I Am Xianfan

　　 In the middle of the cold winter night, the firewood room leaked everywhere, and the cold north wind came in.

　　 There are holes in the ceiling, and you can even see the stars in the dark night. Naturally, there are no quilts in the wood house, but fortunately, there are more than a dozen thick piles of straw that can be used as quilts.

　　 Su Chen and A Chou spread thick straws on the cold ground and burrowed into the pile of straws. It was warmer than a quilt, but the sharp straw leaves were a little bit fleshy.

　　 The leaks in the four walls of the firewood room have long been blocked by a pile of straw.

　　 The two teenagers huddled in the straw to squeeze the heat, the heat was warm, and it was very pleasant.

　　 "By the way, Brother Chen, why are you alone this time? Don't you usually come to the county to sell fish with your father?"

　　 Ah Chou is a little strange.

　　 "I came to the county this time, not to sell fish, but to run away from home..."

　　 Su Chen shook his head and shrank into the thick straw. His clear and flawless eyes looked sad and silent. Looking at the starry sky through the hole in the ceiling, his slightly childish face was very dazed.

　　 He told Ah Chou the whole story.

　　 The family is very difficult this year. It is still short of the county government’s boat donation and the giant whale gang’s over-the-counter money. His parents plan to sell him to a big-hearted family in the county as a slave. In addition, there was also the fact that he had the strange bluestone tears disease, and he told A Chou all one by one.

　　 He didn't want to be sold as a slave, nor could he stay in his hometown in Zhouzhuang, he could only come to Gusu County alone to seek a living.

But I have no relatives in the county seat and nowhere to stay for a while. I can only ask my brother A Chou for help temporarily. At least there is a place to stay and have a bite of rice to eat, so I won’t die on the streets of the county under hunger and freezing. .

When Ah Chou heard this, he almost jumped up and couldn't help but furiously: "Brother Chen, don't agree to sell yourself as a slave! The big families in the county treat domestic slaves like pigs and dogs, and no one cares if they die. .

　　 Don’t think I’m just a handyman in Tianying Inn, often scolded by big shopkeepers and customers, but they dare not really beat me to death. If I was killed, the county magistrate would definitely send an official to send a lieutenant to interrogate people and put me in jail.

　　 But if you sell yourself to a big family, you are the cheapest domestic slave. If you make a mistake, you will be directly beaten to death by the master with a stick, and no one will call you the master. The yamen will fine the master at most one or two silvers.

　　 Don’t listen to those people saying that they are kind-hearted or not, that's all nonsense! Even if the owner of this family is kinder, but someday he doesn't want you anymore, and when he sells it, dare you say that the next owner will be just as kind-hearted? If you sell yourself as a slave, you can't help but decide on your own! "

　　 Ah Chou's face flushed red, for fear that Su Chen would become confused for a while, and promised to sell him himself.

　　 "I didn't want to sell myself to be a slave, so I ran away from home and came to Gusu County to find a living to support myself."

　　 Su Chen looked sad, and it was strange to see A Chou so excited: "But A Chou, how did you react so much? More anxious than me!"

A Chou's eyes were red, and his expression was unspeakable sadness. He buried his head and said, "You know, I am an orphan, and I have never had a parental pain since I was a child. I only know that my surname is Fei... But in fact, I still have a sister. It was she who pulled me up. One winter, I got a cough and didn't have money to treat it. Seeing that I couldn't keep on going, she had to sell herself to a big family in the county to work as a maid in order to raise money to treat me.

　　 After only half a month, the hostess of the family said that she seduce the master, so she changed hands and sold her to a brothel in the city. Over the years, I worked hard to earn money in the inn, thinking about redeeming my sister from the brothel one day... But~, I’m so useless, I can’t earn a few coins in a year! "

　　 Su Chen was silent, not knowing how to comfort A Chou.

　　 Even if he doesn't ask about the redemption money, he knows that he wants to redeem someone from the brothel, it is an unimaginable amount of money, at least ten taels, or even dozens of taels.

　　 It is many times more difficult than his family’s annual payment of the boat tax from the county government and the blackmail of the giant whale gang.

　　 It's not that A Chou is useless, this is not the silver that an eleven or twelve-year-old miscellaneous boy in the inn can earn.

　　 After a while, Ah Chou eased his grief. These things cannot be solved by him, and it is useless to be sad. He asked a little strangely: "By the way, Brother Chen, what's the matter with your bluestone tears? I have never heard you mention it."

"My illness is very strange. Every time I cry and drop blue tears, it will quickly turn into small bluestones. Now, it is the little bluestone in this bag. Then I will get a serious illness and lose the half. Life. It takes at least one ten-year-old wild ginseng medicine to replenish vitality."

　　 Su Chen said, took out a small cloth bag from his arms, and poured out more than ten small blue stones from the cloth bag.

