei Wuyou can you go out and enter the world."

Lin Bai silently made up his mind and prepared to find someone to find out who Pei Wuyou was. But you can't ask directly, you need to make insinuations.

It stands to reason that such powerful people cannot be unknown people.

After breakfast, Lin Bai changed into clean clothes, put on the cloth shoes given by Mu Zhen, and set out for Baicaotang.

You need to learn martial arts, and you also need to learn medical skills. These are essential skills for killing people and stealing goods.

Moreover, when the three Taoist priests touched the corpses, they found several porcelain bottles. Lin Bai still does not know whether they were poison or good medicine, whether they were aphrodisiacs or kidney tonifiers.

When I arrived at Baicaotang, I bumped into an acquaintance.

Niu's two heads were wrapped with white cloth, but his face was glowing. He didn't know whether his wife had died or he had been promoted.

"Second Master!" Lin Bai yelled to catch the thief and said in surprise, "Who dared to kill the Second Master?"

When Niu Er saw it was Lin Bai, he laughed loudly, stood in the middle of the Baicaotang gate, and said proudly: "They are all minor injuries! Without this scoop, how could I have destroyed the Ax Gang? This is my first achievement!"


After saying that, Niu Er felt even more proud.

"I have long heard that the Qinglong Gang destroyed the Ax Gang. It turns out that the Second Master was the first to do it! I admire it!" Lin Bai praised perfunctorily.

"Hey, not worth mentioning!"

Niu Er became more and more excited. He looked Lin Bai up and down and asked, "What are you doing here at Baicaotang? Can't you pick up the wheel? Or can't turn the wheel?"

Lin Bai regretted not using more force that night to make Niu Er's gourd open wider.

"Second Master is joking." Lin Bai endured it and prepared to ask Niu Er's wife Bai Bai some other day.

"I haven't been to the gate of Beicheng recently, how's it going there? How are your straw sandals selling?" Niu Er was quite talkative today.

"It's not very good. I'm going to change my career." Lin Bai told the truth.

"You should have changed it a long time ago!" Niu Eryi became excited when he heard this, and the flesh on his face rolled up, "What's the future of weaving mats and selling shoes?"

Lin Bai retorted: "I heard that a mat weaver and shoe seller became emperor."

Niu Er smiled, "Why don't you say that the beggar became the emperor?"

"I've heard of this. It was said that there was a monk who later begged for food..." Lin Bai said.

"Come on!"

Niu Er waved his hand, interrupted impatiently, and asked: "What are you going to do for a living? Let me tell you."

"I want to study medicine." Lin Bai took out two medical books from his arms and said, "I asked Doctor Bai to read some medical books. In the future, I also want to help the world."

Niu Er laughed again, shook his big fat head, and said: "Old man Bai is just a dabbler. What can you learn from him?"

"Niu Er!" Doctor Bai in the room couldn't stand listening anymore, "You said I'm half-assed, then don't come to me if you have the ability!"

Niu Er smiled and did not talk back to Doctor Bai. Instead, he looked at Lin Bai, lowered his voice and said, "Listen to me, don't think about becoming a doctor! By then, you won't even be able to pay for prostitution for one day!"

"Isn't that true? I heard that trapdoors have become cheaper recently." Lin Bai said.

"..." Niu Er was stunned for a moment and said: "That's because the Ax Gang has been disbanded. The sluts are left unattended for the time being, so they have lowered their prices to attract customers! In two days, our Qinglong Gang will take over, and we will have to increase the price. ! ”

"That's it." Lin Bai nodded, thinking it was you who were driving up the price of...that one!

"Don't think too much. Just listen to what I'm saying. While you're young and have the capital, work hard for two years! If a noble lady likes you, wouldn't it be possible to leave this mud pile in Beicheng?" Niu Er said meaningfully.

Do you want to co-author it or let me sell it?

"Let me think about it again..." Lin Bai changed the subject and asked casually: "Second Master, what's happened to the county magistrate recently? He's checking someone who has been to Tianlang Mountain, and he's checking a thirty-year-old short man again. . Could it be that the county master’s concubine really ran away with the coachman?”

Lin Bai’s words were not without purpose.

People in Beicheng are spreading rumors that the concubine of the county gentleman ran away with the coachman and is hiding in Tianlang Mountain! Moreover, although the coachman was short in stature, he was very capable in bed, which made the concubine of the county lord follow him desperately.

Poor people don't have much knowledge, so they just like to talk about the following three ways. This is normal.

"You kid! You don't want to say this nonsense!"

Niu Er chuckled, then lowered his voice and said: "The gang leader said that the water is very deep here! Don't ask around, and don't go up."

"Don't worry, I'm the most timid. I don't even dare to listen to what others say to me!" Lin Bai said seriously.

