Republic of China small businessman

Zhuandou Township was originally a post station, and merchants came and went continuously after autumn. There are many houses for accommodation, and the food is still delicious.

There are many tables in the hall for guests to drink tea and have breakfast.

Last night, several shops went home with torches, and only a few remained. There were not many people in the hall, and even fewer in the boxes.

Jiu Ye got up to tidy up and left the room alone.

Probably the elders of the family were here, Xie Jing insisted on going back to her room to rest in the middle of the night, and did not sleep here.Master Jiu got up early in the morning and went to the lobby to look around, but he didn't see Xie Jing, but met Bai Mingyu who was yawning and looking for something to eat. He stopped there and shouted, "Why are you in such a mess?"

Bai Mingyu's clothes are neat, but he is really not energetic. His face is full of tiredness, and his hair is also curled up a little. Although he has been pressured by water, he is still stubborn.He said hello to Master Jiu, stood in front of him and whispered, "Master, I stayed on guard last night and only slept for a while at dawn."

Master Jiu thought for a while before remembering the matter of Bai Mingyu guarding the two drunks last night, and asked with a smile, "How are Mr. Huang and the others?"

Bai Mingyu: "don't worry, Mr. Huang fell asleep on the table last night when he was sleepy. I carried it back and sent it off. I haven't woken up yet, so I'm afraid I'll sleep until noon. Mr. Cao is similar. He drank too much yesterday." It’s a little..." After he finished speaking, he looked around and complained in a low voice, "At midnight last night, when the show was supposed to end, Uncle Xie Jing asked someone to bring three jars of Xichuan strong wine."

Master Jiu: "Thank you, Patriarch, for being a warm person."

Bai Mingyu opened his mouth, but didn't dare to say anything.

Last night Mr. Huang and Cao Yunzhao sat there in a daze after drinking a few glasses of Xichuan wine, only knowing to giggle, Xie Siquan poured most of the wine into his mouth.Patriarch Xie didn't know what was wrong, and he didn't let him go, insisting on punching and playing dice with him in the middle of the night.He wanted to let it go at first, but soon realized that his skills were not as good as others, and he was beaten there at all. It's a splitting headache.

Master Jiu asked someone to make a cup of hot tea for him, and sat down to eat something.

Xichuan's steamed buns are small and made like dim sum. Although the inside is filled with meat, the dough has a slightly sweet taste. Bai Mingyu ate two steamed buns at once, which made his stomach feel better.

Also getting up early was Xu Jun. Xu Erdang saw them, came over to have a cup of tea together, and chatted briefly.

Xu Jun looked at Bai Mingyu, and ordered the back kitchen to cook a bowl of hangover soup.

Bai Mingyu was not used to the first sip of the sweet soup, and slowly swallowed the small glutinous rice balls, muttering, "Isn't this what Xiao Xie likes to eat?"

Xu Jun smiled and said, "Yes, but people in Xichuan area are used to eating a small bowl in the morning to warm their stomachs."

Master Jiu was also given a small bowl, but he didn't drink too much yesterday, and he didn't have much interest in sweets, so he put down the spoon after taking a few bites.

Xu Jun saw Master Jiu carrying Xie Jing down the mountain yesterday, and wanted to ask about his past with Xie Jing in the North, but after a few sentences, Master Jiu was asking and he was answering.

Master Jiu: "He eats well in Xichuan, and he's still used to living there?"

Xu Jun: "It's okay, Jing'er used to be in Beidi..."

Master Jiu: "The north is cold, so it's not as pleasant as here. But Jing'er likes riding on the mountain to hunt rabbits. Does he often go up the mountain here?"

Xu Jun: "Rarely, the owner took him to ride a horse once."

Master Jiu frowned slightly, and said slowly: "He's most afraid of being bored, he can't be kept at home well, we should let him out often to get some air."

Xu Jun subconsciously wanted to agree, but he reacted after opening his mouth, and then pursed his lips again and remained silent.

Why did he feel that the ninth master of the Bai family was Xie Jing's elder, and he became a foil instead?It's as if the little nephew was raised for Bai Jiu, and he came to Xichuan as a guest to play.

Xu Jun got along well with Xie Jing during this period of time. This is Xie Siquan's relative by blood, and naturally he is also his junior. He suddenly listened to Bai Jiuye's lecture, and felt a little uncomfortable, but he couldn't refute it for a while.

Bai Mingyu eats fast and knows the rules outside, so he didn't dare to stay in front of Master Jiu all the time, so he went out to do errands after saying something in a low voice.