　　 These are what he has accumulated since childhood, and they are all carefully kept close to his body.

　　 Each piece was round like teardrops, and it seemed to exude the soft light of blue, quite mysterious.

　　 It's just that Su Chen thought that after these bluestones were dripped in his eyes, half of his life was almost gone, and he was afraid of these little bluestones.

　　 "What a beautiful little bluestone, are these your tears turned into?"

　　 A Chou looked strange, took a small bluestone and bit it hard, and almost broke his teeth. "It's so hard, the teeth can't be bitten!"

　　 He looked carefully and couldn't see what it was. He just thought the bluestone was very beautiful, like a small pearl jade.

"Some doctors in the county have seen them. They said they were sick stones and they didn't dare to touch them! However, I have always carried them on my body since I was a child. They are similar to ordinary pebbles, and they have not found anything special. I told you My younger siblings sleep in the same bed, and they don’t suffer from my illness either."

　　 Su Chen said, sighing lightly.

　　 This bluestone tears strange disease has been his heart disease since he was a child, and he never mentioned it easily to others, so A Chou didn't know it before.

Ah Chou was indifferent to this strange disease, but was amazed at these shiny bluestones, and smiled: "My sister always said that if you don’t die in a catastrophe, you will be blessed! You haven’t died of crying all these years. Very blessed.

　　 Brother Chen, you said this bluestone is so beautiful, is it a very valuable jewellery? I have seen a jewellery shop in the county town that specializes in selling this kind of strange red, green, and green stones to those big ladies. They are old and valuable. If this bluestone can be sold for money, then you will be rich. "

Su Chen curled his lips and shook his head with a wry smile: "It's definitely not a gem, or the doctors at the drugstore won't recognize it? My father used it to ask the old master of Hanshan Taoist Taoist temple with vast magical powers. Even his old man can't see it. It's famous. It's really worth the money. Han Shan must have seen it at a glance. My family doesn't have to worry about the money to buy ginseng medicine. A ginseng medicine is worth one or two dollars, and my family is almost dead of worry."

A Chou scratched his head, and it was right to think about it. He was very worried about Su Chen's strange illness: "I work as a clerk in the inn, and earn three pennies every day, so I can barely earn one or two silvers in a year. I earned a year of hard work. The money is barely enough to eat. It is too difficult to earn money to buy ginseng medicine for you. Brother Chen, you are now running away from home. What kind of work do you want to find in the county town?"

"Originally, I came to the county seat and was thinking about finding a job as a buddy to do. But in the afternoon, I saw you being bullied by a big shopkeeper, thinking that being a buddy is not a long-term solution. I still have to find a promising job. That's fine."

　　 Su Chen said seriously, "When I was at Ximen Wharf, I accidentally heard a wealthy businessman say that the Yaowang Gang would recruit a group of apprentices in the twelfth lunar month.

　　 I thought about it for a long time in the afternoon, planning to go to the Wang Fang to try it tomorrow. If you become an apprentice of the Medicine King Gang, the Medicine King Gang has a lot of medicinal materials, maybe I don't have to spend money to buy ginseng medicine. There is even a chance to learn medicine and become a distinguished pharmacist. "

　　 "Do you want to go to the King's Gang of Medicine?"

A Chou was shocked at once, "That's a big gang of rivers and lakes! Are you going to go to the rivers and lakes? You wander in the rivers and lakes, but the head is hung on the belt of the trousers, and it may fall at any time! I was killed by someone, but the government won't. I care about you."

　　 For the civilians in Gusu County, Jianghu is another world.

　　 The big gangs in Wu County are overbearing and domineering, they are generous, and their status is extremely high. Even the county officials dare not offend them, and the ordinary people are very in awe.

　　 But those monstrous power and wealth were exchanged for superb force and life.

　　 If a large household in the county town dies a domestic slave, the county government will send a cadre to inquire about the cause of death and fine a sum of silver. But the Jianghu gang died, and the county government always turned one eye and closed the other and never asked, as if it hadn't seen anything.

"I didn't think so much. If this bluestone tears disease is not cured, I may not be able to afford it one day, and I can't sell ginseng medicine to save my life, so I just die. I will go to the Wang Gang of Medicine, and maybe I can live more. For a few years, that was a wasted life."

　　 Su Chen shook his head, not caring about the dangers on the rivers and lakes.

　　 No matter how dangerous it is, it will not be more deadly than his bluestone tears.

　　 After he left home, he didn't worry much, he just wanted to support himself.

　　 If you can work hard to become a pharmacist, you will be a big figure in the county seat, then even if you are in this life, you don’t have to live a hard life, and you will be stunned.

　　 "Brother Chen, that said, you really decided to go to the rivers and lakes!"

　　 A Chou Chang looked at Su Chen in admiration.

　　He has been a buddy in Tianying Inn for several years, and he has met many hawks in the inn. He has always been in awe, but he has never had the daring idea of ​​becoming a hawk in his own right.

