Chapter 6: The Pharmacy Storm
After the woman calmed down a little, Wang Zheng whispered: "Don't call me benefactor, my name is Wang Zheng, a competitive 'Zheng'."
Seeing the woman crying and nodding constantly, Wang Zheng glanced at the direction where Liu Wu escaped and asked, "When Liu Wu left, he said he was a servant of the Liu family. Is the Liu family very powerful in Ninghaizhou?"
The woman nodded slightly, and then suddenly realized that she seemed to have been in the arms of a man, leaving Wang Zheng's arms reluctantly and giving him a little blessing to Wang Zheng.
"The benefactor's great kindness and virtue are beyond repayment. It's good that the benefactor calls me Zhang Ping."
Wang Zheng felt helpless and reminded him again: "Miss Zhang Ping, you don't have to be called a benefactor, it sounds awkward."
A floating cloud rose on Zhang Ping's face. After nodding, she said resentfully what Wang Zheng had asked just now.
It turns out that in addition to the then governor Dong Chengping and the garrison Han Dahu, Ninghaizhou was the most powerful and powerful in the local area.
Unlike the prefect and the garrison, small officials like Tongzhi rarely change them. Some people have been in this position for many years or even decades to take money and kill themselves, becoming powerful people to harm the country. Although there are no servants, there are many powerful servants of Kong Wu.
The distinction between civil and military affairs in the Ming Dynasty was becoming increasingly clear by this time, and the affairs of civil and civil and military affairs had become a consensus. For example, Han Dahu, the garrison of Ninghaizhou, was originally the well-deserved leader of Ninghaizhou City, who was in charge of the countryside and garrison affairs in the province.
But he followed the instructions of the governor Dong Chengping in everything and was constrained by civil servants everywhere. In fact, he could not control much.
This also reflects the consensus that all military officials respect civil servants in this era. Of course, if a military man raises troops to rebel, it will be a different matter.
Liu Wenruo was like this. He was just a little rank with a sixth rank. There were many military men in Ninghai Prefecture with a higher rank than him, but he was a civil servant and naturally had privileges in the prefecture city.
The man who had been taught a lesson by Wang Zheng was Liu Wu, a servant in Liu Wenruo's mansion. He was used to being arrogant and arrogant on weekdays. He had long been staring at this beautiful Zhang Ping. Today, he finally couldn't help but want to take action. Fortunately, he met Wang Zheng.
Thinking of this, Wang Zhengchao Zhang Ping took a closer look and she really had a good look, bright eyes and white teeth. No wonder Liu Wu had an inconspicuous thought.
When Wang Zheng saw Zhang Ping alone, he sighed and said, "Let's do this, let's bury the old man and the aunt first. You pack up your things and wait for me here. At most, I will take you out of the city to Yijingzhuang to have a life tomorrow."
Hearing this, Zhang Ping's originally desperate eyes suddenly looked at Wang Zheng in surprise.
"Really!? The little girl Zhang Ping thanked Brother Wang!"
Seeing Zhang Ping struggling to kneel down, how could this work? Wang Zheng quickly stepped forward to support her and said, "No, these are all things you should do. You can rest for a while, and I will dig a big hole in the backyard."
After saying that, Wang Zheng walked back in a panic. Zhang Ping kept watching Wang Zheng turn. After a while, Wang Zheng was back.
Sorry, he scratched his head, Wang Zheng asked, "Where is the backyard?"
Seeing Wang Zheng, who had dared to fight and kill before, look so embarrassed, Zhang Ping couldn't help but laugh and said.
"There was originally a backyard, but in the past few years, it was slowly occupied by the Zhu Butu family next door, and only this small courtyard was left."
Speaking of this, Zhang Ping suddenly looked up at the sky, revealing her fair neck, and sighed softly: "It is their will to place her parents in this courtyard where she has lived for many years!"
Seeing Zhang Ping's expression, Wang Zheng's impetuousness gradually stabilized and nodded in a strange way.
"Then let's start digging!"
About two hours later, when the hot sun was getting stronger, Wang Zheng and Zhang Ping stood together and looked at the two earthblocks in the courtyard.
Zhang Ping's nose felt sore, and she couldn't help crying. She just lay in Wang Zheng's arms. Wang Zheng could even feel Zhang Ping's slightly trembling shoulders.