Xu Jun looked at Bai Mingyu for a while, nodded and said, "The junior in your family is not bad."

Master Jiu took a sip of tea, smiled lightly and said, "It can't compare to Xie's family, you are an outstanding person."

Master Jiu praised it sincerely, and Xu Jun felt at ease.

Bai Mingyu walked fast when he went out, and almost bumped into Xie Siquan head-on when he arrived in the outer courtyard. He was drunk too much last night, and he saw Patriarch Xie subconsciously turn around and wanted to hide.

Xie Siquan was suspicious, and called to stop him: "Stop."

Bai Mingyu stood there.

Xie Siquan asked him, "Where's Jing'er?"

Bai Mingyu was stunned for a moment: "I don't know, it seems to be in the house."

Xie Siquan snorted: "Where do you usually put your eyes, you don't know anything." He originally wanted to warn this silly boy of the Bai family, but when his nephew pressed down abruptly, his eyes fell on Bai Mingyu's red and slightly swollen face. lips, and his face became stinky again: "I don't even know how to wipe my mouth clean after stealing food!"

After speaking, he shook his hands and went to the courtyard.

Bai Mingyu stood there in a daze, with a puzzled expression on his face, and subconsciously wiped the corner of his mouth.He was too eager to eat the glutinous rice balls just now, and they were so hot that they still hurt a little, but this is not enough to be scolded, didn't he just eat a bowl of small glutinous rice balls from Xichuan?

In the morning, Lord Jiu knocked on the door of Xie Jing's room. Usually, Xie Jing would have appeared earlier, but this time it was indeed a bit abnormal.

Master Jiu sat by the bed after entering, heard him cough, and reached out to touch his forehead, but Xie Jing avoided it a little.

Master Jiu asked, "Why are you avoiding me?"

Xie Jing shook her head: "No, it just seems to be a little feverish, and I'm afraid I'll get sick."

Master Jiu reached out and touched the back of his hand. As expected, he had a fever. He covered Xie Jing with a quilt, and asked Fang Jiwu to come over for an injection.

Master Jiu brought a doctor with him this time, and he knew a little about medicine. Fang Jiwu came over and looked at it and said in a low voice, "It's nothing serious. There's nothing wrong with my body...cough, it's just that the wound is healing. Shocked, with a slight fever, just stay in bed for two days and he will be fine."

Fang Jiwu took the injection and pushed it into the needle tube, Master Jiu said, "Let me do it."

Fang Jiwu gave the needle to Master Jiu, and Master Jiu glanced at him. He was stunned for a moment, stepped back, bowed his head and didn't ask a word.

Xie Jing was a little dazed. When he was turned over, he subconsciously pressed Master Jiu's hand. Master Jiu coaxed him in a low voice: "It's okay, I'll take it easy."

After the injection, Xie Siquan and He Dongting also came over.

He Dongting just heard that Xie Jing was ill, so he said anxiously: "It looked fine yesterday, why did you get sick all of a sudden?"

Fang Jiwu explained: "The wound on the arm is healing. I was afraid of infection and inflammation, so I just got an injection."

Master Jiu introduced them: "This is Dr. Fang, an apprentice of Dr. Lin from the medical school. He is good at western medicine."

He Dongting was a little relieved when he heard that there was a doctor.

Xie Siquan was a little worried: "There is nothing here in Zhuandou, why don't you take Jing'er back first, so that you can recuperate."

Fang Jiwu said: "Traveling on the road will easily aggravate the condition. It's better to stay in Zhuandou and observe for two days. It's not a big problem."

Master Jiu said: "I just gave Jing'er an injection. I watched it at night and prepared the injection. After a night's rest, it should be better tomorrow." I have been ill twice since then, and it’s always the same.”

Xie Siquan hadn't taken care of him for so long, and He Dongting was even more so. No matter how worried the two were, they could only entrust each other to take care of Xie Jing, and there was nothing else they could do.

Xichuan City still had something to do, Xie Siquan was inconvenient to stay in Zhuandou Township for a long time, so he decided to go back first, and entrusted Xie Jing to Master Jiu before leaving.

He Dongting wanted to stay, but Xie Siquan still hated him and refused to let him be alone with his nephew, so he took him back to Xichuan together.In addition to He Dongting, the Xie family also invited Mr. Huang and Bai Mingyu when they left. Mr. Huang is too old to stay here, so it is better to go to Xichuan City for a short rest, and Bai Mingyu was called by Xie Siquan.