"Okay, I'm leaving. Think more about what I just told you!" Niu Er patted Lin Bai's shoulder expectantly, and then walked out swaggeringly.

Lin Bai sighed and looked at Doctor Bai, who was also looking at Lin Bai with a smile.

"Young people should be careful about sex. You must not listen to other people's temptations, which will damage the foundation of your life." Doctor Bai opened his mouth with words of advice.

"Yes, please keep this in mind, junior." Lin Bai stepped forward, presented the borrowed Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Baicao Pu with both hands, and said respectfully: "Thank you, Doctor Bai, for borrowing the book."

"Easy to say. Have you finished reading it? Do you remember it?" Doctor Bai asked kindly.

"I remember everything." Lin Bai replied.

"That's good." Doctor Bai didn't ask any questions this time, but just said: "But you have to remember that books are books. Just like this book of herbs, there are various herbal medicines painted on it, but you still have to see it with your own eyes. Touch it with your own hands, smell it, even taste it. ”

"Yes." Of course Lin Bai understood this truth, but he still wanted to learn the theory first and then practice it.

Just as he was about to ask for two more medical books, Zhong Xiuxiu walked out from the back of the hall.

She was dressed very smartly, with her hair tied into two buns and solid cuffs. She carried a medicine basket on her narrow shoulders and a short-handled medicine hoe in her hand.

"It's Doctor Lin here." Zhong Xiuxiu spoke very nicely when she saw the medical books on the table.

Doctor Bai glared at Zhong Xiuxiu, then took out another book and handed it to Lin Bai.

"This is a diagnosis of febrile disease. You can take a closer look when you go back." Doctor Bai had a smile on his face and was very gentle.

"Thank you, Doctor Bai. I will study it carefully."

Lin Bai bowed his hands, then looked at Zhong Xiuxiu and asked, "Xiuxiu, are you going to collect herbs? Do you want me to go with you?"

When Zhong Xiuxiu heard this, a smile immediately appeared on her face, and she quickly jumped to Dr. Bai's side, pulling on Dr. Bai's sleeves, coquettishly and happily, and said:

"Grandpa, let him go with me to collect medicine. He can't read our medical books for nothing, can he? Just sit in the medicine hall. It will be bad if someone is seriously ill and can't find you." Lin Bai heard this. , then I realized that Doctor Bai was also going to collect medicine.

Although Doctor Bai's health is still good, he is old after all.

Lin Bai hurriedly spoke and said: "Doctor Bai, Xiu Xiu is right. I can't read your medical book in vain. Since I met you today, why not just let me go. And the mountain road is slippery. If you have an accident, what will happen to you?" The medicine hall cannot be opened.”

"That's right! Just let him see the real herbal medicine!" Zhong Xiuxiu followed.

Seeing that Lin Bai was not being polite and pretending, Doctor Bai said, "That's fine. I'll trouble you to look after Gu Xiuxiu more."

"Don't worry, Doctor Bai." Lin Bai smiled.

Over there, Zhong Xiuxiu has already brought the medicine basket and medicine hoe.

"Where to collect medicine?" Lin Bai asked, raising the medicine basket.

"Tianlang Mountain, where else can we go?" Zhong Xiuxiu looked like a fool.

Lin Bai was stunned for a moment, only regretting that he agreed too early.

Although murderers have the habit of revisiting their old places, Lin Bai is very timid and doesn't dare to go.

But that’s it for now, you still have to go, just be cautious.

"I heard something happened over there in Tianlang Mountain. The police are going out every day. Don't go too deep. Also, if you meet an official, don't contradict him." Before leaving, Doctor Bai warned him again and again.

Lin Bai and Zhong Xiuxiu naturally agreed.

On the street, the two of them walked side by side.

Zhong Xiuxiu tilted her head to look at Lin Bai and said, "Let me tell you first, there will be no wages for collecting herbs this time."

"Yes, yes, I haven't forgotten the three cents of silver for the soup and medicine." Lin Bai smiled.

Zhong Xiuxiu was very happy to see Lin Bai's interest. She asked, "I went to the market at the gate of the city a few days ago and heard someone calling you Lin Zhuanlun. When did you get your nickname? Do you have any explanation?"

"Don't ask about this kind of thing!"

Lin Bai was very serious, changed the topic again, and asked: "I remember, don't you all buy your medicine from drug dealers? Why did you remember to collect medicine?"

Zhong Xiuxiu looked at Lin Bai faintly and said: "They have increased the price, and you... there are too many people like you."

"I can pay back the soup and medicine money soon..." Lin Bai felt a little embarrassed.

"I hope." Zhong Xiuxiu's tone was completely devoid of hope. She took out a sachet from her sleeve and said, "Here you go."

Lin Bai took it and sniffed it, knowing that it was used to go up the mountain to avoid insects and ants.