　　 Brother Chen is going to go to the rivers and lakes...Yes, why don't I also go to the rivers and lakes to make a break? Maybe you can become a hero too!

　　 A Chou's eyes were surging with strange light, and there was an impulse of enthusiasm in his heart, and the whole person's brain was warmed up.

　　 He also didn't want to be a clerk in Tianying Inn. He was yelled at by the treasurer every day. He was slapped and scolded every day, and he wanted to get ahead!

If one day he becomes a gangster, he will no longer be bullied by the shopkeeper, and he can still eat big fish and meat at the Tianying Inn every day, let the snobbish shopkeeper wait on his knees and serve him with tea and water. Lord.

　　 It is even possible to make a lot of money to redeem her sister.

　　 The guy at the inn doesn’t make much money at all, and he can only become rich and wealthy if he goes to the world to become a hero.

Correct!

　　 Just do it!

"Since Brother Chen is going to run into the rivers and lakes, I will also go with him. I didn't want to work in this broken bird inn a long time ago. I was always bullied by the big shopkeepers and the guys, beaten and yelled every day, and suffered from their bird air. You go to the King of Medicine Gang, I go to the Tianyingmen, learn a few high-strength martial arts, become a great hero, stand out, and majestic!"

　　 A Chou must be in his heart, shaking his fist in excitement.

　　 He is not interested in the medicinal techniques of the Yaowang Gang, but is very envious of the martial arts of the Tianyingmen high-rollers, so he should just go to the Tianyingmen.

　　 This Tianying Inn is an industry under Tianyingmen, and he is also familiar with Tianyingmen.

　　 "Okay! I go to the Yaowang Gang to learn medicine, you go to Tianyingmen to learn martial arts. In the future, our brothers will be successful in learning skills, a great pharmacist, and a big hobbyist, and we will travel together in the world together!"

　　 When Su Chen heard that A Chou also wanted to join the arena, he couldn't help being overjoyed, so that he would also have a good brother in the arena in the future.

　　 "Well! As soon as daybreak tomorrow, let's set out and vote for the gang!"

　　 Two ignorant and reckless teenagers, the more they talked, the more excited they became, thinking that after they went to the Yaowang Gang and Tianyingmen, they became masters in the gang, and their status skyrocketed.

　　 Their desire to get ahead has never been as strong as this moment!

　　 After chatting for an hour or two, Su Chen and A Chou said that they were tired, and the sleepiness grew thicker, and the little chai hut gradually fell silent.

　　 Outside the house late at night, a cold wind blows.

　　 The cold wind was as sharp as a knife, and waves of ghosts and wolves screamed into the ruined house, and the wood shed became even colder. U U Reading www.uukanshu.com

Ah Chou had a beautiful dream, waving his fists and beating a few times, and occasionally murmured and giggled. He was already in his dreams as a young high-roller and wandering through the rivers and lakes, hitting the falling flowers and running water of Wang Da, the shopkeeper, and no one dared to bully anymore. he.

　　 Su Chen shrank in the straw pile, waking up from time to time, shivering tightly wrapped in a tattered linen clothes, digging into the depth of the straw pile as much as possible.

　　 He endured the straw of the lords, silently thinking about the words of the rich businessman of the Li family.

　　 "The Medicine King Gang recruits a group of apprentices in the twelfth lunar month every year. It is estimated that these days! Tomorrow morning, I will go to the Medicine King Gang! From tomorrow on, everything will be different, and life will be better!"

　　 Su Chen was finally tired and sleepy, and gradually fell asleep in the straw, dreaming one beautiful dream after another.

　　 He dreamed that he joined the Yaowang Gang and became a great pharmacist after studying hard for more than ten years. He became famous in the rivers and lakes, and he was even fortunate to once again meet the real person Hanshan, the number one tall man in Wu County.

　　 The real man Hanshan is indeed the best man in the world, telling him how to cure this strange disease.

　　 Su Chen cured the strange disease and no longer became a burden to the family. He returned to the Zhouzhuang water town after returning to his hometown. He was greatly admired and respected by the fishermen of Zhouzhuang, and became the pride of his parents, younger brothers and sisters, and the pillar of the family.

Then he returned to the Yaowang Gang to practice martial arts, and he became a big hawk in twenty years. He held a green sword and stepped on the ripples of Taihu Lake. He entrenched the group of giant whales who were robbing the house and helping the water bandits to beat the water bandits. Shouting mother, falling flowers and flowing water, venting his hatred fiercely, since then no gang of rivers and lakes dared to oppress the fishermen and villagers in Zhouzhuang.

　　 It was cold in the thatched hut, and Su Chen woke up from time to time, and fell asleep again faintly.

　　 Su Chen shrank his thin body in the straw, and the thought of going to the Medicine King Gang became clearer and stronger in his mind.