Xie Siquan was riding on the horseback, wrapped the whip with colorful ropes in his hand twice and put it in the palm of his hand, knocked twice casually, looked up at Bai Mingyu and said: "I see that there are many people around Master Jiu, Second Young Master Bai Staying here won't help much, why don't you follow me to Xichuan City as a guest, Mr. Huang is alone and needs your care, right?"

Bai Mingyu looked back at Master Jiu, seeing Master Jiu nodding his head slightly, reluctantly followed.

Xu Jun stayed here, while guarding Xie Jing, while running around Yunmeng Mountain to discuss rice grains and other matters with Luo Nianqiu. The garrison has hundreds of people, plus horses.

Turn to Dou Township.

Master Jiu was sitting beside Xie Jing's bed, reading to him.

Fang Jiwu's medicine box was placed on the table, and there were only the two of them in the room. People from each family had already left, and the whole building fell silent for a while.

There are birdsong outside the window, and the rustling of bamboo leaves being blown by the mountain wind.

Xie Jing listened for a while, a little distracted.

Master Jiu closed the book and asked him, "But are you sleepy?"

Xie Jing shook his head and said with a smile: "When I first came here, I didn't know there was a bamboo forest outside, so I always suspected it was raining, so I got up and closed the window several times." He reached out to touch Master Jiu, and was caught and put back under the quilt Here, but this time Master Jiu didn't take out his hand, holding hands with him in the thin quilt, and chuckled softly: "This place is different from Beidi."

"There are still many places in this world that are different from Beidi and Xichuan."

"Ah."

"Master, we all need to be well, don't get sick, I want to see more."

"it is good."

At night, Master Jiu slept with Xie Jing in his arms.

The person in the arms was given an injection and slept soundly, but still trembled from time to time, as if the cub was frightened during the day, and his hands and feet would twitch slightly at night.Master Jiu sighed, pulled him into his arms, kissed him, ran his thumb across the exposed skin of his arm, and softly comforted him: "It's okay, it's over."

It was because he didn't think carefully, the battle on Yunmeng Mountain was fierce, no matter how capable his little Xie was, he was afraid of seeing blood for the first time.

Master Jiu kissed his forehead, not knowing if he could feel it, so he only used the lightest effort to comfort him.

Xie Jing clenched his clothes tightly, his hair was wet with sweat on his forehead, he looked a bit embarrassed, his eyes were closed and he was still immersed in a dream.

He dreamed about things from long ago.

The Beidi was defeated, several cities fell one after another, and the lives were devastated.

The more than [-] shops of the Bai family in the north were all destroyed in the flames of war, half of the members of the Bai family were lost on the battlefield, all the old generals of the Bai family were killed in battle, and the sound of bombing planes above Nanfang continued...

Master Jiu led people to send boats to Yugang to fight for a chance of survival, but they couldn't take so many refugees away - after they left, there was nowhere to go.

The Bai family kept their anonymity and went south in several routes.

Master Jiu was not in good health at the beginning, and he had a bad cough since the beginning of autumn, so he could only take a boat, Xie Jing accompanied him all the way to take care of him.

When the boat arrived at the pier, the road to Sichuan was difficult. They encountered several caravans and entered Sichuan together, but they still encountered bandits.

The caravan hired escorts, which were different from the Bai family's guards. There were all kinds of people, and these people deliberately found fault and teased Xie Jing with words.

The old bodyguard laughed and said: "It's not good to force it. The bandits are very powerful and have many guns in their hands. When we mountain people fight wolves, we usually have to catch a female wolf first to lure them."

The man on the side scolded: "I don't have any women here, so I enjoy myself if I have one, it's his turn?"

Someone made a nasty talk, and everyone around laughed.

The old guy chuckled, smashed his cigarette bag and glanced sideways at the Baijia carriage team, his eyes fell on Xie Jing who was riding a horse and couldn't move away: "The one on the mountain who doesn't love females, but the one who likes males."

Someone followed his line of sight and laughed twice in a low voice.

The old bodyguard asked loudly: "It depends on this gentleman, whether he is willing to give up his love!"

There was a moment of silence.

One hand lifted the door curtain of the carriage, and there was a slight coughing sound from inside, but it was quickly suppressed. Master Jiu called the guards on the left and right, and said softly, "Cut off his tongue for me."

The author has something to say: Little Theater:

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About the famous detective——

Uncle Xie: I have a lot of experience, no one can hide it from me!

Bai Mingyu:? ?

Bai Mingyu: Why, is it illegal for Xichuan to eat glutinous rice balls?

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About running away in the middle of the night——

Xie Jing: It was my fault, I couldn't control it, I was addicted to it.