"You haven't made an engagement yet, have you? Do you want me to help you find a matchmaker?" Zhong Xiuxiu was quite serious.

"No need." Lin Bai refused.

"Are you embarrassed?" Zhong Xiuxiu smiled, "Don't think I'm young, I've met a lot of people, and I will definitely find you a good family."

Lin Bai said nothing and just walked.

"I see that you are not short in stature and good-looking. Although you are a little poorer and a little weak in culture, you still have no worries about getting married." Zhong Xiuxiu became excited.

"I like married women." Lin Bai said.

"It's easy. I'll go back and help you find someone... eh?" Zhong Xiuxiu's eyes suddenly became confused.

"It's wrong of you to do this!" Zhong Xiuxiu caught up with Lin Bai and actually talked about how to behave in the world.

Anyway, that little mouth couldn't stop clicking.

Lin Bai finally figured it out. This girl was a bit talkative. Maybe Doctor Bai didn't talk much and no one usually talked to her. She would chatter loudly when she caught Lin Bai.

The two left the city and climbed Tianlang Mountain.

However, it was different from Lin Bai's route last time. Zhong Xiuxiu had obviously been here before and was very familiar with it.

She carried a medicine basket on her back, put the medicine hoe in the basket, picked up a stick in her hand, and knocked on the weeds in front of her.

"There are snakes and insects in the mountains in summer. If you are bitten by a bamboo leaf green, you will get a lot of blood blisters on your legs." Zhong Xiuxiu walked in front cautiously and seriously.

Lin Bai listened to her chatter and paid attention to his surroundings.

At the same time, when walking on mountain roads, you should also step a little heavier and breathe a little faster, trying to look like a young man.

The two walked into the mountains for a while, and Lin Bai once again saw Zhong Xiuxiu's side of being a teacher.

When she found an herb, she would definitely ask Lin Bai if he recognized it, what its medicinal properties were, and what kind of disease it could cure.

If Lin Bai answered all the questions correctly, she would nod her head, as if the old god was there, and pretend to say: You are quite careful.

If Lin Bai didn't answer, or answered incorrectly, the girl would put on a serious face and talk about how doctors should be rigorous.

Anyway, no matter right or wrong, she can always tell a truth.

The two walked along the mountain road for a long time and picked many medicinal materials such as Schisandra chinensis, Motherwort and Bupleurum.

There are also common honeysuckle, mugwort and red flowers.

Lin Bai had clear eyes and was responsible for guarding, so he kept observing his surroundings. He picked more herbs than Zhong Xiuxiu.

After walking along the mountain road for a while, Lin Bai suddenly felt panicked for no reason, as if he was being stared at by some ferocious beast.

He turned his head and looked at Xiuxiu next to him. This girl was not working hard. She was lowering her head, taking two pieces of dogtail grass, and happily making rabbits.

Lin Bai raised his head, holding the medicine hoe in his hand, and saw a man standing ten steps in front of him.

The man was wearing green clothes, about forty years old, tall and thin, with a pale complexion and sunken eye sockets. He was holding a long sword.

Lin Bai was very panicked. He was very confident in his hearing and vision, but he had no idea when the man in Tsing Yi appeared ten steps away.

This shows that there is a huge gap in strength between the two!

Moreover, Lin Bai couldn't be sure whether the man in Tsing Yi had just arrived or if he had been observing for a long time.

If you observe for a long time, you may see that you have some skills. At least I can see that my muscles and bones are far stronger than ordinary people...

Although he has been on guard for a long time and behaves like an ordinary person, there is no guarantee that there will be no flaws in front of real people.

Although Lin Bai was panicking in his heart, he didn't show it on his face. He just made a puzzled look and held a medicine hoe to protect Xiuxiu.

This is consistent with the action of encountering strangers in the mountains and fields.

The man in Tsing Yi said nothing and had no expression on his face. He only looked sideways at Lin Bai and Zhong Xiuxiu.

Lin Bai bowed his hands and said: "My brother and sister came to pick herbs and disturbed your Majesty. It is really presumptuous."

Zhong Xiuxiu heard Lin Bai talking and discovered the man in Tsing Yi. She hurriedly hid behind Lin Bai, peeking at the man in Tsing Yi, while muttering something in a low voice that the pale complexion was probably due to a lack of energy and blood...

"Get out of here." The man in Tsing Yi said.

Lin Bai cupped his hands and retreated. Zhong Xiuxiu also saw that the man in Tsing Yi was not easy to mess with, so he followed Lin Bai and retreated.

After staggering down the mountain for a quarter of an hour, the feeling of being stared at by a beast finally disappeared.

"You shouldn't go up the mountain today!"

Lin Bai felt that it was necessary to build several flying knives in case of emergency.

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