For some reason, Wang Zheng hated Liu Wu even more, and Liu Wenruo also hated him.
At first, she wanted Zhang Ping to stay here to pack her luggage, so she bought medicine in the prefecture city before picking her up back to Yijingzhuang. However, what surprised Wang Zheng was that after only one turn around, Zhang Ping had already packed up and was going with Wang Zheng.
Wang Zheng was a little puzzled and asked, "You're going to pack up now?"
Seeing Wang Zheng’s surprise, Zhang Ping smiled slightly and finally glanced at the adobe house that had lived for many years, as if she had made a decision.
He nodded and said, "Well, there is nothing to clean up, just take some clothes for changing."
I originally wanted to persuade him again, but seeing Zhang Ping's firm look, Wang Zheng had to nod, hide his waist and walk out of the courtyard with his head.
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After a stick of incense, Wang Zheng and Zhang Ping walked one after another on the street with few crowds. There were not many small vendors and vendors selling along the street, and several shops on the street had already started to open for a day.
Although the two of them are not far away at this moment, they have their own thoughts. Wang Zheng kept looking back and forth, observing the situation around him, while paying attention to whether there were any officers and soldiers coming to search for him.
After all, the reason when I came in was to adapt to the situation. Now the officers and soldiers should also find out that Yan Ding was killed, so it is probably not that easy to leave the city.
Zhang Ping was carrying a bag, her shining eyes swayed closely with Wang Zheng's figure. She looked sad and laughed again. She didn't know what she was thinking.
Finally, after passing by several streets, the two finally arrived at a pharmacy.
He looked up and saw a black wooden plaque hanging on the medicine shop with four big words "Guihe Medicine Shop". Wang Zheng slightly weighed the broken silver in his hand and the few cents brought by Yijingzhuang.
Although I don’t know how much these are, it should be enough to buy some medicines for treating wind and cold. If you don’t have enough, then think of a solution. Wang Liu will not give up no matter what.
When I walked into Guihe Pharmaceutical Store, there was no smell of medicine coming to my face in the late Ming Dynasty, but only the expressionless pharmacy owner and a few people queuing up to buy medicine.
Compared with the people who were dressed in dilapidated and old clothes, the owner of this medicine shop was dressed quite well, wearing a slightly yellow jacket and a square hat on his head, which looked like he was about in his forties.
After entering the pharmacy, Xiao Yi asked Zhang Ping to wait aside and walked to the boss himself.
"I'm disturbed. My name is Wang Zheng. What do you need to take to cure the cold?"
The boss seemed to have not heard Wang Zheng's words at first, and continued to say this to a woman in front of him. After the woman left, he looked up and down. Seeing Wang Zheng's slightly old but not broken coat, his face looked a little better, and he shouted listlessly backwards.
"Afu, the guest is here, come and grab some herbs to treat wind and cold!" Not long after that, a pharmacy shop guy wearing a white shirt ran over and handed a medicine bag tied with yellow paper to Wang Zheng.
The boss said, "It's the first time you've come to our Guihe Pharmaceutical Store. I'll collect you a little less, one or five cents of silver."
Wang Zheng knew nothing about these things. He stared at the boss for a few seconds but couldn't see the reason. He thought that he was thinking too much, or that the boss had already reached the core state of lying.
Wang Zheng didn't know how much silver there was in his hand, so he threw out two pieces of silver and glanced at the boss's somewhat surprised expression, and knew that he should have given too much.
At the moment, I was too lazy to ask him for change, but I waved my hand and said that I didn't need to look for it anymore. I turned around and walked out of the medicine shop. Wang Zheng had a smile on his face. He thought he could only get the herbs for a lifetime, but he didn't expect it to be so smooth.
Wang Zheng was in a good mood and pulled Zhang Ping out of the medicine shop to go out of the street to stroll, but he met three strong men with a knife on their waists.
As soon as he frowned, Wang Zheng protected Zhang Ping and wanted to get out of the way.
"It's not a long time to get it, kid, I'll see where you run this time!"
With a familiar laugh, Wang Zheng looked up and saw that the three great men were Liu Wu just now. Liu Wu's surprise look was vividly reflected with his yellow teeth.
Liu Wu rushed to the three big men in front of him and said viciously: "Brothers, it's this kid who has disturbed me before. Teach me a good lesson!"
Chapter completed!